001full house tonight. We're glad to see so many visitors and excited for the recognitions and presentations that we'll have at the beginning of our meeting. Uh we'll begin with roll call. Uh starting with Jared Black. Jared Black, business administrator. Jeff Nielsen, board member. Alan Grunig, board member. Kathy Christensen, board member. Terry Rhodess, board member. Roger Pulser, board member. Todd McKe, superintendent. Brian Chambers, board member. Randall Bagley, board member. Thank you all for being here. Um, I forgot to say it is Thursday the 14th 15th of May 2025 and we are meeting in the boardroom on Legacy Campus. Uh, the pledge and mission statement will be led by Roger Pulsifer. Will you all please stand? [Music] I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands,
002one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Our mission is to educate students for success in a changing world. Thank you, Roger. Uh first up tonight, we're very excited to have the Lincoln Elementary Bell Choir here with um their director uh director uh Janice Barlo. And we appreciate you making the effort to be here to um show us all the great things these kids have learned this year. And so we'll turn the time over to you, Mrs. Barlo. [Applause] They will be performing wind chimes for you. [Music] Yeah. [Applause] Yeah, we should. [Music] Thank you so much. Can we have another round of applause for the bell choir? So cute. We appreciate you being here. Thanks for your work. Next up, we have uh 41 projects that have been funded by New
003Core Steel in their very generous donations to our district. And so we will turn the time over to Carmen Sorenson. Will you please tell us your name so that we know who Wait, we have a microphone. [Music] My name is Michael Ashelman. I've been working with Newor still in Plymouth for 17 years. I'm Kendall Bear. I recently graduated from Utah State and am working at Newore for the past 3 years. Uh we're we're proud to represent New Cor still here at the Cash County School District. Um every year our company uh likes to donate um to the community and we we believe this is a a great uh um source to do that. So, um, tonight we'll be handing out a total of $12,364 to teachers that have applied, um, for projects in their classrooms
004to benefit the students. I know some of these names. Um, some of some of these teachers are teaching my children and so it's it's a a great honor to be here to do this. Do you mind if we just use this podium here? Oh, sure. Did you want to read the names or Yeah, I can read. Okay. They're going to come through. They have a paper with their name on it, so you can read. Oh, okay. I was like, that was not an answer. You're good. Allison Fonte. [Applause] Yeah, we can do that. It's fine. Holly Jackson. Oh, thank you, Perry Shepard, [Applause] Penny Thickpin. Thank you, Zena. Sai. Oh, okay. Uh Miam Fair, Jennifer Esllet, uh Christian Smith, Jamie White, and Janessa McDaniel. [Applause] Okay. Heather Emmes and Shelby [Applause] Mather. Hi, Carrie Kendrick.
005[Applause] Paz [Applause] Cauldron, Kim Day. [Applause] Mary [Applause] Knight, Charlotte [Music] [Applause] Davis, Linda Hamilton, [Applause] Sydney [Applause] Monsters, Janalie Nielsen [Applause] Preston [Applause] Schwab, Zoe Jensen. [Applause] Megan [Applause] Robertson, Britney Wall, and Debbie [Applause] Alexander, Erica Blackburn, [Applause] Sandy [Applause] Curtis, Sarah [Applause] Larson, Kim Panter, [Applause] Kathy [Applause] Weise, Emily [Applause] Nelson. Thank you. Teresa Bryinholt. There you are. Thanks. She's next. Jan Jensen. [Applause] somewhere here. You're doing so good. [Applause] Lisa Weaver [Applause] Lori Merchant, [Applause] Kaylee Crane, [Applause] Thank you so much. That's great. Thank you everybody. Thank Thank you for coming and please give our appreciation to everyone at Newor for your generosity. We appreciate it. And now we have uh two teachers to recognize as teacher of the year at their uh respective schools. First up we have Haley Larson from
006White Pine Elementary and her award will be presented by Principal Derek Bear. Thank you. [Music] Okay. Thank you. Um this is a a great uh opportunity for our school to recognize um one of our one of our teachers that has a natural ability um that's inspiring and um that's something that as an administrator uh when I started at White Pine I I recognized that pretty quick just from her um just from her calm um loving way that she deals with with situations. um to share some of the reasons why we um our school, if I can get my iPad to open here, I have some input from from others. Um some of our staff members said that Haley is a fabulous teacher. She's always positive and builds great relationships with her students. She's great at
007making learning fun and showing each each student how much she cares. She also has great communication with parents about what she what the class is doing and any needs the students have. Some of the things that the parents wrote um as a parent I can say so many wonderful things about her. She communicates how my student is doing. She is patient, caring, smart and makes learning fun. But the number one thing that makes her an amazing teacher is that she teaches while making the students feel loved and special. And I see that on a daily basis. Um, one of the parents wrote that um, something I've really appreciated about Haley is that is that she is so patient. She knows to pick her battles and she has advocated for my students needs all year. My
008favorite part is um, what the students say. I went into uh Haley's class and stole her class for a few minutes today and um there were a lot of she's kind comments. Um one comment said hers is the funnest in the whole entire universe. One student said she's lovely. Another one said she's beautiful. She gives lemon heads. She gives us lemon slices that turn into prizes. I got to see that. Um she's very nice and she lets us get our chapstick when our lips is dry. And then um one student just summed it up. She said, "We all love Miss Larson." And congratulations. This is very deserving. We all love Miss Larson. [Applause] Congratulations, Haley. Thanks for your diligent efforts at White Pine. Uh, next we have Amy Wallace, who's also a first grade teacher
009at Sunrise Elementary, and her award will be presented by Principal Shelley [Applause] Healey. All right, fun day for me. You are looking at an amazing natural talent who has been in the classroom benefiting students and making changes in their lives for 17 years. I am honored to be the principal at Sunrise Elementary and watch her work. If you were to walk into her classroom, you would it would be this. She doesn't miss a beat. And yet, I know those kids each have individual needs and every one of them are getting those needs met because of the talents of Mrs. Wallace. So, let me share a couple things that were written about her. So, one of the parents was was really concerned about their child, and we've we've learned a lot about the process, but this
