001e e for I call the meeting to order in a second now I call the meeting to order all right we're going to start with our Pledge of Allegiance by Eric Woodhouse will the audience please rise repeat after me I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all next up we have our inspirational thought by Tammy brunst okay I was asked to share an inspir AAL thought and you just never know where you're going to find some inspiration so our inspiration today came from Paddington Bear goes to Peru of all places so let me share what I the piece little tidbit of inspiration that I got from Paddington Bear as Educators and leaders
002we're on a journey that's filled with both challenges and opportunities let's think about that simple yet powerful idea and this was paddington's thought all it takes to light the darkness is one candle of faith okay so think about that a candle H how much light can a candle give in the wide world of Education each of us has our own candle this candle stands for our our strong belief in our students potential the strength of our community and the amazing power of Education even when the path seems uncertain remember that one flame can cut through the darkness sparking hope and inspiring change let's be that candle for our students and that's what we want to do at Orchard we want to be that candle for this for our students their families and each other by
003keeping our belief in our shared Mission strong we create a Beacon of Hope this light not only helps our students find knowledge and grow but also lights up their unique paths to success with faith guiding us we can turn challenges into stepping stones and light the way towards a brighter more enlightened future for everyone [Applause] thank you all right tonight let's start our recognitions as the Board of Education it is important for us to recognize various accomplishments made by students employees and patrons throughout Alpine School District as we honor the individuals and groups this evening we acknowledge the families and others who have helped them achieve their goals thank you for the support you have offered to those we recognize at this time we appreciate your attendance here tonight as we honor orchard Elementary with
004you make a difference Rec recognitions we are excited to honor various individuals from orchard Elementary Stacy baitman from the Alpine Foundation School Alpine Foundation board will make our presentations for our you make a difference Awards okay so when I say your name if you will come up if your principal is here like to invite them to come up with you as well we're going to start with Amber blacket [Applause] Amber blacket is a shining star at Orchard Elementary dedicating her time and passion to enrich our school Community from tirelessly supporting classroom teachers to co-leading the Hope Squad program her leadership as a past PTA president and active involvement in the school Community Council have left a lasting impact Amber's initiative in organizing our community health night and her support for the folk lorical dance program
005exemplify her commitment to fostering a vibrant and inclusive environment for all Megan [Applause] snow Megan snow has served as as the SEC chaired Orchard for the past 3 years helping us stay focused on how to support student learning she tirelessly ensures that teachers feel valued and appreciated once even going above and beyond by cooking dinner for the entire faculty during Teacher Appreciation Week single-handedly With a Little Help from her family her unwavering commitment and selfless contributions make Megan an invaluable asset to our school community [Applause] Analisa [Applause] fiing at Orchard Elementary we are incredibly fortunate to have an outstanding pair of professional named Analisa Fielding who has seamlessly stepped into the role of reading intervention coordinator she not only leads a dedicated team a pair of professionals but also passionately supports our most vulnerable and
006atrisk students by teaching them e essential phonics and reading skills her excellent collaboration with other teachers ensures a cohesive and supportive educational environment for all students throughout the school Ivon Petes Ivon is an indispensable part of orchard Elementary serving as a vital bridge to our Hispanic Community through her biliteracy compassion and empathy as an office secretary she delivers 110% effort consistently going above and beyond to support the students and families with heartfelt dedication her ability to connect deeply with students sharing in their Joys and feeling their struggles creates a safe and nurturing environment Ivan's joy and enthusiasm are contagious making ored a truly wonderful place and her impact is felt in every corner of our school Sarah [Applause] Jennings Sarah is a rock star in our sixth grade DLI team from the moment she walked
007into her interview her skill passion and dedication were clear she's amazing at teaching Spanish with lots of enthusiasm and she has this genuine way of encouraging empathy and cultural understanding in her students her positivity resilience and desire to learn not only make her teaching effective for student learning but also keep the team together making her a much loved part of Orchard Savannah [Applause] Watson Savannah is a remarkable leader at Orchard Elementary taking on numerous leadership roles including taking on a challenging four five split class just after maternity leave that is impressive ma'am um her Deep Roots Orchard beginning as a student at the school underscore her commitment to give back to her community Savannah possesses an extraordinary ability to connect with students and parents transforming the lives of those in her care her dedication and
008talent make her an invaluable asset to our school community e e we can hold this quick [Applause] [Music] Shake here's congratulations here's your [Applause] all right now we will turn the time over to principal Cynthia cardinas from orchard Elementary for student recognitions I'm not quite that tall but it's okay um I get the best part because I get to talk about the kids so we're going to start with kindergarten and we have lock STW if locks will come [Applause] up all right we found our students um through resilience and their whole team so the all of the um kindergarten teachers got together and they came up with these names themselves oh thank you um so lock Stars has shown remarkable growth in every aspect of our kindergarten curriculum demonstrating strong skills in making friends and
009following directions he bravely faces difficult situations and we all appreciate having him in our class it's from his teachers the next one is Lucy [Applause] Nelson be easier okay Lucy she's in first grade and this is what all of the first grade teachers said about Lucy she approaches every challenge with resilience maintaining a positive attitude and kindness even when faced with struggles she exemplifies grit by bouncing back when things don't go as planned and we admire her determination that's Lucy next up we have jent nukaya [Applause] I don't I don't think I see him I don't see him out there so I'll just read his um jent has been working hard on growing and learning his persistence and willingness to learn are commendable he always approaches learning with a smile and an eagerness to improve
010okay and then our third grader is Aniston Henderson [Applause] super smiley these are all my smile Champions Okay um Aniston has made significant progress in her reading this year exemplifying how hard work a positive attitude and dedication can foster academic growth her efforts have inspired both her teachers and her peers that's Aniston in fourth grade we have Joshua [Applause] navarete despite finding School challenging Joshua has worked exceptionally hard and demonstrated impressive growth since the beginning of the year his determination is truly inspiring and he knows [Applause] it fifth grade we've got Dante Underwood I don't know if I saw Dante has exhibited um outstanding growth emotionally socially and academically this year his development in these areas has been truly impressive so that's Dante and sixth grade we have Jackson [Applause] everol since August Jackson has
011shown considerable growth bravely trying new things and persevering in both his academic work and collaborations with others his courage and termination are evident in his progress that's [Applause] Jackson e e [Applause] what okay now we're going to give just a little overview of orchard Elementary I have been extremely blessed to be the Principal there for the last three years and they're my people they're my family the students are amazing the employees outstanding and the parents are Beyond supportive oh okay I'm going to like not cry cuz I love them all all so um some of the things that are unique to Orchard is that we are a dual language immersion school which is 50% Spanish 50% English for part of our students and then the others are general education students but um it really is
012we've done a really big job this last three years on trying to bring both programs together and having a really inclusive environment where everyone is represented whether they're in the DLI program or the Jed program they're all very important to Orchard some of the things that we've done um with our priority of reading and um how we're really trying to get all students reading we've started a a program last year called wildout reading and um it's minutes read aloud at home so students clocked all their times there were prizes and things just like a fundraiser but it was a reading challenge and we recorded last year 150,000 minutes over 150,000 minutes were read during the month of February so that's pretty impressive and right now we're in the middle of it still so we've got
