June 7, 2022 Canyons Board Meeting

001um that's a bummer that is something that you can do might mess up oh okay what are we doing i'm taking a picture right here i'm sorry like to welcome everyone to the meeting of the canyons board of education today is june 7th we are meeting at the district office located at 9361 south 300 east oh and i've got to do a year we're in 2022 for all of the folks that are going to be listening to this 10 years from now you'll know what year we're at um okay and um the first item on the agenda for our study session today is to have our round table discussion and this round table discussion is going to be conducted with the frame within the framework or using the framework of the strategic plan initiatives and

002um board in front of you there's a couple of documents one is it's just the text of the strategic plan without all the really nice pictures and layout and everything here's the text so that we can maybe keep focused on that as we have our and um rick would you like to yeah so um yes um thank you president just as per the strategic vision there were some clerical errors and i how we missed these i mean i've read this thing a hundred times and still if you look at the printed the color version some of the language and the impact statement and the strategic initiative are exactly the same so um we went back and i believe in the updated version you have the new language that we adopted it was in that final

003version but somehow when it went to print repeated a couple of those strategic initiatives so i very sorry and apologize for that ultimately that falls on my responsibility and i don't know how i miss that but so it's been updated and it's now current and i believe it's updated jeff updated it on the visual side um on board docs so it's it should be accurate in this book or something remember the printed the printed copy you have steve it's that's where it's repetitive and it's incorrect there's some duplication and then you're saying this one you're saying this is this is updated and the version that's on board docs is updated okay this is a repeat again well maybe that one we missed well this one has the the first high quality learning corrected because in

004the in the pamphlet one the impact statement strategic initiative were the same this is correct but if you look at this second one or duplicate again and it should be the the second one on this page so that's the impact statement yeah so the real i believe the one we improved the strategic initiative for the second impact statement was csd will provide all students access to engaging challenging diverse pathways for successful learning this one says it omitted it's a change sentence this says all the students will have access to engaging challenging so just reword it a little bit i guess and that's okay i just saw it and was like quick so um where where um the duplications were identified was going back to you one if you if you recall we um assigned me

005to meet with jeff and kirsten to incorporate all the changes that we have talked about and so going back to that document and then at the meeting where we actually approved the strategic plan that was the document that we were working with from and then there were just one or two little things that we finished after that thank you for the reminder yeah so that's the that's the basis on that okay any other questions on that i just want to comment too thank you um thank you i invited cabinet to be part of this meeting over the last couple of weeks they've been unpacking the strategic vision as well so i'm excited to hear their input on your league as you work through the strategic vision and really unpack it and so as you go

006president i i don't know how you want that input to be shared we broke it down in those four focus areas and then um each cabinet member was part of one or two of those groups so i've asked them to just share one of them will be assigned as kind of the lead to that because they have probably the most accurate information and context from their conversation but they're all welcome to share their thoughts just to give you more context and input on it as thank you so so bored i was thinking um what might make sense and you tell me if you think differently or have a better idea that we would just start at the beginning and go through each section and then um board would you like to have board members give

007their input first or superintendent can say if cabinet had anything in that particular okay and then yeah because maybe what they've identified is something we've already you know one of us individually may have identified as something to work on and then um so i would like to go through it just section by section that way and then we'll take notes and create lists and then we got a circle back because i'm pretty certain we're gonna have way more on our list of things that we think are important and should be working on and they're even reasonably possible for this next little while so then we're gonna have to start prioritizing and that again would be a board discussion on that so any questions are on that format everybody good with it and then just um

008just a reminder and um i don't know um i'll i'll try and take notes we'll kind of try and take notes and then we'll kind of summarize at the end of each section to make sure we haven't missed anything okay i just add two presents so just to give you some context of kind of the process we went through we looked at it from the lens of unpacking present levels of performance in those areas focus areas problems of practice alignment that we're already in practice with the plan then we kind of took the approach of you know what's kind of straw house woodhouse brick house so what's really strong in the district practice already maybe in policy what's solid and then what probably helped we really tried to focus it and narrow it down key

009priorities because as you said i mean there's so many things that can kind of play but then we also looked at it in kind of a scope in terms of what's immediate what's three years and five years so um just as we line these up on the runway to get off the ground kind of in that in that order so and you all got some sleep doing that too yeah absolutely hard work and and meetings i'll just you know kind of give a little commentary we appreciate our administration so much for doing that and a great deal of the value of this is the process it is the conversation it is the look at things it is the the visioning what could be i mean that is really a lot of the benefit of this

010so so with that yes i'm just wondering as we get into this to remember that we have a 30 000 foot view and the staff is going to be maybe 10 or 5 so they're going to be actually give us some more so maybe in our comments if we could probably save more than 30 000 foot or maybe i don't know i'm just whatever but just thank you all right so with that setup now let's get started so um high quality learning is the first focus area and it has four impact statements the first impact statement i won't take time to read them because we all have them right in front of us so first impact statement has one strategic initiative and three success criteria so thank you so first of all you can tell

011we've i learned everything in here and we spent june 1st and 2nd with all of the school-based administrators june 1st and 2nd with all of the school-based administrators and we spent three hours going through the strategic plan line by line directed and all kinds of really healthy discussion because we want our principals and assistant principals to know exactly what has been created and be very familiar with it and we got great feedback on that exercise or really grateful for that opportunity in the in the committee that we got together um instead of sharing all of the conversation with you you didn't want to talk a 30-minute talk by me i'll just go through the priorities that we came up with on recommendations recognizing that you know we're going to follow your lead but this is

012kind of the thought process we had and so the first priority that we selected was plc's so that would be impact statement down here in the corner uh and plc's because we have been doing policies for quite some time in our history uh our elementaries and middle schools really have quite a handle on that and you know that although we fully recognize that some of our teachers are doing a better job than others and that really applies especially to the high schools where some departments have done great work a lot of it has been self-directed so other departments haven't had such a good experience at it with it so far but um on june 2nd we had a half of the day also on plc's it was led by three of our administrators that we

013have sent to byu to be part of their sites program they came back very enthusiastic very well informed and the feedback that we received from the leadership group they were so excited about this is that all three levels i mean i'm just all of us together so high school too which hasn't really been doing that okay i just want to make sure it was really good and then on uh june 21st and 22nd we're having bob sonju who works with uh what's the name of solution solution tree coming to the district and uspe is paying for this so i went to a training with a few other people really liked what we saw jennifer thompson offered it to all of the districts i immediately ran up there and said we want so he's coming to

014work with our school teams on those two days so in addition to the early out that you've provided this is why it rose to number one for us is that we have a big time commitment that has been allotted our schools want and see the record uh recognize the need for this and we have started that ball rolling and there's a lot of enthusiasm so that's why we're there on number one it was the thing june what june 21st and 2nd so the 21st is secondary and the 22nd is elementary we're splitting it because there's quite a bit of difference in that discussion okay and so um mtss is a very our group our leadership group is very much involved in this process and willing to support full bore so um in addition to that

015we're teachers who have not been so involved become very familiar with what it is and start the process it takes frankly several years to really get off the ground the second priority that we have that we're recommending is portrait of the graduates that's the first one up here and just so you know that we have also been working with usbe on this so uh mtss group has been doing two days of training with usbe this spring and the group that helped uspe write it was the group that taught us during that time one of the things that they mentioned to us was that there's 13 of the attributes that you'll find in there i don't know the actual word they use do any of you guys remember the actual word they use on the 13

016what anyway competencies um they fully recognize that 13 is too many for anybody to remember so we spent two days discussing that with them and in the group and their recommendation is that we as a district boil that down to 405 competencies we're not eliminating it it's a consolidation so that we can have a better understanding and working memory when we start talking about portfolio of the graduates so the idea is not to get rid of their work to want to underscore that is to work with it to make more sense of it for our local needs okay and and so we're recommending that this next year um maybe under your direction you'll allow this but we work on recommendations of what that consolidation may look like and bring that to you for your consideration

017yeah oh i just want to um comment it's not a question but i'm on the accountability task force for the state and the way this committee is working is we want to incorporate those competencies with accountability so i just think it's really good that we're working on it because it will help us when that new thing rolls out will we just have canyon stand portrait by graduate rather than adopting other ones well they showed us all kinds of models and actually you do brand it for your district and and each district has a different location on their needs and their priorities but once again i really want to underscore we're not trying to throw stuff out i'm just trying to make sense of it this um graduate is starting to come under scrutiny by certain

018groups in our state now so i don't know how we involve our parents in the process but there are some concerns like the that may have some underlying problems so can i answer all of that so i've spent some time talking to you about those very questions because i'm hearing rumblings about that too one of the big criticisms is that they think um i don't know how many degrees of remove that they're claiming come from bill gates and the melinda gates foundation anyway but the truth is if you go back and you look at the documentation like our utah portrait predates any creation when you're happened with the bill and melinda gates foundation it is utah grown it's utah's like it really came from our state's values and i think that that's going to be

019a really important point to share with people especially kind of similar to how we went and made sure that we had our own utah common core we have our own utep portrait that's unique and different than any kind of conspiracy that they claim is coming from the larger country maybe even utah some canyons on board group in some ways i know that's going to be an issue but i think i didn't sit on the original development of those without all the intake and everybody came in there's a lot of public input that went into this any others for this section uh yeah since we liked it all um the third priority that we were looking at was the um personalized professional learning so now we're talking about over here in this corner and this is

020hard to do our documentary yeah i'm using the old one to have mistakes in it so it's it's going to be the last part of it um professional learning yeah something that we've actually been working on wait for students or for education it could be the it's the second page it's educators and so a couple of things to mention there you know we've been very committed to coaching in our district for our entire time it's been very impactful in our practice and we will continue to do that but we're also creating the idea of micro credentialing micro credentialing is where education make courses or stacks of courses that relate to each other and they can end up with a micro credential so one of the micro credentials out there would be on tech and we

021already have edtech stacks correct amber and so we have teachers who can go through and take certain courses and by the time they finish the stack then they can end up with a credential just get just mentioning that so you can have an understanding of what these micro credentials could be in part it's just learning but it also could end up in a type of endorsement well it's not a state endorsement but a credential that helps us recognize what our teachers and others administrators have done for advancement purposes leadership purposes and things like that can i just add to that amber can jump in on this but one of the things about micro credentials is it's it's very job embedded and so you know your traditional sit and get type of professional learning this is

022focused on teachers really having a voice in what they need but it's actually applying practice and looking at their student performance versus i just sit in a room and listen to a speaker and take maybe a regular course so it's a lot more action oriented that way and i i think it's a it's really an excellent strategy because just like students teachers are in different places in their own learning and what they want to accomplish and some want to be more of a teacher leader their capacity others maybe want to just focus on assessment or classroom management or whatever it is that they need and this i think this really provides that so with this pertain to like um others besides the traditional classroom teacher like a parent educator or a coach awesome they just

023want to highlight and bob i apologize if you were heading in this direction um because it is competency-based for the educator starting off with this framework for personalized professional learning our educators have a chance to experience this before they start then implementing those practices with students so it's also a really nice foundation for them to be able to have some experience with competency-based learning as an adult and how they experienced it before we start leaving in those practices to the classroom and all departments can be involved in this with their people yeah so i don't know if this is the right time to bring this piece up or or later can we kind of go through some of what you have to say a lot of feedback on getting refreshingly that actually addresses normal education

024and day-to-day things is parents are concerned about how the competency-based learning is happening at the elementary level and somewhat at the middle and high school with retesting i have some real specifics and they're kind of coming there's some consistency across the different school communities in my district about that i don't know where the most appropriate time to bring up some of those things there but there's one of these strategic initiatives addresses jalapeno models so yeah so i think we could talk about this section for quite a while and i don't that's not the purpose to really you know give any kind of lecture on this just to give you an idea what we're thinking the next priority that we're looking at is actually personalized competency-based learning and we had mentioned that or suggested that we're

025really really looking at a three to five year plan on that so that we can look at what we're currently doing and carefully expand it as we would like to throughout since really it's a usbe initiative it's also based in state law and so um we have also learned that rushing this is a mistake you need to take steps to get it in there and it's a good time to review amanda exactly where we've been what we're doing what's working what is that well and a lot of that too i think you know we have to keep in mind was a reaction to the pandemic and you know i mean if you remember when the pandemic first hit essentially we were just handing out grades carte blanche really you know to try to just because

026it was such a disaster right at the start and everything that was happening so coming back from that and kind of reestablishing what that actually means i mean you know just simply retaking the test over and over is not really competency based it should be scaffolded up so students demonstrate mastery on their way to taking the assessment but pandemic kind of i don't know these guys can speak to that but i think that really threw a curveball to that mix so i think getting back to really defining what a letter grade actually means and then how we scaffold up you know learning and mastery that really meets that that's going to be a process and it's it's going to take time well it was a good reminder of what happens on the customer end right

027what their experience is and i mean they were kind and respectful parents it wasn't like they were being whiny it was just they had questions why is this functioning this way i don't really understand so i've just started collecting and putting together some of that because i agree i think part of it has been impacted by the pandemic but if it can help us inform how to do things better rick you likely could share our notes with the board on what we had written we have departments that are responsible and dates and timelines we recommend we can share with you which also includes the diverse pathways for successful learning and also integrate principle-based character traits so we have considered all of these things because we believe they're important just like you you approve this but

028we'll share that document with you and that's kind of our priority somewhere so i needed clarification um going back to your micro credentials they're not endorsements right that's what you're telling me it could lead to something the state has transformed um so that would be an endorsement but you're talking about like the tech stack i don't understand did they just choose different classes from usbe that they want to take and they just turn them into you i i don't understand how you're stuck in them or recording them or having teachers take them is it mandated is it a choice they want to do well okay i i'll speak for me and then let these guys jump in what i'd like to see is that eventually we get to a place where there's a core group

029of micro credentials that are very much aligned to our strategic vision that when teachers come to canyons these are micro credentials that are very much embedded in our philosophy and practice and then from there depending on what stack they want to do that's related to whatever field of expertise they want to pursue that that's kind of the teacher's voice in determining that maybe through isd or school performance or their principle or a combination of um but i don't know they're tired we haven't i don't think we've said really that well we haven't been i'm either tired or i don't totally understand because if i come to you from jordan i don't have a i don't have a stack of whatever micro credentials i won't have one and so you're not going to hire me because

030i don't have a stack of micro credentials it's more of a return it can be way more of a retention strategy than anything a hiring strategy and it is in cooperation coordination with usbe so it should transfer across okay so just is this part of them maybe in two years from now or three years from now we have a teacher shortage and we have to figure out who who stays and who goes then we have this micro stack so we know it's all for choice professional learning so right now to get your license for you you have to take professional learning over the course of the five years right so these micro credentials would be an option for teachers to utilize for that license renewal so it'll just be giving them more options to be

031able to learn what they want to learn and when they want to learn it but would not necessarily be required rick brought up a really good example some new teacher induction will likely have a lot of options that we already have right now that is synchronous and live professional learning that some of our teachers might want to take through micro credentials so we're really just creating more opportunities for teachers to be able to add to the repertoire of skills in the way that they want to that may lead to a certification it may just be something that they're really interested in or they might just say i've got enough on my plate with the pd that i'm already doing with letters or what my principal has organized or a social studies department might say we

032want to take this stack together as part of our professional learning community so it's really flexible on purpose why would i want to do this because we believe in continually improving our professional skills and it's probably all right i'm tired i'm sorry we're tired why would i want to there's a difference but i suggest this i suggest this too but it is part of our requirement to maintain our license and so teachers will have the option to access micro credentials if they want to utilize them it supports teachers and what they need to do to comply with the relationship and more may i suggest that we come back to you and do a microcredential presentation at some point clarify the work and this was just meant to tell you what are our priorities this gives

033a good idea of what you're thinking so that later on this evening when we're prioritizing things then we can determine what next steps would be on these items yeah i kind of feel like i took more time than i can oh you're fine i just said questions i have a question you go first oh so bob you know that i was on the committee that we did high quality teaching which is part of what you're talking about here the one piece that i kind of wanted to talk about which is on there so i'm just wondering if you guys talked about it was the mentoring piece do you have a plan at all for that or you want to just do plcs and like in a year or work on a mentoring piece yeah there's

034chain mentoring and the micro credentialing all are in play okay okay great as a matter of fact we we do have mentors already assigned and have for years but we can always do a better job okay okay that's great thank you so thank you bob oh sorry i'll go ahead sorry one question so when we when you come back and do that presentation on micro credentialing can you also go into a little more specifics of how i would take advantage of that say if i were in one of our buildings and i have some peras and i have some coaches and how i would facilitate that as um you know an administrator letting them know what's available or what it looks like and what's the time frame to roll out and then my other question

035is with the competency based you said you'll send notes will we because this is very um this could mean a lot of different things right it could be our approach to how we know that the kids are ascertaining what they need to be it could be part of grading it could be or the portrait of the graduate attributes are they good are we going to be doing some sort of competencies for those so when you give those details could you send that to us and maybe at that same time that you're doing the other presentation go over that with us and what the time frame is terrific idea those notes do not include that kind of detail okay as a matter of fact with the competency base i mentioned it would be a three to

036five year window yes before we really see that happening there's a lot of work a lot of flesh to put on these bones so i we don't have that documentation to give you right now okay so when you then would you just tell us like you just said it's a three to five year plan we will keep you fairly small perfect we're not going to run away from the board sounds great okay thank you and so yeah for just a reminder so they're just introducing these ideas that they've identified as priorities and then like i said later in the evening we'll talk about kind of next steps and what really is the board we want to pass the district and the same time on okay so now it's our turn let's go through the high

037quality learning and um are there suggestions from just around the people anyone have a suggestion related to the impact statement of strategic leadership or success criteria this section of high quality learning [Music] our first month you have one for this section priority thing to put on the list of possible things to work on you know i'll go back to our discussion we had i believe it was our last meeting in high quality learning we talked about the session that we sat in nsba to where they were drilling down based on demographics and different things i think that would impact high quality learning a lot if we could identify not just how a school's doing but each strata inside the school all right for this section i'm just trying to think through this because like of

038course i'm on the bottom thinking up okay this is where i live every day right and um we talked about some of these before about how much we based and standard based um about how we started teaching what standard based grading was and then it kind of fell to the sidelines and then now we're coming back to competency-based and standard-based grading i don't i don't really think parents really understand standard-based grading totally i mean i'm pretty sure a lot of teachers don't even understand what standard-based grading is and um being in two districts i'm read the books and although what it should look like you can't be giving [Music] you know you can't be given high school students threes because they made the standard and say you have to go above that to get to

039the floor or give them fours and say you made the standard but to get the five you have to go above that and um on the standard is the standard um so i think in my brain there's probably some training that we're missing or needing to do that has to do with that a lot more than what we have done and then um with that um engaging and challenging and diverse pathways i just think we kind of um we're going to have a discussion tonight on what that looks like for students i know principal just said to me not long ago they went from a few hundred kids to thousands of kids on their digital learning and um one of the teachers asked him well do you think that's going to happen like we're all

040just going to be teaching from the computer soon he said we don't engage the kids they don't have a reason for coming if they don't have something to be there for yes that's where we're going and i just feel like in these statements over and over again we keep saying engaging and challenging and diverse and i'm not hearing that um you know like when i don't hear us moving that way and this particular one looks high quality maybe it's going to be over on human centered but um i i see where we're going with teachers and plcs i see where we're going with coaching and mentoring and credentialing and i see where we're going with um i guess it would follow under the mtss training about where we're going to go to get all these

041kids engaged to keep them coming to school to keep them involved because i'm telling you i know from personal experience that i can take a child and move them out of resource in six months and i can take a child and i can teach them to read at least two grade levels within six to eight months so i just need to be able to do that but also keep them coming to school and wanting to come to school because they're not going to do that if they're not there every day so i guess i'm trying to say where is our where is our steam where's our engagement where's that coming in to play with what we just had the discussion with so yeah so where it is is you just put it on the table

042so thank you okay anything else sorry chlorine in that section i'm good with that one so i'm going to start with a little micro lens but um a conversation i had with some parents from spurs wood elementary this week it was really interesting we talked about how they love their school and there's a lot of things that they've cherished about it one of the music program that they used to have at the end of the school year where all of the kids from the different grades would each learn some sort of music and they would perform it for each other and it was a time of a lot of joy she said you know not long ago they eliminated that program because the teacher said they didn't have enough time to be able to prep

