001Um, it's 6:30. I'll call the meeting to order. Nicole, can I have roll call, please? Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Everyone, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, everyone should had a chance to review the minutes of the regular board meeting on March 10th. If there's been any additions or corrections, I'd entertain a motion to approve them. I move for approval of the March 10th minutes as printed. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve the regular meeting regular meeting minutes on March of March 10th, 2025. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I.
002Post. same sign. Motion carried. Good evening everyone. Thank you for coming tonight both in person and online. All right, we have public comment. No one signed up for public comment. So move on to the agenda. Everyone should have a copy of the agenda in front of them. If there's not any additions or corrections, I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda. So moved. Second. Second. Okay, we have a motion, a second to approve the agenda. All those in favor signify by saying I. I I oppos same sign. Motion carried. All right. Move on to reports to to be presented by the administration. 8.1 school of the month, Wilson Elementary. Good evening. Good evening. See if this is working. This maybe isn't H. Is it on? Is it? Perfect. All right. Good evening. I'm honored
003I'm honored to be here tonight to present on all the wonderful things that have been happening at Wilson Elementary School. Okay, let's get Now, this one does need to be turned on. There we go. Okay. So, I'll start off by um walking through our progress towards our three SSP goals. First up, ELA. So, essentially, we're looking at a 5% increase of students who are proficient in ELA. According to our spring I read diagnostic compared to last year, um we are we have been um specifically focusing on comprehension and interactive writing. with that. So jumping to some of our action steps that we have been doing to um towards reaching that goal. Um first up in the upper leftand corner you can see the title of a text there shifting the balance. We dug into a
004few chapters from this text. Um this was done during our staff meetings. This text focuses on how to bring the science of reading into the classroom and those best instructional strategies. Um some of the key strategies include um the important the importance of listening comprehension including building background knowledge and vocabulary. Um thoughtful questioning during interactive readalouds and building oral language. Um, and when thinking about the vocabulary, we're also been putting an emphasis on using um words that are two years or more above the students independent reading level because um especially for that listening comprehension, that of course um helps support their background knowledge as well. Um, and then also to add, we've had a lot of discussions around how u building that background knowledge and vocabulary naturally fits in really really well with our science
005and social studies curriculum. So thinking about how we can do some crosscontent instruction with that as well. Um, also interactive writing. So we engaged in some collaborative professional development with Washington teachers. So, I will get to more of that later, but that's something we've been doing to um kind of lean into that upcoming transition is collaborating during our inservice time. So, um that PD was focused around interactive writing. This routine is very powerful because it it supports the explicit instruction of encoding, which is the reciprocal process of decoding. Um language comprehension through composing a text together. Again, it's an interactive process. So, it's a writing piece that the students and the teachers develop together. Um, and then also just focusing on fluent writing. So, teachers from Wilson and Washington all took a survey early on
006in the fall to kind of rate where they felt like they currently were um in the process of interactive writing and how they're implementing that in their classroom. So, u Mr. Dr. Wilson and I actually looked at our survey data together and we decided to um focus one of our inservice times together on just a refresh around the interactive writing process and the components that we should see when we are observing that routine. Um to go along with that, Mrs. Hankis is the literacy support teacher that serves Wilson Elementary students. She also um serves some of the students at Prairie View Elementary School as well. um she and I have been conducting quarterly walkthroughs in all of the classrooms. Um of course we just have the first, third, fourth and fifth this year. Um but
007we've been doing quarterly walkthroughs and providing some specific feedback to teachers around um how they are doing with that interactive writing routine in their classroom. So um I think teachers have been very appreciative of that feedback. One thing to note is a part of the interactive writing routine. Um, one component of that is really focusing on explicit phonics instruction as you are writing with students. I think traditionally um this has been more natural for like our K2 teachers um or not so much for our upper grades, our 35 teachers, but we know um in all the work we've done around the science of reading that um it's just as important in grades three five. So we know better and now we're doing better. And the teachers have been really receptive to working at integrating that
008routine into their um interactive writing. And then um vocabulary. You can see down there in the lefthand corner again we've been focusing on vocabulary and building vocabulary to support students comprehension. Um a couple other things we've been doing. We do do a word of the day every day over announcements. So I announce a word of the day, the definition um and then I use it in a sentence and then the students have an opportunity to use that word in a sentence. So they can write it down, bring it down to the office, they get to pick a little prize. And then actually on Fridays I do a flashback Friday for word of the day. And I go back then I cycle back to the previous words we had already done and share some of the
