001[Music] good evening everyone good to see you all uh welcome to the 2023 spring 2023 superintendents on a roll my name is Rob Anderson I am the proud superintendent of the Boulder Valley School District it is so good to see you all here this evening hopefully you were able to enjoy some conversations some refreshments because we have a lot of exciting things to celebrate this evening before we get started I'd love to start by taking a moment to recognize our Board of Education members who are in attendance this evening and I think they're all here board members when I call your name just wave your hand or stand up if you're sitting or if you're standing then just kind of keep standing our board president Kathy Gephart board vice president Lisa Sweeney Moran board Treasurer
002Nicole rajpal [Applause] board member Richard Garcia board member Kitty sergeant and board members Stacy this it is uh I'm very lucky to work so closely with such incredible school board members and we just have an amazing school board and so I appreciate you joining me in recognizing them and so we've got how many of you are from schools in bvsd here tonight right out of Applause that's it some of you already on vacation good for you we're not yet maybe I'll get to a vacation in a little bit um so it's so good to see you all we're going to start with some awards for schools and then we're going to get into some individual awards for some of our employees and for some of our amazing students so tonight we are celebrating many of
003our schools for Colorado Department of Education Awards there are the Colorado Department of Education gives out several levels of awards each and every year based on school performance and so the first group of schools that we're going to be recognizing is the governor's distinguished Improvement award so this year six bvsd schools have received the governor's distinguished Improvement award which honors schools that demonstrate exceptional student growth and so schools when I call your name come on up um everybody who's from your school come on up we have some banners we could have some certificates over there are there any medals trophies anything else like that cash prizes no uh we'll have to do better next year sorry uh but we definitely have posters I see those end certificates so when I call your school closing come
004on up to the front from school Bear Creek Elementary and we'll have the schools come up and then stay and just stay here because some of you are winning multiple Awards and so hang tight our next goal bcsis it is summer so I know not all of our schools were able to attend but we'll be celebrating them anyways Creekside Elementary School Creekside all right Francy come on up flintville Elementary come on up high peaks Elementary in Summit Middle Charter [Applause] so with this here's how they were recognized based on the school performance framework which is used by the state to evaluate schools these schools exceeded expectations on the indicator related to longitudinal academic growth and net are exceeded expectations on the indicator related to academic growth gaps so they're growing and closing gaps another round
005of applause for this amazing group of schools Jade let's take some pictures and board members if you'd like to come on up here and jump in this picture this is certainly worth celebrating or you could not do that foreign the next award that will be provide will be presenting schools are the John Irwin Awards [Music] so everybody up here also earned a John Irwin award that's right I told you it was amazing jono and CD's John Irwin awards given the schools that demonstrate exceptional academic achievement over time these schools receive that exceeds expectations rating on the academic achievement indicator of the school performance Frameworks reflecting exceptional performance and math English language arts and science and so as they hand out your additional posters I would like to invite the following schools to come on up
006and be recognized as well Boulder Universal be you in the house come on up El Dorado PKA [Applause] Fairview High School Fireside Elementary [Applause] Flatirons Elementary [Applause] Meadowlark Mesa Elementary Southern Hills Middle School and Superior Elementary foreign before you start taking pictures I've gotta I've gotta pause here for a second we're gonna have to make room for one more of our amazing schools if we could have Monarch High School come on up big round of applause for MOHAI Monarch High School home of the coyote scootz was one of seven schools in the state to receive a Colorado Department of education's high school growth award which recognizes high schools that demonstrate the highest levels of student academic growth in Reading Writing and math we can't take a picture without them go make sure that you go
007get your high school growth award thank you Linda Jay do you have the wide lands ready to go you can be able to fit us in should we have everybody else come up and they all sit down do it that way no okay you're the pro I'm just gonna stop talking folks let's give all of our skills another huge round of applause I'll tell you uh earlier well let's before I start telling stories [Music] thank you one of my favorite days of the year is when I get to represent our district and go down to the Colorado Department of Education as they give out these Awards because each and every year Boulder Valley Schools is one of the most highly decorated school districts in the state if not the most and so when they call
008up the schools and then they start reading the individual awards for each of the of the school districts I get to stand up there for a while and just be proud to be part of bvsd so I appreciate all the hard work happening in our schools and in our communities we did have one other school that was that was recognized by the governor and that was Alicia Sanchez elementary school and they were awarded the governor's bright spot award one of 21 schools throughout the state of Colorado that improved two levels in the school performance framework during the pandemic Alicia Sanchez in 2018 was named a turnaround school for the state of Colorado and they are now at performance level which is the highest level so round of applause for Sanchez thank you [Music] we actually
009celebrated them last December but wanted to make sure that we mentioned them again right everybody warmed up everybody's celebrating we're not so sad that it's been raining for like 15 days in a row you know the sun is out of course because we're inside so hopefully we can get out early you can enjoy some some actual summer um but now we have some student athletes to recognize so the first group of student athletes we're going to recognize is Monarch High School swimming the 400 free relay so the team included JC homes Charlie's ahoski Gavin Kiel and Ethan defronzo with amazing coach Amber that's Amber right there she is amazing wife yep um so this Relay Team swam a state championship winning time of three minutes fourths and nine tenths seconds also set a new school
010record that's that's worth the round of applause so swimmers right this is the interactive part of the of the evening um so how does it feel uh to win the first State title uh for swimming at Monarch High School in recent memory who'd like to take that take that question [Music] um I it's really great um it's just such a fun experience I I love doing it um especially with this team it's just like it's a Once in a Lifetime thing and uh I really think and hope that we can repeat our success in um following years and they're really bright future of the team which I'm really excited of [Applause] great job and uh how many of you former Louisville dolphins no anybody anywhere in the neighborhood swimming swim teams you want to give
011a shout out to loyal to the coyotes I love it pause everybody let's take a picture thank you on from swimming to track and field we have two track and field Champions that will recognize tonight if we can get Tyler Rowan and Lachlan Walker to come on up on over make sure you get your Awards recent state track and field championships were held at Jeffco Stadium high flying Affair for two of our state champions Tyler who goes by TJ uh it was from what I understand a little sibling rivalry that vaulted into their State title so TJ's brother Cole who won the title in 2017 is that right yeah um because they're cheering him on according to Boco preps Cole said something like if you want the crown you're gonna have to out jump me
012and TJ did an outstanding job pole vaulting in feet eight inches so TJ a little bit of an interaction here how does it feel to be following in your brother's footsteps and then you're going to take out his record next year it feels really good it's great I want this record next year all right let's say let's go out for TJ well coaches come on up here what are you doing let's give it up for the coaches of Fairview High School in Monarch High School in Lachlan we're going to get to you in a second I did want to mention that we had another pole vaulter vulture way to a state championship Olivia casanovic of Fairview she graduated is currently backpacking in Europe I mean we do have cookies and kebabs but I mean that
013sounds pretty awesome uh her jump was 12 feet 10 inches beating her personal record she'd set last year by four inches and she's going to continue to pull Vault next year at Vanderbilt that's fantastic [Applause] so next we're excited to celebrate Lachlan who won the 100 and 200 meter unified classification Lachlan what was it like to win the title in two events if Algeria Grand because I don't know for the 200 I thought I was gonna lose but now but for the first for the 100 I thought I was gonna lose that one but nope didn't do it no you're not losing anything let's give our track championships a round of applause and their coaches next Sports uh that I would like to recognize are athletes from girls tennis Fairview High School had an amazing
014showing at this year's tennis tournament are there any Fair View of the Fairview Tennessee Championship with us tonight if you're here come on up if not we're going to talk about you while you're not here Fairview Junior Quinn burnfall won number one in singles and was named the daily cameras player of the year so we've got via VIA picture [Applause] number one double scene Was Won by Fairview seniors Virginia kamuka and Elizabeth Roth do we have a picture of them as well [Applause] they're so good that they named the mascot after him um and Elizabeth's sister Jane a Fairview Junior and her partner senior Maya brackage won number two in doubles let's go ahead and give the Fairview girls tennis team a round of applause [Applause] and we have one other group of state champions
015here tonight broomfield's winter percussion team [Applause] where you at yeah all right come on up back to back state champions we recognized them last year they love the snacks so much they want it all again to come on back [Applause] thank you so I know that you are just a part of the 11-member team who's won back-to-back state championships but I would love to have you introduce yourself and um just tell us what you play and if anybody wants to chime in on how does it feel to be back-to-back Champs that'd be awesome too uh I'm Adam Remington I played the vibraphone and synth I'm Tyler Hart I played the vibe or phone and the Bells on top of that I'm Isaiah fight I played marimba I'm Jenna fresh I also played marimba I'm Priya
016Saha and I played the vibraphone I'm Serena scoey and I also played the vibraphone um I'm Noah berthorf and I play like in the rack I just played symbols and assorted instruments and and maybe how does it feel to be Champs feels good to be Champions it's it's been a lot of fun doesn't that sound cool I wish I could play one of those that's fantastic let's take a picture congratulations in the school year by celebrating all the accomplishments and successes of our schools of our educators of our kids and we're going to wrap up tonight's event with um with which was a really just an incredible thing that we're really fortunate to be able to celebrate I'm incredibly honored to welcome up the members of the boulder highs schools Emergency Response Team folks in
017the boulder High Emergency Response Team come on up [Applause] we have David Fogle and Ryan Bishop and Boulder High certified athletic trainer Shannon Alberton and Jerry bobiak and who am I missing Carl Worthington come on well Tim assistant track and field coach we're going to get we're going to get to this in a second uh so folks a couple months ago we had an incredibly scary situation happened at the field house the iconic wreck Field behind Boulder High School coach green collapsed during practice he wasn't breathing and had no pulse Boulder High School's athletic trainer Shannon Albertson and Coach babiak sprung into action doing exactly what they'd been trained to do calling 9-1-1 and the school's Emergency Response Team administering CPR and then utilizing an AED machine at the school to deliver a life-saving shock
018that broke coach green back to life after using the AED Tim's pulse and breathing were restored and paramedics were able to transport him to the hospital as you can see he's made an incredible recovery Shannon it's just months before I know we'd spoken to you about the importance of these aeds following the situation with Buffalo Bills safety Demar Hanlon who collapsed after hit during an NFL game this must have been scary but it looked just like your training just kicked in um thank you um I'm just glad Tim is here with us um I was his daughter's athletic trainer back in the day and it was kind of a full circle full circle moment for me and I'm just glad that he's all right um at the time thank God Jerry was there Jerry started
019CPR and it wasn't scary during it was afterwards where I you know needed to catch my breath but I'm just glad he's okay big round of applause for Boulder High's ERT team so so Tim we're so glad that you're here with us today and so thankful that you made such a wonderful recovery I want to give you a chance to speak to these special folks and from what I understand you have an award of your own to give yeah yes I do I have uh I played for a hero award from the American Heart Association and uh they sent it back and uh so I'd like to give one to each one of them Jerry and uh Shannon who did the CPR both of them did the CPR on me and uh let's see Shannon
020is closer so I should give it to her first this is uh this is the award for it's a American Heart Association hero award heartsaver award foreign [Music] and here's another one and the same one uh but just Jerry's name on it for Jerry and so before we take a picture and before you all sit down I'd love to call up two more people our director of Health Services Baron and Dr Sherry Valentine I don't hot we want to just take the opportunity to thank both of you all um your teams at CU Sports Medicine Boulder Community Health and our own health services team for the protocols training and Equipment they've put in place and maintained that ensure that we're ready for emergencies like this um I can't tell you how grateful we are thank
021you so very much another land of Applause for everybody and let's take a picture can I say one lesson I also uh made a cake for Jerry and Shannon too I got a heart cake over there for him so I wanted to give them a thank you from the bottom of my heart so I even made a heartache thank you this keeps getting better folks I I hope you enjoyed tonight's superintendent's honor roll uh again congratulations to everybody we had the opportunity to celebrate I want to thank each and every one of you for all that you do for our kids for our community for our schools just been a wonderful year I hope everybody has a fantastic summer please on the way out grab like 15 cookies each so we don't have tons of
022leftovers so proud so proud of everybody here tonight another round of applause have a great evening everyone thanks so much for coming out foreign the dashboard hasn't been working online are they like when you try to look at the metrics many people those customers have been looking at the conflict about foreign is that the pointer will automatically go to the current view area of this year's testimony I'm going to show the blank screen is that because that's what I'm just getting late [Music] um [Music] testing testing everybody ready Laura okay I'd like to call to order this special meeting work session of the Boulder Valley School District Board of Education Laura could you call the role please Garcia here get Park here niznick rajpal here Sergeant here Sweeney Moran here is this here thank you
023Dr Anderson I'll turn it over to you to do the introductions thank you board president Gephart members of the board into this afternoon slash evenings work session we'll be reviewing with you the Strategic plan metrics uh board members as you'll recall we've made a commitment to make report outs both semesters around strategic plan metrics as that data comes in reporting on the metrics tonight and who we'll be presenting is Dr De La Cruz our Deputy superintendent Dr Jonathan things from planning and assessment and so I will turn it over to the team good evening president Gephart members of the board we're so glad to have this opportunity to share updated outcomes with you in relation to the bvsd Strategic plan metrics as you recall last June and then again last fall Jonathan and I provided
024updates to the board regarding the metrics with the data that we had available at those times in continuing with that cycle of data that we share with the board at intervals throughout the year we'll be doing the same tonight with those outcomes available at this time at the close of the school year the themes of our all together for all students strategic plan really overarch the metrics by which we keep ourselves accountable and those metrics you see here are shaped in these three important areas closing achievement gaps closing opportunity gaps and reducing disproportionality the outcomes connected to these categories become available to us in Cycles as Dr Anderson said and those Cycles determine what we can share with the board and when so you can see those Cycles here in the parentheses on the right
