001All right, guys. It is 6:01 and we have a quum now. So let's go ahead and stand to the flag of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all go ahead and >> [clears throat] >> here. [snorts] >> All right. So, we just barely have a forum, but we're going to go ahead and move on and hopefully join us here. Uh, moving on to the consent agenda. Is there a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented? >> I move to accept the consent agenda as presented. be seconded. All right, it's been properly moved and seconded. And is there any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll move into a vote. Jen, go ahead and call that vote. >> Hi, >> I. >> All right, we are all
002the way down to SHS leadership. Who we got today? >> Hello, welcome. Good evening everyone. My name is Tyler and I would like to update you on some of the events happening at Sher High School. First thing leadership prom is being held at Zen on April 24th from 8 to 11:00 p.m. The theme this year is a night in Rio. We have an assembly on Monday to announce court students play and games. General updates. The National Honor Society hosted the career fair today at the high school. We had over 40 companies attend. Juniors and seniors went to Shmeada and Mimbo campus on April 8th for a preview day. They have the opportunity to learn about the different pathway programs at Shemecka and tour of the campus. These are program updates. Spring sports track tomorrow. We
003are hosting a home on April 23rd. Here are the stat I received first in both the 100 meter and 200 meter. Zack Dman second received second place in 1500 and third place in 800. Nolan Bark receives fourth place in shot and fifth place in business. Bradley Madlock receives third place and I received fourth place for long jump. I received fifth place for the 100 meter and L received fourth place shot for the sophomore and baseball teams. Softball has won six out of the seven games as our athletes join co-op team. Baseball has been practicing hard. Our players are currently J being pregnant for the first game on the 21st. >> [snorts] >> Cheer cheer up triyouts this week and currently has 18 athletes. Volleyball and football are three activities and excites to come. FFA the
004vet science team got first place at districts last week. Dur and Alexa placed individually. Rayback placed ninth individually in the horiculture competition. The plant sale will be May 7th through 9th and B will be on the home. Music. The jazz band brought home a first place trophy last week from the competition in seaside. The bar went to Costan High School today to compete as well. They just returned 12 minutes ago. Other clubs and news. Mr. Coil's gaming club meets every Wednesday after school. Hansen's native club meets once a week during lunch. Once once a month, sorry. Drama club meets every Tuesday and Thursday in the library after school. This is my report questions. Thank you. [laughter] >> Admin, [clears throat] >> good evening. Thank you, Siler question. I think it's for >> that's right. So,
005he did a great job. Um, I almost read his again. There we go. Um, as you can see, I included like I do on every time I come before you, I present our kind of some enrollment information. Um, you can see we are um pretty much holding um steady from from the last month to April. Um actually we've had a couple pickups here over the last um few weeks. We've picked up the freshman uh junior and or sorry a sophomore and the senior [snorts] um I included the eighth grade numbers there just to um give reference for next year as those kids roll in for the fall. our March students of the month. Our March theme was taking a spring um theme of kind of turning over new leagues students that are kind of locking
006in right now as they like to say. And so our senior was Jay, our junior was Ryan Jenny. Sophomore student was Brian Bonds and our freshman student was Denilo Contraus. Cool thing about Brian Bonds. You can actually purchase a book. He published a book that is available on Barnes & Noble's website, I believe. >> Wow. >> Yeah. So, [snorts] um, want to give you a little bit update about dual credit this year. Of course, we offer dual credit in three different ways. We have our relationship through promise which is ES Lam ESD and they partner with Oregon student technology and Western Oregon University to make sure that there is a um clear connection between state high school standards and those college classes that the high school standards are being met as well. And then we
007have college credit now which is through schmecka which is also the same situation where they the teachers plc together. So they make sure that the content of those courses can align in in Oregon to get true dual credit where you get high school and college credit. They have to meet the state standards for high school. So a student can take a college class get the college credit. It doesn't necessarily always equate to a high school credit minor. it would fall into it as an elective. Um because I, you know, if you ever spend time in a college class, you can get a professor who gets very focused on one thing for a long period of time. They call it US history, but they might just like to talk about World War II for six months.