009students um sentences that they wrote. Also, Mrs. Thompson, she is our math interventionist that we share with Washington Elementary School. Um however she has a lot of strengths and so as a part of our collaboration time she had been attending our weekly collaboration time within our vertical teams. Um we were talking about vocabulary and she had a lot of really wonderful um ideas for how to integrate some vocabulary readings in the classroom that were really engaging. So she actually um did a little presentation for staff on that as well. Oh, and then last but not least, um up in the righth hand corner, that's just an example too of our an essential standards ladders. And you can see the little check marks on there. That's something we implemented last year, and we found it to
010be very powerful with our students. We're continuing to do that. So the students use um in all the classes some type maybe not exactly like that one but a very similar model of a way to practice um their growth and towards proficiency on the essential standards. So some highlights of what our data is showing us in comprehension. So overall our proficiency and comprehension has increased by 4% this year compared to mid last year according to our I Ready. And then another thing to add is that all but one of our cohorts has increased proficiency in literature comprehension this year midyear compared to last year. Moving on to math. Um we are looking again for a 5% increase in proficiency this spring compared to last spring of students who are proficient according to I Ready. Um,
011geometry was one of our big focuses or has been one of our big focuses this year for math along with a continued focus on some of the instructional strategies that we took away from a book study we did last year on um from the text building thinking classrooms. So, we've also been focusing on continuing with some of those instructional strategies and also the geometry um teachers SLOs's and PPGs as well as my SLO um directly align to our math goal this year as well because this is um an math was lower compared to our reading overall. Um and we chose to focus on geometry because that was our lowest domain last year. So overall 50% of our students are proficient in math um on the I Ready midyear. This is like the same as last
012year overall. So we didn't we didn't really increase. We didn't really go down. We kind of stayed sa stagnant comparing that midyear data. But when you look at the breakdown of some of the other domains, um, another area that we really focused on, and you can see the picture of the bulletin board there, um, we've been tracking a couple of essential standards as an entire school. So, in addition to the geometry, which I will get to, we've also been tracking um, numbers base 10 and operations and algebraic thinking, essential standards for each grade level. And then on that board, we've been tracking proficiency and our comprehension essential standards as well. So that's not um directly tied to I Ready necessarily. That is based off of um classroom assessments um some of those informal assessments that
013the teachers are um giving their students throughout the year. Um so when looking at numbers and operations and operations and algebraic thinking you can see um from 23 to 24 midyear to 2425 midyear we had um we have accomplished a nice increase in both of those domains. Additionally um back to Mrs. Thompson um she has been supporting specifically some of our first grade students. She's been working directly with a group of our first grade students who just um could benefit from that extra support as well as providing some consultation to teachers again during that collaboration time um and really just as needed. She makes herself available. Okay, going to geometry. As you've all heard before, geometry is typically taught at the end of the school year when looking at the scope and sequence of a
014lot of our curricular um resources. Um we felt that we could improve this really simply by just um increasing the exposure of those geometry geometry concepts to our students throughout the school year and not just leaving that um primarily until the end of the year. So that's exactly what we did. So teachers start and or end their math block with it's kind of like an exit slip just a little practice sheet has um some geometry concepts on there as well as some other um concepts that they're reviewing in math. So they do one of those each day and then the teacher of course looks those over and grades them and then provides feedback and reteing as necessary um for our students. When you look at our overall um level of proficiency midyear in the domain
015of geometry from last year to this year, you can see we went up from uh 49% up to 61%. And then I also have a table just breaking that down um by specific cohorts. So we um you know we do not have some of our students that we had last year. So this is just another way of looking at that as well. So you can see that all of our cohorts with the exception of our our third grade cohort made um some significant gains in the domain of geometry. Okay. Um our last objective focuses on staff development and this was specific to supporting students who really needed um some additional extension. So, some of you might remember um me mentioning this at the end of the year last year, but one thing that we noticed
016was um that our students who were coming to us in the fall who are already early on or above grade level in a specific um math reading, they were making the least amount of growth. So, those are our students who made the least amount of growth last year. And so, that was obvious in both math and reading. So, we really wanted to focus in on how we can provide extension for our students who are ready for it. Um, and really what we've done is we've utilized our essential standards ladders to help determine what's next. So, we've met as a whole staff to um review some of our resources that we have around vertical alignment. So, really looking at and I'll pull this up. I added that arrow and the grade levels after because I realized
