001To the flag of the stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We're gonna hand it right over to our student representatives for college learning services just started the midterm this weekend next week which you know is fun. So that's really exciting. Um and we're just about ready to reach our halfway mark for spring and we're estimated to be about done I think June 10th which is coming. And then um Pierce College also just introduced a new class regist registration schedule where students now start signing up for all classes a year ahead of time instead of a term ahead. So we they just kind of gave us that all of a sudden. So everyone's figuring out their schedules for the next four terms. And then also going on at the high school everyone's
002really enjoying that. And yeah, that's about all. So we've got testing. We've got state testing for all the younger grades and then we have AP testing for juniors and seniors which is finishing up this week thankfully because everybody's schedules have been thrown off. But um we sold out of prom tickets again this time just like to we sold a ton and everything went perfectly. Everybody had a great time. Um we had some more record breakers class of 25 I'm telling you. So Jana Rouse and Kai Nation both broke the 100 meter dash school record. Wow. That's a good deal. Yeah. So, they're heading to districts today and then hopefully to state next weekend. Um, Pierce County Skill Center registration opened up for upcoming juniors and seniors. So, that's open for the next threeish weeks. May
00331st, the band is holding a jazz night and auction. I think it's 6:00 p.m. Not positive. That's at the high school. Um, and then seniors are either done with or starting on their senior presentation. So things are really starting to close up for everybody. That's it. Thank you. And thank you for reminding us about the skill center also just so that everybody knows um you can register for some of classes also and that you can do that in your summer of your eighth grade year. I think that's really all my kids do that a great resource. All right. Thank you. That was great. Great reports. So uh now we get to move on to reports and presentations. We're going to about the after school tutorings team presentation. It's just me. Yes, there's more. Okay, you
004can go to the next one. All right. So, I'm here this evening to talk about our success here at EES with the afterchool program. So we offer um three days a week after school for an hour of students to come in and work in small groups. So this last session we had 35 kids sign up which was huge and uh that was in fall and spring we had 32 and those are different groups of kids so it's not the same. A lot of the 35 graduated out which was awesome. It was sad to see them go but it was also awesome that they are out of the tutoring program. So that means they were at grade level in their literacy. So we're able to graduate them out. And so these are some of the things
005that we do. It's six kids to one teacher. So oftent times they are reading one-on-one with an adult or with a peer. So they're reading every day in a small group setting. There's uh we do games. So they one of their favorite activities they made a big game board of certain skills, phonics skills were working on and they were able to take it home and play with their families. So, that was a lot of fun. And then you can go to the next one. So, why it's important, um, not only does it boost their confidence, they're able to, um, one of the biggest things about their confidence is being able to read at their grade level for a portion of the day. Um, so they they're not afraid to make mistakes because all the kids
006in the room are at the same or about the same grade level, academic level. Um, it's a great opportunity for other teachers that aren't their classroom teachers to make a connection with them. So, a lot of the kids that I would never have a connection with, I do. We've got two separate rooms. So, in here we do first grade, second grade, and third grade. And we have three teachers and then next door we have the fourth and fifth graders together. And um, and it also gives um, it changes their perspective um, for school. they they come and it's a different way of connecting with school just not their classroom teacher. Um and we can go to for the next one. So there was a lot of buy in. So all the different schools do a
007different tutoring format. Ours is after school and um a lot of the teachers have noticed or buying in. They notice the confidence in the students in class. They've seen the growth in the students in class. They'll stop by before they go home and the kids are so excited because they're like, "Can I read this story to you, Mrs. TR? Can I get read this story to you, Mrs. Cole?" So, they come in and uh stop in. Um the parents thought to buy be they know they're leaving their kids somewhere safe and it's structured. Um so there's uh let's see here. You can go to the next one. Um so here is some of the scores. So improvements 35 kids were in fall. Out of those 35 kids, all but one had growth in both ELA
008and math. Um and then this for spring, we weren't able to do the second diagnostic for I Ready. It's not till June, the first week in June. And so our session ends at the end of May. But we have um we started with 18 students in the one two three session. Zero knew were at grade level in their letter naming fluency which is a huge predictor of later reading success. Um we have 16 now at grade level or above. Um, yes. Thank you. And it just, you can just tell in their, you know, they're reading now at their grade level and they're wanting to read the next grade level or they're asking, "Is this a first grade story?" I'm like, "It is a first grade story." And they're so excited that they're at their grade
009level. And the second graders, this is second grade. And I'm like, "Yes, it's second grade." So, um, and then in the group next door, 11 out of their 14 are now at grade level fluency and, um, all 14 um, all 14 are at grade level in word recognition. So, um, that the last thing I want to do at the end of the day is, you know, come in and teach kids. But it is so it has brought so much joy to us that we um Morgan Northern and I and I want to thank Mr. Berkel, Mr. Brower and Mrs. Keelley for taking the time to meet with us and we had this proposal for summer school and they gave us the green light all the support. Mrs. Keelley has been helping so much with emails
