001I call this I call to order the board of education at 6 I'm sorry 6 6:33 can we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance i al 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 next item on the agenda is you please call the role Winston Amanda flesher present Anthony Johnson pres Lori Hicks present Sheryl flesher present Isa early present Daniel Winston pres and Shirley C present next item on the agenda is approval of agenda are there any corrections to the agenda there are none next item on the agenda is superintendent's Communications thank you Mr B thank you madam president uh congratulations are in order this evening uh for several instances uh first and foremost uh
002to Jefferson and Adams Elementary School students who in conjunction with their art teacher Miss Zohar uh student artwork is being displayed at a downtown art gallery from now through April the 26th uh details are available on the district social media outlets and then I will provide some additional details uh to the Board of Education as well also congratulations are in order this evening to the entire career technical education Department uh as the district knows a priority has been to successfully launch our Career Technical education programs all five of our Career Technical education programs now have their final approval from the state of Michigan so uh hats off to their entire department uh none of these five program approvals would be possible without uh the ongoing efforts of Beth Harris Chris Muny Jennifer Bruner Sarah nek
003Chef Tony Chef Leo Kevin cartright uh Tanya Walker Nikki Ogden as well as Alisa nagelhout and our very own uh Amy Davidson of the curriculum instruction and assessment department so hats off to all of them uh without their efforts um we would not be in that space of having all five Career Technical education programs approved additionally congratulations are in order to the entire vandenbberg staff uh that participated in yet another successful black history uh event on February 27th that took place at vandenbberg elementary school in conjunction with the vandenbberg community um there were over 400 people there in attendance our very own uh board president provided the keynote addressed that evening uh we also had several other elected officials there that night inclusive of our very own thirston High School alumni and state senator Mary
004Kavanaugh who was there that evening and on behalf of Mrs Hughes uh she would like to to share uh her deepest appreciation to the entire venberg staff and Community for their unwavering dedication and commitment in organizing this most recent black history event uh this successful event uh continues to be a true reflection of vandenberg's hard work ongoing passion and ongoing commitment to creating a positive and welcoming educational environment the student P performances and presentations were nothing short of outstanding which showcased an in-depth understanding understanding of black history and culture uh the students enthusiasm Talent dedication were simply nothing short of fantastic and it was extremely inspiring to see the efforts of our students and our entire community so um with that Madame President special thanks to the Vandenberg staff and Vandenberg Community it was an
005outstanding event yet again and with that that concludes my communications this evening Madam president thank you Mr Bob are there next item on the agenda is the board board Communications are there any T yes on February 26 or 25th I sent an email to my fellow committee members regarding um the contract approval for to extend the contract or not I have not received any communication back from the committee members and this needs to be completed I'm sorry March 31st or the contract is automatically approved for another year okay all right um the committee members you please respond to Mrs Hicks next oh I anyone else have any board Communications um I have one our um Michigan Association School Board um Awards dinner is going to be April the 24th so mark your calendars because I
006expect to see every board member here there it's going to be at from 5: to 8 and it's going to be at ref Union do you want us here or at re no we wanted at we wanted you at ref Union at 5 to 8 April 24th because we will be a under board and I I think we get something don't we don't yes okay all righty next item on the agenda comments from the audience topics related to the agenda are there any there are none next item on the agenda is the consent agenda 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 do I have a support support it's been moved by Mrs Fletcher supported by Mrs
007Hicks all in favor I any Nays zero Nays seven I zero Nays resolution adopted next item on the agenda presentation of the bond projects update Mr B thank you madam president at this time I would like to turn it over to our partner and project manager and more ways one uh from baralo Kelly Ferguson to provide the board with an update in terms of the bond projects and upcoming attractions for summer of 2025 Kelly thank thank you thank you everybody tonight there so we just wanted to kind of give you a little snapshot what's currently going on in District and what's going to happen this upcoming summer all right so currently we are working at fish Elementary School Jefferson Elementary School and vber as well as doing some evening work at Pierce midle School ahead
008of our summer construction let's talk about Fisher right now we are currently working on the North in of fish elementary school as you can see this is what the future FL plan is going to look like um originally this plan I classrooms are want to believe so but we have rearranged the floor plan we are going to be having very special guest um occupied this space from pre to kindergarten and so keeping that going and keeping that moving we have some photos to kind of show you where we're at of the progress so far so we've gone ahead and demed everything out of the spaces deed a lot of walls in the spaces we were able to get our underground pluming in for our new restroom you see going in here we've got cast our
009inspections so we're able to start boarding a w which is going to be super great we the finishes of painting and all that of good stuff going on and if you drive by Fisher you'll see the new storefront windows and doors that are going in spes and that will is scheduled to be slated or scheduled to be finished I want to say around July of this year if not sooner this upcoming summer we are going to be working in several areas we're going to be back in the main section of the session section of fct so we're going to be working in upgrading the library learning com simar to what Adams had done a couple summers ago you're going to see that same tree um emblem or tree thing that's happening inside this Library as
010well the art room will get some nice cosmetic upgrades as well as new discovery classro which was allow you to look inside the Library column or Library comments I should say the old reception area is going to get reworked um and there is a current classroom that is a full classroom but once we have these other spaces open up we're going to change that be the two spaces one for gross motor skills and the other I can't be nice and we also are going upgrad the kitchen with a new oven new ceiling new lighting some other cosmetic finishes to keep that going and looking pretty good and finally at Fisher because this will be our last summer there we are going to be also working on the second floor so once again similar to what
011we're doing on the North side a lot of the quarter walls are coming out so that way you can expand and make the L for our students you'll also see there are some special education classes that are going to be up here which are going to be outfitted with all the right things that needed there's new restroom going in the existing toil rooms are going to be upgraded nice as well as some situation at Jefferson venberg those schools both have similar layouts but they experence slightly different things so at we are currently under construction um and and manberg as well but currently we're under construction building the new gym Edition as well as put in some new a new Chiller so as you guys can see these pictures are a little bit old snow on
