001We will go ahead and call the October 27, 2025 Everine public school board meeting to order. >> Begin with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Aron Schultz here. >> Mr. Wilson, >> present. >> Aaron Beck here. >> Yortn >> here. Mr. Bard >> here. >> Mr. Mark >> here. >> All right. We do have the agenda in front of us tonight. I'd ask for a motion for approval. I'll move motion by sh >> second by Dr. B. >> All those in favor of tonight's agenda signify by saying I [clears throat] >> same sign. You >> person wishing to address the
002board. >> Have none. Okay. >> Board remarks. >> Yes. >> Like to welcome and congratulate Miss Susan Bane as our new human resources person. >> Welcome aboard. You've been with us for years in the business office over there, but um originally hired. So, congratulations. Thank you. >> Now, you get to come to all the meetings. >> Yeah. >> Besid Well, there's there's a [laughter] lot. >> You can buy your way up or down [laughter] the line. >> [laughter] >> Well, welcome aboard. Thank you for uh accepting the position. Any other uh board remarks? Seeing none, we will move forward. And we have tonight a consent agenda. I'd ask for a motion for approval. >> So moved >> by Olsen, second by Burkard. >> Any further discussion related to the consent agenda? I'd >> like to
003thank the donations from everybody. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. >> Absolutely. All right. Uh, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Post. Same sign. Thank you. Reports of the assistant superintendent. >> All right. Well, first up, we have Mr. Gordon Treetop. We'll give his annual report for the Indian Education Department. And uh, Mr. Chop, if you could introduce any guests that you have brought with you, too. >> Yeah, I have our secretary for NASA here, Cassie Miller. >> Good evening. Welcome. >> Good evening. speaking on a little. >> Yeah. Okay. Um I'll leave this up for a quick second. Um I always use this slide for uh any anything we do to the public regarding whether that's our title six hearing. Um eighth grade, it's really
004great for eighth grade or parents to look at. um kind of gives an overview of what we do over at Central. Um being my office is over there, you know, heavily uh involved over at Central with with everything on this list. Getting into numbers and stuff. Title six is at 75931 this year. Um Johnson Ali, talked with Dr. Johnson. We still don't have a budget for this year. Um last year we got $12,200. um you usually get around 18 to $22,000 a year. So, some cuts going on everywhere. Um it's not too concerning just yet. You know, we have a nice carryover budget um from years past. This year we started with 43 27818 um between uh APAC and uh some of the conversations we've had. We have cut back a lot on a few
005things. one being the um Johnson shoe supply. But uh if you look at our numbers, you know, we're at 285 students right now for Johnson and that's a that's a pretty big pretty big chunk of students. Um every year it's growing. Um hopefully someday we'll see the uh money side of that. Uh this is our program starting off this year. We do our Johnson Valley School supply and uh we cut back to we used to go about $100 per kid no matter what whether that's K or 12. Uh this year um AP pack decided to go 40 for K through five. Um $60 for middle schoolers and then 80 for um high schoolers just because of the shoes get spent there as they get bigger. >> Uh this year Yeah. Uh last year, this time
006around, we served 141 students and that was about $14,800. Um so we're already saving money. We served 186 students. This year with our back to school supplies, uh it costed us $9,000. So that's it's a good thing. Uh Walmart school supplies, you know, we saved roughly roughly $1,200 and serve seven more students. Most of our kids do take advantage of shoes versus school supplies. academic stuff. Um, nothing really changes honestly every year. Uh, we we continue to do everything we have done in the past for the since I've been in this position. Uh, cultural mentoring um, you know, we try to get into um, talks with our students uh, on a more deeper level than the surface level cultural stuff. A lot of our students grew up in Aberdine. They don't really know a lot
007of the culture. So, we kind of have to queue him in on that. You know, the importance of where they're from, who they are back. Uh, fourth bullet down, uh, drum group. That was, uh, that's been going great this year. Uh, we actually have, uh, Dr. Johnson sending somebody over to help us with hand games. Uh, we'll, we'll do some videos and show you guys what that looks like when we get to a point. Kind of a winter thing. And then I'll have uh, Cassie come up and talk a little bit about Yeah. Hello. >> Um, my [clears throat] name is Cassidy Miller and I am the secretary of the Native American Student Association. Um, I moved here of January of last year, so I kind of joined in kind of late and I'm actually
