001good evening everyone and welcome to the Wednesday October 12th 2022 uh Franklin Board of Education meeting uh the meeting has been properly posted can we have a roll call please yes Mrs wowski here Mr alexandrovic here Mrs superski here Dr Khan here Dr beer here Mr spr here we are all present thank you can we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all thank you I'm looking for a motion uh to approve the agenda move second motion's been made and seconded all in favor I opposed motion carries thank you Community comment um participants under this agenda item must be residents of the Franklin Public School District
002um please uh please limit your statements to three minutes um I know there are only there's only one person signed up to speak tonight but um three minutes um it's I I think something we want to stick to per board policy administrative rules 8300 um uh Walt please I hope I said your name right wal so bringing up a topic that's hitting hard with the around the country um was transgender and lgbtq rights and all that stuff so my sixth grader got the email about the sage group sexual gender class or Club empowerment and she got like six emails about it talking about lgbtq rights and they're going to support the unite the community and you know all that stuff promoting you know I'm just concerned at this whole now this is my sixth grade
003daughter I don't think we should be promoting transgender lgbtq rights and all that stuff in in Middle School it started in the high school and this is my concern it starts in the high school well it starts in you know older kids transition to the high school now it's in the middle school and what next year is going to be my third grade class like I don't this it's sexuality okay it should be out of the classrooms if you want to teach that in your home stays in a home okay and this whole I might be a conspiracy theorist and all this stuff we've seen across the country people having drag shows in schools what where do we go next with this take it out take all this political what you want to call it
004political or not it is if you believe in that stuff that's fine teach in the home my sixth grader is going to be 12 when I got up today she's doing her homework she's coloring she went to play with her friends you know kicking the ball she's not worried about transgender and sexual and what her friends look like I mean come on do we really need to be teaching this stuff to these kids kids okay and I'm not going to get all graphic what I've seen and what this leads to but it's disgusting okay you don't need to be teaching my kid this get all the Flags out blue lies flags lgbtq flags transgender flags all these Ally stuff there's teachers and now you say a lot of people said well this is a volunteer
005club right it's after school she can volunteer go on her own you don't have to go well when you're naking announcements about it you're sending her email not me emails the kids emails on their laptops well what do you think they're going to do they're going to read that and now they're like well what what is lgbtq now I got to had that conversation and now it's like okay now I got to tell them what transgender is the mutilation of our kids not processing with you know a sixth grader okay let's please move on from this teach your kids every time I've come here all we talk about is how bad are reading scores math scores are let's get back to that okay let's just teach that stuff all right and then um I don't
006know what else I want to say I want to say a lot had a lot in my mind about this but I think this is the starting point we need to have conversations about this as adults do we really want to be teaching our kids this stuff leave it at home not in schools okay thank you thank you uh item five um consent agenda I'm looking for a motion to approve the consent agenda so move second motion's been made and seconded all in favor I opposed motion carries thank you School Board calendar board of education Workshop uh Wednesday October 26 at 2020 uh 2022 at 5:30 at the ECC and that will be followed at 6:30 um or thereabouts with the regular Board of Education meeting um and uh there is a regular Board of
007Education meeting Wednesday November 9th 2022 at the ECC at 6 uh District administrator update Mrs bennon please all right well good evening um last week we celebrated as a community homecoming week so saw a lot of people out and about for the parade pep rally powder P events um football game a lot of sporting events last week almost all of our teams were competing uh we also had Forte opening night and three night production of uh Sound of Music and we had positive reports from our shuttle bus that we offered during our overflow of parking on Friday evening so we're glad that worked out for us um transportation just to kind of give an update we're about a week and a half into the adjustments that we made last Monday some of those adjustments included
008rerouting of students or filling routes um more stops on routes to eliminate the amount of routes that we need so that's allowed for us to have all am routes running we still have a number of PM routes that are not running um and are waiting for more drivers to work through the program um and pass the test so that we can get some of those on the road right now the rerouting has allowed most of our families that are still without transportation are at least closer to schools we know that's still not positive for those families and we hate that we have to report that but that's our current situation uh we have added bus route information to power school for parents to access so we continue to push out to check for updates there
009but obviously any big changes we'll send Communications to the families um that are affected but we continue to thank our families for having backup plans we're glad that there hasn't been new changes or cancellations but we are still working to get to a full run which we haven't been at yet this year um and another exciting thing our key communicators Group which the board and the administrative team are collaborating around have our first meeting next Wednesday evening um it's going to include about 46 members of the community which include some internal stakeholders teachers administrators board members um and then some external City officials the police department's represented business owners religious leaders we have a legislator representing our idea of this group is to offer an opportunity to share more of what our goals and priorities
010are as a district but also engage in conversation to gain a little feedback um and to help us grow but then also to get the message out to more people about what we're doing and what we stand for in Franklin Public Schools there will be three meetings along um throughout this year for the co for the not for the cohesion sorry for the key communicators to talk about the coherence plan so we look forward to that opportunity thank you thank you reports presentations and other Schoolboard business uh community and Recreation Department report Mr Anderson please thank you for having me here tonight um I want to talk about the report that we gave you that encompasses last year I want to highlight a couple things in the report um program has more than doubled since
011last year which is exciting we talked about when we got out away from Co what would happen with numbers and they're actually going very well our adult Fitness uh participants more than tripled um we've had a very large number in bad Mitten and all of our fitness classes um our youth sports and camps have almost doubled our soccer leagues are up over 250 again our youth basketball is over 350 um there's exciting thing with youth sports right now is it's called The Quad City Group uh made up of four Rec departments who offer Youth Sports to kids at our Middle School age it's a tough group for us to get enough kids to actually form teams they've decided that each team will host or each Community will host so we've got volleyball in April which
012gets us out of our busy period for gyms um and we can take all those registrants that we get they'll form a team and they'll travel to the different communities and play instead of canceling that um so that's a very positive thing um on the downside our flag football our adult tours which was our shopping trips to Chicago a couple times a year in our adult computer classes um have not come back um don't have teachers and then some of them we just didn't have the interest to run those classes I think flag football the youth football group has done a great job of picking those kids up and we don't want to compete so um we're on the fence whether or not we're going to actually run flag football on our rec guide from