025we'll talk a little bit more about them in coming slides those um those are the dates at which the the day to become available let's go to the next slide and take a look at what we shared in October so in October we shared what you see here in green that's the data that becomes available in the fall and then let's move to tonight what you see here in blue is what we have available this evening and then what we have available at the end of a school year so looking at math and reading achievement reading growth some data around supportive School climate discipline Staffing into special education enrollment in gifted and talented and Steel by literacy participation so we'll Begin by looking at the outcomes connected to closing achievement gaps and the data that
026we have available at this time are for reading and math the local measures that we have are from i-Ready which is our reading assessment in English that we utilize in English and Ice Station which is the reading assessment that we utilize in both Spanish and English at our dual language schools those are for elementary our other our secondary reading data comes from common lit which is our secondary reading assessment and those are administered at middle and high school and then we also have some math assessment data from a curriculum focused math assessment to begin with we do carefully monitor our kindergarten through third grade reading progress of course because that's where we want to set a strong foundation for Student Success in our k-3 Trends and we see both stability and some slight gains so
02768 of kindergarten through third grade students were on grade level this spring which is a percentage Point more than last spring and also the same as those that were on grade level pre-pandemic in the spring of 2019. our kindergarten through third grade reading Trends are remaining stable with a slight increase of students on grade level in comparison to last year this year's outcomes reflect higher levels of performance in this year's first graders with a six percentage Point gain in terms of significant reading deficiencies or SRD level the outcomes remain stable from last year to this with percentages in the spring scores being at 11 which is the same as last year we're going to take a little bit more of a look at read plans and significant reading deficiency identification let's just review a little
028bit about um read plans and srds and how those are determined so the read plan the read acronym stands for reading to ensure academic development it's part of the Colorado read Act so when a student does not meet minimal or minimum skill levels for reading competency in the areas of phonemic awareness phonics vocabulary development reading fluency including oral skills and reading comprehension established by the state so those levels established by the state at that point the Colorado read act states that a significant reading deficiency or SRD is determined when students are identified as being significantly below grade level in Reading teachers administer a diagnostic assessment to determine specific areas of Need for improvement and they use this information to collaboratively develop an intervention plan that is developed in collaboration with the child's parents guardians or
029caregivers this plan is called a read plan and it's intended to bring a child up to grade level reading proficiency a read plan is initiated in grades kindergarten through three when a student scores below particular cut scores that are established by the Department of Education on i-Ready in English or iStation in both English and Spanish students are to continue to receive intervention supports until they have met the reading skill competencies for the current grade level that they're in so as I noted on the previous Slide the percent of bdsd students identified with an SRD has now stabilized over the last couple years at 11 percent we do find reductions in the percent of students identified with significant reading deficiency or SRD from Fall to Spring which is a testament good work of Educators and the
030effectiveness of interventions and instruction the reductions in significant reading efficiency identification that we see on this slide indicate that per the i-Ready reading assessment in English SRD identification reduced from Fall to Spring by two percents in our monolingual schools so from 10 to 8 percent and per eye station Spanish and English reading assessments the SRD identification reduced from Fall to Spring by five percentage points in our dual language goals from 22 to 17 percent the criteria to exit a read plan at kindergarten through fifth grade is pretty stringent and even more so at our secondary um at the secondary level even so we aim to exit students from read plans as another body a part of the body of evidence of progress as appropriate of course but that is certainly our aim to have students
031reading at grade level so one of the other ways in which we look at data is using a match group comparison where we look at the same students in fall and and see how how they did how they did this past spring um at the Dual language schools we have a double opportunity to look at the results because the iStation is administered in both English and Spanish so what we see here on this slide is that for Spanish iStation results we see substantial gains overall and for latinx and free induced lunch eligible students um and for for the furthermore right when we look at these these results we see that latinx students achieve at a level comparable to students overall tested in Spanish uh the the in English I stationed results end up showing substantial
032gains overall in for latinx students but with smaller gains for free introduced lunch uh eligible students uh and differences in achievement that are evident continuing with the match group approach um we compared achievement gaps by group this spring relative to a false starting point for middle and high school students taking common lead a large disparity and results remains for latinx and pre-induced launch eligible students relative to bvsd students overall the fall figures are similar to results we saw last spring um and we'll be looking at whether the timing of this this assessment is the right one as far as spring we just have some questions about getting making sure we get the same kind of Engagement we get involved when we make these kind of comparisons um and you know now that we've mentioned K3
033and and uh uh second secondary just for completeness we would note that uh the the percentage of fourth graders meeting Benchmark dips slightly uh uh from uh last year to this whereas fifth grade results were were comparable across those two two years so um having you know uh we we did this year crowded a new measure in in math grade five tied to existing curriculum materials um and while based on our experience we don't use this specific measure again uh next year in its full length form uh it yielded results showing a disparity uh in results for latinx and friendius and launch eligible students um uh relative to bvsd students overall that is similar to the trends that we saw on um uh when we looked at uh at this team asking grade for the
034year prior for a match match group of students um so uh math also would would indicate this kind of pattern uh and gaps that held steady at this time of the year in our reporting cycle of data what we have available within the metrics connected to the category of closing opportunity gaps is that of the school climate data so that's what we'll share next every year our fifth through 12th graders are given the opportunity to take the school climate survey and what we see here is a steadiness in results from last year to this year with a high rate of 90 percent of students across student groups who see that teachers care as shown by the gray vertical the green the gray vertical line and the green oval the orange bar on the top line
035is a display that represents the student group who identifies as American Indian or Alaska native 28 students in this group responded to the question with really small numbers of respondents results are somewhat less reliable and less consistent across years so we exercise caution in drawing inferences from data with small numbers of respondents some year-to-year variation is expected for small groups and our American Indian or Alaska native group has recently had results that are more similar to The District average we will of course monitor this and see if results return to this level in the fall last year we had a red circle around the black African-American student group and last year that number was 108 and this year it's 113 who responded and about a five point gain we see a more positive outcome this
036year which we're noting and we'll be watching to see if the trend holds or improves over time as we look at outcomes in the category of reducing disproportionality well we'll be sharing measures for suspensions law enforcement referrals restorative practices special education identification gifted and talented identification and Sala by literacy we shared some of this data when we came before the board talking about academic return on investment and we have more information about this tonight so in in October we reported that although we had uh you you year-to-date at that time fewer latinx students with the suspension than in 2018-19 the results were disproportionate about if twice as many uh as expected for latinx and free new response eligible student and students and not an improvement from the prior year when we count up the number
037of students who who receive us who received a suspension uh and this is updating it with current figures not the ones from October right uh we we we have about 130 30 fewer students than in the last year based on uh currently enrolled students at the end to end the end of the the the year I will have a more precise comparison once we roll everything over and look at students who enrolled at any time during during the year uh for for now what we see is that we we have about 50 fewer latinx students receiving a suspension along with uh 70 fewer what what white students we would note this is for a number of students who receive a suspension of any kind will one one or more but that an important headline here
038and something you've heard about in some other Communications is that there's a four percentage Point Improvement and did it disproportionality for out of school suspensions uh for latinx students and um and you know look looking at the the discipline data a little bit harder right and updating you on some of the data we shared in April right uh we we would note first with this type of chart that there were far fewer out of school suspensions than in 1920 and in last year for folks who are not acquainted with this kind of chart this is a if you cumulative distribution chart uh the in the way you reread it is is uh uh from from from left to to right it's it's the days of the school year uh and and what's up vertical there
039is the number of out of school suspensions that have happened by that day in the year you see there's a great green line that uh that that ends around day 130 uh that represents the year covet hit so that's the 1920 year so that that year effectively ends there for for this uh this this kind of reporting right what we see uh is that the red line that's thin is lower than the green line that represents the the gains that were made the improvements in not suspending as many students year to date in the 2021 year and then the thicker Orange Line underneath that that one shows that there were fewer suspensions this year overall by substantial number a couple hundred right and and also that this happened in spite of having a kind of
040hot start uh that is the the orange line goes up steeply uh and by you know the 25th or 30th of the day is above the previous year uh but then the slope flattens out so we see in an encouraging Trend within this year an encouraging Trend overall with regard to far fewer out of school suspensions uh we we also see an encouraging Trend with uh fewer fewer law enforcement referrals uh in that that this the number of 18 there that you're seeing uh uh River represents an improvement over the past year um how do we get there well one of the things we can measure too in addition to the uh the the discipline outcomes is some practices that that are being used and when we look at uh risk versus versus restorative practices
041we saw that there was a huge increase last year right uh of about a thousand uh um and that there was an increase knock not quite as big but still very substantial the this year also this is an indicator of the of a change in practice in the system and using new methods to work with students we also see when we break this down by group right is that this didn't just increase in the system about equally there were there were substantial gains particularly for uh uh students of color uh shown on on these on on these on these line lined line graphs here again with the cumulative distribution of function um okay uh so back in October we we reported uh that in terms of special education identification or or overall latinx Gap had
042grown by about by the percentage point we're we're relative to the previous year uh and that the frame reducing the lunch Gap was uh was Greater by 1.5 points in that same time frame uh uh you know what what we what we saw then right was although these patterns had changed that hadn't hadn't impacted some uh some need for designation of special education funds for coordinating early intervention uh so so Services passes step to steps into our Timber of this of this year yet monitoring what the impact of the this this this year was We can look at uh an end-of-year figures as as well well right uh in that uh and that in terms of the uh the gap for latinx students not having been changed uh uh over over this time right this
043is basically stabilized we did see some some increase for free news lunch students uh over this time frame I can be clever and toggle back and forth a little bit and you can see the orange bar on the bottom moves a little towards the right hand side um that's that's a big big enough gain to register our uh our concern uh in in our wish to monitor that further uh and then finally for my slides anyhow uh um uh we we saw that gaps have improved relative to the last year for latinx students when it comes to tag identification uh uh it's it's a good a gain of about a point right and we do this by comparison comparing the percentage of tag identified students who are latinx uh uh with the percentage of latinx
044students in the population uh and and we're seeing seeing a gap being close there by about a point we are about a point and a half wider for friendly eligible students in looking at this and and uh you know and I guess one of the things that we that we see here too is uh that we have an increase in the number of I did identified tag students overall it was an increase of about 1440 in October count right this fall to the previous fall and that's in in a year where enrollment declined uh I would I would also point to a focused effort around six graders with new identification worked this year as far as screening uh uh that increase that that number by about 60. um and and at the grade right at
045sixth grade where we had a big a big new effort and an increase in the numbers I identified that that was the year we where we had a reduction for latinx students of about two points um uh sorry two and a half and for free interviews lunch students about two so efforts in this case matching the uh the places where we're seeing improvements we also want to highlight participation in the Seal of biliteracy which we've been monitoring very closely 585 or 22 of current seniors have earned the seal by literacy which is close to last year's graduating class and the results that you see here indicate that we are roughly proportionate for latinx students whose accomplishments represent 19 of the total seals of by literacy earned as shown by the blue bar compared to being
04621 of our seniors as shown by the gray bar this result which will be adjusted to reflect graduating seniors when that data becomes available continues a pattern seen in the previous years of sealed by literacy data based on graduates however this is participation this year we made some moves to amplify awareness around and the invitation to the Seal of illiteracy including removing the application process promoting the power of bilingualism and the value of the Seal of by literacy we've increased the languages available for the sealed by literacy and we now test up to 38 languages for the seal by literacy we're really optimistic that these moves are going to continue to increase participation and to continue that movement toward proportionality so we have several bright spots and of course we have room for improvement in
047terms of bright spots we noted a slight Gap narrowing and K3 literacy measures as indicated by reductions in significant reading deficiencies that we discussed and highlighted we see stability and some improvements in students seeing that teachers care as well as fewer suspensions and improved proportionality in out of school suspensions we see an increase in restorative practices as well as across student groups fewer law enforcement referrals and sealable literacy participation proportionality while our outcomes are not where we want them to be at and we we definitely do have opportunities for improvement my team and I often reflect on the fact that although the pandemic itself is behind us I know we all wish for it to be completely behind us the residual effects of it are are not behind us yet we still have we we're
048very much in an active recovery in our schools and we're still getting our schools and folks in them regulated in many ways even as we bring in better practices to schools and classrooms and while I know that we will get there we definitely have room for improvement now and coming up next and among those are continuing to decrease the academic gaps in Reading at kindergarten through 12th grades with a focus on Middle School and High School we're in the midst of getting middle schools specifically set up for progress with three middle schools participating in a UVA partnership that partnership has been launched we have professional learning Amplified with principles on mtss data-driven instruction standards and a new standards-based math curriculum coming on board at middle level for next year in terms of common lit the
