001I call this meeting the board of education at 6:30. May we stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. >> Exciting among agenda is the roll call. Mr. Secretary, would you call the role, please? >> Anthony Johnson, >> present. >> Amanda Flesher, >> present. Sure pleasure. >> Present. >> Early >> present. >> Daniel Winston >> present. >> Sher. >> Lori Hicks. >> Absent. >> She's absent. >> Thank you. Next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. Are there any correction? There are no corrections to the agenda. The agenda will be written as written. Next item on the agenda is superintendent communications. Mr. P. Thank
002you, Madam President. Congratulations are in order to Miss Virginia from Vandenberg Elementary School as she is a preschool pair professional. And uh Miss Virginia is being recognized as being Vandenberg's employee of the month for the month of February for her unwavering dedication and professionalism in assisting Mr. Andre's preschool classroom. Miss Virginia's consistency, reliability, and warm presence make her an invaluable part of the Vandenberg Elementary School preschool classroom. Her patience, compassion, and genuine care that she shows for each and every student that she interacts with reflects her deep sense of purpose and love for what she does. She is an absolute pleasure to work with, and her positive attitude and support make her an incredible asset to the Maniffort team. So congratulations are in order to Miss Virginia of Vandenberg Elementary School. Additionally, myself along with
003several board members had the opportunity to attend the Black History events at both Jefferson and Vandenberg which were simply outstanding. The student programming that was put on was simply remarkable. And uh the way that the community, the families, the staff, the students all came together to celebrate and honor black history and black culture was simply remarkable. Both events were extremely well attended and uh just outstanding evenings that uh were put on at both Jefferson as well as Vandenberg. And so hats off to the staffs and the families that orchestrated both of those outstanding events. A lot of detail and planning went into planning those remarkable evenings. And with that, Madam President, that concludes my communications this evening. >> Next item on the agenda is the board communications. Are there any for communications. I have one,
004two actually. Um, the Wayne County Association of School Boards will be having a two classes. One on March the 15th, which will be uh CBA 370, and the other one is March the 21st and it is 3 CBA 350. Next item on the agenda is comments from the audience. Are there any? >> There are none. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. Mr. McKenzie, do we have something from you? >> Yes, madam president. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh, so another exciting time. We have two teachers. One of us, one of them is with us tonight. I'll announce the one who's not with us tonight first. Um, we have a new social studies teacher over at Pierce. Her name is Mrs. Haley Cruz Reeves. Haley is a recent graduate from
005Michigan State University. Um, she has her degree in interdisciplinary studies and social studies. Uh she did her student teaching in Dearbornne. Uh she taught eighth grade US history at Hazwood Middle School and she also taught 10th grade history and 11th grade government at Ford High. Uh she also participated in coaching the debate team. Uh her passions are supporting diverse learners including students with IEPs and 504s, ESL students and learners in varied uh academic um varied academic areas. Um, outside of school, Haley enjoys reading, spending time with her pets, exploring new foods, traveling, and bringing conversational Spanish skills uh in her classroom. So, welcome, Haley. Tonight, we do have with us our other uh uh new teacher joining Southford. Now, this is one that we said that would join Southford many moons ago when we hired
006her mom over at um Pierce Middle School. Her mom is Miss Carla Graham, but we have here Dr. Alexis Grant. She's going to be our new special education teacher. Well, she'll spend time over at Fiser and also Pierce. Uh she brings with her uh 19 years of dedicated special education experience. She has an exceptional academic portfolio. So, she has a bachelor's of arts and special education from Xavier. She has a master's in instructional technology from Wayne State. She has an edge specialist educational leadership from Oakland University. She has her PhD in educational management from Hampton University >> and her graduate certificate in special education administration from Wayne State. So I'm tired, but just reading that. So, Alexa holds her uh Michigan advanced professional certificate with endorsements in cognit cognitive impairments, learning disabilities, uh educational technology,
007along with special education uh consultant. Uh most recently, she served as a resource teacher in West Bloomfield. Outside of school, uh Alexis is deeply invested in her community service um with youth leadership and youth mentorship. Uh she is an active member in the Metropolitan Detroit Alliance of Black School Educators and the National Sority of Fi Delta Kappa and Zeta Fly Beta Sority. >> Welcome Alexis. >> Would you stand please? >> All right, that's great. Do I have a board member willing to adopt the consent agenda >> to the chair? >> Yes. >> Like to move the adoption of the following resolution, please support. >> It's been adopted by Mrs. Ger and supported by Mrs. Early. All in favor? >> I. >> Any naysay? Six eyes, zero nays. Resolution adopted. Next item on the agenda is
008the presentation of Jefferson Elementary School annual. >> Thank you, Madam President. So, at this time, we have many members of the Jefferson staff that are here this evening, uh, along with Principal Paige of Jefferson. And so again, this is the outstanding staff that I just mentioned just a moment ago and they are here to present to the board this evening about the many wonderful things that are occurring over at Jefferson Elementary School. So with that, I will turn it over to Principal Paige and to the Jefferson staff. >> Good evening. >> Thank you for having us and allowing us to pres present the wonderful things that is happening at Jefferson. I do want to acknowledge my staff that was able to make it out tonight because I know this week has been very late for
