001At this time, I would like to call to order the May 13, 2025 meeting of the Harper Joint One School District Board of Education. I have a roll call. Miss Hoffman here. Present. Here. Thank you. Uh this is the meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting the district's business and it is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is a time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. Any district resident or parent of a currently enrolled student wishing to speak should have filled out a card located at the signin table and given to the board secretary. Were there any to be aware of? No. Okay. At this time, we're going to have the pledge of allegiance. Mr. G, will you lead us tonight?
002I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item number three is a consider approval of agenda. The agenda notes the board's mission of we will support our community through dedicated governance, leadership, and stewardship. so that our students achieve. It also states our values and expectations at the board and governing our meetings. The purpose of the agenda approval is twofold. The first reason is to verify that public notice has been given according to state statute 19.84. Mrs. Hoffman, has the meeting been properly noticed? Yes. Thank you. The second reason for approval of the agenda is to consider tableabling an item or to rearrange the order of events. Is there anything that needs to be
003considered? I would like to uh move action 1A board goals to be for the district administrator's report as Aaron has to leave and I think it's important that all five of us are present for the conversation. I appreciate being a part of it. I need a second for that motion. I second. All in favor. Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Um, the next item is citizens delegation to be heard and there is none. So, at this time we're doing a quick switcheroo. We're jumping to district business action a item number one. We're going to have our board of education goals. As a result of the continuous improvement and strategic planning process, themes were compiled through the board's reflection in creating board goals. Survey summary results regarding the draft of themes are included for all of our
004consideration, and there were some changes. So, I'm going to pass it over to Dr. Yobos to kind of lead us through this. Thank you, Miss Will. So, for everyone who's in the audience who doesn't have the pieces of paper that I handed out to the board right now, you can see one of those two sheets. The other one would be way too small. So, I did not even bother or attempt to project it. Um, but this is part of the conversations for our future and our schoolboard goals expire at the end of this school year. So, since February, we have had a few parent sessions, uh, staff sessions. We've sent out a parent survey where we have asked people to weigh in and obtain feedback regarding proposed board goals. So, I updated this at 5:00
005pm. I actually updated it this afternoon at about noon and there were already changes this evening. We had more people take the survey, so that was good. Uh we've had about 121 families represented with the survey. And so what I have done for you as a school board is I highlighted the top five uh goals that were voted on. And so you can see those uh represented in green um both on the large spreadsheet and then on the short sheet of paper that I gave you. My recommendation after looking at each of these is as people were taking the survey, you'll note that some of the goals were very similar in wording. We did that intentionally to see if there were any that resonated more with families than others did. And so my recommendation is
006up here. Um in terms of which goals and these are yours as a school board to adopt. Uh the highest vote was investing in people recruiting routine and developing excellent staff. I do feel that that's a standalone goal and I would recommend that the school board adopt that goal. The second and fourth goals are very similar to each other. develop well-rounded future ready students and then empower academic growth and student well-being. I do feel like those could be combined or truthfully that the second goal encapsulates the fourth goal. So my recommendation would be to also approve of the second goal. The third and fifth goals are very similar as well. The third goal is prioritize safety and operational excellence. And the fifth goal is align resources with student centered priorities. I feel again those two
007could be combined. And the third goal again encapsulates the concepts in that are referenced in the fifth goal in terms of operational excellence making sure that we are aligning student uh aligning resources with student centered priorities but we also have that additional caveat of safety as well. So, I do recommend taking the first three goals. Um, and then I'm recommending a fourth goal. The fourth edition was not one of the top five. It was actually it ended up being the top seven. Um, the top seven goal. And so this one I do feel is a standalone because we have a goal that talks about our staff, a goal that talks about our students. We have a goal that talks about safety and operations or finances. But we don't have a goal that references the school,
008home, and community partnerships. So the people that help uh us as stakeholders make sure that we're being comprehensive. So I'm recommending a fourth goal. And I have two different versions. uh strengthen school home community partnerships or strengthen school home community partnerships through communication and engagement. I do prefer the longer version because I feel that that shows just how we reach out to people in the community through communication as well as then looking at the engagement that people give back to us. So my recommendation again is goal one, two, three, and then the longer version of goal four. These are your board goals as a school board. So you can love the recommendation that I'm giving to you. It is based off of feedback from the two sessions based off of feedback from the admin team,
009the pack leaders and then also our parents or you could choose to branch out and do something different. Um however I do feel that this is comprehensive. uh by adding that fourth goal as we move into the next stages after approving the schoolboard goals that will allow us to have 25% if we have four goals 25% for that local report card that we're talking about making. So four um identical weighted categories each worth 25% on the local report card. So that's the that's another mathematical reason for that fourth edition. Any questions, thoughts? This is a discuss I know it's an action item, but we also get to have some discussion about it. So, just to Oh, go ahead. Um, we talked briefly about this meetings, but I think we have to realize that we have
010to maintain standards over and above what DPI's recommended. I agree. I think in general the district has always set goals that were above the DPI standards. Is that true? That's correct. Okay. Um I don't know. Do you you're saying you think that should I mean if we're doing that I don't know that that's feel like that's the way that the district has been going and some of those specifics will fall under these categories. Right. I mean, one of the ways I I like to look at and think about these goals is that each one of these is broad enough that underneath it, very specific things about school safety and how we're handling the classroom changes at the middle school under school safety and develop well-rounded future ready students could include purposeful people or some of
011those other things. So, um, DPI standards to me is going to fall under developing well-rounded future ready students like we're meeting the standards and we're going above them because we're doing a number of things differently. Yeah, I was just going to clarify. I think we've already did, but like all the details that we have here on the existing goals, we're not here to the go through all the details. We're getting high level. Correct. And then the details of like the specifics will follow. Correct. Okay. And the truth is beyond that um for all of our administrators when they work on their continuing improvement plans for each of their buildings, they have to use these goals and keep them in mind when they create plans for each of their buildings individually. Is that correct? Even for
012curriculum building and all of that, everything has to kind of match once we assigned three to your point bigger idea goals. And I think we can encapsulate most of what was here in any any of the four goals that we have that was that were stated. You know, the ones that we didn't specifically list here that you know that didn't make the green all those ideas are captured or can be captured in the in details. I'll also just say that the strengthened homeschool community partnerships you said was seven, but it's actually tied for six. You keep saying seventh, but it looked like because when you tie, you take the next house. I like I'm more optimistic. I like to take um but it was the next popular one with the other. I would like to
013get somewhere in there. I don't know if it under rationale or what because it's kind of connected to um developing well-rounded future ready students is to reconnect knowledge and virtue. I know virtue isn't a word you hear too often these days. Um but uh and I I don't really know what's taught. Um I guess that could fall somewhat under character, education. Um you know, just a few examples, courage, patience, modesty, humility, temperance. I mean, there's a lot there's tons of virtues. But um I don't know. I guess when I think of character education, u how it's been recently, I think it's been less focus on me, me me and I just would like to see that somewhere in there. Tara, maybe maybe talk about what you're going to do with the language in green and
014what you're going to publish. Sure. Out of that explanation and rationale. Sure. So yeah, very much like what Ian shared. Um we would have right now we have three board goals that are overarching. I'm recommending four. The ones in green, the top three plus this other one that I have up here. And then underneath that will include the explanation and rationale. And then what we will have is our key performance indicators. So how are we grading in each of those areas? what are the things that we are looking at in order to determine that we're making progress in each of those schooling areas. So, that will happen. Um, my goal is for that to be ready for you in July. Uh, that's going to be dependent on our retreat, our administrative retreat time and the
015July board meeting. So, do you want to try to capture either something that Barb was sharing or something that was sharing in like the build up in the explanation and the KPI type stuff. So in terms of what John was sharing work in process kind of thing. Yeah. In terms of what Don was sharing, I could see um achievements on the board exam indicating whether or not we're doing we're meeting what the state tells us and we could set the bar at whatever level we would choose to in terms of virtue. That bar by a degree that's part of character development and so that could be um referenced in um our delivery of character development at each of the levels. I'm not exactly on what the wording would look like at this point in time,
016but I do feel that it could be encapsulated in there. And I know that uh the triple P program that the middle school is using, I know that purposeful people, they have a set of tenants that they follow. Yeah. So, just a quick jump in terra like one of the goals for services this next year is actually doing fidelity checks to make sure people's being blend the way we wanted to. And so, I was actually just looking at some of the monthly um We do have some experts in the audience, but gratitude, perseverance, courage, kindness, respect, responsibility, those are all things that are caped for each month. Um, so as we use that, you know, as a key performance indicator to make sure we're doing those things to felony, I think that virtue concern. Yeah.
017I also would just say along the Z even at the elementary school they pick a theme each month currently it's past the way they've been doing it where last month was respons courage what was last month at Roouge courage okay I was like not responsibility but so then they focus for that month with all the kids about courage and then sometimes there's awards given out of their monthly um uh assembly about children who have demonstrated that and this month is creativity, but there's there are ones like like honesty, responsibility. So, I do think that some of that is happening all and has been as long as I can remember, I would say. All right. Good. And not to speak for Bart, but I do like to if we can incorporate the word virtue into something
018of in that goal because I do think that part of the world here is missing that that link of virtue in everyday life and virtue cap encapsulates a lot of different things we have already talked about. But um so if there was a way to incorporate that that word into the goal like in the beginning goal the heading that would be great. I think it I like the idea. One of my challenges with having it in one of the top three is that I feel like it is hard to measure and then reflect back how our progress has been made on it. And I guess part of the reason I feel that way and this is my my personal opinion is that I think a lot of that goes back to the home and the
019parents how there is still but maybe in this fourth goal where we're strengthening school home community partnerships maybe there's something along in there where we're adding in to see and to see more of this or maybe it can be encapsulated there because I honestly think that to to bring a topic like virtue which I agree with you Barb and I would love to more of it in the world in general. I don't I don't think that the district or the teachers or the staff could single-handedly make that their goal. But if we're partnering with home to make that increase, then to me that feels like strong thing. I still think it's hard to measure. Well, I think it is hard to measure, but you don't have to measure everything. I mean, we do for this.
