001I call this meeing of the sou reference Board of Education together at 6:30 we stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all next item on the agenda is all Mr secretary yes Madam president Anthony Johnson pres Amanda flesher pres Lori Hicks pres Sheryl flesher pres Misha present Daniel Winston present Shirley Tober present next item on the agenda is I don't have to do that now I don't have to do it okay he changed it um item 14 did have discuss and consider super superintendent uh [Music] employee uh contract but now it says it should be superintendent evaluate I'm sorry superintendent say it superintendent not evaluation no superintendent um contract
002contract right okay that's item 14 I'm I'm amending that next item on the agenda are there any other corrections to the agenda there are none and Madam president for clarification is that the resolution that you're referencing or or the actual agenda title the actual agenda item and so it should read as as the super um discuss and consider superintendent cont um employment employment contct contract next item on the agenda superintendent communication are there any Mr B There is thank you madam president president uh good evening uh we would like to recognize the Vandenburg staff member of the month for March and that is M Elizabeth Rogers as the Mantra at vanderberg elementary is that they Rise by lifting one another up and M Rogers is being recognized by the Vandenberg staff for being kind patient
003and always caring towards all students and staff and so keep being awesome Elizabeth so congratulations are in order to M Elizabeth Rogers and then additionally on Thursday of last week uh the South Redford School District successfully hosted the 2025 state of the Redford Township address in the NES Cafe which was a smashing hit and we had approximately 155 guests that we hosted uh inclusive of business partners as as well as elected officials the women's uh honors chorus sang underneath the leadership of Mr Tim Shaner um they did an outstanding job of singing the National Anthem and then our Hospitality tourism program provided all the food for 155 guests and so we were able to Showcase not only just the hospitality and tourism program from Career Technical education but showcase uh the South rord school district
004and the incredible efforts of chefs Tony and Leo and uh also a special thanks are in order to our lead administrator for Career Technical education and thirston high school assistant principal Beth Harris um who were instrumental and hosting a very successful 2025 state of the township address and so the amount of compliments that we got from community members um was uh nothing short of innumerable and so hats off to them for making this a very special event in which we were able to host and that concludes my communications this evening Madam president thank you Mr Bob next item on the agenda is board Communications are there any to the chair yes I have several um first we got an invitation from the drama instructor Patty Denton along with the choir instructor Tim Shaner for the
005thirston High School Musical in the spring it's called Once on This Island and it's a retelling of The Little Mermaid it's on May 1st and 2nd at 700 p.m. as well as May 3rd 2 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. tickets are $15 and they're also um asking for people to buy ads because it also goes towards funding their program we also have a car show coming up sponsored by the thirston automotive technology Dunning auto shop on April 10th from 5: to 7:00 it's free um there's prizes and food and they've also ponsor spons partnered with sponsors mad Chevrolet and Rous and that's going to be in the parking lot is it over here or at thiren thiron th's parking lot I'm not certain but I can find out th's parking lot if I may be the
006north parking lot of first okay thank you thank you and um lastly I have not gotten any correspondence from any of the board about the orientation operations manual so I guess the committee will just schedule uh a meeting to meet soon that's it any other any other Communications from the board um I went to the preschoolers at Adams and they were so so I mean they were fantastic and I read three books to them yes and they loved it and um they said are you coming back I says yes I'll come back um I have another Communications from the Michigan Association School boards award ceremony which is April 24th 2025 um I would like those of you that plan on attending which I hope it's the whole board because we we are going to be
007an honor board so um I think that's great and uh we will get uh an award for that so uh I would like everybody to let Chris no by the 15th April 15th let's see I think that's uh I think that's all I have nobody else has anything else next item on the agenda is comments from the audience are there any none there are none next item from the on the agenda is consent agenda do I have a board member willing to adopt it yes I think the adoption follow it's been mooved by Mrs early do I supported by Mr Johnson all in favor I any Z 79 Z res resolution adopted next item on the agenda is Sr EA Sr o p a srf reports well good afternoon good afternoon it's evening good evening
