001Stand for the pledge of >> 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. >> I need a roll call. Madam chair, we have a quorum. >> Thank you. Do we have any adoptions or changes to the board agenda? >> We do not. Madam Chair, I would move we adopt the board agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Any questions or discussion? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Okay. Moving on the consent agenda. Um, we did the first one. So, >> Madam Chair, I would move that we adopt the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I I. >> Anybody opposed? Okay. Consider payment
002of bills including late pays and pre-authorization of payoral insurance, utilities, officials, and automatic payments. I need to do the first one, didn't we? We already did the whole >> Oh, okay. I'm going down to five then. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Sorry about that. Um, >> first up, trip debrief from Margaret and speech and debate students national speech and debate tournament. >> Hello. Thank you for inviting us to come debrief. Get our little slideshow set up here. Uh, we were very fortunate. We took six individuals to the national tournament this past June and there we have four members returning and then two seniors who are away at college so they couldn't be here today. Um and we're just we made a little slideshow to go through and tell you a little bit about our experience and
003we have some pictures from the trip. It's not listening. >> Okay. First up, >> okay, this trip was pieces last year. My awesome team is my first And next up is Royce. >> All right. So, um the event that I was called acceptance confusing iteally. new experience for me. Um, I have been at nationals for the past three years in a row. Um, I think the highlight of my trip was just being able to go to a bunch of different spend. It was just really fun to hang out with also able to. [snorts] Uh, I think the biggest thing that I got from the trip was huge amount of experience in the event, more than I think it was and minimal resources, minimal experience in it and I learned a lot from others but also
004>> next up is Jenny. Hi guys. And I think the highlight of my honestly being able to spend all my time with my amazing teammates and even all the competitors of Wyoming. I think it let me see all these people who are authentic as well. And I think what I learned a lot of debate experience because seeing all these competitors from all over the not only >> and we have Cornell. >> Hello, I'm Davis. I dramatic interpretation. This is my second time around and uh Uh so my highlight of the entire thing was uh there was a NSDA museum that was rented out and it was beautiful. It was this huge huge museum that had rich like history and so many people. It was so much fun going around just meeting new people and looking
005at the different exhibits. There was like a trolley that you could go into. There was news and an old typewriter and you could just see all of history. It's really cool and it's super exciting to just be there. environment. Um, also what I learned and what my like value was of the entire experience was it was great for networking like that. Um, at the museum I got to meet so many people and I would constantly be asking people for their contact information and I still talk to many people that I met at that trip and it's very it was very exciting and it was also such a great um performance environment. I got to see high caliber people who took this super seriously. I act later and had an opportunity to express like I don't
006know my acting ability and it was greatly improved because of this experience. I saw people who I don't know they brought everything they had into this event and it was just a super cool moment to be there with people who really cared about it. So >> awesome. >> I didn't want to leave out our seniors so we also took Aquina Wammo and Austin Chitwood with us. Um Austin, I believe this was her second time as a national qualifier and she did POI and then Aquina went in humor. She is a fourtime national qualifier which is actually a really big deal. She h actually received a special award for that achievement and she made it to the top 60 in the nation. It's really at this tournament it's so hard to make it past the preliminary
007rounds and she did and that was just um I think it was just an amazing experience to be able to like finally break through that barrier on her fourth trip and get to experience that level of competition. So we were all super excited and proud and yeah it was a great experience. Um you kind of heard it all really from them already. Oh, I see what happened. I knew I've I put a slide with pictures, but one of some of the my I went back and I looked and I thought this slide has like all of my pictures on it. [laughter] I see what happened there. Um but yeah, we tried to make this a really rich cultural experience as well. So whenever we weren't competing, uh we went to the Virginia Holocaust Museum, the
008Edgar Alen Poe Museum. um included as part of our trip, we went to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. Um we went and visited um one of their state parks, the Pony Pasture Park, which was down by like the river with the rocks, and historically it was where they brought their ponies to grace. Um and it was also a really beautiful spot. And we also walked around the cap and looked at a lot of the sculptures, art, statues. So, um overall we tried to make this a really rich educational experience and also fun because we did take them to um we went to team Wyoming night which was a big bonding experience that was where there were some of these pictures with looks like video games and that kind of fun things and that
009was also networking across the state and we even fit in a a few hours of Top Golf because you know we had to be wellrounded on our experience. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, really, we just wanted to say thank you so much for your support. We really appreciate it. And yeah, thank you. >> Thank you guys for coming, letting us know. >> Thanks for representing Riverton. So, well, >> being an ambassador. That's awesome. This is pretty cool. >> I would have liked to went to the PO Museum. >> Yeah, I think that would been pretty cool. >> I highly recommend it. It's really good. >> I would have loved that, I think. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Have a great year. >> Yep. Congratulations, too. [clears throat] >> Okay. Next on the agenda
010is the elementary administrators. Who wants to go first? >> Please don't fight to get to the podium. >> They're racing. Oh, they are. >> We're We're a We're a team [clears throat] here. [laughter] >> All right. So, we came to talk about um our efforts this year and how we are promoting high levels at tier one instruction. And so, this really has been an effort amongst the three of us and really trying to get consistency amongst all three schools. It's been a lot. We started this last really talking about as a team probably in March. We've been working with Jed Smith and Wind Culture for probably the last five, four or five years and it's always been a p a repeat conversation we've had with Jed Smith and how do we get those high levels
011of good instruction and the coaches have been a piece of this ever since Jed Smith started with us and we all the coaches were really a part of that last year but as an admin team with the new administrators on board. The K5 administrators joined that conversation again last year with Jed Smith. So in January, we really started talking about that and as a team, we decided to start that consistency process and how we can support that from our end and what does that high level of tier one instruction look like? What are those things we're expecting? So, he had some really good examples of pieces we can put in as far as the structures to help support it. And so, we've really been using his explicit lesson plan template. And that has, and I
