001e e I'm not IR e e called the Board of Education meeting of Monday March 17th to order um before we begin tonight's meeting I ask that we take a moment to honor and remember Miss jod lad a loved teacher at Grafton High School who dedicated over 30 years of educating and advocating for her students Miss lad's passion for teaching and unwavering commitment to her students left the lasting impact on our school Community after a courageous 7-year battle with cancer she passed away on March 16th her kindness strength and dedication will be missed by colleagues students and families alike please join me in a moment of silence as we reflect on her Legacy and keep her loved ones in our thoughts thank you please rise for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of
002the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you um first a consent agenda I would look for a motion to approve the minutes of February 24th uh board meeting as well as the statement of receipts and expenditures for February of 2025 so move second first and a second any additional discussion all in favor say I I opposed that passes that brings us to Mr Manti and the Grafton High School presentation all right good evening everyone um thanks so much for having us this evening we're super excited to share a few uh cool things going on at Grafton High School um and as we get started here I want to take just a minute uh to talk a little
003bit about um the history of our presentations that we've had with the board here over the last few years so I'm in my 10th year as the principal of graft and high school so almost a decade of these presentations uh here as well so uh super excited about that you're ready to be here as well last year we talked a lot about our Career and Technical education department celebrated a number of our staff members last year in the CTE realm uh in 2223 our act achievement goal the Hawks program uh World Language travel opportunities 2122 our career internship course the development of our fabrication lab we also celebrated the Cole scholarship winter and then back in 2021 we talked about our AP Capstone Capstone diploma program Springer uh the hawk nest school store and back
004then learning virtually okay so we're not going to talk about learning virtually uh this evening but here are the things we're going to talk about um I'll do a little introduction here in terms of our presentation um and we have two wonderful groups going to talk with you this evening our Leo Club who's up front here and then our robotics team the random Engineers are here to speak with you about our engineering program and then I will wrap up with a few 20 Vision 2030 updates from the high school perspective to see the things that we have been up to in terms of our 300 day plan so uh with that being said we're going to speak to Vision 2030 this evening and we're going to speak to the student Eng engagement and growth portion
005of our strategic plan and that will be our focus of the evening um and first we're going to kick this off with our Leo Club who'll present to you and our Leo Club really uh ties to our career Readiness standards uh our 25 hours of community service desired by graduation and participation in a co- or extracurricular activity so at this point I'm going to go ahead here are our students that'll be presenting uh this evening and I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Mrs Springer as we get the Leo's presentation at the point let's hear it from Mrs Springer our Leo good evening uh Mr Manti asked me to share a little bit about why I wanted to be the adviser of the Leo club and in fact I knew it was
006a service oriented Club but I didn't know maybe what I was signing up for in the best possible way um I wanted to be involved with the students outside of school and and uh I think it's really important to teach civic responsibility uh we talk often about our students today needing to develop skills in problem solving but also in face-to-face communication and um at this point in my career I was missing seeing students outside of the classroom um and so when the opportunity came up and for me to be a part of this um I step forward gladly um I'm involved in a number of community boards and so it was important for me to um connect uh my job at school with the community and we're working diligently um as a part of Leo
007Club to establish some regular Community ties for community service I took over being the adviser in the middle of October and it was such a wonderful and easy transition with the support of our school aison through the Lions Club Mr NADA thank you and our really excellent board um our executive board really drives the club in the activities and I'm just along for the ride so it's a really a pleasure to watch the young men lead and I will turn it to them thank you m springier um We Are the officers of the ghs Leo club and we just wanted to share a little bit more about our club um would you like to share the botel sure so three letters of Leo Club stand for leadership so Leo members acquire skills to lead uh
008in a variety of events experience so essentially we learn how to how to have teamwork and cooperate together and opportunity so this year as part of the board we've been trying to have a lot more uh volunteer opportunities so we've been trying to expand how much and where our Leos can participate in for volunteering uh the objective of Le Club is to provide the the world with an opportunity for devel contribution individually and collectively as responsible members of the local National and International Community there are 7,700 plus clubs worldwide 200,000 plus Leos total 150 plus countries and 60,000 plus service projects and our club specifically was founded in 2014 and currently has 104 members across the middle and high school which is the largest in the state and then our officers are Colin Garvey is
009our president Alan Z Vice President we brette as our secretary and me myself Leo Chen as the treasurer and then we have Mrs Springer as our ghs Leo advisor and also Mrs zelner is our jlms Leo advisor and then um some benefits of joining Leo club stuff that we try to preach to parents and students when um approaching um it's we have many volunteer activities and hours available um that's kind of the main goal of the club which helps with the 25h hour um recommend um by graduation and then um we provide many opportunities for leadership whether that's for individual activities or in the entire Club um we really like to um Empower our our students by um giving them opportunities to lead certain areas and then um we like to think that we're a
010major part of the grafting Community by participating in grafting events and um we try to help students from ages 12 to 18 yeah so one of our main events that we do throughout the year is Red Ribbon Week so uh we participated in it by so and I this year who went to a um a car yeah we went to get a w car from one of our yes we went to get a car to show the effects of um texting and driving um we wanted to be a big part of red R week as we know it's a big you know part of our school and good for school you know culture and the students to understand the importance of um not overing on drugs and additionally you know not texting and driving so
011one major event we do in the summer is the lion's chicken roast 5K um so what we do at that event is uh we uh as a Leos we help promote the event by standing outside and holding art signs to drag people from the road over to the chicken roofs and we also uh helped run the games of the chicken roast for the children there and then our Grafton Knights uh Leo knights with the Grafton lons was mainly used for any lines JMS or Grafton to get to know the lines a little bit more better this was also where we were inducted into the Grafton Leo's en uh so one major thing we do is we do a nut sale every year uh we s sold 92 receipts in 2023 and this year we sold
