Rolla Board of Education Meeting - December 11th, 2025

001Heat. Heat. Heat. You have to sign in again. >> Every time I close Yeah. You don't want to close it. You carry down open. >> That's why I didn't Every time I'm like I got to sign in again. >> Yeah. Just leave it open when you walk down here. Heat. Heat. Continue. >> We can keep playing or quit. >> Just keep playing. Yep. I mean, we I like it. >> Keep playing for >> You like it? >> No. as is. >> As is. Heat. Heat. Heat. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We really appreciate you guys stopping by. It was beautiful. >> Thank you. It's always wonderful to start our night off with music. >> Exactly. >> Better than not, right? >> Right. Absolutely. >> Is this our year we get a solo from the

002retiring Mr. Slowinsky? >> Oh, that's right. Literally, I have no idea what >> solo. Are you going to do a solo? >> I don't know. >> I know. >> All right, then we'll start our board meeting. >> Yeah. Well, there they're most of them listed. >> There. Okay. Yeah. Wonderful. All right. We're going to start this evening by saying the pledge of allegiance. So, we'll begin. Um, if those that would like to participate, you're invited to stand and face the flag. Remove any hats and place your right hand over your heart. Participation is voluntary and respectfully welcomed. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. I like our picture. >>

003You're right. Our next item up is recognition. >> All right. We're going to start with the RHS Marching Bulldog Brigade. The board would like to commend the RHS marching bulldog brigade for an outstanding job during their marching season. We also extend congratulations to the Rola High School band students selected for the Central District Missouri Music Educators Association All District Honor Band and the CD MMEA All District Jazz Band. A special recognition goes to Lily Bristo, who earned distinction as second alternate in the Missouri Allstate Band. Okay. >> Come up. >> Yeah, they all come up. >> Leave your weapons. >> And >> she was not going to have me read all the names, but I will. >> All right. So this is the all district band members. Jerry Wang with flute. >> Just keep walking.

004>> Go ahead. And she's got us >> Marcus Finan with flute. >> Adele Fonda Obo alternate two. >> Uh David Fox clarinet. >> Jaden Lungstrom clarinet. Elena Gayert clarinet. James Shot clarinet. Kobe Tilford clarinet. Beverly Jones clarinet. >> Jackson Bennett bass clarinet. Austin Michaels alto saxophone. Owen Black tenor saxophone. Zack Cliff baritone saxophone. Lukew baritone saxophone. >> Lily uh Bristo trumpet. Stormmy Hinky trumpet. Ivy Burgerer horn. Colin Thorf Lancaster horn. Andre Andy Chowry tuba. and Bennett Duning Tuba. >> Keep going. >> All right. For the uh all district band. Hey, >> Timalolu Alajio, alto saxophone. Austin Michaelels, alto saxophone. Gabriel Weaver, alto saxophone alternate two. Owen Black, tener saxophone alternate one. Zachary Clif Baritone saxophone or berry saxophone alternate one. Caleb Mc Cleland, trumpet lead. Li Lily Bristo trumpet. Stormmy Hinky trumpet. Lucas Barnes trombone.

005Samuel Kramer bass trombone. Connor Johnson trombone alternate one. Dalton Betts guitar honor band. Elliot Doyle piano honor band. Ethan Bowdenhammer vibes honor band. And William Lelay vibes alternate one. dodge if you want to. >> I just want to say >> congratulations. They go through an audition process in October with about 33 schools in our district. Um RA is in the sixth district for the Missouri Music Educators Association. A lot of kids, a lot of schools, much larger than my future sports would be to the district. Again, we have like 33 schools in our music district. And you know what's awesome about it this year? We get to host it at RA. >> COOL. So that was phenomenal. But as you can see, that's a lot of kids out of a band of about a hundred.

006So, we're really proud of that. Our our kids do a fantastic job. They work very, very hard and they're just talented. The band are fun. What we get to do is fun every day. It really 99% of the days. So, we'll go with that. And there's these jazz kids. There's typically a 21 22piece jazz band. We own the jazz band. For the past several years, I've been very proud that we half of the kids, if not more than half of that jazz band. So we're we're really pleased about that. They worked really hard and even getting mentioned at the state level with Lily. That's very impressive. Um so extra congratulations to her on that. But that's kind of a little bit of the background. They all had well the concert band had clinicians um came

007in work. They put on a concert in one day and that's very hard to do as you can imagine in one day. Kudos to Mr. uh Mr. Goldman. He runs that organization. He's the vice president of our district. So everything that comes together, he's put in a tremendous amount of work. We just do what he tells us to do and it all and it all happens very good. Um I the jazz band's going to date you know first Saturday January 10th >> January 10th those jazz kids will perform at the clinician and put out a concert that night too. So they've still got a few more steps to uh to make up but we're really proud of and it's a lot of fun. So thank you very much. We'll give them one minute. >> Thank

008you guys. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Next is FFA. The Board of Education proudly congratulates alumni Carol King and Payton Whitaker on earning the prestigious American FFA degree at the 98th National FFA Convention, the highest honor available in the National FFA organization. We are especially proud to note that Carol King now serves our district, continuing her commitment to education and community leadership. So want to thank them for coming back. We're also thrilled to recognize curtain students Lucy Conger and Isabelle Morris who placed fourth in the nation with their outstanding social science agrocience research project. Good job, ladies. >> These achievements highlight the dedication, talent, and leadership of our students and alumni and reflect the strength of our district's FFA program and the support of our community. We couldn't be more proud of

009the way they represent our district on the national stage. And sorry for cutting you off. Go ahead. >> Uh thank you. I just want to come up here and thank you the board for uh letting us come and present our project so many times to you guys. It really helped out um for National to present beforehand and everything. So that really helped us out. Um I'm coming here tonight actually to ask for your help because we're starting our last project. And this project is uh very intense and requires a lot of chemistry and everything. But one of the things we require for this project is a freeze dryer. And so I want to reach out to you guys because I know you're very involved in the community to see if you have any connections or

010anybody that would be able to help us acquire a freeze dryer. Um not a dehydrator, a freeze dryer specifically because we're trying to extract neutral lipids from algae. So they'd have to be okay with algae being in this machine. >> Yes. I know it's an odd request, but it's something that is necessary for this project. And they are very expensive retail and we miss Black Friday sales. So, at this point, we're going to need a little help. But we thank you so much. >> I have a freeze dryer. I mean, what who who might we >> um I'm thinking like any like S&T connections or science like company connections, anything like that could really help us out. >> So, not somebody with the freeze drying candy kind of thing. >> See, that would work, but

011only as long as they're okay with us putting algae in it. >> Algae in it. >> That might be a little gross. Yes. U But anyways, we thank you very much for giving us the chance to present to you. It really helped us out. Good job. Congratulations. CONGRATULATIONS. >> I'm going to do that. >> Yes. So, um Izzy, before you leave, just hold on for just a second. So during close se uh session we look through um several um applications for the Belchure scholarship award and we have chosen Isabelle Morris um who will then uh your application will be submitted and it'll go through a regional review and selection and then if it makes it it goes to a state level. So congratulations All right. >> Yes, it's your time to leave now if you

012like. >> They know how this goes. >> They do. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you again so much. Yeah. Thank you. >> It's good to see you guys. >> Your hands. Okay. So, I know that there are several of you here tonight that would like to speak. So, this is going to be your time to come up and do so. Um, Dr. Dar has the cards and so he'll read off your name when it's your time to come up. Um before we start though, I need to just say that at this time, any person wishing to speak on any question previously discussed through administrative channels and not on the agenda will be granted three minutes to speak to um to make a presentation, excuse me, to the board. Um we ask that you please

013be respectful while others are speaking so that everybody has an opportunity um for their information to be heard. >> Okay. Uh, these cards are in the order that they were handed to me. So, there's no particular order here as far as I know. Uh, but the first card I have is Miss Johnson. Megan Johnson. >> That makes sense. >> So, I'm just going to read a few more things to you, Megan. >> Okay. >> Um, we ask that you just state your name um for the record when you get ready to speak. Remind um just remember that the board encouraged comments about the district from members of the public. A person speaking during the public comment period may voice their thoughts and concerns including um offering objective criticism of the district operations and programs. The

014board will not hear any comments regarding any individual staff members or students in public comments. Um the pre the board president will direct the participant to the published complaint procedure for consideration of legitimate complaints involving a uh staff member or student. Each participant is granted three minutes to address their topics. The board will hear the public comments but will not respond. Please remember that the board may not discuss or act upon any issues that's not on a posted um on our agenda. The board directs that participants not use insults, abuse, or profound or defamatory language. Failure to comply with this request will cause the public comment to be terminated. The board has adopted policies to provide prompt and and equitable resolutions of comment or excuse me complaints and concerns for employees, students, their parents, and

015the general public. com. Copies of our district policies and procedures are available on the district website. >> Okay, great. >> You will have three minutes and Amy will be our timekeeper. >> Okay, sounds good. >> Minute 30 second mark. >> Great. Um, I'd like to take a brief moment to address something that came up at your prior meeting where a small group of individuals came to promote, defend, and even advocate for books containing graphic depictions of rape, incest, sexual encounters involving minors, predatory teacher student relationships, self-mutilation, extreme violence, sexual abuse, abortions, pervasive profanity, and illegal drug use. Please know the vast majority of people do care about the safety and well-being of children and do not want their children exposed to this. Let me just give you one example of the type of content that

016I'm talking about. In one of these books, a 10-year-old girl is kidnapped. The book goes into graphic detail, not only about her being severely beaten, but in detail about the horrific sexual abuse that she endures daily. She mentions that her abductor calls her Alice and that there was an Alice before her and he killed her. She prays every day for death and at the end of the book, he kills her, too. There is no happy ending there. This is what some adults are arguing belongs in a school library. These books do not foster learning, critical thinking. They offer no educational value. They normalize trauma and abuse under the disguise of literature. And we're expected to pretend that that contributes to meaningful um development for children. Some of these books aren't just graphic. They are filled

017with profanity at the level that would never be tolerated anywhere in this district. Tell me how a book that uses the F-word, the B- word, the P word, the C word, the other C word in triple digits is considered educational. Notice I'm saying I'm not saying these words fully. That's because before speaking, I was handed a pamphlet stating it's against policy to use obscene language in this meeting. So I have to ask, if these words aren't allowed in this room full of adults, why are they acceptable in the book in books handed to children? Would the same language, illustrations, or sexual content be acceptable if spoken by a teacher, a school board member, or a student on school grounds? We all know the answer. According to the RALA 31 school district's 2025 2026 handbook, student

018handbook pages I think it's 19 and 20, profanity, disrespectful, and obscene language are prohibited with consequences ringing from ranging from conferences to detention to suspension to expulsion. The material in these books would clearly violate district rules if presented by any student or staff member. So, why is it allowed on the shelves finally? Oh, I didn't see you do the the hand. >> No, that's fine. >> Thank you, Megan. >> Okay. Uh, next, David Gro. >> Yes, >> it is. And please state your name for the record and the same comments that I made to make them apply to you as well. >> Just a minute. I'm having trouble. >> No problem. >> Okay, you got my attention. >> I was just going to say if you could state your name for the record and then

019the same statement that I made. >> Number two, what I'm going to say. >> Okay. >> Fine. Thank you. >> Good evening members of the Raleigh Public School Board. I'm David Grow, a resident of Phelps County and uh Raleigh District 31. My wife Pam and I have four children who attended Raleigh public schools between 1989 and 2004. Tonight, I'm fulfilling a pledge to Mr. and Mrs. X. And I'm not going to say their name in public here. If the school board wants that, I can I can furnish. Mr. and Mrs. ex to speak to you about a graphic novel, one with pictures accompanying texts such as you might find in a comic book. Their child checked out the this book at the Raleigh Junior High uh library in 2024. The title of this book is

020this one summer. It was written and illustrated by Julian and Maro Tamaki. Their child was upset by the book and they brought it to them saying,"I just wish I could pick up a book that looks fun and not have to worry about what's inside." Mr. X said their child has a learning disability. They have worked very hard to get the child to enjoy reading and they hated to see them afraid of picking up a book. Mr. X sent me photos of selected pages from this one summer. The photos contained coarse language. Mr. X said he stopped counting after a dozen occurrences of the Fbomb. It also contained vulgar vulgar jokes, obscene insults involving private body parts, and copious illusions to sexual intercourse and oral sex. Mr. and Mrs. s were shocked by the content of

021this one summer and they expressed concerns in an email to the junior high principal. To be concise, they were definitely dissatisfied with the response they received. These attentive and concerned parents did not see a way forward. First, they asked about the philosophy behind book acquisition decisions. Specifically, how did this one summer support objective number one on the board's policy on library acquisitions to quote enrich and support the curriculum end quote? Second, they asked if there is a way to provide content warnings accessible to parents for library school books. I submit these facts and questions for your careful consideration. And while this book may have been removed recently, it provides an illustration of the problem many are worrying about. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Thank you. >> Okay. And next is Pamela Gro. Grow, if

022you'll state your name for the record. >> All right. I'm Pamela Kro. I'm a resident and taxpayer of the Raleigh School District since 1989. I really appreciate the opportunity to speak. When I was in the practice of pediatrics, I dealt with many parents and by this I also mean grandparents and others who are the guardians of children. Overwhelmingly, these people were completely committed to the welfare of the children under their care. I certainly believed then, as I believe now, that parents deserve the presumption of innocence, that is innocence of educational neglect, as well as other very serious things. In early October, I submitted a Missouri Sunshine Law request to the district for information about two books which I heard were in one or more schools in the district. Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evon and Identical

023by Ellen Hopkins. I believed these books would be considered highly objectionable by many community members. While I promptly received a good deal of information responsive to my request, one thing that was reported as unavailable which I asked for was the name andor the position of a specified individual responsible for the acquisition of these titles. So I would suggest that this indicates perhaps a lack of accountability. Transparency has to go handinhand with accountability. If the district does not have a process by which parents may review library holdings and new acquisitions in order to protect their children from material they find inappropriate and/or objectionable. Then I would suggest a lack of transparency might exist. Lastly, I would like to mention a Missouri law passed in 2022 which deals with the topic we're discussing. C. In case you