043the students for testing they said we feel a real luck and we want our kids to have that i mean it was very interesting about their concern and it highlighted for me um again kind of similar to what clarina said our kids need things that bring them joy when they come we need to be able to keep them engaged coming back wanting to be in the classroom wanting to participate i know we also need to teach some content um amber's heard me like ad nauseam talk about migration but i really think um i mean it's hard when we have scripted curriculums i know we've gone from one extreme and we've tried to loosen it and give bring some oxygen into the classroom but i would like to see that with the iplcs and the training

044that's going in with the teachers that they are being taught how to effectively incorporate arts and hands-on learning including physical learning outside that is actually in the strategic plan to be able to make certain principles come alive um and i know that we've talked about this before that technology is only as good as the instruction used with it we don't want us just recreating online worksheets like that's not the point right if i think we can effectively use technology of course but it needs it it's like chlorine said it needs to be engaging i would like us to take a deeper look at that and figure out how now that we've carved out this early out for the whole district and now we're hearing from a lot of parents are mad about that i am

045anyway let's make it really worth their time let's make it really engaging for these kids that when the parents look back and want that decision in 2022 they recognize it it made a difference in their child's experience when they came to school every day so that's that's my big takeaway from this whole section okay steve i think a lot of the things that are recovered but the two things that i was concerned to need to be here there's three but the two is the plc's that's sort of obvious with all the stuff the other one was the canyons portrait of a graduate i think that's a very strategic thing that needs to go along with our plan that's the next thing that has to happen that we define what our graduates look like and the

046teachers know and know and the parents know and it's a high level of accountability by doing that um the other one that i was wondering on here and i i think is covered under human centered supports that is csd we'll get to that no but it must the csd provides clear standards for the development of principle-based characters rights i don't know how that relates to the other one later on in the human center but uh that's a big issue that we took away our character education programs and we really need to put something back in even our high schoolers are two years behind and most of our teachers are talking about the behavior in the classroom being the major issue that's causing burnout and so i don't know if that needs to be we need

047to address that or event will that be addressed in the other section okay seeing that so anyway just be sure that we get that addressed to someone um bob covered all the things i was going to talk about so good job you guys you've read my friends yes okay holly uh with the first one about classrooms teaching creativity collaboration hands-on and physical movement that amanda addressed i think we need to be very cognizant of the amount of screen time kids have in the classrooms and i've heard a lot of concern about that and i i know that absences have become an issue right and part of the reason isn't just the policy it's actually because when we went to chromebooks some of the higher level high school students feel they can miss class and complete

048the assignment on their chromebook within 10 minutes and not go to class because that's all that's happening in class so we really need to be sure that we are hands-on engaging our students and that students don't feel that class is opening up the chromebook and doing the assignments so i'm really excited about that and amanda spoke to that very eloquently on the and that would include steam and arts integration the second one the strategic initiative all students will have access to diverse pathways for successful learning in each csd school we just had some training with diversity and inclusion i i really believe that's we have room to grow in that area i think currently we have the ability and i'm sure we can talk about how effective or ineffective it is to address things like

049ieps and 504s but we don't actually have in every elementary school building the ability for a student who needs maybe a more advanced learning pathway in their neighborhood school and so when i see that strategic initiative i would love to see other experiences available there's there's students in our district who wouldn't have the access or the ability for parents to drive them to a different school for those programs or a schedule or the finances to do that with job commitments so i'm really interested in looking at what we can do for those diverse pathways for success so that every child feels challenged at school and is engaged um let's see and then just my last one in the high quality is the the ability in the extracurricular activities for opportunity bob didn't speak to that

050one so i'm just going to do that opportunity for feedback i know a lot of emails and phone calls i receive are parents with concerns with experiences their children are having that are in the extracurricular activity realm and i think that that there's a we have amazing programs but i really look forward to how we're going to unpack that so that all programs feel like they're being bought respect and and resilience and that we are providing the training necessary for those that are working with our kids the most hours during their week that they're that that the kids mental health is also protected that we're motivating in positive ways and things like that that's all i have um all right i've got um okay here we go um so on the first one and this

051is kind of along the lines of ideas that have already um been talked about with portraiture graduate i'm sorry steve i might not be staying at the 30 000 foot level but coming down a little bit um and and i i think it's great to kind of consolidate or or if not just consolidate but maybe just pick out several of those competencies that really are um to be prioritized whatever but i think that in doing that it would be great if we could come up with some sort of of a a credential for students um along those lines so that maybe could even be somewhat similar to like the seal of by literacy where it means they've really invested they've really excelled they've really had experience in those areas and and that would be something

052that could possibly be included on the diploma on your transcripts you know definitely something that could be on a job application or [Music] application college or something could be included and i feel like it would give our students something to work towards that would then help them in their next steps to kind of have some experience or some things that they could talk about that outside of maybe test scores and in which you know bbas and stuff so so i i would like to maybe as we're kind of working on customizing that portrait of a graduate to maybe look towards towards that end and we could even have um um indicators and and things along the way like at the elementary level middle high middle level and high school level so like an example is

053service is one of the things on the portrait of the graduate you know we could identify you know get involved give service hours get involved with a non-profit you know something along those lines where it's it's project based it's it could be even a research thing um like civic engagement and civic literacy is one of them um you know get involved um with government or with your city with your city or something like that just anyway try and identify some projects and things that students can work on is that like what hillcrest already does and what midville already does and the elementaries do that with i can't remember what they call it now the elementaries do it every year they have so many things they're supposed to fulfill the problem what's the parade american i

054don't know make a difference and and i think every school might have some sort of a program but but to maybe just explore and look and just see if there's a district-wide one or somehow or coordinate it just so that families can you know say hey this is really something of interest you know let's work towards this and let's accomplish this one one of the things i think that's so important about the first thing you know are you sharing that as an example is that it's integrated in a lot of different arenas right so i would love to be able to see something like that where maybe coming out of like whether it's a class or a chemistry class if a child has done something like worked on a project in class but that can

055that can actually apply to some sort of certification like that i don't want it to just milo like over here i'm creative but here i'm by the book like it's i think it's if we're really building the idea of the portrait of a graduate it's that they can use those capacities in any arena does that make sense right yeah i guess my my thought was just to have something kind of defined menu of things even that they can choose from that shows that they have um you know created for themselves from brainerd experience or something you know above and beyond a little bit but but it's also something that wouldn't be time like i said to test scores or gpa right that's it's more character development stuff um let's see and then i was thinking

056too um and i leave holly it might have been but just focusing on developing the standards and plans for how to implement those traits you know that they're listed in the third has a lot of the stuff you're talking about and we pleasure it also will be announced let's go forward well and i know we've got nypd doing that and sure we have several of them like that and you just see how they fit in they feel good all right so that looks like anything else on high quality learning next section is um opportunity station habit okay so access and opportunity has one impact statement so we're putting the second strategic initiative it talks about creating an environment that provides equitable access to resources for individual student needs and in particular under the success criteria

057the second bullet about the distribution of resources is structure to promote increased academic achievement in all student populations so one of our priorities is to continue what we've we've kind of already started a process of doing uh distributing our fte on an equity model and what that looks like is we're looking at student populations that might generate more fte for a particular school so for example you still use your basic numbers it's based on student population but we're going to add fte for example based on if a school has a high level of multilingual learners if they have a high number of students with disabilities if they have a high number for example of students who are not reaching proficiency in reading or math and part of the reason why we started looking at that

058was because we didn't if you just look at some of the equity models it just shoves all of the money to a lot of title one schools that already get a lot of that money we have a lot of students even at our high performing schools that still need those resources and that help we also added a component for mobility so if kids are moving in and out of schools that that indicates there's a disruption right to their educational um service pattern and so adding that so that actually will funnel a little bit of fte for example to draper park you may not know this but there are 85 families at draper park middle school that are mckinney vento they are students that are experiencing homelessness in some sort of way so just kind of

059taking all of those factors together and we want to continue utilizing that model and perfecting it i think as steven and i like we were looking at it that costs a lot of fte so part of this process was we may have to look at raising um the amount of students that we require to generate an fte at the high school and middle school level so that we can have enough money to actually funnel it in that particular direction but we would like that to continue to be a priority for the board to make sure that those additional resources are are helping our students at all schools across the district the other piece of this is we have a lot of schools that have high turnover that takes place and sometimes this is because you

060have you know student populations that are more difficult where the students are you know coming checking in and out of school different things like that um where we could create additional stipends that might be available um to retain teachers at a school so if we identify that a school has a really high turnover rate as a matter of fact our middle schools generally have higher turnover rates for example than our high schools do then we would create a threshold for that and for teachers that are staying for year three there would be a certain stipend you're six they stay for six years now there's an additional stipend try to encourage them to build that instructional capacity because it's very hard for a principal you know like if i'm talking with bruce at jordan high he

061has 18 new teachers you're you're trying to rebuild that culture that's a lot harder to do than if you only have four or five that are turning over so those kind of pair together to try to um improve the instruction for all students across all canyons district schools so that was one priority we were looking at the second one goes along with um the first strategic initiative um the bottom success criteria says csd educators have access to personalized professional training focused on multilingual special education section 504 and advanced learners and really um targeting through our plcs our plc's can be a major place in where the support comes but we need to make sure that our teachers have know how to adapt their curriculum not just because i'm a special educator and i'm working with

062a student with a disability but also because i'm you know a shock teacher and this kid has a disability and i need to figure out how that looks for that particular student or how am i going to take secondary math too and make that accessible to a student who's just come from venezuela how does that work and making sure that they have that training to be able to do that and and that is kind of where that micro credentialing could come in because some of the endorsements take so long for a teacher to go through we can get them really quick skills that are competency based then they would be able to handle those those different needs of students we also were talking about accelerated learners as well to make sure what what how does

063the teacher actually differentiate for the student who's moving ahead and needs that challenge sometimes we teach to the middle right and so that's not helping students on either end so we talked about professional learning being the second um priority there and really focusing that on years two through five um we need to get the plc's up and running and then start making it more specific after that um the last piece kind of goes with parent under the success criteria that first strategic initiative where parents and community members are aware of the resources and programs the district provides and that schools and community organizations are partnering and also that families receive preparation and information um to ensure a smooth transition i think this is where we're missing some opportunities in terms of our parent engagement piece

064we have a lot of literacy nights but are we really taking the opportunity in that literacy night to educate our elementary parents about what are those pathways that are going to open up to that student in middle school and high school and so they're not seeing that that whole trajectory of their child's education and we're missing a lot of those opportunities and they're not even aware of those things so we need to really create kind of a district-wide way some schools are doing a really good job why are we not replicating that and and making that happen um across the whole district so supporting our schools in that way those were the three priorities we have thank you any questions all right board what what ideas do you have well let's start ollie we'll start

065i'm gonna go around this way this time then the next two sections i'm just gonna mix it up i really appreciated that we're looking at the strata within the schools like what month said where you pulled out and said okay where are the students even in these schools that aren't title one schools let's make sure we're allocating our fde and those resources i really appreciated that um i guess my one question would be we will it's maybe not a question more of a statement we will just need to see with the reporting coming up and and be aware of what that looks like to more equitably distribute and then what was the effect because of that um to to ensure that that all students in in the different buildings are receiving that personalized instruction or

066help and maybe that's something we could even do periodically so so to just kind of follow up on what the administration was talking about doing yeah like even board meetings right i think it sounds great and kind of going along with what holly said um i mean i just want to make sure that if the board if we need to do something like allocate more money one way or another that they make sure to come and ask us for that if we can support them or help them so steve i think the objectives are pretty mind talk areas i like the high turnover issue this could be something that we need to retention is a big one especially when so many people are concerned about young teachers coming in having different philosophies maybe i like

067the idea we're starting to address the academic achievements of all students over the years some of our gifted students have not received maybe the level of educator the opportunities that maybe some of the other students have and what that has led to is his parents leaving our district because we don't have those programs that they need so they think they're going to get in a charter so to stop the bleeding from people living leaving the district i think we really need to start looking at what programs can we offer from from remedial programs all the way up to advanced programs um parents and community the other one i think that's that's right on as far as aware just from walking has been interesting we focus a lot on parents of active students and they know

068some what's going on because they really love the csd notes that jeff puts out i've had several people today they look forward to that jeff every month because it tells them what's going on but there's a lot of parents of students that are in our district that are taking online programs that are homeschooling and are not aware of the different programs that we have and so i think as we move into this this coming year or so that might be this the community members are those other parents that that are out there that we've just been saying well you're part of us or you're not but we need to include them those parents are homeschooling those parents that are doing uh i'm just amazing talking to people oh you could do that you have that

069oh and i'd love to have that i had no idea what we have because because our csd isn't always good all those kids and we don't focus on that so i think we're right on on this i love your presentation i think so much of where you guys are something like it's excellent and the one thing i would say is um i do think at the secondary level across the board we need better training on disabilities and how to effectively teach kids especially with invisible disabilities that they look like any other run-of-the-mill kid and our elementary teachers really seem to have that embedded in their training and and i have not come across as many parent complaints or concerns about that but once we hit the middle school and high school level that's a major

070concern and i can guarantee you that if we get on top of this it's going to increase high school graduation rate statistically if you just even look at disabilities like and this is just a small drop in the bucket of things like dyslexia adhd spectrum disorder how many kids we have that actually fall within today like those three categories alone if we can actually figure out how to empower teachers to know how to effectively teach them it's going to make a significant difference in their lives yesterday i spent about 45 minutes on the phone with a gentleman who has adhd his wife has it and all three of his children have it and he he's somebody who actually works for our district and he's taken two of his three children out of our district to

071put them over in a charter school because he felt like they understood how to teach his children better and knew how to help and and reinforce their executive functioning and support them and he pled with me he said is there any way that you can ask the teachers that are really good at this to train the other ones who might not be as great and i told him about our early out fridays and about the iplc's and he got really excited my thought is let's i know this is overlapping into what has already been discussed about that time but i really feel like one of the focuses at the secondary level especially now that we're going into the high school we've got to figure out better training for them for them to recognize it understand

072different teaching approaches or learning you know differences um i think it will make a big difference for everyone because the irony is a lot of those techniques make it more accessible for all of the kids and is often more hands-on and kinetic and i think um we have a lot of ground that we can gain from doing that so anyway oh i um i agree with amanda which is saying i'm really adhd in case nobody ever noticed and i had the hardest time sitting here hours after hours and um and um i speak out when i'm not supposed to and i interrupt people when i'm not supposed to and um i really try hard but there are ways and i i agree that i think we we do get trained um a lot more about

073those things than dealing with those kids and i know in middle school in high school it's really difficult because you're looking at 300 kids coming through there and you're supposed to try to know each one of those kids individually and try to figure it out so i i understand how hard that is in high school but like even like with add or adhd a lot of those kids just need a partner and then they're set for the day or they just need to stand at their desk instead of sit at their desk but that's really hard for high school teachers to have three people standing in the back and two people sitting in a corner and i get it's hard um but still i really appreciate how you lined up the fte to put a

074few more ftes towards those and we have the plc's coming up to address address those and that can be part of their personalized potential training too is to learn how to do that i know matt's going to bring this up too some multilinguals i'm really worried about and not even multilingual per se but kids over there that have parents who only speak spanish but they only speak english and they can't even speak to their parents and i know our scores are always the lowest and the lowest for those students and it's not just spanish it's it's many different languages not just the kids um i i have three of them right in my mind right now that they can't even talk to their moms and dads when they go home because they only do speak

075english and their parents speak another language and how we're going to um work them in this impact access and opportunity because really they should have learned their first language to build upon their second language and we all know that that's what research says and they haven't we have done more with the bilingual the dual language kiddos they have succeeded way far made greater gains than our children who come from the bilingual families from the first language families i don't think we're addressing them still i feel like we've lost them like we're fighting through special ed they always get fought for advanced learners have always got fought for 504s get them written but we're in here are we fighting for these little ones that only have one language or not even one they don't even have

076enough of either language to be able to do what they need to do so that would be my only thing in here is what are we going to do about them because they're the ones who have the lowest scores the less access the less opportunities that's my one in there can i speak to that real quickly we have had really great collaboration between my department and also amber's department where it is a priority so we're re-examining right now at the secondary level our entire service pattern for all of our multilingual students we're sending um groups of teachers at schools that are in the buildings that are working with these kids to we would like to send them to some intensive professional learning so it's on our radar absolutely and a major priority there so have

077your ell or esl endorsement it still doesn't it doesn't work and it's not the same because you you resign 10 kids to you out of your 25 that don't speak or speak very little of their first language partly none of their second language and then you're trying to make the adaption or you're sending them out to other classrooms that then disrupts others that program which i need to talk about programs that program has never worked matter of fact when we talk about programs i don't like talk about programs because programs don't change children they don't they don't necessarily work what works you said teachers getting the training that they need to be able to help the students not not the scripted reading not the scripted program it is it's it's teachers getting what they need

078so they can help the kids because all teachers i would hope want to make a difference with a child if there's a teacher out there who doesn't want to make a difference hopefully they're planning other plans and moving on i'll just say that well thank you um [Music] in the world of physics is a well-known principle that i think it's pretty much universally accepted and that is for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction and when do you talk about reallocating ftes and you talk about the title one school that already get a lot of money that's as close as i could quoted i could remember okay and i think we all understand that title one funding has been cut and we also have an additional title one school which means on title one

079schools each individually get less money than they've had people and so as we move ftes to other places remember that equal and opposite reaction that those schools that have had it will have an opposite but equal reaction okay um now that i've done that part which is probably what you kind of expected me to do i'm going to go out of character here a little bit we talked about advanced learners uh up in strategic initiative the first one under the impact statement you talk about equitable access to resources before individual student needs uh it's inequitable would mean the advanced learners as well and you actually mentioned it that we have kids that are the top of the class and the teacher teach to the middle and we have this different slide we have kids that

080are very very bright that could be challenged and a teacher will turn to them and say johnny doesn't understand how to do that math problem problem can you go help him now that young kid's going to learn something from teaching another one how to do it i i get that but this kid that's accelerated learners should be able to move forward at the pace he could learn and i really believe that even though it's uh talked about here and acts as an opportunity i think that if steve you mentioned 30 000 feet i'm in my crop duster right now okay i think that the district we've really sucked at addressing the needs of the ex the truly accelerated learner and somewhere somehow that becomes a very important thing to me and we need to be

081able to address the accelerated learner district-wide in all of our schools even in our title one schools we do have accelerated learners and there needs to be need to be addressed um you can't talk about equal access without talking about dll some of our school tablets some of our schools don't it's always nice to say but you can permit that's not equal access permit and have to provide your own transportation i think that's an area that we really need to look at and then wendy you mentioned high turnover rule and maybe a stipend to compensate for that but i think the thing that's really difficult for me and tell me if i'm way off base but intuitively it tells me that if i'm in a school that has got tremendous turnover i'm taking kids i've

082taught and they're moving to some other school and to replace them i've got kids that come from a different school and i'm backfilling those and what our teachers have taught believes and what's and i'm not saying other schools don't do a good job but they come into our schools and they're not on the same wavelength and in our high turnover areas is that any wonder to anybody that their test scores aren't good within communities where we don't have high turnover and i don't know how to address that one and then as our schools test poorly more and more parents [Music] if i can use the midbell term of white flight we move away from the school that don't do well which then exacerbates the problem i'm glad you get the high salary and the big

083and the fancy title because i don't know how to solve it i think it looks like a couple of comments on that steve and then clearing so i think one of the things that we've been talking and i'm sure that the cabinet's working on is when you're talking about plc's and you talk about differentiated teaching and if the teachers are trained to do differentiation like it's supposed to look like then in my classroom i have projects that are for the advanced students and the middle students and the lower students and it takes a lot of prep and time but differentiated lessons and differentiated teaching gives you that opportunity to do that and you should be doing it anyway um it might be something that we that can be looked at and see i don't know

084back on my my feet are back on the ground again with those people teaching and are they differentiating those lessons which goes back to the technology piece like if you're using technology like it should be used then they would be using technology to create those different things on a different level and could choose to do technology or choose to do just writing or choose to do art or choose to write a song but that takes a lot of teaching and training and teachers who want to do that and we lost it a little bit over time because um when i first started we had to take classes that taught you how to teach music and taught you how to do art and taught you how to do the whole steam thing right and as time

085has gone by then teachers haven't been teaching they aren't they haven't been teaching the music they haven't been teaching the dance and how to teach dance when i started and they had to be tied into the different curriculums so back to differentiating and trying to tie in the arts would take care of a lot of the things we're talking about here that has to do with giving the kids the more opportunities to be doing advanced work or doing work on their level i feel i needed to bend my 30 000 foot thing since it's come up a couple of times i think you're all flying at 30 000 feet what i was talking about is specifically saying you need to do this this is how you need to do that this is the program you