013one week left to see where where we're at this year of doing the same challenge um our PTA and our community involvement is amazing they've um as was said earlier we've had a community health night they support teachers by coming and volunteering and providing them with um extra educational opportunities as well as Junior hope Squad was mentioned as well and that's a group of our fifth and sixth and they kind of act as our hope Squad and our student council and fourth grade too sorry fourth grade is in there too and they um keep the tempo up and try to keep um happiness and that inclusive environment going as well as we do sorry I've lost my voice um we've had plays since we've been there too and so students are able to participate in
014many different types of activities and some of our plays the we just finished Pinocchio in January and it was amazing and the kids come out and it's just for a week and they it's just absolutely surprising what they can do in a week with Missoula Children's Theater that's who we've done it through um Orchard is just a great place where education and culture and Community all come together and Thrive and it's been a wonderful place to be the last three years [Applause] so thank you Mrs cardus we appreciate her being here tonight and for all of our students at Orchard Elementary we also want to honor um our state champions uh our teams from American Fork High School our 6A State boys state swim Champions as well as our Lone Peak High School 6A State
015girls state champions um and just for your awareness even though they're not with us tonight there um we do have award certificates that are going to be sent to the schools to be given dur uh to the students during their recognition ceremonies so let's give a hand to these two schools in their Swim Team all right thank you we're going to move on to community comments um we have about 30 minutes set aside um we should be good um a signup sheet was available prior to the meeting to allow um patrons the opportunity to speak those living outside of ASD and those who were unable to sign up before all slots were full can submit written comments uh via the feedback Button as you are called up please introduce yourself by stating your name you
016will be given up to three minutes to speak while the board does not engage in a discussion during public com the public comment period they may arrange for a staff member to communicate with you later Personnel issues are not appropriate discussion items for an open meeting environment and if you have a personel concern please contact a member of administration or put your concerns in writing and email it to the Board of Education oh yes and if you were here for recognitions you are free to go thank you thank you for coming supporting your children okay our first Community comment is from Kathy Thorp good evening my name is Kathy Thorp and I'm a parent of three children who attend Foothill Elementary I have two boys in all and one girl in the General Ed Ed
017classroom we do live in the Centennial boundaries and we are grateful to be able to attend at Foothill I'm sure some of you probably took a statistics class in college like I did I'm not going to lie it was a tough class and I didn't really get the con connection to my major until a professor taught me that the point of Statistics is to identify the outliers picture with me if you will a bell curve and on the very far end here we've got the special ed kids um who we spend a lot of time and resources on helping as well we should but on the other end we have the gifted kids they are outliers too um they have neurodiverse brains and they also have special needs they're just simply wired differently than neurotypical
018kids and they need specialized instruction to best suit their needs the alll program has been a lifesaver for my boys in terms of Education that fits their need for complexity and Challenge and also in terms of finding their tribe my son no longer sits alone at the Buddy bench at recess like he did at his old school because he was different the reason I'm here tonight is to ask that Foothill Elementary be given 18 FTE for the 2526 school year so we can maintain this program that has been so beneficial to the gifted Community the situation with third grade this year at Foothill has been extremely challenging three class sections were cut down to two just a few days before school started and 9 to 10 General Leed students were put in with all this
019is like taking 10 seventh grade algebra students and putting them into a trigonometry class to balance the numbers it is frustrating for the trigonometry students for the algebra students and for the teacher it's a lose lose situation I understand that these are strange times and the board doesn't want to make too many permanent changes because the district will split in two years but please don't just sit in complete limbo keep in mind that for the students two years is 15 % of their K through2 education in line with the board's moral imperative to prioritize teacher Effectiveness and student achievement please give Foothill the resources to have three class sections for third through sixth grades one for a and two for Gen Ed this is vital in order to maintain the Integrity of the program as
020well as to serve the needs of the gentle ed students thank you thank you next up we have Annie Lambert hi my name is Annie Lambert I'm also from Foothill Elementary um I have three children in the school district that have all thrived in the AL programs over the past five years last year my third grade daughter tested into the program and as Kathy said just before school started we were informed that the class needed to accommodate nine more General Ed education students because they didn't have enough fdes for uh an all only teacher so there are currently only two classes in the third grade all a general Ed and a general Ed all mixed class and one has 30 and one has 32 students my daughter's mixed class hasn't been able to move at
021the same Pace that my boys were able to enjoy in previous years in speaking to my daughter's teacher I learned that she has less time to do all enrichment activities since she's helping with students who are struggling to keep up and that the class is much farther behind in math than previous classes at this point in the year this has also created a difficult situation for the other third grade teacher and class as most of the students in the grade who are struggling academically are now concentrated into one class the current plan is to have the same two classes move up to fourth grade perpetu perpetuating the situation for general education and Al students uh Foothill Elementary happens to be our boundary school but this mixed class situation is unfair to the families from out
022of boundaries who drive their children to Foothill in order to participate in a program that isn't fully functioning as it should it's also unfair to any child who tests into all this year from surrounding schools but isn't offered a spot because there isn't room due to the general education students filling the rest of the class uh Foothill needs to have three classes in third grade in order to preserve the Integrity of the AL program and so that the general education students aren't disproportionately affected I'm advocating for Hill Elementary to be granted in an additional FTE so having 18 that would allow for fourth grade alll only class next year and two general education classes um and this additional FTE would also allow additional students outside of the foothill boundaries to be able to come to
023Foothill because as of now they cannot because it is full I understand that these decisions are affected by many factors but I hope that the district can preserve the intent of the Alo program at Foothill Elementary offering students that learn at a faster Pace the environment needed to stay engaged and learn effectively thank you so much for your time thank you um we have a staff member that can meet with you in the hallway if you uh Kathy and Annie if you want to meet with them outside board the boardroom sorry okay we are going to move on to routine business uh superintendent yes you've received the routine business for this board meeting which includes Lea specific licenses and the land trust amendments appreciate Scott and his team and putting those together for you and
024we recommend that you approve the routine business do I have a motion to approve routine business I move that we approve the routine business I'll second it all right we have a motion by Julie and a second by Sarah sorry all those in favor say discuss any discussion seeing none um all in favor say I I I any opposed seeing none that approve that is approved thank you we'll move on to the action items we have two the first one is the fiscal year 26 capital outlay budget we reviewed that in study session and pending uh discussion by the board we recommend your approval of that budget okay any discussion oh first fine I move that we approve the FY 26 capital outlay budget I'll second it any discussion well I'll just speak to it