024want to look up laws, which I did all the time as county clerk for 8 years, revisor.mmo.gov, look at chapter 573, section 550. This statute establishes the offense of supplying explicit sexual material to a student as a class A misdemeanor. It covers a detailed list of content and lists, as those subject to this law and its penalties, many job titles from public as well as private schools. Although I realize that a law passed in 2022 may be old news for the board's council and the district probably has had some training regarding it, I do believe that this is so important for the people to be as familiar as possible with the laws under which they have to live. Thanks >> you Dr. Gro. >> Thank you. Okay, next is uh Jod Eberly. Hi, my name

025is Jody Eberly and I'm a resident of Brol. Um I spoke at a previous meeting uh asking you not to remove books from the school libraries but to use the existing policies that parents can identify specific books that they don't want their children to have access to. And in other words basically saying please don't punish everybody um for the preferences of the few. And tonight I'm I'm speaking for a group of people in Raleigh who feel as I do um and I'm repeating my request to keep our libraries robust with a wide variety of reading material. If we start removing every book uh that any parent or group feels is offensive or inappropriate, we may not have many books left in our libraries at all. I'm fairly certain that I could find something offensive or

026inappropriate in almost any book that is on the library shelves today. And I also know that what I might find offensive or inappropriate is not the same as how others might see it and vice versa. Um, so I sincerely hope this is the last time that I need to feel the need to come here and take your time up with this subject and I do appreciate the opportunity to express my opinion to the board. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Okay. Next is Ken Bergman. So, my name is Ken Bergman. I've been in Raleigh since 2001 in the uh Raleigh School District. Um I have two sons who graduated from my school 2005 and 2011. Uh they had a good education and uh they don't recall any sex books in the

027library at that time. Today we have dozens of sex books in the in the high school library. Detailed descriptions of every possible way to have sex. Willing, unwilling and unwilling sex partners. How to make a sex move. How to seduce bondage. Horse language. F-bombs everywhere. self mutilation, drugs to cope with sex trauma. Recommendations to the school board. Take the school book books, the sex books out of the high school library. Or if you can't do that, do things same thing we do with penthouse and playboy because that's the same content, explicit sexual content. 18-year-old seniors can check it out from behind the counter. If you can't take it out of the high school, um, sequester it. So the parents know checkout list of books. How many dozens of books are there? Do the parents know

028where they are? What books to sequester? And if a if a kid goes to the library shelf and pulls off the book, reads it, shows it to their buddy, look at this amazing stuff back on the shelf, go back, get another buddy. Uh they never had to check it out. Um going forward, why are these books on the shelf? Who put it there? Why do we protect our kids from sexual abuse by telling them every which way to have sex? What will the vast majority of parents think about when they find out what's on the shelf? Um, that concludes my comments or questions. >> Thanks. >> Looks like Marielle and Marshall. I pass. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh Lindsay Bagnel, my name is Lindseay Bagnel. I am also a resident of Rala and an alum

029of Rala High School. Uh the last time I was here, I spoke to you about the Mothers for Freedom, thinking that was the organization that was working to try to ban books in Rala. I've since discovered that the organization is actually the Phelps County Moms for America. This organization existed before uh Mothers for Freedom, Mothers for Freedom was kind of an offshoot of that. Um their stated mission is Phelps County Moms for America is committed to empowering moms, raising patriots, and promoting liberty. Unless I misunderstand the word liberty, it means the same as freedom. And banning books is the opposite of freedom. It's taking away freedom. So I I have trouble with that. Um, now if you look at the Moms for America website, what they espouse is strengthening the family, educating well, and encouraging

030faith and family values. All worthy goals. The problem is a desire to control others and to force society to conform to a certain set of values and beliefs that are their values and beliefs but may not be those of other people. Uh you can't be for liberty and freedom and claim to support the constitution if you try to exert control and discriminate against others based on faith and other differences in opinions and beliefs. Doesn't liberty mean the ability to follow the faith of your beliefs without obstruction? I'm all for the moms of America being free to send their kids to parochial school, homeschool, otherwise direct the education and formation of their own children's character. Go to the library, look at the books, decide which books you don't want your kids to read. Talk to your

031kids. I was really open with my kids, but a lot of people are not. If you don't talk to them, they're going to go find out what you're not telling them. Just a good idea to to tell them how you feel. I'm all for the RA public schools procedures that allow parents to make sure your children don't see certain books that are in the libraries. I I think that's parent rights. But I draw the line at trying to control the education and formation of other people's children as that is a removal of liberty and freedom. Please, Moms for America, focus on what's right and good in your organization. Helping people, raising your children to be good citizens, strengthening families, those are all good things. Please stop trying to control other people. My Christmas wish is

032for the Royal School Board to pass a resolution stating that books will not be banned from school libraries. And let's just put this an end to this issue. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Uh next we have Amber Miller. Hey friends, my name's Amber Miller. I've got two kids uh that go to school here. Uh I graduated from here, all that fun stuff. I'm a nurse, so I'm going to talk about a few things uh nurse-wise tonight, but these books were deemed as graphics graphic sex books, which is so funny to me. um because it's very forward thinking sounding. Um so improving knowledge and like sexual like education all of this in schools has shown very good outcomes for children and kids and honestly we're not talking about children right we're

033talking about high school students their adolescence they're almost adults. Uh so teachers who increased their knowledge of sexuality after training um for sexual education the students that had those teachers and received the education there were 83.3% of students in that intervention uh that used a contraceptive method in their last sexual relationship and 58.3 did in the school that did not receive that intervention. So, not providing sexual education, not great for kids. They don't they have they end up not wearing protection. Um, also the students in the comparison schools were 4.7 times more likely to start sexual initiation earlier um than students in the intervention schools. So, they're more likely to have sex without the education. All right. Um, taking books off the shelves, it's honestly a suppression of rights, but I'm not unreasonable. I read

034five of these books. One of them I couldn't get my hands on. That was Lucky by Alice Seabolde. I've read some of her stuff. Honestly, I can't see what probably would be unlucky that wasn't in the others and I don't see any problems with it, but whatever. Um, so the only one that I could see b maybe being pulled from shelves is Haunted. I am a nurse. I have been in this field for a long time. I'm a psych nurse. I've heard a lot. If you're making me blush, it's probably a little explicit. They made me blush. All right. So, books are one of the most important resources available to us as a society. They can give a voice or lend an ear to some of the most silent among us. People who feel shame

035over experiences that they don't have any control over. Um, so books can help minority groups find acceptance, spark anger or sadness that perhaps leads them to speaking out and lending their voice to a worthy hopefully cause. It can make someone feel seen and heard and that their thoughts, feelings, or experience are valid. It can go the other way, too, right? So, in some instances, it might validate toxic thoughts or feelings. I'd argue that's less frequently the case, but let's play devil's advocate. When someone says something most don't agree with, they're usually called on for that toxic behavior. If there's someone brave enough to stand against them, they're ignored or shunned for this, and that's a natural consequence. Okay. >> Thank you. Okay, next is Shannon Hu. And while Miss Hux is coming up, is there

036anyone else that did not get a card turned in that wish to speak? Okay. Shannon Hu, thank you for allowing me this um opportunity. I'd like to address the long, dramatic, and quite frankly embarrassing presentation at your last board meeting about Moms for Liberty, a group that doesn't even exist in our community. Once again, these folks talking points don't match reality. Finally, let me be very clear. Labeling anyone who objects to sexually explicit, graphic, or abusive material in children's libraries as a book banner is insulting. This isn't about banning books. Adults are free to read whatever they want. This is about protecting kids. As someone who was sexually abused as a minor by multiple peers, if I had read some of the content that are in these books, I would have been ret-raumatized. No therapist

037that I am aware of would suggest to someone that has suffered sexual abuse to go and read descriptive, explicit, very graphic content in order to overcome their trauma. It would be retraumatizing. Secondly, they're not reading it with their parents sitting next to them most of the time. I don't know about you, but when I was a teenager, when we got a hold of something that we knew was probably off limits, we shared it amongst our peers. We didn't tell our parents. So, you can still be an amazing parent. I'm a mom of four grown. I have six grandchildren. You can be a great parent. You can be an on top of it parent. You can be a parent that talks to their kids a lot. I was one of those. And you can still have

038kids that make bad choices because of what they're being presented in our culture. in society. I'm not about banning books. By all means, go buy it. If that's what you want your child to read, go buy it. Go pay your money and buy it. I shouldn't have as my a taxpayer to pay for things that are going to harm children, not help them. And as far as exploration and sexual um education, they shouldn't be getting it from books like this. They should be talking with their parents. They should have a health class that talks about that if the parent wants that, but they shouldn't have to be reading or not have to be. They shouldn't be it shouldn't be available for them to read in this kind of setting where there's not someone to tell

039them, hey, this is this is not good because there weren't people there weren't people when that was happening to me to say otherwise. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Is that it? Okay. On behalf of the board of education, we'd like to thank everyone for sharing your thoughts and your concerns with us this evening. There is not a posted agenda item related to the removal of books on our agenda this evening. Therefore, we will not be able to discuss or take any action on this topic tonight. All of our district policies are available for public view on our district website at rola31.org and those specifically related um to this topic are IAC-R1 and KB and KB-P1. Again, we thank you for your engagement and we will continue with our regular

040school board meeting at this time. you are more than welcome to stay or if you'd like um this would be the time to leave. So, thank you again. We really appreciate all of your input. Yes. Okay. The next item on our agenda is presentations on agenda items. Any person wishing to speak on any items on the agenda will be granted three minutes to make a presentation. And just please state your name um for the record. >> No cards to that. >> Nope. Okay. Seeing none, give a few minutes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I'm going to pause for just a second. >> Thank you. Yeah. >> Okay. If those that are leaving, if you guys could let us go ahead so we can move on with our agenda items. >> Um, excuse me. Thank you. >>

041All right, moving on to our consent agenda items. Um, a consent agenda is utilized by the Raleigh Board of Education as a means of dealing with routine matters which must be considered by the board of education but require a minimum of discussion. All board of education members receive and review written information supporting the items listed on the consent agenda well in advance of the meeting. While any board of education member is welcome to remove any item from the consent agenda for separate consideration or discussion for any reason, normally all items on the consent agenda are approved in one motion with a minimum of discussion. Tonight we have items A through F. If I may draw your attention, I need you to hold out check number 169-572 to music. We will take action on that in

042a presentation in a few moments. >> I'll make a motion that we approve items A through F with the exception of check number 169572 to music. >> I'll second that. >> All right. All in favor say I. I. >> Those opposed say no. >> All right. Moving on now to old business for our long range facility update with Dr. Fulton. Good evening everyone. So, we have some exciting things happening in our district as usual, which is really, really good. Um, so just tonight know that we are going to put these presentations together from here on out. Even though we are still in tornado recovery mode, we also have great things moving forward. So, instead of two presentations, you get one. So, I would like to start off with our early childhood center, the Phelps County

043Community Foundation Early Childhood Center. That again is a mockup drawing as we have been seeing for quite a while. Work has begun. I know it doesn't look like it, but I promise you they are inside doing all sorts of great work. So, the picture on the left is whenever you walk in the door. If you remember, it was tiled and carpeted. That's coming up. Um, as you go in, that is all first floor. As you turn the corner and you walk down that main hallway, that's the main hallway. To the right is the sanctuary. So, a lot of work there. SM Wilson is in. They have filtration going. They have all sorts of things happening. It looks really really neat. Um, actually I say neat, it's a mess, but it looks really good. It's progress,

044right? It's progress. Again, if you remember, um, we name the Wyman named this Pups Plaza. So, this is Pups Plaza as as we all say. Um, if you look back in the middle picture right in there, that's where the stage was. >> So, it's gone. It is all there. The picture. Amy, I did something. I can't fix it from here. Sorry. Back up. Yep. So, the picture on the right, this area will be a new staircase, and this will be a new cafeteria. So, just pay close attention. And that's peeking through the through the studs right there at the um which would be the left side as you look at the stage, stage right for what's there. second floor. As you are looking, if you look down that hallway, if you remember looking straight into

045a chemistry lab, >> the walls are gone. >> Yay. >> All gone. So, that's what you see right in here. All of that is gone. You can now see that hallway will go straight through with those exterior doors. And all of the walls are gone all the way through here looking all the way back. So, it's just pretend like it's one great big photo. A lot of progress is going on there right now. So, I know people are going like, "We don't see anything." And you're right because a lot of this work will be inside. There will be some outside work, but most of it's inside. Questions so far about the early childhood center. Okay, back to the athletic field updates. Um, we are replacing the turf um at our football field. That work is

046going to start soon. Just keep in mind that they are doing a lot of work behind the scenes, a lot of ordering of things, and it's been really cold. So, they are working on that. Again, we will be replacing the turf, replacing and upgrading all of the lighting. I shouldn't say replacing, just replacing the heads to upgrade the lighting to LED at the baseball, soccer, softball field, and football fields, as well as the softball field replacement, even though that is at the middle school. What I need from you tonight is action. Um we have a our first change order. So um when you approved this project, you approved making it a combined baseball softball field. Since we have received information that that doesn't need to occur. So we are asking you to approve a credit

047on change order number one to eliminate the alternate that you took of $398,000. So at the end of this presentation, I'll be asking you to approve that. Any questions about that? Okay. Mark Twain Elementary. We have been working with Honer and Associates, as I've talked about, to replace the window replacement, planning this new storm shelter cafeteria, and working on the old cafeteria area. Those drawings will be going out soon. Again, this is a rendering of what that might look like. This is the storm shelter area. This will be all of the window replacement. Good news, insurance has approved all of the window replacement as part of their part of theirs. That's great. >> I got that at the old news. Yes. >> When will those be replaced? >> Over the summer. >> We were already