012118 the the money from the nut sale is used to fund our opportunities some of our volunteer opportunities with V Club it's also used to make a donation every year which two years ago was to Pops under the bridge and this year we decided to donate to oaki County Family Sharing which um helps the community by giving food to a lot of people who need it I see this picture we donate a $500 check from our nut sale to a family share and then um one major event we have over the winter is um before the grafting Christmas pray we participate with breakfast with Santa whether it's U with it's just um helping uh clean and maintain the event serving food um wearing uh very fun and kind of smelly mascot costumes um and overall
013we have a lot of fun with it we get a lot of opport um opportunities to work with kids and um yeah it's a great time these are the some of the pictures from the Christmas parade in which JS and Leo from G High SCH get to wear the costumes even more and walk in a parade downtown of gron um and then another over the winter is um bell ringing for Salvation Army which we go from November to mid December um last year we covered 23 different shifts for a total of 46 different hours um with 26 Leos participating and we raised about $7,000 for the Salvation Army and then here are some pictures from that from um our very enthusiastic Leos um we really love the opportunity to um ring very loud bells and
014ask for money yeah so one of our uh main biggest events of the year is our district convention where Leo's around our whole entire District so this year it was Grafton Port Washington and a bunch of other um Leo clubs from different schools we all came together and we all went to different areas uh within the community to help out um I was part of the group that went to the food bank so what I did was I went to organize the food um I cleaned you know swept did all the you know the Dirty Work and yeah we tried to make a big impact in multiple areas of the community and as you can see it's a big big event with a lot of people and it makes a huge positive impact every year
015um a bit more on the district convention this year the goal was to make birthday boxes for people who um don't have the the opportunity to have a birthday so as you see people um we have kids sitting at the at Port Washington State Banks and um other areas writing bir birthday cards to put in those boxes and then we have similar jobs as Alan was describing um helping uh food donations thank you very much for listening to the presentation we are we're super proud of our our Leo club and all the work that they have been up to um in May Springer for uh for being a part of our our program as well any questions at all for the Leos before we move to our next uh presentation anything for the Le can
016I you can before we leave um I would personally on behalf of the officers I would like to thank Mr NADA he's been very very helpful in this year it's been a little rocky especially at the beginning he's been very dependable and always willing to help because he truly does care about this Art Club of ours thank you great group of kids it's a great program Saturday mornings for the convention they're up at 7 o'clock in the morning be there so um great work you guys are doing a great job for the school and it's great that we have John long and the high school as one collected big big district and they're they're not lying when they do say that we are the biggest Leo Club in the state of Wisconsin so um kudos
017to our our advisers it doesn't happen without them so thank you thank you to the um at this point toing the random engine come back okay all right random Engineers come on up police so we are super excited to have our random Engineers here um one of our FTC teams that are going to share information with you and also provide a Dem rtion but before they do that we'll turn it over to our adviser Mrs Aon s hello so it's me and it's Mr Dodge I'm not the only one who does this so a little bit of History here is we started this back in 2019 and then there is a massive commitment of time to understand the program what they have to do because we get the challenge in September and then they have
018to have a working robot by you know December or January or February so it's a little tiny short span so the equipment commitment for out of school was really hard for me and Mr Dodge to do so you guys as a school board allowed us to have it as a class in 2021 and it's been pretty good we've had from 16 to 20 plus kids in the class and then um 2024 this year this group of boys have they will tell you they've been together for a long time through Lego league and their parents are also very committed so they have volunteered to do a hybrid team to we in the class and then they met a lot during the week in the evening hours with parents coming in and helping monitor that so we
019really really appreciate your parents for doing that and then District contributions is every year you buy the field it's a new game so we have a new field that's about $500 not about it is it's $500 every year for the new field um so it's not really the field but the gaming pieces for the field and so the district pays for that they also pay for the advisor siphons um and then the main way we get money to help pay for this is through the DPI grants so I write that and work through that every year and work with the business department here to get that sent out so last year we brought in $3,731 and this year we are anticipating we should be getting $4,139 so that really helps it as you can see
020the cost for this team alone for registration fee they did three competitions this year that's a total of $940 just in fees not even including all the money we spent on the parts in the building and you know replacing of parts that get bad so it is not a cheap thing to do and in the future um we have many students participating in um the first Lego League which you guys found out about I think last month right um and so there are two currently in eighth grade so not a big group coming in but there are 15 kids in seventh grade so we're hoping that those kids continue move on to the First Tech Challenge the next step when they get to high school so we're hoping to still see our numbers grow your
021turn I control this you're only oh yeah can you do that before I talk about all the cool things we did this year I'm going to give a little background on the team we are all sophomore boys and we each have varying experience robotics um I've been in it for I believe seven maybe nine years somewhere in between then um and we also have been officially a team the random Engineers since 2019 we've been a team in F and in FTC um and we have a various amount of accolades from people on the team and several other teams that kind of combined into this team so we've gotten State four times for LL and then won one first place core values award which is is like positivity and like teamwork and all that jazz so
022yeah okay next slide and um I'm just going to tell you like our general season timeline so um FTC actually runs essentially year round and um both last year and this year um we hosted a food drive and also showed off our robot at the at the graph and Robotics SE in April and we were able to collect around 1,500 lbs of food at the food drive and then um later in may we received a $1,000 Grant from the GF um the season is revealed in miday and then runs generally through February mid September mid oh my gosh um yeah um so we ran a braty fundraiser and we're able to fundraise around an additional $500 off that and then for the our season timeline we to begin by creating a game plan based off
023the season materials that year and then design a robot based around that game plan then we have to actually build the robot and then we have to code the robot so it can both interact with the game pad and autonomously control itself we also ran um a robotics Club at wood viiew over the second quarter where we taught fifth graders about it using the Lego robots and we had three competitions from December through February Matthew why don't you say your name for usew what's your name mat what's your last name Matthew what's your last name what's your last name Jacob my mom next uh your name and your mother um I'm Sam bakari and I'm going to tell you about the different parts of FTC FTC consists of many different parts such as designing and
