05-03-21 ASD School Board Meeting

001all right it is six o'clock i'm going to go ahead and call this uh may 3rd meeting of the anchorage school board ii order we have all board members in attendance in the board room for member donnelly board member bellamy myself elisabeth board members mitchell ford member hildy and board member holloman and at this time we're going to do our flag salute and i'm going to ask young henry to please do that for us [Music] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for origin and one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] until andy takes them all right before we begin i would like to acknowledge with gratitude the denying of people both past and present who have lived on these lands

002since long before anchorage was here may we all be good stewards of these lands chanan my name is emily hickox and i am the student representative to this board i was elected to serve through the student advisory board although my votes are advisory only i offer student voice to this body we would like to welcome you to our meeting and thank you for attending and supporting the work of the anchorage school district in this board the board thanks students parents teachers staff school business partners and the entire community for your investment in our district with your time your talent and your tax dollars next up is the approval of the agenda can i get it first i move to approve the agenda is written [Music] are there any changes modifications or requests to change it

003is there anybody in opposition of the agenda as written seeing none it unanimously at this point the next item up is uh comments from some of our outgoing board members and i'm going to go ahead and let uh i guess we'll start with mitchell well i have to say i have competing um feelings today i am sorry to be leaving this group of really passionately committed um public education advocates i appreciate every single one of you and the perspective that you have brought and the uh the collegiality that we've had on the board and the seriousness that everybody has you know approached their work with and dr bishop what a three years it's been just wow um i i've learned a lot it's um it's been an honor to serve the city and i am

004sad to be stepping down on the other hand i'm happy to join my husband in retirement and he and i are going to hawaii for the first time for me um right after i get off the board so i just i'm i'm proud of the work that we've done i'm particularly proud of the the collaboration that we all went through for the two policies that were passed at the last meeting that was very um just a nice note to to step away on and i also feel that we are turning the turning this over to um some really um dedicated people who are going to do a great job on the board as well so thank you for your leadership thank you to star for her leadership thank you to tamagosti geesler who got me

005here for her amazing service on the board kathleen plunkett all the people who went before us we have now um somebody who's going to be rejoining who has some prior experience so it's it's been a really wonderful experience um challenging a growth experience and again i just appreciate every single one of you all so much and everybody i also want to say to the administrators um you guys are you people i mean that in a gender-neutral sense are just the best um the turnaround you know i ask a question and it gets answered immediately um you guys are as passionate as we are up here uh i think the anchorage school district is there's room for improvement obviously there's always room for improvement but i think that everybody here does a fantastic job our teachers

006are second to none and i just really appreciate um the work for our young people it's uh you know it's the most important thing i think that we can be doing so thank you to everybody who contributes to the success of the anchorage school district every single day board member hildy [Music] see if i can reach uh i did not plan to talk [Music] but i will just say thank you for this um wonderful opportunity to serve alongside all of you and to see the exemplary work of everyone in our district i am uh working with other boards around the country i can say that asd is uh got the best of the best it's just incredible and the dedication to professionalism and focus on children that's when this board shines that's when this district

007shines and i'm super excited to see the progress on our three more goals over the next you know five years to get reading to 80 that's going to be really fun to watch so i know you can do it and um so just thank you i i i learned so much from all of you and um just your heart for children is inspiring so thanks [Music] what a six crazy six years it's been um when i look back at all of the different board members both um those that i'm serving with today and uh the names that you've mentioned you know in the past um everybody has contributed to my growth as a board member and i'm just appreciative to everybody who has helped me and been patient with me along the way as i

008have learned and grown as an individual i am excited and optimistic and hopeful for where this district is going to go i working with you has been an absolute honor you have put together a team that i have never seen a team that has worked so well together um i'm one person i'm one person of seven i'm one person of many i i'm just one person but i know how the best in our educational system and to give the choices that i believe all of our children need and that's what i have worked very hard to do over these six years it has been an absolute honor i am so thankful to the community to you know the administration to all the board members to my family you guys have just been so patient with

009me and i'm very appreciative and so i want to make sure that um we passed this off in a very positive happy way and so i'm ready to do the next thing in our agenda before you do that madam president um may i interrupt and just want to to share um from administration uh as well as other board members our gratitude for the team that assisted and we have a going-away gift for you and uh hope that um you can remember your work for young people in our city and really truly all around alaska with some of our partnerships so i'm honored uh to serve the anchorage school district and honor to be your superintendent thank you all right guys are you ready the last thing i get to do it is now the anchorage

010school district 2020 to school board is now adjourned let's sign your day [Music] okay thank you yeah oh my goodness um [Music] as the superintendent of the anchorage school district and temporary chair of this meeting i would like to call the meeting back to order at this time i would also ask for youth court judge yuli song and alaska supreme court justice peter maasen to administer the oath of office to swear in our newly elected board members please come forward carl jacobs pat higgins kelly lessons and dora wilson oh thank you [Music] good afternoon everyone or good evening uh in addition to my duties as a justice on the supreme court i had the privilege for about a decade to serve as a member of the board of directors of the anchorage youth court and

011it's a great organization and i just want to say on behalf of the organization how much we appreciate the support that the anchorage school district has given it over the years and i would also like to say how honored we are that the school district has on a number of occasions invited a judge from the youth court to administer the oath so with that i will turn it over to chief judge yule zhang to administer the oath if you would all raise your right hands please which means you have to move your microphone i i can state your name kelly lesson do solemnly swear do you solemnly swear that i will support and defend that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states the constitution of the united states and the constitution

012of the state of alaska and the constitution of the state of alaska that i will honestly faithfully and impartially that i will honestly faithfully and impartially discharge my duties discharge my duties as a school board member as a school board member to the best of my ability to the best of my ability [Applause] thank you we're going to take a brief at ease to sign and notarize the paperwork and i would again give my appreciation to judge yulie zhang as well as uh peter mauson for coming and assisting us with the swearing-in you that is the most fun i now call this board meeting back to order and i would like to entertain nominations from the board for the slate of officers would like to nominate margot bellamy for president andy holloman for vice president

013carl jacobs for clerk and kelly lessons for treasurer [Music] thank you member wilson are there any objections to the nominations for officers [Music] was there a second sorry that was mr holloman thank you any objections seeing none the motion carries congratulations and i'm going to turn over the gavel to the new board president margot bellamy [Music] thank you dr bishop and thank you fellow board members we are going to continue with our agenda [Music] i had my notes yes all right next on our agenda is the our community engagement section e our military we do not have a military report uh neither do we have uh board conference committee or community outreach written reports so now we that brings us [Music] yes we do have a student advisory board report emily last thursday we had

014our last um student advisory board meeting for the year we discussed sort of how we've done the past year as well as what we're looking to see in the next year they're hoping to get back to in-person meetings hopefully here and more collaboration with the school board we also had elections and so we have a new vice president secretary and public relations officer and then we'll be having special elections for um the president and student representative position in the fall they're just sort of waiting until we can get sort of what the group for next year will look like and then looking for a president to lead them so that is it um yeah they'll be back in the fall and hopefully have some new one person to send to you guys um madam president

015board i would like to uh publicly thank our student advisory board uh lead on our school board uh she is graduating in one week and so this is her last board meeting and we're so proud of her and she will be graduating i believe on the 15th 14th uh that's right next friday and she is going to uh university of southern california and so we just congratulate you and emily you have been wonderful and thank you so much and madam president turn it over to you thank you dr bishop and emily you have been i don't know what i'm gonna do you're not my little elbow partner anymore but i absolutely have enjoyed working with you you bring a certain uh not just depth of thinking but a radiance to the board and with that

016while you are getting ready to go away we have a little something for you thank you guys so much it's been i think this might be the third time that i've said this is my last meeting but this this time it's real i'm going to college but in all seriousness it's been a super great learning experience for me serving on this board for so long and seeing all the processes and what kind of goes on behind the scenes in our district and big thank you to all of you guys um those board members who just left and i'm sure those of you who are just joining you guys do so much great work for our district and as students we don't totally see all of it but we do really appreciate what you're doing and

017i'm super hopeful for the future of our district and for on my student advisory board i think that they've got great things coming and so yeah just thank you guys [Music] all right thank you emily and now we're moving on to item f go monitoring dr bishop thank you madam president and on today's goal monitoring uh we're working towards uh providing the board information on reading and so we'll continue that and mike fleckenstein will queue it up and uh before we move forward i just wanted to share that in the previous meeting we shared fastbridge which is our k2 student data student learning data and to share a little bit of a difference of what we're going to look at today this is of course map growth it's a totally different assessment and if you

018think about the younger kids or younger students we really want to know how they are progressing to become readers by third grade strong readers and so part of that fastbridge is a very very quick assessment it takes one to five minutes uh it's done multiple times more so to monitor and it really gives information about students correct to incorrect responses which would have their teachers adjust instruction perhaps more time change techniques change the pedagogy or perhaps change a grouping assignment the map data is a little bit more in depth as you'll see and it really is a assessment that we give third through ninth grade and i'll share a little more on that but we're looking at just third grade because this goal monitoring is about the board's uh goals until 2026 and our reading

019goal is really looking at third grade and it's going to determine what students know and what they are ready to learn next and this assessment not only looks at their achievement of what they know now but also in relation to how much they've grown from the last time they they've taken the assessment so i just wanted to share that although we're talking about reading again this is a very different assessment and it's this assessment can look at um a student's understanding and comprehension as they move on whereby fast bridge curriculum-based measures do not they're just looking at the progress to become that reader so without further ado i will just move through these slides and here are our goals and the reading proficiency really uh is about 40 to 80 we're moving from about 40