048talking about what the teachers need to do. So that that process is started. >> Very good. >> And then this could possibly be the um infill for that area. Um so that will come up whenever this goes out to bid for you um to decide upon whether we move forward with that area or not. >> That's one of the options that they will bid on that we can decide whether or not >> correct. no matter what goes in that area. We will have to address those walls and that chimney area no matter what. So, we will discuss all of that when it comes in. When does it go out to bid again sometime this month, hopefully next week. Um, all of the drawings are in at Honer right now. They're finalizing the project. Bids will

049be due in January with which I am pushing forward for you to approve on January 22nd. So, we are moving forward with that project. Very exciting. We've met with um the fire department and uh Scott Profett for um you know the inspector and we've received tenative blessing from him and talked over all of that process. So they are moving ahead moving forward. Questions about Mark Twain. Okay. What I need from you tonight is a motion to approve change order one for a credit of $398,000. Please. >> Okay. I make a motion to approve change order one for a credit of 398,000. >> I'll second. >> Okay. All in favor say I. >> Those opposed say no. >> All right. It's been approved. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Moving on now to new business. So, we

050have a 2024 25 audit report by Mrs. Atinson. >> Okay. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Hello. This feels like this has been a long time coming. One, I usually present this in November, >> right? >> So, here we are. >> So, just a little highlevel recap of audit, all things audit. Um, so an annual audit from a third party provider is required for all public school districts annually. So, we finally almost completed that and I'll explain that in a moment. It does have to be approved by the board and submitted to DESIE by December 31st and published in the paper within 30 days. and also I upload it to the federal audit clearing house. The audit this year was again performed by Graves and Associates. They're a firm out of Jefferson City. We begin

051the audit information that we submit to them in May and it goes all the way through the end of October. So, it's quite a long process. It does involve uh most staff in central office and also we call on some other people throughout the district as needed to get some more information. So, I appreciate everybody's help in that whole process. It's quite an undertaking. The audit scope, it touches on, of course, federal expenditures, which would you would expect, but also food service, internal control, um payroll and accounts payable. They review our forms 941 for payroll. They select they review um a huge report. It's over like 600 pages of all of our accounts payable throughout the year. And they randomly select things to um to look at. They of course look at the superintendent contracts.

052So there's all sorts of information that we have to submit to them. It does also include an audit of core. That's the district's charitable foundation. So they also take care of that and that component unit is included in the financial statements. So moving on to financial statements, we are now on the cash basis of accounting. We have been on cash basis for a few years. Thank you very much. Um, so it does include statement of net position, statement of activities, balance sheet, statement of revenues and expenditures. All of those financial statements tie back and are the same exact data and ending fund balances as what was reported to you in August with the um secretary sorry um the ASBR, the annual secretary of the board report. So all the bottom line matches that. It's just

053that we take all that data, we tear it apart, and we put it together in different ways under different categories uh for different stakeholders to use in different ways. So again, it ties back to the ASBR. Um and just to recap, our statement of revenues and expenditures, I believe that's on page seven of the audit report. And again, tying back to ASBR, operating overall operating surplus of 1.2 2 million and refresher operating is funds 10 and 20 so general and teachers funds. We did have a total deficit of all four funds of 8.1 million and that's primarily due to the capital projects deficit of 10.5. Of course, we received that revenue a few years ago with our bond issues and such. So, we're just now spending all of those funds. So, that's what resulted in

054the uh the capital projects deficit. So recap of some of the audit results of note. So on page 21, note two, they do have to verify that all of our funds and our that we have um at the bank um the financial institution are either FDIC insured or insured by collateral at the banking um institution. So that's something that is required. And so we send them all that information. We actually balance that on a monthly basis. we get a report from Citizens Bank of the Midwest with all of those um collaterals so that we know that um all all of our accounts are are fully insured. On page 28, we did have a property uh tax collection rate this year of 101%. Looking back at that, we've not had that since I've been doing the

055audit and like what the heck and I know it can happen. So, um but it's just due to more collection of delinquent taxes from the prior year. So our average is typically 97 to 98% collection rate. Average statewide is 96 to 99. Page 37 and this one just gets my goat every time. Uh we do have a corrective action plan as every year for segregation of duties. We simply cannot have enough staff. Um other even smaller districts have it harder than we do to segregate all those duties. And that means that we may not be able to prevent and identify um any misstatements or anything as they happen in the daily performance of of our work. So state compliance on page 40. So uh they are required to examine certain things, our attendance hours, our

056membership, transportation data. There were no findings there. Of course I say of course maybe some districts have findings. I don't know. That would be very odd to me. Um but no findings. So yay. Um federal compliance. So that is also known as the single audit report. So we do not have that this year as of yet because we had a government shutdown and so the office of management and business did not uh or management and budget rather did not submit their 2025 audit supplement to the auditor. So we're not the only school district um that doesn't have this as part of their audit as of this time. That supplement was finally released in late November. So, there's actually still more audit work for me and my staff to do in the next month. Um, so

057I'll be coming back to you to approve a revised audit uh by the end of January. So, that is the goal. That being said, we are still obligated to submit this audit for you to approve it and to submit it to DESIE by December 31st uh for our um APR and also for um continue getting funding. So, I'll make sure that happens. So, we do have an unmodified audit opinion this year that basically provides the highest level of assurance that everything is is accurate to the best of our ability. I think that's it. >> Sorry. Are there any questions on the audit report? Does anyone have any questions? If not, can I >> I just have a comment. Thank you for all your work in getting this accomplished. Uh it does provide a different perspective

058for those that like to read accounting stuff. So So and lots Well, it's not it's not all that many pages really. So yeah, it's it provides some good information to financial stuff. Yes, >> you can come in and help with a single audit. >> Yeah, come on back help with federal audit. That'd be great. >> That wouldn't fit under segregation of duties. No, I'm pretty sure this certain is a very serious violation of some sort there. I'm sure. >> Okay, I do need approval. >> Okay, if I can get a motion to >> I'll make a motion to approve the audit results. >> I'll second that. >> Awesome. All in favor say I. I. >> Those opposed say no. >> And then just real quick a reminder. Um this is our year to go out

059for RFP for audit services. So I have that all prepared and ready to go out in January. and I will get with the audit committee of the board shortly after the first of the year to set up a meeting to review those bids when they're due back. So, there's just a quick reminder. >> Sounds good. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Atinson. >> All right. Next up, we have the Missouri United School Insurance Council, Dr. Pton. >> Hello again. You know, ever since I've taken this job, I get to do this presentation and just tell you we're spending more money, unfortunately. But I have they have reasons for this. So what is music? Just as a reminder for everyone. Um it's a consortium of school districts, community colleges, and education associations in Missouri with over

060475 members and they handle all of our property and liability insurance. Um we also partner with them. They partner with Vector and we work with Vector to provide all of our our proactive training for all of our staff. They also um ensure over 92% of all the schools in Missouri. So, what is it that we are ensuring? A breakdown will be all of our property and equipment. Um, currently everything is approximately $30 a square foot with RTI and RTC at $48 a square foot. They have a lot of equipment there. Just saying a lot a lot of things. Plus that encompasses our building where all of our where all of our servers are housed. And so, that that's a real big thing. All of our liability coverage, our workman's comp, our buses, um, and cyber

061and pollution liability. With that, I would point out that in Wartman's Comp, our experience mod, which is the key factor to calculate our workman's comp premium by comparing um past injuries and claims to industry average, is dropping again. Noticed a couple years ago was 1.33. We're down to 1.15. So, we're making a move in the right direction. >> Dr. Fulton. >> Yes. >> Just to clarify on that previous page, the $30 and the $48 are for the equipment only. Correct. >> Equipment. Yeah. That Yeah, that is for property and equipment. Correct. Mhm. >> We increased that even before we had the tornado just because things are just so expensive. So >> yeah. >> Okay. This also um ensures us for all of our cyber insurance. There are seven different control factors. Um, our tech department

062is very good at making sure that we meet all of these requirements, which is our multifactor authentication, the backups with the 321 rule, cyber incident response plan, which Bill has in place as part of our EOP, as you've seen, our endpoint detection and response. He is actually, just so you know, he has hired some companies just to come in and see if they could get in. So he is doing everything that needs to be done to meet our insurance requirements as well as our email filtering and configurations as some of you have found. So especially if you're out of the country. So other key factors is property value. Um we are at um 223 million. That is up 1.6 million from last year which is you know 0.7%. But I want to point out that

063we've added a lot of um insurance averages. things came off of builder's risk, etc. We also purchased a new building. So, all of those things go into that. We have 67 buses in the fleet. We have seven more than last year. Remember, we purchased five. I found one that was our rescue bus that they didn't put in, so we put it in this year. Um, so we have all of those insured. Payroll um up of 8.5% of 34 million. And of course, it includes our builder's trust. I would like to show you about two minutes of this video because why are we going to see an increase and Ron our from music does a good job at explaining that. So if you could click that please and we'll stop at about 2 minutes or so.

064I I don't know what to tell you. >> Um, >> hold the microphone. Just hold the microphone there. >> Yeah, >> right there. Turn that on. >> I know, but it's playing off of you. >> Okay. Hi everyone. With graduations happening in the school year wrapping up, it's a busy and exciting time. It's also when we take a moment to update you on how music is doing after another active storm season. As always, this update is part of our ongoing commitment to keep you informed about your program. As a reminder, 2024 was our worst year ever for property claims. There were 11 major weather events that cost over $70 million in damage. 2025 is shaping up similar, but in a different way. So far, large claims total about 65 million, but most of that came

065from just one event, the March 14th tornadoes and windstorms, which has affected over 70 of our members. It's the biggest single claim event we've ever had. Now, our hearts are with everyone in their communities that are impacted. As a reminder, this kind of devastation is exactly why insurance and music exist in the first place and why we face these challenges together. Now, this isn't just a Missouri or music issue. A recent report showed early 2025 industry losses were 176% above the 10-year average. March alone saw 235 tornadoes nationwide. many right here in Missouri, making it the most active tornado month in over 70 years. Now, we often focus on property due to recent storms, but other areas like workers compensation are changing, too. In the past year, large work comp claims have jumped 60%. with

066many involving student related incidents. That's why we partnered with Parent Protek to give you and families more resources around technology and social media use to help keep our school community safe. So, what does this all mean for music in 2026? Well, the good news is that even though 2025 is off to a rough start, our board planned ahead. Right now, our rates are mostly keeping up with our needs, so only small changes are expected for next year. The one thing to keep in mind is weather is unpredictable and future events could still impact things as the year goes on. >> So, with that, Ron goes on to predict at that point a 9% increase for us last year. Um so where we are at right now we um are happy to report that with that

067we are getting a 4.8% 8% increase for this year with our 2025 assessment assessment numbers being 1,84,185 exposure changes of 37,000 and then um workman's comp changes notice there's a negative there 23,000 our mod went down and a rate increase and that is their rate increase for everyone of $38,23 that 4.8% % leaving us owing them $1.1 million. Past comparison of where we have been over over the time period um for the last few years. Notice that we have had an increase every time. So what I received in the mail today was our umbrella policy. Um we're not going to cover that today. I don't have a check to go with it. So, we'll cover that, but keep in mind that will be coming to you in January. That does not include our cyber pollution

068programs um there that we've covered that there um sovereign immunity, automobile accidents, property negligence. It we will go with the $8 million in additional coverage, but we will cover that in January. So, so what any questions regarding music? I will tell you that um dealing with music has been very good in what we deal with every day. Um, our adjuster and our co- insurance company are very, very good to work with. They're a call away. They have been very responsive to our needs. They provided all of the extra air units while we didn't have air at the middle school. Um, they've been on site. I mean, I call, they call me right back. I I just can't express enough how wonderful they have been to us and how they are to other school districts there.