009all of us. So, I definitely appreciate them coming back. So, I have my first grade team, Miss Briana Harris and Zoe Davis. I have a member of my second grade team, Miss Fritz, aka Miss Frizzle, as the kids call her. Um, my third grade teacher, Miss uh, Taylor Cookendale, kids call her Miss K. My fifth grade team, Linda O'Donnell, is here representing, as well as my kinder team, Jodie Fabian. Then I have my auxiliary staff of my instructional specialist uh coach back there Kufelt, our interventionist Jamie Turo, my team that everyone knows my background. So we have our TC here tonight, Emily Fris, and our speech and language person uh Miss Lisa Anthony who also helps me with my speech from time to time. So if I slurp, don't worry. She's going to give me
010some feedback about my presentation and my communication. All right. So tonight we want to share an overview of our student data, instructional priorities, and the systems that we have in place to support student growth at Jefferson. We also want to highlight some of the positive outcomes we are seeing as a result of intentional instructional practices. So we have our three big rocks that is very similar to our manslow hierarchy of needs but education edition. So we definitely look at our curriculum and assessments, our safety including the learning environment, our relationships and our responsiveness that also goes handinhands with the district and my kit strategies. And so we know with any students if they're not really hitting that safe and nurturing environment, learning does not happen. And so that has been one of our key points
011this year at Jefferson to make sure that we have that nurturing spot so that education is happening. I think my team can agree on that this year that we're really hitting that sweet spot. All right. So, this is just a reminder of when we look at our MSTEP data when it comes to um not proficient, partially proficient or proficient or advanced, the rating scales that we look at for our scores. So, let's get into some of it. So looking at our MSTEP scores over the last three years, last year we did take a decrease in some of our scores, especially for ELA. And uh third grade, fourth grade, there was a 4% decrease and in fifth grade there was no a 9% increase. No increase as well. Yes. Okay. And then when we look at
012math proficiency, we also see that there was some increases and some decreases. So in our grade three and our grade four, we did have between a 15 and 11% decrease. But in fifth grade, we did take a 14% gain. And then when we look at our social studies and our science, this is a huge achievement for us because this was a lot of intentional work, a lot of planning. So for science we did increase in our science by 7% and in our social studies we took that 0% proficiency to a 23% proficiency and that is a huge success for us. So when we look at our social studies and how we took that we are looking at the intentional work that took place. One second while I grab those notes. teaching you and kids just
013like okay they do so but I hear when I come in the classroom it is definitely different sometimes so the action steps that we put in place last year um to my uh predecessor Miss Roszie she really looked at integrating writing and order and other content areas like science and social studies using um studies weekly consistent teaching from our updated MC3. Jefferson was able to take that 0% proficiency previously to 23% on the MSTEP last spring. This shows when we are intentional tackling an opportunity big gains can occur and this was a strong focus for Miss Repose last year and the push for seeing the need for our students in their instruction. So an opportunity if you attended our black history night, our kids put that to work in their research that they did, which
014is the fifth grade blacks museum that took place here. And our kids really did dig deep into their writing and into their research. So what does all of that means for Jefferson when we look at our data analysis process? So we began by examining grade level proficiencies and growth trends. We analyzed the MSTEP claims and targets to understand strengths and opportunity areas. We also identified students who are performing at advanced levels and needed continued academic challenge. And so what does that mean for us? So from there we used our I rating Arcadians data that we did this year. Arcadians being new for ready being new for us, we really had to take a deep dive in that and how to make sure that we use that specifically to pinpoint gaps for our students. So this
015allowed us to determine what students would benefit from our tutoring for any additional supports that we were able to give them during win time, double dip time, really targeting those students. So now when we put it all together, we're looking at our response focus on strengthening our tier one instruction for all students. We implemented win groups for targeted instruction as well as progress monitoring that Miss Turbo is going to talk more about when we talk about win. We also invested in professional development to support high quality instruction across our classrooms. So when we take a deeper dive into that explicit instruction that is happening, we want to make sure that we are clear to clarify. This year we clarified our now what by grounding in our next steps in student data and identifying needs. We
016launched this year focused on explicit instruction through when what I need time setting clear learning targets for each student or student groups and selecting lessons and programs aligned to their opportunity areas. So throughout the progress monitoring which was very heavily focused this year for Jefferson and so we're really digging deep into that because I've seen Miss Turko send out emails letting people know it's almost that time for us to progress monitor again. We adjusted instruction to ensure our efforts were targeted, responsive and centered on student growth. The gain seen here are has helped staff to see the impact, importance and relevance of targeted small groupoup instruction which we are now shifting more into the classroom with teachers you utilizing in tier one which you will hear about from some of the staff that is utilizing
017that more. So when we look at our tier one instruction impacts involved students, we make sure that we hit that tier one, the general core instruction that is happening for all students. And so we at Jefferson are committed to ensuring every classroom uh delivers high quality standard aligned instruction that meets the diverse needs of all learners, strengthening core academic skills and creates the foundation for substantial student success. So we're going to see it in action. And so at this time I will call certain members of my team for our win student interviews. Those are going to talk about tier one small groups, our culture and climate of our building which has been a big shift and push for us this year. some of the activities that went with our climate and culture say Chris. Okay.
