001good evening and welcome to this March 3rd 2025 meeting of the acon public schools committee instructional policy and student achievement thank you for joining us this evening um I am Diana atrey um I'd like to acknowledge uh president Carla Jackson um member Dr Molar and Committee Member Bruce Alexander as well as Dr caver um academic Chief academic um officer and superintendent Dr Robinson thank you and welcome first item is item 1.1 01 minutes from our previous school or previous committee meeting are there any additions or Corrections uh to those minutes seeing none we will accept accept them as presented to us and then we will jump right on in to our discussion topics item 2.01 um Dr caver thank you Miss alry first I just want to bring to your attention an an agenda item
002that will be on the next board agenda it is regarding our a grant from akan after school and so I just wanted to make sure that you all saw that um additional award amount that we will be getting from them so you will see a resolution presented on the consent agenda and today we have quite a few items to go over so our first agenda item um is going to be the house system from our I promise school so if I could have the uh presenters to come up to the podium from I promise I'm going to pull up their presentation thank you me one second she had an Empower point and principal Davis you can go ahead and introduce everyone whenever you're ready wonderful hi everybody thank you so much for allowing us to
003come present to you this afternoon I'm principal Stephanie Davis from the I promise school and I have with me Miss Stephanie Arnette who is one of our instructional coaches and Miss Kelly pastello who is one of my assistant principles I'm really excited for them to share all of the hard work that they've been doing around the house system for this Academic Year it's been an amazing opportunity at the I promise school but instead of me speaking about it I'm going to let my leaders speak about it all right hi good evening how are you all great awesome well like Miss Davis said my name is Kelly pastello I'm one of the assistant principles and I have Miss Arnette here um so a little bit about our house system and I am not real techsavvy with
004these so we will see how this goes what where am I pointing it at yeah should be it's [Music] okay sounds like it's connected now let's give it a shot there we go all right well we were graciously donated um through the LeBron James Family Foundation a trip to uh Atlanta Georgia to go see Ron Clark um if you have never been to Ron Clark highly recommend um it is a great magical place um that has really done some Innovative things and um one of the things that they have incorporated into their school is what is called a house system so that is kind of what we are going to be going over here so um our overview we're going to talk about our why and introduce you into our houses and how we Implement
005them in our school talking about our structure and our sour reporing our meetings and such and our impact on our school right so the overview so what we wanted to accomplish by introducing the house system was a culture of belonging some Universal expectations within our students across the entire building building a schoolwide community and building character and healthy competition we had a heavy emphasis on mass loss hierarchy of needs a kid who belongs and um has all their needs needs met does better in school focus highly on I mean strongly on belonging that was our main and one of the main um goals of the LeBron James family foundation and I promise has always been building relationships that's always been at the Forefront of everything that we do and what we noticed is that with
006us going from third grade to 8th grade sometimes those relationships don't intermix and so we really wanted to take this time to start to build that schoolwide Community where um the the other grades were seeing each other and getting to know each other uh because everybody does well in smaller teams so that is um one of the reasons why we developed this house system and also across our staff also because teachers who belong also perform better wanted to bring that same culture to our classroom teachers and our support staff started with our staff and this is our staff sorting that to our and our teachers estatic I think this is just a glimp of it but that was the moon was a great day so everybody who walks into this school custodians lunch workers every
007if you are there you are sorted into a house Dr C and Miss outley yes she is also St by and all the foundation is also sorted off St by you're getting sorted so just a little bit of an overview of our house system so um the house system is an integral piece of our PBIS that we have um currently we are currently at the bronze level for PBIS wanting to move up into the silver level and with the bronze is a strong tier one um and so with that we have our big three which is be safe be kind and be responsible um it's basically where you take all of the kiddos and they are sorted into a house um and the houses we were founded on our five habits of Promise which is
008partner perspective problem solver perseverance and Perpetual learner um so they all of our houses have Incorporated that name into them so that we never lose that Foundation that we were built upon but it um they earn points by being safe being kind being responsible it's the team based strategy so um one of the things that we did learn when we went to R Clark is that when people are part of a team they find that the um the Excellence grows because you don't want to let your team down um and we have seen that as we have implemented uh this house system our five houses we are very heavy on five houses one IPS we have two mono which problem solvers oray Partners Perpetual is the house of Perpetual Le perpetuo and the which is
009a house of persan so really quickly I don't know if this will let me click the video but we do have a video to share sorting day is coming sorting day is coming sorting day is coming at IPS we do things different you've heard of house rules well here at IPS house rules take on a whole new meaning IPS staff LJ fft members and students are all sorted into houses that represent different ideals these ideals have been part of ips since day one house to Mono is the house of perspective house or is a house of Partners come on over to house sha cuz we are some problem solvers around here okay we are house Perpetual we're the house of Perpetual Learners MCR is the house of persons the goal is to Foster creativity collaboration
010and Community throughout the whole school hpe it up let's go house to manaku get loud for the house of Mor we are house Perpetual it up for house too sorting day is coming sorting de is coming I can't wait to see where you get sorted I hope you get sorted in house Perpetual I hope you get sorted in house Neo we want you in the house of B come on over to shisha I hope you get sorted in house to Monaco remember you don't choose the house the house chooses you there are five houses but one I yes five houses one IPS we are stronger together we can't wait to get this house party started we're not even going to talk about how amazing that day was because we um picked student leaders and house
011leaders and that was a I don't know it was a huge like a it was just all the fields yeah it was all the fields so it was exciting day so implementation uh we wanted to make sure that this was rolled out into something that can be sustained um are we not talking into the mic sorry uh so we were very very cognizant on how we have been rolling this out uh because of course you get really excited about something when you go and see it but a lot of times that excitement slowly tends to drift away and so we wanted to make sure that as we rolled this out it was an intentional and it was something that could be sustained and we were we were okay with was slow and steady for the
012first year so we have been very intentional in everything we've done so the first thing that did you say the first thing that we did was house sorting so like Miss Arnette had said we started with staff all of the staff was sorted at the very beginning of the year um once that happened is when staff went back to the classrooms and started just slowly starting to talk about uh the house system to start to get that hype um in students after that we sorted our fourth through our eighth ERS they were all um sorted into houses um and then uh we had a whole house day for um our new third graders so that was something special as you can see our wheel is at the top of our stairs if you've ever been
013I promise we have this great foyer and at the top of the steps is um the wheel that we had brought down and they all got to spin that wheel go down the steps and then turn around and see what house they were were in so it was all random um so house Perpetual is a little bit on the small side but we are small and mighty um and some of the other ones like the house of oray and the house of I think it was necr got a ton of third graders um but so that's kind of how sorting day went if you want to talk about the structure and um this year for our structure because it was so U much new stuff we decided to go slow and steady so we set