008Um and then of course we have our last one which is expanded options which is really where students can just they uh enroll in a a class um and the district has funds um through the state that um allow their students to repay their tuition at a discounted rate I believe. >> Yeah. And so for this senior class, we've had the senior classes um tallied up a total of 44 college credits through the college winter term. So there's still students enrolled in spring term classes as well. So that number will go up as we approach graduation. Of course, this time of year, our seniors are busy wrapping up their senior projects, um, which is a great, uh, tradition here in Sheridan where, um, we are one of the few schools that has this requirement where
009every student has to take on a project. One of the nice things about being a small school. As always, we extend an invitation to our board members if you would like to participate in the presentation and the scoring of those those presentations are being scheduled as we speak and it'll take place the first two weeks of May. So, um, if you want to, if you're interested, you can reach out to Julia Holy and [clears throat] or to meet either way and we can get you on one of those days to see some of our students present what they what they what they accomplished in their senior project. Um, in regards to cell phones, everyone is still, you know, something that we will continue to address probably forever. Um, we've we we've definitely made that transition
010where students know the situation. They know the expectations and so when we have to redirect, we're not getting it. There's not a lot of um power struggles. It's just like, "Oh, yeah. Okay. Yep. Thank you." And they put it in put the phone away. I honestly I don't think that will ever go away, that part of it. But at least we're not getting into power struggles where there there's arguments happening. So, um, [clears throat] so that's the update on that. Um, Simon mentioned prom coming up. We got our prom scheduled for next Friday. It's actually one of the benefits of having a four day schedule, a four day school week where we can have our prom on Friday. We get a little bit of a discount because a lot of these places are able to
011have a a customer on a Friday night. So, we're able to get a little bit of a better deal as a result of it. So, as you mentioned, we have a night in Rio. Um, we started uh our week this week with all of our spirits dress up days. Next Monday, we have a pie in the face um assembly, which I'm assuming that as usual, I will be receiving a red pie in the face, which usually just means shaving cream. It's not a pie. I wish it was a pie [laughter] be a little more enjoyable. But um but we have two weeks of dress up days and the kids today was nerds versus jocks and the kids did some great jobs especially they really went all in on the nerd side and then as we
012we're in April already halfway through April. We are we are we're looking at the home stretch for our seniors like I said earlier. So we'll be um hosting our graduation commencement ceremonies at 2 pm on June 6 on that Saturday. Um we are fortunate to have three valadictorians this year with perfect GPA of a 4.0. Um one of those angels mentioned already in silage report Dris Gerky. Um Hunter Kingler clingingler there sorry and Angel Dryer and Lucas Brewster is being recognized as our student. So and then all those students have been informed and they're very excited. One's very excited to give a speech which makes me nervous. But I will make sure it's it works. [laughter] We're all preview. So [snorts] yeah, any questions? I'm going to hand it off here in a second if
013you don't have any questions. Yeah. >> Your projects um want to but I have to take off work. So I just want to make we have to go to all the days or just one day. >> If you can just do one day, whatever you're able to do, we just love that. Obviously you being able to see what our students accomplish this year and of course you know your feedback to those students is also especially you know people who are you know living that adult life and knowing what what it's what's what they're going into after this that kind of feedback is what it's all about the idea set >> I haven't seen [clears throat] the schedule yet I make sure the board gets it time up you can just time up the slots but
014also understand that sometimes the schedule changes and I think oh I'm going to see these three students and find out well what was sick that day or you know they've had to move it for whatever reason to another day so >> it can be slow >> yeah but there's just time slots it's a lot of fun to go to it's really cool to see what these kids have done >> and we have some good ones this year >> when approximately is it not being familiar with whenever they are when is it >> during the during school day so I believe yeah during the school day um >> like in the next couple weeks >> yeah it's the first two weeks of Y >> I had a question about the 44 credits for the seniors. I
015think that's awesome. How many seniors does that encompass? Are you talking about five kids or two over? >> No, it's not two. It's more than two. I [laughter] could I couldn't tell you off the top of my head, but it's I would venture to say probably, you know, maybe around eight 10 kids. Yeah. >> So, there's quite a few advantage of that. Then we look at that's just our seniors. We have like we have a young lady who's a junior who has she's actually taken a break this term because she has a lot of college credits already. >> Yeah. And and with extended options, they don't get a time slot during your regular school schedule. >> So this is what they're doing on top of their regular school schedule if they're not doing the dual
016credit. >> Okay. >> Yeah. If it's dual credited or promising college credit classes like Miss Holste's psych not sorry the stats psychology class they're actually scheduled for that class in their day so they would go period they need psychology would get the dual credit for that high school and college course but if they're doing expanded options most times on top >> yeah no I know we've had students graduate >> oh I I honestly in all my career I've never worked in a place that has has college credit so readily and easily available to all students. There's no barriers. There's no prerequisite required. They just simply have to ask I want to do it. We >> So the access is is extraordinary for that for kids. >> Super awesome. Um I'm gonna ask maybe a tough
017question for you. Right. >> Uh you know me, right? >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Uh the declining enrollment at the high school. Um I'm sure you put lots of thought into it. >> Me, too. >> Yeah. What do you think's going on? Is there anything as a board we could do better to help that number? >> When you look at that, you know, I presented it was the last time I might have been the last time I was here. represented kind of like wherever this senior class had dropped over over their four years and um I looked at the we we do kind of like exit interviews and there's no rhyme or reasons there's no one there probably if anything the majority of it are kids going it's and it's not it's Oregon Connections Academy it's
018the online And that is a national trend. Um, and I think there's a variety of reasons for that. Um, I think just a changing climate in our in in this country about public education maybe as a whole. Um, but [clears throat] it's one of those equations I think it's got seven or eight variables and it's hard to pin out like what's the one thing. >> Okay. Um because I'm I'm not seeing it all that stuff, I'm not seeing one single thread that ties it all together. Um I mean there's no matter in all my time in this doing this work, I've seen kids want to go someplace for athletics, but then I've seen people want to go someplace because they want to have a job at the same time. Um and honestly, sometimes it's because
019they are having social emotional issues. are having um relational issues in the school. There's there's a myriad of reasons and I'm thinking right what I'm seeing right now just seems to be a little bit of everything. >> So to answer your question, um what can you do? >> You know, I think just continue what you do to do is just be great advocates for our for our district and the work we do. Um I think being when it comes sometimes to online stuff what I've having worked in all day for a long period of time and been connected to um kids who wanted to they weren't being successful in a brick and mortar school so they wanted to go online there's a belief that that's an answer for a kid who's maybe struggling academically and
020I think helping people understand taking a kid out of a classroom where they've got a teacher, an instructional assistant, a support plan if they're maybe special ed, all these things that are meant to support a kid and you put them in an online environment. It's really online works really really well for those kids who are so advanced and achieved and they just they just need their barriers taken out of their way because they're just ready to go in that traditional setting. I I think a lot of our kids just they're looking for something different that's going to help them. Those are the ones we see come back and we see a lot of kids come back from shop or from wherever because they go try that and realize they're not getting the support they need.