008going to be graduating early in December. So, even though I've only been here for a short time, I've made plenty of memories that I will always keep with me for the rest of my life. Um, NASA made it really easy to make friends and real connections with the people around me and also my culture. Um, between movie nights, ceremonies like the eighth grade graduation and study sessions, it quickly became a place where I really looked forward to being. Uh, one of the most powerful moments was the Black Elk Peak trip. Um, it was challenging, a sevenmile challenge, by the way. Um, but walking with others who shared their stories and also being out in nature made it a lot easier and unforgettable. The mountain that we walked felt alive with history like I was walking
009in the stories of my people. Uh I also got to speak to board members in Cicitin with other students who got to share their own experiences and what NASA means to us. It felt like it was safe and welcoming and it felt really nice to be heard. Um uh so as I'm getting ready to graduate, I just want to say how grateful I am for the people I've met, the stories that I that I've heard, and the support that I've felt. Um thank you for listening and for continuing to support students like me and the communities that help us grow. >> Thank you. That one must have slipped in. I don't know what happened. Uh continuing on, uh tutoring study night still happened. We'll be rolling up at Hoggate again for the winter winter months.
010Uh we just hired one more tutor. She'll be with us over at Central. She's a former um Central graduate. She should be joining us hopefully by next week sometime. We'll be rolling with her. Uh eighth grade stuff went well this year. We had 43 eighth graders come up from uh Hogate and Simmons. That was really great to see everybody show up for them. Uh Feather Blessing still went well. Um we're still looking for a solid um hard quilt company. One we used to use uh went out of business about two years ago, three years ago, and it's been a struggle trying to find a a competitor for that. Uh quick breakdown for this uh last fall winter, things like that. Uh we did our hand drum class last year that was really great. We we
011invite Richard Smith. He's known as Bubba to a lot of the kids. Uh he comes over and helps us with drum. Teaches us about um history, you know, why it's important, things like that. Still do smudging. Um code drive went well last year. This year, uh, we we kind of bailed out of it because we didn't get much donations. Um, I'm not sure what the deal was this year, but last year we did have a secondary support system of, um, new beginning center when they closed. A lot of their stuff came over to our students and families. Um, the ones that show up in Aberdine with little to nothing. That really helped um, everybody out. Uh, moving on into the spring, you know, the welcome back to Thunder ceremony. We started that four years ago.
012Um I don't know if we're going to do that this year due to budget. Um we haven't made a decision just yet, but you know, hopefully we don't hopefully we can go, but we'll uh we'll see here in the next couple months. Uh if you look at that bottom one on 20 25 spring, that eagle wing cleaning, we actually had two full eagle wings uh delivered to us from the Eagle repository. That was quite a process. Uh students really enjoyed that to to learn about what that was like. Uh this fall we have a drumstick uh drumstick making class, hand drumstick to go along with all the hand drums we made last year. That'll be on November 18th. We'll have Bubba come over again and help us with that. Um and then Dr. Johnson's going
013to get us uh connected for hand games. A lot of our kids that come from reservations, you know, they know what that's like, but we don't have that here. So that's something we're going to instill. That's really all I have honestly. Do we have any questions uh right now? >> Well, thank you for that. >> Just a question. [clears throat] Picked up a book the other day by David McCullik, who's passed away, a historian, and the book's titled History Matters. And what you're doing is engaging students about their history. And history is what makes each one of us individuals. It's all your experiences. And I'm so grateful that you're exposing them to history that they may not be aware of that that will make them unique as they go forward. >> Cassie, you mentioned that
014you came last year. Um, how did you find out about this group and what drew you to NASA? Um, actually it was my little sister who moved here a little earlier than I did. Um, like they immediately contacted my mom about treetop here and they just kind of swooped in [laughter] us under their wings. >> That's great. >> Good job, Treetop. >> Thanks for coming. All >> [clears throat] >> right. Up next is the accountability report. >> Give me one second. [clears throat] Well, um, as we're recommending that up, as you know, every year we do an accountability report. This time of year, the state report card comes out. So that was released on Friday the 24th. And what that does is it uh gives um the public a rating scale of all the public