020We do. If it's an orthogonal, but if it's a piece underneath it, if it's if it's a piece that we're working on, the still people find something else that's going to bring more of these like things we focus on, then I think it it can be a piece of it, but to put it, but we do need to be able to measure these and show that we are as a board and therefore the administration and the district are making progress for them. So, we want to give them something that they can't be measured. Correct. Correct. When I when I hear the word virtue, Barb, I'm already potentially word smithing the rationale column so that way we can include um the word virtue over here and I can see a few spots where that would go
021which the goal is the measurable part the explanation and the rationale help people understand what we're doing and why we're doing it and that's where I think that that virtue piece goes because like Aaron indicated it isn't measurable itself but we can tell people why what we are searching for what we're trying to strive for is important in measurement simply could be again our attempts to outreach, our attempts to send things home, our attempts to do certain things here. So again, it might it might not be the success of how virtuous our kids are, but just the fact that we are trying to do a certain number or level of things to try to help them. So again, I think there is measurable stuff there, not just not potentially the success of that but our
022efforts of that. Um I combined two of them already in a goal. Um you can like it or not but my first one is align resources to help student centered priorities that continue to develop well-rounded future ready students. That's my first one. My second one is continue to strengthen community community partnerships that help invest in people, build our culture and reputation to be a destination district of choice for staff, families, and community members. And the third one is the same prioritize it. So while I appreciate that, I think it's too long because no one we want people to be able to quickly go through what are the board goals versus trying to remember or memorize something lengthy. And we also want to make sure that we can have distinct things that go underneath each of
023those categories. What was your first one of these that you combined? Um I combining the align of resources to the well-rounded students. Yeah. I think either way, we need to do what the survey says, which is I learned that from our from a high school committee that go with what this go with what the survey says. So, we're on a we're on the right path. You know, the green the green here is what the survey said. So, I mean, I do think that the number one goal was pretty not only was it the only one like it, the invest in people, but it was pretty substantially out in front comparatively to the rest of the questions on the survey. Um, so I do feel like a lot of stuff could go under that goal and
024could be measurable as to how we're working to do that. Um, so I do like that as First goal number two is 10 has 10 more points than third one. Correct. Again, it's pretty far away. So combining two and four would be ideal, I guess, just because the next one up would be number three got the next most votes. But again, I mean, they're all they're all all the green is what the survey said. So we combined What do we think when we look at two and four? Or I know Louise, you combine two and five, which is interesting. I didn't see that to me. I did see five more fitting with three, but like what how could we combine two? We do need to combine those last four into two goals, I think, that
025are representative. You going for four goals or three goals? Well, for four, but on this page, we need to reduce the five to three. Well, I guess we don't have to. We all I do like the strengthening home community because I do feel like to what Mark said as a district our goals can only be bolstered and strengthened by the partnerships we have with families and with the community right we're all if the village is watching the kids and helping the kids they're going to they're going to do better so I do like that as a fourth goal some version of that I agree well that also brings in our HUS So, by using the word community, that opens the door to have those partnerships with our other K8 communities as well as our high
026school. Um, which is really important because that's what we've been trying to do is continue to collaborate with those other organizations and organizations like so I think we have goals four and go one pretty good. So, goals two and three. So for do we agree to do the longer version? I like the longer version. Yes. And I like go one as it is. Everyone else like go one as it is. Yes. So, what if we change to to develop well-rounded future ready students through academic growth? Is that too long? Well-rounded includes academics. It includes behavioral It includes wellbeing also in my opinion. Yeah. Did we just leave it as it is? Number two. I mean, we can get I'm for Yes. Just because we can incorporate what Barbara and Louise are saying in the in
027the other parts of it. But and I'm not good at word smithing and for the sake of I mean for the sake of everyone's time I don't know if that's the right thing to say or not but like yeah but I don't want to short change anyone. Also will you do any additional word smithing once we kind of give you these four or you're going to have these parts nailed down tonight. Um if you I'm trying to look like let's say you don't like the word prioritize safety and you want to demise safety later on. I think that's that's fine. Um I am planning the next activity that we're going to be doing as administrators is we're going to be starting to develop the KPIs to go underneath these to bring back to you. So
028if you were to entirely change a goal, that would be highly problematic. But if you are just looking at updating the wording, I don't see that as problematic. I also think that is an additional is a change that you want for the explanation or rationale that can be worked on later. To me, the most important part is to get these four. Again, I I'm recommending four. It does not have to be four, but the four main overarching goals so that way we can start working on those key performance indicators for underneath. I think we all agree on four, correct? Having four goals. Yeah, I think so. That's what it sounds like to me. Um, I know you I like the aligning resources, although now we also have resources in the strength and homeschool community partnerships,
029but we wanted to incorporate it. We could go prioritize safety and operational excellence by aligning resources with students and fairies. Except then I I think you are also um not looking at the things behind the scenes that you should be sure because if we should be trying to work for operational excellence across the board and I do think that student centered aligning resources with student centered priorities falls under under the prioritize safety and operational excellence because that's operational excellence Right. So then all the fiscal decisions that's in the explanation, would that go then under number three? Even if we didn't, it could. Okay. Yeah. Work on words. The only one thing I feel like that we're missing here that I still would like fiscal responsibility or like fiscal I would like that still. If we're
030not going to have five as a goal, that rationale and fiscal decisions directly supporting student success, I still want that somewhere up in somewhere else, I guess, in the like the bullet point. No, in like explanation and rationale part. I just that like I mean should make it paramount in something, right? I think that the that of all of the five of them that we're looking at, the only one that's really touching Well, that's not true. There was some fiscal verbiage in number three as well. Yeah. Right. I just want to make sure it's mentioned because I do think that that's important. Okay. I do like goals one, two, and three as they are. I do think that they encapsulate other things and I think the well-rounded fire if you can put the virtues you
031can put some of that other things under there and potentially in the school of home connection. Again, to Terra's point, if you can decide on what the items in green are, then we can continue to build out and pick up some of these themes that you're talking about in the explanations in the next steps of what we're trying to do. So again, you have the sheet in front of you with our current stuff. If you think about it in just kind of approving what's the bold part again, the the school safety, the student center, that stuff. If you're approving the the stuff in green, then we can keep working on the rest of all of that. Can you say measurements and all of that? Sorry. Can you say prioritize safety and uh fiscally be fiscally
032responsible and operational excellence? Can you incorporate that word? that number three or number three. I think operational excellence and fiscal responsibility are saying the same thing. And I think the shorter it is, the better because what we want our people to be able to do is we want them to be able to say to community members. We're focused on our staff. We're focused on our kids. We're focused on safety and finances. And we're focused on making sure that we are a community that works together to support our kids. If we get too verbose, then that's not going to flow off the the tongue and I think that we'll lose some of the power and leverage that we have there. Yeah, I think I'm at a point where I could be okay with the measure written,
033but I do think that the explanation and rationale of um even four as I read the rationale of four combines see themes around student success enrichment behavior is overwhelming. I think that more of that needs to go up into the number two rationale. Um just two more thoughts. How many of you are very quiet? Nothing for me. So Barbie, you would be okay with one, two, three, and four as they're written. As far as commentary, I'm sorry. Yeah. One, two, three, and then a fourth one down here. The second one. Strengthen school home community partnerships through communication and engagement. Mhm. Okay. Ian. Yeah. One. Are you okay? Am I okay with it? Okay. Don. Yes. Yes. Then I would need because this is an action item. someone to make a motion and actually read the
034four as we've laid out in their motion and we'll do that. A motion to approve the following as a new overarching board goals themes. Invest in people, recruit, retain, retain, and develop excellent staff. Develop well-rounded future ready students. Prioritize safety and operational excellence. And strengthen school, home, community partnerships through communication and engagement. I need a just all in favor. I any opposed motion. Thank you all for that discussion. Thank you just real quickly to the administration to the to everyone who participated so far. I know there were many voices that got to be heard here and I think it's a a great way to kind of develop these goals and go forward. So um and thank you guys for the conversation tonight. So, um, now because it's 6:30, I am going to go back out
035in about 15 minutes. Then I'm going to stay as long as I can and then I will pass the gav to Louise. Um, but we are moving back up now to number five, which is our district's administrative report. So, I will pass it over to Dr. Milovos. Okay. And I'm going to speed through my reports that our students who have been patiently waiting can be ready to go. So, if you even want to make your way to the front while I'm talking, feel free to do that. Maybe that maybe that's you, Miss Neely, to start things off. I'm not sure. Um the very first thing we did submit a C6 smart thinking microrant uh that was submitted by Dr. Agotska and it was approved. We just received notification that we received that funding and that
036will help us um for a peer mediation program at the middle school open enrollment. remember that you approved of the seats that were available in January and because you did that I go ahead and then I document who will be coming to us and who will be moving out of the district. The ground breaking celebration is this Thursday. We are hoping for good weather. It will be at Lincoln at 5:30. Our students are performing from all three buildings. Uh I will be speaking, Aaron will be speaking, Mr. Majerus will be speaking and then we will have cupcakes. speaking will be very short, the pictures will be very long um because it's exciting. And then we have a lot of fun things coming up for the end of the school year. We have our field day
037events, we have our promotion ceremonies. And so as board members, if you are planning on attending anything, please reach out to either myself or to Miss Hoffman because if three or more of you show up in the same spot at the same time, it gives me a minor heart attack unless it's been posted. So please let me know in advance. And with that, um, Dr. Dr. Miss, I'm gonna turn it back to you so that we you can introduce our high school student. Sounds good. Our first item in our discussion is our transition readiness grant and our Hartford Union High School update. So, principles, Miss Callahan from Hartford Union High School, actually Mine and Miss Callahan from HHS and some students are going to provide a little some highlights about this program for us. So,
038thank you first of all for coming and waiting through that little bit of discussion we had. We appreciate it. Yep. Thank you. Okay. So, I have a mic. I'll quick introduce you and then I'll hand it over. So, just wanted to introduce this has been a wonderful partnership. It has been so great to see previous high school students here and helping in our school and classrooms. Um, and so I just want to thank you for the opportunity and all the coordination you did to make this work. Um, but just kind of want to pass the big deal. So, I'm Chris Callahan. I am a special education teacher with the transition program at the high school and I am also the grant coordinator. Um, and then I'll just introduce everyone who's here. This is Bev Warman,
