001of the United States One Nation individuals thank you Ben would you please take the role um David Schrader here Davis here Craig Ortman here here our first order of business is what's called board reorganization that is our annual election of officers in order to do this we first need to elect a temporary chairperson I would nominate our superintendent to serve in that role okay are there any other um all right all those in favor signify today [Music] all right okay next on our agenda is election of award president at this time I'll take nominations are there any nominations of the board president I'd like to nominate Tony Arnett I nominate David Trader any other nominations anything you have a ballot in front of you please make your choice I'll collect those foreign [Music] vice president
002are there any other nominations for vice president I nominate David Smith okay um are there any other nominations of Vice President hearing none do I hear a motion to return unanimous ballot in favor of the Soul nominee second by Mike seconded by Fred all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye opposed and the motion carries our next role is for board clerk do I hear any nominations for foreign yes are there any other nominations for Ford player hearing none do I hear a motion to return any unanimous ballot in favor of the Soul nomination second and by Fred Thank You by Mike always in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion here next is the election the board treasurer I would like to nominate David Smith are there any other nominations before
003treasure hearing none do I hear a motion to return unanimous ballot and favor the soul nominee [Music] foreign [Music] next we have the appointment of Deputy Clerk and to move the appointment of Lin linskins as our Deputy Clerk is there a second to evaluation thank you all right we'll do a roll call approach on sorry I'm gonna do a voice word on that I'll do some paper signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries regarding board committee assignments and those I will send an email out to you asking for your preferences and within the week then I'll return the membership for those including the checklist we'll be ready to go for our first meeting now and then I believe our last formal appointment is a season 2 delegate anyone who would like to volunteer to
004represent the board and the district in that capacity continue my participation at sisa tubes I can't nominate myself do I hear a motion to appoint David Schrader as our representative Dave Smith all that's in favor of the motion to signify by saying aye and I post and the motion carries that ends the reorganization portion of our agenda looking at the agenda do we have any other changes that we need to make all right and then we will move to public input this is one of two times for members of the public to address the board pass it through this step up give your name and address for the record please is there anyone who'd like to be recognized at this time please do I go there yes please [Music] sir if we could make sure
005that the deputy court has a copy thank you very much foreign I did not know your opinion about the transgender issue but I approach you the people Board of Watertown schools and would like to offer you compelling information on the topic as many desire to question the transgender doctrines Doctrine and reveal their findings to the public some attempt to shut down the debate by declaring Bill who opposed the doctors I submit to you that the families of Watertown and their children deserve a needless debate all the way to its logical end due to the fact that there is much at stake for these children seen and their families according to a Reuters report diagnosis of Youth with gender dysphoria have skyrocketed in the U.S Invasion years and while there were just over 15 000 cases
006in 2017 the number has shot up to more than 42 000 in 2021. according to a few Research Center report five percent of young adults claim that their gender is different from their sex the share if you like adults who are transgenders particularly High among young adults younger than 25. in this age World 3.1 are trans men or trans woman compared to just 0.5 of those ages 25 to 29. with there being a rigorous debate regarding the transgender agenda and much being published as posted in libraries media and social media and inariably exclusively positive Life along with the counseling and medical professions that encourage transgendering as well as an alarming number of gender clinics popping up all over the country there are also other points of view that question this agenda and alerts these minors
007and their parents so that there truly is informed consent in the midst of them being read down the path to fully transgender the notion being put to the American public is that it is merciful and loving to affirm the transgender child or team but actually many do not think through all the steps that one must take in order to fully transition from the outside it's things like these Trends overview merely socially transitioned by cross-dressing and changing their pronouns but the path to the goal is far more consequential and devastating the end game of fully transgendering golden tail chemically blocking puberty around the age of 11 with puberty blockers that are also used to treat Advanced hormone sensitive Cancers and in that quite possibly rendering both male and female infertility by these puberty blockers one particular
008puberty Bob Walker called Blue Front is also used to therapy therapeutically cast great set of pedophiles then they are given on then they are being given cross-sex hormones and then on to the amputation and removal of healthy reproductive tissue which in actuality carves up the healthy young bodies of easily impressionable young people in the medical community counseling inhibiting and politics and euthanize this by calling it gender affirming care but another more accurate way of calling it is opposite sex imitation treatments these treatments for adolescents are experimental and they will never be able to physically transform into a female and a female to a male moreover there presently is not enough medical oversight for these treatments I submit to you that opposite effects imitation treatments is nothing less than predatory medical malpractice many among the transgender
009youth who have regretted doing this within five years more and fully asked why didn't anybody protect the infamous what in the world am I now for the rest of my life they have to decide just what they will be once all of their procedures have been done and if they continue to pursue being their newly chosen gender they will have to continue taking cross-sex hormones for the rest of their lives and with many disturbing side effects in short these young people will be turned into lifelong cash cows the question that I put the questions that I oppose are who is making money off of the confusion of these young people it is the pharmaceutical companies and the unscrupulous doctors who chemically block natural biological processes confuse their body through the prospect hormones and surgically removed
010healthy body parts for financial gain should not the government and public schools protect such vulnerable youngsters from predatory medical malpractice I approach you the wusd school board with this question is there either a formal or informal infrastructure set up in the schools of Watertown and in their libraries that encourage the transgender Doctrine in practice in any case I encourage you to be fully informed as board members as to just exactly what is being perpetrated young impressionable children and teenagers the end game of transgendering will inevitably lead to irreversible damage and all will work with children and teens need to be fully informed on the subject and so I present this book to you irreversible damage by Abigail fryer a Wall Street journalist who prevents Carthage of the parents and young people who are entertaining transgender
011we thank you very much for listening thank you I hope I'm having a protocols we can get more are there any other members of the audience that would like to address the board of this matter we have anyone online no all right thank you then we will move on to announcements and recognition communication and super stuff we have difficult little things hello everyone I'm Andrew shy this is here are some happenings this past past month at whs Spring sports are well into effect with the boys baseball boys and girls track and field boys golf Boys Tennis girls softball and boys lacrosse all playing the whs visual arts classic team took second place overall at the state competition this month at UW-Madison if you don't know what Visual Arts classic competitions are neither did I the
012com the competitors research artists and work on long-term art projects the Watertown team brought home 13 individual first case finishes at state level and uh trophies for third place team critical thinking and third place art history physical this month NHS hosted a drive for clothing toiletries toys and books for local children and women's shelter you may have received a flyer in your door handle this drive was a huge success overloading our cars and requiring multiple car trips and 44 students yes 44 were inducted into the National Honor Society last week in the past month many high school seniors exercised their right to vote for the first time including myself and were able to vote for the members that sit on the school board today although I wish I had more time here to spend with
013the new electives I know that everyone will make a great addition to the new board at this time I'd like to give some shout outs to faculty members that went above and beyond during this period Mrs susky is the head of the crown planning committee and she is creating what is sure to be an incredible Night to Remember and Mrs Fisher for her role as the senior local scholarship secretary ensuring that each student has a chance to receive Aid some future events are prom obviously being held on Saturday May 8th kids will enjoy Valley parking coat check and refreshments and everything I post from including a large Buffet of food casino games and a pool ping pong and bags tournament all with prize money and prose prom door prizes including a Trek bike air pods
014cash and more the Wisconsin singers are visiting Watertown next weekend the singers are a UW Madison group that has been performing since 1967 and the troop includes Watertown alums in Decker Rachel moldenhauer calebel Park and Owen Harris Watertown students are competing in the skilled USA conference this week Tuesday and Wednesday at the Alliance Energy Center in Madison and finally graduation is quickly approaching the graduation committee will be collecting baby and childhood photos used in the ending video and the student speaker will be selected thank you board members for taking the time to listen to me as a student representative I appreciate your attention and we'll see you next month thank you very much foreign member recognition let me come around Mr Williams so do you know those Doug chose to not run again getting fine
015four fine years of service for your recognition we have the clock yes so you have a nice clock in here everybody gets Beyond Time 8 37 ending nonetheless for that we need to give you the timer [Laughter] all right so before I read this I'm just going to comment that it you know I've been here over the entire generation of Doug's tenure on the board um I think it was Ken and I that tricked you into volunteering [Laughter] but it has been a pleasure you as I've told many a person um one of the hardest working board members elected officials I've ever seen and I've been doing this for 30 years folks just fall out and your command of the numbers and to build a persuasive argument has has shifted the conversation and shifted the
016directions and for that I'm personally very grateful thanks for doing your great comments means a lot so I have a resolution here whereas Doug will has served as a member of the Board of Education of the Watertown Unified School District for the past four years and whereas he has served with distinction and dedication for representing and promoting the best educational interests of the Youth of the Watertown Unified School District and whereas he has also served on a number of special committees at the Board of Education therefore be resolved that the Board of Education the Watertown Unified School District is hereby express its appreciation and gratitude to Doug will for his unselfish public service and for the significant contributions he has made to the Watertown Unified School District and public education do I hear a motion
017on that resolution second moved by Craig seconded by Fred all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries thank you very much sir thank you appreciate it I just like to say it comes it's very difficult for me to leave this work you know emotional not hit one two button um I did give it my best I gotta say that jumped in Full full force on everything and so on I know all the board that's here right now is really dedicated and the administration tool all the great administrators um and I know what the inner core beliefs and virtues that everyone here has that we can meet this district and to be the best it can be so thank you very much this brings us to our strategic discussion items first of
018which is the European trip proposal hi I'm Chris Kemp I'm a history teacher at the high school I'm also the coach of the Clinton chaplain team and recently was replaced but as the head of our student rotary's advisory advisor at high school now but I've done all those things in the past taking kids on multiple foreign trips throughout the years we left over went to the UK and Paris summer of 2024 or June 11th through June 22nd oh by the way you have access to this do you have to do okay okay um so um we're going to go to Barcelona Spain and then to Southern France including um Nims and the Riviera and then we're going to go on to Rome and then to Southern Italy um down on the Amalfi Coast the city
019called Sorrento and I'll go through the agenda with you a little more specifically we currently have 32 kids enlisted to go with this so it's a it's a very popular trip we fly in day one to Barcelona where we see um the Family Church uh the the um Gotti's sagana Familia it's an incredible uh cathedral in Barcelona Spain um we spent two days seeing this like in Barcelona and then we travel to prevents France um where we see the Padre guard between the old Roman aqueducts that probably seen pictures of and films and other things like that we see the amphitheater at Nims which is um much like the Roman Coliseum and then we go from Provence to the blue coast and this is where we get a tour of Lisa Ukraine so now you're
020down on the southern on the coast of France um it's not technically the Riviera but later you're right there we go on the boardwalk of the English where the kids will have a uh half a day at the beach um there um and then from the blue Coast we travel to Florence Italy I'm sorry I forgot we're going to go to Florence first we'll spend a couple days there going to the Infiniti Gallery going to the dormal seeing Michelangelo's David um some of the greatest artwork and architecture in the world um the Basilica Center is the largest dome in the world um it's square feet it's bigger than even Saint Peter's Basilica um and uh Music Gallery is full of some of the most incredible artwork in Western history um from Florence we traveled to
021Rome where we did the major sites in Rome Coliseum service Maximus The Forum the Vatican Museum's teen Chapel in Saint Petersburg silicon most of these kids have studied the Renaissance period with me so they'll be going into places that they have studied pretty deeply and they're they're excited about it and so am I after Rome we go down to Sorrento Italy which is on the Bay of Naples it's the Italian lemon growing region it's a beautiful city on the Bay of Naples and from there we'll also go to the Iowa Capri which is a is where rich people live um and then to the ruins of Pompeii uh we'll spend an entire day at the rules of Pompeii all of these by the way will have a professionally guided tours um everywhere we stop um
022we will have a full-time tour guide with us from start to finish into our hotels we will make sure our ticketing is all done we're going to make sure all that happens um all of the financials run through explorica which is our travel company that I've used for 20 years now um so the district doesn't have to deal with any of the the money at all this is zero costs on the district is a great company to work for they're unemployment with us during our trip making sure things are taken care of the reason we use explorerica it's a little bit more money than some of the other companies that we could use but we use explorers because Safety First is a model um they're they're dedicated to students so if they have a choice
023between Hotel a and hotel B they're going to spend a little more money to put us into the nicer hotel and which is where we stay anyway we don't stay in hospitals I'm 58 years old I'm not sleeping in the hospital um so we stay in nice hotels and kids will have your own bath bathrooms it's three to four occupancy in her room um most of our travel on this trip is going to be by train crossing our fingers that they don't go on strike like they did on us last summer in the UK um but um straightforward just to put everybody's you know for total transparency my number one priority on anything like this is students so at any moment I spent a day back with a kid who didn't feel well last summer