015schools in South Dakota. And each one of our schools receives what they call an SPI score and that's based off of a 100. And that has not changed in quite some time. But however, uh we will have some changes going forward next year and I'll show share with you what those are. So okay so if you are interested in looking at the public report card you can go to our web page under the education tab and see the link there and then also if you want to go to the department of education there is a link there also to look at the state report card. So here's an example of the breakdown of how the elementarymentaries are scored on a PSI out of 100 points or SPI not a PSI uh SPI attendance student achievement
016the growth of students from year to year and then also our students who take the access assessment that's the breakdown and then here is the high school and you'll notice that there is one change and I have it in red at the bottom the career and college readiness will different. This has always been a lagging indicator. So, it's always been two years behind, but moving forward that will be seniors that graduate. So, the students that will be affected by this is this year's juniors. And in the past, it's been how they've scored on the state assessment and then their endorsement that they're receiving. So, if they take two CTE courses, they can get an advanced um endorsement. or if they're taking a pathway that would get them the opportunity scholarship, that's considered an honors advanced
017endorsement. So, that's the path that we've had in the past. This looks a little different. We still encourage and will have the advanced or honors endorsement that will continue. And then the career readiness is probably where we'll receive most of the changes. And that's two units of CTE and then an IRC, which is an industry recognized certification. and we already do some of those, but we're in the process of looking at how we can add more of those to our CTE courses, which is is great. So, this won't be much of a change for us really. So, which is good. Next thing I want to talk about is our state assessments. So, the state here, this is for math. The state is in blue and we are in red. And as you can see, most
018of the grades are still comparable across the state. Uh you will notice that there is one area in the high school that we are focusing on this year. We do have a 6 through 12 math review and this is kind of our area of focus for the high school. Here's our language arts scores. Again, blue is the state, red is Aberdine. Um there will be a lot of traction with this this year because we did receive the 1.4 four four-year literacy grant and we have a lot of work to do in that and kind of looking forward to see what the outcomes of that will be. We've already implemented some things at the elementary and um preliminary I'll say preliminary assessments are indicating some nice growth in there. So that's good to see. This is
019a new slide. I have not included this in the past, but this is our access results. And these are the students in our ESL department or our ESL group who take the access assessment. So all K through 12 ESL students do take the access assessment in January, February. And you have to um receive a score of a five or a combination of the state assessment and a four on the access to exit services. Generally they predict exiting services takes about five years. This assessment is in reading, writing, speaking and listening. And we had 8% exit this year which is a very good exit percentage. 21 of our 265 exited. And this this year we our enrollment is at 300 ESL students. Always like to include attendance for the elementary and middle schools. This does count
020on the the score, but it does not for the high school. But as you can see after our first column there, that's kind of the recovery year from COVID. We still are pretty steady in the 90% attendance rate, which is good. Central is always evaluated on graduation and there's two different types of graduation indicators. graduating with your cohort or graduating on time within four years or just graduating because we do have some individuals that take maybe four and a half years or five years and that's what this percentage is is um we are in 93% and that is the students who completed graduation and then here is college and career readiness for ACT and as you know ACT will be the assessment that replaces All state assessments for juniors this year and across the board
021our scores are generally at or slightly above the state average. >> Any questions on state assessments or the report card before I move into accreditation? Is the math the high school math? Is it the sequencing of courses and the flexibility that causes us to, you know, maybe not quite measure at times? >> Yeah. So, there's a couple things that we are looking at. We're looking at, yes, the [clears throat] the sequence of how we take classes. ACTs focuses on algebra 1 and algebra 2. Those are probably our two main primaries. So, we do want to take a look at when those are offered, but then also just length of course as well. So questions. Yeah. >> The graduation graph in um 2223. >> What happened there? >> Co. >> I wondered about that. So >>