010is what she said. I spend an entire day, thank you for letting her in Mrs. Wallace's class. I was blown away by her. My son has a lot of challenges, and she manages him and the other students with such finesse and confidence. That's a great way to put it. They adore her, listen to her, and learn from her. Mrs. Wallace has incredible systems and rituals and prompts that help keep students on task and engaged. Her systems worked so well that she rarely needs to redirect students. Instead, she showers them with praise. This is an example of an excellent, excellent teacher. When asking if she could observe him, her son, she was very inviting, welcoming, and warm and friendly. She said she was excited to have me come observe and looked forward to any suggestions I
011may have. I loved her security and confidence in her own abilities. Mrs. Wallace exemplifies the qualities of an outstanding educator and I believe she truly deserves to be teacher of the year. So that's one of her many parents that submitted um comments. So here is one from one of her colleagues. Amy is an outstanding teacher. She exudes kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion. She has a wealth of knowledge in classroom management and in the teaching profession. She mentored me in kindergarten and showed me the ins and outs of understanding this foundational grade. Amy is skilled in not only teaching but understanding the standards and policies that come with teaching. She is approachable, hardworking, and a team player. Amy has not only mastered teaching but has a true talent for her for it. So without any further ado,
012I gladly share with you the talents of Mrs. Wallace as our teacher of the year. Thank you so much. Congratulations, Amy. thanks for your ex excellent work at Sunrise. Uh next we have our classified employees of the year and we're so glad to recognize these four people who will be here um who will be presented at this meeting. Um not present at this meeting is Colt Finnower who is a mechanic in the transportation department. He had a conflicting um assignment tonight. So without um him being here we have four to recognize. First we are will be recognizing uh Elise Hasslam who is a paraprofessional and specialist at Canyon Elementary and her award will be presented by principal Lesie Bert. [Applause] Thank you. This is one of the easiest things I've ever had to do as
013a principal because when I came to Canyon 3 years ago, Stacy Williamson said, "You will come to love Elise." And that did not take long. So, you know, a teacher touches many, many lives, but as a PE specialist, Elise sees every single student in the school every single week. And at Canyon, we have almost 800 students. That's a lot of kids all year long, year after year. And you started not long after the school opened, right? Mhm. This is my 16th year. This is her 16th year. She is an amazing PE specialist. She plans activities like no other. They have blacklight dodgeball and they um learn how to play nine square. They go outside. They recently um honed their pickle ball skills and then they took a trip across to the park from Canyon and
014got to play on a real court. So, they'll all be ready for those pickle ball tournaments. And she's constantly thinking of ways to to make PE and those skills and all of that really fun. But it goes well beyond PE. Elise helps in so many ways. And oftent times she just sees a need and takes care of it. And I'll find out that Elise has already done it or I'll come to talk to her about something and she's like, "Oh, I'm happy to do that." She handles all of our gym reservations and scheduling and just many, many more things. one thing that she's jumped in to help at the end of the day with almost 800 students and only one secretary because the others are part-time and have already gone home. Um it gets a
015little crazy in the office and and she just said, "You know what? I finish up with the kindergarteners. I'll just pop in here after and help you out." So, she's in there at the end of the day helping get kids to call home and get kids in the right places they need to be and help answer the door so our secretary is not handling it all on her own. So so so many things and I would if you spoke to anyone in the school they would all have 101 wonderful things to say about you. So I am thrilled that she has this opportunity to be recognized as the paraprofessional specialist for Cash County School District. It is welld deserved and I'm thrilled. Thank [Applause] you. [Applause] Congratulations, Elise, and thanks for your work. Uh, next
016we have Cindy Lenskog who is the secretary at Can or at Ridgeline High School and her award will be presented by Vice Principal Deanna [Applause] Stallings. Do that one. I am so honored and thrilled to get to present this award to Cindy award. Um I don't know if you know but Cindy's retiring at the end of this year and it's just a huge loss to our school. We're all very emotional about it. But recently we were holding interviews to replace her, which is no easy task. And we had a pretty big committee, probably eight people sitting around the table. And one of the interviewees said, "Can you tell me what you know what kind of what does this job entail?" And we all kind of looked around at each other. And then the floodgates opened
017and we all started listing all the things that Cindy does. And I think we scared that applicant right out because it's so much. And yet, you know someone is doing their job so well when you don't notice those things are being done just because they get done. And that's what Cindy does. She takes care of everything at the school. And not only does she take care of stuff, she takes care of all of us. And we are a family at Ridgeline. And Cindy's like our mom. And she is just so amazing, so professional, so good at her job. And I wanted to read um something that a colleague wrote about her. Super Smith. Tonight we celebrate Cindy's exceptional service and dedication to Mountain Crest and Ridgeline High School. For two decades, Cindy has been more
018than a trustworthy administrative assistant. She has been the heart that has kept us running smoothly, always looking out for our family of staff and students. Her tireless efforts ensured the high school function flawlessly each day. We are deeply grateful for Cindy's extraordinary commitment and unwavering caring spirit. Though her presence in our school community will be missed for years to come, her lasting impact on so many lives will not be forgotten by those who had the privilege of working with her. Congratulations on your welldeserved retirement and on this welldeserved award. Just as you made our school a place to thrive, let your garden flourish and your spirit revive. [Applause] Yes, absolutely. I don't even know what this is. Okay. Thank you for your work, Cindy, and congratulations. Uh, next we have Cade Walline who is the