021Now, what about SHS adding that to our spectrum? Adding an online education piece. A lot of the schools around us, the high school has that ability like >> Yeah. >> Do we have that ability? >> Yeah, we I mean we we we we have we have an online um curriculum that we have kids to like and we usually uh have so like right now second semester we usually offer. So right now, Miss Stats is is the the teacher of record for an engineering class. So we have students [clears throat] in there that are taking a multitude of different courses. We we create that class mostly for our seniors who need multiple who need more than the three and a half credits they can get by the end of the year. So, you know, they're they're
022trying to accelerate like I'm gonna I got to finish this out this this math class and I gota take a social studies class and then I got to take an English class and they're trying to wedge it all in. So, we [clears throat] do that then. Um but at the same time, the teacher record is, you know, no teacher does everything. >> Um Miss Stats is one of the few teachers who's who's pretty good at doing. I mean, she's endorsed in advanced math. She's endorsed in social studies. Um, but trying to find that one sizefits-all a lot of times, um, even though you have a teacher record doing that. Um, and there's not a lot, you know, I got to [clears throat] be careful not to expose my cynicism towards stuff is because when it
023comes to online stuff, like there's not a lot of guard rails for really guaranteeing that a student's the one doing the work. So I I question I you know I want to trust everybody but you know I can't say for sure that everybody's being completely forthright you know especially with AI that's available now he makes it very easy. So um and uh while Shappa's got live teachers on the other end of things um Etenuity and most of those don't they're they're automatically scored and graded. So >> Yeah. Be really hard. >> I just wonder if we continue to lose a large percentage of our students to going to that if we don't need to figure out a way to master that as well. >> Yeah. Trust. I thought about that, but I I I'm not
024ready to give up on the brick and mortar to be honest with you. I think it's I still believe it's the best way. I think those those relationships and those that that level of accountability [clears throat] I finish up my continuing admin program during co so it was online through Portland State and it was it was the worst. It was so I I I missed that engagement um and the learning that happens when you're when you're the the dynamic that happens you know truly what we call you know the Socratic method of people not just the teacher talking but the the whole and I think there's still a great deal of merit in that and I think it has its place like I said for those kids that are like get out of my way
025you the Duty housesers that are just I got I got plans. I got to get going. I think it has plans for that. Those kids are going to be great. They're going to be great no matter what. >> Right. Whether it's online or >> Yeah, that that they're going to be fantastic. So, >> I just think there's different learning styles. >> Oh, there's definitely different learning. >> People in different environments to adapt based on where the trends are going as much as we can without going crazy. >> Yeah. I know. Thank you for that insight. Thanks for share that. I'm g hand it off to Roman to talk about our nth grade success. Okay, so it's been a while since we talked about this at the beginning of the year. So I have a little
026bit of an update for you. Um so our ninth grade success team is still meeting about once a month um and discussing on average two students um at each meeting. Um just as a reminder, those students we're talking about are kind of our atlas students. Um and things we talk about with them are kind of just uh not necessarily their academics. That's certainly a piece of it, but we look at them holistically. So, we look at their grades for one, but also how can we help them out as a person because one thing we look at is um we can't really help them as a student until the basic needs of a person are met. So, um the team or the uh the team is composed of Brian Coyle, our science teacher, Christina Field from
027our special education department, Odessa Hansen, our art teacher, Taylor Dum ELA teacher, uh Eliasky who teaches PE and health, Jake Ruber who's teaching social studies, Beth Staffs who teaches math, Sarah Hillyard who's our AD and secretary, and Kelly Weathers who's our grad coach, and then myself. Um and then so here's our kind of our end of our first semester data. Um 73% of our ninth graders were on track which means failing one or less core classes. Core classes being math science and social studies. 6% were off track um but failing only two classes or two core classes. So we kind of classified them as our yellow tier students. uh 21% were off track being two or more core classes which classified them as kind of our red tier students. Um so our goal was pretty
028lofty at 90% knowing almost full well we were going to come up short being our first year doing the work but not to be cliche you kind of set your goal for the moon at least you land amongst the stars. So, um, we didn't quite plan to go up to stars, but, um, that's eventually where we want to get to. Um, but it always takes a couple years to get this going. Like, in my old district, it took us two, three years to kind of start working the needle noticeably. So, we're we're in the infancy of this, but that's what we'll get to eventually. Um, after we had a good semester of data, we started looking at what we could do as educators to change our practices to better benefit our students. So, some things
029we kind of looked at as a team um were like in January, we all sat around for an hour and we talked about just things that we could do as a team, kind of like blanket policies we might want to put in place to better benefit the ninth graders as a whole. So things we talked about was accepting late work without penalty um uh test quiz or assessment retakes, assignment resubmissions, um assigning less homework or no homework or at least providing time in class for kids to get their assignments done and adjustments in our grading or waiting um for assessments uh and like assessing what's important, you know. So some teachers took a really kind of inventory of their curriculum. It's like why am I doing what I'm doing? You know, like really like teaching
030to the standards. Okay, so this doesn't matter. Let's throw that out and focus more on this, you know, so that how can I say this is more clearly enough. So we're not penalizing kids for not doing this. we're really focusing on what matters essentially, if that rest. Um, additional interventions we put in place. So, every two weeks I'm going through every single ninth grader's grades and I have a pretty elaborate spreadsheet put in place and I'm tallying like every app that's in there. I'm looking at every single class. Um, after I do that, I check in with most of the yellow and red tier students and I pull them out of class usually during an elective or PD and we sit down for 5 10 minutes just to check in. got to set a goal.