024building a robot coding out reach fundraising and communication as a team at every competition we go to we're judged on our engineering portfolio which we handed out to you guys uh our robot performance and our presentation FDC requires critical thinking with engineering and computer science skills business fundraising and grant writing organization event planning and documentation Outreach with leading stem education and public speaking um my name is Chase tendr and for our our first year we went 0 and 10 in our competitions but second year we went 12 and 10 with 11 and six for qualification rounds and one and four in playoffs and we placed in playoffs two out of the three competitions that we did and we also played second place in the innovate award and in qualifications we also finished 7th 15th and
025eth place and once again we've been in the playoffs two times this year and each competition had about 24 to 30 teams uh I'm Michael Pan and here we have a video example please ignore that commentator my voice sounds better all right so for the first 30 seconds we have an autonomous period where we use pre-programmed code to run the robot and then after that we have human drivers who will control the robot manually which one are you 2 4589 while 11353 is just going to sit still in park this one right there Ser cha is finishing with the park 2 four 589 going to keep on pushing it in with six seconds left put D not going to park here that's okay in a bucket they picked up one they put one of those
026pick up a piece put those in a bucket that was all automated no controlling all right everyone's Off to the Races here now already yeah this is called the so this is where we control it and not just like the programing have so this means we need to practice a lot and like refine our driving skills so the autonomist like you said at the beginning the first 30 seconds when it moved was it moving out of a position it put a piece into the top bucket to receive points and then it parked at a certain spot to receive points my name is Will Riley I'm going to be talking about a few of our future goals um so first of all for outreach events um we're hosting a food drive and Robotics display at the
027CFT and Robotics Expo um and a Woodview fun night and we're going to hopefully display our robot for some of the kids to see for fundraising we're scheduling a br fry um and we're reaching out to different businesses for more fundraising for our robot um and for our team we're working on applications for hopefully adding additional team members and learning new skills from experts this summer um and we're also organizing a 24-hour build day where when we get the challenge we just work on the robot constantly for 24 hours and see what we can get after that does summer know about that I found out today just I heard all right um so now me and Matthew are going to do a quick demonstration of the robot for you guys and then we'll let two
028of you try it out is it fire like Battle Bots no you getal Hur the other robot you can touch them but if you damage it you get penalized they did almost decapitate one of the probably we are start off down get the there pinch one button [Applause] this was well planned is that thing bring got it bring it back back oh look at you you're not not the Leo pres no come on [Applause] well now you got to put your arm back down that's where the decapitation oh wow it's really touchy you [Laughter] thank you great job good teaching all you guys all right so thank you uh so much to our random Engineers uh do you have any questions for the random engineers at all about their presentation or their demonstration at all
029so did you build that um yeah we build it and um we purchased parts and ack and go build um we bought a kit that include instructions for the base and then we have to design everything else wow so at the beginning of the year everything except for the base is going to be taken off because they don't know what the next year's challenge is so after the Expo or if you're do that with you this summer you keep it together but then once that's done take it apart and we start all over except the base you said that always stays the same with the wheels yeah cuz it has to be 18 by 18 by 18 oh yeah you might need some new Wheels after how's the thing crabwalk like so it has like
030I think they're called me mean me wheels so it when they turn like this these rotate in and these rotate out and of like sence I was just going to commend you all for how well spoken you are you know it's a process what type of language do you guys use to code with um English us and okay a little more descri most I think you guys do all block pretty much right not for you do have we geometry so essentially these two wheels position and then we can calate how far it's driven they've come a long way in one year so we're looking forward to what the next two years are going to bring maybe make a state make it to State that's our goal make it state so I say every year that
031comes out and when they say gameplay they have to figure out what they're going to do to earn points because there's lots of ways to earn points so there was also this year thing where you could pick up the piece and it was hooked on black piece and they could poke it on something none of our robots this year decided to do that but it was very impressive going to competitions and seeing the teams that were able to do that so you know use that so I that was cool so again it's their choice on how they want to build the points in order to win the competition which they always have a random partner too which would never explain you get a random partner for every match yeah we also have a feature on
032a roll out this hook right here as we this we can hang with that this raise up and then at the end of each match we have to hang and lift up our robot to hang very cool well thank you so much and then grab a picture at the end is that fine if you guys want to hang out we'll grab a picture at the end okay sound good um Mr Cy we go back to that first presentation then thank you so much Perfect all right so uh the very fun part of the presentation on interactive part is over um but they're hanging here yeah so but we but we have uh one more item to cover with you which important but in a different manner so I just want to spend just a few
033minutes providing you some ghs updates on Vision 2030 and the work that we're doing on Vision 2030 at ghs this year so our 300-day plan for this school year is focusing on the following indicators so our comp act composite score and our Target group performance uh community service hours uh the selecting of a Career Cluster by graduation and taking a course within that cluster and also our 21st century skills focused on appropriate use of personal devices So within all of vision 2030 which we work on uh these are the pieces that we've spent a lot of time on as a staff uh so far this year this highlights our College ready indicators that I mentioned with our act composite score and our Target group outcomes um you will see that I'll show you just a
034few uh artifacts throughout the course of the year which are new and unique uh from the past in particular this is talking about our our Target group uh within our act performance and this year during Blackhawk time uh we had targeted interven intervention for our um for our Target group in terms of the uh act and prea and I'm going to show you uh a couple of examples of what that look like so uh each month students who were designated within the target group uh received uh assistance during Blackhawk time and you can see here that this was an entire faculty calendar when it came to all of our core areas and the number of students that were requested on those particular days in Blackhawk time so really working together to make sure our students