019head custodian at Sky View High School and his award will be presented by Principal Shane Jones. Uh, I'm very very privileged to uh have the opportunity to uh recognize Kate as the um the custodian of the year for the entire district. If you think about how many schools we have, uh it's pretty pretty impressive how many people are out there doing a lot of their work. Um since I've been back to Sky View, uh I've found Kate has taken me in places at Sky View I never knew existed. Um most of them are underground and dirty and uh um but uh uh we could not be happier um that he was recognized for all of his efforts. Um it's hard to believe but uh Sky View is 60 years old and it's not uncommon that
020when we get um either groups that come back or people who visit our school, they will say, "I can't believe this school looks 60 years old." Um just cuz it's been so taken care of so well. And he was trained well um um and has taken over and just uh done an unbelievable job. Uh it's not uncommon to be leaving at a late hour and knowing you're leaving thinking, "Oh man, I'm the last one out of here." And then you see Kade who's still there or you get there early and think I'm going to be the first one there and no, Kades beat you there as well. So he's um he's always filling in for anybody who might be gone. Um cuz part of it is when a custodian's gone, the work doesn't go anywhere,
021but someone's still got to do it. And that's Cade. So you'll see him all over Sky View and doing all sorts of things. So um when he was announced to the school, uh our students and teachers um second in the nomination. We're so so happy that he got the recognition for this. And then I told him I wouldn't speak a whole long time cuz he wanted a chance to to address the room. Is that still true? No. Okay. So, it's my honor and privilege to uh congratulate Kate on being the um custodian of the year for the Cash County School District. [Applause] Thank you for your work, Kade. We appreciate it. Uh, last but not least, Lesie Harris, who is a cook at Sunrise Elementary School. Her re uh, award will be presented by Principal
022Shelley Healey, who must be doing double duty tonight. I didn't know you were here. You my hair. I know. You look so different. I'm used to seeing her hair pulled up because she's in the lunchroom. Um I was so excited to learn that Leslie got to be our nutrition. There's a big long line. Nutrition, food service, child and nutrition employee of the year because it it it makes sense. So I just want to share something. In our lunchroom, we serve I don't know do do you remember a count? I know there's about 700 children at our school and in an hour and a half they pump through so many lunches flawlessly. But this year, one of her co-workers took time off to to have a baby. And that lunchroom didn't skip a beat. Not one
023beat. Because Lesie was there. She's dependable. she just quietly goes about and figures everything out and gets it all done and that that was so we were so appreciative of that. Um the other thing I love about her she's just always happy always. This is just how she is and she comes in and she does one of the hardest jobs there is to do and she does it with a smile. So I would I would love to share her talents with you by giving her the um what is the it's a big one title. What is that? I'm so sorry. Child nutrition classified employee of the year. Give it up for [Applause] [Music] Lesie. Thank you, Lesie, for being at Sunrise and doing such a great job. Can we have all of you who are
024here supporting these great people please [Applause] stand? We know that it takes a lot of help and support from home for these people to be as great as they are at school. So, thank you for your support. And if you want to leave, this is the time to do it before we start our business. Thanks for coming. [Music] Uh we've now reached the public input part of our agenda and we have two people who have signed up to speak uh to the board. Uh I'll remind you of the guidelines that we have printed on our agenda and uh websites just to rem remind you. Um comments are limited to 3 minutes. Personnel comments are prohibited and comments are recorded as public part of the public record. So please be respectful in your comments. Um, will
025you please when you when your name is called come to the podium and uh speak into the microphone so your comments can be recorded and uh everyone can hear you. First up we'll have Amanda Arnell. They'll see it. Hello. Uh, my name is Amanda Arnell. I have children um at Heritage Elementary, South Cash, and Ridgeline High School. Um, I support the DLI program. I think it's a great asset to our school district, and I want to see it continue on through all the changes that are coming in the next few years. Um, at the last school board meeting, uh, the DLI committee uh, gave you a proposal for sending the Spanish dual immersion to Mountain Crest. And, um, I reviewed some of the guiding principles that they were given when they first met. And I
026wanted to review those with you and show that while one guiding principle was met, several of the others were not. Those guiding principles were number one ensuring geographic and demographic equity in second secondary programs two long-term program sustainability and three utilizing datadriven decisionm uh first is addressing equity geographic geographic equity on the secondary level in this case moving Spanish to mountain crest so that all the high schools have a DLI program does not mean demographic equity. If secondaries move to Mountain Crest, those in the Mountain Crest boundaries who will have access to the DLI program will be limited to children who have parents who can drive them to six years of elementary school. Geographic equity does not equal demographic equity. Second, um I lumped together long-term sustainability and datadriven decisions. What class size is the
027district willing to support with these specialized DLA teachers if classes shrink due to nibbly residents not wanting to divide their families among different schools? Have parents in Mountain Crest boundaries been surveyed about their willingness to drive children to elementary school in Providence from Mend Wellsville and Hyum for six years. Do we have data showing that the program will be sustained? In summary, while the proposal to move Spanish DLI to Mountain Crest appears geographically equitable from the secondary standpoint, it most certainly is not demographically equitable and may put the long-term viability of Spanish DLI at risk because of small class sizes and lack of data showing support at the elementary level from those in the Mountain Crest boundaries. Thank you for your time considering these points. Thank you, Amanda, for coming. We appreciate you. Uh, and
028next up we have Matteline Darnell. Good evening. My name is Maline Darnell and I'm here to speak to you about the DLI Spanish program. I am currently a 10th grade student at Ridgeline, enrolled in the Bridge program after passing the AP Spanish test last year. The proposal for the program to move to Mountain Crest would have be affecting me my senior year, potentially making me have to switch schools just to be able to finish the program. You once were all in high school just like me. For a moment, I want you to think on that time. Most people I speak to tell me how much they loved high school. From these adults and from the friends I have made at Ridgeline, I know that senior year is a year to look forward to. It's your
