001We'll get going though. Ready? Welcome. This is September 16th, 2026. This is Park School District R3 Board of Education regular meeting. It is now 5:23. This meeting is called to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Chris, please conduct a board roll call. >> Director Fere, >> here. >> Director Roberts. Director Shocket. Director Reurski >> here. Director Whis here. She's so sick. Move on to approval of agenda. Board members have an agenda before you at this time. I'll take any comments or amendments to the current agenda with it. Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the current agenda? >> I approve.
002>> I second. >> Perfecting. >> I approved it. >> That's okay. Do you want me to? >> Nope. We're good. Chris, please conduct a board roll call. >> Director Fere I. >> Director Reurski. >> Hi. >> Director Wis. >> Hi. >> I carry the vote. Agenda is approved. Moving on to agenda item two, public participation. We had no one signed up to speak this evening. Moving on to agenda item three, spotlight of success, career and technical education. CT. TJ and Steven. Students, please come up. TJ, do you see the button on the bottom to activate it? It should be a green light will come on right below your speaker. There you go. >> My name is TJ Appel. I'm the career and technical education automotive teacher at Essis Park High School. Um, in our automotive
003program, uh, basically level one, these kids are starting out basically with no knowledge of cars whatsoever. Um, we get them through the general knowledge of oil changes, brakes, uh, stuff they should know on their vehicle. um that I think you should know on your vehicle before you own a vehicle. Um moving on further, when I get the kids that really want to keep going down that pathway, they move in auto 2 and um they basically run a fullervice shop out of that class. So auto 2 and auto 3, they run full service shops for the district and their uh student families. Um last year, second semester, the kids did 185 hours of uh labor on vehicles. Um, average labor rate right now is around $225 an hour. So, my students did around $35 to $37,000
004worth of work for staff and community members vehicles. Um, already this year, these two students in my sixth and seventh hour class, um, we're already at the 47hour mark this semester, and I think we're at the month mark right around that time. So, these are my most advanced students. At the end of this year, they will have their student level ASSE certification, and then that means they just need one more year of shop experience um approved, and then they can have their full-on adult ASE certification, which is basically your doctorate degree for working on cars. So, I'll let those two students speak about what they're doing in class. >> My name is Noah Moore. Um right now in class, I'm working on my truck. I'm uh I just did my valve cover gaskets and I'm
005right now I'm working on pulling my turbo, fixing that. Um we just did um a wheel cylinder. We're doing a whole bunch of things to that. And then last year, the year before last, we pulled a motor out of um an Extera. That was really cool. That was a cool experience and it was cool to know and um just learning a lot about motor vehicles and something I'm really interested in. >> And then what what year are you? Are you a senior this year? >> Senior this year. >> Okay. So when when um your teacher said that you just need one more course, where would you go to finish that? Would So I'm thinking >> Yeah. So they could either go take it in college and after they have a year of classroom in college
006[clears throat] that can also be certified or right out of high school they can just go get a job at a shop somewhere and then that can count for one year of experience. You cannot take your ASSE test without having two years verified experience or one year classroom one year shop experience. >> Gotcha. >> Yeah. So what I'm program counts as one year. >> Gotcha. What I'm planning to do is I'm planning to go work at a dealership down the valley somewhere and then I'll get one year there and then I'll be able to take my ASSE. >> Outstanding. That's great. Thank you. >> Hi, my name's uh Matthew Hanbach. Uh I'm kind of done similar stuff to Noah. Mostly just working on stuff that I want for my vehicle. Like recently I've put on
007a new exhaust. I ordered a Ypipe recently and then before that I did a kind of a lift job. I lifted the front end of my truck 2 in. And besides just working on that, um I just kind of try to help out with my family like just any regular stuff that they need or like anything else teachers need cuz like sometimes TJ will just be like, "Matthew, do this break job." And I'm like, "Okay." And then then I get that done. >> It's one of those classes where like my sixth and seventh hour class I feel like I don't even need to show up. Like they just show up and they get right to work and they know what they need to do. It's incredible. Like it's unreal what goes on in class. >>
