001Okay, we'll go ahead and call this meeting we'll go ahead and call this meeting to order at six o'clock on Monday, August 25th with roll call. >> Hower >> here, Kent >> here. >> Me >> here. >> Many >> here. >> And Ricewe >> here. >> Williams >> here. >> Young >> here. >> You have >> Thank you. >> I would move to approve the agenda. >> Mel second. >> Thank you. All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion passes. Josh, you're up. >> I wonder why I had this thing here. The district mission to teach all and reach all. The district vision is Urbanell will be a school district that brings learning to life for everyone. And the UCSD schoolboard mission is to partner with stakeholders to teach all and reach all through governance
002of board policy and operating protocol. >> Thank you. Okay, we're going to start out with board recognitions tonight. We have a lot of students to recognize tonight, which is amazing. And we're going to start with a new recognition. This is something that was just brought to Iowa this year called the National Math Stars Program. And the state has identified the students in that were in third grade last year who scored in the top 2% of every third grader in the state. That is amazing. And we have 11 students that we want to recognize. So, what I'm going to do, I'm going to call you up and I'm going to give you your certificate and have you stand under the U and we'll do a big group photo afterward, but you guys should be very proud
003of yourself. This is a difficult test. I said last year we had the best scores. I think you guys proved it and you did obviously the best that you can. So, now I challenge you to do that again this year. Maybe there'll be another one. I don't know because that's not something that we we knew about. So, it was a nice surprise. So, if I could see if I can maybe maybe you guys can move like over here because then I'm going to put the kids right under there for just a second. And when I call you up, I want you to tell us your school and I want to put a lot of identifying information of the kids in there. So, let's start with Andrew Bartlett. >> Hi, bite. [Laughter] And what school do
004you go to, Andrew? >> Uh, Karen Acres. >> Karen Acres. Why don't you stand right under the view? Okay. >> Vercase. >> Did I say it right? >> And what school do you go to? >> Valarious. And you can stand right over there. August Frost. Where's August? Where you go? >> Homestead. And these are this year's fourth graders, so they grow a lot. Jordan Russo. >> Jordan. And where do you go to school, Jordan? >> I forgot. >> You forgot? >> Webster. Okay. Stand right over there with him. >> How about Hudson South? Is Hudson here? And where do you go? >> Valarious. >> Another Valarius. You can stand right there as well. Dawson Star. Dawson. >> Is that Dyson? No. >> Okay. Gavin Thorson. >> I used to teach math, so this makes my
005heart happy. And where do you go to school? >> Webster. How about Patrick Tierney? >> And where do you go to school, Patrick? >> Uh, the >> Karen Acres. Okay. Archer Weiss, where do you go to school? Archer >> Webster Elementary. >> Webster. >> I'm gonna do my best. Rowan War. >> Did I say it right? >> Yeah. >> Good. Where do you go to school? >> Hilarious. And Nadia Zinc. [Music] >> Did Dawson come? No. >> And where do you go to school? >> Uh Karen Acres. >> Karen Acres. Why don't you let Miss Dena put you guys in a a line so she could get a photo? Let's give these guys. [Applause] I know. I saw D.S. Okay, I think we are all in there. All right, ready? Here we go. One, two,
006three. Smile. Great picture. Congratulations. You can feel free to stay for the meeting if you want. >> You're all welcome unless it's past your bedtime. Exactly. How So the next recommend >> that I would like to give is for Ethan >> Frank and barely b my head >> and I'll just read so I don't miss him state it but as a fifth grader at Webster Elementary Ethan won the missing child poster contest for the entire state of Iowa. He was honored by the Department of Public Safety with an all school assembly and a pizza party. And Ethan's poster was selected for its powerful imagery and message, which perfectly embodied this year's theme, bringing our missing children home. And then Ethan went on to place third overall in the national level. And over 1,000 posters were
007submitted from 21 states. And I had the poster put up here so everybody could see it. I think it's beautiful and it was very well done and we want to make sure that you are [Applause] your art teacher in the middle school is going to be very excited. >> Here we go. One, two, three. [Applause] [Music] And then I think we're gonna turn it over to Jared more. >> Your folder is there. >> Announcing all this. >> You're not You're not going to come back up. >> Oh, you want >> Sorry. And I think they're all going to file in from the room in there. Let's see. We'll we'll get Tatum done first. Should have been that way for all the soccer announcements. All right. Okay. So, Tatum Johnson, class 5A, first team all state