020percent on peaks which is our statewide test to 80 so in response to the board's goals administration is working to craft and we have crafted and we'll utilize this year's peaks data to look at interim goals to give you bits and pieces of the information along that path so we're going to not only look at student achievement in k through 3 but also student growth in k-3 that will lead to the reading proficiency goal and really what we're going to do is break down the data by grading the level ethnicity and student groups of interest and we think about such things as what percent of students are at or above the benchmark the benchmark is what you want to hit um what percent of students are below the benchmark what is the growth category distribution

021for students at or above the grade the benchmark and those below we also want to know and we can assess this from our map test which students are on track to actually meet the benchmark on peaks we can interpolate the data very strongly to determine which students from day one are really set on that trajectory to meet that goal so with that um the map growth assessment is generally given fall winter spring and it is a universal screening process that we use generally again from grades three through nine we use this in our schools however this year the grade levels that utilize map ubiquitously or all through the district were third fourth fifth and sixth and specifically uh due to secondary schools uh not coming back until march they missed some of that winter window

022so to give you uh some information it is a dynamic assessment which means it will change with students it's not set standards that they're providing they're actually going to give students questions higher and higher and higher to see how far they can go and the next time they sit on the assessment to take it it's going to leave off where they left off so i love this assessment because every student who sits down will get about 50 right or wrong and then the test ends so it's really determined by their level which will allow us to gain information about their learning um this year uh there were eight thousand five hundred eighty-three students that took map growth reading ranging from grades k through twelve but our set that we're going to look at in grade

023three is a little over twenty one hundred actually two thousand one hundred seventy three students uh took it uh this year and again we're looking at the interim goal of reading proficiency and it'll focus on grade three i shared a little bit about norms last time uh the national norms for fast bridge the interestingly enough the national norms for this assessment actually changed not due to the pandemic uh the prior norms that were established in 2015 which all our data looked at prior to this time uh and basically it's a comparison how do students do today and how do they compare against the normative group and that normative group in 2015 was made up of millions of students the more students take it the more nationally representative it is not just a single small group

024uh it adjusts for achievement level it re reflects their ethical behavior uh in learning but the new norms in 2020 actually were data taken from 2015 to 2018. interestingly enough even before the pandemic the normative uh percentile ranking of students actually decreased so in uh reading achievement for third grade the difference in the 50th percentile the middle of the road score in 2020 is about 1.7 uh percentile points lower so again remember the percentile we're going to talk about percentages of kids but the percentile is that 100 mark and what used to be the norm in the middle if i took it uh in the 2015 norms and had a raw score that lended me in the middle it's going to move me over about two slots to the right so it's moving me higher

025but which definitely demonstrates that students actually their achievement uh is is lower because it moved the whole norm so we're talking about that bubble in the middle but for this group i just wanted to share that it's over 700 000 students over uh 5.5 million test scores uh go into these norms and it's uh from students from all 50 states that are uh are into this norm so here are our student counts to share with you these are how our students these are who are our students that took this assessment so if you look at third grade at the bottom i gave you that number already that 2173 and the students who were in school to take the assessment this winter make up these student groups by ethnicity and we have to ask ourselves do

026these students because it's about a thousand less than the prior norm how did they make up who was here and who wasn't here and when we looked at all of our students uh that it wasn't that off the ones that found the most range which were about two percent off i was in the multi-ethnic so for instance alaska native that you see that took winter of 2021 the district as a whole is about 8.7 and so what we want to see is the district as a whole are the third graders of represent represented group of our of our students and uh with them yes the answer is yes multi-ethnic on this is 18.82 and in prior years it was 15.9 and that's the one that's really the furthest off the others are within one percentage

027point or below so these students in third grade do represent the ethnicities of the larger group in the anchor school district uh just to share the largest student ethnicity group is white and the smallest is black students the student count for our interest groups and we share these interest groups because these are reportable ones for essa or the federal reporting and we look at economically disadvantaged english language learners and students with disabilities and as a whole these are right on the mark as well these are representative of the larger students within the district so the the big number there is that economically disadvantaged makes up 47 of all students who took the the assessment in third grade so here we are how did we do for the distribution for students on track for peaks growth

028in green you will see the number of students or the percentage not percentile now and back to percentages if you took all the kids and said how many were on benchmark or above or how many were below benchmark this shares these data and just for your information the asd benchmark is from the 40th percentile to the 60th so right in this area here so these are the percentiles so if the kids fell within here they met our benchmark and overall 47 of our students of and grade 3 are at or above the reading benchmark for map growth the student group with the most students at or above the reading benchmark was the white student group at 62 percent and the second highest group at or above was the multi-ethnic student group at 45 followed by

029the hispanic group at 43. and within ethnicity the student group with the lowest percentage of grade 3 students at or above the reading benchmark was alaska native and the student group uh with about almost 26 percent followed by uh the native pacific islander with 26 as well alarming is on this is that the rate of grade 3 students at or above the reading benchmark for map actually dropped 14 percentage points moving from 61 from the fall of 2019 to 47 that you see now so the red are the students who are below benchmark and the difference is about 14 i do want to caution though remember they were different norms number one and one was an assessment at the beginning of the year one was the assessment in the middle of the year and teaching

030matters for students time with their teachers in lesson matters and so again we can't draw too many conclusions they're not a matched set because again these third grade students did not take the assessment before uh they were we did not have a winter assessment for these children because they were second graders in the winter uh so this is just giving just a little bit of insight about where kids are today and how are they doing and towards your goal we have a lot of work to do and uh i'm sure you would uh agree looking at the distribution of the benchmark for the interest groups that we look at again we have economically disadvantaged about a third of them are on benchmark same with english language learners but our students with disabilities are at 16

031percent on benchmark uh the majority uh nearly 84 percent of them are not on benchmark and if we know they're not on benchmark we can interpolate this assessment so tightly to peaks that we can understand that without additional instruction um different pedagogy small grouping that uh they they most likely without some kind of input their learning behavior won't change so we could see that they would not be successful unless we the adults in the system do something it's on us parents teachers administrators everybody school board members yep everybody so but we will do it all right so another thing is what's on track for peaks and this is one i want to share with you although they're on track in asd we look at the middle of the percentile the bubble right here we have

032about a 99 prediction that they will pass a benchmark on peaks if they are at the 61 percentile right here so our state test is highly aligned to national standards and national tests everywhere and if a student hits the 61 percentile different than percentage percentile they are most likely going to be at or above benchmark on the state assessment and so when you look at that number how many students are here on this percentile marking these are the data ahead of you just to share the difference between the bubble or boom we absolutely know uh with great certainty that they're on the progress this is what we call the on track to be proficient and based on the winter 21 map growth scores the student group with the most students on track and peaks was

033the white group at 42 almost 43 percent the second highest group or rather it's 20 um yeah 40 42.79 the second highest uh for that was the multi-ethnic followed by the hispanic group again same as last time for the percentages of students in the whole but if you look this is only about 28 of the students are absolutely on track for for our entire system uh and again that would be that they could meet the 64 61st percentile and within the ethnicity the student group with the lowest percentage on peaks alaska native american indian followed by the native hawaiian pacific islander if you recall when we looked at fastbridge these two student groups were also that we looked at in our younger children that were just you just progress word sounds blending of words blending

034of sounds all the early skills it was it mirrored this and so those early skills and foundational skills matter i think that is why those new board members that are bored part of president bellamy's strong push at the legislature was we need to focus on reading let's you know put our efforts to this let's support the foundational skills of reading it does matter for success later on and interestingly enough again it's very similar to the percentages when you look at the percentile of students where they need to hit that percentile the percentage of students that are on track also dropped 13 percent we had 41 percent of our students in the fall of 19 were on track to meet peak proficiency and that has dropped to 28 that you see in front of you and

035again if 28.39 are 70 percent of our district third graders are not that is the work before us that is our work to bring dreams and hopes and skills to all young people in our district when you take a look at the student groups and again these are self-reported when parents sign their children up we have economically disadvantaged english language learners and students with disabilities these data also demonstrate a lot of growth is needed students with disabilities 93 percent of our third graders who have an iep are not likely to pass peaks unless we do something in changing that learning trajectory and changing the learning behavior generally we give you as as we did last time kind of a matched set how has a student grown over time and i shared a little bit that

036we really can't do this because you need at least two testing uh times to look at the exact children from this is how they were here and this is how they grew over time sadly we only have the winter but we will be able to look at students from winter to the end of the year the the spring score we'll be able to have that just for the time that they've been in school but we don't have any comparison of our third graders from the year prior we just did not take the assessment last winter but we will have comparable data in the future again we're looking for the second iteration of map and again map the students get on it's electronic it's going to start where they left off before they're going to answer

037questions it has the same frustration level for all students 48 to 52 when they hit right or wrong it just ends and gives them what's called a writ score which is a rosh unit it's just a unit of measurement uh and the and the students actually just as a principal and a teacher it's one of the most motivating assessments that you can give kids because they get instant feedback kind of like a video game that they get the score before their teacher does it shows up right in front of them so they actually like to you know monitor their own progress share what a writ is they don't really even know what it is but they just know it's a score and uh so it's delightful to see students taking advantage of their own learning

038in this way [Music] so for the discussion and really in summary the student groups struggling with reading are the same groups as we've seen for many years and our alaska native american indian student group and native hawaiian pacific islander as well as our black student groups economically disadvantaged in our students with disabilities also struggle the rate of grade three on the peaks has dropped and the rate of grade three students that are above the benchmark has dropped during this time again um they're different norms this is the first time any of these students have taken this assessment and i also want to share this the k2 map there is a k2 map but it looks very different it's very picture oriented and the map growth in third grade is more words because they expect students