018So for when Miss Turk is going to come up and talk about our when what I need the data that you see here and how we tie it all in together. >> Sounds good. Okay. Thank you so much M. You're welcome. So to start off, I just want to say that when, as we've heard before, it stands for what I need. This is when we are getting every single student the instruction that they need at their level. So this may be students who are struggling with some concepts going and bridging those gaps or some of those students that are at or above grade level, giving them them that a little additional push. So as you can see here, I have some different examples of what some of those hands-on win time activities look like because
019these are examples of reading groups. While I know reading seems like a lot of just pencil and paper, we try to do a lot of things that make sure that our kids are having that hands-on and engaging with their win. So, I wanted to highlight some of the successes we are seeing with our cadence data. So, our cadence is a one-on-one test that we do with students just to map out different fluencies whether they have it with um phological awareness, phmic awareness, and also looking at their reading comprehension. So I am proud to say that right now our kindergarten we have 41% add or above grade mark at add or above benchmark. First grade we went from 23% to 50% at or above grade mark grade level sorry um just in that short little bit
020of semester. In second grade we at 62 at or above benchmark. Third grade went from 39% to 62% at or above benchmark in their accuracy. 73% at or above benchmark in fourth grade. and fifth grade went from 50 to 69% at or above um benchmark in their accuracy. I feel a lot of that attributes to the programs that we have been utilizing. I know over the last few years we brought on um UFly which we've been using for foundational skills for lower elementary. Now we've actually incorporated something called phonics for reading which does which tends to a lot of those foundational gaps that a lot of those upper elementary kids were struggling with. And I would like to see how that is going to transfer on to the MSTEP scores now that we have had
021success with that because I feel that 50 to 69% jump is incredible for that there. And I'd even say I'm seeing some of my kids that have gotten the phonics for reading went from a 62% accuracy to a 91% accuracy, which is showing that a lot of great things are happening with the programs that we are utilizing. So I feel like you've probably heard enough from me. So, we thought what might be nice is if we gave you a moment to hear from our students. >> Oh, what do you usually do during when? >> Um, we do like um so in math we like count money. We do packets of money and um we help each other like they help each other with some stuff about it. >> So what what do you do when
022you're reading? >> Reading we read um a like we read a book and we have this um packet and we already wrote about like what the characters are and settings and all of that. And then we drew um like what what the book was about, what they like to do, and drew a picture of it. And then what we like to do in the springtime and drew a picture of it. >> Nice. >> What? >> Uh I didn't know. I thought >> I I have a package. It's like a little package that we get every week and it has little problems that we have to solve. >> What is your favorite part of >> hot timing? >> And can you tell them what hot timing is? We had two seconds to read >> 15. >>
023We have two 15 words and >> Math. What? What about >> So, >> um us um like doing either a packet of money or being about a book. >> What is the hardest part of winning for you? >> The hardest part of the time. >> So, it's your favorite and the hardest part. Okay. >> Um, me doing like really big words or like counting money sometimes. >> How has wind changed you as a reader? >> A lot. >> When has it changed you a lot? um by getting better at the 10sec challenge and festive board on a board. Yeah. um how um Miss Pierce helps us with um like sometimes um let us read out loud and if we're stuck on a word she like helps us sometimes and like says and tells us to
024spell it out so we can get the word because before I have win I was struggling on my reading again That's um I came when I had this. Now I know. >> So how do you feel about going to your wave time with me? >> Good. Why do you feel good? >> Are you just saying that? >> I did not think to say that. >> It's really good, too. >> I feel like it's fun. >> Okay. So, what do you like about it? >> Being around people. >> So, as you can see, we not only have like the buy in with our staff and all the hard work they're putting into our win, our students are doing that as well. They're into it. They love going to it. And as you can tell, they are
025able to look and see what their strengths and weaknesses are in there as well. And their I wouldn't say weaknesses, but opportunities for improvement. >> Thank you. when do you think we collaborate? We help each other. They help me out quite often. All right. So, oh, actually stand up. So, tier one small groups is going to be by Brie, Zoe, and Taylor. Hello. So, we're going to start off with first grade talking about small groups in our classroom. So at Jefferson Elementary, small groupoup instruction plays a powerful role in helping our students succeed. During our Cleo and Theo time with our success for all program, we are able to intentionally implement small groupoup instruction that meets students where they are and supports that supports their individual needs. >> Um working in small groups has helped
026strengthen student achievement, building confidence and creating a strong classroom community where every student feels supported and capable. Because of this focus time, I have seen incredible growth in my classroom. Currently, I have 86 student 86% of my students at or above grade level after roots testing them. So, this growth shows that when we invest time in our small group instruction, we are not only improving academic success, but also helping our students build the confidence and skills they need to continue to grow as learners. >> I mean, they said everything. Okay. Um, so third grade, we as well um do our small groups, but we do ours in math. Um, so we use our I Ready data to help us identify the students strengths and areas that they may need additional support. Um, we also use
027our instructional tools from our Bridges curriculum. So we use the checkpoint quizzes, we use classworks, and we use tests to monitor how well students are understanding the materials. Um, this helps guide us while we are forming our small groups. Our small groups are on a weekly rotation with our students who need extra support. They meet twice a week. Um, whether we're going over content that we have already learned or um some math areas that they still need a little bit of work in. Um since we have incorporated the small groups um in the fall when we took our tests I already test 20% of the students were three or more grade levels behind and 50 were two grade levels behind when we just finished the test in January. Um that number decreased to 10% of
