FEAS Regular Board Meeting - March 10, 2025

001I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and we have all of our board members here um do you want to recognize any yes we have a number of guests tonight and I'll make an adjustment to the agenda as well that I sent out to in an email earlier today so we have Mr Mike Thompson here he had a quick presentation um Amy torac will be here for data Carrie gray is here for data as well for middle school and then Beth rler is here to do a little fun time with the mimo board and I think we're set um the changes to the agenda will be we'll after public uh we'll

002do consent and then public participation Mr Thompson do a quick AED uh presentation and then we'll move into the elementary data and then we'll move into Middle School data and then the mimo board presentation and then the superintendent report this is a showand tell board meeting tonight we have no action items so we felt this was a really good time to give some updates because we actually have some time to do that great thank you and thank you for coming tonight I appreciate you guys being here um with that we'll move on to the consent agenda items are there any comments questions on the minutes financial report or approval of the agenda the agenda if not I would entertain a motion to approve Liz and do we have a second second Wes again any other

003questions comments all those in favor I I any opposed great public participation anybody like to say anything now no all right uh with that we will move on to the AED presentation by Mike Thompson okay so some of you might be familiar with the story of Jeff Bruner but uh I'm going to tell it from from my point of view of what happened on April 20th 2022 on April 20th 2022 um I was on my way from practice um over to V Central High School where Kingsley was playing benzy baseball softball we got done with practice and I went over to to scout the game beny and Kingsley being rival schools and of course you want to find out as much information as you can so I I arrived there at about 5:15 and only

004the find that there was no softball game going on I was quite confused as the baseball game was still going on but there was no softball game going on so I texted one of my one of the moms from Kingsley I have a couple of my play for for Kingsley and as it turned out the game was canell part way into the first inning because the home plate umpire Jeff Brer had collapsed at home plate and um had had a heart attack now what had happened after that is there were two ads from the Kingsley team uh Jason rovs and Jason Hamilton who were off duty Grand Travers County police officers um immediately they sent for the AED now if you know anything about uh Ben's school and where the softball field is related until

005the building it's fair distance away and who knows if if the building might have been locked so coincidentally Jason Roff who was a dad of one of the Kingsley kids was late for the game Su we actually drove a squad car to the softball game and the AED that they used was actually 50 yards away as opposed to at the school building and Jason rovs and Jason Hamilton uh saved Jeff's life I'm sure read about that in the paper so um four days later Jeff had bypass surgery and is is alive well um today now the mhsaa has instituted a three minute rule so you have to have an AED within three minutes of your playing service whether it be golf or track or whatever it's within three minutes so um I know some of

006my fellow coaches and schools actually carry portable ones with them to away games now ours at here at our field is very very close it's right on the outside of the of the Press Box at the field it's an easy easy reach that's not always the case with other schools so I asked our school district if we could buy up a portable one and thank you for the school district for buying us or buying the the district a portable one that we take that three minutes and turn it into quite literally 30 seconds well back in January I had the great pleasure of of introducing Jeff runer and the coach association convention in M Pleasant is because we honored him with umpire of the year as it turns out Jeff is one of his duties

007nowadays retired he and his wonderful wife when they run across a little money they will actually buy aeds and then donate them to schools so Jeff Bruner has actually donated a top-of-the-line AED to our program um that we can take um with us to a away games the whole one is obviously in in real good shape hopefully Zim and I don't have a stroke or heart attacks within the next few years hopefully that doesn't happen but I wanted to make sure that we get we we allowed to thank Jeff Bruner and thank the district for the ads we actually now have two of them the one that I have here and then the one that the district bought that we can use for you guys can take it to your track meets or whatever but

008what it's going to do obviously is it's going to keep our players our coaches our fans the officials uh much safer than having to run 3 minutes to go get the so uh the only thing I wanted to mention with you tonight is thank you for the district buying U us one I will gladly loan it out to in the fall or in the winter for a a team that needs it just just in case you just never know hopefully nobody will ever have to use it but it is good piece of not mind knowing that we have it right in our Dugout and if anybody ever needs it then it's um it's available so thank you to the district and big huge thank to Jeff for you know these are expensive of gadgets here

009so big thank you to the district and a big thank you for Jeff for doing that for us that's great thank you thanks for your passion on it too it's awesome well I you know we're not getting any younger so hopefully we we never have to use it that's right thank you very much we appreciate it thank you Mike so we just so we have the one at the Press Box yes and then we have the one he's got but then another mobile one and we have another mobile one does the athletic trainer take it with them at benzy when I was at benzy there were three and the athletic trainer I believe was one of the people who like whatever game they were at that day and they had like a cart and they

010would like like golf cart and if they needed to get from one to the other they would well the trainer doesn't travel typically okay and what we'll do with this one the extra well the other one the extra one will'll have out at the track or wherever else who knows where we could be but home games our trainer has it here gotcha y cool yeah cuz Mike mentioned that he'll loan it out but that is to say that there are two that belong in the district and so whenever a team whatever team it is is traveling somewhere two of them will be able to go with them at any time got you go do we have one in the school we have two in the school okay two in the high middle school high school

011thank you that's great cool thank you all right Elementary School data data okay uh well thank you for having us we are going to present on winner data so just wanted to let you know that uh this was data that kids did in January so three times a year kids take our screener which is NWA and that's a multiple choice test that kids take on the computer every kid in our school also sits down and reads with us oneon-one the title team and they also take a math assessment as well to let us know individualize standards that they need so you might remember that I was here in the fall and now I'm here in the winter um although thankfully I doesn't look like this anymore and then I'll be back in the spring I'm

012sure to share the data again so just um you know I have to point out that all the data in the world cannot accurately uh measure the love and heartbreak that goes into kids whose needs are beyond the CRI and so I just wanted to point out that our FBS staff goes above and beyond to meet all student needs not just AC so this is kind of showing our tier one tier two tier three and if you look to the left side we hope that 80% of our kids can access tier one classroom curriculum and that's enough we might have about 20% sometimes more that need Title support or special education support and on the other side we actually have about 20% who need that extra challenge um as well so just pointing out that

013you know the classroom instruction need about 80% of our kids needs we can keep clicking here for a minute so if we look at the arrow here for math this is going to be percentile so this is not percent 50 does not equate to an e um it's percentile so if a 100 kids took this test we would have been 50 out of 100 um again if we had took the top kids the top schools in the world someone would still have to be one and someone would still have to be 100 does that make sense so in the fall um we were in the 50th percentile for Math and now in the winter we're in the 59th percentile uh so huge gains in map from fall to winter if we look at our reading

014we were in the 56 percentile in the fall and we're in the 56th percentile in the winter a couple things to note here we did Summer tutoring last year and almost all of our summer tutoring was read so Arch con came in higher than we would have anticipated for reading because of all that summer tutor also the state of Michigan is putting a lot of money into Ela right now and so every school is working really hard in the state of Michigan to get us in that top 10 and 10 years so again the fact that we're maintaining our percentile I think is something to be proud of it's also important to note that um the rate of improvement changes over time so kids do have to continue growing and learning to stay in that

015percentile if that makes sense the expectations get higher as we get through the school year so I just want to point out here that we have growth achievement from Fall to winner and then we have achievement data which is just one moment in time so we're going to look first at our screener which is that computerized test where kids take multiple choice a little more than 40 questions and we're going to start with math and um my old eyes I might just have to move up here uh so we were in the 64th person percentile for growth so again if you look we were in the 35th percentile for this kind of higher end growth which is great it means that we're growing our High kids in math um and if we look here we

016went from the 50th percentile in the fall to the 59th in math now I'm going to show you a quadrant report I showed it to you in the fall as well but our goal is to be in these top two boxes high growth but low achieving but they're still growing at a really high rate or or high growth high achievement that's what we really want to see right so now if we look at math remember this is math we have most of our grade levels in high achievement high growth for math this is where we're falling as a school and we have one grade level that is in high achievement um no high growth but still kind of bordering on that low achievement but note that we're not way over here we're right on that

017line of high achievement high growth so after BS students are in high achievement high growth in most grade levels this is incredible and something I've only been here 3 years but something that we haven't always been able to say over the last three years so super proud our staff and students should be so proud of the growth that they're making and I want to say that for the first time we cut off half of that graph because we didn't have to show that lower price that's really exciting it is so now we're going to do the same thing for reading we were in the 503 percentile for growth again from fall to winter and if we're just looking at achievement data 56 to 56 again we are hoping to be in the top two quadrants