039one of our paraprofessionals and job coaches. Um, Danny Clink, paraprofessional and job coach. And Jed McCormack back there, same thing, paraprofessional and job coach. And then we have Rebecca Blackman, one of our student workers. And Dylan Han, another student worker. And so they will I'll kind of share a little bit and then um we'll let them share as well. Okay. So just a little bit about the transition readiness grant. Um it is a the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction um is the one who sets out this grant and it's really to help students with disabilities um prepare successfully for um things post high school. So whether it's employment or um education um things like that and one of the so there's a lot of things that DPI tracks and one of them is um postschool
040outcomes for individuals with disabilities um and so that is also one of the reasons you know we really that they have this grant to help a lot of schools and that um we also feel passionate about it um and I'll get into some of the benefits of um what we're using the grant money for and why it's so important. important. Um, so the state of Wisconsin has $1.5 million in funding. Um, and it's really to support these evidence-based practices that will help our students um, to become successful. Um, a lot of it, so it covers things like transportation, um, competitive integrated employment opportunities, postsecary tuition, and then training for staff members. So, next slide. Um, HHS, we were awarded $100,000 um for this past school year. And a lot of it, so a big part
041of it that of the money is going towards um our competitive integrated employment program, which is the students being able to work out in the community um for various businesses. and we reimburse the businesses um for the wages. Um why are we doing that? Um and that's kind of a big question, but we uh one of the there's several predictors um of post high school success for students with disabilities. And one of the big ones is paid work employment while they are in high school. And so there's a lot of research on that that if students hold jobs, students with disabilities while they are in high school, um the research shows that more of them will continue on as far as education beyond high school and also that they have a better success rate at
042being employed post high school. Um and there's also some not a lot of research but some promising um kind of data out there that it also helps to increase independent living skills as well. And another why that we do this um really we want to increase um the number of Hartford area businesses that see the benefits of hiring our students. I'll be honest, it's I've been doing this in the transition program for seven years now, I think. And um it it's hard to get businesses um to work with some of our students. It, you know, I in this day and age, you don't want to say that, but it is. And so, we figured that by having this grant and reimbursing employers that it might give them more of a, you know, it's less of
043a risk to have them hire um our students and knowing that, okay, they're not going to be out this money. If it works, great. if not, you know, it just was an experience. Um because we think a lot of times they just don't realize the benefits and I put some of those benefits up there. Um really um some of the data that's out there, 89% of employers who hired people with learning disabilities said that um the person or people that they hired met their expectations. Um, profit margins for businesses are 30% higher and net income is 200% higher for companies that invested in hiring individuals who are disabled. Um, and then employers with disabilities are more motivated um than the average worker. And there's higher 3.5 times um people with disabilities are 3.5 times more
044likely than non-disabled um co-workers to stay at their job. and then just, you know, they bring unique talents um to the talent pool and to the work site. So, those are just some of the benefits and we want more businesses in the area to see that. Um so, one of the things we're doing this summer is we have what we're kind of calling we still have a decent amount of money left that we need to utilize by the end of June. So to try and get even more employers involved, we are doing a June job jump start. So where we were really just getting the word out to everyone, um you know, we have these students who want to work. If you're willing to just try them for the month of June, um if it
045works, you know, great, you can hire them. If it doesn't work, it's not a big deal. We're supplying the job coaches um if they need that. So, we're hoping um we actually have had some decent amount of success and you know with this kind of campaign that we did um getting a lot of people interested. So, we're excited about that for this summer. And so, Joint One, what Joint One has done is they actually are providing paid work experiences for four of our students um at Central Lincoln and then the district office. So, two of the students that could not be here tonight are pictured up there. Um, and then we have our other two here who we'll let speak in a minute, but we're going to talk about just impacts of stories from the
046students and job coaches. So, the first one is just a little video. Hello, I'm Mr. McCormack. currently working with Frankie for the joint one school district for the transition readiness grant paid work experiences. The grant has showed multiple um positive things for the students. Um Frankie has learned positive work experience and also um work stamina. Um to start out we were only able to wipe down tables in the meeting rooms. But now after about a month and a half he has been able to do both sets of tables, both sets of chairs in all the meeting rooms and also start to vacuum the floors along with cleaning the counters in the bathrooms. Um the transition ready grant work paid work experiences have shown um very very high positivity in the students working um with the
047joint one school district either at central or at Lincoln. Have a great day. Um and then I think I'll let Mrs. Worman talk and then Mrs. So I'm Bev Warman. I actually worked at joint one with Mr. buoy for eight years. I helped open the alternative school and then helped Chris open the transition program. So, watching these students since kindergarten grow throughout this program and now this with the grant, it has been awesome. Matter of fact, I've been working with Dylan Han over at the middle school and he's been doing fabulous. So, Dylan, would you like to add a few words? I really like mopping the floors. Really like mopping the auditorium stage at Central. Find it oddly satisfying. I like the fact that I work by myself. I know I'm going to lie. The
048best part is getting paid. I'm not going to lie. The best part is getting a paycheck so I can spend my money on useless junk I don't need. I really appreciate the opportunity to work here and I'm hoping to be able to continue working here this summer. I just wanted to give the perspective from the building. We really appreciate having Dylan work for us. He's doing a great job, Mom and Dad. Um, and Bob, you're doing a nice job with him, too. He's really open to um jobs that we have. Just doing a great job and and getting more friendly as he goes. Thank you. Rebecca talk. So, do you want to tell them where you work and what you do? Um, I work at Lincoln. I uh clean the tables in the lockers and
049um I love working there because all these years of my my old teachers from Rossman. But what I just wanted to say that um all these years, all my old teachers and my new teachers from this year because this is not really hard to say, but I love my school and I really do and I love my teachers and I know I love Mr. Buoie. Oh yeah. Um, I go with Miss Clink because she's my awesome teacher. Let Mrs. Clink talk about what Rebecca tells her is one of her favorite parts. So, hi, I'm Mrs. Clink. I work with Rebecca. We go to Lincoln and clean. She cleans tables uh for lunches. She does amazing job. Everyone there is so kind and so friendly to her. She loves it. Um she also cleans the library
050also wiping down some tables, wiping down the hallway. She does amazing job. The thing that I love watching is seeing how excited she is. She knows the day she works. She is ready. She's excited. She knows it's a work day. And the really fun part was one day I pick her up in the mornings and she was so excited because she had to tell me that she got her very first paycheck. Her very first paycheck that got sent in the mail with her name on it. How awesome and amazing that is to be having her own paycheck that she can do what she wants with for her. I think hour and 15 minute work. But that's okay. It was sweet and fun, right? Yeah. So from all of us, we just want to say thank
051you and as you can tell, it really means a lot. So we appreciate the fact that work with us. We love our students. Yeah. Thank you. If we can have you come up, we'd like to shake your hands. Congratulations, Bunny. Good job. And then deliver just a second. Congratulations. But it was also just staff appreciation week. And so we wanted to make sure that you get a Harford shirt. So I'm going to give you two. Have mom help you decide which size you want. Okay. You're an extra large. Well, good. Then you already know you're a better gauge than I am. There you go. That's I was lying. It's not just large. There you go. I had two ready to go. Rebecca, congratulations. I have extra large and large for you. Oh, which one? Or
052or do you want a different size? I don't know. I do it. I'm so glad I did a large, though. Large. Let's try that. And if you if you don't like that size, let me know. Okay. Oh, you know what? I gave Dylan yours and yours Dylan's. So, just switch with that. Okay. They're different. Thank you so much. [Music] I just want to thank all of you for coming today. I'm glad I got to stay for that presentation. I think it's a wonderful uh partnership with the school. And I want to give a shout out to Dylan for speaking like a true teenager about what he's spending his money on because I love it. As a parent, I heard I felt it. I did. And I'm passing it over to Louise for the rest of
053the meeting here. Thank you. Text here. Sounds good. And yes, now that you have spoken, you are certainly welcome to stay. Um, but if you would like to leave, certainly we understand. And again, thank you so much for your meeting and um, all your hard work at our district. So appreciate it. Look forward to working with you guys again next year and hopefully more. We got we got more jobs. All right, we are on to discussion number two, administrative report, buildings and grounds update. Mr. Carol and Mr. Majaras will provide a brief overview and updates. [Music] So, with the uh wonderful weather we've had the last couple of days, I felt it was appropriate to start with a snow falling report. Um, we had two major events of five, which I consider five inches or
054more to be a major event where we use the the outside contractor that has bigger equipment than we do uh to help with the big areas and then we clean up the small areas. That works very good. I'd like to continue to do that as we move into the future um uh for two reasons. That that helps us get the things done on time in a timely manner and it's a lot less wear and tear on our equipment. And we do use our equipment, most of the equipment both for snow plowing and lawn mowing. So, it's important to keep that equipment running. Uh we have started to uh mow lawn the last couple of weeks. Uh did some weed eating today. Uh we'll continue to uh mow law on as necessary. Sometimes it's difficult with
055the rain to get onto some of the property uh low areas and as we get warm weather like today the grass grows very fast. Um the next thing that I want to talk about is we have this time of the year we have a lot of setup and takeouts. We have uh um orchestra band orchestra coral concert at the middle school. We have both sixth grade seventh grade. We have a lot of those events. We have recognition events at the schools that we do a lot of seems like it's endless that we are setting stuff up and taking stuff down. But, uh, takes a big chunk of our time. My guys do a good job. They're willing to stay and complete the things, come in, uh, early in the morning, get things taken down so
056that they're the gyms and stuff that we use are ready for school. Probably the biggest thing that I'm working on this summer is the logistics of uh the summer cleaning crew and the summer referendum projects that we have. It's going to be a very intense summer. We have a small crew with young kids. So, it's going to uh be interesting to keep them on task, keep things um accomplished so that our our construction crew can continue to do things they need to do yet we get the buildings cleaned and ready for school next fall which is going to be a big challenge. So, that's all I got. If anyone has any questions, I have one minor question. So, that last night we had the choir or the concert Yep. BC concert at Central. We have
057another one on Wednesday. Yeah. I wanted to pet. Okay, so this is a good question. I wanted to help clean up the sound equipment because but we left it out. Was that the right thing to do? Um I don't set the sound thing up. I I don't You'd have to ask Ryan if he would prefer that you take it down or not or if you just assume have someone from their staff do it. Okay. So yeah, we appreciate when you do guys when you guys do take chairs down and and move them back. We do appreciate that. Um, we always leave the the the movers so that you can move the you don't you're not dragging tables or chairs across the gym floor. A lot of the stuff goes back to the band and orchestra
058room. Most of those kids help with that. So, that's very appreciated. It's good. It helps us a lot. Thank you. Excellent. Um, as far as the building projects go, so just wanted to give you a brief update on that. Um bids for all three projects are in and considered uh that process considered complete. Um as a reminder um the total project cost um that we had allocated and kind of the thought about as we were putting budgets together was $15.3 million. Um 8.2 Two of that was the referendum approval for bonds and then about $7 million of our fund 46 money going toward those projects. I can tell you that the um Rossman and Central were bid those jobs were bid together um partly because uh they're smaller than the main Lincoln project. So we