031Okay, if you have three Fs, we're not going to move the world in in a week. Okay, but let's get this assignment and this assignment done by the end of the week. Okay, just [clears throat] baby steps. Okay. Um, another thing we do is, and Mr. Polansky been really good with working with me on this stuff. Um, sometimes we get them out of PE or other electives to work on core classes, specifically with uh Kim But who's recently retired, but she still likes to hang around with us. So, she comes around on Mondays and Wednesdays, 7th period. Um, she kind of donates her time and hangs out till 5:00 pm. Um, but we get kind of kids to kind of hang out with her and work specifically more on math and English during that time.
032Um, she's provides more small group or one-on-one support in those areas for those kids. Um, and many of our students who were sent out of the classroom for disciplinary reasons are also our offtrack students. So when that happens, you know, being the dean of students, I have a conversation with them about the behavior, you know, what happened, how we can correct that going forward. Part of that, you know, conversation also includes a grade check. And then typically I keep them out of the class for the rest of the period because whatever they got sent out, it's not working that day. So I'm not going to send them back into it. But then I spend the rest of that class period working with them on a missing assignment or any work they're missing or whatever might
033be the rest of that class period. Uh, let's see. Second semester data so far. Um, good news is three of the original 15 offtrack students from semester 1 are no longer failing any of their classes for semester 2. So, they're trending in the right direction. Um, we do have seven new offtrack students, but six of those I don't anticipate being off track. It just they kind of have this trend of like we're not going to do much and then at the end we're going to pick it all up. So, I'm not too worried about them. That's just kind of there. Um, uh, by the end of the year, I'm projecting a 75% on track rate for the whole year. Uh, one thing that I am kind of noticing, and I'm sure you guys will notice,
034this is obviously my first year in Sheridan, but you guys have been here a lot longer than me. Obviously, this is a very high trauma area. Um, a lot of these kids, especially our off track ones, they're in survival mode and it's really hard to prioritize education when they're just trying to scrape by. They don't know where they're sleeping at night or where they're getting the necessary food, you know, just the basic needs to to get by. So, um, just looking at the list of off track students, at least eight of them are going through that right now. So if they had access to like you know things most of us take for granted the ontrack number would be a lot better. So those are things that n team is talking about when we need
035how we can you know help those kids out with those kind of things. Um that's kind of just a rundown where we're at. What questions do you guys have for me? I'd like to add a little bit to what Roman just was speaking about with those those students who have external factors. They come to school every night. Um, this is their one place where they know [clears throat] there are people that are going to care for them. They're going to have food. They're going to have friends. They're going to it's going to be normal. So, sometimes we have to shift what the important thing is a little bit and once we and worry about that stuff as we can. Also, it's great to watch him relearn algebra. [laughter] I've had a lot of chuckles because
036he works right outside of my office with these kids and it's it's a lot of fun. [laughter] It's a blast today. Um, so one of the girls specifically who I work really closely with, this is one whose home life is really rough and she makes it to school every day, but um, she's going through a lot right now and I don't know why she's latched on to me as her person. I walked in because I was dealing with something else and Pat was working on that with [laughter] a few minutes and then stuff came up and he had to go. >> [laughter] >> 10 minutes was nice, but [laughter] not much. >> Well, I'm excited to see the numbers over the years. >> Yes. >> Yeah. It's a long >> beginning of the day. >>
037Yeah. Well, a lot of it too is has to do with kind of a culture shift in how we interact with our students from a disciplinary standpoint. So, our younger teachers like Mr. Blansky and Mrs. Downs, it's all they know because it's their first year doing it. So, how they handle like the just the kind of ticky tacky interruptions with redirects and hallway conversations, they're finding that works really well, but it's it's a new concept for some of our older teachers. [clears throat] So, it the younger ones like, "Oh my god, this is amazing." It's like, "No kidding." But so, like sometimes I have to remind the older ones like, "Hey, try this. Try this. Yeah, it does work. Yeah, but um yeah, the the underserved kind of kids, those those ones that we're talking
038about that are having trouble with just their their home lives, those are the ones that um you know, we talk about mostly in those meetings. And why do we have so many people in these meetings? It's like Sarah and Kelly especially. You wouldn't think those are the ones we have on the NGS team, but they have so much background through their knowledge of the area and the kids coming up from their from their youth. You know, all those little bits of information that all these people have, you know, helps us be able to kind of meet them where they're at. You know, any of that little information can help us just make a little bit of movement with that kid. >> Great. Well, thank you for coming and sharing. >> Thanks. >> All right. Next
039up, we have our [snorts] superintendent reporter. Superintendent report for April. April. I'm circling back to uh last month. There's a question about fundraising. I have some information just some of the larger um things going on at SCS. Um the book class in raising um had $16,256 in donations. Of that $15,138 to all students are made a book to take home. Um it's a great program. They do this every year about the same time. jazz night um that the board um all the board members attended uh they raised just over uh they raised 2,300 um on that one. MC minimums is another one that is um yearly and uh supporting the positive behavior interventions and supports. And I think what I'm learning and talking with staff about this and working with the admin, um the schools
040really try to coordinate the fundraising events. So we're not competing against other against ourselves basically and how we spaced out fundraising over the course of the year. Um the high school report looks a little bit different. I didn't see the amounts. Um but you see how uh things are kind of spaced out by the month. Um cheerleaders, the cheerleaders, um they did a fatherdaughter dance to help with the national trip cost. Um girls basketball team have their free throw gone. Uh the Ken Smith memorial basketball game as a fundraiser for a senior project um to go for that scholarship $1,000 each year. Cheerleaders had their showcase leadership team did crispy creams. um it seems like two to three times a year we have Mr. Green donuts as a fundraiser for um any one of our
