001[Music] We will now call tonight's meeting to order. Please stand and join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance 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. First item on the agenda is additional agenda items. Removal of items from the consent agenda. Do we have a motion? >> Madam President, >> Vice President Schwarz, >> I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Seeks. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. >> Motion carries. Our next item is the approval of tonight's agenda.
002Do we have a motion? Madam President, >> Mr. Seeks, >> I move to approve the agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Seeks. Do we have a second? >> I'll second that. >> Second by Vice President Schwarz. Any discussion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those oppos say nay. >> Motion carries. Our next item is our superintendent report. Dr. Luton, the floor is yours. >> Thank you, Madam President. Just an update on some numbers. Uh homeschool numbers are up about 47 this year compared to last year. That's at 347. uh CTE students that are non DHS is about flat. It's at 41. Our elementary is down 67 students. Our middle school is up 34 and our high school is up 42 with Southwest High School increasing by
00311 and a few more in the uh virtual world. We're up about 21 students at this time. If you remember, we had budgeted for about 50. uh last year when we were looking at uh staffing and personnel, we've since put that number 21 into our preliminary budget. So, what you saw is is looking at September enrollment numbers. Um just a a a few updates. uh high school pre principal Brandt has uh convened or looking at a a scheduling committee uh to look at the the schedule at DHS as we uh move more towards choice ready and trying to get kids choice ready whether that's through the military career or uh college and making sure that we're aligning with our partners all the great partners we have in in school. did make some changes uh to
004the elementary handbook just with morning entry and some of that supervision times that we've been working through. As you know, with all the changes um both with sentry code and some of the policies that we even look at today, we're just going to have to continue to make changes to those uh handbooks a little bit. Uh we did uh uh you know make our uh entry at our elementarymentaries uh more uniform and that seems to have uh improved traffic flow at least in the morning. Um some corrections with the DMS handbook on reflective correction time and that's about it. >> Thank you Dr. Do we have any questions? >> Okay, hearing none. We will move on to our next item which is an update on DHS rebuild. Dr. I believe that is >> Yeah. Uh
005this book card you all have a a hand out here. Um >> it's okay. I >> My apologies. I moved on board goals first. >> Okay. I'm flexing. >> I would like to hear from them. >> Okay. >> I apologize. Mr. Anderson, you are here. I skipped right over you. >> I would love to hear about our board goals. You can skip us if you want. [Music] Yeah, just some quick updates. Um the the first handout you saw, I guess board goal, um we're focused on 3.2. Uh that's the percentage of students graduating with with work-based learning experience will increase from 7% the spring of 2022 to 25% by spring of 27. Uh that first handout will show you we currently have 120 students in workbased learning. uh you see on the left all the
006great business partners we have uh in the community that are currently hosting students and then it also identifies um additional workbased learning that we simulate within the class classes itself and the counts by grade level. Uh I got to commend uh uh Mr. Kovash our workbased or community outreach coordinator workbased learning coordinator but also uh uh Mrs. Tangan uh Chef Wner uh Mrs. Leman and Miss Saddowski and their classes really help us increase our workbased learning number counts. Uh so if you go to the next handout, it kind of shows our progress. So currently we're on track uh to have um 39% of our senior class of graduating with workbased learning experience. That's just with the fall numbers. Uh that number will likely increase slightly with additionals. So we're we're approaching that 40% mark. So,
007we've kind of shattered that board goal um and hope to continue to see that grow and increase. Now, we're having conversations of what is that number that we can achieve? What is that high level of of achievement? Um so, then we can provide maybe some input to you as a board for uh maybe a board revision, a goal revision. But, uh it is something that we're still looking at trying to increase and grow. Uh and I have to commend our our staff uh both at Dickinson High as well as at Southwest CT for for giving that a priority. So uh kudos to all of them for helping us uh get to that 39%. Uh one thing I just wanted to share as well that that final slide it shows how we evaluate workbased learning. Um
008what you have here is a document. Uh they're called the career ready practices. Uh there's 12 career ready practices and with work-based learning we identify these six that we evaluate. So we ask our employers, the individuals that host our students as well as the teachers that are responsible for our students to basically evaluate um that student on these six different uh pillars. So leadership, communicator, critical thinker, collaborator, timely manager, and skilled employee. We also ask our students to self assess. And so those are conversations that Mr. Kovash can have with our students and really focus on those employability skills that will make them successful in whatever career they might choose. And so this is something that's been adopted by the state of North Dakota. These have actually been res revised this past year. And so