008yes it is good afternoon Madame President and members of the board um I'm speaking on behalf of the assar a today um we just have one quick communication for you and that is um we've been putting together proposals and working hard on um our negotiations are coming up our first official meeting is March 31st um I believe that's next Monday already at 4M um we're excited to to get together and and start talking about you know ways in which we can continue to support the district the district can support us and we can also then in turn support the community so just wanted to send that out there for you thank you all right thank you Miss Woods good evening M president everybody I first like to address my absence for our last meeting I
009apologize I got that mixed up um I apologize for that um so today I'm here for South bord Foundation I just have a couple of things to report to you today uh Madam President we did we were able to uh get the applications over to thirston for the scholarships that is all in place they they have access to it their deadline uh is will be May 17th because the award presenting is May the 29th uh also I spoke with I'm dealing I'm spoke with the Leisure Services Department uh downtown they're going to work with me um to present a community EST stravaganza that's what I'm calling it uh when I first talked with him I originally talked with him in regards to uh the egg I wanted the egg drop and I reached out to
010him and I said well how can you help me uh I want to do something for the community we're always we're just doing scholarships and things of that what can we do what am I allowed to do to the community he says well what's what's the foundation I said see that's the reason why I wanted to live so he said well you you get back with me with your idea so he hung up he called me back he says Miss Wood I said yes he says talk to me so I said listen I said well what I'm trying to do is for that very reason that you said you didn't know what the foundation is and my my goal and my promise and my mission is to let it be known of the South record
011Foundation and the things that we do in our mission and I went over that with him so at the end of the conversation now he's going to help me present uh South wer Foundation presents grills on Wheels Community Extravaganza that's going to be the name of it uh we're shooting for the end of May um we haven't set a date yet I meet with him tomorrow just so you know uh and they're going to help me put this together and it'll be for the whole community um the reason it has to be in May or the first part of June I know they get out of school in the first part of June but I'm getting ready to have a major surgery Friday this Friday um the 28th of March uh on my spine so
012I will be down 4 to 6 weeks um but I will be reachable so I'm trying to get everything in line so that I won't have to worry during this time that I'm down and any questions for me you will not be reachable I just want you she's sit she tells me to say she's gonna sit down will you be cooking at this U grillone Wheels yes I will be bringing in four um four bullets they uh what bullets are they are four pull along grills they will cook for up to 2,000 people um I also will have vendors I'll be looking for vendors they will be licensed vendors of our community I'm going to reach out to the PTO in our Comm in our uh Community to each School personally this is and when
013the school starts back I'm going to have some Lea eyes to reach out to the pto's for me to also have them a table here to reach out so people can start to know what we're doing here in South weer um in the school system I know you're doing a lot it's beautiful but we also as the foundation need to start standing on our word and that's to bring something new to our community and I intend to do that and I would conclude my report for today thank you so much any questions Madam president any questions okay thank you all righty thank you next item on the agenda is the presentation who service Mr B thank you madam president so often times one of the people that plays an integral role to ensuring the daily
014operations of the district and that our students are fed and fed well is the director of food service miss Karen and so she is here tonight to provide a brief presentation with the board surrounding mood foods and uh some of the opportunities that she's had to to integrate this into some of our schools here in South Redford and what uh students had a chance to experience firsthand so with that I'm going to turn it over to Karen coming from Char good evening president and the board good evening I just wanted to uh give you an insight to what we've done in uh at Vandenburg and then we did at Pierce Middle School as well you know science has shown that what we eat you know affects how we feel how we our moods and that
015sort of thing so charal has a program called mood boost so at Vandenburg we introduced different foods for the students to try many of them weren't out way out there because they're familiar with them but what we did in October is that we on the uh fruit and vegetable bar we put these little signs that highlighted what the actual food was being highlighted that day and you each have a packet that on your um little memo that I had sent out to the teachers and asked them to explain to the students and have them um actually look for those items when they went to lunch they received a little packet the first week that we or the first day of the week we did happy so they got a little coloring sheet and on the