059were able to send out what we needed to do both of those projects. We got bid a a lot of bids um from a lot of biders which was good. Um the bidding came in um right where we thought that it was going to on both of those projects which is also very good. Speaks to um the planning by P and Myron's um knowledge of what it's going to take to do the things they need to do. So, when they gave us some some pre-budget things as we're again developing how how much we should go for in bonds, um we were right where we needed to be, which was great. Lincoln's bids were then due after that by about 10 days. And um again, lots of biders on those jobs. We consider them big jobs
060for our contractors, especially the commercial grade contractors that we use. um our jobs are cons considered small when they're when they're putting up 10 buildings that are 10 20 50 hundred million dollars. Again, a project that's 9.6 total um including all the phases. Again, the the construction, reconstruction, um the mechanicals, all the earth work that gets done. They're not necessarily um big projects to them, but we did get great um response from biders. There was a combination of local um contractors that were awarded work and some big firms that we've used before and some big firms that we haven't used before, which is good because I think it'll help um get some firms into our district that um can learn about some things and if something would happen with our what I'd consider our normal
061main contractors for certain things, we have other people that have some information about how our district operates um in terms of mechanicals and we have another resource to call if we have issues with anything. So again, bid numbers were great. Um the guaranteed maximum price that was um you know that comes out as part of those bids includes construction allowances and also um includes contingencies. Uh, you know, we're doing some significant work at Central Middle School and Lincoln Elementary specifically, and you know, there is a potential that as you open things up and start taking some things apart that there might be issues that we don't anticipate. Um, but our project figures and things do include contingency dollars so that if we do find something that needs to be remediated, we have the resources to
062do it. So, pretty happy about that. There's also, as you can imagine, some pre-construction costs that aren't necessarily included in um the bid process. If you think of things like um site and survey work that was done early as they were doing soil testings and things like that, we had to um take care of some of those which again comes out of the total project itself, but it's not necessarily included in the bid work um that's done. There's also furniture and fixtures and equipment that we'll um potentially have to buy for some of the areas as they're remodeled. So again, um we have dollars allocated for that. We have dollars allocated for um any asbestous or lead paint abatement. So again, I think we're I think we're really sitting in a good spot. We have
063meetings once or twice a week as the case may be. Um we've already had a meeting once this week about um the hazardous materials. Uh there's another meeting scheduled for tomorrow on site at Lincoln. um they want to get started at Lincoln School. They're mobilizing now. I don't know if you drove by Lincoln, but there's some pieces of equipment and some things happening there. And there'll be more happening there as we head toward the end of school. They'd like to get working in the locker room area to the extent that they can without disturbing our instruction or or creating a safety hazard for our students and staff. So, we'll try to get as much uh work done there as we can so we can hit the ground running after school lets out. As Doug referred
064to, the biggest challenge that we're going to have is we can't do a lot of um moving and emptying spaces out that we plan to um remodel or do work in. So the crew, the the summer crew, the the custodial maintenance staff, tech will be doing a lot of work in between June 6 and uh Monday, June 16th, which which is where I would say they will start doing um a significant share of actual their actual work. Monday the 9th is mobilization week for all three locations. So again, they're they're able to bring some things to Lincoln school so they can get started doing what they need to do there. But at Central and Rossman, they'll bring equipment on site, they'll bring materials on site, they'll set up the fencing for the construction areas. So
065they plan to do those things the week of June 9th. Um the mechanical contractors will also be kind of doing some of the um pre-demolition type disconnections for heating and air systems and and electricity and and plumbing and things. So just a lot of work to do. Again, um not necessarily concerned, but I mean there there's just so much to do on top of the normal things that we do. So, um, again, we're appreciative of our staff and our leadership of being flexible, knowing that, um, again, everybody's going to be working as hard as they can to get the school buildings open on the first day of school. So, um, yeah, thanks to Doug, thanks to his crew, thanks to Ryan and his crew, thanks to the administrators who, um, again, if their buildings are
066impacted, they've done a lot of planning already to move things, set up temporary office space. You know, Lori, for example, her building is hosting summer school. So, we need to switch what what entrance we're going to use for students, where our office staff is going to be, and things. So there's just a lot a lot of pieces that have to get um figured out in this process and I think um we're we're doing a pretty good job where we're standing right now. So yeah, more meetings, more things to come, but we're excited to get rolling after school lets up. Question about field day just because I know they use the locker room doorway. So, are they going to go like out fourth and fifth or is that a better question for Neil? Yeah, it's a
067Mr. It's a Mr. Hamlin question. I'm I'm sure he's figuring out the logistics. So, when you say they're already starting that, are they blocking that off? Um, basically any work that's getting done, the locker rooms, um, is going to be confined inside the space itself. Um, I don't think there's going to be too much necessarily in and out. What they're going to be doing is again kind of disconnecting certain things. Part of it is simply just seeing what's in there. Again, as we planned the the items that they're looking at plans and kind of taking documents, they haven't necessarily put eyes on it. So, the first thing they're going to do um even starting this week is just kind of look and see what exactly we're dealing with um because some of the space in
068the bathrooms for example in the locker rooms in the actual shower areas um you know will have to be um disconnected and and so they're going to be doing those kind of things. So again, there's not necessarily be a lot of in and out of the building. It's just going to be stuff that they can do inside the space itself. But yeah, going in and out of any one exit or something like that, Neil's responsible for figuring out like how he's going to operate school on a day-to-day basis in the spots that we're dealing with, but that's that's really the only spots that that's happening. Something's happening before school. And I assume Doug, you moved all of the or will be moving all of the storage that's in back there in both of those locker
069rooms. I know that's a lot of stuff. They're off to already. Awesome. Is Plunkett still the architect on record? Yes. And did they gave you budgetary numbers originally, I would assume, right? Or like what these potential project would cost and their numbers were pretty accurate. Yeah. So again, Plunkett does all the design work, the construction plans and things. My costs all the stuff out based on all all of the um all the contractors and things. Yes, they are the construction manager, general contract. And will summer school then have to like you're just going to reink the classrooms like further down by the room, whatever away from obviously the front entrance and have been working on that. Yeah. Fortunately, they're not, again, it's going to be phasing. Um, they have a phasing kind of schedule. You
070know, they're not going to rip apart every single doorway all at once. they're going to rip apart, you know, doorways, fit them with the with the new kind of setup and the clearances that they need, finish that, go to a next area. So, it helps us um you know, as we identify what rooms we're going to use, they know what rooms we're going to use and they can kind of work around that some extent until, again, we get to a a spot where we're going to have to do some things in some spaces. But, yeah, it's it's a lot. It's a lot of coordination. I know. Remind me the time frame. So like obviously Lincoln is the biggest. So if we start demolishing or changing the classrooms for the art of music, that's will be
071done before school starts or Yes. All the classrooms, all the classroom spaces are intended to be done um before we come back to school. the kitchen as I mean they know that we have to have our kitchen up and going too before um school starts in the part that's going to straggle past the start of school uh are going to be the exterior work with the brick and then the addition part with the storage and receiving area for the kitchen. But um again, they know what our expectations are for the usable spaces that we need to operate school and they've determined their phasing and construction schedule based on that. These general contractor, they're well experienced in in school work and getting, you know, school priority. School start date is priority for them. So they will
072they're going to push towards completion date. We just have to hope weather is on our side and that we don't have any hidden gems waiting for us. Yeah, I think start taking things. The hidden gem thing is certainly probably more concerning since we're not doing largecale um construction of areas. Again, storage and receiving while it's important to us and we can't wait to have those spots, you know, it's not critical in the day-to-day operation of school like a classroom would be. Since those are inside spaces, weather really doesn't necessarily play into it. Um, what plays into it is just making sure all the contractors are on schedule to get their work done. And again, hopefully we don't find any surprises. The the good thing about using Myron and the con construction companies that we're using,
073A, they're experienced in this. B, Myron's very experienced with where how our buildings are set up. um since they've done the last several projects including the Lincoln Rosman additions. So they know how our heating and air and electric and plumbing kind of work. Um Gruno is part of the the situation in terms of um plumbing. We have one new and one old um electrical contractor which is fine. Um the HBAC firm um is a different firm but again very talented very successful bunch so I'm not concerned about the actual contractors themselves. Do we see lead time issues? Um particularly obviously with tariffs happening. Um I know there's a lot of equipment that is not available or is starting to be scarce already. Have you heard anything from them? Are they Yeah, I mean so like
074um the Lincoln cooler and freezer, not going to have any problems with that. Um, again, we're not necessarily changing too many HVAC units themselves. Again, it's duct work in and getting things um reconnected to service the spaces as they're newly configured. So, there's not necessarily a lot of product buying that way. Um, steel is not an issue. The only thing that has lead times are the um generators and the generator portion of the project isn't going to happen till next summer. So, and that was forecasted in advance. Yes. Which is again, which is fine. And so, not super concerned about that. But, yeah, I mean lead times for generators are out 20 to as many as 40 weeks. So, question. Thanks. Next up, I know you were standing there so patiently. Rosman Elementary School. There
075you go. Can you hear me? Works. All right. Um, good evening. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to update you on our school improvement plan tonight. Uh, with me I have Mrs. Aoff or Teresa Azaf, our assistant principal, Becky Kger, our school counselor, Tasha Vogga Vogle, our instructional coach, and Kim Olter, our school psychologist. Uh, just to remind the board that when Mr. Han and I presented in January, we we said it was a learning year for us because we're implementing so many new things and so we chose the theme of of choosing empathy this year as we learn to work together. Thank you, Dr. Louie. Okay, so we can go to the first or the third slide actually. You have the clicker. Oh, I'm have the clicker. Is it got it? Oh, okay.
076There's a a lovely picture of all of us on the first day of school. Okay. So, a few things we do to support the first bulleted point under our goal of making school safety a priority is we practice monthly drills, reminders about procedures shared before and reflected on after in terms of email in the form of email pack leader meetings and team meetings. If a student makes a threat of harm to themselves or others, a threat assessment screener is conducted to determine whether or not harm is intended. If there is intent, then a full threat assessment from the Department of Justice is conducted. A few things we do to support the second bulleted point on the list on the slide. Um we presented Bogle and I presented at the back to school PD for staff.
077um the other assistant principles from Lincoln and Central Middle School and I um put together behavior matrix which named policy and scaffolded responses. Uh we rolled out next path um inform staff about how to enter incidents. These behaviors were collected on a bi-weekly behavior collaborated on sorry in our bi-weekly behavior meetings as well as monthly team meetings in order to stay current with both behaviors and attendance. We've also added staff shoutouts and our Rossman um in our morning announcements. We've implemented the purposeful people curriculum and we are using the ASUP from Ross Green. These things attend to overall improvement in school safety as it builds staff morale and intrins intrinsically motivates all of us to work on our self first which transfers into the richness of our school community. We can move to slide four.