009now we're we're going from uh um four previous or five previously now we have six. Um that's our evaluation tool for this year. Next year the state is asking us to do all 12. Um so it is kind of a lift. I don't want to say it's a burden on on some of our employers, but it is an added lift asking our employers to fill these out for the students. But as I said, our teachers have been doing a great job helping support our employers and getting these uh uh evaluation tool filled out. Every workbased learning experience, whether you're at Baker Boy or your Dickinson public schools or wherever you might be, is very very different. And so, um, having this evaluation criteria to help move the needle, encourage our kids to grow in these
010skills is is really an important factor just to make sure all of them have have that valuable experience. >> Stand for any questions. >> Do we have any questions for Mr. Anderson? >> Mr. Anderson, just looking at that assessment thing again. So, all six of those are used regardless of what. So if they're work-based learning for the Dickinson preschool, they're still following the same criteria if they're working at Baker Boy or anywhere else. >> That's exactly right. Um >> got to be a little complicated to get into the math skills and >> it can be and and it's and it's an average. Um I think the the overall arching goal the state would like us to do to track students is actually all career and technical education classes evaluate students with these 12 career ready
011practices. That way we can see a student's growth from when they enter high school to when they graduate. And so that number hopefully increases over time um to reach that that 4.0 just like we would with uh you know our essential standards and grading that we do in in school district. >> Any other questions, Mr. Anderson? I think this is a great tool. I'm excited to see the outcomes of this. >> Thank you, Mr. Brandt. >> Yeah. So, I'm here tonight to talk about uh Choice Ready. Um Choice Ready is um accountability measure with high schools from from North Dakota. It's one of our accountability measures. Um the goal of Choice Ready is to make sure that every high school student that graduates from a North Dakota high school is post-secondary ready, workforce ready, or
012military ready. And in order to be considered choice ready, you need to be qualified in two of those three areas. Um when you look at our choice ready matrix, uh the top part, and I'll just I'll pull this up is the essential skills portion. So, if you're if North Dakota is going to consider a student choice ready, there's there's four um requirements that or five requirements that each student must meet, and that's earn a high school diploma, um complete a 9-week career education course or individual counseling, financial literacy, the North Dakota civics test, and a computer science or cyber security requirement. In addition to those five components, there's also nine other metrics that are measured and students need to complete four of those. Um those include community service, extracurricular activities, attendance, capstone projects, um career
013exploration, online classes, co-curricular activities, 21st century skills, and multicultural awareness. So any four of those nine components students need to complete. Um, and then you have your your post-secary ready, workforce ready, and military ready. Um, and those there's components in there from ACT scores to advanced placement scores to work-based learning. Um, from a military standpoint, it's quality citizenship, physical fitness, um, ASVAB test scores, things like that. Um, what we're doing at DHS, and I would have loved to present on our choice ready data tonight, but that's not ready yet. and um the state's given schools till November to complete data on on choice ready. So I'd be happy to come back in November, December and um present on our data. Um but in the meantime, one of the things that our that our high school
014is doing is we've um we've started a choice ready subcommittee of our guiding coalition and that the goal of that committee is to look at our choice ready data, seeing where we're being successful and where we're falling short, examine ways for our school to um to meet students more from a choice ready standpoint. Um Dr. Luton talked about us examining our AB schedule. Um, we've heard from our partners and Mr. Anderson, one of the one of the partners sitting next to me, um, our schedule can be challenging when it comes to, um, working with our partners, whether that's DSU or, uh, the CTE center. Obviously, DSU has a class schedule that doesn't necessarily align with the rolling AB schedule. Same thing with the CTE center. When we talk about workbased learning, um, employers obviously want
015a set schedule. Well, the AB schedule doesn't necessarily um lend itself to that to that set schedule. Um so those are things that we're examining. Um we also, you know, we have robust partnerships with DSU and and from a post-secondary standpoint. Um we're working on early entry um with our students, dual credit opportunities with our students, and then with the CTE center working on course offerings and work-based learning. um from the standpoint of how we communicate with parents, that's a bigger area that we're trying to work on and focus on this year. Um at parent teacher conferences this week, um we'll be giving three three different sessions on what choice ready means for students. Um and we want to make sure that we're communicating to parents what that means from accountability measure standpoint for our