035are getting the support that they need when it comes to prea and act performance we did this from nove from December all the way through March so we're just finishing up that fourth opportunity uh for our students this is just the February calendar very similar uh to the December calendar but you would see all of the work from our core departments during Blackhawk time being very targeted uh for our students to support them so that's one of the artifacts that I wanted to share with you regarding college readiness in terms of career Readiness looking at our community service hours this year and our as I mentioned our Career Cluster and selecting that by graduation and taking a course within that area so a few things here um that are going on you can see our
036two career ready statements that we have within our 300 day plan uh one of the the community service focusing on a process and the tool for recording our hours this year and that's tied directly to our Leo club uh spoke uh this evening and then also for um our career ready statement number two really identifying which experiential courses that we offer at ghs match with uh the appropriate Career Cluster so that's a big part of our work we did speak about that a little bit at a previous curriculum committee meeting uh as well so uh this is something that was shared with the Freshman uh just a uh a few uh days ago this talks about the importance of volunteering with all of our freshmen providing them some information um about that and what we'll
037be coming up for them is on the afternoon of our all School testing day on April 10th they will have various opportunities and they actually signed up this morning for where it is that they're going to go in the afternoon of the all School testing day one of the options for students is to go to River Edge and work with the ecology team on projects at the Nature Center um a second we'll be working with family sharing and they're going to pack Easter themed treats for their uh bags in their backpack program so that's another opportunity with family sharing and um in addition well in addition to that they will be able to go to Kennedy and Woodview and Village Point Commons I only shared a couple of examples but they'll have all of those
038choices to get started as freshmen on their path to community service and earning those 25 hours so we're super excited um about that um I also mentioned the resource that we will utilize for documentation of the hours we have formerly introduced uh zel which is our academic and career planning program as the platform that we we will use for tracking these hours so this is a program our students already use through our academic and career planning process and now we will be using the same uh program to go ahead and capture those community service hours that students uh complete while they're here at ghs so I wanted to show you the progress that we were making there in terms of the Career Cluster uh this was for our seniors and we did this last week
039on an academic and career planning day our seniors had to do the following things uh we talked to them about our career clusters so helping them understand the Clusters they had to identify which cluster aligned with their interests and then they went ahead and reviewed their transcript and identified which courses that they've taken or haven't taken that align with the cluster so that's where we're at in terms of providing the board with our first Baseline information that you'll see on that key performance indicator once we get get to the end of the school year so this is well on its way um and in place as well so that happened with our seniors um and with our sophomores on April 10th also very related to this with our all School testing day in the afternoon
040our sophomores will have the following options which they signed up for this morning if they want to go on a campus visit we're going to Concordia MATC and Marquette if they want to look at a workplace visit of larger organizations and all the opportunities that exist within larg organizations we're looking at Aurora the Ozaki County courthouse and willo as far as uh those options for work site visits so sophomores will have those choices on April 10th in the afternoon super excited about how that day is coming together and being a true academic and career planning day in addition to the standardized testing that will take place on that date uh and finally uh our life Readiness component uh you've heard a lot about this already this year but our life Readiness component was ass assisting
041students with um personal devices and uh being their best at ghs when utilizing or not utilizing uh personal devices and you've seen a lot about our um cell phone policy this year in terms of removing that from students in the classroom it's been wildly successful in terms of the engagement in the room uh with those cell phones checked in those caddies and that's been a great uh great experience for our teachers and keeps our students um actively participating in class and collaborating with peers so that's relating to our life Readiness work so all of those pieces are really what we've been working on uh throughout the course of the year uh very directed division 2030 and very much looking at those areas where we believe we need the most growth um as a faculty as
042I mentioned April 10th is a big day for us coming up April 10th will be our morning testing day you can see which which tests will take place uh during that morning and then I've talked to you already about what the afternoon will look like so we're excited for that coming up um after spring break and I'll close with just a couple of recent events at ghs uh we're super excited this year to be working in our first year of five-year partnership with the United Way on our empowering Minds Grant looking at the wellness of our students as a result of this grant we have a new club called the Raise Your Voice club which is pictured on the left hand side and the couple pictures that we have here are from our most recent
043Wellness week uh in February so the empowering Minds Grant has been great it's also led to some unique Partnerships so this was during exam week and during exam week we uh partnered with the casmar center and we had study sessions at the casmar center uh our yoga Club met at the Casmir Center um and there also was a little food and beverage area for our students as well so that's a unique new partnership that kind of stemmed from this empowering Minds Grant so that's cool to share with with you uh we've done a lot with music the last couple of weeks uh Chile day our successful fundraiser uh for our uh District music department but then also hosting solo and Ensemble uh with Mr Brown and miss klepic doing a lot of work to host
04413 schools and over 500 events um on the last weekend so here are some pictures from solo and Ensemble and then finally it is March Madness week at Grafton High School it is our first March Madness um student council activity that we're conducting and tomorrow morning during Blackhawk time is our first showdown of actual basketball sophomores vers seniors freshman vers Juniors the winners will play Friday morning on a shortened game and then that will be end up the day with a game against the staff so student council was excited to bring this forward we're excited to support them um and and we'll get started right away with some basketball um on Tuesday so excited about all of those items lots of things that we could share just choosing a few with you um that I
045think deserve some some recognition so uh one more time thanks again for your support of Grafton High School uh for everything you do for us for all the resources that you provide uh our students to be able to have such a great robotics program and to do some really cool things uh with Leo you're seeing just a few of our students here but like sophomores right here seniors and we have a junior you know in there as well but you know I'm just super lucky to be able to be the Principal uh of this high school and and really within this community so uh thank you so much and if you have any questions for us uh we're happy to take them any follow questions thank you great presentation the death robot [Music] you should