012will forget one if I don't bring it up, so I'm going to bring it up here real fast. Um, six elements that we really are looking for our teachers to be collaborating around. And my phone's locked and doesn't like my fingerprint right now. So, I'm going to go for memory. So, if I forget, they'll behind me. So we are looking for them to do an element of space review and just kind of reviewing what you know how does it connect previous learning and then we go into thanks um the learning target. How do they do that? But we break that down even further and we want them to be thinking about >> what does that look like? Why are we learning it? And then some sort of success criteria that they're sharing with the kids.
013How do we know when they've met that? And then we talk about assessments and that could be actual formal assessment. It can be checks for understanding. It could be a call informative assessment. But what are we doing to know if the students have reached that? And then we want all of this presented in some form of scaffolded learning. So we are looking for like the I do, you do, I do, we do, you do and how are we presenting that to students so that we have that engaged learning. And then we are also looking for See, I would forget it. >> I did that one. >> I did the assessments and the checks for understanding. >> Yeah, they do it after the you do the checks for understanding. And then we want the feedback because
014those are all the elements that will give us the most bang for our buck when we're working with students. those things that really produce high levels of learning. And those are all those pieces we're wanting teachers to make sure they are including in their instruction every day. Because we all know if we have high levels of learning at tier one, which is the instruction all students get, then we have less students in our interventions, which means our systems won't get overwhelmed and we can really target that. But we have to reach that high level first. And so we've been really consistently talking to them about what does that look like? So we've been providing PD around each of those pieces. What are success success criteria? How do they play into learning targets? We are learning
015that you know some of our teachers are really great at I do you do you do but not all of them really have that good strong understanding. So we've been spending a lot of our PD time or even conversations that we go in and have with them during collaborative planning of so this is what we're really looking for. So how can we support them as they learn this? And so we've been going into collaborative planning quicker but more often checks into their classroom. So trying to hit more walkthroughs. So we're just popping in a little more often so we can see pieces and then give them the same feedback we're asking them to give kids. So those are the pieces that we're trying to do. Good afternoon. Um, so one of the things like in
016that spraying this on to us is like what Nicole had mentioned, we spent a lot of time really looking at why do we have so many kids in tier 2 and tier three intervention and we know that high quality tier one instruction prevents that. Not all of it, but from it getting overloaded as was mentioned before. So research shows teacher clarity is really important, right? And that's how kids learn. If it's really clear for teachers, then it comes out really clear for students. And so this process really helps them think through what their um teaching strategies are going to be. And as they collaborate on it and that produces it leverages just the high quality collaboration that we're looking for. So when does this take place? It takes place weekly in their collaborative planning times.
017But also in the calendar that you guys graciously provided our teachers, we have the yellow sheet days, which is more big picture items where they're looking at um assessment alignment across the buildings. They're looking at pacing along the buildings from all three elementaryaries. And then our long-term planning is that time that we've kind of split with that. And some days there's long-term planning for a half day just depending on the schedule. But that's where they really look at their upcoming units and what are those um what are those standards that they're going to be teaching. And then they really break those standards down into skills, concepts. And then they start looking at learning targets. What are the daily like digestible learning targets that students should be able to master either that day or maybe that
018learning target builds for a few days. And so they really look at that skeleton and just backwards map that. >> So we just wanted to give you an example. Um the handout that's in front of you is some of the work that's being done on those extra calendar days that you allowed for us. Um this is an example of a third grade geometry unit. Your first page, it shows you the standard. And if you look on the back of the first page, that's their beginning of their lesson. So this whole packet is their road map for how they teach that standard. The entire unit is built within here. And with it being explicit, it has it's specific and it has specific components to it. So you will see within each lesson that they start with
019a review. They talk about their learning targets and then they have exactly what the teacher is going to say to teach that concept. So everybody is on the same page and there's quality instruction going on in every single classroom. This first lesson is about um the attributes of a polygon. So whatever classroom we walk into, we can see this strong explicit instruction happening in each of those classrooms. So they will continue to work on this for every single one of the units that they create around a set of given standards. So we just want to thank you for the extra days that you have given to us because you can look at this unit. This is a lot of work and it takes a lot of time to create this and that is happening on
020those days that you gave us. So, thank you. Thank you for your willingness to take a look at the calendar and add in those days. A lot of good is coming from it. Do you guys have any questions for us? >> Okay. >> There'll be a quiz later. You can study it and then And because the um ELA standards, we were hoping they would be the new ones would be adopted by the state this year, but they've been pulled back and they aren't adopted. We are really focusing on math and a little bit on writing where we feel like it really fits in. We are asking them to do some of the unit work in reading and writing and where it makes sense to really hit this in writing and reading, but we are trying
021to be flexible with the teachers with some of that uncertainty around the ELA standards because this does take a lot of work and we're hoping it just carries into next year and they can dive a little deeper into it. But we didn't want to ask for really indepth work on some standards that might be changing soon. We think that's a little unknown right now. So >> just to change the topic a little bit, literacy and the new chapter emergency public hearing on >> Have you delved into those comments on it? >> I have not. >> I've not made comments. I've kind of looked into it some. I've not made comments on it. That's so much to dig into and with the um K12 literacy law, we were just kind of wrapping our heads around that.