028students who are three or more grades behind and 30 or two behind with 60% on track to being on third grade level. Yeah, love the small group because they love it, too. >> So, one of the pieces that they all left out is that they work with their coaches in student center coaching that actually they have check-ins with their coaches to make sure that what they're doing in the tier one small groups, they actually get to refine and have that work with their coaches on what's working, things that they see to get that guidance as well. All right, climate and culture. So, a big part for us this year, come on up here. This is you. I'll help you. um is our climate and culture. So, one thing that we strived on, if our kids
029are excited about coming to school, they'll be excited about learning. So, that was a big push for us this year is making sure that we had things that captured our students attention as well as got their buy in on why they come to school because kids don't have a choice to come to school. They have to come. So, if they have to come, why not make it fun and learning that they don't know that's happening in a good way? And it's also curved a lot of our behaviors this year of having these multiple opportunities to do that. anything that I missed. >> Oh, yeah. Look at you. Okay. >> Okay. So, at Jefferson, we work hard to create a culture where students feel TLC, respectful, and responsible. BBIS has helped us celebrate positive behavior by
030giving students something to strive for each month. Recent events that we've had has been a cookie dance party and a Eagles feast, and this was a big hit. We also have a bowling trip coming up. I'm proud to say in December and January, 88% of our students earned these rewards and were able to participate, exceeding our quarter 2 goal of 75%. We also have fundraisers. Our upcoming one is piring a teacher to help celebrate and be able to do these events. Thanks to everyone, all our staff to help Jefferson place every student where they can shine. >> So, we definitely have teacher buyin because we have uh convinced the teachers to let them kids pie them in the face. So, that will be a good hit if anybody want to come through on Friday at
0313:00. >> What's been your favorite event at Drunker Center? >> Happy party. event has been event. >> What's been your favorite year so far? >> Why? The trick skating tickets. >> What have you liked? >> And why? because we had turkey cupcakes and juice and my friends and hi So, those are some of the wonderful events that we have happening at Jefferson. Um, we've had a lot of family engagement nights with our skate night. Has been at the Big Fit for having to um have their kids come out. Mr. Winston has came out with his kids. He won't get on skates though, but he's come out and everything. And then some of the things that we have done. So, one of the censuses for our fun room was principal of the day. So, I had
032some little principles um for the day and they had a ball. So, we had some kindergarten students. We had a first and a second grade student. Then we had a fifth grade student where they got to see the life in the day of a principal making decisions and I don't use my PA at the school and the kids and they know but they got to get on the PA and make some announcements and they were also guest special guests in our morning announcements that our fifth grade team um Miss O'Donnell does with our students. These also had our schoolwide field trip which was a nice hit at the beginning of the year. We all went to the apple orchid as a school. We are fundraising for our second schoolwide field trip hopefully to Greenfield Village
033which was a great way to bring the parents back into the school. So one of the things that we have seen a decrease since co is parents actually coming in. So giving them an opportunity to come in feel welcome and to be a part of their students in the fun and in the learning and so we had that when we celebrated the 100 day of school staff and students dressed up. Our theme was people as you see um which was a great day. Let me Heat up Heat up Heat. Heat. Heat. All right. So, thank you for allowing us to share the wonderful things that is happening at Jefferson. As you see that our main goal is if we build that sense of community, our kids will be great active learners because they are participating
034in their learning and they enjoy coming to school. So another shout out to my team because we have had really good attendance on our half days because they have been very creative with their ideas to get students here because once you get the students excited about coming to school, you have no choice because you going to beg your parents to say we got a glow party happening this day or we got the fun run. So, it has been a great start to the year and I am excited to see what we do moving forward, especially looking at our test scores since we have a sense of joy in our learning right now. Any questions? >> Thank you so much. Now we'll take a break for about 10 minutes. >> I'm sorry. Wait, you guys have
035beautiful blue bags in front of you that baby is going to stand up and tell you about those beautiful. >> Okay. I'll pass these out. make it to our reading night. But I want the biggest thing to highlight in the bag. If you pull out your um tissue inside, we have a student designed t-shirt for every one of you that you will get when they come in. >> So, um 67 students um came up with a design for our reading night. Um Carrie uh our preschool teacher and I we uh kind of sifted through some of the entries. Um and then staff voted and then to give more student input and student voice, students voted on their t-shirt design that they really liked. So that will come um I think within the next couple of
036weeks. And if you want to come to our glow night and wear your shirt, that would be super cool. Um, there's just >> an email coming up. >> Um, and then we all know the story of the the starfish and just how important it is each student. Um, but we just want to also recognize your part and um, all of our students at Jefferson. So, um, I learned a little bit about everyone and asked students to create those little keychains for you. So, um, it was really cool to learn more about you guys. Um, so thank you for all that you do for our students and for us. And there you go. >> 7:05 call this meeting back together 718. Next item on the agenda is report district benchmark data. Jason, >> thank you madam