046say that little okay [Applause] everybody Corin beef always thanks sad they wi good news bad news very good Mr Nelson would you like to continue with your superintendent report yes I'll have Mr Moore come up and talk about um some of our students who have been recognized whether it's in our Fine Arts area or in our athletic areas thank you uh it's great a piggy back off of some of the uh wonderful achievement that you've seen am I have further over left today like they moved you you want me to move it over I'm going to be in the collab space I think Miss nestler moved you gonna yeah there we go go I didn't know if I was off base or not but um anyway uh wonderful to to PE back off with some
047of the great achievement that you've seen with some of the things that we've seen uh from our wonderful uh students over over the winter and I'd like to start out with the the following musicians who qualified for the state solo and Ensemble competition some of these very kids as a matter of fact instrumental solos Megan bruette uh Hannah foz Asher kaga Lincoln gar instrumental ensembles Charlotte Barnett Alex Bergman Megan bruette Marissa Bryan Gabriel Doro Justin Durst Hannah foz Lacy gar Lincoln gar Chris Hackbarth Ashley Hansen Audrey clner Asher kaga Nina Massie Max mazari Shane McAllister Ariana Miner Nelson aleris sari Leander pritz Angelique Angelique Raina G Gabe suo Jordan theal Connor Ty Gwen Williams Aaron Wise Bella Windsor and alen Z vocal solos Zack Bigler Charlie Danielson Lucy day Juni eberman Maya erle Ariana Fuentes
048Alex gangler Bella Goodwin Franchesco Gro Sophia H Bo Young Izzy luic and Matthew Olen and vocal ensembles Zack Bigler Becca Bosman shanuk shadari Lucy day Kat Didier Jun junah eberman Ariana Fuentes Alexa gangler Bella Goodwin Fran Francisco o Sophia H Bo Young Izzy luck Matthew olssen Abby rig Mason rig lisel Schilling Mackenzie neelson and Trinity Terrell I'll pause for my breath and for you to absorb all that information and then congratulations to these ghs athletes for their accomplishments in the winter sports season with winter sports season all all but wrapped up boys swim and dive team finished third at se sectionals and Gabe celo qualified for state in the 200 freestyle and the 500 freestyle wrestler Ellie Federal qualified for the state tournament once again gymnast gymnast Elena jarmas qualified for state in the all-around
049and the bars girls basketball All Conference honores were Marissa Morgan for the third team Kelly tler P honorable mention team members Kendall Conrad as Ava doson Marissa Morgan Melanie Morgan Amber radkey and Ava van SLO earned academic All State recognition which includes a 3.5 GPA or higher the competitive cheer team qualified for state and finished in fourth place Kenzie giry earned All State recognition as an individual Daniel breir Molly French Kenzie gery Haley gki Elena jarmas Caitlyn lindow Bay Missouri Taylor Skiby and Maya Vance earned W wcpa scholar athlete recognition which also includes a GPA of 3.5 or higher on the boys basketball side an demc Ian Cornelius Josiah Gonzalez Tommy Lutz and Jack Jack Marty and Andrew Sherman of the boys basketball team earned also earned wbca academic All State recognition which which once
050again is a GPA of 3.5 or higher for dance Aubrey demaster juny eberman Genevie harmes Bren Le Duke and Hy left earned wacpc scholar ath recognition and the Esports team of Noah Anderson Elijah fiser and Mason V vulgan Place third at state in the fortnite division so all that being said that's some of the achievement that we saw over the winter season thank you thank you thank you Mr Moore a couple reminders that the district's spring break is from March 24th through the 31st staff return on that Monday March 31st for professional development and students return on Tuesday April 1st um Schoolboard election reminder on Tuesday April 1st uh incumbents Blair Jameson and Mark k tlor are running for the two open seats on the board profiles of the candidates are posted on the district
051website a reminder that gf's largest fundraiser is coming up on Friday April 11th oaki nonprofit center it's a night of giving beginning at 6 PM we've heard GF come and speak about that but great opportunity to support the GF on Friday April 11th I think last time they were here they were talking about buying raffle tickets for that I don't I think they still have some ailable 5050 are still available um so an opportunity to either buy one by yourself or go together with someone to purchase that but appreciate all the work that GF does for us and that's a great opportunity on the 11th to support them and the district robotics Expo you heard a little about that earlier but as a reminder that's held on Saturday April 12th at ghs um all three
052levels of the district's Lego robotics thems will be showcasing their work and Mr Adams has our construction update yes so excited each month to bring you the uh updates the progress that we're making uh uh at the middle school with the referendum project and so we have we'll start off with uh activities that we have completed so underground plumbing is complete I know you can't see the underground plumbing you'll just have to trust me it's there and then uh in addition the concrete floor slab so we were all there uh last month obviously looked very different with the gravel now the concrete floor slab has been poured and is complete uh in addition the roof has been installed uh and then current activities uh the interior is being laid out and the framing is taking
053place so those walls for the classrooms are taking shape uh in addition the MEPS are being roughed in you can see the plumbing roughed in including uh some of that being run in that ceiling area uh in the distance um also the rtu is in transit this is stock photo this is not the actual RTO or or the semi but I found an image on the internet thought I'd throw it in there um but it is in transit and upcoming next steps over spring break that rtu will be delivered and installed uh onto the roof again stock photo here um uh additionally moving forward so that outside has been painted gray if you've had a chance to go by there um between now and when we come back to the next board meeting the exterior
054brick facade will be installed in addition exterior windows will be installed and then temporary doors will also be installed uh securing the facility all sealed up um and then in addition the drywalling will be occurring again this is stock photo this is not actual drywall yet but next time uh we meet we'll have pictures of the actual drywall uh of the rooms in inside so looking at the schedule again we move a month forward everything is keeping Pace as we've had um so OB the rtu that's the long lead uh equipment item there that will be um essentially just about complete as of this point Furniture that's just about finalized and ready to be released for ordering we're well into the addition construction um in fact uh we're also going to be able to get
055a chance overs spring break to get inside and do some of the remodeling work that we're going to need to do hard and heavy in the summer uh and finally the budget summary finally begun to spend uh quite a bit of that money now in that construction line item last month we had spent about 6% now we spent about 20% of that construction budget so we're now up to uh right around 25% of the overall budget uh basically invoice um now that we've had construction well underway and received some pay apps in particular for that foundation work and the steel work uh that occurred so each month we'll be finishing that work and expending some of the funds that we had put aside to complete this project any questions look forward to the April pies