022And then >> these these are the >> that go to define what literacy is. That's a big one right there. >> Yeah, there's so much to wrap the head around that >> to make comments. I have pretty drastically down. >> Yeah. >> So, I delve into it. >> Do you have any questions? >> We will do that. >> Yeah. We only have a week left. >> All right. >> Thank you. And thanks for all of your extra work. >> Appreciate it. >> Have a good rest of your night. >> We'll move on to the Riverton Middle School administrators. Hi guys. >> Good evening. >> Trying to charge. >> No signal. >> All right, there we go. >> Okay, thanks for having us you guys. Uh, I'm Aziz Brady. We're the principles at Riverton Middle School.
023Um Jody asked us to talk about innovative practices that are taking place at Riverton Middle School. So we just want to go through some of the things that we do. Um these are practices that you guys have heard from us for a while now, but they're still innovative and they're things that as we talk to middle schools across the country, nobody else is doing this. and we talk to um these national speakers that come in and as they come in and they talk about, you know, they'd never heard of some of the things that we're doing, which is awesome and we love that and it makes us uh unique to not just Riverton, but I feel like the country um what our staff has bought into. And so we just want to talk about some
024of the things that um are unique at Riverton Middle School that we've never seen anywhere else. So we've been doing this for a while. This was one of our co wins. Um, not everything was terrible that came out of CO and this was one of them. Um, we had been stuck in how we all went to school even when Jody went to school that long ago, right? Um, and so now CO cost us taught us to really like >> uh speed up to different ways of doing things. So PLC's have come about where our teachers are collaborating and one way to really push that collaboration is having teachers flip their classes back and forth every day. So one day they have one science teacher, the next day they have a different science teacher. Same with
025ELA, social studies and math. And there are a lot of benefits that we recognize with that. Um number one is more adults invested in the kids, more opportunity for connection. And then different methodologies of teaching so that the student may understand something from one teacher slightly better than another. The delivery, the connection, whatever it may be. U we all have those memories of certain teachers that we just seem to really learn from. And so we want to just eliminate the oh man I didn't get so and so. We believe all our teachers are great. Um and we know they are but there's still that student component that they really just might connect with someone just slightly better. And so u this has really allowed us to um be pretty unique in that sense. And then
026one of the things we've been doing for a while with a lot of great success is our spiraling science rotation. This is again something that is very unique to Riverton Middle School and not schools across the country. So, previously uh our sixth graders got physical science, seventh graders earth science, eighth graders life science, and we still do that for the same amount of time, but as opposed to you just having one type of science for the entire year. You get to rotate through them each year. And so I just kind of broke down sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade. And so it's just kind of trying to keep it fresh and build. And you still get to go back and have that connection with the previous teacher. and you get to jog your memory of
027being back in that room and that teacher can access that prior knowledge that they have taught you. And so just another opportunity to really um like just maintain the connection part and continue to grow in your subject area and provide topics as you are ready for it. Some of the topics we cover in life science, our sixth graders aren't ready for it until they get to eighth grade, but we do have sixth grade material and it goes for all of them. Um so it's just one of the cool things. So and it is fun watching the teachers know all 500 plus kids as they move through um all over. So, another thing that we do is our schedule rotations. We noticed um that uh you know we'd have kids getting checked out in the afternoons
028uh for sports or just um you know uh appointments by parents or sometimes kids were coming in late. Um and so we started to rotate our schedule. Um, we do it by week. Um, so kids don't aren't impacting and missing, uh, say like a core a our first hour of the day every day. Um, they might miss it for that week if they come in late, but then the next week um, they would have like a core B first to start off the day and that A rotation would be clear at the end of the day. So, it allows um, kids to see teachers at uh, different times of the day when they're maybe ready to learn more than other times. And also you watch um you know our teachers might teach better in the