017that probably would help visually so it probably doesn't show in your packet. Um, but really that vertical alignment looking at okay if so for example on the bottom there in the yellow that's an essential standard for reading for second grade. So, if you have a second grader who is up to that three, that learning target four, and they are proficient, and let's say it's mid year or even just the first quarter of the year, and you're thinking, well, how can I continue to challenge this student? Um, now this isn't perfect in alignment. I know this is more work we're continuing to do amongst um our grade levels and looking at that vertical alignment, but basically what what you would do is look at then the third grades um essential standards ladder and kind of work
018your way up and see, okay, what can I continue to do instructionally when I'm working with a student in a small group to help um support their continued growth as well. So some data to go along with that. Um reading so students at above or early on that met typical midyear increased by 40% this year for reading. We didn't see as large of an increase for math um especially when looking at the size of our student body. But students at above or early on that met typical midyear increased by 5% um this year in math compared to last year. Again, that's midyear. Um I will say we didn't have as many students who came in at that at above or early on um grade level in math. All right. So I'm going to take a
019moment to share some additional happenings at Wilson School. So, our PTO is very supportive of engaging and providing experiences for our families and our students. Um, some things that we have had the opportunity to do already this year, we hosted a trunk or treat this fall. This was our second year doing that. Um, it's been very very well attended. I was really surprised. We had um an RSVP for 140 people. So considering that um our student body is 60, I thought that was pretty good. Um so we served uh I think burgers and chicken tenders at that event. So family get families got to come in, have a free dinner. The kids got to trickor treat out of some trunks out on our playground and we had some different fall themed games as well. Um
020they are always supportive in providing lunchons for our staff for parent teacher conference nights and um staff appreciation providing holiday treats for students. We just hosted our spring family night this last Friday. So we actually kind of tied that into like one of our title nights as well. So we have a specific math focus for that. Families came in. They got to play some different board games as well as some um card games. We had directions for multiple different card games they could play. We had pizza. We had gueststimation jars. So, um, everyone who was there seemed to have a good time. We had bingo just for fun. So, we did that, I think about a month ago. And of course, um, we are gearing up for our wildcat scampers. So, that is our fun
021run. We, um, do that in the spring. So, that will be early May here coming up. Um, we also do buddy classes for upper and lower grades. So, they do book buddies. Um, one thing that our first graders did for our third, fourth, and fifth graders this year, which was really neat, was they wrote a lot of um, encouraging letters to the third through fifth graders as they have started the or been working through the forward testing. Um, they even gave them water bottles and snacks to help them persevere. So, it was kind of neat to see our little first graders, you know, going upstairs with all their gifts to present to the students before um they took the state exam. Um for our holiday concert this year, we actually hosted it at Wilson School
022instead of at the high school. We thought that it would um be a little just extra special considering this is our last year together as an elementary school at Wilson. Um, so students got to perform in our gym. Our PTO supported and decorating and dazzling it up to make it look festive. Um, it was very well attended and I think the students enjoyed being able to um, perform in at Wilson School. Um, we had Bookfist Club. Again, this was a part of one of our title events, too. So, one morning um, we invited families to come on in to have some breakfast treats and read with their children. We also had um a representative there through a book fair. It wasn't Scholastic. Um it was actually through paper pie and it was really nice because
023as a part of that our PTO was not looking to fund raise but instead they were able to um allow families to be able to get some of those books at a a discounted price which was much appreciated. We do our monthly all school readalouds with an SEAL focus. Um we have students who participate in patrol. So we have greeters. Um we have students who obviously uh put the flag up every morning as well. Like all the other schools, our student council has been very active and spreading kindness around our school. They've been working on our bulletin boards. Right now um the last couple of months we've been talking a lot about putting our heart into it. So we how can you really put your heart into being kind? How can you put your heart
024into your learning goals? So, if you um are visiting Wilson School, you might see some hearts around on our bulletin boards. Um we have our positive office referrals, which are called our way to go wild cats. So, staff members can fill out basically an office referral stating that a student has done something that um they could come to the office to celebrate with Mrs. Jansma. And then we have our monthly assemblies where we um talk about our upcoming focus for the month, any schoolwide reflections, and um we celebrate our VIPs. So here's just a few pictures from some of those events. Bookfist Club, our one of our monthly VIPs up in the upper leftand corner. And then in the bottom lefthand corner, that's Wilson staff with Santa Claus. So we actually had Santa visit after
025our holiday concert. All right. Now, last but not least, I can't go without sharing um some of the ways we are supporting staff and students with the transition to Washington School next year. So, um, one thing that Paul and I had talked about when we were, we've met obviously multiple times, but when we were planning how we'd want to work in some transition activities for this school year was we really wanted to make sure it was balanced. Um, so we wanted we want to be obviously supportive of this transition, but we wanted to be careful that it wasn't overshadowing the entire school year. Um and that we are also really just focused on what we need to do this school year. So a lot of our big transition events I guess if you will the
