001We are live. All right, we are going to go ahead and start our communications committee meeting. It's Thursday, May 29th, and my name is Dora Wilson. I am the communications chair, and if we can start intro to my right. Sure, you bet. I'm Cindy Shipu, CCL director. I'm Sean Prince. I am the senior director of teaching and learning. I'm Tony Riley, senior director for equity, inclusion and community engagement. Jar, superintendent Holland, board member, Carl J. Word, America Sullivan, executive assistant, NJ communications. Awesome. So, we will go ahead. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. Who is online? Uh, Lisa Miller as well. Welcome, Lisa. So, let's go ahead and get started with our agenda. We're going to go ahead and start with our communications update and I will give it to MJ. Great. Yeah, thanks. So, uh
002just we um went through graduation and um we picked up from where we uh started last year and really um just wanted to grow that live stream um capacity that the schools were already doing. And so that's where we leaned in and did um some you know roing reporter behind the scenes um through uh through social um and um and then supported uh some of the other schools with their live streaming um piece. We did uh Denali awards uh last week and the and the most bass um during uh your uh schoolboard meeting. And so where we've transitioned into now is supporting summer learning. Uh we've got some interest in some stories with that. And then um we're into back to school. And so that's really where we're spending most of our time right now
003is back to school planning and and working on that. We did a soft launch um last week. Get it all mixed. Uh last week uh we themed it um around like check-in, checkout, really trying to get into get in front of families before they really check out for the summer. Um but that really was our soft launch for um back to school. Our website is live, but we'll really um launch the rest of it uh on July uh 28th. Um our uh um plans, we're not uh just given our budget um uh situation, we are uh not going to be doing uh most of the stuff that we did last year. Uh but we will be doing the uh mailer, the checklist mailer. Um that was new last year. Um it was we got really
004uh some positive feedback from it. people felt that it was a useful tool. So, we're leaning into it again this year and that's the theme um for uh for back to school. Um and that's really the only thing. The rest of it will be relying on People Power and our current platforms to get the information out um for uh for back to school, but we did a soft launch um but we're going to kick it uh starting July uh 28th. And I I know we have summer school starting soon. So, that's Yeah, we had that for weeks. Yep. Um, so we're looking to do a team ESD um, piece on that um, as well. So, um, summer learning and and back to school. On the other side, we've got our website upgrade project that's continuing.
005We're going to be launching that September 13th. So, this summer, we'll be working on training and and getting staff up to to speed um, on that. It's a pretty dynamic uh, website. Uh, just really enhancing where we are now and just leaning into more of those visuals. Uh and then uh we're continuing on with our internal communications um upgrade uh through um uh specifically through SharePoint and some other means. So that's on the other side. Hey Alisa, since you're here, did you want to um expand on SharePoint at all? Okay, that would be nice. She just Hi, sorry I'm um a little delayed in working with my Zoom audio. Uh thank you MJ. Um, as far as SharePoint goes, we just wrapped year one of really introducing this to replace our traditional internal communications newsletter.
006And we have throughout this year kind of expanded into specialized sites for specific communications to help principles um, quickly digest and then share with their communities district-wide messaging. So, we will continue that on for next year. And we're looking at um some ways to possibly develop using the app more for SharePoints and continuing with event specific sites. So, uh we're still kind of I'm I'm in the process of digesting how year one went and then over the summer we'll be making some recommendations for next school year. Good. Thanks. And again, this is just internal. This is for staff support. Making sure staff um are getting timely information about what's happening within the district. Awesome. That's it. Thank you. Any questions? Questions, comments? Do you need anything from us? Anything we need to support? Um I'm
007followed right now, but you know that it's it's the current the current workflow is working. Yeah. The only other um thing and I guess I mean I've talked with MJ about it but my chair about looking ahead to the new board organization and thinking of ways to um costefficiently communicate. Uh I'm planning at some point sitting down with um MJ and figuring out if there's a a better way for the board to engage on socials. I don't know if it's opeds. I would like us to continue to use our voice in in cost-effective ways and ADM will print anything we write, which is great. And social media largely is free due to our huge organic reach. And so in a world where um we have a significant budget deficit, it's something that's on my radar.