029morning whe they're fresh and they're wore out by the end of the afternoon or vice versa. And so um we really enjoyed kind of watching those rotations take place. Um we chose a week that way it wasn't too chaotic uh to follow and then it you know it allows kind of the sports weeks and just the things to play out. So still those kids who need a little bit of consistency it provides that. Um, and we're just able to keep track of it by the we've got a yearly calendar laid out in our handbook and then you can kind of see how the rotations work through. So, >> cool. And this was a huge task to take on. Brady uh thankfully just was relentless on attacking it because it was just something that every time
030we were we were working on it, we had a new problem present itself. So, a lot of special education minutes. Uh, we have a lot of different teachers. We just every single time we were having things that would come up and what was really cool was after a lot of reluctance from our staff uh at the end of the year the feedback was can we start it sooner. So we started in week three we did two week we did two weeks so the kids could figure out their course and then rotated whereas last year we waited a whole quarter because they were worried the sixth graders couldn't pick it up but then our teachers at the end of the year were like man we can just dive into this and get going and it is
031kind of fun to watch. We've got teachers who have their kind of favorite weeks and then you'll hear the kids talk about kind of their favorite weeks. And so it's been >> and that's why you do it, right? So you're not just like we want to spice it up. We want to make it to where you just don't get stuck in that rut and the routine. And so um rotating the kids through is just a really pretty cool unique practice along with exploratories at nine weeks and all the offerings we have and then just switching it week by week. Uh, I think some of you guys got to come tour the middle school the other day. I got to run into a few of you that mentioned. So, um, appreciate our rec board help. Uh,
032we have a couple cool things with the rec board. So, this is one of them. Our effort lounge. So, we've really been, um, Brady and I have really been harping on the effort part. Like, we don't say you have to all get A+es. We You don't have to be perfect, but you have to put in a perfect effort. And that is something that's controllable. And that is something truly that's going to get you further in life and that's something that we are trying to reward as well. So uh each week we have a different type of a different department select our Spartans of the week. Um and if they are the Spartan of the week, we do a big thing on Fridays. We announce them and talk about them. I think we have a slide
033on that soon. Um but we have a cool little area. Uh I think the maintenance guys call it Chuck-E-Cheese. We call it the effort lounge. Um but it's pretty awesome. It's been fun. A lot of our special ed classes have been using it. Our our tier three remedial classes are using it as a motivational tactic. Um so just a cool cool area. Our library was getting underutilized and so I'm not saying we have like we still use it. It's just not enough activity. So we wanted to generate some activity in there, get some more kids in there. And so that's been pretty awesome. And another way to get kids to school. Like we want our school to be the school where kids get to go, not have to go. Big distinction and that's what we
034are really trying to get kids to understand like you get to go to Riverton Middle School and this is one of the things you get to do. So Fridays kind of ingrained in our culture. Fridays historically are days of least attendance. Um so we've really tried to make it a thing at our school to where we do fun things on Fridays to get students there and staff there. We've had a seven-year long ongoing staff bingo game going. It's a big thing. I call out numbers, a few numbers a day. Um, put it in emails. People actually read my emails when I put numbers in. That's probably the only reason. But honestly, it does help. And then we do uh we make a point to call kids down. Uh, make a big important um just recognizing
035them for doing things that we call the Spartan way. Being safe, respectful, responsible, and just um again, those are nominated by teachers. >> It's a great time. I love driving to work thinking about like, all right, what's our trivia theme today? >> What are we going to do? And so, it's kind of fun just around the holidays and, you know, we're big sports games or just kind of trivia. It makes a good time to be thinking about that. And, uh, it's fun to see the kids trying to get the first email into >> I forgot to mention that. So, yeah, right after Spartans of the Week, we do schoolwide trivia competitions by home room, which is always just a fun thing to do. And then Brady started this recently, the uh parent trivia. So um
036we just did our first one the other day. So we try to do one monthly just to engage parents. Our first question was like uh what is the vision of Riverton Middle School? Um had a ton of response to it which was really cool. Just engaging parents. Had a chance to win a t-shirt. Um >> it's fun. It's kind of one of our like we're just trying to get parents more involved in general. We just want them to be, you know, seeing what's going on in the school. So along with parent trivia, we also utilize some of uh today and those yellow sheet days that you guys put in the calendar. We're making a priority that teachers, you know, communicate with parents as well more often than we've ever done before. And so this will