012the ground but last month we were able to set the chiller and we're going to have that up and running so you guys have brand new air conditioning in that space brand new from Jefferson um in the coming weeks also we're able to get the addition is now fully ripped which is so nice to see we'll start getting windows I believe in the next month or so to get that place enclosed and everything going we have our roof that just got placed on last week and this is the steel that was underneath it so that that Edition is sched to be finished this upcoming summer if not soon or once again the parking lot will be finished before school starts that's the one that we're really excited about inside Jefferson um similar to F the
013classrooms are all getting upgraded this summer so get um painting they'll get new Mark they'll get um some is a new upgraded C tou displays they'll get new flooring in the space as well as in the corridors we are going to be also upgrading the library learning commment so that once again we have that tree yes as well as um a visual entrance from the new steam room into the library learning com as well then our Jefferson will also get there this new gym floor is good so we're taking that out and they're going to get a new Brazilian floor in that at Vandenberg as I mentioned is very similar to Jefferson it's a couple weeks a little week behind what Jeffers at right now so we look at the pictures look a little bit
014further time we do have all the steel Now set the I believe is planed to go on this week really great weather which is amazing um this is some pictures from a couple weeks ago you can we had the pit frame which we need to get that in place in order to be able to put the roofing that we have sitting up on top of it in place um there also they started back up at Jefferson putting the brick on it and the Brick on The Chiller wall so that way I believe end this week we'll be setting the actual Chiller inside inside the enclosure there so once again similar to Jefferson we're doing all interior Renovations in the school the only slight difference is um V bir does not have a floor in the
015current cafeteria gym so but we still are going to replace the floor so we still get a nice upgrade it's not changing from that thing there are slightly more classrooms at vber oh I forgot both schools are getting all mechanical upgrades so you get to see nice cool quiet just like these units when they're actively going you can't really hear them it'll be nice cool and quiet to keep that going in those spes at Pierce last summer we were able to complete work in the media center we upgrades in the cafeteria the band and the music space as well as the reception room and the counseling office Center this summer we're going to be focused on the classrooms so all believe 48 classrooms or 49 classrooms are getting Renovations so get all the flooring um
016there are two buy classes and some stage steps we're getting rid of those steps they're going to be going out the way that's be nice smoth flat surface the science rooms in the northeast corner are going to get their walls are coming down so they're going to slightly adjust layout and all six science classes are getting you case workk in those as well we going upgrade the existing I would say it was old uh lify or LIF sight or life uh you know yeah the over that's going be a nice little upgrade as well as the art too same thing with second floor all new flooring um they're going to get a lot of new marker boards Mark and those spaces so they can keep that going a lot of the casework is going to
017be Furniture driven instead of a fixed piece so that'll be able to you know utilize classrooms in a more applicable manner um yeah keep I will say this for all four schools when we're completed with the work they will have all new technology um all new low voltage wiring so it'll be up to date and so you for many many years to come it'll be while we're waiting for that to come out back up what is the difference between a wood floor and a Brazilian floor so right here in this um CA essentially your kitchenet that's the resilient flooring that's going in schools the wood floor was just a it wasn't it's not going to be suitable for a cafeteria style you know get wet easier with kids lunches and everything so it be a
018lot more durable to have this type of Flor the cafet now the new gems are both all have both have I have a question yes will you finished yes we are going to reestablish that this summer yeah that'll be so that'll go back to what actually slightly um there was a walking path we're going to make the walking path again but it's not going to be the exact same walking path but yes that okay so for future bid packages um currently right now what we have out to bid okay this currently right now we're going to be going out to bid and we have out the b right now um The Thirst High School low volage package so what they're going to see this summer going in is we're going to add some projectors in
019the cafeteria as well as the media center those will be some minor upgrades there we're also going to be upgrading the digital signing so that it matches the rest of the district so that way you can put a message out at any of the schools and it can go across everywhere so those minor upgrades happening we're also going to upgrade the audio system in the main gym so it'll be nice and fancy and bluetoth fible and all that kind of good stuff as well as speakers and then for our upcoming projects in the fall it's the thirs high school remodeling project so that's our last big project of the bond so what that includes is um upgrades to unat so once again every school is getting these new mechanical units to make sure it's more
020energy efficient as well as quiet in the classrooms um there will be some minor flooring upgrades specifically a large upgrade in the corridor so it look nice and fresh the corridors going to get painted um and then we are also going to be doing as well as some more technology upgrades a couple years ago I believe it was in 2023 we upgraded all the classrooms with the projectors and and U screens so that's not going to change but we are going to hit the other areas as well and upgrade once again cabling in the buildings and just keeping it up to date and current that's it are there any questions other questions are there any you answered mine Lor's question yes I think I will see you guys in about four weeks for that thirst
021and Technology Kell Kelly if I may I'd like I'd like to make a connection just because she's here this evening that thanks to the feedback of our very own Aon ministrelli that digital messaging commonality that Kelly accentuated would not be possible without eron's efforts so right so we we really appreciate Aaron flagging that which is now making that possible the district and uh so I figured since she was here this evening and a lot of her colleagues are here from vanber I thought that we would lift that in our time together so thanks for accentuating that Kelly and thank you Aaron for making that become a reality for all of our F across the district thank you and we also want to thank this but not only vber and Jefferson for being so accommodating I
022know those temporary parking lots suck I know I know I know I know I know we're working on it but thank you guys so much for working with us because it is truly a process with a freaw freaw cycle Tak far we appreciate you guys so much for your patience thank you thank you next item on the agenda presentation vandenbberg Elementary School Mr B thank you madam president at this time I would like to turn over to principal Hughes as well as the venberg staff who in addition to their musical Montage with their scrolling photos as we entered into the board meeting tonight uh they have compiled a presentation for the board this evening and so without without further Ado I will turn it over to principal Hughes and the van staff um so I