008for softball. [Applause] This will be in the presentation here in a little bit, but uh she also set the career home run record for softball at UHS and still continues to climb. >> Dina, do you want coach in there, too? >> Ready? Here we go. >> One, two, three. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. [Applause] Keep going. >> All right. So before we present all of the certificates to the state championship winning team, uh we've got a handful of individual recognitions that we're going to do. Uh so we'll start with boys soccer all tournament team. Chris Buena here and then Bryce Lumley also made the all tournament team. [Applause] stand over there. We'll do a separate photo of that one. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And then we've got Aiden Troa also on the old tournament team. [Applause] And
009then Jeff Niza, not here tonight. Um he's probably up at the high school playing soccer actually. He's up there about every night. Um he was the captain of the all tournament team. And then de mo de mo mo register elite all state boys soccer team award went to Kanan Harvich >> and we'll do individual ones after we do the full. [Music] So, I'm just going to read off the names of the players that uh that were on the on the state tournament winning team, the championship team. Uh mega rock here. Brendan, there we go. Brendon Booer [Applause] not here. Blake Bowler, [Applause] a Kung, [Applause] Timmy Deng, [Applause] Fabriio Das Morales here, Sebastian Das Morales, >> Abraham Disen Donovan, Nepa [Applause] Fornashan's not here. Will Johnson [Applause] Cappage, [Applause] congrats, Kayen Kurts. [Applause] Kovitz, [Applause]
010Lonely, Emanuel Mars, Messi Narut, Jeffa, Mar Patricio, >> William, Liam Reed, >> Aiden Troja, [Applause] And then our coaches, Calvin Jones, >> Jeff Mendez, Isaac Olsen, [Applause] >> and John Mullen's head coach. [Applause] >> Okay. So, let's make if the players could make two lines and then coaches on on the end. Are we are we going that's kind of never mind. Yeah. >> Okay, here we go. One, two, three. >> You can step out. everyone. Do you want to say >> we'll do both of you guys one picture with both? >> Yeah. >> One more picture. >> Yes. With you as well. >> Yes. Okay. >> Do I need that? >> I don't want to be the only one without it. >> Okay. Ready? Here we go. One, two, three. >> Great. Congrats. [Applause] So,
011you're driving Jared. Just go ahead and hit the down button arrow when you're ready. >> Yep. >> Update. It's just our staff members there. All right. Uh, so quick review of summer athletics. Um, softball 10 and 28 overall record, 419 in the CIL. Um, as we just got done discussing, Tatum Johnson, uh, first team all state class 5A. Um, also broke the home run record this year. Um, she broke it with her 24th home run, which is pretty early on in the season and then added seven more to the total um, as the year went on. So, um, pretty outstanding season for her. Uh, baseball 13 to23 overall record, 419 in the CIL, and then, um, kind of looking to the future, got a big senior class coming back next year, um, with a group
012of guys that have played together for quite a while and had some success at the lower levels. So, should be an exciting season for them next summer. uh participation numbers. You guys take a look at those. I can read them all off to you, but unless you want me to. You have any questions about any that are standing out to you? Feel free to >> Do you see any trends year-over-year? um haven't really looked at the historical data um because I'm kind of considering this a baseline for us since we're um all new staff right now. So for me, this data is like here's where we're starting. Let's see where we are in a couple years. Um if you want to see some historical data, I can get that to you. Um especially like postcoid,
013we' probably be curious to to look at. But >> I'd be curious about girls tennis, too, since it switched to the fall rather than the spring. Mhm. >> if that impacted participation. I know they started in the summer, which is nice to not overlap too much with volleyball, but I know a lot of those girls overlap. >> Yeah. So, yeah, I know they've got some overlap with volleyball. Cross country, um marching band, um kind of the big three there, but um lots of sharing going on right now. >> Okay. All right. So, speaking of girls tennis, um I'd already sent my slides to Julie at this point, but we found out today that they're ranked number 10 in the state of Iowa. So, that's pretty cool. Um there only two losses so far. We're to
014number one and the number four teams. Um we're we've got a tough conference playing the toughest conference in the state and uh it's uh they're having a really good season off to a seven and two start so far. And as Jenny mentioned, this is a move to the fall season for the first time. So it probably feels like we just got done with tennis and we actually did. So they wrapped up in the middle of June and like here we are in August, they're going strong again. So having a real good year so far. Um boys golf, um they're playing in their third varsity meet today. Um placed fifth at Ankenne and they're posting some strong individual scores. Um, also after, um, I sent the slides to Julie, we found out they're ranked number 25
015in class 4A. So, um, starting to get some recognition statewide. Um, they've got a lot of kids out. Um, coaches have been talking to me about, uh, getting another coach on. So, we're kind of waiting for somebody to finish their coaching authorization so that we can, um, get some additional coaching at practices. It's hard for them to manage all of that when you're on the driving range and you're out on the course. Um trying to work with individuals or groups of kids is really challenging with just two coaches when you've got such big numbers. So um they want to try to increase the amount of time that the kids are getting on the course um because the alternative is that they have to kind of practice in shifts and um they just don't get as