013here on out if we do we would be looking them to potentially send those kids like we did we talked about to that Quad City group and let them play against some other communities that way if they're truly interested in just playing flag uh facility usage um in the report I kind of highlighted the windows off of policy 3630 that shows you the booking windows for groups um right now we're 500 hours over where we were last year um that's going to continue to grow a lot of that is with the high school and with the rec department um making up that first window you've got the high school with a lack of a a Fieldhouse they are using Forest Park a lot you've got spring Sports coming in the winter right now and they're
014taking two days a week two nights a week using all three gyms for soccer and Lacrosse um girls basketball is out at Ben Franklin The jvn Freshman practicing Toms is yearly at Pleasant View so you're seeing that the lack of space at the high school is forcing and rightfully so out out to the neighboring schools that we have the rec department for the first time is having to limit our youth basketball um we guess at how many teams we think we're going to have each year we guessed that 27 because last year we had 20 and we've got more than that now so we do just like everybody else you see the window we have to book so we grab and Reserve time there's not time nor would we at this point take it back
015from somebody from the other windows I don't think that's fair I think you're seeing groups potentially coming in here and saying we need space we need space that trickle down effect that we've talked about for years is happening U people are being affected by these programs not being able to happen in the schools um so really something needs to be looked at for more indoor space particularly at the high school um last year about this time you had given us the authority to continue to plan for space dedicated space for the rec department um we looked into two different models connected to the ECC and a standalone facility um we were shocked at the numbers that came back um we were used to looking at the numbers preo and as you know construction costs were
016up about 25% um so we kind of work through redesigning the building down to a bare minimum went from roughly 13,000 square feet to 9500 square feet we're still short fund balance money right now to build um we're working with Mr chromy on the possibility of if there's a future building project um Park the thing that got us was looking at parking lots permitting fees um things like that to do the building we could probably do that but we didn't think about all the other things that have to happen bad soil leveling um so we're thinking about is there a potential building project that this could marry up to that would help um and then I also wanted to let you know that um last year we took in over 10,000 registrations there were 777
017individual requests for facilities that we processed in the district that's all after school hours or before school um so it's been a busy year and I think like we've talked about previously this is going to continue I think the numbers that uh we've had previous to co is going to come back even more um our computer software that we have was updated last year so when you look at the facility usage portion of it it looks like it's more than last year it actually is but what happens is it only counts the permit as one time so if you have five dates it counts it as one so although these numbers are up $500 it's up drastically more um and and you'll see that next year too that that'll this first year will be kind
018of our Benchmark year so it's hard to compare it to previous years um and even with that it's up 500 hours so the community is using the buildings which is great um we're we're at that point where there's a Tipping Point um we need to do something we need to plan for something at the high school um get the high school teams back on site and relief some of the the schools out in the community please Linda yes how many collaborations do you have with other entities number of programs or how many communities do we actually collaborate with well I um either one whatever works for you um currently we collaborate with moso Old Creek Greendale Greenfield and now this quad group is St Francis cut um and O Creek what does that look like
019so what are you sharing people um right now it's facilities it's uh instructors um our co-ops basically are if if we have an instructor it's a firsttime class for us and we're unsure whether it's going to run we'll throw a certain amount of spots out to neighboring communities so that we can make sure it runs for Franklin residents and that's the same model that the other departments use so whoever has the most participants they they host it or how's that work no we we divide up costs so if we charge $20 in the cost is $12 for supplies and for the instructor we give that $12 to say Old Creek and we keep the eight in housee and how are we doing swimming now uh swimming is still at Innovative it's been there for two
020years um I've got in the two years I've gotten two calls on it one was the coupon was expired that was in our rec guide and the other one was they love the fact that the pools are warm and that they've got bigger lockers to put their stuff in so that's worked out well nobody's no I've not heard anybody called to ask can you take it back okay um and are we using any additional space now in I mean I've went through the the uh the guide I saw that there were some classes held at in Franklin is that correct during the day correct that's been what we've done for years now um it actually reduced by one class because of enrollment in the lunch hours so we've got I think there's two classes right
021there right now and there senior classes for senior citizens one's a Parkinson's class and another one A movement class so not only are we utilizing a before and after school we're also using spaces during school as an option yeah that's the only school we can um the other ones we can't um previous to the enrollment influx at Franklin's had we used to be at countrydale we had our own room there six and seven there was div divisible walls we had youth teaching seniors computer classes slowly but surely with the growth of Franklin it's kind of boxed us out and then with security I mean there wasn't 10 15 years ago there wasn't the security that was there now at these schools so yeah Ben Franklin's about the only school we have to program right now
022during the day and I could really see this in the future probably not happening um so that there's a there's definitely a need for daytime programming space and what were we able to add with the the new middle school that's that's only two years old two three years old and was it planned to provide some additional space we've taught cooking classes there um even during Co we were able to spread people out with the TVs that they have that you can actually see the person cooking you don't have to be right on top of them um we have part of our youth basketballs there on Saturdays our bad mitt program during the week on Saturdays and Sundays is there indoor for seniors but like like I talked about the high school uses Forest Park after
023their Forest Park uses it we have a running thing there we can get in at six o'clock so we know that all of their athletic events will be done custodians will be cleaned up by then more usage so right now two nights a week um the high school is there with their spring Sports boys volleyball will be wrapping up here the middle of October they're under level teams um so when you look at it that way you take those three gyms out of play for two nights so Forest Park we we've not done much in the gym other than pickle ball because the community needs it so we've left our stuff out at the elementary schools but were there spaces added the Comm isn't there a at force park yeah no inter with a uh
024first of all Brad thanks I appreciate the um I appreciate the history lesson in this um we hear about it sometimes but it's nice to see it written down I appreciate that the school district now owns it and we've owned it for a while and and that that's the history of going through it I appreciate that um the um the Poss possibility of a new building would that would what would that Building look like in terms of what would the facility be is would it be classrooms would it be athletic are there Fields involved I know we don't know exactly but but what do you see it as it really would depend upon how it fits within the district um obviously if it's at Luxemburg you'd have green space there um I'm not looking to
025build gyms um I it wouldn't one we don't have the money to do something like that secondly our need is for programming space rooms such as this um several of those where we could have senior citizen programming parent child with infants um all of that stuff but um the thing that we consistently hear is that um daytime programming space for seniors where they can stay they get done it's more of a social thing too they'd like to stay have coffee talk um so would be programming that way it would allow us to pull some of those auxiliary gym classes that we have for Fitness over to a larger room like this to get it out of the elementary schools but I would not look to build a gym um if we were connected a future