049secondary literacy assessment it's still relatively new in our system and we want to keep improving regular use of it as well as efficacy around it and as Jonathan mentioned we want to look really closely at the pacing of it to make sure that we're pacing it in ways that give our students the best opportunity to show us how they've grown and to give us reliable outcomes we definitely want to move from steady gaps to Gap closing for special education latinx identification gifted and talented latinx identification and we want to continue to decrease proportion disproportionality for out of school suspensions for latinx students we also want to continue to increase participation in the Seal of by literacy overall we're so glad to have had an opportunity to share these outcomes with you and we look forward
050to responding to any questions that you may have Richard Dr De La Cruz and Jonathan dings thank you very much for the presentation I really appreciate the uh the efforts that we're making to decrease disproportionality in our district I have a couple of questions one uh and a comment um disproportionality as it relates to students of color uh and between students of color and white students have been around for a long time and we know that and it's been difficult to close that uh year after year after year we get reports around decreasing disproportionality and we're making little gains uh so having said that my question is knowing that we have a problem with disproportionality in our district and we have um interventions and and programs that are designed to to decrease the disproportionality my
051question then would be uh as we do those particular programs and we design programs do we do that with a metric in mind in terms of by the end so so we will decrease the disproportionality by 10 20 or whatever is that is that done do we do we have that discussion or or is that something that maybe it's a pie in the sky oh I'll let the team answer um in my experience there's a lot of factors that go into um a program's success and then stating a metric designed to a program success and we measure year over year in comparison to ourselves to measure progress I don't know that we've set specific targets of reduction based on program implementation or changes in practices we've been more of our analysis has been year over
052year focusing on progress and um and and you know I think as you've seen some some areas we're not making progress some it's slow and steady progress I think that we've made the most progress in in our discipline practices and you know in the efforts and Investments we've made in reducing disproportionate discipline that's where we've made the most progress um I would say again you know we'll have another look at some of these academic measures in October when we compare cmass uh you know cmass and I think what what the team described is depending upon the assessment and the seriousness and the timing of the assessment um that could align to potentially the effort so I'll have a better sense I think of October in how stagnant some of these measures are if they've moved
053a little bit more but we can certainly consider goals in regards to um in regards to specific areas based on investments but again it's at most of our data comparisons are year over year and Jonathan would you like to talk about the psychometrics around that or well I mean one one of the things I would say is that anytime we're implementing something new we're trying to improve it in the in the whole system and we don't usually have a super exact um Target going in that would say if two hundred thousand dollars gets spent here it's going to result in a half a percentage Point reduction of this Gap over over here um we are I think learning more about the programs we Implement as we as we've Implement them and I think what we've
054seen in recent years uh is a greater emphasis on resources it's a differentiation both in some obvious ways uh like funding that's related to the the names of the expectations that we have whether that's high support or targeted or flexible right and uh uh you know in in our ability then even to make um uh month to month changes in Focus as in having the person who works on restorative practices work maybe more in some schools than others that that way so um so I think it's uh it's a sadly inexact science to say which investment will get which closure of which gap on average um and you know and and I I I I think the the frame is right to say we're going to take some system level looks at this about annually
055uh um sometimes more often than that and figure on where where do we seem to be making the right kind of difference where do we get the academic return on investment that we we talked about in in April and I would say that if we're looking for more nuanced Improvement oh got to keep us clean sorry um what was I saying yeah so if we want if we wanted to look at more nuanced we could potentially look at individual School um performance but that would be best probably done with with CMS school performance framework results so as if it was if it were the desire of the board as we came back with strategic plan metrics in the fall we could look at some schools how schools are improving um in different areas or how
056maybe schools are are not improving that might give you the more nuanced impact because to Jonathan's Point depending upon whether you're a flexible School targeted school or high support School you might have different levels of resource to be able to fight to to to to to work against some of these challenges and I think that that's an analysis that we'll be doing anyways because as we think about way to differentiated funding we start to think about what's working where is it working how is it working and if we think that how could that inform future Investments we really feel like that this um this this next go around the school performance framework we give us some data to be able to do that thank you very much um I I bring this up only because
057uh since 1970 that I've been involved in in Boulder Valley School District education uh I've been saying the same reports every year uh and it seems like the Gap either is steady it doesn't it decreases a little bit and then increases decreases increases but I've yet to see anyone say that by the end of 2024 or 2025 this Gap is going to decrease by 10 percentage points or whatever okay I've yet to see that and I haven't seen that in years past and I'm just wondering if if you set that kind of metric it might be able to push and then the other two the other thing too is that when we put programs in place we do it because they're best practices and and in order to put it in place we use best
058practices and best practices I pretty much evaluated so that they can be determined as best practices correct so so I'm just curious to find out why we don't do that and and I'm I appreciate your explanation in terms of of the complexity in terms of all of that you know that maybe it doesn't make sense we want to measure growth as we go year after year after year but we continue to hear and see the same result year after year after year with you know did uh dips and and and and um progress and and and decreases and and all of that um okay having said that the other thing that I want to bring up is the suspension out of school suspensions um have we identified the reasons for the out of school suspensions
059I'm sure we have that data right in terms of why are kids being sent home and being suspended out of school what are the uh issues around that and again do we have any Targets to say that this this we're going to do our best efforts to make sure that we decrease this out of school suspensions by X number of percentage points so all of my questions relate to that okay in regards to um suspension data I do believe that we'll need to be doing a deep dive into that this summer to kind of look at what codes um are most disproportionate versus what codes aren't right and to the extent that we've reduced suspensions I think that's positive I think that we've reduced disproportionality that's positive uh and the fact that we're collecting clean
060data we have confidence in and that we have accountability in the sense that um all of the referrals this this year board members as you'll remember as you start to see that data flattened out I mean we did some of real-time adjustments in October in regards to professional learning we created a standardized form to measure discipline outcomes and we feel like that those were those had an impact on on that data flattening out um you know I think that it's it's aspirational to think that if we were to set a goal um that that would potentially in and of itself reduce the things that um that we're trying to to to to to Really solve for I think that if we don't have the right expectations the right training the right resources in place and
061the time for that to develop that I think we would just come like we feel like you know we just haven't reached the goal that we set um and so you know that's why I think year over year comparisons of data help measure progress and that the real look is a two three year look behind after you've been implementing a strategy or for a while to measure year-over-year progress over multiple years so this is our second year of full uh full having kids 100 in person in school the year before that was a little bit skewed the year before that pre-pandemic and so we cut off in March um yeah I think that that's that is that's the best way to move forward so we're operating at a pace where we can we can operate
062within the capacity of our people uh that we can um continue to Nuance our resources um and uh you know again I think that what you you'd you would see is the big moves might be at individual schools you might you might see big moves to schools like we saw at Sanchez like we saw a Pioneer saw a column by big moves in individual schools but um we still haven't really studied you know is the resource that we provided to flexible schools enough for them to dig into the challenges are the expectations they're clear enough or have we have we lifted the standard high enough in the expectation are they too flexible same thing with targeted schools um because you know when you're thinking about the lever the appropriate level lever of change um it's
063easier to invest study set expectations at the school level um but we've got this system that we know that at least I believe is working for a high support schools and the jury's still out on how it's impacting targeted and uh flexible support schools so as we think about moving into next year our team has tightened up some expectations board members I shared with you some documents that we shared with principals where you can see we have higher expectations around data-driven instruction which is going to allow us to really focus on mtss and intervention that we have some higher expectations on climate and culture and those are district-wide regardless whether you're flexible targeted or high support and um and and and inching those things forward in those ways I think is is our best way
064to start to be able to move the the body of work as as a whole so you know I I understand Richard your frustration and I think that that's very fair frustration I think your comments are incredibly fair that you know we have probably been never more aligned on some of these efforts and you know we would expect because of our efforts this board's alignment um our passion our strategic plan that you would start to see those things budge in pretty significant ways it may just be a couple of years out as long as we could stay the course continue doing the right things and starting to see those year-over-year gains happen and then for us really understanding what schools aren't moving right because if you're looking at the sums of a whole like there's
065you know you could have some schools moving maybe some schools because they we haven't had tight enough expectations they're regressing thank you very much again uh Dr De La Cruz and Jonathan thank you so much for the presentation I certainly appreciate the information and uh if uh I'll just stop for now uh president Gephardt and but I would like to come back if the rest of the board members ask questions if they don't ask the question that I have in my head I'd like to come back Nicole thank you for that uh presentation you know I just wanted to say that the improvements in the user were sort of Justice practices and the resulting decrease in suspensions is really promising I'm excited to see where that data goes some of my questions are long lines
066of Richards a lot of the data that you showed around reading and math in particular was a comparison around spring and fall for this last this past year in itself or looking at proportionality but I was wondering if whether you could speak to how our students are meeting benchmarks or achievement rates of light districts or similar people that you are places that use this test or our own years past how are we doing overall not just from Spring to Fall improvements but are we are our students meeting achievement rates where we'd expect them or is there a Target for that or compared to pre-pandemic levels does that make sense like where are we in that aspect I'll let Jonathan Speak to some of the of the data comparisons between districts I think that you know
067the best measure you have is the overall District school performance framework which would give you that high level comparison to comparison um when I look at data uh uh that from across the country and like districts uh in most in most academic categories uh we're in the top quartile if not the top 10 percent uh and I think that where we've lagged behind in the past and we've shared this information with our leaders is around opportunities I think that the Grad Plus is is leveling the playing field with some of the opportunities it's providing for advanced coursework and um and Industry certifications I think we were lagging there pretty significantly uh I think that uh that our best bet on doing because all the districts also have opportunities to use different assessments right so it's
068not Apples to Apples so not all districts are using common lit i-Ready is more of a standard but it is the CMS as imperfect as it is for that is the best data point that we have to measure those types of comparisons um and so again we'll have that what we're presenting that information to the board in September we'll start to that data will start to trick in trickle in at the end of the summer and uh we're going to be starting to take really deep looks at that in comparison with the other data triangulate all that information to begin to start to to really take deep Dives in both sections of schools and schools by schools um so uh you know to answer your question you know we're a high performing District um you
069know in comparison to other districts you know we're the highest performing District in the Denver metro um in comparison in in looking at the the data that's in the school performance framework in other data uh points that I've been able to access and look at um we are amongst the highest performing districts in in the country uh top 10 top 15 percent in in the groups that that with data that I've been able to access uh but it's always been our gaps it's always been our disproportionality um it's always been our opportunities where we have to grow and strive so to clarify so I to understand so for example fifth grade mathematics achievements 60 of our students are meeting The Benchmark but we don't have a comparison for students in other districts that took that
070test where they might be or this test itself doesn't have a benchmark and we can't speak to whether the fact whether or not last year we performed better or worse than that or pre-pandemic we are more than or less than 60 percent of the students met the Benchmark so we don't have that information for this particular test is that what I'm understanding that's exactly right this this was a this was the our first year of giving this this particular test if we were going to go on and keep giving it then it would begin to get a more clear meaning over time uh one of the things you find in the first year you give it a test is there may be some certain ways in which questions are are asked or the way in
071which an online box needs to be filled in to to when you're showing some type of fraction there are there are details of how the test operates that uh if we were going to do the same test over and over again we would eventually get that more basically steady uh I think you know the um we we will know more uh come come fall when we have some scores uh and for that we do we do we do have a decent pre and post pandemic comparison right um knowing that uh we are recovering still in terms of how students really and this particular assessment this fifth grade math assessment is connected to and provided by math expressions and it was the first year that it was available to administer in this digital format which is
072why we were able to actually I think it was the first year the end of year math expressions assessment was available and so that's why we don't have comparison from last year to this year and to make comparisons we would in this particular assessment we would compare to other districts using math expressions and so as Jonathan said with it being so so new um that kind of comparison is not readily available but cmass is where we can see more of those outcomes that are comparative across the state and Across the Nation okay and then I had another clarifying question for uh students with significant reading um deficiency deficiencies that percentage that's stable that indicates that year over year the percentage of our student population that I is identified as having that is stable or our