037president. At this time I would like to turn it over to the district's data coordinator uh Nadia to report on the status of student growth across the district. And so Nadia is here this evening to provide a report to the board of education about student growth. So with that I will turn it over to Nadia. >> Thank you Jason. Good evening again everyone. Um, and this is a great transition from uh Jefferson speaking about proficiency and how they're aligning goals. So, this is kind of a continuation. I know you guys have heard from all the elementary buildings and they've all shown you their proficiency data. So, we don't want to be repetitive on it. We're going to our focus today is going to be on growth and the transition to proficiency. And speaking of growth,
038so this is my olive tree at home, work in progress. It came in, I ordered it online, like a little stem up there, and this is what it's transitioned to now. And I'll let you all know when those olives come in. We're not there yet, but >> my kids laugh at me because it's like I they were like, "You take better care of it than you do." It's my little baby now. And I I just want to see one olive over here. So, right. >> So, again, patience for for growth is just the same thing with our students. Um, our goals today are going to be to develop a better understanding of how student growth is determined by the Michigan Department of Education. And we're going to review last year's um growth at South Ruckford
039based on the MDE um MSTEP and PAT assessments and SAT. With students, we're planting the seed. We're developing understanding. We're expanding student learning. We're thriving. We're helping them thrive and achieve and we're helping them continue on their growth journey. And every step forward builds future success. And I don't know if you guys recall last time when I presented, we presented on proficiency and we looked at the difference in proficiency numbers at the state level and state level proficiency fluctuates one to two% if even a lot of times it dips. So when we when buildings present to you guys on proficiency and you see like a dip of 8 percentile, you know, sometimes it could be a few students because we are a smaller um district and sometimes it's it's not the same group of students.
040Those students could be coming in a little bit lower. So growth is a main main factor and it's what we need to help our students reach proficiency. Again, I'm not going to go through the vision. I'm sure you guys all have it memorized by now. Our vision statement and as a reminder, our mission statement. And again, um, Miss Paige just went over our big three locks and the MYIP strategies and our continuous improvement process. And we're looking at all variables. We're looking at student attendance. We're looking at student behavior. We're looking at student grades along with growth and along with proficiency. So, we're looking all everything that's involved with our students to help them achieve and grow. So looking at our student um growth percentiles where the state is um looking looking at how um
041students are growing. Basically an easier way to look at it is um so student growth percentiles are determined by how much a student has learned compared to a group of academic peers who had a comparable score on the previous test. two or pre two or more previous tasks um in a subject. And the three categories for student growth by MDE, the Michigan Department of Education are labeled. If they're above average in growth, they're in the 70th to 99th percentile. If they're showing average growth, they're in the 30th to 69th percentile. And if they're below average growth, they're in the one to um 1st to 29th percentile. And basically what that means is if there's a 100 students in a race and a student came in the 60th percentile, they were ahead of 60 of those
042those students. It's not 60%. It's they're ahead of those students. And so when we're looking at these are considered nationwide norms. One thing that's not taken into consideration with the with these um growth is um by the Michigan Department of Ed education is the variables that are into play. special a lot? Are they English learners? Are they economically disadvantaged? So, just keep that in mind. So, we're comparing apples to apples with our students. Um, student growth helps all stakeholders determine if a student's learning is above, near, or below again the average of their comparison group. It's not how high a student or low a student's score is, but rather how much the student had learned since their prior test, which is very important in them reaching proficiency. And if you want to learn more about
043student growth percentiles, I have the page linked at the top of the presentation. So this is our ELA student growth and this is for grades four, five, 6, 7, 8, and 11. Um and you can see that our average growth is 26% of our students are above average growth. 45% have shown average growth and 30% are below average growth. And this is a breakdown by building. You can see right here um the percentage same thing by building percentage of above growth, average growth and below growth. And then the numbers of students assessed based state, the ISD and our district and then by school. And then and then this is the same thing for math. 26% of our students are above average growth. 45 44% um are showing average growth and then 30% are below average
044growth. And same thing, the breakdown by by state, ISD, district, and school for math. And I wasn't going to make you sit and have to dig through all that, so I put it on here so that you could see. So 45% of our students in ELA are above average growth for our district. The county is at 40% and the state is at 40. So we're actually above the uh the county and the state for our students showing average growth. And the same thing for math. We're at 44. County is at 40, and the state is at 40. And again, I want you to keep in mind while you're looking at those numbers, although you see we're at 45 or 44, considering our um student population, to me, those numbers are higher because when we're comparing
045our students to students that are in Northville that or Ken or Plymouth, some of them don't have the variables that we have. Um, and the percentages are pretty much the same. And this is again for growth, not proficiency. Any questions about this? So, this is a our I Ready assessment. Again, I Ready assessments monitors growth. It also monitors if students are on track to proficiency. And you can see in the fall, we had 47% of our students um at risk in ELA. at tier at tier three, 35% at tier two, and 18 at tier one. This winter in January, they took the I already growth assessment again. And now we've dipped a like we've grown 36% only at risk. Those students have moved into the yellow and our green tier one have moved up 10%.