069We are very grateful to have them. So, what I need from you tonight is approval of a 2025 renewal for insurance coverages with music. Check number 169572 for1,136,561. >> Dr. Paul, can I add one quick thing? Um, will you go back to the past comparison slide? >> Yes, sir. >> Um, just I I think it's important to note the way our our policy works for our property with music is its replacement value. So, they assign a value. our our our our rate is based on a value, but when it comes right down to it, it's it's whatever it costs to replace it. So, I would tell you out of this storm event, um I I assume you all recognize Mark Twain in the picture that was shared with the world. Um we we're fully expecting,

070obviously, we don't know the cost of Mark Twain yet, but we we fully expect we'll go north of 10 million in claims. Uh and our our obligation for that is $1,000. That's what our deductible is. So, uh, the insurance is fantastic. Um, I I think if you look at 2020 compared to 2026, you're like, "Wow, those rates doubled. >> Uh, so did construction cost." >> Correct. >> So, we've we've seen that. Yeah. Right. So, I think that's a large part of that. >> And don't don't we have more square footage? >> And we've added a significant amount of square footage. You think about the position and those of course. Correct. Right. Right. So, I just wanted to kind of point that out that it it is uh the the best coverage uh available for us

071um as a district. So, >> thank you. >> I would agree. >> Does anyone have any questions? >> Um, only that uh on you it said for the uh renewal of 2025 on here. It says the >> 226. >> 26. Okay. Just want to make sure we got the motion correct. >> That's correct. >> All right. Would someone like to make a motion then? >> I'll make a motion then that we approve the 2026 renewal of the insurance coverage with music. >> I second that motion. All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Those opposed say no. All right. It's been approved. Thank you. Does that cover getting the check? >> What's that? >> Do we need >> Does that cover getting the check paid? >> Yes. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yes, it

072does. >> All right. So, at this time, I think we'd like to take a little break before we start with the school improvement plans. So, if everyone would like to take a little break >> so we can all be fresh. >> That's right. So, Okay. All right. This evening we have our school improvement plan. So, we're going to get an update from the Raleigh Junior High >> checking. Okay. >> The Rala High School and RTI RTC. So, all right. Take it away. Okay. I had to check the mic. All right. So, yeah, we'll go ahead and uh Chelsea and I are very excited to be here tonight with you guys to present our building improvement plan. Uh we have a lot of great things that happen at Raleigh Junior High and uh you know, we

073just we dearly love that building. So, we're ready for the the first slide. Is it me? >> Oh, it's you. >> Oh, it's me. Okay. Well, I have the power. All right. >> Okay. So, as you can see, these are the same goals that we've had the last two years. Um nothing has changed there. And so we are always guided by those four things right there. Uh the first thing we're going to talk about is academic success at RA Junior High. And I want to talk about our star reading proficiency and star math. As you can see, star reading went up 4% from the fall to the spring. And that is uh an improvement over last year. I know we had talked that it went down, but this year we had seen an improvement. they

074have put a lot of work into that. Um looking at small groups uh they're utilizing building thinking classrooms and additional changes in the classroom that we're really proud about. Star math uh you can see that it also went up from fall to spring and um pretty proud of those numbers as well. I will tell you that the math uh department led the way with the with the building thinking classrooms model and um it has just flowed throughout the building. We are seeing a lot of collaboration in our building and we're loving it. When we walk in the classrooms, kids are working together. There's a lot of conversations and it's just a great thing. Next, acade academic success. Uh this is what we're doing. I'm not going to stay on this slide very long. This is

075the same thing that we've been doing the last two years that Chelsea and I have presented to you. So, you can see those and if you have any questions or comments, we can we can do that. But, um I'm just going to keep going. Uh here are our academic support tiers. This is very similar to what we implemented last year, but what is different this year is we have implemented what is called academic support, which is a study hall. That is tier three at the top. So if we see kids are really needing some help, they are funneled into an academic support um with mean coach Snicker. Um and so he really is on top of things with them and he makes sure that they get their homework turned in and and uh gets what

076they need. Um something else that we added to that tier is that we do send out we parent square which is a great tool guys. We're excited about that. It's great communication with our parents. Um, we do uh sent parent squares out twice a week, every Tuesday and Friday to our parents if students happen to have a failing grade. It keeps us uh in communication with our parents, but it also creates a partnership with them that we're very proud of as well. We'll keep going. Uh, next slide. Academic success. Again, here is more of what we do. And again, that is the same thing we've talked about the last two years. This is nothing new. So I'm not going to spend much time on this slide either, but if you have comments or questions later,

077we can do that. Okay, this is the focuses for this year for academic success. This is based upon using prior data that we've identified um and for areas of support. The very first thing that we have focused on this year is professional development for special education. Um we're using small groupoup instruction. We h had Mrs. Lawning over from Truman Elementary to show our elementary or our special education teachers in Paris how to utilize that in the classroom. We are also using class within a class which is um a certified teacher helping another certified teacher and we are also focusing on the testing environment and making sure that it is everything that it needs to be for our special education students. Il we have used a pilot for the first semester here um that differentiates the

078learning for our students uh that technology can easily do that our teachers can't right it's in the moment as they're working on a problem and it will either elevate them up or down based upon their level and then the F- list data I'm pretty proud of this last year during first quarter um the F list on average when we ran it was around 75 students this year our average uh first quarter F list was around 35 students and sometimes lower. So, we were we were very happy with that and we attribute that to the the constant communication with our parents um sending out parent squares, phone calls, the academic support, all of it. Great. And then how do we know that we succeeded? This has not changed from the last two years. Again we use

079star data pair data which used to be edge elastic um that is used by our history and science department but others can use it as well and they do so. Uh we use our map data unit assessments and benchmark assessments. All right that's it. >> Do I press this button? >> Okay. For attendance um this is our proportional attendance rate. You can see we've continued to grow. We're at 8 uh 4.7. I put in some data so you can look at that on the side about what that looks like for the 24 um 25 estimates with about 624 students. Um while we were at 84.7 that's approximately 529 students meeting it. Um but we're looking really still at about 96 who are still below and that ranges from anywhere from 89% attendance just right there

080at that cusp all the way down to 41. So we definitely wanted to continue to find ways to improve that. Um so we've changed some of these. I'm not going to go over too much of this because these are very similar to what we did last year. We just fine-tuned it. Um, we now have week we have always had weekly meetings to discuss students who might need some attendance support. Um, but now in those weekly meetings, we're really utilizing our liaison. We have about 30 students that we refer that are about on that list for that tier 2. Um, and we stay in constant communication with Ashley Gisham on what supports those students need. Um, and I also let those parents know, hey, you'll probably hear from Dr. snicker if they start to get into

081tier three and we start working on attendance plans with those uh students below 70% attendance. So um we've had a major increase. There's only about four students in that tier three. Um and those students have greatly increased their attendance. Good. Um same data points as last year. We just definitely lo focus in on those weekly data reports. And you can see our perfect attendance numbers. We're now celebrating that um monthly um with Bulldog Bucks. So those are our numbers. 234 206 and then another 200 students got 10 bulldog bucks on golden tickets um to celebrate some perfect attendance. >> Can I ask a question? Just curious. Um so is that um 234 206 to 200. Is that they've had perfect attendance since the start of the school year or is that >> only? Yep. It's

082for the month. We wanted to continue to promote that especially with all of our meetings. We've had some students who've been out for like surgeries, things like that that are out of their control. So we're doing it monthly. >> Okay. Yeah. Great. Good question. All right. Climate and culture. This is all >> perfect. >> All right. I'll take that. All right. Climate and culture is something that we're very proud of at Raleigh Junior High as well. And so if we look at the next slide or the first slide under climate and culture, you can see again that is everything that we do at Raleigh Junior High. Um again, you have seen all of that the last couple of years. We're not going to spend much time on this slide. Uh, so I'm going to keep

083going, but we have lots of fun over there with our our 12 and 13 year olds. Uh, next more that we do at Raleigh Junior High. Again, not spending much time on this slide as that is everything that we have done the last couple of years as well. And so we'll keep going. Next, these are the new initiatives that we're proud of this year that we've added in. So I'm going to talk about this for a second. We have tune-in Tuesdays for our staff and that is coming from our counseling department. Um they saw a need that they are sending out a newsletter every other week. Um Chelsea and I do talk about it Tuesday which talks about curriculum and initiatives in the classroom. The counselors are using the other two Tuesdays in the month

084to talk about wellness um and health and mental health and everything for our staff to help them um through that aspect. The next thing that we do is counselor kickbacks for kids and again that's through the counseling department. They are doing that uh every Thursday and that is for any student that thinks that they need extra help with anything they have going on in their life whether it's through trauma-informed care and other issues they may be dealing with. Um something else we're pretty proud of is teen leadership committee. We formed that last summer and that got kicked off last August before school started and that's that picture right there. Uh Mr. David Churban and Mr. Jamie Meyers along with their staff came in and uh I think Charlotte, you were a part of that as

085well, came in and worked with our students one day in August and really talked to them about the biggest issues at Raleigh Junior High that we need to work on. And our students are leading the way with that and we're very proud of it. Um that we have they've led several campaigns and we've had assemblies and we have more assemblies. There's just a lot of great conversations going on. Um the next thing is our nurse is handing out positivity grams. Um when students come in, she gets them just a little sticker on their way out and has a good little message. It's just something extra for our kids that you know, hey, go back to the classroom. You're fine. But here's a sticker. But it's uh they really do enjoy it. They Well, they do

086enjoy it. They you know they >> they love her. >> They do love her. And so it's just something extra positive to put in our building. Uh, Officer Wagnan is, uh, helping us pop into classrooms. Um, he is really enjoying that. Uh, he is picking a different classroom on every level. We consider that we have three levels, the gym level, the main level, and our top level. And so, he picks a classroom every day that he gets to pop in. And the kids are really enjoying seeing him out there, as are the teachers. So, we could consider that a pretty good thing. And then the last thing is we are now implementing uh, monthly club meetings during Blitz time. We now have 100% participation of our students involved in something. Super super proud of that.

087Every kid has to pick something, but I'm going to tell you, they're enjoying it. Uh we have so much. We have cornhole club. We have um Nerf Club. We have And the sports are meeting at this time, too. There's just so many good things and the kids are really loving it. >> What is Blitz Time? So, it used to be our pride time, but we named it Blitz Time because we read that a group of bulldogs is actually called a blitz of bulldogs. >> And it's true. And so, we really like that. >> It's true. >> I know. I did. I learned this. >> I know. Learned that. >> It's on the internet so well. It fits so well. And so, we decided to call it our blitz time. And it really makes sense also

088because blitz is a sudden, you know, sudden action by a large group of people. And so it fit with what we were doing. >> Good. >> Um, climate and culture. Again, how do we know we succeeded? We love to send out our informal surveys to staff to see if Chelsea and I need to improve on anything or if there's an action we need to take or something different that needs to be done. Our annual surveys that are sent out from central office for parents and students. Individual conversations with staff are popping into classrooms every single day and having those conversations and daily interactions with the students whether they like it or not. Okay, great. Um, I'm not going to go too much into Bulldog 180, but it does definitely tie into some of the success

089we've seen. Um, really our vision for Bulldog 180 is it offers what we need. It doesn't it's not one solid vision. It changes based off of our student population and their needs. Um, so I'm not going to go back over the focuses because those things don't change, but we do look at specific things with specific kids. So that's different every time. We did have two goals this year. Um, we definitely wanted to get guest speakers in once per quarter. So, we've been working on um getting some additional guest speakers in for those students and we've worked on service project goals as well. However, we've put that on hold a little bit because we realize our students need some more academic support more than anything else at this point. So, that's what we're doing and we're

090able to flex it that way, which has been really good. Um we're proud of this. This is our discipline numbers. Um 23 24 our discipline numbers were 165 events and 2425 we ended up with 888 and this year we're on track to match that. So, we're really proud of the improvements in our students, the help helpfulness of our staff and helping students mediate um themselves, helping reduce peer-to-peer conflict, how to have positive conversations, um how to advocate for themselves to adults in ways that they can be heard versus things that may seem disrespectful. Um so, we're really working on trying to be proactive in those and having a lot of those conversations. Those are happening in Bulldog 180. They're happening in our counselor kickbacks. They're h happening in our advisory meetings. are happening with our

091student team leadership. Um, so there's a lot of avenues that we're taking to try to do this, but we are proud of that number. >> All right, we're going to bring it home here. And so I would say overall we're just really happy with our progress over the last two and a half years that Chelsea and I have been there. We are continually looking for growth in all areas. We want to grow as people, but also administrators um, and especially academics and special education. We are proud to be a part of this building. Just want to talk about some pictures here. So, as you know, Raleigh Junior High, just like the high school, we have a lot of activities. Um, not as much as the high school, uh, but it's it's a pretty busy building.

092And, uh, so anyways, you can see a lot of things there. Our football team, um, cheerleaders, our spirit days, Officer Wagon trying to do push-ups like that. Um, and so, uh, our noble students, we're we're just very proud of everything that we have going on in the building. And then these are our academic pieces. So, as we said, we've really been pushing collaboration and really working with teachers on improving assessment um in the moment. So, those have been some major focuses and that's a district focus as well. So, that's been really cool to see the engagement of our teachers with our students um to continually know what's going on and uh they've really honed in on that. So, that's been neat. >> All right. So, at this point, do you guys have any questions or

093comments? Thank you providing for providing the link to your building school improvement plan. >> Absolutely. >> Provides more details there for for those that are interested and >> good. >> I have a question. >> Yes. >> About how we improve our growth. >> All right. So, you guys did overall did great on your uh >> map >> data. Yeah. >> Uh but the district needs to improve their growth numbers uh for us to get our scores up. So >> yeah, >> and I don't know how we measure that. It's difficult to measure. Uh I don't know if we can get chat GBT to do the analysis for us, >> but to try to get everybody to have it at least a year's worth of growth every year they're in the class. So >> yeah. Yeah.

094>> So >> and I think we're striving towards that. I I I think we're we're seeing that honestly. And so you know, I don't think it's just a Raleigh public schools thing. I think the whole country is looking at that question and uh looking for growth and so I know personally for us we're looking at other schools and just seeing how we can grow from maybe them too but we're always striving for it. Yeah. >> One thing the junior high has done specifically um as we go through the process of federal programs um and receiving those dollars they look at the status of our students and our achievement scores. And so at the junior high specifically, that was a school that was looked at and identified for lack of growth within those special populations. So

095when we receive our data, it comes back to us as all students, but then we report back to you those student subgroups. And so uh Dr. Snicker and I have looked at that specifically um thinking about those students that have IEPs and that they're not demonstrating that growth. Um and so specifically her team has looked at that data more closely and have started kind of formalizing some action steps in regards to how we can improve those scores and help those students to move forward. So that is some there is some work that you're doing there this year specifically. >> Absolutely. And that was on an earlier slide where we are our special education department really is looking at initiatives to help them improve instruction in the classroom. Like I said small groups is really where

096we are focusing this year. Like I said, we we brought Mrs. Loning over from Truman and she's pretty notorious for her small group success and what it does for her kids. And we brought her over November PD day to sit down with our sped staff and talk about what that looks like and how to utilize small groups at uh at old at an older level. And so um definitely have taken that step and our our teachers are really taking that to heart. We're seeing that in the building as we're popping in. um paras are taking kids out but we're seeing a lot of different groups in the classroom but also paras taking kids out in the hallways and working one-on-one or to another classroom. >> Yeah. But yeah, specifically although on the map report the

097uh English language arts and science for all students were those two that were lagging at the junior high for growth. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Under special education. >> Nope. >> No. special education the student group which >> I don't know what all students that encompasses >> but it was uh >> all >> it was at 75%. So >> for all the groups, all the all the student groups. >> Yeah. >> I know that we we always sit down and one of the major things that we always do in August and September is we sit down with the MAP results from the year before and um my teachers look at the lowest standards and do a remediation of standards at that point. Um we sit down with the document and we look at the

098lowest ones and what can we do to improve that from the year before and we look at all aspects of that. Was it something in the teaching? Was it that we didn't get to the standard in time because we were out for an extra week for a tornado? Right? And so we talk about all aspects of it and they they have a document that they fill out and there's a lot of conversation that happens to talk about how can we look at improving the lowest standards on the MAP test. >> That's evident in your plan. So that that's great that you do that. >> I'm glad that you saw that and and that's linked in there as well. You can see all those documents. >> No, I couldn't get to those, but >> you couldn't

099get to those. Well, I will make sure that you have them. But yeah, we we have all of those and and that is something that we're pretty serious about doing is making sure that we address the lowest standards on the MAP test. >> Yep. >> All right. Any other questions? >> Thank you very much for appreciate it. >> 1855 >> and I if I didn't help you win the prize count. >> That's right. >> Yes, it did. We're good. >> All right. Next up is Rella High School. >> I have both. I have both of them standing. >> Okay. >> We need theme music. Everybody hear theme music. >> They need their walk. >> Yeah. Right. >> Or the price is right. Come on down. >> Walk up music. >> Yeah. Your walk up song.