039to read and so it looks very different as well and so i just want you to take that in mind as well uh we look to improvement just by taking the test a second time that actually happens um statistically the second time someone takes an assessment it does go up so um those are the things in mind it doesn't lessen the concern this is highly concerning and we look that we can really support our students post covet and wrap services get serious about teaching focusing on children focus on children and their essential skills fundamental skills because when we get it right by third grade the world opens up to our students when we don't schools get very narrowed for our students there are less opportunities in our schools when students don't have the skill of

040reading and uh thank you and i i did want to share that um taped in front of you there is a progress monitoring questions and outcomes although we did not um we have not been following the protocols that we learned simply because a lot of the data we haven't had but we just are practicing and building our muscle about talking about student learning data and just so you know i will always say student learning data not the data or the kid it is about their learning and it is a behavior that we hope to improve every time they're in front of our teachers enjoying school and learning so with that madam president that is the progress monitoring for today i welcome any questions thank you dr bishop are there any questions any questions yes dora

041i'm sorry member wilson i you may not have this information i was just curious do we know how many because you said it was in person students that are in person correct so the students that were virtual did not just confirming they did not take sure those assessments through the president to member wilson that is correct uh we have used other learning um data or other learning programs to assess students that are uh in padea or frontier or family partnership or asd virtual uh we have used iready in the past but th this assessment was just for those that came to us because it is proctored uh just to be able to speak about a student group we needed to assure the testing area um and and the the conditions for testing uh we looked

042that hopefully we'll have more assessment because we have grown over time as our parents have have gained confidence in asd schools being in person that's a great question just one follow-up so okay do we have the scores from last year i just haven't seen them do we have do we have the scores from last year to compare to this year sure to see and not right now necessarily oh no that's a great question too through the president to member wilson uh we did not take the assessment last year although it is a fall winter spring generally uh there was an allowance prior to our new board goals that we did not assess unless you wanted to at winter and that winter time we have a fall of 2019 and that's the most comparable where i

043showed the the drop in 13 or 14 percent that's the the last full time that we had it we did not have it in the winter or spring of 20 due to the pandemic and nor did we have it in the fall this year because of the pandemic because again it is an assessment that uh is proctored basically someone's in the room with the children but that's a great question and and so we're hoping to have at least some growth from winter to spring this year uh students are actually probably in the next week or so gonna sit back down and show us what they know it takes about a half an hour [Music] uh any other yes remember lessons all right i think i've turned this on great um to what extent are our

044students screened for dyslexia uh in these early formative grades to be able to help diagnose problems on the early end of things sure that's a great question uh through um the president to member lessons i'd i'd like um jenny knutson who assists with uh some assessment uh to come forward but to assist what we do do is our progress monitoring on fastbridge is generally our screener for all children and what it does is just picks up um you know we have a letter sound fluency and a blending and what it'll do is pick up that um a skill that we do something automatically automaticity we can do in time and we kind of own it and what happens with that is if under a certain amount of time we look at norms for students meeting

045benchmarks in you know they can read so many words a minute or say so many sounds a minute and when that those data come back and it is not with the expected group we have to do additional testing to find out well is it fluency is it sound it could be hearing you know some children they're just not hearing the the sounds or hearing their teacher we pick up actually uh some other uh you know problems that uh with learning that way so um can you share uh how that works when we have and we do assess and progress monitor students three times a year in k1 and 2. okay through the president to member lessons yeah we start with that benchmarking of students to see who's at risk and once we've identified kids that

046are at risk and showing gaps in some of those skills we typically see in kids with dyslexia like phonological awareness or really those phonics skills of being able to associate the sounds with the letters um we'll do additional assessments so that's where the diagnostic assessment comes in teachers look at discrete skills and you can go more in depth with phonemic awareness so there's different levels and if kids have dyslexia you're going to see indicators with that so our school psychologists sometimes do it but our teachers our intervention specialists all of them can do that as well thank you any other questions okay okay let's hold on so we will go to uh member higgins and then remember [Music] donnelly thank you dr knudsen [Music] is that working bad that's working that's too loud okay uh

047i appreciate the information and um and i guess i look at this kind of data i like to look at trends i like to see what changes are going on an assessment of what's been happening during that period of time and what's working and what isn't and that's kind of the the piece that i'm curious about right now i'm i'm definitely if you know we have to address the underperforming they're not meeting it but the same token we've got kids that are in different grades already at different levels and they have a his you know historically in in schools not just anchorage they tend to not continue to advance and that's the concern that i have is that opportunity for them to stay ahead if they're there while we play catch-up as well for the

048others so i would love to see you know a five-year type this is what the data shows the zero assessment of what has been working and if we're going to go from 40 to 80 or whatever the numbers are why i mean uh what is the plan to really address that because that's an aggressive move and in goals of one thing achieving it is a whole different ballgame and sometimes you have to give up some things in order to do it so some assessment some sort of your input into why the numbers are the way they are over time and what's been happening um in regards to these results because we obviously want better results than what we're getting through the president um to member higgins that's that's really a great you know articulation of

049the why um and really a question around that uh as the board made up goals uh this past year and a half really hearing from the community about wanting all children to succeed and knowing that reading is an access skill uh just sharing that we want fifty percent of our students to achieve or sixty percent it would be like looking at this and saying okay everybody over here i don't need to teach you because i only am gold here so it is a lofty goal 80 because that is the mark that through core instruction in classroom uh the evidence and the research demonstrates that 80 of students should be able to with quality high instruction in a core classroom be able to become a reader so since that time we really did look at a

050reading based program changed our reading program 68 members got together on a committee and chose a science-based reading we have struggled with the implementation uh initially just it was very different initially just the standards for learning uh jumped if you remember when the alaska standards came about and so we're really going to focus on the integrity of the implementation with our teachers because it does matter that they become fluent in sounds and letters and so actually prior to this year the research in regard to balanced literacy with lucy calkins was something that came before the board about you know desiring to do this um this fall columbia university where lucy calkins works said actually we were wrong we have to say that you have to have a strong phonics-based reading program for all like that

051is essential in order for kids to get there uh so that was delightful because anchorage school district and that's what the state law is about anchorage school board already adopted a science-based reading program we're just going to build our muscles around it to get better but one of the things we've been put into place is called win and it's what i need and so basically students that are above grade level which you bring up a good point this assessment map shares with you what kids know and by saying it's dynamic if i'm a third grader and i test at fourth grade the next time i sit down i'm going to only get fourth grade work and so it's always in front of us about boy these students know more than we're teaching them we have

052to change our instruction to keep them learning they we have a goal in the district of if you're here for a year you grow a year at least even if you're advanced or if you're behind you need to have makeup growth so we pay attention to both of those but the what i need now time is not only for students that need to be re-taught it's also for students who need more in-depth or advancement or acceleration we've also looked at broadening our use of ignite as well as other programs in middle and high school to teach to everyone at higher levels and so those are some changes that be happy to share with the board and do some write-ups i agree it does need to look over time how are we doing but believe it

053or not just the the wackiness with the amp the that used to be the test before peak so we had sba amp was the test that didn't work for a while so we didn't have longevity on that peaks was administered after the first year we had um a pandemic or the third year so we just the data have been all over the place this year that was one of the reasons that the department of education even knowing that the majority of students for the majority of the year were not face to face in the united states they still wanted a baseline and so it was mandatory there weren't any waivers given to states to not take their state assessment and so we had we're going kids our students took peaks and we're going to see

054where they are so that we can begin to build that but the longevity over time is something that is essential one of the things that member holloman mentioned uh that because the map test is really trusted with our parents and our students and our teachers the state did look at um they did go out to an rfp to actually get the map assessment because they can be dynamic now and then they can throw in standards per grade level to give you a content as well as a growth you know um a criterion reference test as well as this growth and uh they haven't uh come around to that the panda again the pandemic being out of school the whole you know everything is just kind of crazy but i do know that the state board

055wants to look at that again and if we do have that we will have map data for years and years and years that we could really look at because uh they're going to place in the criterion reference by standards and with the growth to so that you can see how far can they go but yes they also know grade level so those are great questions and and um i think we we really aim for all students because i would i would it would be difficult to say well you know some some can't or some won't we really look uh for the instruction in the classroom to be robust so great questions did you have a follow-up yeah i do um and i appreciate the reference to phonics i remember going to some national leaders in

056that well recognized talking about the impact of phonics and kids that were in phonics were doing great in the country as a whole and those without were not and the difference was so radical that some states actually started a program to retrain teachers and i know that here they were really focused on hiring teachers with certain you know backgrounds and different colleges doing differently where are we at as far as the school district as a whole with phonics and is it variant by by schools by classrooms or is it adopted school district-wide yet or where are we at on that [Music] through the president to member higgins uh so about three years ago we did adopt reach for reading which is uh a book designed by um the national geographic so it's actually a lot

057of not um uh a lot of uh non-fiction embedded material which is highly engaging for kids you know when you're reading about bugs and motorcycles and everything sometimes they're not into fiction uh but it's very predictable text and so it does utilize uh phonics program so our all of our schools have uh phonemic awareness and phonics and the difference for those that don't know you if you think about phonemic awareness you can do it in the dark it's just about sounds and phonics is uh um reading the sounds putting letters with the sounds so um we do have that across the district uh we are struggling with the implementation we had it for a year uh you know through the the earthquake um there was quite a bit of pushback in utilizing uh standards-based reading