010and putting it all together that we're providing this for the entire district for summer. So, we're doing three sessions for um the community. We're also we're inviting all the MLL students. We're going to have an interpreter here. The Google form that's going home will both be in Spanish and English. Um and then we're also inviting all the RED students from I Ready and also teacher input, counselor input because we're going to have a social emotional piece. So, a lot of the times some of these kids are at home by themselves all day in the summer. you know, they don't have food. Sorry. Um, and so we saw the importance of this and proposed it and now we've had 15 teachers want to be a part of it. So we're doing one to um one teacher
011to eight kids and 15 teachers have they've seen it. They're they're they bought into it. They want to be a part of it. Um today in our staff meeting, Mr. Mr. Burke was like, "Hey, if you guys have students that you recommend," our phone, me and Morgan's phone was lighting up before the meeting was even over with all these teachers like, "We want this kid in, we want this kid." Um, so and that is open to the entire district. There's also even if kids on the Google form, if transportation is a problem, there's even an option that we're going to make sure that we get them here. Um, and I think that is that is kind of all I have for I'm I'm super excited about the summer school part and we're doing art outside
012learning, social emotional, they get two different snacks for the day. Um, and we get eyes on them some of those kids that we don't see again till September. Um, and also their confidence boost that they're going to have going into the next year that you know because their summer slide and the gap. So, we're just um we're really excited. So, we're inviting kinders going into first and then um the fifth graders going into middle school won't be invited, but the rest of the students will. Um and so, the sky's is the limit. If we can get as many kids as we can, um we were we were told that we can and um so super excited. So, again, thank you guys for um you know, meeting with us and backing us and supporting us. I
013really appreciate that. Um but yeah, do you guys have any questions or how long is the summer school? So it's three sessions, one in June, one in July, and one in August. For how long? Three days. Three days. Three days. So cool. Um just an idea of food for thought. I don't know what your financial ability is or recruits. Uh similar. I saw some areas where they were able to keep in touch with the kids through other times in uh going back to the dreaded COVID days but virtual settings where they were meeting with them like in reading after those events took place and other times just to come as a cohort of kids and they get to know each other. Yeah. Just I I'm so this is Yeah, we're we are so excited. this
014is the first time. Um, and allowing, you know, having those, um, MLL students coming in and having somebody there to communicate with the parents when they're dropping them off, the form that they're filling out, and then to be there for the lessons because we've had a big influx in Spanish speaking students that know no English. And so, um, giving them that opportunity, um, is and we want to keep growing. We have so many crazy ideas. So I got like what else can we do? Can we take them out to the library? Can we go to the pool? You know, all kinds of stuff. But um yeah, so I'm super excited for it. Um yeah, really exciting. So I my one, thank you so much for the work that you're doing after school, but for coming
015up with this idea, for being willing to propose it. I think that's really great. My curiosity is I'm guessing this funding is coming from multiple areas. Um is it part of our grant? Is it part of the MLLO uh funding? It's actually um our tutoring money or scholarships from Yeah. So this is community. This is a gift from community. Yes. Yes. And so that is Yeah. And there was, you know, a few things that they wanted to see which, you know, which is amazing. And so, um Yeah. And just Yeah. there's 15 teachers and we're like we didn't think there'd be that many to sign up to spend their summer, you know, um but they've seen it here and just the difference in these kids and some of the kids say it's their best part
016of their day is coming in here and so that's awesome. I know it is. It's um and we see them in the hallway and they, you know, give us hugs and it's just um it's been awesome. So, yeah, thank you to you all for being willing to take part of your summer and then to partner with the community. I mean, this is just magic. Yeah, it is. It's It's very cool. So, thank you guys so much for your time. [Applause] All right, now we get to hear Professor. Um, just a few things to add onto the tutoring piece. Um, another piece that Miss Holland didn't really touch on is the value of tutoring for our care team and our MTSS process because we get the data from tutoring and we use that as part of
017a data point for our care teams so we can get support if whether it's a special ed referral or interventions and things like that. So that's another component that's been very valuable relative to tutoring. Um the other piece like kind of with the community connection. Um so like today pizza Wednesday a lot of times uh MLA will bring the pizza down to our kids in tutoring so they don't miss out on pizza Wednesdays and then feel like they've got to skip tutoring to go to it. So that's another component of just kind of a lot of different people working together to support our kids. So um so that's just kind of thank you Miss Holland and and the other uh the other tutors for that. They've been doing a great work and that was where