008That's excellent. Ma Matthew, what are your future plans after this? >> Uh pretty similar what Noah wants to do. I just want to get straight into the workforce. Probably find a dealership. just get my one year in as soon as I can so I could just start making the big bucks. >> Good for you. That's excellent. Well, thanks gentlemen for making the time to share that and um I wish you the best as you uh wrap up this year. Keep up the good work. >> Thank you. >> Oh, wait. >> I got one question. >> Yeah. So the certification just for the kids to work on the electric cars, they have to basically get the same certification a lineman would get. Um so they get to see them. We talk about them and stuff like
009that, but hands-on I don't want it. Um I was our only EV certified at Subaru uh in Lmont. And there's only one special tool for working on an electric car and it's a 30foot insulated hook to pull the person away if they're getting electrocuted. So yeah, we we talk about electric cars and stuff like that, but we they I don't have them handle them or anything like that. We do a lot. Uh we talk more about hybrids, though. Hybrids are kind of the future. So >> TJ, can they work on hybrids then? >> Yes, hybrids are low voltage. Um every kid in the class has spelt what an ignition coil is. Um it's 30,000 volts, but it's low amperage. So the kids get to see what that feels like. So they're not terrified of working
010on it. And so they get to experience it. I don't make them do it, but if they want to, they can feel what that ignition coil is. And basically at that point, they know like you cannot get electrocuted working on those types of cars. EVs, yeah, that's a different story. So >> then for your first year when you're working on vehicles and your book work, how do they get certified? So they know when they go for their second year that the >> so first year is like 90% classroom. They are exclusively in the classroom learning terminology, learning all the different parts of the car. And then the last month of that class, all the kids in a one get to rebuild Subaru engines that were donated to us by Super Repair down in Boulder. So
011every kid tears down that engine completely down to every nut and bolt. Then they put it all back together, make sure it functions. They don't start them, but they make sure they they work properly and stuff like that. Auto 2 is kind of that big flip. It goes into like 80% in the shop, 20% in the classroom. So, just more hands-on work, but then uh for example, if we have like a break job on a car, we may have a lesson the day before to kind of talk about that type of break job and then the day after they'll actually get their hands on and do that break job so they can see like what they learned and tie it into hands-on learning. And then auto3, that's kind of the same thing. That's more so
012in the shop almost exclusively. And then ASSE auto tech, that's kind of half the semester in the shop, half the semester in the classroom. And that last half the semester is just prepping for that certification. >> Wonderful. A great skill. Much needed. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, go for it. >> You do electrical chargers. >> Yep. So, I had a student that actually just rewired 113 wires underneath the dash of a uh our transportation manager's vehicle uh just to fix her turn signals. So, he literally rewired 100 I think it was 113 is what we counted individual wires that he reoldered, soldered them all back together, insulated them, and verified the repair. >> So, they can repair a car from electrical all the way. >> Yeah. Yeah. I with this group of kids, I mean,
013the my sixth and seventh hour class, there's almost they can almost do anything. They're almost to that point. There's some things that are super technical that we get into a little bit, but it's one of those things where it's like as an auto mechanic, you use that knowledge maybe once a year. We kind of dive in on like the very important stuff they need to know. Well, again, thank you both for coming and sharing about that. Uh, I know we don't have a as big a crowd as normal, but I'm going to tell people to get on and check check out your work. So, keep it up. >> I can see what we got going on. >> Thank you, guys. >> Do we want the other student to present though? >> Yeah, just do a
014picture as the whole >> Yeah, let's do that. You guys have >> We can leave like 10 minutes. >> You guys have to leave or >> Oh, what time is that? >> Six. >> Okay, hold on. >> So, I'm Steve Shaw. Uh, longtime teched teacher. Jackson. >> My name is Jackson Gold. I've um taken multiple of the CTE classes here at the high school. I really enjoy the classes because they um with Mr. Shaw because they teach a lot of different individual introductions to different parts um like civil engineering or like residential wiring or programming or welding. Just a lot of getting an introduction and then giving the resources if that's something you're interested in to continue working on your own. just to be able to get a lot a little bit of a lot