037hopefully kind of incorporate and uh just kind of bring that all together. >> Yep. Okay. Um field trips. One of the biggest things that I push because I love this as a science teacher and previously is just don't wait until the end of the year to get out. Like incorporate it within your stuff that's going on. So we have a sixth grade field trip Friday. We have two seventh grade groups going to Yellowstone soon. Um we have the Heart Mountain trip. We have a bunch of trips that we're just trying to incorporate. We hurried and added in the ones that we recalled quickly. Uh the seventh grade one's just been a mainstay in Riverton since Moren Miller started it and thankfully Miss Beckin and Mr. Orbell have continued it. Um but we just try to
038we've got a bunch of things. Our school carnival was a huge success. Mr. Brown was there. I think we had um almost 80% of our students came. We make it non-academic because we just want parents to come in the building, meet the teachers, just see our teachers as people to understand like they are a part of our community. And um it's just people were like, "Man, what a cool idea." It's not our idea. We recycled what we grew up with. Like I g I got to grow up with that. I remember the Ashrove Carnival very vivid vividly. Just one of those things like we're just recycling the stuff that uh you know our mentors before us did. So kind of cool stuff. Um PBIS is a big part of our school. That's nothing new. Just
039rewarding the things that we want to see. So we make it really intentional where we find the things that kids are doing well. So, it could be like that week it's, you know, showing up on time or being kind or picking up gra trash or whatever. And students can earn points and tickets. Uh, we do big raffles. Um, we have a store outside. So, just again the get to go to uh school. That's our goal. So, I hope this link works. But this is the is it working? So, I'm going to like I'm gonna ask you I might mess up my link. So, if it's inappropriate, Adam, sorry. So, [laughter] just hang in there. Just going to apologize ahead of time. >> Oh no. >> On critical global tests measuring reading, math, and science, the
040results for reading are sobering. Since 2022, average reading scores for American 15year-olds plunged 14 points. Math and science scores were mostly flat during that time. Now, these tests, which are given by the education department in the US, compare the performance of high schoolers in nearly 90 countries. In the US, the gap in reading scores between the highest and lowest achieving students is bigger than in any other education system. In the report, the US ranks 13th overall in reading and science and 27th in math scores. It is outranked by some parts of China, Japan, the UK, Australia, and Canada in all three subjects. And we do often hear from schools that it's very challenging for students to catch up on reading once they fall behind. It is key. All right. So, you guys have heard all
041that stuff before, but we're competitive people and it drives us crazy to know that like someone is kicking our butt in something. And so, we're always like, you know, data is a target. It's not all the things, but one of the things again that we're proud of is like the results are also following that and going against the national trend, which is what we want to see. So Wyoming, I think Jody shared with the board, we scored above uh I think we're fifth in the nation on NAPE, which again, that's the whole nation, right? And we were a part of that. Eighth grade was um I'm pretty sure some of our other schools were, but our students did extremely well on NAPE. Our our scores are encouraging. Are they perfect? Absolutely not. We're still striving
042to grow. We know we're not where we want to be or where we can be yet, but we did exceed the state average in several areas. We're outperforming where we could be um given our socioeconomic conditions and that's like it's not an excuse. Uh so we're proud of our teachers for that. They're just pushing it and buying into all the things. So um as a whole uh you know some of the places that we are still behind growth or the state average we have grown from the previous year and that's what we're after, right? the effort and the growth and so proud of that. Proud of our teachers and thanks for uh always supporting our school and what we try to do. So, >> any questions for us? >> No, thank you. That was amazing.
043>> Thank you. >> I think you should consider maybe giving a presentation at the state schoolboard meeting of your maybe your spiraling science or something like that. >> Share what's working >> breakout session. >> I think Mr. Slack would love that. So, I'll I'll [laughter] send It's not that hard. >> You can be honored. >> Well, >> I think it's something you should maybe consider. >> Thank you. >> Coming up, >> I'm behind on those things. I'll be very honest. So that is >> point is coming out there. So read them over and have thoughts about them. Send them to >> Okay. >> Will affect you. >> Yeah, it will. >> The stuff that they're talking about is gonna have a huge impact. >> It will. your bus drivers will be reading Shakespeare. >> Mr.