029final year before you go off to college or other dreams, and basically start the rest of your life. By this point in high school, you're involved in the culture of the school, the activities, have tons and tons of friends, you're known by the teachers and counselors, and for some people like me, you've involved with the sport and have been for multiple years now. How would you feel being told that to finish an important program that you love and are excelling in, you would have to leave behind all that you've worked so hard to establish and switch to a rival school down the road where you may not be so warmly welcomed. Think of those people that are the new kids in school. But now imagine being the new kid for your senior year, starting over
030at a point where you should be celebrating a big finish. My senior friends from the bridge class have shown me photos from their program completion celebration dinner, and I want to look forward to that night for myself. But I'm so sad to think of the opportunity might be taken away from me. Mr. Moral, our current teacher, has done a fantastic job with this program, and it's hard to think of something so well established from being pulled away from him. I understand that in the end the change might look pretty on paper, but I want you to think that if you were that kid in high school today, that senior or even a hopeful upcoming middle schooler like my younger sister, I am that kid in high school today. And that Ridgeline family Deanna referred to
031earlier is my family and the DLI's family. Thank you for your time considering this change from my viewpoint. Thank you, Meline. Very good points and well spoken. either of them want to do uh either of you want to speak with one of our uh district administrators. You Yeah, you could step out in the hall if you want to talk to them right now or if you're staying for the whole meeting afterward. Okay. All right. Thank you, Britney. And thank you for coming to speak to us. We appreciate that. Uh, moving on, we are at our consent agenda and I will take a motion to amend or approve the consent agenda. I move that we approve the consent agenda. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda as printed. Any discussion or
032concerns? Seeing none, we will vote electronically. Voting is closed and the motion to approve the consent agenda passes unanimously. Thank you, Jared. Uh only one item is on our action agenda tonight and that's the approval of our uh revised board handbook and I will take a motion to approve or amend uh anything on the handbook. I move that we approve the new board handbook as a as proposed. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the handbook as uh amended. Any discussion, concerns, additions? By the way, thanks for your work in doing that. Um, let me just mention that one of the items on there is how to deal with the media and the other one is when we receive um information from the public where that needs to be directed to. So, just
033so you you know that they're two different things. I have a question on the board role and hiring process that in red is it going to stay there or is that being that's on page eight eight nine is that nine or eight or nine I guess it's eight um it will be removed uh if we accept it as um as amended because that's red so it would be removed unless you want it to stay. No, I want it removed. Okay. Okay. That's what I thought too that it would be anything in red would be anything in red would be removed. Okay. Any other discussion? Okay. Seeing none, I will we will vote electronically to approve the board handbook as amended. Voting is closed and the motion to approve the board handbook as amended passes unanimously.
034Thank you, Jared. Uh moving on, we are to the reports section of our agenda and we will hear from uh the Spring Creek Middle School and Green Canyon High School counselors as well as Alden Jack um who about the comprehensive school counseling annual review and the great projects they've been working on. Well, I've really enjoyed um working with the secondary counselors this year. I've been with our elementary counseling group for the past 5 years now and uh really enjoyed having uh the secondary counselors uh under student services and we really rely on uh really distributed support for all of the things that they do. Uh, so Britney and teaching and learning and um John and CTE and then the the pieces I get to play in student services. But I I just uh want to
035give my gratitude to all of the counselors for the work that they do in the schools. And um I've just got a couple of things to show you. This is part of our annual requirements for the comprehensive school counseling program that goes clear back to 1990 uh for Cash County Schools. And um if you can hit the next but oh there we go. I just thought I'd give you a a little bit of information. Uh, one of our primary goals is to have ongoing communication between the board and what the comprehensive counseling program does for cash schools. And uh, reaffirm our commitment to that um, that program. And what I'd like to just remind everybody about tonight is the uh counseling framework addresses academic learning, life and career, multicultural, global citizenship and social emotional development
036for all students. So the counselors wear many many hats and uh it's hard to really enumerate all the different things that come to their attention in a day, the things they have to deal with to help students and I'm just really again grateful for what they do. Um I apologize that slide didn't come out quite right but this is a recommendation from the framework about how a counselor would spend their time and the majority of their time is spent in that you know instruction and collaboration to help students benefit from the school process. They're also looking out for the welfare and well-being of students who may be at risk of uh not completing their education and then uh just managing their program effectively. Um these are all of the pieces that are part of uh
037the qualifications we go through in our reviews to qualify for the program. Uh our counselors complete a yearly data project and it's based on the needs assessment of their building and the students. They work closely with their school administration and their teachers. They seek feedback from students and parents to look at what the needs are and they do an annual self-evaluation as well on that program. We complete an annual uh really an annual analysis of that. But then we also participate in an interim review and a a formal review every six years uh to make sure we're meeting the goals of the program and uh helping our students. And so we've got um some of our well I'll show you this is just a bit on the funding and a ratio of of counselor to