014out one house structure where they're all follow the same exact structure and next year as we get some leaders this year we we appointed leaders and we've already learned so much as we're going through it next year we're going to let them appoint themselves by basically volunteering and hopefully all our houses will look a little different but they are uniform this year just so we can get them going um we have house meetings and these were this is where we discussed the history of our new houses we learned our hand movements we learned what each house meant their history what the language um they originated from and we talk about those type of things and it was just a time for the teachers and the students to get to know each other because we are
015crossing grade levels and they learn cheers and chance they are meant to just bring them together and we have had I can't remember how many this year two so far two so far and we're just doing third and fourth grade for um fifth and sixth and seventh and eth and those are our house meetings and we had house Mania we talk about house Mania here yep at house Mania they play games and they went against each other and we did again started small so that we knew that we can handle it as it rolled out and it was a time for them to build relationships and just see each other without the academics the more of just team building and socializing and we really focused on making sure that we were practicing those seal skills
016because a lot of our students need to develop those a lot um a little bit more than some others um so with that we started out just competing in um like in their house themselves eventually we want to get to a point where they are competing against houses but we wanted to start off where there really wasn't any stake in the game that we start off small um we have had one celebration for our quarterly winner and it was of perpetuo so we went up to house 330 thanks to the foundation everything was purple and we played Min to ined games with all the kids from Perpetual student staff we we um arranged it to where every staff member who was in the House Of Perpetual were able to go we just covered classes and
017they went up there for about an hour and a half they had snacks they played together and it was a perfect day it went Flawless it was amazing so um we have weekly Point winners and um they are celebrating on the announcements that's every two weeks and this time we pass out cotton candy and popcorn and they were absolutely very very very appreciative and each Friday we have been passing out people B tickets we're not there yet no go ahead just turn the wheel back oh you happen to have some in your pocket so this is when we almost like caught doing the right thing and the kids get it they write their name and their house on it and then every Friday we pull them and whatever kid is picked they get to spend
018the wheel in front of the whole entire cafeteria they earn a point for themselves and then they earn house points that goes towards the house winning the quarterly celebration so what you're looking at on the screen is our house week wheel um how it works is that they spin the wheel and they are spinning the outer layer so they will sometimes we've had quite a few that have gotten let's say the 15 with the arrow down so that's where they kind of play the game of chance where next they um have the option to spin again or they can just keep the 15 points now if they spin again they go to that second inner row where there are some nente natas where they could lose their points um so then if they get like
019the 50 with the arrow they can spin again and earn 100 points for their team if they end up on their um own house so a lot of excitement has been built that way um a lot of cheering for each other has been built that way so that this has been something really big with our students and I think that was another one of our goal is just have the kids cheer on each other just to acknowledge the things that they do right and to just build that pride of going to IPS and the pride for being just I don't know in the same house each other and also celebrating other houses because even though we're five different houses we're still one IPS just seeing each other succeed so this is just a picture from
020sorting day with our third graders lots of excitement as you can see remember there are five houses but we are one IPS I can't wait to see where you get sorted you don't choose the house the house chooses you who you win [Applause] [Music] [Applause] w [Applause] that was our first time the first time I've seen that video oh that brought tears to my eyes great days then impact um we will turn it over um to Miss Davis so I hope that you can hear threaded all throughout this our our Cornerstone one the culture of safety and belonging which we strive for at the I promise school but is anybody who knows when you deal with middle schoolers even though we've had these children from the very time they were walking through the doors in
021third grade in Middle School things start to change for kids and their relationships with adults Our Hope in bringing this system is that there's a cohesive language and structure helping kids feel included so it's not just dependent on the core teacher I was with in fourth grade but I'm making those connections all throughout the school the entire time I'm here here um it's also really it's infused a lot of joy into the way we move even for the adults we you can't tell Miss P Miss uh pastello and I really rep our team hard but but it's the same for all of the adults it's helped us find connection and reasons to talk to kids you might not ordinarily talk to um I'm always talking to kids but now they have a reason to talk
022back you know oh Miss Davis your house isn't winning or they give me the sign in the hallway it's just a the the secondary effects and the tertiary effects that we have found from it have been amazing uh a second thing that we didn't anticipate necessarily happening so fast has helped with connection with our students who might need some additional support so if we have a reintegration meeting for a kid who's maybe been out for a time or they need additional behavioral support it's not just the teacher and the administrator but we bring in the house leader that says you know remember in house to Monaco these are our expectations and I can't wait to help you through this so the level of connection that kids are feeling I'm really excited to see in our
023survey results because it's definitely given us a structure to connect everybody and everybody who walks through our door in a universal language another amazing point I'm sorry this is one of my favorite pictures Miss Victoria this one always gets me that's Miss Victoria and her mini me in fourth grade um that's them cheering for everybody that was in their house oray uh the Partnerships family and Community engagement are have been phenomenal it was a blessing and a true gift that the LeBron James Family Foundation sponsored not only my team going down to the Ron Clark Academy but also they've provided connection to the app which really helps us keep track of the leaderboards and different initiatives and incentives that go along with that including the US of house 330 but it's also a way to
024connect our families to the spirit of the school you don't have to have a kid that's on a sports team you don't have to have a kid who is on an honor roll or Merit role parents are automatically a part of the house that their children are a part of and if you've got more than one child you are A House Divided like an Ohio State Michigan family that's okay you can rep whomever you're feeling like that day but it helps give um just connection I know that one of the members of the foundation saw um somebody at the at Acme number one and she said what house are you in you know it it really gives us a whole Universal kind of language to wrap our arms around our support and um that has
025helped with our family engagement as well so we have seen an increased attendance rate I can't give you final details yet because we don't have the entire uh data for the for this academic year compared to last Academic Year and also I think our data is going to be a little bit skewed because we didn't start this until after our first quarter uh but we definitely have found especially when we're talking about students who need tier 2 responses and tier three responses to attendance it's added a level of connection and that can't be stressed enough the level of connection and accountability instead of saying oh that's a kid I haven't seen in weeks it's I'm the house leader I need to find out where my kid is so that has been maybe something we didn't