015of different topics so you can see what you're interested, what you might want to progress your knowledge on in the future. So, I've been really enjoying learning many different things. And even if you don't want to pro progress as a professional career, a lot of jobs like the um residential wiring could just be helpful just owning a home in the future. >> So, I wanted Jackson go first. It's about students more but I'm happy to give the overview but you have question Jackson could come back and answer more questions if I can give you the overview right now. >> So just to give you a little background um CTE is more than just what we so that's career and technical education that's everything from business education to agriculture education technology education health sciences. So it
016gets a little convoluted. They call us, we're just a part of CTE. We're technology education. Used to be called industrial arts. So now it's engineering and everything. So I do the other part where I teach engineering classes, uh, which can include everything from precision measurement, drafting and design, computerated drafting and design, the 3D printing, all of that. Um, so like Jackson said, I try to approach engineering as try to cover a little bit of everything. I can do a little bit of civil engineering, a little bit of electrical, a little bit of mechanical, manufacturing, design. So, I also work with the construction trades program. So, what's kind of neat, and I've got pictures up there, too. But what's innovative about we're doing in Estus on construction side is we're team teaching geometry and the technology
017education, the construction facet. So, it's a give and a take, but I really think that's where education should go in secondary level. everything needs to be more relevant and applied rather than theoretical like the universities have trained us. So, uh that's kind of interesting, but that's growing. And then I teach the welding, fabrication, manufacturing as well. So, that's pretty a lot of hats to wear. And um but that's what we're trying to do there. And I mean, I don't want to ramble on, but if you guys have questions for us, Jackson's been involved and you can see some of his photos. So, Jackson, you want to talk about that one? What's that photo about? >> So, I was working on a a project with the um observatory at the high school, and it was to
018build a radio telescope um for the observatory. And what you see I'm working on there is the antenna that goes onto the um the radio telescope to receive signals. >> So, where did that canister come from, though? Um, I designed it on the computer and we 3D printed it. >> It's all custom and that's really what we want to get to. And there he's soldering and you want to have the goal. I always approach education like you need to have a project. You don't study tools just for the sake of studying tools which I believe we get wrong a lot in the core. Why are you doing that? Well, I'll just use the math later. That's a poor reason. You need to have a project and application so you see where the math and the
019tools and everything. They wouldn't just study wrenches. The wrenches they'll learn as they get the project. That's the point. And I think that's where I like to go with education. And that's where I try to where Jackson and I align really well. I like to give him an objective and get out of his way. I don't want me to hold them up and they I love to watch students pass my skills up and that's really what we want. I mean, it's like what Mr. Appel does with the automotive kids. So, we have that together. But so he's done a lot of things and uh what you do in the residential he really caught on to the residential wiring because I do a lot I do a lot in the trades but so he we can
020really differentiate. It's really nice. You got kids who are lower functioning and but I got a Jackson. What did you do with wiring last year? um with our wiring unit. There were some um pictures that were shown of it, but we had these um be like in a sense pieces of walls that we would um like install outlets or install like light fixtures and we would learn all the different wiring. And throughout the unit, we would have different projects we would work on with the wiring, which would get more and more complicated as we learn more. And it's just to kind of simulate actually working on a house. But what Jackson's not saying, I'm a little proud of him. Some of the other kids, it's it's inundating for one teacher. I say, Jackson, you're so
021cool. So now you have kids teaching other kids. That's next level learning, you know, where they had just really and he does a phenomenal job. So we try to do that. Um, one little piece too that we're trying to do is we're trying to get um so in in CTE you have career and technical student organizations like agriculture education is the classroom portion. And then you have FFA which is the youth organization like Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts. So for Teched, we have Skills USA. So Mr. Appell and I have a goal for that. We'd like to really get that chapter going. We have some leadership capabilities with officers and things like that. So we'll see. We we've taken students to contests and competing like you saw Cole finished. We were that close to going to