008So we'll happily let you conversation. Awesome. Um just feedback. Thank you for that. Um the uh just want to add that we're supporting uh the board with the retreat next week with a legislative update and then we will be uh working on developing um a plan for summer outreach and then with that and how that leads into the new school year, our legislative lunch and those kind of things. So that's on on deck to start to research next week. Do we have anyone confirmed for that? I know that our lobbyist was considering reaching out to someone. She's out this week. Um, so I she's gonna come with me on Monday. So I don't I don't have an update. Yeah. Thank you. You know, the only thing I would like to mention, Carl, I think we've
009talked about it before, is ways that we can incorporate um student performers maybe before our meetings. We did that for the Denali Awards and I thought that was fantastic. we've done it other times, but um just give more of our students an opportunity to showcase what all their the great things they're doing, their talents. So, just want to throw that out there. I thought about this a lot and some of the immediate push back Katie just mentioned that if we do it, there will be more people whose feelings are hurt. I mean, it used to be a regular thing at every meeting. There was some kind of recognition and co did away with that. Um, but there are a lot of groups that then want to step in and they don't understand why some groups
010are chosen rather than them. Um, that's prepared. No, I appreciate that. Yeah, but that's there's the positive and the negative, right? Yes, it is. Um, I I do think the recognition is an awesome thing, but it it does mean that selections are made and not everybody gets to end stage. No, I appreciate that. Thank you. Any other comments, questions for MJ? Nope. Let's move on to community outreach. So, Tony, yes. So, in front of you, you have all of our events for June. So, June is a heavy month for us. Most of the events are focused on um Junth, but we have some scholarship awards for our graduating students. Um next week we're supporting the NAACP local education summit happening at Clark. Um there's really good sessions there, particularly for parents um around testifying at
011board meetings. I'll be doing um a session on engagement and quite a few board members are already um attending after the retreat. We have some Junth celebrations as well. And um the one thing that I wanted to follow up on that kind of goes with what MJ was talking about is you'll notice that our save the date for um helping us give school supplies is there. So we did two things this year. We're really linking it to back to school. Um so we are hosting this in collaboration with the Alaska BIPO educators. this year um Lutheran Social Services has had to take a step back. So ASD has um taken a step forward and is the main partner. Um so what we did right before school went out with the save the date is um
012students received that to take home and then we now have the flyer and the website up and going. Um we are offering transportation again. We're also trying to figure out different ways that we can communicate with families. So, we plan on showcasing for um transportation also the new transportation app and how to track um your students. We are hosting it at baggage this year um due to some construction that's happening at East. We are super excited that we've already secured 5,000 backpacks. Um they arrived last week. Um we are getting ready to place donation boxes out around town in early June. will have like a list of where they're going, but the Library Alaska Club has already agreed. Um, a lot of it is going to rely on supply donations this year just because a
013lot of organizations have had to step back with their funding. Um, and I know people typically ask about volunteering. Um, that form will be out soon um because we are actually going to um start packing backpacks pretty early. So, Friday, August 1st, it'll happen from 11 to 7. and we're really excited about it. Do you have a a list of donations like requested donations? Yes, I will send it to you. Okay, awesome. Um, are you reaching out to like Yes. and Crayola and I'm just, you know, theelves. I mean, I feel like a win-win. So, yes. And a lot of those huge corporations just have you go through like a community grants portal. Um and right now our grants team is largely focused on federal grants. So there's just that competing interest. Um we have
014largely partnered with a lot of people with school business partnership. Um some of some people just anticipate that this is happening. Um so for example, UAA's library usually brings us over boxes of supplies. Um so we have reached out to over 300 people. This year we also um have added a donation link. We know that it's much easier sometimes people just want to donate money. So school business partnership was actually able to set up something on their website that allows that to happen and then for us just to go get the supplies. Um so there are some like more corporate people that we're working with like we're trying to work with Toyota and Alaska Airlines and things like that. Um sometimes it just depends on their structure but yes we're saying the same thing. It's
015great. Um I I saw me Wilson ask the question I think I was gonna ask which I I think is we're looping in our school business partners about the opportunity to join. Okay. I guess I mean I think I could challenge our board to see about leveraging our networks. One of the skill sets we have because we're sitting here is people will give us money. Um, and so I think leveraging that um to try and at least uh help bridge that gap a tiny bit would be useful. So I don't know if we want to set up a formal challenge or anything as much as just throw the glet down and say we should try and pitch in on this. It's a really great effort. Thanks. No, I think that's a great idea because and
016I appreciate that you're working with school business partnership and and all of the collaboration. Yeah, it was great with the backpacks. We got them early before extra costs happened and they came in last week and our office is full of supplies already. So, we have received about 7,000 in donations so far after the backpacks were already purchased. So, we want to make sure that we leave some supplies for families um in local stores. So, we also tried to purchase quite a bit as we could like right now. So, some is still available. Part of the the nice part of looping school business partnership is some businesses are happy to donate things with their logo on them, pencils, pens, things like that. So that's a great opportunity for a win-win partnership. So awesome. Yeah. As as
017Carl would state, please let us know how we can help other than how he's already stated he wants to try Yeah. I will send America the list that just has the list of supplies. We wanted to be really upfront with the community about what they're getting in the backpacks. So, we really structured the list this time um so they know what else that they need to get and then I'll also provide the link for the small business partnership in case you all want to share it with people just to donate. Perfect. Awesome. Thank you. Any other comments, questions for me? All right, let's move on to the next item on the agenda. So, Academyy's Anchorage, right? So exciting right now formies of Anchorage. Our main update is that we have ASDSA going on right now.