026predict but hoped would happen and it happened pretty fast we absolutely are seeing increased connections for student and staff all you have to do is walk through the doors to know that um in fact somebody said to me today why are you wearing your house shirt it's not Spirit day like just without any advertisement you know and I said I get to come brag to some really important people about all the amazing house things we're doing we've seen a decline in our level two and level three behaviors uh right now we are at a 29% decrease in suspension out of school suspensions uh compared to even last year and really my favorite thing is that this initiative came from my staff when I got to the I promus School in July of 2023 I tried
027to listen to what they needed as a staff and what they believed would make a difference in the lives of our students and my team here and I'm pointing to these two uh they have done an amazing job slowly and methodically rolling this out it would have been really easy on that staff sorting day to say we're going big big because the level of enthusiasm we were at uh was just amazing but they have very thoughtfully thought how can we include all stakeholders in this process how can we roll it out slowly so that it's meaningful for kids and now we're starting to see the benefits of having this unifying structure across all sixth grade levels thank you so much thank you so much principal Davis and your team here um for this amazing initiative
028that aligns with our PBS so thank you so much are there any questions at all member Hall thank you madam chair my apologies for being tardy um job well done um you know I tell Miss Victoria you know back in 2023 when we all filled this whole room before I was on the board you know because of the naysayers and look at you now and I just want to thank you for I had to make my little notes cuz I know can Ram when I get so emotional um but thank you for your contined encouragement for the kids you don't just help the kid you help the whole kid and that's the teachers that's the staff that's their parents that's their siblings that's the community you know and it takes more than just um just
029the education piece to make our children great so I thank you guys for that um cuz a lot of the kids they you know they come from some come from great home some come from broken homes come some come from just taking care of themselves and without um without you and also other teachers across the board but right now we're talking about I promise without you and your hearts some of our kids would be far off worse than they are um you talked about middle school and adjusting I have a fifth grader so I know what it feels like with that little mouth and things like that I'm like girl who are you talking to but um I just wanted to say thank you and and let's see I would love I love that you
030always come here with exciting news um and even things when it's challenging I love that I promise comes down and I would encourage other schools to come down and tell their success stories of what's going on because we don't always know of everything and we each have clusters so we don't always know everything that goes on but I would love for other people to come and tell their story cuz maybe you can collaborate with another school and help them you know push forward too and Ron Clark School I do want to go visit that but hey we have an i Prim school right here in akan Ohio that that is doing great you know So eventually one day people are going to come here and say they want to check out our school and maybe
031they already do but just thank you all I promise for everything that you do for our children thank you thank you thank you Mr Alexander I want to say thank you as well for coming and giving the presentation and uh last when they had the last one I actually went over to the school by mistake I was going there for something else and I went into the school and I was kind of like you know you start your day you kind of like drowsy and going I got there at the school when I left to go to work well I was hype and I thought it was really nice the kids were excited the staff were excited it was so so nice and I'm so glad to see you guys doing well because as as
032uh Miss Hall said the naysayers because they were naysayers saying what was going on now we're proving them wrong and showing that there these kids can make some progress all they need that little bit of help little additional help that they're getting and they can make make things happen and so thank you guys for working hard with our students I want to thank the students as well for working hard and their parents for being part of it as well because it's it's welld deserved it's it's good to see this happening so thank you abely thank you any other questions you know I have a question so I'm trying to Envision fully what this looks like the houses Encompass all grades correct all sixth grade levels is there a designated time each day where each house
033comes together or is that does that vary so no not yet as we're growing we have set time for house meetings and so far we're only doing them quarterly uh because we're trying to do a slow R and also build capacity but in second year it's Our intention to have monthly house meetings um and have coverage schedules and mo much like any other school has like an assembly schedule we'll just have a house team schedule that that's how we all come together so we can have space time and intention behind all of that thank you Madame President yeah thank you madam chair yeah that's what Excellence looks like as a m Hall said first of all I just my I just have a comment I don't have any questions cuz I came I visited you
034you did a phenomenal job Vicki McGee was there and you guys all were there and gave me a wonderful um layout of what this was and so I was excited for you all to be here on today what I would my comment is that what I love about this model because we are one APS and like you said we are one IPS but we are one acon public school and what I love about this model is that any good um study or any good thing that you do can be duplicated right that's how you know it's done well because you can take it anywhere you can duplicate it and I believe the things that's happening at I promise even when we talk about nationally duplicated duplicating that it's about duplicating it within our APS like
035how can we give the the LeBron James Family Foundation has been a firm supporter to wrap around what's happening at I um I promise and if we can leverage relationships for our various schools to some degree I think that would be a wonderful thing to see I know we have Partnerships United Way is doing some wonderful things with our resource center but the more we can leverage those Community Partnerships you guys are the model to show what happens when we collectively come together and what's excellent the reason why I say you're the um model because see I'm a student I'm a child first Advocate right and so I believe this is where I promise is getting it right because it really is student centered and when you say Student Center you have to weigh in
036with what the teacher input right because the teacher's input is the Direct Connect to the child they're in they're the direct contact the board is here they can do people's bidding from here but if they're not in the Weise what you here for for the kids Because the bidding has to be for the children and that's what I see happening with these type of programs with the Educators at I promise and Miss Davis I love what you said is that when I came here in 2023 I listened to what the teacher said and so this is a teacher-led initiative is what I'm understanding and so teacher-led initiatives when instructional leader can sit down with their team can hear what the team is saying and then can make the right adjustments and pivots to meet that
037need because who better knows than the teacher serving that group of kids and every group is different so this is when we talk about the culture and climate yes we're one APS so I had to circle back to this right but every culture and climate is going to be different depending on the population that you serve and I promise has a specific population I want to take this moment to say the same thing that filling that you get when you're in ey promise and I really like that feeling you get it when you go to hen Arnold you have an instructional leader that clearly is interconnected with the staff and they're moving in one motion right and not to say that everything is going to be perfect but it's student centered right and we're focused
038disagreements may happen between teacher and instructional leader but the core values of the organization is very clear is very apparent and so you don't have too many people having to come down here trying to do your bidding or advocating for you because y internally doing it yourselves right because you you got that Collective collaboration and so that's what I mean about the model it's student centered and everything burst from what how can we best serve our students and I like now that being more transparent with with those accountability measures because I have talked to individuals about that um with I promise but I said we want to measure I promise we're one District we measure it all right because we're trying to serve all students and get them to where we believe they need to