023think most of you as you were coming in um saw the Montage of our students um and I already gave props Aon as well um so she put this piece together and really it really displays who we are um as team Vandy we like to be called and as vber Eagles um and it kind of just shows you um some of the main highlights over the years or actually this year sorry this year um um of what we've been doing and pretty much it brings us right up to our black history event um that we had on on February 28th so um but as uh you guys are kind of looking through that and as our team is um Kyla and I I'll stop over here sorry you want to see the kids I know
024um so kylin and I will just introduce our staff that's here first of all thank you guys so much and our parent so um thank you guys all for being here um I could not do my job without each and every one of you and I am truly grateful we are grateful for our school Community um that we have and uh you know this just um kind of embodies who we are and how we care about our kids and um you know every year we get a new shirt I don't know if you guys know this but this is our shirt and we do teach awesome kids and we have an awesome staff that teaches is awesome kids so uh with that KY and I are just going to kind of introduce people so you
025don't have to stand up if you're not feeling that but just give us wave or something um so uh you know Kyla and I we work together she is our elementary assistant principal and then some um so she has many talents that I am truly grateful and also just to kind of have a teammate it's super cool because sometimes as a principal it's a little lonely out there but I got her to have my back and and I appreciate you so thanks um so we'll start um with Linda pots uh she is a front row and Center so somebody had to take the front row so thanks guys she is our social worker with growth Works Jer [Music] wegerer we have Paige Nicholson our first grade teacher we have Aaron ministrelli who is our Tech
026coach Milah hos who is our instructional [Music] coach we have Ed our other social worker we is our speing [Music] language we have Julie Thomas ourly childhood and we have Jamie Ashley and in the back we have Rachel risk our teacher consultant and Claudia Rushlow our teacher consultant and of course we also have a parent so thanks so much and uh we've been talking about our crosswalk so good thing that got better so thank you uh we also have Cooper here that does our Safety and Security piece not only for vanberg but you know our whole District so team bny team bny yes we are in the house um so thank you all for coming and I know that we just saw each other but we appreciate you guys coming back um so thank you
027so uh this is our new staff picture that you just saw um we have a lot of fun at at andberg but we are basically looking at our three rocks well um our South Redford three rocks um and we are going to weave this into our presentation this evening um looking at the building of relationships and it starts with our staff and moves all the way to our parents and our school community and our responsiveness to just the needs of our school Community um safety including our learning en environment for our students for our staff for our kids and our community we're going to weave in and talk a little bit about curriculum and instruction an assessment and the latest and greatest that we've been doing since January um and then we're going to also
028cover the district strategies of safe and nurturing environment for all using our families as supportive parents and our solutions group is going to tell you how we do that specifically at Vandy um again say safe and nuturing environment for all but as it relates to our curriculum so all right oh thanks um hang on I got to get my notes um because I like a good teacher printed out my little handes um okay so we're just going to marinate on this for a minute and really we're going to focus here um and actually this this is Lisa speak so I'm going to say it and break it down like Lisa does um pretty much this is the best ever uh data that we have at Vandy and you can see this is Ela grade three
029and we are in competition with the district uh grade four we have 30% proficient in ela and again at vanderberg it is the best ever um and we have some work to do but we'll get there in a minute um let's celebrate first right guys and we already uh talked on this at our staff me once this became um allowed for us to kind of discuss grade five 40% and I'm just going to break it down that best ever beat the district beat the county and kind of close to the state so I mean that's a lot to celebrate um yeah thank you all and and uh really it's reflective of everything that starts and as you guys know and you guys know too from preschool all the way up to kinder first second third
030fourth and fifth grade and these these kids that came from Vandy also um were leading the group that went to Eagle Scholars um and that's Tyler his son um so we had the most Eagle Scholars that moov from vanderberg I think you guys know this right um maybe not well there you go whoop whoop Bandy um but the most Eagle Scholars uh that moved and that was that group so it was kind of cool um so this is our math proficiency and again grade three 27% close to the district grade one 21% close to the district and grade 12 or sorry I'm sorry grade five I apologize 12% again close to the district um so you know we do have some work to go um but we're going to kind of talk about that next
031so oh thanks KY so I had Nadia uh prepare a couple of slides that we're going to look at in a minute but our science proficiency um is 23% and you can see here team where we're at we beat the district for Science and for mstep for social studies 5% again beating the district so we have a lot to celebrate and this really speaks a a picture of where we're at and our next steps is what are we going to do because sorry um we still need to push our kids push our instruction really focus on our tier one and this next slide is something that I had n Nadia prepare for us so these are partially proficient and I thought it was a good picture to look at because these are the students that
032last year was were in third grade in ela 39% math 36 6% grade four we have kids that are just almost there 21% and 34 in math and then grade five 28% and 37% and 35% in science and social studies so this picture I asked Nadia to do because what's next right we have Improvement thank you to do so then Lisa being I don't know somewhat data driven and kind of I don't know a geek a little bit I took and drilled it down further so in order can you go back to sorry sorry in order to raise our proficiency we have to focus on these kids now our grade five kids are already at Pierce but we can go ahead and look at our grade three kids because right now they're in grade four
033our grade four kids because right now they're in five grade five so we need to move six kids here that are in grade three for ELA we need to move five kids here in math seven kids here and five kids here and then our proficiency score will go up right and that's what we want the good news is you guys probably already know who those kids are um and we know who they are because we have a plan of action of how we're going to hop them over to proficient so if you want to go to the next slide this just kind of talks about the different scale scores and that's what I kind of had to look at this weekend to see who those students were and who we could really impact so what