016much time hitting balls as they should um for the remainder of the sports. Um, so those first two, golf and tennis, those are already started up. Uh, the rest of them are just getting started and haven't had any competitions yet. So, um, volleyball, they've got Bonderant tournament this Saturday. Middle school started practice this week. Um, coaching, we're still short a couple of coaches with volleyball. Um, but, uh, Coach Hobert at the high school, she's been actively working with me to try to recruit some people. And, um, we got another one on board today. and then another application came through right before the meeting. So hopefully we'll get coaching staff rounded out. Um football first varsity game is August 29th this Friday at Herks Field. Uh middle school starts practice this week. Um one notable thing
017about the middle school. Um we found out a few weeks ago that the goalposts at the middle school were thrown away after the season last year. I put in a work order like hey can you uh get the field set up? They're like actually we threw those away cuz they were pretty junky. I was like, "Oh, that's neat." Um, so instead, we made some chicken salad and, uh, we're going to have all of the, uh, middle school games up at Ferris Field this year. So, we were able to work with the other schools to get the schedule switched up. Um, it's going to put some start times a little earlier, later than what they normally would. Um, most of our games that we're going to be at home, we're going to move from Tuesday to
018Thursday to help accommodate the high school schedule a little bit better. Um but um in my opinion, this is going to be pretty big for the middle school kids because I know when we were getting feedback about the CML and that whole discussion that was a big piece of it was like we need to improve the facilities at the middle school. Um well, this isn't improving the facilities directly, but at least it's letting the kids play in a spot that um is going to feel like a big improvement to them. Um cross country, uh their first meets tomorrow at Mount Vernon. Uh the boys first meets this Saturday at Johnston and middle school starting practice this week. Uh cheer is going strong. They had their triyouts back in the spring. Um so they're kind of
019broken up into two groups right now. Sideline and competition. Uh they'll be at the football game this Friday obviously. Um they've got 36 fall participants. They've got a pretty big squad. Um Jay Walkers had their tryyous in the spring as well. Um they're getting busy getting ready for competitions and football performances. Um and then our second home game, they're doing the Jaywalker clinic and um performance with the elementary students, which is always pretty popular. Um girls swimming continuing their co-op with Johnston. Right now we've got four participants out. Um and their first meet is September 9th. Performing arts show choir. They wrapped up camp recently with choreographer. uh middle school and high school are both still um working working hard and having practices getting ready for their season which really doesn't begin until like winter
020time. But um it takes a lot of time and energy and effort to um get used to doing their new routine. Um again, I mentioned this at the last update. We got new directors at the high school and so they're getting acclimated to their new roles and uh um the kids seem to be enjoying themselves so far. uh marching band wrapped up camp. Um working on their halftime show and then the Urbanddale Marching Invitational coming up on the 27th. Um they're doing it a little bit differently this year with that. Um it's usually an afternoon and evening event. This year it's going to be a morning and afternoon event. Um it sounds like what happened last year was um there was another school that had their competition on the same day and it took away
021some of the bands that would normally come to ours. So instead of fighting against each other, I think they work together to create one big big competition. Um so that some of the bands that are performing at ours can go to this other school. Pella is the other school there. Um they're they can go to Pella and uh and perform at theirs as well. And then there will be one overall winner for the schools that are participating in both. So that's kind of a cool thing. Um and then drama preparing for the fall play. uh serving those two masters which is going to debut on November 8th. So um they're getting ready for preparations on that. And then some other notable news, uh concession stand renovations coming along uh really well. Um I was just
022in there today and Mike sent some pictures. Um things are looking good. Um we should be ready to roll this Friday. Uh the electrician was in there working today and he was pretty confident he'd be done before Friday. So, um, we'll, uh, yeah, look forward to having a new concession stand at that game. Um, and then middle school, I mentioned the football games coming to Freric Field. Um, activities, passes, and bound update. Um, so we're selling the passes through bound. Um, those should be rolling out to people here in the next day or so. Um, our first home event's not till Friday, so we got a couple of days to play with here, but um, there's just lots of moving parts with trying to get everybody their passes on time. Um, let's see. And then
