11/19/25 Board of Education Meeting

001given. So, I invite everyone to join us in saying the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance 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. >> Okay. Chris, will you please read the motion to adopt the agenda? >> I move that we adopt the agenda as posted. Second. Okay. All those in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes. Okay. We are moving on now to public comment. We have three tonight. First, and I just want to remind everyone watching that we do not rep respond publicly to public comment, but we will follow up individually afterwards. And that you will have a threeminut timer on the screen. mean it will buzz when it gets close. Um, first

002I invite Jessica Janos. Did I pronounce that right? >> It is. >> Janosi. Okay. Sorry. >> Sorry. Um, hi everyone. Uh, my name is Jess and I am a CHS alum living in Clayton. Um, as you all know, I've been coming to these meetings to talk to you about my concerns with the ADL partnership and ADL curriculum. Um, another thing I've been doing is I've been talking to parents and students from across the district who share my concerns. However, when it comes to testifying, I hear a lot of similar responses. People are worried about risking their employment. For students, their parents don't want them to get involved. Lots of folks don't feel safe speaking about the issue. I've talked to parents also who were afraid that speaking publicly on their concerns about the ADL would

003put them at risk of deportation as non-citizens. They and all of us have seen many welldocumented cases at this point of students and others who've spoken in support of the Palestinian people being detained and deported and their immigration status used as a way to silence them. Sorry, public speaking. Um, the reporting measures built into the ADL curriculum are a huge safety concern, particularly because of the ADL's work as the largest non-governmental police trainer in the country. With the connections between police and immigration enforcement at an all-time high, this partnership between the ADL and Clayton will particularly put students and families who are non-citizens at risk. The ADL makes it very clear that they equate criticism of the country of Israel with anti-semitism. And so by inviting them into the district, you're kind of creating a

004clear pipeline of students who express feeling critical or even conflicted about what they see in the news being put at risk of getting of getting reported. These reports are then received by the ADL who says on their website that quote, "If your incident is anti-semitic in nature and you need legal help, your parent or legal guardian can use this K through2 anti-semitism legal line reviewed by the ADL and external legal partners." My concern is that even if this legal line isn't utilized, the ADL's presence will have a chilling effect for immigrant students and families in the district and especially for black and brown student and immigrant families who are at higher risk of deportation. Even if no reports are ever followed up on, the fear of this possibility will silence students. For this reasons and

005so many others that we have shared, I ask you to put a pause on the implementation of the ADL curriculum. They're not the only organization that does this kind of work and the benefits of their curriculum do not outweigh the concerns. Take some time to talk to students, families, teachers in the district. See what they think and maybe explore alternatives like the ones we've named in the past with Paro and the Zen Education Project. The more buyin you have from students regarding this programming, the more meaningful and impactful it will be. Antibbias training can be inherently uncomfortable, but it should not be inherently unsafe. Thank you. Thank you, Jess Francis. >> Francis Pius. I live in Clayton. Uh I'm a Clayton parent. Um so, so I'm going to repeat maybe some things that Jess has

006already said. So, we've heard anonymously from a number of students, teachers, parents about how unsafe they feel on this topic. And this ADL business is really not the legacy we all want. You all keep saying we need an antibbias program. Agreed. Specifically, the ADL's program, and we can easily ignore ADL's politics. Can we though? How can we embrace an organization that claims to stand for human rights when Jonathan Greenblat, its leader, cannot condemn Elon Musk's proud Zegiles, plural, two Zegiles, one after another? How can we embrace an organization that has been credibly accused of doxing and harassing social activists? How can we embrace an organization that pays for US police departments to attend militaristic styled crowd control training in Israel? Picking the ADL is like a vegan choosing to eat at a steakhouse because they

007can get a side order of green beans cooked in animal fat and in the process ignore the giant oozing dead carcass sitting on the plate. This brings me to the ADL's halfbaked curriculum. And we've heard this from a more than a few teachers. It's milktoast stuff, generic, something middle schoolers would have put together in a group project. Let's love each other with the names of a few civil rights icons thrown in and all roads lead to Israel. It's a fig leaf. And what it lacks in innovative anti-hate teaching, it makes up for in the implicit silencing of any discussion they don't want to hear, including the pain of students who don't agree with their politics. So I ask you, what is the point of you trying to float a $150 million bond to build sports

008fields, lab facilities when the presence of the ADL robs this normally high functioning school of its very soul of inquiry, critical and independent thought, discussion? Our award-winning magazine, The Globe, has been rendered mute on this topic despite initially inviting discussion. We need to start from scratch and be intentional on finding an antibbias vendor. form a committee of students, alumni, teachers, parents, citizens, whoever. We need to do this soon before this tail wags the dog. We cannot let the ADL's snitch principal become our culture. I know you can do this. I know you're committed to these kids. I've watched you work hard. the last meeting I was here at, which spanned more than five hours. Don't let your hard work be for the benefit of an organization whose singular mission has nothing to do with the

009well-being of our kids or our city. And lastly, I'll say I I sit on the Clayton's Equity Commission, and we work really hard to make this an inviting city to everybody. Putting the ADL right at the basis of the foundation of our our city doesn't help with this process. Thanks very much. Jolina Pang. >> Good evening. My name is Jolina Pang. Uh I graduated from Clayton in 2016 and Wu in 2019. Um and now I work in K through2 environmental education and I live in this district. Um and I'm here because I'm deeply uneasy about adopting the ADL's no place for hate program. Um so my concern is not whether we address anti-semitism, but who we ask to define it for our students. The ADL today is a major lobbying and advocacy organization. In 2024,

010it spent about $1.4 million lobbying Congress, much of it on Israel related legislation. Its CEO has said bluntly that anti-ionism is anti-semitism and promised to fight anti-ionism through lawsuits, research, and lobbying. When that worldview underpins a required antibbias program, the district is no longer just teaching about prejudice. It is endorsing one side of a live foreign policy debate. And that has real consequences in Clayton. Um, Jewish students who feel afraid deserve protection and solidarity. And so do Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian students. Some with family under bombardment, all trying to make sense of the news. When a politically aligned outside group is empowered to decide what counts as bias, those students hear that advocating for Palestinian human rights or criticizing any government might be labeled bigotry. That does not make anyone safer, and it tells part

011of our community that their grief and conscience are out of bounds at school. The good news is that we have other choices. Um as mentioned earlier programs like facing history and ourselves um paro news literacy projects chology platform they have independent evaluations that show gains in empathy pro-social behavior civic self-efficacy historical thinking and more caring and democratic classroom climates along with big jumps in students ability to spot weak evidence and identify reliable sources and none of them lobby Congress. Here in St. Lewis, the Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, as mentioned again, um has a dedicated education staff and a speakers bureau. Um and yeah, so with all of these options, um with all these options that are built to teach what anti-semitism is and what it actually is not, um and to warn how misidentifications and

012the false equation of criticism of Israel with anti-semitism might be used for political ends, um I ask you to consider uh my ask of you tonight. So, first and most urgently, of course, is to pause the planned expansion of No Place for Hate at Wideon and Clayton High School. Um, I think that this deserves a transparent review. Uh, I also think you should adopt clear criteria for any outside antibbias partner and potentially consider convening a working group of educators, students, and community members, Jewish, Muslim, Arab, and immigrant families to compare ADL materials with alternatives. Um, confronting anti-semitism and all forms of hate, I I agree with everybody here, I'm sure, is non-negotiable. Um, handing that task to a highly politicized lobbying organization is a is a choice, and tonight we're asking you to make a

013better one. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Agenda item three. I will turn it over to Dr. Patel for superintendent communication. >> Great. Thank you. Welcome everyone and thank you for the public comments. Um we will be responding to those at a later time. So appreciate you taking your time. Superintendent update. We did not have a recognizing our own specific agenda item, but I will go through quite a few um programs that we have that I would like to recognize. So, first off, I wanted to um share with you last week I got an opportunity to visit um the Whiteown Theater Company's production of Elf, and it was fantastic. We were able to see our students on stage shine, a lot of cheer, a lot of laughs. They were surprised that I've never watched the movie