086need yeah i mean we're talking about i'd like to see this it's up to them to make it happen so that's what i'm basically saying is uh thirty thousand feet so i enjoy my crop dufferin no thank you steve we don't worry about that um okay so we um in this section and it goes back to what wendy was talking about with um kind of parent information and aware of resources and programs and i really feel like a strategy to help that happen is um to expand our canyoneering academy and the one we had the one evening right and it went well so great and i think if we can expand it so that maybe like three times a year and that gives an opportunity for parents to come and have a little workshop and

087little information on a variety of things right just whatever at the time feels like it's important to help with that so i you know that's just a suggestion that i have to help accomplish that success criteria i i agree i thought that was really really fantastic and i would love to see us actually put it at some of the neighborhood schools because i think we'll get more parents there we had a good routine locations yeah rotate between the high schools we had a good turnout you know i was there it was great but i just feel like if we go to the neighborhood high schools we'll get even more mm-hmm yes but this next year north central and south and one in spanish great and and just kind of a little side note it's my

088understanding that when we offer these things we also have their translator or focus more specifically that's awesome for people to feel welcome if it's in their language and they don't have to hear it being sure again the english ones as well one specific hey all right thank you anything to look for access and opportunity there's something i forgot to bring on history for a second um one of the things i've been thinking a lot a lot about is the importance of making sure that our kids when we talk about innovation and um especially post-secondary pathways that we are preparing our students to be able to take some of the tech jobs that are coming and besides jobs um this is something we've talked a lot about with regards to the plumbing mountain working group we're

089anticipating if a different one comes it's most likely going to be something akin to silicon slopes and this is an area that i do not feel like we are capitalizing on there are a lot of remarkable companies in the area we keep getting feedback from them that they are hiring from outside of the state because our students are just not coming out ready one of the big indicators is whether or not they um we have enough students that are taking ap computer science in full school and i would like us to take a look at what our stats are there and kind of do some back planning i know joab school district i've talked to rick about this they did this and that's part of why they expanded the innovation center that they did down

090there but um i'm keenly aware of these issues is something i thought a lot about and i've had people from the tech industry approach me lately you to get the attention of the state legislature on this issue i think considering where we're located we're in a perfect place to be able to capitalize on this and i think it's something we really need to think about i don't want to detract from the a and steam of course those um capacities that the arts teach like creativity problem solving it will apply to what these kids learn in technology but if they are not getting computer science coding until they're in high school we are way behind table so i don't know how the rest of my board members feel about that but i feel badly that i

091didn't bring that up in that first section i apologize so okay yeah i mean our whole state is behind i will save we let's lay it out yeah i i wonder if in that second impact statement where we're talking about challenging and diverse pathways if we don't have this built in but you know some of those business partnerships yes where we're looking at because that's that's going to become i believe more and more uh present this idea of kids coming out with with the c-tech in high school and a degree they could have a coding degree and go straight out into the tech industry so i wonder if we could pull in some partnerships with some of these tech industries so that we know that our classes are aligning with the certification they need and

092grants and grants that's true so many grants attached to stem learning that i feel like we need to capitalize on well and there isn't really a more lucrative ctec kids could do than be certified with some of these coatings and things i mean there's a lot of of people working the tech industry right now that just dropped out of college they got their certifications and the things they need and they're doing really well there's a lot of kids that could go straight into that industry if we we enhanced our ctec that way yeah so i mean i just wanted to follow up and can you ask about grants and like you know i know we've talked about this before and i apologize if this is actually out of order i don't know where it fits

093in all of this but i mean i know susan that you've worked in the past on this like if you have any sort of update or background on it yeah cover took the win out of our sales on a lot of things people when there were sales on grants um yes we started i don't remember the last update it's been a couple of years ago we were hired on contract um and that helped us really get going um [Music] these are let me let me be really close these are community grants that i address i know wendy and many others do other grants federal state grants and other educational grants uh amber's department there's a lot of us do different types of grant but community grants looking out to businesses looking out at what's available

094there is what i'm talking about and so um we had increasingly brought in a little bit more each year with some some kind of cool grants but we were working on it and then it just deflated in 2021 in covent year so we have uh brought back the contract writer part time but with the purpose of really solidifying our processes internally i don't know if you remember uh jody uh guinness that we hired that he works in communications part of his um job description is to help write grants so we're working with him um to get him up to speed and trained on how to do this and building the foundation because a lot of the grants have the same type stuff to just be able to plug it in and put it into the

095next one and then you know customize them where we can so we're really making some advancements and have out i don't remember the number off the top of my head but uh quite a few possibilities for this year some of them in the area you just talked about some of them in the areas of school safety i think jasmine and jody are working on one in that area right now um and ryan jackman so but we are we are working on them and we're throwing it back and hopefully this time we'll grow it not attached to an outside person but really internally so that our folks are ready to keep that going and grow that so just even thinking hypothetically one of the presentations i went to at nsca they talked about how they took

096some of the computer labs that were present in like the elementary or middle schools in this particular district and they converted them to stem labs or maker spaces i mean would some of the grants potentially pay for that or even i'm thinking like i look at some of the elementary schools that have like the stem um person like one of their brain boosters or they do robotics so they do some of those things in my mind that should be a priority at all of the elementary schools and i don't i know we've just barely increased pay for those like professionals that are having a you know degree and are teaching in some of those subjects but i wonder if in order to be able to attract some of them into our schools if we grant

097money could actually assist with some of that to make sure that kids from very early ages are getting access i don't know it's just now that's getting too granular but i'm just throwing out some ideas these are just some of the thoughts that came to me when i was at nesco all right yes it's along those lines i know prior to the pandemic when i first got here the discussion around c-tech and kind of what the vision for that i think and i don't know if this is a long-range planning committee discussion but just thinking about building in that property right and how we kind of repurpose this vision for for steam and what that might look like i mean i don't know if it means a rebuild there and the point is an arm

098or a branch of that there's an opportunity to work with higher ed you know in that space too and it we're probably going to end up with 10 acres on the point you know in the end so just thinking about what that all looks like and then kind of backward mapping that right to amanda's point you know and it might look like at some point and i don't know if this is you know incorporated in brain boosters or not but incorporating coding or robotics or those types of things all the way down you know as early as second grade so that we have kind of that pathway but i think it starts with you know trying to really get the vision for that that's one of the reasons i've suggested that the board or some

099of us i know susan's going to visit loudoun county academies i've seen that model and i think it just their demographics in their district really look a lot like canyons and i don't know that we would be that expansive as what they have but definitely it kind of fits that fits that model so i think keeping that discussion going is really good and i hope i don't have to wait until they build a building right yeah i agree we start now with these kids in elementary school by the time they you know march up and come through this system and we have buildings i i just think i mean i already feel like we're so behind that eight ball we should have been doing this years ago and so the sooner we can actually take

100a look at it well i think too you know uh the catalyst center in davis is that's very close it's 20 minutes away if you want to just get a taste for this just go up and visit catalyst and it's very aligned to industry so they took the 10 you know the 10 industries in the davis area that they felt like they could have the most impact on their school so drones computer science um i don't know medical they got health industry in there um virtual reality audio video production i mean there's a bunch in there that um i think you know that's another model to look at but yeah i i totally agree with amanda i one thing too and i've said this to cabinet the sooner that we can get i'd like to

101even get to a point sooner than later of some architectural drawings of what we're thinking around c-tec and maybe the point because this is something that you know the folks that are talking about a new district in draper are trying to capitalize on and those ideas are ours and i just think you know we need to let's get some of those out there so that you know our parents and our students and community can see that this is a direction that the board you know wants to consider so and to your point i mean while i am absolutely thrilled that corner canyon won number one comprehensive high school in the state and it's something that's absolutely worth celebrating i think number one and number two for overall high schools or it was up in the

102top five in eight was the beehive academy and ames right i mean the focus that these schools are really placing on preparing the kids for the pathways that exist and and the ones that are really innovative and exciting i think speaks to how important it is anyway i i've already said enough but thank you there's short-term things we can do though like at my school they we wrote in the tssa plan we would have um the teachers could choose something they wanted to do before school or after school and so there were teachers who said who who went to the principal and said i'll do the robotics or i'll do and so there was a little bit of budget planned there and and then that teacher's like doing it or another teacher said and i

103wanted to do human bodies and so he does like the whole human body and they dice like i mean they dies like the cow hard yes you know what are the things there's plenty of things that can happen in the schools to yourself if um but it's just anything they want yeah they are inconsistent that's what we're saying if we want to i don't know say to them figure out two things that have to do with technology go before and after school and there's teachers who will do it um i'm glad you mentioned that because that is one thing grants may take a while to get but our land trust and our and our other plans that the scc's draft if we're training them in some of these things i mean they can get some

104robotic kits they can get science kits they can use some of their spending that way and right now there is a lot of land trust and tssp plans where funding is going to screens and technology and programs and i would much rather that training be now that we have this more hands-on science kits and and those things and so hopefully this next fall with training that's one way we can unpack this okay so let's try and take a little break dinner's ready so if you want to get your dinner and let's take 20 minutes and then we'll reconvene and have a working dinner as well so and we'll get through the rest of this right yeah and then we'll do the next two sections hey this cute little story my granddaughter called 15. she works

105at a grocery store in st georgia she says to me okay thank you grandma can i make a deal with you we're making and she said my daddy has never had a vacation forever but he has like four days off at work right now and her brother that's the one who just got diagnosed with ms that's 18. and she goes you know and gavin has that all right i think we're ready to to resume our discussion so um thank you all for your input so far next section is humans human-centered supports so rick we have some suggestions from the administration on this one yeah so wendy's going to lead us on this one uh brian dr mcgill was um planning to be here but he's still so he's excused tonight and wendy's hitting on human

106supports perfect double duty i know so i'm not gonna highlight specific um strategic initiatives or success criteria because it kind of these recommendations are gonna fall amongst all of these because they overlap so much so if you have specific questions i can um try to assess those um at that time but number one priority is to produce some life skills curriculum and so this is immediate um i already have we already have a task force invites we already have committees that are forming so that we can get that particularly out to our k through eight teachers with the idea that it would also be going on to the um high school level they have a template ready to go um and so obviously that's just something that teachers have really requested and that that we're

107seeing a need for that tier one instruction um and how to build positive relationships um and behaviors in school so that's the first thing um the second thing is to support teachers in how to create an inclusive environment in their classrooms um and so a couple of things that we talked about is trauma-informed education making sure that our teachers are trained in uh trauma-informed practices i think another thing that has started to bubble up more recently that we've been talking about in cabinet that kind of goes along with this in years two through five is that um we were talking about creating a multicultural committee at each high school to start that would be made up of students that could talk about their real world experiences that they're having so that we could help problem

108solve some of the language that we're seeing and behaviors and pieces like that and to help teachers be able to manage that because sometimes what's happening is a student is experiencing that and and the teacher doesn't know how to adequately respond to it so giving them the tools so that they can create that really inclusive environment in their classrooms and in the hallways and improve our school climate um another a third piece of this is to make sure that we have we're dealing with um really extreme behaviors in our schools that we are not used to so developing we already have a work group that we're working through it's going to take a few years to get this off the ground but a continuum of services both with students with disabilities that are struggling with

109behavior issues as well as just your general education students that are dealing with behavior issues because we can place them in special programs but then we're putting them back out into a high school without training them and how to interact with their peers appropriately and also to create a system to support students who are dealing with social and emotional struggles so that we're not throwing them into large comprehensive high schools without the appropriate support so we're trying to create a continuum of services and felt like that that should be a major priority and then last but not least to make sure that we're increasing our mental and physical um health resources for our employees as well that we're recognizing the burnout that our teachers have um undergone and that our employees are undergoing and providing

110those uh being creative and how we can expand those supports for those individuals questions anyone you're all eating i love it i love it thank you okay um now board is to superintendent on that one i just want to add you know one of the things that i've been out on the listening tour for the spring and listen to different um with inflation the way it is and the need we have so many employees that are kind of in that space where you know their salary or their rate of pay is not keeping up with those kinds of costs this is just a wondering and i've pitched this to cabinet but you know are we coming closer to a place where it's more feasible and it's a perk for recruiting and retention retention excuse me

111that we provide some sort of instacare model like other districts do because right now i mean i'm just kind of searching for benefits or things that could maybe set us apart that would help offset some of those costs and it's not just physical health either right like we know that an employee that's or students for that matter that are seeking mental health care they're likely out two to three months before they can get support and so i'm just looking for ways that we could maybe provide those services more on demand i mean when you look at our attendance issues some of the things that our you know families are struggling with it's kind of you know those hierarchy of needs right and and it may not be i said the cabinet you know the legislature

112isn't probably are likely going to come to our aid when it comes to compulsory ed so you know without that backstop i think we've got to be creative and innovative about how we re-engage some of those students and i don't know that it solves all of our problems but i look at the hub at hillcrest and what we've done there and i think you know i've said the cabinet many times in my opinion i frankly think we should have those kinds of services in every single high school because i think a lot of our attendance issues with our kids that struggle the most come down to those needs and when you have you know serious mental health issues and i i talked to our sbos about this a little and they said you know mr

113robbins we love our counselors and they're great but when you're in the office and it's you know three to four students deep before they get in to see a counselor it's it's just it's kind of hard right and so i think maybe thinking about maybe how we repurpose some of those supports and funding you know for both students and employees i don't know if we're there yet or not but um i think the need definitely is so just some thoughts to add along kind of that discussion that we had in cabinet thank you yeah so you're what you're proposing is the idea of an on-site clinic is that way okay and then like and you're thinking expanding that and tim were also completing a mental health yes well because i kind of see like i

114mean i look at you know when you separate comprehensive guidance in the model that our counselors utilize responsive services is a big part of that right but i just think you know with the demand that's there and the need to provide really on-demand mental health you know therapy it's it's at a different level and it's not always something that our counselors are readily you know able to do but we know that you know i think that's a big reason that we have so many kids that are missing school it doesn't address all of the issues that you've you've highlighted but this is a big part of it how would it be different from what we currently have with the family center so it's available but i i want it to be more site based and

115at each high school more than having to go that route i'm not taking away from what we already do but i i just i don't know we have so every high school has a therapist through um beginnings or private connections um but we need to expand that because we have some kids that need to go through family therapy so to give you an example we have kids that are coming through district case management team they're getting a lot of support and that therapy during the day and then the parent isn't getting the skills for how to help the child at night and if we could have a therapist for example available at more centralized locations in the evening for example this would be something that then a family could tap into they would be connected

116to the school and it would support the entire family in that process more readily so it's more about expanding what we already have because right now i already can't get students into the therapists that we even have right now are we have a hundred grants and i think when i talked to bj last week he said we had over 250 students that needed those supports we just don't have enough spots for all well because that's my next question is mental health i mean to be able to it's expensive and fun and you fill up quickly right i mean i'm i'm just trying to figure out how this would all function and um i don't know are there any other districts that have something like this that's that's working and i'm just curious if anyone there

117there's a current model though that's something they could research and bring back to us kind of someone yeah sort of so you have a medical they have two different clinics that provide medical to provide pharmacy uh physical therapy and that's their function i the last time i went to visit their site i wasn't aware of there being a mental health component there all right thank you okay i told you i'd mix it up okay here we go all right let's start with chlorine and steve amber that's big stuff you guys have to i don't know if we're going to never remember that it's just clearing and then all around steam starting here and going after you perfect works after sheep well i'm glad she asked me to go first because then i'll have to remember

118so i was thinking about this because um when i'm back with my feet on the ground okay um all year long we've heard about the discipline and the problems with discipline and i've seen it at my own school i've been trying to track back like why and how come and what's changed and um part of it is we have to start from the very beginning of my own school because the teachers don't have rules in place they don't have what happens if you don't obey school and they don't have awards in place or rewards in place so the kids don't know what's expected of them and you can't inspect what you want from the kids to have them give you the expectations right i was in a sixth grade classroom not long ago when the

119kids and i was subbing and the kids were just like giving me grief and i said to them i need you to be quiet and they're just talking over the top of me and i said i need you to listen to what i have to say and they're still just talking on the top of me so then i just started picking out the kids were talking the last and i said line up and go to the telephone and they go well why and i said because you're going to call your mom and dad you're going to explain to them how you don't know how to be quiet so that i can teach and they were like totally shocked that i would do that and they go well you don't know our phone number and i

120said oh yeah i do and because i have access to all of those kids of the coach i dowelled the phone and handed the phone and i think somewhere back in the last four or five years this there is a rule there is an expectation and you will pretty well do what i expect of course i'm not i'm i'm not i'm kind of like leaving out the outliers because there's the extra rules for those outliers then they don't they don't seem to know and because of clovid it's even worse because while they've been home they haven't had to do things and they have learned to flip their mom and dad off or argue with their mom and dad and because they've learned to argue with their mom and dad and their mom and dad's giving

121in to them then they think that they argue with you and this is clear down in kindergarten and they argue with you and they think you're going to give up and that you're going to give in to them and so then you're trying to not create this argument so that you don't have this contention going on right so i'm thinking back to what we've been talking about and i don't i know that sel is a little piece of that but i think we have to go back to training kids that there's rules and there are expectations and that if they don't fulfill them then there are consequences and back to the basics of telling parents seeing the rules these are the expectations and if they don't do those these are the consequence and i think

122we've lost that in in some ways and back when they made legislation that you can't touch a kid or you can't suspend a kid or you can't expel a kid but you can but somehow we've lost those pieces and so in my brain when we talk about human-centered supports we need to re-communicate with parents of our expectations because the kids who want to go there and learn they get so frustrated by the kids who are acting out and talking out and they can't learn so you have 20 kids who really want to learn and then definitely take kids to it only takes three kids to throw your whole class off balance and then you can't you can't really engage and teach so somehow i think we need to communicate with parents back to here's the

123rules here's the expectations and we will be inspecting that there are these because kids love roles they love to know that they're doing the right thing and they love to know that they're succeeding in the right ways and and they they like to know that they're doing that the other kids are needing attention and we have to figure out why they want and need that attention but um anyway just to make my point i think we do need to do some better communication and going back to to figuring out it was better when the whole school had the same rule sheet and here were the rules and here was what the consequences were and here's what the awards were we could hand that out through the whole school and everybody knew when the parents knew

124we don't even have that now those aren't even available try to ask a principal where their rules and expectations are and i don't know about here but where i come from um they don't have them and so kids don't know they're not posted on the walls they're not posted anywhere so just saying maybe we need to look at that i don't know you'd have to tell me as a history where we are with worlds and expectations we actually talked about that clarion today just in mtss we talked about um going through and re-empowering our teachers to have like you conference with the kid first right and and making sure that those that escalation of consequences happens and also just because a kid does something one time we don't go to the most extreme unless it's

125a safe school thing or something like that to the most extreme thing we re-teach them what does that look like we also need to we also talked about retraining our administrators so that they feel empowered and supported to go through that process so that we can get the behavior where it needs to be so we're we're on the same page we have the same conversations just today i think it needs to like start the district and so all elementaries have the same rules and consequences so that across the board when kids change from school to school yeah the same thing with middle school in high school because i thought about this a lot is we've done that scl thing and i thought what is the problem here then you know like sel can't be solving

126the problem you know totally but thank you okay thanks steve i'm excited about the areas of focus you've talked about we talk a lot about enhancing teacher skills and giving them all kinds of new stuff but if the student's not ready to learn in the classroom and their behaviors are so bad you can't teach so and that's been sort of the problem and that i think is burning people out so i like the life skills curriculum moving forward with with that i think we've been doing our students a disservice if they don't have good eq skills emotional commotion skills it doesn't matter how smart they are they will not succeed in community and employment that's usually what gets you canned is your eq skills not your iq um the other one is the behavioral skills

127i'm hearing that from couples teachers is how do we get additional behavioral skills and training a lot of times that's not been emphasized in the school's disc the teacher education programs uh because it hasn't been needed in the past as much as it has now and so if we can provide those skills on on classroom discipline and structure and our level of our teachers are wanting to leave and the level of the teachers and the burnout i think is going to go down just based upon that if they can get back to teaching and if they can get back to seeing with some outcomes from them um the other thing is we have the student support services i'm sorry hearing at some point we may want to rename that to student and staff support services