100That'd be good. How is that? >> You just depends on the day. >> Depends on just school song. You'll be good. >> You're not on the clock yet. >> That's right. >> Wait. >> I do. Wait till >> All right. >> Good evening. My name is Dr. Corey Ray. the proud principal RA High School. Uh first off, congratulations to the junior high for their outstanding presentation. Appreciate that. >> Um we have the distinct honor also to have uh Mr. Smith and Dr. Gisham with me tonight. Mrs. Kobe was unable to be here due to a prior obligation that she has. So we miss her, but she's here in spirit. The student performance goals that you see in for in front of you are the goals that were set forth by us um a couple years

101ago. So in the 2024 2023 2024 school year. So those remain the same and will remain the same through the 2829 school year. So, we'd like 60% of our RHS students uh to achieve at the proficient or advanced level in math, biology, and government, and 65% of our students to pro to achieve proficient and advanced on English 2 assessments by 2829. This slide shows our progression in those goals from 2023, 2024 to now. So, we've got two years worth of data underneath my leadership. So if you'll notice, three of the five areas increased in terms of the number of students uh earning the proficient or advanced uh designation from their scores. Uh we did slip a little bit in biology and we went down a little bit in algebra 2, but our biggest gains was

102in algebra 1. I think that is attributed to our work uh by Dr. Gishman, the math department to work with a supplier called EDIA. Edia is the company that we use for our math assessments. Okay, that tool allows us to track our student student performance as it relates to the standards, the Missouri learning standards. Okay, they're able to use that data from the EDS system uh to to track their students performance on those standards and then make instructional improvements as needed. So, we made a nice little 10% jump uh look for another jump this coming year. So, we're we're hopeful for that. Also, uh, in government, we had a nice little jump and, uh, we focused on professional development for the teachers that were teaching government so that they understood exactly what it was that

103was going to be on the test, the standards that were on being tested, the priority standards, which I think helped. Um, we also had the uh, the teacher reach out to a successful district down south to see what it is that they were doing in terms of performance for their students in terms of government. So there's some other things that we have in mind in terms of helping improve the government score such as not not offering government during summer school. I I think we shoot ourselves in the foot a little bit when we we allow an EOCC tested area to be done over four weeks of summer classes. So I think that's something we're looking to to change. Um also making sure those courses if we do would offer them during the summer that they're

104aligned with uh the grade levels that we require to take the government uh during the school year. So that's been lacks at times. So I think we're trying to shore that up. Okay. Also like to credit Dr. Gisham with her work. Uh she was responsible for EOCC testing last year and uh just was really looking outside the box in terms of what how we test our students. So we usually did whole group testing for our students. uh we decided last year to do classroom set classroom testing for our students to to allow them to be into an environment and with their teacher in in a comfortable setting as opposed to all in one space let's say a gym. So uh we uh provided test security during that process by adding an additional adult during those

105testing times to make sure that we were protected in that area. So if we did have increases we could say well we did it on the up and up. Uh so we'll continue to probably do those practices. Some of our teachers didn't want to do they still want to do whole group testing. Uh biology was one of them. Uh but as you see uh last year they went back a little bit. Not because they didn't test in their classrooms, but maybe they would have performed better had they been tested in their classrooms. It's hard to say. So we try not to get too uh too hyped up about results from year to year because we'd like to look at the trends, right? Uh we're certainly concerned if there's a big drop in scores, but I'd

106like to see trend data to see exactly where we're performing and what standards we're missing so we can address those standards. And that's really the approach that we're taking. Teachers are digging into it, too. We just had the biology group just meet yesterday to look at item analysis uh results from our tests um and to see how we can improve the curriculum. And what they came up with, we need to do a little bit better job of spiraling our curriculum. So the things that we touch base first quarter, we really need to touch base second quarter, third quarter before testing as opposed to just doing that kind of review at the very end. So >> is there any way you can tell your government scores, you know, the kids who have it for a full

107semester versus the ones uh your end of end of course testing for the ones that have it in the summer? I mean, is that where you >> So, our our students that tested that that were seated with us during the semester scored much better than our summer school students. >> I mean, I was guessing you got much much much better. That's >> We were looking at a 50% proficient and uh advanced rate. I think it was somewhere close to 50%. >> And then we got our summer school numbers back >> and it knocked us back to about 38. Still an improvement. Uh but that's prompting some of the decisions I'm looking leaning towards about eliminating that option for summer school. So >> okay, the next slide is new. Uh that's just a uh comparison of

108our GPA over the last couple years. Okay, if you just take a brief look at that, uh three a 40 is a is an A average, a perfect A average. A 3.0 is a B average and a 2.0 is a C average. uh over the past couple years uh la comparison from last year to this year our students are performing better not just on standardized testing but across the board um and I'd like to credit that not just because of things that happened recently aka cell phones going away u I think that's part of it and I think Dr. Gian's going to talk about that a little bit, but I also like to credit my administrative team in getting into classrooms. We have 162 evaluations at this point in in the year. We matched that.

109I mean, there's going to be well over 300 evaluations of teachers over the course of the year. Improvement in teacher performance results in improvement in student performance. And we can only do that if we're in the classroom and make that a priority. So kudos to my assistant principal for doing a great job of doing that. Okay, Mr. Smith has the next couple slides. All right, the next goal we have is that 96% of our students will graduate with their four four-year cohort. Uh we have a chart here that shows we're at 92.9 at that. We've stayed pretty steady the last few years actually compared to still above state average. Uh we not quite to 96 obviously. Uh our actual 5-year rate is 95%. So there's some kids that just aren't quite ready at the four-year

110mark, but we're hitting at 95% at the 5-year mark. So we're still tracking them down, trying to make sure that they get what they need. Some of them obviously many different reasons why you're not there. Something we're going to continue to strive for. Uh we meet weekly obviously about kids that are struggling, see if our interventions are working, see if they need placed different u just whatever each kids need. We meet with counselors, principles every week discussing any kid that's struggling. So, that's something we're always going to strive for. Um, another thing on that goal, sorry, is the uh success ready student assessments. Uh, the student success assessments is something we changed last year uh that we we used to require all our sophomores to take the ASVAB. Uh, all the juniors were offered the

111ACT. A lot of sophomores didn't like the ASVAB. We don't know they performed very well. Last year we told juniors they all had to choose between the ACT if they're college or career ready or for sorry if they were collegebound. They had to choose for the ACUPPLACER if they were trade school bound or the ASVAB if they were military bound. So we're hoping that taking a test that's relevant to them that they would perform better. Uh that will not really be reflected we don't think until next year's APR because it'll be this year's graduating seniors. Uh so we just started with last year's juniors. We're getting ready to it again this spring with this year's juniors. So, we hope that's reflected next year in those in the APR. Nope. Sorry, I need to go back.

112How do we go back? Bottom button. Okay, next goal. And I'm actually Miss Colby. She is the attendance guru and she does an awesome job for that. But as you stated earlier, she's not here tonight. So, I'm going to present for this. and that is that 90% of our students will be here 90% of the time at the end of the 28 29 school year. And we have some interesting information about this that we've just been talking about. Um we did have a nice increase in that. We're up to 81.6 compared to 80.1 the year before. Uh still well above state average there at 78.5. Obviously again a little jump there to get to the 90 that uh the state is looking for. Something that we're always it's our attendance policy that we are tracking

113this. It's our 8-day attendance policy that through our attendance appeal process is the main thing we're tracking this with. Uh some interesting numbers with that that we've looked at. Obviously, we see that um 18.4% of our students did not make that that mark and that equates to 260 students. Uh when we look at our appeal process between first and second semester last year, if you average them out, we had 249 students that were approved for that through that appeal process that had proper documentation to really get them under our 8-day policy. So our students are missing for legit reasons. They're not just missing to miss. Um and so that tells us, which that is a good thing. Um we're not just missing. Now that makes it kind of difficult to get to that 90 when

114they're all missing for mainly legit reasons. I mean, they have a little leeway within that 8 day, but mostly it's legit documented doctor's excuses and things like that. So, something we're going to continue to track. We're always looking to figure out different ways to incentivize attendance at the high school. Um, some things that work at lower levels aren't quite relevant to high schoolers. Um, we're talking to other schools trying to figure out what works for them, see if we can get ideas. Um, we know that the number one reasons kids come to schools because they're involved in things. Um, relationships, getting involved in things. Dr. Dr. is going to talk a little more about that. So, >> good evening everybody. >> We will move to our slide of our beautiful performing arts center. And so,

115last year at this time, we were trying to kind of get in there and such. And so, we're proud to say that we are utilizing this space uh every time that we can. And so, it's hard to believe that that was a basketball court uh you know, a couple years ago. So, uh, we are blessed, uh, with a community that supports us to be able to have this renovation, uh, become a reality. And so, uh, the top lefthand corner was our most recent production of the Wizard of Oz. So, we not only do that for theatrical, but we've had just Monday was our band concert for this semester, uh, choir concerts coming up next week. I know we've had grade level meetings for our counselors and students in in that space. We've had district staff

116meetings. We've had uh ceremonies. So, lots of things that are happening in that beautiful space that we have. So, thank you again for that. Climate and culture is always a a a an awesome thing to have uh within your building. Important and and a success of a building as well. So, we wanted to kind of bring forth some of those climate and culture pieces that we get uh not only reflections and feedback from our surveys, but also ideas that we can implement through surveys. Also, uh Dr. Ray meets with some of our students. He actually had the meeting today for his principal's advisory committee. So, we get feedback from students uh feedback from our staff u throughout the year as well. So, as he was talking about uh the cell phone um our our GPA

117and such uh were going up uh that I do the pride shuffle that we do every 3 weeks. And so we were seeing record numbers from comparison from last year of the four pride shuffles that we've had so far of 31% less FS, 23% less FS, 25 and 29%. So it's not just a 7% or a 3% decrease. We've seen huge decreases in our FS. Um we want to say yes, it's, you know, all those kids getting engaged and stuff, but I I do have to say there's probably a correlation from those cell phones going away. uh talking to students at a softball game one day when kids said, "Well, I don't even really care about my cell phone anymore. I'm getting my work done and and my grades are better and stuff like that."

118So, you know, the kids at this point, it's, you know, gone by the wayside. It's a new newness for them that they've just acclimated to like they do pretty much a lot of things. So, um lunch, if you came Well, Dr. Fton was at our in our cafeteria today. Lunch is loud. It reminds me of the middle school cafeteria when I was at the middle school and we have Uno games going on. We have kids talking to each other, smiling, you know, reading, you know, the kids that don't they just want to read a book. That's fine, too. But that our hallways look a little bit different. Collaboration within the classroom looks a little bit different. So, kind of our second picture there in the top uh that was some kids working at the board

119actually at RTC. Uh but you will see that quite often not only in our math classes, but in other classes at the high school as well. Last year uh you approved a fifth counselor for our building and we want to say thank you for that because there are lots of things that have come back to the high school. Uh because of that additional counselor, a lot of new things as well. Uh we have uh revamped the the counseling groups to include anxiety study skills, grief, new students to the high school, but also a first generation college student group is coming up in the springtime with Dr. Kalin. all the counselors have stepped in to run one of those groups. Um and then we've also have I mentioned the regular grade level meetings with our counselors

120and our PAC. So Mr. uh Rogers and Mrs. Hendrickx have taken the lead on those um in which communication is being given to students directly from them. Also things being pushed out through a grade level Google classroom so that students have that tangible piece if they need to to uh go back and look at different items that they may be asking them to do. Dr. Dr. Kalin has moved into a new role u since we added the fifth counselor. So we kind of still have our four um break up alphabetical with our other four counselors, but Dr. Kalin is now our senior counselor or our college and career ready counselor. And so she has been able to meet with all seniors and their parents if their parents were available this year. And she plans to

121do that also in the spring semester. She's also bringing back something we called opening doors. She told me that she has secured one of those um field trips to come in the spring where we offer those students that may never get to go visit a college campus and uh she's going to take a group of those students to be able to visit not only a four-year university but also a technical school usually is what happens on that. So she's excited to have that come back. So a lot of things happening new for our seniors and in her regards. Mr. Bridgeman, the top right photo is our college fair this year. We is the biggest one we've had so far. So he does a great job of bringing those in um to not only for our

122students but those in the area schools come and visit during that time. And personally I will say Mrs. Steelman has been such a blessing to me in the sense of EOCC testing. She is uh come on kind of with me and we are together doing EOC testing. So we just finished up um actually today we have three remaining but we tested about 150 175 students for the fall session. So um she has been a great addition and that helps. So we're also not only for EOC but also ACT and AP and other testing the ACUPPLACER and such. We as administrators and the counselors are kind of sharing some of those duties when it's been somewhat been on us. So it's kind of going into a collaboration with them. Student recognitions. Mrs. Kobe's in charge of