044Berg and I want to come play shuffle boards. >> Yeah. Anytime. We need to level it slightly. We learned. But yeah. >> So, yep. >> Mr. Orbell was leading the basketball game, but there's a kid that shattered his record by like 60 points. So, [laughter] we might have to give that a go, too. >> And one thing I forgot to show was if you guys happen to come through the school, uh we'd love to show you our new weight room. Thanks to the rec board. It's pretty incredible. >> We did pop in there. We checked it out. >> Oh, did I? I didn't know if it was locked. I thought it was locked. >> Did some chin-ups. >> You should see my picture. Great pictures taken. >> So, we're excited. That's just the start of
045it. We're growing. We're continuing to grow. So, >> you're standing on something, Grammy. >> Good. Yeah. Well, thanks. >> No. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay, let's go to board members. Let's start over there. Ally, you have anything for us tonight? >> I don't. Thank you, >> Roy. >> Nothing for me. Thank you, >> Jody. >> Just leaves it to me. Um I'm stuck on the the phrase that they use um where kids get to go. you know, we're always talking about trying to create a branding that that is out there that that where we can get, you know, some some positive attention, which I think we get positive attention, but if there was ever a tagline, I thought that was kind of a cool little tagline there. And that and put in the
046perfect effort, I think that's what we try to do all the time. Um, outside of that, I always love having kids here. Our speech and debate kids always, they amaze me. I'm sure they're light years ahead of and above heads above the intelligence level that I have in the research they do for things. So, I really appreciate that. I did manage to make a trip to Star Valley to watch the JB and the Frostmore play up and back. I didn't go to Boise, but I did watch it. >> Pocutello >> or Pokeetello, not Boise. Pocutello. I didn't uh I did watch it though on online and and I'm really proud of our kids and the way they represented and in all and on all levels. That was really fun to get to see because Star
047Valley is not my favorite place to go to watch a game. But there you have it. >> Don't like the cannon? >> No. And um so but I I loved going to watch the kids. Um I think that's probably it for me. >> Okay. >> For this week, >> Mr. Canrell >> since the last meeting I went to the next night I went to the candidate school. I decided to run for school board again. And then uh after that we went to the Wyoming schoolboard association meeting. That was very informative. Had a lot of good times there. And then Joey and I went to uh sophomore parent night. That was so fascinating to see how they are programming the high school for all of the awards that you can get right through it so we
048can graduate kids that are qualified to go to work with with all kinds of different skill levels. And then uh the next was a planning committee for the >> middle school >> and uh that was that was very very fun to be in see how the middle school's coming together and then uh just congratulate the guys on the football. Wow. How many times have has Riverton played an out of country, >> not an out of state and out of country. >> That was great. And it was the last disappointing last 30 minutes but or 30 seconds. admit it. >> I was It was interesting. And then uh this afternoon we got to go watch some volleyball call and and so that's the first game that's played on the new floor for the gym. And that's
049all >> I did think of one thing the that the design advisory committee. I actually got to go sit in on some of that for our elementary school. And that was the the biggest thing that I gleaned from getting to be in that room again because I I was um serving on the board when we first started in on Willow Creek and then just the the change of of how things are done. But the best part was that you had community members there. We had educators there which were was extremely beneficial to have educators in there on the planning portion of how what this building what they want to see is see in this building and then looking you know hearing from our the individuals that it's going to affect within the within the neighborhoods
050and things like that. They all had really positive input. So I'm looking forward to the next step coming coming through with that. But that's been um a really good thing to to participate in and I wanted to thank you guys for um the opportunity to get to do that. I appreciate that. >> Hey, you know, we're going to do the best we can to try to hold on to that. How's that? That's what we're going to do. >> I know. Well, and you know what? And and you're not the only one. We are too, and I have as well. But yeah, we're going to do the best we can with that because it's important to our community. It's one of the parts that we'd like to hang on to. >> So, our square footage comes
051in. >> Yes, it does. Anytime you keep anything like that, >> I'm sorry that >> scoot in there, but I thought I needed to say something about that as well. >> Okay, Lori. >> So, I've pretty much been hanging out with these guys. [laughter] >> Going to the 10th grade family night uh design meeting. Um, I did go to Pocutello and probably only because my grandson is playing on that team and they looked awesome. The the last 30 seconds was really disappointing, but we played a really good team and learned a lot from what is telling me. So, >> uh, the cheerleaders were there. That is always awesome to see that when you go to an out of town game >> to have them there cheering us on. So, that that was good to see.
052Uh, the only other thing I would say is I did provide public comment on chapter 57. I contacted It's Senate file 59 chapter the rules are chapter 57. So I did provide comment on that. Uh contacted Christina and Jod early on and just provided comment. And I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what the WSBA is going to be doing if they are wanting board members boards as a whole to provide some kind of comment or if they want individuals, you know, individual board members to do that. But I do think that it's worth our time to see what are the what are the really positive things because there really are some and what are the the things that are going to be difficult and challenging for us to uh to provide. And so that
053was good for me to get kind of a a look into that as well. Um but I I am looking forward to what what they have to to say about that as well. So that's all I have. >> Thank you Lord. >> Okay. Do you have anything, Jada? >> Golden, >> I do not think you >> Jody, you want me to come back to you? No. Let's go to Carl. We'll come back to you. >> Carl, >> uh, we did go to the first game of the uh on the new floor and >> they got a win out of it, too. Yep. The the first uh Frost Moors, I guess they were. And my granddaughter was playing on that team, so that was kind of fun to watch. >> Um, the schoolboard association. Uh meeting
054Fremont County uh board members was great and uh Brian says it was uh I just thank you for you all coming and and participating. We uh need as much feedback as we can get on what's going to happen over the next February, March, you know, because it's it's a big opportunity for education uh to change some of the programming that has been staged for the last uh two years. uh and to try to get it back on track without jumping the track, you know. So, uh your ideas, uh I'm happy to hear them. Uh I've been doing my homework on trying to become a legislator. Uh it's it's daunting to think about what happened over the past two years and that you know we just cannot delete it. We have to mold it and make