018So few things are happening there. We have the college and career exploration personal finance class going on for four four days where teachers, academy coaches, and some principles are circulating in to kind of see how that course has been reworked and how it's going to be implementing quite a few things. Right now they're actually doing their first uh touch on school links introduction at ASDSA. We have the pilot of school links for King ETH grader enrichment program and Eagle River High School did their second semester for this past school year where they were actually just kind of getting their first look at what school links is. Uh we also have Devin Roberts leading some T CTE coursework where he's actually the head instructor and I an opportunity to see quite a few CTE teachers popping
019in there and he really is a very excellent educator as well as a really good CTE director. So it's always nice to see him back in the classroom. I was having flashbacks because I supervised him as a principal when I first worked at service 15 years ago and I was this your room and he's like no I was downstairs anyway. Um, so that was fun. Uh, we also have the AR externships are getting uh ready to gear up this year. Uh, five days they're doing natural resource exploration. We're actually taking some teachers up to North Slope uh to see how that works, which is also really super cool. We do have the steering committee meeting tomorrow where we have two more tactic teams that are going to be doing presentations for our steering committee. We
020have ongoing planning for our career expo. I believe we're up to 27 27 today. 27 uh businesses that are already interested in being there on September 26th for the career expo at the nine center. And then we're continuing our work on the university visit planning for the following school year as well. And that's uh our update. Any comments? Yeah. um not something you cover. Thank you for that. I appreciate all the work going on with Anchorage, especially given the resource limitations we have. Um, one of the things that says I collaborated on u when we adopted the master plan initially was asking for some work um reinvisioning the intersection of King and the AOA um program um recognizing that we didn't want um didn't want tech to change radically to fit underneath the umbrella that
021they're really good at what they do and want to celebrate that. Uh then subsequently we reinvisioned and scaled down the AOA program. Uh this came to top of mind for me recently because the board has been receiving correspondence from stakeholders with King advocating for a process regarding the new principal hiring. But separately made me think what's going on with King as it relates to AOA. So is there any information that you can share about I mean are the two things siloed for now? Is there any integration? If I could just add, I think that uh member Wilson had a great idea in adding King Tech to the steering committee. So that's a change that went into effect a couple of months, two or three months ago, and I think that's a positive step forward so
022that they're synergy and we break down the silos. I would say that my personal aspiration for King is to increase the number of students that have owned King Tech. So, I would really just love a visionary that has a plan, especially when it comes to our full-time students, too, because I had heard that if we recruit, you know, a certain number of full-time students can tech, it's even more cost sustainable for the long term. So, I'm excited for the future of the program. Yeah, so then what I think I'm hearing then is there aren't any changes to Keech programming at this point that for now that we're working through the the reduced AOA implementation and Keech will continue to function as they have. Is that fair? It's someone who doesn't live in the space. I
023assume Dora's got a handle from the board perspective. So I tune out and focus on other things bandwidth like just trying to make sure I'm caught up on everything. My understanding is the course selections in that process would have passed already. So I don't think that there would have been any rattle cheats principle or not. But um who do you have? Yeah, I I believe um one of the items that they're doing is they're um they're looking at course request and I know they're adding on a second collision repair um class because it's so needed and it's something that we can we have more requests that we get. So I know that's in addition. One of the items that we did with the FDS grant is we wanted to make sure that we were supporting
024programs and pathways that are not available at our at our high school. So we did allow for some capital equipment and made that as well. So we do support some capital equipment as we supplies a packet that one follows way. Um Dr. Brian says something interesting about increasing enrollment tech. Sounds great to me. Um what I thought I remember hearing is maybe there was actually some vacancies to tech in some of the programs, but I don't know if that's true. Um where is the bottleneck in increasing enrollment? Um is it is it interest? Is it um staff? Is it funding? Is there anything we can do to support that? I can't think of anything in particular that would hold us back. Although if any want to chime in, you know, both of us have been
025at high schools and sometimes one of the biggest barriers is trying to fit King Tech into kids schedules because it it has to fit in in with the other electives and the other core classes. Um, so sometimes that's a barrier for kids to go as well as they don't want to leave their local high school. So adding more courses in our high schools is only factor. the commitment really if if we are going to just go ahead and jump right down into the weeds and look that what uh Cindy's talking about is generally generally speaking most high school schedules when they start to accommodate for King Tech they just have an AM PM schedule. So on a student's schedule, it will say periods 1 2 3. They're at King Tech in the A.M. you know,