025a little bit I really appreciated the thoroughness of the presentation and uh the thought that goes into uh deciding which of these projects has the highest priority and I feel like the the items in this budget are are our priority items and should be funded Jason can I ask a clarifying question um so really we do like the major budget in June so we're kind of like pre-approving this section of the budget because we want to make sure that we have that staff can move forward like for example with the remodel of lak Ridge or bonnaville um I know a lot of the projects happen over the summer with physical facilities as far as um you know like the reserving and things like that so this is really us kind of like pre-approving a section
026of the budget so that a lot of our teams like physical facilities technology Transportation when we have to order buses in advance we're kind of giving them the go- ahead to move towards that knowing that the full budget will be approved in June that's correct that's correct yeah and it's like we shared in study session the capital and the operation budgets are a little different where the capital is it's the total budget each year and it's re um requested and brought in that way and so there are a lot of projects that will start the ordering process right away and then even some of the construction things things that will start in May and June when when the schools are available before the fiscal years ends at the end of June and I'd also say
027that it's it's been a great process this year and last to be able to because of the um efforts of the board to be able to add to the increments that there's there's more flexibility more available to do these things um because of the commitment of the board to the capital fund awesome I just want thank you for clarifying that I just want to make sure that everybody understood I just want to give a huge shout out to physical facilities I know that um I think sometimes there's an assumption like nothing happens over the summer and I would say that like behind the scenes whether that's the technology department purchasing warehousing like summer sometimes like the busiest season when um you know we have a new school opening this year which means there's a lot
028of purchasing happening whether it's desks and chairs being delivered and um I just want to give a shout out because there is a small army of people who behind the scenes make sure that schools are ready to function that we have enough school buses ready to roll and that we can yank some out of the we call it the Boneyard so I just wanted to thank all those people and I appreciate um how aggressive we're being in making sure that needs are met so thank you I just wanted to mention I I just really appreciate your inclusive and collaborative process um a lot of people um give their input and there's a lot of back and forth and we were able to fund um I thought a good chunk of the projects that were requested
029on a limited budget so thank you for all that you and your team do to make that you it is a great team and we have that uh District budget committee we have board members we have advisory committee DLT but then there's also principles that come in and and are able to give input and kind of see how the process and and uh be able to be able to view that so it's a great process there any other discussion okay we have a motion by Mark and a second by Julie um all those in favor say I I any oppos say nay all right passes wonderful we would invite principal Brian Jolly to come forward have the opportunity to finalize the name of a new Middle School remember last board meeting principal Jolly shared some
030possibilities with us we appreciate uh you Brian and the process that you have engaged in it was uh significant in its collaborative efforts involving students and patrons and we appreciate that tone that you're setting for that school at this is a collaborative Community where we work together to find great outcomes so we would entertain the board naming a school so that we can uh move forward all right uh thank you for those kind words superintendent um I've never been more excited in the last several months and I've probably never been more more nervous either so here we go all right there's there's some permanency tonight that we're dealing with so I just wanted to quickly remind you before you entertain a motion to name the school of our three options um we have this these
031are in alphabetical order um our first option is the Coyote Ridge Middle School home of the Mavericks um we are really excited about this option um we think the name is unique um it is it provides a great aspirational image for our students as far as um who they can become uh we love the fact that coyotes are tough and strong and and intelligent clever resilient um and are resourceful problem solvers so um and of course we love this idea of the Mavericks I would say of all the of the two mascots that we're considering this is um far and wide a very very popular one amongst I think the group that matters most and that's our students um the uh Maverick is is just this you've got this rugged Spirit of independent adventure and
032exploration and risk-taking and and boldly uh seeking Creative Solutions so that is our first option our second option is the Sage Canyon Middle School uh coyotes um and we we love this option as well there's there's so much to be said about sage and and what it represents in our community anyone who drives through Eagle Mountain you're going to see a lot of sage um and we love that it's resilient and Hearty and that it's abundant in the region and of course uh with that mascot of the coyotes we've already already talked about the significance of that Sage Canyon is a another option that is widely favored by a lot of a lot of people as well so the third option is the West Desert Middle School uh coyotes and um we we love this
033option for a lot of reasons the location of course is kind of self-evident um the desert calls to mind endurance resilience and a pioneering spirit so um the students certainly love this wild west imagery um and they love the desert as an option and felt like West Desert was the right version of desert for us to consider in that area um so those are our three options um do you have any questions for me right questions any I know that you have been sworn to secrecy but do you w to of the three is there one that was a little more popular or do you felt like parents those stakeholders kind of maybe lean towards a little more than NE yeah I would say that um although all three are very well-liked um and uh
034we would be happy with any of the three um we feel like that the coyote Rich Mavericks is one that stands out just a little bit more especially when you because of its uniqueness yes but also um because of that that mascot piece that you bring into it um that is far and wide the most favorite masc out of our students so could I ask our board member King to speak to this because I really value your input please Brian that now it's getting awkward yeah that's fine I will actually say that my personal preference is Coyote Ridge I think it's Unique I like that it's different I will say the largest amount of community feedback I've had support Sage Canyon great so that was my intent and that's fine it's when I when I
035said it was it's not like it's this right it's very it's very dead even on the name so I wish Mark had not asked the question now well we could always propose the sage Grouse you know middle school and that would that would create a differential you know what I mean yeah okay do we have a motion yes I move that we name the new Middle School in Eagle Mountain Sage Canyon do I have a second I'll second okay we have a motion by Julie and a second by Joy Lynn any discussion I really do like Coyote Ridge better but the amount of feedback that I got um and there was quite a bit of feedback was that it was largely supported as Sage Canyon so yeah and that's that's the process we go through
036right we have to suspend personal our own personal pref preferences and there's nothing wrong with that I do want to Echo what superintendent fsw said I think that the way that you've gone about it like there's been a huge I think um commitment from the naming committee um from faculty from employees from the community from our students I love that you had a high level of student student engagement on this one so really appreciative of the entire process so um just want to thank you all for for for being that in-depth about it and I feel like they've done a really great job capturing the culture of the area and um I'm incredibly grateful and and our students are fully like when you look at the Mas shot situation there's so much uh that students
037love about the coyote and our staff there there's a real branding that can happen here that creates that's going to create a sense of community um and that's what matters most and we'll do that so Brian could you comment on the you did last time but I think for those that weren't listening last time just the color Choice stays consistent throughout all three could you comment on that yeah um our our color Choice stays the same no matter what um our students love this black and this what we call Vegas gold it's a darker gold um and then you bring in that sage green um which is exactly what we have which obviously matches really well with the name um as a third color that will be used when when needed to provide accent but
038across the board our students and our staff love this black and gold and it's once again it's very unique there's not a school in our district at the secondary level that has this black gold combo so we we absolutely love that thank you y can I pose a question well a couple of questions board member King are were your the feedback that you received is that adult feedback or is that kid feedback just curious well the majority of the people who contacted me who have my cell phone number are adults I don't my cell phone to miners but and is there an actual Canyon called Sage Canyon no there is not there's not no the nearest Canyon is called West Canyon but that's a little far away from us and we believe that someday in