024and so you guys go and see what you're going to do today she's not feeling well so I'm going to stay here at the hotel and nobody will ever be left alone ever so um so far knock on wood we've had nothing but success on the strips so and I'd like to leave a little time for questions the kitty stayed back with last summer with my daughter uh and uh we had a coping scare yeah when she's in Scotland yeah and you know your parent you're going okay wait a minute you're gonna be stuck there for two weeks how was this he stayed back with her made sure she was okay and everything and and made sure she didn't feel left out or you know separate from the trip so he does a great job
025of this so is Miss Thor that was a victim of my um misapplication of a home cooking test so I gave bathroom test and we're like because she didn't feel good right she didn't feel good she's had one or something so one of the other people on on the trip um was the wife of Mr Thorpe who was a registered nurse by the way well I'm a registered nurse office on the church as well um and she's like okay well it's why don't you love me so any questions any other questions to board members I don't want to take a couple more time than I need to thank you for giving these kids the opportunity you're welcome this is a great opportunity for these kids can I come so there'll be resolution that will take
026action on later in the evening to approve the critical okay but I'm not hearing any concerns from the board so yeah I'm not trying to run away I'll take those questions I do want to go watch the fight though thank you all very much thank you I moved on a little bit too quickly to the announcements in recognition Communications we do have a few donations that we want to recognize this evening first is from Dana company contractors to benefit skills USA the next is from KS kns manufacturing to go toward the purchase of a metal fiber laser at the high school and lastly from Lori Global Solutions again we're doing it or skills you to say I'll pass these around so you can look at this good all right back into strategic discussion our next
027item is the advanced learner audit Dirk who is so we we have uh five presenters each doing one slide tonight so with that I believe I miss Winton is going to spend I think it starts up today all right so thanks for having us here this evening I'm gonna start our presentation by giving you just a brief overview of the process our Advanced learner team took this past school year to get where we're at right now in December a team consisting of that number Dr Vitale Dr or excuse me Mr Whitaker Mr Kerr Diana Johnson myself met with consultant Jackie drummer and we discussed our current Advanced learner programming where we were at our goals for the audit and a plan for the audience implementation in January our Focus was on surveys so the team
028determined survey respondents and stakeholders we created surveys we administered the surveys and allowed Jackie time to compile results the team also on that can analyze those survey results together in February the advanced learner team determined the focus group respondents and created focus group questions Jackie met with various focus groups and piled your thoughts and met with the team to analyze those results in March we actually crafted reports using data from her findings in the surveys and in the focus groups would bring them down to April where we're at where our team along with Jackie reporting out our findings of the audit our recommendations and next steps to you this evening all right I assigned to um so their worst rates will be audit like it's I mean we're really happy to see like a positive
029kind of affirmation of some of the work that had been done over the last few years programming around the needs of advanced Learners this is coming from Jackie drummer's report out to us the content of the advanced learner handbook there was a deliberate revision of the advanced learner handbook which is still somewhat ongoing as I'm looking at Diana and Tina right now uh but like what what is being talked about in the handbook is really comprehensive it's the ability for us to follow through on all of the stuff that we know is best practice um it was the word of work is going to be but it was a really broad um involved and one strength and academic and extracurricular offerings at both middle school and the high school so there's a lot of variety
030and real opportunity for us to grow and how we're supporting the variety of needs of advanced learners but what Jackie had found is that at the middle school and at the high school especially in the areas of extracurricular like the ground was fertile for us to be able to support our Advanced Learners in their like areas of Interest willingness to engage in the audit process um so that was on all levels so as Kayla talked about staff students parents EST very involved throughout this whole audit so there was a there was a willingness to be transparent and open about where we were at and where we wanted to go as part of the brand ownership program the students that were surveyed were students that were either currently getting Advanced learner services or support or had
031been um and maybe had stepped away from that and a vast majority of the students that were surveyed said that they believed that their teachers were providing challenging learning opportunities even at this point and finally that there's dedicated staff or resources in the elementary buildings to provide both pull out services and tuition support so that was these are identified as assets of our current program [Music] good evening so in terms of the recommendations from which um Jackie shared and I believe all of you have a copy of of the formal report um the recommendations are listed in details starting on page 61 of that report um probably the the first and most comprehensive recommendation would be the hiring of an advanced learner coordinator who would subsequently be able to further Implement and hold the Fidelity
032the remaining recommendations so that was absolutely one of the strongest recommendations coming from from that audit report and those include a number of specific duties as outlined in uh in the report secondly recommendation number two discusses equity and currently in the advanced summer opportunities that exist in the district um based on the data that was collected um the um the demographics of students engaged in the advanced learner programming don't match the demographics of our district hence um there's questions about Equity um and so that was one of the focuses and from the recommendation is how do we how do we match the proportion of our demographics to that of the advanced learner proportions within the programs to match those opportunities recommendation number three talks about compliance with state law and it's listed more specifically in
033the report but especially when it comes to expanding K2 programming and it talks about analytics screeners um and also when when IT addresses um you know further further opportunities for students especially around the five areas of talent development and its compliance with state law that we are not currently in compliance with Communication number four was also very much tied to the advanced learner coordinator position but focus on prioritizing and enhancing our current communication to ensure that all of our stakeholders are aware of our our current programming um and not only are aware but then also understanding so that was a priority absolutely and finally professional development was a strong recommendation especially as related to intentional training and capacity building of our teachers as related to Advanced learner programming so those are those things you can
034read about them in more specific detail but um in a nutshell that's what Jackie brought to us after meeting with the team thank you so from there we then sat as an ale auditing and discussed where we've been and where we're going looking at that 60-some page report and understanding that we can't do it all right off the bat and so it left us with I don't like to use questions I like to use wondering or wonderment what do we wonder about and the first thing or one of the things that came to mind was how do we better implement this Advanced learner handbook that we've had for eight to ten years um I stood in front of the board multiple times talking about that handbook we've done revisions with it um Kayla Jason and
035I sat for the last three years last year very many hours making sure that handbook truly does reflect where we are and where we want to be the question becomes how do we get that out better to teachers to staff um it's a communication piece but it's an implementation piece there's a lot of great stuff in there that I think we're hitting the surface of but how do we do that more systematically building the building teacher to teacher Josh talked a bit about Equity when we look at Equity um Jackie highlighted that we have not identified archanging population so that is an area that we really really need to focus on additionally um students of all demographic backgrounds we have very much focused the last number of years on two main areas um one being
036that overall giftedness that another being a specific academic area those were the easiest to identify we don't have anyone in this District trained in gifted and talented Jason is very close to getting that training um so hiring on a Coordinator would be wonderful to help us through that I'm not casting blame it's you don't know what you don't know so this will help us to provide more equity and get the kids who need Services services that leads to the next one all five tiers there's five areas of giftedness we focused on too so we really need to expand that um at all different levels tier one is universal instruction that happens within the classroom tier two is kids that no no I don't want to use layman's terms too crazily but those that it comes
037a little bit easier for and then you've got your truly gifted at tier three we do a great job kind of reaching out to things with our tier one and tier two we can do better but how do we meet those tier two Advanced tier three Advanced um so that's a good Focus there and I think that we think that the support of an advanced learner coordinator year one will be great that's paid for through Esser what happens Beyond there and so looking for some sort of support beyond that one year of Esther and that'll be conversation we'll have at a different point in time but a consideration and then lastly we are wondering about communication communication has been a point of focus from the parent group Tina and I have been Tina started that
038parent group brought me on board but that has been a major Focus point from the parent group for that and then how do we communicate better building to building teacher administrator there's a whole vast area where this and that was highlighted not just through us but through the audit where communication can be very much improved we just need a systematic way to do that so we don't have any answers to those but those will be all areas that we're looking to dig a little deeper in the next year so on my side is last slide and it's really to talk about next steps um and I think many of you can come to some pretty logical considerations um given what you've heard and if you've looked at the document in detail um and I know
039it's a it's quite a lengthy document um but there are some things in the document and some of the things not even in the document but through our own process of discovery that we we thought of too um and yeah so with that um we know uh we need to look at um aligning where this sits uh we so making sure that we understand um which department it sits in who's going to be the director in charge uh and or the coordinator so that we make sure that we can pay close attention to all of the needs within that programming and and all of the things that we saw within this audit um so after um after we met to realign uh services for next year I've decided that this will be aligned under the
040director of curriculum instruction position that we have for next year um Jenny borst is going to be the director of curriculum instruction as we move forward and she knows that one of her first duties is to hire an advanced learning coordinator we know that we have at least one year of budget money aside for that out of Esser funds that was already approved by the board we'll have to talk about future needs as we move into next year and Beyond but we do have that position ready to be looked at and and put it out there from posting for uh start for next year um next we want to create a three to five year plan and in that three to five year plan we're gonna um explicitly address these three areas expanding programming to
041and within all five areas of giftedness improved documentation and communication from our plan uh and and our practices and then also improve our identification of students uh and then lastly we're going to present that plan to add Services committee late fall of 2023 after we get on the advanced learning coordinator and we can share with that person the information that's gained here within this presentation and within our audit documents and other things that we need to share so that we can make sure that we have that person create an expansive plan with our cni department and the rest of the administrative team so those are our next steps any questions about this or anything else in the presentation um when I take a look at first of all I think this is amazing and um
042I've read um a good portion of Jackie's report and about that's fantastic and they need a lot of great feedback and you know thanks to everybody for their commitment to this um learning um and slide it to um I just a couple couple thoughts um as far as the students that were surveyed through this uh reported that their teachers provide challenging learning opportunities and so um a couple thoughts on that I'm gathering perhaps a survey maybe went out to middle and high school is what it sounded like and so if those kids are already receiving services within those Services you know like AP classes and things like that they're saying yes I'm challenged in my AP class um as far as that goes um I don't know if it was sent out to everyone because
043I know there were students that are in those classes but they didn't receive that survey so I don't know if it was maybe a you know I don't know what size pool it was or anything like that but those were just a couple thoughts that came forward on that thank you right other comments or questions from board members Dave this comment that I have is that uh I think this is going in a wonderful Direction um as I kind of have said on that Services committee uh and hearing this marine report and so forth there's a lot if you look at the three three to five year things creating a program with all five areas of communication identify case with students those are all big cultural shifts within our organization I I want us to
044be cautious and it's not just hire this coordinator and they're going to do this job in their bubble there is a lot of this it needs to be driven now culturally and agricultural change in which we truly are all people part of the family are able to identify students and flag them in the right direction and direct them in the right paths uh versus our culture has inside right now gotta start some place but it's going to see success it's going to need to get embedded in the culture thank you for the comments and questions from board members so I'll say a few things and personal stuff by practicing that my view on this is definitely influenced by my own experience when you look at the detailed reports there are there's a table there that
045shows 10 students identified uh one of those students is mine so therefore I have that and that certainly again influence is how I perceive the issue when I look at the recommendations like Dave I am concerned about putting too much on the shoulders of the advanced learning coordinator I'm making sure that as you're saying it has to go beyond them they have to have a robust coordinating they're not doing it yeah that's right because we look at the surface like you're asking this person to do a whole lot so that's a caution I have and then second of the overall recommendations there's a majority of them that are focused on identification and for me I want to make sure that there's a really good program for them to come into before we go out and
046identify them because I don't want to have experiences where students are identified and then we really don't have a program to deliver and both student and parent and frankly teacher are are frustrated with not being able to achieve the result we want so for me I I think and it's not a I don't think it's an either or I just think it's you need to move ahead of programming a bit and then you're working on a vacation you just take these Ladder Up cool um so that's just a suggestion I have is to again come into my own experience of having a student identify than just not having the cooperation program necessary to support them so I wouldn't want to see that for others so I appreciate that this has moved forward I know we've
047had a lot of things to do this year um and I appreciate this is the decision with me I have two kids that are in this program so I too have a more added investment with this and I just want to say that Jason and Kayla had done a great job with what they have their building principle first and then Advanced learner coordinator after that and if you've ever tried to do dual jobs there's only a hundred percent of you but we're asking to do 200 work and so with that I am super excited that we will have an advanced learning coordinator for one year I'm excited for the conversation that will be occurring down the road on what needs to happen thereafter there is a lot of work that needs to be done and