046And that's what we want to see is that continued growth because the bigger the green gets, the higher our proficiency is going to get. And then the same thing for math 48. We were at 48% risk. Now we're at 37. And tier one was at eight and now we're at 17. And we we expect these numbers to continue to grow from now till the end of the year. And as uh Miss Paige mentioned earlier, they they do a lot of their intervention broken down by domains domains whether it's math or ELA. And my apologies, I just realized I had the I have these two flipped. This is math and then this is ELA, obviously. So we look at the breakdown of students that are in each tier. These are our winner breakdowns. And that's about
047it. So we drive together we drive student growth where unity grows success follows. Any questions? >> Thank you. Next item on the agenda is discuss Thirstston High School temperature control project. >> Thank you, Madam President. At this time, the board will hear and then also discuss bids for the Thirsten High School temperature controls project. And so, uh, here to present to the board this evening to talk about this project and present its scope would be Mr. Chris Schneider that the board has met previously from Bart Mill. I will turn it over to Chris. >> Thank you. Good evening, Madam President. Phil board members. Thanks for the opportunity. As Jason has mentioned, my name is Chris Schneider, senior project manager with Bart Mill. And tonight, I would like to present um for approval our final subcontractor
048award requisition and it is temperature controls for the Thirstston High School. Um quick description of what is involved in the temperature controls. Um, this is synced up with the improvements we're going to make in the next two summers to Thirsten High School. We're going to make architectural improvements, uh, painting, flooring, restroom renovations. Um, but a large component of that project is the mechanical in-classroom unit ventilators that we're going to be swapping in addition to um, working on some existing equipment as well. The control temperature controls package is the we'll call the smarts um of the system. And what it will allow the district to do is to look at in real time the environmental conditions of each space, the building, classrooms, and allow them if there are issues being experienced to be able to triage
049them quickly. Um and that's done through a graphics program. I'm not going to get into all the fun details of of what that looks like. more yet more as me sometimes but but again it allows again we're making improvements to the overall system um it allows the districts to get hand on the issues in a in an expeditious manner u with that if I Chris am I working do I have my leveling sheet up or no >> no okay all right >> but the board does have it perfect all right um the controls bid package leveling sheet which you have in front of you. Um, our award wreck is two parts. There's a summary letter and the second page is the what we call bid leveling sheet. Um, it illustrates the four biders that presented
050uh quotes to us in the district uh for the scope of work. Um, there's one left three specifically. The fourth one is an existing contractor working uh within the district. Uh we took bids from Metro Controls Control Solutions and K&S Ventures. Um Metro Controls is the low bid at 528,366. The others follow KN&S. Um we did not have a detailed conversation with them, but we believe they're that anomaly is they're either too busy, they have a subcontractor pool that would increase their override profit and drives their number up. Whereas Metro Control Solutions have the in-house um technicians um and they have I believe a better pulse on the market with material as well. Um so with that um let me go back to my notes. I apologize. Our recommendation is for the board to approve
051Metro Controls. Metro formal name. Excuse me. Second got Metro Controls Incorporated. Um we put them through and for reasons of the um the team including the district architectural partners. Um we did a a bid leveling or scope review meeting with both Metro and Control Solutions. real deep dive into their their bid, what their bid's about, but it also really gave them an opportunity to present to us um how that smarts will work for the district and how the district can take advantage of it. Um both are relatively equal with their capabilities. Um but Metro from a historical standpoint working in the district from our experience calling on references again we believe they both have uh the expertise. Metro. Um if plainly from the numbers they're the low bidder, we can't see a reason not to
052um go with Metros. Um and as I mentioned, both have experience in the district as well. Um if there are any would like to point out what was not noted in the award letter itself is the overall um package costing for the thirst high school bid tech 14 controls being 528 that the net increase to the the approval of the bond program is approximately 120,000. So there's already 400,000 that's been pre prior approved through other bid packages through the last couple years. Um so the the net increase again is up about $120,000. Now collectively the project will cost 528 but again you've already um previous approval letters have approved 400 some change for the project. With that, I would welcome any questions. And again, this is our final um formal um opportunity to stand in
053front of you with a with a um request for approval from a subcontractor base. Um and what DMP and PBA have put together on paper Anyone have any questions? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Next item on the agenda is discuss Jefferson Vanderberg boiler replacement project. >> Thank you, Madam President. at this time to speak with the board and present to the board a potential scope of work for the Jefferson and Vandenberg boilers is our partner from McCle Planners, Miss Michelle Karns. And so I will turn it over to Michelle. >> Thank you, Jason. If you recall about a year ago, I was before the board to award the project to replace McDal plant at Thirsten High School. We're trying to slowly move through the district with placing kind of the worst first and then