123our uh superstar bulldog which uh we are kind of revamping a little bit this year. Merging a couple of our student recognitions with that. We have 13 local businesses that are supporting that pro program. Three students from each grade level are recognized quarterly. Uh and they will get a gift card or a swag from those local businesses. And to this date, 440 nominations have been put in by our teachers. Um every student gets an email notification that a teacher has recognized them. Um but there are 12 of those quarterly that will get recognized by the businesses. Another plug for CORE. Thank you to core also for continuing with our students with pride lunchon that we do every quarter. About 70 students get recognized with that. Also a little gift card gets given to recognize those

124kiddos. Uh last month we had some school visits uh for ourselves going to a different school. So Dr. Ray, myself, Dr. Kayn, Mrs. Kobe, and Mrs. Hendris. Uh we went to Lindberg High School to invest in investigate their power lunch. Power lunch is a it's an hourong through the middle of the day uh where students have the ability to um sit with their friends, eat lunch, go collaborate with a teacher, collaborate with students. There's all kinds of things going on. Um I looked at it as like control chaos somewhat because I just needed to go see it a little bit. Uh there are certain areas that the students can be in. uh restricted in the building. Uh but there are also um ability to meet clubs. Um I know Dr. Sner talked about clubs going

125into their blitz time. So one of the things that we have been seeing is that we again want to get more kids plugged into uh activities and such at this at the high school level as well. And so we wanted to see that piece because currently during our pride time intervention, we do not do club meetings during that time. We reserve that for academics and such. And then we have our advisories on Friday. So, we're just investigating and seeing what that looks like in our high school, being able to kind of mold it to what we need. Uh, and so we want to still keep that academic accountability piece within that, but also maybe give kids freedom a little bit more than what we do with our reward situation. So, we did go see Lindberg

126High School. During that day, Mrs. Hendricks and Dr. Kaylin did go look at a couple career college and career ready counselors and uh programs at not only uh Lindberg but they went to Lafayette High School and Holt High School. So we're kind of branching out looking at some of those different things that other schools are doing. And we actually got to host a leadership team from St. Genevie High School. Dr. John Boyd is the principal there. I um am on the state uh principles association board with him and he asked to come to our school just to see what it is to look like a day in the life of a bulldog is during the day and so I gathered some of our leadership students and we had their leadership students and we had just

127a great morning um just talking about different programs that we have. Hence we're going to have flapjacks for finals next Wednesday. That was an idea that came out that our kids really like. So leadership has taken on that idea and we're going to we're going to feed pancakes to the students on day one of finals. So so lots of things that are happening not only students but also with staff as well. The man in the corner I want to give him a shout out. Um you see his picture up there and uh Zach Dris Driscoll is our SRO and he has just taken ownership within our building and we so appreciate all that he does in building relationships but also this is my building. uh he says that very often and so having the security

128of someone there um that is our cheerleader behind the scenes but also making us safe keeping us safe um I do want to give him a shout out you'll see that picture he's in Mrs. Engle's class they were doing um just a psychology experiment that he's so gracious to just say yeah I'll come in and do that so um so we thank him very much and then finally our last picture there on the bottom lefthand corner um Mr. Dr. Smith was uh instrumental in getting our summer athletic training program happening. And so what that was basically is a collaboration of our teams. Uh the coaches picked some leaders within their teams to be leaders of the summer training program. And they had different challenges throughout the day. Um in which the idea was that we

129wanted to kind of get some of those groups together and build a relationship with those students not only on your team but within you know other teams within the school. and just have a little bit of fun with them and some conditioning and such. And so, um, it lasted for four weeks. There were daily challenges and, um, the the winning team is there on the on the slide, but, uh, we look to see that happening again to build some of that culture and and relationships within our students. So, I'm going to hand it now back over to Dr. Ray to finish up. Thank you. >> All right. Um, we really could just go on and on. Uh, we'd be here a long, long time. uh to discuss which would be great for Dr. Snicker and

130Dr. Chapman. Um but um there's so many things that go on at RA High School on a hourly, daily, weekly, monthly basis um for just trying to do what's best for kids working with kids. Uh Mr. Smith does a great job of in our cabinet meetings of of helping lead the charge of working with our atrisisk kids and discussing them and what that looks like and their next steps. What are they struggling with? What's their home life like? What's going on in their world? You know, um how do we help them? And I already tooted the horn of Dr. Gish with her work in in the building as well. And Mrs. Kobe's the same. So, we have an awesome team. We have an awesome faculty. We have great kids. Uh, Corporal Driscoll has been amazing

131to be in the building. Um, like Dr. Gisham said, he is he's taken ownership of it. It's it's his his building, his kids. He does security checks, not just once, but more than once usually. So, just to make sure all the doors are locked, everything's safe and checking on kids, coming back in school as he's going home because there was a report of, you know, some current concerns with a child. He came back in to check on that child, make sure things are okay. So, we do everything we can to to help kids. Um, proud of the building. Um, and what I'm most proud of is we're getting better. Things are improving. So, questions. I'll make a comment about this year's attendance. Looks like it's improved one to one and a half% so far. I

132know that's an average attendance and not the proportional attendance, but that's good. >> It is. I think our work with the attendance committee uh just across the board just trying to hold kids accountable. Uh when they exceed the the appeals process, my assistant principles meet with essentially every one of those kids that haven't turned in an appeal. Make sure they turn an appeal to try to get the credits reinstated. If the committee, the attendance committee denies that appeal, then they have to come see me. and they have to come see me with their parent because I need the parent on board with what it is we're doing to make sure our kids are getting to school so we can educate them. So, um, and we implemented that from, you know, two years ago when I

133first started. So, um, I think the consistency of things like that over time, um, and holding kids accountable helps with that, you know, so things will get better. So, like I said, things are things are improving. >> Wonderful. >> Any other questions? Just a comment. Um, you know, I came to the Veterans Day program and they had the lunch ahead and I was so impressed with the leadership kids, leadership team and Janice Webb and what she's done with them and >> yeah, >> I was just, you know, I thought they were awesome and I really enjoyed the program. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> And the band concert I went to, that was good, too. >> Yeah. Great kids, great teachers. I mean, really, >> you guys are doing good stuff. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate

134it. >> Definitely. >> All right. Well, thank you so much. >> Thank you. And >> so far, you're in the running for buying lunch. >> See all of you? >> I think they said >> here comes Lucas. >> All right, >> come on. >> 24 minutes or less. We'll see what he can do. >> He's going to do 24 minutes and a half. >> 24 minutes and a half. >> 248, but 2308 without question. >> Okay, >> Dr. Chapman, we don't have all night. >> No, we do. >> I'm just going to tell you the answer is no. to us. >> Thanks, sir. >> I will be impressed by the shiny things. >> That's right. >> Absolutely. >> Shiny. >> Wow. >> We always look forward to hearing from >> Oh, yeah. I know. We

135do. >> That's that's one thing. Before we get started, the time starts late. Um, >> no, as we go through those pins, it's really cool. We'll talk about it a little bit in our in our presentation. It's always a wonderful time. You know, some people probably uh get nervous about this. I don't. We usually go last. We usually a little longer, but we do work. >> No, I don't. I'm good. >> We do work with wonderful, wonderful administrators. Sometimes I wish I'd come the month before to watch our elementary staff and stuff do that. But uh myself and Mr. Chance, we would say with all the folks here, we have a great working relationship. We share students. If you don't know, we've got students from 8th to 12th grade in our building at most all

136times. And so we really have a great partnership uh and a little banter back and forth never hurts. Anyways, um what I did pass out to you guys a couple things. Instead of talking about a lot of things and totally in depth, uh I took a play out of what Mr. Snicker did and said we'll go past that real quick. But I did put some stuff in your hands. So if you have some question just some things we have and that front page a lot of people ask us and and we try to remind you today of the programs we do have. So uh for some if you want that review but uh we're excited to be here tonight. Three goals we have for you that we'll talk about at RTIC and uh me and

137Mr. Chance. Uh those are academic achievement like most people have talked about success ready students which which we really think that we that's our shining point there and then climate and culture I think we do a great job there too not only here but all throughout the district and and we'll share those with you today as you can see uh our academic achievement one of those things in not talking about our students but I'd like to say in uh I believe Dr. Ray said it uh and and very good. Uh our success from our students really comes from high high quality teachers and and one of the things that this district's allowed us to do is to professionally develop our teachers. We had a great professional development opportunity earlier this year with the junior high

138we shared with where our teachers got together and and showed each other what they do and uh that was a really really good opportunity. I'm looking forward to that in the future. So the tech center's work grant is just one of those little things we've done and and it's made our ability for our to give more professional development than normal to our instructors. We're in our fourth year of that and that's allowed us this week we had three teachers in Nashville, Tennessee looking at some opportunities to improve our programs as a whole, not just theirs. Within that, we're really looking at our alignment of our curriculum and written curriculum is a is a big big thing. But getting our written curriculum and career and technical education uh together has been a challenge and we looked

139at that as a five-year process. Our goal is to get this aligned in the future with uh Embark, which is what the rest of the district has their curriculum aligned on. So, so that's our goal. We're in year four. It's a timely process. Uh and time is a limited resource of course. So, we're continuing to work on that. Our instructors are doing a great job. We just want to push that out there. That's where our academic achievement really is coming from. great work that our teachers are doing. And that's one thing. Big numbers. A lot of people like to talk about numbers. We've seen them all night, but I'll show you here. Really, what I'm important about is total credits. So, we really looked at a way of trying to put apples to apples with

140our stuff. We've got three-hour programs. We got two-hour programs. We got one-hour programs. What it really comes down to is credits attempted, right? And so, last year, we had 282 attempted credits. We we earned or students earned 25 94 of those. 93% attainment rate. To me, that's exciting. And when we looked at that, what does that look like on the secondary level? Traditionally in RAW, we have about 83% of attempted credits earned. So, in our buildings, RAW Technical Student Center, 93% attainment rate. We're really proud of that. You know, I think it has to do with the way our teachers build relationships with students and we hold them accountable. It also has to do with some of the things that we showed you earlier about what our teachers are learning through that tech cent's work

141grant. We're utilizing some different things to make sure students have more information on why they're getting the grades they're getting uh through our formative assessment tools, clock them in, and stuff I've talked about before. Embedded credits. Uh that's something we've talked about before, but I want to throw those numbers up there. There's 702 of those available last year. We reached 650 of those at that same 93 uh% attainment rate. Uh we're excited about that. Our students are able to come to us and u especially from our city schools and that really helps. uh one of the pictures that the high school put up if you didn't know that's somebody related to Mr. Chance was up there. Anyways, they're working on math in our program of uh health science too and uh we do those things

142and collaborate with the high school well on those uh goal number two uh talking about um the success ready students that we got. Mr. Chance still >> Oh, I'm up still. Well, good. Sorry. I >> No, I'm good. I'd love to keep going. I try to tell Mr. Chance. I'll let him talk some of the times. Anyways, success ready students. Success ready students is what we're about. We're trying to get student success. I joked last year, was it last year? I joked in an admin meeting that I don't really care about graduation rates. That's not true. >> I didn't laugh. >> I do. But I do. And graduation rates are important. But what we look like in our grade card in our building is not just the graduation rate. It's not just the attendance rate.

143It's what students are doing 180 days after they graduate. How success are they? And so those are some extremely important things to talk about. So I think for our building uh those are great numbers we get to look at. Last year our total graduates graduates that that were completers for us were 350 198 Rala 150 uh two city schools with a 93% placement rate. We think that's huge, right? We look about what the graduation rate is and compared to what our students that graduate uh their placement rate is. And there it is. 45% of our students, we just got these numbers in the last three weeks. 45% of our students that graduated our program last year are employed. And most of those are employed with the thing that we taught them to do. 44% of

144them are continuing education. We have a lot of students that continue their education in whatever field it is. And we and we see that. And then militaries we put out there. I kind of see that as employed and continuing their education, of course. And so those together 93% of our students that were in our programs last year and completed uh we've got them at a positive placement rate and we send all that through our uh national numbers through our perkage data of course uh success ready students here if you look at that uh uh completers we had 249 that means they took three hours or more in a in a sequence for us and uh that that was good. could have those 350 that we saw graduated from us. 249 of those were completers that

145went through the whole process with us. Uh with that we have IRC's and in your package you would see an IRC list if you want to look at it later. The industry recognized credentials that we give our students or have availability for our students. All of them have them available. We tested 227 in a certain way. The tests are different of course. Uh and 204 of those students pass with that that type of IRC. Uh, one of those being um where Mr. Chance's daughter is right now. We're excited that she'll be able to get that CCMA this year and uh we have a great pass rate, but that's a national certification. That's just one one of our IRC's we have available. The state would like to make sure that we pass 22 and a half%

146of our students through get an IRC and we're at 90%. So, we're feel like we're pretty good for a while. Yeah, it's a I don't know why the state's so low to be honest, but but I but but it's been that way since co and so we're excited. So, uh Mr. Chansy is going to talk about our growth. >> Um so, we're going to get some program updates, but a lot of that that data that we uh that Dr. Chapman had just talked about really comes from some of the work that we're doing behind the scenes as far as you know, a motto that he's brought since since we started, and that's the right kid in the right seat. really when we get the right student that wants to be in that program, we're seeing

147those those success rates and those placement rates and I think that's a huge factor of that. So some of what we're doing some program updates you know obviously the first one the technical career shop is a new program started this year and that targets exactly that it's trying to focus on those eth 9th and tth grade students and get them over in our building give them some experiences um before they have to commit to a program. It's a it's a it's a program that gives them a class where they can they can dabble with a little bit of each one. See see what kind of things they're interested in and we can try start to target some of those students for the right kid in the right seat some of our programs. So um as