078And that's me. I'm going to keep saying that. I have the ability to move to slide four. Okay, thank you Dr. Buoie. Behavior management attends to our school safety plan and makes the school safety a priority. We track behaviors in next path and follow up with staff, students, and families during team meetings or on an asneeded basis. We always we also meet on behaviors weekly as an office team. The behavior chart in the middle outlines policy as it relates to behavior. That's the chart that I referenced um on the last slide that we worked on as assistant principles. The chart differentiates between what is a teacher managed versus an officemanaged behavior. It also outlines the progressive discipline as well as consequences. We respond to behavior proactively by setting behavioral expectations in each classroom as well
079as schoolwide. In addition to having empathy, our school theme is to be safe, responsible, and respectful. When a student behaves in a way that requires action, our process is to talk with the adults in charge and any student involved before responding so that consequence is fair and developmentally appropriate. Informing parents of all parties involved um and being mindful of cons confidentiality is also imperative so there are no surprises when incidents repeat themselves and the consequences increase in severity as named in policy. Visibility and transparency is key to holding students accountable for behaviors and to provide a safe learning environment for all. Additional things we've worked on as a school in order to support behaviors from a classroom lens are behavior incentives and classroom management plans. They're used schoolwide. Students are given opportunities for leadership. We
080have a leadership team in our school um which is elected by teachers as students move into fourth and fifth grade. We give character awards at monthly rendevous. Um we've had professional development as mentioned earlier with Ross Green to add to our existing child study team process. We work to involve the student um that study team process with the ASAP uh works to involve the student in behavior intervention planning in order to acknowledge behaviors and prevent future behaviors from occurring. There is always room for improvement in our practice. We are always reflecting and collaborating in order to grow and meet the needs of our students in a way that is developmentally appropriate. Our hope as an elementary school is to partner more with our middle school in the coming year in order to get creative about
081ways to help our fifth grade students be as prepared and successful as possible as they transition to the middle school. Dr. Buoie, can you transition to the next slide? Oh. Oh, that was five. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Working on attendance also contributes to our goal of school safety. Last year, attendance was exclusive through Skyward. Uh this year we utilized reports from Skyward as well as data charts from Next Path to communicate trends and patterns. We have steadily improved from last year to this year in the area of attendance. Last year in the high-risisk category, we had 4.2% which was 15 out of our 355 students. Uh whereas this year we are at 1.4%. 4% which is six out of our current 416 students who are at high risk regarding attendance and trreny. Our population of
082students has increased and so has our attendance and engagement. We meet with teachers to discuss attendance concerns and share attendance related information with each other to be sure no student is missed on our radar. I utilize an attendance tracking system in Google Sheets. Um and attendance reports are run by our school secretaries. letters are signed by me and sent home at five and 10 days. The process is phone call home letter five and 10 day home visit with our SRO um counselor and myself and um attendance meeting with student staff and family and then potentially a warning or citation of attendance violation from the Hartford Police Department if needed. We positively reinforce attendance with perfect attendance charms on a ring at Rossman rendevous which is our monthly school assembly. We communicate and check in with
083students and families who struggle with attendance and engagement frequently and um our purposeful people campus supports the all about me teacher sheets to encourage attendance building connection and feeling of belonging. Attendance meetings involves students, staff, and guardians. We discuss factors that affect attendance as well as a few statistic statistics to name the concerns for academic growth over time. We're utilizing now attendance works as a free resource with tools and strategies to engage students and families in school. as well. The purpose of our school attendance intervention plan is to identify the reasons for a student's truency, document the previous steps taken by the school to address the students truency challenge, and develop the plans necessary to improve the student's future attendance. And I just want to take a moment and um give credit to Miss Kger
084and Miss Marorrow from the middle school who really took a lot of time in the summer to put those attendance meeting plans in place. So, that was really great. I will now turn it over to Mrs. Bogle who will share about coaching and collaboration. As Mrs. Aoff had mentioned in the beginning of the school year, the two of us had actually shared a little bit about classroom management and that goes hand inhand with our goal number one of the goal of improving coaching and collaboration around classroom management and assessment. Um this is the first year as we've mentioned uh back in December that for the role of the instructional coach. So this has definitely been an evolving year by um by any means to say the least. Um but it has been my role to
085work directly with teachers and provide support as I can with instruction. So some ways that I've worked to um work towards this goal this year has been to provide training with Mrs. days off at our new um new teacher or at our um welcome back. Thank you. At our welcome back assembly in August. I also provided training with new teachers for classroom management strategies as well as discussed a little bit about formative assessment with our new teachers. I work very closely with new with teachers and grade level teams to support with different lessons, helping individual students and providing resources and information through coaching cycles. And then I also meet with teams to help them in support. Um because this is such a new role, I've been working very closely with our coaching team on a
086weekly basis and we also work very closely with Katie Malter on a monthly basis. We've been doing a lot of different book studies this year as we've been learning and growing um collaborating with different coaches through the uh Harford area schools and then also working with CISA at their novice coaching workshop with the goal of coaching and collaboration. We've also been working very closely with the Hartford area schools with our peerreview mentor grant and in fact this year we had an opportunity to host at Rosen. I had a chance to do peer visits with Holy Hill, Aaron, and honor districts. And then at Rossman in February, we highlighted their benchmark phonics program. So we had representatives from second grade, third grade, and fifth grade teachers that opened up their classrooms to really show the amazing
087things that are happening in our school. In addition, in the afternoon, Allison Stark had supported um with 4K at Lincoln. But it was a great opportunity for us to collaborate and network with teachers and instructional coaches from our area of school. Uh moving on to goal number two. And goal number two is to be responsive to make decisions that are student centered. Um with that I'm going to talk about that first first bullet point of improve tier one instruction intervention with the implementation of as web implementation and act 20. This year uh we've been as a district involved with act 20 by uh completing six different modules with the James Cox campus um instruction. Uh we've been learning a lot about early literacy. Um the four of us actually Dr. Buouie as well have been
088facilitating small groupoup sessions throughout the year as we were doing that. In addition to that, um I've also been a part of get adding more professional development with our staff through our literacy goal training and then high leverage strategies. Actually, I did that this evening. Talked about high le leverage strategies with our staff. In addition, as we're learning a little bit more about our database and um assessments, we've been working with Ames web, which replaced exact path this year. So, I've been a part of a number of different webinars and trainings with our staff. We uh attended just to learn a little bit more about this program. I've been available to staff to help them and guide them through reading reports. We did some lunch and learn activities as well as uh inservice activities to
089learn a little bit more about reading these reports as this is a brand new database for us. All right. Hi everyone. Um the second part of that goal was to improve our character education with the implementation of purposeful people. Um, so last year was a pilot year for our elementary buildings and then this year we moved to a full adoption buildingwide for that program. Um, it allows staff and students to have common language to use surrounding emotions, interpersonal skills, character qualities, and coping skills. Um, and we chose to move forward with that to support overall character development for students. Um, you can see up here some examples of student work and student um, activities kind of relating to that. Um the character traits that are focused on in the curriculum include things like respect, responsibility,
090empathy, gratitude, cooperation, among others. Um and there's a different trait each month. Um they're consistent across grade levels from and from year to year. Um by having those grade levels consistent from year to year, it allows the learning from previous year to be reinforced and built on as students progress through their education. So from kindergarten to first grade, it's built on so on and so forth throughout the years. Um in addition to the daily um classroom instruction that students receive with these traits, they're also reinforced in a variety of ways in our building. Um up at the top there with the students with doing courage. They're showing um an example of work that they did in class. They each read courage across poems as part of the curriculum. Um the look how we shine is
091from kindergarten. They were talking about courage as well. Um and had examples of things that they had tried at first and then worked on it and continued to show courage to achieve their goal. um some respect work done by students about respecting different individuals and then a gratitude jar and things that they're um grateful for and then they had a puzzle activity as well as part of their lessons there down in the corner. Um in addition to those things, they also have um we have an announcement script that Teresa reads each morning that connects to the character trait for the month and reinforces those ideas. And then each month at our Rossman rendevous, the character traits align with our purposeful people curriculum. Students are recognized as the character award winners from their classroom each month
092as well as our showcase opportunities like the courage across poems or others that we've had this year. Um and then we also do character trait readings as well. Um here's just a couple more examples of some of that student work. um we had some empathy and an empathy poem that students did as part of the curriculum. And then directly across here we have the classroom um part of the curriculum. The students have songs that they get to participate in and enjoy singing along with as well. So then on top of the full implementation for tier one, we also had tier 2 implementation this year. Um, and that has been used with our special education teachers specifically for purposes of deeper instruction for students who demonstrate difficulties in self-regulation, emotion management, coping skills, and those who
093may need some more coaching on relationship building. Um, so the special education teachers have shared that they have appreciated having a curriculum that not only dives deeper into the skills that their students are needing some addressing in, um, but also that it reinforces concepts that are similarly taught in the general education classroom. Going on to um promote fiscal responsibility, we continue to review and revise our top 10 project list. I continue to meet with Mr. Rashlo, Miss Litter, and Mr. Carol as we go through those and work with Adam and Terra as well. Um some things that we've done recently this past year were over the summer replacing exterior doors, windows and lighting for greater efficiency. Um the I also had mentioned earlier in January and you see now is that we be become strong
094in the programs that we've adopted this year and so we rely on each other and we no longer need to bring in outside vendors or presenters to lead us through those things. Um, I think we work well together. We use the strategies we learned this summer, uh, in working with our staff. Either you're doing a teeter totter or a four square or playground activity on a regular basis. Um, uh, it's so natural to us. I think we even use it a lot in a team as well. So, um, some of the programs that you heard tonight that we use it as Ames, Webs, Cox, Campus, and Next Path. going on to professional development. Um, this year we've had some staffing challenges at the beginning of the year. We started the year with uh two open
095positions and our pair of positions. Uh, we uh met as a team. We worked together this summer and as we hired staff, I'll let Mrs. Olman take over from there. So, to be as fiscally responsible as possible, the special education team has worked really hard and diligently over the year to fill as many gaps as possible. So, when we have unfilled aid positions, that means that there are students with IEPs who are potentially going without support that is written into their IEPs. Um, so like Dr. Louie had mentioned, we had two unfilled positions and then this kind of put us in a difficult position because we want to be able to optimize our own jobs but also support the students that need it most. Um, so we all came together to pull schedules of other
096pair professionals to compare what we call red and green supports. um red meaning that this is something that absolutely needs to be abided by in the student's IEP and green meaning they could use the support but it's not an absolute necessity um to kind of see where we could close those gaps as well as we could. So thankfully both position positions were filled and then shortly after that we did lose another pair of professional. So what we have been doing is in the morning Dr. Buy sends out the absent report and if one of our aid positions goes unfilled then we are meeting as an office team but then also as a special education team to see where we can shift our own schedules and the schedules of other paras to fill those gaps. Um
097and so with a continued support and collaboration with all of those team members, I am very happy to report that there have been very few days where a student has gone unsupported. So each day we are consistently revisiting and utilizing support from every avenue that we can gather from. They've also done a great job on boarding and preparing for a substitute when we do have substitutes. So our daily lesson plans for our pairs are very detailed uh right to who they should sit next to, who they shouldn't sit next to um how to help them and then obviously names of everybody involved. So that's been pretty fluid and everybody at stuff at Rossman has mentioned how how detailed it was and it made it easy for them to support the building. Uh we also continue