026building site or building project and there was a gym attached that the district needed that potentially could be turned over at night to the community we would definitely program anything that was available and and so alleviating this is this is really two separate things we we we need a community at w and we talked about that last year and um there was there was largely consensus but there's also likely a need for more gymnasium space at some point but that doesn't that doesn't have anything to do with Community Anda I me it does but it's right we do the facility usage for the entire District so we do all seven buildings before school or after school so schools turn in their permits to us what they're going to do after school we build that calendar
027so we house it um the one thing you hear out in the community and we hear it it's frustrating to us is that the rec department won't give us more time there is no more time we're not hiding anything it's out online for people to see and that's one of the reasons why we wanted the software we had was you can go out and look yourself and see and if you find something we'll permit it for you but there just isn't that time and that's why I bring up facility usage is because we're the ones that keep the calendar work with the custodians on setup takedowns the groups things like that please um if you had to sort of thank you Mr Anderson if you had to identify like which group do you think is
028getting the short end of the stick at this point or I'm just curious who who are we squeezing the most I I it sounds bad but really everyone I mean the high school would want their coaches to have longer practices they would like access Community ad Rec would love to have more gym time to open up everything that we would want to do we used to have um volleyball leagues men's basketball leagues weed to have open volleyball open basketball we have none of that anymore like for adults right um we don't do any of that anymore that was that group that was 18 to 34 35 um so we don't do any of that anymore your travel teams um really are underserved um and those travel teams are um picked by the varsity coaches to
029to be recognized to to help run their schemes and things to help with the future Varsity program they don't have enough gym time um Special Olympics now um really has been in the district for a while practicing um what was left was an auxiliary gym um because the bigger gyms are too loud for them but it didn't work their schedule so they're they're searching it it's trickled down to just about everybody um with the need for space Brad in regard to the older people looking for places have we approached the library or local churches we' we've approached the library um the thing with the library is you can't program consecutive weeks and days they were good about the the chair yoga that we had done but that's starting to run its course now where they're
030because they're so popular I mean we we started with one we're at four so we're tying up some of their bigger rooms on multiple night during the daytime and they don't want to do that the um churches we've talked to several of them and it's that same thing um they have classes that they do during the daytime theyve partnered with us and you could get a oneoff or a class series The Love Thy Neighbor senior citizen series that travels around right now is is out at Victory of the Lamb we helped coordinate that but we talked okay he's got community rooms and some infant rooms can we run some classes no um they keep that for in-house programming for themselves so we we've looked at trying to do that we've looked at storefronts as their
031way to run something but by the time you build it out it's not cost effective for what what we charge people regarding the swimming so if any community members want to do the swimming because we are off at the high school Place anymore is it the same pricing or they have to pay the Innovative pricing right now Innovative gives 10% discount to anybody that signs up with a code that's in the rec book um so it's it still is if you were a member of innovative you'd be paying probably $10 less than if you were somebody signing up with our code um I've talked to Scott Cole who's the owner of inov Fitness he loves helping but he's like he's he first he did the same price and you can imagine what his members said
032paying a monthly fee and people from outside the community so he had to raise it a little bit but Scott's been more than generous with switching from only doing evening now he does daytime he does weekend so he's tying up his pool and obviously he's got the numbers of of kids and adults wanting to take swimming lessons there to do it but it it would cost a little bit more than if you were strictly a member and Innovative how how close are we um in terms of in terms of um in terms of the fund balance um Mr chomy um so we're probably at about 70% um roughly 500,000 short but we haven't bid anything out so it's talking to contractors who can say well we can do this for $300 a square foot I
033mean they're giving you general pricing right um and they haven't done any land surveys they haven't tested any soil so that could all change um so so probably about $500,000 out um but again fund 80 is a leviable source so if it was something you wanted to go after like we could take a look at how do we provide that over a couple of years to help cover those costs or how do we I mean that would be obviously a bigger discussion but it is a leviable fund so if it was something you wanted to pursue we could take a look at how do we help that over a couple of years to get that fund balance where we need it to be but based on also based on numbers we're seeing we're seeing um
034expenses below um revenues for for the community ad R is is what I'm seeing in this for the last Yeah couple years we've been able to continually add to the fund balance important to note though like obviously as Mr Anderson mentioned construction goes up every year and it went up drastically through covid right but you can typically put about 5% On Any Given year so if it's 100,000 today it's going to be 105,000 tomorrow another 5,000 the following year I mean it's fairly reasonable to kind of estimate like that so if whatever we would be putting in fund balance doesn't keep up with at minimum five and we're not there now so we'd have to exceed five for a period of years to to build up to that we're just going to play cat and
035mouse over a period of time and and what um you talked about the size of the building um bread is that a big enough building for Franklin for the foreseeable future I think if we went to the larger size that roughly the 13,000 the original one that was that we had created that would be um that was a key thing in talking with Mr alexandrovich was make sure you design it to the fact that you got space Not only landwise but your walls are designed as such that in the future when we're all not here somebody could build that and knock that out and expand it with communities so that's something that we're looking at as well is is how would that look um and make sure that we would design it that waya please
036I just think we're getting a little bit beyond the topic of the report so um I mean the agenda item wasn't to discuss any new building so I'd like us to not well I think if we stick to the recreation building itself I think we're on task with the recreational programming portion of it if we were to think districtwide buildings I would say that's probably outside of our scope but we're talking a Rec specific building I think we fall underneath that parameter and at this point it's just a general discussion of space right we're not promoting anything asking for anything we're just talking about space I agree with that I'm rather talk about it when Mr Anderson's here I just heard some discussion about fund balance and you know trying to keep up with construction
037and all that STS the facility needs that you're trying to identify I mean if we want to go ahead with that why why don't we have a plan I mean how do you determine how big it is what what was what were your Peters well we looked at the community needs assessment that was done we looked at programs that we thought would be moved and ones that we can't run and develop spaces around that um so that's how we came up with that we came up with wanting indoor outdoor bathrooms um if you're at at the park here and there was Green Space so that you're not putting porta potties out in the middle of the fields we we looked at it from a comprehensive standpoint of what are our true needs right now and