041many endeavors in the district and then April uh the leadership team continues um with prom tickets and that's that pie in the face thing uh coming up and then um our district the learning center collecting cans to help with some of their costs for different field trips that they take. Um so it just kind of gets all spaced out and not to really saturate the community. Um I generally hear about and see about whether we get candy bars and some of these things and it seems like we've kind of moved away from those because we don't gain that much money for the effort and so it's a lot of the the pop cans and different um uh different things throughout the year for fundraising. [snorts] All right. I'd like to update the board on um
042our budget for the 2627 school year. Um we are in the midst of right sizing based on drop in enrollment that we've talked about. Um and uh this includes not replacing uh three teachers that um we believe are going to resign or already have resigned. So we will absorb those three positions. Um and then two reductions in force. Um and then uh FTE also includes adjustment at the district office. Um I'm keeping my contract the same as this year. Um and then the secondary level, we take it in levels. We look first at our staffing and then second we go to programs. Um we're looking at insurance costs and if we end up having to hold insurance at the current rate. Um we are going through all of our contracts. Um I notified student education
043that we would not contract with them this year. Um so uh we are definitely evaluating everything as we go through to make the additional cuts. And then the last thing we will look at are fur and there's still some unknowns and things that Karen is is working on. We will have a you know internal draft of the budget next week. Our budget committee meeting is uh a week from Monday. So we will be be ready for that. Any questions on budget and our process budget on the studio contract? I know because we put in so much work and you know we're kind of halfway through. >> They they offered a one survey contract that was around $3,000. And I might look at that and what I really want to do is just pause it and
044look at it again next spring. There are certainly elements of stutter that we can keep going. You know, it would be the survey and the coaching. That's what we're paying for. >> Okay. >> Um Brent, of course, said he would keep in touch, but we can still do the rounding. We can do scorecards. Our strategic plan is good for two more years. Okay. So, we'll continue that work, but it's a $40,000 contract that pays for rent income twice plus the survey, the survey data because they do all of that. So, >> question. [snorts] [clears throat] No, we have the questions from the survey. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> We could pull from that. So or we may we may look at just speaking with the surveys and we really feel like you know it's really
045important we hear from our parent caregiver group at least once a year. So let's continue with that one >> and we can certainly look at that. >> Are those surveys like proprietary? [snorts] >> I don't know. I'll have to check [clears throat] >> out. Yeah. Yeah. But I've um been in communication with superintendents of other districts and heard from at least three others today that they are all looking at drop in enrollment and the current service level not keeping pace with the cost and the rising cost of everything. All right. Well, we've already talked about enrollment and I'm going to put a different um a little bit different spin on this. I went back to September of 23 and just looked at the eb and flow of our enrollment. The 43 here is the difference
046from the September of 24 to current. The high school is from September 23 to current. So I messed that up in my calculations. Um and then you see the increase for shop and what they have done. Um, I did a little bit of a dive and I can continue to do more on this, but um, at the high school there's there's, you know, we talked earlier about the the reason and there's always a there's a myriad of reasons in here. Some people would just move out of state. Some people have moved to other um, districts. Several were a 10day drop and then we get a records request from somebody else or there's attendance issues and they want to go try another school. I've also heard some students wanted to leave and go to another district
047because that district doesn't do a senior project or they want to go to another school district because they don't charge sports fees. That is something that we are looking at. What do we gain from sports fees? is that's something that we actually in the middle of budget cuts, we want to keep kids active and engaged in school. We need to remove that as a barrier. Um, so we're strongly considering that. I asked Missy Love about our sped count because this is the change that is really interesting to me. Since 2024, we have had an increase of 25 special education students. So, while some students are moving out, the students that are coming in are needing special education services, we're not identifying a whole lot of kids. I'm going to have Missy present that data next
048month. So, we're not identifying the students are coming in already identified needing special education services. That is just a really interesting trend. But I think I was surprised by this to have an increase since fall of 24 of 25 students. Why have we had students in the app? And the the layer that I want to add on to this for the board, for the public, is enrollment is just this revolving door for Sher School District. And I don't know if that's a new trend. You know, I don't think it's a new trend. I think we've seen it the eb and flow, but we've just never seen this many people leave. Yes. >> And not come back. Like I feel like we get turnover. Yeah. >> Maybe I'm wrong in that path, but don't you feel
049like I feel like Adam's even talked about that. there's a significant turnover of new students that come and go, but I don't think we've ever seen this many leave >> in a short window. >> And I think also we're talking about educational circles. Our junior senior class is really the last room that we had middle school in experience and they just want to be done in any any possible way. And Pat and I have talked about the fact and having conversations with students about this is the last time you get a free education. Rather than doing the minimum, Pat continues to raise the bar of no, you need to take the classes. This this is free for you right now. This is your chance. So um the students just want to be done and it's
050hard to get them to be engaged, which I love the [clears throat] because it's all relational. So, I've presented this to the staff. Why we're in the middle of budget cuts? We have got to grow programs and be relational. We got to keep meeting the the needs of the kids who are here and are staying with us. We need to keep the bar high. Um, I like that we have the senior project. I think that is a great experience for our students. Um, so it's just these are some of the the feedback on things and I can provide the the board with more of analysis on this, but like Pat said, it's there's not one thing popping up that is is a reason. Well, like it's interesting about the senior project because that gave me