056yes Julia lison is leading an AI task force and one of the things that we talk about is like when you you know is it human generated is it AI generated is it chat generated and obviously we're going to have to add a stock photo generator you know to make sure we're using copyright law and so forth so that's I'm learning something tonight toer um two final things um uh we will have 70 plus band and choir members going to New York City next week um to tour nework City have some great musical experiences um they'll be attending the musical Wicked while there um so on thank Mr Brown and miss klepic and all of our parent volunteers for leading our students on this memorable experience to New York City um and then at last
057month's meeting um Mr Ned reported that the village administrator TI and I be meeting to discuss the second SRO meeting or second SRO officer um with the goal of presenting an agreement for review at tonight's board meeting so Jesse and I met on February 25th to discuss the position and the funding formulas being considered by each of our boards um during our meeting he indicated he'd be following with the pral schools regarding this matter um in preparation for tonight's meeting I reached out last week for an update and he shared that he was meeting with St Paul's this week and awaiting a response from St Joe's um so with that that concludes the superintendent's report any questions no questions but just it's thanks to Kevin for rattling through all those names it's amazing and great
058to see so many names being recognized both musically athletically and even academically within the Athletics and then even to see some names in both Arenas is even more impressive so thanks Kevin and thanks to all the kids and everybody who was involved great anyone else I just have one question regarding your meeting with administrator Ty um did he give you any indication um as far as how the village would like to see the community SRO between the village the district and the pro schools seeing that it'll be a community as a rule um yeah I'm not sure exactly the what he's hoping to learn from the prio schools um but I as we've mentioned multiple times the village we mentioned it last month we mentioned liaison committee meeting that we had with the village and
059I re reiterated to Jesse again in our last meeting on the F 25th of February that the district is not any money the proo schools were to provide would be going towards the villages percentage so even though you know we have a school resource officer dedicated only to our district District right now and if we move to a community SRO the board has said we will continue to pay that amount we aren't asking for the prio schools that contribute to our amount so any amount that is raised would go towards the villages portion um but that you know the portion that we are offering to pay is similar to what our neighbors are paying and with their two SRO and so that's that's something that we continue to reiterate to them um um that what
060we'd pay and what how they work with the prio schools would be imp impacting their portion not our portion okay all right thank you for the report um next uh public comment um I have no emails that I have received um that the board has not also received so there was nothing that I forwarded on um the board recognizes the value of this portion of the agenda for public comment and wehere to the following guidelines that are established a policy 016 7.3 public comment at board meetings one comment should be directed to the board president president comment should focus on topics within the legitimate jurisdiction of the board no action or discussion will ensue based on public comment unless the topic being discussed is already an agenda item uh before speaking please state your name
061address and group affiliation of applicable uh statements are to be limited to 3 minutes in length and please note that this is a public meeting that the meeting is being live streamed and will be posted on the district's YouTube channel so good job good job St hi my name is Lisa oh yeah okay I'm a little short for this I know all these kids right I think I got can I just tilt it okay okay I don't want it to okay you know my kids do sing vocal you would think by now I know how to work a mic but okay hi I'm Lisa Ren I'm the president of graft music and theater boosters and um I heard through the gra find and I'm not as cool as Dan Nash who used to do this
062and was quite funny and entertaining I'm not quite that funny and entertaining but we've had a busy month as you've heard a busy cple couple of months I just want to highlight some of the great things our elementary school kids actually participated in February in the awake Festival so they went down to Lakeland University with their teachers and some select students and they worked with other students within the area and special conductors and that just helps to build as we keep going forward at John long they also had solo Ensemble at the end of February there were 38 events and what's kind of cool about that is one of the students as they were leaving somebody asked them where they went to school cuz they were so impressed with the performance so that just again
063it's all this building we're doing um also last month in Fall we had five students selected to the wuwm Middle School honors band that is about 300 students from within southeastern Wisconsin and from there they have three different bands or ensembles and the directors come from all over the country and those directors who don't know anybody they um select the all stars and those are kind of the best of the best and John long both of their eighth graders Kayla Brennan and Gabriella rers were selected and they performed with the all-star band in February at wwm so that is a huge accomplishment we talked about of course solo Ensemble which was a huge event um Mr dimmer put up with me all day in headquarters so that was kudos to him and and um I
064just I just want to thank everybody the teachers who lent rooms to us for all the kids to perform bamboo beastro Who provided lunch at a discount to us for all the judges and um all the parents the volunteers we had a ton of volunteers really we had great comments from teachers from judges I know I heard Mr Brown got several emails about what a great event it was I just want to shout out to National Honor Society who came I mean many of those kids knew nothing about music or had ever been to a solo Ensemble and they just like stepped up they came in they were respectful they were moving people all over they were working rooms so it was just really a great reflection of just the community here at Grafton High
065School so something to really be proud of and then of course our big fundraiser was Chile day so if you were here awesome it was great experience L of kids performing we raised $1,000 as that money is paid out um Mr cyber will submit those gifts but just so people know we've already notified teachers so um Miss kic is getting new costumes for Chambers cuz there are more kids than there are costumes so she needs more costumes so that's her big purchase Mr Brown is getting money towards a berry saxophone that is needed because I think Gabe suo has worked that one to its last breath good work for him and then um John long they're getting band T-shirts uh that's the big thing is that we bring those fifth graders up and that Mr
066dimmer needs more band T-shirts to make them feel belonging in the band um Mrs ward has asked for four ukuleles soprano ukul that she's getting as well as um these I'm going to say it wrong but I think it's tub Banos there're some kind of fancy drum um for her drumming circles and then um what Mr zinsky is still deciding but we gave him we have earmarked money for him and we're just really happy to be collaborating with the district and are thankful for administration and the board for supporting us we have a couple of big things oh yes they're going to New York and they're going to see Wicked but get your ruby slippers and follow that yellow brick road because April 25th to the 27th is the JHS musical which is The Wizard