038what it would look like in 10 years from now and I think that that building that we roughly looked at um had roughly two rooms like this there was a larger community room that would allow seniors to to be there you know they don't have to take a class they can be there playing cards they can do things and then there was a larger facility for more of your high impact and a foury year that that's what it was it wasn't anything above and beyond or anything like that it was going to miror if it was over here it was going to mirror what this building looked like um so that it tied in and then it was parking do the senors have dedicated space at City Hall no we we couldn't run anything at
039City Hall you got offices there and those rooms aren't designed to have anything put in there that would be active um I I know that you want us to have a shortcut or a a smaller facility or something out there that we could use it would that would bridge that Gap we've looked at that for years before we ever really came up with we need to do something because there there just is we've used Community Partners and it doesn't work because you don't control that environment you don't control how clean is you don't control how warm it is you have nothing to say about the facility and you get bounced out of there as soon as they have a program that they want the space back so it's very difficult to do that but I
040look in our program and we have a lot of collaborations we do and that's one of the reasons we do is because we fine one of the reasons we have it like that it's because we can't do it here a lot of the new classes we've added are out outside our community that Quad City we host in April we couldn't host basketball because we don't have space um some of the stuff that we have now we're we're at O Creek we're at people's Studios where they give us one or two spots our dancing program is right up here by outside the industrial park um we we partnered with her to be to at least offer us two or three spots so we could have dance programs for little kids we used to have all that
041inside I think one of the things that we have to just really think about is our Recreation program is meant from the littlest members of Franklin to the oldest residents of Franklin and so those collaborations work great for our school age children and going out to play other communities but our senior residents don't want to go out and play cards or do chair yoga with citizens of other communities they want their space with the people that they live with or reside with and our community members with so we're kind of talking about a couple of different levels and we don't have that space specifically for our non-school AG kids when we're talking about daytime programming right right now they're in Ben Franklin that's not an ideal situation to have non-school related people in your school
042building during the day um under any circumstances so we have to be able to provide that because we are tasked with providing the recck program right wrong or indifferent we are so now we have to be able to support that as best we can so that means we have to have some space that can be provided for those adults who want daytime programming right and we have to be able to provide that in a safe setting for our school age children as well at the same time and we have to be able to marry those ideas certainly and I think we've had we've had this discussion before and and we've and we've made the decision to move forward is there a time um that we can that we that we would be able to see
043a I I think we need to put a plan together and and look at the plan and move and and decide whether we want to move forward or not I agree I feel like this is something that we've talked about for as long as I've been on the board I know Mary this is Carol lewitz was on the board she was a big advocate for the recreation department and I think it's something that we really do need to talk about um we'd be happy to put some real teeth to it yes and bring something forward um for discussion so again at this point like we've asked some contractors this is what we'd be looking at just give us the ballpark right so um we could certainly start with that and bring some potential designs and
044just bring it up for discussion and see where we go from there ultimately we would bid out whatever's decided right we're not just going to take someone's $300 per square foot idea and say yeah go with it no we would certainly bid it out so um if we were given the task after that particular thing is done to yes let's go out and bid this out and then see if we're going to accept that and build it then we could take it to that next step so we'd be in the preliminary stages um and just for reference a building like that probably takes 9 to 12 months because it's a little bit more boxy so it can come up a little bit faster than a school would um but again we have to fit into
045someone's project so project sched I'd like to see though the impact of that space on your programs I mean what will you be providing that we don't have now I don't want just the the building I want to know what it means in terms of what's happening in that space I've got the impression that you have that information yeah I mean the link doesn't work in report just so you know what doesn't the link doesn't work I can't get report but I also think Mr cromy kind of touched on that already it would be for our senior citizens it would be to move those dance classes out of um the dance studio which you know if the dance studio is growing they're going to want to host their own classes there with their own people
046so it would be those kinds of things that we would be using that space right I just want see the numbers yeah are you asking for like a a schedule of like how the how the space would be scheduled out during the day so a mockup schedule yes and just kind of a yeah I think that would be I think that I I would hope that would be included in the plan yeah I would agree I I would hope that would be included in the plan y we can make that work and I assume it would be any more questions for Mr Anderson thank you very much thank you so that would be a future agenda item yes it will be a future agenda item I suspect in Spring do facility I don't have a
047ballpark for it I need to get through this budget season and get that updated for you on the 26 start the process of the next one and then in the meantime we'll be talking and we'll add uh Mr stumble into the conversation as he would kind of head the project should it be done right and make sure everything is being built the way it's supposed to be built if we ever got that far so um but we'll bring it back my guess would be like midwinter January is probably time frame thank you thank you that's when I'm starting to think about spring so I think that's I thought you think about spring the moment it turns to Winter I do soon as he has to pack up his golf stuff all right uh at risk
048report uh Miss Cody please all right good evening um I it's my privilege to introduce um two of the building level leaders when it comes to really um developing programs for students who are at risk of not graduating so Mr Joey Jonas you all know him um associate principal at Forest Park or Forest Franklin High School um Steph juel used to really work very closely with the student services department and with her move to Ben Franklin um Joey now stepped in and kind of shifted some of his leadership so uh we appreciate that and then Anna molshine um our school social worker and she's been involved in this now um for a few years as well so we um I know you all had the opportunity to read the report so we are just going
049to some time to highlight some of our actions and obviously talk through some of the data so this is our purpose um so we'll review the the definition again reviewing that current data and then the piece I'm sure that you're most interested in is how are we working to um improve the outcomes for our students so then I'll just be going over the definition of the at risk so according to state legisl legisl lator um the if students that qualify if their dropouts and then they must hit two of the following criteria so um if they are one or more years behind their peers so they're cohort in credits um and then if they're two or more years behind in their um age group in the basic skills level so we looked at that of
050the spire and ACT Testing and then um if they are habitually tent students so that would mean if they have five or more unex absences they um would land on in habitual treny if they are parents and adjudicated Del delinquents so those that are involved um juveniles that are involved in with the law and then um eighth grade students who meet any of the following criteria so whose score in each of the following areas was below basic or need support or they failed to be promoted to nth grade so then here as you can see is um our numbers the data from last year so one celebration is that it has decreased from 58 students to 48 students now that are considered at risk um we also have the Franklin youth alternative program that's house