051a lot of anxiety when I was growing up hearing my friends saying, "Oh, like are you getting ready for yours?" I was like, "No, I don't even know." And then we didn't end up having one, right? And here I am, right? Like look at the state and I'm stuff I went to college and graduated. So that wasn't impactful for me. And so I could see how it could cause anxiety in some of the students that maybe are less social um to have to do that. Yeah. >> Are there any other options or do you It has to be a project because I know when my kids were going to school, they could do like 300 hours of community service or something like that. >> Yeah, that's okay. because my kids are like coaching on red
052basketball. >> I think a lot of it is we're just in the middle of a culture shift with online education being a thing, right? Like it's it's becoming popular. Um we're going to have to change something to to make kids want to stay, right? offering, you know, ad classes and things, you know, opportunities that maybe they won't have if they do online classes or I mean, I know they can still do a lot of the electives through the school district >> as well, but our CTE as a whole. >> Yeah. >> Um, and >> sports can be a just making sure that we we continue that high school culture that makes high school fun enjoyable, the piece thing, the assemblies. um what leadership does, the career fair, there was so much energy over there for
053the career fair today. [clears throat] >> It was fantastic. Um and kudos to Drew Carter and the National Honor Society students and they pulled out a good one. >> Yeah. Figuring out ways of keeping them engaged and excited. >> Yeah, it's tough in this world. >> Definitely. There's just so many options. >> Yeah. >> There just wasn't that many options 10, 15 years ago. And hopefully when we get some of our bond stuff done, you know, it'll be more inviting to come to high school when there's not [clears throat] parking lot or whatever. [laughter] Speaking of the parking lot, our bond bond update for the month, our bond oversight committee met on Monday. Um I think I considered to be a very productive meeting. We got through um reviewing the projects uh the scope of
054the work to be done and I'm excited to report that this summer um the parking lot is going to get all new and the high school roof will be taken care of. Um, interestingly enough that the parking lot in front of or the the part of the uh bus um what am I trying to say? That area in front of >> us. [laughter] They're going to dig out a foot of that and talked about >> a documented bill. So, um it'll be interesting to see how that that goes. Um we've been starting the design team meetings and and moving on and preparing for next summer. Um I just wanted to show board um Elaine Burke has created coming soon and these are going to be up in the areas to show uh the community what
055is going on. Nice picture. This is the area. [laughter] Nice picture of it, but also the QR code. And um we want to keep pointing people in the direction of the bond website because all the minutes are posted there. Everything is on there, all the information. Um and so and there's a whole another set of these signs for the projects that are coming in 2027 so that people are going to be able to see that. >> Is that where the live link for the meeting is too? >> Um I believe so. I will double check that. I didn't know the meeting is online. So I came to it in person and discovered it was online. And I was like, >> in case you want to drop it easier to know, >> this I I will
056I will double check that on the link. I'm still learning the ins and outs of how we do live stream, but any committee now that reports to the board as the bond oversight committee does, um we follow what we're doing. We publish the agenda. It's live streamed. Um, and we incorporate a lot of those the elements of the board. >> I can answer that question. >> Where is it? >> So, it's a YouTube link that's posted on the website. >> It's on the website. >> Okay, that makes the most sense. >> If you go to the minutes, there's links in there to view the recording and then there's a link to the post. Perfect. Thanks, Jen. >> Not if you're on the guest website. [clears throat] >> [laughter] >> For some reason, we're having problems.
057So, if anyone wants to check in or if one of them can't be up themselves, they could be getting online. >> Okay, that is it for my um report tonight. Any other questions or comments? >> Question and comment on the drop over there. Are they going to fix the sidewalk to be like ADA accessible to like today I was carrying my little luggage thing and it [clears throat] rolls and I'm like there's no good spot for me to I just have to drop off the sidewalk it's not that high right they'll fill that in they're going to dig out. Yeah, I think I didn't explain that very well. They have to dig down to get a good foundation to build us a better parking lot or else the sink holes are going to keep happening
058as they understand. But I will talk to them about the part and just making sure we have spots all along the front of the high school. Even though I was like where do I get on and I had a box on top of my building part and I was like and then I just fell and I have to pick it up and anyway. So then that's when I realized like there is no spot on the sidewalk for a like down ramp or anything to get >> I would imagine there's a rule saying they have to >> seems like there's one >> and then my comment is going to be about the online stuff. Um funny enough we were just talking about employment um at work and a lot of people because of co how are
059now into um online work like that is the shift and which makes sense like students want to do online school the shift now in the workforce is a lot of remote work so >> trending up there that trend we're in yes >> um I wanted to ask about the fundraising. I really enjoy the write ups there. I feel like I'm the most when it comes to those. Um, if we could get that information out to the public, I think the public would really love to see, especially the numbers that you gave us with SCS, maybe we could get some numbers in SHS, too. Um, I think the public really loves seeing how much came in and what it went to and all that. I think it means a lot. >> Okay. >> I mean, it's
060their money, right? Well, and we have very gen we have a very very generous community. We don't highlight it enough. Um, anytime that we that there has been a need, it's like our community just stepped up in enormous ways. Um, so definitely want to be more forward facing. >> Yeah. >> With all the donations and generosity in our community. Well, and over the years I've heard people say, "Well, I'm not going to donate for that because then the school will just take it." Well, this is actually showing us showing us what we're using it for. >> Sure. We're not just taking it for Karen to spend where [laughter] >> even things like the eighth grade graduation and how that that pool of money follows them through high school. I didn't know that until last year