039be to be contributing citizens and that looks different for everyone so my U my comment simply is thank you God bless you and God speak with all the work that you're trying to do because you're not just impacting these moments but you're impacting eternity because teachers touch the life of children that go on and on and on you see them as a third grader you see them as a eighth grader your impact what you poured into that child will impact them for the next few years and so on and so on so the fact that you are able to readjust to re set you getting them at third grade by that time a lot of things are already established and what people don't understand I love when you came and you said Hey this not
040a Sprint it's a marathon and it's and education will continue to be a marathon especially in the Ever Changing we know we go from differentiated learning to monory model to it's always something changing in the world of education and when we can pivot and serve our children with them being at the Forefront I just think this is a great thing and I'm excited to see it I'm EXC Ed to be a part of Aron Public Schools where I promise is house that and and I'm thankful for that I'm thankful for that because we will be remiss not to see the fact that um we had a a young person from akan Ohio allow its public school system to use his name image and likeness in order to serve and his foundation and his resources to
041serve the community that he came from and so this is a claring call to everyone let's be about the business of educating our children and let's do that collectively let's do the bidding of the children that we allege that we want to serve and if you're doing that then it looks like this it looks like Helen Arnold so it looks like the schools that come around collectively come together and then come together as one to bring their needs and present before this board so again thank you thank you thank you well said Thank you again thank you thank you for your work well you know I want to get to that one one you to you we'll push through yes we're going to go out of order because of the time today and anything we
042don't finish we will bring back to the next meeting or we'll call a meeting if Miss um alry so chooses to do so um we're going to go ahead and learn a little bit about the amazing Shake which is a great segue from the IPS presentation because it is um something that was derived from the Ron Clark Ron Clark Academy as well so I'm going to welcome Marcy ebrite and Beth winter up to present I'm sorry thank you and good evening everyone so yes we're gonna I'm going to go a little fast through the first half of it but most of this I think is linked in your agenda tonight so you're welcome to read it at your leisure um but we did want to give you an update on year one college and CER
043academies in the elementary if you remember back last spring in March you approved this addendum that we added to the whole College and Career Academy suite and just wanted to sort of share where we're at today and some of the pieces that we've been able to get off the uh ground so our mission and vision and cornerstones of course it's all tied to that work um and our year one goals were to um uh get us a progress provide your progress towards a year one plan what's work is being done you know that Elementary scholar portrait we've had a lot of conversations this year about how we're getting it off the- wall and into practice in the classroom so it's just not a poster it's a part of the culture and system of schools and
044we're going to discuss the amazing Shake pilot so uh this year you know we had our Master planning in the elementary that started in June of 20121 and you approved the elementary addendum in March of 2024 and we had for designation and ACR in action that same year uh the uh work that we've been putting towards this addendum into practice right now uh these priorities fell into how does partner engagement in college and ceries really look in the elementary so what's that goal and pieces going to come together as uh how are our elementary advisories looking which is kind of a challenge because you don't see and hear about those very often you hear about high school advisories we have Middle School advisories but we've been working through that process uh getting those competencies recognized
045and growing our voice in leadership which is where we've had the most sort of uh impact so far this year and we have completed some items such as looking at the elementary partners that were already in existence and how to invite them to this new level of work growing the essential experiences um we have the a growing the role we have an elementary content specialist who has been taking out a lot of this implementation we've embedded career exploration in akan after school so we re-envisioned that curriculum to have those career touch points inside of it and uh we have been design designing High exposure in demand opportunities for students um we were hosting events for elementary partners and establishing Elementary partner advisory councils so we have completed that portrait of a us uh there was
046a design team that's met several times this year in several different iterations to look at how we're doing that work for the scholar competencies so that the words are there but how do you recognize them and celebrate them and also give kids chances to practice those skills that you see on those screens um I'm not a big fan of like so you have the word be kind is one of the items up there how do you get kids a chance to practice their kindness skills and get good at them and then recognize them and then celebrate them when they're supporting others in kindness skills and not just saying you're kind or not kind right so lots of chances there they've been thinking through that and how we're uh reestablishing some of those pieces we've completed
047a student leadership as a standing agenda item and administrative meetings we've established administrative leads for Focus teams and we've continued to uh expand or Define leadership opportunities across uh for students again our portrait is our driving force in elementary world and uh where we've at right now we've had people from the our CCA Department Elementary principales have advised on it uh CCAA steering committee which is our whole uh Partnerships that come together every quarter to discuss items have have given input the elementary essential experience Partners Cornerstone team Community uh uh members and Design Lab participants were mainly teachers and uh uh working together to think about that piece I'm going to go ahead and move a little further here there is a timeline timeline of professional skills that the counseling team started last year and
048rolled out to schools that has layered over monthly sort of uh objectives around the portrait so that we're moving kids through systemically and knowing that every kid is getting a chance to practice and become good and recognized for these skills and that brings us to we knew that part of the elementary addendum one of the uh pieces that it called for us to to create and Implement was a summi of experience for elementary so that by the time they're ready to leave they have a chance to really demonstrate all of these things and assets that they've been gaining so uh the suggestion was to look at this program called The Amazing shake and I'm going to turn it over to Miss Beth winter our partner engagement coordinator to speak about where we're at with that
049work right now thank you Marcy hello everyone thank you for allowing me to be here I am super enthusiastic about the amazing Shake I think this is an amazing program no pun intended so we've heard about Ron Clark already once tonight and Ron Clark Academy began the amazing shake it is geared towards um fourth through e8th graders I've been a proponent of this since I first heard about it emphasizing teaching scholar manners discipline respect and how you conduct yourself in a professional environment so we decided we would pilot it this year with the goal being to make it to scaffold it next year to the entire fifth grade across the district have everyone participate in this amazing Shake there are sever several rounds um that will mimic different real world interactions and so each round
050Narrows the field of Scholars so this year with our Pilot We asked for schools to volunteer their fifth grade classes we had six schools that did so we were trying to replicate a cluster the number of students in a cluster so that we could see how this could work we've learned an awful lot from it um with that first round we had about 165 Scholars that participated because we had one school that had to cancel at the last or later in the in the uh as we were planning so we had schools from bar participated Krauss I promis Portage Path Sam Salem and Voris um again hoping to make it districtwide so this is the timeline as it progress so December 11th and 12th we were talking about it at principal meetings and with our