022nationals. We won at regionals and third in state. So anyway, those are the things we're ever really recruiting like Jackson to be our vice president, Amy Schwarz to be our president. So that's where the skills are. So just saw a little note there too for success. We're trying to build work a lot with the community uh with the grants and everything. Got a brand new band saw working with Rotary. They come in and anyway, we do a lot of cool stuff. We can talk all day, but it's really exciting. We really appreciate the support. I I just I've been at several different districts in 37 years, both technical, post-secary and secondary. And so Estus, you guys really do a great job supporting us. So I just really want to appreciate say appreciate that. >> Keep
023it up. Thank you. >> Yeah. Well, thank you both for again investing time and energy and coming and sharing and uh we're excited to see even more projects and yeah, appreciate what you do and the the application is the key. So thank you. >> Yep. Thank you. Uh, do you have them solving problem? Because I I'm at I've worked construction, so there's a lot of things that you know you've learned, but you do you teach them how to or do you just have them a project and let them figure out how to do it? >> Well, that's a good question. >> So, that's my area of expertise, too. I used to build homes. I had my own contracting business, too, as well as teaching. Um but um that's the give and the take as we
024do this because there's only two of us. So they're finding that balance between post-secary which he really has a vocational program and what I'm doing is exploratory more so I mean so we have to find that balance not right or wrong and pathways are coming but to answer your question so we do geometry construction class you give a little bit on both arenas you're [clears throat] not going to have time to do the intense geometry and conversely normally my construction program we have a capstone project where we pre-sell a shed we bring the customer in, bring the vendor in, the kids see the whole process. We build a$8 to $10,000 building. So, it's not like we failed your math test. You don't walk away from this. It's got to be done. It's really cool. You
025know, I talk about real world learning. So, I don't know if we'll be able to get there in a geometry construction format. You almost need a construction two and three like much like what Mr. Appel does. He has the ability to do auto 1 2 3 4. But me being only one, it's hard to get to those higherend capstone projects, which you would like to trying to figure that out. So, I hope I answered your question. So, but we are doing we're doing the wiring and the mock walls and everything, but we've added two new classes, too, which we're kind of excited about. We brought the eighth grade in. We have intro to teched for eighth and ninth graders. Do a little bit of everything. They love it. And then we have basic home and
026auto care, which Mr. Pel's going to be teaching. That's a life skill class. about a quarter of how to take care of basics of your car, how to finance it, maintain it, and on the home side, too. So, I've taught those classes, Mr. Pel, and I will get that going, and we're hoping that just takes off. So, >> thank you for the time. >> Thank you. Well done. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Does the student proof this, Chris? Is that what it is? Yeah, cuz I didn't I know how to get >> trying to help you all out. >> Oh, no worries. Moving on to agenda item four, discussion items. Agenda item 41, superintendent report. Superintendent Grebs. All right. Well, thank you very much. I'm going to start with the facilities update. Uh the high
027school um has, as you heard, we needed to install cameras per CHASSA rules in the event we host playoffs. Those are up and running and I think the community has taken advantage of watching some games online. The elementary school uh we are much closer to solving the HVAC issues especially in the office. Yes, thank you for your patience. Uh Miss Miller, um it turned out to be a um programming issue is the latest culprit. So hopefully that's taken care of. And then again continued maintenance um projects, painting and fixing things. Uh, I want to give a special shout out. Brian Lund, Matt Bird, and Nate Harger. Um, they have been working to restripe our parking lots uh on campus. And on Labor Day, the three of them came in and not only repainted some lines,
028but they reoriented the lines behind the middle school and gained nine parking places. So, uh, it's just another example of people chipping in um, and using their resources and ideas for the betterment. Um, safety, security-wise, uh, we made some upgrades on the top field fence. Uh, I noticed a small gap, uh, when I first got here, asked Eric to look into it, and not only did he take care of the gate issue, but there was some fence that was shorter than we wanted. And so, it's been replaced with 6T fencing. On the finance uh, departments, our preliminary assessed values are down from uh, last year. Larur County is down 3.4% 4% and Boulder 1.4. So, it will be a reduction in what we bring in, especially on paper. Mr. Lund has assured me that counties