058material but we're we're building capacity building the understanding of the reasons why and um the research isn't that students can't learn but having phonics ensures that all students can grow a lot of students if you think about spelling or really in biology or something when they come to a multi-syllabic word uh having those strong base on phonics and phonemic awareness they can figure out words and origins much better so um we are working on that um the expectation is that it is taught uh we have what we call um non-negotiables or priorities but really the phonics part of that is about 15 10 to 15 minutes a day it's not a giant giant ask it's just a consistent asked that also if it's aligned as we matriculate grade the grade or school to school because

059we have so much mobility students won't lose ground if we adults organize ourselves collectively okay remember donnelly thank you madam president so to go back to january 2019 we had the report the survey that was conducted of the classrooms and and the embassy that the new phonics program was being implemented i think my memory of it was that less than 30 of the classrooms were fully utilizing the the new curriculum so what exactly have we done since then to try to get to [Music] implement implementation of the phonics program sure so it's not just a phonics program through the um president to member donnelly it's actually a full-scale reading program that has many different parts to it uh and again we have priority plans meaning these are the priority for the time that you have

060with children because again the the textbook and the program it's like at disneyland you can do a million different things a day and if you did them and take four hours and we don't have four hours so from that time that we shared uh that's some of the things that we're doing are walkthroughs to see and to audit are we using our programs we found out that we weren't shortly thereafter uh as we began to really implement some stronger uh work in that regard we had a pandemic and we went home we haven't been in very uh structured ability to be able to walk in the classrooms and work with our teachers we have however aligned on our canvas that teachers when they were teaching from home so that alignment really i think assisted teachers

061in understanding that aligned curriculum that we share there is value to it because some of it was just a value um you know we we heard in public testimony it was just a value of if i have to be aligned i'm taking away my freedom to teach and basically the alignment isn't um our freedom of like the art of what we do comes with that freedom but our learning standards and bringing kids to pace is what that alignment is about so now that we are back in schools we are using assessments as i just shared with you to know where we are uh with the research from columbia that lucy calkins shared that yes there actually needs to be a strong phonemic awareness phonics program not just balanced just and balanced literacy was looking um

062if you read a paragraph she really taught cueing where you would just so you know the difference like look at the pictures to try to figure out what the word is try to look at the other words to figure it out now the research about reading is teach children to sound out words it's about vocabulary that they they know and so you build vocabulary and teach how to understand the words very similar to how we all learn a foreign language um and so we are retooling with the board goals we're hoping to have the board support because at the time i will share as well remember donnelly the board wasn't supportive of the work of the reading at the time uh and so we look uh not only with the state level talking about statutory

063requirements in regard to good reading instruction the board's goal uh we are ready and set and teachers are equal eager to do well when teachers do well it's motivating to continue to to teach more and uh to work with each other so i look forward to to the good work ahead you may have a follow-up thank you madam president well that sounds like colombia is finally coming around this falling reading um i mean it's we've got it in five of our schools now it's tremendously successful i've been advocating that ever since i got on the board i was unaware that there was any board opposition to putting our adopted curriculum into effect with efficacy i thought we all i thought we were all supporting that because it's actually the board adopted curriculum so i'm surprised

064to hear that but we're you know we're only a year or two years away from a curriculum review i believe again with reading and i'm once again going to advocate for maximizing the utilization of spaulding reading i realize it takes teacher instruction and training to do that but if you look at the schools in our district that are using it they're tremendously successful with kids being reading in even in first grade or kindergarten so um i'm just once again advocating for a heavy phonics based uh curriculum hey any other first round questions okay uh remember lessons you had another question thank you madam president um i guess the question is what's the plan to change course what's the plan to change resource allocation to adjust to better support our teachers as they go forth and

065do the work what's next thank you through the president to member lessons that's a great question and uh some of the work around the research around quality high quality instruction classrooms is really to support teachers and understanding the value of it so we are going to continue and in fact member higgins mentioned other states actually requiring coursework i think part of the bill in which um senator begich partnered in last year and then moved to this year sb 111 and hb 164 really focuses on the support to teachers to understand the science of reading that presently is not strong in university but uaf uh is acknowledging the need uh in regard to preparing teachers for that teachers that um like myself my college education was about balanced literacy not understanding the value of science-based reading

066and so we are re-tooling internally we're continuing to work with our coaches to support teachers in understanding that we are going to continue to support strong instruction in the classroom and work with teachers uh to remember um donnelly's you know comments i uh was was called to test several times by board members in regard to we don't want principals in their classrooms looking at how they teach um we're using it in fact there were many grievances many board members um met with teachers and asked you know can they can can we not do this and and so it's just hard work i mean i just want everyone to know changing what we've learned from the beginning of how we learn to teach to something new is hard work just like changing during the pandemic but

067i believe in our teachers i believe in our administrators to do the work uh we're going to learn together and hold each other accountable for the work that needs to be done because the value to children is worth it so professional development support with tools utilizing and understanding data and progress monitoring and the progress monitoring for the really young children you can catch things very quickly and change your instruction so we can't let it go for three months and realize oh they didn't learn they weren't picking up what i needed so we utilize on a weekly basis and understanding and and truly we're just coming together as a team and aligning our system around the value that you have for reading in your reading goal [Music] okay very good discussion any other questions follow-ups at

068this time okay thank you dr bishop we are now at public testimony on our agenda [Music] the board welcomes public testimony we value public comment as it ensures that we remain aware of public thoughts ideas and concerns and informs our decision-making process there is a one-hour time slot at the beginning of the meeting testimony in excess of one hour will be heard at the end of the meeting or may be submitted in writing each person inform you that you can finish your sentence and with that [Music] first up telephonically we have danielle kemp hello yes we hear you mr camp you have three minutes all right well thank you to the board for this opportunity to speak this evening happy asian american pacific islander heritage month my name is danielle kemp i am a retired

069army combat officer teacher in the asd parent of two asd students co-chair of the anchorage education association human and civil rights committee chair of the naacp anchorage education committee and president and co-founder of the brand speaking new alaska coalition of bypoc educators tonight i am here to advocate for our indigenous brothers and sisters and call them for the repeal and replacement of the permissive subsection of board policy ar 5127 b graduation regalia but before i do i must send my congratulations over uh to our brand new board members on their victories and swearing in as well as our newly elected uh board president margot bellamy congratulations y'all i expect the very best uh from all of you and that you will work and live by your core values of potential high expectations accountability safety and

070responsiveness i believe you will do the right do right by our students and by our community and uh we will hold you accountable for all your actions and or interactions in 2019 the asd passed as uh board policy uh ar 5127 uh b graduation regalia according to this policy subsection school administrators and not native elders or native people themselves determine what is culturally appropriate for graduation the subsection even goes on to say that school district has unlimited quote discretion and authority to prohibit an item that is likely the cause of substantial disruption or material interference with the ceremony unquote this is a perfect example of how racism gets embedded within the institution itself as this policy gives school administrative personnel the ability to unlawfully discriminate against a student based on their race culture or ethnicity

071the asd's new anti-racism and structural equity policy can help navigate situations just like these the graduation regalia policy subsection itself is a perfect example of an inequitable policy and procedure as it limits the academic opportunity of alaska native graduates to graduate in their own culturally appropriate and chosen regalia this undignified subsection of the regalia policy must be repealed immediately we should not have to bargain for our right to exist either physically culturally or otherwise uh thank you very much for oh do i have 30 seconds left oh okay 30 seconds i thought that was the end um so if the district wants to do right by alaska natives then it must remove this cultural barrier together and allow zero restrictions on alaska native attire i thank you very much for your time and you all

072have a good night thank you mr kim next we have prairie doherty prairie are you on the line thank you welcome and you have three minutes prairie it's star six we lost you okay i'm unmuted okay there you go we can hear you now okay hello my name is prairie dougherty and i have been navigating the educational lives of my five children for the last 20 years i have a bachelor's degree in education from the college of idaho and my children have attended schools in florida utah and pennsylvania tonight i am happy to give comment and testimony as to why eagle academy charter school should be allowed to expand their charter to include 7th and 8th grades and why this is so important to me and my family i would love to see all of

073asd learn from model and implement the amazing practices of eagle academy charter school and be able to achieve the incredible outcomes eagle academy has achieved as a national blue ribbon school i can't believe what a difference i've seen in my two younger boys only in this one year since they started at eagle academy and now that i've seen and felt the difference i want to know why every child in asd doesn't get the same incredible kind of education every child deserves to learn their foundational language arts and math skills as well and as thoroughly as my sons are learning and mastering them at eagle academy i've heard you spend just over an hour tonight discussing how to help the elementary kids improve their literacy and math proficiency the spalding language arts and sacs and math

074program has worked wonders and remediating the educational sales my two youngest have suffered from their last four and six years in asd the difference i've witnessed in their ability to spell and think and write on their own is astounding and eagle academy has managed to do to do this for my boys during and even despite the most unusual academic year of in their lifetime after seeing my three oldest children move into the asd middle and high school i've often thought how disappointing that after years of volunteering and investing to give them the best possible elementary education i could give them that so much of it got lost or undermined when they seemingly were thrown to the wolves in middle school i have two older children who've been through greeny middle school and a short time

075at mirror lake and the situations there are not ideal at all my sixth grader testifies well she's now a ninth grader but that she worked way harder in sixth grader in her sixth grade year at elementary than she did in seventh grade where she was even in the honors program if i had had another better option for my younger boys or that if i would have another better option for my younger boys for their middle school i would totally take advantage of it and i know so many other moms who would too whose kids don't even go to eagle academy who are better who are desperate for a better middle school option it would be so welcome to have the eagle academy model as an option for middle school i would love to see the