014Elf myself. Um I think everybody's like, "Wait, what?" I know. I know. It's it's it's a shock. Oh, thank you. See, I I'm in good company. Um but we've got more but the students were fantastic and they did a great job and of course we have our outstanding teachers who support our students to not only achieve academically but also achieve on the state and in different arenas. So with that I wanted to thank them for their performance that night. And then we also have our students on stage quite a bit this week. Yesterday was a choir concert at Yown. Tomorrow is an orchestra concert. Um, and I know we have plenty more coming up as we head into the winter. And then next, when we talk about commitment of students, I wanted to highlight our

015girls tennis state champions. This is the third year in a row that they have gotten this and the fourth time in the history of the district. So again, a lot of time and effort and practice goes into this and I just want to make sure that we recognize them for this outstanding achievement. And I I think we can learn a lot from our students as I was going through these slides with the amount that they balance. They come to school every day, they learn, they do presentations, they do projects, they take AP classes, they push themselves, challenge themselves, and then on top of that, they're in activities and athletics and on the stage. So kudos to all of our students for that. Another team cross country boys were eighth in the state, girls 14th. We

016had our senior Ava placed 13th in the state. Again, a lot of accomplishments and they did a tremendous job and I know they train really hard every single day to do this. And then I would be remiss not to mention that our boys swimming and diving team took 10th in overall in state out of 60 teams. That again is a huge accomplishment and again like our students are academically very talented but they perform on the field on the stage and even the pool. So all walks of life. Switching gears. Last night long range facilities master plan update. Last night we had community we opened up Glenidge and Marramac for community tours. We had a handful of parents and community members show up. Um, I felt like they were very engaged. All of them as they

017walked out completely saw the need for us to modernize our facilities and I felt like there was good conversations with the individuals that attended. This is not the first or the last time. We're we're going to open up our doors. We'll keep doing that in the future. If you did not make the tours, not to worry. We'll have more opportunities for you to do that. Thank you, Dr. Mr. Hecman. Thank you for being there. I believe you were at Mirramac. So, we appreciate it. Thank you. Um, a lot of a lot of things have been happening. When you reflect on this work, it's been almost 18 months that we've been talking about facilities planning in our district. We have had community engagement workshops. We have had school-based workshops. We've had board of education retreats over

018the last 18 months. A lot of community tours. We've been discussing the possibility of swing space for our elementary schools and touring those sites. As a matter of fact, this week we toured Fontbond to see if that could be a fe could be feasible for our elementary schools to be used as a swing space. So, we continue to look into that. We have focused on communication and engagement with our community from mailers like in postcard forms or just um our first publication this school year was that feature in inside Clayton magazine that everybody should have gotten. The Globe has done several articles on it. We do social media, short videos, email communication. So we're trying every way possible to engage the community in this work. A big part of that was also the survey that

019a lot of individuals took and gave us feedback. And based on all the feedback that we're getting, we are responding in ways that we can. And I want to make sure that everybody understands that. And then next steps, we're going to continue to offer ways for us to engage with the community, do information sessions as we lead up to the January board meeting where we will have a discussion on whether we're going to go for a potential bond issue in April, which would be a zero tax rate increase. Again, no decisions have been made, but we're looking at all the information as we work towards the January board meeting. So, I wanted to give everybody an update on that and please look out for more information. We'll keep sharing that as we put that together.

020I believe that is all I have now. Nina, I will hand it off to you because I know you've been talking to our students about this. So, last Thursday I got the chance to meet with Clayton's principal advisory club. Um, our main topic of discussion was finals because those are coming up and I'm sure weighing on a lot of students minds. I asked the group what they felt was most helpful and supportive during the stressful time. A few of the responses I got were the activities sponsored by the wellness center. And these activities I think started last year. Um they do they span throughout the weekend. They put on fun like d-stressing activities. Um the they said that the activities sponsored by the wellness center are super fun and de-stressing especially the duo dogs and

021tea making station. And those are always super fun. They happen during lunch throughout the week of finals. And then someone else said that they really liked hot sips and study tips which is an activity put on annually by the school um that talks about like finals tips and then they also have hot chocolate which is super fun. Um and they said that is really helpful in providing good study strategies. And then I also asked them how they felt about the actual final schedule or the structure of the week itself. Many of them felt like it was a lot to be condensed into only three days. But once we discussed further and realized that extending the time period could cut into our break or cut into the preper the uh prep weeks before, we decided that

022it was worth it, especially because the group consensus was that teachers do a pretty good jobs in the week leading up to it of preparing students for the exams. And finally, I asked the group if they like the way that finals are approached and or if they feel like the environment is too competitive or stressful. A lot of them said that while they feel the natural stress and anxiousness that comes along with exams, most of them actually feel like the collective nerves foster a sense of unity and collaboration. As one student said, "We're all a little stressed, but at least we're stressed together." I think this really attests to the fact that even when things get a little difficult, teamwork and friendship stay a core value for many Clayton students. Finals were also a big

023discussion topic in this week's link crew meetings. Link Crew is a program led primarily by CHS upperassmen to help freshmen navigate their first year. This week we discussed the final schedule along with study tips and tricks. I think it's safe to say that the freshman definitely felt a little better after hearing some pointers from experienced test takers. Um, now moving on to a long range facilities master plan update. Last night I also got the chance to tour Glenidge as part of Clayton's community night. It was so interesting to see how the building has changed and adapted since I graduated Glenidge in 2020. Dr. Murdoch talked a lot about the essential changes and improvements that would be made with the potential renovations, many of which were ones that my Glenrich focus groups had also discussed with

024me a few weeks ago. It was very interesting to see both the students and principal agree on so many fundamental changes that that they would like to see. It was such a great night and I look forward to going to back to Glenidge soon to meet with their focus group again. >> Thank you, Nina, and thanks for attending the tour. Um, I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Um, okay. We have one presentation tonight. Um, Dr. Garganigo and Mr. CBI, I think, are going to present on our goal three update of our strategic plan. >> And I just wanted everyone to know that typically goal three strategic plan updates would have been Dr. P and um, Mike CB at the table. But today, Dr. Gargano is going to take place for Dr. P because he

025has a personal matter he's dealing with. So, thank you Dr. Garganita. >> Sure. Um, let me get work. Good evening. Uh, as Nisha shared, um, I'm here, um, and I'm honored to be here with Mike CV, um, to share the information of the work that the student services department has been doing. So I hope that I do it justice um in sharing the helping Mike um to share this information with you all. Um so we wanted to start similar to how we started the work with goal two um by starting off talking just about the goal um as a whole. And so when you think about our comprehensive school improvement plan that we refer to as the strategic plan, our tagline is a place for everyone to grow as learners in head and heart. And

026so tonight we're really going to focus on that head and heart part. Um and laser in on the idea of social emotional well-being and growth. Um the one thing I would say is that I we see all three of our goals of the strategic plan being very connected with one another. Um, and I think you're going to see through this presentation, uh, sort of the breadcrumbs of that connection as well as the work that our departments do together. Um, and in order to make sure that we have sort of a unified philosophy as as we move our work forward. >> Okay. First of all, I want to acknowledge that this is my first presentation to this board and go on record to thank you for the opportunity to be a part of the Clayton community.