051elementary Design Lab team December 13th through 20th and I've got to tell you when we first met with the partners we or excuse me with the principles we asked for volunteers and we needed 10 schools we had not left the room before we had eight schools so they were very excited about the opportunity to do this and we were thrilled to have that um our our colleague um Trisha Kelly who couldn't be here tonight she Pro developed an entire um opportunity for or program for a list of uh training Etc videos etc for the teachers to use or counselors whomever at the schools to train students and to practice some of these skills so we gave them that opportunity that happened in January so we had round one in February round two February also round
052three is this week and round four will be next week where we will have the pilot winner so just to narrow down a little bit so fifth grade only we did the practice in January so round one we had 15 stations that the students went through each station was 1 minute long and they went at the gong we literally had a Gong for them they went to the next station so the first one may have been introduce yourself then there was three conversation alley convers opportunities they might have to I was a judge for one where they had to tell me where I could take my grandchildren in akan what was fun for kids to do they might have to um tell someone about their school and how wonderful it was so they had 15
053different stations one of their favorites I learned from the students was uh they had Birthday Bash was one where they had two gifts they could choose one one had a roll of tape in it and one had a box of Kleenex and they had to thank the person for that gift because they've all gotten a bad gift at one time or another right but it's an important skill to have so they but they they told me at the next round how much they thought that was how fun they thought that was so that was round one we they were scored with each time we gathered the scores we took the top 24 some school every school had representation then they came in and they had to do a demonstration of explain a process so in
054this case they could choose between explaining how you brush your teeth and we had um items there for them to demonstrate or how to put together a jigsaw puzzle and again it was thinking on your feet how to use logic how to go step by step then they went with teams and they did some skills some teamwork building some team building and on different projects for that so this week they each have prepared we're now down narrowed down to 12 Scholars this week we they are providing each student will present a 2 to three minute presentation on a change they'd like to see in their school and what action steps are needed to make it happen and then there's a business lunch with judges and then we will round two round four next week where
055we have chat circles networking and then final interviews and at which we will announce our winner so we're really excited about this opportunity I don't do you want to show the video I don't think we have time this is a two-minute video you've got the link and if you have time this is not us but there will be a video from APS coming out I just want you to know how amazing I'm sorry I keep using that word but how awesome this program is when you see our Scholars when you see them rise to this Challenge and I'll tell you our judges walked out of round one they were on Cloud9 they were so impressed with our Scholars that the the professional skills they demonstrated the enthusiasm they demonstrated and you know if we can
056do this and we continue this for our fifth graders we're changing lives because these skills when you have those professional skills you can go anywhere in life you need to go and we're helping prepare them for that so I appreciate that opportunity to do that for our students so with that there's also some pictures in there that you can look at this was round one and then we have round two and there'll be more to come as you as we progress through this and I'm happy to take questions if you have the time otherwise you know where to reach thank you very exciting any questions Mr Alexander I just want to say thank you all for coming again it this is what I love tonight is positive we need more positive energy to show that
057AC Public Schools is doing some great things and and we we got to get rid of all the negativity so what you guys are doing is starting this positive movement we'll keep that positive movement going and it'll take over the district like Madame President said the district is going to take over the district so we can do continue to do the good things and more productive things that we we know our students can do so thank you guys again thank you I believe you all have on your next two uh the next two rounds are on your calendar invites I suest you come in to uh cheer the kids on and see what they're doing uh the first round uh was pretty intense and there was a lot of business Community Partners in there shaking
058our kids' hands and they had been prepped to make eye contact introduce themselves shake their hands perform their challenge gong next thing they did it 15 times in a row um and then at the end we asked if you'd like to come back and do round two with us and almost everybody said yes and now they're running out of seats so uh if you want to be involved in that you need to let me know so we can get you a seat that's basically the question thank you madam chair that's what I was going to ask you said it's on our calendars it should be um the least has this round yeah and then there's round four she should have sent you out too she hasn't yet she probably just got that one today perfect
059what's the what's the fourth one March 14th 14th okay thank you it's here they're both here March March probably proba last is the one where it's going to be final four wonderful thank you thanks again all right thank you so we're going to move on to our third topic for the day and that was that is to um give an update on the CCAA pathway so we're going to keep Miss ebite up here and more specifically um giving an update on uh bookle CLC um if not I'll get mine later yes thank you so I've just prepared a report here for you uh Miss Audrey asked uh specifically around the stop start and sustain process and what's happened with uh Pathways uh that would retire new Pathways that would come on or Pathways that we're
060looking to sustain and that means uh enrollment might be low interest might be low how could we re Envision the pathway to drum up more interest for students so in the materials I just gave you I'm just going to give you a high level overview of what I've given you give you a chance to read and digest it and if you need me to come back next month and go into a deeper dive on the information that you're looking at um but I wanted you to have some of the facts and stats and numbers in front of you um uh I'm not sure we'll have time to dig through every single thing today but in your resource packet there there are the currenty and Pathways attached in your packet there is the pathway selection guidance
061which is what we do each year when freshmen select and declare their Pathways of study for high school and how that's performed uh we do keep our Pathways to about 75 to 100 students when you get much larger than 100 students you know you might see a couple in there they have 101 102 they snuck in a couple extra but you think about the labs that you've been to in our College in hermies you don't want them to get so large that the kids can't have that experience of the the pathway you also don't want them to get so small that there's three or four kids sitting in a classroom in one of those huge Labs that's not very engaging for kids either so you wanted about 75 to 100 is where we staff and
062our freshman uh declaration is around 40 students so that's the big thing to take take away from that pathway selection guidance um and there's also a copy of the start stop start and sustain process and what we do is we're always watching numbers there are several things that come into effect on that um it might be our students interested in this is there a job for them in this field so we watch the labor markets and the trends and what's coming next the enrollment at the school we have had a couple of schools probably since the beginning of College and Career cies that have been over pathway for the number of students so if you have 75 to 100 in a pathway and you have 10 Pathways and 500 kids you're going to drop down
063to about 50 kids so that becomes a much smaller pathway across the whole uh uh the whole part of the academy so you're constantly watching the numbers to see where things are falling um are we able to staff the pathway what advisory uh boards are saying are there materials is there availability what investments do we need to make and finally of course fiscal responsibility regarding that Staffing of under Ral Pathways so we watch all of those things all the time the first chart on the first uh page is just a high level of what's happened the last couple years of affected schools that have had pathway changes if their name is not listed there there hasn't been any change at that school so ellot North stem um have all remained the the same um so