039our future there will probably be a school out there and it would be more appropriate for them to be West Canyon than us um but Canyon was easily we looked at many options with sage and foreign wide Sage Canyon was the most popular of those so very very well liked okay we have a motion jie yes there's a second by joyn any further discussion okay all those in favor say I I I uh those opposed say nay all right unanimous thank you thank you Brian okay superintendent fernworth uh discussion action items please yes we have uh two items for discussion and potential action we appreciate Dr Rich sto who our public relations director he has a brought to our attention the opportunity for our schools to receive a designation with respect to it's called a
040purple star School uh as we support military families uh Dr Sto has a military background as well we appreciate uh his work in our district and so we invite you to discuss this he's going to present some information so you know kind of what this entails the reason it is on the board agenda for a possible action item is is we've sent you out a resolution that would be fitting for the board to adopt if it is the will of the board to support our schools in seeking this designation as purple star schools thank you superintendent uh the purple star schools program is a Utah State Board of Education sponsored program uh the designation would be earned by individual schools but we can support schools in those efforts uh the district level by passing a
041board resolution which would satisfy one of the requirements that that the schools would need um it's a fairly simple application process for the schools and essentially the designation would signal to the community that it this that the school is a place where uh students who are military connected are welcome and have all the supports needed when circumstances associated with military family life um might otherwise um impede their learning could you clarify a little bit what the expectations would be of those schools seeking that and what support they might need from the the district yeah so there are five requirements for a school to achieve the designation uh one of them is that they have a a point of contact that could sort of manage the program one of them is to have a web page
042on the School site that lists resources available available to military families and Educators who um are looking for resources to support those students uh one of them is to provide some some simple staff training to understand what uh what some of the unique needs of these students are um and another one is to uh to have this board resolution in support of the purple star schools program and then probably the most important one is that these schools would uh organize a student Le transition team and the point of this student-led transition team would be to welcome new students to the school who might be coming at midye because of a military transition so that might not um impact many of our students but what we've found in talking to a lot of these principles is
043they already have student-led teams that are are set up to welcome students and make them feel part of the school community so the additional requirement here would be to uh notify those students that they are also uh participating in the in the purple star schools program where might a school look for curriculum support or those other things is that school by school is that something we could provide and support as a district that's something that we are providing as a district and of course many schools are going to have uh find find additional resources but we'll Supply uh a set of resources that are standard that any school could draw on to provide for educators parents or students board member um Peterson does does anyone have the language that we require for this I have
044it so have it in front of me yeah I have it will we make a motion according to that language um that was my intention yes this is something that hits very close to home I have a brother in the military and I have nephews who have been affected by his service and I think any support that we can give to Veterans and Military children is such a great opportunity for us can I ask a quick question Rich um when it talks about like um the training of staff is that something where we intend to have that created at the district level and then just pushed out to schools that access it or will each school be required to create their own training schools are not required to create training that's um this was not
045designed to um impose a burden on schools there is training available that the state makes uh that the state has provided and and part of this interstate compact there are nonprofits that make uh training available that's endorsed by the state so we would just basically Point schools and staff to these training opportunities most of them are videos some of them are online content okay so stuff that's already in existence we would just say here's the website go and complete the training and then along with that the web page of the resources is that something where once again we would be providing supports for that I mean I know we've talked about just recently about you know aligning all of our um web pages and the support for that is it something where we would just
046help provide that and the school would just load their individual content on as far as like who their point of contact is that's exactly right we've we've created a template at the district level that has everything required on the web page and uh so far two schools have reached out saying we want to apply this template to our uh to our school site so we've just copied it over and then they can edit you know change the point of contact add resources if they want add photos if they hold military events but we provide the initial template so they could get started instantly uh meeting that requirement and I think if I remember correctly there was a section about having um a military event every year is that I remember correctly that is yes that's
047correct you're remembering that correctly that's not a requirement for schools that hold military events that would stand in place of the board resolution oh okay um and then once you're a purple star school as long as you maintain those things like how often do the the training have to be completed is it like every year or every few years uh there's not a specific requirement for how often the training has to be done the principal just has to indicate that staff have been trained so it sounds like some of these things once they're done as far as the training the board resolution they're kind of just in place and it's like check check that's completed but then some of the ongoing stuff like the student Le transition team and the point of contact would be
048more kind of an ongoing thing that's correct they would have to be updated and maintained and is there anything where um there has to be a renewal every certain number of years it just once you receive the status the status is assumed to be ongoing I I I should get some clarification on that my understanding is that uh it's a three-year renewal cycle okay thank you I see I see this at least in my schools as being something very easy to implement they already do Veterans Day programs they already have hope squads that could very easily transition into student-led support transition kids I can see them be very excited to participate and like disappointed if they didn't have military students so that's right and and as we've talked to principles most schools are doing these
049things and so we might as well uh celebrate that and and show that that they they're doing them by earning the designation okay any other discussion on that all right I'm going to make a motion I motion that we pass resolution 202- Z4 whereas military families face unique challenges due to relocations deployments and transitions that can impact their children's educational stability and success and whereas our schools play a crucial role in providing a supportive and stable environment for military connected families fostering their academic social and emotional well-being and whereas we recognize the importance of being a military-friendly community and showing our commitment to the values and service of members of the Armed Forces in our community and whereas Utah has adopted the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children and the state Utah State
050Board of Education recognizes purple star schools as a way to support the families of our active duty guard and Reserve Personnel be it resolved that we the Alpine School District Board of Education pledged to support the purple star schools program to enhance the educational experience of military connected students to provide for training and professional development opportunities consistent with the program to celebrate schools who embrace the spirit of the purple star schools program and to encourage schools to become purple star schools in order to continue to help all students achieve the the vision for learning do I have a second I'll second all right any discussion okay with a mo hold on oh sorry um rich I appreciate you bringing this forward um my daddy was a marine he has four purple hearts um I know