029have until December 10th to rectify any assessments. So, there is a possibility uh the hits won't be as big, but as of right now, we are predicted to lose around quarter of a million with that revenue. Family and community engagement. had a chance to go to my first elementary books for breakfast. As a former elementary principal, I can say I was very impressed. We had 111 adults check in and out. I noticed uh with some it was some couples, but others a mom and her mom came, so a kid got to read with mom and grandma. Uh it was just a great event um to have that big of a group. And then those that chose got to stay and listen to the presentation by Mrs. Miller and Dr. Santos along with their PSCO um
030organization. So, it was a great way to get people involved. Uh in focus areas as far as um assessments, we've got all of our fall benchmarks done and so teachers had a chance to work with admin this last Monday in their first um you know, professional development day. Set some good goals for progress. when it comes to um our state report that accreditation number is out and at the next works uh session I'm going to give board members a chance to see some more in-depth graphs and and how we did comparing our our own Bobcats from one year to another in the area of wellness um which is part of our strategic plan. We've currently got a staff wellness challenge going on where staff log their minutes. Um, as someone who is kind of competitive,
031I've stepped up my game. I, uh, have gone from about 40 45 minutes up to over an hour every day. So, um, I appreciate the health committee offering that challenge. And then under our real world applications, high school freshmen had a chance to do a climbing trip with KMAC. um middle school as a publications class this year. They invited me as the new guy to come in and be interviewed for their newspaper project. So, that was a fun real world thing. And then again, at the elementary, fourth grade's already been to the Rocky Mount National Park and I think third grade is uh heading next week maybe. So, again, it's been a great start. Any questions about my report? No, thank you very much. >> Okay, >> moving on to agenda item 42, administrative report.
032Miss Miller, you're up. Strange I don't have to. Sonia and I aren't going to argue about the height of this. I get it all to myself today. [laughter] Um, I just wanted to start out with some celebrations. The first I want to continue sharing with you our Golden Globe award getting passed from staff to staff. Emily Jurgens presented it to Maggie Horack a couple weeks ago for her her perseverance and collaboration and support for our multilingual learners. We're still celebrating that last year our 20 students who exited our ELD program and looking forward to having those same numbers again this year. And then on Monday, it's not in my report, but on Monday, she passed it on to Katie Rue Gabber, who um is has come back to our community and kindergartener is just doing
033an outstanding job with our smallest bobcat. So, um another shout out to our PSCO for just an incredible our fourth annual fall barbecue. Really well attended. We had to reschedule it because of rain and we had it. We loved having it on Friday night 5 to 7 and then families went down to the football game afterward. And so we plan to continue I've already gotten great feedback about that. Plan to continue that uh in future years. And just a huge shout out to all of our volunteers from our um student council and their parents and our PSO who came out to really support the success of the of the barbecue. And then also just a huge kudos to our staff who are our our club sponsors. We are really lucky to have great club offerings
034for our students. Everything from gamers club to Bobcat Beats to the garden club to robotics. And it's all of our teachers who give their time and energy after school to do that. And we're just so grateful for the commitment they make and their creativity they bring to our students. And this year we have our highest club attendance rates we've ever had. So it's very exciting. um upcoming events. If you'd like to join us at Books and Breakfast, October 2nd is our October Books and Breakfast. And our special guest is Officer Paul. He likes to come in the fall and talk about school safety and the parents role and how we can talk to young kids about about school safety in ways that help them. His mantra is be prepared, not be I'm I'm prepared, not