038student. We are to meet a a ratio of 1 to 350 per the Utah model. And at this time we are currently somewhere uh just under that that uh that ratio. And we appreciate the support we receive from the state and also from uh the you the local board and our our superintendent McKe to make sure we have coverage in all of the schools. Um but I'll just go backwards here. We we receive funding to allocate and a portion of that goes to our pair of professionals in our career centers who work closely with the counselors and and CTE initiatives. But then there's also an amount that's allocated to each school to help them with their individual data projects and the the uh you know administrating in the counseling offices. Um and we've got some
039of our teams here tonight to present. And I apologize when I submitted this. I didn't know how many we would have come. So, I'm so glad Stacy and Tanza are both here from Spring Creek. And then from Green Canyon, we have Clint Fulmer and uh Grant Cavalry and Dedra Hines to help present from Green Canyon. And I appreciate them all being here to represent their schools. So, I'll pass the time over. Tanz, do you mind? Uh Spring Creek team, you mind going first? Okay. Hey, Alden, just quick question. Te can you tell me what the scope of the system program management is? There's a there was a bullet in there about a certain percentage of time was aligned to that. What does that involve? Program management. Yeah. So that would have to do with um
040more of the clerical pieces of what the counselors do, making sure that they are following the program model, the planning for that uh their data projects and their annual planning and comprehensive guidance review. So that that's kind of that piece of it if I'm understanding that right. They get that right, Clint. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Awesome. Hi. I'm really excited to be here with you guys and do this presentation. It's my first official presentation. Um, so I get to talk to you guys about our data project at Spring Creek and our data project. I know this presentation was shared with you. Um, so I'm just going to highlight some key points to it. Uh, but our present our data project is a continuum of a 4-year project where we were trying to increase our parental
041and um, guardian involvement in our PCCRs. I know Alden touched on PCCRs, our plan for college and career readiness meetings that we meet with students and talk about those important next steps, which for middle school, we meet with our eighth graders and talk about the next steps going on into 9th grade and high school and opportunities that are available to them while they're in high school. And so we feel like these are really important meetings. It's an opportunity for us to get to know the students better and the parents and increase that involvement and understanding of what our students are going through. And what is disclosed and comes up in those meetings surprises us, but also it's really good opportunity because it's not only talking about high school and next steps, but also what's going
042on in middle school and the struggles that they're facing while they're here at our school. Is it academics or social emotional or what's going on at home? And so it's an opportunity for us to be able to support them a little bit more. So we wanted to increase that parental involvement and um like I said, it's been a 4-year ongoing project and we've been trying to increase it by 10%. And um a couple things that we've done throughout the four years to try to increase that parental involvement is um we've sent emails and texts reminders to parents. We incorporated texting parents a couple years ago and that seemed to involve parents and notify them a little bit more about these meetings that we do. And we created Google calendars and appointment slots where parents could
043go and select the appointments that they wanted to meet with their their counselor, us, and their student, and discuss these things. We also created a Spanish-sp speakaking parent night to create opportunities for those that may not speak English so they can get that connection. And we've included our IEP um meetings and transition meetings and our special education department because they already have those transition meetings and discuss next steps. And so we collaborated with our special education team and department so that way we could be a part of that and share some of that data and information in those meetings. Um, we've also done a questionnaire before we meet with parents so that way we can focus our meetings a little bit more on to what they are hoping to discuss. And then we've also done
044presentations and lessons in classes before our meetings. And lastly, we've created uh opportunities for parents to do Zoom meetings or Google Meets, which has really opened the doors because our school is split. We have a lot of North End students. We've got about one-third that are in North Logan and 2/3 down in Nibbi Millville area. And so that's created opportunities. and even when they're traveling. One of our counselors, he had a meeting with a parent who was in Canada and a parent who was at home watching the kids and the student was in his office and he was able to bring them all together and have that discussion. So, it's created a lot of opportunities that way. Um, this is the results of our parental involvement. This is the percentage that we've been able to
045get in the last four years. and we're sitting in that like 40 to 50%. We have been collecting data before we started this project. Um, and even before the two years before, we were still sitting in this range. And so we feel like this is pretty much where we're at and we're ready to move on and look at other points of data and another project next year because these are awesome opportunities. will constantly look for other ways to improve and increase parental involvement, but just with our demographics and where we at, this is kind of what we're looking at. Um, yeah, that's kind of my highlights. Uh, do you guys have any questions? What do you um are there specific things that you feel that um I mean this is your data your data shows
046that you improved this year over last year which is really great um 10 percentage points is really good uh especially in only one school year. So what do you feel would would help motivate parents to be more involved? Yeah, it's a great question and it's one we've been asking ourselves the last four years. Um, it is kind of interesting how last year there was that drop to 33% and we've asked ourselves what happened last year to make that drop happen and then all of a sudden we have an increase and we there's probably multiple factors. It could be um maybe there was more population more at the north end cuz we do notice that we have less attendees of our north end students and parents in those meetings. It could be because they didn't want