027Um, as Melena mentioned, we'll be focusing on goal three. Uh and all three goals really focus on student growth. Goal three particularly focus on social emotional learning as well as physical wellness. Uh tonight we'll be focusing on the social and emotional component of that. Um tonight we want to provide you an update on the indicators under goal three uh with the focus on social emotional well-being and look at how we're working to become more intentional about the growth of our students by embedding social emotional learning into our existing MTSS process. Okay. Under goal three, you'll see there are four objectives and uh in our strategic plan. Each of those touch upon some dimension of social emotional well-being. As you may notice, each of these objective objectives align well to the qualities of the profile of

028Clayton graduate. Each of these objectives have a measurement attached to them indicating where students are with respect to the objective. In three out of the four objectives, panorama data is used as that measure. So, this is what we'll be reporting on tonight. You'll also notice that uh Objective C uses the Missouri State student survey. That's actually administered by the Department of Mental Health every other year, every two years. The last data we have for that is 2024. And the next data collection for that will be March, next semester of 2026. So, we really wanted to defer that report on that objective until we have more recent data. Um over the summer, the student services department held a retreat. Actually, this is my first opportunity to meet many of our student services staff. Uh, you know,

029part of our goal was to to really look at these objectives and see what do we already have in place to support students on each of these objectives. Uh, so student services department, you know, really really put together like all the object all the uh interventions that they had in place divided out by level, elementary, middle school, high school and by tier. Um, and so I don't want to take for granted that everyone knows what that means. In education, we talk about tears like it's I don't know, like food, I guess. But so, so, so basically the overwhelming number of students function well with the the the instruction that's out there for every student. That's a tier one. There's a small number of students that don't function with the tier one instruction and need a

030little bit extra to be able to function at that level. Those are your tier 2 interventions. And there's even a smaller uh group of students who need even more than that. That's your tier three um which are are pretty intensive interventions for the most part. So the goal of our student services retreat was really looking at you know what do we have at each level and each tier and looking at where we might have gaps. So getting into the panorama data, uh you may be aware that panorama is administered twice a year in the fall and in the spring. Uh students from grades 3 to 12 self-report on six topics or dimensions or domains. Um this part of the survey aims to ask how students perceive their own social emotional skills. Um so there are

031multiple liyker scale questions that go with each of these topics. Um and the responses can range from favorable to neutral to negative. Um the score for each question is a percentage of students who rate themselves favorably or positively with respect to the questions. The number you see is an average from all the questions in that topic that creates an overall topic score. So, the way Panorama defines self-management is how well students manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in different situations. Uh, you'll notice that the data data covers last school year comparing fall 2024 to spring 2025. Um, showing movement within one school year. Uh to interpret this data, 82% of students grades three through five rated themselves favorably on their self-management skills in the fall of 2024. In the spring of 2025, 81% rated themselves

032favorably. And so you can see a similar data across the the middle school and high school as well. What what's not captured here? It's hard because you have two data points is a historical data. I will say since the time that we've started collecting data on this uh our numbers at each level has either stayed steady or has increased. So Panorama defines social awareness as how well students consider the perspectives of others and empathize with them. Again, you'll notice that the data looks at the elementary, middle school, and high school for last school year, fall 2024, spring 2025. Um overall the measure looks pretty steady from fall to spring at each level and again from a multi-year perspective each level has increased their score since we started collecting data. Sense of belonging. Um this actually

033falls into a different type of data set. Instead of focusing on how students perceive their own social emotional skills uh this really asks students about the learning environment. Uh so Panorama defines sense of belonging as how much students feel that they're valued members of the school community. One trend that really stands out in that sense of belonging score. Um it as students progress from elementary to middle to high school the score actually drops. Um I I will say however a multi-year perspective shows that this is an area where as a district we've grown tremendously. The data actually goes back to 2019, just before the pandemic. So if you consider where the district has been on the score historically in 2019, at the elementary level, we're at 64%. At the middle school, we're at 50% and

034at the high school we're at 50%. So also, despite what might look like low numbers, um it's interesting when we compare ourselves to other schools. And so our spring 2025 data indicates that when compared to all other schools who took this survey across the nation, which I think Panorama has what, like 2,000 school districts nationwide, um, and you look at a percentile at the elementary, we're at the 90th percentile, which means that we score higher than 90% of the schools that took those survey. Um, at the middle school level, we're at the 80th percentile. and at the six and at the 60 60th percentile for the high school. And I know that seems low, but if you then break the data apart even more and you look at where if you compare why to other

035middle schools, not all schools, we actually are at the 90th percentile. If you take Clayton High School and you compare it to other high schools, we're at the 90th percentile. So what might look right there on that graph is maybe not such a positive when you compare us to other schools at our at those levels, we actually do quite well. So, similar to how we've presented academic data to you, um we wanted to dive in a little bit more with the sense of belonging data and not just give you the overall percentages, but look at it by identity groups um to study what those data and that information looked like um to to sort of help inform some possible next steps for us. So what we we present this in in the similar way to

036the that we do to academic data that we start with the fall go to the spring anything that's a um decrease in score we we represent in red anything that's an increase in score we represent in blue um and what these data have shown to us is that um again the 9 through 12 seems to be an area of focus for us um moving forward and I would say overall the sense of belonging is a place for us to consider what that work looks like um But 9 through 12 um feels like a like a place for us to put some more energy um particularly with African-American students um and Asian students. When we look at um another set of identity groups um the area of focus that we see here is a lot of

037red with students who have 504 plans. Um and so continuing to think about what um what these data tell us and how it can inform our practices moving forward and maybe some goal setting that we can put in place to focus in the area of sense of belonging. >> The question is what do we do with this data? Um, one of the goals that we have as a student services department is vertical, which means that from K to 12 and hopefully preK to 12, we can look at continuity in terms of, you know, what we're teaching students social emotionally and how we respond to it. Um, you know, one thing that we've actually put on the calendar for this school year is vertical PLC's or professional learning communities or student services department. Uh, which, you

038know, what we'll be doing is looking what at the data and what you guys have seen is really just a small subset of what we'll be reviewing uh with the purpose of looking at like where do we need to improve where do we need to fill in gaps um and so that leads to this I I hope this is a familiar slide for folks okay the answer I'm seeing head shake yes um so I'm sure at the last board meeting Molina talked a little bit about how we're supporting academic IC success through the MTSS process. Um social emotional learning and academic success are so interdependent. You know, one impacts the other. And so we often find that um because that impact we're needing to address both simultaneously. Uh additionally, you know, they're not dissimilar in

039their process. Actually, they have more in common than not. And so our goal is to really integrate our social emotional learning into our existing MTSS process. Um just a PD on this. Typically our approach to social social emotional stuff or social emotional interventions are response to something a problem behavior or a social emotional concern. Um there it's a response. Uh and so our typical response is try to eliminate a problem behavior. So the the paradigm shift for our department is that rather than operating from a deficits approach, we'd like to create a system where we focus on developing the underlying skills that students need to be successful socially, emotionally, behaviorally so that they can be academically successful. So aligning our social emotional learning into the MTSS model allows us to be more intentional and proactive.

040Uh in order to do that we must first identify the social emotional skills or competencies that we expect students to have and then teach those skills and support learning for all students at a tier one level. And that would be our foundational framework for instruction which is on our our graphic there. So once we identify those competencies, we'd like to modify our data collection through Panorama to more closely align to those competencies. Um tier two and three support is really a matter of identifying students who are not demonstrating those skills and then providing the corresponding interventions and support. So our collaborative teams would be reviewing data and looking for students who who may need more than tier one and plugging them to the corresponding interventions. Um the identified social emotional competencies would provide a framework

041and organize uh and and develop our interventions that target those various skills. So that would create a continuum of interventions and support supports for us. And so if we were able to use a edge of climber, a tool like that, we could actually track interventions and the skills that students are learning and progress monitor that way. So once in place, our systems and structures can look at the data, make database decisions, and help us to continually improve how we serve students. Um, so we we really are excited to be working with teaching and learning to really work together on this. Um, I know Melina is going to talk a little bit more about our next steps. Uh, but I'll say there are pockets of this already happening. Um, you know, what was not captured in

042our panorama data is the kindergarten through 2 grade students. And so because it's not in there, I know our elementaryaries have really worked on data collection for them. It's not in panorama. So their data looks like a combination of behavioral data, uh, attendance data, academic data, teacher report, student interviews, and to come up with a composite score and to use that as a jumping off point to plug kids into needed supports. Uh also um our student services team really started to identify uh the social emotional competencies and we we really depended upon what the community in the district has already identified through the profile of a Clayton graduate. So as we started to do that I discovered that teaching and learning was doing a similar process and actually had way head start you know on