076values virtus via virtues and high standard qualities that eagle academy has given my kids in just this one year carried through to their middle school years where they until they've become more established and knowing who they are so they can be their very best for high school and beyond please consider allowing eagle academy to expand their charter to include 7th and 8th grade it would be welcome your time is up thank you next we have amaya yajiak i apologize uh if that is not your last name amaya are you ready yes i am it's amaya i o jack i attack thank you yeah good evening doctor bishop and school board members my name is amaya jack i am speaking to you tonight on behalf of my fifth grade class at eagle academy charter school my

077classmates and i are very excited about the possibility of staying at eagle academy for 7th and 8th grade during our class discussion on topics several students mentioned how much easier and less stressful life would be if there could attend middle school in a smaller environment with friends and classmates that bond with over time eagle academy making friends and finding your place is always going to be a part of of the social aspect of school being able to stay at your academy for 7th and 8th grade will allow us not to worry about the social aspect as much during our early teen years another major positive many students agreed on was that we would still be able to level for language arts and math many students enjoy the challenge of being able to level up for

078language arts and or math and know that option won't be able available at other middle schools in our area most of all we enjoy our close knit class with 26 students in our grade levels we all get to know each other and we grow together and work together the friendship we've created with each other and bonds that we have with our teachers have shaped us into students and people that we are today and would be appreciative of the opportunity to continue that moving forward into our middle school years thank you so much for listening and have a great evening thank you amaya you did great thank you paige sailor it's next sailor paige sailor page man i'm here fair thank you you have three minutes good evening dr bishop and school board members my name

079is paige saylor i serve on the academic policy board for eagle academy charter school however tonight i would like to speak to you this evening as a parent of an eagle academy fifth grader excuse me on the hopeful possibility of adding seventh and eighth grade to our school we are a recently retired military family but while on active duty my children spent their younger years moving around quite a bit they would tell you that their least favorite thing about moving was having to make new friends while learning their way around a new school as a parent i've always put small schools at the top of my priority list when researching a new location i have learned that what's best for my kids is a smaller learning environment where their teachers and classmates can not only

080grow together educationally but also build character and camaraderie another item that is top of my priority list is curriculum i have been lucky enough in all of our moves to find schools that teach saxon math as a former high school math teacher this is by far my favorite curriculum for younger students and i have sought out schools that teach it when we have moved states its repetition-based instruction truly gives kids that solid math foundation to succeed later on in high school my 15 year old used stackson from kindergarten through sixth grade in three different schools he is currently a sophomore in high school has finished pre-calculus and ap statistics with straight a's and is set for ap calculus as a junior my fifth grader has also used saxon but in two different schools since kindergarten

081her love of math grows every day as she continually gains the confidence saxon provides by the design of its curriculum lastly part of the seventh and eighth grade proposal is to include two years of a foreign language having a foreign language is part of their daily curriculum for two consecutive years is a wonderful opportunity to further advance and prepare our kids as they move into their high school years a k-8 school with a small class size and proven excellent curriculum would be an amazing addition to the eagle river community asd prides itself on being a diverse school district with many school choices and varying options thank you so much for considering the addition of the 7th and 8th grade expansion to eagle academy charter school so we can continue to make asd proud thank you

082thank you paige and next we have dr paula williams dr williams are you on the line good evening hello welcome yes we have you we hear you you have three minutes thank you a good evening i am dr paula williams a proud member of alaska black caucus and one of the co-chairs of our education committee i am testifying in support of the recruitment and retention of teachers of color asb i believe that as the success of the last school board meeting that you are more aware now than ever of how vital recruiting and retaining teachers of color is to our students academic outcomes especially for our bypass students statistics show that having at least one teacher of color boosters overall academic performances improves reading and math test scores as well as improved graduation rates for

083our students when students see educators that look like them it gives them the confidence to know that they too can become educators as well as reach any goal they set out to accomplish and it's time to purposely establish initiatives to recruit teachers of color and provide them with structured support asd can retain teachers of color by positively acting on their input teachers need to know that their concerns have not fallen on deaf ears pay them better salaries request their feedback regarding school programs and policies and don't just say but show them that they are valued and respected create welcoming cultural inclusive learning environments and provide them with gift card incentives to show appreciation for their service to asd and the student population i want to thank you all for your time and i want to

084say congratulations to the incoming our new board members and congratulations president margot bellamy thank you dr williams next in person we have a daryl mitchell [Music] first and foremost i'd like to congratulate the board members i'm sure that you are more than happy to be in the position you are and thank you for your service and that time to allow me and others to speak i wrote something tonight but i thought i would go off the cups this evening [Music] and talk about a little bit about myself i'm ever since i can remember i've been a highly sensitive individual and my sensitivity is geared towards mostly human behavior that's got to a point where i know how to manage myself without getting into much trouble with others and i know the things to do and

085not to do to trigger people um with that being said uh with this sensitivity i i sense that there's a profound problem um on a global scale i'm always think about in a general state that there seems to be catastrophic problem that we're dealing with and even before copper 19 these these these issues were always arising and uh i i questioned um exactly uh the the the process of education and how we're educating our kids now i understand the use of language and mathematics and and how important these things are in our our daily life but i always get the sense that there's something deeply and profoundly missing from our education as a whole planet um i have little nieces and nephews i was actually born and uncle and what i see from them even

086though they are being educated is this uh profound sense of fear and insecurity and frustration and even violence and none of these things are being educated in any curriculum that i've ever seen maybe on a college level but it's a college course it's not something that's demanded of you um and i also get the sense that as i speak to other people whether it be online or face to face it doesn't i get i get the sense that we're not meeting facts like if i was to say that human beings are violent whenever if i were to say that you are violent uh we're not we're not meeting that reality it's almost it's like we have a disposition in front of that and these are the things that we're not learning in school uh and

087i can say this for myself as an adult male who has been educated in america that i never even considered the fact that i i'm violent and that i'm afraid and i have this deep embedded insecurity in me and to look at it and i feel like that that's a part of education probably the most profound part of education how can i learn uh about facts of reality if i'm hiding in fear and completely unaware of it so with all that being said i would like to for you all to consider to find a part of education that dies into deep into our our mental state as human beings thank you thank you so that concludes our public testimony did anyone do we have anybody else sign up okay [Music] if there's anyone else in

088the room that would like to testify you may come forward now okay see no one we will move on to our superintendent update thank you madam president i have just a a few brief uh updates and the first one i'm delighted uh for you to meet someone our hiring season is upon us and uh we've had some of our school leaders move retire change positions and we are going to begin to introduce you to our new principles uh today and next week we're going to focus on secondary and then after that we have two more elementary to hire and then we will bring uh our slate if you will of elementary principles so without further ado i'd like uh mr alan wardlow to please come forward um and he is here with his family uh

089alan was selected as the new principal of service high school alan please introduce yourself and share some thoughts if you'd like good evening madam president good evening members of the board my name is alan wartlaw i am from baltimore maryland and i am just honored and wow amazed to be sitting here in front of you today as the soon-to-be service high school principal for the 2021-2022 school year i came to alaska with my wife and we set out here really to try something new for our family we moved to juneau alaska in 2010 [Music] we spent four years out in juneau and it was a great time with my wife and i but it was difficult for me to break into education i transitioned to two other lock off the cluster queen river i taught

090there for a year and while i was there i had a conversation with principal williams of clark middle school and she encouraged me to try to come to anchorage and join the asd family and that was the best decision i've ever made in my life i really would not be here without the grace of god the love of my family and the support of mrs williams and that opportunity to join clark middle school and be a part of clark middle school family and while there while in asd it just was an opportunity to grow and reconnect with education and reconnect with my passion of uplifting students supporting families and being a part of a community of educators that are here for children so in that time at clark middle school i was able to just

091feel at home and learn a lot about this district about myself and about our community and our children so when the opportunity arise to apply to service high school i was nervous and uh you know my wife will tell you i did not i did not feel confident about that but her support you're here today my daughter i looked at those guys and i said you know i'm gonna do this for you all [Music] and we can change the trajectory of our family and so you know now i'm here in a world where my daughter will see me be a school leader and that is more than i ever ever dreamed of in my life so for service i want to first to say go cougars and i know we have a long road ahead

092of us to connect and engage with our students and our families after being away from school for so long but it's a challenge that i readily accept and i look forward to supporting the service high school community the huffman community my community where i live where i raise my family for years to come so with that thank you for letting me sit here in front of you today and i look forward to seeing you all mr wardlaw i would like to make one uh correction and you did share um i'm just hoping that one of the best decisions uh falls after those two ladies out there right yeah that decision to come here is definitely after those two ladies behind you you know and honestly i wouldn't have them if i didn't come here to

093anchorage honestly it's been it's been wonderful and thank you for your support i appreciate it you're going to do well thank you thank you all right congratulations thank you madam president thank you uh next update is uh something that emily shared a little bit we are having graduations they are on track i did want to let you know that with the emergency order 20 we were able to at least give five tickets if not more to families depending on the size of the graduation the size of the field that the graduations are going to occur on i did want to notify the board that east high school did move to diamond high so that they can offer seven tickets to each of their families we're delighted for that and just worked with the community at

094each school to be sure to meet that need our first graduation uh which is always on the docket it's my most exciting one it gets us kicked off as has always been whaley and so on wednesday we start with whaley graduation in regards to a sports update with the emergency order we have also moved to because of outdoors and the science behind uh the virus spreading in an outdoor area it does have more air flow that students do not need to when they're practicing and competing wear masks outdoors uh only at the times that they're perhaps on the sidelines or in the dugout when they would be close to each other standing still or being in a little dugout box so that's really positive news for our students who participate in sports outdoors in addition