048at the middle school and high school levels a lot of that work is done within the classrooms and so yeah it requires a lot of coordinating at the teacher level as well so it doesn't fall all on Jenny it doesn't fall on whoever this Advanced coordinator is um but being supportive as I'll use Jared's term as they fail forward as we make progress it's not going to be lightning fast throughout um one step at a time and as long as we're continually moving in the right direction it's a win right can I make a motion or um can I move to I move that the water tone Unified School District employees in advance learner coordinator for the upcoming school year and Beyond so the Herring of an individual was not on tonight's agenda it's a
049bit our scope of the of the announced well but the what I'm after is we're going down that road we should make a commitment for a while Beyond I think at the head Services meeting which I don't have to present much on because not only did this take topic number one but Jenny's going to handle topic number two it's going to be it's going to be a short discussion on ed services and services but the I don't know if it's yeah I think the The Next Step the wanderings as was discussed in its services is as yes we know we have the Ester dollars for year one and I think uh Diana appropriately put it is going to be very difficult to hire somebody if it says you have a one-year term however we also
050don't have it specifically in the budget to have that position going forward and Jared just spent a bunch of time on the revised budget which was Radical not provide budget suit the revised uh Staffing plan for this building which was approved by the board last time so um I think that probably Greg the the everybody's sentiment is exactly what you said but as Tony just said I think we have to wait for the advanced Learners group to come back what they plan as well as Jared to figure out how to find uh Staffing move or a budget in order to accomplish that but I'm not saying we couldn't put on the resolution it's Tony's position to do it or not doing uh or to put it on when it's appropriate but I think that that's
051was the overall feel of the ed services meeting is that advanced learner was going to get back on it and figure out how to get this thing fixed and for the long term because that would be the commitment or that was the that's what everybody wanted it had Services anyway yeah my concern is this was not announced as a as an action as and I I said that would be not not be a logical extension of the agenda items I take this as a recommendation and it's on the it's in the agenda it's sunlighted so therefore it's actionable yeah it comes yeah there's a difference between [Music] building or in this case expanding a program and running it and I think hiring a coordinator to help flesh out and build up this program and having
052that person transition into full-time running it those could be two different tasks they may be two different people I think firing this person into make this a reality expand what we have I think is the next best step and maybe that person can recommend who to go with from there I don't know if it is that same person in all likelihood it will be they built it they want to run it but we don't know that and there could be different skills there that they need to so something to think so from a process perspective um I'm gonna go ahead and honor the motion is there a second on the motion not hearing a second on the motion yeah but if it's not a action item are we adding this as this would come back
053to add service to I'm I guess I'm a little lost on I I appreciate and I know I may agree but I'm just trying to understand if it's not an action item and if we put that in there what is that saying I'd be happy to have a discussion if there was a second so that would open up the discussion yes then I second okay so motion is second all right um yeah I mean I I think it's pretty clear that that there's a great need for this particular position well there's there's all sorts of different um this is a very very well detailed plan put forward um information that's um concise there's we're we're short when it comes to uh following State statutes um you know and I don't see the need going away
054um I I feel like there's many different merits behind supporting that going forward in the future and anybody that would want to consider that type of position is going to want to have some reassurances to stick around if we're going to make an effort to hire a good all by Kennedy in this particular position you're going to want to have some of the assurances going forward into the future um and that's why you should support this motion could you repeat the language of the motion please that the Watertown Unified School District employ an advanced learner coordinator for the upcoming school year and Beyond okay so I have a few comments on that number one the reality to accept of administrative two-year contracts everyone in Oliver certified staff are on one-year contracts so we don't make
055open-ended commitments right now and so I'm uncomfortable with the open-ended nature of that somebody could come into that role and say you approve this for as long as I wanted um so it's a I'm comfortable with that but more importantly I going back to Lloyd's comment I believe the appropriate course of action at this time would be to direct this to the ad Services committee to come back to the board as soon as they feel appropriate with what the timeline is for those next steps that we saw because those next steps included understanding how we would fund this position on a basis past this next year so that would be my recommendation I think it still gets movement in that direction and someone coming into it can look at that and say okay you're not
056just looking this is a one-year effort you are looking at this you just know where you're gonna what which bucket the money's coming out of but you're you're looking at it um so those are my two thoughts yeah so the to me the ad Services directed that there was a little bit of the a little bit of misalignment of timing in which the report was created by our consultant for your name and wanted to get it in everybody's hands before the working committee uh for it had really met on it which I think I kind of gather have at least met some degree on it and then to be able to come back to the boat because they had services with a formal recommendation they made it to the board of kind of the next
057steps of flushing out there we knew that we wanted it to affirm the yes we wanted the coordinator hired we wanted the proceed in some of the general direction but we needed to get it flushed out so I think some of this is getting even more ahead of that same process uh is one comment I was going to make the same comment that Tony did I I heartily agree we want this to be I think the settlement is we want this to be a permanent thing but I I'm not ready to accept the motion I mean we don't I I don't even know that we're ready to commitment to staff being 100 for next year let alone and Beyond what it looks like I mean I can't imagine a the high school operating law principal
058but Josh may not be the principal of two years you can't commit to that you know it's it's just it's reality of things to organize that Services the addition or subtraction of assistant principles Etc would all be something that I think would be under his uh Direction and recommendations to this board it's not the other way around I wouldn't choose to tell him who we had to hire for which positions regardless of what a uh expert or consultant said I think that as Tony just stated the design of the last set Services was to come back with the presentation and a plan and we're well on that path in which case I wouldn't want to make any resolution that died Jared's hand at this point I don't think that'd be appropriate I don't want to
059speak for Craig I think what Craig was getting at correct me if I'm wrong is that it's currently set as a one-year position and when you advertise something as a one-year position you don't always get top quality candidates so this is a very small tool to begin with then you put it in as a limited term and that pool just got even smaller so when you sing and Beyond correctly if I'm wrong I don't know if you really meant um we didn't kind of have a way in ed services to kind of Wiggle around that because one of the recommendations from Death is that it's someone with experience and you can't do what's on that list with someone that's fresh and green um it's setting up a program it's going to take some energy in
060another so my main thing is just so a couple of things all right yeah I mean I I agree it shouldn't be just limited term I think that this Lane all lines a lot of good information that I'm comfortable with making a decision and making a commitment now with this particular position um and uh so My Mind Is Made Up on the need and and I think that's that's where we're at do we need to spend a lot of extra time on this or do we want to allow for our Administration to move forward with that process and I think my motion is flexible enough for them to be able to um make adjustments as needed we're not discussing about pay this is my motion doesn't discuss about uh place of employment my emotion doesn't
061even discuss whether or not it's full-time or part-time my motion is to employ an advanced learner coordinator for the upcoming school year and Beyond doesn't talk about contracts it doesn't talk about duration of contracts it doesn't talk about any of that stuff it's just that we're going to make a commitment for this particular position so that Administration can make the proper decisions now it's also indicated in our user Esser um the allocation for this particular position and the dollar amount that's allocated for that position actually implies that it would have been utilized for this not only next year but this year which we're not actually utilizing so we're actually um there is that dollar amount that we wouldn't normally have we would have expected the particular position to at least cover two years um so
062now does that mean that that the dollar amount for that particular limited term uh Advanced learning uh coordinator whatever is remaining goes towards some other uh item that is necessary that we can utilize for Esser and we we offset that with a budgetary amount I'm leaving that all up to the administration in my motion so it's not it's not a matter of whether my motion is too lot height or any of that stuff it's just that we're going to make a commitment to this position we know that we have a need it's well documented I have enough information to make that decision now and I'm comfortable doing so and I think you do too I move that we refer this to committee and specifically to refer to that Services committee foreign is there any comments
063on the motion to refer to ad services so there was a robust discussion already had an ed services when it came to this particular position um I can't imagine that delaying the process or having more of a discussion at ed services is going to enhance um the process any more than it has been but I can I can respect that so my intent in referring it to that Services is not in the employment aspect the board's already made a decision on that in fact we took that action already it has to do with the question of what happens Beyond Year One which hadn't yet been worked out permanent Services perspective and that's why we'll refer back to that group to work on that aspect of it that was my intention any other comments on the
064motion to refer to committee mine first of all thank you Craig for you know being adamant about what you're thinking and what you're wanting to see or anything it does give us as an administrative team and a board the idea of you know at least from your standpoint and the others who agree with you it's good that you share a lab um I do want to make a point um one that you know kind of came out of fiscal as well is I think we all are a little bit trying to learn and relearn processes and put good processes in place for things a question and point was talking about uh a move that Administration thought was going to be supported by the board um and you have good rationale around it I'm looking at
065outputting all of the displays in throughout the district through those Ester dollars and what was referred back to me at fiscal was but there's a process that we need to follow and continue to go through not saying that it's not a good idea but the the idea that was brought was opportunity costs and having a process to talk about opportunity costs of budgeted items I thought that we went through a process already by which we talked about that for our leadership positions and coordinating positions as well as our whole Staffing plan that is finalizing tonight with you as a board it would be kind of and antithetical to the idea of process if we were just to move forward on this and not allow that to go through the same process by which we talked
066about the other coordinating positions where other dollar amounts are in the last presentation that was approved it was approved for one year and stipulated in that as one year also in the presentation it was listed as a continuing item four years to think about future positions um so I I hope that the board can you know as we keep reminding each other about processes and try to involve those I I do think it's a good move to to move this back to committee come up with a process that process will also talk about other coordinating positions in the future and those other things as we move that forward I know that's that's a hard uh position to be in when you when you want something really bad because I was just there at fiscal and
067I know exactly how that feels um but I I don't have to this I don't disagree with the idea of having good processes in place and that's where I have to concede to that thought that we are still trying to rebuild some of those ideas and those thoughts um and that's where I hope we land tonight on the discussion all right any other comments on the motion to refer to me we'll call though please yes Diana Johnson yes Peter Johnson yes David Sherman yes David Smith yes Craig Gordon yes yes my opinions yes yes and the motion carries thank you there's one clarifying question on on the subject so in the last last year budget that we had earmarketing that we had we had thirty thousand dollars per Advanced learner curriculum support material and 194
068loaded to learning coordinator so where have we gotten to where do those shake out and how do we got them from because I think 190 might be a little light on two a year contract but it's way more than a one-year contract so we're gonna come back on the happier and two items I think some of that many yeah yeah help with the conversation okay all right anything else on the advanced learnerology is there a time line for your so we're just going to refer to committee and perpetuity or we'll go to their next meeting and I'm expecting a report back on what they're doing I believe that that sort of follow-up was to have a plan by the fall of 23. obviously that's we could certainly pull it up at the advanced learning committee
069can pull it up but that's up there to speak not not in Services unless we tell them to speed it up somehow well with that plan the conversation that occurred in there was that plan would be created with the new hired right moving forward so it does not address your concern about getting a more long-term person in but in terms of where we left things um it's I think that even though it's a slower Pace than where I want to be with it it's the right pace at this point in time because it's the pace Network that we can manage clearly there's there's um the desire for further discussion so okay anything else and we will move on to the third item under strategic discussion which is the Mathematics Curriculum reduction thank you I've been
070tasked with taking a Year's worth of work and condensing it into five slides so I will try my very best to be able to share with you uh where the math team is at um I will start by saying first of all it was an enormous team effort and as you know Aaron has been very closely involved with this at the secondary level um and I'm excited to share with you the progress that we've made and the direction that we are heading shout out to our teachers who've dedicated a lot of their time including one of their snow days to training on this too so we've got a great team here as you all know I broke the um adoption down into years because I felt like that made the most sense across the 4K
071through 12 Spectrum year zero is where we're at right now um as you well know he implemented a 4K through 12 math team um this team I think the biggest takeaway from this team is this shift um it's a more inquiry based materials from our youngest ages all the way through our high school um really looking at the the shifts and the standards and looking at the mathematical practice standards it was very clear that that's the direction that we needed to head I will start by saying um though we felt like we moved to consensus and all levels certainly at every level I would say there are teachers who um perhaps you know their their first choice curriculum wasn't what was the consensus of the full team um so I do want that on the
072table though I do feel like we didn't get consensus at all levels as well the direction that when we move in um on our next slide I'm just outlining the first year next year would be the 22-23 or 23 24 school year at the elementary level the team determined that Bridges would be our best fit uh it's a bit more complex because they are coming up with a third edition with Bridges and it will be a staggered um rollout from the company on the Third Edition it was very clear um through surveying that um implementing it in kind of two stages with what made the most sense rather than implementing old materials and then needing to upgrade or needing to have teachers upgrade their materials so next year at the elementary level we'll be doing