061and it's like that's a really cool >> thing that would be >> for the fun for the book class. Um, just because it's about reading, are we working with Dollar General and any of their grants? >> I do not know that. >> Can they service um within a 15 mile radius of their store? >> Okay, cool. They have the youth literacy and then their summer reading. So, that's okay. because we do get or enhance. >> Yeah. And I think when we get things like that, that would be really cool. >> And I think I think it did. >> Okay. >> Not all of us. [laughter] [snorts] All right, next up is Karen recording highs of the year right now. Um, first off, our Indian balance is not very healthy this year and so of course
062that's going to trickle into next year. But this is also the time of year where we go through and like at the beginning of the year we cover everything like we're going to pay, you know, we have a PO for $10,000 for fuel or something. And so we think we're going to spend it all, but maybe we'll only spend $8,000. And so once we get down to the end of the year, we're paid off all everything off that PO will unencumber it. And so then all of a sudden there's an extra $2,000 there. So, it's still just a plan, just a guesstimate. Um, I'm just still hopeful that you'll turn black. [clears throat] Um, we also have, let's see, on the state fund overview, >> which is this one? This one? >> Uh, yes. >>
063Okay. So this is just kind of showing you what like the [laughter] revenues are like during the year. So that top part shows this is how many times the state school fund amount has been adjusted this year. And then on top of that, we've got the charter rate and that tells us how much we, you know, um pass through to the charter school and that also changes. So these are kind of the things that we all get to deal with. And then the other thing I wanted people to see is the ADM W is what we get um what our state school fund is based on. Okay. And so you can see that they hold us harmless. So like in for 2526 even though like our estimated enrollment is 1,291 they're actually basing our state
064school fund on the 1,369. So next year the hold is harmless but it's going to be on the 1291 number and then the year after that. So you can see how our declining enrollment gives us these negative adjustments when they do the reconciliation >> and it'll really hurt us if our numbers go back up. Correct. >> No, it will make it better >> eventually though. >> Yes, >> there'll be a delayed reaction delayed reaction. But we also have the chance to get caught up kind of caught up like in I think it was like in October they do an adjustment >> but yeah it just it's so fluid. So how far are we going to eat into that ending fund balance? Um, with the way it looks right now, we're going to our ending fund
065balance for next year will be $961,000. >> So, I mean, we'll still have something there, but it's not the healthy one that we've had. >> And we were told we needed it to grow. >> Yeah, >> exactly. It's like Corey. >> Yes. >> Not in these economical [laughter] But I'm also hoping that, you know, if we can get the roof fixed, we won't have as many, you know, repairs and get our HVACs all fixed. There's not a huge like facilities things that are a drain. Um, the other thing I looked at, I was just doing some comparisons. Um, let's see. our electricity bills is basically going up at the same like I did it through March 31st of the last three years is basically going up by 3% every year. Um our sub costs have
066gone up um from 24 to 25 they went up 28%. And I don't know, you know, it doesn't right now we're at like I don't know 20% of bad. So, and then the other thing was oh our fuel costs they've gone up they went up 25% from 24 to 25 and right now it's kind of like at 13% increase. So those are some of the things we're dealing with. Um, oh, the other one was like powers. Power costs went up 18% from 24 to 25. So, those [snorts] are the things that we have no control except for telling people to turn off the lights when they leave the room. [laughter] >> Well, and hopefully with these lights, you know, they're like they are occupant or whatever. They turn on, turn off. So hopefully that will
067help. >> And we did lights everywhere, right? >> Does that help? >> I don't know. >> Well, time will tell. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And we got redone. So nice and quiet. I just had this low level like headache all the time. What is it? It's because the fluoresence. >> Yeah. >> And then also they're going to quit making those. So that >> and then the other thing was I just did a quick overview of our um year-to- date expenditures. And so, this is just kind of showing how our costs just increase. And of course, 2026 is only through cash, so that's why it's lower, but it's just [clears throat] [snorts] questions for Karen. on everybody's like [clears throat] outside. [clears throat] >> I know. [laughter] >> Um you want [laughter] >> All right, we're
068gonna move into old business, which is Dory's um superintendent evaluation. We did it and it was very successful. We had [clears throat] a good time reviewing all the different um areas. What are those called? >> The standards. Standards. I was going to call them modules, but that was not the right word. Um yeah, and then we actually had a work session uh a few days later, found out all the things we did wrong and things we did right. So um each year we're getting better at it and we just want to say we're very um happy to have Dory on our team. >> Thank you. I'm going to be here. All right. Next up, uh, new and unfinished business. We have a board meeting calendar. So, the link to it. What I wanted to talk
069to the board about is we have a main work session and we requested budget 101, which I'm starting to prepare for. So, if you'd like to continue with that topic, the July meeting on the next meeting, we'll have the calendar ready for you to approve. But one thing I'd like just for you to think about is not to have a July board meeting, but to have a work session because one of the things we talked about in working through our OSBA training was making board goals, making superintendent goals. and we can spend a July board work session discussing some of that and even reviewing the training would be a good idea. Um we do not have anyone running this year so we are not required to have a July uh board meeting. So I just
070wanted to get that on your radar. Um and then next month we'll have the board meeting calendar for you to approve. Um kind of sticking with the first Wednesday of the month maybe a board work session. Third Wednesday of the month is our board meeting. any feedback on that concerns. >> So the main work session is that's okay for the topics. I'm going to start working on this budget 101 >> especially as a new board. >> Yeah. >> Okay. this time especially it's important. >> Yeah. And I what I can do is also just um go through the state school funding reports that Karen gets so you can see what impacts that the funding that we get and how the state operates that and this whole thing about how it plays catchup. >> Can we