034are we doing now and this is our data analysis of course we identified our proficiencies and what we need to do and we're going to talk about that here and the now what another here's what is looking at that information by grade level which we did and we constantly weave in real live data into our plc's and our staff meetings on a regular basis um we looked at our Target strengths and weaknesses those claims so we could really drill down to see what specific students need at an individual basis um and then so what we looked at again the standards we looked at who are the kids that have not shown growth who were the six or seven that are going to hop over to the proficiency side and we devised a plan for tutoring
035now tutoring is not only a vanderberg okay it's districtwide at the elementary and if you work with tutoring can you just raise your hand real quick okay thanks guys so um we have staff and most of our staff at vanberg are teachers so they are doing our tutoring and um again is it those six kids is it those seven kids and the answer is yes so we know not only what to do to move them but who they are to move them and I'm going to call up Amy next because this piece here really hits the why of what we do and the how what we do every day all all day um but before I go to intervention we also look at our attendance and behavior and how does it impact academics so our
036Solutions team will talk on that but Amy I'll have you kind of just spin your your magic so um I'm the reading interventionist um at Vandenberg as most of you already know and I want to speak a little bit to um this now what part of this slide our win time stands for what I need and the students that um in years past win time or differentiated time or Workshop time would be focused on students that were just bottom of the barrel needed that additional help and everyone else was just kind of left to work with the teacher and maybe in a small group if you're lucky um and last year we were fortunate enough to have enough Title One Aid support that we were able to at every single grade level divide every single
037classroom into groups where each and every child was put in front of an adult to get that differentiated or what I need time and we saw significant change in our test scores last year this year I prayed and prayed and hoped that we could have the same number of title staff or at least comparable so that we could again implement this type of 40 minute individualized instruction for every single student in our school and so throughout the day um I'm I was at the beginning of the school year charged with assigning all of those students to an adult or a classroom teacher and it hasn't been as smooth as I would hope of course but things happen um we have every single student for 40 minutes each and every day though getting what they need
038and not only in reading this year but we've also implemented a math portion so that slide previously that math 5% proficiency thing um really that was our Drive we've got to find a way to fill those gaps for the students especially in math um reading we've got a handle on it we've been having a great strong Intervention Program I feel for the last six or seven years and it's taken that long to see that growth so we need to know that math isn't going to happen overnight but it's going to happen so um we have great dedicated staff we have dedicated title AIDs that you know they they continue to want to come back and work with with our students and that is so important we don't have a turnover of of title staff um
039so that keeps the consistency with the students right where we need it to be um I don't know what else do I need to say Amy also meets with our title staff on a regular basis throughout the year she provides a lot of training for our title staff to do what they need to do so that they are ready to work with our kids Amy also meet with our staff too and has meetings where they go ahead oh yeah like um we have these meetings they're called irit meetings their meetings to um talk about students to get them on a to know kind of what track they're supposed to go through and and um what would be their plan for their intervention time or their win time um I also run the um RFA process
040which is the referral request for intervention I mean request for assistance program that's under the SFA umbrella of solutions and um as the interventionist I meet with the teachers that have concerns about students that have needs in academics in behavior in attendance um they fill out the form I kind of I'm called the gatekeeper so I go over and I have a conversation with them and and see what other supports they need um from our team so then they would sign up for a meeting it will be myself Miss pots um Miss Edison Mrs Hughes Kyla is there sometimes when she's there um and so that that process is also a layer to help identify um each and every student and it's it's that RFA process is is really unique in it's not a gateway
041to special education it it's it's not it's just it's a real raw conversation about what in the world can we do I've done X Y and Z and and it is things aren't changing so then we come power of the minds and um come up with new strategies that they try to implement and we we've had good success we haven't even really needed so much RFA processes this year I've noticed um my goal is to have every every uh classroom teacher submit at least one every quarter and it hasn't been needed um because we're kind of meeting those needs I feel in our differentiation time through our conversations because we have we just we're constantly in communication with one another it seems like and not always are those formal meetings needed um because we can
042just kind of solve things on the on the go um and try things and then if things aren't working then they they go to the formal process so any questions I kind of just went into that sorry do you have any questions or wonderings about anything in that nature no okay great thank you Amy I give my students way longer wait time by the way and um so we just kind of uh went ahead a little bit just to and we're going to back it up because Amy was speaking on the intervention piece and this is part of our Solutions work so can we just also go under solutions is our preparent engagement attendance in Cooper awesome so um since Amy kind of went here no you're good we just roll with them we're flexible
043we're teachers so um we're going to continue with that and then we'll get back to Solutions okay guys um but thank you Amy I love going into Amy's room because she has this huge whiteboard in there with all of our students names and where they're at and all these arrows because it's flexible and we're constantly moving kids from one group to a higher group to a higher group so um you know thank you I appreciate you so much and I give her a lot of work to do in projects right so um we're going to move on to our staff and student wellness um and this is Again part of the three Rock so I'm going to call up star and Linda and you guys can tell us more about this fun stuff come on
044Lind get up there with you girl so I star I'm one of the social workers I mainly work with um the students who have special education services we do have linkoln Behavior Services that offer Community Mental Health Services in the schools um side not effect I used to be a CMA at another school in Detroit um and so I loved working in the school however I would leave and have to wait till the following week for my students to tell me the progress of what we did in therapy and if they worked in the classroom but it's much easier for us to be in the building every day because I can see my kids in real time like you're not listening let's go back to the class and tell the teacher this and work we
045can see it in real time versus me waiting one week to find out if i k actually did what I asked to do um we have Linda who is from growth Works um we do have two District Behavior coaches Holly and Rachel Holly works with the Gad population and Rachel works with me a lot so she helps us with behavior Clans and um fpas and bips we have restor restorative Surs that Linda and myself run depending on what kind of group is who's there that day and what happens and we all know something can happen randomly every day um reset room monitor Mr coach is amazing all the kids love him um he's out right now for some family things but I heard the kids made a rumor the other day that he's out coaching