018for um high growth low achievement or high growth high achievement so if we look here again four of our grade levels are in high growth high achievement which is where we want to be our school is there and then we have two grade level that are bordering right on that right real close to that high achievement high growth okay sorry you can skip this one nope you're good okay language this is rler so language is a little bit different of a test especially because it's only taking place with second to fifth graders so our K1 students don't take language test but what's unique about this test is it's a a read it's more of a reading test because they have to read it themselves there's no clicking a speaker for it to be read aloud

019like this test is really going to give us a good accurate picture of what we could expect like on an mstep test where it's just up to them and that test endurance and that selft talk to go through and read their questions and for our growth we were actually in the 63rd pertile in the area of growth and what's also something to celebrate is in the achievement percentile we were at 51st to 58th which is phenomenal to see and as you look to the right you also see that growth appearing um to the right of the as well for our language tests especially as a second grade teacher um we tend to look at this to give us a good insight as to what we can better do to prepare for them for third grade

020because this is what mstep will look like for them um when they get to third grade too um and then when we look for the quadrant uh chart for our language test this is also a really exciting uh point of data almost all of our grade levels when it comes to this language test are still operating in this high achievement high growth area area and again just like uh Amy said we're still so close and um what's great about in second grade and we take this test it's actually 44 questions long the students read it themselves we take breaks we're really working towards um uh getting them in a good place to take this test so uh they have the confidence to to really do their best and and they celebrate it too so this

021was really nice to see when it came to our winter scores in the area of the language test for NWA you might be wondering like what is language assess that's going to be our language standards so that's vocabulary that's grammar that's our writing standards and just wanted to remind you I'm sure you remember that we adopted step up to writing to supplement our WR our CA curriculum and so obviously getting really nice gains out of that so again our students should be so proud of themselves for the screener most grade levels and our school as a whole are falling in f um high achievement high growth for reading language and math so thank you for all your support to help us get there can we go back one slide I do want to point out

022though that while we're happy to be here we want to be here right we want to get we want to get here we want our grade levels to get here so while we're celebrating we're going to talk about this towards the end of the presentation this is exciting and we're proud of it but we want to get here to this top right corner so we also as I mentioned have all of the kids in our school coming and read to us now at kindergarten that looks like uh sounds and words and letter name and letter sounds um at first grade it's nonsense words and oral reading fluency and it's second through fifth grade it's oral reading fluency they're reading a passage in one minute and we're we're uh using formative assessments to guide our instruction

023so I just want to point out let's just pretend we're a first grader for a minute in the fall the national expectation is 29 words per minute then it jumps to 53 words per minute in the winner in 70 words per minute in first grade A lot of those are CBC words like cat dog it might be some high frequency words like said but look at that rate of improvement 1.27 that's huge right so again just kind of wanting to point out that even if a child is in the 30th percentile and they stay in the 30th percentile look what they have to do to stay in the 30th percentile does that make sense they still have to make huge gains all right so now if we look this is kindergarten and this is looking

024at letter names and letter word sound what you might remember is letter names don't get introduced to our in our curriculum until about now so again our teachers in kindergarten introduced letter names uh much earlier this year and that is showing but I really think in the fall you're going to see this green jump really large like a really large amount in the spring so again just know it's that letter name that is holding us back and our sounds are NE in first grade this is oral reading fluency remember they're going to be at 53 words per minute right now look at that green isn't that huge it's a huge jump and look how much smaller our red is in second grade the report just looks a little different but we're looking at the same

025thing so over in the orange here are kids that are below average or well below average then yellow is below average green is average and then our Blues are here now it's important to note for ases that we don't want get higher than the 50th percentile that is the goal because kids can read faster but then it no longer is interesting to listen to It's too fast it doesn't have expression it doesn't have intonation kids aren't stopping at punctuation so while this blue is good it isn't the goal the goal is the green if that makes sense so we're not trying to push all our kids into these different Blues do you guys have any questions about that okay and so we're looking for growth so again if you can see here we went from

026the 50th to 55th and plus 12 other here you know 12 percentile more so exciting we can look at third grade again seeing nice gains we had 11 kids in the orange now nine 24 now 20 57 to 66 in the green that's big you might remember from the fall too what happens in fourth and fifth grade kids aren't reading out loud as much anymore they're reading in their heads more especially at home right so again you'll see nice gains here as well we had 30 6 to 27 19 some of those oranges move to Yellow which we do want to see and some of those yellows here move to Green again green being the focus and again at fifth grade um again this is really noting here that kids aren't reading out loud as

027much in fifth grade and so the teachers are kind of talking about things they can do to get kids reading more out loud in class we also take a math assessment and I just have one example here for you you kindergarteners get assessed on prek standards we're trying to make sure there aren't any holes in math now that's important for special education that's important for title but it's also important for the classroom so if you can see this standard here the teacher can look and say oh what kindergarteners still need help on is writing their numbers a lot of reversals three and M are really confusing for a kindergartener so again this just gives teacher quick a teacher quick data to say okay this is the standard we need to work on so I just

028wanted you to have an example of that so those are individual students these are I took their names off obviously but um they are individual students and these are individual standards um at prek now some grade levels like second grade they gave the first grade standards and they gave the second grade standards they want to see how are they doing below grade level standards and how are they doing on what I've already taught this year and that helps us kind of close the gap for Math and then in Spring will be giving the the current year standards so we'll determine how well they performed on the current year standards so first grade we'll give first grade second grade we get second grade okay for Title One the goal is not to keep them forever although

029I love them so much I would uh but just from fall to winter we exited 13 students for reading and 29 students for math so that means they do not need Title support right now which is the goal so talking about that continuation we really we're excited for our data but like Amy said we're always looking for that next level so what are we going to continue to do to improve um not just our student performance but us as as teachers as well um so when it comes to math um three of our teachers um uh myself and Amy and uh Missy are going to be attending a math fact fluency training um which will we'll be get hopefully we'll get a lot more tools when it comes to the area of f uh math

030as we all know that's one of our our big uh things we need to work on also two of our teachers are actually Representatives at the regional math committee um and this meets once a month and it's great to share ideas get insights on what's Happening uh in the area of math as a region um also um Mrs kson also presented on the changes to the new math expressions curriculum our math curriculum is getting ready to make a new addition so um it's great to get a sneak peek of that and see what's coming down the pike and get ready for that so that's exciting in the area of math and then in the area of reading uh what are we doing in the area of reading um what's great is we uh have a

031number of us I think it's on the next one uh Mrs Watney actually wrote that Grant the 35j grant which we're really really grateful for um uh this weekend 10 of us actually attended the MRA conference because of that Grant the Michigan reading Association conference and what wasting was to talk to the other teachers in the room from all over the state of Michigan and share that we had this 35j Grant and they were so intrigued and they were like wait what are you getting with this grant so it was really exciting to share with them um we've also explored new reading curriculums just to kind of get a taste as to what else is out there we are using CK with Fidelity but also to look at the approved curriculum list that's going to

032be coming in 2026 so we're prepared if we need to adopt a new resource um with that 35 jram we're purchasing classroom library book materials and I can tell you when we were at our conference being able to see so many new books out there things that we can bring into our classroom and keep it fresh was really really great um and then we're also working with the essentials the literacy Essentials um from the state of Michigan um which are really just good practices and even um veteran teachers it's nice to have the reminder of what these essential practices are and how we can care for our students in the area of literacy and we've been doing these at all of our erws on early release days which is great um oh there's the 10

033teachers um also I forgot we also have two teachers attending the reading League conference in April I do have to say it's such a blessing to work for a school district that continually teaches teachers because the worst thing that we can do as teachers is just be stagnant in our learning and not grow so to be able to go to these types of conferences is really really um exciting and imperative are also Mrs walney finished her letters training which so incredible and just the admin training and then she enrolled in the teacher training to be a support as well so thank you this I feel like you need a a diploma C and gown get a really nice certificate you print out yourself if if you sit through a few of it you you yeah

034it's a lot and then Mrs Robinson is also our representative at that Regional committee so she goes once a month um to discuss reading and literacy with uh Area Teachers I believe right now the focus is vocabulary in the area of reading which is also one of the essential practices as well and then our title one team also attends those Regional Title meetings so we're still we're not staying as a bubble and we're really trying to grow and work with our tools within our region and our state which is really um really exciting and exceptional to see and I think that that just we're modeling for our students learning and collaboration the learning always continues and we're work in out and working with other people within our building but also outside of building and this