095our finalization of our indoor sports of wrestling and hockey dr johnson notified me that we're also increasing our guests at those for the last week to have especially for our seniors have more guests come watch their games and my final update and this was kind of apropos to one of the comments i wanted to share a progress on uh a program that really is a collective of quite a few different departments here in asd uh it's called um [Music] lit no now ak it's called tjk and i'm trying to really learn and use that yupik word well but it's called um uh a you big speaker told me it's like even though i'm not a you big speaker like lit now lit now ak uh which is tjk and it is working through a collaboration

096with our cte and secondary schools to get students interested who want to teach utilize the process of the middle college for the general education requirements or an associates is what uaa is uh asking for and wants to partner uh and we're soon uh we're articulating that uh we're want to utilize their two plus two program with uaf which will support special education uaa has a early childhood as well as an elementary education and ell certificates for teachers this is a partnership around the state so other school districts can work with lower yukon to be [Music] partners with them at their longhouse or kusabic academy utilize the middle college for the first two years and we have started uh really with discussions on building capacity to have the third and fourth year paid for totally for

097students who want to participate so we're working on that development and have quite a bit of funds already ready to deposit into a foundation to pay for students and the students basically payback would be after they graduate that they go back and work for the district that helps sponsor them so this is uh the program again it is um asd along with lower yukon in conjunction with uaa and uaf and quite a few native corpse that we've talked to as well as the state of alaska grant for teachers and before we went too far down i just wanted to share that it is coming to fruition and we hope through our work at bartlett high in king tech that we diversify our teaching pool candidate pool for teachers for which to uh come and work

098for us or anywhere around alaska and so with that we will continue the outreach but wanted to show this is absolutely draft form but we are um really negotiating the memorandums of understanding at this time about the work and the payments and and all that so i wanted to share a really exciting project is underway so if you hear about tjk or lit now ak um we are quite proud of that uh and it uh again will be statewide uh through kuselback we of course do not want to get in the housing business no boarding for us so i just wanted to share that update thank you madam president that concludes my report all right thank you are there any questions for dr bishop on her update see none oh remember donnelly well i guess

099i'd first start with a point of order because i had a question about the eagle academy uh non-action item but since it wasn't brought up by the superintendent two meetings ago there was a point of order that we're not allowed to ask questions that were raised by the superintendent so are we going to continue with that policy or change that policy can you tell me what your concern is again now because uh i think that two meetings ago i attempted to ask a question as superintendent and it was ruled in inappropriate and out of order because it wasn't part of the content of her report and i would like to ask a question tonight about eagle academy it's it's non-action item on our agenda but it wasn't an item in her report so under the

100prior ruling of the chair it'd be inappropriate for me to ask that question i'm asking are we going to continue that policy or are we not well first of all there was a different chair from my perspective i think what we should do is i think my the way that i would like to handle it as chair i would like for the first round of questions or follow-ups and a follow-up to be on the the update and if you will recall i asked if there were any other questions so i would like to split that up so that we first for so that we're not confused we first discuss the report and then you may talk about whatever you like thank you and and you can also pull it when we get to that if

101you for the eagle academy one um so uh at this point though i will allow you to ask a question mr donnelly about eagle academy if you choose to do it now thank you ma'am um i was reviewing the materials here in the in the non-action item materials i didn't see a recommendation from the administration is there a recommendation for the administration through the chair to remember donald that's a great question and just as a backdrop the recommendations that we placed in the prior requests for charter schools to increase really were for time certain next year so that impacted the budget that's why we shared it we do have a recommendation i see that this is a very timely request looking not at next year the budget year that we already had but the year

102after that the board has plenty of um the board and administration has plenty of time to plan around the growth and so the administration's recommendation would be that we would support that growth thank you any other follow-up questions on anything [Music] all right not seeing any we are now at our consent agenda vice president president holloman uh yes i moved to approve the consent agenda is listed which is memorandum 115 the personnel report is there second second all right all right it's been um moved in second that we accept the memorandum 115. call for a vote katie when you're ready [Music] so on online voting [Music] yes we'll do emily first [Music] yes board members please proceed to vote you should have it should have come up on your screen on your computer okay dave

103has he's a he's a yes i need to get to me [Music] yes [Music] and that motion passes seven [Music] yays okay thank you now we're on to action items [Music] we have one person signed up [Music] okay [Music] we are now at our action items an action item memo is first introduced by the vice president and if second by another board member i will open the floor for public testimony each person will have three minutes to testify when 30 seconds remain a chime will ring to inform you so that you can finish your sentence after all testimony closes i will open the floor for board discussion before finally calling for the official vote the voting results will be displayed on the screen okay [Music] not impressive to approve asp memorandum number 112 and authorize

104the superintendent to award a contract for the aquarian charter school roof upgrade project to wolverine supply incorporated for a total award amount of 1 million 592 dollars one million five hundred ninety two eight hundred and eighty seven dollars there a second second okay it's been moved in second are there any discussion andy i mean remember holland i'll just say briefly uh this one's a little more significant but i think some of our ordinary contract improvements there was an awful lot of discussion around the including aquarium uh aquarium charter school roof upgrade i personally having spent some time in the building i think that the demonstrates asd getting every last dollar out of the facility that it can't um this is something a lot of people would have torn down but it's a marvelous school it's

105a marvelous environment and uh at the time when the engineer reports it said taken care of that can go on into the future for a long ways it's it's great to see this finally happen and help make it a a dry and safe environment like it should be see no further discussion please vote emily [Music] yes [Music] okay [Music] okay all right and that motion passes seven years right next move to approve asb memorandum number 120 the in the attached letter in response to the recent violence and acts of hate against asian american pacific islanders okay there's it's been moved in second uh we have one person signed up in person to testify and that's mike grunst okay mr grumpster is not here is there any discussion on the motion yes i was just going

106to say at times it has been called into question about us taking positions on um topical issues you know we've seen something happen and change in this country i i think it is important that we speak out i fully support this especially as leaders of a workforce of thousands of people and tens of thousands of students we need to make it clear that this kind of thing won't be tolerated within the ancient school district [Music] thank you member holloman any other comments [Music] well i had a bunch of things written down in this fancy system that seemed to have gone poof in the note taking but that's okay um all worth it i think one thing that's important that i and maybe i need to make a motion to amend is that i would like

107to see the work of education be be a part of this i would like to see a commitment to accurate and representative curricular materials because i think those are fundamental to the job that the district does and to preventing dismantling um hatred and ignorance and a propensity to violence and so that work of education is critical [Music] so the process is you could offer uh you could offer amendments um what i would are there any other comments before i speak to the the statement this is a statement not a policy okay and so the statement is the intent of the statement is to prove is to uh reassure our asian american and pacific islander families that we understand and that we are here and that our schools are safe um so i think what you're

108asking for might not be appropriate in this email i mean email but in this statement uh but i absolutely hear what you're saying and uh uh the governance committee is where you would uh start that process thank you madam president mr higgins and then did i see you mr donnelly yes okay i'll just uh make it real brief i totally support this of course uh and that's not a problem i did hear complaints that some people that when they raise concerns of bullying or other issues it's not always uh moved up or acted upon other issues and i like the language in here that we report these things i don't know what students or parents do when they don't feel like it's being uh if it's not being addressed in their school what should i

109tell them what should they be told as to how to raise their concern if they don't feel like it's being handled adequately because that's a critical component to ensuring that their kids are treated appropriately and that inappropriate conduct which this thing is trying to address unacceptable conduct is addressed and so i don't know what parents should be told or what or where to go from that when they feel like it's not being addressed there but i think that's something to be at least commented on thank you and i uh let ask dr bishop if she would thank you madam president uh two member um higgins uh if it's in a classroom or recess if it's you know younger children or at lunch we request that they tell an adult and generally they're in classes next

110with a teacher a counselor if they feel as though action isn't taken or something continues behavior inappropriate behavior continues our conflict continues then they work with school leadership if parents work with school leadership and that isn't resolved certainly they move to the next level and if here the supervisors of schools if there isn't satisfaction then there is a complaint process that is addressed uh investigated and addressed and can be appealed member donnelly thank you madam president um i would move to amend um by in paragraph four line one replace the word equity with equality [Music] is there a second hearing no second that motion fails yes remember dominique thank you madam president well since that amendment failed madam president um the term equality is very controversial in our community um i mean the term equity

111is very controversial as we just went through a major debate about that and because it is so controversial and can be interpreted in so many ways i think it would be much more appropriate rather than the first sentence of this paragraph four saying that that must be shared by all people in our community that goes beyond what this board's opinion is or what the school district does it seems to be an imposition of thought upon the members of the community to agree with the folks that believe that equity is superior to equality and i don't think that's appropriate for this board to be telling people how to think it's perfectly appropriate if it was limited to us expressing how we feel or how the school district feels but i don't think it's appropriate to tell

112the community that we they must share our opinion and it currently reads our district's commitment to diversity equity inclusion must be shared by all in our community i've never in my 21 years of elected office i've never seen a resolution that imposed thought upon the community of a controversial subject and so i would move to amend in paragraph four line one the word by and replace it with with so that the resolution would if the amendment passed would read our district's commitment to diversity equity and inclusion must be shared with all in our community is there a second second information point of information yes to the to the maker of the motion i would take community in this case to mean the anchorage school district community and i think mr donnelly's suggesting it actually means