026students are occurring in May which I will get to. Um again um the Wilson holiday concert that was kind of a part I guess of some of the transition conversation even with families and just acknowledging it was our last concert together as Wilson school. I have had some discussions with students individually also even at assemblies. We have acknowledged that during some of our assembly time together. I know that the teachers have all been um trickling that in too. Sometimes it just naturally comes up as students might have questions um in the classroom. Again, as earlier mentioned, we've been collaborating as a staff Wilson in Washington during our inservice time. So that's when we've been really engaging in some of that um collaborative work together and staff development. Um Mr. Wilson attended one of our Wilson
027staff meetings as well. So that was just within this last month. He attended to provide um some construction updates to Wilson staff especially for those obviously who will be transitioning over so that they were looped in as well. Um we just had ReadAcross America week. As a part of that, we invited some Washington staff over to be guest readers at Wilson School. So, we had three staff members come over. Um, we wanted to have staff members who the students would all interact with at some point next year. So, we had Mr. Wilson come over. We had um Mrs. Nil, Washington librarian, come over. And then we had Mrs. Bessie Washington counselor come over to read to Wilson's students. Um I realize this is a little small. PTO meetings. Um our PTO meetings. We actually just
028had a Washington PTO member come to our last PTO meeting at Wilson. Um I will be attending a PTO meeting at Washington in this upcoming month as well. So we are working to get those teams um working together and ready for that transition. And I know at this next meeting for Washington, they're going to be doing already a lot of planning for this fall. Our PTO purchased, which I have a picture of up there, Washington Bullock t-shirts for all of our students who will be transitioning over to Washington. So, the students have not seen those yet. Um, they are stored safely in my office because we do have um I'll get to some special events where we will be visiting Washington School. So much like the fun run, we have learned that you give them
029the t-shirt on that day that morning to put on because no guarantees that they'll come with it on that morning. Um and then our our PTO is just being extra thoughtful about how we can make some of our events even a little extra special. So we have our end of the year picnic. Um even our field day, which is the last day of school. So, there's a lot of things in discussion about how to get some extra fun activities, inflatables, space cleaning, different things um to just make it, you know, going out with a bang, I guess. Um upcoming events. So, again, these are more student focus. So, April 24th, Wilson will be attending Washington's paint night paint night. So, this is a a family event, an evening event. So, this will be a nice
030way to get our Wilson families in Washington school along obviously with their children and to be able to have some of those families come together. On May 9th, Washington does a virtual assembly every Friday morning. So, on May 9th, we will be joining their virtual assembly. Um, on May 14th, we actually have a planned visit where we will be busing students over to Washington schools. So, we are taking students over for a little tour, a Q&A, and then they are going to stay for lunch and recess that day as well. So, that's the day where they get their Washington shirts and they get to be a part of the Bulldog Pride. Um, as a part of that too, I know we're I think the plan is to have um some of the Washington student leaders
031help lead that tour and Q&A for the Wilson students. So, that'll be a nice way to um let some of those Washington students step up and welcome um Wilson students in. And then um last but not least, our Wilson community celebration will be on May 17th from 10 a.m. to noon. So, we will be having um getting out some advertisement to the community on that very soon here. And here's just some pictures from our guest readers. We have Mr. Wilson there on the left, Mrs. Nil there in the middle and Mrs. Bessie over on the right. Um, I had the opportunity to go in when Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Bessie were reading. The students were really engaged. Mr. Wilson reads scissors. He even played rock paper scissors with some students. Um, he even came back
032the next day to bring some candy that he owed a student. beat him in rock, paper, scissors. Um, Mrs. Vessie, it was cool because Mrs. Nil read the word collector, which actually um reread that book last year as a whole um school as well and did some activities around that. So, that was kind of neat to be able to bring them back to that. And then Mrs. Vessie read a book about kindness, which is really nice, and had some follow-up activities for the students to do as well. So that is all that I have for you this evening. Does anyone have any questions? Mrs. No, I'll just say uh Mary and I went to the uh coffee chat. I thought we had a wonderful time. Appreciate you having us there. Uh we got through a
033couple classrooms. Um our kindergarten classroom. We did some uh drawing and you know uh what did I draw? Mattman. I think me and a one of the students were drawing Mattman. So picture him. I'm not sure. But um and then um third grade we got to the third grade classroom. They were studying for the forward. Uh but just engaged kiddos in in the entire school. So um commend you and and and the rest of the staff on a on a a great um environment and I hope the Ford went well for y'all. Thank you. Oh, and and there was a Gary Spielman sighting, so report that to the board. We did see Gary. Yes. Thank you. Well, thank you very much. Um, I really appreciate everything that you and your staff are doing at the