054moving along. And next in line are Jefferson and Vandenberg. So syncing funds allows that we can afford to replace both the boiler plants at both buildings. So we did a package actually Peter Basso did the package for us. That design package was actually already included in the bond. So there wasn't any additional cost to us but we didn't have any bond funds to do it. So we are paying for it out of syncing fund. Um, and we had four biders and we had we had two bids obviously that wanted the project and two bids that maybe they were a little too busy. So, we interviewed both of the uh first and second low and we've determined that Goyette Mechanical had a complete scope. Uh I've done hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work with
055Kodiak Mechanical. They're very well-known mechanical contractor uh in previous districts and we have no hesitation awarding them the project and they will use actually the same controls contractor that Chris recommended at the high school. So we will have that that consistency. So that's what they're being closed. So I would like to recommend that Goyette Mechanic will be awarded the contract for 627,143. >> Anybody have any questions? >> Um is that for both? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. Now the other side note that I will say to this is we actually have some grant monies that are going to pay for part of this. We had secured a grant uh the 12A grant. So part of this will be offset uh 125,000 at Vandenberg and 125,000 at Jefferson. The 12A grant Any other questions? >>
056So, anybody? So, that would be 377143 with the grant. And we did ask for a uh contingency just if anything comes up. 10%. >> 10%. Okay. Yeah, I saw that. Okay. Any other questions? Thank you. Next item on the agenda is discuss food service contract extension. Thank you, Madam President. On May 22nd, 2023, the school board approved the food services contract between the South Redford School District and Chartwell School Dining Services. In order for the current contract to remain in effect, it is required by the Michigan Department of Education that the board formally approve an extension to the original contract. Each 5-year period, the Michigan Department of Education requires that local school districts advertise for bids. Since we advertised for bids in 2023, it is not necessary to advertise for bids this year. Chartwells has
057provided food service management to the expectations as outlined in the contract. The contract approved by the board of education was for one year with up to four one-year renewals. Based upon Chartwells's overall performance during the school year, it would be the recommendation of the cabinet that this contract be extended to include the 2627 school year. The food service management contract with Chartwells has been approved by the Michigan Department of Education. And Madame President, members of the board of education, we also have representatives here this evening from Chartwells dining services. Um, should the board have any questions? Are there any questions? >> It's just a discuss this evening president. >> Are there any questions? >> Well, all I have to all I have to say is I've been and thirsty and Karen has made sure that
058I ate. So, you'll probably see me in the next couple of weeks, too. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Our pleasure. >> All right. Next item on the agenda is consider thirst high school furniture project. Mr. >> Thank you, Madam President. At the board meeting on February 23rd, 2026, the board discussed the Thirstston High School furniture project part two. Bids were solicited and received for the work. The companies that are recommended for the work required are listed there below in your packet. The award of $758,5849 would be paid for out of the 2021 bond proceeds. Uh members of the board of education, a resolution is attached for board consideration this evening. questions. >> Do I have a board member willing to adopt the resolution >> for the chair? >> Yes. >> Like to move the adoption
059of the following resolution, please. Do you have a support? >> It's been moved by Mrs. Flesher and supported by Mr. Winston. All in favor? >> I. >> Any nays? Six eyes, seven nazs. Resolution adopted. Next item on the agenda, consider amendment to general appropriations for the 2025 2026 school year. Mr. B. >> Thank you, Madam President. At this time to present to the board uh for conversation as well as its consideration is a presentation from our finance director, Miss Nikki Borg. And so here to present this evening is our finance director. The board has a copy of the presentation there in front of you as as along with your other presentations this evening. And so with that, we will turn it over to our finance director Mickey. >> Good evening everybody. Um in front of
060you um is the Febru February budget amendment. Um so let's get started here for the 2526 uh fiscal year school year. So um I just wanted to start out that um we have the this amendment due to you know we had yet another year of uncertainties with state budget. Um we want to make note that the state did not even um finalize the budget until October 3rd which is so very unusual. We always talk about how we have to come come to the board with a budget in June when they're supposed to present us with theirs in July. And again, we carried on until October 3rd before uh we knew what the state um had in mind for us. Um despite that, um South Redford negotiated an extended increases to all its staff. So, we
061still did that not knowing exactly where those uncertainties were going to were going to come. So, I'll start with the revenue here. We're seeing an increase of revenue of $2.6 million. Um, we are seeing that increase um mainly we're seeing obviously that people are still paying their property taxes, which is good. Um, the summer discovery is in there. um under some of those local revenues. We're seeing some of that. The summer discovery program we took on last year, which is great opportunity for our kids during the summer. Um and we've talked about that that allows our kids uh it, please correct me if I'm wrong, it is through 8th grade, right? Uh kindergarten through >> Entering nth grade. Um so part of that 2.6 6 comes from those local revenues of like like I said
062uh the taxes in that summer discovery um sorry um we have uh also those uh state increases obviously the increase in uh student enrollment helped us out we did have um a great increase while we're seeing a lot of districts seeing that decrease in student enrollment we did see that increase the foundation allowance also Alo increased um with that year that we had there with no increase in that foundation allowance. We did see that increase to $10,000 um $50 per student. Um, we did also see some increases in the 31A as well as our GSRP program has uh excelled and we have been able to fill those classrooms which we see some of that um offset with those children coming in and th that increased revenue from that program. we can uh move on to