113the anchorage community but i don't know what the original intent was i i can speak to the original content it was the anchorage school district community that's the only community that we can have influence over in our actions and our response well i would agree with that i think the amendment would still be appropriate to clarify that and if it doesn't pass i would then i would offer something that clarifies it's the school district community instead of our community okay so right now we have what we have we have uh an amendment and a second to change the word by and replace it with with any other discussion shall we vote emily oh hold on remember lessons [Music] okay we're ready to vote okay emily uh [Music] is it clear what we're voting on everybody

114okay yes [Music] um okay that amendment passes four years to three nays okay did you have another motion mr donnelly yes i have one more amendment okay okay [Music] um [Music] so will you read your amendment mr dolly and see if we get a second um thank you madam president um the um the amendment deals with the contradiction of having books on our website that advocate racial discrimination against asian americans and others with the obviously really well intentioned of this [Music] so it would add at the end of the statement that any publications that advocate racial discrimination against asian americans or any other americans should not be listed as resources or recommended reading on the asd websites is there a second not here in a second that motion fails so we are back to voting

115on does anyone else have any amendments okay so we are now back to the main motion as amended thank you katie any discussion let's vote okay if nobody else i wanted to make sure everybody else got the talks no just raise your hand now okay thanks i'll stay with you so i do remain concerned that this is a really good statement but of the dichotomy between this statement and the listing on our website of critical race theory advocates that did specifically call for discrimination based on race which is very frequently targeted against asian americans dr kendy whose multiple books are listed there in his book how to be an anti-racist states on page 16 the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination the only remedy to pass discrimination is present discrimination the only remedy

116to discrimination is future discrimination and we all know that asian americans have been the target of that discrimination both in college and missions and recently in oregon on washington the elimination of academic testing because asians americans were outperforming the norm remember darling you are now speaking to your motion and it failed yeah i'm speaking to the main motion adam chair am i concerned with the main motion so i wish we would have been consistent in this main motion and not allow books that call for discrimination against asian americans to be on our website and i think that's really regrettable that we haven't chosen to be consistent with that and uh are there any other comments before i make my comment am i allowed oh i'm sorry sure you won am i allowed to share a

117comment from a professional society about anti-asian discrimination and hatred may read something in support of this memory in them do they speak to add a little bit of this context okay so the american historical association is the leading scholarly uh gathering place for um academics within the united states who study history and uh earlier uh well just a few days ago at the end of april they released a statement that explained that the racialized misogyny explicit in the atlantic killings is the product of generations-long stereotyping and cultural denigration against asian-american women in particular a study conducted by the center for the study of hate and extremism at california state university san bernardino has concluded that hate crimes in the united states declined overall by 7 in 2020 compared to 2019 at the same time such

118crimes against asian americans and pacific islanders increased 150 percent for months high-level federal officials in the united states referred to kobit 19 as quote the china virus and quote the kung flu the spaceless and irresponsible scapegoating evokes the assaults in san francisco 121 years ago when members of the chinese community were blamed for an outbreak of an epidemic their property seized and homes destroyed indeed the spurious association of the asian american and pacific islander community with cobia 19 is another example of americans blaming their fellow americans for larger social ills the murder in a land have eight people on march 16th including six women of asian descent suggests we have not transcended this history i just wanted to share this professional statement because i believe that it echoes and underscores the work that this memorandum

119is trying to do here in anchorage thank you member lessons uh member holloman i'd like to also comment but i think there are times when we take words literally that are being used in a much more nuanced way um i i don't think it's a fair statement to say that universities are discriminating against asian americans there's there's no purge of asian americans there's no uh desire effort to keep them off campus or other things like that but there is a desire to balance the membership of the student population and we've been working on that for a long time um ever since we started letting women go to college and black people and any number of other groups we have universities have controlled their populations in order to try to achieve a balance as a way

120to get to equality and and i think it goes back to that sort of being in the gang between equity and equality um i i personally don't need equity as as an elder white man um but there are other groups of people that do because they have been systematically denied for a long time it it is ironic when we have an emerging group that's able to capture a disproportionate share based strictly on merit it's also interesting when when after decades of discrimination suddenly we're all about merit and and no discrimination at all i and and i also say i think this gets a little bit sideways with what we're really talking about which is attacks and violence and and uh really direct harm so i don't see a conflict between books that may discuss this

121academically they're not they're not promoting racism they're not promoting [Music] disenfranchising a group of people they are talking about achieving a state where eventually equality could just be the way we go and there there wouldn't be any weird outcome from it that's so lopsided so i i will i think the emotion is written well as it is and will support it [Music] okay would anyone else like to speak yes i just briefly wanted to speak in support of the statement i really believe that it [Music] what we want to do is speak in support of our students our staff of asian american and pacific island descent and and for me it's that simple we are we are stating that we support them and that we stand behind them and that we um don't tolerate the

122just any discrimination or racism towards them and their families for me it is that simple so i do speak in support of it okay thank you member wilson uh and let me make sure remember dolly everybody gets the chance anybody else like to speak i would like to make a comment um in in fact i don't think i want to make the comment i think i i think i i don't think i want to make the comment go on mr donby um thank you madam president the chinese american citizens alliance which was founded in 1895 one of the oldest advocates advocacy groups for chinese americans and and fairness to employees nationwide discrimination and violence against chinese americans recently the the new york chapter came out with a very strong vigorous objection to critical race theory

123calling it a hateful divisive manipulative fraud madam president point of order state your point uh mr member board member donnelly is speaking to critical race theory which to the best of my uh knowledge doesn't appear in this document and so i would ask that we put this to another time thank you and with that i'm going to call for the vote after emily has her say [Music] i wanted to sort of echo what was previously said i am an asian-american woman who's living here and i think that the basis of this is truly just showing your support and i think that for the time being with this motion that's all you that's all you need to do and that's all that should be done and is hopefully being done so i guess i'll segue towards

124as from the student voice i would say yes to this thank you i'm going to call for the vote you are voting on the statement as amended memorandum 120 as amended emily yes members please vote and that motion passes unanimously seven years okay where are we we have one more a move to approve asp memorandum number 122 and pass revision the board policy 9320 [Music] their second [Music] it's been moved in second uh that that we approve memorandum 122 discussion i see carl uh remember jacobs thank you madam president uh my understanding is that uh the effective date retroactive to january 1 2020 is part of the uh amendment to this policy uh the the portion of the bio interactive effective date is there a second a second okay i don't look at this pattern

125if you don't put it on all right discussion would you speak to your amendment please thank you mr president uh i uh appreciate uh the revision uh to the bylaws and uh wholeheartedly support i think that it is important that we allow for uh safe interactions uh during a pandemic um i do think it it isn't uh in our best interest to retroactively impose this uh and as the board has uh adjourned at this point and i think we should look to move forward and it's just a best practice i think and something that i would support uh if we were not retroactively modifying it thank you [Music] okay anybody else would you speak to the i amendment see all right seeing no one [Music] um yes thank you madam president um when kovid first

126hit we were instructed that we couldn't attend meetings we were instructed that under the existing guidelines from the city emergency declaration we weren't going to have in-person meetings at all this recognizes that that was a governmental instruction to this board not to have those meetings um some people have said that well obviously you were under a mandate not to do it so the policy didn't apply and all this does is clarify that the policy didn't apply while we were under legal order not to be in person at those meetings so the eliminating retroactivity would eliminate a lot of the reason for for for doing it because of the some of the misstatements about the board should have been here in person for every one of those meetings because we legally weren't able to under the

127emergency order so i think it's completely appropriate to cover that time i was told multiple times that the government's committee was already working on this and going to take care of it they didn't do so and that's why it came forward now [Music] so the motion before you us at right now um is to remove the retroactivity from the main promotion yes mr higgins well guess i'm gonna support the change because that school board made a decision whether it was in your opinion or appropriately or not and i i understand that but i'm not going to go track and try to secure guess what a boy did or what they didn't do before we get on the board that's my concern here there were issues here to be addressed i sat next to a school

128board member with terminal illness that that was you know on the board and had attendance questions and i've had other board members of the for personal reasons had issues but we didn't go retro to anything we didn't adjust it looking at the whole policy makes a lot of sense but i just don't see going back and saying that this applies to when another board sat here and could have made changes and chose not to the board had the ability not to enforce any of those regulations they choose not to i think that's appropriate they recognize that that that this didn't apply and they made uh appropriately they haven't taken any action so i just think it's going retro is a it's a it's a dangerous presence and i've never seen that before and i would

129rather deal only with things going forward thank you any other comments [Music] i called a vote all right did you have a question just the point of clarification so what we were voting on is just it's just removed striking the retro active date from the policy thank you you are voting to either to strike or not the retroactive date from the main call the the main uh motion so voting yes would be in support of striking a vote of yes would be you want to strike okay thank you yes it's okay we're learning all right emily yes [Music] everybody else vote everybody voted okay [Music] and that passes uh six years one day all right we are now at the main uh having taken out that piece uh [Music] we are now back to the

130um [Music] original as amended yes any discussion call the vote emily [Music] yes okay and that motion passes unanimously thank you and that brings us to non-action items does anyone uh would anyone like to pull something to have a conversation on tonight okay i mean remember higgins know i resemble the remote but it sounds so old uh i i want to i got a question in regards to number one uh and number four rule poll number one and number four anyone else i'd like to pull number five if that means that we're going to talk about it yep great one four and five [Music] okay all right mr higgins you pulled number one yeah i uh thank you i appreciate that i looked at the at this particular one and i found it kind of