073one portion of the American curriculum called number Corners it's about a 20-minute session that really focuses on the spiral fluency all teachers will be doing that piece and then we will have one classroom teacher per grade level that will be able to implement the full Bridges curriculum those classrooms will be sort of model classrooms we'll be coaching those in all classrooms but in those classrooms in particular so folks can come in and visit um you'll see at the middle school illustrative map was the choice to move forward there again ridges feeding to illustrative makes a lot of sense because again the shift is to more of that inquiry based and both of these sets of materials are inquiry based so our students will have a seamless experience here in the district with our math curriculum
074um at the high school um they decided to move forward with a pilot in algebra one um looking at a couple of different sets of materials um High School becomes a bit more complicated and those teachers felt like they needed a little bit more time to determine what would be the best fit for them so we'll be piloting a couple of different materials and likely including a lustrative map as well um you can see at the end of each year I do have a cost estimate and the intent would be that this first year would be um using Ester dollars to um implement the costs are on the high end we wanting to make sure that we had all the materials that we needed but nothing extra and so as we get the bids in
075from the company or in Colton from the company I should say making sure that we're going through those line by line to make sure that each one of those things I think that we need in our classrooms you can see in year two um that would be at the elementary level we would be in full implementation of bridges at the secondary level or at the middle school be the second year of full implementation of illustrative map and then at the high school they would be implementing the materials that they select in the previous slide we're hoping for a decision by December of this year they would be using those materials in Algebra 1 and geometry again it's sort of a staggered implementation for our students at the high school level um some of that reasoning
076being that you want to build in some of those more um those practices those inquiry-based practices I will say even at the high school even though they're not ready for full implementation next year they certainly have been implementing um new practices in their classroom based on the training that they've had this year you can see the cost estimate with the assumption that those dollars would come from Esser and you can see that there's a range mainly due to the fact that there is not a final decision at the heisen level um in year three we would be looking at a second year of full implementation implementation at elementary third at middle school and then you can see that we would be moving into that first year implementation of advanced algebra so students in that year
077will be using the curriculum you can see I put a table in costs at this point my assumption is we won't have Ester dollars available to us so whatever it is that we choose to go with we would be using our curriculum budget to continue to purchase I did try to do a comparison between um previous ongoing costs and anticipated ongoing costs again this is a high-end estimate um one thing that we're noticing in Publishers um approach with the curriculum is that a lot of times they're asking you to do licenses whereas in the past you know you buy the old textbook and then that textbook would last as long as the cover didn't fall off I remember making covers out of grocery bags right now finishers are using digital licenses and those who often
078need to be renewed so you do see that there is an higher anticipated ongoing cost um due to some of those factors what's hard to predict is at each level there are printed materials that you can purchase but you can also as a teacher access those online part of my goal is making sure that this is user friendly for our teachers they may or may not want those printed materials they may say don't purchase those it's easier for us to just print what we need and so it's a real estimate here with that um and then as we can continue continue on Beyond year three um just thinking about some future considerations um just the idea that our 4K through 12 team is meeting together more on a consistent basis I think that was a
079real powerful piece of this summer with having our poor Pay Teachers talking with our um our high school teachers in the same room I'm a huge believer in our coaching um and the coaching that we have already implemented here in the school district um and that ongoing job embedded PD um we'll be looking to use CSA support those quotes are built into the cost for that coaching piece and then also to get our own instructional coaches more up to speed on each curriculum and then just the idea that we're entering and engaging in the curriculum where you cycle you know somewhere between five to seven years or we're coming back we're revisiting what's working what's not working um we do have some technology considerations you know right now we're using star assessment that feeds into
080sort of the next bullet point which is the adaptive math practice considerations you know is that something that we want to as a district to continue with that are there different programs that we would like to use with that and then I just added a bullet about some supplemental and or intervention materials many of those being maybe specifically for our students with IEPs or on the other end are students who for our previous conversation are in our Advanced learning programming as well so just keeping you know those things in mind that those might be some things that we need to consider in the future all right comments or questions from board members you know um did you find that you know I know it's probably impossible they probably will make K-12 you know I know
081you guys will really bringing that back so then you know you kind of need to break those pieces up and stuff like that um and taking a look as far as the the different implementation cycles and stuff um is there continuity between like elementary and middle school and then Middle School like for example um was I think like multiplication you know is it is it all taught the lattice method or is it all you know the the regular old school you know method like is a lot of different concepts like that consistent throughout the Continuum that's a super good question and I can tell you're a former everyday amount of parents is I think that the four of where we're at is that idea that we're shifting to more inquiry based meaning you know we
082are helping kids explore problems doing something what we call productive struggle which is you know you're looking at you know more challenging math problems and kind of trying to apply what you've learned to solve those um and I would definitely say the focus K-12 is definitely on those pieces we didn't find a curriculum for us that fit 4K through grade 12. um when certainly it was something that we looked at but what I can assure you is that you know the elementary didn't pick a super traditional math curriculum and the middle school went with you know a very inquiry-based curriculum and then the High School is gonna you know somewhere be somewhere in between it was very important to the team that it was something that you know Elementary would support moving to middle school
083and middle school would support moving into high school as well so I can assure you that that is the piece I would also argue that the skills that they're working on in each level um you know like the specific map like the lattice for instance you know um we want kids to learn to solve problems in efficient ways that they're understanding the mathematical concept behind it and not just like the rote process and so that's a huge focus of it as well some piggybacking like that with the inquiry method it's raising the rigor and if you can get a student to solve a rigorous problem using the lattice method what's wrong with that if you can get a student to solve that rigorous problem using the traditional algorithm but you're going to continue to teach
084the traditional algorithm but you're giving kids access at any point it's kind of like giving this kid might need a block to step on to see over the fence where this kid doesn't so you're going to give them what they need to do the math so the math hasn't changed we're just ramping it up a bit um with the rigor piece um but getting kids the ability to solve it in a way that makes sense to them as long as they can explain it they can do it but again continue to teach the concepts that they sound yeah like that whole thing but it's it's consistent it's a consistent methodology the question so can you walk through a little bit the details so I think uh oh that tree is straightforward Bridges 4K through through
085fifth grade the only hiccup in that is that they are coming up with a new curriculum they're not going to be able to get for a year later so we're doing a portion of the curriculum that's out and holding off on the rest for the remainder of it or 91 000 the first year and 210 the next so for 301 thousand dollars that's fairly straightforward in there then we step into the middle school which we then begin to have some leveling of students that come into play in which they're actually are some students that are taking Middle School sixth grade seventh grade eighth grade math and there are some seventh graders that are taking algebra one and some 8th graders that are taking Algebra 1 and geometry and eighth graders picking up the algebra so
086it's having a geometry there so we're bringing High School down into the middle school with that what what is the exact recommendation or ask of the the board for the for the middle school and then the high school because then we're also not talking about calculus and statistics yep so good questions I want to address the calculation statistics piece um those are you know more prescribed curriculum because they are those AP courses um and so those go through a rigorous process where those teachers need to have those um approved by the College Board um and so those aren't necessarily included in this piece would address the ovary basis the intent would be that whatever decision and whatever curriculum that the high school moves forward with which will still be in that inquiry based the courses
087that are offered at the middle school that are high school level courses would use that same curriculum moving forward [Music] so the ask and the budget is for through what what are what are we going to be asking a motion shortly the 300 1 000 for the elementary is clear to me and then we're being asked for middle and high school and I think the middle gets his someone said and the high school gets pretty great so the middle school is set it's just those courses that are taught at the middle high school or the taught at the middle school at our high school level courses um and so the the cost at the middle of the 3 15 and the first year for the middle school is what covers the purchase of the illustrative
088math materials that includes the training as well um and then the high school the cost of the high school in that first year are dollars that we could use to make people advice for that I'm looking at it on my own page um at the high school would be the dollars that may potentially be needed for to purchase in pilot materials as well as to pay for the coaching through Souza to support those teachers in making that decision okay but none of that curriculum the pilot is even no no it is known and I'm going to defer to Aaron on this because I know they had some discussion questions recently about that illustrative no I'm going to just let you talk thank you so Carnegie is one of the high school curriculums in Okinawa okay
089and those are the two curriculums that were highly investigating at this point with lots of excitement um from the teachers to look at piloting perhapsible and then if you look in the following year the reason for the range of the high school really depends on are we going with open up are we going with Carnegie um we don't want our teachers to feel like they have to make the budget conscious decision and buy the cheapest materials we want them to buy the materials that they feel like will best accelerate our students learning and so that's where you see the range there in that third year or that second year I'm sorry so we believe for the high school to by the end of 2025 have piloted and implemented either Carnegie or open up will be
090whatever the 30 000 the year before plus the 85 to 160. and again it's a range as as we say the printed it depends on how much printed materials is purchased and how much of the open source materials are used and in the vision are you making a three-year purchase for a five-year purchase of the curriculum through the license to the um publishing economy is illustrative in action high school as well are there two are there three choices of the high school looking at right now A lustrative is a curriculum that they're very interested in however the the piece that they get stuck on is the amount of inspirational days that illustrative math is laid out it's laid out in 143 lessons we only have 120 instructional days I apologize for those of you that
091you can't see measures open up is uh curriculum that is a crossover with a lustrative map that started out with a luster 10 math so it's and it's written in like 100 days so I can't save you a Diana I mean they really work on the low of all piloting the luster 10 map then as we looked more into open up which we were led to believe in the early on stage that opened up at the high school level wasn't giving the continued upgrades as a mustard to the manner and then we were read what we relearned through the company that that's not true that's true for the elementary and middle school resources so that's why they're really intrigued by open up and again Jenny you mentioned it earlier all of the inquiry practices that
092they've learned this year they're implementing gung-ho across all of the horses from algebra to calculus to statistics um so I don't I'm not gonna I right now at this point I feel their thoughtfulness is going to help us if illustrative math warrants uh I lived in the fall that's where we were up until we learned more about Open up is that if I can ask is that because of the trimesters that the high school when yes okay I thought we talked about that but I just wanted to make sure I was getting that yeah so if I can make a quick comment I was a little disappointed initially that the high school was not on board with the rest of the adoption yet after talking with Aaron and Jenny pretty extensively multiple times um they're
093not ready yet and that's okay because one of my concerns goes back to what they weren't asking when you have kids that are one in two years advanced in that my question and concern is you take that top off what is the rest of that class look like and in a a program like illustrative man you need those those higher models within the classroom um so my question is if we force them to make a quick decision will it be evidence Fidelity especially knowing we have kids single and double your advance so they're not even in with the regular group so when they came up with open up as an option that's there I'm excited for the high school teachers to at least be able to take a look at that where that wasn't even
094part of the conversation before so to make the best decision moving forward because if you try to Pilot something that doesn't work and you're forced to implement something that doesn't work it's a recipe for disaster and we have this for what five seven years um so I'd rather do it right the first time and so as much as I really wanted all of this to be going forward next year full implementation it's not and that's okay and our high school teachers have been fully engaged through this whole year and I'll reiterate the fact that they are taking what they've learned um and implementing it this year in their classroom where they're teaching with it as well um which is got a little bit more complicated at the high school for a variety of factors that
095have been online so I must it's good to assume that we are will be purchasing a high school curriculum before September 20 24. the expertise uh the budget but September 30th of 2024 I believe is one of those hours that can be completely expended um so okay you know because when you're looking year 20 24 25 it makes me go up but are we going to spend those Ballers or we're gonna wait for that but right now we have 600 000 year marked for it we have a motion for Freedom we I believe we've spent some drain on it already instead of the piloting and efforts that we've done we're being asked to spend three hundred one thousand dollars on the on the elementary 315 on The Middle and I believe embedded in here some
096places at least 30 grand on the pilot for the high school and then we still haven't implemented for the high school so it's gonna be like eight over 800. that's gonna be over eight so the question in that is yes well they're not it's right not that it's not I mean questions of believing that a change was necessary for curriculum so I I you're right it might be over budget by 200 because I think your math is uh close enough for today's discussion but uh you know I don't know where we would have gotten the money under normal circumstances when we have to upgrade curriculum well as we recall we originally started with that amount at 900 000. that's true and then we had the discussion well did we shave up here there so we