051at the ho SE and that number is currently 19 and that number can fluctuate with students transferring in and transferring out um or graduating too and those are um those that are 18 to 21 years of age um so then we also have um 26 students at our alt place and then 21 students are repeated from last year and then 27 students are newly identified from this year of the TW the newly identified students where do they are they mostly eighth graders who are newly identified what's their demographic yes um so on the next slide it's coming right up all right it breaks it down of where those numbers are at so we have nine sof sophomores 13 Juniors 23 seniors and three seniors plus um those are all new what those are all the
052new students um identified not necessarily the new students I wouldn't say necessarily follow any specific pattern it's a mix of students we identified for alternative placement it's a mix of students that as ninth graders you know weren't credit deficient but now as 10th graders are and they're maybe on a pathway to an alternative placement there may be students too that now for the first time have been if as being below basic in testing data and there's also a myriad of unique situations students that transfer into the district students that have just unique situations that would follow specific so we currently have 26 of those students that are currently enrolled in already an alternative program for either all or part of the day um so it's important to remember right that not all students learn the
053same so we're trying to be proactive in helping them get their credit attainment or helping them in that attendance area of trying to get them to school um and then 21 students continue be to be identified from last year so 37 of those that were identified are no longer at risk so that means they either graduated or potentially move to a different District yeah so as we think of the support and the services that we offer not only all students but specifically the students on the atrisk report a few of those are listed here just to talk about the process in General we meet as a student services and admin team weekly to discuss student concerns and at risk group is a group we talk about pretty frequently and each student will have a lead
054adult that acts as the coach for their at risk plan the at risk plan will identify two goal areas and really those are the two areas in which they qualified for being at risk so if a student is struggling academically to attain credit we'll set a credit goal and work with the teachers to ensure that they're on a better path towards earning credit or consider some of these other options and programing pieces that you such as an alternative placement alternative programming we have some inhome options we have some options that are more outside of our school building that we partner with to allow students to have a more rapid Credit Recovery because there are times where mathematically they won't be able to graduate with their cohort so we then need to pursue other options to
055ensure that they can still graduate in four years or in a more timely manner um those goals are unique to the student and we as some new steps really want to increase the amount of adults that are aware of those goals so communicating those to teachers to their advisor that they meet with every Wednesday if they're in our building talking with counselor if the counselor isn't the lead coach talking with admin if the admin isn't the coach for those goals and then really tap into the support that each of those adults can offer the student so on the teacher side considering what they can do to continue to promote engagement in that class to continue to help them grow as students if they're an underclassman and if they're an upper classman really partnering with our
056alternative placements the teachers that are in those buildings um and the teachers that are in our building to ensure that they're on a more rapid PA towards graduation and um you know Anna mentioned a lot of the students that are on the atrisk report and many of the repeats for that matter are in alternative placements and doing quite well we're gonna we're on Pace to have students graduate even early that have gone to connects and that happened with a pretty good Pace last year I wouldn't have that exact percentage but you know with the ability to graduate at their own pace and at a faster Pace students do take advantage of that from time to time and for a variety of reasons they might be ready to work they might be ready to just be
057done with school but um for whatever reason that can be a nice motivator for them as well just they do receive a Franklin diploma then from the connective and then they're at American Family field of all of us too um just to go to the next slide so just some key actions that are a little bit I would say a little bit more refined or introduced over the past year um Stephan Anita and District members have gone above and beyond to create a GED testing site at the Franklin youth alternative program at the hocc which will really allow them some new opportunities and Pathways to earn their GED so it allow students to take it there site and us to have staff to facilitate that opportunity and like Anna shared a good portion of the
058students on our atrisk report our students in that space so it's another way to serve them that our district should be really applauded for the work that's been done for that uh we want to continue to think through what credit recovery options we have and we were able to add one additional Credit Recovery pathway in our building with some Odyssey were licenses it's an online program that allows us to have some flexibility when students are just a little short to keep the majority of their school intact but then go in inhouse into another classroom to earn that credit or if they're not doing so well in a second semester class still be on a path towards graduation without having to leave to go to an alternative program outside of our building or blow up half
059their school day to go to another program that we have in our in our building um and we've had a lot of success with that we instituted that early second semester last year and we've kept that going to start this year with some of the unique situations that have come across our way with the students that are on this report um more universally at the building Lev we had really strong emphasis with our professional development around our staff being able to meet the needs of all Learners the idea of a high performing classroom is one in which you really are able to find out what do students need and meet their needs where they are thinking of students with IP students with unique challenges and that's a way for us to hopefully catch students a
060little bit earlier to keep them off this report so partnering with all adults on a members team to really come together around something like an IP goal understand what that looks like and then help a student access grade level standards that's been a big Focus for our our entire school team at the high school and then lastly we really hope to continue to add to our resources Anna and her team do a great job of counseling as much as they can at the high school but sometimes what students need is more um intensive than what our student services or School counseling staff can provide so we have the Aurora student and family assistance program as an example students can be matched up with a provider within 10 days and have up to four free sessions
061so we've really been advertising that to our students who may need some additional counseling and connection with other adults outside of our building so still in the beginning of those stages but that's another service that is open to all students but can benefit students that are on this report as well so pass it over Chris so um finally just to talk a little bit about um on a broader scale we are engaging with um TIG which is actually the transition Improvement Grant so we work with a Statewide implementation Specialists and we we did this just because we were really looking Ahad forting like um if our students continue on this trajectory um you know we we would have even more concerns so um we really need to like try to address this um right now
062um in a more targeted way so um the graduation Improvement plan again um it is research based and it is a multi-year commitment so it's a two-year commitment for us uh we have a comprehensive team this summer in July we had 25 staff members um come together for two and a half days we did a data dig facilitated by the two um coaches from um TIG and then that team then made some commitments and we identified plans and action steps for the first quarter and then the coaches um well amongst that team then we have um different team members who are like taking the lead of different action steps and so part of um the steps that Joey mentioned you know came from that work um as a team and then we come together again