034school. You keep keeping things moving forward and good. And I like to see all the effort that you guys are putting into the transition plan to make that as painless and seamless as possible. full confidence that'll it'll work out just great again. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Okay, we'll move on to 8.2 high school out of state trip requests. Good evening everyone. Um before I get into the out of state trips, um just want to throw out a few things. We've got a two really uh important weeks coming up here at the high school, just wanted to put this on your schedule. So tomorrow night, uh the spring band concert is at the high school in the auditorium at 7:30. And then next week, um on the 22nd, the annual
035WBEV career fair will be at the high school in the fieldhouse. So stop on by for that. And then the next day, the 23rd, we will host our annual collegiate signing day in the auditorium. Currently, we have about 12 student athletes that are committing to uh participating in uh collegiate sports. So, that's going to be streamed on the Daily Dog this year, but we'd love to have people in. Uh it just makes that environment uh even stronger. And then, of course, we are in the midst of prom season. On April 26, we will have prom at the high school. Uh the grand march is at 4:00 p.m. Uh prom itself is at Old Hickory again this year starting at 6:00. We have a dinner and then dance. So if any of you would like to
036be there for the dance, you stop on through. Chaperon, maybe show off some moves. And then postp prom will be I recommend against it. Uh postp prom again is at the Dodge County YMCA starting at 10:30. Mr. Tronson will be there. Uh water park is open for anyone that wants to attend that as well. So, uh, lots of events coming up if you're so interested in attending. Thank you. Um, I am here for, uh, two specific out ofstate, uh, request. Both of these came up, um, rather recently. They weren't part of our September or even December, uh, approvals just because at that time we didn't know. Um, I will be back next September on a whole big batch of them again. Um, so mark your calendars. Uh the first one is uh the robotics world
037championship. This is in your board packet on um the 16th and 19th of this month. We are a little late. This one's unique. Uh Owen Hemling is part of our robotics team. Um received a robotics award for his improvement and showcase of STEM skills. Uh he will be traveling to Houston, Texas with Melissa Hemling, his mother. Uh so it's a little bit more unique than uh other groups I go. Uh but he'll be going down there. What a great opportunity. I know Cole's going as well um in in mingling with other people in robotics uh in STEM as that program continues to develop. Uh the second one uh actually also came from Melissa Hemling and this just happened recently. Um it's the Morgridge summer science camp. Um Melissa Hemling applied for a grant uh and
038uh was received this. This offers a free science research camp for up to five students of our choosing uh plus uh purchasing lab supplies for our school. Um Melissa will be volunteering as a teacher at that event that takes place over 5 days on W Madison's campus and you know WMadison is a very strong research school. So what a great opportunity for our kids right in our backyard. Uh there is no cost to it other than transportation to get there. uh but it is overnight so they get to experience dorm life. So uh those are the two requests I'm asking uh for approval on. Um I did include um just as a note all of our different um state qualifiers and different events throughout the fall and the winter. Hopefully I have all sorts of
039things to add this spring. But I do want to highlight before I pass on here, um, Skills USA, which is something we started this year. I've talked about it a couple times over the last couple years. Uh, Scott Douly and Mackenzie Chico are running that. And in their first year, and they haven't even been doing it the full year, they were able to have Reese Shuit, a student at the high school, qualify for the national tournament under the power equipment technology with a specific focus on powers sports. uh he finished first place at the state competition. Uh he will not be going. He he made the choice not to go. Um it is ultimately a choice and there are very a variety of reasons but we still want to recognize his achievement and and his
040accomplishment not only Reese's but the accomplishments of the program in less than a year having that output. I I I think Skills USA is a tremendous asset to our school and our learning community and I think is only going to continue to grow not only what our students are capable of doing, but also our community partnerships, not only in Beaver Dam, but in the surrounding area. So, that's a long way of saying I am looking for approval on the two um trips. Anyone got any questions for Mr. Gerber or Mr. Tron? Mr. Tronson's here, too. Yes. Anyone got any questions for either one of them? I don't really have a question. I just wanted to comment. I'm glad you you mentioned again the people who have, you know, been involved in the in the past
041here, including Max over there. And um I make a motion that we accept the um accept the what the overnight state approve state trip approvals as presented. Second. Okay, we have a mo motion and a second to approve the overnight trip requests made. Um, if there's not any other discussion or questions, I'll everyone in favor signify by saying I. I. Oh, this is roll call. I'm sorry. Nicole, roll call, please. Yes. [Music] Yes. Yes. Okay. Sorry about that. I get carried away in the moment. That's okay. And again, 4:26 prom, 6:00, DJ start. So, anyone that's interested, there's great food at Old Hickory, too. I just want to put that out there. All right. Thank you very much. Okay, we'll move on. Uh board reports be presented by the board of education 9.1 uh student