043that um through the approaches to learning and the and the elementary report card. So our goal is to really come back together and put our heads together and figure that out for the district. >> So when we think about next steps, um I think Mike's teed this up nicely, the the work of the student services team and the visioning around student services and the interconnectedness of academics and and student services, so teaching and learning. Um so we've decided to start meeting together um to do that work together. So Mike and Cameron and I and Robin are all meeting together to to really lay out our work um and visiting each other's meetings um to be voices in those spaces so that we know that we're aligned in that work. So that's become um a really

044exciting part of our work and the profile is what has guided um a lot of that um initial work. When we think about data collection um a couple different things Panorama has a robust um set of questions. we have chosen, we chose several years ago the set of questions that we were going to use and haven't really um veered from that over the past several years. And so we see this as an opportunity um with the departments working together and the work that student services is doing as a whole team to really revisit those components um of Panorama to make sure that what um what our objectives are align with then what what we're measuring which also has us thinking about the evergreen model of our CESIP plan and the thinking around we may have

045outgrown some of our objectives at this point and so it's time for us to really think differently about what those objectives are and then in turn what the measures would be um to help us to collect that information. Mike talked a little bit about educ. Um when I showed you last time what the interventions are looking like for academics and the timeline, we really piloted a lot of things with academic interventions last year and then put things into place this year um K through eight. And so this year we're piloting some things with SEAL interventions. And so what we're piloting right now because we don't really have the measures identified in a way that we feel really comfortable with, we're just piloting the fact that we're tracking information on which students we're intervening with. Um

046so when we think about those tier 2 and tier three interventions, let's just make sure that we're capturing that information. Um so that we have that longitudinally for children and then we'll we'll work on figuring out what the measures are and the progress monitoring kinds of tools. So this what you saw saw last time um with progress monitoring of of multiple data points that's our vision for for SEAL also we just haven't gotten to that point of of developing that and then the program review for counseling I think really provides us with an opportunity to connect all of this um so to really think about goal three as as um a place for us to start thinking about that work making sure that we're keeping the two departments connected in the work and so therefore

047the three goals of the strategic plan connected um and making sure that um within that program review, we've had really a comprehensive study of of our work and set some goals um for ourselves moving forward that can help us get to some of these places that we're hoping to get to. So, what questions do you have for us? >> I have some, but I'll let others go first. Anyone? Mike, good job on your first presentation. >> Oh, thank you. >> That was great. Um, who has some questions for either one of us? Pam, you want to go? >> Hi. Um, Mike, I just want to say we're so glad that you are here and you are helping Cameron lead this team to do this work. We're very honored. So, thank you. And yes, congratulations on

048your first presentation. Hope we're not scary. Um, okay. I'm so this place where you guys just ended at this idea of revising goal three objectives. I want to go up to like that first wherever it is that slide that says current goal three objectives. So I'm glad to hear that you're looking to revise those. Um for anyone listening it is typical in a strategic plan for that to be revised by the district every 3 to fiveish years. Our district has these three goals of a place for everyone to grow as learners and head and heart and those are not changing but each of the objectives for those do change and so these four objectives you know one of the things I want to see is how we ask the questions of what of these objectives

049have already become incorporated or embedded into our system and so we don't need them to be listed as an evergreen objective anymore. um which ones no longer apply or do we feel that you know we need to refocus on? Um so I look forward to hearing what you guys come up with whenever we get to hear that again. I would like to um ask that you consider asking the question about resilience and how can we evaluate that that in the psychological literature resilience is a key factor for help for students and adults in being able to move forward and problem solve through stressful situations for lack of better word. Um, and that really connects with our um our like profile of a Clayton graduate in multiple areas. So, I wanted to put that one out

050there. Um, next question is where you show these uh graphs, these charts, bar graphs they're called. Um, and I know Mike, you spoke to like prior years data. I would love to be able to see that that chart and to see what if any of these are statistically significant in positive you know an improvement or in lack of improvement. Um and my third one the sense of belonging data. I really appreciate, Mike, how you spoke to that sense of belonging and put it into a perspective of um us compared to nationwide to other schools. That was really helpful. I personally am curious as we were doing all that phone stuff last year, one of the pieces that was pointed to of how taking phones away from the school could likely improve a sense of belonging.

051And now that the state has made us do that, I'm I'm curious to see if we're going to see any difference in that data from fall to spring this year. So, I have my eyes out for that. Yeah, that's it for now. >> Anyone else questions or comments? Leo, >> I have a kind of higher level question about JUST >> are we intend with with regards to revising the CIP stuff? Is it intended that we go to those in some kind of pattern or regular cadence or just when it comes up what's the intention or plan? >> So as as they stated the CIP is an evergreen model. So the objectives continuously change. Um last year Melena looked at goal two and we adjusted those objectives. But what we are going to do now starting

052August of 2026 each year at the first board meeting we'll present the goals and the objectives and have the board ask the board to formally adopt them. So that would be our formal review in front of the board. But throughout the year, we would be looking at the action steps and the objectives and adjusting them through program reviews or studies. >> Was that the question? >> Yeah. No, I think that's I think it's important that it evergreen not mean status. Yes. >> And as long as there is some >> we that process seems to >> Yeah. >> Um okay. Now a question more on the subject matter of the presentation. When I think about the belonging thing, the anecdotal experience that I had or that I was raised with me partly because just because of

053the group of parents that I was close to um had to do with school transitions in particular and transitions to the middle school even more particularly. And I wonder whether um you have any you see in the data related to the effect those transitions have and whether there's any kind of specific plans in place or processes that you guys considered around that narrower topic. So, breaking down how they ask the questions on sense of belonging. Um, the questions really there's six questions. Uh, how much support do the adults at your school give you? How well do people at your school understand you as a person? How connected do you feel to the adults at your school? How much respect do students in your school show you? How much do you matter to others at school?

054Overall, how much do you feel like you belong at your school? I'm wondering where the opportunity would be in that to to find out how those transitions go. And that's definitely something we can look at >> or are there is there data of just sixth grade and just nth grade >> within that maybe? >> Yeah, I I mean I think a number of people I've talked to feel like they people really get to know them at these elementary schools, which is fantastic. And then there's an information loss which is inevitable maybe to some extent but we should be working to mitigate it to the extent we can about you know helping the kids feel like they are seen when they make that transition. >> Any other questions or comments Chris? >> Um well now I

055have a new one because you helped me come up with a new one. >> Um so that's interesting and related to something um that I think about and um I'm glad I that you brought this up is at the high school we have do we still have in place the trusted adult question? >> Okay. And when does that take place because here we are you know brand new freshmen right you wouldn't ask them that within the first quarter you right I mean how do you handle that? >> Yeah they they do you know when they're asking it they're asking it later into the year but it's it's not too late like it's somewhere within first semester that they're asking the question. Yeah. >> Yeah. And and I wonder as a as a team, what can

056you do to are there ways that you try to ensure there is a trusted adult for everyone prior to even asking the question? I mean, does that make sense? I mean, is that a >> you know what I'm saying? I understand asking it, but what things are happening in order to sort of make sure that that >> that build that trust, that relationship. >> Yeah. That that sort of those sort of relationships are being, you know, that are you know what I'm does that make sense? >> Are you asking only about high school or all? >> Well, I was my next question was going to be in how do we do that same thing in in middle school if if we do at all? >> So, we've had instances where we've done it at middle

057school. We've also had instances where we've asked that question at elementary. Oh, yeah. Um, and we've we've tried a couple different ways to do it at elementary, including like giving the children like pictures of the adults as as opposed to just like, you know, so to draw from as opposed to like pull a name out of your head, but like you know who um and I I would say there's been um different kinds of success with that information. So the in in in response to your question about um being proactive about it. >> Yeah. >> I I I would um I would sort of argue that the teachers would say that that's part of their work every day, right? Is like establishing relationship with children within their classrooms. I think we we also have information