047to make the drive or it does feel like they're a little bit more removed from us where we are located. Um, it could be because that school year we had a lot of students who were they had multiple older siblings and so parents already kind of knew what we would discuss and talk about and so they were feeling confident with their student transitioning to the high school. Um, as far as what we did different from last year to this year, we did include more special education students with our meetings. Um, so that was a new thing that we did. And a new thing we did this year was we sent out a video which was one of our counselors just discussing what we're going to talk about in those meetings and we sent that out
048to parents and it did kind of pique some more parents interest and they wanted to hear more about it. So that was kind of an interesting thing that we're looking to continue. But yeah, we're just looking at what more we could do. So, if you guys have any ideas, we'd love them. I have a quick thought. First off, good job on your presentation for the first one. Uh, as a dad, if if I see PCCR, I don't even know what it means. So, when you communicate with parents, do they know that this is career readiness or college readiness or do they or do we just send out PCCR and then they might think it's just another email and maybe not give it close attention? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, we say plan for
049college and career readiness and then we put in parentheses PCCR. Um, and then we also get parents that say, "Oh, my kid, we're not even ready to talk about college. I don't want to talk about college right now. they're not ready. So then we emphasize with those parents, it's not just about college, it's about high school and prepping for high school. And there are some classes in high school that you can take that are college level classes. And so that kind of surprises them. Yeah. Great. Thanks. Anyone else? I some feedback that I've had from uh uh some people in my area is many times they feel like that if their child's doing well in school that it just naturally happens that things are going to work out and they they if things are going
050well they don't necessarily pay that kind of attention to like a a parent teacher conference or a career planning and that type of a thing. So I'm wondering how much of that attitude it uh is or is portrayed in the data here. Do you ever get feedback like that? Yeah. And then we also with our demographics, we have a lot of parents who have gone to college and they feel very confident about giving the correct guidance to their students right going into high school. So yeah, we have seen that as well. Okay. Yeah. Great. Anyone else? Nice presentation. Thanks. Thank you so much. [Applause] You can hand it to Grant. All right. I was prepared with a song, but everyone left, so it's not, you know, not worth it. Oh, man. There's enough here. Okay.
051So, um I'm here to talk about our data project um at Green Canyon. Um we've been looking at these numbers since uh 2022 2023 and we actually have uh disseminated or we have like uh numbers from you know our entire uh the entire time that Green Canyon has been open um disagregated uh AP concurrent enrollment information um based on demographics. So, we've kind of looked through that, but really our baseline numbers that we um are using for this project were 2022 2023 um AP and concurrent enrollment um amongst our ethnic minority um students. Um so, we we chose to do this uh project to support one of our school improvement goals of increasing Aspire and ACT scores amongst our minority population. Um rigorous coursework is known to improve performance on standardized tests. So, um, our
052baseline data from 2022 2023 showed that our ethnic minority students accounted for 10.8% of our concurrent enrollment um, registration and 13.5% of our AP. That 17.1 is inaccurate. So, but I I'll get a different number for that. Um, so we were a little bit um, low as far as our um, ethnic minority representation in these advanced courses. Um so we we wanted to look at that and see how we can improve um that enrollment. Some of the interventions that we brought in are I guess I'll go through these uh these ideas and our goal our goal um there at the bottom um and and this is the goal that we've had the last couple years is that we were hoping to increase our minority AP and concurrent enrollment um enrollment by an additional 5% each
053year. So, we've been studying this for the last couple years. Um, by encouraging minority students to enroll in concurrent and AP. Um, we felt like this can uh help with their Aspire and ACT testing. Um, yeah. So, I'll tell you the interventions that we have in place to help increase these numbers. Um, with our Wolfpack Academy class, um, just really quick how we break that down. Our Wolfpack Academy is for our freshmen. Um, and every student at our school takes Wolfpack Academy. um it's that first trimester their freshman year and the way that we've been doing this for the last what three or four years we section type it by counselor so this gives us the opportunity for example I work with students whose last names begin with E through I and so I have
054about 90 freshmen any given year and my 90 freshmen will be in one of three Wolfpack Academy classes so when I go in and do presentations four-year plans getting to know students I'm getting to know the students that I will work with for the next four years we found that to be pretty effective in building those relationships over the four years and it's something that we plan on continuing. Um, in those Wolfpack Academy classes, we do four-year plans. U, we talk about, you know, college and career readiness. We talk about AP and concurrent enrollment classes that are available through those four-year plans. So, it really just kind of sets that um sets the stage for us to have these individual meetings and encourage these courses for these students, for all students. Okay. Um, another intervention
055that we have in place, we provide fee waiverss for students who need them for AP and concurrent enrollment um, classes, those course fees. This year we had um, 24 AP or concurrent enrollment fees covered. Um, so we're trying to eliminate that barrier um, as far as, you know, our ethnic minority students taking those advanced courses. Um, so some of the other things that we do, we conduct individual PCCR meetings in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. In 2024, we added a PCCR night specifically for our minority population that needed translation services. Um, with that, we included a catered dinner for me Toro VJO, and we had tons of uh um language interpreter, you know, uh, translators there. So, that was that was pretty effective. Um this year our major intervention we added was looking at our