018I asked them to present because a lot of times it's um and I'm not knocking these programs. It's Mr. Hunter doing his thing with music or Miss Ricketts with art. And I think one of the biggest celebrations that we have as our building is the success that we've had with our tutoring program this year. So I wanted to honor that. So um so moving on to uh my presentation. Um we'll get rolling here. Um so the what I'm going to touch on first of all is um it's kind of a unique opportunity to look back on the goals that I shared with you last year. Um and then we'll get into our uh SIP plan and then the next steps that we have based on the data from this year. So that's kind of where
019we're going. Next one. So the the three goals as far as like look fors that I when I was here last year that we were talking about was first of all was our fifth grade students um that had historically struggled since co Um, and as they'd moved through ES, it was just that group had not historically scored well on state testing. And so that was one area. And then we had interventions. And last year, it just it wasn't as consistent. And so that was another area that we touched on and some goals for this year. And then lastly was our K4 students. Um, we'd seen some successes. And so that's going to be another thing that we kind of highlight on as we move forward. So this is really the only one that I wanted
020to look back on cuz it's they're the only group of kids that we don't have here anymore. So this group of students uh when they and just kind of as reference, so they scored last year on the SBA um 35.2% in ELA, 33.8% 8% in math and 46.5 in science. What they had scored the previous year was 26.1 in ELA and 26.1 in math. So in both cases we saw over a 10% growth from that class. Um, and I I believe and part of it is um I believe I already in having that tool was one way that uh we helped our students really try to get cuz that's kind of the emphasis for fifth grade is we got to get them as close as we can to grade level before we send them off
021to the middle school um and as prepared as possible. So, um, so that's just kind of a check in on and honoring the hard work that our fifth grade teachers did last year getting them ready to go to Edenville Middle School. All right. And then this is these were our SIP goals for this year. And so goal one is a 10% increase in students in ELA uh based on the SBA and spring I ready scores and spring uh our spring diagnostic for ready doesn't start till right after Memorial Day weekend. So we don't have that data quite yet. Um so the data that I'm going to show you is based on our winter progress monitoring data. Goal two is for math a 10% increase uh based on grade level standards SBA I Ready. And then
022goal three was a 5% increase in our average monthly attendance based on um I've got a trend data of each month and our percentage of daily attendance for the last three years. So that's kind of how we monitor that one. Okay. So this was our data for last year um for the SBA just as a reference. So we've got third grade at 45% um you guys can read it. you have it in front of you. So, um, so this is just a reference kind of where our kids were at at the beginning of the year rolling into their grade levels. And then, uh, I'll show the the I Ready data here next. And so this is this is small but um in general um the celebration if you look at all the percentages and so
023the bottom one that's really light was how students scored at the fall benchmark at the beginning of this year and then the top one was how they did at the winter benchmark. And so for ELA every single grade level had a 10% increase in their grade level standards. So, um, given that this was in January, I would hope that that's going to, if we could get another 10%, that would be phenomenal. Um, so we've had some really good growth this year with our students relative to ELA. And so then another kind of metric just to look at this is um I already gives you the goal would be is we want to see typical growth and that's the like okay are they on track to meet a grade level's worth of growth by the end
024of the year. So that's this annual typical growth and currently as in January what percentage they were ready like had met that growth and one of the things for me as a principal I look at is this stretch growth goal because when students are multiple grade levels below they have to reach this stretch growth goal to catch up and close the gap. So I look at the percentages of students that meet that stretch growth goal. So seeing 19% 20% 32% 16% for stretch growth in January is extremely good. And so trying to get those students caught up is one way of uh measuring it. And so I think that a lot of the emphasis that we've put on uh reading like for tutoring for example, we only do reading. We don't do any math intervention
025with tutoring right now just because if they can't read, it's really hard to be able to read a word problem in math. So that's kind of where we put our emphasis this year. Next one. And so this is just by comparison math. And so similar trends and it's the same setup. So the light one is fall, darker one is winter. Um based on this data, every grade level made a 10% jump except for fourth grade that only had a 9% increase. But still by January and our goal is 10%. That was a that was another success with that. And so then this one is a little bit different. we didn't see the stretch growth goals that um we see with English which given if we're not emphasizing it then that kind of makes some sense
026and historically our students have I mean math is harder so we see some lower scores with math so um we've seen the one celebration that I would want to acknowledge the most is fifth grade with 39% in January already meeting their typical growth goal they've done a ton of work on um math instructional strategies and having them rotate around the room and and team learning. And I noticed part of Sally's she's got a professional growth um PD group that's doing a book study that they've been implementing that those techniques in class and um they've been doing some phenomenal work and I think that's why you see that 39% in a grade level that has struggled um in the past. So that's a that's a positive relative to our math scores. May I ask a question?