035scared. And he does a great job of helping us have those conversations, really difficult conversations together. And then our fall conferences are coming up so soon [laughter] and so October 5th through 7th. I'm really hoping that we'll get all of our parents out to attend. And academic in academic achievement and growth like Dave shared, we finished up all of our beginning of the year benchmarks except kindergarten because they have a longer benchmark window in beginning of the year. They have 60 days. So they'll be benchmarking the end of this month. Um but some highlights that I just was excited to share with you. You know, traditionally we've seen really high second grade MAP scores and then they go down a little bit when they start third grade and we did not see that trend this
036year. We they stayed high and our third grade scores only 9% of that grade is below the 20th percentile which is the smallest in the well below benchmark we've ever had. And they have 49% of the grade above the 60th percentile. So just a big shift in achievement coming up from our primary students. And this is also the first year when we look at achievement, every grade level is above the 44th percentile. And so a bigger shift in our achievement percentiles. Our PLC's have been really digging in on Monday and in their PLC's each week. Uh looking at what are the strengths and assets their student their new students are bringing in and what are some of the challenges that they can really work on in their instruction this fall semester. and setting goals, creating
037plans for individual students and groups of students, and they've been doing just great work planning for out their instruction based on based on their new students. So, it's been great to see. Um, our collective goals in the elementary school are going to continue to be around our English language learners and ELA and getting our achievement and growth up for both ELA across the board, second year of our new curriculum, and our English language learners. and we're excited to continue to see that growth. Um, one of our strategic plan action steps this year that's really important to us is our programming for our high uh potential learners and our gifted and talented learners. Uh, last month, Rachel Graham came to our leadership team meeting to really talk about specific plans for our students who are scoring
038in those bands uh, and making plans and commitments as PLC's for over the next month. and we're coming back together and working on those. Along those same lines, we've also working, you know, the middle school um has their gifted acceleration program in math. And so we've been working with her of looking at what are options for doing math acceleration in the elementary school to make sure we're meeting all of our learners needs. And so our team has really been coming up with ideas. We're going to pilot some things this fall, look at data, get stakeholder feedback, and figure out what would be best to align so that we can have a math acceleration plan that's more aligned and consistent elementary, middle, high. Um, you know, we have more accelerated options with flooding in the elementary
039school, but we don't have a a system systematic plan for acceleration in math right now. So, I'm I personally am very excited about the work and the impact that this is going to have on our students. Um, and then on our September 14th PD day, we also got back together with our Otis representatives. I know that Dave shared out we started working with Otis this year with they worked with Bridges and they turned Yeah. they turned our assessments online and then it has an online portal for viewing student scores, how they're progressing on each standard. And so everyone you did an assessment before uh our September 14th PD day and then we were able to work with them on what does it look like to analyze the data in the programming how can it help
040us how can it uh be more sustainable for teachers having the digital grade book and so that was a really great training that we had on Monday and then in real world learning we've started our national park field trips kickoff this week and excited for those to continue and then next week uh we begin our annual partnership with the Estus Valley Parks and Recck District. And so our our water safety classes this year we've reversed and we're doing our older kids to younger kids first so that our younger kids have more time to get roars, behaviors, all those things. Um and so everyone's pretty excited about that schedule uh for our water safety classes starting next week. And then in the area of wellness, our MTSS team is already off and running. We did not
041waste any time. their first mission. Um, Dr. Santos is leading MTSS this year and you know, our first goal was getting our youngest students speech screenings that might need it. And we know the impact that early intervention can have on speech and our youngest kids and our youngest readers and the way that that can impact their phonics and reading instruction. So, they're working on getting all of our new students who need speech screenings being screened within 30 days and being able to make plans for those students and their families very quickly. And so just huge shout out to the team and Sundy Peach and our new SLP Nikki Shad for their hard work and making that happen for our students. And then lastly, I wanted to shout out Lisa Mechum and Stacy Schoenburgger. Uh they