042rep. Hello. So, since my last report, um students across the district were able to enjoy a long anticipated spring break. Um activities did slow down over this week, but it was vital to students recuperating before the end of the school year. Um freshman and sophomores at the high school took the pre-ACT standardized test. Um this helped the school get diagnostics to track students learning, but also helped the students gain practice um for the real ACT coming up their junior year. Um, speaking of the ACT, the juniors did take their ACT test and have gotten their results back. So, that crossed off a big test from the high school checklist. Um, this past month has also had a lot of leadership conferences and competitions for student organizations in the high school. So, I'm just going to
043highlight a few of those. Um, as Mr. Gerber alluded to, Skills USA competed in the state competition in their first year. They we had teams in medical terminology, power and equipment, automotive maintenance and light repair, 3D printing and technical drafting. And one student did take first in power equipment technology and did qualify for the national competition in June. Um Key Club had their annual Wisconsin and Upper Mission GI convention. Um, Beaverdam did or will be well represented this coming year on the state level as they had four students elected state officers serving as the district secretary and treasurer, district director of committees, district lieutenant governor and the highest state position district governor. So, Beaveram will be represented on the state well and good luck to those individuals on their future year of service. FCCLA had
044their state leadership conference and a student took home gold rating on our hopeful suitcases project in the focus on children level three competition. And FFA had 48 students compete at state qualifying career development events competition. Of those 48, 32 qualified to compete in state and the teams were eggs, agriculture sales, aronomy, farm management, forestry, livestock, poultry evaluation, science, and wildlife. And since I've wrote this report, we actually have got one state result back. Last Friday, our egg sales team competed at state. We got second for the third year in a row. So, it's a little bit disappointing. We were hoping to win this year, but Brianna Gansky took first place individually, so that was pretty cool. And the aggra science department also recently welcomed four baby piglets to the classroom. And students have begun gaining
045real world experience with activities such as clipping needle teeth, iron shots, and other things that farmers do when their baby piglets are born. And finally, the drama department put on a production of the play Trap. I was not able to attend, but I heard it was very well put on and very interesting. In the last month, I look forward to closing out my term as student rep and seeing how the district is getting ready to wrap up the school year. Any questions for Max? Well, thank you, Max. I do think you need to auction something off though next month. Well, I will tell you guys this. So, um, last week, I think it was Tuesday, I got a text message from a random number and it said that they were in dire need of an
046auctioneer at a banquet and I did decide to do it and so I did I did auction for a banquet last week and I raised $13,000. Good deal. I thought I would have to tell you guys that you are invested in my auctioneering. There you go. But I I I think maybe next month he should give us a little presentation, little demo of your skills. Okay, we better bring some money if he's going to be auctioning something off. Maybe Mark, we can auction her. I can decide where I'm going. All right. Thank you, Max. All right, we'll move on to 9.2. Before we get into 9.2, two, we got a typo in the agenda that we got item A that's under board engagement recognition should be under operations. So just we're going to Okay, it's
047just a typo. I think it might be right on there is just not yours. Oh, that could be too. I don't know. Maybe mine's not right. I don't know. But anyways, that's what mine shows. Anyways, so move on to operations committee. Okay. Um there was no operations committee meeting in March and our next meeting is April 28th. Um, we do typically do a referendum projects update and at this time I would like to ask Joanne or John if they have any updates because I know they attended the last um meeting in regard to that. Yeah, John and I attend the meetings that are every other week um to follow the plans to be participate in the committee um and to um stay in touch with the plans. We're at the phase now where they're really
048working on the schematic uh design drawings and um they have been um wrapping up the design phase meeting with the uh the staff as well and have received a lot of valuable input from the staff as well as the committee. So as those drawings are completed they've begun um some est cost estimating and everything is coming in really nice. So there's um everything is looking really good with that. The plans are looking beautiful. um they're working on exterior um materials and concepts and that is coming uh wrapping up as well. So the I believe that the uh they were out there looking at the land and kind of surveying the land and getting ready for that process. Now um that has begun with Washington Elementary. We had the honor of participating in the groundbreaking with
049a number of the Washington Bulldogs. Um they really did a great job throwing dirt in the air and it landed on all of us. They were they were pretty excited. So, that was awesome as well. And I know some of the other projects districtwide um that are set for this summer are getting going. If you get a chance to just drive by Washington, you can uh from Grove Street see some work on in progress. So, that's pretty fun to take a little roundabout. So, any any questions for Joan at all? Cashing up for some other updates. Ryan, would you like to give us some other updates you got there, please? Yeah, just to expand on uh Joann's referendum updates, uh she had mentioned some delineation going on at the middle school uh location. So that's