027One, I want to celebrate the fact that you've done so outstanding in your growth and and ELA and I know that we're hoping to start leaning towards magnetic and those types of things in math. It do you see a time when you'll be able to use that tutoring program to really enhance both math and reading? And would you have um students just really applying, you know, coming in for different reasons? You're here for math and we're going to focus on math with you. that you're here for reading, we're going to focus on reading. Or are they going to is it going to be kind of comprehensive where they get to do both? Um well uh so we had a meeting with all the principles and the mayor and and it's really exciting to see kind
028of like with the summer program the flexibility that can exist with our tutoring. I mean I was talking with Miss Marth about um we have ability to do some social emotional tutoring and things like that. So I think the sky's is the limit on how we want to structure tutoring. I mean it was kind of the first year or so we were trying to feel our way through it. I feel like once we get um and I'll answer some of the questions on why I think this data is get goes the way it goes. Um, but I think yes, eventually we can have like one adult is going to be the math tutor and English tutor and maybe do different rotations where different kids are working on a different subject because most of the kids
029will need both if they're attending tutoring. But um I think we can definitely evolve to get to that point for sure because I mean it's obviously working. So yeah, want to make sure that I don't know how you make that happen on both English and math, but man, it would be exciting. Yeah. I mean, the only hard part is that it's only an hour, right? Exactly. So that's um so that's the one question is just trying to how do we use our time the most effectively? So um okay. And then this one is uh this is the moving target for me. So um so this is the trend data on our percent of daily attendance for the last 3 years. So, um, the percentages you see is basically on a given day, what's the percentage
030of your student population that shows up? And so, this is by month. And so, um, September is super good. And I think part of that was at the beginning of the year, like at a district level, we were communicating out so much about attendance and why they need to be there and kind of the value of it. So I think that was one reason why we saw this percentage there. And so then we hit a level of illness through our building that I have not I've never seen a percentage in the 60s before. Um but we had like 15 to 20 kids going home, five staff a day going home throwing up. Like it was it was a thing that moved through our building. So that's where you see those two red months. um which
031essentially annihilates any hope of getting to that 5% increase in uh in attendance. Um the one thing and actually we can go to the next slides and I'll I'll talk to about attendance and um a little later on why I think we're going that route. So relative to English and why we're getting the results that we're getting, um I think number one would be relative to Sally and Tracy is we did a really great job with the new ELA curriculum implementing that along with the previous two years was a shotgun approach to interventions where it was just what's in the closet, what do we have and there wasn't really a lot of intentionality behind it versus this year it's it's two three things really detailed Sally did a great job of coordinating training for our
032paras in lap and title for phonics for reading so they felt confident giving the instruction for intervention and I think that that's one big component of why they're confident giving those interventions and then we're seeing a lot of growth and success in English language arts. So I think with that data that you saw and those massive increases that would be what I would attribute the biggest reason for it tutoring helps but students get the intervention from their parents or their teachers 4 days a week. So um so that consistency with that I think attributed to that um and so that focus on it. we had an additional PAR that uh I used our our school improvement money. And so with that specific parah, we had a handful of students that just didn't fit within our
033intervention groups and needed more intensive like one-on-one instruction. And so we've used that parah to give that one-on-one or twoon-one instruction to those various kids that um needed that intentional support. And then um there's a few grade levels that they saw kind of some significant reading uh challenges and so I allowed them this year and when you look at the math I'm not going to do that next year but I allowed them to double up on their ELA intervention. So when most grade levels were doing math intervention in the afternoon I let them do ELA and double it. So, um, so where we see really positive results in Neoen, we didn't see as good a scores in math because I allowed that grade to kind of double up. So, but I think that intentionality around
034the interventions and the the focus on implementing magnetic in a thoughtful way has has definitely improved that. Next slide. Um, and so then this is kind of a side component. Um, and to be honest, it's it's been a lot of what outside of the academics. I probably put more effort into this than I've done anything else this year. And it's not in my building SIP plan. And it's because eventually it just came out that this was the priority. So, [Music] um, so the district gave out a climate survey, um, that, you know, we I will say that I very much was asking for and, um, through those results and seeing how the staff scored, um, I met individually with pretty much, I would say probably every staff member had an opportunity to give input with
035the survey, but then I probably met after that to get feedback with about 60% of the staff either one-on-one or with small groups. I gave them the opportunity to ask how they wanted to communicate with me. After meeting with them, then I met with the leadership team. Here were the results. And then we kind of came up with a few kind of short-term between now and the end of the year things to address our building culture. So these are con kind of some of the highlights. So first of all was starting our staff meetings at 8. We used to start them at 7:30. So then our classified staff were on the clock and could attend um because our classified staff were feeling left out of the building culture and not included and not communicated with.