073students aren't making Prague the students that have been identified aren't showing significant Improvement that said it is stable does that make was and correct me if I'm wrong here but that that percentage is the end of year percent of students who are still at the end of year um identified as having being identified with SRD and and so that end of year identification is what's stable even it can be a bit in flux because if students are given the diagnostic assessment at a certain time of the year let's say end of year then teachers have something like 60 days to um if they don't meet the cut score they have 60 days to reassessment reassess them if we don't have 60 days at the end of the school year but they're just on that cusp
074we wait until fall to use that diagnostic to reassess them so yes it's the end of year stable year-to-year comparison but really we look again in the fall so it's kind of this continuously evolving number and we tend to look for reductions from Fall to Spring which is what we're demonstrating this evening thank you um I appreciate you offering School data I would really like to see that I also am curious what is law enforcement referral like exactly what does that refer to there's a few different ways that law enforcement Personnel might come into contact with our students either on school or about an event that occurred at school is this specifically if somebody at our school calls a police officer to the school to deal with an incident yeah I believe that that's the
075data point that we engage with law enforcement possible Institute since January so we may think that the breakdowns aren't as useful as they would be with a larger sample size but I do think it's relevant especially if it's entirely or mostly One race category can we see that next time if I'm understanding what you're asking for you want to see the breakdown of a fence or the breakdown of demo demographic Graphics yeah if we're looking at all these other disproportionate categories I want to understand how law enforcement referrals mimic or don't sure yeah I think that we would have that information let me double check with the team yeah and and I'm wondering um we're talking about doing a work session on safety and bullying and lgbtq community in our schools do we keep any
076of that data around these areas I mean obviously it's self-reported but we have race self-reported as well I'm not sure that we collect that are you talking about um bullying are you talking about arrests proportionate discipline in law enforcement referrals specifically and the data that you'd want to see would be what percentage that the same the same data we're seeing here in terms of what you've got you know 80 referrals are Latino compared to 50 of the population Etc I understand that it's more complex to get statistics when we're talking about a fully self-reported population but I do think it's relevant especially if we're trying to dive further into some of this bullying data school by school what bullying data looks like and whether it corresponds to disproportionate discipline data at that school I think
077would be a useful and important metric let me take that request back to the team I think I have some concerns around in size that you know you present data at a meeting around a subgroup that could potentially identify a child we have some standards around that and so why don't we connect afterwards let me let me get a good sense of what you're looking for and see what we could do that sounds good I think generally I just want to make sure if we're going to have these conversations around keeping our kids safe and around bullying that we're also able to look at whether the administration top down and teachers in the schools are part of that problem are part of the solution does that make sense so I think it looks similar to
078what you're talking about the school by school for latinx ETC and just for our team that was that was something that we prioritized that you'll learn about in cabinet tomorrow that where we will be having that meeting somewhere Kitty so thank you for the presentation and most of my questions have already been answered um do we know in terms of suspensions we look at precipitating events so you know when a student does something that we deem is necessary to suspend them do we have an idea of you know basically what caused it or what may have influenced it I guess is a better question yeah yeah I don't think we have that I think that we can get it by Offense Code each and every one of these discipline issues uh um has its own
079story as somebody who's investigated a lot of a lot of disciplinary uh issues in schools and then sometimes something can be coded twice uh so I don't so I think that the closest we could get is to buy by referral code and the closest we could get is to only because we now have schools using the same form and we started that in January March so we'd have a limited data set we'd probably have to really take a deeper dive on that um toward the end of next year and one of the one of them I know we have had some problems with climate at some schools and does that impact how kids are behaving poorly and I think that yes that's an answer but it would be nice to know more about that but
080you know if we don't have the data yet it's not very meaningful um with the kids who are referred to law enforcement as opposed to restorative justice do we know are there just fewer serious offenses or are we taking some at the same level of seriousness as we have in the past and not referring them to law enforcement but using restorative justice instead well I would say that we were referring things to law enforcement that should have never been referred to law enforcement yeah and I think that was part of foremost and you know with with uh with our new school safety Advocates with the training with with their expertise in de-escalation oftentimes law referral law enforcement referrals only came after like other things weren't working things got escalated and that was the the only
081option and I do think that we had serious events that happened in schools and that uh and that that we by law have to refer those to law enforcement um I I think that the significant shift you know to Jonathan's point you see you've seen a significant shift in the practices we use around discipline the form the expectations the meetings the data analysis the intervention and when you see that and then you see the data point of suspensions reducing I think it's fair to assume that the things we are doing is reducing the number of suspensions and the systems that we built are are are are at the core of reducing law enforcement referrals from 64 to 18 like that is as significant of data that you could collect I don't think that kids are
082are breaking the law and we're not referring them to law enforcement if we have to I do think more escalation de-escalation um practices are being used I do think more restorative practices are being used and I do think that as you're seeing year-over-year growth like almost double same amount of people we didn't we didn't Infuse tons of new and different people into schools to do restorative practices we have one restorative justice coordinator and expectations and for for the number of practices to almost double I think what you're seeing is in year three that this is really becoming culturally embedded into our schools and um and as as something that they know how to do they know they're expected to do and it's happening okay so my last question has to do with reading I remember
083being at one of the round tables and I don't remember what school it was elementary school but it was an issue with I ready of kids who did not pass I guess the i-Ready reading assessment but really could read and that was evidenced through their other work and I I don't know Rob if you remember what that issue was with it you know this is an age-old issue right that you take a single assessment and try to make judgments on what kids can and can't do and maybe they just don't do well in assessments they were having a bad day and that I think that's one of the challenges with high stakes uh assessments you know this this idea of a body of evidence where you're looking at multiple measures over time I think is
084the right approach uh I think the challenge is is the i-Ready is one of the data pieces that allows students who are on a read plan to exit a read plan and sometimes when that data and and the criteria is set by law once sometimes when that data doesn't reflect uh then it can be frustrating because you know teachers feel like that kids who can read uh haven't been able to assess their way out of the of the intervention and so I think that that's what they were talking about kitty but we went to 56 of those things so I remember that conversation and that was some teachers talking about students who had topped out on i-Ready and their Reading had surpassed the iready level by many several grades and felt like the kids were
085having a redundant experience with iready and so I took that back to our team the literacy folks are in touch we've already circled back to that principle and that school and the staff to let them know what the options are for that there are actually some options that students can test at a higher level beyond that K5 Realm yeah and I remember that piece of it too but I guess the thing I was concerned about are the kids who are stuck because for whatever reason they may not do well you know on computers with testing or you know there are all kinds of reasons kids don't do well on tests that have nothing to do with what they actually know thank you okay so we're out of time and I have a bunch of questions
086so what I'd propose Rob is um when we bring this back in the fall that we give us more time because we have to start on time I continue I have to say it took my breath away to say we only have 68 of our students meeting Benchmark after all of the accolades that we had I'm looking forward to the school level data because I think we mask a lot of what's going on when we do higher level data and I continue this won't surprise Jonathan to struggle with the fact that so much of how we look at what we're doing is test driven and that we don't look at other measures of opportunities and what's actually going on in our schools so we have to start our next meeting so I will not ask
087all my questions but I'm sure that doesn't surprise you that those are some of my concerns and I think Richard might have a few more too but we don't have time so I was trying to think what we could do and I'm thinking that we can have some of these ongoing conversations and that when we bring back these the Strategic plan metrics in the fall that we give ourselves a little more time to talk about is that makes sense to the rest of the board because I know having done prioritization that asking you for more time somewhere on your board is a no-go so maybe asking for more time that something's already scheduled might be a way to go I don't know what you think well yes um I don't know that we have the
088time given what we've prioritized uh we'll have to take a look at it because I want to say that the Strategic plan metrics was it was an information item so it wouldn't hold the meeting if it would just make the meeting longer um I but I do board members we we still have the opportunity to review our metrics or our metrics telling us the information that we want are we using the right ways to collect that information and are there different ways that we want to do that you know the beautiful thing about the Strategic plan metrics is it's that they're the metrics that we developed with the committee of community members are on how we wanted to hold ourselves accountable in bbsd and so if we feel like that there's different measures if they're
089not meeting our needs we are always open to that conversation with the caveat that I want to go back and engage the community to make sure any shifts and adjustments are things that they'd support if you talk about how we're going to look to see if our differentiated funding successful but I'm not sure what you're going to look at to see if it's successful what are those metrics and what does that look like so I agree um it's an ongoing conversation but I'm hearing two things one is we don't have time and the other is it's really important and of course we'll have time so I figure we'll find some happy medium in there we always do um so I was hoping to take a three-minute break before we start because Loris told me we
090have to start right at seven but we might start at seven or five is that all right Laura um so thank you um for all the hard work and putting this together and um we'll look forward to the ongoing conversation so we'll take a quick recess [Music] foreign oh yeah oh yeah do you have the landing knowledge Kitty cancer Laura you ready Rob ready foreign I'd like to call to order this regular meeting of the Boulder Valley board of education for Tuesday July 13 2023 board members May attend and participate by electronic means in regular or special meetings of the board in accordance with policy beaa and state law board members who attend and participate by electronic means shall identify the location from which they are participating and those present Laura would you please call
091the rule Garcia here Gephardt here neznick rajpal here Sergeant here Sweeney Moran here is this here thank you we'll begin as always with our land acknowledgment Kitty Sergeant would you please read the land acknowledgment yes Boulder Valley School District resides and operates on land that is the ancestral Homeland and unjustly and illegally taken territory of the Ute puebloan Arapaho Cheyenne Apache Navajo and 48 other tribal Nations historically tied to this land who have called This Land home since time immemorial we acknowledge the atrocities committed here including the painful history of genocide forced assimilation and efforts to alienate the indigenous inhabitants from their Homeland supported by the policies of the United States government bvsd is aware of the many indigenous peoples past and present and their dignified Nations and cultures who care for the land with
092strength and resilience bbsd recognizes the histories of the land in Colorado and the survival of the many nations that carry their oral Traditions into the present it is bvsd's responsibility to educate ourselves our communities and our students so that we can embrace the wisdom and knowledge of indigenous peoples and actively stand together to address injustices in offering this land acknowledgment we affirm and honor the history wisdom oral traditions and resilience of indigenous people and recognize the responsibility to care for and appreciate this land together thank you I'd like to remind everybody that the mission of the Boulder Valley School District is to create challenging meaningful and engaging learning opportunities so that all children Thrive and are prepared for successful civically engaged lives good evening everybody thank you for joining us electronically on vv22 we're glad
093to have you observe and participate in our meetings at this time is there a motion to approve the agenda for this evening moved by Stacy seconded by Kitty Laura could you call the roll please Garcia yes Gephart yes niznick rajpal yes Sergeant yes Sweeney Moran yes this yes motion passes we'll begin this evening as we always do with the superintendent's report good evening Dr Anderson and I'll turn the floor over to you good evening board president Gephart members of the board I have a few updates for you all this evening so something incredibly important happened since our last meeting the school year ended we had a great last week of school just before Memorial Day we wrapped up the year staff saying goodbye to our students on Thursday May 25th with continuation ceremonies yearbook signings
094classroom celebrations and always a few tearful farewells at the end of the school year on Friday the 26 teachers had a work day completing the report cards cleaning up classrooms and just want to recognize all of our colleagues here in bvsd where this is their last year and whether they're retiring or moving on we wish them all well um also uh Just One Last Time congrats to the class of 2023 we had a graduation ceremony on Wednesday May 24th several ceremonies Arapahoe Ridge Boulder Universal Injustice high schools held their graduations we wrapped up graduation season on Saturday May 27th with New Vista High School at Chautauqua the following week board members we had a really important meeting for those of you that were able to attend our connect with bvsd session that we held at
095Creekside uh while we were there we had a group of parents whose students were on IEPs who really wanted to have a deeper conversation with the school district we were able to make that happen it was a three hour meeting I think that we we received a lot of feedback there were a lot of stories shared some lived experiences definitely some opportunities for us to look at our practices I had some great suggestions a lot of emotions in the room quite frankly and we know that we have some work to do our team is work taking this feedback we've translated all the feedback we're posting it online in English and Spanish and in a really transparent way and now that we're going to be working towards next steps board members you'll hear throughout that through
096Communications with me and then also in the fall in our our special education update that we agreed to in prioritization but I just want to thank all the parents who were who came shared their stories not a lot of their stories were really hard for them to share and tell and just a lot of emotion in the room and I just really appreciate their willingness to trust us enough to tell the stories and give us an opportunity to work on making improvements and so I just want to thank all of the parents that were able to enjoy us to join us for that meeting so board members last week our noon improved summer learning program which we're now calling summer Summit launched we have more students in summer school this year than any other year
097in bvsd there is a ton to be proud of um in in this uh in in in in this rollout we were able to head out to Emerald and angevi middle school board members we made some significant shifts we reduced the number of days length into days added specials added SEL activities for students so we're very excited for our students who are participating in our summer Summit two more items I want to talk a little bit about our summer Bond projects again thanks to our community our generous Community we've been able to move forward with our 2022 Bond building for Student Success construction Crews have mobilized on several School sites for the summer Bond projects Aspen Creek pk-8 and El Dorado pre-k-8 large-scale roof replacement projects are underway hope they didn't get hit with that