02645 6. They're going to be in the afternoon section. And then we have to orchestrate and make sure that our bell schedule's aligned so they can get the bus from their site, get to King, have their classes, get back to school, and it's usually that dance, right? So if kids are riding the King bus or if they're driving themselves because they're juniors and seniors, that's that that crux. If we did have a schedule change where we had a wire option, we're going to have to reconfigure quite a few more things. Um, thanks for the question and responses. Um, I think you know KAC is not immune to PTR increases, right? I mean, so I believe that it lost a position either last year or this year as PTRs have gone into effect. Right. So that's
027a reality, right? You cannot offer opportunities to students that are expanded when you're confronted with um inadequate funding, correct to begin with. Um and I had another thought bubble and it's gone away. Um but I just wanted to offer my vague recollection that we cut because of our budget constraints. Okay. Yeah, they I know we lost um two programs. I can't remember. Wasn't there a nurse position that we had to respond? Oh, yes. And sorry, my other thought bubble was that is one of the um the assets of our partnership with um the lower Yukon school district, right? So, we can offer third session opportunities to ASD students who are otherwise constrained because maybe they want to do all the things at their home school during the day. Um and so I think you know
028my understanding is that that partnership is ongoing. It is ongoing and if if we're increase opportunities for students generally um from the high school perspective when you try to offer that third session it's to your ninth grade students who already have a chalk block you know schedule and then this is their introduction to like get over there see the space feel comfortable transition and go oh in my next few years this is something that I want to be involved in and they get that first taste because most of it is like a survey of they get survey of different pathways that they could actually attend at King Tech and then that's when they really kind of wet their appetite and say, "All right, counselor, I need you to rework my schedule in the morning. I'm
029going to be there in the afternoon." If I can follow up, I have a entering nth grader who is at Keech right now in the twoe summer program, which by all account three is going great. Um, but I don't, you know, we heard about it through word of mouth and maybe we got an email in the spring that I was aware of because I wear multiple hats, but um, to what extent is ASD able to alert sixth graders and seventh graders that, hey, in a little while you could have this opport I just I wonder whether front-loading exposure to impact earlier in that middle school time frame. um has value just so families can begin to say, "Hey, this is a cool thing we should look into." Yeah. Memory lessons. Do you remember exactly how
030you heard about it? First from a friend with an older student. Okay. And then I want to say that we got an email as a family this spring, but I had I felt like I had to jump on it quickly because spots were limited, right? It was not heavily marketed. Yeah, you probably had to jump on that because that is like a smaller, right, niche opportunity. But I'm curious if if you did have that email if we could see like to which group it was distributed, how or from which channel did it come from? I think it came from our middle school principal. Okay. So, I'm just curious because that's where like the handoff from instructional division. So, if it came from Joe Zadi to his principal's principles that pushed it out, that may be
031happening organically. But if you had a copy, I'd like to I'd love to see it. Yeah. So, as as a parent, in full transparency, because I've had a lot of kids over the years, um and and all of them in in high school over the past at least 10 years, um King Tech is I I feel like one of the one of the barriers to kids getting into King is miscommunication. not necessarily um either they don't know about it which I I know has improved over the years but the other part is miscommunication maybe from from counselors or teachers or whoever is guiding them because I've I've had to intervene multiple times when a child was told their grades weren't high enough or their grades were too high so King Techch wasn't a good fit
032for them because the the engineering program is a better fit or their grades are not high enough and they need to increase their GPA before they qualify to even look at King Tech. So, there's I'm talking from personal experience, full transparency, that there there are other issues out there that are keeping our kids from attending King Tech and not just half day, but full day from my personal experience. Yeah. No, glad you said. We'll look into it and try to track down how that how that communication really works. I do know just um being a curriculum principal years ago and managing counselors and working with them trying to figure out like what is your message? How is it that you're actually communicating with your students when you have course requests? You know, there's so many
033layers to how you take that kid from their course request to actually getting through the door to King Tech, but I really want to know more specifically. We can talk to you a little bit about it. This was something that when we went to Butler Tech to explore and the previous Hang Tech principal came with us. He and I talked extensively about this and about how our counselors work, but almost needing like a counselor who would go to schools and actually talk about King early on and like walk them through that whole process. And it's just not like a position that we have. They would be like a counselor in terms of scheduling, but also doing that kind of marketing of King and going around and working individually with the students almost like a recruiter