046NBA I was like oh really okay thanks um we do mindful moments where the teachers have it in every classroom right after lunch because for some reason all of our kids are on um professional sports team so when they come back after recess they don't understand that we're not really in the NBA or the thing so they're a little rambunctious so the classrooms have like a reset so every class does a mindful moment whether it's coloring or listening to music just to calm them because you cannot get all these kids crowed and do um work and especially going to be hard cuz it's warmer now and they like to be outside um we have front Fridays which I almost never win Joy's not here gets on my last nerve because Joy has a musical ear
047where um they play a song on Friday mornings and they they take the certain call so could be the first fifth 10th caller you have to recognize the toone the time and the artist no the the title and the artist I never win um and when you win you get to leave a little earlier that day so at Leisa covers your class so you can leave earlier um so it's very interesting to watch all of us trying to run to the room to get the phone to lose to Joy bur like the one I was I was cheating I was on sham a lot that's probably why I wasn't winning the one time I won I was in the hallway like I knew the artist and the song and I'm in the hall so I
048couldn't call um Street and then yeah the gentleman's club is something that um I uh came up with and I brought coach along with me um so I started uh I decided to choose using teachers to pick kids who are or boys who um kind of like show leadership and um also could just basically show leadership really like the good boys but also some who need a little or could use a little male mentorship model type of thing um so um I selected 12 boys with the help of some teachers and um we meet once a month uh and we go over things like so down here was our meeting last month um we we have enough meeting actually this Wednesday coming up so we focused on the leadership components and all the boys had
049to learn how to tie ties so I have three of my friends who uh uh graduated from uh college with me um who are in a male mentorship kind of you know area so they come in and they you know just basically work with the boys um and we talk about community community you know that's one of the topics leadership um we have one where it's we talk about uh all the components that takes that's that uh you know what a gentleman looks like so we go over those things so they so far the boys enjoyed it and I just like to see that they are you know the the kids you know they had to come to school dressed in their white shirts and ties so everybody's like you know wondering why the boys
050are so dressed up and they just felt so you know just a sense of just like respect and like you know everybody is asking what you know what we're doing you know so I had a boy come up to I think he's in the third or fourth I think he's in the fourth grade so he catches me in the hallway he like Miss pot where you know where you going I said you know going to the media center he said are the are the gentleman's club you in there I said yep they are you know he's not a part of but he was you know really interested and want to know what we were doing so I think that that's cool to have you know this or piece and then so we end um in
051May and then um our Online safety oh that's what we're do with officer yeah um officer student resource officer yeah we had a lot of kids you know social media and policing phones and whatnot so we're now going to meet with I believe third fourth and fifth grade second third four fth grade separate and parents are involved but we're going to have the officer just to understand that you know you can't do all the things that you're thinking you can do as far as like group messaging um taking pictures they don't understand social media a lot of our kids all of our kids are too young to have all of these social platforms however they all do so we're trying to get them to understand you know proper etiquette when you have your cell phones
052and also the safety aspect too um so officer Primal is coming this Friday if any what would like to join in feel free the schedule's right here great to but you know we're also talking to um you know our school Community inviting parents to come and then uh we're going to do a little question and answer with the parents afterwards so it's important because the kids are they're chatting like I I'm a helicopter mom so I I have access to my kids phone who are now THS and I open it I don't care I'll check messages um who's that who are you talking to um these kids are chatting on games and so it's a problem because you're not you're probably not chatting with a 13 or 12 year old kid you could be chatting
053with a pedophile you could be you know and they don't understand that so we're just trying to get them to understand like don't give information don't share locations and just not chat with these people if you do not know who they're they're not your friends don't chat with them on Cas that's it any questions no thank you yeah and and thank you all the support I have a question did anybody else have any questions I just want to ask one question yes ma'am the G no I have two the gentleman's club is it third fourth and fifth fourth and fifth grade fourth and fifth okay now the uh SRO when is he coming she she's coming um Friday Friday the 14th and she's at yeah starting at 1 and going until 3:30 okay um but
054I can text you guys this uh because this is also we shared that on uh Dojo so officer Primal will be there it'll be in our LLC starting with grades two three four and five but I can share that with you guys I don't have everybody cell phone but I'll give it to you yes I have another question for Visa yeah if president Trump gets his way and is able to shut down the department of Ed do we have a plan beginning to be thought about about how we fill our gaps I mean we're going to do what we do and that is our plan and our plan is to teach and put our kids first I was talk well maybe it's really more of a Mr bot question because I was really refering to
055the funding of all the extra support we get I will go away if funding goes away I mean I'm a fully funded I'm 85% funded by Title One funds so yeah those are my that's where my concerns are that we find way sorry to put you on the spot yeah I was intentional I'll be honest intentional in saying Title One a um because it is it is something on my mind um 100% so because things will look very different if if that chunk of money is no longer available I'm sorry I know it was well no I mean it's it's appropriate anybody that kind of has the answers I could really use them because frankly I'm scared to death you know um I I just don't know how we handle the special ed the title
056one Title Nine if they take away the department of EV so and I and I'm sure there's a whole lot of other programs under there also but um yeah so it just scares the heck out of me and you know we've always done I mean I've been at Vandy a while you know and we've always put kids first and that is no matter what we will continue to do and I can firmly say that with this staff behind us and this speaks not only to vandenbberg but also South Redford as a whole and I can I can speak you know from from the other elementaries as well yeah we are committed to make a difference for our kids everybody would like their paycheck yes sorry yes I you know it just feels sometimes like we're
057helpless but like I call um senators and repres that's right good keep doing that L of that I mean just to feel like you're doing something um you know registering your ideas and your thoughts and you know hopefully there will be something some kind of protest or something at the hear one let me know because I'll be there with you because I mean there is only so much we can do but our voices can be heard yeah yes there are protests going on but the problem is they're during working hours okay tired now but well I'll send you the ones that I know about okay thanks Elizabeth um any other questions we we have one more uh slide but if you have questions thus far okay so we already talked about Solutions so I'm going