023the activities and community acquisitions that just got posted today from the last board meeting that uh, we talked about trying to recruit more workers for um, some of our events. So, that got posted and we'll be hopefully receiving some applications soon for that. That's it. >> What's the likelihood that there's another middle school game played at the middle school for football ever? >> Hopefully zero. >> I I I think you're not going to be able to get that team back to middle school. And I think it's a great thing, by the way. Don't get me wrong, but you've you have now Yeah. You've changed the course of middle school football. >> Um >> So, do we save money then by by not doing the football? Just kidding. I mean, it's actually, yes, I don't know
024how much money we're saving, but we don't have the cost associated with paying ground screw to get the field prepped and move all the stuff. U we don't have um the cost of buying new goalpost, obviously. Um and actually, we're going to make money because we'll be able to set up a concession stand. We'll have a better control of the gate. Um because it sounds like at the middle school it was kind of >> loosey goosey with with how people would get in because like you can go park on towns in and walk up and yes there's stakes with flags there but like there's people coming in for free so it'll be a little harder to do that at the football field. So we should should come out ahead on this hopefully. >> How does
025it impact the practice for the high schoolers? Um, so they're going to have to move some parts of their practices on Thursdays indoors. Um, so fortunately the volleyball schedule worked out in a way that a gym should be open. Um, so the plan is they'll come out, do their stretches, and get going on the football field right away. Um, and then they'll start going through their practice and then once it hits a certain point where we need the middle school to be able to warm up, they'll move inside and and go uh in the gym. There's also maybe some opportunities to go over and use the middle school >> okay >> field for because I think there's like two nights that are really the ones that are impacted on that. So, >> I was just
026going to say having a middle school football player when we traveled to away games that were held in high school stadiums, the kids loved it. >> It It's just a great atmosphere. So, that's >> Yeah, I told Coach Dylan same thing you were asking Jason was that like now that we're doing this, like let's just plan for it next year and then that way when we're creating the schedule with the other schools, like we'll just let them know like here's our situation. we're going to play at the high school, but it's going to alter the start times a little bit probably. There is most of the schools opted because we gave them two options. One was to play since the games were on Tuesday, play on Thursday, but either at a 4 or 4:30 start
027time depending on what was going on. um because Thursday is usually pretty light practice for the football team because they're kind of doing their um install of the first 15 plays and those sorts of things where um Tuesday is a little tougher because that's the that's the practice that's like the most important. So there was one school that opted to stay on Tuesday but go to a 6:30 start time which would allow our team to practice until six o'clock and then we'd still have 30 minutes warm up. We've got lights. Um, so they were one of the closer schools, so they decided the later game wasn't going to be that bad. >> Thank you. >> A lot of hard work. >> Thank you. >> Don't forget your folder. >> Thanks, everybody. Okay. So, on your
028table when you came in, you had a little black bag with a Urbandale U on it. Um, we wanted to make sure that thank you for showing that. Um, that is a every year we try to do something for staff so that it it's not much, but it's a welcome back. We appreciate you. And this year, this is what we came up with. So, you have a insulated lunchbox with some snacks in it. and I think they were pretty well received today. We got a lot of really good feedback on those. Um, so we're already talking about what we're going to do next year. So, might shake it up a little bit. Um, I do want to publicly thank all of our PTOs and our volunteers who helped our principles and staff get ready for
029the first day. They were out putting signs up in the yard. They were helping in the office. They were just all over the place. and we can't do everything we do without the support of our our parents and community. So, we really appreciate that. Our first day report, uh, all of my team was in a different school today supporting and so far everything seemed to have gone pretty well. Um, it was smooth as principles and their staff were well prepared and they received the kids. Kids were so happy to get back in school. At least everybody over five. There were a few five-year-olds that were not quite ready to head into the building and it was a tough one, but I remember as a mom it's you you get through it. So, that was great.