058reported back to us that um instances like your English conference and that kind of stuff create situations where your English teacher gets to know you a little bit better than everyone else because they spend time individually with you multiple times through throughout the year. So, we're trying to build some of those spaces. I think the the infusion of greyhound time also provides an opportunity for children to connect with with adults. Sometimes it's around academics. Um but I think that's okay. Um in in in thinking through that piece. Um the the proactive piece of like ask um thinking about asking the question. No, we I I answered that part. The the other part is like once we have those data and information then we spend time to really look at that to see who are the

059children who are reporting that they don't have an adult and then how are we thinking through how to help make that connection um for for children because I think that is the goal that 100% of children can identify at least one adult in the school that they could trust. >> Okay. >> And then I think to piggyback with that and it goes with Leo's question as well. We're trying to be very intentional during those transition years in creating programs that would help our students. So like for sixth grade we have um >> oh sorry for ninth grade you have link crew right where yes >> the students are mentoring the incoming freshmen. The high school started the compass um program where ninth graders also are in classes and they meet around specific topics. So we're

060trying to be intentional during those transition years specifically and then the web increase and then the web that's the one I was thinking for middle school for sixth grade. >> So you know doing those things >> proactively. >> I would also add I know they did this at Glenidge and I'm guessing they do this at the others that the teachers get a list of who has said they are their special adult. Like these are the students who have said you are their special person. Do that you guys do that at the middle school and the high school too? >> I don't know the answer to that question. >> I don't either. >> I think that's pretty cool. I think that's pretty powerful. >> Right. >> Because the teacher may or may not know, you know,

061that they're that person for that student, but that could go a long way and >> helping that relationship continue to Yeah. >> be important for both parties. So, yeah, I love that. >> Um, can my other question was how different are the questions that are on the Missouri State student survey? So this Missouri state student I actually have the 24 2024 results. Um a lot of the emphasis is on good good decisions uh substance abuse risktaking behaviors. Um there are some questions about mood. Um so a lot of this I know that our all-in coalition is looking forward to >> uh this and actually supplementing the information. >> Yes. with some listening sessions and all that. So, they have an invested interest because it aligns very well to their mission. >> Yes. Okay. So, yeah,

062it's very mental health based type stuff. It's we're not talking about, you know, self-aware or, you know, all the self- advocacy stuff and all that other kind of stuff. It's right and it's required for all schools and it's every other year. >> Um, it is every other year. It's there. There's It's not required. >> Oh, is it? Okay. The I know districts that are not doing it because we just engaged in a conversation with a bunch of districts about whether people were doing it and I said we do it. Um and and there were others that said they didn't. >> And what do we get? What do you guys do with that? Like how does it help you? >> I can speak to that because that goes back to us having an evergreen model and

063adjusting these objectives as needed. I believe when this objective was created and the CEIP was developed at that time there was a focus we de developed the wellness committee. >> Yes. >> Um and part of that was we needed a data point >> to help with that and allin coalition specifically. >> Hence that objective and that measurement was used because the panoram panorama data wasn't helpful for allin coalition. Now that we have Shel in place running that, she's looking at this and looking at different data points. I think we're at a point where I don't know if that would still be a measurement point that we would utilize in the future. >> Right. Right. Okay. >> Cool. >> I I just want to say the vertical alignment thing that you guys are talking about and

064making sure that um you know that we are really looking at how these learners are growing each year and it continues to build off of itself is huge. show. I really appreciate that aspect. And then I want to say that the fact that you guys are now meeting together all the time. I mean, it's just brilliant. Beyond brilliant. I'm so happy about this because you're exactly right. You know what you're talking about. They're totally related. Can't speak about one without the other. So, it's going to be even more powerful and I'm sure our numbers will um continue to go up and up. So I congrats to you for making such a bold and impressive, you know, like move and doing that. I don't know how many schools are doing that, but I think it's pretty

065awesome. >> Yeah, agree. >> Jason >> feels like I shouldn't ask a question after that, but >> um I will say I I agree with Dr. Pam and everyone else. This is really great. I I really appreciate the presentation and information here. Um what what is the so I hear like a next step is getting more you know integrating your work into edge of climber. What's the timing on that? Did I miss that? >> Yeah. So the the similar to with the academics we piloted for a year and then put something sort of worked out the kinks and then put something into place. We're piloting some things with this year. So we have things entered but we don't have um a measurement tool attached to it. So a progress monitoring tool. So, we have the

066data captured right now of who's receiving um interventions related specifically to SEAL. Okay. We just don't um we're still in the process of developing what that looks like as far as measuring growth over time while they're in that intervention. >> Um and then working out a couple of the kinks because the the system is a little clunky. It it's set up to do academic interventions. Um and we're forcing it to do something that's a little clunky. Okay. Um, and so Mike and Cameron and I have been thinking through like what does that really look like? So the the pilot year is helpful to us to sort of play around with that before we commit to we need everybody to have their information in there. Okay. >> So the social work and counseling team is working

067right now um really K8 around the the sort of playing around in the in the system right now. >> Okay. So I don't know whether this question is actually an education or not. So you guys can tell me, but when we say, "Okay, we need to double click and dig into what's going on with our African-American students, what's going on with our 504 students, what does that actually look like today pre-educ?" >> Yeah. What is it that like what are the activities that are actually happening to to close the gap there? >> So we I would say we are using edge of climber to to do that even now. But it would so it at a school level like a data team would sit down to look at those information. So maybe a good example

068is to talk about like the K2 sort of panorama version of of data that that was collected this year. So as the the counselors and social workers went out to to Blitz and the buildings and collect all that information from students, it was entered into a spreadsheet. Then those so pre Edge climber, we would enter stuff into spreadsheet. We would have demographic information in there. We would sort it. um by the demographics. The system just allows us to do that much easier. Yeah. And allows us to do it in a visualization way so that it's pretty clear when a data team is looking at those data. Um what we're seeing as far as numbers and percents and those types of things and then working through um like percentiles and those kinds of things all factor

069into that. But it's pretty easy for us to manipulate those data when they're in educ. >> Okay. So in other words, it is happening in sort of a a pre-edg it's it's the pre-edged climber era. >> Yeah. So every so before we before we adopted edge of climber, we did everything in spreadsheets and we filtered spreadsheets and we had a lot of spreadsheets >> and now this allows us to have it all in one place. It also like the the connection that we're talking about with academics and it allows us to look at at really a 360 view of a child. So if we're seeing an inter like the one of the questions that you all asked me last month was about the the overlap of literacy and math interventions that it also allows us

070to look at the overlap of literacy, math and interventions um to be able because sometimes that informs like how we have to prioritize our work. Um we can't have children out of tier one instruction all day long because they need support in all these other areas. we have to think through then how are we um how are we prioritizing that. >> All right. And then one one last question which I apologize that it's a little bit of an on the spot question but is there a theory as to why the IEP scores were in the blue and the 504 scores were in the red? >> I don't I don't know that we have a theory. >> Yeah. >> It just it just caught my eye so I thought I'd ask. >> Yeah. Okay. Great. Thank

071you. >> To to speak to I think you asked part and I don't know if um maybe I'm wrong, but part of what you asked two questions ago was what do you do with with that data once you see that it's the African-American students and the 504 students. It's not just where do you put it, it's what do you do? What what are you doing? And I think the answer part, am I right? I'm asking you is at those individual teams, they actually get that data at the school level. they sit and they decide what things need to be changed, moved, whatever, that kind of thing, >> right? And I I mean, it all goes back to the hexagons and our goal of knowing every learner well and responding to their needs. It's really about

072the individual child when we're at the data team meetings. The the the sort of collective data of like what that looks like across identity groups or something like that is is not necessarily what that data team is looking at. They're looking at the individual children and how we're going to intervene or or instruct the individual children. we're looking at the things that look like trends um and and trying to to make decisions about that. And that's where I think this fits into like goal one and that sense of of of really around equity and those types of things like all that evidence with that that's kind of where I see the interconnectedness of the three goals is like when we see those trends what is the work that we're doing as a system to help