050the wetland delineation and final surveying did begin last week. The DNR was on site. Um and that will be completed once the growing s the growing season is underway. Um at Washington, our phase one uh bid package two, the budget cost and the subcontractor onboarding is completed. Uh our projected budget is lining up very well with our current uh bids that we have at this time. And the $27 million from the first bond insu issuance has been invested in a variety of CDs and treasuries um that come due throughout the project to help help our cash flow. So, as the cash flow, we know when we're going to have certain bills due, these CDs are coming due, and then we'll we'll make those bills. Um, as far as the summer projects, so I know I've
051updated you all three or four times. Um, ideally, this will be the last update before we actually start on these projects, but, uh, they're they're slated to start on June 2nd. Uh for the most part, there is uh certain pieces of the project that could start that last week of school as long as it doesn't interfere with any of our student activities or student learning. Um but these projects include the playgrounds at Jefferson and Prairie View, uh some ADA accessibility improvements at the high school and Jefferson, safety improvements at the high school and the ESC, and the new varsity softball field at the high school. Um, we are expecting to release bids for uh the referendum projects on April 25th. So, we will have those back middle of May. Ideally, get contractors going. There's been
052a lot of interest. So, we're um there's a lot of opt optimism on on these projects going forward. So, it's exciting. Busy, but exciting. So, I think just one other last little thing I'd like to mention is I really wanted to thank um the report from the architects was uh when they met with the staff, how thoughtful that input was from all the middle school staff um to make their spaces the best learning opportunity and what a great chance to to really design a space a new space for learning at the middle school. And it's exciting to see some the wing with all of the specials come together and all the thought going into the art rooms and the new egg room at the middle school and some of the things we've never had the
053opportunity to offer um in the school building we're in. Just the excitement uh for the staff to be able to do so much better um with the facilities at the new building. So, it's been an honor to be part of that project. I'm sure I speak for John as well. That's good. Any questions for Ryan? Mr. Hman at all. Nothing. I I was just going to comment that um for anybody who's listening that the monthly report on the on the progress is posted on our website if anybody does want to see that. So, um feel free. That's kind of what we're looking at that way. So, anything else? All right. Thank you, Mr. Cashman. All right. We'll move on to 9.3. Teaching and learning. Uh, teaching and learning also did not meet in March and
054the next meeting is scheduled for April 28th. All right. Thank you, Lisa. Uh, we'll move on to 9.4 board engagement and recognitions. Anyone want to start? Um, I just want to recognize I uh don't have students in the high school now, but this this amount of things I see on social media that our schools are involved with in the high school and the number of the opportunities kids have that they didn't have even just a few years ago, like we mentioned earlier, the Skills USA, but all of the um increased um things for the face department and for the uh DECA club that we didn't have even just a few years ago. how just inspiring it is for me to see that as well as how excited the community gets for baby pigs in the
055egg room and all of the other things going on. And thanks to the extra work that the staff does to really work with these kids um outside of their normal school day and to help them have opportunities that are ever increasing. I would just like to recognize all my fellow board members that got reelected for another three years. So that's right. That's awesome. and I look forward to working with you guys again. We got a lot of great things to do yet and and that and we're it's exciting. It really is. Yeah. Speaking of the board election, I was involved with the board of canvasers just to make sure that all the votes were counted appropriately and the numbers agreed and um and everything was fine. So, there wasn't any questions. Um, I also participated
056in the wellness committee and that group of ladies are really gung-ho with a lot of different things and uh you know recipes and um e exercise and dancing and whatever. So, um it's a good good group. Uh like to have a little bit of male input once in a while, but that's kind of hard to get them to come to that meeting. So, um, I did go to the tennis, the boys tennis home opener last Tuesday. Um, I don't know that much about tennis. U, but I learned a little bit more. Uh, it was a little chilly, but at least there was some sun. Um, kind of fast-paced. They look like they're having fun out there, so I really enjoyed it. I want to give a shout out to the Beaver Dam track and field
057teams who participated at the Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantry on Saturday morning. Had a really good showing from them. They did a great job. So, that's really nice to see. And then um also just another shout out to Wilson. Um just um enjoyed going through the the school building and um saw some great phonics work while we were there. Um so that was fun to see too. Um, and I'm sure uh I will fill you in on the treats that we had and and my son did go to the play and he did say it was interesting. That was his description. That's all he would tell me. Nice. I couldn't go. Um, so this past uh month I had an opportunity I was out and about quite a bit. Um, we'll start with the the
058community theater, which uh a bunch of our students were part of a uh a play called the 33 little pigs. Speaking of the little piglets that were born, but this one's a little different. It's based upon the um the big bad wolf story and the three little pigs. But a big shout out to all those kiddos. They put a ton of work into it and it was a really really great play. A fun funny play. Um so that was a that was good to go to. I stopped by the swing into spring, the literacy night at Lincoln. Um that was pretty well attended with a bunch of their um families. So um some some good information, you know, for families to use uh just with with reading and and um you know, literacy in general.