098to work with our Rossman PTO as you can see on the slide. Um we had u we have field trip money or a petty cash fund for families in need where if they're running short that month we we would supply that for them. We have busing $500 per grade level for a total of 3500. Um classroom equipment and supplies. Occasionally a teacher sees something they might want to use in the classroom. I think more recently there's um students that have a problem just sitting still sometimes. So Mrs. Grimwald would uh bring it to PTO and they got her some wobbly little feet on the chair so the kid could just bounce around or rock a little bit which which is nice. This year I think you'll see a donation coming maybe next board meeting or
099July board meeting. Uh we did the uh art to remember. So that was a fundraiser this year and we replaced all the stools in the art room. Um we have this should probably say trimester awards now. So trimester academic awards and then trimester behavior incentives. So those all go to the PTO and those all supported by our PTO. Um we also have Paul awards at each rendevous and the students who are recognized uh get swim passes to our Harford Recreation Center. Uh we also have our book fair which gets books for every student in the building. And then obviously for parent family engagement this year we brought back uh Tim Hannig. I know Tara got to be a part of that. So it was exciting event. It's been a while since Tim's been back in
100the district. So that was a nice event for the whole family. So next for improvement. Okay. School safety behavior. Just going to read right from the slide. consistent data comparison for future years using next path for behavior and attendance. Um and then partner with all the buildings in the district to be sure our approaches are responsive and responses are consistent. Uh looking at student centered decisions um in the role of coaching, we're going to be very intentional about student centered um decisions that we make with our teachers as well as our students and looking at data to help to drive some of that coaching. And then related to our character education, continued tier one purposeful people for all grade levels, continued tier 2 purposeful people and potentially expanded use for that um beyond just special
101education. And then looking into surveys or other data gathering measures to provide data related to purposeful people and overall character development. Uh finally for fiscal responsibility, continue to collaborate as I mentioned earlier with our top 10 project list and collaborate with our PTO. I will say that going in this was our learning year. Next year our goal is to hopefully to be more around data decision- making and so we'll hopefully utilize all the data collection that we've collected this year and then also once the board has earlier tonight the board finalized their goals so then we can start building our plan for next year and that's our school improve improvement plan. Any questions? Yeah. Um, getting back to attendance, um, the first speaker said you've seen steady improvement over last year. Can you put your
102finger on why that is? Are you doing something different? I do know that we've been working more on the attendance plan that the counselors put together. So, while we were meeting with families in the past and bringing them in and having those collaborative discussions with the kids, the details in this attendance plan are a little more specific. and I think pointed to outline some of the the shortfalls for families and getting their kids to school. So having those more well-rounded conversations I think is is helping. I don't have um a lot of data to prove what is making it look a lot better. But I would like to think that our engagement and that our commitment to making sure that all kids feel safe when they come to school is attributing to that. Does that
103help? I like something specific more than a lot of gray areas. So, well, sure. That's a good thing. Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't have more specific data then. Barb, I' I've observed the team working with students regularly and I think when a student sees somebody waiting for them the next day, welcoming them at school is definitely a positive thing for getting them to school. Um even uh we have a student regularly after school nowadays and the staff is working with them to get caught up with homework knowing that uh if he doesn't get it done during the day or if he is absent there's a team waiting and willing to work with him. So I think some of those warm welcoming um friendly faces has helped improve the attendance. You know, it's it's clear that
104you guys have focused more on getting the connections made with other students, which is helps, you know, people want to feel connected. Once they feel connected, they are more likely to return probably. I'm just hypothetically speaking here, but sounds like you're on the right path. Well said. With the next path um for behavior and attendance, I know it's a good program for us, but overall, how are you feeling about it? Was it a good decision to move to that program? I think so. I think today even in our behavior meeting we were looking at it's really there's a lot to learn yet and um but there's a lot of really great knowing about it already. We're able to pull the data in very creative ways, very specific ways. Today we looked even at um specific
105classrooms. So that was very interesting to me to look at attendance from that lens or the amount of incidences that are occurring in in specific classrooms to try to track that data. So I do think that in the next years we'll have a lot more comparable data from next path to next path rather than trying to look at a conversion from skyward to next path which wasn't always very clean this year for us. along with that. Um does that data also kind of um include um like are they are they late to school because of obviously busing situations or is it breakfast situations? Just wondering how elaborate we can get to kind of pinpoint is there a need, you know, that we as a district can help close that gap in the sense of is
106it a is it issue? Is it is it a transportation issue? Like does next path? That's a good question. Details. I'm not 100% sure, but I know at the middle school probably just like with the data that you get from class to class that might be something that we can partner on just to look at it a little bit more specifically, but I don't know how that's how we how fine tooth we can look at that yet. That's a good question. I'll look at that for next year. think that you know as we talk about turning and stuff like what's the key you know and maybe it's not anything we can do but maybe it is so we can find those those points and if you can see that data like hey I'm consistently consistently
107seeing this child or this family I think that can help us just make it I agree and prevent those blind spots right I think from a data standpoint it seems like the more play with that more information. So it's definitely something whereas here child and because we're all using it. Then obviously you look given that information can go to sixth grade and then how does that work for eighth grade transition? Do they want any of that data? Does that any other comments? It'd be cool to see this three years from now and see the increase in attendance in middle school once, you know, once we continue to work on all the all the at each school. So it'll be Yeah, it's really nice. built up the data about cohorts. You follow that cohort or you
108this fifth grade year or the last fifth grade year. Um some of the things that was saying when you those red see that red clip into that and see exactly who those kids are to your point you' be able to see okay these are all our late class kiddos and then in Skyward you code why they're late. Um so you'll be able to dial in and then same with that attendance support plan that facilitates um it go drives right into you know why are the way to support you get on time. So that's another way to just get that and that shared with each student like the kids that are having that you're concerned about like how does that work? Is that a family conversation or is that first child conversation? for us. We meet
109as a team of new kids. Um myself, Teresa, um parent or parents, and then student and home room teacher. So, they're all part of the conversation. Yeah. I think at the middle school too, I know you guys really watch the kid, you know, that young kids aren't there, you know, why they're not there. And so, um you guys talk kids first and then starting Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, we are back to district business. Um we are on to number two policy second readings. Uh these are new policies for our district 2440.01 1 summer or interm school attendance 5411 third grades promotion and retention at risk students 6620 petty catch 8125 consultants 8305 information securities is there a motion motion to accept policy 24.01 01 summer or interim school attendance 5411 third grade
110promotion and retention at risk students 6620 petty cash 8125 consultants 8305 information security second any discussion this is just a vote so all in favor I number three professional development 2526. The professional development is planned for teacher and support staff for ongoing implementation and refinement of district approved programs while enhancing academic programming and instruct instructional practices that support student achievement. Is there a motion? A motion to approve the 2025 through 26 professional development at the costs not to exceed. Am I supposed to read all that? Okay. If the cost not to exceed $100,000 second any discussion I would just say that Miss Malter has worked with a core group of people in order to put together this proposal for you. This includes a continuation of our work with act 20 which is statutory. It also
111includes continued work with CISA 6. um educational epiphany was the work that we've been doing with Danielle Dicki over at the middle school and we also commence that work with the elementary. So that work continues as well as expands into differentiation uh schooly training. We are very excited to have a speaker not just for our school district but for all of the Hartford area schools in August. So that will be a joint endeavor on August 26. That's Clint Swindal. Uh, spring into success was something our middle school team was uh, participating in this year. We did not send any of our elementary teachers to that because of act 20 training. However, the feedback was this was great. It was differentiated. It allowed teachers to participate in things that were meaningful to them which very much
112aligned with the rounding feedback that we received. So, Miss Malter has planned for all of our teachers to participate in that and it also includes the summer leadership retreat for our pack leaders as we continue to develop them um to help them support the new district uh goals um that you've established tonight. And then there are additional costs throughout the year that Miss Malter will add in which is how we get to the $100,000 package. Anything else? Cover's a main piece so thank you for that. Um and you had stated that it supports both district and goals. It's also based on feedback from staff. So, we made sure that in our Tuesday professional development days that we allow some report card work sessions right before the book cards are due. So, we ensure that we
113have that based on feedback. Um and then excitingly um the plan comprehensive listing you see certainly supports school board goal number one which you already voted on this evening and it's in green um invest in people right recruit retain and develop excellent staff and as you can see that has been a professional develop plan so we're excited for what next year she brings us but thank you I just want to I wanted to make sure that obviously that teachers were part of the conversation. I think that's always the feedback that I get if I'm in a school is the professional development side of things which I keep saying it's important. We all need to learn. We all need to continue to grow in our careers. And so I wanted to make sure that they were
114a part of that because I don't want that. I want them to come to me and say, I loved my professional development or I really appreciate that I get this opportunity to enhance my career and what I can do for the kids. Now, I'm not there yet, but I think we're getting it. Collecting that feedback is really critical and we've been taking a close look at the feedback from staff after each session this year. Um, so next year we're also excited about choose your own adventure opportunities where staff get to choose what you know what's meaningful to them. And actually we have a professional development session on May 23rd where they will get an opportunity to be a part of whether it's reading or math or learning Spanish or you know getting a closer deeper
115learning opportunity with the next path. Um so we are looking for those variety as well. Any other discussion that is a call. Uh Ian I Louise I John Hi. and I'll vote I number four. Achievement gap reduction or AGR contract renewal. Lincoln and Rosman have been receiving AGR funds and are eligible to apply for a 5-year contract for the program. The program supports math and reading and has significant cost savings for the schools. Is there a motion? Motion to approve the 2025 2030 achievement gap reduction contract goals and renewal. I'll second. Any discussion? So this is just over $500,000 for our school district. So this is quite impactful. Miss Malter and I worked pretty heavily and intensely with DPI and CISA throughout the year uh to determine what the best course of action for the
116school district was. We are changing the strategies uh that are allowed to be used. So there are a few allowable strategies. We were using one uh strategy in the past and Miss Malter has restructured the contract that way. We're looking at instructional coaching which you heard from Miss Vogle tonight. We have two other instructional coaches in the district, one other one at elementary and then one one tutoring which is the work that's done by our reading teachers. So um that is the the large change and Miss Malter and I have also talked it's not part of this approval. Uh however we know that there have been some concerns over the readability or the usability of the data and so that's one of the things that we've talked about updating for next school year when it
117comes time for her to give you updates. I may just not be putting the pieces together, but it says estimated savings is what it says. Just help me understand that because this is money that's given to us if we receive this contract. Whereas if we don't, then we have to front the money ourselves. Okay? And this is just a vote. So all in favor I I number five Illustrative Math 360. Illustrative Mathematics is used in grades 6 to8 and this is an updated version designed to improve student experiences and success. There is no additional cost for this version. Is there a motion? A motion to approve the illustrative math 360. I'll second. Any discussion? So, this is an updated version as you um cited previously and so this is something that we're already using. However,
118this is an opportunity for us to continue to grow with the program. Um much like we talked about the new school board goal number one in terms of investing with people uh in people. Miss Malter has shared that Sarah Brown of the math institute will work with each grade level next year. So that's again investing in the professional learning for our staff members in terms of utilizing this curriculum update. So Miss Malter, was there anything else that you wanted to share? Just that the team is very enthusiastic about the updates overall um because the program updates allow a lot of communities for differentiation whether it's students who are students or students with disabilities but also um additional checkpoints. Um certainly the updates with um the school improvement plan as far as home assessments and differentiation.