058to call up uh Miss lay and Miss B to kind of speak about what we do as a staff all right so I am the chair of the parent involvement committee Loosely the chair uh because they're such a great team that uh works together to do the programs that we do so our job is to educate families and create Partnerships with them so we do a number of events that we don't necessarily do all the planning but we kind of keep track of how many appearance we get we always have QR codes all over the place when we do these events so we can uh get an estimate of the number of people who are there and we've also put in that QR code um a Google doc where they can or Google form where
059they can um give feedback on the event they've been at so one new one that we tried this year was to have a lunch and learn with a loved one and so um we had families come in at lunchtime to eat lunch with their student and then in the um learning um Center the parents saw a slideshow about some different resources they could have um we got some great feedback we had 60 uh people come a lot more wanted to but because it was kind of our first one we had to kind of cut it off because we weren't sure if we could accommodate that you know more than that so um we're going to try it again in May this time we're going to more uh people coming because we have a a new
060idea of how to get the learning part in where the families will come to the classroom for half an hour and participate in an activity and then just go to lunch or recess or go with their students so there is a lot of Buzz about that and I think a lot of people really enjoyed it um uh J uh mentioned our black history night which is really our Premier event and um involves both the community as well as the teachers and again we got over 400 people at that um we start out the year with popsicles on the playground um which is always a big draw because it's uh at the end of the summer kids can come and meet their teacher um so we had 125 um adults at that um we had our
061tracker treat everybody likes candy so we had about 00 um adults come to that uh we had a PTO meeting along with dodgeball um and there were 50 approximately 50 we did a holiday sing along during school time and we had about 60 people come to that so um we have our spring picnic concert slash um art show at the end of the year is outside it's usually a really nice day and we're expecting you know 300 people for that um and then we also had a partnership with Detroit pal um where um they came in and took a group of our kids um I think they were grades three through five yep um and you know played basketball with them which was wonderful so we had 28 students participate in that so little hoopers
062and we have soccer coming up so yeah soccer will be in the spring so our kids love socer um I'm going to talk a little bit about attendance uh this team identifies key barriers and what interventions that we're going to put in place as a staff this is all done at our staff meeting and uh we did hook up with our sorties who we love Zetas and the Zetas yep go ahead star and the Zetas actually purchased uh pizza and juice boxes for for all those students that made their attendance goals uh Joy Burks and the attendance team is part of that work and then um we did a little incentive we have another one uh coming up which is super cool and we asked for like free roller skating passes and uh we got
063them which was great um so we're really trying to I don't know use our donations if you will um I'm going to send it off to Cooperative culture with Kristen SL hi I am the Cooperative culture chair so our goal is to really encourage positive behavior at Vandenburg um so sticking with the Positive each month we have our huge Town Hall celebrations where we meet at the end of a month and each teacher gets to Showcase kids that are doing well for having perfect attendance for showcasing that area too um academic um honors random acts of kindness and behavior in general as well um so those those are some Focus positives and every every meeting Mrs Hughes chooses who's going to be the eagle winner and we pass off the eagle stuffed animal so it's
064a really exciting event for our kids and then us as a uh Team we really focus on student behavior um and we track what's going on so each month I pull the data you know see what our OBS look like how many do we have what are some possible hotpots that we need to kind of focus on and then our team kind of works together to figure out what we can kind of put in place to help improve these so our main goal this year is to focus on decreasing the number of office referrals in general at our school and we are just really encouraging teachers to teach our gathering Circle our class Council and having these conversations constantly to kind of encourage that positive behavior thanks guys thank you and you already heard about
065intervention 3 so thank you so much for letting us showcase who we are as team vaner I have a question anybody else have a question first yeah go ahead oh than um I just want to say this is the third presentation that I witness so this is like a regular occurrence for me and I wasn't here just to show favoritism really but it felt the most informative and like in so like the Deep Dives and maybe just because we kind of speak the same language as far as like data driven um that was very helpful for me from my perspective as a parent of kids that have already cycled through school and that's currently there um and it also just address the opportunities so we're not you know meeting or exceeding in certain areas but
066the content around the opportunities would seem like thoughtful um just for a lack of better terms just remove like the flu puppies andb I like to call it in work so I just want to say I appreciate that and everybody that contributes to that and I would hope to think that you know maybe I could be a model for some of the other schools that have to come and present that information thank you thank you any anyone else will I yes Mr wion all right Lisa uh I'm going to ask a magic W question here I was going Happ this is we came out of Co and we're getting back to normal more learning and you were speaking upon these are the best scores at Vandy ever yeah and we're talking about being that District
067but you know it's County and then it's state yeah magic wne you have it what would it take for us to move into we're no longer talk about District cuz we're way past that yeah we the county and the state yeah how do we get there if it's even feasible if you have a magic wne oh it's feasible and we're going to do it uh because sorry but we have already talked on this um once we had this I don't know you guys help me out here we had this feeling like last year that our scores were improving it was almost like a um it was just a feeling cuz we didn't know right um it was almost like an electric moment that a lot of us talked about because we felt like our kids
068were starting to move and grow there and you know and we we did it but there's a lot of work to do but we are going to get there and I think one of the ways that we get there is through our tier one through the coaching that we have that the district you know provides for us and for me I get coaching too right um and then also sorry yeah she'll be and then feel free um but and also through that intervention time where every kid gets what they need we are able to close those gaps and move those kids and when I when we say oh sorry we need to retain the students like that's the key the ones that have been here year after year after year are the ones that are