035is this is us I will say it was interesting because we had 10 teachers so we had an entire table and there were other districts that did not have an entire table and what was great is because we had um almost every grade level represented we were able when we did breakout sessions to really see what are we doing in Middle School what can we do for lower L what can we do for writing what can we do for reading and the theme of the conference was read it in and write it out which was great because we were just really reminded that a lot of the practices that we we we talked about at this conference we're already doing here in Frankfurt we're already doing a power half hour for reading we're already having

036a writing curriculum adopted so there's there's other places that that are are slowly you know getting those tools but we're already so Progressive and really forward thinking that it was it was also very um reassuring to see and we just had we had fun being together and I told uh uh Mrs Schindler and Mr Talley too what was really cool is we were sitting in the lobby of the Amway and somebody yelled Red Rabbit Red Rabbit and we saw the Frankfurt bus pull up outside the Amway and all of a sudden we saw all these kids dressed in suits and it was our model un and we were like hi guys hi guys and we told everybody in the lobby we were like those are our high schoolers we know them so it was pretty

037cool it's pretty cool to be down there representing you know teachers and students and Michigan has a goal of being in the top 10 50 states in 10 years and two of their biggest initiatives are the literacy Essentials which we have now as a state birth to 12th grade and the letters training and as you can see Frankford is right with it right right doing what the state wants us to be doing so thank you for all of your support what questions might you have for us what is letters literacy Essentials for of reading and spelling it's a two-year training um that you take on your own time it's probably about 30 year or 30 hours a semester you do online classes you do reading you watch videos you have to take test you have

038to get above an 80% on the test in order to be certified and there are eight total un so and it's a really nice training for somebody with a secondary background Lear learning how to teach children to read has been something really uh empowering and and very very interesting in my RO and we do have two teachers as well trying to St and when they when they read do do they read um in front of you just an an instructor or in front of the whole group or in a group for the a testing they just read one one with an adult okay and you use the same book basically no is a passage or like a the tech sele selection and that we do use the same one for every single kid so even

039if a child's reading two years below a grade level they they do still read the same passage although we progress monitor every two weeks for any kid that might be struggling and they can read at any grade level depending on where the the assessment puts them so a struggling child doesn't have to struggle more right so if a fourth grader is reading at a second grade level every other we week they're reading a second grade passage and we're just progress monitoring to make sure that what we're doing is making them learn and grow thank you other questions I have a question first of all I thought this was a really wonderful presentation thanks a lot guys this super comprehensive and great to see the numbers as you said now you mentioned that the goal is

040to get up to that upper corner um and maybe I missed it but do you guys have like for this coming year like a hit L like a Musto kind of you know take off goals or plans uh to to keep moving things up in that direction so I think the last three slides that um Mrs rler just presented on are kind of our goals to like really invest in our teachers in instructional practices um other things that you'll notice is Mr tley and Mrs bney and I all met about a summer plan we also have tutoring for one of our grade levels after school um for six weeks so we are doing things like that as well to support our students partnering with our families with golden ticket opportunities and Game Nights uh our

041goal was to be in that high achievement high growth and so now that we're kind of getting closer to having I mean our school is there in all three areas now our next goal will be to get higher in that high ACH so what's also great too is the the the data that you saw here we also do at our our grade level data meetings which what we're doing at those data meetings is we're looking at this and we're specifically looking at what skills we need to work on um and then we're crafting small groups off of that so when we're doing our math power half hour um we're using that data for those groups and targeting those skills so if I have a group of kids that I know like they are very fluent

042readers they're doing great but they need comprehension strategies at those data days un making a group a small group specifically targeted for those needs so that way we can continue to to get that achievement up there so it's it is a it is a timec consuming process and um but it is really worth it because you want your data group your groups to be very fluid and constantly changing because if I read with the same kids from the fall all the way now they're very different children like we are learning and we are growing and so to be able to have dayto days like we did in the winter and be like nope you've got it you've got it you've got it I'm going to work with you on this is is really a blessing

043it is it is and groups are constantly changing um for you know title and for the classroom data and thanks to Mrs walney getting us all the subs which is no easy feat I know but we have a team of about six Educators who sit there for two hours and dict all the Benchmark data and then we spend the rest of the day planning for instruction which is really powerful is there a follow is there anything that you need from us to help you with the goals there is there any any any resources you're not getting or support or anything that we could provide to help you with this well we've got two readers three three potential readers so we're always we're always it's honestly like when it comes down to the like what's great

044is when you have this data and you know what groups you need but then you're like looking around you're like okay who has 30 minutes who has 30 minutes to to just sit and read with kids and volunteers to come for reading time always always always always so some people watch on TV if anybody's up for volunteering to help us with our goals please call r f Panther let us know lots of time slots lots of availability but that would honestly help without a doubt without a doubt and something you have done already is you've allowed us to have full-time music PE and steam teacher here those teachers are also taking intervention groups uh which has been really powerful so they're able to support us as well so just kind of all hands on deck

045and and we appreciate all the support you're given but you know we know you're always offering so we'll keep thanking well and I will I will at some point be approaching um Mr tley for funds to go to the Michigan reading Association Next Year Anita Archer is going to be one of the presenters and she is a guru in the science of reading and um Beth has had personal experience with her early in Anita Archer's career or earlier earlier when when she was when she when she wasn't Anita Archer she actually was in my room four times in one school year she actually worked at my horseshoe table twice and it's something to see her in action and just get inspired that's really what we like that's a lot of this is what this is

046doing is actually inspiring our teachers and that just flows down to our kids and inspires them so they've already put the the bug in my ear that next year is a must go and so I will be um asking for some help with that as we move forward um and the the other thing I want to point out is that with the Michigan reading Association conference they went um 10 of them 10 of our 12 general education classroom teachers that is an incredible investment from our incredible staff one one more followup question as you guys might know we put out the long range planning committee put out a survey regarding infrastructure needs away from like human health but just like buildings and Facilities so where we're trying to make a 10year plan for things we

047need to change and improve over a long time scale with Bond money and like years out is any from a facility standpoint how are we here with the goals you're trying to achieve is there anything that we should be thinking about again a longer term question is how are the facilities helping you with these goals or or not helping you with these goals yeah yeah that's exactly I was uh I will say uh space is always an issue I mean just from a building standpoint um so when when we're doing small groups out of Reading Power half hour in my room I actually have two tables of groups going at the same time and then we have our third group with some of our volunteers going to the library to work but just that like

048meeting space or quiet smaller space um like just flexible rooms that can be used for that probably we have volunteers hallway but I mean kindergarteners they're they're kind of distractable sometimes and so if a class is going to gym like that does kind of take you know take away from uh their attention and focus so I think just some quiet space is for kidos to work with and that's the main thing that would be helpful for in in this area yeah in this area yeah okay great thank you thank you any other questions I'm curious like um I think I'm not a teacher but my understanding is that sometimes the performance the achievement might correlate lower with economically disadvantaged do we look at those numbers like relative to other districts with in our similar demographics

049do we know how we're performing so that's what's really great about having the support of Northwest Ed the title one meetings to really dissect the data that way I know the msta dissects the data that way as well um and so knowing that we get Title One funds right B for introduce lunch so that is one of the things that we look at in our intructions okay that's great well thank you and thanks for taking your weekend and learning as teachers for at that training that's really awesome one last question um the test that we've been doing the ases and the yeah all how long have we been doing those same test like what kids like is it like our 10th graders is it like our nth graders cuz I'm just wondering like how far

050we can how long we've been doing the same test we've got a lot of data um the tests were well in place 12 ja here probably we have at least 20 years of data probably on those same on those same tests yeah as web has changed a bit so it went from as web to as web plus and I think we're still M the old as um but nwaa has has been there with revisions but it is also a spiral test test so and it's an Adaptive test so so it it grows with them yeah right so so you're not going to just stay at that second grade level like it's going to keep pushing L based on your style for the NWA for the NWA and the Delta has been around for we've probably

051used it for five years now okay that's hard the follow up that is amazing amazing thank you so much um I can say on a personal level I a kindergartener and it's great to see how she wrapped around with the teachers and with the team here at elementary school so I her teacher just sent me something today it said she read something like quilts are good or something and then I know she's in a bath intervention and just they're getting all of those important um those important like the centrals they're getting all of those set in place so that that trajectory keeps on going and that's awesome that's how you get to where you're going to climb up mountain and so really good work is happening down um so I'm talking about uh the cell