128with sort of an emphasis now on our staff uh so that they know that um it would be nice a lot of our teachers when a teacher has to leave school for half a day for a doctor's appointment because you can't get a kid a substitute for an hour or a half hour or 15 minutes um it would be interesting if uh some of the lesser medical things we could do you have a traveling nurse or a traveling nurse practitioner that could go to some of the schools teacher can come out if somebody take their class over for 15 minutes they can go in and do whatever the doctor is going to do in seven to 15 minutes they go back to their class i think for the for the students it's going to be

129a win uh we don't have enough substitutes and it's not going to take away from their day or their sick leave time just to have a medical appointment whatever you can do that now on zoom during your lunch hour just so you know oh we've got our district well i don't know about within our district but i my teachers are doing that they just have a zoom meeting with their doctor during their lunch time and or recess time and uh so that helps so i mean in some cases the zoom's good some cases you may need to go individual i think mental health is another issue i don't think we want to address that there but we may have a separate building or a bundle or something where people can quickly go have an appointment

130and get out of there and get back i think some of the schools could sub especially like a high school team if they go out during the prep period some other teacher goes in for that one prep period the teacher goes get that gets back it would save a lot of time give way more structure to the to the students without having a sub for half a day may kill somewhere sometimes but we don't have enough subsidies and allow the teacher then to plan for the direction so other than that i really think it's fantastic and i look forward to seeing it being implemented um okay i i love everything you've said so um and the matching shoes so i i really am worried about our teachers so i'm really glad that last point about

131the mental and physical resources for employees i think that's really important because i mean i think we've all heard it they're just burnt out and i personally don't know what to do but i mean i'm glad you're thinking i think that's a great idea anything we can do to help them is great um i do like rick's idea if if it makes money sense to have a clinic i think that's great um the one thing i've been thinking a lot about is because of the school shootings um i would really this is i mean it's part of the human-centered supports i think is is the students feeling um you know this first impact statement all students families and employees feel safe supported and have a sense of belonging um cindy davis did a little video

132and the state board actually talked about school safety and at the last meeting on friday last friday and she talked about what they said is even though there's not like a set um type of person that does those school shootings they've usually been bullied they you know somewhat somewhere they've been bullied they haven't felt belonging so i don't know just all these things are really important i think that we work on and i really do with what rick said want to try to get more counselors because i think our counselors are overwhelmed as well so anything we can do to continue improving those resources i think would be great um the other thing is i would really like this is separate from strategic plan i would really like to request a meeting on safety and

133maybe a closed session because i want to know what our cities are going to do because i do not want our police outside for 40 minutes i'm sorry like so anyway we're working on that as we say so just a few things there is that i've asked the emergency management team to do a security audit on all our on every building campus so they'll bring that back to the board in july and so we'll look at gaps right and then prior to the pandemic the district was really engaged in a comprehensive safety plan which included duress so the app that allows employees to communicate emergencies so we re-engaged them justin chapman who was with sandy city police's he came to a cabinet so we're re-engaging that conversation susan's working with we're going to get the

134chiefs together to coordinate those plans so that we're all on the same page so we're working on that we're talking about to one of the things identification's obviously a big thing and badging it now knowing who's in the building and i know that's that kind of ebbs and flows and comes and goes right over the years but i really think we need to get back to keep onto a building you need to have your id visible and we've even talked about that at least at the high school level with students because we're getting all kinds of students from other high schools that are loitering in in our high schools and sometimes you know we don't know who's who so um so those are things that are on the agenda like on the immediate but all

135those conversations are happening right now perfect thank you i have a specific follow-up question to that i've had like three or four people over the last weekend i'll talk to you and they had specific questions even like what kind of door handles or situations do we have that a teacher can quickly lock a door or like having mylar on the windows so that like somebody can't look in but they can still look out and they can still get like coming in like i'm curious whether or not we it would be worthwhile for us to um hire some sort of consultant that specializes in on this sort of thing because i think it's easy when you're going to your own school and you know them really well to be like everything checks out you know because

136those are your lenses but to have somebody who's kind of an expert in this and the thought that comes to mind is an sba i went to first year i was a board member and one the very last speaker of the conference was a mother who lost a child in the sandy hook shooting it was a kid it was just a little girl and she went through piece by piece by piece things that could have been done differently that would have made a difference in saving a lot of lives and i really walked away with a new perspective on that and i thought there's got to be people who really specialize in this i don't know i think about it ryan jackman is kind of spearheading all this right so um he's our risk manager

137so i'm asking him to really pull all these groups together to do to do just that i said the cabinet and i think it's you know the board needs to know this we we all need to understand that when we come back to this report there are going to be gaps right it's not a it's not a perfect system and there's nothing that's fail safe but we can i think we can improve right some of the issues with that is you know our our new schools are amazing there's a lot of glass so there's still questions about you know how does run hide fight which that's the that's the philosophy that you know police and schools adopt how does that look in a building like hillcrest or a building like brighton um i and i

138don't want to speak for the police but i my understanding in utah at least is that our approach is to eliminate the intruder it's not uh you know wait around and siege or or wait outside it's immediately go in and eliminate the intruder on the spot so um but we we definitely need to do more interagency work with our local pds and get our chiefs and law enforcement involved in that right when we look at that report could you also go over the video surveillance i know i've talked to leon before and here about that yes it is you have that as part of that because i know there's room to grow with that sure awesome okay are you finished yes thank you okay um i appreciate everything that's been said i'm looking at a

139more an approach of how to set up the school climate and culture i wonder if there's some more proactive steps we can take as far as unifying our student body around the fact that they're a yeti and what it means to be a yeti or what it means to be a viking and i know we do a bit of that in our elementary school i know when we lived in tennessee my my kids school folders actually had like all of the little emblems about what it meant to be a wild cat and that was on there and it was just ingrained it didn't matter if it was the fun run t-shirt or the school folder or whatever it was always emphasized and it was posted all over you know what it meant to be respectful

140what it meant to be and i think that if we can gather our children around and that they feel some identity by being a member of that school and that by being a member of that school that means all are welcome here and you know that we ought to have a school flag that's flown with with a lot of of pride that that this means that you're part of something really great and bigger than yourself and that you're all one and i think that as we take some steps to unify that way that we can maybe create a more inclusive atmosphere um when we've done our school climate and culture surveys i'll tell you it begins and ends with cell phones and as we know i mean there was an editorial piece by a sociologist

141just barely in the paper talking about how it used to be 40 years ago when you left the school grounds that bully maybe followed you a couple corners but then it was done but now that school bully that's on your phone you never ever are away from them and a lot of the things that are happening where kids get really filled with some hatred and feel completely excluded is happening on the cell phones i see as far as creating a place where kids feel safe and supported i think that that digital citizenship piece is very vital and again more of a preventative and proactive approach but really teaching our kids and having that taught often what it what good behavior is on the cell phone policies i don't think there's any reason why they should

142be present in the elementary or middle school classroom whatsoever um and um and uh yeah i i think that i think that's all with that with the digital citizenship um can i say something yeah i don't know if any of you guys saw this it was a special that deanie wimmer did on ksl but she went to school um to a teacher in high school and for one hour the teacher allowed the students to turn on all their notifications and they counted them it's like 495 in one hour between those students yeah so i mean that was just insane exactly and i would actually love to see the data of what's happened at builder middle and draper park middle since they've started their strict cell phone policies about um behavior and are just i don't

143know i don't know if there's any data that can be collected on whether or not they feel like it's the difference in the learning i can say the parent who had three kids go through middle school without a policy versus the one that's going through with one now it's a totally different experience and there are things that they're doing that i would love to see in all of our schools there's these fun activities at lunch so kids get off their phones or aren't you know don't have an incentive to get on their phone they're they've got games they have a ball and they go outside even in the middle school and go outside onto the school grounds i think we need to develop ways for kids to be social and that's the time of life

144when they need to practice their social skills and they've got to get off the crutch and and that crutch is also pretty destructive so um and then as far as the csd will implement tiered systems to support the social emotional and mental well-being of students i'm gonna go back to bj weller a year and a half ago when he said if we were really looking at the mental health of our students the first thing we would do is is push back our start time and i know we talked about this as a board that that and i think there's quite a few of you that are interested in doing that edulog study to see if we can be more efficient with bus route and a later start time but i hear a lot from parents

145about that and we do know that negative clean behaviors are directly associated with sleep deprivation and that is why american association of pediatrics and all those medical institutions have come out and said that and why it was a utah legislative priority from february 27 2020 non-binding but still there's a lot of districts in our state that have done it i would like us to be progressive and be on the front end of that and not on the back end of that so interested in doing that study i want to thank you for actually getting your phone out and dialing them when i first got married or when we first started having kids my wife told me the one basic rule with raising kids is you never lie to them and she said don't ever tell

146the kids if they do that you're going to kill them because you'll have to so thank you for standing your ground and getting out your phone and having them actually call their parents rather than idle threat um moving up the page to success criteria the third one is students feel welcome safe and a sense of belonging in their school if i could work smith i would change that and i would include teachers employees they all have the right to feel safe and a sense of belonging in their schools um [Music] i was i don't know if anybody else who got invited to the emt meeting jeff so you could probably uh fill in some numbers here but he quoted how many of our schools were at a hundred percent compliance two i had two written

147down here but i didn't want to miss quote so thank you to me that's an appalling number especially in light of what we've seen going on this is something for the emt committee to handle but i think we need to look at what we're really really complying with somebody in here be real smart and tell me when the last time was we had a fire in a school where a kid was killed jeff probably knows i don't last time we had a student i think i think the last time that even happened no there was a fire over in jordan's school district and we have deaths it wasn't no there were no deaths but there was a thing we had where animals died that was the we had from fire but where i'm going with

148it i believe the last time that a child died in a fire school was in 1947. that's even older than me strangely enough yes i do know it he did a postpartum that's why i think that we need to look at what it is that we're evaluating on that and make sure that we are moving our evaluation of student safety up with the times we don't have to go back more than a couple weeks i think the last time the student lost their life in a school in the nation um moving right along i view education this is kind of an old uh trite analogy but i view education as a three-legged school stool you've got three major stakeholders involved in a child's education first of all you have the student if the student better

149doesn't buy in i'm sorry but stuff's not going to happen nothing good will happen number two you've got a teacher that has to be vested in what's happening and i have on occasion seeing just those two legs actually work and get a student suit school they become successful but the third leg is rental support and unlike a statement that came out from the national uh education association which i won't name parents are not the enemy parents are our ally and they do have a stake in their child's education and i'm just wondering if there's something we could or should do to proactively include parents and do some outreach and some education of parents to let them know how important their input is how important it is for them to just monitor if homework is happening

150or not because i think we have a lot of parents new to our country that may not understand our education system and we could help them out and you know i'm not just looking for somebody to graduate from high school that's a noble goal to increase our graduation rate but i want kids that are actually prepared when they leave school for real and you know the uh this is called human-centered support and parents are last time i checked most of them are humans too and so i think we need to include them um and to be totally honest if there's one thing that i think we have all learned through the uh covered years how important that human connection is most of the education gap that's taken place over the last couple of years has

151come because the teachers and the students are not eyeball the eyeball and they're not being watched and i think that uh we have to make sure that our teachers are taken care of the idea of having a clinic for the teachers i think is a great idea brings me back to the point i made before with every action there's an equal and opposite reaction we have to make sure that our funding even though we shift it is prioritized and that it is done in a purposeful way to make sure that we are getting major bang for our buck and leon that's a that's a heavy burden for you to carry make sure that it all balances um looking at my scribbles and i can't even read afterwards oh the other thing the other thing that

152i would like to see a greater emphasis on and we started real heavy on it a few years ago and it's kind of stated but i really believe the philosophy of uh see something say something we need to revisit that and make sure that our students are constantly being made aware of that whether that be some a bad guy with a gun or whether that be a friend that is depressed or whatever if they see something they need to say something you can ask me if i'm done now because i am done amanda okay so i appreciate much of what was said i totally agree and one of the things i think that would be really important for teachers that i've gotten feedback on is um issues with truancy readiness late policies kind of gotten

153away from a lot like work of the standards we had before and it's made their lives as teachers much much more difficult and unwieldy i had one teacher who's an excellent english teacher in high school who said that for the first time she's thinking of leaving just because she can't keep up with all of the weight and it feels like you know similar to how some of those teachers in the high schools shared with you rick that they feel like we can't follow through on things like dress code or behavior like i think this is also kind of falls into that camp they need to be empowered to be able to have like deadlines right um i'm trying to think as far as i think that's more or less hit for for this subject i

154think everybody come here love it for us to take a look at that thank you um and thank you i don't have anything to ask you i really appreciate support would have been said too i just had a couple questions um speaking of the mental health issue i always wondered why his counselors at the school couldn't do counseling with teachers um in their school um they have the license to do it and if we figured out a way to give them an extra hour in the day or something i don't know if it's possible but the other thing is like group therapy because i think a lot of the teachers are suffering from symptomatic stress syndrome and so that might be a group kind of thing to talk about i don't know i'm just kind

155of exploring flooring thoughts um there um we could do i don't know even group therapy sessions where they come to the district officer and somebody's assigned to do that along your way of thinking and then um speaking of what month said about the fire drills um so um we've we've been trained two different ways as teachers when there's a you know shooter in the building one was that the kids were supposed to all go to the corner which then they came back and said no you shouldn't do that um some some have said just be mobile you know just be able to move them wherever they need to which then brings me to i don't know how many windows we could get out but probably every teacher needs to have something to break you know

156to get out if they needed to i mean i'll bring that up at emt and there are ways to block the doors um there's new ways i've learned but also um ways for the teachers to protect themselves and their kids because like i've already told the meet the emt people only met before my my husband's as in post and now taught me to have a huge bat by my door to lay by the door and like knock out the person when they come from below not above because they'll catch the bat and so like i had a little bit of training on what to do to get him to stop and not come through the door i mean if they came through the door they wouldn't be going any further but i think we need

157to train some teachers on how to defend themselves a little bit besides trying to hide with the kids it's not going to work and i know teachers are going to go well if i have to learn to defend myself and defend the kids i don't want to teach anymore because that's not teaching but the reality is we are what we are and it might happen and we do need some techniques um on how to protect ourselves and the kids in case we can't escape out the door of the window but just thinking about training some kind of training yep steve did you say i just wanted to add to some of the stuff that we talked about on cell phones we have been kicking cell phones down the road over and over and over when

158you talk about teachers and when i substitute teach in middle schools and high schools most of the high schools i cannot give three positives for every negative i have to give on itself no you can't it's just that cell phone is just so intrusive in the classroom it causes so many negative behaviors uh i know the parents may want them there in case there's a some active shooter or something but this actually just that is getting in the way of the kids education their attention span this is the number one thing in talking with teachers especially in high school that just frustrates the heck out of them is they can't give a lecture because the kids are doing stuff on here they're going ever we need to have some kind of policies either it's a

159red green or red yellow and green that it's red time you can only we're not going to do it or it's green time you can now get on at something but we need to have some consistency in that because it's affecting behavior in the classroom expecting a lot of to come the kids arguing with the teachers and it's just it affects the level of education i just see that every single time i'm in there you cannot teach they cannot focus uh rather than a couple of seconds when that goes off so i think it's maybe time within that behavioral section we try to address cell phones uh which is a real real easy one yes go ahead um going around doing security audits in our buildings just came to my attention this this week i

160was counting the nature of hillcrest and how all the doors are with sensors on those and people can tell if they're locked or not walk and so forth and so on and my son said oh that's easy i just take a piece of tape and tape them yeah it's not a hillcrest but before and i would like to make sure that those doing the safety audit are checking to see if anything like that is taping a latch on a door you can kids will put rocks in i mean rock rocks at least leave it away if you just tape the latch that's what shows that that was there was a fence all the way around and there was only one way in one wheel and that was the front door and people talked all along

161all middle schools and all high schools feel like they're in prison though well i get that but it was pretty safe i mean there was only one way in there was only one way out and there was no way melissa climbed the twelfth offense clearly the emergency preparedness is an issue it was an issue is some work cut out for him okay last section operating system and just kind of looking at the clock how about um let's sweater only goes yes so was uh dan charlie jeff kirsten susan myself we met and discussed a couple things uh on the first impact statement we focused on some of the success criteria criteria csd departments and committees are mapped to align with strategic vision and board goals csd provides the necessary support for individuals to be successful

162in their roles csd pro departments and committees have adequate tools and resources to do their jobs effectively one of the things that we feel like there are some gaps we need to look at is identifying training schedules especially for new employees we want every employee to be successful here and so sometimes we have them office aids or classroom assistance recess aids all monitors they walk in the first day on the job and someone just points a direction and they don't have any training so we want to make sure everybody's adequately trained and can succeed at their job and find out where those gaps are and how do we schedule this training who does it who oversees it at each building uh okay moving down to the quickly down to the second criteria uh employees are

163heard and supported in their roles and responsibilities through effective feedback and communication loops um one of the things that we know there's just committees upon committees upon committees and task force here and we just really want to understand what each and every one of those do and is there some way we can unify some of them together maybe bring consolidate them or at least know what everyone does that there's a repository for all the information out there we we we hesitated bringing this up but maybe we need to and so uh to look at refining the scope and reorganizing them and just consolidating them so anybody else had anything they wanted to add that committee on committees was a stroke of genius i hope you guys follow up on that okay thank you um all

164right let's just yeah quickly if you have anything to add let's go amanda or amber amanda clarine mont holly steve um i just want the only thing i want to say i think that sounds great um one kind of said this but i just feel like i mean it's the second bullet point um almost at the bottom there parents are heard and supported in the role and through effective and feasible feedback loops i just want to make sure that we are including parents and i don't know whatever information i mean it's hard like i know we communicate a lot but i i still think we can somehow get better so love to hear what ideas you guys have that's awesome okay let's see okay so one of the pieces of feedback i've gotten recently um

165from a number of teachers actually is they've asked over and over why is it that canyons doesn't um conduct exit interviews um some of our teachers are leaving for reasons that would be pretty preventable and it's nice we do do it just a survey it goes to everyone a survey they're wanting an interview one-on-one well because some of the things that are in the survey don't actually like specifically to i don't know if it's open-ended if they have open-ended responses on there but there's some of what they said they felt like needed to actually be talked about and it's funny when i first ran four years ago i had that feedback then too um i had one woman who said that her mother had taught here for 10 years and you know it used to

166be part of jordan and she was kind of shocked and surprised and after all of that time nobody had sat down with her and really talked through things with her and perspectives and and the things that she had to share and part of why she was choosing the movement she did so anyway i i don't know what that looks like i'm just sharing with you the feedback i've received and i think when we're wanting to make sure that teacher retention is a high priority and that we're wanting to take care of our teachers i think it's worthwhile kind of like we talked about with with understanding why we have canyon students leaving i think it's worthwhile for us to collect data and understanding about why we might have teachers sleeping so [Music] so with that

167there is we haven't done a presentation to the board almost yearly well no i was just thinking if we look on our board docs there's two or three pages of people leaving every month that would be a huge manpower thing to try to do those individually unless you just want the teacher's input but if you wanted everyone's input it would cause another personnel person or two that's what's going to say or two just to do those interviews which we would definitely have to agree upon that we're going to put our money into that um or could they request that he wanted them maybe not everyone wants well that's true too i'm just i've been thinking out loud but um but speaking of personnel i also wanted to like i wrote down on here one of

168the things i feel like we're faulting on needing might be a high school director because i feel like bob is like doing so much and that we need somebody to help help bob because i don't think that we have somebody in place and i'm not saying you're not doing your job you got a big job i think you're doing an excellent job but i think it would help to have a high school director over the high schools to help with what's going on there and so i wanted to in the operating systems just throw that out of maybe some time having that conversation i don't know with the superintendent about what that might look like um okay and i liked that you were going to do the training and to over and have somebody oversee

169that those people get trained um leave out that comment because that will get me in trouble um [Laughter] all right and see is that everything on here i think so thank you mom i didn't take issue with a whole lot of what was said on operating systems but one question i do haven't as much as if you got bored round table and i believe that i'm not alone in having issues outside of this document that i would like to discuss in round table where will that happen well we were hoping to get through with this with enough time to have it happen tonight so again i'll be quiet right now and be done i just have a few really quick things um at the first part just i'm excited to hear about the training schedules

170and identifying identifying some of those so that our people feel like they have the adequate i know we do a lot right now so it would be nice to have a report of what we do and then what we plan to do to grow on the feedback loops that's a huge one for me for all for parents for employees um i i think we do a great job with communication but i would love to see more i like the idea of more open-ended questions with exit um surveys i have also heard from teachers there's two already okay and i just think with feedback loops in general i know i don't think right now i've asked into this i don't think right now a new teacher in our district that has a mentor teacher and goes