051what it is to be in a family um it can often be an isolating place I think I think when um our students have a parent deployed um we have the parent on the home front who is you know keeping everything going and I appreciate this opportunity to formalize um the recognition I agree with Ada so many of my schools are already doing incredible things they are um simultaneously my favorite and least favorite things to attend because I don't do so well with them as my feelings come out of my eyes often um and I think anything that we can do to signify to somebody moving into the area um who may be um one of these families to say you know that you are welcome here and we support you um that I am
052very much in favor of this so thank you thank you thank you any other discussion okay with a motion by Emily and a second by Stacy um all those who are in favor say I I I I any oppose say nay all right that passes unanimously thank you board for your support of that and Dr Sto I would just Echo the sentiments of many board members thank you for your work on this for bringing it to our attention your advocacy for that and your support of this resolution appreciate your great work next discussion action item is policy 67 excuse me 4762 sexual harassment and we invite our legal councel come forward to resolve any concerns and questions that the board may have with respect to this and then if that is I believe that's our
053intention is to retire this policy yes that's correct uh if the board is ready to do that then we would recommend that you move this to an action item and retire this policy similar to um last board meeting when we retired another sexual harassment policy we started with five our goal is to get to one and make the one cover all of the areas so last time we retired the SE sexual harassment policy for classified employees this time this sexual harassment policy is for managerial staff or admin um in the future we will also retire the student version and the certified version and we will maintain one version that covers all staff and all students and that is um policy number 7150 is the one that we plan to keep and we will update that
054one as well I move that we retire policy 4762 sexual harassment second okay we have a motion by Sarah and a second by AA any discussion yeah I just wanted to I had a discussion with Craig about this earlier today and um there is going to be a careful um transferral of everything into 7150 including the feedback that we get from OCR the um office of civil rights um the suggestions that they made regarding us uh having more stringent reporting and followup and I think I'm correct in saying that um that that policy will be a strong policy but it will all be in one place so okay any other discussion okay with the motion by Sarah and a second by a all those in favor say I I I I any opposed say nay
055all right that passes unanimously okay the last two items are discussion items the 20 627 school calendar and then future calendars appreciate uh Dr Joel Perkins Chief of Staff who has overseen the calendar committees the board recommendation was to obviously move forward with the 2627 calendar but also to look at Future calendars that future boards could possibly adopt so there is consistency across all three districts at least the opportunity for consistency across all three districts with respect to ACC common calendar okay you should have in front of you uh two large pieces of paper we're going to start with the one that just has the single calendar for the 2627 school year this would be the uh it's a discussion item today but this would be the official calendar for the the final year of
056Alpine School District as it currently is constituted um the way we want to approach this is I I want to walk you through how we go into buiness building these we appreciate the opportunity and I need to thank tremendously thank our committee we had a larger committee than we've ever had and it was done so intentionally because we wanted to make sure that we had a principal from uh from each level a teacher from each level a school school Community Council chair from each level and we wanted to ensure that we were equally representing all three new school districts we also included students uh we had secondary student from each of the new districts who was on who were on the committee we also had a secondary and Elementary representative from our uh Association we
057had a board member board member Lincoln uh who was on our committee and then we had three members of our comm's team and then myself uh it was uh I knew it was going to be a heavy lift I didn't realize what kind of lift we were talking about with the creation of four calendars um they uh they were tremendous and they all came with great attitudes and we certainly appreciate all of their perspectives and helping us to move forward what we think is very important so you'll have to you'll have to indulge me a little bit here I'm going to I'm going to walk you through the process and I'm going to give you some of the criteria that we look at we began our committee by looking at what we would say are
058the the essentials for school calendars for employees and these are the following key points that we all have to understand if we're building and and looking at Calendars number one state statute requires 180 days of school for students uh the state statute also allows two of those days days considered parent teacher parent teacher conference compensation days that can be used uh and counted as part of the 180 those are going to be indicated in on the calendar those will be indicated in light pink the law also allows for up to four teacher work days that can be designated without students present uh but those are days that the state statute counts as towards the 180 as well now it is important to note that uh the state statute designates those days as teacher work days
059or professional development days in Alpine School District we have designated them solely as teacher work days but obviously as as we move forward uh districts and Boards could make uh a different determination of how that day would be utilized depending on uh what they work out with uh their organization now also other key elements are that there are 185 days that are considered our teacher contract days that's that that's what goes into our contract and uh of those there are typically three days prior to the start of school and then two days that are scattered throughout the year a kind of a a midpoint of the first semester a midpoint of the second semester that are professional development days those are professional those are in green those days are part of the teacher contract but
060they are not part of the 180 days school days everybody with me so far um and for those of you that have been on the committee before forgive me I just want to make sure we have this Foundation established most of you understand this all very clearly uh things that we have also learned over the last uh we could say 100 plus years in Alpine and that is you don't it's not best to start with a full five days of school the first week we just know that that's not wise and so we we put that as one of our Essentials our term one ends before fall break or with fall break and then our term two ends at uh the winter break and then for retirement purposes as well as popular demand we don't
061go beyond Memorial Day uh for our uh for our schedule now so we looked at those key Essentials as we move forward and then there are other a few other things that we we did send out a survey you have seen the results of that survey um we have additional results if if needed but uh digest there and then you can reach out and ask further questions if there something else that you would like to see uh I did in fact add an additional component right before the meeting about the breakdown of teacher work days which we'll talk about in just a moment um as we look at the survey results overwhelmingly uh the most important component that our survey results indicate is that the winter break folks want two full weeks with three weekends
062for the winter break uh and that is a pretty important component as as we look at things so they want that weekend to start the break two full weeks off and then that weekend before we return to school also very important to uh our patrons and those that took the survey employees as well is uh ending school before Memorial Day a full week of school for spring break start school as late as possible in August and while we're at it try to balance the terms and semesters now the way the reason we indicate these because these are important criteria to look at they are ranked in the order of waiting from the survey results and uh the wonderful thing about calendars is that everybody has opinions about calendars and often those are in direct opposition
063to each other and so each of these components if you choose one you can't always have the next one and vice versa and so as you work through it it really becomes a balance balancing act there as as we try to work through things now um we'll talk about I already talked about the teacher workday data that I that that we entered into that doc your document so that you can review that if you'd like to see some IND individual breakdowns about teacher work dayss but I'm going to push hold on teacher workday conversation for a minute because before we dive into the teacher workdays we want to dive into how we built the schedule and so I'm going to walk you through the pro process looking specifically at priorities we would go directly to