067of Oz so that's a great familyfriendly event for everybody to come and see we will of course um this year we've been doing specialty drinks so it's all non-alcoholic fun specialty drinks I heard there's maybe one for Glenda and one for the wicked witch so it'll be kind of fun and then we're partnering with ghs teacher appreciation and Amy's apples so that information will come out and our goal is we will our goal is to get a Apple for every teacher in the district so you'll be seeing information and that is a fundraiser again all money in goes out for our organization but also to really support our teachers so um we're excited for those things and then of course may all sorts of musical events going up thank Youk you did I stay where
068I live I'm so sorry I did it 1964 chipa Court grafted it I just realized that thank you anyone else like to address the board okay seeing none we will go to item d uh Personnel report you are way better than Dan you're welcome um we have two resignations that we'd ask for board approval and then two resignations for information only all of these occurring at the end of the school year Nate APS fifth grade teacher would you Elementary School will Hall also stays teacher Grafton High School and then informational only Emily um neli library media at Grafton High School and Greg pelich special education perah John Long Middle School any questions on the resignations as presented seeing none I would look for a motion to approve the resignation of Nate Pap's fifth grade teacher
069Woodview and will Hall social studies teacher Grafton High School move second first and a second any additional discussion all in favor say I I opposed that passes and we thank Nate and will for their time in our district and wish them well in the um future as well as with Emily Andra um e District Library Plan update said turn it off good evening um uh we are here to share an update for the library plan uh starting with um an overview last spring around this time you approved the library plan it was a three-year plan and Lorraine is going to be here to share um a little bit more about how we are addressing our goals that you approved uh last spring um just wanted to review that um the Department of Public Instruction did
070approve our plan this October we had up submit that and um again this is a plan for the next three years okay so here we are one year into it it's kind of exciting when you take the time to reflect and see where um what you've done and and where you're headed so our goals there were six of them to assess and enhance the digital resources integrate element Library lessons with the curriculum alignment the amplifi curriculum Chang things in the classroom a great deal and we want it to reflect that in the services that we were providing in the library in our lessons establishing enhancing the Middle School maker space which we have um that's going underway and we're going to talk a little bit more about that in the upcoming slides enhancing Elementary library
071collection to support the amplifi curriculum enhancing accessibility for middle school students in the organization of the library and transforming the high school LMC into a vibrant Learning Hub so we have um this is only a small amount of the databases and resources that we are adding um at all levels prior to doing so um we took a look at what what are we lacking what are we needing we did some surveys some observations what kids and um teachers were coming in and looking for and needing and some of that is reflected in what we have and there's a great deal of resources and they were on um clever on the library web pages and kind of all over so we are streamlining and making sure that those are organized and that teachers and students like
072know where to find those and we are having an LBC session for teachers to learn about Library resources this summer the one that we're doing is K to8 so that will be happening and not only the digital resource our es but some of the other um Hands-on Physical things that are in the library and in the M maker spaces which are also part of the library so we wanted to align the curriculum so we have K4 to Five Lessons that we have kindergarten um 4K our cute little 4 kers and our through our fifth graders so we have been updating the lessons throughout the year to meet the students need um as as you go you know you're tweaking it because we did a major change in how we were presenting our library lessons we
073took a look last year and then we talked about that I think it was 27 lessons per week or per week per year and when you really break that down and see what is the best use of our time that is something that we've looked at in a 30 minute time frame and we really want the focus for our elementary kids to be on developing that passion and love of reading um I think if they don't get it at that level we're going to have hard time um getting them excited about books and learning so it's it's a lot of fun with the littles one example was one district one book one school one district one book School sounds something like that right we did the Wild robot which was exciting kids got to pick
074kind of knew that one was going to get win with the excitement of the movie we have an exciting opportunity coming up in April in which we're going to have a family viewing event so sort of a celebration of the ation of our book uh we're going to continue to work on our fifth grade lessons things are going to change when they come to the middle school because we're going to have double the lessons it's a new space learning the new space and our exciting little maker space that's in there we're going to utilize and in um fuse that into our learning as well so speaking of the maker space we have had fun with that I think students get really excited about it we had gotten a grant last year here which was instrumental
075in helping us to really get that that going um this second semester now trying every Friday to have a different maker activity during store time for students to sign up we're going to be having a sticker day coming up this week for spring students have made bags they've made shirts all different kinds of things and also the excitement of the 3D printer wow I thought that poor thing was going to burn out uh kids were going crazy with that we've um you know you learn as you go and at first it was you may print you know two a month we had to kind of do a little bit of scaling back cuz I started to get a little of um like I said I thought we were going to burn out the printer but
076we have also teamed up with um Robin Morgan and her steam students because they learn how to use and do designs and now they have a a nice printer that they can use in the library uh we started by letting them do things that they found online problem with that was live and learn again you see this really cool drag again but now I want you to learn the skill of design and then printing so that's been a good connection with Robin you have to take a step back and be satisfied with starting at the beginning like I'm not name plate but we've got kids that are kind of rolling with it and it's it's been it's been fun we have added over four 545 books that support amplify so there are Act there are
077lists in destiny that teachers have access to we also have displays that we put out when students are learning about that subject and then it's nice because they're excited about what they're learning about in their classroom and then um the library AIDS are able to help kids find those books in those exciting topics that they're learning about middle school students the accessibility that we were looking for we we completed that yay that was a big shout out to the library is because that was a lot of work we have every in the collection we have all of the genres indicated so if you looked up a book you could see what the genre was but then the big exciting part was we have stickers on the outside of the book so you can tell and