148you see those um uh those gifts that were given out those were uh those were pins that were made in our adaptive class our adaptive technical career shop class which is another really cool opportunity that we've been able to provide for our high school uh special needs students. they could come over and get a shop experience, something outside their classroom, a shop type experience, and those were all turned by that class on mini lathe in that uh in adaptive career shop. So, we're super proud of that. It's really neat and it's a really cool program. If you ever got a want a chance to see something really really cool and put a smile on your face, come watch Mr. Rogers uh in that fifth hour in that fifth hour class. It's pretty impressive. Um but

149that exploratory uh program that we started this year has been pretty successful. We look at that to grow and uh that's been a a good deal for us. Um, some other updates. Our project lead the way, uh, we had a focus on that a couple years ago as as a target area is is kind of at a crossroads and and we decided to to put the heat on that, put the pressure on that one to grow and expand and and we're seeing that, uh, growing and expanding, doing quite well. Uh, Christina King has has been excellent for us. She's the she's the instructor in there. And one of our previous challenges was that it was not previously recognized as career tech program, which now we're learning it is. It's going to be recognized. So, that

150does a few things for us. Um, you know, that allows us to uh to to use those numbers in our reporting data. Um, also the basic performance funding, okay, we can get out of that which we previously weren't able to. Uh, it also allows us to utilize CTE funds uh for that program. Um, which is great for that. You know, that's got a challenge as well because that pot doesn't get bigger. It's just more hands in the cookie jar kind of thing. So, we'll have to work through that. Um, Mrs. King has done a great job partnering with S&T and we feel like with Project Lead the Way, when you have uh one of the best engineering schools in your backyard, you better be doing something, you know, to to help with that, you know,

151streamline that process. So, um we have a good partnership with them. They they've uh got a good connection there. Another picture there you'll see is a brand new collision uh repair paint booth that was completed this year. Um was a pretty big undertaking. It's a pretty neat deal to have there. Uh, and that's exciting exciting for us in that program as well. >> I'd throw it out real quick if you didn't see that's a Mustang GT 350. Not everybody probably has high school students working on a Mustang GT 350. That's right. It turned out wonder they picked it up today. Uh, >> leave it to Mr. Clayton to do that. >> Yeah. Yes. Our uh trades house is nearing completion. Um, I know we've invited you out there several times. Come see the progress there.

152Um we're really uh excited about it and happy with how that's been going. Um the countertops are actually planned to be installed tomorrow, I believe, and the appraisal soon after. Um so that's going to be looking to be, you know, on your on your agenda here in some short time about about getting that up for sale. So that'd be good. We're excited about it. And then we'll uh turn around and go across the street and start the next one. Um but that's that's I I always call that's the best classroom in education right there. I was one thing moving to this to current tech. It doesn't get any better than that. teaching kids. I mean that that is we we really appreciate the opportunity from you guys to allow us to do that for sure.

153Um the highway patrol Missouri State Highway Patrol has partnered with our criminal justice program and Major Bailey. He's brought them in and um that's a really neat deal that they have going on here too where they have an 18we 18week curriculum where they're coming weekly. You probably seen some of those uh uh vehicles in the parking lot uh throughout the semester. But he's partnered with them and come in and it's a pretty targeted program where they're able to to use it for recruiting for them. But uh also it's a it's a great uh content for our students and gives them a really serious leg up into into that field for sure. Um this year this is kind of exciting for us and I don't know how much of this is known but this year we've

154uh added Sullivan School District as a sending school. Uh they uh would have been what Dr. Chen about a dozen years ago they used to come to to RTI and then they left to go to Four Rivers. they they attended Four Rivers in Washington and uh contacted us about coming back for a visit and wanting to want to maybe transfer back. So, we're happy to have that. But, uh what really what is that's great, but what does it mean for us? You know, uh it's growth opportunities when we can add 45 new students that are paying tuition. Um their schools paying tuition, we can get those Perkins allocations and based performance funding from them. Uh that that's new revenue sources that can definitely help us out. Um so, we're excited for that opportunity and and

155really what it what all that does is is gives us that opportunity for growth. That's awesome. >> Um, you know, some other future opportunities that we're looking at and this is all, you know, comes to our our help helping our buildings be uh give our students the opportunity to be su uh success ready. Um, some anticipated changes. You know, we have an old facility, so we're looking at the the most efficient use of space. Um, one of those is is is shop space is is kind of a limited resource. So trying to be creative with what we're doing in our in our current situation to make sure we have those opportunities available with shop space. So we're going to be looking at this year it's actually kind of kind of begun where we're looking at

156a wood manufacturing shop. It's kind of chopped up and it's not really the best efficient use of space. So we're looking at some uh some some changes there. Um some updates in that in that lab space and and adding some classroom space. Um which will also include a forklift training facility. Uh we already currently certify students in in OSHA forklift training. Um we're looking to expand that and make it just even more robust for them uh with that little forklift training facility that'll be just outside of that uh shop class on the outside there. Um, but also, you know, as we all know, uh, ECC, uh, has their own, uh, facility they'll be moving to and and gives us some really neat opportunities, uh, in the future, 26, 27, and and and so on of

157some movement of how can we, uh, you know, what kind of programming movement changes can we make that makes the best sense for everybody. So, those are some challenges we do have ahead of us and and we're excited about those. Uh, and and you know, with all that, we talk about the addition of welding. Um, you know, that's kind of been on the forefront. you'll see some other data that that's been a popular ask and and we're really pushing to try to get that rolling. So, you know, with some of the shop space and turning around and and you know, the needs there and some of the shuffling around, I think we can we can definitely get that make that happen. >> You mentioned Sullivan. Are they a four-day or are they a fiveday? >>

158They're they're a fiveday. Yeah, they're still one of our five days. Yes. Yes. So, we do see them every day. >> We see them in the afternoon. They come in the afternoon and and are here >> and that and that actually turns into our largest sending school. I mean that's a pretty big addition for us. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh moving ahead to success ready students, you know, one one of the things that uh you hear in education a lot recently is work-based learning. It's a buzzword. Um but not for us. It's not. I mean, we've been doing this for years. This is the norm for us. However, we have seen significant growth this last year in our work-based learning experiences. Um you can see there we've had seven structured job shadows, three apprenticeships, but 31

159internships and these are paid internships. We have a program there that that uh we require. It's this isn't work release. They have to have an internship in the field that they're studying. This is supplementing their education. So we want to make sure that that you know that that's exactly what it's doing. Um so what that is that's three plus hours per day, 15 hours a week that we have students that are out getting paid instead of coming to our courses. Um, you know, we we definitely screen those employers and make sure that that they're getting the the experiences they need, but that's also 8,000 hours of help to an employer. You know, you think about that. It's helping our students, but it's also helping them as well. Um, and these are local employers that we

160hope to these students are going to continue to work for. You know, it's a great experience and a great program. And that we allow our internships out for seniors on the the second half of their second semester. So, that's how they would finish up the school year. Um, but we're on track for growth uh this year in our workbased learning. So, we're excited about that. Always looking for opportunities to get students foot in the door and get to work. Um, and that includes, you know, apprenticeship opportunities even here with RA public schools that we're excited about, uh, looking into. So, um, every two years, uh, career and teched, we're we're required to do a comprehensive local needs assessment. Um, so we survey out our stakeholders which include students, parents, uh, community members, um, employers, uh,

161and everybody else under that umbrella, you know, anybody we can get it out to, uh, to get information on what they how we're performing, uh, and what our needs are, right? And, um, and though we use that, we use that survey data, uh, for for to help us drive decisions. You know, it really does. We don't just sit in a room with with leadership and say, "Hey, we need to do this." We use that data as information to help us drive what were the things we need to think we need to work on and and go with. Um we had roughly 200 surveys this year which just got completed earlier this year. And um you know from that from that um CLNA we learned that stakeholders believe that our programs are of high quality and

162our faculty are are highly qualified. And I have to agree with them. I mean we I I can tell you I I'm so so proud of our staff that it's the the finest group of folks to work with. man, they're so impressive to go in and out of those classrooms every every day. I get the luxury of doing that. They don't get the luxury of going to see each other teach as much as I get to go in there. And it's it's impressive. Uh and it's and to me as a as a as a traditional certified teacher, it's even more impressive seeing folks, many of our folks that came out of industry doing what they're doing with students. Not all of them, uh but but that that's very impressive to me. So, um the the

163CLNA has also shown us that the students are well prepared for employment and our post-secary education. We're super proud of that and we definitely want to continue with that. So, a lot of, you know, we talk about uh building school improvement plan. We feel like we're we're doing we're pretty successful and we want to continue that trend and improve where we can. Um, we need to continue to add programming to meet the needs of students in the community. Uh, and you know, some of the things that came up there were welding, heavy equipment, physical therapy. Um, I know in the past we've talked a little bit about uh cosmetology. Uh, that one is is also in there. However, we've kind of gone ahead had done some research on that. I know Dr. Chapman will will

164fill you in on that a little bit, but >> but yeah, no, cos cosmetology's one. I'm losing my hair, so don't need it no more. U no, I am losing my hair, but I don't know. We still need it in the opportunities. It's just a space and a time and and looking through that uh state board and trying to get those things done and doing doing a lot of diligence and research. We al we heard other schools here in Raleigh going to other places to see what they're doing great. We send our folks every year. We we ask every one of our instructors to find some place in an externship and find some place that's better than you or the perceived better than you and go there and see what they're doing. And uh for

165some of our instructors that's hard because they're probably the best in the state. So we've sent some out of state, we've sent some to North Carolina to find it. We do that to try to make sure that we find those things that we think their need needs are better. I did uh in your packet I gave you it, you do have some some brag sheets. Those charts that you see are brag sheets about uh about our CLA CLNA comprehensive local needs assessment. I did bring a few in case some of you wanted to look at all the material if some of you want to look at all the material about uh Oh, I'm sorry. Anyway, if some of you want to look at all the material, it's a 30 some page document prepared by our

166student service offices and uh Dr. Burl's done a good job making sure that goes together, but looking at all that survey data, bringing all that stuff together. We we uh put we give that to the state or submit it to the state in in national level to show it's a it's a Perkins accountability is what it is. So, it really goes to national level and to show us what we're doing. We have been uh one of the top CLNA producers in the state as in we're we've become a very model and as you look at that and I can share that with you in a either in a uh PDF form or give you that hard copy but we do a great job of trying to or people in our building do a great job

167of trying to find those places that we think we're doing good but also the places we need to improve and some of those growth areas from that result I get to talk about those is uh they say in that report you'll see that we need to continue and develop more of a dialogue with our post-secary education partners. Most of our programs have uh dual credit opportunities and abilities, but they'd like to see this have that with more than one facility in our programs. Uh and then some of our business and industry still say we need to we need to talk to them more to make sure our students get out. Yesterday we did one of those uh things uh since that CNLA came out. If you don't know Denny Leanchek here in Raleigh, you probably

168do, but if you don't, he's a huge supporter of us. He got Lower Auto Group out of Sullivan to come down and excited about them. They came down and spent a couple hours with Mr. Chance and I and our automotive program uh just looking how we can build that partnership too. So we're we're working on these things right now in these growth areas. RTIC it says also that we need to work with our special populations. Our special populations in Perkins are defined uh in six different categories all the way from homeless to your IEP and special needs students of course. Uh, so and non-traditional students. I would say the one we hit on the head and do the best with is non-traditional. We have some winners every year of that. But in our special populations,

169we have a special populations program, service careers. And so, uh, we're doing a a dive deep deep dive into that right now to make sure that, uh, some changes we've made over the last couple years are are fitting the needs that our students and our schools, Rala and 10 city schools are wanting. So, we're really looking at it again, too, to make sure we're on the right track with it because of the data that we're seeing here. Uh, but great program. We just we're just trying to make sure we're at the at the data and great results coming out of it. Uh, our third goal has to do with climate and culture and, uh, we love to talk about all the fun things we do together. Uh, we do things, a lot of people call

170us the Chanceman's. We do a lot of things together and, uh, and try to have fun with our instructors to build that climate and culture. We're doing a door decorating contest. And sometimes you don't think the masonry instructor is going to do that, but he turns out and does it. It's really exciting. But uh but but it is it's a good climbing culture. But I want to talk to you about on here a couple things that we don't always think about. If you come to our showcase, and which most of you do, uh which is like our open house, and see what's going on. I think you can see that vibe, that climate and culture. Our instructors and our students are proud to show off what they're doing. You know, they just are. I'm so

171proud when I get to see you guys, especially last year. I think I see almost saw almost every single one of you at Masonry Madness. Those types of things that we do and we get to show off what our students are doing and be able to produce are exciting. We love to do tours. Our advisory, we have huge advisory u fall and spring over 200 each of those nights. It's exciting. We've also asked through in some of the surveying we've done with our staff and climate culture. They've asked for some rebranding maybe. So, right now we're in the middle of a rebranding campaign to see what that is. Mrs. Edwards, our marketing instructor. It's a marketing rebranding campaign. So, we've got her on it with some students and uh they're doing a great job. So,

172we're right in the middle of that right now. Not going to change the name, but we may change on how we present that name to people in some in some printed forms. Anyways, uh we have a consortium leads meeting coming up in January to talk about new and exciting things and introduce Sullivan to the rest of our folks. We love to see our collaborations with the high school and the junior high that we've been able to do. One of those big is that exploratory classes. We've got 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th exploratory classes to see what we got going on. That's been awesome. Our application process has really proved to help make sure those right students in the right seat, and that helps our climate culture with those students positively placed in our programs.