171to the training has much of an ability to give feedback about their experience with their mentor teacher that's what i'm hearing from teachers and so i'm wondering if feedback loops could also include that so that's all i have yeah yeah i think of all the things that we've talked about tonight the most important is an effective communication i'm finding that with social media there's a lot of false information going out there we don't we need to get this information out that people understand what's going on because if not they'll fill the goal and i often hear from our staff and from parents stuff i'm going where did you hear that and it just it's just avoid fillers so i think as we put everything together our communication plan and trying to figure out what are

172we going to do how we're going to do it and even what what we monitor you know are we monitoring social media so we can sort of straighten it bring that about how we do it we do an excellent job already but still i think the biggest issue we have is communications and rumors it miss and we'll do something and then they'll come back and i'm going that's not behind why we did it you know um we need to get that out to parents and and in the community and also more than just our parents it's the patriots in general we do really good at getting stuff out and sending stuff out to our parents but most of the people that do not have children in our system have no idea what would your cases

173and i think we're sending a letter to them csd and some stuff but a lot of the stuff they don't they asked what are you doing for my time so i think that's a primary thing to get out is just communicate the good stuff we're doing and resolve the issues on what people are putting out there that's not true thank you um the only thing that i have to add to this section is a little bit of an idea that the committee on committees can um implement and that i think it would be and it goes along with that mapping the committees to understand where they are so that we don't have the overlap or gap right and so that we can be very as efficient as possible i think it would be helpful if

174a template or rubric of some sort was created for the departments and the committees to use and help them articulate their purpose structure reporting and what supports they have or feel like they need to have and things like that so that there's some consistency as that that information is gathered and then it might be easier to tell where there's overlap where there's gaps so that was what i had for that one okay um we do have a few minutes so if if you uh board members have other items that they wanted to bring up that didn't specifically fall into these um categories and this one i am maybe just yeah raise your hand if you have something and then we'll just okay amber then okay um i just have two things um first of all

175is what about all the indicators we have as a board already like all those indicators that we look at like where does that fit in and we want to continue those well let's just think about it i mean i person because we need to look at data so i actually want to still look at it but i don't know maybe so we talked about in cabinet doing a daily calendar doing just that so and right now those those indicators are already there so early literacy eighth grade achievement act and high school graduation rate are still in place and then there were indicators in the other tenants so i don't think any of those changed it was just a matter of kind of getting a new baseline and when to report to the board so but

176okay we can set that great okay my second thing is i would like to i have two ideas about our board meetings because they've been going very long so i i would like to set time limits on agenda items or i would like to say we're going to end at 10 o'clock and then at that point the board can say yeah like is this so important we need to continue or can this wait till next meeting because i just think i mean it's not fair to our administration that has to be here until whatever time 11 12 and they have to be back here at and i know at our families yeah i mean even all of us if we work that's really hard for us to get up the next morning and actually be

177able to have a brain and production which anyway i don't know what the board thinks about that but that is what i am in favor of makes me think of the old escape song about if you're not into yoga and you have half a brain do we want to take a minute and talk about this now or i think that's a great idea um we can or some of these things we can bring back and amber's exactly where i was on that on that issue and if it's not too presumptuous on my part if you want to talk about it let me talk first because i'm going to and i i i hope that at the end of the meeting somebody will still speak to me but i'm going to be in a little bit

178um i think it's a fine line that we walk because i think every everybody on the board needs to feel like their opinion is valued in all honesty i feel like some people take a lot more time than other people take and that's why i favor your idea of a time limit where we can go there well that everybody has a chance to express themselves and it's not so much a free frog tonight i think nancy's done an excellent job as far as rotating in different ways i will tell you that at board meetings when somebody you ask them if they would like to speak and oh no i'd like to go last i don't think that's fair or when i want to speak first or i want to speak second you dictate the rotation

179and you make sure that it goes that way a time limit in there is a great idea um we talked about uh back at the beginning of the night about everybody having equal access to education i think we all board members need to have equal access to comment and to be heard um and one thought i had either lighten the agenda or limit the time frame on discussion and i know sometimes it's hard to do either one of those i know it's hard i i i am ready to be the first one at 10 o'clock to stand up and walk out and if i get uh four other three other people to go with me and you don't have a quorum anymore in the middle i like the heart stop i i think the hard

180stop at ten o'clock i mean it honest as amber you said it's on my notes too it just is absolutely not fair to the people that have day jobs that have to come back the next day and what we talk about at board meeting doesn't impact people but they feel like they have to stay and well they have to say you don't have a choice i don't know the challenge is name one worthwhile thing we've accomplished after 10 o'clock in the last year i can't remember because it's too late i have a session i have a suggestion about it you you're still speaking to me okay we're here maybe i need to go on i just didn't know if you were finished or if we wanted to be talking about those things one suggestion my

181husband was watching a board meeting and he said you know there's a lot of time taken up thanking people and you know we all feel indebted to the wonderful administrators that spend so much time but i wonder if nancy is the president could thank everyone at the beginning and then we all and everyone knows that we're grateful for them because that is hard when someone says a very nice thank you i also want these wonderful hard-working people i want to say thank you too but it may save some time from an outside observation that it takes quite a bit of time for all the thank you well nancy usually does think of her she does and maybe that we just refrain and know that when nancy says it and they know that we really appreciate

182them but that might save some time i know we appreciated more if they could go home that will be just real quick question for the administration i've had people ask me how we're going to bring back our strategic plan and what's happening will we do that in meetings do you or you would have a dashboard or something where the community can hold us accountable and we could hold this administration mechanical so i would say first it's real important that we set the priorities that we want to measure right there's so much in there that we try to take on everything in the strategic plan all at once we're going to be our performances are going to be very effective so prioritize the indicators that are already in the plan and the tenants those still remain

183the same so we'll report on that but i think part of the rollout and the communications is working on that plan um i think that involves doing superintendent listening tour again and gathering feedback and you know gathering that as we go but i think the board can determine it'd be your purview to say hey we want to you know report we want to report back in the fall maybe one in the spring at least this first year but i i think setting those priorities first and then determining how you want to measure that um we didn't have the time to set our priorities tonight and i have an idea i'll throw out for that all right okay so really quickly um i'm on still personal comments actually take up about 25 minutes every time we

184do this i don't know if we want to put a timeline on a personal comment like it has to be within one minute or two minutes just like people do patron comments and you're talking at the very end of the day remember sometimes sometimes people take five six ten minutes to do whatever they're doing and and we're tired and then um also instead of telling everything that we've learned from people of the district like well i've gone to amber and she said this and i went to wendy and she said that and i went to susan and she said that just know in your brain that that's what they said and then just ask a question for clarity don't tell all of us what all those people said because we wanted to know then we

185would have asked them ourselves anyway just a thousand attend items yeah on agenda items yeah ask for clarity and questions and not give reports about or when they went and talked to so um on just another whole thing i just want you to know when we went to lunch i mean went to supper i felt overwhelmed and i started crying because i feel like this is way overwhelming and i know that everybody in here probably i'm just i'm saying what i think you're feeling but i don't know is feeling overwhelmed too when i look at elementary mixture and they're doing wonders they're doing letters still and then we're training in plcs and we're you know asking them to do stacks of um whatever we call those micro credentials i think what we can ask teachers

186but i think what we really need is one year where we don't have anything happening more than one thing like can it just be we're working on plc's and that that's what we're working on because seriously we're tired typically we do have post-traumatic stress and seriously it is overwhelming just listening here i go just listening to all this just probably overwhelmed me that um these guys worked so hard in this room and then we're passing it down and passing it down and i just think they just needed years in their classrooms away from here and would um because it was really difficult it took up all our weekends because you can't do it during your class day and then that delayed right in your lesson plans which delayed branded grade your grade book which delayed

187what happened in your classroom because then your culture management ran out the window because you weren't ready for the day and i'm just telling you that's true of the whole thing for last year so i don't know if we can just say we have the strategic plan but really seriously maybe all we work on is plc's the cabinet will have to decide the board will have to decide but um i just think that's what you asked teachers what they needed i'd say that they need help with the discipline and they need help with just just letting them teach just let them do that for the show that's all i have today thank you anyone else have additional items no one can i know we talked about it briefly before but i would love in terms

188of the the parent roll out with a strategic plan for us to do a small video like that we can send to people's inboxes just kind of relax i know one of the districts that nsba had done that and it wasn't very long but it was pretty effective to give the parents an idea of how exciting and innovative and what to look forward to i love that okay anyone else i said it before but the best schedule i'm in favor of mine oh yes it's in it's on the list right yeah i i mean now we're just officially doing round tables so i thought i don't know yeah so um steve's playing i mean we are out of time and i think we have folks out there waiting for us to start the next meeting

189um so yeah we're gonna have time right now to go and go through each one and kind of prioritize it but as we have this discussion what's occurred to me is much of what was talked about is kind of overlapping with other things and so i don't know if we're in funny would feel if maybe um i could work with the superintendent and we can consolidate all of this information and create a list of items and then um then kind of report back to the board on that list of items and with the indication from the superintendent about what is realistic for the administration to try and accomplish keeping in mind what has been shared by people about you know the concerns about being looking too much or trying to go too much too fast

190means we might not be shuffled so and then we could bring that back to the next board meeting and kind of does that sound all right yeah so it's great yes can we have a heart stop hopefully people hear them i hope so many people struggling i am near [Music] you made i'd like to welcome you to the meeting of the canyons board of education today is june 7th 2022 and we are meeting at the district offices located at 9361 south 300 east in sandy utah and i want to also thank those of you here in in the boardroom with us and those of you watching live stream for your patients we apologize that we are starting a few minutes late so thank you for that first item on this business meeting agenda is to

191approve the agenda for this evening i will ask for a motion for that i will make that motion i move that we approve the agenda for today june 7 2022. thank you is there a second to the motion i'll second that motion thank you any discussion to the motion scene then i'll call for a vote all in favor of the motion please say aye aye aye any opposed that motion passes thank you um we will now be led in the pledge of allegiance by gary warwood director of accounting and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you next on the agenda is um time for recognition so i will turn the time over to mr jeff haney from the communications department president tingey

192thank you for the time that the board grants us to recognize the achievements of students faculty and staff in the canyon school district tonight for our recognitions we are celebrating the achievements of student athletes who finished the year in style in fact they're walking away with quite a bit new hardware we're also going to be recognized recognizing our efforts to promote digital citizenship in canyon's district now those who are mentioned tonight will receive a letter of recognition from the board and the superintendent now do we have the clicker here it is and our first honorees tonight i don't see that it's working here julie should i do this then or no want to check that out so while she's helping us out here is this working yet julie there it is thank you so much

193for your help our first honorees tonight are the corner canyon chargers now this season for the corner canyons boys lacrosse team certainly was one for the record books the undefeated team also made history by claiming back to back state championship trophies and boys lacrosse the chargers defeated american fork 15 to 10 in the final to win the 6a title the chargers also are ranked among the top 20 teams in the country in boys lacrosse and so and and also as a little side note you may see that photograph at the top left my left that was right after this semi-final but at graduation ceremonies the semifinal game was played just hours before commencement the team won the semi-final got into a limo humvee traveled in style to commencement and they didn't change out of their

194uniforms nor did they wash the paint off of their faces but they walked with each other across the graduation stage celebrating graduation and style and preparing for the final game in just a couple days and on the saturday following commencement they captured that title now as you see we were able to capture some of the photographs of our lacrosse team at graduation ceremony in their uniforms now that's camaraderie right there and they took that camaraderie all the way into the state championship so congratulations to the corner canyon charters the 6a champions in boys lacrosse now the corner canyon chargers also took the title in boys track and field so congratulations to the students who are track and field stars at the 6a state meet the chargers won their third straight track and field title they

195were propelled to the first place finish in the 200 meter who was won by cody hagan he's had quite a senior year we've recognized him quite a few times they won by the four by 100 relay the 4x200 relay and the 4x400 relay events the charger girls took first place in the 4 by 400 relay and at the 5a tournament alta high's elise jessen claimed the individual title in the 800 meters so congratulations to the chargers in the hawks who won those individual and team championships at the track and field news our next honorees brought home a state title on graduation day the alta high boys soccer team capped the school year by winning the 5a utah high school activities association title in boys soccer the number two seated hawks beat the number five-seeded lehigh

1963-1 to claim the title and this game was a nail biter they won a shoot out after finishing the team finishing the game in regulation play tied at zero but they eventually overcame the pioneers to capture the trophy you can see there they're posing for the photograph at rio tinto stadium the home of real salt lake which is the pro team that plays on our own backyard here in canyon school district also for the record books i looked this up i had the utah high school activities association look it up for me as well i was pretty sure i was right and they they verified it coach mckenzie heyer at alta high school is the first female head coach of a utah state championship voice winning soccer team so congratulations to alta high's boys soccer

197team and coach heyer walking away with the state title and their names in the record books another point alta high school has won nine boys soccer titles tying the state record with bountiful so cross your fingers that altah will win again next year and they will be number one in the state record books our next honorees man we have a lot of state champions are the brighton high boys tennis teams they are true aces now wimbledon may be the next stop for many of these uh students who recently captured individual state titles at the 5a state meet the brighton high boys tennis team left it all on the court they unfortunately took second place as a team but they walked away with individual titles in first singles hardy owen won that second singles parker hopkins

198won that and third singles ty parish won that honor now this team also won region they lost the state title just by one point so we think that the bengals will come back roaring next year and capture that trophy for brighton high school now the next honorees are our standouts on the field and in the classroom 41 student athletes in spring store sports won academic all state awards we can tell that they work hard and they play hard we have honorees from all of our comprehensive high schools alta brighton corner canyon hillcrest and jordan high schools this brings to 133 the number of students who this year from canyon school district won academic all-state honors in order to qualify for academic all-state a student must have a 4.0 cumulative gpa or meet an index score

199and that takes into account a student's gpa act or sat scores so congratulations to um in boys tennis david stubbon from brighton nathan wright from hillcrest richard nayak from hillcrest lucas pierce from jordan ryan kalunga from jordan william pierce from jordan and in girls golf daniel gibson from alta in softball catherine miner from corner canyon lauren nguyen from bright and boy's track cody christensen from corner canyon katie hagan corner canyon jackson henstrom from corner canyon ian ackerman from alta matthew squire from alta tucker gardner from alta jared kimball from brighton gage wright from hillcrest jin woo moon from hillcrest lucas bolster from hillcrest in girls track allison ohler from corner canyon ashland richardson from corner canyon isabel croft from corner canyon lilly crofts from corner canyon abbey hanson from alta hannie schuman from alta lauren

200garrett from alta caroline rupper from brighton megan jacobson from brighton emily swain from hillcrest in boys lacrosse aiden santee from corner canyon jake johnson from alta joey griffiths from jordan and girls lacrosse catherine numbers from alta grace garrett from brighton hunter doyle from brighton hannah dudley from jordan in boys soccer kate christensen from corner canyon jackson smythe from corner canyon tyler randall from corner canyon adam rasmussen from alta and jack johnson from alta typically we don't name that many students who earn honors but if they're academic all-staters we need to mention them so congratulations to all of our students 41 total 133 throughout the year who are academic all-staters and canyons district now our next honorees come from our instructional supports departments and these are the people who work hard to promote and teach digital

201citizenship in our schools now we heard you talk briefly at the study session about how technology particularly cell phone usage has impacted teenage life and in effect our school communities now technology as we all know is amazing for education but we also know is that the issues emerge in this 24 7 connected culture now we see cyberbullying we see privacy lapses and we also see uncertainty about who people can trust online in our schools we promote digital citizenship and we are dedicated to helping students use technology responsibly to learn create and participate once again canyon's district has been honored as a school district that is known as a common sense district this is an honor that recognizes our efforts in teaching digital citizenship and engaging the online the entire community in this important discussion and

202supporting educators using technology for learning the honor is provided by common sense education as part of a national non-profit organization that improves the lives of kids and families by providing trustworthy information education and is an independent voice that we need to thrive in the world of media and technology our schools are one of more than 80 000 schools across the country who have started using common sense as the kind of the pivot point for groundbreaking education resources when it comes to digital citizenship so congratulations to us canyon school district led by isd and i believe justin anderson is here who is one of the people in isd who is one of the point people in promoting digital citizenship throughout the school year so congratulations to all of us most uh appreciative of the isd department

203for their efforts to promote digital citizenship in canton's district now one more thing as we head into the summer months please don't forget about canyons living this is for all canyons district employees we are inviting all of our olive employees including the board of education to post on social media all that you're doing in the summer to get outside and show the world what it's like to live and work in canyon school district you'll see here pictures of a couple employees including me and karen brown right there in the middle we did orange theory together you can see that i'm wearing my alta high football shirt and she can run much faster than i can by the way but the first 100 of our employees who post on social media pictures of them out and

204about and with that using the hashtag canyon's living will receive gifts and prizes this shows the world what we do in canyon's district how we work in canyon's district and how we play in canyon's district the beauty of canyons is shown through our canyons living mr president t thank you for the opportunity to give us to honor those in our district who have gone above and beyond i also will be presenting these to the board no matter how you want to use them we can put them in the trophy case you can use them however we also have a banner that we'll be putting out front in front of the district office to tell our community that we are a common sense district earned by all of our digital sales chip and promoting in our

205schools and in our community thank you so much thank you uh what do you think board should we put him in the trophy case yep great thank you okay um we've now come to the patron comment portion of our meeting while not required by law the board often designates time in meetings to listen to the patrons of the district please be aware that patron comment time is limited to residents and taxpayers of canyons district students and parents of students and current employees of the district patrons may provide board members with written documents these documents should be submitted to the board's secretary at the meeting over here terry want to use your hand okay thank you and um or emailed to the office of public communications by noon of the day following the board meeting time

206allotted is at the discretion of the board president tonight with individuals we have four individuals that have signed up and they'll be each be given three minutes comments made during patron comment are part of the public record it is the board's practice to listen and take notes during patron comments the board of education does not discuss matters that are not on the meeting's agenda nor engage in public comment on individual students to protect their privacy or employee issues if a patron wants to comment on a district employee's character professional competence or mental or physical help the board requests that those comments be submitted to the board in writing however if the patron determines to verbally comment on those personnel issues the comments need to be civil and refrain from personal attacks insults defamatory or slanderous

207comments about an individual the board of education would like to make it clear that critical race theory is not part of the curriculum being used by canyon's school district there are no plans to incorporate it into the curriculum or instruction in canyon schools the board of education values input on all sides of issues to maintain decorum and respect we ask that those in attendance refrain from applause or other types of demonstrations during the patron comment time as well as throughout the meeting okay um this evening first we will hear from mindy timothy and then brad hamilton and then judy rohner hi i've never done this before so hi i usually teach 8th graders i actually teach in this district and i've taught in the same building for 17 years and so i was here when

208jordan was was where i was at and we had a seven period a day at that time and so i have taught both in a seventh period and a sixth period day and i wanted to address um or at least give you some talking points something to think about as you're trying to decide on your vote for that middle school schedule um i'm a science teacher and so i had found that the sixth period day extended my class period by 12 minutes and it made a big difference and and when we have our friday days i can't do labs on friday days because they're shorter and i can't there's just not enough time um this is just you know anecdotal my own experience but i've also heard from my colleagues i'm speaking from my big

209group the cea um you know colleagues who are also concerned about these kind of things although i'm sure for different subjects there's different reasons why they're concerned about it and one thing is that when we have a seven period day we we have less seat time with our students they also i'll have more students than i have so right now i have between 150 160 every year um but when we had the seven period day it was onwards 170 190 kids depending on the year and so there'd be more students less seat time and less planning time because our planning period would be less much shorter as well um again this is anecdotal this to my experience um but i have been told to say this and i i'm not a draper park middle school

210teacher but i've been asked to to remind that this when they first changed the schedule from a seven to six they had a focus group go out that had administrators and teachers and such and they decided with that focus group that really the best thing to do was to have the schools decide as an scc which was best for their school to do and because different schools had different needs depending on their demographic and the programs that they had at those schools um and then uh and uh five schools oh i i'm making up these numbers now this is not data i'm so sorry five i think five schools are on six period days and then i think two are not i'm middle school and so i've been asked to remind you that the scc