016high school, but also what we're trying to do to help students be choice ready when they leave Dickinson High School. Um later on this fall when we have parent teacher conferences for the second time we'll partner with DSU so they can help present on early entry courses and dual credit courses. I think there's a misconception around what those things are. Maybe there's just a lack of knowledge around what those things are and we have to do a better job of communicating that to our stakeholders with our families. So those are those are some things that we're doing as a high school to try to help move our choice ready um numbers in the right direction. And it's not just about numbers. We would love to see every student that graduates from Dickinson High School choice
017ready in every area where as soon as they graduate, they're ready to go to to college, they're ready to join the workforce, or they're ready to go in the military. Um, realistically, that's probably not going to be the case. But if we can get students to start thinking in that in that way, um, we'll be better off as a school and our students will be better off when they graduate, too. Um, anything I'm missing Dr. Luke from this morning that you can think of? preliminary conversations with that military ready uh area I guess and we're kind of in the infancy stages there of of putting together some stakeholders to analyze what resources we have knowing that it's not a a finance position right now through CTE but could be in the future and adding to
018what Dr. Luden said, I think we have we're not anywhere near where we want to be when it comes to postsecary ready or workforce ready, but I think the military readiness component is an area that I don't want to say we've overlooked, but we need we need to improve in that area and figure out some ways where we can build our our military readiness with our students. And really those students who are interested in that path, we need to do a better job of of helping them with resources for that path. Any questions for Mr. Brandt? >> I think there are many factors that play into student success and I think the opportunities that we're providing through the choice ready that is helping with that success each year. I believe that's improving. So, thank you
019both for the work you put into our choice ready programming. >> Thank you. >> Now, Dr. Lumin, our update on our rebuild. Yeah, I'll make this fairly quick. I did there's a one p there's all the weekly progress and then the monthly progress on board doc. So if you want to see those you can but uh Miss Trustm threw together kind of an FAQ know that board members and staff members principles are getting questions. So just kind of I said it was going to be one page it ended up being three. So uh did our best but maybe some highlights of that. Uh on the front's just some FAQs and how much space is there going to be? Roughly 122,000 square ft of new space. Uh there's 88,000 uh stain and of that 88,000 about
02040,000 will be moderately to minimally remodeled. So going to be at that about that 210,000 square ft. If you add the 75,000 square ft at uh Southwest CTE, give or take a few, Mr. Anderson, we're probably close to, you know, that 285 or what whatnot, which is where um you know, we were originally destined when we were looking at a high school for,400 kids. How much space would you essentially need? Uh, so that that that space and I always do this number at CT Center, you know, DPS bought that complex my before my time. So, credit to the board then, uh, for 6 million and they got 75,000 square ft of remodeled CTE space, which is about $80 a square foot, which is unheard of. Not to mention a bus barn uh that we were
021able to sell an existing bus barn uh Heagenfield and then a complex to bring more uh finances in for this high school build. So the board's been very um strategic probably in how they looked at this situation of overcrowding uh outdated uh spaces at DHS. Um, another question is when those pods will be torn down, and we're looking at January 2007. Uh, the yellow building we're still working through within the budget. There's a a line item to reskin that and do a slight remodel. We know that to remodel that in a classroom is impossible, but we also know girls wrestling and after school activity is in there right now. We know that facilities maintenance, we tore down their shop, so we don't have anywhere for them. We know that our weights room is on a
022stage right now. So, we're still playing through. Is it even worth it uh with that building just when you start to look at HVAC and those types of things, but uh that's architects and engineers are smarter than on that when it comes to making those decisions. So, we'll we'll wait for their input. If you turn it to the second page, uh you're really essentially uh looking at the bottom floor. Uh so that blue area, that's the academic wing along with the old 100 pod. And you're looking at about 56 classrooms with 46 brand new classrooms. If you're in the public, you see number two, which is some work rooms and flex spaces. We know that this this high school will not be uh large enough for every teacher to have their own classroom someday possibly.