052web assessment which well previously called the C of assessment now it's called the insights assessment and so I'm not sure where um the board is at their understanding of like the social emotional learning um and so just any questions throughout this just please stop me and let me know um but the insights assessment um it measures see not very techy oh going too fast okay so the insights assessment measures um these five different social emotional learning competency areas that are identified by the state of michig or Castle collaborative collaborative for academic and social emotional learning and so these are the different areas that the test looks into um self-awareness which involves understanding one's own emotions awareness of One's Own strengths and weaknesses and understanding of One's Own cultural background self self management um understanding what

053to do to manage strong feelings and the situations that cause them social awareness involves understanding others feelings and perspectives and understanding and learning from the perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds relationship skills involved the competencies and behaviors use to interact positively with others and to form and maintain relationships including with people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds and then responsible decision making which involves the ability to set and pursue positive goals to make positive decisions even when it's difficult and to resist peer pressure and so it measures those different areas it's kind of cool to go from because this is happening down here in the elementary as well um this and this is just highlighting kind of the Middle School area but all of these go hand in hand right so the social emotional

054learning and social emotional competency really affects the academic learning that's happening in the classroom as well so this is is just um kind of a visual to see those five different competency areas that are identified by that collaborative I talked about previously um and it it's really cool to see just how intertwined um all these areas are right so um we want students to have um to be competent competent with how they're managing their emotions making responsible DEC decisions relationship skills social awareness self- awareness and then look how we all really work together to um increase that competency like the homes the communities the schools the classrooms down so from the macro to the micro level um to really help students be successful um this is just some uh reading that people could do I

055I included that in there so if they want to go into the Michigan Department of Education and check out the social emotional competency and the indicators that they have reached um competency in those areas from prek to 12th grade I think they that's there for people to kind of check out so this is an example of a student score report and so just here are the different areas um I loved when the cell web switched to insights they switched what they measured as well so previously the cell web measured three different areas and have an overall social emotional learning um percentage um and here they're directly aligned to those Castle five areas which makes it easier to help support student growth in those areas oops gosh sorry everybody oh just briefly so the green area

056that's well below average this is below average this is average and this is above average just to kind of give an understanding um and then this just kind of explains it in further detail as you saw there was that that range and so that's where a student's likely to fall 85% of their time any questions about this one so this is our district or mid sorry our Middle School um compiled data set and so it's kind of cool to see when we look at like just below average is just this little bit and the wealthy below average is just that one little percent right there that you can see in that Middle School level and then looking at Adder around average and then above average this is a really cool data set to look at

057here at bford um okay so this is our sixth grade data set so these are sixth graders this is a this is the fall assessment we'll take this assessment again um in the spring um but these are sixth grade classrooms and so it's kind of cool you can begin to see um where the grade levels falling in these areas how are they tested Yep they're tested Ed like with good it's a computer are you very self-aware kind of no it's not anecdotal it's not self-report I promise no they're they're tested um in previous and they've been tested for years so this is so and it looks can I just so the questions look different depending upon the grade level so it might be something as basic as like a child's face and it'll be like

058what emotion is this face showing um sometimes it'll be like a scenario um like you know John dropped his his milk on the cor and it's filled how should John feel um sometimes there's a a few that also will when they go to click it willon automatically go and so they're like click click click like the patience level so it it is a very good assessment but it does it's situational depending upon the the age and like what they're trying to look for and it recently changed so that may have been the the previous ver PR version they upgraded which is cool and I'm curious to see kind of some of the improvements they've made um because the cell weather was pretty static it was it was K through second grade you took the same

059test and then it was you know third through fifth grade you took the same test and so and it was pretty static but now that it's insights and it's it's um measuring these different competency areas directly um I've only seen it in the fall but it it's it's a pretty cool assessment I'm curious in the elementary level I I have previously um at my other schools but um yeah it's it's fun it's so cool to think about they're beginning to take um and recognize social emotional learning it's not bad or good right it's a skill deficit so they're beginning to see that we can begin to um work toward increasing competency in this areas I remember when I was in school we didn't have like we didn't talk about like responsible decision making or relationship

060skills or you know self-management like I I never heard that those terms and so now um the collaborative for academic and social emotional learning they're and this has been for some years now but they're really um putting it into um a framework where we can help students and be really intentional with how we're helping students so I love seeing this love it is this a national test or state test this is it's a national yeah not everybody takes it you know this is something that RISD um started I can't remember but probably like 10 years ago maybe 8 years ago um started to do and I mean I don't know prior to that how long this Frank has been doing but it's kind of a recent um okay more recent than other testing that's happened

061yes so do we have that in the Middle School sorry um like a some type of enrichment then I'm assuming right where this is taking place because I'm just not finding room for it in the other classes right yeah well just let me explain a little bit let me get through these couple next cides no that's okay I just want to be able to um show you kind of some slides that might help clarify or answer that question a little bit so it's a good question um so this is the sixth grade data uh set this is the seventh grade data set it's really it's really great data set I've seen a lot of data sets at different schools I've worked at and Frankfurt really has um a a lot of great things happening with

062their social emotional competency areas for students um this is the eighth grade data set when you look at this right above average like look at these look at these scores like that's this is amazing this is really good um this is another thing that the assessment measures so at the end of the the assessment there are um it gives students a survey about like their safety and belonging and how they feel in these areas and so um they they ask the students do you feel safe do you think rules are fair in your school do you think teachers care about you do you think kids care about you do you think teachers help me learn do you think teachers encourage and they ask them if they think that a lot or a little and then

063they come up with this graph um this is only for internal use like this isn't to compare to a different school because when there's so many variables that would impact this data set so it's it's to help hopefully for these numbers to grow within that that within that building within that population of students is it generally the same kids who are the not very likely kids you know what we don't get to know so this is something that's um that students report and we don't get to know who said what necessarily we just can try to help um improve this in general with the programming that we put into place at the middle school and in general so I know isn't that interesting we get to know the other we get to know the other

064competency areas those five but we don't get to know who says what on this survey so this is the this is what we get I think if they might break it down one more bit I'm trying to think maybe into grade bubble possibly possibly I have to check into that a little bit um but but this is I'm telling you this is a great data set too I've seen a lot of data sets um in building and and this is amazing this this is saying that most students when they come to school feel that teachers help them learn teachers encourage them rules are fair they feel safe and they feel teachers care about me and then kids care about me I know it doesn't necessarily look great but that's amazing especially Middle School level because

065that just depends on maybe the day it depends on um who said what they sometimes focus on that one thing that didn't go right that day so that they report but this is really a great data set and so I think that that really um shows um really shows that in general in the middle school kids are feeling like they belong and they're feeling safe and and though that to me is the most important thing and when that happens and that's in place that's when the academic Maring can really flourish and we all just kind of work together to create that um that growth in a lot of different ways okay let's see um this is just a slide that highlights that um just don't use this on its own just recognize that a student

066is you know a student's needs should be considered in a holistic view um it's just one piece of data to help us with programming and what a student might need I've seen students take a test and and you would think by their behavior of what what's happening what you're seeing you would think they they would fail it and then they take it and they pass it but there's a lot more that goes into them knowing what to do and being able to do do the right you know the right thing or say the right thing or know the right thing so um in in response to the question um what kind of programming is happening so this is that multi-tiered system of support this is that Visual and I just did the social emotional behavioral

067and so this is kind of that Universal base and that's where um like 80% of our students should be able to kind of get something from this they should be able to grow and learn right here just by being in the classroom setting with the program we have in place so um schoolwide expectations help with that um the community meetings the erws that we're doing all of those opportunities that we're giving students to be able to connect with one another um build those relationships feel like they belong feel a part of a community all of that is helping with this tier one growth helping them feel like they belong um these explicit scl lessons that's the move uh move this world curriculum that they're learning both at the elementary and at the middle school um

068you know just before I came over I I told a teacher over I said yeah I'm presenting with the board tonight she's like just tell them they it's so cool all these students are using words like yeah I feel really anxious or I feel really so they're able to identify their feelings and then not only just identify those feelings but then also um find a strategy or some type of um some type of accommodation or thing they can do to help them feel better so they're noticing that really that that explicitly taught lessons it's really helping in the school setting they don't always love it you know just like they don't always love math or reading or English but um it's so important for them to learn how to relate to one another and connect