064the when they've started their stop starter sustain process and when decisions were made to either move them or add a pathway or migrate something so that's just a chart showing the overview of what's going on and what's happening for next year and then on the following Pages um this section is all around some communication highlight specifically as it came to btal one of the pathways that we have uh moved or migrated was the education pathway from uh btle to Firestone and there's uh data in they're documenting some of the reasons for that move uh one of the main reasons was that it was the least selected pathway over and over again at ble and Bal is also over pathway so if they had stayed open they were looking at about only 28 kids uh to
065be in that pathway this coming year so uh the recom when we did staffing recommendations last year remember we were in uh recommendations for uh uh budgetary concerns right so we make recommendations each year on where we think we need additional staff way Staffing or where we can condense Staffing that recommendation is given to the superintendent um at that time he uh approved a a pathway closure for East was another one that had way too many Pathways for the number of kids there their Pathways had become very small and and bookle uh with bookle knowing that we were going to watch their numbers and that we were going to keep it open while kids who are currently in the education pathway finished out their four course sequence um at the same time uh Firestone had
066been asking to add a pathway uh their numbers were over 100 and almost all over their Pathways which were getting way too large and they expected more students to come in this this past year so we knew we needed to add another pathway uh they did a start uh request and uh one of the top three choices that kids asked for was an education pathway at Firestone so uh at the same time the teacher who was teaching it uh left us so it worked out uh to keep the education pathway here in akan with our students and uh put it in a school where students were asking to have that sort of resource available to them um so there there's the communication highlights that went on to Community Partners uh Kent State University and the
067name Academy Partners uh miss winter is a partner engagement coordinator and I spoke with them oh several times prior to this um and uh especially through the sustain process but there's only so many bodies in a school and as numbers come up in schools then you look to add more Pathways back in so you can't manufacture more people than there are on the school some some one of the pathways is going to have the lowest number of kids no matter what you do so um uh School administration the counselor's headways to communicate that is linked in your document the letters that they had to give to students and families and staff regarding the change there's some some current counts for bookle listed there I did highlight computer programming can you go back up for just
068a second sorry computer programming entrepreneurship and business sports medicine and health I often hear some people say that they don't have a college on-ramp pathway left and I don't know why that gets stated because those uh are three Pathways that are very clearly a college onramp you can make an argument probably for construction and masonry too because there's lots of people that study that as well um you know we have the only state licensed cosmetology school at bookle um in the city and we also have the only pre-apprenticeship full cons commercial constructional res uh residential masonry program in the city at bookle as well so they have probably the strongest six uh pathway options at Bal right now as far as uh really high quality staff and environment and labs for them and then uh
069there were some other questions that came up uh regarding numbers these were numbers and Communications that I've had with the principal all year long as we've talked about the next steps and we went through current numbers that they have in their building um uh when their seniors leave how many kids would be left then how many Rising freshmen do they have and different scenarios if those Rising freshmen were to sort of be evenly distributed um with the pathways they currently have or um with the education pathway still intact so there's just some data scenarios that she and I have been running through and watching numbers all year long and seeing what's happening there as well and then the last page uh is go those are just all the different data scenarios we've been running some
070recommendations um for what the next steps could be are listed there uh Dr Robinson and Dr C have had those uh items to uh think about what we want to do in the future sort of I think our recommendation from my lens has been to continue to watch numbers this next year will be the final year of the education pathway uh finishing out the last group of seniors for bookle and that will give us a a a window of time to say where are their numbers at and do we add something back do we bring education back is there something else that the kids would have more of an interest in because they weren't uh gravitating to that one before maybe there's a different options uh that we could look at but there's lots of
071factors we would begin to look at if we were adding something back in but the blue column on this page are current numbers for this year's students just in the pathways across the four uh schools that have had changes and then the great news is if you look in the yellow column and the pathway number of students predicted for next year we see increases at every single school so that's just that uptick of students that we're seeing across the district um we see more kids at East we did reduce a pathway at East they still have seven Ian uh they're still over pathway but um I would prefer to leave that one alone for right now just because we know that we did some redistricting in the East cluster and I would expect their numbers
072to continue that upward Trend I hate to take it out right away and have to put it back in um uh but it really balanced out firestones much more balanced Garfield's much more balanced they added an extra pathway as well um because their numbers were getting large enough that their their numbers were topping up at 100 as well in each pathway so we've added uh Firestone a pathway added Garfield A pathway reduced it east and reboosted it bookle watching those numbers to see when uh we can add back so that's the high level summary of that document um and like I said I can come back what next month if you would like to do answer any questions or a deeper dive you might have around that unless there's something urgent that you want me
073to make sure I bring back before then are there any questions member Hall thank you great presentation just a few quick questions and I can ask them all at once um first question um do we listen to all the schools to see what best fits their needs of the students right so the Firestone said oh education we have a lot of kids interested in education do we listen to like the book doing East and all the other schools that say maybe this entrepreneurship isn't working we want to add something else do we take that in consideration to make adjustments yes exactly so when we added the the Firestone education pathway it was one of the top three choices that kids made so we asked the Freshman Class what area would you be interested in studying
074we also go to The Advisory Kent States the partner there who was also a partner at book doll so um it made a lot of sense to just uh use use the one that the kids were interested in and when we added that one in as well um uh uh as far as reducing a pathway it's of sometimes you know voting with their feet you know I love education it's not the most really kind of glamorous pathway we have in schools because you think about you go to some of those labs there a lot of Hands-On really digging into things there's a lot of engagements and pieces it's not quite the same in teaching Ed teachers so sometimes the kids um they're interested in education but as a fresh might not have gravitated to it
075because they looked at the other Pathways and gravitated to them more um so it's really sometimes voting with your feet when you're looking at that's just an area that they expressed they weren't interested in the sustain process for that pathway at bookal went over like 3 years and um by the third year just if you just don't have the number of students in the building you only have so many students and so many Pathways right so um it's really they voted with their feet at that point and just my second quick question is um you said there was 28 students that booked there that were in the education pathway are they all seniors there's 10 seniors left so she stayed on with the current Juniors and seniors this year they did not bring in a