030Our staff was really really well um prepared to help get them in the right place. Um the one thing I will ask, I know parents at the middle school and high school um Aurora Avenue can be a challenge. So, I would ask them to follow whatever the path is that's been laid out for you. And please don't park on Aurora at pickup. I know it was a little hectic today. I'm I'm hoping it was mostly because it's the first day. Um the first week will likely be a challenge, but if we could all be very cognizant of what that pickup criteria looks like, that should help us. Um our activities and sports are up to running up and running. As Jared said, if you go to our new website um not our site, but the
031state site um called Bound for Game and Event Times, you go to uh the website is gobbound.com and you can find Urbandale in there. It's a you can add a bookmark so that once you've clicked on the school, you can bookmark it so you can come back to it. It's a much more, my opinion, friendly format where you can see that it's tennis because it has a tennis ball and volleyball has a volleyball and it's kind of colorcoded and very easy to determine what's going on. So, that's the new site that the CIML uh coming from the state has asked us to use. So, I think it's pretty user friendly. If you have any trouble, you can let us know and we'll help you navigate it. Um, very happy to see the recognitions tonight and
032I'm happy that Jared is adding the coaches to come to these recognitions. So, you can hear from the coaches as well. So, we'll be working the kinks out of that. And then on finally the 8th of September, we will welcome our student board representatives for the first meeting. So, we'll fill that table up over there and looking forward to seeing them. We are going to do a new picture, but we're going to wait until uh November to do that picture. So, uh Tim and I, Mr. Carver and I meet next Friday with the kids to kind of go over what it's like to be a board member and kind of the processes so we can orient them and answer any of their questions. But >> I think that's all that I have. We are still
033waiting. Yep. >> We have one of our uh students that it's part of our showcase coming to practice >> speaking of activities. So >> we just we're going to forward. So close your eyes. >> Yeah. >> We'll come back. >> Okay. There are no public comments today. >> So I would move to bring the consent agenda forward. And then I want to request that we pull out the minutes um from July 14th board meeting. I need a correction for two of my abstensions on that. So if we can vote on that separately. Do we want to do that first or the other items first? >> We'll do the consent agenda minus the minutes from July 14th and then we'll come back to the minutes. >> And we'll second the motion for the consent agenda minus
034the board minutes. >> Thank you. Okay. >> No conversation comments. >> Sorry. Did anybody have any conversation questions? >> Thank you. >> Hower? >> Yes. >> Kent, >> yes. >> Me? >> Yes. >> Hanky? >> Yes. >> And Ricewick? >> Yes. >> Williams? >> Yes. Young? >> Yes. >> Passes 70. >> Thank you. And then I would um just for everybody's information just making sure that abstensions get corrected for me on um let's see I should have had it ready. Item 8 um F and G for the lease agreements with the city and the SRO 28E. Um so just correcting that. So with those changes I would move to approve the approval of the July 14th minutes. I'd second it. Is there a second? >> Any questions about that? >> Okay, we'll do another one.