023So we know that we're going to have the need for what they term hoteling, right? are floating. And so when you begin to do that, if you know teacher doesn't have their classroom to collaborate and prep, you need to provide them with a space. And that's with those uh number two or the green items. People ask how many people will fit in a lunchroom. Uh approximately 400 students. Uh auditorium, which is number four. That red spot up there is uh set for 600. And then the number five, which is kind of the yellow in the corner in the middle, uh that's the library uh media center. If you turn the page, um, now I'm on the bottom floor. Whoops, I was on the second floor. Uh, the bottom floor. Oh, no, this is the bottom
024floor. Never mind. Uh, preschool and daycare number six. Uh, we received that RWHIP grant. Mr. Anderson helped, right? the idea that we would have a a preschool and a daycare where we'd use our existing DHS students to train them uh to become possibly new child care uh professionals and then also provide that care for our community. Band and music is the seven. You got the band room on the left and the choir room uh kind of in the middle along with six practice rooms. And then the eight uh which is the green area on the far upper left is our uh eighth grade egg or career and tech ad. People may say, "Why aren't you just sending them out to the high school?" Um the the more ninth graders we can keep on the main
025campus. Uh one, it from a a management standpoint, Mr. Brandt would probably agree with me that's easier. And then also it cuts down on transportation costs. And that's that's it. We don't have the third floor because it's just academic. That big blue area, those are areas that are are largely un or just uh minimally updated. >> Thank you. Any questions for Dr. Lou? >> One thing, uh, pre-cast was supposed to arrive today. I don't know if it made it there, but this week, I believe, uh, pre-cast on the high school build will begin over the next, uh, 20 work days, 30 calendar days. uh you're going to see multiple walls going up every day. Uh by the middle of October, you're going to it's going to be like, well, uh foundations and whatnot have been
026poured. That's a lot of work to excavate all that soil 13 ft down and pour your footings and then bring in and right, it's you got to build a good rock to put a a building that big on. So, you're going to start seeing a lot of uh uh increase in things that are occurring there. it's going to look like it. Structural steel, obviously over halfway there on that. So, >> that's exciting. Thank you. Moving on now to our action topics. Our first one is open enrollment applications. Do we have a motion? Madam Chair, Vice President Schwarz, I move to approve the open enrollment applications for a child of Ryan Finn to Dickinson Public Schools from Bellefield 13 public school district and a child of Angelique Smith to Dickinson Public Schools from Southart Public Schools
027as per the open enrollment policy. >> Thank you. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Seeks. Any discussion? >> Hear none. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All those oppos say nay. >> Motion carries. Our next item is schoolboard policy revisions first reading. Do we have a motion? >> Madam President, >> Mr. Seeks, >> I move to approve the new recommendations andor revisions to board policy. Board policy ACCB, protection for student victims of sexual offenses. Board policy FFD, possessing weapons. Board policy FFE, extracurricular participation requirements. Policy FGA, student education records and privacy. Policy GAB, human trafficking and exploitation prevention and awareness education. Policy GACB, patriotic exercises. Policy GACE, alternative methods of credit for high school graduation and curriculum requirements. And policy K A weapons prohibitation on
028school property. >> Thank you. Do we have a second? >> I'll second that. >> Second by Vice President Schwarz. Any discussion? >> Hearing none, this calls for a roll call vote. We will start with Mr. Ordowski. I >> Mr. Seks. >> Hi, >> Vice President Schwarz. >> Hi. >> And the chair votes act. Motion carries. >> Our last item is the schoolboard policy revision, second reading and final adoption. Do we have a motion? >> Madam President, >> Vice President Schwarz. >> I move to approve the revisions to board policy FF, student conduct and discipline for second reading and final adoption as presented. >> Thank you. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Seeks. Any discussion? Hearing none. This calls for a roll call vote. We will start with Mr. Siks.
029>> I, >> Vice President Schwarz. >> I, >> Mr. Rodicowski. >> I, >> and the chair votes I. Motion carries. And our last item is public participation. Quickly, do we have any requests for public participation? [Music] >> Thank you. Hearing none, meeting is adjourned.