069with one another um daily mindfulness activities um within that curriculum there's something called The Power of pause and so that's where they would maybe um do um breathing controlled breathing um strategies they might do just a little bit of mindfulness visual imagery things like that um and then we get into the tier two and so this is this is kind of where I I live here I do work here but I also work in tier two and tier I do a lot of work in tier three and I do some work in tier two um and so this is like the brief solution Focus Counseling like if there's a problem within the building or restorative practices so if something happened between students and they just can't work it out for whatever reason that's when I

070would come in and help them um provide an opportunity for them to restore their relationship and to reestablish that sense of safety and belongingness to make them feel comfortable um check in check out group counseling we have different groups going um I'm very fortunate I have an intern working with me this year and so I've been very I've been very fortunate to also have her support within the middle school and um she she does some groups we do some art groups uh we do pretty cool things like that and then this tier three so I'm also able to um have students on my case load so students that might need um more support Mental Health Services and maybe don't have access to Mental Health Services or a hard time getting Mental Health Services in the

071community um if they meet the criteria then um they'll be able to receive Mental Health Services from me have a plan of care and be working towards those goals so I can really go in um in depth and see some movement and um provide those students with an opportunity to get Mental Health Services when they they may not for a lot of different reasons okay I think that might be it yep that was it for this part I'm also going to be talking a little bit about the data in the English and math department um which I'm I'm going to be reading the slides pretty pretty much and well just just as a as a note that the Middle School uh more English that type of data and math data that'll be at our board

072Workshop okay I know this just kind of a precursor oh thank you perfect can I add something for the elementary so we're using the exact same umal Insight um but what's also really cool is embedded in that um when the data gets shared with us as a classroom teacher if we see that there is a standard that maybe our grade level was was having issues with maybe we need work on empathy or we need to work on communication within um Insight you can actually click on the band and because it's connected with move this world it'll automatically give me move this world lessons that align with with what we might need to focus on and move this world has a lot of resources with it um so it's it's nice to see that that middle

073school is using that tool as well after they're doing they're using it um religiously they're using it very you know we do it fre times a week in the classroom so Monday Wednesday Friday it's happening in each advisory period um students are using it's really cool because I get to see how how students are using it you know when I meet with my my students like individuals or in small groups I get to ask them like how's it going and they're really reporting that they're connecting with ccum that it's helping they're using the terminology we have something called the motors like the brain tools and body tools you can use to um help manage your emotions help work through situations and so they're using some of that terminology which yeah go ahead no go ahead

074I was just going to ask so like K8 then there's a real emphasis on seal 9 10 11 12 kind of we're hoping that the foundation is laid and or is there anything at that next level that kind of follows up that's a great question I think that's a question we recently kind of brought up as well and one of the meetings and I think we would hope the foundation is definitely late there's other ways I'm trying to think the programming they have in place at the high school level right now I'm a little bit in my own little Silo there in the middle school but um yeah I I I I don't know that and I apologize no no I just I'm just curious I don't know you know I was curious I yeah

075it's a good and it's a good question to keep on asking we do we have like a counseling meeting where we meet and we're meeting with admin actually this week and so that would be a good question we can kind of ret talk about or put it on the agenda for us to continue to talk about that like how we're supporting students um after 8th grade as well I imagine um it would be a Matt or Jeff question like uh you know is there room for it then even you know i' would be another question a lot of times at the high school level there is a couple assessments that we do use um it escapes me but a lot of times at the high school level it becomes more individualized you know sis yes

076thank you sis is a 9 through 12 similar to this that we that we administer but as I said at the um High School level as kids go through the needs change and you know it kind of changes from personel to college to postsecondary and but if there is a need we also have um a person through our wellness program that kind of handles kind of the high school needs with kids on an individual basis yeah I guess that's what I was get was more programming than testing yeah um we have ssis as well we for the first time we're doing that at the middle school and that addresses more of those mental health that a student might be experiencing as um oh as we're going through this I think I'm getting the gist and

077the the top level but is it possible to get um these presentations just because I'm not seeing the small print and I'd like to see what correlates with what and I'm not sure that I even need to dig into it too much more but I would like to know because we're going to be looking at this on a regular basis you know at a glance um you know where Things fall so if we could just get you know like a one-time copy of these presentations it would be super helpful in coloral version okay great thank you and I know Mr staple mentioned maybe a workshop at some point maybe including as well just if that's needed or wanted thank you here go jump in for a sec can you just press it'll take about AOW

078up there oh so um this happened today and it kind of caught me off guard but it was a great catch me off guard moment speaking ofal um one of the biggest things that I feel like we can do K12 is limit their screen time and you're probably wondering why The Tech Guy is bringing this up I feel very strongly that technology can be used in a good way and it can be used in a bad way we we know the bad way you know social media and um being addicted to the lights and that kind of stuff um the other thing that I feel like technology hinders is the um if you're doing something in school with technology that is something a kid might do at home when they're bored like pressing the space

079bar when they're playing just a game that you need to just fire as fast as you can or you're just playing a random dumb game if we're bringing that kind of stuff into the building that's kind of a waste of our time I feel like it's we can do better with this so I continue to stress that technology should be used to create kids should creating stuff um the number one skill that people want when kids graduate is to be able to think for themselves and to be able to create and be creative so I think we have a ways to go with that but that's kind of my goal in my head is to keep going down that path anyway the picture um during indoor recess there's been a lot of indoor recesses at

080the elementary just because of the weather and the rain and the ice in couple of braid levels sometimes they'll take their Chromebooks out in the hall and they'll you know be playing their games these are they're not structured or anything just you know go ahead and and do what you want it's free time during lunch recess um and I understand the reason for that I mean you can have 40 kids in the hallway and they're all quiet and that's like yes that's something we've accomplished here um but I had a an a today take the initiative to and I don't know if you had something going behind the scenes on this but she said we're going to meet in the library instead you she brought in board games um and things that they can color

081and stuff and when they came in my office is where I'm taking the picture at right on the other side of the bookshelf there and it got really loud and they were worried about being too loud and I went over to them and said I would take this a thousand times over you know a student quietly staring at their Chromebook and doing something that's not engaging or creative and I told her I said I'm so happy that you've done this and you know and they were all interacting and loud and and just talking to each other and I really really liked it so I was just impressed with that and thanks that was something you p on with Mr McDonald I think was one okay look at all that relationship building happening right in those

082moments like that's pretty CL and that's something M why it's like I said K12 seniors you know you can decrease the amount of time it's so easy to use that technology as a babysitter even though 12 pairs aren't babies it does down and and unfortunately that's probably not the direction we want to go we want them to interact that conversation think should okay well we we'll work through this so this is the Middle School nwea um English language midpoint observations so miss hubber put these TI put these together um an overview in every category in every grade level our students met or exceeded the growth norms for reading this data shows we are heading for Success on the mstep it also highlights the overall academic achievement in the middle school he wanted to mention as

083well we have two historically low performing groups in the middle school right now the fact that they met or exceeded growth expectations indicates they are closing the achievement Gap leading students to increased academic success oh my god um ELA teachers are working closely with Brett McCall the north Ed secondary literacy expert to interpret the data and plan accordingly along with design and implementation of the Intervention Program this will be impactful in keeping students on the positive tra trajectory um that's been pretty cool to see I'm just speaking um of all the intervention that's happening right now especially in regards to English um and students feel only supported so I get to hear kind of about their grow through a different mon so um this is the NWA math midpoint observations and I'm just gonna I'll

084just reading students show tremendous growth considering the NWA test was more of a challenge for them since this is the first year if they've taken um the test the map gr six plus versus the 2 to five version they've taken in Elementary in elementary school this year they are faced with more complex content focusing on Concepts such as ratios proportion basic algebra multi-step problems and higher order reasoning so miss um Pierce wanted to share 55% grew at least five points or more from the fall 36% had growth scores of at least 15 points and four students had growth scores of 20 plus points so that's pretty cool in seventh grade um MTH 7even students made significant gains in our midyear testing they showed strength and algebraic Concepts geometry and probability 64% showed growth of at