035>> Kent, >> yes. >> Me? >> Yes. >> Nike? >> Yes. >> Swipe? >> Yes. >> Williams? >> Yes. Young? >> Yes. >> Hower? >> Yes. >> The motion passes 70. >> Thank you. >> On to the action items. And the first one is the second reading of policy 519. >> Before we start those, can I just make a statement so that people aren't confused? Um, there was a policy 545 drafted to be at a second reading tonight that was dropped from the uh agenda. And the reason that that was dropped just for uh transparency, I as I told you, there are a number of policies that need work. And as I send them to the attorney, when we notice that some of them are connected, I sent 545, which is connected to some other
036ones that we are looking at doing updates for, they asked that we hold on to that until we can do some of these other updates, but also there's more information coming on changes in chapter 102 from the state and it doesn't make sense to change something that you're going to turn around and have to change anyway. So, that's that's why that policy is not on here. Um, the other three policies that are on here, um, there were there were a couple of pieces of feedback that we can talk about when we get to B and C, but the one on number on letter A was not one of the ones. >> Start with 519. Anybody have any questions, comments? hearing. None. I guess I'll call for a motion. >> I'd move to approve the second
037reading for policy 519. Mel second. >> So all those in favor I >> I >> oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Up next is policy 602. >> I've not received any additional feedback since um sharing with you at the last meeting. >> Any conversation, questions, concerns? >> I would move to approve the policy with some notations. uh to leave in gender identity but to accept the change on the compliance coordinator and the update to the legal references. >> Thank you. We'll second. >> Thank you. >> So everybody understands the amendment. >> Gender identity stays. The title change. >> Yeah. >> Is the title has changed? >> Yeah. >> Yep. So all those in favor I >> I >> opposed. >> No motion passes 61. >> And up next is policy 625. This is one I believe
038director director Meny uh asked about LMN and O in the beginning under the enrollment compulsory enrollment and they are duplicative. So should the board want to pass this I would um have the motion include everything except that piece. >> Sorry, can you state that again? >> Yep. At the top under compulsory enrollment, if you look down, it goes A through O. >> Yeah. >> And Jason had pointed out that L, M, N, and O were a duplicate because they're they should be in the attendance piece, not >> they're under the truency part, not the >> So we're saying what you're saying is we're moving it out of there >> out of element. >> We would take those out of that portion. Leave them in the bottom portion under the absenteeism. I would move to approve
039policy 625 with the striking of items LMN and O under the compulsory enrollment section. And second in favor I >> I same sign. >> Passes. >> I move to approve the U bid for the high school choir risers that we discussed at the last meeting. >> Thank you. We'll second. >> Any questions, concerns? So we will start with me. >> Yes. Ni. >> Yes. With jazz hands. >> Ben Ricewood. >> Yes. >> Williams. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Hower? >> Yes. >> Kent. >> Yes. >> Motion passes seven. Sir, >> thank you. >> I think we'll take our five minutes. I just I just got the text from her mom that she's on. She's she's almost here. >> We'll take a five minute break. >> Okay. >> So, tell her don't rush. >>
040Yeah. Don't accident. Yeah, >> I think I did. >> So, recess >> unless that's we make it awkward downstairs. Close your eyes. back at 6:41. >> There we go. Okay. >> Okay. We'll go ahead right now. >> And up next is school shopping. >> Well, we are back uh again at the start of the school year to showcase one of our awesome programs. This time uh we are in the area of a new CNA program that we got started um last year. Uh Mrs. uh Wagner and I and our uh former work-based learning facilitator now career connected learning >> career connected learning facilitator facilitator. Yes. >> And so we're rolling with the times as our state adjusts uh to to what's happening with career connected learning. But um we'll go ahead advance the slide. And
041unfortunately, one of our students uh was unable to be here had a death in the family and so wasn't able to be here today. So essentially the idea that came up um was that uh how do we get our kids into more opportunities around the area of uh work-based learning opportunities that happen oftent times during the school year in a very spread out manner like students needing to go out to DMAC at Ankeny on a you know every day basis um for just an hour hour or two something like that um in the idea came up as Darlene and I were kind of kicking around this idea that how might we open up some opportunities for students that maybe the transportation issue that we always that that roadblock that we always face during the school