064the winter break so in this case winter break December 25th is epival day and the feedback we receive from our patrons they prefer more days after December 25th than they do before the 25th it's not a clean sweep but that's where the percentage it's like a 45 37 or something like that but uh that's where folks like so we kind of hinge around December 25th as a pivotal place and where we place our two weeks with three weekends so in this calendar a 2627 calendar uh with the 25th falling on the Friday it makes sense to to uh to go to the Christmas break on the 18th and uh and carry through to the first returning the school on the 4th now you'll notice the fourth is in a different color I'll talk about that
065in a minute with teacher work days but as we're building that's the first thing we slot in the next thing we slot in is fall break so if we go to October this would be the end of term one so we'll go to October the 15th and 16th on this calendar would be the the days that are designated for fall break break and uh typically we have followed that up with the Monday being a professional development day this calendar is different I'll talk about that in a minute when we talk about work days but we slot that into as uh the fall break window then we go to spring break spring break Remember full full spring break is what's wanted a full week in spring break uh it's typically the first full week in April
066that seems to be where we align with the other districts and in surrounding areas um and so we slot that in once we have put those those breaks into place then we start to look at first and last days and this is where we start counting days to try to ensure that we can create as close to parody As we can we can get so on this calendar first day of school is actually the 19th which is later than uh we've done recently so that's a great thing so in order to get the right number of days there we start school in the 19th and then we would end School the Friday before Memorial Day so that's that Fs in pretty nicely when we look at those those key dates now uh if we look
067at terms you can see that we count the days of the term and this is one of those you can't have everything you want and so in order to create the schedule the way that we've created it it works out fairly nice later in later in April Before Memorial Day the the three weeks uh for the winter break full week for spring break that all works out really well but what it does create is an off balance uh between the the terms as we've met with our teachers and discuss teachers are the ones that care the most about the balancing uh parents not so much students not so much but it is our teachers that have concerns about that but as we look at that and talk through that there are some things that we
068can do to mitigate uh some of that difference we can't mitigate it all and certainly with the last week of school there are schedule changes that do that does equalize things a little bit as well so as we look at you'll see that uh in this calendar where we're much heavier in semester 2 we do have more teacher work days that are slotted into that second semester which help us then to provide a little bit more parity between the semesters reduce those differences so when we look at the workday placement and this is uh this is this is key because it is tied directly to the feedback responses that we we receive the first would be January 4th because again remember we start in the middle tied to the that's how we build calendars so
069overwhelmingly there is a response that if the first day from winter break could be a teacher work day that would make all of our teachers very very happy allows them to enjoy the break and then return have a day to get themselves ready for students to return so the in this case the fourth would be designated as a teacher work day the next teacher work day if we go back now to to fall break typically we've we've attached uh a teacher workday somewhere in here but frequently the 19th would traditionally be a professional development day but members of our committee including board member Lincoln came up with this idea what if we did something different because so much of our of our professional development these days is led by our teachers so so many of
070those teachers who are going to be presenting on Monday go into fall break with this presentation looming and they're unable to really enjoy that fall break and so the the request of the committee recommendation of the committee is to make that first day that Monday after fall break to to make that a teacher work day meaning teachers could uh work that day without students to catch up on their work if teachers wanted to they could utilize one of their uh personal leave days uh at no doc personal leave days they could take that and extend their fall break without uh without difficulty if that was uh the choice that they wanted to make we would still need to place a professional development day so the committee in the right time frame there's really an attempt
071here because a lot of the feedback we received in the survey is uh that week that day after Halloween is really really rough and so they wanted uh to try to find something if we can't do it the day after Halloween something in the vicinity of Halloween that would allow teachers a little bit of uh reprieve for that week and so the professional development day for this for this calendar is named on November 2nd as a professional development day it's still principals felt good that that timing is is still good but it would allow our teachers to enjoy their fall break and our employees to enjoy their fall break now we're still short two uh teacher work days and that would be on this calendar attached to as we have often done in the past
072attached to President's Day weekend on the 12 now that's done for two reasons it obviously extends that holiday weekend for our families and students but it also is placed because that is one of the week we of Elementary uh parent teacher conferences and overwhelmingly from our elementary teachers there is a request to try to soften the impact of that parent teacher conference week it is it is a challenging week for them so if we place that on the 12th that makes sense it pro it's one of the weeks of parent teacher conference it provides that opportunity for them and for our families it creates a 4-day week uh weekend and then the last placement of the teacher workday would be on March 12th end of term three uh very helpful for our secondary teachers to
073have the work day on the last day of the term as they're working through their grades and then we have that professional development day on the 15th so it makes a longer weekend for our families uh for our students and also the the brilliant part about uh having the that professional development day on the 15th is that is the day after Daylight Savings Time daylight saving time which is always a very good time to not have students have to get get up early so it works out fairly well as you look at this calendar now I've just gone through the process of how we build it what it looks like what questions do you have about the 2627 calendar Joel I mean it's almost serendipitous it's it's almost perfect the whole calendar but my question
074was because I love the fact that the 4th of that January is uh a teacher comp day or work day and my question is I know the teachers are going to be thrilled with this that's just so fun as you sat in your calendar committee with parents what was their reaction to this were they fine with it were they kind of they were supportive very supportive very or a little I would say very very I'm a parent and I'm thrilled for it say say that again Stacey I'm a parent and I'm thrilled for it I I think when we had the year where we had the later spring or the later second week and parents we were not sure if we were going to like that turns out that was lovely so I think this
075gives everybody one more day and I'm thrilled that you're giving teachers the day to be in the classroom before students and remember that part about being thrilled about later because that's I have a question for 2028 Dr Perkins okay well we'll talk about that just a minute okay any other questions about 2627 I just wanted to comment that this calendar laid out so nicely because of the placement of Christmas and that that will become a challenge in the next couple years even though as a committee we use the same guiding principles um I was told I was supposed to make a motion to move Halloween but I guess we could add Christmas to the list we did have request in the survey that you just dictate when Halloween will be celebrated each year any other
076questions about this calendar so I appreciate that you've um even though there is an imbalance in the terms and the semesters that you've compensated that by placing the teacher work days and professional development so teachers are okay with a 10day difference you know between the first and the last yes by the time you take you you utilize the uh the three teacher work days and the professional development day and then you look at what the scheduling looks like the last week of school you really end up being within two class periods and to to achieve this and not have to start earlier and the only way to achieve greater balance is to start earlier in August and teachers overwhelmingly said we'll take the imbalance to start when we start are you looking for a motion