211at draper park middle school did not um okay this and they and this is not something that the sec has come up with or talked about or agreed to um i wasn't there so that was just i'm just the messenger um but i would like you to please consider these factors and more when you are trying to decide um if you want to vote to go to a seven period day that not all schools have the same needs and there are going to be major impacts at least in my classroom and many that i know of and i thank you for your time thank you um brad hamilton judy roner and then katie atkinson all right as you said my name is brad hamilton i'm an alta alumni and now father of three alto alumnis

212and i have one there now and two more to go over the next 10 11 years and i'm here to talk to you about the outer band room my daughter who's here with me she was one of the students who came to you early in the school year and brought this to your attention and brag about her a little bit you know she just graduated she's going to weber state to study in the health profession and she's paying for it with her good grades and with her oboe talent and so very proud and in the music program at alta is very near and dear to our heart and but here we are now at the end of the school year and we really haven't reached a final solution for for the banjo i know we've

213gone through a couple proposals and and frankly they've been a little shy of what needed to be done uh neither of them addressed the overall size enough for the for the for the band room um and so after the second proposal i kind of did what i think the architect should have done at the very beginning and i talked with the the staff the students even alumni uh of the program and said what would work what do we need and i compared it with other schools that we have in the district that have good band rooms and i basically rough draft a proposal and i've sent it to you you've seen it i know you're you're looking at it but i know it's running into a problem where it it needs to go out too

214far it's running into a water main i understand that's an obstacle but it's not insurmountable because if we don't do it right it's it's just gonna it's gonna fall short i work in a building right now that has a water main that runs through it and it can be done so i i would just ask that you you make it work we we we make this commitment to to do what's necessary to give them the music suite that they need the space they need the practice space the volume of space you know not just low ceilings but get it done for them so that we solve this problem and we don't make it faster and go on so when i talk about you know sensitive subject hard subjects i always like to use a little

215humor especially with my kids you know to lighten things up so as i thought of that i'm like what what what image can i give you in a humorous way to make you understand what the music program at alta has gone through and what they'll continue to go through if we don't fix this so i have i've gone back to tommyboy you've got a fat guy in a little coat this is what they felt like all year long they are crammed in that room they have to take their chairs out i'm not going to rip this by the way it's my sons they have to take their chairs out in the hall every time they've changed class their their their music stands have to go out in the hall and sometimes disappear and i have

216to do this to change my thing alter march out the instrument of music is the largest instrumental music program in the district and they have a room smaller than your new middle schools please give them the space they need and not delay thank you thank you okay um yeah judy roner and before you begin i just want to recognize i know you signed up just as judy rohner but she also serves in as a representative in our legislature for the heart of our area i just need to have some clarifications about that because when you talked about this you said you had to be a resident of the canyon school district i'm not my grandkids have went to alta i've been a former pta president i'm still i'm grandma judy to the band and to

217almost all those kids in that school so i feel like i'm part of at least a little bit of this district so would it be okay if i did talk yes thank you so much yes thank you i just want to kind of uh add to what uh he said you know you have a beautiful beautiful art center i've been there several times with community things it's absolutely the shining star of sandy utah and the canyon school district but we do need to remember that we are an educational institute and we need to take care of that first so please listen to brad and do something with this music program i encourage you to all to be just a little bit part of the band the arts program at alta high school and i'm grateful

218so grateful that the canyon school district supports the arts in education thank you thank you thank you thank you again thank you thank you for all you do for our community okay um katie atkinson a little bit taller thank you so much um for letting me address you this evening i sent all of you an email last week and i'm very grateful to the people that reached back out to me and gave your time thank you very much i'm on the scc at alta currently and indian hills i also served two years prior on altera's scc and as well as their pta president so i feel like i um this has all been during the pandemic so it's like a whole new uh you guys understand different challenges that we face i'm here tonight to

219address the schedule change that was made um kind of a one size fits all i think we can all agree that for elementary school we gotta keep the friday uh early outs it makes sense for children of that age uh i'm here to address and mostly to speak for my children at alta high uh you guys didn't ever really talk about alta high we are the only school in the district that has had a late start and we've done it for years and it's been highly successful happy staff members happy students and happy parents i come from during the pandemic i had an elementary school middle school high school students all three different schedules tuesday was different friday was late start and an early out in my family convenience as a parent that's kind of

220you know you got to do what's best for your students for your kids so i don't know did you guys ever hear complaints from our area no i didn't as an ssc member because that's what was best for the students at each phase you've taken away our late starts at the high school level on a tuesday let me tell you why that's important kids can go and take tests they can get sleep that they need for their mental health there are so many benefits to having it on a tuesday that i feel we're not ever seriously addressed it needs to be all the time every day would be great if we could have a late start but that one day you guys have taken away from us without any consideration and it's i'm really upset

221our scc tried to give our opinion alice peck i bless you for trying to put that straw poll together was not accurate i don't think most of the sdcs understand what you were asking and i think that it was not correct data for for this situation i feel like the decision was rushed i listened in on your meeting on what was to be done president tingey i heard you say let's reach out to the parents more than half the board also agreed so i thought awesome i will wait till that poll and i will know what's going on next thing i know i'm getting an email saying oh it's been passed what happened to that survey i heard one of the mails because i listened back to the recording on meetings that i missed say

222well you know parents really just don't like change well i'm here to tell you we have done our best through the pandemic just like everyone trying to make adjustments on change if it is best for the students i know the plc's are so super important alta has been doing them already on the high school level dr mcgill did a fantastic job implementing it there are more creative solutions out there you guys talked about bus schedule issues what about the comprehensive bus schedule study i still have heard nothing about that leon said yeah it would probably take six months why did you rush this decision you're gonna spend more money you're gonna create more problems i'm very frustrated that this was pushed through and i hope that you can reconsider this decision that you've made bless

223you and think about what is best for the high school students they are struggling with their mental health and if they are struggling with their mental health plc's don't matter bus schedules don't matter anything that's talked about in this room doesn't matter this is a way having late start at least one day to help with their mental health to help with our teachers who are struggling so desperately to try and communicate with each other so let's do what is best for the students on each level thank you thank you okay um that concludes our patron comments for this evening and we want to thank each of you that have taken the time to attend and to address the board we appreciate that next item is the consent agenda and i will ask for a motion

224on the consent agenda items and in making that motion please list each of the items i'd like to make a motion to prove the consent agenda item a approval of minutes from may 17 item b approval of minutes for may 24 c approval purchasing bids d of approval of student overnight travel and e approval of higher and termination reports thank you is there a second to the motion i will second that motion okay i'm sorry one thing he did one little discussion to the motion he did say approval of minutes for may 24th as 2020 instead of 2022. so slight correction okay a correction a correction on that i'll let that stand okay all right the motion has been corrected and is the person making the second good with the correction yes thank you okay

225so the motion has been placed and seconded and now any discussion to this motion see none i'll ask for a vote all in favor please say i i any oppose okay that motion passes thank you okay next on the agenda under item 9a draper park middle school day schedule proposals for the 23-24 school year this is a third reading action requested i'll turn the time over to superintendent robbins and cindy hansen from school performance thank you president before we get started i just want to recognize cindy for her work on this and i know you know we've spent a lot of time discussing schedules and especially at draper park but just the i think it's important that we recognize the amount of work and effort that she's put into this as our middle school director

226so i just want to tell her thank you publicly for all of her efforts and i we can go through the slides my thinking was maybe more none of the slides are new and so much as more of a q a if you want to do that or we can go through we can skim through the slides or whatever you feel is best i i think it would be good to just kind of really skim through them quickly just as a reminder and and put things in some context now it's going to say fancy meeting you here it's a shocker that i'm i'm here um okay so just our overview that it's six and periods uh sixth and seventh period schedules just those examples that we've seen in the past there was a question about

227um interventions that i'll talk about a little bit and then looking at the electives at both sixth and seventh period levels and kind of the common offerings at all the schools plus the registration cards are there and then the middle school arts and elective survey um so again this is just one of our common six period schedules they're all very similar in our five middle schools that have six periods um this is seven period of our three middle schools this is pretty much um except for a little bit of difference with their start and end times what that looks like the same kind of minutes per day or purse period this is an example of a seven period modified block that's actually at fort harriman middle school out in jordan district and then this i

228i don't know i i wasn't great at getting it big er and uh some of the minutes you'd want to tweet this if you were going to be posting this on a web page but this gives you an example if you took draper park and made it a modified block with their new bell schedule of 7 50 to 8 40. so it kind of just shows you there that you'd have the monday tuesday wednesday are the same and then the thursday and friday are a block so that's one example and then intervention time one of the questions when we very first started with our middle schools going to a sixth period day we identified priorities and one of the priorities that they came up with was giving more time for interventions and i think sometimes

229we think of interventions now as those more formalized classes like read 180 math 180 you know those different kinds of things where students who have scored below benchmark are then in these separate classes but i think as the schools think about the intervention term it's more about time to reteach to review to help students to support independent practice to get them ready for homework those kinds of things so that's what the sixth period day was designed to provide not a hard stop of okay we've done instruction now we're going to do intervention it was more embedded throughout their their time so that they were able to do those kinds of things that could help students in the learning process um now teachers on any schedule we would hope that they'd be doing those things as

230part of that instruction um but more serious intervention needs again have specific classes we've really increased those opportunities for students over the last nine or ten years since we had the the sixth period day implemented the seven period it's a shorter period there's no way around that so you will have less time for for re-teaching reviewing that kind of thing um there are things that the teachers still do that's part of what they do but there is less time in the day or in their individual periods um so these were all slides you guys had previously so just going through each middle school and what the elective choices looked like i did add draper parks because in the previous presentation i had we had multiple pages because it was specific about draper park so i

231just kind of condensed it here um so summary a lot of the same electives are offered in every middle school or versions of it sixth grade electives are primarily introductory courses getting them ready for those more advanced experiences they have usually fewer options seventh and eighth grade offer a lot more advanced and varied choices in their electives and all of the schools offer the state required electives the cca the health the digital literacy so when you look these were the most common areas and and that means that they had at least six and usually all eight of the middle schools offered a version of this class so band orchestra you can see the categories there seventh grade again many options once you get into visual arts or pe or band orchestra they had four or

232five or six different options within those categories and then eighth grade again very similar we did attach in a folder the registration cards for all the middle schools so if you had looked at those or wanted to look at those all eight of them are there six seven and eighth grade so you could see exactly what those courses look like in in every school and what's offered and then there's the middle school total art results and electives and draper parks so questions clarifications that you have um thank you yeah so board let's just take a minute if you have some clarifying questions um mrs arnold so on my vape my paperwork here i have albion butler eastman indian hills midbell mount jordan union that i don't have draper park so i don't know how many

233electives right now they're offering in sixth grade seventh grade and eighth grade theirs wasn't on the in the not in here apologize if it wasn't in the folder i thought we got a late well this doesn't help me those are the registrations that's those are all there so someone here though you have like um butler has 12 choices oh seventh grade has 30 choices and eighth grade has 32 choices i was just wondering where we were with rayford park with their sixth period day here it is how many choices so here's that um it was updated um as a request from board members so i don't know if it got uploaded [Music] i didn't have it on my paperwork so yeah so it just went through so in sixth grade they have 14 you know

234i just kind of counted all the electives not including cca they have that up in their required course um so that would give them one credit if their dli full year that's one credit cca is 0.5 so based on this data they have more electives in eighth grade than any other school in our district they have a lot of options yes they don't have more credits available to them some of the other seven period schools have two credits or two and a half credits of elective they can take because they have an extra period there but they have more offerings because they're the biggest middle school so they have a bigger staff and more choices that way so changing that to seven periods then what does that look like as far as choices because they

235already have more choices than any other school yeah i don't know if it would give them more like we'd be looking at at that when they register so a lot of those choices are determined by the registration and what who their staff is so they may not have more actual class choices it would depend but the students themselves would have an additional period of choice so they could take two and a half classes worth of elective instead of one and a half and then it would just depend on like i said with registration and the cards and the teachers um the number of class options they had does that help clarion did i answer okay let's see other other questions mr millerberg and then mr wrigley to me one of the main questions needs to

236be asked or needs to be answered is you know we talked about a what is it a 60 minute class versus a 50 minute class we're cutting 10 minutes out and i understand a teacher would have more time with a 60-minute class to present material what's the attention span of a seventh grader and can they handle that additional 10 minutes or do they start to lose it to around 50 minutes you know that my attention span is closer to 50 okay maybe 45. and i think that's one of those um it depends primarily on and i will speak as a 29-year veteran of teaching it it's a lot of it's about the the structure and the pacing of the classroom so if you've got a really engaging teacher and depending on their content if they're

237doing interactive kinds of things 60 minutes flies if if you're got a teacher who struggles or behavior issues 50 minutes can be a grind so i think it depends but you're right middle school kids they're busy and you do have to be on your game i mean you have to always be very cognizant of what what you're doing and how that works but um either period is is going to work i know interestingly the data i shared earlier across our district we didn't see big changes in data went from the schools who moved from six to seven like it wasn't like they they tanked all of a sudden because they moved to a seven period day and i i feel like arguably draper park middle school is the top school in the state of utah

238as far as testing is concerned right my heart tells me these kids are going to be okay with a sixth period day and they're going to be okay with a seven period day and they have amazing teachers and they have amazing teachers to support those kids and i don't think we're going to tweak the kids too badly either way mr wrigley so i'm trying to get to the heart of the question here draper park never complained well not as much as about the seventh the sixth period about the number of choices it's been the number of available choices that have been the case so in a six period class six period day in draper park in draper how many electives does a sixth grader have one one and if they're taking dli they have none

239unless they opt out of cca and then they would have a half let's go to eastmond and eastbound in a seven period day how many yummy periods electives does the seventh grader have a seventh grader or six a seven a sixth grader probably a sixth grader they have one credit but that's because at eastmont principal kurtz halls does some unique things where they she has pe and then they do she has all of her sixth grades in the avid elective so she requires some electives that you maybe wouldn't see so like with indian hills that's another seven period day their sixth graders have two okay so we'll get into seventh grade then at uh draper versus indian hills or whatever might that be yeah seventh and eighth grade both have one and a half credits

240um if they're a dli student in the language that's one if they opt into the culture or the literacy and culture class that's another 0.5 so they could use the whole 1.5 available in their dli path um at indian hills at indian hills you have they have two credits available to them so the biggest issue we're talking here with within especially within a dli program uh is that they have basically no in second thing beyond that dli and i think that's been the argument they've been asking for some additional time additional credits for the kids um yeah i know it's been back and forth we've had we've brought this to their fcc's and that we haven't really gotten anything clear then i get parents calling me and saying well that really wasn't right i mean

241it's amazing trying to come out with what's what's going on i have had kids in this district for years i've had them in the seventh period i've had them in the eighth periods i mean the seventh periods on the sixth i didn't have any difference academically for them as far as that extra time all of them graduated with bachelor's degrees i don't know i'm really sort of perplexed as to what you know what to do and that we hear i'm not sure what they want i mean like we were trying to get some good information and jeff we didn't get very many responses did we yeah we didn't get very much response to help us out in this in regards to that i mean we've had it over the period of time there's parents that

242want six and there's parents that win seven the fcc's currently said that they want six and they said that how long ago a couple years ago it was three years ago the last time they went through the process of looking at so well it will be three years in the fall so the scc could initiate something that's been brought back up again well yeah i mean you have parents who've still talked about it i don't think it ever went away in terms of concerns but the schedule's one piece of the big system you know so yeah i don't know if there's a solution this is going to make everybody happy is there i do not believe that you will find complete happiness with any choice at this point i'm just sort of feeling that the

243happiness is just not there because i think you would go seven some people want the six six because seven i guess the board needs to figure out what may be the best answer and that's a hard one to do too thank you thank you uh mrs nybauer thank you so i totaled up all of our responses and i also um also put it out there for anyone to eat uh message me and the running total i looked up on my phone as of the responses we have i have over 69 that want the seven periods i was on the sec steve when when that all went down and myself and susan edwards were in the media center counting votes and there was a few things first of all a community over time can also change

244but the other part of that is there was never a survey between six and seven at that point it was a survey between six and eight period so we aren't looking at the same question um and then also and there there were a lot of pieces to that um you know there was a lot of campaigning and things like that and so you know from the responses that i have received it is well above the majority that are interested in the seven period i do i have heard from patrons this year who have moved their kids over to indian hills and summit so that they can have more electives for their kids not all of those patrons who've done that have dli kids they just actually wanted more electives so i know a lot of

245times we characterize this as just a dli student issue but i i think it reaches a broader audience than that i think that when you have a neighboring school that has a seven period day and has a little more flexibility some people just find that you know more attractive i think whenever we can have self-guided learning and the kids feel like they're able to explore and they get to decide a little more about what their day looks like i think we we find higher levels of engagement and i think that's true with children and adults that as we as we take more of an active role um you know whether we're participating in a conference and we're deciding which classes to go to having a little more choice is nice the other thing i've heard

246from patrons i was just talking to a family who's a big music family and this mother said i don't want to opt out of the state required classes i want my kids to take college and career awareness i want my kids to take health but because they also want to do music and language we've had to choose and so i think that becomes an issue too um currently a lot of those kids that are taking electives are opting out and then of course we also do know that 29 of the school this last year opted out of first period for sleep so then we have another another issue with the schedule so and that's all i want to say for now hey um any other questions on this information yeah we're just kind of doing

247questions now do i see any other questions i have one question uh yes mrs oakes so do we have any data on intervention because i know that was originally part of why we went to the sixth period was to address that my understanding is that that's not always happening and um that it's supposed to you know help kids that are struggling and also to help advance kids that that need additional help my experience with my four kids that have gone through draper park kind of reflects that and i'm just wondering whether or not any data has ever been collected on that not that i'm aware of and i think because it didn't it wasn't like a a hard set time where we're going to shift things it was more embedded in you know this is

248how teachers best instruction best practice we're going to do these things so i don't i don't think there's i mean i've never seen data to say beyond just what's our tier one instruction looking at the overall achievement of the students but i don't know that you tease out whether those interventions or those pieces what part of it would reflect the intervention versus just best practice versus those other kinds of things so another question i have i know this year and i don't know if it's because of the lower enrollment we've had um at draper park middle there's been a split team like one of the conversations we've had before is we can't leave the sixth period because that's the only way we can do teaming but i'm curious if whether or not seven period would

249help address that problem like based off of the numbers if we could actually do away with the split grade team or not yeah the the split team um came because the numbers were so large so it was a way to accommodate the rising numbers that were there and one of the things um i don't remember which which presentation now but when we talked about the fte piece this that seven eight split this was when we were talking about if it went to next year you know they'd have to kind of float some teachers and try to work through to maintain those assignments because it really wouldn't carry a whole another team won't carry in a seven period day with the current numbers so as if they moved into that you know in another year then

250they would be looking at that as part of their master schedule and shuffling some different kinds of things okay i miss a show so my question goes along with amanda's and if if they switch to a seven period day will there still be time for teaming because i know the teaming piece was really big in the decision for the sixth grade to begin with yeah that what happens in the teaming often in the seven period um and they'll have you know they'd have more time to to do it than trying to hurry it but um with the teaming at least in my experience it unless your numbers are exactly right like at indian hills the seven period was like the sweet spot for their enrollment numbers where they could have really exactly aligned teaming numbers

251um but if your numbers are off a little bit excuse that so often what happens is you'll have core teachers that need to pick up electives because there's not enough to fill a full schedule of core like they currently have in a six period day so electives are able to expand maybe offer another class or section but they also if they have a struggling program sometimes the elective teachers struggle to fill a full schedule as well so you end up kind of with those questions where you maybe have to drop fte and that's when there's sometimes teachers who have to be ot but typically the core teachers will teach an elective in their subject area so they maybe have a stem concepts class in science or they teach debate or creative writing or something like

252that in english but they're still on their teams but they also have electives as well so it's not quite as tidy thank you other questions another question mrs nybar okay question this time actually two of them the first is i know seven periods makes a little smaller class size for the teachers right because there's more sections added that was something in your presentation so um doesn't that isn't that favorable for intervention to have just a little a better ratio that way as far as because are you talking about the intervention classes no i'm just talking about in a regular classroom when you need a portion of the students that aren't getting it and you need reteaching i know in your presentations it just showed that the class size goes slightly down with the seven period