078they're all together in their own genre spot so the good old library skills that you always learn the alphabetized by the author's last name but fantasy is all together scary books are all together Al together and it really works in a natural way that A student uses the library can't tell you how many times they would come and say where is your fantasy section and saying well that's not how a library is organized doesn't really make sense it means that we need to change how it's organized to make it work for you and it's fun because we all have our interests and kids can go to that section and browse and it feels like a really natural organic way to find something that you're interested in Reading so you you see the walls are very
079beige but we have some pretty things now our maker space here has kind of expanded to doing other things we have what 88 Minutes of a captive audience when students are in the library for their for their study hall times and I have to say I love the cell phones being gone because you just kind of see the change that's happened in students and that's a long time to focus on studying so yes we need brain breaks but just to watch what their brain bricks it would not look like this if it if they had their device to distract them so we have puzzles we have all different activities they can learn how to do um our exciting vinyl cutter our cricket that we have which is also a vinor final cutter they can make
080shirts we can collaborate with classrooms too so that's kind of in its infancy but growing that was um something that's happening at the middle school too with that connection with classrooms art things like that we did do that we did make a wellness we had a wellness week here which was really fun and kids um got to make little bags so pretty exciting stuff any questions questions information only thank you very much um item f n9th Avenue shed agreement yes um for several years gra little league has used a shortage that they built on District property on 9th a near John Long Middle School um a couple years ago when they built their new Fields I'd met with Patrick temper talking about um the that shed and would they be interested in selling it to
081the district um Jamie has expressed continued needs for um for more storage um and I met again with Patrick last week and talked about the shed again and now that they have um um now that the town is building their Town Hall um they have an opportunity to store some of their stuff out there and so they have no need for the shed um so we negotiated an agreement where we would weigh facility use fees for them for four years starting with this spring 2025 baseball season um and I've asked Jamie to come up and talk about how he plans on using the shed um as we've you know made the turf at the softball field and the baseball field now we're expanding John long and all the different things that are happening there how
082that shed will be utilized for district use yeah so um long time coming um very very excited uh I think that was somewhat of the plan when we moved JV field all of baseball softball over to one location um so right now we're housing um our zero turns inside Woodview Elementry we have some of the material sitting outside W viw um so now we we will have a shed and um it will make our lives so much easier to maintain these these facilities You' had to bring equipment from here at the high school over to the middle school or to Wood to be able to utilize it and it's going to allow us to just be more efficient with some of those pieces on yeah absolutely we only have two trucks yeah and a limited
083um so now and we use a lot of uh part-time employees so um th this is going to help us out tremendously and and with our budget purposes too yeah so we're really pleas that draft and little league is a partner with us they've been a partner for many years but to partner with us on the storage shed um so we would ask for board approval to approve the agreement transferring ownership of the 9th Avenue sheds as outlined previously any questions on the agreement uh lost Revenue about I know Lally fees fluctuate yep it's about $2,000 is what we looked at it was between 15 and 2,000 yeah so last year I think it was to $1,700 and that's just four years and then right back to normal Y and and a lot of the
084a lot of the um feeders have used some of those fees to offset purchasing equipment for various pieces so it hasn't necessarily been Revenue but it has helped our teams in this case it's going to help baseball softball and our our um grounds team sounds like a very very cheap shed that's fine this is the shed that has the siren directly behind it correct conc correct the building that's brown next to the gray and black on the ones that we'll have to remodel to make it look nice but yes okay that's the one so we'll we'll make sure that this one looks as nice as our concession stand up we invested in okay all right see no other questions um I would look for a motion to approve the agreement transfering ownership the 9th Avenue
085shed as out above so move second addal discussion all in favor say I I I opposed that passes and thank you as well as extend our appreciation to the the Le for the partnership um next is G um and um the the packet um has G as being gift report but um online the G is actually the overnight trip request so and we have it up here as well um so good thank you um sorry ghs future Business Leaders of America FBLA is hosting their state leadership competition so this just came in today so that's why it wasn't in the original packet we apologize but it was updated this afternoon um Carrie slinsky is our coach coordinator for that um she you can see the eight students that will be going from 3:31 through 4:1
086um we will be working she'll be working to get a mail chapon to um board policy having a chaperone for the males as long as she's with there with the females and they get to particip at in leadership competitions um through F great opportunity for our kids um to be able to compete in these things they competed back in January at the regional level and they were able to qualify for the state level and go on there so we'd ask for board approval for our fbaa group any questions if not I look for a motion to approve the student overnight trip request as presented so move second additional discussion all in favor say I I oppos that passes finally the gift report yes we have three gift reports we would ask for board approval for
087um one from the Grafton well two being from the grafting athletic booster club with Ben Brien as the contact person um one is for the ghs track and cross country programs for track and cross country record boards in the amount of $5,700 um another for the GSS athletic programs for um smoke machines in the amount of $33,000 and then one from T's Grill and Cafe for ghs dance they made a dance team donation of $300 so we' ask for board approval for the those three donations any questions look for a motion to approve the gift report as presented second additional discussion all in favor say I I oppos that passes and we thank all of our donators for their generosity and we'll get them but um so Mr Man thank you for today and for
088the presentation thank you to all the principles for our presentations it was uh it's always fun it's a fun time of the year to get through all that so when we get to this point we mean school is getting towards the end so um so thank you great job by by all of you and appreciate the extra time um this brings us to adjournment uh the Board of Education will consider a motion to convene and close session pursuing to Wisconsin statute 19.85% section c considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any Public Employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility for purpose of considering one preliminary notice of non-renewal of teaching contracts two teacher compensation and three performance related data of the superintendent on a quarterly review do we have
089a motion to go into closed so second we'll take a voice vote yes yes yes yes yes and yes thank you we are in closed