034type. Um, so I can give some information there. Lisa's hand is raised. Lisa, hi. I um was just wondering is this type of communication something that school links would be able to fill in that gap with or is that not quite a fit for this? As far as far as uh scheduling students to attend King Tech, is that your question? Yeah, making parents aware of the opportunities and also yeah, keeping parents informed of the opportunities that are being presented to their students. No, that would be that's a different channel. Okay. That's not the intent of school links, but I think this just made me think to Kelly's point that just the marketing as we start to do more things. So like we did the resource fair at Clark over spring break and the focus with
035summer programs is like us being able to have some of those programs there. I think here at the at center we don't always know about them or maybe we don't always get the things. So having our local um or like our summer programs that are offered in our buildings at something like that to showcase them in March would also be something we can do in the future. I would say that um I attended Wendler Middle School had a career fair, career day, career day, career fair um and I I attended that and they worked with junior achievement. So I it's just it was nice to see the additional partnerships and the additional way that we can um use our partnerships to advertise. And there was a person from King Techch at that event to talk
036to kids about the summer program and talk to kids about um you know King Techch as a whole. So I know it's being done in pockets. Yeah. The best we can, right? Resources are limited, but just to try to make sure that we we at least do our best to expand that information out. I feel like they should have a trail through the woods from there. They just take the Bible to the trail. I've used it. I um I was reading Choppy this morning just sort of seeing what's happening nationally. Um it's it's a helpful blog um on education and there was an article on career pathways and it zoomed in on a district in Washington state. And one of the things that caught my eye because I was thinking about the middle school to
037high school transition is that finish which I think is much smaller than ASD. Um a couple of years ago they started offering middle schoolers two week sort of it sounds like intensives kind of like what Polaris does but to test drive um different careers sort of in sixth in seventh and in eth. And then it it said that by the end of 8th grade these students have learned about 10 different careers. And I thought, what an interesting way to promote exposure in a meaningful way. Potentially you could even align them with um times of year when attendance really struggles to make them the most exciting two weeks of the year, right, in ASD to help, you know, it's no, nobody likes November. I don't know. Um but but I like the idea because then because
038I believe it's really as a parent, as a board member, I think that kids need to be uh thinking about high school before they're in high school, right? You need to be set up. And I think that that focus on middle school is really critical also because that's when I see at least when I looked at our data, right, you see increasing struggles. Students are struggling, you know, a lot when they're in eighth grade. Students who are struggling in sixth grade often continue to struggle in seventh and in eighth grade. And we've talked about that handoff between eth and nth grade. But it just you we have the unique opportunity to really focus on um curious young minds in sixth grade and seventh grade and eighth grade in a very equal way across the district
039now that everybody's in middle school. And that could be a an interesting way to align um to to allow students to plan better for their high school. What was the name of that blog? Oh, it's I'll just um it was on chalkby ch and the article is about um I I'll just set it to the administration. I think has like one middle school and it's a very small district. Yeah. I'm from Eastern Washington. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you you you dialed it until where that is. So you can do things when you have one middle school and one high school, but the concept still right. But I think the concept they may have that path through the woods. Yes, they probably do. You can walk all around. Yeah. Thank you for that. Yeah. And
040tell me again what the blog was. I'll send it to I just didn't write it down. I'll circulate it. Um it was just interesting and felt like a kind of article. Yeah. Um, and then just because we were talking about school links, I mean, I shared in a short email to a couple of people here about Thanks for bringing it up. Um, it's great to hear that you're piloting it now. So, you know, my kiddo got to beta test it and I was like, what is this thing? They're in the beta test. Yeah. And so I was, you know, went to YouTube and, you know, I think that it would be very helpful to um be ready to walk parents through what this thing is, right? So that you can co- was I think the
041term uh because my student has a portal, but my understanding is that at least in some versions, parents also have an access to that. I don't know how that works yet. You will. I will. And that's the that's the exciting part and we we're prepared to talk about it. Um right now the school links has a bunch of different applications. So they have a career exploration and college uh college planning life after high school. They have course planning. They have a digital portfolio. They have a scholarship finder. They have an application organizer. They have the event tracker and they have some messaging. So the first four, so career and career exploration, the college planning, the course planning and the digital portfolio is really what is being introduced in the new face class this coming year