131interesting it was professional services they gave it about evaluation criteria to look at various uh of the proposals and you know includes project approach methods management firms experience proposed staff and workflow and resources i've never seen it before where it gives no mention to cost as a factor that's looked at from a reasonableness standpoint could you think before you make the selection you kind of want to know what the cost is or some factor in there that just it doesn't read that way and it might be misreading it but it seems kind of unusual to me that if you're going to go out with an ofp that you don't put something from a financial standpoint in there from the public interest standpoint so that's confusing to me [Music] thank you madam president uh i would

132like to request uh jim anderson and dave whiting to respond in regard to that question uh yes thank you superintendent bishop through the board president to member higgins you are correct for a e which is architectural engineering design services solicitations it is illegal for asd to use cost as a evaluation criteria as it would conflict with the federal brooks act so what we so we are unable to do that we use technical evaluation criteria to establish the highest scoring offer to then negotiate for an equitable cost with yeah does that answer your question remember higgins i guess i should cut it on it sound better on you but i'll try it uh i i guess that's interesting information i wasn't aware of that and so the cost is then discussed afterwards or is it you

133know how is the cost determined after this election [Music] uh thank you for the question uh through the board president to member higgins how it works is we establish a highest scoring offer at that point we issue an intent to negotiate we enter into negotiations regarding the cost and that negotiations is based on the profile of the project meaning the complexity of it that multiple disciplines within the construction activities of the subsequent project the complexity of how many subcontractors there are and based on that we enter into that we conduct those negotiations and we we have a metric that we measure those costs based on construction cost so if i think where you're getting to if the highest scoring offer is trying to overcharge us for those costs per the metric we would then discard

134that offer and move to the next highest scoring offer to negotiate a fair and equitable agreement any other questions on uh memorandum 107. okay let's move on um remember higgins you also pull four that better again i'm sorry i'll get used to this after a bit um my question on number four is that the the contracts that are reported does that include all contracts that were expanded by that amount during the quarter so if there was you know if we added a hundred thousand to five hundred thousand and does it cover all types of contracts that are let down that period whether it's professional services whether it's uh you name it whatever types of uh acquisitions we make does it cover all all uh contracts during that period containing one in 500. uh [Music] i'm

135sorry dr bishop thank you madam president um i would uh request jim anderson and dave whiting to uh answer the question again uh the new question [Music] thank you dr bishop through the board president to mr higgins this particular report is contracts awarded through competitive solicitations that are awarded uh in the range of 100 000 to five hundred thousand and it would be uh any type of competitively awarded contracts okay so as a follow-up let me just ask is there a report at some point of non-competitively bids that we get on a regular basis uh yes sir there are in board policy uh under section board policy 3312 ar321 it provides all of the annual reporting and quarterly reporting for the board so it describes all of those categories yes thank you okay any other

136questions on item four all right moving on miss member lessons number five great thank you so much um i've been thinking about this for a number of days and i appreciated the testimony this evening that we listened to um one of the questions that's really well i have a couple of questions one of them is is it true there are only 11 6th grade students at that school right now that's what the data dashboard suggested and that's not a whole lot of google accounts at eagle academy charter school yes that was just uh thank you surprise through the president to remember lessons i can request the principle she's here to come forward but i believe so it's a pandemic year so some students it's a question of just being covered and those students have elected

137to stay home okay but the other question was what and we received a number of documents um attached to this memorandum what is the effect of funding for the expanded k-8 program detracting taking away funding from other area middle schools how will that affect people-teacher ratios through the president two member lessons uh this gives us an opportunity to look uh their class sizes we can assume that the matriculation of students uh whatever that class size is so we heard from i believe the fifth graders that this would come into effect when they're in seventh grade so it's not the sixth graders this year um depending on the number of students that stayed that would be about one teacher uh but um not necessarily uh removed from a school uh they would just continue so depending

138on what school's two students would have chosen to go to uh it might have been spread across four different schools and so then you would look at just student council in those schools so it isn't a one for one we offer such diverse choices that uh our budgets reflect uh student choice and parent choice and then um staffing is uh given by ptr accordingly so it really would uh if the members that are in fifth grade now come from different schools across anchorage and they would be going to different middle schools the effect might be zero because they'd be so small if they all say we're at one the effect would be one so it's just determined by that pupil teacher ratio and where they would have gone that's a great question but uh generally

139what we've done is just funded where students land and teachers follow students but because it's a charter school we don't have a set we would have to review where all the fifth graders presently where their draw area is and or would they have gone to another alternative school in essence uh so we we just don't have all the data to be able to determine that but in effect it would just be the the btr but you would have to know where they would have gone may follow up so um thank you so much um so this would not expand the district's budget it would be a reallocation of existing funds that follow the student essentially through the president remember lessons uh that's absolutely correct unless perhaps this school attracted uh the same amount of students

140from outside to come back in so if they attracted their matriculating and starting another class of 24 if by chance their school attracted 24 more students from out of the district it would be a zero sum so it really depends on from once they've come and where they would go but generally if no additional students are added it would just rearrange where the funding is [Music] good okay any other questions item five remember remember wilson i i'm not familiar with eagle academy charter is this a school where students could choose to start in middle school there in seventh grade or do they have to go through the entire program um through the president um to member wilson i do know that presently outside of seventh and eighth they may start at a later date we

141have quite a bit of interest the curriculum it does take a little bit of time to catch up but students are successful with a good start they can understand the new curriculum so they have it isn't like an immersion where the the second language is a huge part of it but they do accept students and upper grades independently of starting their from kindergarten [Music] all right any other comments all righty yes remember donnelly yeah it's um one of the top five performing reading schools one of the top five performing if not the top performing math school because i think for the large large part because they use saxon math which i had advocated for before we adopted the current curriculum the really ironic thing is that we've got eagle academy and northern lights abc and

142three other schools i think using saxon math but the district didn't feel it was appropriate to even have a pilot program to examine it when we adopted the new math common core math curriculum so we have a real proven winner there and uh i think it totally deserves support i think nationally the k-8 model is is gaining tremendous support and there are other districts that are transforming over to more universal k through 8. thank you mr donnelly dr bishop yes thank you madam president and k-8 schools are gaining uh interest across the country i would like to share and we shared with member donnelly that um the publishing company is no longer publishing saxon uh and so that we did do our due diligence and understanding uh the supply demand i i know that the

143schools uh that presently teach it have gone out and tried to buy everything that's out there but for such a large district as we are the publisher is no longer uh publishing sex and math and i for disclosure was a principal who taught with sex and math and i loved it as well thank you okay member of higgins uh just a clarification the non-action items i realize the number of these is providing information number five it seems to be a little bit more it's an expansion of the charter school is this is this something that comes back to the board for approval and this is just information at this point this information at this point we'll vote it'll come back next year we will come back yeah i think it will anybody else wish to

144speak before hold on mr donny i see okay remember donnelly thank you madam president uh madam super tenant i've been in contact with max saxon distributors and some of the leading uh proponents of saxon they guarantee me that if we wanted to go with sex and we could get access to those textbooks they are not discontinuing the home versions of it so they are fully available to the district if we ever did chose to go with sex and math any other comments on the memorandum all right see none we are now at public testimony um i i don't have anyone signed up anybody present who'd like to testify [Music] right we are now at our uh board administ school board comments and administration comments any comments from the board final thoughts yes thank you madam

145president i'd serve notice a reconsideration on memo 115. you would like a reconsideration [Music] is there a second where is 115. point of order doesn't require a second oh the personnel report yeah it does not require a second well maybe i got my memos wrong here let me double check the personnel report i'm sorry you are correct it was a memorandum [Music] one two two i apologize one two two it doesn't require a second it's not going to happen at this time if if it's brought up it will be brought up at the next meeting okay so what would help me understand what so you want reconsideration of this at the next meeting i'm providing notice of reconsideration it's discretionary of whether or not to bring up the reconsideration at the next meeting well i

146show it needs a second mr donnelly so uh it does yeah i think we should get roberts i mean we have already taken action on that item i don't think notice requires it maybe bringing it up bring back it's a bring back motion [Music] so this is different than the notice this is the move to bring it back yeah okay [Music] okay thank you mr danby uh we will reconsider it i think uh you could reconsider to make motion yeah okay right you don't have to vote dude no no okay he gave notice yes madam president i just want to say uh welcome to the new board and i look forward to working with you thank you great thank you and as you guys can see i also want to welcome the new board members

147and uh i'm it's great to hear your questions and um we're all here to learn and and and get it right so keep those questions coming and the only other thing i would like to say is that this this is teacher appreciation week our website's got lots of great stuff on it uh so send a comment to your your um the teacher your your your teacher whether you're teaching you now or taught you before and then i did want to acknowledge the work of jacob vera leah uh maltby if you have not seen their uh portraits of those who serve i mean it's amazing project i think he did they did share that with us through email and this is uh asian-american pacific islander month in alaska may 1st through the end of the month

148so i did want to make sure everybody knew that and of course saying goodbye to emily again and wishing you well i know you're going to do great and then i think carl has his hand up thank you madam president i just wanted to uh formally thank uh for outgoing board members hildy the chaos mitchell and marsette for their service and uh express how excited i am to work with the current board and happy teacher appreciation week everyone yes thank you other comments don't be shy what about the administration anybody else y'all know i've been waiting to do this all night right i'm just going to say thank you to the members of the administration for introducing yourselves during the meet and greet and i look forward to getting to know more of you and

149the work that you do and finding ways to support you absolutely motion to adjourn [Music] i just want to emotion it's been moved in seconds that we adjourn hey