069showing the most significant G this revolving door thing is not so much helpful to our dat um so that that is what we need to start really focusing on how are we going to to keep the Kinders here till grade five through grade six through grade 12 yes yeah okay through 12th grade and and our preschool too you know and you know also it's not it's looking at each individual child so I don't know like we have you know the high group the middle group the lower group so it's constantly moving them to where they're at some of our kids like based on some of the testing and informal um pieces as we're meeting and PE C's are right now at an eighth grade level okay so then we need to and I mean this
070is not only venberg this is other schools within our district but it's about challenging those kids too so we will have that magic wand we met sorry team sorry I'm still going you know how I am um you know we actually looked at some of our data that we got back in January and we hit that math goal and that math goal like Amy Shelby said was difficult because it's more skills based in math so it's like they have to reach a certain skill to move forward team I I'm sorry Mr Winston to your question um our committee chair for attendance wasn't here and that's a nationwide problem but we Buton seats we need kids that are present in class in order to teach and instruct them and to improve those scores and while we've
071had problems prior to co um as many more urban school districts do is just been more of a problem sense um we need at our level it's a parent problem it's not a kid problem right and it's that communication piece about the importance of what we do and I think a lot of parents during public thought if they turn in the assignments they're good and they don't get that there's seven hours of instruction that is a really important piece and not just doing a workbook page um so we I would wave my we one and put them all in the seats every day that would be my number one piece yeah oh I see coup celebrating in the back he'd like their butts in the seat my my magic W would be that the M
072stuff is not the end all be only reason you know the only measure of kids um ability because you know I was just talking to a parent the other day that her daughter's nwaa scor went down but on her daily work she is kicking it out and I said you know she has test anxiety she sees it's a test you know the computer she goes to Pieces but day in and day out she's a great kid in the classroom she works really really hard and you know that's one day maybe two that they take each of those sections of the test it's a lot of um time that they're trying to keep their attention when they're only little kids basically um and it's very for them so um my magic one would be that we
073look at the whole child and um I think vandenbberg has always had a reputation of kids start here and we take them here true does it mean they always pass the M step no but they have made growth and um and we can see their growth in areas that theep doesn't measure thank you milka has a magic she's part of the magic one we all are yeah I'm here on behalf of the structural coaches and I think our magic wand and some of the discussions that we have in fral learning communities and the families is a discussion about growth and proficiency and that's something I support um fenberg HE2 math and then I'm prar Adams um but we talked about you can really impact growth proficiency scores you know some that's a little bit further
074away for some of our students but we have to remember we're all not starting at the same line right um so and that what I need part something like I've been in this District this is my third school year and we were talking about our data like we weren't reaching those kids who were the highest we were focusing so much on the kids who were struggling and I think that I've seen that this year like with the what I need time and the kids who are at and above those students are being challenged and I think that that's helping too so like it's two different pieces growth and proficiency and M steps only that end result but with NWA with their their classroom data we talk about where do they start on that screener how
075do they do that unit test what are they doing and what are they you know so we're talking about goals thatting with kids to yeah they set their own goals sheets yeah you're right good point yisha growth and proficiency that's what I got on my paper right here both together right growth and proficiency I love all of this solution part because this is a whole child whole parent you are correct the kids don't make themselves late M that's right they don't keep themselves at home you know so I talk to hundreds of parents and and mad I'm I'm so angry oh they're not going to school today I'm like why not do you need a ride I come get a you know that's no I just don't get me wrong I used to give my
076kids mental health days right you get two a semester they cannot be together they cannot be in the same week but you know some you know sometimes you need a reset or whatever but I I appreciate the solutions that you all have that means you have been thinking you have been listening to these children's you you see your community and what it needs yes this might be the best presentation yes that I've seen yes seriously I appreciate all of you that this this was really good yes yes I appreciate it I mean we just speak from the heart because we love what we do it's my turn oh yeah chess club yeah chess club sorry Elizabeth we have um a competitive chess club we started um finally got it off the ground in January we
077have a chess master and he's also a tournament director so I'm hoping to be self-sufficient he um wanted to donate half of his chest Masters are very expensive this gentleman drives almost an hour to our community and he has cut his feet in half wow and we um kids are growing um we just started a new um design where I'm pairing older children leaders but the young we have it's three to five and some of the third graders don't have the focus so um I started creating like little chess leaders in the club in they pairing with the younger ones and it's worked really well I'm excited um we're going to continue this um our PTO president um who wants the same Club to grow into Pi so she's going to try and get that
078started next year so our fifth graders can continue that's great and we have 32 students signed up nice that's fantastic can we get a debate thing like Elementary mov what did you say talk to me what I want to see happen cuz but if you have more community activities within your school school it will drive attendance it will drive that partnership that feeling and I think Co just shut everything down so I'm hoping um as those of you have known me for a long time you know how I like um yes yes yes so I we started with J Club next year I'm hoping to bring a couple more clubs in and work with the PTO to get those things going so our after schools are conversating with the kids you know involved in other
079things and our chess club also includes some past vanberg alumni that come and kind of donate their time and to help out to match with the kids as well okay Miss Hughes and team Bandy this has been fantastic and you want to know something I'm telling you are the other elementary schools on this same page page because I I have not heard this but from Miss Hughes and team VY and I think that if everybody gets on this page we can come up up up and I want to give I want everybody to give them a big hand this has been fantastic and thank you so much and Mr Bob make sure that there AR the other elementary schools are on Miss hughes's on team vy's Mountain okay all right we have anybody else want