077is discussion just discussion okay any questions on this one okay uh let's put that one away and let's go to the the big one okay this one uh has three years we'll do our best I'll try to uh the beauty of this is in in the creation there was some similarity so 2728 thanks I can't remember I can't talk and click at the same time without a clicker uh 2728 is very very similar to the calendar that we just looked at in fact as you go through uh I I believe we're off basically one day but all of the principles that we just talked about everything from the start of school to the winter break the placement of fall break to spring break to ending on the Friday before Memorial is all the same the
078placements of the teacher work days are still following the same principles um and so there's not really a whole lot more to say about that calendar unless anyone has questions about that calendar okay 28 29 and 2930 are not pretty I that's that's just the reality of what we're talking about so as we go let me let me let's look at the middle one first 2829 uh we're going to go back to our the same approach first thing we look at is the winter break December 25th falls on a Monday in this calendar year which poses some complications that we have experienced recently in fact uh very recently as you as you look at it uh what that does is if we take in order to get three weekends and two weeks that would have
079the first day of the break being potentially the 22nd uh going through the 5th with return to school on the 8th now in order to to help so because we all know what the because that was that this year or last year that we had this year oh last year thank you last last year with that calendar the way it was we had a lot of concern from mainly our employees that this isn't giving me enough time to prepare for for the holidays and so uh in this case because of the lateness rather than have that teacher work day after the return the recommendation of the committee in this case was to have that teacher workday on the 22nd so that uh it would create if uh if our teachers chose to take that time
080as a as a um a personal leave day they could do so and uh begin their preparations if they wanted to use that time to wrap things up they could do so as well so uh that being what it is we all also remember a lot of the concern about going that late into January but as board member baitman indicated earlier uh once we lived it it was pretty good and we realized hey this makes January a lot easier and so there was some some help and support on that one so that's one we need indicate the other uh differences here that we need to talk about would uh would be as we look at uh fall break looking at fall break there's some challenges with implementing as we had as we had talked about
081in the previous two calendars to put that the 23rd is a teacher work day it could be done but the challenge becomes the placement of the professional development day that needs to happen in the secondary World placement of a professional development day on a Friday is a horrible place because of all of the extracurricular activities that happen on Fridays uh it just complicates things fairly significantly and so the consensus of our committee was while we would prefer that be a workday coming back from the break it probably ought to be a professional development day with the work day being uh on the following Friday which gives a little bit of Gap but still creates uh the time that that folks need so not the perfect solution on that but uh one of the things that
082is different in this version and the last version as well um the other points that we need to talk about would be calendar differences in February to attach the uh to attach the teacher workday on the 16th to the President's Day weekend uh proved a little problematic for the fact that the week that has Valentine's Day in the middle of it is not a good week for us to do parent teacher conference and so so it doesn't doesn't bode well to create that as the parent teacher conference week and uh and then we're notable to provide that support for the parent teacher conference week so the recommendation of the committee in this case is to separate and create in February two three-day weekends instead of one 4-day weekend which I I should indicate the survey
083results demonstrated that our students are more interested in three-day weekends than four-day weekends so that's uh why February looks a little bit different but that was the recommendation of the committee on that one and then uh let's see oh yeah that would be good so any questions that I can entertain right now on the 2829 please yes please oh no it's oh yes 282 yes I fully glitched for a minute so my apologies will you restate again for my benefit why you changed the PD day and teacher work day on October and November yes and and the reason for that was the committee felt that in in order for us to create a a day off in that week of H week after Halloween Friday PD are bad I got it I heard it bad
084but and and there's no there's no appetite at this point to to go the day after Halloween even though we'd like to provide that service to our folks it's not very good for our families and our students to take the Wednesday off on the week and so it just felt like that Friday was the best option so that's why the switch for those two that's great next on Julie's legislative agendas to get Halloween moved to last Friday of October that's for next year we would welcome that one other question um so so the week that first week of January is late right we were all surprised we loved it um I guess because I have overwhelmingly overwhelmingly heard from teachers where that is like their first please give us this first day back we would
085need to then put in another day somewhere else to give them that January day to to give them the January day back we would either need to not give them the 22nd or we would need to remove either the February from the parent teacher conference week or the march from the end of term three or start school a day earlier and no thank you on that so all right so again this it's that tug of- War right on on everything has now we should mention that these three as as we're looking at them this this is the recommendation or this would be what we would hope the board would recommend to uh to the incoming boards so that there could be some some consistency amongst our teachers uh there's there is significant concern even amongst
086our committee that we could create some stability for folks especially where uh they may not be teaching in the same boundary in which their kids are going to be attending school and so recognizing that also recognizing that this is a recommend a that the future boards would have to select it could also be the case that a a teacher work day or a professional development day placed here or there doesn't necessarily cause as much concern what would what should and ought to probably be the recommendation at nothing else would be first and last days of school the same fall break winter break and and spring break would be the same as well and whether whether one District chose to make this a work day or professional development day that could be uh something that could
087be changed without really a lot of difficulty um if that was a direction that that one felt we needed to go as well okay I have two questions and then I'll be finished great um are there minutes from these committees or did you capture in some sort of digital form what the reasoning was behind this it's all right here okay i' be happy to sit down the only reason I'm asking because I guess in my head I don't know what anyone else is thinking but in my head we've got a drive where we putting these things the different recommendations together so if you could just synthesize it and if we just throw out 3 AI That's great but just so as those new boards come in who I don't know how many are listening now
088right that they will understand the whole process that you went through and why these days were selected and then also if we can include in said drive that I would like to have appear somewhere um the the survey feedback and the priorities for the parents if we could capture that all together perfect thank you so and just uh with all of these the day before um the that for example the 28 29 that day before Christmas break um you you the day before that usually just to half a day right uh the minimal day and yes and this does not contemplate any minimal days our committee didn't get those put in yet so you're planning on not doing them or just they aren't in here yet we haven't put them in yet we haven't had
089that discussion because I think if you look at that then they really have two days before you know Christmas week and that seems a little more reasonable and it would be doable as well we have we have a committee meeting on Thursday we we could also if if we if if the board would like us to look at we we could adjust potentially on those 28 and 29 we could take the day before so on the 28th 29th that could be simply a minimal day and we could move the teacher work day to the 8th that could be an option uh and we could do the same in 2930 and make the 21st the minimal day and uh and maybe capture that that teacher wor those are all options uh we hadn't contemplated we hadn't