022yeah, we had 700 students do online schooling and about 400 of those students were high school students and this would be the freshman sophomore. So >> yeah, >> it's quite a discrepancy from the state scores. My other question, I know we're not done yet, but >> where does this information go? Who gets it? Why do we do it? >> So >> I mean, it's good for us, but does anybody else care? >> Yeah, obviously the state report card is if anybody wants to view it there, parents can see it there. It's posted on our website, but we as a school or district, we use information to develop our goals, look at like now we're looking at um math curriculum and the sequencing of our classes. So, >> do our legislators get it in Washington >>
023or at the state level? Do they ever look this? >> They have access to the reports. >> They never look at it. >> That I don't know. Sorry. >> Have to ask them. I got to do I have to say, you know, when you look at the third grade scores in both math and language arts, our early years, they're really working hard because look how well they do in the third grade. So, you know, it's the it's the foundations that they're getting before they're even tested in third grade. So, I got to say that cuz I [laughter] know how much work they do for all those early years. >> And we, you know, >> for first time testers. >> Exactly. And, you know, most people don't realize that we really don't test children before nine,
024isn't it? before third grade because they're not reliable first of all and and it's hard to test young children because they are they don't understand tests as much and it's makes them anxious. It makes us all anxious but with really little ones they don't get it. So I'm just I'm very proud of our teachers in the early grades before we even see what their scores are. So had to say that it's good with my background in early childhood. [laughter] Had to give them a boost there. But they do a a great job in developing the skills they need for for the older grades. >> Yeah. I'm excited to see with some of our new UFly curriculum and stuff what's going to happen. >> Yeah. In the future. So >> one more question. Private schools, homeschoolers
025do not have to do this. So there's no or do they have to do it? >> Correct. >> They don't have to. >> They do not know. >> So we don't know how they're performing compared to our school district. >> Right. This is just public school. no accountability at that level to I guess display that [snorts] they're educating the children and they're meeting state levels or local levels or those types of things. >> Yeah. Any other questions on assessments or all right so I did want to share this is new I usually don't share this but we are up for accreditation this year and this is a every 5year cycle there's 28 components that we are evaluated on and um their visit will be on March 17th we'll have guests here and the next few
026slides I just wanted to share with you what those 28 components are and I'll just kind of give you a very high level overview view of what those are. So the items on the left, verification of birth certificates, immunization, background checks of certified staff, background checks on classified staff, use suicide, those are all things that we manually go and check every student file and we check every employees file to verify that those things are on on hand. And then things like the national model, those are posted throughout the school buildings. We have to submit pictures of those and then we have to submit pictures of secure files. So make sure that they're locked and that they're in fireproof safes. So those are things that we kind of upload some verification on. The things on the
027right are all policies that we have to upload or proof that we have in our school board and furpa as well. And within each one of those, they require certain things. So the state has specific things that they are looking for in each one of those. So like I'll give you an example, the bullying policy. There are four main components that have to be in that policy. And as you recall this summer, we did update our bullying policy just to make sure. So we've been going through and verifying that those are all matching. Next slide here. The things on the left are also things that we have to submit for proof. So we [clears throat] do have to submit documentation that every school has participated in fire drills, evacuation drills or tornado drills. The state
028requires that you do two fire drills too um two fire drills and two tornado drills each semester. So we have those documented. Then you also have to submit a schedule for the upcoming school year. And then the components below that like monitoring online courses or teaching state standards. We submit all kinds of documents for these whether it's handbooks, course documents. We have to submit a a guide on how the process works. So when we review curriculum, what that looks like and then obviously character development. So we'll uh send lessons on that as well. So I do communicate with the teachers and have them send me samples, teacher evaluations and SLOs's and school evaluations. We also submit two samples for all of those. And then teacher certification. Any teacher who is on a plan of intent.