253because there's more sections open right so what um so the individual class size goes down the overall teacher class load right up right um so grading all of that has a problem but yes in the day-to-day teaching if you have a smaller class you're often able to to do more to manage more effectively to get so that every student has more opportunity to get help that kind of thing it's hard in a class of 38 or 39 to right personalize you know versus a 28 or 29 but great thank you for that and then my second question is what do you feel like is i i know you said it's kind of a numbers game with indian hills with the teaming and then what would happen at draper park but have we looked at all

254what teaming would look like with the seven period day given draper park's numbers yeah so they they put together kind of a rough idea of what a seven period would look like previously to give us kind of a sense of how it would impact their fte so so we know that um dr watts had said they would lose four teachers so there would be four teachers gone if unless they you know kind of floated them or had some more come into six sixth grade different kinds of things where they were going to try to keep them so they said four core teachers would most likely need to have a ot and then we'd probably be picking up three or four teachers in the electives depending on what was offered and what the kids signed up

255for um so they so they've looked at that they will keep their team so they'll still be able to have you know two teams per grade all of that will be the same it's just that right now the core teachers teach you know they basically have one prep so they have just seventh grade math science social studies english where you may have a team where you have the english teacher also has one section of debate the science teacher has one section of something else so and depending you know on what those options are but when you have struggling elective programs then it's it's hard because they've got to fill a whole nother section and you're trying to to increase that as well so so we until we get their numbers and we actually know how

256many students there will be you know we won't know for sure but that was what their projection was just looking at kind of a a quickly assembled seven period mr wrigley had another question just a quick question on that a lot of our schools that are sixth period with dli we're putting additional fte in to make that work uh and there's some problems on scheduling because of fte and trying to the scheduling of the dli programs and all the matching going to a seventh period are we going to be able to save you on fte and is it easier to schedule a seven period fte i mean schedule a seven period dli program than it is at six um the fte is allocated by student numbers and as part of the formula that um steve

257diamond has there's a specific little piece that we use for f for dli to give some extra amounts so so that isn't going to change no matter what schedule you're on and same with your fte that's always going to be just about your student counts and then those formulas so the dli piece beyond what it already impacts won't change on a seven versus a six so is it it doesn't make any difference on scheduling between because i know there's such a real problem on the dli in a six period is there any easier on a seven period dli program as far as moving the classes around and scheduling because they had a hard time saying you only have so many classes and well the main the main thing is what we what we see sometimes

258is if there's not enough like we've looked at some of the numbers at draper park and they're pretty low in some of those sections and so then you run into the problem if now that teacher needs a whole another period do they still need two full-time dli teachers or do they have to have that dli teacher teach something besides dli to fill a schedule so those would be kind of the concerns for the dli classes in terms of scheduling your the students are just going to have more opportunities they'll just be another period but it could cause some problems for the teachers if their numbers are dropping okay thank you for sharing that information so and answering all those questions i appreciate that okay mrs oaks would like to make a comment and then board

259members if anyone else would like to make comments so i have somebody next to me just saying go ahead and make a motion but there are a few things i do want to say first i want to thank um some of my fellow board members for encouraging us to give more time for public input between last board meeting and today i think that was wise and i feel like it was really helpful to hear back from people's perspectives and to give the public additional um time to be able to share with us their thoughts about things um there i also have thoughts with regard to some of the concerns that teachers have have brought up about the fact that we just condensed a little bit of the school day and and now this is going

260to cut down more into their time and i can totally appreciate that concern i do think that we could help um that situation slightly by um doing a modified schedule um because it does decrease how much passing time is is wasted because you have less passing time in between um thursday and friday um that's just my thought and the other thing is with fellow board members and i saying that we are interested in having a comprehensive bus study i over the next year i do think that there would be potential time for us to look at if we are indeed going to have the elementary start earlier and the middle school start lady that perhaps we can make that adjustment with those 20 minutes put back in and to be able to readjust and give

261those teachers a bit more time um there are a number of things that i have thought about with regard to this issue i've i've laid my thoughts out and from the overall perspective i still stand by those points i don't want this to be a question of us not valuing teachers there are teachers at play in this that are impacted either way um there are elective teachers and are very impacted by this situation my thought is you know as a board we part of our role is to look at the overall picture and make sure systems are working and when you lose one teacher because of a schedule and difficulty and being able to support a program that's unfortunate when you lose a second for the same reason it feels like an anomaly when you

262have lose a third it becomes a pattern and we've now lost five and it is impacting things at the high school level i just had um a friend over the weekend who used to be a big strong supporter of the sixth period schedule her kids are not in dli but she has a daughter who one of the only things she's interested in and gets her up to go to school is to play the bass electric and string bass and she was so excited to be able to play in the jazz band at corner cannon this year and for the first time they have not been able to have a second jazz band because they don't have enough enrollment and so dr clark had to tell her i would have loved to have you but i

263simply don't have another band i can put you in because there was already somebody with more seniority and she was devastated that's an example of a kid that is being impacted even though initially maybe at the middle school level she didn't think she was being impacted if that makes sense um arts are part of the the core and we've just spent a lot of time in our in our round table discussion talking about the importance of hands-on learning and arts and this brings me to um my next point well first of all um i have a lot of parents saying to me and this was part of the feedback i got over the last two weeks is if we are going to have more electives we want to make sure they're really quality electives that

264they're not just more of the same we want we do want stem we do want some of these other things i took the time to look up another middle school in a different district in the state that granted this is a 10 it's a 5x5 bottle so it's a 10 period model but the kind of electives they had blew my mind and i'm just going to read some of these out and so i want us to think a little bit about this based off of the conversation we just barely had in the study session and art you have the typical things but they get into specifics like illustration painting they not only have cca classes but they have cca classes on business on technology in industries they have coding one and two they have robotics

265one and two they have creative writing myths and legends reading for enrichment now when we talk about intervention they have all sorts of intervention classes for kids because there's room in their schedule to be able to do that they have gifted and talented classes they have honors and college prep options they have every kind of band and orchestra you can imagine every kind of coral you can imagine boys advanced basketball boys events sports skills um boys sports training girls sports training dance fitness social dance i mean the list kind of goes on and on and on they even have ancient civilizations for greece and rome they have stem 1 and stem 2 where they go over engineering design and i also exploring different fields of engineering in my mind i don't feel like we can

266really get to where we need to go and the end goal of these kids taking classes like computer science being ready to be able to to go into those fields that are waiting for them unless we're starting earlier and so i this is my home thing i i really feel like if we're going to do seven periods but we don't take a deeper look at what kind of electives we're offering and and what kind of quality they're really offering the student then it will have been in vain um and this is my last point is i think it's important at the end of the day to remember first and foremost who the customer is in all of us and that's our students and i feel like in that arts and elective survey they they really

267shared with us loud and clear that their arts and electives are very important to them it's a large percentage of kids and their open-ended responses i think about all the time about how much it does for them so i'm going with that in mind i'm going to go ahead and make a motion um and then we can have obviously discussions in motion but i'd like to move make a motion to move draper park middle school to a seven period schedule for the 2023-2024 school year oh okay a motion is an order a motion has been made is there a second i'll second that okay we have a motion and a second and now um discussion to the motion um mrs nybauer so is your motion for a traditional seventh period or modified my personal preference

268would be a modified schedule but i i don't know whether or not that's our place as a board to determine that for the school or if we leave that up to them i just think if we're making a motion i want to be clear of what it's what it is so okay well i mean we haven't really had much discussion about the preference from the board about whether or not i can get a pulse from you like i said that would be my preference i think it makes more sense in part because i will say this with a modified schedule it gives each of these teachers an opportunity at least once a week to be able to have a deeper dive like to do a lab or do something more extensive that allows them more

269time and flexibility within that class time and so they're not losing that completely they get that at least once a week so so if i can just clarify um would you restate your motion um okay i'm just going to keep it as it is and i kind of feel like in the next well okay let me clarify so i'd like to make a motion to move draper park middle school to a seven period schedule for the 2023-2024 school year and request that the school's administration begin right away to determine which seven period schedule would best suit their community i will second that okay um and now we'll have discussion to the motion and i will ask the maker of the motion to keep in mind what the motion is because i will ask you to

270restate it at the at the end of discussion okay now um now discussion to this motion is there discussion okay um i do have a little bit of discussion um i am i'm willing to support this motion and um in doing so i just wanted to make clear that i see this that the proposal was was generated at the local level and i want to just reiterate my support for the fact that each school community is unique and it has the things that works for them and i feel like um i don't want that to get lost in all of this work and this effort the board has taken this one up um which is which is our prerogative it is our right and um to do so but i um i feel like six

271periods seven period modified there's no one is better than another each of those schedules has strengths and each of those schedules have challenges and i feel like i feel like it's important to recognize that and um you know while just looking through this comparison of elective offerings and elective and and openings or opportunities right to try and distinguish that um that that i mean it it it varies even even amongst you know six period schools and seven period schools and and i feel like um like to just flat out say one is better than the other discounts the work and the investment and the things that are happening at the local school level but like i said that being said i think a lot of work and community input has happened here this is um

272probably something that hopefully i hope is successful for draper park i hope it it resolves some of the issues that they've identified in that community and i hope it does help build and strengthen some of the things and the programs and the things that are important to that community so i just i just wanted to state that for the record that i still very much believe in in the value of having these discussions that are geared towards meeting the needs and of a individual school community so any other comments um let's see mr wrigley and then mrs shell this issue has come before the board numerous times over the several years um almost every single time we've talked about the arts and the effect that the sixth period has on corner canyons and their program

273in the music program i'm hoping if we move forward with this that there will be students that will choose to go into music programs and allow quarter canyons who has state of the art and everything else to have enough students to continue to have a strong music program and not uh demise as we may hear it it's going to happen with the current session so i'm hoping if that's the case when you do having an offshoot that we will get a stronger music program uh coming out of this because there will be what every day pretty much one period music for 45 minutes plus it makes it where you don't have to pick between music and something else you could actually play an instrument and still have an elective and if you can be in

274the dli program and still have a elective to be in a music program or arts program that you don't have to choose between because that's the other issue on the dli i mean the dli is a fantastic program but it's made it difficult on the students to choose a dli program which maybe their parents want them to have and to have some electives which maybe they want to have and this allows a win-win both for the student and for the parents they can continue with the dli program because i know in some of our schools the dli program is at somewhat at risk because the kids by that time say i want to do something else so maybe this will help shore up our dli program perhaps also thank you mr schill um so i

275i just want to point out um some things that other members have said that i agree with um i just want us to remember that draper park as someone said in our last meeting was like the perfect storm because they had the early out they have 400 kids that are off i mean they literally out sorry they had the early start time which made 400 kids opt out which then affects the electric program so um i do think i mean i think that this is good for us to change like i'm happy with that decision i i want to do i said this in the last thing i want to do what the draper park community wants to do and they have for years basically been asking for this so and we've also talked about

276this multiple times this year if you go back on the cutter if you go back and look at board docs we've been talking about this for like six months basically it feels like that so march 15th was my yeah it's a memorable it's almost at every meeting so so anyway i do feel like we've gotten input i think this is what the community wants this is what both board members support that represent that area so i'm i am in favor of it um i i do want this to also remember though going on what steve said is that survey of students music is way down the list they don't they don't want music basically music is way down on the list of electives so we have to realize that that may it may not be

277the schedule that's killing the program okay there's other things students want more i mean they want the visual arts that was number one and i can't remember the other ones but but music is down p.e and facts oh yeah in fact yeah you're right thank you thank you for reminding me but so we just have to realize that and the other thing i want to say is just what nancy said like i think there's really good things about the sixth period day as well as the seven and each community is different and if a community doesn't want to change i do not want us to force them to change thank you further discussion to the motion nope okay see no further discussion to the motion we'll call for a vote and but oh before i

278call for a vote please yes would you please restate the motion the maker of the motion so the motion is to move draper park middle to a seven period schedule for the 2023-2024 school year and request that the school's administration begin right away to prepare for that and determine what kind of seven periods schedule would best support the school community and i second that okay so the motion has been restated and and the second is has re-seconded so with that i will i will call for a vote all in favor say aye aye any opposed okay that motion passes thank you and and thank you to the administration we realized that this was a big ask for information as you mentioned over the course of a couple of her three months so and as well

279as along along the way so thank you okay um we now move to item 10 on the agenda and board members so yeah i'll give the instructions here okay board members under utah state law it's our responsibility to adopt a budget that will govern the district's revenues and expenses for the fiscal year beginning july 1st 2022 and ending july 30th 2023 we will also be asked to adopt a final budget for the current year that will the current fiscal year that will be ending on june 30th 2022. this portion of the meeting will proceed as follows in a moment i will ask for a motion and a second to open a public hearing we will then have a presentation by leon on the budget following his presentation we will take public comments following the comments

280i will ask for a motion and a second to close the public hearing the board can then discuss the budget and ask further questions we will then conduct a vote to adopt the final 2021-22 budget and the budget for 2223 2022-23 we will take a separate vote for each budget so now um i will ask for a motion to open the public budget hearing i will make a motion to open the public hearing for the budget okay thank you is there a second to the motion i'll second in thank you we have a motion and a second any discussion to the motion scene done i'll call for a vote all in favor say aye any opposed okay that motion passes the hearing um is the budget hearing is open and now i'll turn time over

281to mr leon wilcox for the presentation thank you president we just like to formalize that this is a public hearing where the public can participate there's only a couple requirements as we hold more means throughout the year a tax hearing or a budget meeting where that has to occur so we just want to formalize that uh you guys have been here a long today it's been a long day here okay so we want to go through this really really fast we've gone through most of this over the last couple meetings uh we sent this out i sent this out to you a few weeks ago when it was when we had it prepared it's been posted on our website for the last couple weeks as well has to be out there for 15 days before

282you can adopt it so it's been out there that long we've gone through what the process will be just we don't want to spend a whole lot of time updating you on this year's budget we do need to clarify a couple of things as we close out this year uh you can see there what our original revenues were you approved a year ago and what we're asking you to approve tonight as well as our expenses both of those have gone up quite a bit you know six percent or about 20 million each any pretty much an even amount keep in mind the revenues increase from the essers but we didn't know about a year ago at this time yesterday was just still coming through to us to mistake we also got a ecf grant for

283chromebooks for four million dollars we had state carryovers and our collections from the basic rate on our property tax a little bit higher than that and for the expenses gone up again for the chromebooks for the curriculum the 95 percent the one there's we've also had inflationary costs on fuel and more costs on fuel that's been a big hit and then the bonus to employees in march again on our capital fund revenue is about the same but a little bit higher on the bonds that we issued in the premium again on the expenses it's these big bomb projects it's always hard to determine what when the costs occur uh versus when you know when we budget it when it occurs again there's a hard stop on june 30th so work before then is when one

284year work afternoons in another year and you determine when the work is done so they're all within that budget that we've said it's just you know the timing of the work there uh and so there's also we had unspent carryovers that we carried into the budget and that schools have great equipment of about 2.8 million that made up the bulk of that change there on our capital budget so that's all we we have for the this year's revised budget again hitting this year's budget lots and lots of numbers there you can see it when you someone asked what is our budget be that bottom number on the expense side it's about 526 million that's you know one of the top 20 industries in the state is is kenyan school district you can see and then

285all what we do is the buckets or the funds where this is broken out of here uh i want to go over our biggest fund by far and away which of course the general fund that's our operations fund no budget there is 347 million i i may hold this up a couple times this is the book that's out on board docs uh and not on our website you can see the page numbers there as well you can see where our revenues come from a big chunk from 40 percent is from property taxes the state unrestricted of the wpu funds would be the 25 percent state restricted that be for special ed or uh cte ap concurrent things like that also about 25 and then federal is fairly high with what their s are spending there

286as well expenses again this is the activity or what we call the function we want as much going to the blue as possible that's instruction teachers in front of our parents that's what we that's what our strategic plan is based on right is that so one is much in that bluer area going around clockwise facilities that's a big one that's our maintenance and custodians but also our utilities so that's a big chunk of that the staff would be our [Music] has increased because that's our coaches but also the 32 hours of professional development that each teacher got this year in the legislature that's not yellow school admin student services that's our counselors psychologists social workers central b payroll human resources public relations i.t the big one there and then transportation district office the activity i

287mean going down one more level to be what we call the object again it's all people right education is people salaries and benefits make up the far away the bulk of that you can see the other items there but it's always been that way roughly that 88 going to people again all this is numbers but it's important to realize what's behind the numbers right so it's all these and many others just i think the biggest ones would be the the sort of the negotiation agreements uh that we've gone over last two meetings in may adjustment to the salary schedule for the esps to get trying to attract more and retain more of our hourly esps again class sizes staying the same we do have a cushion of the 30 that we that we distributed based

288on this equity model that we've been working on and we'll bring more of that to you this upcoming year uh then essers for online and support services again a big one is that 32 hours of of uh paid professional professional leave for i mean development not leave but development for all our teachers of course full day kindergarten at seven of the elementary schools that we've talked about many other things there the the coaching increases in the coaching and the activity stipends also a big one there here's where we again we go over this every every year we always overestimate our expenses i mean our revenues i mean underestimate our revenues long day underestimate our revenues and overestimate our expenses we always show that we're going to deficit spend we do feel like we're balanced here

289there's a couple of transfers that we may have to look at uh one we made because of construction costs we've talked about to complete all our projects having a transfer up to about 8 million 4 million next year and 4 million and 24 to our capital fund to finish all those out and then also one of the things that we can do that would like that we our budgeting to do is any leftover revenues in our debt fund we can move that in for technology purposes as well so all that you can see our indian found balance we're budgeting to be around 65 million we do expect it to be much higher than that again as we do this conservative budgeting process we as we said in that first bullet we're typically one to three

290percent under budget on our expenses that's you know a budget that large couple percentage points is a fairly substantial amount uh here's how we break that out again our fund balance is so important how it's categorized what we can do with it uh inventories is the smallest amount that's just items in the warehouse that are committed would be what we've set aside for our retirees under the old jordan gasby or opec plan we can set aside five percent of our expenses for an economic stabilization then we so that mounts up to about 35 million then we have assigned carryovers for buildings supplies and other things like that so again a pretty good fund balance you know again we've been in that mid 70s range and we hope to be there as well as we go

291on hitting our capital fund you know this is actually it's about 57 million that's about the last several years it's been well over 100 million because we've done hillcrest brighton alta uh all the elementary so it's about less getting less than half of what it was most of that 57 million is going to or about 40 percent will be going to finish up union middle the school rebuild there you can see it was still about 10 million to finish up glacier peruvian hillcrest just to give you a quick update on those it's been such a a struggle rebuilding those two schools with all the chain supply chains issues that we've had with steel and now we have it with concrete there's one plant in delta utah that supplies about 70 percent of the concrete to

292the construction projects along the wasatch front that has been closed down for about a month now and it will be closed down for another week or two because they just cannot get the powder that makes the concrete so instead of getting one truck a week which i mean we need about one truck a day at caribbean and glacier to finish it up we get about one truck a week of concrete and that's really been impactful much rather have it be concrete powder than baby powder but still but it's been been a problem there so uh but uh supposedly june 15th that will lighten up that will plant will reopen we are still planning on having glacier again ribbon cutting the 11th first day of school on the 15th we're still planning on being in there

293peruvian park as we said would be sometime later in september they need a lot more concrete than glacier hills does so that could go that could get into the first part of october we're afraid of what's the problems we're having there here are some other smaller items that we're doing most of these are underway the bout a baseball field is underway the diamond ridge remodel is underway you approved offices on the consent agenda for corner canyon as well as the track is underway they're about halfway done with the carpet at lone peak and about a quarter of the way down that carpet view on the carpet already so you can see other items that we'll be doing school buses uh you've ordered those we're still waiting on buses that we ordered last year so it's

294just a challenge there it's important to note that this is really in our capital this is the one that's really keeping me awake is that our this is our pinch point as we complete all these projects we knew we'd draw down our fund balance and it's going to get down around four and a half million which is really small and then it starts building back up if you look at our forecast but uh but you know we've promised these projects we've got to go through it and get them done it costed more than we expected because of inflation that's not something that we'll have to closely monitor as we move forward this year uh debt service again it's about 45 million paying off these bonds uh there's a quick summary of our debt you know

295i i have to say about a year ago a couple years back it was about 480 million you know a year from now we'll have it down about 393. we did save quite a bit of money so thank you for the board from doing these uh refundings that we did earlier this year but you can see that's still up for a district this size and we're a big district but that's still a big uh debt number out there but we do have a pretty rapid pay down of it you can see it there the big news is the jordan debt falling off the religious institution i belong to prohibits any type of embedding on alcohol but i may on june 15th i may ask for a one-day waiver uh i have that's when it will