090had discussions yet about uh minimal days it was a bit uh I told them the committee one hour meetings we had two none of them were even close to one hours as much as we try it was substantial to create for calendars uh and I I should mention 2829 and 2930 are almost the same as the as the first two were the same any questions for us any thoughts that you'd like us to take back to the calendaring committee thank you for all of this work this I do not envy you doing oh I have an amazing committee they're they're incredible yes and thank you to the committee this is really amazing I appreciated the meeting and I know they were went a little long but I enjoy doing two years that were similar at
091the same time then you didn't have to rehash all of the reasoning behind it so that might just be something that whoever is listening that serves on a cender committee in some future um you may want to like tag two two yours up if they're identical like that great all right um for the last item on our agenda um board member and superintendent reports and information um today is Tuesday and just in the last two days I've had the opportunity to attend two cluster meetings and it's been so fun this last few days to see some amazing schools and the things that are happening hearing about the goals that are being met and the wonderful things that are happening and my favorite part is listening to how each of these schools build upon each other
092into the junior high into the high school and they all just work together for our kids and it's just it's wonderful to be surrounded by amazing teachers that we have um in these clusters and administrators and I just feel like you know Alpine is so unique in the sense that um I feel like we have found our feet with teacher training and with getting to the goals of our students and making sure that we have that connection peace to help our students and I don't know the last two days have been really really positive it's been wonderful any other um I just wanted to give a shout out to um a few of the teachers in my area um on Monday I got to spend the entire day at Westlake with Mrs Densmore and um
093her English 10 classes um and we got to talk about the First Amendment rights of students and it was really fascinating to talk with students and [Music] um just some of their ideas about um adults and how we try to control their um access to things but it's just been a phenomenal discussion to have with kids um I also got to do something similar at Cedar Valley high school with uh government Civ teachers Mrs Duos Mrs Stratford and Mr Renda and have conversations about how local government is um responsive to constituents and have students ask everything about um they're not happy about the replacement of the chocolate milk there's never enough parking um we have we have we we tend to have a lot of the of similar complaints in every class but I just
094really want to shout out to those teachers who look for ways to engage students to make sure that they're feeling connected that they have a level of Civic understanding and Civic engagement and I'm just incredibly appreciative for them for for being willing to reach out have hard conversations and make sure that students realize that they have a voice and that they can make a difference and I will say it was really fascinating because in the one I do at Cedar Valley they also have individuals from the city council come and we kind of joke after a couple of days we can kind of give each other speeches about you know what is the city's responsibility and um one of the things that actually came out from some of those discussions is that there were a
095group of students who a couple of years ago brought up concerns about a lack of a skate park and there's now a skat Park in Eagle Mountain specifically because of suggestions from students and that there's been another um suggestion about water fountains Beyond certain Pathways because we have a lot of Pathways along um the Pony Express Trail and that a lot of things are that they we're seeing changes because of students being willing to engage in that and so I'm just incredibly grateful for teachers who recognize the power of a student voice I just too wanted to um highlight the efforts of of many schools in my area who are going so far out of their way to create cultures of caring and inclusion especially in their U holding Multicultural nights a number of the
096schools are just going the extra mile in ing out to all students and all families in their schools uh I've also really appreciated the extra efforts of parents uh in battle of the bands at Mount View High School what a fun evening and also um I I attended a school community council at Mountain View which had to be interrupted because the whole school lines the hall to send off their wrestling team to state championships so anyway anyway just just great culture lovely wonderful things are happening in our schools every day thanks um so yesterday I went to Hades town and I have found in the last week that most people have no idea what Hades town is about so just for the sake of my story it is um uy panie Hermes Hades uh orus
097reimagined in Depression era New Orleans um we also some of us had an opportunity to see it last week in a small art school in the round the sky production is the exact opposite of in the round um there I was also seated behind um some theater alumni and I will tell you they are the best people to watch a show behind because they are the first ones to applaud and they are vibrating like they want to be on the stage you know they're not and so uh I love the way our alumni come back to support our shows also shout out to PG High School theater and there's a very cool thing that happens in theat you're not aware in all of the different departments the kids get together and they go support all
098the different shows across the district so at any giving show that you will show up on any given school there will be a row of kids in sweaters who are clapping the loudest and I think there is something really beautiful um about that thing that they share uh anyways as I was sitting there I was thinking for some of us I know Emily and I share this in common um we grew up in this world and there is something um so compelling about the um relationships and the family and the community that you build and then you graduate and some people go on to um perform in college or in semi-professional professional shows later but I would say that the vast multitude of the students who are in these programs um don't carry their performing
099skills into their adult life so last night I just had a moment of reflection and thinking um well not all of us uh went and did professional things we become lifelong patrons of the art and I'm going to tell you why that's important I had a different conversation yesterday with a parent um who is just expressing gratitude I'm going to try and say this so it's not identifiable uh for a a teacher who teaches within the Arts um and just about how their student their child who um maybe hadn't found a place to belong somewhere else um once they had come to this group in the Arts um that they found their people and they found a reason to come to school and um had a really Stellar teacher who just made the difference for
100them and I think we all know within our own children's lives which teachers are the ones they will get up in the morning and go to school for even when they don't want to go anyways I happened to have a conversation with said teacher today and as I was expressing you know this parent's gratitude along with my gratitude the teacher said it's been a really rough year and it's been really frustrating and I'm really glad you told me so I tell you all this very big long story because I've gotten ass care so if you have a child or you have a neighborhood kid I saw half of my neighborhood last night was at the show which was very exciting shout out to my people um please reach out to those teachers and if you
101have a teacher from your own high school life out of our district um maybe just reach out and let them know that they make a huge difference they spend so much time and effort into providing these things and we don't even sort of compensate them for the hours um and then I'm just going to leave you with this thought I I felt like Hades town was exceptionally appropriate this year this is also the first year that any teen editions have been um available so hence the uh excitement about it but there is a line in the show that says to the world we dream about and the one we live in now and so shout out to John Brown and his entire crew and all these kids for um creating just some really magical moments
102and opportunities to reflect for our community we held uh the first of three employee feedback uh question opportunities last night at U American Fork High School was very well attended we appreciate our employees coming out particularly with uh questions about how the reconfiguration will affect them we'll have another one tomorrow night at west lake from 4: to 5:00 and then Thursday night at Mountain View High School from 4 to 5 o'clock so we're trying to do one in each area appreciate the staff being there to help answer questions but they first one was went very well great employees great questions um committed to uh the students and the areas that they serve you thank you every um tonight we is there any other okay tonight we have need to adjourn to close session to discuss
103Personnel um I will entertain a motion to adjourn to a Clos session I move to enter a closed session per Utah code 52-4 d205 to discuss Personnel issues board member Wilson I board member Clement I do I have we need a second I'll second it okay roll call vote sorry okay I jumped the gun board member Wilson I board member baitman I board member King I board member Peterson I board member b i board member Lincoln I okay thank you