063with the um coaches or yeah the whole team once a quarter but then the coach also meets with those individuals who are leading different action steps like um throughout the way as well so that's been a really positive um positive experience for us again it's just the whole the the work of the team in July to me was very spiring because people were very honest about what we were doing well and where we really needed to you know develop and um it was again a diverse group of Staff members um and it was I thought it was very productive and it was a really sincere effort to you know try to do things differently on behalf of our students so um just to highlight during quarter one um these are a couple or a few
064of the steps that we took so um we were really looking at Family engagement and understanding that family engagement needs to look different for different families so we had to think outside of that traditional scope of um Family engagement being you come to PTA or you come to conferences this is really looking at how do we reach out to families in a way that's meaningful for them and to really make those connections and um form um closer relationships more authentic relationships with students um who were in their advisory so like they did reach out for open house I think it was um yeah it was a welcoming in the start of the school year so I just to give the background advisory every most adults if not every adult in our building acts as an
065advisor to a group of about 15 to 20 students we really trying to leverage the fact that they're going to meet for about 38 minutes every Wednesday for the entirety of four years a student attends Franklin High School so the relationship they can build there is really strong so really trying to leverage that time to build relationships not only with students but with families um so that's that was a great you know initial first step again as um Jo mentioned earlier our professional development um at middle school but really as a district is how are we working to meet the needs of all Learners and just to eliminate those barriers um we are focused on student L IEPs this grant really does focus on um graduation rate Improvement of students with I but behind that
066is if it's if it's good for students with IPS is really a strategy that's good for all students so um but this is specific to students with IEP so um learning about how to really engage students in a meaningful way in that plan planning process for them so they can set their goals they see their future they have a voice in the supports that they need their progress they're making so that's something that um the team is also working on and then finally check and connect is um it's another way to check in with families um sort of like it's not really it's like mentoring um but it's there's more um it's a more in-depth process and training um to go along with that so initially at the high school all of the I think
067it's all of the um School Improvement team leaders are um volunteering to they're going to step up to engage as mentors with Stud to begin with in addition to our admin team and our student services staff as well so again trying to make more authentic with um connections with students and families so they'd be mentoring meeting with students they'd also be meeting with parents in a different way um as well so we're excited about you know the process and kind of the momentum behind it um so I guess I would say in the last several years this is the most focused we've been on really what are again what are those key actions and how are we measuring that impact and really being you know mindful of what what's going to make a difference for
068individuals as well as the broader um scope so we don't have as many students that we're reporing with you today so questions at this time did you have a question it's how many of the students have IEPs five only and do we have any students that didn't graduate last year that did we just had one student that would be considered a Dropout just just one others have continued like even if they didn't make it through in the first four years have continued in their fifth year as well and students reengage in that regard yeah there's been two students that would be the senior plus that re-engaged and are still attending this year the um the number used to be on the at risk report used to be 20ish every year and last year they were
069significantly higher 50 or 60 I don't remember exactly and this year they're similar although not quite as high I'm not including the house of correction because we've just started including those in the numbers but um is is is that a new normal because we're because of reporting things is should we are we doing something different in the elementary and middle school level to make it so that we have this many this many kids on this report or is it because of more reporting what's your theory of the case here yeah so again some of this I do still believe is the impact that we you know of schools looking different the last couple years um but we are looking at um like when we were reviewing the data we had 30 38 of the 48
070students one of their qualifiers was that they were below basic um on um that the one indicator and so that just made me wonder a little bit um about in which area Mrs Cody I'm sorry below basic below basic in reading and math according to their standard just whole value okay and I and we have shifted that like we I don't think that we looked at the AC Aspire like way when you go way back in history like that measure that measuring tool that test assessment was a little bit different over the course of time so I don't know if we capture more students because that's our measure that's going to shift though as well because we're Ming away from acts fire um but I mean of course it us think about you know how
071are we engaging students um universally so we are looking at again Middle School you know services and um you know their experience as well so well I also appreciate that that we were very concerned last year but then we asked for another report in the second semester and the it went very well there were far less kids at risk only one didn't graduate um I would consider that success um and I'm wondering if we need to do that again and I I would say that I don't think we do I mean we certain like to see the numbers but I don't think we need the presentation in the second semester but maybe others feel differently we're happy to do it I think the one what's I don't I mean I'm intrigued by the opportunity to
072share some of the progress of the work that we're doing if people are interested in that um or if there's another way to share that as well so I think it's nice to have a checkin year so you can tell us what you're doing I'm okay that up to you sure I think more information is always been but that's that's me too and you've got all those new initiatives that you're working on that true it' be be good to see how that's addressing please Andrew um so going back to the ways by which students can qualify as being at risk again can you tell me what our main drivers are back this is it right up here yeah and on the data so like we we totaled how many students qualified in each of the
073areas so for example vitually truin was 36 of 48 students deficient was 33 below basic in reading and math was 38 those are the top three because I would be interested is it possible does the below basic does it get any more granular than that can we know if it's more math or more reading I I guess I see the connection with treny and so there's something we need to address there as far as why that student is not you know regularly attending but I don't know that we would I mean the data breaks out by literacy and math that's what you're asking is it right and I would say by the way Mr Jonas is presenting it that it likely is falling in no low category in both areas but okay it's you know
074it's easy enough to break down for the indicators they just have to hit it in one area along with something else got it thank you so for example there was 17 students that hit treny credit deficiency and Below basic one that hit treny credit below basic okay parent eight try credit it all tends to hang together yeah a lot of them all that hit was the truy as like mostly number one indicator and then hit one of other is there anything that we're doing specifically to help with treny like what I mean other than taking a bus which we don't have and driving around to each house and picking them up like is are there any new strategies that you're trying with the treny or is that in a in a way like what they