173Our professional development, I said it before, but uh Dr. Snicker uh got a great crew and they came over. But also, we're going to Columbia Career Center, great career center in the state of Missouri. Going in February and seeing that. And then we do a bunch of in-house stuff. I call it a chance with chants. uh Mr. Chance he uses his what he taught uh in the in the regged program a lot of computer and business applications to our instructors after school we're doing some other things our teachers have took a hold of it and they're teaching some stuff too Dr. Chef Dare uh does probably one a month at least of these after after school opportunities for our teachers to come in. Not mandatory, they just are. I think it proves a great climate

174and culture of growth and getting better. As a school, we have challenges. And I'm not going to say we don't, of course. What are our challenges? We continue to grow. If you look at some charts in there, that chart that I can see you looking at right now or some of you looking at right now, it's going to show the numbers of our students continuing to grow. during that growth, we're still hitting marks of students uh getting uh IRC attainment, getting uh credits attainment. So that that continued growth, what do we look like? It's a space issue. It's an instructor issue and those things I'll come and continue to talk to you about. Uh if you don't know, I would like to have $40 million tonight. Anyways, uh not true, but a little true in

175the fact that that uh we would we would love to >> It's so true. We would love to do that and I think it's needed and wanted from our students and if but I do know that no matter what and we joke a lot I ask for a lot but you do get you guys give a lot and the opportunities for our students are great and we're still trying to become the premier career and tech head school in the state and I I believe we're we're well on our way. Some of the other things challenges we have grant timelines are always kind of kind of hard for us but uh we work through that and uh through the financial department for sure through Kinder and her folks really help us through that and and help

176us do a great job. Dr. Dr. Dar signs a lot of stuff and I just come up and say, "Hey, we need to get this. There's a chance to get this. We can save a bunch of money." He really works hard to help us get that and I appreciate that. And Desi, the only thing I'd tell you about, one of the growth areas, one of the hard thing now, if you see it in your thing, I'd call it duplication of effort right now. There are some grants out there for schools to try to start some programming like us. And those grants come out for just one year for them. And uh those are those are those are good, I understand, but they're short term. And so we need to continue to make sure that we

177give our sitting schools and our and we're all here uh the opportunity understand that we have stuff available for them and start those programs on their own are very expensive and those grants are only for a year and and I hate to see them waste that time and I hate to see a duplication of effort on Desi's part there. So uh I would tell you that open up to any questions. We appreciate you. We thank you and and to keep it a little shorter I gave you some handouts. So, uh, if anybody else would like a CLNA, >> I'll share. >> Uh, I got a question. >> Yes, sir. >> Um, the project lead the way medical, is that at the high school or is that at the >> That's at the high school. >>

178Yeah. Okay. >> The biomemed kind of content there, they do have at the high school. It is >> pre-engineering program that we have there along with the computer science was a I know is on the on the thing that we've added. That's a new course that the we've added this year and we're expanding on. um that's been pretty successful with that bi the medical portion >> project lead the way has three avenues engineering biomed and computer science so >> okay >> we just added the computer science >> and computer science you have >> yes sir >> and is that at the RTC >> it's at RTI >> RTI >> you know in the movement of the next couple years it may come to this building and I do see that expanding you know in probably

179two three years I do see that as as something expanding where we may need >> we saw something at uh Missouri School Board Association meeting where they were having students do work on the Chromebooks. >> Yeah, >> that's pretty common. >> Which was a great thing. >> We're going to we're going Tuesday to uh to Table Rock Cur Center. It's something that they also do in their IT program much like Mr. Young already has here. And uh you know, we'd be open to some of those opportunities as well as, you know, and we we've kind of uh roached that a little bit with the technology department. I think it's a really neat opportunity. It's just got to work right, you know, for both parties. >> Yeah. But I thought it was a great opportunity. Yeah,

180it is. It's a great opportunity to continue to work that and keep it in house. We're working on it with HVAC right now trying to help out with some of that, you know, and keep those things. We've always with construction trades have worked uh and we continue to do that with the school. Great opportunities. I would tell you, we didn't probably speak enough, but Dr. uh Fulton has really worked hard to get these uh apprenticeships for Raleigh public schools for our students. And our former principal, Dr. Pritchett's working with that on the state level, but Dr. F is really helping and pushing that and we've got students from our apprentichip program which is actually working as the employers for all public schools and what a great opportunity for our students and what a great opportunity

181for our school to get in good employees. >> That kind of helps us I think with the with the students that don't have the ability to to uh travel you know don't have the transportation that >> I think if we went that long we bought dinner. I think it's you guys. Yeah. Yeah. >> Oh. Oh, you bought dinner. There's no doubt. >> Time doesn't count. >> No doubt. Oh, before that you bought dinner already. You already >> does give our students that don't have that have the transportation issues an opportunity to get in uh you know get in to work with with somebody in an employment type. So, we're excited about >> Are those opportunities available and have they've been successful in their sending districts? >> Yes, especially with the internships. They have been and

182we're showing a model right now. Now I'm working with the transportation department which is on a really neat opportunity for students next year to get an internship in our transportation department. Uh we we've had great leadership with that uh and uh met met with with them about uh what that looks like to put them in there and I think it's a great and for especially for those students without uh transportation needs and then we will provide that information on how that works to our city schools. We have several schools that do that type of activity. >> Yeah. So the lower auto group was just an example of that. you know, they came I was the the service manager for all three dealerships there in Sullivan area and they're really excited and that would be for

183those students. It'd be for the Sullivan, Bourbon, you know, it' be for those those type of students and we have those programs to be able to stay home and be able to work during and supplement that that time in class. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And currently we are the employer for a lot of um early childhood apprentice programs. So some of the paras we hire actually high school seniors that have time in their schedule. We can hire them in our early childhood program. >> Yeah. Oh, nice. We're looking to expand that, but it's we're not quite there yet. >> But but it's been great and it's a lot of work on the front end, but uh like I said, Dr. Fen's really really done a lot of work there for us. >> Well, I have

184a quick follow-up question. So, you came here, I think it was last year, and told the story about a student who had a time card issue. >> Yes. >> And that you were going to figure out a way to add that >> um to your program. How how's it going? >> It's great. We use we use a system called time clock plus and uh we've been using it for about a year and a half now and uh really good funny story lure auto group yesterday that was one of the things they're very impressed with. It's those small things that we're trying to do to make sure our students are ready for the industry and and uh we looked at each other a few years ago and said who teaches them you know we had a

185student that that lost their job because of a time clock. Who teaches them to do that >> right? >> You know and so we said this is something we can do. So all of our students have a time clock. They have badges or andor number depending which class it's in. And they actually do that. To make it even go further in those clinical settings, they actually clock in at the clinic. So it's geo fenced. So they clock in at the clinic so we know they're there and accountable for that time. And so uh the students, if you take automotive one students for example, they come in, they line up in front of the clock machine, they put their card in front of it, it clocks them in, and at break time they clock out, they

186clock back in. It's those small things just like the cell phone which has been wonderful for us. It really has been for our students. Uh that clock in and out it's making them more uh you know their grades touch that. So if they miss too much time it cuts their grade down. >> Yeah. That that data is used for that formative assessment tool that Dr. Chef Der and some other staff have kind of spearheaded to help us get a get a I guess a quantitative data like a grade on some of those soft skills, you know. So it's been really it's been really successful. >> Great. And what's really neat is we found a program that didn't cost us anything to use and it gets our students uh ready for for free clocking in and

187out. >> That's great. >> Just recently I've had in two different occasions someone from the community asked me a question about RTI. >> So I'm going to ask you question. Yeah. >> The question was the same. It referenced um programming that was a few years back, probably quite a few years back. >> Okay. >> Where you had community classes. >> Yep. >> And you taught quicken and you taught hunter safety and photography and the one that was asked about today was sign language and and I I mean the question is really just where is it gone? You know, could it >> could it be there? So yes uh that is actually is called community education and we have we used to have a whole community education person that that's what they did and uh we

188still have that and the real communic community education you may or may not know about is we do about 3,000 AHA cards a year American Heart Association. Okay. >> So we are the training agency for instructors to teach CPR. So that's the largest thing that we still do in community education. We've never given it up because there's nobody in our community that wants it, >> right? >> You know, Phelps County Hospital is another AHA site, but they want to work their own. They want to do their own. They don't want to do another 3,000. And so, uh, we still keep that. So, we still have community education. Yes. Our numbers dwindled. I know I can talk to Kinder about it. They dwindled except for that program, that exact class, uh, several years ago. And it's

189gone back and forth. Yeah, there's opportunities there. We've got systems in play where we can hire an instructor for that type of programming uh to come in and utilize our facilities is what they used to do of course and do that. Photography with Bob Failen was one of the most popular. I'm sure a lot of you might know about that one. Remember that but that was that was one that stayed for probably the longest other than our CPR courses. So >> I think hunter safety used to be a big >> hunter safety used to be huge. Hunter safety has gone all online. >> Yeah, it's changed and so it's changed quite a bit. If you don't know, we still use this facility. They still do this use this facility here for their hands-on portion of

190that for students that are under 15 or under 16, excuse me, that have to have that. So, um yeah, that used to be a threeunit course and and we did that and uh we didn't char we charge $3 for it, so it was very popular, but um a lot of paperwork for $3, but >> it's a long way to 40 million. >> Yeah. Long way time. So, >> but it was a service to the community and the community education was that for the community >> but it was just random that here in the last couple of weeks two different people were like hey remember what took those >> paper many years ago I did line dancing and >> cooking classes and caramel still probably >> so did you participate or teach? >> No I didn't

191teach it. Oh, just wondering line dancing on curious. >> I was there. >> I've seen him dancing. >> I just didn't know if you were instructing. I was just checking. >> I'll move the Carlson. Anyways, >> don't know. All right. >> Any other have them come see me and talk to me. We can talk about opportunities that there might be for that. >> Thank you all. >> Thank you very appreciate you. >> Wonderful information. All right, moving on to comments. So, we have our superintendent report. Dr. Ter, >> u, >> just a couple of quick things. First and foremost, I I would like to thank all of our administrative team, including the group that was here last time. Um, we do have an exceptional group of people, and I think it's evident and you can

192tell that they do care about what they do. Uh, we have uh, every one of them can stand up here and probably talk to you for two or three more hours and still not touch the surface of all the things that are happening in our buildings. And so I appreciate all their um hard work and their uh devotion to our kids above all because um it's it's evident every day and I appreciate them greatly. >> Absolutely. >> Um we are in full swing with our calendar um process for the uh next academic year. Um a little bit later in getting that out than I had hoped, but we took a little shift. uh these next couple of years uh I think I mentioned to you before create some uh or present rather some unique challenges

193uh with our restrictions from the state as far as our start of school time, the way the holidays fall, that kind of thing. And so uh we should be able to wrap that up tomorrow and get that information out to our staff and parents uh through the committee for comment. Uh but we are actually going to uh get comments on two academic years. So, we're pushing out 2627 and 2728. Um, as we have, uh, talked with other schools and looked at other options. Uh, that's one of the things that we've heard from people, uh, it's hard to plan. Um, and people, you know, even when you're planning doctor's appointments and things, uh, you know, often that's a year out. And so, as we get um, into that, uh, we also think that would help our

194athletics and activities department as they're planning dates. And so, uh, we're going to put out two years worth and see. And then the idea would be that uh going forward then every year you would be you would be approving a one-year calendar but the second year out basically. So we'll see where that goes. Uh we'll get the feedback from that but the next two years are almost identical in makeup. So uh it seems like an okay time to do that u um to explore that at least. Uh the last thing I wanted to mention was snow days. Uh I I don't know why but weather days seem to always just really mess with people. Um, I I know we had snow days when I was a kid. So, um, we we uh do our best

195to make the decisions the night before. It's not always possible. This last one was the perfect example of that. Uh, I would tell you that I don't think any of us really expected that to be a snow day. U, but things were uh significantly um challenging in certain areas of the of the district. So, um, the rural roads absolutely do matter. Our sidewalks matter, our parking lots matter. Um, so we take into account a lot of different things. Uh, we were driving at 4:00 a.m. Uh, anybody that would like to join, I I'll come by and pick you up. >> I'll give up my spot. >> Uh, and so, uh, we do we do take that seriously, and it's not a it's not a light decision. Uh, the one thing I do want to mention,

196and we got lots of of questions on on Wednesday, then people wanted to know why we didn't communicate out that we were having school. We're not going to do that. And the reason being is a lot of people will get that phone call, they won't wake up and answer that phone call, but they'll see the number and make the assumption and go back to bed. So, we typically, unless there's some really weird situation, we're not going to communicate that we're open. Uh, you just assume that unless you're told otherwise. But, uh, and then the last thing I wanted to mention, we for many, many, many years had a phone line that people could call into, uh, that had the message about school being closed. With our upgrade to the new phone system, we no longer

197have that phone line, but I really would feel like you have to kind of hide from that information. So, for all of our parents, they get a phone call, an email, and a text message. Community members can always go to our website. It's a popup on our website. So, if you just go to roll31.org if school is closed, you're not going to be able to do anything else on the website without acknowledging that announcement. Um, and then, um, we do, uh, all the radio stations, TV stations. Uh, I really think you have to hide from that information. So, uh, it's out there. Uh, but the phone line does not work anymore. We do have a, um, a few people who like to use that. So, >> that's all I have. >> All right. >> I

198will comment that once upon a time, Dr. Zlas offered and had a student accept writing along and then he let him make the decision whether or not they were going to have school that day. So, it doesn't. >> And he made the right decision. >> He did. I don't know who it was, but we're not. All right. Does any kid up for >> Does any board members have any comments? >> Just a question. Are we going back to regular times now after this? >> Yes, we are. Yeah. >> All right. Anything with core that needs to >> I didn't make the meeting because I had to work, but Okay. Uh I think that she's revamping the breakfast. It's going to be uh at the middle school auditorium and donuts and coffee. >> Oh, okay. >>

199That's what I Hannah was telling me. So So >> instead of a you know sit down breakfast and all that. Okay, sounds good. Any other comments from anyone? If not, um just pay attention to the written reports. We have attendance, substitute teacher list, financial reports, cafeteria report, and transportation report. At this time, we're going to return to close session. So, if I can get a motion then to uh go into close session. >> I move we I move we go into close session. >> Thank you. >> I'll second the motion. >> Right. I'll Oh, how you vote? >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. Yes, Sue. >> Yes.