098hail Rob the other day hopefully they're they're doing okay activity started Meadowlark for several projects in the school and around the site and at Boulder High School's Rec field cruises started to work to replace the turf field as you could see here and refurbish the bridge this month fencing and the construction trailer will be moved to move Vista to prepare to break ground in July we're excited about all of these improvements and again thank you to our voters for approving our last Bond a bond issue in in 2022. and then finally board members I would love to end my comments with our student moment so for tonight's student moment I'm excited to introduce Edmund Chavez from Boulder Prep Charter School Edmond where you at come on up Round of Applause for Edmond so board members
099this is the last student moment for the year and as you know they've been an outstanding opportunity here from our students about activities and efforts they've LED in our schools and Community Edmond was so intrigued after reading the 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay which was made into the movie knock at the cabin by m night shylamon that he did something incredible he spoke to school administrators whether they could have a class on the subject and not did they not only did they oblige but they handed the lectern over to Edmund who's here tonight to share his experience on teaching this course at Boulder prep edmonada turned over to you I'm on the 27th of January I emailed the staff at Boulder Preparatory High School and requested I
100teach a literature class on Paul trembly's that happened at the end of the world even though I had spent days breaking down the book into themes topics and sections I haven't I hadn't sufficiently planned for the human component teaching a class would entail the class didn't go as planned yeah we got behind on the book on the first day and the lessons I had in mind had to be cut in order to catch up with the book many students didn't have the motivation to engage with the lessons or consistently read the book at the end of the first week only two students consistently read the book and only one consistently read the book by the end of class like during the day when my co-teacher Curtis Smith was out I met with each student individually
101after I had met with each student individually I realized their lack of motivations and shortcomings in the class were in a reflection of me however a reflection weren't a reflection of them but a reflection of me as a teacher after talking to a particular student their Insight revealed to me the shortcomings of formatted and likewise unformatted classroom setting entails they were perfectly capable of understanding the themes and the ideas of the book but couldn't engage with the lessons in any meaningful way thank you I have to say that teaching my peers was a privilege and one I would never trade for the world it was a privilege to be part of everyone's educational journey and it was a privilege to teach along Mr Smith a teacher I greatly admire overall this opportunity has provided insight
102into what I've always wanted to experience as a student I have always wanted to experience teaching up close and personal this experience has shown me the limits of what being a teacher in this country is like We As Americans have a desire to valorize our demon or demonize teachers for all of their actions which we can put onto unfair scrutiny for the health of the students and the teachers I would like more widespread change in this school system while this experience has taught me that I want to question being a teacher I think it leads to the unda undoubtedly undoubtable realization like that I want to be an educator [Applause] for Edmund and you know Edmund being being reflective as a teacher is one of the best qualities that you can have so I I
103congratulate you and thank you for for stepping up and being courageous and doing that for your classmates and that board members is the end of my superintendent's remarks happy to answer your questions Nicole I have a question regarding summer Summit are we keeping track in any way whether it's achievement attendance survey information on how this new format is received by families and student participants compared to the old format I don't know that we have a compared year-over-year comparison on on um it just depends on how many of the students that attended this year attended last year I do know that we are taking uh some of the end of the year data for each individual student that we refer to and we're going to give some post assessments after the the whole month for some
104academic growth but let me check with the team on what we're doing in regards to student experience I think there's some good things we could potentially measure there thanks Kitty I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed hearing from Edmund and How brave he is to take this on I mean it's scary your first time teaching a class when you have a degree in education so good for you for trying it and good for you for being so self-reflective we can't wait for you to come back and be a teacher Stacy yeah I I want to um say how much I enjoyed that student moment and I've said this 100 times that was now my favorite student moment um but you don't have to answer this but I'm curious what about that book spoke
105to you so much that it made you want to teach your peers I have found over the years that students it takes one book to make them interested in whatever it is teaching or some kind of subject it's just one book that they get their hands on so I'm just interested in what how you know what was it about that book that spoke to you you don't have to answer unless you want to but you want to can he yes you can come back up if you want to thank you um why I really wanted to teach this book in particular and while I and what I really wanted to teach my classmates was um like Boulder prep actually like is a school for like kids who don't thrive in the traditional bvsd school system
106and this book is about a traditional family unit whose lives are like are kind of at risk because they don't adhere to the traditional family Norms because this book uh it deals with like a gay couple and their daughter and whatnot and so I felt it was like a really good lesson like to teach my peers because it's like even when you don't conform to like societal Norms it doesn't mean that like you're like just like deserving of being like just like thrown out or put in danger like this like you really have to stand up for yourself and really learn what your values are and decide if you know if that makes you like incompatible with like with like uh people and uh structures that will allow or not allow this to happen and
107whatnot [Applause] put you on the spot but I was curious so thank you very much great question and wonderful answer and you know what I would like to take a picture with you if we have a photographer around we didn't do okay Richard do you have anything else um Lisa uh I admin great job I taught a high school language arts and it's not easy it sounds like you learned a lesson in your first few days that many of us never learned so congratulations and I look forward to seeing where this path takes you and I'll just join that was awesome I think there are probably a few of us tearing up when you gave that last answer including me because it was so good and so spoken from your heart and and I think
108you have a great future in front of you so thank you for coming and sharing your your journey with us and um and then I just um Rob just I will follow up on Nicole's question I am curious this won't surprise you given my last comments how we're gonna know if this new summer Summit is um achieving what we wanted to where we need to tweak it so just kind of when we'll get a report back on how it looked and what the future looks like and how we're going to tweak it to continue to improve that experience for our students so I can see you typing so I'm assuming that's uh yeah we'll get back to it sometime okay so um can we get a picture right we will now begin the public participation
109section of the board's meeting members of the public who wish to speak at tonight's meeting were asked to sign up prior to noon today by submitting the request to speak during public participation form that can be found on the bvsd website or by contacting the board secretary Laura Shafer public participants have the option to attend the meeting in person or join and present their comments via Google meet the board respects the rights of the public to speak on matters concerning the operation of the schools the board does not endorse the comments of any speaker and reminds all who speak that they are responsible for their own speech please know that this is a listening opportunity for the board and the board does not engage in a dialogue or answer questions as part of public participation
110the Board needs time to consider the comments made and may include items on future board meeting agendas to address the issues raised by our public and community to ensure that our meeting is conducted in an orderly manner we ask the person to address the board one confine your comments to matters that are germane to the business of the School District Two recognize that students often attend review our meetings speakers remarks therefore should be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through 12th grade students I may interrupt warn or terminate a participant statement that is unrelated to the business of the district or inappropriate for K-12 students please limit your presentation to two minutes if you run out of time or would like to share additional information you may email the board you will see a
111yellow card when you have 30 seconds remaining when you have 10 seconds you will see the orange card please wrap up your comments at the end of your two minutes a timer will sound and your microphone will be muted we have one speaker tonight on an agenda item and several speakers on non-agenda items so we will begin with Felicia Gorman who is speaking remotely I believe I do not see her online okay we'll see if at the end if she comes back online all right next we have Sean Ward also online yes and he is here okay hi there can you hear me okay hope so we can hear you go ahead okay hi I'm a parent of a third grader in the district I appeared at the last meeting to discuss the state of
112school age care it's uh also called Sac sometimes you're probably familiar with sax a provider of critical child care services in bbfc um including before and after care services that many working parents in the district rely upon in 2021 this board made the decision to make Sac the exclusive provider of on-campus services at schools in bbsd the results of that decision was to push out the YMCA which had successfully been providing programming at schools for many years the YMCA and several organizations resisted the decision but the board pushed forward based on the strong recommendations of several bbsd leaders including superintendent Anderson and the executive director of Sac who all represented publicly that Sac would provide a highly dependable and available service unfortunately that is not how Sac has turned out for before and after care
113services sac and 2023 is badly underfunded and understaffed with extremely limited capacity at schools throughout the district in fact the registration process for before and after care programming at sac in 2023 2024 was a complete disaster with most schools reaching capacity with one after one hour after the registration portal opened at 6 30 a.m in the morning in early May I had emailed the board in several times about this issue and received no response what I've been asking for uh is simply an answer to it to a very straightforward question what is the board and bvsd Leadership doing to correct this situation and to increase funding and Staffing for Sac so that parents have an available service for child care I would greatly appreciate a response to this question thank you for your time and
114consideration thank you the next speaker we have is Stacy green who's been given two minutes by Trisha Carpenter hi all good evening president Gephart board members Dr Anderson my name is Stacy green and we are here again on behalf of Boulder Valley gifted and talented or bvgt again both Drew Valley gift and talented's mission is to educate our community serve as a source of support for families and Educators and to Advocate on behalf of GT students we were really pleased with the gifted education monitoring study presentation at your last meeting and even more encouraged by your excellent insights and questions as bvsd's largest special population the 5135 students in our district need school board members who understand their unique and neurodiverse needs and who are committed to increasing GT student support as the study recommended
115even during a time of financial uncertainty as Dr Anderson said so clearly the needs of gifted Learners are real and we need to make sure we are meeting those that takes money and resources and as board members Garcia and Sergeant expressed these students have not received the resources that and the level of support that they have needed for a very long time in the interest of continued conversation we thought it would be helpful to share six common concerns that bbgt hears from our community many align directly with the gem findings I will share a few of these and then pass the Baton to my colleague first GT students have vastly different educational opportunities and experiences depending on where they live and go to school in our district open enrollment is not a realistic or desirable
116option for many this presents an equity issue as many GT students can't access an appropriate education in their neighborhood School environments as Dr Anderson and board member rajpal pointed out these discrepancies create real school choice concerns for families second the gem recommended increases in GT Staffing let us reiterate Dr Nativity Miller's point at your last meeting with only a couple of exceptions bvsd does not have certified GT Educators in our schools instead gifted and talented advisors with allocations of as little as 5 to 10 hours per week at many schools advocate for GT support these positions do not require a college degree they are not well compensated and are non-union represented GTA positions also tend to have very high turnover for example at my children's elementary school we are currently hiring our sixth GTA in
117four years we are excited to learn that GTA allocations will now be based on the number of GT identified students in the school however we must take care that this doesn't further centralize GT students into certain schools and leave schools with smaller GT populations under-resourced students deserve support in every corner of our district third due to funding limitations gtas have been instructed to focus only on two functions identifying students and writing and overseeing state required Advanced learning plans or Alps rather than helping enrich students day-to-day experiences with defined classroom interventions in effect we are identifying students for a program that at many schools barely exists sometimes Alps are no more than a plan for a student to do extra work outside of school hours and this needs to change as Alps are reimagined fourth many
118of our talented teachers and administrators have little training in GT specifically teachers are charged with providing academic differentiation but many do not have the resources background or time to do so with confidence professional development and GT education is offered to staff but has not been required the gem recommended that such professional learning be mandatory for staff and we wholeheartedly concur thank you thank you our last speaker is Alice sreenivasan hi I'm Aleister navasen and also a board member of Boulder Valley gift and talented and I'd just like to add two more points to what Stacy shared that we frequently hear from other District families there are very there's very little support for our youngest gifted Learners although Colorado schools have an obligation to serve K-12 gifted Learners Boulder Valley gifted and talented receives ongoing reports
119that many bvsd schools discourage identification and therefore intervention before the district's second grade screener and because of that many children are waiting years to access the instruction support and services that they need we can't forget that these children develop perceptions of school as a place for them in these very first years of their school experience and finally as president gephard pointed out at the last meeting there are many misperceptions about GT students even sometimes impacting the services services offered to them some are not high Achievers and some don't aspire to be even those who are can suffer under the weight of Behavioral issues social concerns perfectionism bullying anxiety depression and even self-harm our school staff needs continuing education regarding the unique social and emotional needs of GT students including twice exceptional students which means they're
120gifted and also have a learning processing or other exceptionality such as dyslexia and GT students can be incredible sources of Pride for our community even while experiencing those challenges so just imagine how they could soar with sufficient support and engagement we love the idea of considering the wider mtss umbrella to help provide those critical resources and looking at other parts of this District budget to help do so as well we are delighted that this board is shining a light on these pervasive issues through the gifted and education monitoring study and is committed to increasing support even during a time of budgetary challenges bvgt looks forward to continued partnership so that all bvsd students receive a vibrant and Equitable education thank you thank you um Laura have we seen Felicia I have not okay so I'm