119They're just really enthusiastic about the updates. No cost to it and it doesn't interfere with our cycle. So, you know, we'll continue to monitor and review next year with these changes um before we make a recommendation for a new year. Remind me this map program is like it it flows nice into the high school. That's what I saw. Okay. This is just a vote. So, all in favor I Number six, social studies middle school renewal. The Hutton Mifflin Harort 6 to8 social studies programming is currently used in teaching in Wisconsin academic standards. This renewal includes digital licenses for teachers and students in the units of world civilization, world geography, US history, and civics. Is there a motion? A motion to approve the renewal of one-year license for social licenses for social studies with Cington Bton
120Lifflin airport at a cost not to exceed $11,300. Second. I'll second. Any discussion? Yeah. Um, Miss Malter, um, do they teach like separation of powers and in civics? Um, is is that taught the three branches of government? Um, that's all taught. Yeah. Um, well, as you know, civics and political science are fields under the social science branch just like geography is. And so um in sixth, seventh and eighth grade there are units of civics embedded within that. So the branches of government are actually taught in sixth grade and then seventh grade is more of course into ancient civilization and then more neighbor in eighth grade. Okay. You know what I would like to see next year is a presentation of one of these. They had it at the um I'd like them to dazzle me
121with their Yeah, it was at the community. Yes. And they and the social studies group that was there. I got to see Yeah. They showed the whole demo. It was amazing. Like it's really um encompassing and more interactive for the students which I think is personally history is not my thing. So when I saw that and how you can like bring it back to real life too, it was Yeah. I can't remember every presentation we've had. If you had a presentation of it wasn't here, it was in I I Okay. Yeah. But I'd like them to dazzle me with their building. We can talk about people. Yeah. We can talk about that as a spotlight on learning on teaching and learning for next year. Okay. Because history is my thing. Perfect. Any other questions, comments?
122This is a roll call. Just want to point out that this is including civics where before it wasn't right or like it wasn't part of Don. Hi. Louise. I I and I'll vote I number seven. Keyboarding and digital citizenship license. Titastic is a digital keyboarding resource used in library media center for keyboarding skills. Is there a motion? My motion to approve the license renewal of typastic with digital citizenship at a cost not to exceed $5,400. I second. Any discussion? This is something that's already being used in our LMC. Miss Hanland was very enthusiastic about bringing this request to Miss Walter and so that is why it's in front of you today. And I will make a note that it's obviously under the 10,000. So correct, she's just addressing it to us so that we acknowledge
123that there is program. Um but obviously don't have to Louise I Ian I Don I vote I perfect motion passes number eight virtual courseware license renewable the district partners with Adventum Academy for virtual courseware offerings such as agri science careers fashion design game development and personal finance The renewal quote is based on estimation registration numbers. Is there a motion? A motion to approve the renewal of the virtual courseware licenses with addentum at the cost not to exceed $8,640.75. I'll second. This is the same company that we've been working with and we've been happy with the product that we received which is why it's coming to you today. Much like shunk shared previously. It is under the threshold, but because it's curriculum related, we wanted to bring it to you so that way you're aware. Are
124we able to measure metrics any of these or like do we like know what's working? I don't know. Is that right question for the virtual program? Yeah, I don't know if there way to measure that. Do they seem to be courses that the kids are interested in? Like do we have a good amount of That is a roll overall vote. Don I Ian I Louise I and I'll vote I motion passes. Number nine practice programs license renewals. These renewals for the IXL in middle school and MOI maths for elementary are practice programs for math, English, language arts, science, and social studies. Is there a motion? My motion to approve the renewal of the IXL practice program license at a cost not to exceed [Music] $10,518.75 and MOIAX practice program license at a cost not to
125exceed $8,764. I second discussion. So these are the two practice programs that replaced exact path which was used last school year. I think that we have done research on both of them and I itself has been reviewed pretty positively. The verdict is a little more mixed with Moby Max. However, it's incredibly cost effective and we have not found a different replacement at this point in time. So, we are recommending that we use this for one more additional year and we research next year to determine what that NES practice program is. Uh, forgive me, but Moby Max is where they get to earn some sort of game feature, right? Or something like that. My son was telling about it yesterday. So, he was excited about like they don't get to it's not like abuse of games
126or anything like that, but they games on your computer, but he was excited that he could earn. I don't know what he was what exactly said. lesson they assess lesson. Yes, that's what he said. Something similar to that. Yes. So, he was excited about it. This is a roll call vote. Who? I. Don. I. Ian. I. And I'll vote I. Motion passes. Number 10, Chromebook purchase for Lincoln and Rosmary Li Rosman, excuse me, library labs. The recommendation is to purchase 60 Chromebooks for the use in the Lincoln and Rosman Library Labs. The district received 1,029,693 from the annual distribution of earnings from the state common school fund. This is a qualifying expense. Is there a motion? A motion to approve the purchase of 60 Chromebooks at the cost not to exceed $28,140. I'll second discussion.
127So, uh, common school funds are funds that we receive and they have very strict rules on where they can be used. And so, this is one of the qualifying expenses, finding things that are able to be used in the library media centers for our buildings. And so this is a qualifying purchase. Um it's being brought to you separate from the Chromebooks purchase that we did earlier this year because again common school funds versus our regular school funds. Question. Yes. I talked to a number of people who don't like Chromebooks and wondering is that the cheapest type of laptop available? Is that why we're using Go ahead. I was just going to say these are the larger 14inch touch screen Chromebooks as opposed to the smaller 11.6 inch Chromebooks. Um, so they're a little bit higher
128priced per unit. They are not the cheapest. Um, but we replaced the desktops um with our old Chromebooks back in 20189. It was before I was here. They are the oldest Chromebooks in the district. And so this model um is a good quality machine. It's the most recent version of the one that we currently use. So fast forward from when we got it in 20189 to now. Um the goal would be for these to last for approximately six to seven years. Obviously, we know that technology turns over really quickly. Um, this is the cheapest that we're guaranteed to get for this specific price point. So, much like we talked about last time, making a quick decision so that way we could get those at the most cost-effective rate. Um, vendors are not guaranteeing the stock
129or the pricing for more than a few days with all of the changes in tariffs, which is why this is really timely for right now. I don't know if you want to add anything else, Mr. Muras. Not US made overseas. What was that? Not USD. Um, no, I don't think um necessarily a lot of the technology that we buy is necessarily USmade. Um, so we are somewhat beholden and again the timing of orders and things. um making sure that we're selecting products that are not only going to fit our quality and what we're trying to do, but stuff that's in stock versus having to potentially wait and get things from overseas. So, I think going back to the laptop question, I mean, you guys have you guys have um you know, Chromebooks and things like
130that with Tara and myself have laptops and the administrators have laptops and Windows versus versus Google product to start with. Um maintaining both the operating systems and softwares on devices like this versus devices like that. Much more costly. I mean these are a thousand to $2,000 units. um we don't necessarily want to be maintaining Windows-based um devices in the student labs or with the students because again in the classrooms they're using the Google type products. So we want products in the library labs. They're going to be consistent with what we're using all across the building. So you know at one time we did have desktop computers in there. ificant different set of maintenance and efforts to keep them patched and and secure and things like that than again using old lap uh old Chromebooks that
131again came off of like rolling out of eighth grade or fifth grade students hands and things like that to now um picking a product that's actually dedicated to the library can stay in the library and um again because they're not using them all day it's just a class going in there and using them. We think that we'll definitely be able to achieve keeping them for the length of not only the lensure but the kind of the maintenance coverage on them and things. Yeah. Having to Don to Mr. Por's point like h having a student or even myself having to switch personally from a Chromebook to a Microsoftbased laptop. I mean there's a learning curve there that I finally overachieved. I finally achieved but because you have to learn Google Docs versus Microsoft products and then
132there's licenses with Microsoft products that have to be renewed every year which is very costly which is what he was saying in the long run. I mean this is the best option for like going with Google and Chrome operating systems because they're already used to that is better for them. They can figure out how to use Microsoft and Chrome when they get to be adults or high school. Yeah. I mean a bunch of our software programs that we have and the educational programs that we use and the apps that we use again are Google based. So again trying to pick a product that's going to make sense but be robust enough that it again it's not going to be junk in two years. So and I benefited from my kids knowing to use Google Chrome
133versus me. So I think it's a good smart move. Remind me for the library what is their curriculum for using like is it a it is just because I know we did the typing one but what do they learn in the library? What is she using the laptops for in the library? Yeah, this is mainly for the the library, right? These machines these machines will stay in the library, right? They stay in the library. So I'm assuming there's a curriculum taught they would either task or to print or to look up books on as well. Okay. She also just I wish I could remember what it was. She was doing a neat project with the students in class last week. Um I feel like it was STEM related. Yeah, she does a little STEM robotics
134the little kids a lot of research as well. It's just getting them more acquainted to using a computer. I mean, that's really why we use it in the library, right? So that those kids that don't use it already in kindergarten or whatever, they get an opportunity to touch and feel. Okay. And books, too. They books. Yeah. And that's that also would be when they would take some of the digital citizenship lessons prior prior to a research event. They might do that as well as part of as part of Miss Hanland's budget. And again considering um common school funds I mean we're replacing books we're adding books to the library the online um databases for books all the um material kind of management systems those are all identified costs that we can use common school funds
135for. And then the tech pieces that stay and service the library. So, when we have interactive um learning boards, as you've probably seen on carts, we have one here. Um those kind of things, again, if they're dedicated to the library, stay in the library, we can use those monies accordingly. So, again, Miss Sandler's worked very hard, the previous library administrators have worked very hard to make sure we have the books and the materials that students want to read or need to use to learn certain things. and there becomes a limit to as to how many books we can actually um buy in terms of the space and capacity we have. So the department the um commissioner of public lands has done a great job um investing the funds which has driven our contribution that this
136this 129,000 that was pointed out in terms of what we give for the library. It's based on the earnings that we have and this the student out and the student population that we have. At one time this number was 90 some thousand. It's now climbed up to 130,000 which is great because now we have resources to manage our three libraries. Um but again we don't want to just buy stuff just to buy it. This is an important upgrade for this handling of delivering what we're trying to do. Comments discussion is a roll without vote. Ian I Louise I Don I and I'll vote I motion passes number 11 student technology security management and multi-factor author say that word authentication contract administration is recommended approval for a one-year license for class link a student security management
137and multifactor authentication solution data and user security are critical with the everyday use of Chromebooks for student learning and class link will be an effective tool to reduce risk to our network environment and our young users. Is there a motion? My motion to approve the student technology security management and multifactor authentication contract with Class Link at a cost not to exceed $8,28. I'll second. Any discussion? We're not using We're not using this now, right? Or is we do not have a multifactor authentication solution now. Um certainly lots of things to help keep students safe digitally, but um certainly with the increasing risks in the computing environment. Um the expectations both um just best practice but also our insurance company and people that um you know are we're using for risk management. We're implementing multifactor authentication
138for all of our adult users and it's just as important to put some measures in place for the students. Um the way they will log in will certainly be easy. Obviously we have students as young as five years old. So to be able to type a bunch of passwords in and do different things is not easy. Um the the program is set up um to identify either pictures or they scan a card um that has a code on it. So they can use the Chromebook itself, scan their code. And that's essentially similar if you were using your phone where it generates the codes and it has you log in or again you log into a a site and then it sends you a code to either your phone or your email that you got to
139grab the code and stick in. Um this will be something similar but obviously um age appropriate age appropriate for the kids that we're dealing with and we would plan again to to print print cards so that they can again just scan the thing for the youngest users and then they've identified themselves in the login they've used their code now they can get in and do what they need to do. I I didn't think this question earlier, but I understand the multiffactor identification for adults. That's But was there an issue with students that brought this on or is it just something pretty proactive? Um I don't know that we necessarily ha have had a security breach or issue with the students. I do think that again every touch point that our network has to the outside
140creates a risk and to the extent we can again make sure that there's two factors to get into our system if a machine was compromised without these measures. Again the the risk is that they can get where they where outsiders don't belong in our network. And so considering we have 14 or 1500 students versus the 200 or so adults that we have and it makes sense to implement something that's going to cover the the the biggest touch point in terms of our network. Again, they're not going to be roaming the internet necessarily, but any any one compromise through any one student account and it could be disastrous. To answer your question though, I do think that this is a proactive measure that the school district can take. I also know that it's something that is
141viewed um very importantly by our insurance companies making sure that we are we are making sure that we have multifactor authentication. So for both of those for student safety and then just for our own insurance rates and coverage this is proactive. Yeah. when we have the insurance renewal, which will be next month because of the timing of this meeting. Um, part of that um process is filling out a cyber security questionnaire. And they ask about all the different things that you do. Um, again, how your network is used, who's using it, counts, whether you have multifactor authentication, whether you're doing on-site backups, off-site backups, tape backups. Um again, who who has the ability to access what systems and so again it will help from the standpoint that we can say yes we have full multifactor
142authentication for all users adult and kids remind me for the so if a kid like you get two times or whatever that teacher can override that so they can still get in or how will that work if for some reason they get yeah there's There's Yeah, there's adult management systems in place so we're not having kids sitting there battling a login issue. This is also a roll call. Don, I Louise I Ian I and I'll vote. Motion passes. Number 12, food service prices 2025 26. It is recommended for the food service prices to increase to 5 cents for breakfast and lunches in 2526 school year. Cost will be 155 for student breakfast, 265 for adult breakfast, 310 for elementary lunch, 325 for middle school lunch, 470 for adult lunch. Milk cost will remain at 40
143cents. Prices have not increased since 201920 school year. Is there a motion? A motion to approve the food service prices for the 25 202526 school year as $155 for students breakfast, 265 $2.65 for adult breakfast, $310 for elementary lunch, $355 for middle school lunch, $4.70 for adult lunch, and 40 cents for milk. Second. I'll second. Any discussion? The only thing that I would add is like you alluded to, the prices have not increased since the 201920 school year yet. We know that all of our staffing costs have gone up. Um costs for the supplies and equipment have gone up. And so this is an attempt to make sure that yes, still have our fund balance specifically for food service, but that um we are hoping to break Right. So, this is an appropriate request question.