036So we wanted to make sure that they were included. So then we delayed the staff meetings till 8. Um, another thing was, especially with our classified staff, we I've probably hired 10 people since the beginning of the school year. So, the the group that was all together at the beginning of the year is not the group that I've ended the year with. So, um, the last few hires when they arrive on their first day of work, then Sheila Pellin takes a picture of them, puts it in her daily announcements so that every person in the staff goes, "Oh, when I see that person in the hallways, that's who that person is." So that they can introduce themselves and they know who they are and can welcome them into the building. So, that's another and it's
037it seems common sense, but it was just it was something that wasn't happening. Um, and then we've got some a lot of staff just said bring the fun back. So, um, part of that is our social chair, Miss Debbie, um, doing some things, but, um, you know, each grade level, for example, we've got a, and it's empty right now, but we would do a display out here in the display case, and it was like around St. Patrick today was guessing how many marshmallows are in a box of Lucky Charms or we had a how many ducks are in the display and they would have to count the ducks and so the kids as they're walking down to go to music or PE would look in there and try to count how many ducks and so
038that was just one example or um we did an egg hunt as a staff before the staff meeting. We there was like all sorts of different random hiding things and just so just different things to bring fun back to the staff um has been and those are not necessarily coordinated by me. Those are just grade levels taking things on and and being a part of it. And so then the next step was there's a lot of um staff wanting some norms on how we operate or you know even down to copier etiquette and things like that. So um so that's some things of just next steps of kind of building on that. So that's going to be another goal moving forward on that. But this has probably been where I've put most of my effort
039this year is on this. So, may I ask a question? Um, I think it's great that you're able to include your class uh your classified staff at Are you meeting with your um certificated earlier? No, they're all together at one time on that one. So, yeah, that way everyone gets the information at the same time and everyone's on the same page. Okay. And so then um here's kind of the areas to watch. So then hopefully this time next year then these are the things that I'm telling you how we're doing on or how we did on. Um so the first one would be is replicating what we did for ELA in math. So [Music] um and I know the core curriculum that's a whole that's Sally's gig right there. But um but the intervention part
040I think really trying to streamline that, get intentional with that um and not kind of have this the because right now we're kind of scrambling and pulling from different things. And there's not that intentionality that we've had with the English language arts. And so I think that's one reason why we're not seeing the growth in our math scores that we had in ELA this year because there's just not that intentionality and we we don't have the we haven't had the training and there's not that like confidence going into it of of providing that um instruction. And that's just that's also a piece especially when you get into the older grades that then you know some of our classified staff don't necessarily have the confidence of providing those interventions that some students need when we get
041into that. Um, attendance is uh that's a beast and I'm not sure where um so I've done some incentives and and so I did like a pizza with the principal this year was one incentive that I did and I targeted students that had missed over 20 days of school and we did a tracking like a they came in and they would stamp a calendar and if they'd missed one day or less for a month then I took them up to Miles Pizza for a lunch And for the kids that wanted to participate, that was good. But, you know, for, you know, the 40% that didn't, then that wasn't really an effective incentive. And a lot of the different incentives that we can try, well, not a lot of the issues at the elementary level are
042not with the kids wanting to come to school. It's the parents getting them to school consistently. And so I'm not sure necessarily how you incentivize getting your kid to school [Music] um for parents cuz there's some parents that you know they're prioritizing other activities that are happening out of school out instead of school or they um one kid's sick they're all staying home sick or um if I'm sick I'm not able to take them to school. So there's a there's so many different things that go into that. Um I know like as a building we haven't filed many Becca petitions and part of that has been my philosophy of like Janna and I working together to try to figure out what those families need. We have so many families that are in crisis that need
043more wraparound services and trying to take that approach with our families rather than kind of the leveraging the legal side of it. And lately the legal side of it hasn't had a whole lot of teeth anyway. Um so that's been something just but then we've found the families that even when we give them those services then it's still not necessarily improving things. So, I feel like this is one where it's going to take the whole district kind of coming together and figuring out how buildings can we can commonly come up with a way of communicating to our families and trying to leverage our parents to value bringing our kids to school consistently again because it's just it's not not there for some of our families. And so, um, so that one's it's a harder one
044to kind of put a finger on because it's not the same issue with every family. So, um, so that's that's another one just we're going to have to keep working and keep trying. And I know every building's kind of doing different things. And so that's where we have to come together and figure out what's working for you, what's not working for me. Um so the beginning of the legislative session um Senator Braun made a big I don't know if you heard it big announcement that they were going to have uh money or liaison specifically around attendance to do much of what you guys are doing right now reaching out and filling the gaps and finding the needs has any of that been brought back okay so I'll need to find out more about that because