056concurrent enrollment eligible population which is 3.0 juniors and seniors uh to see who has self- selected advanced coursework. And then um we're still in the middle of this uh going through and talking to those students who haven't self- selected to see if um a concurrent enrollment or AP course would be um you know seem appropriate for them. Um the initial registration numbers for next school year show that 79% of our concurrent enrollment um our our CE eligible students like I just mentioned have self- selected concurrent enrollment or AP classes already. So they're they've already kind of you know self- selected and decided you know AP and concurrent is for me. I I can do this. So um yeah so that's kind of our our intervention this year. Um right now the the numbers have increased
057um as far as our minority representation in concurrent enrollment in AP coursework. Right now we have 12% of our concurrent enrollment enrollments are from minority our ethnic minority population and 14.5% in um our AP are comprised of our ethnic minority students and that's uh with our GC population being 17.1% ethnic minority. So, we're kind of closing that gap of of those students um you know, choosing to take AP and concurrent enrollment. This is our real data number that we're looking at. Um that goes with our goal. So, 19.4% minority increase in concurrent enrollment participation since 2022 2023 and then 11.2% minority increase in advanced placement participation since 22 uh 2223. So, and we don't know how long we're going to continue with this project. One of the things, um, John Anderson's done such a great
058job with CTE, but it kind of they're fighting for, you know, we're fighting for the same students. Um, so we're trying to decide if we want to go a different route next year, if we want to continue to look at these numbers. Um, yeah. So, um, not a bad thing though that our kids are involved in taking CT courses, but it does, we've only got 15 classes in the school year, so if they're taking CTE, it does dig into some of those AP and concurrent enrollment options. Um, so we're kind of trying to decide how we're going to move forward with our our data project next year. If we want to continue looking at these numbers or if we want to do something different. So, thank you, Grant. That was awesome. Anyone have questions for
059Grant? Have you considered just adding CTE to your APN concurrent enrollment? We we've talked about that as well. Um, I mean, especially when we have students that are choosing to go to to BTE. Um, I think our initial idea though behind looking at AP and CT, you know, and the CE was looking at how this is going to affect our Aspire and ACT test scores because that's one of our our schools, you know, um, school improvement plans. So, we're trying to figure out how we want to look at that and how we want to incorporate it if we want to switch over to more of a college and career readiness approach, you know. So, yeah. Well, what what you didn't show here is that it your work must have been effective because you are out
060of TSI as a school and you were in TSI because of the the minority the ELEL students. So, um to me that says that whatever you've done has helped. Yeah. And obviously there have been like schoolwide interventions that have played into that, but this was just one Yeah. one small piece that we felt we can contribute. Yeah. So, there have been multiple interventions schoolwide and and like you said, this is one, but that's that's great. Way to go. Yeah. Everyone, any other questions? Thanks. All right. Thanks, [Applause] Grant. All right. Now to the most exciting item on our agenda this evening is our monthly financial report from Jared. Thank you, Terry. You're welcome. How you going to follow that? Yeah, just a couple of things I wanted to mention. Uh first uh I need to
061apologize because I noticed in in looking at the report uh during the meeting today that the revenue and expenditure reports are not from the correct month. So I will get board members a a new copy of this that that have the correct months uh for that report. The other thing I wanted to let you know about uh since starting with the school district, we've been working off and on to get our accounts payable process uh set up and working so that we can make those payments through AC instead of by check. It's been a much more difficult process than you would probably think, but uh just just this month uh Stacy was able to to do that for the first time and we're excited about that. So that's progress and just wanted to compliment Stacy
062and Scott and Robin and Chris and others who've been involved in that. So that's what I have to report unless there are other questions and I'm sure that's very exciting. Yes, I was super excited to read that. um in Stacy's report this week. Um what a what a great thing for her especially to be able to um do payments with AC instead of always a paper check. Yeah. All right. That was a very short exciting report. Thank you Jared. Did he deliver as you expected there to be? He did. I'm just so excited about the AC because I've been waiting for that for years. Okay. Board member reports. Anyone? I'll do a report on the Smithfield um Sky View Rec Center. Okay. Uh we had a meeting this week and um the rec center budget
063is still financially stable. Uh the new flooring is going to be applied to the indoor track and refinishing on the gym floors is going to happen the first two, let's see, the last two weeks in June and the first week in July. So, all of that is good. Um, one thing that is um, a little bit of a problem is when Sky View had their PA system fixed, it did not include the rec center. And so they have a problem there with communication and possibly for um, any kind of emergency. And I um, Jared can kind of help me out with this, but there is discussion on how they're going to move forward and get that fixed. They also have a little problem with the fire system as well and it's just a a problem
064between Sky View and the rec center and I don't totally get it but it's probably something that we need to follow through on. And then um you mean how it functions or Yeah. Um Jared, can you explain that a little bit better? Well, some of the systems that have been used by both entities uh over the years are at a point where there needs to be separation or at least a a change in how those are used for for a variety of reasons, but uh some of those are safety and some of those are privacy related. And so the committee is working through the best way to to handle those changes between the two entities. Okay. Thank you. And then on the safety issues, um they are going to have to convert over to their
065own internet system instead of being part of the district. Also, the surveillance cameras um is something that they're going to have to figure out how what to do. And then um with the new bill that has pa been passed on safety, it's kind of interesting because the rec center has a lot of entrances right into the school and that has got to be addressed as well. And so, um, it was suggested that, um, maybe a committee be put together to kind of talk this through and see how they can figure out, uh, the Vistons can practice at 6:00 a.m. while patrons from Smithfield are kind of in the same area and how, um, patrons from the area can still continue to have their 9:00 a.m. physical fitness class while classes are on is Sky View.