042is going to be that intro, right? And that's for our ninth graders in the 2526 school year. The last four bullets, the scholarship finder, the application organizer, the event tracker, and the messaging is really for the 11th and 12th grade students, but that is the 11th and 12th grade students when they when these ninth graders next year become 11th and 12th graders. The nice thing is that the parent and guardian account will sync so well to this that parents will be able to see and counselors and Z talk to this too. Yeah. Because counselors I'll just let you why don't you just talk about you were in that lane. Yeah. So, I used to be a counselor at both middle school and high school. And one of the items that I think about with school
043link that is so exciting for both parents and counselors is that communication gap that many times occurs of what kids interests are and their passions and not being able to have an easy way to have that conversation without a 10th grader saying, "I don't know." Right? So with kids looking at their passions and their interests and really starting to gauge m whether they want to attend college or a different path, it can open up opportunities for communications. But for students who want to go to college as from a counselor's perspective, school links becomes that one um dashboard that connects everything together. So, it syncs with Common App. Um, it syncs with Coalition. It syncs with schools who ask for applications on their own. And if anybody has ever gone through the process of college applications
044and your Google Sheets to um to track your scholarships you're applying to in the different colleges, um, School Links does it all in one spot along with the teacher recommendations as well as a resume builder. Um, so it really helps kids become um and learn how to um create professional documents for whether that be college or heading straight up to an apprenticeship or right. It's pretty exciting. The best thing is that um we talking Cindy and I were talking about this this morning is that the school links itself will be available to our students for the rest of their lives because it's tied to their own personal email accounts that they can update and manage themselves. So even if you have a student who is like unlike myself who goes to the military first and
045then says you know what I think I want to go back to college you still have all those applications and and interest stuff saved so you're not looking for a file you're not looking for certificate where did I put that box of stuff four years later you know it's still there and available right quick question um so does school links track the national student clearing house data too like on the student level. Just curious. I believe it does. I I could find out more information about that. Yeah, it' be so neat to really reinvision CCL like you to, you know, 15 or whatever it is, whether it's career, community college, college, and like if the student clearing house data is on the student profile, I just think that creates for more discussion. Good. It's also
046a place where kids can track their PSATs and SAT scores. So all of that information can be um gathered and synced to a school link. And I really appreciate the course planner for kids that are really looking at how how do I know what I should um invest in the following year as far as courses that it will sync with Q. And so kids will be able to see classes that are offered at their high school and start making that four-year plan, communicating that openly with parents because parents will be able to see that piece as well and their counselors. So it's exciting. So as a as a mom of a a past student athlete, does that somehow link to the classes that they can set up um in order to play division one, division
047two sports? Yep. It also it also uh connects with NCAA. Um so that information and it will track um and this is just my small bit of information. It will also track if you want to really go to that prestigious college that is really difficult to get to. It will track whether you have the right qualifications, your grades, if you're on track to be accepted based on your SAT and ACT scores, as well as your um GPA. Oh, wow. Nice. So, it really gives a heads up for students to really start making plans and goals and trying to reach those goals. That's awesome. I say I think that's really cool, especially when they're uploaded online. Um, that's one of the things do before foster kids youth leaves our home is give them a packet that
048gets lost inevitably. I think I'm still working my years later. So, yeah. So, teachers are being trained right now or at least being introduced to school links. Next week, counselors will be having a small group. So they are looking at what is going to be taught in the freshman course so they can align what kind of activities counselors would like to see and how they can um make sure we have a K12 plan. Thanks. And I I would share I would like to share I spoke to I think it's okay to share I spoke to the executive director of Junior Achievement um and we had some great conversations about their future planning in regards to you know how they want to work towards exposing kids to careers as well. But um potentially next year doing
049some more of those job fairs at other middle schools. uh which would be nice to have that connection with somebody who has you know the database working with school business partners um that they can reach out to having a list. I mean it we all have plenty to do. So having um some partners that can help with some of those pro processes is is amazing. All right, any other comments, questions? Hollow, you're good. Yeah. Okay. All right, we are done. I know.