016back they also got um some other information on foods that would make them happy as well and then on the next day was alert and they got this little guy here and got a little sticker and then it on the back they also got a A list of items that uh affect their mood but also we did carrots that day so we had a little recipe that we attached to the back of it as well so they could try it at home then the next day was I'm confident so they got this little guy and on the back was a list of things that they could eat that could help them feel confident and then also the following day was I'm am smart so they got this little guy they got a sticker and then
017they got a list of foods that can they could eat at home that can help them feel that they're smart and then because there were six characters but five days we did strong and calm together so they got these little guys this one is red and this one is green and they got the little um information sheet on the back that they could take home with them so when we did this at the middle school we um went along the same um path of the days of the U characters but their icons are a little more adultish not so adolescent they're more like a bullet kind of thing so I had these items posted on the walls that they could see and then then above the items we have these posters that they could see
018for the day they could look for those items so they got the wristbands if they tried them so on the first day was on one side side it says I am happy and on the back it says feed your mood the next day was alert and feed your mood and I am confident is the pink the blue is I am smart I am strong is red and I am calm is green so it was it was really cute because there were kids that tried the things just because they wanted brace they wouldn't get a bracel if they didn't try it some of them actually we did include stickers some of them wanted the sticker instead even at the middle school level so it was a great success so that's um that's what we had done
019any questions that's great any questions so enjoy your wristbands and your little coloring sheets and your stickers thank you so much oh you're welcome all right I give those to my little ones and they can come absolutely thank you next item on the agenda is discuss Adams Elementary School Fisher Elementary School Jefferson and bber Furniture project Mr thank you madam president uh as pre previously uh shared with the board um not too many weeks ago um our partners from TMP architecture Kayla and Kyra are here this evening and uh Kayla is going to uh present again to the board about the current uh upcoming phase of where we're at in relation to the furniture project that we started talking about some weeks ago so to talk about the new phase she and her colleague Kyra
020are back again so with that I'll turn over thank you good evening M pres thanks for having me again it's good to see you all good to see you too the fact that I'm here again presenting more furniture just speaks to the the fact of how much Furniture we have installing this year in 2025 it speaks to how much work that that Jason and Amy and all of your wonderful Administration throughout the district has put into helping design this furniture package for everything to install in time for our students so with that being said wanted to run through all of the furniture that is installing and why I'm speaking to you all a second time and so that is for our Adams Elementary they're having a music class room being installed of furniture we have
021Fisher phase five that is the last round of furniture at fer due to how large of a project that is and how construction was phased out and then we have Jefferson and Vandenberg Phase 2 which is also our final phase and that's also due to the amount of projects and and the phasing of construction and so that was our timeline and then speaking through these points we'll go through each space we have our music at Fisher phase five includes our library learning comments and some specials classrooms at Jefferson that's also our library learning comments in our steam classroom and again that Von Bird that's our library learning comments in our steam classroom there as well so our previous furniture package I wanted to run through our phasing and how that has played out with our
022construction schedule so phase one has installed phase two has installed and students and staff are already interacting with that furniture we have phase three installing in July and then phase four and phase five are their way as well and that's colorcoded to show the different spaces in their construction schedule we have our second floor for phase one has installed that's our fifth graders so they're already interacting in our new edition there and then we have phase four installing in August for students at Jefferson phase one is the majority of our classroom space and then phase two like I said our library learning Commons and our Ste classroom and then a breakout classroom for students to break out and collaborate in that as well Vandenburg is about the same so we have majority of our classroom
023spaces installing in August and then our library learning Commons and steam classroom in early September so then going into that furniture Adams's music classroom this is due to the phasing of the district all around and so now we're pushing in our music classroom there and so they haven't received furniture yet so that will be installed in in December over a Christmas break so that when the new semester starts students will be able to start interacting in the music classroom there so this is a direct match for what has been installed at fiser for their music classroom that students are already interacting with so they had their teacher desk combination installed previously so that's already set within there they'll have 30 student stools install and those varying footb bar Heights help with our our little students