063like your federal revenue increases where we thought that we weren't going to be getting federal funds as well. We're still seeing those federal funds coming through. Um so we still are seeing some increases from those um in our county um county and other revenue. We did see that uh decrease um but we also saw some of those grants that were eliminated due to the categoricals at the state level that were eliminated. our expenditures. Um there is a net increase of uh 727. Um we are seeing that while we're seeing some increases in our expenses, we are also seeing some decreases due to stuff as we have some staff turnover where staff has left or the early entire retirement incentives that that we have not uh replaced those individuals. So we are seeing that decrease in
064instruction. Um we will see those positions being filled next year but it doesn't look at this time of the year that they would be uh we would be filling them and having to pay for the retirement and everything else that comes with a full-time uh staff position. Um other areas where we did decrease is pupil um services as well as pupil transportation. Again those are you're talking a lot of your special education your programs that are um being offset and funded by um grant programs involved with special education. So in the end um what we're seeing is we are seeing if I want to make sure that I explain this where we're looking here is our audited financials here. So this was our ending funding bal fund balance at the bottom is the 5.4 that's
065being carried over to the budget amendment. So when we're looking at this, the the original budget did not include that audited fund balance. So you'll see this 5.4 moves over to the beginning balance for the amendment on your sheet. So when you look at this, we are looking at a 9.98%. Again, we want to make note that um even though we had a foundation allowance uh increase, a lot of the categoricals were eliminated. So to be able to come come through with still a 2.6 increase in our revenue um we were able to do that by things such as the increase in our in our um in our students um as well as we are seeking out other grants and looking for other funding wherever wherever possible. Does anybody have Any questions? >> It's awfully
066quiet. We're almost at 10%. >> Yes. So, we we als again we continue to look for anything that we are we also have additional grants that we are applying for right now that are that's funding that doesn't even come in or you can't even apply for it until now. Um so in hopes um we will be seeing um some additional funding there. Um we're active we actively continue to look for whatever's out there. Um but again the state um with the foundation allowance increase uh a lot of the categoricals were were eliminate eliminated and they rolled it into the foundation allowance and we saw that state budget came out. >> So overall we're on the up >> we are we are creeping up. >> Yes. We we can we continue as a finance department to
067um do whatever we can. >> Thank you. >> And will continue as a district, I should say, as a district, a district as a whole, we continue to collaborate and do whatever we can. Thank you. >> My my my apologies for saying it that way because the district as a whole we will keep keep it increasing. >> Thank you. >> Anybody? >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Next. >> All righty. >> Do I have a board member willing to adopt the resolution >> to the chair? >> Yes. >> Like to move the adoption of the following resolution, please? support. >> It's been adopted by Mrs. Flusher as supported by Mr. Danny. >> Yes. >> All in favor? >> I >> Any nays? Six I zero nays. resolution adopt. >> Next item on the
068agenda is comments from the audience. >> We have none. >> There are none. Next item on the agenda is plus delta plan for improvement. Mrs. Davis. >> Good evening everyone. Uh madam president, what processes help the board's work this evening? Pluses. Thank you. to the chair. >> Yes. >> Um I appreciate Jefferson's presentation and for everybody showing up tonight, especially when we get to see the videos of the kids and um these little bags with a little personal touch are really cute. So, I'm sure the rest of the board would agree in saying thank you. >> Yes. Yes, >> I'd like to thank Chris. He got all these We got our packet. He got our stuff together today. You know, a lot of papers. So, thank you, Chris, for having all this. Appreciate you. >>
069And the chair. >> I just want to thank the financial department being on it and doing everything um they can to keep us moving upwards. So, thank you. And I noticed Nikki was much more comfortable talking to us tonight because she gets a little nervous talking to the board. Is that because we're on the upswing of things? Good. >> But thank thank you. >> I just want to say anybody else have anything to say? I'd like to thank you. You're doing a good job. >> Thank you so much. >> She's doing all right, man. Y'all are ringing the same way. >> Okay. >> And Miss Paige, you're doing a great job. Just keep it up. Okay. >> And Chris, thank you again. Okay, Madame President, uh, how about Delta's processes that would help the boards
070work in the future? >> To the chair. >> Yes. >> I don't like that these wheels don't lock cuz twice when I went, it shifted. You know, I can understand if a kid gets fidgety and wants to move around, but me as an adult, I mean, I just thank heavens that I didn't end up the floor twice. I, you know, good back support, but the wheels need to lock for us older people. >> Well, I didn't have a complaint. I like the back and forth. I just like to do that. I have one a chair that moves back and forth and holding. I love it. So, >> chair, >> yes. >> I don't have a delta, but I do have kind of a request. Could we maybe get an update on the like a couple
071years ago, you gave us like a colored graph of like where the status was of the bond projects and where we were at funding wise. Could we get one of those again? Thank you. Other opportunities for improvement. I believe that's all. >> Well, if there's nothing further that comes before this board, I adjourn this meeting at 7:55.