085least five points from the fall 33% grew at least 10 or more points and five students saw their scores increased by 15 or more points then our eight grade which is pre-algebra um pre-algebra students also made great strides in their midyear nwea testing many students were faced with more complex problems involving algebra geometry and probability and statistics 46% showed at least five points of growth from the fall 35% scored at least 10 points higher and three students grew at least 15 points do we not have the chart for this one we don't have the nice chart was set up sorry sorry about that we have that data we just don't have it tonight and so in the workshop that's something that can be explored more in depth all right I think that was it any

086questions hopefully not with these two think just kidding just to thank you Carrie just to clarify that those will be presented in more detail at the workshop yeah yeah I believe the teachers will be there to go through that process yes thank you everyone I appreciate it thank you thanks Carrie I appreciate it all right mimo board presentation you guys want to have some fun yes let's have some fun um listen listen what what are you doing you go you go I'm just trying to help out here um I just have a few things to share with you just from an elementary building um some of the tools that we're we're using or things that we're using our mimo boards for um the first of which is this classro screen oh hold on where did

087your did you have them open mhm you did I think you swiped it closed okay well here I can go to padlet first I know you like your back button back then um the first thing um which is really great um I did share this with the board uh this past summer when we did a book study weuse padlet which is a really great online platform um uh we have been using padlet also um when it comes to our mid domain assessments um our second graders are actually using this which is great um it's more of an independent learning um but we do use our mimo boards to kind of guide them through it before they really take off on their own um uh what's great about padlets um is uh we actually broke it

088down by stories and the kids get to engage in survey questions um we do have some guided videos that they do um and then um sometimes we'll do a whole padlet together as a class on the carpet um and it just helps us um reinforce some of that learning that we're doing um what's really cool too is another padlet that uh do you have the other one that I sent you you didn't um when it's we noticed in the area of fluency with reading especially with fourth and fifth graders like Mrs Toro uh brought up um that fourth and fifth graders don't really read aloud a lot um so I worked with Mrs Myers and Mrs Jac and we created a padlet for our fifth graders and what our fifth graders are doing is they're

089picking um really basic readal loud stories but fun readal louds that maybe they liked when they were kids and they're videotaping themselves reading the stories aloud and then I'm sharing some of them with my second graders and we're listening to their fluency and reading of the stories and it's kind of fun to see happening in the hallways and then we see it on the padlet and the fifth graders are really enjoying it because they get to make a video of themselves reading which is great um so we're really trying to utilize it that way and then I'll put that up there for you oh yeah thank you a quick question that that Greek thing that you had up there with all the things is that something that you're cating for them or is that created

090by the company okay yeah so you're like pulling all those things in and gotcha so this is just some of the this is the pet that the fifth graders have been working on I thinking oh you're doing it so they've all picked like a favorite read aloud and it's it's not necessarily a fifth grade read aloud some of them are really great like Carson did llama llama red pajama and it's great because they get to see see themselves reading and hear it and then they're able to like com I like I've been doing it with uh Mrs Meer so like I'll comment and she'll comment like this is something great you did here's what you need to work on next time um so just really engaging with the technology and then I'm able to go

091to second grade and show them these videos which has been really really fun play that oh do you I mean try I'll give it a shot and see llama llama red pajama written by Anna doy llama llama red pajama reads a story with his mama mama kisses baby's hair mama llama goes downstairs llama llama r j feels alone without his mom mama llama wants drink it's really fun and and some of the kids really lean into it and they make voices as they read and it's it's really fun it's a newer experience and what's been great about it is Mrs Myers has really taken off with it um it's always hard to learn something new and it's even harder as we get older but Mrs Myers is like oh we should do this we should

092do that and you can see like her comments as they go so they're getting instant feedback as well which sometimes it's hard when you have a room of like you know 20 to 25 kids to get instant feedback when you're reading with them so that's been exciting can you go over to classroom screen that I sent you I will um you know here go so this is also pretty cool with these Mino boards to be able to like have each of us take turns accessing it and share information we use it a lot at our erws too it was on this one we could watch this instead though no classrooms screen.com see how well it works so classroom screen is a newer app or newer platform that we've been using with the Min boards um

093pretty much on a daily basis there'll be something that I'll be using in my classroom and I'll be like oh you know what they should do they should playing cards and I'll email the tech at um classroom screen and they'll get back to me within a matter of like 10 minutes and they'll be like oh that's a great idea or oh we already have it and they'll send they'll send the link to us which is really great um I use it a lot in my classroom for flow Maps just so that um there's ownership in their learning so like I'll put up a flow map for the day oh here this guy will let me so this is actually how I start my day um a lot of the teachers in the building use this

094as the start their day so kids can look at oh what are the lunch choices today here's my flow map I need to make my lunch Choice get my breakfast get my morning work going on um we also really like the ones that have Motion in the the background cuz it looks really cool to see the fish swimming um this is another flow map that I use when we're doing small groups when we're doing that math power half hour um it helps keep me accountable too so I'm able to know like you know what today I'm going to be at my table for 15 minutes and it or 20 minutes and then I'll start it and it lets the kids know what they're working on it also lets them know like who's working with Miss

095Olivia's table who's working at my table so having this be super Flex CU some days our groups will change some days our tasks will change and being able to access that um this is a game we play in second grade called the sound is right so like this it's like the price is right except it's not um we actually designed this because it's part of our reading curriculum but we didn't have an actual tree so it's um a spelling tree so they take turns coming up and we'll we'll have to um look for the spelling pattern that goes with the sound that we're working with um so if it's like o consonant e um the students will come over and put it over on that Branch um or if it's one that maybe I was

096looking there's also an odd duck so if it's an odd duck and it doesn't fit the rules it goes up to the odd duck so the sound the sound is right we also played a song um Mrs kson has a fake microphone when we play the sound is right so it's just a really fun engaging game um uh this game is a new favorite um we do this with our spelling words where you get to build an alien so we'll put in spaces that go along with our spelling words and then you get to design the alien a lot like that other game we used to play back in the day we have build an alien we also have build a bunny I really need to work on um what did they say the other

097day they wanted they wanted another oh Build a Snowman and I was like it's fine we'll get there um another game uh this is really fun for writing um this is actually when you're um I'm doing like a quick write we'll do like a quick emo story so like write a story that has wind in it maybe like you whatever you take from that emoj or Emoji traveling with windy day like a windy day traveling at the beach or I'm going to the beach on a windy day and you can use that to engage in your writing because sometimes you're you got writers block and the emojis help um uh this one I actually got from U Mrs jurus kindergarten has really embraced these mimo boards and uh Mrs jurus is just crushing life she

098has so many different games that she's made for kindergarteners what's the mouse there's like a mouse um Mr Mouse Mr Mouse are you in the whatever sound and the kids get Hally into it and they're like what and they get to go touch the house and they're like yeah Mes in there or so they they're moving and manipulating the board so she did it just with these dice for them to practice their number sense um and then what we did is we took it I like we took it to the next level because we're doing ones tens and hundreds so there's a random name generator so that way I can be like okay up next it's Luke versus William and they roll the dice to see who has the the greatest number the greatest value

099um so this has been really fun um the other day we used our mimo board uh when we were working on um what did we just finish up the War of 1812 and we were talking about France and Napoleon and we used Google Earth to travel to France and it's just fun to be able to do it on this board and have the kids come up and spin the globe and really engage in the learning um it you we're always learning new things and I think that's what's been great is like there'll be times where I'll be like wait I can't do this I need help with this so if I go to another classroom maybe that teacher knows how to do it or they have a better idea um so it's been really fun

100with these mimo boards and I will also tell you um uh some of the teachers that we saw uh down in gr don't have these so like we we were kind of a big deal to be able to have these and it's been great having Mike as a resource I know that he has all these other little fires everywhere but when you see him in the building you're like hey Mike can you help me with this he's like yes yes I will uh it usually costs a Diet Coke but it's worth it um but we have really enjoyed them it is baby steps though with technology so there's two options when you're using the mimo board um and when you come over here you can uh operate it independently which is like an Android setting

101so this is on its own and then if I'm working on my laptop it's separate or you can make it into HDMI which means I use my lap my computer and I just use it like a big screen um some teachers are using it like that some te teachers are using it as the Android um it just takes baby steps and I think that the more we have exposure to it and we work together with this the better I have a student teacher in my room right now from the high school she's a junior um today she taught her own lesson I'm so proud of her and she used the mimo board three times throughout her lesson to engage the kids in learning and how to tell time she even used one of the apps