097just threw pie in the sky well let's start with 600 not having any idea where those amounts have been came from right and that's going to lead into our next points [Music] uh and just the only other common personal uh Jenny thank you for the presentation um um I think the year one slide uh again if you go back to that uh okay yeah that's more or less resolutions uh the first bullet and the second bullet our elementary RMS you'll see those coming out there is no resolution for the the pilot in the high school but the adoption of bridges at elementary and uh illustrative and RMS are uh two of the first resolutions of the books uh so now you know where they're tied to uh we can have comments then or ask more
098questions now but I think that Jenny did a good job of uh what I'd ask for Med Services is we don't need the path we just need to know the destination I think she did a good job of uh succinctly going over the path and getting us to the discussion of the destination I hope the rest of the board feels the same way for the purposes of um if you really really want to know what was talked about then you're just going to listen to the audio parade services and also read that 65 page learner's report um otherwise I appreciate the presentations that the five of you gave earlier as well as Jenny that helps me out as a board member I just everybody else can ponder on that on your own all right other
099comments or questions foreign there was a proposal to as our superintendent hinted to purchase certain type of equipment and to use that's what I was to pay for it at which point members of the committee keep inside the mirror said when we had a process for this and it involved working with the administration previously came up with a list of choices the administration prioritized within those choices and the board then reviewed the full list and their prioritization and ended up adopting a set of those some of those will be adjusted the numbers on but you know that was a process one before and as a result of that we left roughly seven hundred thousand dollars uncommitted and specifically the motion was to remove the board will work with the new superintendent and administration on planning
100for the remaining undesignated after three funds and our objective at that time was complete designation in time for the next six month update incredible State obviously we are past that we had other things take precedence so that was as superintendent him described process looking for process the Google process there's uncommitted funds I should note we did actually commit a portion of those when we approved the AC contracts but when we approved original the original essay allocation we knew that those estimates that we had in there were a year old and were likely not to be in it so it is less than 200 000 now but there's other things and so what fiscal we discussed was first we need to get an update of where we are overall with all the extra budgets I mean
101there's there's things we didn't do there's things we haven't done yet there's things we know more about than we did before so we wanted to get an update of like where are we with all the numbers money spent money not spent other money not spent that we allocated do we have better knowledge of what that's likely to be than than where we were a year ago so we can come down to what's the new number right what is what is the number we have left foreign and then look for again a similar process of administration bringing to the board a set of choices with prioritization from an administrative perspective within those choices that would fully allocate the remaining funds and looking to do that at our May full board meeting and there's a precursor to
102that take over the May fiscal meeting as a preview of where the administration is at that point in terms of the choices they've worked up and what it looks like to be their prioritized so they could get some early feedback before we walk into the meeting in May so that's the the gist of the discussion at fiscal it impacts several items that we have in front of us this math discussion could easily be part of them as was noted in the original number of the presented to the board was 900. we cut it down to 600. we see updated numbers on where it is foreign so there's that there there was there was the actual item that was proposed last Wednesday in terms of the screens but there's going to be other things and so
103the whole idea was take a step back let's get a full view of where are we with all the numbers all the dollars at this point and then present to us a slate of choices with your prioritization of where you would like to see the money go so what would you like to add to that I think that explains it really well other than um if there's any level of how detailed you would like information to come back um what I said at fiscal is you know our job is to take it what it is that you're looking for you know for Direction and then as clear as you can be on giving us that then I can work with the administrative team and we can give you the information you need to make good
104decisions because what I don't want to see happen is to have six meetings about narrowing a list yes no um partially funding not partially funding you know um talking about continued funding sources that may or may not be I mean it can get into a a Bluster yeah and we don't have time for a Bluster anymore with the Esther funds um sometimes that is good to go through that and to take that time but this one um we really need to uh for for budgeting's sake timing's sake and and making sure things happen at the process they do and the speed that they do we need to really confirm some of these things because we do have some things on that list that haven't been approached yet but were already approved what I mean by
105is the administration's bandwidth to be able to complete some of those tasks or money was allocated for instance in the advanced learner area which we talked about earlier where we took a detour to Avenue which was actually a veteran Avenue to take as a group that we've all agreed to but now that has cost something yep um and so we have to apply that to the class but it wasn't really in the original approval um but along the way we've made a discussions uh our decision so wherever we can have the board give us better uh and or or as complete guidance as you can we will try to take that guidance then and give you back what you need to make good decisions um and and probably hopefully um not necessarily quicker decisions but
106it you know so we don't have to keep it rehashed correct in what form of guidance would you prefer that that comes do you is that the discussion at at the um at the fiscal committee meeting that you're you're referring to or is that kind of uh in a perspective via some other type of exchange um communication with yourself about you know yeah so uh Craig I I don't exactly know what I'm looking for as a product I do know that you have gone through this activity at least once before with prior Administration prior to my arrival yeah and so you may have some ideas on how to give Administration uh more complete Avenues so that we can expediate the process like learning from the last time yep what what you thought was helpful what
107wasn't helpful and then giving us uh Direction so that I can take because I wasn't here yeah sure and so I would just be starting over and I don't know if I would end up making some decisions that would take us on a pathway of five meetings all right so if I may ever reflect on the prior process a my general observation on the items that were presented is that the level of detail for most of them was mid-altitude if not I altitude there were a few things where there was more detailed lists presented but it wasn't it wasn't nitty-gritty on on the majority of those my perception uh and on the process I did not feel that a majority of the questions or we'll say Alternatives discussed by the board had to do with
108the details it had to do more conceptually with is that where we want to spend the money conceptually versus versus over here do we want to put more of it into infrastructure as compared to curriculum do we want to put we want to put something towards Furniture period you know about a topic we want to spend money on it wasn't the which Furniture you're looking to buy it was the do we put money to furniture so that that was my general sense of that discussion that it was again mid-range altitude on the average and our questions weren't so much about the details it was about is that really an area we want to spend money on right yeah I always I kind of felt the sense of that meeting that everybody happened to have um
109a very very strong conviction on a lot of the different things that were on here and everybody sort of came together and had some sort of part in that as well as the community and as well as current Administration on some needs that didn't make the cut so when we're considering the types of additional money being utilized I feel like we need to also bring back some of the other items that didn't make the clot and have a discussion about the merits of those items as well um just just some thoughts and I agree with you and I said so at the fiscal that I thought it was a fair game if he's been I said right my perception again wasn't that that the board at that time said those items we didn't approve are
110dead we never want to see them again so it was the we had a list of 20. we could only afford down to 14. from Astronaut yeah from astronauts we didn't say we don't like 15 through 20. don't ever don't ever show this again it was the professor dollars that that's as far as we thought we could go down the list that's what I said at the meeting at hopefully early represented and then using it even current it wasn't it wasn't that those things were permanently dead and it's the administration chose as part of this process of doing the the Final Cuts on the remaining funds chose to bring some of those back I was speaking for myself I would not object to the Invincible of bringing something back uh just that I wouldn't object
111to the principle and I'm saying you know we said 900 and you gave us 600 and we really want to put on the 300 Port map because that's what we think we need to put it yeah it'll save us it'll save us some time maybe if I ask this question then considering that the previous work was done by Administration to bring you that list yeah is there anything the prior list that the board would a not want to see come back or B would hope would be on the top of the Lego store near the top of the list coming back I'm asking that question because I realized that the admin the admin team brought that board as good ideas on their on their behalf well one of them was uh I mean having this
112discussion about um Pre-K and there was um there was discussion about um the need in our Esser proposal about um some construction work that might be needed in a different building so I think that needs to come forward as a possibility one of those items that was knocked off the list I think there's a strong Merit there to have a discussion around that okay um as far as perspective on I think if we go into those details they'll be around this conversation uh you were asking from a high level what were we looking for to me I'm looking for a summary of the Esser dollars that were allocated what has been sent spent what have we dialed in even more like well we know we're only going to spend this much of it we're going
113to need another 10 grand gear or whatever it is dialed in as much as possible some some status timeline on some of the allocations I mean like a half million dollars is for science and social curriculum I haven't heard who about that for a year you know so is that like on a time frame or is that falling off a time frame or you know what where we where do we stand on some of those I mean we're around the big ones than the little ones um and then I think kind of as we talk about what are the other things that maybe haven't hit an answer list but our ass or ask it's kind of stuff that we want to make sure our we're talking about and say hey are these still things we
114want to find dollars for whether it's ProMaster or and we want to take something on or off investor or we want to find other sources of one data and that led into my notion of with your ass is it just thinking on the original list of made it or didn't quite make it are we adding is Administration do they have the latitude to be able to add things that maybe have I think yes one of the major reasons in my mind why we kept 700 000 off what it was we knew that we were having some administrative changes and we wanted to make sure that we weren't your marketing and saying just execute a complete plan that there's some some level of flexibility within Administration to say what about this this thing shake out because
115we knew we weren't hitting it perfect fortunately if there's a casualty in the process it's that that that amount is lesser and lesser you know than anticipated that's all it's not going to be one Tina I guess my perspective I'm just you know I'm like looking for summary and you know I trust what over the administration you know as we went through that and stuff I'm trusting what the administration brings forward as far as you know what they feel will make the biggest impact um in a learning environments and what we're trying to you know achieve and how it you know maybe ties to our strategic plan that way I I'm I'm very okay with that the reason I asked the question about um you know the show stopper or score kind of question is
116I don't want us to bring back when I'm just sad and then we spiral a lot of control on up but this was on a prior list how come you didn't come back to us we were really expecting this to come back to us why isn't it elephants on the list whatever right or that's um right or there was a burning desire that the board had that we didn't tune into at some level and therefore it's not on the list and then you say well how come this isn't on the list um and I could see that happen only because I've seen that happen before um in many other school districts so I'm not saying we're any different I'm just trying to avoid that if I can yeah trying to shorten the process right yeah
117trying to shorten down the timeline here as we get this done yeah I agree they mentioned we're all kind of hitting every topic I think it's really important though that you'll get an update maybe make sure that the things that we did feel were important at the time that they're not being derailed or not being just disregarded in case they are items we do still want if it's people to continue the work on it whether it's the furniture or whatever we just we've kind of been at a standstill those things that Stood Still we haven't so I don't want to assume that they're not needed anymore but I don't want to assume that no one's work not working on them so so what I what I'd like to get to hopefully tonight is an agreement
118that a the board has had the opportunity to tell us a showstopper or not and then that means that anything else that the administration brings that's the list we talk about and condense and or do whatever we will with and anything else that's in the universe we don't talk about until we convince them get through that list and be done with action on that list and then if there's something left over then we can go back to the universe again that's that's the agreement I'm hoping to look for so that way we don't start spinning off in whatever it could be or could not be um because you've already been given a chance right now to tell us something that we may have to think of or or not really bring back because you're not
119interested in so that way when we Google through our processes you know exactly what we're interested in how we prioritize that and you've had also that other information that Mr Smith uh would like to have on the budget to make sure that we have it all together for you right um I guess I'm confused by the statement because whatever is on this list I I still want on this list that's what I'm trying to get yeah do you are you expecting to see those things come back as part of the discussion yes if so then but for clarity he's showing a list of things have already approved you're not asking about the things we'll argue with you no I but I I okay no no yeah I'm not I'm not talking about what is already
120uh in the approved status budget wise I'm talking about there was a list of basically the final four that didn't make the championship round that list that was in a couple of presentations I saw there you go those are the ones I'm talking about do you want those back or not back are you expecting those back um and or is there anything else that we um as an admin team may not have brought to you but you have thought about or heard about from other districts and you'd like us to at least investigate it because otherwise I would like to make the effort to whatever list we bring back that's the only thing for consideration and then we just work our way through that and then if there's money left after that we can do
121again but it'll it'll keep dealing us to whittle that down a little that down make plans and then make work of action um and it'll keep moving us forward and I think in a productive way [Music] like I'm hearing a from the board that yes items that didn't make the final cut are are fair and appropriate if you wish to bring them back and be the we're in concurrence that we as a board when it comes to reviewing your proposal back or not at that time gonna say but what about elements like I mentioned tonight I did talk about elephants what if you come back and say we said 150 for furniture and we think we only want to spend 120. okay great yes I mean these were directional dollars these were allocations that is