045I was heard they were looking at getting rid of the whole legal Becca petition requirement. That was another thing that the legislative they were considering, but I don't know where that one went either. I have a truency meeting with Pierce County. So, they're going to update us on that specific I believe so. Okay. All right. Thank you. It'd be great to get a report back on and if there was anything that came through in the final budget for that, that would be nice to know. Um, but one thing we do know that has worked in our community, and I'm going to um credit Mr. Rush for speak saying this, whispering this in my ear, but this might be a community forum when we can bring people together and say, "Help us. Our best solutions come
046when we work together." And so, um, I I think that, you know, it could be a community forum in the making. Yeah, this could be a great avenue for faith leaders team looking at what other services they can provide. There's lots of things Yeah. Um and then lastly is just continuing to work on our building culture and um I mean we've had some growth in it, but we have a have a long way to go. So we're going to keep and it's not anything that you can necessarily stop working on. You got to keep working on it. So that's going to be another thing for next year. So and I believe that is it. Questions? I just have one real quick. I was going back. Are you guys playing pretty good? My eyesight's bad, so
047I'm sorry. Um, it looks like you guys seeing pretty good correlation between like your end of the year data. You saw your fifth graders on their one shot, example, the ESPO versus their their IRA scores at the end of the year. Is there a pretty good correlation? They were similar. They were similar. Yeah. The deviation is one shot versus Yeah. I'm just curious. And Sally and I were actually talking about this today. Um that spring I ready data point is really hard to gauge because like for example like our students after Memorial Day like our fifth graders are going to take the spring diagnostic. Well, they've already tested for 3 weeks for the SBA. So that the the testing fatigue is is real when you get to that spring data point. That's why a lot
048of the emphasis is put on that winter data point because that there just there's not anything else really happening around it. Yeah. To be clear publicly, I like our internal consistent growth over a single shot spring just to be public. But um I was just curious, do you guys do interims at all that compare or is that just even too much more testing? They've been doing interims, but a lot of the focus on the interims is trying to introduce the students to the tools for the SBA. So it's not like does it correct? Okay, last thing I was say if you guys you and Jenna need any help since for your attendance, email me or something. What if you need some outside person to do something for you since my daughter goes here? So, there's
049a there's a program that I had when I worked at North Thirst. It's called Watchd Dogs that I want to look into. Dad's at school. Yeah. Yeah. I was was my I wanted to create that and then I got busy. So I will help. So that that's thing I'm interested in. I have community members who actually approached me about it. So I know you'll have support that. So I would I'd love to help you with that. Okay. Julie noted. Awesome. Anybody else? All right. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Um, thank you for your time and for all the hard work and thoughtfulness and also for, you know, being honest and vulnerable about the hard things and what you're doing to overcome. Great conversations. That's how we get things done. All right, we're turn the time
050over to [Music] We showed out two weeks. We're just a bonus. Sorry about points for being here. We were happy to stay and watch the presentation. So, thanks for having us. You just get to see us twice. I mean, I won't be here. I'll try to Thank you m uh to say things are busy and and things are uh moving would be an understatement. Uh there's just an awful lot going on and that's really good. Um I'll begin with community day. We made a concerted effort this year to make it something more than just a school day as it kind of had been in the past. We We brought a big team together to talk about how we could not only have the Mayday coordination um presentation or ceremony, but to uh expand that in
051a grand fashion. And uh so uh with the beginning of the day, we had uh first time we've had a stadium groundbreaking since 1937. Actually, I don't know if they even had one, but um we uh we we began the day with an awful lot of people there, elected officials. Um actually kicked off with three skydivers, kind of local legends, um who who did skydiving into the stadium and then that was followed up with an awful lot of uh hype about the fact that we're coming together. So when we initially when we initially had a community forum which we've had a lot of those it was been very successful then we went to our community and asked what they felt like would be priorities and the board listened and we we held two levies uh
052educa you know an enrichment levy or educational programs operations levy which keeps the lights on keeps gas the buses keeps you know salaries going such The second part was a capital projects levy which would include money to to uh address our very long overdue uh replacement track and field. We just were very hampered. Our student athletes just don't have a level playing field. Pun. We just don't. And um so so out of that our voters came in at over 57% approval rating to to support our capital projects levy which among other things replacement track. So that three and a half million and since then we worked really hard to also address something that was maybe even longer overdue. Um, but we are trying to be very sensitive to our voters, which is a stadium that's