076new sophomore class that's all so the 18 students I didn't interrup make it quick so the 18 students that are interested in this pathway they have to choose something different no no no they they all stay she uh the teacher split her time between Firestone and bookle this year and next year the 18 are going to finish this well yeah while we finished up the the students who are currently enrolled in the education pathway at bookal uh We've kept her there halime and then halftime at Firestone while that uh sophomore class came online okay and then next year it'll be she'll be finishing the seniors while she's doing sophomores and juniors at Firestone and that'll be the last year and the following year to be 100% over at Firestone so the other 18 students that
077aren't seniors that want to be in education they have to pick something different there was only six students that picked it Oh I thought you said there were 28 kids there was yeah there's all the current kids are being serviced there were eight uh six to eight students that selected it as a pathway and then they just got their second choice when we chose your retirement because it wasn't going to bring up the numbers high enough okay all right thank you are there any other questions Madam president uh thank you madam chair uh member Hall kind of addressed my question and it was about the pathway and Firestone design it because I was thinking well I know before if you wanted a pathway you had to register at that school for that path pathway and
078so it seems like if it was a uptick kids that were had an interest uh before they were in ninth grade why would they not be um sent to R say it that bookto offers this pathway and so if you have a desire for this pathway um you would attend booko and and they would have been made they would have made that offer to enroll over to bookle as well I don't know that students at be willing you saying that these were students on track for the Firestone cluster right just P I'm sorry but I want to just finish it they were ped as far as their interest but they were already aligned with the Firestone clusters at they were currently freshmen at Firestone high school they would have enrolled or been in in that
079cluster to go to Firestone high school and then they made their declaration at the end of the year so when we looked at the remaining Pathways at Firestone they were all up over a 100 so they needed another pathway no matter what we were doing because they needed they had too many students in each other each of their pathways that they currently had so we didn't want to lose the education pathway the kids were interested in it and so we kept it and he's looking at I think um almost 60 kids will be in that pathway okay or she is I'm sorry um I think thank you I it's just it's just concerning you know when you hear about like certain schools that start to decline and um and then even when you're as an
080educator when you talk about uh the instruction not being like exciting and um great um I've I've been very fortunate to have some exceptional Educators which led me to go into education and education can be very exciting it's just like a recruitment like you know I like to use analogies although I don't even I ain't not a big sports fan but I like to like use Kobe quotes and Bri because or Jordan you know if you at the top like how you recruit a winning I want Champions uh and they they make you catch a fire so I wonder about that like when we talk about instructors but um I'll pause that for deeper reflection in myself to kind of unpack like really my thoughts I think this is great I understand that Firestone the
081pathway because it's a desire for education and um I I know our masonry program is great I just wonder with the promotion of certain Pathways and what students what are available to students how how really clear that is I I love how we get presented to at the board I remember one of the things that made me really um interested when we did when we had an open seat and member of monard became a member of the board is was her expression I had no idea who this lady was we're from completely different backgrounds everything and when she came in one of the things that resonated with me the most is when she quoted her nephew right and was attending one of our schools and she said in her conversations with her nephew she was
082shocked that he didn't have any idea about these offerings am I quoting you a line and so I that made me say I like this girl like she needs to be because it needs to be a voice like this for kids that's keeping it real that these kids don't know and that we get these great presentations about what the district is offered but are kids really aware of what they can be connected to and engag with and to what degree are we making sure that the advertisement the understanding of these offerings are done with a certain level of fidelity that children are so like really excited about that um I'm very C curious with that because I love the trade I love the trades because the trades give tangible resources right now if they learn
083the skill if you can lay my concrete and I see that you can do some good block work and that stuff is square I'm not you may be a part of Union you may not you may be 21 you may be 16 I'm really not caring at that point I'm going to pay you a a fair wage what you tell and I'm going to have you do the work that is significant for the this community that we serve the demographic that we serve um and I'm just seeing how we can best leverage that right because I just I I'm not sure that I feel within myself that it has that that is the communication of the offerings are done with that level of fidelity and I feel that in C some of our schools um
084specifically I'll talk about book though I I think that sometimes it's a disadvantage especially when I hear things that certain students get sent to bookto like bookto is always the option for a child if it's a disciplinary infraction that this becomes the option for that child and so now the Optics of that the culture of the building begins to um overshadow the assume culture of the building begins to overshadow the offerings of project grad the amount of scolarships Learners are getting there what they're doing with their Deca program and things like that so I'm just the marketing is basic Mercy this is not all this other back story you but the marketing of how we're getting in front and marketing our offerings in such a way where B this is where you should be and
085if you in um a certain uh area cold and book doors within walking of you you should feel pride in going to your school my fan I'm a ram through and through M um clearly but my whole family went to book door South High right and the level of Pride they got for South High which I don't I don't even think I was living and breathing when it was existed as a school but my family members that went to South High you better understand the level of Pride those who go to book to it's y'all know it's still the same 1040 so how do we get back to that part showing what we offer I remember my hearing about their law program and things like that and I know that uh current um judge Hamilton
086is doing some like how do we get out in front of to where people see how exence looks different and it is happening at 1040 like good things are happening so the adverti the marketing of our programming like that was how can we leverage that also cosmetology again as I said I went to Garfield I graduated in 1998 and some of the coldest stylist in the city was in went to my school and they are very successful now they own their own salons they have done great things in the industry and it appeared we had a great program like they were doing our hair for prom some of them like you know uh kitchen whatever you want to call them but then they became C- professionally and they were licensed and now I know they
087had kids what they call kids because they would walk around with their manquin heads they learn micro curls on them because I had friends that were in these p in that um elective at the time right now I'm understanding that bookto currently they don't have kids so I was at bookto the other um whenever before our last board meet I I accidentally to the game there when when I met those young ladies that be graduating T and so I'm just this is something that I want to look into can we get like you know what is the need of them like what is missing how can we assist in that area possibly as a board or leveraging some relationships CU I was told that they don't have kids they should have everything that they need
088to be doing their their pieces and parts for their curriculum every Academy has given a budget uh at the start of the year and the the academy and the teachers sit down with how much uh they have and they make their projects and plans and then submit we are processing a few million dollars in purchases throughout the year to the schools and we distributed it evenly to not evenly to the acmy but that each Academy has their budgets so that we knew that every Academy got a slice of their dollars to spend so the teacher makes their request we have a form they put in what they want to buy we buy it for them um and all the curriculum that they need to be accessible so if there's something missing specifically that the kids