122part of the first part of the exercise is let's get an update on the budget and projects that were already improved where do we stand with those and I think if you can get that list in our hands at least in draft form earlier there may be some feedback that we individually can give you two if it says hey what about that okay Sarah and I might have missed something along the way in transition and whatever else but you know I think we got a fairly complete list yeah but okay it's always good to double check that anything else on that topic all right thank you very much so move on to report superintendent report but I can't believe we're an hour and a half into the meeting and I feel like I should have
123done this together at least an hour ago so I'll try to keep it brief as brief as I can um just some recognition pieces yeah if you didn't get a chance to see Freaky Friday and Middle School production Musical that happened uh recently it was amazing I got to take my youngest to it on Saturday it was a great great successful show um and I it just highlights um something that I'll talk about a little bit later in this presentation that was a pretty beautiful come on um just uh reiterating what Mr shine said about the uh wsd Visual Arts classic taking second place overall State I won't read through everything else but those are the names of the students in a picture of them um they did a great job and so just let
124that roommate permit so you take a look foreign we just had confirmed I think today uh that wusd and 11th year running uh won the 2023 best communities for music education meaning we have proud supporters of our music education department um and not only that but um we um are rocking it and things like our musicals uh Freaky Friday so on and later on in my list of update uh things to come in the calendar oh that's interesting okay um uh we'll we'll go through that um I have to give a shout out to Cheryl Hollis um and um her job working with Jenny Morris and some others here at the ESC the Children's Day fair I think you know rocked it out of the park for what I'm hearing from everybody I end up
125having to be dead and being on the soccer field uh soccer field sideline uh so I didn't get to go there but man this looks like a lot of fun I heard a lot of great things from not only the people who were involved in the process about how organized it was um but also just how people students felt uh dealing with the younger families you said we had over 200 so we had 200 we asked people to register on the game one one of her family and two including families amazing and again I will reiterate chill with the brain behind the whole operation and um we had weather on our side on Saturday too it's usually the first beautiful Saturday uh yeah watching snowing soccer is always an interesting thing too so um but
126anyway congratulations to uh the team and Jenny for making sure it all happened and all the volunteers who helped out with that um also um there was an opportunity that we had whs and Riverside Advent site teams took of action and we went to a half day training in Burlington um where we discussed a number of items and I promised them I wouldn't do a spoiler because they are too CO2 and services soon to give an update on Avid programming and of course that will matriculate here so I promise no spoilers but I just want you to know it was a great morning and we we got a lot done you took a lot was good and I want to thank Aaron for continuing to help set those things in motion and help us to
127transition into next year with Abbott um and then lastly um some important reminders about dates no school on May 29th um and um we do have a special board meeting a special meeting of the board on May 5th uh to conduct this first part of uh the ending process of my evaluation uh and then we have Educational Services on the 9th May at 10th is planning uh May 15th is human resources May 17 fiscal management May 22nd regular monthly meeting yes and I hit something wrong with your own gate it's it's Friday May 5th Vista meeting is that wrong that's not the right oh May third I'm sorry I I I I I I I could have easily put the wrong name I'm sorry uh major is the Wednesday it's the Wednesday yeah okay thank
128you correct that uh and then um on May 9th uh his middle school orchestra May 13th middle school Mass band 7 pm and then May 15th the scholarship 97 PM those are just some highlights there's plenty other things that are going on but in the spirit of supporting music and what we're talking about earlier in the presentation just want to recognize some middle school things that are happening we tend to a lot of times lean towards other areas and the middle gets forgotten so as a former Middle School teacher I wanted to make sure I did a good shot at least in the Spain Middle School little brothers yep that's right I'm not a good old brother but hey if you are I'm sorry so any other questions you guys have okay all right our
129next item is the board of canvassers report in your materials so the board of canvassers Mets on April 10th Monday April 10th and reported out the following results we then assigned members the board of canvassers the Watertown Unified School District certify the end that the annexed and within tabular statement is true and correct is compiled by us from the original returns made through school district clarified several Town villagers election districts in said school district of the election held on Tuesday April 4th 2023. and the number of votes given by the spring election candidates for school board are as follows Mike Higgins 4593 Fred Yount 3716 Diana Johnson 5037 and Dan boatner as being registered right in received 1671. [Music] so congratulations to our new but returning member and our returning members fiscal management I will
130report briefly on this so I've already talked about the discussion about Esser that came about discussing about an item about screens for classrooms in addition there was a discussion about uh and I'm going to call an update to purchase from that Network equipment because we had actually previously discussed and approved this purchase but we have updated information and frankly a better quote came out of that which the committee heared about and appreciated and that is resolution 9199 and then in addition we heard about the efforts who consolidate print services within the district and what we mean by that is how do you reduce the number of little bitty printers sitting on people's desks and get more people to use a larger unit that has a much lower cost per copy and it was significant costs
131over a five-year period that were projected and that is encompassed in resolution 9200 later on our agenda and then as I mentioned with regard to our next meeting for fiscal we have already essentially reserved the bulk of that meeting to be that preview of the Esser part 2 list in the sr3 part two is that what they're called okay yeah all right yes um I saw the the resolution on the switches and the APS and I was looking for information on it I went back through fiscals and I couldn't find it so I I didn't know what it was talked about but um even yeah um just knowing the high dollar amount and I don't know all the quotes that were gotten but I understand talking to a friend of mine in the IT world
132that you can get ubiquity for roughly 30 less but there's trade-offs so I was just wondering what processed three bids in a buy how we decided on Heartland I mean I so I get out of it now but I'll I'll use it now but we can concentrate you then yeah so it's important to note that the bulk of this money will be reimbursed as part of the e-rate and we have participate in e-rate you are working with the federal and state partner that has already been bid out at that level okay so you're using a pre-configured equipment list for which a number of vendors have already provided their prices and the e-rate program has picked their preferred vendor for that equipment and so they've already done it for you and essentially you'd have to do
133that in order to comply with the e-rate process and therefore get the 70 reimbursement okay that's part that I don't know where I would have found that information except for asking the question good enough thank you yeah all right thank you okay any other comments or questions in fiscal management you should talk about that repayment oh sorry thank you yes the last thing that was brought before us was I'd say pretty much every year I've been here there's been an opportunity to essentially prepaid debt in order to bring down the amount of total debt that we are paying normally because we have a polls that we reviewed from uh there and in particular it was one particular bond issue that we're looking to reduce and the only thing that was different this time around is
134typically when you do one of these refinances not refinances you're paying it off early you pay off the last years because that's where you get the biggest savings so the furthest years out uh Baird actually came back with a creative recommendation of paying down some on the last year's but more importantly some in the middle and it just happens to fit really well this isn't the only bond issue only that we have outstanding we look at the the bulk of them what they're basically doing is about five years out we'd have a step down in our annual debt payments overall and so by taking some money out of the middle there they're potentially bringing that step down in a couple years earlier and it helps smooth that you know hey bring that savings forward and
135being helped smooth the whole thing out a bit more so just a little bit different approach and we should expect to see some action coming forward to us uh soon on that yeah can I make one edition slash correction for the statement yeah it wasn't just bare that brought that I want to make sure that we recognize Sarah's work with her to come up with a creative solution because I know that I know that you put a lot I don't know but she did have a good hand in it so I want to make sure that she's recognized at the table for that yeah so thank you Sarah for bringing the vendor in and working with them to create a solution that was awesome all right any other comments or questions in that reports if
136not we'll move on to HIV we met on Monday April 17th um our committee was present we had other people there um we our attorney um the wusd attorney um Dan White sorry delete sorry um he presented information about the legal aspects of teacher administrator contracted employees um so that was helpful as we you know often have questions regarding that um we then had a clarification regarding the summer school enrollment requirements um this year's summer school session does not include a requirement for enrollment on an academic course um Dr Burke stated that the 2024 summer school plan does include reinstating the requirement for academic course involvement for students as a condition of accessing enrichment opportunities so the defined plan for the summer school programming is will be a future Educational Services committee um of the
137Staffing plan is in the human resources committee and that will be between November and January we have a consent agenda as a resolution tonight a review of Staff appointments resignations and terminations we do also have um another resolution for the summer school staff um and then we also did um we can find in our minutes we are in our meeting information we did also do an annual activity summary knowing that you know these have a have an opportunity to change and shift and things like that going forward um we had a really great committee um as far as the the work that the HR did and Margaret and things like that and so we just wanted to to make sure we just kind of did a review on that um and also then our committee
138agenda agenda planning pardon me um and so the topics for May will include support staff notices of employment and discussion of support staff compensation review options so we've kind of had that per discussion for a number of times and now we're gonna move to the next step as far as reviewing options then we went into a closed sessions closed session um let's see let's see the committee review the proposed Staffing plan and Personnel changes for 23 24 school year no decisions were made while in a closed session um we went back to open session and reviewed the teacher contracts there is a resolution for that to for teacher contracts um for the 23-24 school year and we joined at 7 45 our next meeting is Monday May 15th questions or comments on that report all
139right ed services sure uh ed services met um on April 11th and uh three topics on the agenda Advanced learner math curriculum and Avid um program strategies uh you've heard ample about the first two uh we did not get to the Third and then we adjourned it any additional questions thank you all right policy review uh policy the uh major topic for discussion that was brought forth from uh Tina as the sponsor was extracurricular activities and what is an extracurricular versus a co-curricular uh given that we don't even Define them in at least two to four different policies that they affect um that being said uh Tina is going to work with Jared on some definitions uh during that uh Jared had brought up the entity Neola which is a partner for school districts to
140manage their policies and we opted to have them come and present in June to hear what they had to say uh and if it was worth our effort as a district to partner with them obviously there's going to be a cost the question is is what type of risk mitigation is the benefit uh how to date our policies we've been going through some that have needed some major revisions and had some major gaps so uh in June if you're interested in hearing the presentation from Neola that will be on our docket if uh Jared can arrange it it's arranged it's arranged very good um next was a new policy which is a major revision that was for class size we had a reasonable discussion as to the merits of it there's plenty plenty of room
141in the way the policy is written to add or subtract from those recommended recommended amounts but I thought it was appropriate as did the committee that we have a starting point for discussions at every single level in the district um with valid reasons to move from that but for uh budgeting and scheduling uh had to start somewhere and we didn't have a policy so that's 5105 class size that's on for a first read and then 5220 was sponsored by Diana that has to do with grading systems and reporting to parents and ironically 5220 although that's the title has nothing in it regarding reporting to parents so the policy as it stands uh isn't even titled right um let alone it's missing some critical uh aspects regarding formative and summative assessments and with the recent uh
142reorg we decided to table that one I'll say that Diana graciously allowed us to table that one to a point where Jenny could be more involved in that later on this year so that one is not up for a first read but it will come back around uh once we have a little bit better appeal for how the new organization is going to run uh and then next we're just several for minor revisions which is predominantly replacing board with uh or Board of Education with capital board and the district with wusd where all of those um good discussion a good team meeting um and then the next one is on June 14th uh as uh mentioned that's fine because I think every other year we decide whether which it to USD District at wusd if
143I'm not mistaken I know that is the current location [Laughter] for uh let's see those are all for first read and there is a second read on tonight's agenda and that was the one that Lori uh sponsored and that has to do with the anti-bullying which also receives some necessary updates but that was not discussed at the last policy meeting but just FYI that's up for second reason all right comments or questions in that report thank you next is the consent agenda resolution 9192 the consent agenda includes the minutes from our board meetings it includes the committee's summaries it includes personnel and staff changes which is retirements resignations and appointments it includes the approval of bills and the first and second reading of policies of which there are a number of First reads and the
144aforementioned second read of the anti-bullying policy do I hear a motion on 9192 was moved by Diana and seconded by Laurie comments or questions upon the motion hearing none will cover please yes Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Schroeder yes David Smith yes Craig Wortman yes yes Mike Higgins yes Tony Arnett yes and the motion carries next moving on to our action items we have resolution 9193 this is the purchase of district-wide bridges in mathematics Third Edition curriculum do I hear emotion [Music] second moved by Diana seconded by Martina comments or questions on the motion motion to add the dollar amount of 301 thousand dollars well that was my question so what what exactly is the dollar amount that you recommended I'm not used to seeing are we just is this a motion to
145adopt or is this a motion to actual purchase because this remote control purchase I would expect to see a dollar amount right uh it's it's the motion to adopt um we won't have final discussion on where the money is coming from until we have more follow-up discussion on where we're going with us or uh for instance you you guys noted that we have about 860 some thousand dollars uh in possible requests for the Mathematics Curriculum and an Esser budget of six hundred thousand dollars um which would we was talking and I to talk about where the remaining dollars would come from and remind you it's over a two-year process right of which this year we may have some remaining funds and budget to be able to tackle some of that whereas next year is a