102with a clock and she's having the kids spin it around so like I I was taking notes from her today as to how to use my m board I was like wait go back how'd you do that again so it's it's it's a learning tool that we're all learning um but we are very very grateful to have this as a resource so thank you for investing in this this is this is a big deal and we appreciate it so much if the teachers are looking for something specific like I'm teaching for instance you know word sounds um is is there a way for them to look in a library for a game that has word sounds so you're not Reinventing the wheel oh yeah so you don't have your do you have your Google do

103you have your play so this Play Store is really cool so the Play Store allows you to go in and I can search um like today I did time so like I went in you can go in and be like I'm look well no no like I'm looking for time or ABC games or I'm looking for things um and the Play Store I I think we still we all got like a gift card for it too I haven't used all of mine yet because I'm still kind of playing around with what acts so you almost have to think of it as like a giant phone and then these are your apps that you can use and the play store has like different resources you can use too with it um what's also been cool too

104is depending upon like what AI you use sometimes AI will also recommend what uh Play store apps you can use I like to use askp and ask I'll be like hey give me a good app in Google Play Store that I can use when it comes to uh if we're do getting ready to do the Civil War and the AI will give me oh you can use this one you can use this one so sometimes I don't have to reinvent the wheel um I will say though sometimes when you're Reinventing the wheel you you learn even more so like when we're crating those tablets we're like well this one worked well this one didn't so it's been nice it's been really nice so if Miss jurus is creating a game is there a way that

105you know like the teachers pay teachers workfield worksheet yeah so the Teachers Pay Teachers a lot of times they'll do them through Google Slides I haven't seen have you ever have you seen I don't know if I've seen any like classroom screen ones on teacher fa teachers yet they do have a giant list of templates in classroom screen that you can look at okay so that kind of answers my question too what's really nice too and Mike support through all of this is that recently need to that we can share with other teachers and before we couldn't do that right yeah so I can this this share collection is new which is really great um we're really hoping that sometime it would sync up with Google Slides because a lot of us have Google Slides

106already and we're like ah this would be great because this is it's this is its own platform but I mean there's a lot there's a lot of options embedded within it meaning you would have to create the new game on the actual Memu which you can't take home off the Google we expect you to yeah yeah Google Slides don't sync up with classroom screen unfortunately but the cool part is we can still access our Google slides and put them on the mimo so that's why a lot of teachers are using it more um like a computer but the more you if you download the Google Slides app it work yeah and you can this classroom screen is just a website so they can work on this anywhere okay which is really fun any other questions

107there are some of those things available teach um the problem with is you don't always quality you also don't know about violations of copyright and so it's a little bit we have an employee that'll help you with the resources so you can ask fabulous now I'm talking about you um so I was just gonna wrap this all up um and I've said this before that number one thing that I'd love to do is to be B to work with teachers on getting things being creative you have an idea for this or that um most of the time with this this semester it's been I can't get my sound to work uh something isn't you know sliding over right and it's been like uh the learning happens at the time that the teacher needs it there's

108not a lot of like let's think ahead and and decide what we want to do and sit down and plan and I think that has to be more of something with a purpose so I hope to develop that more um I wanted to shout out to back a little bit here that she does take the baby step she's not scared to do that um nothing's going to blow up or anything on this thing and she takes some risks which is amazing she's got that special talent of being able to balance integration of Technology with everything else she's doing on it and it turns out to be seamless and even if there's some mistakes or something it's a learning moment so I really appreciate her thinking outside the box it does and some of these things

109don't take too much to to increase the engagement I was thinking about that dice one that she had here um how many different things are going on there that if a kid is normally listening to a teacher maybe talk about adding numbers or place value and they're in a textbook you might lose a couple kids like that but it's harder to lose a kid when you've got dice rolling and names coming up here and the kid actually takes his finger it doesn't seem like a big deal but coming up to the board has a lot of power and I hope that teachers kind of learn that more and more that that's the main gist behind this is to get the kids engaged and the students engaged I also wanted to shout out sorry Mrs Tac

110that um she's is outsta person in education I don't know if they brought that up in the February meeting or not but um it's funny because when she was announced as the the person to come up she had it planned out to where if she walked slow enough the side there while they were talking about her that she wouldn't really be on stage that long and then when she got up there there was just like little dark corner and she's back in the in the darkness but who's at the board meeting talking to everybody about everything there she is taking a risk so I appreciate that um I just want to talk about one more tool real quick let me see if I can use my little Search tool I'll try this one again 360

111education um very subtle subtle um improvements here watch out for the commercial oh good who has already lost a brother so this is built on um the virtual reality glasses um but you can use these videos without that uh the Chromebooks are pretty cool because you could you can touch the screen the iPads you can do the same thing and now you can do that on here too so it takes a normal video and turns it into an interactive one I could see this being used as a center and I can also see kids being more obsessed with moving the screen around than actually watching the content I might have to get over that part um so you can look anywhere you want in this Forest happen if they return is always on the lookout

112there's a threat out there and you can you can look up and down you can hear the sounds you feel like you're there I want to see if I can get the there's a little picture of a cub walking towards this he is currently the strongest and oldest male courting the females of the pride and he does not want Gibson with the rest of his Cubs so if you were there you would be like looking around all the way around to see what's going on to see your environment there's a there's a part where the little Cub came right up to the [Music] screen the other thing though is it's hard you're frustrated cuz you might be missing something between males is strong and they don't want Cubs from other males in their territory so

113while growing up male lions are only safe as long as their father is still in the picture and you're right there next to [Music] them I want to show just a little piece of one more there are like hundreds and thousands of 360 videos that have already been made um the Northern Lights ones are really cool so a lot of ele not a lot some elementary schools have have a 360 camera and they've set up tours some of the schools have the kids giving the tour which is just adorable and and um it's a great way to get the kidss involved in it um there was a really good one that I can't find right now but I going to go to this school this is overseas dissecting flowers to learn more about the parts

114of the and I was already watching this so it's kind of that as a part of stem we were even able to build and drive our own Goblin kit karts our science Garden is brimming with life we plant flowers and vegetables to learn all about the life cycle of plants it is parted by Outdoor Learning and Bre program this is where we focus on learning about ourselves each other and The Wider world we are now in the Computing Street this is a that's good stuff so much going on that's cool cuz we've we've talked a lot about like trying to how we're in such a small community and like trying to bring the outside world in if we can't bring our kids to it so that's cool to me you know I think that has

115a lot of opportunity there yeah there's a lot of potential that's there yeah thank you very much you you guys are welcome to stay or I'd go not you Mr torth thank you very much you [Applause] guys okay superintendent report all right we will move quickly as you can see there's a lot of things happen Happening Here uh couple highlights in the superintendent report uh Monday week from tonight will be our um excuse me let back up March 17th our long range planning committee um and then in the evening at 6 PM will be our school board workshop and also uh Amber Wilson and I will be meeting with Jeff hog from gmbb Architects this week to start looking at some ideas for an Early Childhood Center our classrooms it's kind of a brain storm

116session at that point and then spring break is there um true law notes I just want to highlight a couple things if there aren't any other questions uh get to it the um we always have to do work permits youth work permits all summer Barb and I have had these conversations and and it's kind of it's not it's just kind of a pain to be honest with you so we're going to have some reprieve with that starting in October of 2026 uh kids will have to go online to get their work permit which is going to save us a lot of time and I thought the highlight of this one is high school schools must offer computer science course beginning 2728 so that'll be another that'll be a a positive curriculum adjustment for us but

117we will have to do that and I was on a legislative call today and there's some potential of some Michigan Merit changes I don't think they'll come right away but we're going to see some changes down the road I believe with curriculum standards any other questions with this this one once again was pretty basic the only one I I wondered about is the um the new teachers or the evaluations and probationary MH are we we're all good with that I mean that yep yeah we have to follow all those guidelines okay yep and an and Matt are aware of those we have those types of conversations in our admid meetings y we're all up to speed with with that sounds good okay um any questions all right um is that it Finance all right finance

118committee report finance committee report Brian thanks Amy so um the primary discussion point at our finance committee meeting this week was the status of uh uh the outstanding Bond balance um we had good news uh uh relative to the numbers that I shared last time around were actually in better shape uh than we understood based on some final numbers that had come in from the the past construction projects so uh at a high level um uh the remaining bond funds from primarily Series 2 the outstanding Bond uh about $3 million um of that about 1.4 million is allocated to active projects sort of already allocated and designed to be spent um there is some flexibility in some of those numbers as we're waiting for some bids to come back um and also for example Mike's