080to say anything okay we're going to take a TI 10 minute break at 7:44 I call this meeting back to order at 7:58 next item on the agenda is consider Jefferson fiser Bandy abasement project thank you madam president at the board meeting on February 24th 2025 the board discussed the Jefferson Fisher vanderberg abatement projects bids were solicited and received for the work and the companies that are recommended for the work are Midwest environmental for $193,000 environmental maintenance Engineers for $37,000 at fiser and for the 193 that's at Jefferson and venberg and a 10% contingency total expenses not to exceed $253,000 is requested to cover any unforeseen costs associated with the projects and the bid award would be paid for out of the 2021 Bond as well as a 12a grant Madame President a resolution is
081attached for board consideration do I have a board member willing to adopt the resolution Madam president yes move adoption the following resolution Madam president you question what is the A9 the what's that the A9 you said part of it would be paid out oh the gr the grant 12 a it's just called 12a that's that's the type that's the number and the letter that comes from the state 12a okay so it's a state gr yeah correct okay is been moved by Mrs early and supported by Mr Johnson all in favor I any Nays 7 I Zer n resolution adopted next item on the agenda is consider Jefferson Fisher Vandenberg Pierce roller Shades project thank you madam president at the board meeting also on February 24th 2025 the board discussed the roller sh projects for each
082of those locations that you just named bids were solicited and received for the work the company that is recommended for the work is DCA products for $755 a 10% contingency which would be total expenses not to exceed 83,1 60 is requested to cover any unforeseen costs associated with the projects the bid award would also be paid for out of the 2021 fund Madam president a resolution is attached for board consideration do I have a board member willing to adopt the resolution I'll move your resolution it's been moved by Mrs Hicks supported by Mr Johnson all in favor any Nays zero Nays resolution adopted next item on the agenda is consider fer Jim floor product project thank you madam President also on the February 24th 2025 board meeting the board discussed the Fisher gymnasium floor project
083and the bids were solicited and received for the work the company that is recommended for the work would be Coons flooring for $96,900 with a 10% contingency total expenses not to exceed $16,500 is requested to cover any unforeseen cost associated with the flooring project the bid would be funded by the insurance claim and there is a resolution attached for board consideration I have a board member willing to adopt the resolution mad president yes I move the adoption of the F resolution you were just jumping right on those all right it's been moved by Mrs early supported by Mr Johnson all right now all in favor I I 79 Z resolution adopted next item on the agenda consider Fisher tozo polishing project thank you madam president at the board meeting on February 24th 2025 the board
084also discussed the fiser terazzo polishing project bids were solicited and received for the work the company that is recommended for the work is Diamond Shine for 51,8 50 a 10% contingency total expenses not to exceed $ 57,5 is requested to cover any unforeseen costs associated with the project the bid award would be paid for out of the 2021 Bond Madam president a resolution is attached for board consideration do have a board member willing to adopt the resolution I'll move the resolution it's been moved by Mrs Hicks supported by Mrs ear alling favor I any nay z7 I zero Nays resolution adopted next item on the agenda consider Jefferson Fisher vyberg Pierce thirston Furniture project Mr thank you madam President also at the February 24th 2025 board meeting uh the board discussed the furniture project that
085was presented from TMP architecture for Jefferson Fischer venberg Pierce as well as thir in various phases of the furniture project for said locations the companies that are recommended for the work that was presented at the February 24th 2025 Board of Education meeting are listed low with a total award amount of 2,761 16014 which would be paid for out of the 2021 bond for these phases of furniture at said locations Madame President a resolution is attached for board consideration do I have a board member willing to adopt the resolution I'm move adoption follow resolution it's been moved by Mrs Eary supported by Mr Johnson all in favor any Nays zero Nays resolution adopted next item on the agenda consider updates two board policy M well we still don't have an answer on the outstanding question of
086um whether the PTO are involved but there is no changes and I haven't heard from anybody back on anything regarding the original policy um that was shown to the board Okay so the PTO we have't Mr Bob did we get anything on that no we have not yes CH what was the ACT what was what was the question because they they wanted to set a limit on how much they could be reimbursed okay and we just wanted to verify whether the because of the phrasing in it whether the PTO were included or whether they were separate is anybody well now let's see did you you notified them didn't we have we tried several times several times yes well I think we should um we were hoping with our next set of um policies that are
087coming out we might get the answer at that time on that particular question so as a board what and as the chair what would you like to we did not include that policy in here in it okay we we kept it out till we got an answer okay so that was not presented to the board okay I'll move it up but okay it's been moved by Mrs early been supported by Mr Johnson all in favor I I any Nays seven eyes zero Nays resolution hopefully we'll get that um with our next package okay next item on the agenda comments from the audience are there any next item on the agenda plus Delta room for approvement thank you madam president what processes supported the fl's work this evening yes I really enjoyed the presentation um from
088vandenbberg tonight however I would still really would like to get the updates ahead ahead of time so that I can look at them and form a question that looks like might know a little bit about what I'm talking about but no was a very good presentation and I did enjoy it very much um but I'm I'm glad to see their scores are at least coming up yes in the direction it needed to be start coming any other ones what opportunities might the board see this evening that would support its work delas Are there any to the chair yes I have a Delta that's not toward this board meeting but it's operating as a board in general um two weeks ago I sent out an email requesting an item to be put on the agenda and
089um I sent it to multiple email addresses in case people were still having problems with their district and I received no acknowledgement and it goes along with working and it was in pertaining to conferences and developing and I think it needed to come back to the board but nobody responded back to me in the last two weeks so to me that's a Delta for us as a board not communicating and following through things if I recall I did say that I would do it at the end of the month and um that's it to the chair yes I must have missed it at the board meeting because I don't REM remember that acknowledgement and one other thing um that we as a board need to be cognizant when committees are meeting and people send out
090emails just to be courtesy enough to return a response whether you have an answer or whatever um to hold up committee work and things moving forward I think is unacceptable and to the best of my knowledge um our operations manual is still in limbo that committee because those questions have not been presented back that we had board members say they would get them and that still has not happened and I think that's really sad as a board that we can't work together whether we like the person or not we have to find a way to work together and that's a Delta to me all right are there any other Deltas supporting the board's work this evening seeing that there are any other ones seeing none Madam president thank you thank you since there's no further
091business that comes before this board I adjourn this meeting at 82