053not safe. On the record, if you want. Um, and so, uh, since that time, we've almost doubled the amount that we've set aside for the track and field of $3.5 million, and we're approximating u matching that through outside grants, donations, and um, requests that have been granted. And so I'm very very proud of that. Uh so yes, on that day then we we had a really nice groundbreaking ceremony and it also included uh a 100year-old graduate Fenville High School graduated 1943 and if you ever want to I'll show you where a picture is of the high school and u so she brought her she brought her she was 100 years young and so she brought her sister as well and we also had the grandson of W Lions. This was named W Lion Field and
054two of his grandsons were there and to celebrate it and so it really was a a great day to kick off community following which we had a wonderful meeting coronation uh wonderful program and then following that then the band the church led everyone into the streets. We shut down Michelle Avenue. Thank you mayor for doing that. Um and we just had a great fair. We had just people in the streets all the way to about 7:30 and uh it was just a really a feel good thing. Very great opportunity. Um speaking of stadium again, we uh today we uh signed off and boarded our stadium officially including colors and all sorts of things which we'll show you those when the mockup comes. But um we're able to find our school colors to have that be
055part of our uh stadium and so that was a this is a great day for Eatenville. Uh in addition, our rural light magazine also discussed uh front page, front cover u the existing stadium as well as what the proposed stadium most likely will look like. actually well I just not quite the same colors. This is the forks. This is what this is very similar to what we'll have and uh so um that we've received a lot of support from the community as well as you know just state level. So we're very grateful for that. Um, I wanted to note that the amount of effort that's being put forward to move our academics forward is really paying off. When I was able to do a learning walk at both warehouser and you know elementary school, I
056was just particularly proud of the student engagement, the academic rigor as well as the student self-discipline. um student experience was there. they were excited to be there and the teachers were teaching with fidelity and intentionality and uh so I saw that in every every classroom that we visited and again want to appreciate the hard work Sally and others have done to to get us to that point where our magnetic is really and I ready are really paying off and they're giving us the data we need to see where we're at where we need to go as you saw with Nick's presentation and the trajectory is good. Our strategic plan as you recall was academic achievement and to help that happen to focus on attendance. We started that a year ago by getting working toward getting
057the n number of bus drivers we needed to get kids to school. I'm happy to report that so far this year, we've had as far as cancelled routes, we've had a grand total of only zero cancelled routes. So, we're doing our job to get kids to school and the sushi. Uh we we now I think it's time to turn to our community and come up with what we need to do community and beyond to find out how we can make sure that our students are in their seats every day because uh when they are they will learn and they will do very well. So I'm really proud of of of what's happened and as my dad always said the biggest dream in the world is a room for improvement and uh so we got a
058lot of growth to do and we'll continue to go along the way. I wanted to I asked Sally as part of my communications if she would just give us just a little update where we're at with our with our assessments. She's in charge of assessments and she and Tracy work together on a lot of things but I've asked Sally if she'll just share a certain bit about that. So we have jumped in to SBA season testing season. Um I will the schedule has been at um staggered and our first school EMS started testing the window in the 428 and our last school or school that finishes out will be on 522. So we have staggered schedules. Our third through 8th grade students are all and ts are testing in ELA and math. um 3, five,
059and eight are also testing science on top of taking math. Um the ELA test is two sessions and then we have math and the science tested and of course there's options for some kids for pathways as well that might be 11th through 12th grade that can have the option to join us too if they get that school work or graduation pathway. Thank you very much a update. Um our students in with more significant disabilities. We had 20 students this year take the law aim. So as their state assessment and those are all done and wrapped up and waiting for their scores to come back from their portfolio. First year to do those. First year to do those. Yeah. So very excited about that. So in years past I maybe even last year we around testing
060season it was always you know um we didn't have the bandwidth everything was crashing had all the technologies worked yes wow I should have said that out loud but it's never been that way yeah it was crazy so uh good job team technology team and teaching and administrative team that was a big Thank you both. So again, we have one more chance for learning walk and and I know you've been invited and I know some of you are not able to attend. Some are able to attend. I hope those that are able to attend can share their experience and I think you'll be very pleased with that. also had a chance to uh to brag about Eatenville and the great work that we're doing at at larger than Eatenville going to what's called mid county
061leadership team meeting which is often official and kind of entails from the Franklin Pierce School District to be school district and so we also asked that we be included in that even though we're pretty far south so I had a chance to do a presentation this last month during this what happened and uh and uh so with that sometimes comes opportunities for people who want to share that success and uh so we'll continue to do you know presentations as we're as we're invited. Um so with that I think the last thing is last week was teacher appreciation week and so we uh did a couple things to try did a few things to try to help our teachers and certificate staff notes are issued in addition to uh really some some nice um uh certificates.