024all the way up to our fifth grade students to help with our different size students there we have flexible risers and those can be used in different forms with either one step two steps or three steps and those are on Wheels so that for any performance needs those can be wheeled out of the classroom as well and then some mobile storage so that's the music classroom that's being installed and then moving into Fisher phase five again our our last round of furniture once this is complete Fisher will be all s furniture that's our library learning Commons I'll FP right to the photos because that's the fun thing to see um this is almost a direct match of furniture piecewise to what Adams has had inst stall so a lot of the same Pieces Just in
025different forms to fit Fisher's specific space so we have number one and two are typical student chair and table those tables are flipping Nest so what that means is that they can turn horizontally or vertically and be moved out of the spaces needed and it can also be pushed together so if there's any large assembly that's taking place in here those can be moved and are flexible in in their Arrangements three and four are new bookcases four are shorter mobile bookcases again on Casters in case space needs to be cleared five and six are a mobile circulation desk that's also installed at Adams already we have seven8 and nine form a fun collaboration at the center our space so that's softt seating with some bookcases around it and with a round table 10 and 11
026are we call them Sushi tables and so that allows students to get on the floor and sit on little 3in pucks that are upolstered and almost at a coffee height um table there just for different postures of seating 13 are our steps and so those are upholstered elements and that will be at our architectural feature called The Nest so Adams they have their nest Fisher will have the same nest feature there so it'll have um a form of architectural the ceiling and on the walls to create some interest and then 14 and 15 are some other upholstered elements everything is vinyl so that means it's bleach cleanable if we're worried about the spills or other other things occurring in the space all H stre is is Bach cleanable in the space and then off of
027our library learning comy have a breakout room so that has a monitor for Tech needs we have our student chair and a group table a mobile whiteboard and again some soft seating we'll be installing an art classroom at Fisher so that is again a direct match to our district standard so far we our standard teacher desk and then our art specific tables that have a sprayed on edge to them helps with any water that might be spilled or any supplies that's build and new drying racks as well and then we'll have our new steam classroom this is directly connected to the nest in the library learning Commons with movable partition doors so it could create direct access this also has the flip andess group tables but here it's a marker board surface and so that
028could turn into a mobile whiteboard for the students if it is side we also have mobile storage with some pegboard sides to help with any manipulatives um any other things that are placed within their classroom Kayla what's that Black Block on that what is what's that there that's a good question that's an existing column within the space oh okay thank you we'll be installing an occupational therapist classroom and so when we got into these itinerant spaces we met directly with the staff that will be within the spaces so the staff member for the space designed it said she wanted a lot of open space for students so she'll have her teacher station a trapezoid table for some student work and then lateral file storage for any lockable files an itinerant office here this will be
029more adult Le so they'll have their adult guest chairs a flip and Nest table and then a combination storage for any lacking needs and that was fer so moving into Jefferson Phase 2 again this rounds out all of our furniture at Jefferson so this is their Library learning Commons the same Furniture just outfitted in different ways to fit their specific space so all of the features are the same here for our furniture we have some standing height um we learned through Adam's installation that students really gravitated towards standing height tables so we wanted to implement those here so we have our Sushi tables all the way up to our standing height tables and then our number eight in the the left corner that's our Nest feature at Jeff so that has architectural elements to really
030highlight that space and create that feuture space for students and I should have pointed out our book volumes we did a catalog of how many students would be in the space and then multiplying that where I recommended 20 volumes per student to make sure that we're always providing enough storage for our books for for our students so recommended per student would be 4,820 volumes and then the amount that we're allowing the plan is for 5,148 so we're above our our recommended book count there our breakout room is the same furniture from Fisher as well we have our mobile whiteboard our table and our soft seating our steam classroom and the same Furniture so all students will know how to interact with this districtwide our fliping Nest grou tables that our marker board surface our student