042rocked uh vision and hearing screening the past two days. They they you know, we were apprehensive because we like to get them done during the meet and greet appointments and we didn't want it to take from instruction, but man, they had classes in and out in 15 minutes and did such a great job. And so just a huge shout out to them for that. >> Yeah. >> Questions? >> I have a question. >> Yeah. >> Um for our English language learners that we graduated because quite a big group. >> How do we continue to support them, monitor them, make sure they don't need extra support as they continue their journey? >> Yeah. Anytime we exit someone from ELD programming, they're in first year monitoring. And we our ELD teachers continue to meet with their teachers
043and monitor their progress and making sure that that was the right decision and that they don't need any supports and offering any supports if they are needed. >> Yeah. >> And thanks for doing the math coordination acceleration. That's exciting news. >> It is >> because it'll help challenge those kids that need that. >> Yeah. So, >> Yep. Yeah. Absolutely. >> I have a question [laughter] >> from above. Sorry. Um, thank you for everything that you're doing. You know, we appreciate it so much and it is great all the offerings that we have for students in the clubs. I'm wondering about robotics. Previously, the amount of the number of students that could participate was limited. And I'm wondering if that limitation is still there. And if so, have we looked at how we might be able
044to address that so that all kids who want to participate in that program can? That's a great question, Brenda. Um, you know, we always we have to limit it based on the amount of equipment we have and then our supervisors. Those are that's our big limitation. Um, and I don't know, Paulie and Nick do such a great job. They just got started last week and I don't know how many if any kids weren't able to be in it, but I will find out for you and I can email you Brenda because that's an excellent I I've known in previous years, but I don't know that number right now. >> Okay. Thank you. And it's not so much about the number as it is about, you know, just making sure that we're providing access to all
045of our students for things that they're excited in. And you know, I understand the equipment restraints and things and supervision, but um yeah, I'd like to explore how we can open that up to as many kids who want to participate as possible because I hate to see kids left out of something they're excited about. >> Absolutely. All right. Thank you guys. Miss Greenway is not able to join us tonight. She's at homecoming events. So, Mr. Grebs is going to do her report along a summary. That report's also posted for everyone's reading along with the athletic report. >> Awesome. All right. Well, u from the secondary schools, some things that Miss Greenway highlighted. Obviously, this week is homecoming week, so there's a lot of uh enthusiasm I saw at the middle school today. Um it was
046uh kids dressed like teachers and teachers dress like kids. So, that was quite entertaining. I did enjoy that. Um they've hired a couple new staff members at the secondary level. Um so we had a special ed PAR position that's now full as well as uh the program the RISE program which supervises kids that um are are serving in school uh detention. So we're all full there. Also Brie Vega from the local library has been able to reschedu some things and they are excited to have her back at the secondary level. academic achievement and growth. Both of the buildings, middle and high school, uh met their expectations for growth um and exceeded expectations when it came to uh growth in reading and writing on the PSAT. So, they're they're excited about that. During the PD planning
047day, they did some vertical alignment, not just um within that building, but even K through 12. they were able to have uh folks like PE teachers talk about that continual improvement throughout the Bobcats experience. Uh I really appreciated that as well as the implementation of teaching Greek and Latin root words to improve vocabulary and I actually got those emails. So like from the automotive department there was a list of words and where the Greek and Latin roots came from to increase understanding. Thought it was fabulous in real world learning. Um we've had uh major 13 performed at the community mind concert center. Uh the chamber choir will attend a leadership seminar. A local um writer civil gardener came to visit an English class. So we've got like actual realworld use of um those skills. Uh