059Uh after that, we stopped into art the art night at the middle school. Uh a bunch of um great artwork there. um some some uh the instruments and a lot of a lot of um a lot of talent in that building for sure without a doubt. So that was nice to see. Um yep, we went to Wilson. The uh blueberry scones is what I ended up having. Uh that was they were good. They had bunch of sugar on them and some you know fresh blueberries. So I was happy. Um I'm not sure for the year. I think I was thinking about this a little bit today. I think the the egg bake at uh Jefferson I think is is maybe what took what kind of took the cake this year. Uh we're not calling it
060a kiche either because I don't believe it was a kiche. I think it was cake. So So that's uh that that's my take on that. And then last but not least, I want to personally thank Mr. Bronson for inviting me to be a judge for the chili cookoff at the high school on their inservice day. We had 12 chilies um in the contest that were entered in the contest. Um uh 12 chilies I got to try that day. Uh about two two three ounces of chili of each and they were really really good. I thoroughly impressed with with with the work that those folks did. Um so I I want to just personally thank the staff and you Mr. Johnson for having me cuz that was really really enjoyable. Um I a big shout out
061to to the winners. I don't remember exactly uh who we had but um I do know that the the judges first choice also won I think second or third from their peers. So, that was a it was a good entry, that's for sure. And, uh, I did go back for seconds, so I'll be real honest with you. Thanks for having me, Mr. Johnson. Anything else from the board before I turn it over to Mr. Dphano? Mr. Dphano, you're up. All right. I just have a couple. I wanted to echo the uh, thanks to Ashley, um, also the whole staff at Wilson, and then, um, Paul. uh whenever you uh decide you you need his input on stuff too, but just the work you guys are doing with the transition. So, I'm really excited about that
062team uh coming together and know it's going to go well because of the time that you guys put in. So, really appreciate that. Um I know that cat's out of the bag a little bit on this, but I want to reiterate um my recognition for uh Brandon Krauss as a co-fellow, principal leader in the state of Wisconsin. It's a pretty significant uh award. we will find more opportunities to embarrass uh Brandon uh for that recognition. Um and he will be the first to say that um you know it's a it's a shared lift. So and it's his team and the work that they're doing. But um his vision is stickiness and focus uh is what brings some of that um to fruition. So uh commend you one of 14 out of thousands of principles in
063the state that get that recognition. So very significant. Um, also we are a month away really from um a number of celebrations as it relates to scholarships um and awards and other designations and we always recognize the students and we will do that again in a month but uh proactively just want to recognize the donors and the businesses and the commitment that our community makes. Um several hundred,000 annually are distributed to our students um that are coming from Beaver Dam High School. So, that's a pretty significant and unique niche uh to be able to have that opportunity and I know our kids um and the families appreciate it very much and they use it very very well. So, I just want to uh take a moment to thank the the donors and the businesses and
064others that contribute or participate in making sure that that's an awesome experience uh for our kids. That's all I got. Okay. Well, thank you. All right. I move the board recess into a close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 85 PN1 PNC C considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility specifically to discuss specific employees or employee groups and 19.85 85 PN1 PNE deliberating or negotiating the purchase of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business wherever competitive or bargaining reasons require a close session. Second. Okay, we have a motion a second to go into close session. Nicole, could I have a roll call vote, please? Yes. Yes. Okay, we'll be back. Good night. ready to
065go. Okay. Um we'll move on to item 12, district policies and guidelines 121 retirements. Elementary school effective July 24th, 2025 has been with us for 33 years. I move the board approve the resignations and retirement as presented. Second. Okay. A motion and second to approve the resignations and retirements as presented. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. There are two leaves of your consideration tonight. I move the board approve the two leaves of absence as presented. Second. Okay, we have a motion and second to approve the leaves of absence as presented. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Two appointments for your consideration tonight. One is for Morgan Piran, grade two teacher at Washington Elementary School for the 256 school
066year. and the other is Summer Salat, grade one teacher at Washington Elementary School for the 256 school. I move the board approve the appointments as presented. Second. Okay, we have a motion, a second to approve the appointments as presented. Um, Nicole Clever will call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Moving item four, preliminary notice of non-renewable pursuit 118.22 in the associated processes and timelines requirements. We are requesting the board's approval for nonrenewal to staff members. As part of an effort to staff to enrollment and structure these non-renewals are necessary because even though we intend to employ both individuals, the required percentage of employment needed contract. I'm requesting that you approve the preliminary non-renal notices for Brad Garden. So moved. Second. Excuse me. We have a a motion and a second to approve the prelim preliminary notice
067of non-renewals. Um all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. 12.5 Renewal teacher contracts for 2025 2026. Renewal of teacher contracts is a statuto requirement every year. At this time, I'm asking for your approval granting the administration the authority to issue teacher contracts to current certified staff on the 2526 school year. With your approval, we will then issue teacher contracts no later than May 15th, and teachers must return them signed no later than June 15. I move the board uh approve the renewal of teacher contracts for the 2025 2026 school year. Second. You have a motion and a second to renew for the renewal of the teacher contracts for the 2025 2026 school year. Nicole, could I have a roll call vote, please? Yes. Yes. Yes. John, yes. Yes.
068Yes. Yes. Thank you. All right. We'll move on to 12.6 board policy updates. All right. This evening, you have before you the final reading for your consideration of policy updates. Again, we do our policy updates in partnership with Niola. Um, in this fall or excuse me, in this spring slate of policy updates, there are three new policies. Uh, policy 2440.01, summer interim school attendance. Policy 5411, third grade promotion and retention at risk students and policy 8125 consultants. A note on policy 5411. Um, that is in alignment with act 20. um follows the the law and statutory requirements associated with that. Again, there are three new there are 28 revisions, three replacements and three rescended. Again, as you saw in the first reading last month, uh with the rescended pieces um generally speaking, that has to
069do with redundancy or uh the necessary language associated with those u rights or processes u already being held in other policies. Any questions for Mark? If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve the final reading. I move we approve the policies as presented. Second. Okay, we have a motion, a second to approve the policies as presented. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Payment of claims. I move for payment of claims in the amount of $7,411,39347. Second. Okay. Motion, a second to approve the payment of claims. Uh Nicole, have a roll call vote, please. Yes. If there's nothing else, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Motion a second to adjurnn. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Same sign.