031stool with varing footb bar Heights and our pegboard side panel storage units and at Vandenburg it is the same spaces here as well this is vandenbberg specific Library learning Commons their recommended per student count is 5,840 volumes we have in plan 7,500 or 59 volumes and so that just shows how much shelving we could have in the space and their nest option is right in that lower right hand corner are number seven and again all furniture attributes are the same throughout the district in our library in provin our breakout room here all breakout rooms will have a monitor for any Tech needs for students and staff to collaborate our soft seating our mobile whiteboard and then this is Jeffers or I'm sorry Vanden bird SE classroom layout here and again our marker board for the
032nest tables our student stools and our storage at vandenbberg will have a Social Work office right off of the library learning Commons so they have their teacher desk combination their book and file storage that's lockable they'll have some soft seating for students and some guest chairs as well and that is the I'm refering to installing in 2025 are there any questions there any questions to the chair yes a little bit of a silly question for you the U marker board tables and the marker whiteboard um how hard is it to get Sharpie off of those if the kids use the wrong marker it is a a magic eraser situation with those it's not the end of the world we use ceramic steel so it's it's a little bit of an upgrade from your typical Mark
033report service that you need okay thanks yeah good question any other questions I thank you so much app very very awesome yes it's exciting time for the next item on the agenda discuss thirston High School specialty a thank you madam President also uh if I may I know we have some guests that are here in the audience tonight that if they did not want to stay for the remainder of the agenda that if people would like to transition and uh into the other portion of their evening they're certainly welcome to to do so uh unless there's additional thanks from the board to some of our guests that have already gone but if they would like to stay for uh the remainder of the agenda of course welcome to do so just to be respectful waste
034time and uh with that I would like to uh introduce once again to the board our partner and project manager from B Mow to talk with us about agenda item 12 Kelly first hello everybody hi I don't have a presentation but it'll be short and sleep so we recently bit out the um low voltage work at TH th High School a couple years ago we bid out all the projectors and marker boards in each of the classrooms so this is kind of taking that final stretch to bring us home for AV this includes work for classroom sound system in the choir room and drama room as well as the media center is going to get some upgrades on their sound system the main gym will get an upgraded speaker system in there so that'll be
035nice and clear here new microphones all that kind of good stuff as well as some new displays will be throughout the corridors and some of the AP offices principal's offices and Le Counseling Center as well so that way districtwide you'll be able to get announcements um on the visual on the TV across the board so that is pretty much what that includes and work is scheduled to actually now be complete again the summer we thought there might be some delays some equipment but everything should be done that's great all right any [Music] questions thank you Kelly yes next item on the agenda consider amendment to General Appropriations for the 2024 2025 school year thank you madam president at this time I'm going to turn it over to our Director of Finance M Nikki Bor to
036present to the Board of Education our budget amendment of where we're at at this juncture of the school year so with that I will turn it over to Micky uh good evening um Madam president and board in front of you uh you should have uh the proposed amendment to the 2425 uh General Appropriations for the general fund um you can see uh that the proposed 2425 Amendment um uh shows an overall increase in revenue of 2.17 um some of the highlights that I have included on there is we we have seen and uh many were able to participate in um The Nest um we are seeing some Revenue coming from that and you guys got to see that the other day um hopefully we will also see some donations um coming from that as well
037um as well as our summer Kids Care Program uh we also see we've also been working hard on looking for operational grants anything that um we can enlist and some of that state revenue is will be coming from uh our operational grant that we were granted our 12a as well as our filter first um you will see that decrease in the foundation allowance uh that number last year uh the budget was approved with a per pupil amount that was larger than we uh we found later to receive from the state as well as we're going to see some fluctuation with uh shared time um we have some uh carryover amounts as you can see with um like a thir 31aa and Title One money um we are I am staying on top of this budget
038as we know that um and to in today's uh world we we don't know what's coming tomorrow as well as as um what the budget will be uh from the state those decisions are made prior to that even being released um our fund balance um the net increase in the fund balance amount uh is 1 577 so about a 1.6 increase there um that does take into consideration as you can see uh we look at the statement from the original that does take into consider consideration the beginning fund balance uh in comparison to what was projected at the original budget uh so we are coming in at a fund balance at beginning of the year of 5.5 does anybody have any questions that looks pretty good to so if I'm reading this right it says