055it work better than it u would have without intervention. So think about interventions. And other than that, I think the start of school has been great. Uh sports starting up, activities starting up, listening to our folks coming back from trips and uh accumulating events that they've gone to has been great to hear. So a good start of the year. Thank you. I really do like having the students come in and tell us about their trips and stuff. It's it's kind of puts a face on all of the stuff that we're approving. Um kind of blindly. Uh and I I like that a lot. And I want to go see the volleyball game after this. So >> yeah, >> move along. So just we move right along. >> Move right along. >> Okay. That's all I
056do. [laughter] >> On that note, I think I'll talk for 30 minutes. Actually, I just wanted to thank you, Jada, for organizing the meal for um the WSBA meeting. Um >> I went to the one in Worland last year because I couldn't attend the one here. And um they do a really nice job, but we do it better. So, good [laughter] job. And then um we did have our Northwest Boseies picnic last at the end of last month. Um and our Shay and Patrina attended, which was nice to see. um them be there and and get to see the remodeling that's going on in the school. We've added another classroom and that it was kind of a big open space bigger than this that they've now broken into a couple different classrooms and it'll be
057more more usable and they'll have more opportunity to assist kids. So, that's what's important. >> Okay. I don't have anything this evening. Um I'm finally all moved settled in. Yeah, >> still dealing with things with this hand though from the cat bite. So that's all I have. All right, Jody. All right. Um, so I'm going to start with the new rendevous project. Uh, we do have a web page for that. It is fremont25.orgward slashpageward slashnewy-en. So take note of that. I can also send it to you in an email, but that was mainly for the people watching on YouTube if anybody does and for our small audience that we have. [laughter] >> Um, >> thank you for being here. >> Yes. So that was a fun experience and that's where we will be updating. We'll
058just keep that as a running page. So if you visit that page, you'll see some pictures from the event. You'll see pro uh site plan. >> Um, another thing we are on the agenda. Um well the next meeting is 9:21 and 9:22 for the um design advisory committee and then we are on the agenda for the school facilities commission to pursue the um Seymar can't remember what it stands for >> construction management at risk. Yep. Thank you. Uh so we'll be pursuing that. I can't remember if it's the 24th or 25th or which day we're on the agenda for that but that'll be right at Eth. So I will attend that. Um, we've started working on some behavior programming in the district. That is one of the things that we talked about that we really
059needed to emphasize. So, I met with the administrators today. Um, presented a couple of items. We decided we needed to move faster. So, instead of meeting again next Tuesday, we're going to meet this Thursday to go over it. And on Friday, I'll be sending you some materials to look at because at our next work session, I would like to take some time to show you some of the things that we're talking about. Additionally, we've revised some of the or I've revised some of the policies um and I might have to consult with uh our attorney over there just to make sure for those behavior ones that that they are in alignment um with state statutes. So those will be coming before you as well um for approval in order for us to implement the new
060behavior strategies that we have. Uh you'll notice on the agenda that we have some policies that are actually on as action items and they did not go on as information items. So in reviewing our uh policies, Jada and I realize that not all policies have to go through three readings. It's the ones that are new that need to. So we have our process will be all new policies go through the three meet three readings like they have in the past. Anything that is very substantial, we'll go ahead and go through the three readings to give you that opportunity. Minor things we'll go ahead and do with the one reading. So you'll notice today that we have some minor things. for instance, removing the word auto injector from some of our health policies. Very simple, probably
061only needs one reading. So, um, just wanted to update you on that. Another agenda that we have item is the cheer travel. Just want to let you know that the that we did not um follow the process of getting that to the board prior to the travel. So, I went ahead and used um my authority given to me by one of the policies that we have numbers in here somewhere uh to approve that and then you'll ratify that tonight um as a board and uh board candidates. So, I see we have one of our board candidates and two board candidates here. So, we had talked about just like we did with the um legislators that were running that we would have opportunity for forums. So Jada and I are working on that and we'll be
062reaching out to invite our candidates that are rerunning and our new candidates that are running um to talk to um our school staff and we'll try to get that figured out. Additionally, we're going to um not for our rerunning candidates, but for our new candidates, we'll be sending a tenative agenda of if they are the successful candidate, what it would look like um after. So that I mean you all already know um as a rerunning candidate what is coming but that way um you'll have some information from us ahead of time. So that is all that I have on my part for this evening and I tried to talk fast Bruce. [laughter] >> You're welcome. Okay. So, at this time we um invite any visitors or delegations to um publicly speak or address the board
063uh regarding action items on the agenda. Anybody out there? [laughter] >> Okay. >> All right. We're moving on. [laughter] Moving on to action items. Consider an administrative recommendation to ratify the superintendent's exception under policy 1220 to retroactively designate the cheer teams out of state travel. Madame chair, I would move that we ratify the superintendent's approval of the Riverton High School cheerleaders travel to Pocutella, Idaho, September 4th and 5th, 2026 in support of the Riverton High School football team at the Rocky Mountain Rumble as per policy. Second. >> All those up. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? >> Consider an administrative recommendation to approve an out ofstate travel request. >> Madam Chair, I would move to approve the Riverton High School FFA students to travel to Indianapolis, Indiana in
064October of 2026 for the National FFA Conction Convention as per policy. Second. >> Any questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? Consider an administrative recommendation to declare items as surplus. >> Madame, go ahead, Bruce. >> Madam Chair, I would move that we declare the items on the list attached to our agenda as surplus and those be offered as a donation to Fremont County School District number one um in their agriculture program. >> Second. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? Consider an administrative recommendation to adopt amended policies. >> Madam Chair, I would move the board adopt amend policy 4085, homeschooling, and amended policy 4060, special education evaluation and eligibility. >> Second. Any questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed?