042year. How might we do something different? Um I was at a meeting with some people from DMAC and they said, "Hey, there's this this potential opportunity that we could do a class out west and uh at at the West campus." Um, so this is a picture of one of the student that couldn't be here tonight, but she's um the Zakiya is up there on the the top lefthand corner with me out in front of the DMAC West campus. We had uh 10 students, is that right? Or nine nine finished up about nine that finished the program. >> Um, and they did, you can see the dates there, they went between June 2nd and June 13th and at DMAC West. And then they did the program um or clinicals uh out in Altuna. Uh, it turned
043it turns out that the instructor is a teacher at Southeast Pope. >> So, she already had a relationship with a a care facility, a skilled care facility in Altuna. So, the great thing is these our students were able to get in a condensed amount of time the CNA um class, the training, they have the whole setup out there. It's a picture of our kids there at the uh, you know, simulated work site. And Maggie will be able to talk more about what that was like in a little bit. Um, but it was super exciting. One of the other advantages was we had one student that had limited transportation availability and we were able to make that work in a, you know, you can do that in a couple of weeks versus a whole semester. So,
044at least that's where we're at right now. And we were all able to do this without any funding or uh uh the students didn't have to pay for any of the program either, which was great. >> All right. So, just a kind of background about how this all came about. So, last >> October, gosh, that's that's almost a year ago. Um, we've kind of batted the idea around a lot, but Mr. Carver um met with um Randy Gabriel from DMAC and talked about us having a CNA class that would be just for UHS students. Um, and DMAC received a grant in January. So, we're able to offer that to our students with for no charge. um in February and March I helped identify students that were interested in the medical field and um had them
045fill out an application and then in April and May the students were selected and they um had an orientation at the high school prior to the start of the class. So kind of a got a couple of quotes here. I won't read obviously the both of the quotes but um we had nine current 11th and 12th graders that were able to earn credit and all of them received at least an A or a B in the course. Um the both were, you know, Randy Gabriel and Kristen Brookover both said that, you know, these giving students an opportunity to get these skills prior to graduation and um being a collaboration between Urbandale and DMAC and just a nice way to get kids experience and hopefully being able to do something like this in other areas in
046the future. All right. So, get >> um so I decided to apply because I'm interested in going to nursing or like the medical field and then um I would have wanted to do it like during the school year, but I just don't have the availability to like block off half my schedule for that. So, >> I applied for the spring semester of this year and then I was just planning on taking less classes, but then we were told that there's going to be a summer one and so then I was able to apply for that and do it then cuz otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get it done before like college applications and stuff. >> Um, I had a the teacher was great. It was Melissa Hansen from Southeast Pulk. She's like a
047registered nurse and then she teaches it there and they they have a ton of students who do it. >> Um, and like she I know me and one other student, we both got our license after this and we were both very prepared. I mean, it was like a knowledge test and then a skills test and her tests were just like identical like pretty much to that. So, it was not hard at all. Um, CNA has like become like a pretty important thing for like nursing. Like she said that majority of the community colleges in Iowa like require you to have it before you um apply. So, it's kind of necessary. Um, I know a lot of people were wanting to do this and like obviously not everyone could because we only took 10, but I
048thought the three-week program was great because I mean having a busy schedule was it's hard to like fit a semester long class in like that. >> Um, so yeah, and I I totally like the teacher and she prepared us very well for the license test. >> What about the the the experience when you went to the school? What was that like? It was definitely uh it you're very like you go in right away and you're already starting to do um perform on the residents. So it was I mean it was kind of a surprise at first but after I mean you spend the whole day there so by the end we're we were like answering call lights and doing it all of oursel so it was pretty easy to catch up and then it helped
049too with the skills because with those dummies it's like not as realistic as a real a real test. Yeah. And like even on the license tests, like for my um skills test, I had a real person, so you have to like be able to not just rely on having a dummy to do your test on. I think one of the things that really st stood out to me is as I got to actually Zakiya's uh I got to do a little little driving and talking with her um during this and she talked about that this is going to open up some doors for her specifically in her uh they live um her Afghany family has moved recently to Urbanddale from Iowa Falls and she talked about you know one of the reasons they came here