039we'll be at 10.4 10.4% yes correct any questions you been doing some good work we are doing our best and thank you so much thank you madam president the resolution is attached for more consideration 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 by is this blesser do I have a support support supported by Mrs Hicks all in favor I any NS seven eyes resolution adopted thank you so much very good very good next item on the agenda discuss and consider superintendent contract okay there was a committee appointed by Mrs toer at the beginning here and two of the three that were on that committee showed up at the time of the meeting um as everybody knows if you're
040not there you can't vote so the committee is bringing back a recommendation of nothing because we only had two so it would be have to be discussed and moved further than you um let us discuss this um what well first of all I'd like to know does anybody have any questions or um if anybody has anything to say if they would like to um move to uh extend Jason's contract for another year um what's the to the chair yes um the resolution that we have in front of us is not correct I it is uh the first paragraph is not the committee could not make a recommendation that means to be removed from the resolution we can discuss it we have we have a new resolution the one I have in front of me is
041almost the same as the one before and that very first paragraph says the committee is making a recommendation if I maybe I'm wasn't given the right ones but as it stands what was in our packet and what is here is is not concurrent with what is going on uh discussion and you know at the board table and renewing his contract for another year is fine it's going to roll over anyhow but but we can't pass a resolution that is not right and that first paragraph has got to [Music] go um didn't we Chris didn't we have a new resolution you have it at your table and it was my understanding it was taking place that discussion with the committee was taking place at the table and the board was deciding at the table right it's
042the special committee part a special Committee of the board is not making a decision we are making of the board sure say yeah correct so just a word you would have to change was not seeing special committee so that's sure say that first paragra that's what thank you Daniel okay our resolution has to reflect what the board is doing our action okay so um we're not adopting this resolution right correct okay so since we're not adopting the resolution it's dead in the water so that means that as of uh March 31st March 31st we will be extending Jason's contract congratulations all right so that's it next item on the agenda report from board annual oh report from board annual preference superintendent evaluation committee than you yes so um Daniel AJ and I met and um
043have discussed um going forward with happen an evaluation this year for Jason maybe May April or May but with the um thought to being in line with the midyear um evaluation in January that we would have to do we should have done this year but we didn't so moving forward we will do it this year in May and then again in January 2026 question that makes sense that kind of puts the evaluation completed before oh I still know yes the Bor annual um performance performance um we were also talking about just keeping what we got right now and just do that um we would want to get Jason's done first and then ours done shortly after somewhere maybe to the chair yes I have a question for our chairperson um I like the idea of
044you know the January now in January but don't forget you have to bring the tool to the board for approval what we're going to use so your committee needs to get that together the tool for Jason yes and also for the board performance evaluation whatever tool we're using has to be presented to the board and discussed it's the current tool even if it's the current tool I just wanted to remind people that's part of the process bring that back the TOs any questions next item on the agenda's report National School Board Association advocacy C thank you that would be me guys it was we knew we were waiting on you [Music] it's not going to be all of this I just gave to all of you guys you would know what everything was it's not
045going to be all this three minutes okay minutes two and a half let go to two and she still stuff a minute minute and 42 seconds count she lost 30 seconds that quick she she taking out too many trees with all this so she lost 30 seconds [Music] thank you I'll add it to well it's only go it's going to be very short I'm just giving everybody everything that I learned from the advocacy now first of all the top four concerns that we have that were free and reduced lunches individual with disabilities Education Act funding the title funding within the education budget should be protected and increased these total funds these title funds allow our students and staff to be properly supported and increasing funds should set should free up local dollars to further support