065>> Consider an administrative recommendation to adopt amended policies. >> Madame Chair, I would move to adopt amended policy 6135, administering medicine to students. Amended policy 635 homeprivate school and transfer student academic participation participation. Apparently, I can't talk. an assignment. >> So, um I do have a comment on this one. >> Second >> the you did you second. Okay. Sorry. Thought I heard that. Um policy 635. I just missed that one when I did policy 4085. It needs the same language. So that's why it's going to run through as a simple modification. >> So when a kid maybe using that private school uh and they have special ed needs or they want to participate. How do we deal with those students? Is there any because they're using state funds for one, is there any ADM issues
066that go along with that? So the new regulations do provide for the fact that if a child wants to enroll part-time and they are receiving ESSA funds, our district would have to be a ESSA provider and we are not. So we have to verify if they are receiving the ESSA funds then we do not provide them the part-time education. Um if they are not receiving ESSA funds then we do. >> How about with special ed? with special education. Um, we provide private schools because of the equitable share through the special education grant and the federal laws. And that's the only reason that we have contracted with special education. if they're if the student in question is using >> so even if yes if they're a private school student and they're using ESSA we as according
067to my current understanding we still provide with the equitable share and their disability services >> current yeah our our district currently only provides um speech language services >> so okay >> is there any other comments or questions All those in favor? >> I I Anybody opposed? >> And moving on, consider an administrative recommendation to approve Frontier Academy early graduation requests. >> Madam Chair, I'd move to approve the Frontier Academy early graduation request for Gianna Rodriguez and uh Tagan Gennard. >> Second. >> Any questions or comments? All those in favor? I noticed that on the on the print out it was not approved the check mark. Is that right? >> I'll have to double check that. >> Yeah. >> I think are you looking to see the attachments? >> I haven't looked at it. >> If
068you're not logged in, you won't see because they're confidential. >> Yeah. I can just get my There we go. >> That one's approved. >> I don't see >> see down on the >> What is that? The second page. >> Yeah. >> Where it says early graduation denied. >> Yeah. That must have been an accident. checked the wrong box because that staff member is who sent it and said that they would like them to have be approved. >> So, good luck to >> Right. Sent that to you. >> Good job. >> Okay, thank you for noticing that. We'll ask Justin. >> Good catch. >> Any other questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I. >> Anybody opposed? All right, moving on to information items. Save the date. Thursday, October 1st, homecoming parade at 5:45 p.m.
069on Main Street, followed by the burning of the R at Tonkin Stadium. I just have to say, I've been watching them with my grandson cut down the tree. >> So, so that will be like at dark, the burning of the R. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Amended policy. Anything else? Okay. Amended policy 5025, staff compensation. Amended policy 5080 certified and licensed professional contracts and compensation day reporting center state of Wyoming enterprise technology services classified staff changes resignations rack lifeguard Kanan Walters effective September 3rd 2026 new hires Joshua Brown as a Willow Creek parah Cheryl Taylor as an Aspen PAR Holly Kinson as a Willow Creek parah Nicholas Hubanka as an RHS parah Connor Leau as a Willow Creek parah Jada how's our enrollment >> you got your sandwich board ordered so that you
070can stand out on that Good. [laughter] >> Okay. >> Now we're on to discussion items, work sessions. >> Yeah. So, um I would like to I know the the content of the work sessions that I would like to schedule is larger than just the lead leadership framework, but if at all possible, um before our next board meeting on September 22nd, I'd like to have a work session. Um, we'll talk about the leadership framework and then some of the behavior information that I plan on sharing with you. Um, if that works for your schedules, >> 22nd early. >> Yeah. Five o'clock. >> Five o'clock. >> Okay. >> Does that work? >> Yeah. And then if at all possible on October 13th um our credit accreditation visit is the next week and so I thought we could
071review the accreditation um that and make a plan for what your participation will be at that uh two-day event. So >> okay >> u right before the board meeting again at 5:00 if that works for your schedule. So on 9:23 and 10:13 >> is it 9:22 and 10:13 >> 9:22 and >> October 13. >> If that works for everybody that would be great. >> We're all good. >> Okay. Anything else? That's all I have. All right.