296be retired uh this has been 13 years in the waiting for me so we'll just leave it at that but you can see it's pretty rapid so it will no longer be it will no longer be on the uh it will no longer be on the tax statements but you can see our payment has actually increased with these refundings you know it's kind of like as we talked about uh going from a 20-year mortgage down to a 15 you pay it off after but usually your monthly payment goes up right and that's what we've done here our payment was around 40 to 43 million we've started we've increased that up to 45 starting next year so you can see that but then it starts dropping off there in 30 and we'll probably do some more

297refundings in the meantime but you can see it's a pretty rapid uh paydown of our debt there some other funds again a big one is the free lunch waiver not extending next year we've talked about that those are the prices for lunch and breakfast that you approved as a board a couple years ago but you know before the waivers kicked in we'll have to reinstate those compared to what lunch is at a fast food restaurant right now those are pretty good deals uh and again we've talked about that this because of the labor shortage with clerks in our in our cafeterias we're going to request that all payments beyond made online through skyward that's something that we've done we think that would be pretty seamless moving forward inflation costs on food though that's a everybody

298feels that right and that's one thing we're feeling too other issues the act the fee schedule we do a lot of that in february and march to have that done by april 1st uh we've also passed you through taxes to cdas charter schools you can see what we've done in the past years and what we're scheduled to do this upcoming year and a big one is 35 million for insurance claims that's up quite a bit again that's another big inflationary cost is on anybody no everybody knows that for the medical in the medical field that's been a a big one uh want to talk about home values and property taxes just to finish up so you can see you know everybody's has neighbors who put their home up for sale and it's gone for fifty

299thousand over asking price this last year right so that really is a you can see our average home value a year ago again it's based on january 1. so our average home on january 1 2021 and throughout the district was 497 000. this year january 2022 it's gone up 152 30 percent to 649 thousand that's that's the average and you can see each city there each of our municipalities i mean all four of them including in white city and the county pretty much all in that range right there okay so that's a big jump in home values see the number of homes 58 000 that are on the district rules right now so that's a big number i want to say that as we go to these next couple slides talking about property taxes we

300always say home values go up the rate goes down right and so you can see our rate we haven't got the certified rate yet we do expect that probably maybe later this week probably no more next week but uh you can see our rate is expected to go under even under that triple zero six we've never we've only been once under the triple zero seven so we're going way down but again home values have gone way up so you can see what we're proposing as rates they're not finalized yet but that's what we're looking at again you can see it's important to look at the csd debt and the jsd debt the gst debt going off cst debt more of that's being rolled on you know trying to maintain a net uh a neutral impact

301as we roll that dead on okay that was always part of the deal there again we talked about rate going value's going up rate going down i wanted to spend a minute here this is the last slide before the motion uh on the your property tax statements this is what i think i'm getting kind of concerned about as these will go out on before july 22nd or around that date and that is again the value again i'm just using the average home going up that hundred and fifty two thousand so it's going up thirty percent for that hundred fifty two thousand that the property tax goes up about twelve percent or 226 dollars what is worries me is that top line that i mean the second line that's somewhat highlighted in red or light red

302and that's that state basic rate we don't control that that is floored at a 16. so it has to be at least that then they add on what they call a weighted unit value which is part of the tssa so that rates may not drop and you can see you know this average home is going to pay 130 if this holds right there again most of it is in that state basic rate levy so i'm not sure what this state's going to do about that this is the last year of the five-year what they call the floor levy if you guys remember on the legislature on that this is the last year they actually had a bill proposed to do away with it this year maybe they should have but uh this is that is

303a concern for me because when people see that they may you know i don't think the other lines offset much but that one does stick out so uh i just want us to be aware that we'll have if they come out with any information we'll let you certainly pass that on to you but that's uh that is a concern but again everybody's home has gone up a tremendous amount as well so uh here are the motions or possible actions improving the final budget for revenues and expenses for each fund as presented for this current year for 22. and then adopt motion 2 adopt the 2022-23 budget for revenues and expenditures for each fund as presented along with the tax rates as follows set the tax rate at the certified rate as calculated by the state

304tax commission authorizing revenue budget adjustments to reflect funds received from the certified tax rate set the state basic rate that's one we're i'm a little concerned about at the rate determined by the uspe when we receive it and then set the debt rate to generate sufficient revenue to pay the debt but not to exceed uh zero zero one five six five we should be well below that that's the rate we promised our citizens when we passed the 2017 bond that we would never exceed that rate so with that i don't know if we have any public comments but we'll turn up back to you yes okay thank you uh mr wilcox um i have been told that no one has signed up to speak as part of the budget hearing i just want to see

305if that is true just kind of looking at folks in the room here if anyone was intending on addressing the board about the budget okay so seeing that we have no public comments we need to have a motion and a second to close the public hearing and then the board can discuss and take action on the budgets so i will ask for a motion to close the public hearing the public budget hearing i will make a motion to close the public budget hearing thank you is there a second i'll second it thank you we have a motion and a second any discussion to this motion scene none i'll call for the vote all in favor please say aye any opposed okay the budget hearing is closed so now board we have opportunity to discuss and

306then following discussion um i will ask for motions um to take action on both of the budgets so is there any discussion to this item on our agenda mr wrigley i've got a couple questions that frequently get asked the federal side of our budget's about eight percent is that correct i have people say that if we got out of the federal budget we couldn't just get out of it wouldn't have to do all the federal requirements what is about eight percent of our budget we're talking excuse me but this year it's about 25 million it's a substantial amount 25 that would mean major changes to yeah most of that is in this year three areas essers which we'll have you know two years up next this year and next year 20 23 and 24. another

307big part is the idea yeah that's because that's the next frequently that maybe just opt out but that's a that's a that's a huge amount of that it's also title one so and then title one as well we got cut quite a bit in that but that's still a big big chunk we've got to all these would impact students who need it the most so the other the other question i get asked is is the district administration if i read that right we're about 0.909 is our administrative costs just under one percent under one percent is our administrative cost for the district then as far as and that's the state office administrators or well that would be the the you know that would be what we consider district administration okay that would be you know

308rick and and you guys are part of that district not very big so uh yeah that's and the other the other question is this year um bus fuel is going through the roof what will impact will it have on our next budget coming in in 23 20. we're budgeting about 200 000 more you're already putting it about 200 000 worth of bus busing and the final question uh based upon the tea leaves are going on what's it looking like for the budget after this is that the year we're gonna really get yet we're looking for some major cuts and stuff well again it's i think rick has addressed this a lot i have that 2024 is when the essence goes and that's the big one when we really need to look at contracting you know

309we've been living off some of that as we've tried to support our students the best we can you know they have mental health issues academic issues intervention issues and trying to help support that is the big one so i think another big thing is just inflation you know inflation for our employees so we're trying to support them the best we can and then just inflation for us everything so the only thing that doesn't cost more right now is costco chickens we found out they're still 4.99 everything else is that's everything else is so it looks like next year's budget and we don't buy a whole lot of costco tickets either it looks like uh next year's budget is going to be tight and perhaps the budget yeah and a lot of it's going to be

310dependent on the state legislature how they want to we appreciate representative roener coming and the support they give us is going to be their views on this you know whether that's the difference when the fed's wpu increased but when inflation is going eight or ten percent yeah it's a big that's a big i thank you for all you've done on this this is a huge budget people don't realize that this is a large corporation and and also thank you i just want to give one big last thank you to gary he'll be leaving us but i will miss him he's been so helpful putting together our budget and closing out a year i will really miss him come august as we're closing all year and he's up fishing in alaska so uh thank you so

311much he's going to text me some pictures yeah big thank you to gary all right thank you mrs shield and mrs nybar so um we had that well the two patrons come and talk about the outside band room and like are we budgeting it all for that i didn't really see that but i know that you're working on it so i'm just kind of wondering is there money to help with that situation what we've done is we've met uh we met out there a couple weeks ago and walked through with the architects and some engineers on what we can look at when we've asked the band teacher to give us till august to come up with some preliminary plans nothing will really be in effect for next school year we are going to make the

312driver's head room bigger so they can store equipment in there i don't know if you're familiar with where the driver's at is room is but right next to the band room uh to make that a little bit more storage but we do think we have a plan to possibly work and review i don't think you have anything construction wise until later next school year and then hopefully it be in operating by the summer of fall fall of 23. yeah okay yeah we do appreciate the patrons who've come and addressed us that we know that that's a issue it's under a huge band you know we'd love it 120 plus students and so yeah we want to make sure it hasn't supported this okay this is nybar and then mrs oakes on slide 26 you outlined

313that there was an 11.8 percent increase what is the total percentage of their property what was it before that because this just shows the increase percentage you know what i'm saying yeah i think oh you probably can't call back a slide julie could you go back one slide just to the page so what it is is again it's the 225 dollars okay which is last year this home would have paid 1910 okay and now it's going to go up if this holds again i want to emphasize this is not final but if this holds it would go up 225 dollars which is 11 okay okay cool thank you for that clarification and then also would would we consider when when people get this adjustment if there's somewhere online where we can kind of show what's

314happened with their property value we'll probably get some questions if there's somewhere they can navigate online because you know that one that's set that we don't adjust right the state one and so maybe if if when people get this because this is gonna probably be noticeable if there's a place on the website where they can go to why have my property taxes increased and they can see that a lot of it has to do with their home value increasing and then we don't touch the state i think that might be helpful okay and then one other question i had is you know how because of the labor shortage we're going to have we're only going to accept school lunch payments online can we have like a big banner come august when parents uh register their

315kids for school so they're aware of that and then also phone calls sent out as a reminder in that first day there's probably a lot of kids that just bring cash actually not you know nobody's done that last two years but uh before that there wasn't a whole lot well well the last two years it's been suspended it's been free we had some but not right or more i'm just thinking that maybe maybe good communication on that would be helpful mrs oakes um and follow up to the outside high bedroom um first of all i really appreciate those patrons coming and sharing with us i love the fat guy in a little coat um i do think that it definitely feels like that one when i went over and i looked at their band room

316i understand why they're concerned they have a legitimate concern um leon i know that you talked about different options i'm wondering when you come forward with that if you can give us price comparison like you know a couple different options maybe two or three what it would look like and and how much we would be looking at just so that we can make you know a judgment as a board like you know would it be worth it to go and deal with the water main or is it too cost prohibitive the water main may not be an issue right now so uh but we'll give us give us a couple months and has mr shabastar is he being kept in the loop and what we needed to look at is structurally and mechanically about this

317adjustment going out and that's where we're at right now and i told him it'd be august when we could bring in some preliminary plans and then get his input as we okay thanks for working on that any other comments or questions on the budget okay see none um so board um i will ask for it now's the time that we would take action and if as you can see on the slide it would need to be two separate motions so i will um i will ask for a motion on the final budget for 21.22 is there a motion i'll make that motion to adopt the 2021-2022 final budget for revenues and expenditures for each fund as presented thank you is there a second a second thank you we have a motion and then and a

318second any discussion to this motion say none i'll call for a vote all in favor please say i i any opposed okay that motion passes thank you okay and now i will ask for another motion for the 22 20 22 23 budget i will do that i move that we adopt the 2022-23 budget for revenues and expenditures for each fund as presented and adopt the tax rates as follows set the tax rate at the certified tax rate as calculated by the state tax commission authorize any revenue budget adjustments to reflect funds received from the certified tax rate set the basic tax basic let me start over set the state basic rate at the rate determined by usbe when received and set the debt rate to generate sufficient revenue to pay debt service but not to

319exceed 0.001565 thank you okay we have a motion and a second any discussion to this motion scene none i'll call for a vote all in favor please say i i any opposed okay that motion passes thank you so that um concludes the uh items on our agenda and um before i move on to staff comments i just want to also express appreciation from the board to mr wilcox and mr warwood and their team for putting this together they make it look simple but i promise you it is not it is not simple it's very complicated and i know they take their responsibilities very seriously and and we appreciate um all this work and this attention and and the focus on the priorities of the board and of the district as we as we move forward

320and i just want to also just express appreciation to the taxpayers of this community i really want them to know and i believe that the board feels likewise that each and every dollar that we collect we consider to be and revenues that are dedicated for a purpose and we are trying our very best to fulfill that that purpose in the very best way that we can and so um i just wanted to make that comment um next on the agenda staff comments i'll turn time over to superintendent robbins and then to business administrator leon wilcox thank you president um i also just want to express my appreciation to leon and gary and the finance team for their work and also i just want to thank our cabinet team for their support and work on strategic

321vision and the board was great i thought today was uh really an excellent day moving the strategic vision forward so appreciate everybody's efforts thank you mr wilcox just want to go back to a comment i made there that 13 years is a very long time paying off somebody else is dead so yeah uh just appreciate the board and really good meeting today very very been here a long time but a very good meeting and just appreciate everybody's good work as we finished out this school year so that's all i have thank you okay thank you um board members um for comments let's how about mrs schiller are you okay if we start with you and we'll just work our way down so i um just thoroughly enjoyed attending graduation as usual it's always a highlight

322of the year i also got to attend a lot of final events of the year which i just think are really fun i went to the band performance at brighton high school also state tennis and also the lacrosse um semi-final quarter final anyway so it was just really fun i love i love may even though it's really busy but it's really fun to be able to attend events so thank you and that was all thank you mrs nybauer uh just briefly for the sake of our patrons that listened to the business section and not the study session we had a patron that came and spoke and i just wanted to repeat that we did talk about a comprehensive bus study to look at start times for secondary schools in our study session which is uh

323on as a listed as a priority also um we i also really enjoyed our training that we received today and i really enjoyed getting it into a deeper dive of our strategic plan and i as we had that discussion with draper park and the six and seven period schedule i i look forward to how our district will advance the access to high quality learning as far as steam arts integration interactive learning experiences i see that that would look different at the elementary school than it would at the middle and high school and i look forward to looking at our elective course catalog and increasing options that way as as maybe perhaps part of the how we roll out that strategic plan i just want to take a minute to thank a few special teachers miss

324davis at eastmont middle i had a sixth grader that i was talking to that said that that they just really appreciated the way miss davis makes her kids feel important and accepted and miss davis teaches avid and pe and cca my sweet little kindergartner after the second day of summer asked if there was a way we could go back and visit mrs hansen because he misses her and i just really appreciate the love and the nurturing that she provided for her class and it was so clear her students loved her and want to thank her for that um in fourth grade my fourth grader miss worthington he's already written her a letter about what's happened so far in summer and the community that that fourth grade teacher built in her classroom was was par to

325none it was amazing and i really enjoyed volunteering in different respects and seeing how she had built this inclusivity and this unity amongst her kids and they had all different interests and that was pretty fantastic mrs lee at draper park middle school just had some great correspondence with her and appreciate her efforts and the individual attention she gives to her students and then a quick thank you to the english teacher mr orem at court at corner canyon it's not very often that your son that's in 10th grade comes home talking about english class but he really engages all of his students he is awesome and funny thing one day my son was talking about how how cool his his the things he does in class and then my senior says oh yeah i had him

326he was amazing i never heard about him until my sophomore i also just wanted to thank the parents who've contacted me i don't know that we we often thank parents um for their levels of engagement but i've had some really great conversations with our school community council folks that give a lot of their time pta i've heard a lot of really awesome perspectives regarding our screen times regarding um electives regarding our our levels of engagement um about unifying our kids and also about start times and just wanted to thank the parents for their level of engagement i really believe that in canyon school district we have something pretty amazing because we have not only amazing teachers administrators but also parents who are so engaged in the process and that's all i have thank you thank

327you mr wrigley this is an amazing time uh of the year for the board or a board member for me as a board member uh i've had opportunities and several graduations to see the fruit of our labor as a board and as a district of having all of our these multiple hundred cup thousand two thousand kids graduate this year so that's been exciting uh and to see their futures and they're capping on with them uh and then at the same time today we've made a major forward now we're doing next year so we've been meeting since one o'clock and group out here also it's one o'clock today on now developing next year's goals and objectives when and actually starting to implement this strategic plan that we spent a whole year on doing it'll be exciting

328to see we have that direction i felt and using the strategic plan this year it gave us much more focus than in the past years we just sort of picked things out of the sky and what we wanted to do as far as needs so i'm looking forward to following through that and reporting back to the public in the future thank you thank you mrs oakes i want to uh recognize the efforts of our high school principals and their staff for their amazing graduation um ceremonies that i loved participating in both alta and corner canyons this year they were fantastic so much student talent so much goodness and um i'm really excited to see where these kids go and for us to hear back and the wonderful things that they do out in the world

329um i also want to recognize and thank the staff for your presentations today cindy that was a lot of work that we put you through which has kind of been the name of the game with you this year i'm so sorry and um also i really appreciated the ideas that each of you brought to us about like how to prioritize things with the strategic plan it was so well thought through and well considered and discussed and it really gave us a great starting point and of discussion and um i think it's going to be a wonderful partnership moving forward i'm just very very excited and i had so many thoughts you know i read through all of those open-ended responses from the public and as we were discussing certain things some of the specific comments

330came up to me and i saw them reflected and to me that was really exciting so thank you for all of your work i'm really i'm looking forward to what happens next thank you mrs arnold i just told mom i'm going to repeat everybody so we can get out at 10. instead of getting out at 9 30 hopefully i just want you to know um i did go to a graduation and i did talk shortest talk i ever gave because i gave everybody a vote five-minute talk or two-minute talk and they raised their hand and told me they wanted the two-minute talk so i did a two-minute talk at diamond ridge um i want you to know i was so impressed by the diamond ridge students they not only spoke one language they spoke two

331languages everyone almost almost everyone who gave a talk that night of the students spoke in both languages they gave their talk in english then they turned around and gave their talk in another language and there was multiple languages not just one it brought me to tears to see the talent they had and that they could do that and so um i just always appreciate what diamond ridge brings to the table as far as our school district is concerned and i can't wait to go tan trot as graduation um other than that everybody said everything that i could think of so we'll just end there thank you mr millerberg the end of the school year is always a busy time and it's really kind of an exciting time um i'll be honest with you one of

332the highlights of uh the end of the school year for me as i walked across the street to mid valley and i went to field day and i spent the first half the day with the kids out on the uh on the grass field i would have loved to stayed for the afternoon but that was the day that we had our emergency special school board meeting and i will tell you that that was not nearly as much fun as mid-valley field day sometimes i go places that i look around and you see familiar faces and uh president tangi your schedule must be nuts simply because as i would go places and i'm thinking you know that i'm going a lot of places and i turn around you're almost to everyone then i know you're going

333to all the things that i don't go to as well so thank you for that thank you for uh addressing uh the parents and the students at the jordan valley uh transition ceremony that is always a very touching time to see those kids that have worked so hard and see the faculty members at jordan valley that have worked equally as hard to uh make that happen hillcrest high school graduation for me is always fun uh it's fun for me to go back and see if i can still remember the words of the school song and i'm doing pretty well i i got every one of them um and it was kind of interesting for me also to go to the midvale middle school uh nyp middle years program find the final edition um i've got

334to tell you when you have mindy robinson and shelly allen involved in something you know something good is going to happen and then just out of curiosity i went to graduation at beaumont high this year and it was interesting for me to see how similar uh graduation is and how different it is at the same time to see things they do differently than we do and some things i like better some things i like what we do better so other than that i've not had anything happening in my life so thank you and as has been mentioned the end of the year brings some really great events and including the graduation and um i i won't kind of re hash everything but i just want to share um a thought that i had about um

335this year about um graduation and um um the timing of our graduations was right right when um the tragedy happened in texas and um it was it was it's kind of a sobering thing as as you all know and it can make you kind of wonder you know how bright is our future and and as i sat in those graduations and looked over the audience and looked over the the graduates and the students and i knew how hard they'd work i mean even the ones that theoretically just kind of sail through high school you know it took a lot of effort and a lot of work and as well as those that really needed the extra supports and helps and and i just sat there and i felt like you know there's a lot of

336good where there's a lot of good young people here that know how to work hard they know what's important they value community and they've had those experiences that will now help them to be successful as they move forward and so i just um wanted to share that thought and just put it out there to our public that if you're ever in need of finding hope for the future go to a high school graduation because it's it's to me it's really amazing event an amazing part of our um our responsibilities here and i'm so grateful for that so anyway i i would filibuster to say at least 9 30 but i just don't have anything more to say so you've got 37 minutes to spare [Laughter] so anyway um with that if there's unless there's anything

337else oh did mr show did you have something so so with that unless there's anything else i declare the meeting is adjourned you