075just described everything goes to try so in a way our support does as well think of the family engagement piece that's a driver of attendance but treny is an indicator of overall engagement and typically overall engagement is lower when aren't attending so when we think of things like what does our student services team look like what is their support they've done things like having small groups as a strategy which is newer to the team and really focused on building connections for students who may be in the same situation and developing leadership amongst a smaller group that can help grow student engagement so a super small example but you know we can still do the bigger pieces like home visits and some of those more specific things that we do that are triggered when a students
076on try report and we've identified through the the grip we've identified um a cohort of students um who you know potentially are at risk and and they are in those earlier grade levels because traditionally if we catch them earlier you know we're we're not going to get to this point um so I think the the check and connect you know curious about how that will impact students you know connection to school and wanting to come so so is there far more treny than there used to be I mean is that the is that is it as simple as that I don't think anything must be so frustrated there are no magic answers right no yeah we do that we can get that to but I don't well I mean we're saying we're saying treny is
077the main thing that's that's that's bringing this up and and there's far more kids yeah yeah what say must be I mean are we catching them more is our attendance system our attendance system is going through the state statute actually it'll be in the district newsletter that's going out tomorrow to remind parents about what that looks like you have your 10 excuse days and after that you're looking at treny then habitual treny that's all written in law we follow up that same way um you can engage police in that but really our goal and we do at times but our goal is to engage them in the learning and I think what the team is saying is that when you have a list of things that maybe are not quite hitting the mark for a
078student it almost always comes back to the fact that if they're not in front of you we can't be working with them it's really difficult and sometimes engaging the student um and the family follows a pattern yeah um and it's trying to break down that pattern I like the check and connect that they're adding I think that's going to be a really beneficial piece and that persistence so hopefully make a difference but I think also you'll learn more throughout the year you know we have multi-level teers of support and are continuing to look at how do we change that process and continue to make sure we're catching kids like Miss Cody said earlier so that's being looked at as a team too like what are we doing in the elementary level what does that look
079like in the Middle School level because students identified in ninth grade it didn't start in nth grade um so continuing to look at you know what's going on in our tiered systems in our Universal supporting classrooms and things like that so it's kind of to we have the group we know we're focused on hyper focused on I like that there's a coach that's with each of those students now um but then there's also this piece of if we're looking at the number and thinking year to year is what changes it it's over time that changes it so we're looking at what is taking place earlier to prevent more at risk students and we do you know we are continuing um to do the work that we did last year when we look at the continue
080of supports when it comes to like that social and emotional side and the mental health side um as well as the academic side so um last year the student services team came together and identified areas where we didn't feel like we had you know the best of interventions and um so we identified those areas and then some new um options for interventions and this year it's really about again like that application and really looking to see you know studying that impact of some of those interventions as well so um Miss Goody how has been you the experience because if a student has a tendency of not attending missing the schools then how is the experience with involving the family okay this is the issue and you know if we don't correct it right now we
081might not graduate how has the experience and what are the strategies and tools we are using to make because I feel that family engagement is very crucial part because district is only a district you know we can't as uh said you can't take bus and pick up every kid bring to the school but family engagement is important so what are the tools we are using to engage the family with the student to show the importance of it in the school so um we do have the student services's team um staff members and then the administrators um you know they they'll and the teachers you know they're following attendance you know monitoring that and we reach out to families to make sure that you know know what's happening with the students and why they're not there
082if it is if it does look there's becoming an issue then there's typically you know there is some notification of the importance some of those formal things but they also meet then with the family um or they go to a they might have to do a home visit if the family isn't you know able to come in to meet but it's really kind of trying to identify that root cause of you know what's getting in the way of that student attending um and then often they'll develop together then um and then they do some checkins as well as far as how that plan is working you on behalf of that student so I don't know if I mean the other piece when you whenever you have data and you see 48 students it's always good
083to remember the names and like I have the benefit of having names in front of me and those 48 situations are all unique so those truy meetings sound as unique as any of the students on this list would be and any of the students that qualifies as being habitually Trent and we take the next steps based on what we hear in those meetings and we require a meeting after a student call this eventually true and and those are pretty well attended and usually pretty positive like this spend said we don't want to go and involve law enforcement right away that's a step we can take but we really try to partner understand why the student isn't attending and at that point it we hear a lot of things and then we have to think about
084what resources do we have and we've articulated a few ways to add some strategies to our toolbox which will be helpful like the addition of the student family assistance program has helped students even last May that we didn't have that before and now we have the ability to like oh you might need a check connect adults we now have 15 adults that we have at our disposal that have been trained or will be trained to do that support as well in addition to hey go check in with Miss molshine every day before school to set up a goal for the day and sometimes that works and other times it's we got to try a b and c and then Plan D finally works and sometimes we have to continue and we take other steps that
085might involve consequences but those are at least some of the more broad things that we've tried thank you anybody else further comment or question thank you very much our uh School Board liaison reports personnel and policy policy 6318 children at risk of not graduating high school Dr KH and Miss Cody please please so this policy 6318 there are no changes uh no no technical changes just few words as such which are being changed but there are no technical changes to the policy this the words instead of like pupil student you know um each August you'll be using annually there are no um technical changes to the language of the policy I move that we accept the policy as presented second all right motion's been made and seconded any discussion all right all in favor I
086I opposed motion carries thank you uh and I am sorry for item uh 8 B at risk report um we do need uh um we're looking for a motion to approve the 2223 at risk report as presented so mov second our motion's been made and seconded any further discussion approving it or accepting we're accepting we're accepting it okay um it says approve but we're accepting it approving it because it's statutorily required yes exactly yes agree uh all right um any further discussion all in favor I opposed motion carries thank you Mrs Larson uh board liaison reports B um does anybody have any board liaison reports so I I went I I had a meeting with uh Mr via for the high school you know and one of the last years also I was doing the
087policy the grading came up you know about different schools have slightly different grading where A90 plus is a minus and at Franklin High School in 93 is a minus so 92 is still B+ so I had a discussion with him um I like to kind of get some of your thoughts I don't know if he need to be presented as agenda item kind of you know maybe we can add it to the agenda and kind of get your more thoughts on that other than that uh we have a new Spanish staff at the high school you know um we got it from South Milwaukee very experienced teachers we have a new computer science teacher who's thinking of in fact possibly adding AP Computer Sciences at the high school um and the high school is definitely