146little bit more strapped for cash um and so all of those things will have to come into play before we make a final purchase I just want to make sure that our team and our and our vendor know what direction we're going in so that we can start the professional development we can ask those finalized questions and make sure we got the exact purchase coming for you okay so you're not asking for an actual approval to move ahead with making a purchase you're asking for the adoption of the curriculum and this those are our two separate Instinct acts again I mean things you do we will eventually purchase it right yeah you're going to come back you're going to come back and that means you're going to come back later with a formal request to
147purchase price okay would the Mover and secondary accept a friendly amendment to drop the word purchase both the title and both the title and the language and the title would be amended to just say adoption of District white bridges in mathematics yes okay all right so the resolution as it stands is adoption of district-wide bridges mathematics Third Edition curriculum beat resolve Watertown Unified School District Board of Education approved the adoption of bridges and Mathematics Third Edition as youth Mathematics Curriculum support materials for 4K through grade five with a two-year implementation for the 2023 and 2024 school year as recommended by the wfu math research team and presented to the educational services committee is everyone there on the motor they are not to create a purchase order it's not going to generate a purchase in order
148because that's forthcoming and they'll tell us the amount where they intend to get the money because this will help us align uh the professional development and those kind of strategies with our vendor um and then also to get the finalized exact uh purchasing that's going to happen and where those dollars are coming from um we just need to keep the process moving forward and the idea that you've seen where the process has gone along the lines of the adoption I want to confirm the adoption so that then when we can finalize pricing purchasing uh PD timelines all those things without having to wait another month and to start on that process so that's as we look at process and procedures is this normal that there is a board resolution for an adoption usually the adoption
149comes along with the purchase but because the money issue is there and we're over a set budget that was there and we're having to talk about what next steps are and that's going to come in along the lines of a lot of other opportunities um we need to finalize we need to make sure that we're moving forward with the process that our teaching and learning Specialists are it's going to be important our directors went with their group and confirmed that but then give us some time still to work at where's the dollar amount and what the final amount I do there's nothing in this language that convinced the board to an open-ended purchase and they're adopting in principle the curriculum we adopt changes to our curriculum from time to time they do not have a
150purchase associated with them and if you look at the duties delineated to a board of education by state statute one adopted curriculum two raise and spend money three policy or higher superintendent to the rest so there you are in state statutes two separate distinct things and again we have that we adopt curriculum changes throughout the year different courses come forward to us as an example and improve that so I don't know yes if we were to next month say Do not purchase then we've adopted something we haven't done that's that's where it breaks down to me it's to me it's the finalizing the details and I'm ready to bring all the details to us and but they're not I don't feel I feel confident the Committees come forward with this is what it is and
151they're not going to reverse course and say well we're not we don't want to move forward with Bridges the same idea we approved the Esther for the AC you know go off and finalize quotes and bring them back to us and we'll approve them we've done that in a number of cases we moved a project and say good get a spinal quote I see this to me the the inspired it's to me why the Board of Ed by the services suggested that it be broken into multiple resolutions to me the the curriculum for Bridges is set well-defined has a good budget we have the money and asked her to do it yeah I would rather see that one the if you prefer a alternate Avenue you could do a motion with a price not to
152exceed we can give you a budget number that I feel very comfortable that will be able to make sure we had um and you won't know which budget area it will come out of yet and that's where to me it breaks down that that's where I I see this committee not moving forward with enough direction for our team I think our team really wants to know where they're going um uh and have an affirmative action with that especially our teachers um and so that we can start on the professional development planning we can start talking with vendors about you know when we can receive those orders what they're going to look like and what the totality of those are that will help us as we're finalizing what we need to on the budget side of
153this large purchase that's coming from a multiple account area so there's two Avenues I'd like to just affirm that we're moving forward though I I would support and not to exceed and it it's included into the the wording of the motion because they're the resolution because it doesn't it doesn't make sense like you would do one without the others double next month we come and say no don't spend the money and it's just like you're taking a look before the other right and then we get into this well you said we were going to and but we didn't and if they come in and say I'm sorry but it's going to be 1.3 million for this then we're like wait a minute I know we adopted this but you came in a lot higher than
154what you presented in the board meeting so there's got to be a way that we come to an even agreement on that I think they're not going to see this in our head does it not [Music] I remember Jenny's estimations were on the high in the perspective well interacting to give us a number that was easily hittable I mean yeah she said 360 he could say 400 but we're still gonna have to recruit the expenditure when it comes up anyway it just it comes down to an issue of how are we going to entrust in one another that a we're not going to be wildly inappropriate with a purchase yeah but since you know that we don't have everything in in the appropriate order and part of that is um part and parcel just where
155we are with the transition of different jobs and other things I can't give you everything wrapped up in a nice little bowl like we normally would or would like to aim for especially in this time of year but we do have to make some kind of commitment to our staff so that they can start closing out their urine prepping for next year and and knowing where they are that's that's all I'm asking is for the board to help us affirm that guidance and then we will finalize the purchase you guys have a great idea in the slideshow as to what the costs are if you want to use those costs to develop a not to exceed amount that's fine if it does come you know anywhere above that we can you know renegotiate that at
156that time but again not in the sense that we're not moving forward with this curriculum I would I'm going to say that I don't know if I have a problem with this as written in that if we were to come back in a month or when we go through the Astrid dollars and we say you know what you came in too high we're not purchasing this go back to the drawing board that causes more trouble and more work for you if you come back in and hit these numbers or less than you provided tonight so I don't have a problem with this and I understand not to exceed and if we're going to go not to exceed we can throw the numbers up that we had tonight and say not to exceed the numbers that
157were represented tonight or whatever you want but I don't feel myself that we need that necessarily because you're going to cause yourself more trouble if you're coming too high yeah I mean it would be very different and wildly unexplainable if the board said hey Jared move forward with our new curriculum take it out of whatever budget you think is necessary and just tell us what you did on the way back I'm not asking for that okay uh I mean that would be wildly inappropriate what I am asking for is a confirmation that yes our our committee uh the due diligence our director is bringing in a good suggestion um and this is where um we want to give a commitment to we realize that sometimes uh the world is messy and you guys will have
158to bring us back the following information later which is what budget is it coming out of the what's the final cost I think but assuming that we will do so without great change to the information I don't think this is something that you need to necessarily worry about on that side of the coin right I'm gonna unless there's anything else I'm just going to call a question of the motion to get us moving what is the motion degree so change it to do not because we so the motion amendment is what I read out which is the adoption that you can read it out full again the only thing we've done is to remove and purchase owner it's the adoption of the adoption and purchase of purchase the adoption so weird is this an amendment
159that we're voting on no that was given as a friendly amount and it was accepted by both the Mover and the secondary so this is the main motion Yep this is the main mission okay yeah boredom all right please Rory Holland yes Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Schrader yes David Smith no foreign yes Brett young yes Mike Cadence yes Tony Arnett yes and the motion carries and the next one is again first same as the first which is 9194 purchase the illustrative mathematics Riverside Middle School do I hear a motion in this regard building the aggressive language of adoption of for the title and removing and purchase from the body I will make a motion to uh to move this forward with the same adjustments as the previous resolution black red comments or
160questions on the motion understanding your economy replies um I know there was a lot of discussion and um bed service is about the need for the purchase of a additional supplies and materials or for this particular curriculum purchase can you explain to me uh how how that what that looks like as far as um that the need for Esser dollars potentially and because that was a little surrounding discussion for the purchase of some of those supplies were one one you'd Supply is that it comes to mind was the calculators um is that a classroom amount of class calculators or is that a sixth grade class worth of young lenders what is the scope of that so specifically relating to calculators I know there is discussion about making sure that we're providing the material that the
161students need to be successful in the program and also thinking about whether or not it makes sense for that to be a student's applied list um at this point I'm not sure exactly where the discussion about Petco is ended at the middle school level um I do know this you know in particular in the elementary level when you I'll just put it design when you purchase any set of curriculum materials what you find is that there are some things that need to come along with it for like organizational purposes and whatnot and I will use our adoption of our literacy material at the elementary level as an example um you know if you don't provide the organizational materials that go with it for our teachers and the materials it is organized and so we want
162to make that when we're purchasing these we're figuring that amount of money into this as well just like we will figure in PDN support as well and so I know that that was a consideration when the nailer amounts were considered for the adoption um I know that they are discussing the calculator and I'm not sure where that conversation is it's a class set okay there's a classroom volunteer so classroom side yeah no I appreciate that I mean I I guess I guess I was uh you know part of the part of the concern also was okay um uh what's available for for students that uh working outside of the classroom also um is there an expectation that for those children to have that as a part of their regularly supplied class list when getting into
163sixth grade shifting that expectation from ninth grade to sixth grade so those are good questions um with the illustrative map and the different math that we're looking at a lot of the math practice work will be done in the classroom at the high school level they have some sets of calculators but they're the older versions they have not been replaced and sometimes when the students have those on a class list even though you indicate the number of calculator that you would like the student to have it's often outside of the financial scope for many of our families there is one class the Calculus class does group choreographics calculator but across our system there's three different types of calculators for a Elementary classroom or a sixth grade classroom 194 digit calculator they're like eleven dollars then
164there is a graphics calculator and there's a scientific calculator so we reached out to a Texas instrument rep to get some cost for what it would look like to have a class set um it's like Jenny indicated with the literacy and again I apologize but the literacy adoption we bought several textbooks and I'm sorry not textbooks at all different levels some at lower reading levels some at the middle of the road reading levels and some at the advanced reading levels who provide those materials for those kids to access their learning so the thought with this is to be able to provide Equity across all grades and access to their learning we would include a class set for each classroom teacher of the calculator so they don't have individuals that are maybe without or perhaps don't
165have the right calculator um that's why it was rolled into the proposal not not to frivolously spend money but to take out any of those obstacles that would give in the way for the teacher and or the student yep dude is this an adoption for the middle school building yes is this an adoption that includes the stem program is it an adoption that includes the high school curriculum that is being implemented at the middle school yes so the students take now in the regular Ed classrooms even if they're in stem they go into the regular math classes the use of the calculator wouldn't change whether or not the calculator I'm talking about this this resolution yes is to adopt the curriculum for every student that is in the RMS building except for except for the
166fact that if they're taking a high school level course as a seventh grader or eighth grader they would be yeah so keep in mind that the stem program is not equipment but then let's answer the is this resolution to put illustrative math in the hands of everybody at RMS and all the RMS that's their curriculum adoption with the exception geometry yeah we have also doing algebra at the high school we're going to put in place for the high school that's the third piece this is the three pieces Elementary Middle School High School everybody but in middle school and Elementary they also College it it's not like they're coming forward with a recommendation without trying it first they've been trying it and that's so similarly for the high school level courses they're piloting right now but
167without us having formally adopted it because that's what do you believe this is what what is happening are we adopting we're adopting algebra for all these Middle School classes and because again you should view the algebra and geometry classes that are occurring at the middle school you should view those as High School classes because that's what they are if you consult our course our course book those are high school classes that are taken at the middle school library they happen to be taken at a location that is the middle school so a better High School class so after this they do not have the authority to adopt the curriculum for algebra they may only pilot they don't know about it okay but I don't think that's what their intent is Dave does does it help
168in in there in the wording as the new math support material six eight materials if we put six through eighth grade in there because then it clear it specifies exactly what you're talking about that's fine but and I'm fine with whatever we're saying they're not going to Pilot they're not going to do anything more than pilot algebra but what I heard is Mr Krantz is teaching algebra next year and he already piloted it this year he's adopting it and he's one and we're wanting to adopt is at the high school for algebra as well there will be the next resolution will be to adopt Belgium high school and if I'm a seventh grader and I want to take high school math and take high school algebra I can but I'm taking a high school class
169it'll be the same as by my sophomore or a junior and I'm taking a college level course it's not a high school course I think it's a college course so even if he piloted it it doesn't mean that that's what they're adapting for that class is that is no one in time so right yeah but is that your intent Mr Whitaker is that your pet yeah where where are those people I agree where this is where it can be a little messy it's gonna be this like this coming year so macarons and algebra's intending on teaching I am you know for all your where the high school algebra teacher is piloting I am and halfway through the year they may decide that they don't want to do IM and Matt crons will be finishing the
170year doing illustrative man but wherever the high school settles with algebra and geometry in macrons is going to settle on that exact same thing in algebra geometry so you may be using illustrative map next year but if the high school makes the decision to not go that way then the following year he won't be and that's why it does represent an extended pilot but it's an ex but it's a pilot because it's not there's no commitment to that program for about this time okay so that's the clarification yeah that that it's it's a it's a pilot or algebra right that continues right it's not that there's a purchase made for algebra with illustrative map that is a wasteful purchase it's a challenging thing to under to get under your head that this is how it