050was because of the community and having just people of different ages and the opportunity to because of getting the CNA this initial start into like Maggie said ultimately getting the certification potentially even employment even while they're still in high school right I mean like things that are >> Maggie's not qualified to do or you know because of that and I I thought that was really interesting I thought that was a real benefit and we're looking to try to how do we do more of this and and and hopefully No, Maggie, do you think you'll still stay on the medical track or you think that Okay, >> so that's Yeah, go ahead. >> I am trying to I might apply for a job. I have volleyball right now, so I don't have the time for it,
051but I'm definitely going to just cuz also like uh like nursing schools, they look for like experience and stuff. So getting like a CNA job is a lot like a good way to do it. So, just looking for more opportunities for our kids earlier to get into this to see if it's like this or maybe we I can't remember if we were talking to you guys or or who it was about one of our students that did an internship last uh fall and or last spring in marketing. um thinking of Courtney that like figured out I don't really want to do marketing you know like this and trying to get those things determined earlier on in the students experience whether they be on the side of oh yeah this is really helpful helps me accelerate
052or maybe this isn't for me and I'm going to go this way and so anyway it's super exciting and I like I said we wouldn't Miss Wagner just helps make everything go and whether it be these grant you know helping to make the connections with all the different people and uh and then of course our awesome students like Maggie and Sakiya and so many others. So >> is that grant still is that a recurring grant or was that a one time? >> As far as I know, it was a one time. >> Yeah, we'll find >> But does this training fall under postsecary at all? >> In what way do you mean? >> To pay for it. >> Oh, to pay for it potentially. It could be. I mean, it could be. I mean that
053it seems to me that >> that this is such a deep need. >> Yeah. >> That this is a way to rather painlessly gain experience for them but also to fulfill a community need. >> Yeah. >> That it seems to me that this is a perfect expansion. >> I think it is. Yeah. We we'll revisit it with >> Yeah. And the other advantage I think is uh you know the west campus has never had the enrollment that the others have. So this helps them. Yes, it is too. >> And it's closer here. >> It is. I mean, it was legitimately It was not It's quick to get down there. So, >> so really the only difference is the time length instead of it this course taking all you >> do it. You just do it
054and move on. >> And then the instructor was real flexible though because wasn't it wasn't a state soccer going on. Yeah, we had state soccer and so we like pushed back one of our uh lectures to like have a longer day the next day and then some people were able to go to state soccer. So it was exciting. Yeah. >> Yeah, it was cool. I was caught off guard a little bit when they were like, "Oh, we're changing the schedule for the game." I'm like, "All right." So, no, ju just a cool blend of, you know, our students getting to have and we're going to continue to look for water opportunities and, you know, classes like this certainly, you know, as Maggie said, and we're having more and more kids that are interested and and
055the ability to potentially offer a course like this on campus down the road is I mean, that's an important thing that we need to continue to explore as well. So, >> yeah, because you wouldn't be giving up half a day. It would just Yeah, >> walk outside maybe >> or down the street. >> And I know DMEC used to do where you do the uh basic nurse aid which is what we did and then you do advanced nurse aid. So at Southeast Pulk they do uh they have two periods a semester of it and then but this year they only did one period. So they just have it every other day and then they're done too because you just do basic nursing. But I know it's really important for kids that are looking to go
056in those fields to get those patient contact hours because you need to have hundreds of them. So the earlier that you can get these skills, these licenses, it's a great it's a huge step forward and to give them a step up, >> you know, down the road. We appreciate again the opportunity and and obviously Dr. Dak's support for all that we're doing in terms of really pushing our program and our programs to meet more needs of more kids. It's going to help our community is has been great. So Maggie, thanks for coming over from volleyball practice. She was up early for senior son of course. >> Yeah. >> Catch day soon maybe. We'll see if I'm still up. >> Thank you. >> I would move to second. [Music]