119plan technology upgrades we haven't finally determined those things but that's I think a reasonable rough number uh which um leaves us with about $1.6 million unallocated or not specifically allocated of that remaining money um we do have some projects as detailed in the bond proposal that was was approved by the voters uh which haven't been are not in the allocated bucket for example lighting and flooring which are things we plan to do so um the 1.6 million is not money sitting around that we can use for other stuff there are some projects in there that we do have to do and just haven't gotten to yet essentially um and um so there are uh we so we spent some time talking about those available bond funds uh and what we might what we might what

120projects we might put onto that list there are a long list of projects that are being considered um a and in essence what we talked about was there are some larger things that we would like to do for example The Early Childhood Center um we've talked about making some meaningful changes here at the elementary school to the entrance way and some additional space as the teachers mentioned earlier as necessary um and our view generally is that the amount the funds remaining from this Bond once we've covered up the projects that were approved uh in the ballot measure won't really be enough to do anything substantial like big projects um we as you guys all some of you guys know we've been surprised recently by the cost estimates of like rehab this construction costs are very

121expensive these days um at the same time there are some um some key projects that we are that we are considering that are on the to-do list that we think we can fit into this which would be which be great um and then those larger Pro projects I should mention I think everybody knows this the long-term planning committee long range planning committee is collecting information from the uh in school Community for what those longer term plans might be and trying to match up the needs with the available funds we may have from future uh uh fund rais through bonds uh and we're working on um towards that schedule so just because we're not doing those projects this time around doesn't mean that they are not um important and we'll get to them as soon as

122we can so but anyway that was most of our discussion um uh at the meeting um there are some other smaller things we talked about uh financially we're looking at uh perhaps uh investing in a new storage system for wrestling mats to free up storage space at the high school um it wouldn't be a big investment but could be very useful storage space over there is is as constrained as it is here uh and then um we're talking about a uh sort of a refresh of the Interiors of the schools um without moving walls around you know paint and part of the flooring uh to uh improve things that maybe haven't been changed in a while and try to do a refresh there so we're looking we're looking at that and trying to figure out

123who's going to lead that but that's something I think we're all interested in trying to do um and that's about it uh unless I've forgotten anything meaningful guys great thank you any questions all right technology report no questions no questions all right um only a couple of things um number one and some of you may already are aware of this power school did send out an email to the company they hired to figure out you know what data was breed what wasn't I'm hearing it some of those emails went out to people and it offers the um the credit check and the identity protection and all that stuff so have any of you gotten that from power school I think I'm wondering if it's just St right now and I think most of it's precautionary

124like I said the data according to how the story went it wasn't actually distributed out to anybody but you know temporary so I'm glad to hear that they're offering those Services out um the other thing I wanted to mention was that I really appreciate the board and Jeff um developing and following up with that position that has been posted by the ISB for a tech position um I think about every day like how how this is going to work and it's going to be a difficult little path that we're going to take my fault really set the table to make it difficult to transition I feel like having somebody here between even like April in May and a little bit of June we can kind of start to look at what are some of the

125things we have to work through how are we going to separate out who does What Not service immediately have toal situation like I said my fault also it's going to open up another one of the main goals is this is going to open up an opportunity for me to be in the class more training um anyra continue to do the things that I love as far as promoting um great things that our kids do and our staff do um and again I appreciate you know Jeff kind of has that idea and he knows me and what I enjoy doing and he kind of opened up this opportunity and present it guys thank you we're excited for you I'd like to say your information board out on the highway is amazing yeah for what you put

126on it and it's it's it's yes it's beautiful yeah I've heard a lot of positive feedback from community members it's great high quality yeah thank you and Elementary School report um I presented or I provided a report for you all um the one thing I forgot to put was we received some exciting news about our library we got a a significant grant for our library um to completely reset our library to get flexible shelving in there and to do some other exciting things for our collection and for our students and so uh we are hoping to have everything in place by the end of the summer and then we'll have an open house and celebration so everybody can see what we've done and beyond that I don't have a lot of information yet because it's

127a work in progress um but we can move forward and really start to hammer out some plans yeah it's really exciting it was a and you can correct me if I'm wrong but it was a collaboration with benzy Shores who helped find this donor it's a $100,000 donation to redo the library and replace the books and yeah it's exciting yeah um what is flexible shelving so it'll be shelving that actually moves so it will be two-sided shelving that we have the ability to move it around the room so we can use the room for a lot of different things fantastic yeah it's it's going to change the the way that that particular room works so thanks to an and benzy Shores Library um and then I can answer any questions about the report that I

128gave you looks good um you don't have to go into it but what does CST stand for I'm sorry child study team um we do that once a month month we meet um with our ISD itinerant staff so our school psychologist our teacher consultant uh the the school social worker that we have through the ISD plus teachers Amy torac or one of her team members and we problem solve student needs and try to help get Stu uh get students the interventions that they need I usually spell that out and I didn't this time I'm sorry any other questions for an great do you are you doing maths I'll do maths real quick uh he did send out I should mention that Educators use I saw a list one time of acronyms it was pretty amazing

129uh so we ever put one on here please ask because we we know them most of them but they change uh I have Mr stapleton's report quickly he did send out a second report today and I really encourage you to look at that because he put links in that report and I ran them off just for my own curiosity there's a lot there and it talks about model un um which was outstanding uh there's a copy of the senior trip itinerary there's a Crooked Tree Art installation with lots and lots of great pictures from our students our students are really pretty amazing to be honest with you um so there's a lot there please take a look he he recognized a number of kids our band our kids at band concert did great we've got

130skiers that did well we have our wrestlers who did well we have Bella Bella who now 100 match plus and she has a year to go thank goodness um robotics is a huge hit I received four letters really really great letters and I'll share those with you Brian they're really cool people are really really appreciative of what we're trying to do model un was big basketball champs I mean it goes on and on and on so please take a look and click on those links because there is a lot of stuff happening and with that said we have two really busy kids at the table who have been really really patient super patient tonight so take it away your you guys all right um we have had a lot of fun sports stuff going on

131um there was the baseball fundraiser which was a really great turnout um thank you Megan she did a lot with that um the there was a band competition last week um we scored I believe all ones which is good um and then boys basketball is now done girls are they won their District finals and they're playing as we speak as um I'm not sure what the score is but that's exciting we're against Buckley right now um skiing finished Ben stops and Miles Luther went to States um wrestling's done uh there's indoor track States over the weekend and Sophia and Gwen traveled there they did well and what else do we have oh um Brody Patterson he does hockey and Travers uh Owen Mills he does power lifting and he had States over the weekend as

132well and then what else all of our spring Sports started today so track baseball softball golf golf has a really cool thing in the wrestling room now um M Ulen was in Grand Rapids last week and they did really well um that was exciting to hear how they did um the theater group is working on into the woods and they're making a lot of progress with that which is exciting and then robotics has a competition soon at TC Central um the middle school right yep yeah it's exciting um the NHS came over to the elementary last week in red for um the across the America thing um that was a lot of fun for I think both the high schoolers and the elementary kids so yeah and that was cool because a lot of that

133was captured on social media and being able to see Mr torth y being able to see kiddos helping kiddos all right um we also had the kindness project going around for a couple weeks and it was um if you saw somebody doing something kind you'd write it down you'd write the day um you'd write what they did and you'd give it to them and then they'd have to do the same thing and and then when the sheet would fill up you'd give it to Mrs Chisum she'd give you another one so it was a really cool project because you really had to recognize when people were being kind and you like looked for it and I think that's really positive to see um the senior trip is this week to DC so that's really exciting

134um and then there's some scholarship stuff um the Travers City Regional scholarships were all due last Monday and then all the local scholarships are due tomorrow so gota crank down get them done um we have spring break coming up in a few weeks so that'll be really exciting a nice little break um the end of the third quarter is coming up which is kind of crazy because it feels like it just started um the dual enrollment semesters are about halfway done getting a lot of midterms hit at us um like Bella said the girls are playing in the regional game so I hope that they do pretty good um and then the junior trip is going to be in April I I don't know a lot about it but Chicago Chicago yay questions comments concerns

135all right great job you guys thank you yeah thank you very much all right no business items no public to participate um so our next regular meeting is April 14th our Workshop meeting is March 17th dressing green and with that it's a w we're a journ no green you lived in Ireland you have no green something we left all our stuff there is it the meeting in here do it inbr State we have a CD