171works but we will have the material purchased for a lustrative man consumable materials next year that's what's considered in there the consumerator yes because they're going to use it within them but we're not going to purchase the algebra one materials we are going to have a pilot sign but this is the main materials for sixth seventh and eighth grade please don't think about it as algebra or geometry no action on algebra or geometry whether it's at the high school building or at the middle school building is being brought forward as a final decision with this statement up here my frustration is is that we've been at this and we've been pushing for a long time and we've known this I see phenomenal work that was done at the elementary level I see reasonable work being
172done at the middle school level and the connection to the high school and the blurriness of this is it's very disheartening to know that we're this far in the process and we're confused what that is understating my frustration I understand that there's yeah there's exclusive reasons whatever it is but it's it's frustrating to be let's adopt and work everybody would be doing it yeah and then I want you to think that that school teachers haven't Embrace this is that they want to make sure the curriculum that they pick to be the curriculum at that level is the best fit for our students and in the schedule and what we are teaching them so I don't look at this as but we've lost or why didn't we do this faster as Diana indicated earlier if you
173force a curriculum it's going to fail and we're going to invest all kinds of money in this and it's a different process that you go through at the high school level and some of you mentioned that earlier there's GPA for students we're looking at College expectations and how to get these students ready so your frustration should build their productively struggling to make the right decision they're not just making a decision to follow a timeline because some of the stuff that we learned throughout the process has helped them so I really have to make that pitch for the teachers it's not that they're draining their feet or they didn't want to do it it's just a bigger process when you're doing it at the high school level you know I mean I just need to add
174that I mean they're working very hard I mean and are committed to the success of all students it's just it's it's just part of the process I think we're not a lot different had they not had makeup with the trimesters and the timeline and things that way too so all right I have a motion in a second we'll follow please Lauren College yes Danielle Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Schrader yes David Smith no Craig Wortman yes yes Mike Higgins yes Tony Arnett yes an emotion carrier next is resolution 9195 which is the formal approval of the 2024 High School European trip as we heard about earlier this evening moved by Fred and seconded by you know it's cute comments or questions on the motion hearing then all those in favor signify by saying aye
175aye opposed motion carries next is 9196 which is certified staff contracts for the 2023-2024 school year do I hear a motion on 9196 and that was Tina and Diana comments or questions on that motion Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Trader yes David Smith yes Craig Wortman Epstein yes Mike Higgins yes Tony Arden I think yes and the motion curious next is 9197 additions to the summer school staff do I hear a motion by Craig in a second second is by Mike comments or questions on the motion hearing then roll call go please David Schrader yes David Smith yes Craig Morton yes yes Mike Higgins yes Tony Arnett yes and the motion carries next is resolution which is the 2023-2024 Cooperative agreement with Wisconsin SNMP basically a Cooperative buying group do I hear a
176motion on 9198 motion second moved by Brad seconded by Craig comments or questions on the motion yes David Schrader yes David Smith yes yes Mike Higgins yes Tony NN yes and the motion carries next is resolution 9199 or just says switch and access points do I hear a motion the Lord moved by Craig do I hear a second thank you seconded by blindly comments or questions on the motion as I spoke to it earlier um if it's 430 up front is are we out to 4 30 for good is there a reason to put e rate in the rebate into the resolution what's our long-term exposure supposed to be I'm fine with the resolution just wanted to understand the mechanics go ahead please sure so the um the contract with Heartland would won the bid
177they'll charge USAC directly from the 70 so we won't even get charged we don't get you don't have to pay for that part and try to get reimbursed and still work with it directly so we were only on we will only be on the hook for the 30 okay so this is in a resolution for 430 it's a resolution for what is resolution full equipment in that class it's just they're going to split the bill out in terms of who's who's paying okay so this is a a hundred thousand dollar cost to the district just 128 128 yeah I didn't want to understand the cost yep sorry some funds okay [Music] I was just looking for clarity and resolution but yeah yeah this is this is funds yep from the prior uh we went with
178and then we're not doing and now this is the recent middle out of the house yeah so should be and it came in less than what we did when I said budget I was processing your ass it wasn't saying out of this budget as you was budget uh where are we are you comfortable putting that as coming out of that's your funds that's what you learned I don't know I don't know that that's necessary I mean it was already an approved yeah it's already documented line right [Music] all right Laurie Holland yes Diana Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Trader yeah David Smith yeah Craig Wortman yes yes Mike Hagins yes Tony Arnett yes and the motion carries and our last motion this evening is 9200 which is a lease agreement for print services from
179rhyme do I hear emotion don't move second moved by David seconded by Tina thank you comments or questions so following uh fiscal additional quote was obtained reval ranked purchase versus have a lease for five years uh it gives just a couple dollars High six thousand dollar uh savings for the district however I purchase it versus lease them and it would be my recommendation that we purchased them I would consider even them coming out of Esther funds is they look at the budget um might be a good way to uh one of the thoughts with the Esser was to give something that is a little more operational in the future that would say that those dollars over the next five years that we wouldn't be needing to spend on copiers um with it so it would
180help us with some of that budget uh offset with it there's no bonus but regardless there's 60 Grand in basically in the least payment interest uh as you can say we're not strapped for cash to the district right now but described as to what budgets category have been taken out of the industry sound okay all right yes um I guess uh I guess I could I can respect that thought process so um and I guess I'd like to know if there's more discussion that we can have and whether or not this is um a situation where um you know in light of that information um is this a time sensitive matter is this something that would be postponed to another fiscal meeting so that that those details can be ironed out with uh with uh
181user funds if needed so if you guys are looking at um asking us to bring a comparative uh approach other than leasing that would be an outright purchase and where that money might be coming from then I see no other choice but to go back to fiscal to have that discussion we would have to go back to the vendors and I'm sure if they want to make a sale they'll figure out a way to work with us I just don't know if any of the rebates had a time crunch on their end or not David I'm looking to you on that I mean I think that we went back to them this week and asked what the price would be if we bought them all right and they gave us a quote of how much
182it would be yeah of course they can get the ball rolling because of Summer and all the equipment that we have to get and it's a four to six week process against the equipment out because it's so much um I mean it's not time sensitive or we definitely would like to not have done during the next ball of school you know whatever they started to be like to be nice to be able to train this staff during the summer get all that training and have Ryan come back and train entering in service with teaching staff so the more we pick it down the road the harder it's going to be to meet them so walk me through the timeline again but it's uh like as far it's a four to six week lead time right
183and then uh so so from now until then so you're hoping to have those installed in the buildings Organ service this uh this fall I hope this to install it in shortly after July 1st because both your July persons again so so now we're not with my original homes yes so if we were to postpone this for an a month we should still be able to fulfill that need we will we'll get them closer to August 1st probably if my my I'm I don't want to say yes four weeks is it I would rather be cautious and say where if they're saying four to six and we're behind anything else as we push it down the road um we're going to be closer to August versus what my guess is possibly later you know so
184who can you explain the so that sixty thousand dollars when we purchase this is so the original what was given the the fiscal was uh a five-year lease and with one part of it and the other part is a maintenance contract is per copy maybe the toner and all repairs and everything else done they came back after being prompted to do a outright buy of the equipment today versus that five-year lease and it's a sixty thousand dollar savings time so it's just a savings on the equipment correct not on the not on the maintenance system with that I have a hesitancy with the purchase with this because two things one does that um machine breaks right then but if the machine breaks we can't fix it are we on the two we have to go
185buy a new one no the maintenance contract says they have to make it they will replace that we've owned at least we own this contract to keep it running and and in their view the equipment's not going to look any different it's a third party Leasing Company it'd be like if you own your car and you bought it out right or if you compared here got a loan with U.S Bank to pay off the private mechanics not going to care who whether you own it or pay for it and that's not going to matter what when it comes to the to Ryan's maintenance contract if we have Bill right if it's it's right and we have to outright buy it we're gonna have to go right by it no matter what happens they're not going
186to replace a small machines whether we're execute or food now I will say in that instance in 17 years I've never seen a machine broken to the point of having right especially if it's less than five years old um I will also add the one thing that we talked about that we didn't get the exact number on fiscal was we had about fifteen thousand dollars and buy on what they're going to give us for our religion for our current equipment which also helps outside some classes and in five years if we go ahead and we either buy and trade in all that newer equipment is going to be offsetting that cost whether we lose our purchase as well the only other hesitates with this is let's say we decided we're not going to go with
187rhyme after the maintenance contract we don't like their their service policies and things like this hey we own all of these machines they keep working we're great we don't worry about with rhyme and now you know 10 15 years later we're down here we're still using the battery machines that we purchased we've got a sun cost into we figure we still have to use that's where we are today we got we got 11 year we got 11 year average life or whatever it is to do that same thing but this allows us to say the the heavy users if we like rhyme and we like the process this allows us to say yeah hey yeah if not we're at the exact same place we were take them all out put all new ones in make
188the same decision we are today five years or not the decision is no different right yeah I have a process question um so this rhyme contract and I don't know I'm not on the fiscal committee so this rhyme contract and information has been at fiscal right yes okay so okay so if this is being brought forth as a resolution I'm kind of trusting that instead of having this discussion here that that discussion would have happened between purchasing and leasing at the fiscal and then fiscal is bringing their best offer forward to us so it was an open question at that time it would not have the answer at that meeting okay so not may or may not change that too okay so okay so that's why it's coming here because now we have a final
189number okay gotcha okay um I think that part of the least structure after five years we would own the machines for those low price those are low biome one dollar yeah okay so so you know that would afford some option at a little later time to add or replace at that time and there uh I must I must say that I I did not um that there was some value into having it at that particular item as a budgeted expense in an ongoing budget going forward so call the placeholder or what you will there is a value to having that as a planned expense so um clearly I I misread what I was hearing from the committee I thought there was genuine interest in asking the question however I thought the committee had um come
190around and move forward on bringing the lease agreement forward to the board I mistook that I'm apologizing so we went into that additional piece of information right so here we are so so then if we're at a place where we're talking about an outright purchase um as a 60 60 000 savings uh I have not had discussion with our our team um to talk about how and what budget that would come out of what impacts that might have to other purchases that we were thinking about as we close up here any of that opportunity that I think we should have uh afforded to us before the board decides to push us in the direction that we haven't even discussed yet [Music] so I would make a motion to postpone paper refer to committee sorry this
191um this Ryan contract consideration of purchase second and my understanding is that we will bring back a second idea that would be an outright purchase and what that would look like compared to a lease agreement and that the school would talk about both and then recommend to the board our final action yes go ahead is there David any way to be able to get Ryan to proceed knowing that it could be a lease or a purchase to get equipment moving can we do any kind of early resolution that we're I would say we're going forward with the project right the funding is unknown so that we can sure if it's a win situation regardless I'm just trying to make it an important event right at my last at my last school we did sign a
192contract with them um in a similar fashion and it was it was just pending board approval and this would just be you know depending how we were going to go whether the police agreement or not so if you prove it tonight to go with Ryan depending how we're going to proceed in may they could absolutely get equipment coming sure well home Mr chairman let me write a resolution I will also add that we're also saving 638 thousand dollars over five years with this project already so should we change um this to proves um the adoption of an agreement the purchase release yeah for the first week we have a motion and a second to refer to committee yeah yeah I I need a I need one or two things whether you're going to vote on
193that or the Mover is going to withdraw their motion okay so if so then I hear interest in an amendment to the now resolutions on the table to say be it resolved Watertown Unified School District Board of Education improves the bid for the purchase or five-year lease agreement submitted by Ryan or District print services as reviewed by the fiscal management committee final decision on purchase versus lease pending for the board that sounds amazing okay so I need a motion to amend to that regard moved second Ed by Dave Smith again let me capture that be resolved water tension flight school district to supportive education approves the bid for a purchase or five-year lease agreement submitted by Ryan for district print services add review by the physical management committee final decision on purchase versus lease pending
194from the board so quick question yes two number one either way we're going with Ryan yes and either way they will be in the schools by early August to not impede anything teachers need to do yeah that's the goal as well right that piece so yeah that's a determining factor for me any more comments or questions on the motion to amend yes Mike Higgins yes Tony are now yes and the motion carries and now to be now amended resolution any final comments or questions we'll call vote please on 9200 as amended um Lauren Collins yes Benny and the Johnson yes Tina Johnson yes David Schrader yes David Smith yeah Craig Whiteman yes yes Mike Higgins yes yes and the motion carries we have no other items of business in front of us this is the
195second opportunity for members of the public to address the board we see no one can computers and then secondly we already discussed essary yes okay that's what I have here otherwise we'll get a motion to internal motion [Music] thank you thank you