088working on closing the gaps and the student and staff engagement at the same time a very positive meeting look out again I think I'm meeting with him again in two weeks time to discuss the gring issue thank you yeah we and we did talk about putting that on the agenda at some point and uh and but it's going to have it's going to be an Administration um or whether we want the administration to go forward with planning and and changing that maybe further right so it's a policy that's up later in the year which will come up with then I think from there it's if the administrative team decides that we need to take a deeper look at it then it would probably be a deeper study from that wouldn't be incredible changes to that
089policy but more saying here's the policy where we're at right now and a committee has formed and we're going to do a deeper dive as a district usually involves a very deep look into the research into the philosophy of why we're doing it into involving a variety of stakeholders and then bringing forward the recommendation to the board thank you Andy please uh I met with Mrs juwel at Ben Franklin today um they're coming off a good spirit week and their run last Friday raised $ 17,25 so another amazing year it was a beautiful day and they're doing good stuff and that money is mostly going to go to um classroom experiences both outside of the school so helping to fund field trips to the extent that they can and bringing people in and then um
090there's some muttering about Playgrounds but nothing official um she's still um ongoing challenges with filling certain vacancies especially EAS um but they're making do with what they have and they've gotten into a Groove and she's feeling pretty good about where the school's at and we talked about um some of the specificity underneath her three building goals which I identified last time so I feel confident that she is leading the building in a good direction thank you I also met with um Miss Dr mry at sou Glenn and they also had their run they didn't make quite as much money as you guys did but runs everywhere there were last week I think there were three or four on Friday um she did mention that the the initial testing for map engagement survey staff survey those
091things are all out so they'll be looking at that data and their professional learning communities are forming looking at curriculum and standards she did mention the they also short EAS so basic seems to be adjusting that way and um also I did review their goals which are similar to last year and in line with um this District goals and the most exciting thing about the visit was that they had I got oh come on Linda that's the first time you've ever done that yes it was did you feel kind of felt it felt kind of weird didn't it yeah was very uh very fici very drill very impressed got I also did we also had SSA meetings this morning it this morning yesterday yesterday and um the legislative update is very simple they're not in
092session but there were a couple study committees that met and everybody's following the election and um but the in preparation for after the election in the budget cycle the SBC is trying to formulate what the the points are what our discussion points are it does make a difference in what words we use and any different we had breakout rooms and kind of we have we should probably talk about some of the how we want to talk about these things uh definitely School Finance is very difficult and in talking with legislators they get very confused very quickly and I think most of us here get very confused very quickly and then we just shut down and we don't want to do anything so that's a problem and then um but there'll be more more to talk
093about for that in the future we have that and the agenda for the end of the month too so that'll be helpful yeah an please um I had a meeting with Miss rosinski at Forest Park uh it was right after our first professional development day so it's kind of fun to hear how that had gone um had done some changes with that in terms of Staff Choice with what they were engaging in and then she was pretty excited to talk about their um professional learning community community that they're called the PLC yeah um and the work that they're taking on for the year um and then also just kind of a a focus on staff engagement and opening that kind of trickles down to student engagement so that was good looked at their building goals
094and um yeah it was a very good meeting I will meet with Miss Cody in a couple weeks that got altered this week um and then just another plug for my oh wait no I was going to say that's coming up sorry school and community no my leison for the Education Foundation is leaz I'm just trying to get it right um November 12th is the fashion show so I hope your calendars are all marked they are right everybody not yeah November 12 oh boy yeah for the fashion show which is our next major event for the foundation thanks thank you anyone else gonna be in the fashion ch's in like a bad idea rude for me to you'd be amazing uh school and Community engagement reports we were engaged all over the place last week
095last week was um really a good Pride building week and made me feel really proud to be part of this team so go homecoming go Franklin oh that's right does anyone want to do the trunker treat is anyone available can't I know you already emailed you're not available okay all right Lisa would you mind donating that candy then all right I think that's a great idea okay thank you I did I was able to watch football game through the and I also enjoyed the uh the dance or the pop performance and the band the band performance well I mean un partial I thought it was all exciting I thought like Angie said the whole week was fun to be involved and even I felt like there was um I was at a swim D meet
096that was even off campus it down in kosha but it seemed like there were even more people there which I I couldn't I didn't know if it was just because people were available or if they were really in that homecoming spirit and maybe I'm delusional there weren't that many people but it seemed like there was an even bigger crowd even off campus both things are true there was a bigger crowd and your delusion thanks Andy joking but it was fun I mean the the homecoming parade I mean and we didn't run out of candy so that's always a good thing I thought there was some attempt to engage business right there was Chad put together a graphic and try to right get them to engage and even the dress up days and Sun pictures I
097don't know that we had that much engagement but we'll keep trying and I want to thank um we we accidentally had a quorum at the library last night but we didn't talk business um Ann and Alan and Lind I want to thank you for coming for my little book presentation that was really nice and it really touched the cockles of my hearts that you were there I always I always aim to touch your cockles okay next topic yeah let's uh moving looking for a motion to enter into close session one more thing because you did um mention the band um we have uh tennis going to individual State this weekend and marching band going to State this weekend this weekend already wow yeah um and I feel like is there another sport going we doing
098that I feel spot I'm not GNA that I know tennis and B I I really thought there was wi me one other sport but anyway our all of our activities and clubs are high there's individuals in tennis and teams that could be it's individual this tennis team is next weekend tennis team is next weekend but individuals are this weekend who plays for the band who plays who plays the band out the band is actually gonna have their own gold walk this week for States oh I see so they don't like when they go to Orchestra not like when the buses pull away they don't play on the buses but they are going to have a gold walk on Friday where the band will do a standstill performance of their show in the cins wow that's
099cool yeah sorry we can CL thank you all right I'm looking for motion to enter into Clos session pursuant to Wisconsin state statute 19. 851c for district administrator goal setting presentation so moved second motion's been made and seconded we need a roll call please Mr spr yes Mrs wowski I Mr alexandrovich yes Mrs superski yes Dr KH I Dr beer I can I also vote I great we are in closed session at 7:16 ask we contacted their families about the date so we didn't want to shift that um and the WB honor rolles a new addition that should go relatively fast it's at the beginning but the five businesses Andy Thompson's working to have them present um so we'll do that at the beginning right after Southwood Glenn great um anything else all right I'm
100looking for a motion to adjourn the meeting so moved motion's been made and seconded all in favor I opposed motion carries we are adjourned at 802 thank you everyone thank you