121assuming that she's not available tonight maybe we'll see her in August when we reconvene so that concludes um our board communication sorry our Public Communication we will move now to board communication who wants to go first uh Kitty yes thank you to everyone who spoke to us today and thank you parents of what we used to call it tag but GT students who are advocating for your kids because that's something I didn't do enough of with my kid because I had been a teacher and I knew about those parents who were a pain in the neck but anyway thank you um there are a couple things I want to talk about first of all is the use of the term latinx or latinx um those of you who've been listening to board meetings know I've
122brought it up a couple of times and I did some research on it and what and I'm going to talk about why I am not using that term um one of the things that troubles me is that this was created by English speakers with a Spanish word um language has evolved uh new words are created all the time but I I think it is highly presumptuous for speakers of one language to create a new word for speakers of a different language um only four percent of people who identify as a Latino use that term now if somebody referred to themselves as latinx or latinx I would absolutely use that because that is their preference but I uh I think it's disrespectful actually I understand the the um the thought behind it to be supportive of
123gender non-conforming people and I applaud all efforts to be supportive of gender non-conforming people but I think that if Spanish speakers want to come up with a word that they should come up with a word themselves there are other ways to refer to people from Latin America you can call them Latin you can call them Latin American and that does not denote any particular gender and so that's just my explanation of um why I will not use the word the other thing I wanted to talk about does have to do with transgender and gender non-conforming students what is going on in this country in states that are passing laws to deny the rights of transgender children not gender non-conforming children and even adults is horrifying to me Medical Care is being Limited or unavailable at
124all and the people behind these efforts to further marginalize this population clearly don't understand what's at stake and I am really proud to be part of a district that what was it 11 years ago now adopted a policy in support of trans and non-gender conforming students and staff and I really want to believe that this would never happen here but those are famous last words so I think we all need to be diligent and I'm going to be diligent about making sure we continue to advocate for all of our students for all of our staff however they identify to support them and who they are and to support our students in their learning and their ability to go out and be successful in the world when they finish with bbsd the end Richard I want
125to thank all the GT folks here for bringing up the issue of uh gifted and talented thank you so much and all the other speakers that spoke tonight uh and I Kitty I appreciate your comments uh because I do also refuse to use Latin Equis uh and I do not use that term uh Latinos in Boulder County have gotten together number of organizations have gotten together and they've agreed that the best term to use as opposed to latinx is Latina l-a-t-i-n-e not Dina that's the word that I use and that's the word that I encourage everybody else to use thank you Cole do you have anything um I guess I just want to thank our speakers for attending tonight's meeting and sharing your thoughts I appreciate the very careful watching and observing of our last
126board meeting by Boulder Valley gifted and talented and I wanted to thank our student speaker for also showing up today Boulder prep is definitely a special school in our district um the other thing I has been on my mind is the city council's thoughts on our new Vista project and where that stands and I was just wanting to know if it's a possible for board members to attend the meeting with the Boulder City Council to discuss their recommendations to a plan that we have submitted that they don't really have jurisdiction over so we have I was just wondering if we can be invited to attend that meeting when it's a future date let me let me check with with staff um is it a public meeting that you're referring to or is it is some
127other meeting well it was just in the last meeting when they asked for the our plans to be called up they had noted that they're going to be there would be a subsequent meeting with the school district staff to discuss their concerns around our parking spaces our Drive different aspects and I was wondering if that is a public meeting and if so if we could participate let me check let me check with our team and let me get back to you all on on the status of that I see Rob nodding but I can't read a slip so let me get back here Stacy what do you think Lisa no but I think that's a staff to staff meeting and my understanding is if city council wants to have a public meeting they can come
128to us and ask to appear before us rather than us before them I don't think they're considering that but that would be the way that it would work under the way that the ordinance is written and I share your concerns I think um we've worked hard to keep our relationship good with the city and with our last Bond and with this Bond even though we have sovereignty there are certain pinch points where if we are not getting along it could be a little challenging so I look forward to continuing to figure out how to iron out what happened because I it's my understanding we've worked really hard to keep them in the loop all the way along so I think it'll be in the capable hands of Rob and Rob and we'll continue to see
129what happens because I think we're breaking ground next month isn't that right Rob so that's pretty exciting and if you know if we had unlimited money of course we'd love to do everything they wanted us to do but we don't we have to operate within the bounds of our bond and what our community will afford and so I think we've worked really hard to be able to design a school and make it one that fits within all those parameters I also attended the listening session with Dr Anderson on this fed parents and I applaud all of our staff who were there and for making that opportunity I know it had to be hard for them as well because because they have to live that day to day and hear the emotional Stories being the parent
130of a neurodiverse student I understand some of the challenges that they go through and Dr Anderson I really appreciated your being there and listening and taking some of those concerns and going forward and I share your thanks to the parents and ask for their patience as we try to work through many of the issues because I know it was really hard to come and have to share this this room was packed with parents and it was I'm sure hard for some of them you could see some of them waiting until the end to see if they had the courage to stand up and and share their personal stories so I just want to say thank you and I look forward to hearing more of that I think hearing and sharing is an important part of
131what we do as a board and as a district so thank you for for doing that with your staff Dr Anderson I think it was it was really important and like I said these are systemic long-term problems that they're bringing up that doesn't mean we can't solve them it just means that it's going to take us some time to dive into them to figure out how we work within bvsd and how we work within a very regulated overbearing federal system that doesn't always serve kids needs but that's what we have to do and then I have attended a couple um events with our legislators kind of closing out the session for them and I have to say I've shared this with you and with Bill Sutter it's somewhat shocking how little they understand School finance
132and with all of our parents and Community feeling the stress of seeing assessed values which on the one hand feels great it's like oh look what my house is worth and then you do the math and see what your taxes are going to be it's a little shocking and when you hear our electives talk about how we set our own Mill levies and we are responsible for that it's a little disconcerting at that level I don't expect anyone in this room except for Bill maybe to understand how we actually set our Mills but I'm looking forward to coming up with some Communications so that our public understands how it's set what where our levers are where we don't have levers because I think that's going to be a big issue come the fall when we
133actually and in the spring when we actually start getting our tax bills that we have to pay so I look forward to that I think we certainly have the capacity to do that and so thanks Rob for being willing to try to take that on because I think it's I think it's just really important for people who are going to be struggling with that to understand what part of those tax bills are within our control and what parts are not within our control so with that I think we'll turn it over to our first information item and I'll turn it over to you Rob thank you board president Gephart our information item to present to you all this evening is a follow-up from our last update from our long-range advisory committee as a reminder at
134that time board members uh they you all provided some feedback we that feedback went back to the committee and Rob has been working with the committee and so they'll present their final recommendations to the board this evening with that I'll turn it over to Rob Price that's one thing all right good evening president Gephart members of the board Dr Anderson I am pleased to be joined tonight by Yvette Solis and Jeff Anderson the co-chairs of the long range advisory committee to present the committee's final recommendations to the board in light of projected enrollment decline over a year ago the board convened the long-range advisory committee since the committee since then the committee has met seven times become familiar with the district's current context related to enrollment they have learned about the many factors that come
135into play and affect our enrollment Outlook and have had discussions about what the data tells us as well as what the situation means for students staff families and the community and tonight we are pleased to bring you the results of the work and we hope are valuable recommendations for next steps is the board and the district prepare for anticipated enrollment decline as you are aware we have been anticipating a gradual decline in enrollment in the upcoming years however the covid-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on our enrollment accelerating this decline much more rapidly than we had anticipated the decline in student enrollment has financial implications can lead to an efficient facility operations and smaller School populations can pose challenges in that they have fewer resources to provide a comprehensive educational experience as the committee brings
136its final proposal back to you I want to review the process for getting here much of the initial work with the committee was getting grounded in the data and context for what is happening with enrollment in the district so in the first four meetings which were held between September and January staff presented enrollment data including discussing how preschool and the new Universal preschool program will impact bvsd we shared enrollment projections which are influenced in part by plans for new housing in the district we looked at the open enrollment matrices how open enrollment works in the district and how the different and the different types of schools in bvsd staff explained how declining enrollment impacts the educational program as well as the financial implications over this period of time the committee presented to the board in
137November and then the board heard an enrollment update in December in February the committee started to discuss metrics and recommendations to bring to the board the process began with staff creating a proposal document for the committee to review and revise the work continued at the March meeting also in March the committee gave an update to the board of its work to date the committee brought an initial proposal to the board at the May 16 work session then we met with the long-range advisory committee on May 22nd to review the recommendations given by the board and revise the final recommendations with the feedback that we were given and tonight we are bringing the final recommendation to you so just as a reminder for the board in the community this graph shows our kindergarten through 12th grade
138non-charter enrollment over the last 10 years in 2017 we started seeing a decline in our elementary enrollment which had an impact on overall District enrollment enrollment in 2020 then was significantly impacted by the pandemic as a previously indicated this is a five-year enrollment Outlook projection for kindergarten through 12th grade again non-charter projections are still showing that we'll be seeing a one and a half percent loss in enrollment per year so to address these challenges the board appointed the long-range advisory committee that was appointed back in June of last year to engage in long-term planning and a reminder that the committee's purpose was to develop recommendations to ensure a sound long-term facility decisions consistent with the needs of the school district and in support of the school district strategic initiatives the committee used this opportunity to
139develop metrics and guiding principles to assist the Board of Education and future decision making related to address how declining in declining enrollment impacts students staff experiences and District finances and at this time I will turn it over to Yvette Solis who will provide an overview of our draft proposal hello president gephard members of the board and Dr Anderson on behalf of the long-range advisory committee I'm pleased to present our final recommendations these right these metrics and recommendations were first presented to the board at the work session in May tonight we'd like to walk through how our final recommendation has evolved in light of the feedback from the work session and the committee's follow-up meeting sorry not sure no no no okay all right as a reminder the initial proposal was organized in three parts an
140annual report which is tier one school designation and tier 2 Community engagement process the report would be presented to the board starting in February of 2024 and would provide utilization data the number of classes per grade level or rounds for elementary schools and five-year enrollment projections by school based on the data presented in the report schools May designate as a tier 1 school or a community engagement process might be initiated to invite the community to participate in discussions about the future of the school these recommendations are focused on the entry Elementary level because that is where we are seeing the most significant impacts from declining enrollment at this time one of the objectives of these recommendations is to create transparency around the fact that the district is losing enrollment and what means for the educational
141experience at our schools for the district's budget we also wanted to create metrics that identify when school communities and the district need to take notice and when they need to respond we appreciated the feedback the board provided at the work session which was helped which has helped us refine The Proposal some of the key takeaways from us from the discussion were one that the board appreciates and supports the goal of transparency around this issue to there was concern about the small school designation and in particular that it would exacerbate migration away from the school further we were there was a concern that the adjustments in the Staffing to align with enrollment would impact the students that remain in the school additionally at this stage students are in limbo not gaining students and not engaged to
142find a solution we also heard concerns at bbsds and wrote open enrollment policy encourages flight from neighborhood schools the board also commented that information gathering is needed and there is work the board and District can start doing now with this feedback in mind the committee met again and revised The Proposal with the revisions we have sought to keep the transparency in the process while trying to reduce the sense of alarm and stigma that the initial proposal seemed to create we revised proposal the revised proposal still includes three components an annual report an enrollment advisory phase and a community engagement phase we'll walk through these in the following slides The Proposal also now includes recommendations for actions the board can take to understand and potentially impact systemic district-wide conditions that may be influencing enrollment patterns we
143are also recommending Community information gathering the recommendation for an annual report to the board is still included in the recommendations with no revisions we believe that providing this information to the board and Community annually will provide valuable transparency and understanding of the state of enrollment the next part of the proposal has been renamed the enrollment advisory phase the intent of this change in terminology is to shift from the labeling and stigmatizing of specific school to advising the board the district the school communities that enroll is trending in a concerning Direction and that may affect the student experience at specific schools when LMN elementary school has fewer than two classes per grade level and enrollment is less than 60 percent of capacity the boarding Community should be aware resource allocation will adhere to the established Staffing