073address those trends. So, one of my questions along these same lines was, "What are some examples of interventions you're doing with our African-American and and 504 students because those scores were low?" And I hear you and appreciate that we are looking at individual students, but we also can't ignore that those are specific group, student groups. So, is there something like for example, I know at the high school we have affinity groups, you know, for African-American students, but is there something else we're doing for for that for African-American students or 504 students to help as groups? Um, because we see that trend with sensible >> the work that I would have said is the same thing that you're saying, the affinity groups. I I don't know that I I I would say from an academic lens,

074I wouldn't say that we've dug into that 504 piece yet. I don't know if the student services team like that that was sort of a new data point for me >> um in going through like putting this presentation together. >> Yeah. >> I wonder. >> Yeah. Oh, right. Asian students also. I wonder and maybe I wonder one of my other questions was about participation in Panorama like at the high school level. what percent of students are actually >> so we give it >> doing the panorama survey >> so we administer it to 100% of the students right um we do it through class >> um so >> so do you feel that >> almost 100% of the students are doing it >> I mean it's pretty it's pretty close the number is pretty close >>

075okay >> um I I' I'd be interested in hearing your perspective on because the children have taken it for a long time >> um and it's kind of the same questions and you know we've talked about this with academic data before too like when we used fast for a long time. The kids get kind of tired of taking fast. They get kind of tired of taking NWA. I don't know how that feels as a student with Panorama. >> Yeah, I think I mean like any test, no one's like, "Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to take this." But I do think it is kind of interesting. Um especially because a lot of the questions like they're pretty easy to answer, so they don't require like a ton of brain work or you to, you know,

076really dig that deep into them. But I do think it's always interesting like I never like dread taking it because it's interesting to like look through the questions again and then um like remember them from past years and I like remember this year when I was taking it I like remember my answer from a past year and say like oh well you know how has this changed how has this changed and I also think it's interesting um the difference between like fall and spring how like I'm like because I mean it's only like a few months later so it's pretty easy to remember like the specific questions especially the ones that like resonate with you the most um and like kind of think about you how your answers change but no I definitely don't think

077it's something that students dread or are like really trying to get out of especially because it doesn't take very long and I mean you take it like at the beginning of a class so it kind of cuts into class time a little bit which is >> and do you feel like students take it seriously? >> Yeah. I mean >> because it's short and doesn't require >> because it's short and then also because it's like administered through the classes so your like your teacher says okay everybody like get out your Chromebook you have to take this test or this like >> you know thing and everybody's doing it. It's not like anyone's doing anything else. So, it's kind of just like, all right, like let's all get it done. And it's definitely not terrible or anything

078like that. So, >> yeah. >> Good. I think the the 504 data point is also interesting to me because there are so many diverse, you know, unique reasons why students have 504 plans, right? So, that's a I think would be a really hard group to figure out why this >> is happening. It's not like some of our other student groups. There are physical disabilities, there are um, you know, mental disabilities, there are learning disabilities, there's so many health, you know, reasons, there's so many reasons that students have 504 plans. So that >> I just want to point out though that yes, the 3 to five to 65, but the other two only went down. They're only red. >> Yeah, that's true. >> I'm not feeling super concerned about that. >> I mean, >> but the

079number's low. >> It is. But the number itself you're saying I understand what you're saying compared to like which are Yeah. >> I will say that like over the years that we've given this the lowest point for students who have 504 plans was 40%. >> Okay. Um so like we do have the number like when Mike was saying that things have either stayed steady or they have gone up over the years like we have I mean 40% I think we would be having a a another kind of question like conversation because the the 5354 is pretty close to the total population. Also >> I I do think at some point this is not an urgent thing. It doesn't even have to be another presentation, but just some sort of a like literally just copy copy

080and paste some longitudinal data on a PDF and >> and send it, you know, and send it to us. I think that would be helpful. >> We can put it into a weekend. >> Yeah, that's I mean, >> yeah, >> like literally at your convenience. But can I can I ask like how big of a drop is a drop to where I I should care? Like I I don't there's got to be a better way, you know? Yeah. statistically significant like you know 80 to 79 okay fine like you know you can see where one person has changed their answer whatever but like is eight points the right is it 10 is it five like what you know when do I care >> so there are limitations in this data so this is a a

081rating of favorability so in a fivepoint lackard scale for instance a question might ask and the answers might range from always most of the time sometimes times, rarely, and never. >> The way Panorama is capturing this is just those top two. So, you might get a sometimes, which is not a negative, >> right? >> Like, so when you look at, you know, for instance, um, you look at that 55%, you're thinking, wow, 45% are negative. That's not necessarily the case because that range of what they call approaching favorable >> is usually pretty high. Like on our high school data, it was close to 30%. Even though we had a 59% favorability, there were about 30% of students that said, I I'm approaching favorability. So, it's not a net negative. So, >> you know, with this

082conversation, I feel like we probably need to get some answers for the board and dig in a little bit more to come up with some explanations. And so I know in our student student services PLC uh which the first one's next week, this will probably come up in our meeting um as we're looking at data. So we appreciate that input. So now that I've heard all these questions, I have I think two more. I would you guys gave us 3568 912 data. I would think it would be really important to see what happens with a specific class as they progress through. That seems to be important. And then the other is what happens within let's just say six through eight. Does historical data tell us that sixth graders have a lower sense of belonging and

083by the time they get to 8th grade they have a higher one? I care much more about that than just how do all of our middle schoolers say because then if we have a sixth grade class that comes in and it's low and we have this historical data that says it always increases over the three years. Yeah. >> We have comfort and knowing that it will likely get better and if it doesn't improve as prior years do that's something to have concern about. >> So I'd like to look at the data those two ways. Um, and then the last one is this one with the Asian students six through eight. 15% is a big jump from fall to spring. And I wonder did something happen? Was there a new affinity group? Did something happen? >>

084We have any idea? >> I don't know. >> You know, like we're asking questions about a few points that are lower, but this seems statistically significant even though I don't know what. >> So, we should figure out what that is and repeat it. >> Yeah. Ben, did you have any questions or comments? >> Nina, any other questions or comments? >> I was gonna ask the same question about maybe like splitting the data up even further and seeing how it changes, especially at the high school level because that's like four whole years and I feel like >> Yeah. >> like freshman answering and senior answering are pretty different. So, I think it'd be very interesting to split up the data even more. >> Yeah. By grade levels. Yeah, I agree. >> Okay. Anyone else? Anything else?

085Thank you very much for your presentation and for your partnership and aligning your work across departments. It's great. So, thank you for being here and we will move on now to agenda item six to our policies. Um, we have several first readings of policies. The first one is policy AC prohibition against illegal discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Um, John is here. Does anyone have questions or comments on policy AC? There are a couple revisions here. One of them relates to the wording of well, I should say that the policy prohibits illegal discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. So the first amendment that's been brought to us by MSBA is to revise uh the statuses that are the wording of the U statuses that are to be respected not discriminated against. Um and the second amendments are from the

086district ourselves as we restate who the compliance officers are. >> Yeah. and it's catching up with federal developments according to the MSBA note is what we're doing there. >> Right. So, um these typically change with presidential administrations and so this one is actually >> from Biden >> from more from the Biden administration. Um, the Trump administration has already revised the language slight and I would expect this will be back in front of us in the spring with another revision. >> Okay. Policy EF, food service management. >> This is all also uh in responding to uh the USDA guidelines. Any questions, comments, suggestions? >> Amending those same provisions >> on EF from anyone. >> Okay. Policy GBE is staff health and safety. Um, oh, this is Dr. Sber. Good evening. I've got a couple policies tonight

087to look at for a first reading with you. So, the staff health and safety um policy. There was actually an update that happened previously that we did not accept any update. So, this is kind of like two revisions ago that we are looking at. Um if you were looking at the um the board doc, the part that's in blue was actually just the explanation. Um the really the part that's changing is actually the the part that's being omitted which is um about the department of transportation because it's every two years that they have to go through that. So it says individuals employed by the district or through a contracted service to drive um must annually and that's actually every two years. So that's the major change in that policy. >> Any questions on that one?