089feel that they need they should be uh working with their teachers submit it we will We there's still money left in their Academy budgets to to buy items so we have money okay I'll Circle back for them for the kids about what they need and I'll get with their so I can bring it here because I don't have I'm not doing like um I'll get i'll get clarity from the instructor because I think what you're saying to what I'm understanding what you're saying and if I put it together thinking it's one thing if I have the mannequin head that I use in school that I may use in class or certain things that I use to go through my practicum in class but the kit means I graduate and that goes with me oh they're
090wanting there yeah I you know like it's a certain you're like a starter kit mhm so so I don't know the perfect term but that's what I that was my understanding Marcy but I'll get clarity when I things because the other things what they need in to act to get their hours and to do in a classroom the kid is what they take home if they want to do you know practice on something at home they have a mannequin head for home and maybe one at school is what I'm thinking but I'll get clarity um for that and I just want to reiterate that bookto worked really hard for about two or three years trying to build up the education pathway they approached us they took a kids on a leadership an education Leadership Retreat
091hoping that would drum up excitement they worked with the the middle school kids trying to get them you know there was a lot of conversations at the school level that they went through to make that as exciting and as engaging as they could so that kids would would uh gravitate to that as well through that sustain process and they have pages of documents to evidence of what they worked on and I went to the event that you guys had at Quaker Quaker station a couple years back where the students presented on their Pathways and it was some Learners from book that talked about the education pathway and they were excited one young man was trying to make us understand like it's not just teaching there's other things to do but again it goes with the
092marketing and people understand that cuz this young man was even expressing to me he was trying to tell his classmates who went to school with him to the point and didn't understand that it was more than just teaching so that's why that marketing piece how are we really marketing this to the community to the students and to the in a real not just oh this is what's available but really marketing and then lastly um I I think something else to kind of expand about upon I know we received the email with the city following up about when to meet for jbr I know mon is on that and uh Ary right um so with that may be a collabor I'm thinking instructional policy like it have to come back here because I would like to
093see a collaboration with us utilizing clc's as popups for the student businesses like how you have the Harville flea market um or the the farmers markets around incubators yes where where it was serve as popups for student businesses for students to promote their skills in their businesses where you know we I know that in book door they do like mockups they build walls or retaining walls as a sample where students can be in front of that maybe with their structure showing what they're able to do and where that becomes a regular part of our programming so that students again I love how you talked about um with the uh Elementary Pathways the students shaking hands make those interpersonal skills that then also are transferable into business and into relationships and business so I really want
094us to to look into that because I have also been trying to make phone calls and build Rel reltionship excuse me with different trade unions to see how can we get our kids connected districtwide with paid um apprenticeships where then they can go and end up with a journeyman certificate and then eventually become a union uh card caring student because these are respectable Blue Collar professions are respectable professions that will feed families and send people to college and build and buy homes and nice cars and so the more we can leverage that I think that would be good so that's something I just want to put in there cuz you probably you guys will have to be at the seat at the table um when we try to do something like that um as far
095as the getting with the city and saying listen how can we make these popups for our Learners happen where if they have make items they can sell their items if they have a a service industry they can promote their service industry like what does that look like what would they need from us and also lastly while we're instructional um policy something that just maybe consider if I may Madam chair um I was I'm really interested and I shared this with the superintend and then maybe you can go into like fall we can plan it now but doing like a districtwide lemonade day and it's already a a format it's not like my it's not my own intellectual property this is something that's been done and if we can roll that out cuz it's the basic
096elements of Entrepreneurship and business a lemonade stand and I believe we can maybe get some Community Partners to be with us and then districtwide where people can pull up kids can make the lemonade and it's it's their money but we're teaching on the simplest level a way to um make money as a young person and then I like I know a couple years ago we had something about an investment group I think that came to but it was for parents and I said this we need something like this for kids to whereas they were at Helen Arnold I don't know if you but we can show if you make a $100 invest $20 into this and let it draw interest like maybe partner with Chase I know that uh we have um yeah Chase and
097toath uh Credit Union but I know that um EPS um Chase no I was going to say ace EPS Chase Ace from Chase um is it does something with entrepreneurship so I just want to put that out here in instructional policy so like we can y'all can do whatever research y'all need to do and see how we can make this happen so thank you that that concludes my questions thank you madam chair and thank you Marcy thank you thank you so much and I know we are well over our time we will have to revisit this cuz I know I brought this topic and I do have to say before we adjourn um coming to this seat on the board the bual community um was always concerned as of the appearance of the district overlooking
098them not heavily investing in them so I was surprised to learned at a recent visit that the pathway was being phased out I didn't even know that so I was disappointed and I'm not sure that I'm comfortable that we put all the effort in that we could to make this happen I know you said worked three years um how many of those three years was there a sub teaching that there was a I'm not sure when I came in they had already been in the sustain process uh and then there was a teacher full-time in the position like no no no he was a full-time teacher the one that's there now and now there's currently a sub in there who has been very successful um she's actually was hired into the position I take that
099back she started out as a sub and has been hired into the position so she is now full-time in the position and uh uh but prior to that there was a teacher in the position as well um he went into a different dist he didn't leave the district he wanted to go teach social studies so he wound up leaving the position yeah it goes back to that marketing and just having an instructor you know with the vision to make that happen I know a lot went into that start stop sustain process to make that work and I know that they have internships that are very um productive to my understanding they're really paired up with a lot of those uh elementary schools so um I would just like to see some more work I'm not
100convinced that it can happen at the school um and with our teacher shortage why shouldn't it uh be there you know Firestone has a higher enrollment so naturally they're going to be more students interested in a pathway if you're a lower enrolled school then your number is going to be lower so um I'm just saying that um out loud cuz everybody knows I wear bookle on my heart um and I want to see them successful so um I know we didn't get to everything um on our agenda as we stated earlier we'll just be moving it on uh to our next instructional policy meeting so thank you everyone um Dr monar thank you madam chair um quickly so I know you said you didn't get to everything um so I was wondering for Clarity on
101the April I think your next meeting or whenever your next meeting is um is this where the conversation will be about the the um instructional day during the primary election at our February 11th board meeting we talked about this I'm starting to get a lot of family staff and Community questions about voting day about their Raptor systems about parking about Metal Detectors will students or uh community members be going through metal detectors so will that be in the April instruction policy so I know we were scheduled to talk about the calendar issue tonight so with those additional comments hopefully we're taking note of that and bring it back thank you we are adjourn at [Music] 548 for [Music]