046the general education of our students support Broadband for schools the United States Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments on a Case dealing with the Constitutional of Universal service fund the USF fund the erate program which is instrumental in expanding Broadband to schools and libraries the affordable connectivity program extended discounts on broadband services for nearly 1 million families in Michigan but those discounted ended in June of 2024 so we we took it back to our Senators and our so that we could they could vote on it again for us I'm not going to talk about our uh Trump and our Republicans because everybody knows exactly what he did these first 100 days so I'm not going to even disgusting we haven't even hit 100 days yet I know but you know what that's what he's
047doing in 100 days so everybody knows the craziness that's going on so guess what I'm not even going to discuss but what one thing I do want to tell you guys is that in order what's this in order for okay in order for him to actually get rid of the Department of Education he cannot do that unless Congress says yes he could dismantle it but he cannot completely wipe it out he thinks that with a um executive order he could do it but he cannot and I and everybody needs to know that okay um we had a guest speaker her name was LE Lena aori who talked about um Medicare Medicaid rep so we work at the intersection of education and health National Organization based in Chicago and so everybody wanted to know what does
048school health services actually do they increase they increase Access to Health Services reduce barriers and disparities to care strengthen prevention early identification and intervention improve school and attendance and enhance academic and health in outcomes the rest of it you guys can read all about Medicare uh we had the individual education plan the IEP and uh they talked a little bit about um IEPs as being you know part of Medicaid so now the first breakout session that we had was um resource Equity when school systems and communities work together to mobilize the right combination of resources that create high quality learning experiences for all students combination of resources and create high quality learning experience for all our students that is what we call educational resource equity and we also have um HDT tutoring program and that's
049the high dosage tutoring program designed to accelerate learning and help students make significant academic Gams this was all the first day the second day how United States Public Schools can survive and thrive in a school Market Academy lessons from the International Community started this this career started in 2001 working for Teach for America education has often been a passive exercise with a St estatic curriculum ignoring the individual stress and use of Young Learners this Pro approach is no longer acceptable in today's classroom andem 10 Way to redesign High School 10 features Suess positive development relationships safe inclusive School climate culturally responsive and sustaining teaching deeper learning curriculum Student Center pi authentic assessment well prepared and well supported teachers authentic family engagement Community con connection and integrated School support and shared decision making and Leadership nearly
0508 and 10 agree they have a great future ahead of them but only about half which is 51% feel prepared for the future the most important pre predator of whether students feel excited about and prepare for their future is the extent in which they feel engaged in school nearly every measure of Engagement declined from 2023 to 202 24 more than four in 10 students report that they have not learned enough interested in the past week over half does have the opportunity to do school work aligned with their interests or talents barriers to family engagement despite ental [Music] achievement gaps families across Democratic group demographic groups all attend to investigate their child's grade level manry all families and schools need to work together to address their perception yeah parent teacher home visits parent teacher home visits
051models were co-created by parents and Educators using the community organizing principles of shared leadership this is are voluntary and arranged in advance teachers are trained and compensated for visitors visit focused on hopes and dreams training teachers and staff to develop meaningful relationships with families of their students though two 30 to 40 minute voluntary home visit first visit will be summer fall focus on hopes and dreams second followup visit going to way Communications second visit winter and spring focused on academics student outcomes 41% reduction in high schoolers failure failure to earn uh course credit 50% less likely to developmental problems 24 fewer absences 44 reduction in chronic absenteeism 4.9 additional month of reading and 7.8 additional month of math and that's it guys and you guys can take all the time you need to read all
052of the everything I learn thank you thank you all right guys next item on the agenda comments from the audience are there not related to the agenda okay next item on the agenda plus delta form please Madam president what processes help the board tonight to chair yes I always appreciate getting updates from the staff and the community and our um architect people architect people sorry uh anytime we get updates I just I really appreciate you guys taking the time out of your day to be here especially when it's like cold and the kids are on spring break so I appreciate it thank you other I I really enjoy the furniture update I I like that because that lets us know exactly what we're looking forward to any other what processes can help the boards work
053in the future us well I guess they are none if there's no further business that comes before this before I adjourn 7:33 meeting at 7:33