048when it came to um again pach program, this is a program where kids can learn how to become a teacher. We had another student that achieved uh lifeguard certification. So, a lot of realworld great opportunities. The first bobcat go day is actually on Friday. I think it's the only day that it's on a Friday instead of Wednesdays. And that is to accommodate the homecoming parade. So, that way it's not interrupting your typical learning because that is a big deal. Kids are excited about that. um sixth graders had a chance to uh or are planning um a public works field trip and learning about not only town hall but the power plants and possibly the water treatment center. Um you already heard from career technical ed folks uh did a marvelous job under wellness. They're going
049to make sure they're reviewing their safety plans on how to evacuate and head down to the event center. Um, RORS is up and going in the middle school and um, the the new one this year is the PI day. PI stands for positive interactions for educators. And so once a month Sonia's going to bring in PI and they're going to celebrate the the cool things that staff are doing while they have a little treat. So those are some of the highlights from the secondary schools. Any questions? >> Brenda, do you have any questions? I do not. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> When do sports? >> I'm trying to see if Oh, here it is. Yeah. Uh in the world of sports, boys golf, we uh I would like to say there
050there are three golfers who have a chance to compete at the state level. The way they uh do that in high school golf is the states top 84 golfers qualify. Currently, um Drake Kernney is ranked 15th. Noah Webster 71st and Maddox uh Naji is 111th. So, got some golfers there. Uh Cheer obviously working hard for homecoming, getting ready for the big game to show off what they've been doing. Uh team is led by senior Macy Powell and junior Haley Downey. Cross country's been doing well. Um they competed in the uh Liberty Bell at Christ at Heritage Christian and um head to Lions for the St. Brain Invitational. That team is led by junior Caleb Estanol and a freshman Lena Schmidt. In football, uh I don't know if you got a chance to see um last
051Friday night's game was big win for him. Um, the team is led by seniors Leo Bal Baldi, East G. Wow, I'm gonna butcher your your name, Eastston, but uh, what's your best attempt there? Gabiten. Uh, Chris Lmer, Gabe Oberg, Colobby O'Brien, and Hadley Rasmusen. I need to learn Eastston's name because um, he had a heck of a game on Friday night. So, if you haven't seen them, come on out and cheer them on this Friday at homecoming. Volleyball. Um, they're kind of rebuilding because of how many seniors they had last year. Um, but they've they've had some good wins and they're showing improvement. So, seniors this year, Ava Caruso, uh, Genevie Thomas, Abby Wartley, and then they have junior Kylie McNau. So, I've seen seen some some good stuff from the volleyball team. In middle
052school, boys soccer is underway. Cross country football also doing fantastic. Um they had a a big win over Clear Creek and Haxton. And so um I think they take on their rival Lions is coming up. So that'll be a big one. Swimming and diving uh has been pretty successful as well. Volleyball earns has had a couple big wins and then they are going to host the Ascent Classic on Friday as part of homecoming. So, it's it's been a good fall. Um, I think Nolan has been um, you know, most pleased with how people chip in and when we've got a game, it takes a lot of folks and I I heard teachers announcing names at the soccer game. They did a much better job than me. So, uh, those names throw me off. But yeah,
053so far um, Bobcat sports are on the up and up. >> Thank you. Any questions? Brenda? Brenda, questions? >> No, thank you. >> All right, moving on to agenda item 43, board reports. I have nothing to report this week. Franco, what about you? Okay, Brenda, do you have anything? >> Nothing to report. >> All right, moving on to agenda item five, consent agenda. There are four items on the consent agenda this evening. 51, board meeting minutes from August 4th, 2026 and August 19th, 2026. 52, super September personnel list. 53 2026 2027 District Advisory and Accountability Charges. 54 2026 2027 District Advisory and Accountability Committee membership. Are there any items a board member would like to pull from the consent agenda for discussion prior to approval of the consent agenda? No. Seeing none, is there a
054motion and a second to approve the consent agenda? >> I approve theess assessment agenda. >> I second. We have a motion and second. Chris, please conduct a board roll call. >> Director Fere, >> I. >> Director Reurski, >> I. >> Director Wis >> I. >> The I vote. Consent agenda is approved. Moving on to agenda item six, action items. There are no action items this evening. Moving on to agenda item seven, upcoming meetings. Uh our board the next work session is October 6, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. at the admin building. Moving on to agenda item 8, adjournment. Is there a board member would like to make a motion to adjurnn? >> I have a motion to adjurnn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All right, we're adjourned, everyone. Thank you. >> Thank you.
055>> Hope you get feeling better, Brenda. >> Thank you. And they're