029I know when people think plan of intent, that kind of sounds like plan of improvement, but that's not what it is. It's a teacher who potentially has not um earned their certification yet. They have two years to do that. So, let's say um these are often teachers who teach CTE courses and maybe we're adding a new course and they don't have that on their certificate. So they have to do some work either takes a practice or a course to add that. So we have a handful of those that are in our school improvement plans, but we'll continue to do those. The ones items on the right are so just making sure we have a policy regarding age for kindergarteners for graduation requirements that we have a minimum of 22 graduation requirements. and we'll submit things
030like our high school um handbook and gold book to make sure that we have those courses available. They will pull transcripts from our high school and then we also submit personal learning plans as part of a requirement of high schoolers. So we submit three of those school improvement plans which we have on the board agenda tonight. We'll submit all of those. Then we have to submit a summary and a data on our seven administrative waiverss. And then they also pull our school calendar just making sure that we meet all the hours required. It's a lot of sorry questions that I can answer about accreditation. [clears throat] >> Served on a >> I served on a accreditation adherent. Is it the same way where you bring in administrators, teachers at various levels and disciplines and they
031come in and committee-wise do the review for this? Is that how it's done? Um I I usually ask principles and teachers for samples but then I'll submit all of the information and then the state yes when they come their committee is made up of various people. >> Yeah that's >> well I remember at northern these were everyone was you know nervous about it and I think I was on an accreditation committee too once. Are you are you worried because it seems like everything is very organized. So, >> no, I I'm not worried about it. Um, this is my second one that I've been through and I think we do a very good job of keeping up to date with all the things that are required of us. So, I'm not I'm not concerned. >> What's
032the timeline again? How many years between >> five years? >> Any other questions or comments? >> Comment. I I would just, you know, I get on my soap box, but the legislature is trending towards providing ed or funding for private education, voucher programs, whatever you want to call it. Um, if indeed they decide to do that, which they haven't yet, I think that the requirements that we have to do should be the same for private schools and homeschoolers if they take state funds for education. I don't see why we have to do this requirement if they don't have to. So, I just think if they do that, and I don't know if they will, but if they provide funding for those students, and I parents can make their own choices, but then I think those
033schools have to meet the same requirements as we do. I just think it's only fair. If somebody disagrees with me, let me know. But I think it's it's reasonable to do that. Any other questions or comments? >> Okay, thank you. >> All right. The next item on the agenda is approval of first reading of school improvement plans. And I hope you had an opportunity to look through those. They're kind of lengthies, but um most of them have the same components though. This is a requirement of accreditation and uh there's any questions that you have about school improvement plans of the school. We have a motion on the floor. >> I'll second by Dr. B. >> Further discussion related to the school improvement plans agenda. See none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >>
034Same sign. >> Thank you. Next item is first approval of reading policy JIC. And there's only one deletion to this policy. We're going to remove the ballistic knife definition at the bottom. >> What is the ballistic knife? [laughter] >> I know. >> Sure. But but but we consulted with the SRO's and they said that that is already covered under knife and it's no longer in the state statute. So >> I think you push a button and the blade comes out. >> I don't know. mask. I don't know. >> Yeah, but it would be like >> it's like a switchblade, right? >> It's defined here in the old one. >> Those murder shows. [laughter] >> I think that's I was going to say I have a drawer. >> I think Dr. Borton's explanation is clear enough.
035So motion for approval of policy. IC move. >> Motion on the floor by Sharp, second by Beckus. Any further discussion related to policy JIC? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Same thing. >> All right. And the last item on the agenda is the comparability report. This is essentially us assuring that we provide equitable staff between title schools and non-title schools. And um attached is that report and we do have the same staff to student ratio amongst our five title schools and our one non-title school which is CC Lee. Questions or comments? See none. I'd ask for a motion for approval. So moved. >> Second. Motion by Olsson. Second by Sharp. Any further discussion related to title one comparability report? See none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I same
036sign. >> We have no further business in front of this uh group. I would ask for a motion for adjournment. >> Moted by Dr. Bordon, second by Murphy. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Thank you.