062We also um arranged for lunch for all staff not just certificate staff as as once a year uh to with Romesh Kumar from Karma restaurant to um to just show our staff how much they're appreciated. He he he always wants to do that. So again, this is this is maybe our second or third year doing that. Um and um we also, you know, just with emails and just visits went around and gave these all out and uh just want our our certificate staff to know how much we appreciate them. So with that, thank you. All right, Travis. I just want to say thank you to Mr. Berglet. Um, I have a student that goes to school here and loves it to death and do a fantastic job and so is your staff. I had a
063student that went to a different elementary school and it was fabulous as well in the district. So, I've always hated the competition between all of them as far as we all feed the same high school and each of them have a different clientele and they all do an amazing job, but just from firsthand I can just tell you that this is an amazing place and they do a fantastic fantastic job. So, um that and um thank you to uh I went to EMS what is Mrs. Carr uh yesterday and we did a workshop with Mr. Heman's class on board on running for school board and its connection to community and uh student rights responsibilities and he I was blown away by his fantastic management of the classroom. I'm just going to shout out Mr. Even
064if you can see it. It was amazing. Um I was like it actually made me miss teaching middle school. So but uh it was great and fabulous. And uh last but not least um board too. Uh I didn't do this as a board member. I'm doing it as a community member but looking into a grant that I applied for to help adults in our community go back and get their GEDs and learn alongside their kids. So hoping to see if that comes through this summer. um which is an opportunity for them to bring their kids in as well and do things while their parents are achieving. So it's pretty good combination. So hopefully that can come to our community as well. So we'll see. Yeah, it be a big plus because I think that's a
065big pullback. So yep, we'll see. Yeah, so much. Um I I uh I just want to start by saying thank you for having us and um the uh passion for the tutoring project was very uh heartwarming and just knowing that individuals are taking time out of their summer to give to the kids is a huge thing because that is a very selfless act. Um no matter what's involved in it, it's it's selfless. Uh and um it was really awesome to hear that you know shout out to Amy play on um the bring the pizza to the kids are still learning and um making that happen so they don't feel left out. So shout out there. Um and um I appreciate as former classified staff member the doing the meetings at 8 so everybody could be
066involved. Um I I think there's um definitely a benefit to having um the inclusiveness for everybody being together and feeling like a team. And so I'm hoping that good fruit comes from that. So um yeah, Travis and I yesterday I love the opportunity to be able to um we spent the day with sixth graders and and one I think the big end question of the day was what we felt their to to convey to them what their responsibility was as students what we thought was you know um and I really feel like they took so much out of it because they didn't know it actually cost you know a grandma a tax dollars that's on a fixed income, you know, is is paying money or voting for them to get extras in their life and
067you know for it's it's a b you know it's an opportunity for them to be here. It's not you know it's a gift from a community and you know we vote on that and we make it happen. So um it was it was a very very good experience. Uh so yeah just just awesome. I I just we have a lot of people with really big hearts in in our community and and I'm hoping it rolls over. From what I saw yesterday, it's rolling over into the kids. The kids are proud of their environment. That's great. Thank you so much. Thank you too for taking the time to do that and it was honestly fun. It was honestly fun. Well, you're with kids. Yeah. Yeah. And with Mr. I echo what all has already been said
068and just wanted to say Nick that as you were giving your presentation the one line that came to me is it takes a village and your staff has proven that and I want to say thank you very much from all of their staff coming together to help these kids. Thank you. Great. I guess that's me, Nick. Um, thank you again. It's the presentation and helping us uh see the data, learn more about it, understand it better is always really important. Um, lot a long list of gratitude today. I had the opportunity to meet with the Eatville Business Association. I heard nothing but accolades around um, community day. And I I want to give a shout out to Jay and to the mayor for um being willing to take on one more thing and bring community
069together and make it event. Um it was recognized and noted by the community when I was there today and had wonderful things to to say also about our kids like they loved the focus being our students which just made me really happy. So thank you for that work. We uh closed out the legislative season with $800,000 coming from our legislators. Um Senator McHune and Representative Farcus and Representative Marshall uh have stepped up and got procured for us $800,000 that we'll be able to put towards our stadium. So grateful to them for that hard work. Um so if you see them, please tell them. Thank you. Um, Sally and Tracy, uh, the work that you do does go unnoticed. I don't necessarily notice it until, uh, people like Nick stand up and say, "All the great
070work that you're doing and all the professional development you put into place to really helping the money that we spend on our curriculum going in and just with integrity and showing the growth. So, thank you so much because I know that I didn't recognize that appropriately, but I want to thank you for that hard work. is making a difference and the generosity of Karma India Indian for bringing us food once a year. Who couldn't be grateful for an Indian lunch with friends and communities. I think that's awesome. Um that's it. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for opening your school to us. We appreciate it. And also thank you to Cassie and it because when we do these things, it's a little bit of a crazy day for you to make it happen.
071So thank you. We appreciate you. And with that, we're going to call it meeting and close. that you go through. I have the title. No, I will