144funding formula to the greatest extent possible multi-age classrooms may be necessary to meet the funding formula and Library counseling and specials may be limited this designation lets lets families know and staff know what to expect in terms of resource allocation for the school for example that part-time teachers or multi-age classrooms are a possibility for the next phase the term tier 2 has been eliminated and this stage in the process is now just called the community engagement phase this stage engages the community to be part of the problem solving in this revision the reference to continuing with the small school status has been replaced with continuing to operate at the established Staffing funding formula in addition changes to an open enrollment preferences and or boundary changes was removed as a possible outcome because it would be
145addressed in other recommendations though a number of conversations through a number of conversations the committee established guiding principles to be used to evaluate potential responsive actions in addition to what was included in the initial proposal we have added another bullet that encourages a systemic district-wide approach when appropriate as the district and the community move forward to considering specific actions to take in response to enrollment changes there are a number of factors and ancillary outcomes that need to be considered Transportation actions such as consolidating schools or placing a new program out of school will create different student transportation needs students may need to travel farther which may take them eligible from school bus transportation or require a car trip rather than traveling by foot or bike additional vehicles on the road May create more emissions and
146congestion additionally student commute time may increase the ongoing bus driver shortage may be a limiting factor another is future Capital Construction maintenance cost school buildings will continue to age and will require major high CO required major high-cost major maintenance at regular intervals these costs may be considered maybe a consideration when evaluating continuing to operate a building sorry Additionally the cost associated with renovation with renovating a building for additional enrollment or a change of programs should also be considered also environmental sustainability bbsd has made an organizational commitment to sustainability proposed actions should be evaluated in terms of impact to sustainability factors such as the cost and consumption of resources to operate and maintain underutilized buildings should be considered conversely some proposed actions may be adversely affected May adversely affect sustainability such as increasing vehicular miles traveled
147district-wide optimization of resources should also be explored when appropriate a strong theme from the feedback provided at the work session was examining what the board can do systemically to influence enrollment in The District in response the committee is providing these recommendations to the board one evaluate open enrollment policy jecc Dash r to study current attendance boundaries policy JC to identify possible changes that could rebalance numbers of Resident students within an attendance area three conduct Community surveys to identify desired or unmet needs priorities or preferences of the community another recommendation could be promote the value of the educational offerings in bbsd through Market marketing and Outreach the idea of what comes next has been discussed in the group and will largely be influenced by the direction given by the board staff has kept committee members to
148let them know sorry staff has asked committee members to let them know if they are interested in continuing with the group staff in the committee have identified the need to examine what enrollment is projected to do at the secondary level and what might mean for educational experience and budget Rob will take over at this moment all right that finalizes our presentation we'll open it up for questions Stacy thank you for that and thank you for being so receptive to our comments it's um it's obvious that you heard what we were saying um one thing I just want to comment on is I'm really glad that looking at the boundaries are part of this bigger picture I mentioned it in March during the presentation our work session or I don't remember if it was in full
149session whatever and I was told that it wasn't part of the conversation and then I mentioned it again in May I'm glad to see it here because I don't think we can talk about our enrollment without looking at that as well so I appreciate you adding that as something the board should consider again thank you it's clear that you heard what we were saying and I I truly appreciate that thank you Richard do you have anything thank you for the presentation I apologize I was not here uh during the may work session but I really appreciate the fact that you included all the input from the board at that particular May presentation I have one question regarding the the report and the recommendations that you had um and I'm looking at it hold on just
150I'm looking at the uh the the part where it talks about the looking at the cost of maintenance uh in some of the buildings that we currently operate and uh and the cost of Maintenance in some of these buildings that we operate are probably the buildings that have been that were built way back in the 1900s or something like that um I guess I have a concern with that and you know when we talk about um creating some questions from the community and you know if they see that uh I hope that doesn't mean that those particular buildings are targeted uh so anyway that's that was a concern that I have because I'm looking at really two buildings in Boulder City of Boulder we would not Target schools based on the facility condition index I
151mean the metrics we've set are specifically around number of rounds number of classes per grade level and enrollment uh so utilization of the building so that is a consideration that we will always have as we're thinking about it just the same as environmental impacts Transportation impacts Financial impacts Etc I'm just jumping quickly so again certainly I have nothing to do with the decisions the board would make at that particular schools but I think we wanted to highlight this idea that this is a very complex problem that requires optimization across many things and The Guiding principles there economics of individual school buildings is not in those bullet points it was not a top 10 on Guiding principles but the fact remains at the end of the day that you have a finite budget and so I
152think that that discussion is left there to indicate there are many things that need to be considered and cost of running a building at the end of the day might be one if everything else above it in the list is is equal thank you is that all Richard Kitty I don't really have questions but I just want to thank you for this presentation and thank you for all the work you've done this is clearly hard work to do and a lot of work so thank you very much yeah I want to thank you I think this is clearly representative of the conversations we've had over the last weeks um and also not just the conclusions you've come to here but I think it's clear from the conversations we've had that the things you've centered throughout
153this process the way you've considered our community and all of the different impacts that could be had particularly on those folks whose voices often aren't heard in this process it was appreciated and the work you've done here is excellent so thank you very much Nicole I just want to Echo my fellow board members have said it's clear you we're very thoughtful throughout this process of both engaging the l-rock community and listening to what the board was recommending and providing for feedback so I appreciate that question more for staff with the February 2024 timeline that is established for the first sort of trigger of events um and then sort of the recommended board actions that are going to be occurring simultaneously do we have um I know we have on our board schedule a time to
154talk about policies jecc je CCR JC um I know that the Census Data just came out with the more granular detail about where our folks are living within our school district but the community survey do we have a timeline of when we might be able to start that working backwards from that to February 2024 timeline yeah we we actually had a conversation about this today as we start doing information gathering my hope would be that we would have information gathering before you all start attacking those policies and so mid-september hopefully we would have that gathered um again we there may be some Logistics to that you know that would be our goal for community members that might be watching what might that look like as far as somebody that might be contacted to participate in
155a survey around these topics we're discussing um I I wouldn't be able to get into specifics uh you know obviously we're going to probably work with a third party to do some surveying around um around information that would be important um that that parents consider in regards to the schools that they choose uh in regards to you know their feelings around around whether it be attendance whether it be open enrollment policy I think that we we need to take some time to sit down with some folks to get that more ironed out but I think what our what our community could count on from the district is before we dive into these really complicated deep conversations we're going to Value um you know the opinion of our community right uh and and so I can't
156get into the specifics of what that might look like um but certainly some surveying to get us started with the conversation and then we're committed to go collecting any information that we might need all throughout these processes uh to know and understand where our community is work they can support and um and then you know given that with this framework I think will give us all the information make the best decisions possible so if our community members receive some sort of survey from The District in late August September please please fill out that survey because it will be valuable information to us moving forward yeah I would imagine that we would do a communication plan to the entire Community uh around what we're trying to do what the importance of what would be used for
157to set the context and then potentially some some random sampling just depending upon the conversations we have with with the experts in this anything else Nicole and thanks for all your hard work I um really appreciate it I just have one quick question and then one question for you rob how was the five-year Horizon figured out that you want to just look at five year projections for enrollment instead of a two or a three or a it just seems like a long Horizon to be looking at enrollment projections the enrollment projections through 28. so it's um one second 16. so your question is is do we feel comfortable going out five years is that and is that too long a horizon when we know the impacts of declining enrollment are having on us every day
158is that putting off the decision too long I'm just curious what the five-year Horizon really what we're trying to do there is just give you the data the information of what we are projecting enrollment and on Charter will look like through the district so decisions a lot of the data that we've been looking at or what are hap what's happening in our schools today and then we're doing a snapshot what's what's the school look like today from a number of rounds in utilization what's it look like three years from now and then what's it look like five years from now so just having all of that information in order to make some decisions moving into the future I think is important we feel really comfortable going out five years it's kind of that plus five
159years is where it gets you know we're not 100 confident going out as far as 10 years on exactly what there's a lot of developments there's a lot that can happen five years out but we feel really good about the numbers and the decisions we're making around those Stacy we talked about this a little bit during the work session and um what I understood was that it's just a it's just a trend line it doesn't mean that we're not going to make a decision for five years it's a little confusing but it's just looking at what that trend is going to be not necessarily waiting until five years to see what happened and then making a decision right correct so I just think for people who are listening that um this is going to be
160one of the biggest challenges we face as a district and and I really appreciate all the hard work you're putting into this um and the community engagement because that's going to be really important and it impacts everything that we do from here going forward so thank you it's infused and I think in almost every decision that we that we have to make going forward so thank you for this and I really look forward to ongoing conversations I just want to emphasize that even if we're not talking about it as a topic we know it's there we know it's impacting our decisions we know that it's impacting our ability to provide the high quality education that we want to provide to every student and so we're the board I know is paying very careful attention to
161this and so is the community and so is staff so kudos to everybody for paying attention to this and really look forward to working together on it so thanks Rob and thank you to the if you could pass on our deep appreciation to the whole committee because I know it's been a ton of work so what I um we have a legislative update which I know seems a little odd but there's just two quick things to talk about on the legislative update then we have a very long consent agenda so if we want it cool if we want to take a break before the consent or after Lisa says no at some point I'm going to need a five minute break that I can so um the legislative update really quickly the governor vetoed the
162executive session bill and I thought Kathleen could spend two minutes and just explain kind of what happened because that was one of the more contentious bills that we were trying to pay attention to through the session and has certainly impacted not us well it's us some a little bit and has made us very conscientious in how we go into executive session and what we do but the changes that they were hoping to make were very minor and those even got vetoed yes so the bill proposed to add to the open meetings law the ability for local public for any public agency that's subject to that law to be able to cure any potential technical violations of the open meetings law it did start with a much more ambitious sort of overall structure in the end
163it really came down to just that one ability to fix and it was vetoed by the governor I understand he issued no it was a signing statement issued with another bill this one it was just uh do better it shouldn't be that hard to figure it out there was also actually language in that act that would have required an attorney who's trying to bring these cases to have a client in the jurisdiction as the board knows there is a particular attorney in Colorado who is making a six-figure salary right now by challenging executive session announcements in particular and the way that local agencies proceed into executive session he testified about this bill I guess was pretty open about the fact that he felt like it was written with him in mind um But ultimately the
164governor decided that the law says what it says and with careful attention to that law that we should be able to avoid those sorts of um that sort of litigation I do know that my colleague in Cherry Creek Sonya McKenzie spent a ton of time at the Capitol working with legislators and testified on behalf a case um and I really value her expertise she's a great litigator and a great school lawyer but unfortunately this was not the year thanks so I I think we're in good shape but I just think it was an important bill that we followed and um so I just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention and then the other issue that I want to raise really briefly is not necessarily a legislative item but it is there's a matter coming
165before the Weld County Commissioners and the Boulder County Commissioners next week the June 19th and June 20th and it there was a statute passed several years ago that allows counties to come together and create Special Districts for the purpose of raising taxes to fund Early Childhood Services and the the process is that it goes in front of the County Commissioners and then the County Commissioners if they approve it it goes in front of a court and then if the court approves it then it goes on the ballot and this measure there's lots of questions because of the governor's recent and legislature's recent passing of universal preschool upk and we just have lots of questions about it and so we don't we have a process in the fall for taking a position on measures that are
166on the ballot so it's not something that the Board needs to take a position on but I do think it will circulate the proposal to all of you and what we were thinking the best plan is if you have questions send them to Kathleen Kathleen will consolidate them and then send them off to the County Commissioners the two districts that are involved are Saint Vrain and Boulder Valley but it's only two counties of those districts so it's the Boulder County Commissioners and the Weld County Commissioners um the first question that came to my mind was why not Broomfield and why not Larimer because those Ann Gilpin because there are school districts Encompass a lot of other counties and they think it just got too complex for them to do that many counties um so if
167you if the board is okay with that as a process we'll get the proposal out if you can get the questions to Kathleen by Friday and then we'll just pass those on to the County Commissioners Rob do you have anything else you want to say about that or Kathleen no I think that that you outlined a process um you know for the public for folks interesting the the hearing regarding Boulder County is Tuesday June 20th at 4 30 at the Downtown Courthouse off Pearl Street I mean there's also opportunities to intend in person online through Zoom or by phone if you go to Boulder County government and uh and um and Google the first five years early childhood development Service District it would give you all the information and so the public can get in