088Okay. policy GBE BC criminal background checks. Um I do believe this one actually had some typos but I think those have gotten fixed um from MSBA on it. Um so there are some some word changes that um are aligning to law basically. Um as you all know we participate in the wrapback program. So where it says that continued participation in the program requires all employees to be fingerprinted every six years. Now since we use the wrapback program once they're entered into state and federal um fingerprinting we don't have to do that every six years because we get the automatic notifications through the mock system. >> Great. >> Oh Pam I have two non- grammatical ones. Um, so you and I had emailed about this that on the top of page two that when we use

089drivers that are employed by a different transportation company, we do not do those background checks. They do those background checks and they are not required to provide us with proof annually and I have concern about that. I don't know what an appropriate or legal difference would be, but I don't trust I don't want to trust another organization with ensuring background checks of people who are driving or students >> or tell me why I should. >> So, I I think that would be something that we could check into if we could ask annually that we would have um proof from them. Oh, hi John. Looks like he has an answer. >> Uh when we sign an agreement with them, we they are required to have performed those agreements. I mean so first student and a lot

090of the uh districts I mean the service providers around that work for other districts are doing that under contract for those districts as their sole providers. Additionally, rarely are those well, they should never be. Actually, our students should always have teachers and staff with them when they're on those buses. >> They should never be out of sight of our own staff. >> Now, you convinced me why. Thank you. >> Thanks, John. >> My next one is also the last page about adult learner. I think it's the last page in green. >> Yeah. Um, it says may be required and I know you had said because they're not, but in this it says that adults on our property during school day may be required. And I think that if it's during our school days when we

091have our students here, it should be. >> And and what I put back in the email to you is I think that there is the word may is important because there could be an instance where, you know, maybe they're on campus for an hour and they are in a location that they're actually not around students. You know, maybe they're on district property here at central office or, you know, the the background check um process is is pretty robust. like, you know, they have to make an appointment, they have to go get the um the fingerprints taken. If they're only going to be here one time, is it more similar? So, like for our our volunteers and stuff, we have volunteers who, you know, are basically two different levels. Like I might be alone with kids

092or I'm always in a location that is probably has other adults around or things like that. So, I would say that would be why I would advocate that we would leave that word may because I could see instances where it doesn't really make sense. um they're not going to be anywhere, you know, close to the students but still on district property that it maybe it's not all that important. >> Do we have like what >> we don't what courses? >> We don't have any right now. So So this is a change in state statute. And I I do think that if all of a sudden we started having a class that was meeting, you know, in one of the classrooms at the high school, they could be using the restrooms or whatever and it's on

093a regular basis, it it might make sense. And if that happened, then it says we we would be able to require that. But I also think it's more likely that it would be an isolated sort of situation where a few adult learners were on campus for a small period of time and we would, you know, schedule them to not be where students are anyways and it wouldn't really make sense. >> How are you doing that when it's a course? Courses are with other students if they're not with other. >> No, this would be like an adult education course. So like like after Yeah. Yeah. So, like after school we have um like English language learners and things like that come take courses here, but it's it's not when >> the kids are on campus. Correct.

094>> Yeah. >> Correct. >> But if for some reason that happened, we might. >> Yeah. Because >> which is why which is why we don't do it. >> Probably. >> Which is why we don't have any currently. Probably. >> Oh, I assume. Okay. Yeah. We had it. >> Any other questions on that one? Criminal background checks. Okay. The next one is policy GCPB, resignation of professional staff members. >> Um so this one has the the major changes with the due process um and allegations of sexual misconduct with a student. You'll notice that that language is um what's actually in the next two. So, the renewal of the professional staff members, it shows up in there as well as this GCPB resignation of professional staff members. Um, it's interesting to me because state statute says that

095we have to fill out a desi disclosure anytime we are hiring somebody from another district. So in that it actually requires us to disclose if someone um left our district um you know even voluntarily in lie of termination for um possible allegations of sexual misconduct. As you guys all know if we're dealing with a situation like that we're consulting our attorneys um to figure out what we can and cannot disclose. Um and the the major change that are in these two new policies now is that we would go through due process. So, if we were terminating somebody or non-renewing them due to sexual misconduct, um they they would be entitled to a hearing, you know, if that was something that they should be entitled to. >> Questions on that one? >> And then the next

096one, policy GCPF, renewal of professional staff members. Yeah, it's it's actually that's >> that same par same part >> that's primarily where I would say that the major change comes in correct the the parts that are changed in the first like the employment contracts and the tenure it's those are like not substantial changes it's just like changes of wording >> oh I think I said the wrong one that was termination of professional staff members >> so GCPF I think is the Last one, >> it's the last one >> is the renewal of professional staff members, but it's it's actually that same due process for allegations of sexual misconduct. That's the primary change that's substantial. The nonsubstantial parts is the change of wordings in the employment contracts and tenure teachers. That, like I said, it's changes

097in wording, but it's still April 15th for non-tenured staff, May 15th for tenur staff. >> Any questions on that one? Okay. Thank you, Dr. Silver. >> Thank you. >> So, 6.8 is a second reading, but um Dr. Garganigo is going to explain this first one. IGB programs for gifted students to us before we vote. >> Yeah. So, with policy IGB, there were a couple suggestions made in the first reading that didn't get captured on the document. So, I want to read what those changes would be so that you're approving them with those changes. Um so the first if you flip on to the back side under identification the sentence that says the identification process is open to students living in the district we would say is also open to students living in the district who

098are not currently enrolled. So adding the word also there. >> And then in the and then in the section with um parent and guardian request for review um the we would change the district assistant superintendent of student services to the district's assistant superintendent of equity and student services. So Cameron's title wasn't changed there. And then um the sentence that starts with parents and guard uh yeah parents and guardians about the request for review. We would change the sentence to say parents/guardians who received notice that their child has not met the eligibility requirements to receive gifted services may request a review of that decision by contacting the district's assistant superintendent of equity and student services. So, just a clarity. Um, so Pam helped us with that language. Thank you. >> I have no issues with any

099of those changes, but I somehow maybe I missed this. So, are tuition students not eligible for the gifted program? >> Is that the way to read that? But if it says districts, >> these are >> Students living in the district who don't attend our schools. I think >> Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. >> I think that's the clarity there. So, so like a homeschooled student. >> My bad. >> Any other questions or comments on this one? So, do we need to hikah make the motion like approve it with the proposed changes? I think we need to word it like that, right? >> No, because you have it. Okay. So, she >> already says >> Oh, it does. Oh, it does. Okay, great. Great. Yeah. I move that we approve policy IGB programs for gifted students as

100presented with the recommended changes. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? >> Okay. Motion passes. Um now second reading of policy IGBCA programs for homeless students. Will you read that motion please? >> I move that we approve policy IGBCA programs for homeless students as presented with the recommended changes. >> Second. >> Okay. That's been moved and seconded. any or sorry any questions or comments on this second reading? All those in favor? >> I >> Okay. Any opposed? That motion passes. Um the second reading of IGB students in foster care. >> I move that we approve policy IGB students in foster care as presented with the recommended changes. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on this one? All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Okay,

101motion passes. And lastly, JHDF suicide awareness and prevention. I move that we approve policy JHDF suicide awareness and prevention as presented with the recommended changes. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. Any questions or comments on this second reading? I just want to point out that you we' spent that time last time kind of combining two parts and making it much more clear and it is good. It is. Thank you. That's great. >> Uh all those in favor? >> I Any opposed? >> Okay, that motion passes. Okay, moving on to our action items. Um, Chris, will you read the motion to approve uh BLDD Architects? >> I move that we approve a contract with BLDD Architects for architectural services related to an athletic facilities, including but not limited to Gayfield and Adict Field. >> Second. >>