071invite the budget committee members that we have to open? So I mean just say hey we're going to do this you'd like to join in. It will be after the first meeting. So that'll be >> That's true. We can tell about it then. >> And we still have a vacancy. >> Yes, we do. >> No, I'm promote that long. >> All right. Next up is the SI ethics report. >> As far as I know, I I'm hoping it's due today, >> so all the members completed it. >> I didn't mind. >> It's actually easier when you've done it before. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, it'll be easier. >> I assume I did it right. [laughter] They didn't email me saying it was bad. >> Maybe we should send a group text out. I don't know how
072they did it. I'm not sure. So, I feel like maybe he did it, but I confirmed I love that they confirmed and I saw everybody's name. >> Oh, perfect. So, everyone's in. >> As far as I know, everybody did it on time and >> whether we did it right, we don't know. [laughter] >> I saw the names. So, >> all right. Let's move on to action items. Teacher Appreciation Week. Would you like to read that for us? All right. We're moving into when we get into May, it's teacher appreciation week. Teacher appre appreciation week is observed annually during the first full week of May in 2026 week May 4th. Whereas teachers mold future citizens through guidance and education. And whereas teachers encounter students of widely differing backgrounds. And whereas our country's future depends upon providing
073quality education to all students. And whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons, evaluating progress, counseling, and coaching students, and performing community service. And whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in educating the children of this community. Now therefore, be it result the Sheridan board of directors proclaims that May 438, 2026 to be teacher appreciation week, and be it further resolved that the Sheridan board of directors strongly encourages all members of our community to join with it in personally expressing appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and devotion to their work. >> All right. >> We have some awesome teachers. So, I love this. >> Yes. Every year it's a fun week. >> It is. Yeah, I bet you guys have a ton of fun. I'm not even sure what all goes on, but it's
074probably best we don't. [laughter] [clears throat] All right. Is there a motion to accept the resolution as I move to accept the resolution? Second. >> Second. >> All right. Thank you guys. Um, is there any further discussion? All right. Hearing none, we'll move into a vote. Go ahead and take that vote. I >> I >> All right, motion passes. Okay, next up, superintendent proposed contract, which as you guys take a minute to look at it and see that it's the same. Um, we did change the date, right? [clears throat] Was brought up as a concern for when we need to have everything done in evaluation. >> I think March 30th. Mhm. I thought that was that was good. Late enough that we can get it in there with our meetings, but that was the only
075thing you changed. Correct. >> Correct. >> It was 17th or 15th. >> It was Yeah, it was too soon because depending on when our meeting landed, it could have been too late. We just want to be able to follow our here. >> So, is there any any questions about this? Okay. Then is uh there a motion to accept the superintendent contract as presented? >> I move to accept the superintendent contract as presented. >> Have a second. Second. >> All right. It's been properly moved and seconded. Any further discussion? >> I just really want to thank Dory for stepping out and um kind of freezing your contract and leading the way because it's going to be a probably a tough couple years. And I think that's that's just really awesome of you and your leadership. >>
076Um, all right. Anyone else? Okay. Move into a vote. Jen >> Ruby >> I >> Right. Motion passes. Okay. Topics for the next meeting. Do we have anything anyone wants to throw out? And again, if you don't think of anything right at the moment, that's okay. You can email Dory or myself and we'll get it in there. I can give you a quick heads up. There will be from RNC approval. So, we're trying to get those documents to you ahead of time related to bond projects. I will invite Missy to come in and give a a detailed special education report. >> Um, Adam will will do his regular report. Um, it seems like there was a couple other things in there that I'm forgetting. Those names back, right? FCS students will be back to do
077their report. >> Look forward to it. >> Anything else? >> Board comments. Jeremy, you got anything? >> Um, I just had maybe a correction. We noticed that the calendars for district calendar and the parent calendar list the half day at the end of the school year as different days. So the parent calendar shows the half day is on Thursday and the district calendar shows the half day is on Wednesday. >> So >> we'll get that fixed. >> Yeah. [laughter] And then and communicate that. Yes. My wife got that. So yeah, communicate that out to make sure that >> parents know when the half day in the last day. >> Ruby. Um I wanted to give a kudos to the staff that um worked very hard on the career fair today. I was there in attendance
078not the school but the state. So it was fun to talk to students um and see what they all want to do after um after they graduate and um gave handed a lot of career um booklets that I had with me that talk about different occupations, how much they pay and um if they need to go to school or not for that. And so that was pretty cool to hand out. Um, I actually talked to one of the teachers at uh the Belium School um and he said he used our curriculum or our book for his curriculum in his um business seminar or something and he brought it with one of his students who was like it's true right but I used it like yeah how do we go with a resume as a one
079of our like homework or something like there's so many students um so many vendors It was a good networking event um to talk to other people as well. >> Yeah. My daughter said it was a lot of fun. Lot of good swag to take on their Yeah. [clears throat] Yeah. They love their swag. [laughter] >> That's great. For me, I went to the bond meeting. It was my first bond meeting to go to. It was fun to just kind of sit in the back of the room and listen to what was going on. Um not sure what to walk into, but it was well organized. I appreciated that. Uh I appreciated it was only 45 minutes long. So, that's nice. Um, everyone seemed to have a chance to ask questions and all the things. Uh,
080I'm not sure where Ray was, but I would like to just touch bases with him at some point and make sure he's still able to withhold that commitment. And if he's not, then we should find someone who can fill that position on that just so we're well represented since everything's going to come here to us >> in the future. So, >> it's definitely gaining traction and getting smoother. every other month it's there's so much difference in two months before we have a month but yeah >> it is it's getting traction there >> I just enjoyed the in-depth information like >> yep right our next meeting is the 20th of next month upcoming events are listed up there and it is [snorts] 710 and I'm going to adjourn the meeting thank you all for coming Yeah,
081I know how to hold that.