168formed on that as well and yeah I do think it's the right process to to pose the questions to allow the folks from Early Childhood allowance to and early childhood Alliance to answer those questions and then give give the Commissioners the information they need to make a decision and then if it proceeds to the ballot then we'll have that conversation in the fall pursuant to our new policy about how we're addressing um ballot measures and issues that might affect the district and just really briefly what this ballot measure proposes to do is raise five mils of property tax to provide services not directly to families but to service providers and then in the hope that then as service providers can have their needs net it raises around 60 million dollars that then they can charge
169less money to the families so it's kind of a a different model and we're unclear there's just lots of questions like how does that interface with um with bvsd how does it it works on a zero to five ages and as we all know upk fix is to pick up the four-year-old and some at-risk three-year-old so there's just a lot of questions about how this interfaces so for board members we'll get this out to you in the morning and if you have questions send them to Kathleen and then in August I guess we'll report back any other questions about that kitty yeah this may be way too soon but if this goes forward if Weld and Boulder get together to do this what about the schools in Saint Vrain and in Boulder that are not
170in either weld or Boulder County do we have any idea if that would be impacted I would put that question to Kathleen but my sense is that no those schools would not be included because they wouldn't be within the catchment district where the taxes are raised that's my gut um and yeah I believe that's accurate yes so um but to the extent you have questions like that I think those are really good questions to forward to the County Commissioners anything else board members all right recognizing that there's some urgency to getting to oh Rob go ahead I'm going to plow through the consent agenda okay how about a two minute break we'll make it two okay a two minute break it could be five but it's okay we are back in session um the next
171item on the agenda is our consent grouping and I ask for your patience because it is a lengthy consent agenda I will read as quickly as I can 7.1 Personnel item 7.2 approval of minutes May 23 2023 special meeting 7.3 approval of minutes May 23 2023 regular meeting 7.4 2023 2024 benefit agreements 7.5 approval of a contract Amendment for Broadline food products 7.6 approval of contract amendment to comfort USA DBA design mechanical incorporates and incorporates construction agreement 7.7 approval of contract for elevator maintenance 7.8 approval of contract renewal with computer information Concepts to renew Infinite Campus licensing 7.9 approval of contract with Colorado doorways Inc to replace door locks at various schools 7.10 approval of contract a summit hosting LLC 7.12 approval of multi-party prevention intervention collaboration agreement 7.12 approval of proposed fees changes and
172new fees revised 713 approval of purchase from durc to renew Palo Alto firewall licensing for it in the district 714 approval of superintendent's contract for 2023-24 715 approval of supreme annual evaluation 716 approval of the architectural design and Engineering change order for Bond funded improvement work at New Vista High School 717 approval to purchase technology and services from Salesforce and integration Partners elevations 718 change order to construction agreement for civil and modular site work at the Meadowlark School split funded 719 consent to renew Professional Services agreement with Ampersand Therapy LLC 720 consent to renew Professional Services agreement with back office Staffing Solutions Incorporated 721 fiscal year 24 front line renewal 722 Head Start contract renewal 723 Justice High School approval of addendum to the Justice High School charter school contract 724 resolution 2319 ratification of
173negotiated agreement between the Boulder Valley school district and the Boulder Valley classified employees Association 725 resolution 20 23-20 22 23 additional budget appropriation 726 resolution resolution 2322 which is the 2023-24 cash management 727 resolution 23 I think that's supposed to be 24. ratification of a negotiated agreement between Boulder Valley School District and Boulder Valley educational office professionals 728 Universal preschool contract 729 University of Virginia partnership customized support agreement 2023-2025 7 30 Grant bvsd grants and federal programs Consolidated Federal programs titles one through four Colorado Department of Education 731 Grant early childhood education Child Care stabilization Grant Colorado Department of early childhood cdec 732 Grant Food Service local food program Colorado Department of Education 733 Grant professional learning Mentor program Colorado Department of Education and 734 Grant safety security and Emergency Services red bag program U.S
174Department of Justice 2023 board members are there any items you wish to pull are okay is there a motion to approve the consent agenda so move by Richard seconded by Kitty discussion I'd like to discuss all of them in great detail starting at the top Kitty um if nobody I have a few I'd like to discuss one is our our letter um for Dr Anderson and I just want to draw attention to Dr Anderson we had his evaluation um we are extremely fortunate to have Dr Anderson as our superintendent we look forward to many more years with Dr Anderson if anyone wants to read the letter I was supposed to keep it to a page I couldn't get it shorter than three and I even had to add an attachment because of all of the
175great work he's done with all of our schools so I just want to say thank you Dr Anderson for your guidance for your leadership for your responsiveness to the board so I'm really appreciative of that then um just a couple other quick things the 7.12 the reason we have the fees on here is because we had to update our athletic fees we had looked at the fees before but we had to update them so that's why it's included again as a consent agenda item um a few more just quick items the Justice High School contract is just the list of waivers it's nothing that we're really doing to address the Justice High School charter contract so if people see that they should just know we're just clarifying the waivers that they're allowed to have and
176it's a much better listing of the waivers than we've had from Justice in the past and then Dr Anderson if you could just talk really quickly this is I'm so excited about this the red bag or is that something that Rob Price should talk about it's something that we've wanted I've wanted for a long time it's a it's it's actually kind of sad because what it is is something we put in our classrooms to allow our teachers to actually be able to respond to emergencies and I know that some of our neighboring school districts had these and so to be able to have these in our schools I think again just reiterates our our support of making sure that our students and our staff are safe and that safety is one of our most overriding
177concerns and so this could you just talk really quickly about the red bag a number of few other school districts are currently using it provides first aid supplies it will never be used and we'll have one behind every uh within a building so classrooms um all faces Etc uh what's unique about the red bag program it comes with a QR code that allows us to communicate with First Responders so that's technology that is irreplaceable in the in time of Crisis so there's a lot that comes with it first aid supplies being one but the QR code technology probably being the most important out of the program so we hope to get the grant that we'll be able to allow us to move forward with that word there's also QR codes that teachers can scan to
178actually be able to use the the supplies that are in the bag and then there'll be some training that goes along with the red bag but um hearing from other teachers in other districts that have this it just gives them a sense of comfort to know that they have what they need that they have an ability to communicate if they're going to need to it's placed in a place in the room where they know they can go that's the most secure in the room so I just I just want to say thank you for taking this step forward to making sure that like you say we hope we never ever have to use them but again it's um unfortunately in our times it's kind of necessary to have this so I'm deeply appreciative of the
179effort to do that and thanks to Brandon Sullivan for taking that step forward as well so if you could pass that on any other comments board members all right so Laura could you call the roll please Garcia yes Gebhardt yes rajpal yes Sergeant yes Sweeney Moran yes this yes motion passes all right so our first action item is our adoption of the 2023-24 budget I believe we have that on our um I don't see Mr Sutter out there oh there he is sorry Bill you moved um do we have a motion to approve the budget this is my kitty seconded by Stacy any questions this is the same budget proposal that Mr Sutter's presented to us over the past few meetings so there aren't any substantive changes but if anybody has any questions about it
180[Music] um he is available to answer any questions I don't see Nicole I just have one question with a four million question that we have projected right now if upk or the Food Service program comes in costing more to us than we anticipate and we have to let's say or something else comes up rig eat through that four million dollar question that we have established currently it's the lesson we've had in years past what would then where would we look to for resource if this is for something that we don't have a lot of control over uh there's also the four percent contingency reserve that's in there uh and then we have the 10 million dollar District Reserve that's also able to be spent as needed and then certainly for spending reductions or making different
181choices depending on what time of the year that information comes to us thanks and then just a question bill we approve this budget but then starting almost immediately we start to realize you know what our actuals are to our budget and so can you just in like two minutes walk through what happens going forward in the fall we have some potential candidates in the room and I just think it might be helpful to just know that this isn't signed sealed and delivered and we can't vary from it that we we look at this budget all the way through the fall and have to adopt an adjusted budget and so there's a lot of flex in this it's just our best guess and hope for where we are right now certainly uh in two minutes or
182less um so uh the entire concept of a budget right is that it's a plan it's built on reasonable assumptions and projections we're literally trying to predict the future 18 months out when we start pulling some of this information together from enrollment projections to costs of salary increases and we're doing that in December data for staff that is projecting where that final increase is going to be costing literally 18 months later all my Productions we're doing that in the spring we don't specifically know locked over and we get all the data scrubbed as to how many kids we have um so it's an iterative process and we have the ability to uh the Royal we the board has the ability to make adjustments uh you know opposed by the superintendent in the revised budget that
183comes forward in January for adoption um we're you know finalizing the year right now uh final expenditures and also Revenue collections because we collect property taxes all the way into August that are accrued back into the current fiscal year so there's a moving parts for sure over the next um six-ish months as far as really being able to dial in exactly where we are that's why we keep at a reasonable balance and you've presented multiple times all the different check-ins that the board will have starting in August and so I just want people to know that once we approve this budget as you said it's a living document and we will continue to look at it as we go forward because we can't predict exactly what's going to happen we we come in pretty close
184most years but yes all right all right thank you can we um we already did a vote we we had a motion we have to do the vote now Garcia yes good part yes rajpal yes Sergeant yes Sweeney Moran yes is this yes motion passes our final action item is the cancellation of the June 27 2023 regular board meeting is there a motion to approve move by Stacy seconded by Lisa sorry looking this way um Laura any conversation about this anybody dying to have the meeting speak now all right can you call the roll please Garcia yes Gebhardt yes rajpal yes Sergeant yes Sweeney Moran yes is this yes motion passes the next item on our agenda is policy action items in consent grouping including 9.1 adoption of board policy jlcm access to medically necessary
185treatment in the school setting 9.2 board policy igdj interscholastic Athletics and activities 9.3 retirement aboard policy bdfc Preschool Council are there any items board members would like to pull from the consent grouping seeing none is there a motion to approve the policy consent grouping so moved by Kitty seconded by Lisa or Stacy any discussion I just want to say I'm excited that we get to eliminate one of our policies and I'm even more excited about the changes IG DJ was so old and hard to read that I am grateful we were able to update this policy and bring its language really into what we expect here in bbsd so thanks for that work on that Stacy yeah I also want to comment on ID IG DJ um there's two very important parts to that policy
186that we're not there before one is that we expect all coaches to use a district approved communication platform which is a really big deal and for us to put that in policy is really not insignificant and the other is requiring coaches to have some sort of say sport training those of you involved in club sports know that that is that's the norm coaches do have to have safe sport training all volunteers have to and I've inquired at chess so why it's not part of a Chessa requirement and the answer is that most school districts have their own type of training like that I don't know if that's true or not it's not true here on bvsd and so I think it's really important that we have this in policy and I just want to thank
187board members is for bringing this forward it seems like such Common Sense policy that all of our coaches would need to use the same platform in communicating with their student athletes and their families and go through training and it was kind of like you mean we don't do that so thank you for bringing that forward go ahead so as I've mentioned before I'm the school board member on the chassis board and I mentioned this policy at our board meeting last week and there was a lot of interest around the table to get our policy once it's approved so I will be sharing that we are on The Cutting Edge Kathleen so again many thanks I think I just think this is awesome so thanks for bringing this forward and it's nice to be able to
188help other school districts as well so share away um can you call the role of Laura please Garcia yes Gephardt yes rajpal yes Sergeant yes Sweeney Moran yes this yes motion passes so I think to scroll down my what agenda here no policies being pulled I think we're at the end of our meeting so the next item on here and Lisa I want you to notice the time I'm incredibly impressed um future agenda requests Richard you know we frequently talk about the universal preschool program and some of the problems that exist because of universal preschool and we do have a local Coordinating Committee or Council but we have never had any conversations with that group and I think that it would be appropriate now for us to see if we can't schedule a time with
189the lco for Boulder County just to make sure that we all are in step with what they're thinking with our our needs Etc so if we can do that so Rob I think that's we have a upk update so if we could reach out to the lco and see if they could come or if we could somehow partner with them or figure out what that looks like we'll just put that on your plate to think about I need to think about how that would work given the already constraints of time that we that we'd have in that meeting and it's August 8th so it's like one of the first meetings that we have that's not to say that we can't do something let me think about that and then um president's privilege I should have
190brought this up yesterday during prioritization but what I'm hoping is that and I'm looking at Frank right now is that we can think about what kind of policy we can be thinking about in Kathleen as we go forward to give our teachers and our students some idea of how we're going to be incorporating the use of artificial intelligence and and platforms like Chachi BT I it's screaming in front of us ahead of us and I look around this room and none of us are of the age group that's probably figuring it out and we need to make sure that somehow we give some guidance I know well your kids if they're out in the other room which I think we all saw that disaster so I'm just hoping Rob that we can think about thinking
191about policies and what kind of guidance we can give to our community and to our teachers and to our students sooner than later because I think we're going to end up with some teachers who are comfortable with it so I'm a warrant we're just going to end up with a whole batch work and I think that's even more dangerous than not having a policy so staff is working right now on really understanding the benefits and challenges of of AI preparing for the fall to try to begin to give some guidance and so I think that alliance with some of the work staff's already doing great thank you so I wish everyone a restful and awesome summer and we will be back here in early August motion to adjourn oh wait two more okay yes go
192ahead Kitty um I know I emailed everybody but if you haven't had a chance to look at that AI um presentation they did at casby it's very interesting anything else for the good of the cause all right meeting over [Music]