102Okay, this has been moved and seconded. Any questions or comments for John on this one, the BLDD contract? anyone? >> No. Ben, >> um I guess with this one and the and with BLDD and BSI, are these all in the normal range of these kind of percentage fees of construction? >> The fees are reflective of what services are in the agreement. So you'll have some agreements or say architectural services that won't have a lot of consultants like engineering or civil engineering or HVAC etc. These are and you'll see the fee being substantially lower but for the services that are provided these are in the range >> I got that you would expect. So the um scope of services are kind of aligned in terms of where the heaviest work is done at different phases kind

103of thing or or because you mentioned like during construction there's probably not a whole lot >> right. So the fee overall is based as a percentage of the cost of construction. Um but then it's further divided at down in a percentage per service. So there's a piece for there's a share for schematic, there's a share for uh design development, there's a share for construction documents, there's a share for construction phase. So and you'll break that down. So if we were to halt the agreement, uh they would get paid for what they've earned in each of those sections. um if they don't halt the agreement, they'll be paid as they progress through the the entire process. >> Those are all milestones that are kind of mutually agreed upon in terms of what that what that means.

104We we accept that this milestone is complete. >> Yes, they're very standard too for um these are AIA documents and you know they're >> used uh regularly in this type of work. So the milestones are very standard. >> Gotcha. Um, and if there are change orders to the contract, how are those factored? >> They'll be back in front of you. But, um, so, um, I mean, change orders in there that came up like we needed to redesign something that was on us, let's say, uh, or I don't know, something could come up that would alter the scope. So the scope can be increased or decreased, right? Um we could say we're going to do two buildings or we're going to do one building or we're going to do two buildings and grow to three. Um

105the the the the fee which is a percentage of the cost will adjust to that scope. Got right that makes sense. Yeah. Um now is it when we do say cost of construction is that what does that include in terms of the soft costs and things like that? Is that >> Just hard cost. Okay. Okay, I'm good. Thank you. >> Any other Kim? >> Yeah. So, just for just to just for clarity so everybody can hear, including public that may be listening. So, uh yes or no, John, have we fully defined the scope of any of the um athletic facilities including but not limited to Gain Adic Field yet? Do we have alignment on scope? I'm not sure I understood the question. >> Do we know what the plan is for athletics >> for BLDD?

106Um they have a scope that uh has them working on Gayfield, uh Adzac Field, um a softball field in Shaw Park, >> and um the athletic facilities at White. >> Okay. So those that is stuff that we have previously reviewed in past meetings with public input. Yes. >> Okay, that was the question. Um, and then should we reduce or expand the scope of that work? So, should we decide we're not going to build the softball field or we're not going to fill in the blank, then these percentage fees that Ben just kind of went through with you would be right sized to that scope contraction. >> Yes. Conversely, if we should decide that we're going to build a second football stadium, which by the way, we're not going to do that, but then the scope

107would expand to that and the and the percentage fees that you just described would then also apply to that expanded scope. >> Correct. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Thank you. Thank you for asking that so simply. That was great. >> It was. It was good. Any other questions or comments on the BLDD contract? Okay. Did you already read the motion? Okay. Um, all those in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes. And the next one is the BSI contract for construction management services. Will you read that? >> I move that we approve a contract with BSI con constructor constructors for construction management at risk services. >> Second. >> Okay, this has been moved and seconded. Any questions for John on this? the BSI contract. >> Similarly, >> I I would just say that we have

108talked about what construction management at risk is, what the scope of those services encompass, and those have all been captured in previous public meetings. >> Yeah, true. Anything else? Good point. Okay. If nothing else, all those in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay, that passes as well. Uh, moving on to consent agenda. Um, Chris, will you read that motion, please? 8.1. >> I move agenda item 9.1. >> Second. >> Any comments on anything in the consent? All those in favor? >> I. Any opposed? No. Consent agenda passes. Okay. Now, board communications. Any committee reports? Um, let's see. A few, a handful of us had some committee meetings. Who would like to go first? Uh, Ben, you had I think a couple, right? Technology, parks, and wreck, maybe. >> Yeah. Yep. Um well well I guess one

109first thing to say is that with the city charter change um I will be moving into exeicio status with the parks and wreck. Um and I will continue along with the Shaw Park uh ice rink space task force whenever that completes. It's getting there. It's kind of getting there. But uh anyway, so um let's see. the parks and wreck was in person at the center and you know just a good broad there there's a lot of discussion around the um rec the rec sports leagues. There's been some um some issues with sportsmanship >> both for the players and the parents. Um so it's been a good opportunity to revise and um update and let everybody know about you know rec sports or for everyone and so forth. Um so that was kind of good to

110see. And then today we had the tech study. Um and I sort of I sort of uh roamed between the two comm subcommittees. Um so there's the the device side and you know folks are hard at work um kind of establishing what are the important features of these devices kind of age appropriate um usage um you know so just a lot of really great dialogue because there's there's representation across all the schools all the subjects um and uh and then on the on the AI side we actually looked at the desi uh published uh guide book around AI So, I've got some extras here if anybody wants light reading. Um, so, uh, yeah, so that that group, um, kind of focused on looking through those, how does that apply to our district, um, and continuing

111to do a bunch of, um, discovery around AI, what it means, and uh, so a lot more to come on that. >> Good. I like that there's subcommittee on the hard, you know, the devices, the actual devices, and then the AI work. That's great. Um Leo, any legislative advocacy meetings or anything? No. Um Pam um the Clayton Education Foundation. I don't think I really need to update because Nisha did in the weekly. So yeah. Um but the equity wait these glasses aren't working. The equity committee meeting um was great. We reviewed um people Cameron had people divide up by the building that they're in and they reviewed what equity is looking like in each of their buildings in their professional groups. Um so that everyone could see at different levels what equity looked like. Um

112and then what it was looking like in the different schools. And then at the end we finished kind of like where we just were with goal three but with goal one a place for everyone. We reviewed the I don't know 8 to 10 objectives under that goal and discussed in smaller groups which ones were no longer needed because they've been already embedded into our system which ones, you know, we still need to continue to work on. Are there ones that we want to bring in? And so, um, Cameron is going to do a deep dive into that and then we'll continue that work in the equity meeting. That's it. >> Um, anyone have any Oh, Chris, do you want to talk about the St. Louis school boards PLC that's coming up? What the topic will

113be your >> Thank you. Um, hopefully you all saw Thank you. in the um weekend update that there is going to be a um PLC on December 6th on Saturday and we've decided to make it about um superintendent board relationships, how to make that, you know, relationship strong and robust and as good as possible. And I was telling them how great it's been for us to do that kind of work. Um so we're excited because we know that this is important for every board, every superintendent. So, we're hoping to get really good turnout um for everybody to come and and learn, you know, sort of best practices around making sure that that relationship is is really sound. >> So, please join us. >> That's a great topic because school boards and superintendents are always invited

114to it. Yes. >> But we've never talked about the relationship together. >> Yeah. I don't think we've ever talked about and it's a newer committee in general, but yeah, this is something we've never talked about, but and we always know that MSBA talks about it, right? But in general, we just knew that having a smaller group of us talking about it is different than just go doing it at the MSBA, especially because not everyone goes to MSBA conference. So, yeah, we're hoping that it could be useful to lots of folks >> and the and just for newer board members and the public or whatever, this is a um school board members in St. Louis County, Jefferson County, St. Charles County, and St. Louis City get together. I think it's always the first Saturday in December

115and the first Saturday in June, maybe. >> Correct. >> Um to discuss different topics and superintendents as well. So, thank you Chris for being on the planning committee. Um, anything else? Any other announcements from anyone? Thank I just want to thank anybody who came to the tours last night of Mayor Mack and Glenidge that Dr. Patel talked about last night which were great and be on the lookout for more to come on that and we can adjourn. >> I move that the board of education adjourn. Second.