066They've got a bunch of issues with this new safety thing that they have to to work on and and figure out, but everybody is amiable and willing to try and figure it out and work together. So, it was a good meeting and um the rec center is still um a great collaborative um amenity I guess I could say for the community and also for Sky View. Great. Thanks for that report, Kathy. Anyone else? Yes. Um, you should be receiving from Richard in the next little bit some information on evaluations for the board and superintendent and business administrator. So, if you could please review that and if you have any questions uh please let me know. And then also uh wanted to thank everyone for the discussions about uh the DI implementation. And I appreciate Britney
067and her committee and all that they've done with the data that they had. I appreciate all the patrons in in my district for reaching out and I've had several discussions in person on the phone uh multiple conversations and I appreciated Todd you reaching out with kind of a transition plan and some more discussion. uh while there's been a lot of work done and I I believe uh you know we've we've gotten most of the way there but I think that there's some additional work that we need to evaluate to to get to the finish line here. I look forward to that opportunity and I don't know Todd maybe you you'll talk about a little more more in your report. All right, anyone else board member reports? Okay. Uh my board president report is um to
068uh to remind you that uh there is a USBA leadership conference coming up in September and um we can initially it's the one that happens every other year and we can initially put three people from our nine members uh on the on the list to go and then others who want to go um can be on a waiting list, but we all you we usually get everyone in who wants to go. So the dates for that are the 25th through the 27th, the night of the 25th through the um morning of the 27th of September. So if you are interested in going being one of those three people um to go to the leadership academy, then let me know. That is at a different place this year, right? Yes, it is at Ruby's in at
069Bryce Canyon. Um, in the past it has, as long as I can remember, it's been at uh the Zerat, but this year is um in Bryce Canyon, right down by uh Jared's uh uh old stomping ground, very old stomping grounds. I worked at Ruby's in for three years. Oh, very good. I figured you might you might have worked in or around there. Um, and the only other thing I have to report is that I sent you all an email with hats off awards from Cash Education Foundation. Um, it's so great that they work so hard. It's amazing to me how much money the foundation puts into our district um into directly into teachers hands and the I appreciate the really great awards that they offer for our teachers and grant in the form of awards
070and grants and am excited. If you look at that list and want to um uh visit a school in your area that there's a teacher being awarded then please go. They're always happy to have um board members there to recognize those teachers as well, but no pressure if if it doesn't work. So anyway, that's the uh my report. Can I add one more thing? Uhhuh. Um it's the retirement dinner Monday. Oh, that's just as a reminder. Thank you. Okay. Oh, thank you. Um, I want to echo the sentiments about uh the foundation and how much they do for the district as well as what we saw this evening uh new core. We have so many great um supporters of the district and we're grateful for all of them and all that they do. Uh I
071also appre appreciate Jeff kind of setting the table for me uh for my report. um you know since receiving the report from the committee la in our last session from from Britney's um work with and teaching and learning you know we recognize that um dual language immersion is facing a lot of change you know on the one hand we recognize that we are moving to the magnet school uh model where we'll be displacing three of the four languages in the elementary school moving and and collapsing them into two schools. That in itself is a um a task and we're watching that very carefully. Uh certainly we have some concerns about transportation and how that may impact some of these schools that have been part of a community for so many years. Um so we're we're
072really um conscientious of that. We're watching that. Um, we I sent to you today an outline of a plan over the course of the next uh 2 to 3 years for us to monitor and adjust as needed. In our next meeting, I would like to bring to the board for consideration some benchmarks for viability going forward that allow us then to say where are we in terms of enrollment? Is it continuing to be viable at this current rate? What do we need to do? If you look into the plan, uh, this next year, we really are afforded about about 12 months to really do a good job of helping families um, see the value of DLI, to promote it in its in its new uh, form as a magnet school um, and to really see
073what what kind of response we get from the community. It really isn't until families register and we start to see students actually commit that we will have a real firm idea of of uh the impact of the of the change. Uh so there's that for you to consider. Uh I appreciate any feedback on that timeline. It's a it's a draft intentionally. So it's it's to at this point um simply provide an outline of of of direction for us. And as I mentioned before, we'll we'll we'll seek some guidance from you in our next meeting around some real clear viability benchmarks. The other the other piece that is um certainly out there, and I know it it impacts uh maybe one community more than others is the recommendation from the committee to shift and separate the
074secondary program from Ridgeline and split it between Ridgeline and Mountain Crest. you know, that too um is a challenge and we recognize that the impact it may have on families. I want to go on record and commit right now that you know if the change does occur, if the board does support that change, any student in a high school right now will not be asked to leave that high school. That any implementation of a change will be over time. The last thing we want to do is disrupt a student's um experience once they've started within a school. That that's the last thing we want to do. Um certainly there there are pluses and minuses to to moving splitting the programs. I I encourage the board to consider that very carefully. Um you know, I think
075there's there's good um good points on either side of this and and I'm not sure even myself where I personally line up on this. I can see the value of maintaining something that's been established, but I also can see the value of potentially geographically providing greater access. You know, something that with Spanish that's unique, I think, to our value that we haven't really fully considered in our um DI program. Right now, it's somewhat considered a one-way immersion program. um there's the potential of a two-way immersion where we have native Spanish speakers that could have greater access into that and and both students that are native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish would benefit in that kind of a situation. I think that's an untapped unexplored possibility. Um but yet I think we we
076need to do a lot more work around that to determine if that's the best direction for the district. And that's my report. Great. Anyone have questions for the superintendent? All right, seeing we have arrived at the end of that part of our agenda, I will take a motion to uh move into executive session. We'll move into the conference room next to the boardroom. And um I'll take that motion now. I move that we um enter into an executive session. I second. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded that we'll enter into close session. And since I was just rereading some state code, we will vote by roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. We will move into close session.