144Yep. Um, is the adult lunch more expensive because the portions are greater. How do you explain that? Adult lunches aren't subsidized by USDA. So, again, we get we get um aid for all meals um not just free and reduced lunches. We get a certain amount of aid for every lunch and breakfast that we serve, but that's based on the students. The adults meals aren't and can't be subsidized with that money. They do have access to again main entree um fruits and vegetables. They get food from all the food groups. Um Tara and I have been serving lunch at schools this week. Uh where we were at Lincoln Monday, we'll be at Frostman tomorrow. We'll be at Central Middle School on Friday. Um we happen to have a few minutes before our coaching meeting. So we
145have the opportunity to have lunch on Monday and again a great meal. Certainly plenty on your plate to fill up even an adult. Um so um we're confident that um you know, portions and things like that. Certainly not an issue for our students or our adults really. And when we were serving lunch, we did have the opportunity to see some staff members going to the lunch line. So, it is taken advantage of. It's nice. compared to other site. When you say adult lunch, strictly staff people. Yeah. Sometimes parents can do it though. I've done it on the account to have lunch with my for me before. I think it probably is. I I paused because I don't know that we are encouraging parents to come in and have lunch. I did it and that was
146on field day. I should clarify that does not happen, but I think I was hers. Ian I Don I Louise I and I'll vote I motion passes. Food service contracts for 2526. The district has contracted with three schools to provide meals, but Peace Lutheran will no longer require our services. The recommendation is to continue contracts with Happy Hollow Learning Center and St. Killian School with an increase of 5 cents per meal. Is there a motion? Motion to approve the 2025 26 food service contracts with Happy Hollow Learning Center and St. in school. I'll second. Any discussion? So, this is the same increase that you see for our own meal prices. So, same increase to the partnerships that we have. Uh, one of the things that I have shared and that Mr. Jerus and Miss Flitter
147and I have talked about is the fact that uh Peace Lutheran does now have its own kitchen. So, they don't require our services. Um we are certainly we make attempts to be good community partners. However, this opportunity for them to go out on their own. Um I know that it is an opportunity then for us to reclaim some of our services where our staff members are working for the benefit of our students versus other students. So continuing to that that partnership in the community to help Ko and St. complete but going out on their own. This is a roll call vote. Don I Louise I Ian I and I'll vote I motion passes. Building use contract with Glacier Hills Bible Church for 635 West Sar Street in Hartford. Glacier Hills Bible Church is requesting a
14812 month building use contract. The building use fee is $440 per month. Is there a motion to approve the 12 month building use contract with Glacier Hills Bible Church for 635 West Sumar Street Hartford? I'll second. Any discussion? So, I just want to make sure that it's clear to everyone. Mr. Majaras did meet with our tenant uh regarding the 12-month agreement. He did alert them to the fact that there there is potential uh for the building to be sold. So that way they were aware that they might be impacted by this. So they are unable to uh be a contender in the sale of the building and the purchase of that building. However, they would be interested in renting from the new owner if and when we do sell it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean the
14912 months gives us time to again um get the building ready, do an appraisal to determine the fair market value, to select somebody to actually help us with the sale in terms of a realtor and then get the property sold. So, it's not only buying Glacier Hills time to figure out a solution um and be prepared in case something happens um but it also gives us the time necessary to do the steps that we want to do. Um Mr. Carol has the building largely cleaned out. So, there'd be some things that we would want to do again to get it sale ready, but um it certainly wouldn't be my intention necessarily to spend a ton of money the prop property that we're going to sell. Um the property uh was conveyed not only to Boys
150and Girls Club, but to us at a transfer price of 200,000. Um, I would anticipate that we would be able to get something north of that considering what building costs are and the size of that facility. And again, a a future owner may want all of the space or might be content with leasing space that Glacier Hills currently has. We've been partnering with them for a long time and for a long time they did use Central Middle School and um it certainly has worked for them. So they're very appreciative of all the years that we've had a good relationship with them and Pastor Shim want me to pass that on to you that he's very appreciative of all the years that we've helped them um kind of expand their mission with their users. Are we
151actively trying to unload it? Are we trying to do what with it? Unload it. Yeah. So, um, once we get Glacier Hills stuff done, then again, I think what we would do is, uh, work and try to, um, have an appraiser come in, um, to give us a estimated fair market value, um, because that's required for board policy. Then we, um, would engage a firm to actually help us with the marketing and sales. Any discussion? This is a roll call vote. Ian I. Louise I. Don. Hi. No. Vote. I motion passes. Central Middle School. Central Middle School Dean of Students Hire. The recommendation is to hire Morgan Remy as the dean of students at Central Middle School. Is there a motion? A motion to approve the hire of Morgan Ramy as Central Middle School dean
152of students. Any discussion? We need a second. I'm always a second. Okay, I have a second discussion. So, uh, Morgan Rainey is the candidate that we are looking to have approved by the school board for the dean of students, uh, position at Central Middle School. This is a replacement for the position that's being vacated by Mr. Thomas who came to us from the high school level and, uh, resigned earlier this year um, but is fulfilling the remainder of his contract. We had 26 position 26 applicants for this position and we had five rounds essentially of interviews. We had a screening interview. Then there was an interview with the team at central. Then there was student uh and staff interviews. Then Jordan and Lori met with the candidate um themselves and then the final interview was
153with me. And I was very impressed with Morgan both during the screening round that I was included in as well as my final interview with her. She had incredible questions. I'm very excited to support the mission of the school district and the the current schoolboard goals while understanding that they would be changed um tonight. So she is currently a teacher in the Wawaossa school district. Uh one of the questions that came up from the board members during the prep meetings was a typical trajectory for an administrator. And yes, um going from teacher to some type of teacher leader, maybe an instructional coach or a specialist or going the administration route to dean of students or assistant principal. This is the natural trae trajectory. So very excited to bring her team today. Maybe this is inappropriate
154question, but what is your hesitancy bar or take that Um, I was going to vote no because we are adding to the administration and all my belief being on school boards. Every decision we make has to reflect um is this going to improve student achievement or student advancement in some way? See where this does. Have you seen Have you talked to the principal or Dr. I mean about the the Mr. Thomas and his achievement or is it has helped towards that goal? Have you seen do you have evidence that it hasn't helped? No, I don't. You should wait until you answer. Well, I can respond and then Dr. Agatska, if you want to add anything, you can. Um, when we transitioned Dr. from central office to the building level uh last year between December and
155January. One of the things that I charged her with, not one, there were three. Um I said, "I need you to really work to get behavior under control at Central Middle School. I need you to work on increasing student achievement, and I need you to work on increasing staff culture." Those were my three biggest asks. I then said, "I cannot give you those asks without supporting you in making sure that you have what you need to accomplish those things." Dr. Agotska asked for some things right away and then she also took time to really get to know the building January, February, March and we started talking about the need for a dean of students. So one of the things I shared with her is that I would support a dean of students but on a
156temporary basis. So uh when I talk about and Mr. Majeris and I have talked about this as well. I initially told Dr. Regatska, you get three to five years and that is it for this position. And then this year, we spoke very early out of the gate and I said, you've made a lot of strides. A lot has been accomplished. I'm not looking at three to five years anymore. I'm looking at two to three years. And that what I mean by two to three years is we're at year one right now. So, two more years for a total of three years. So I do see the changes that have been made. Our Gallup scores would indicate that there have been improvements made. The um scores that Dr. Gots shared with the school improvement plan presentation
157last month would show not only do the students um understand and realize that policies and procedures have been um elevated in terms of what will be followed and what will not be tolerated. Our teachers have been reporting active engagement as you saw from them at the last board meeting. So I would say absolutely this position has been critical in us getting this far this quickly. Of course that would not have been possible without the leadership from Dr. Abata and the team. Well, I didn't I couldn't really hear what Don was saying, but I thought I heard something about uh another layer of bureaucracy. I don't He said that, but I have never been uh a fan of the demon students. To me, it's just another layer of bureaucracy. But I also have not heard good
158things about the Watossa public schools. So, that's another reason kind of why it's like And I would tell you a as a teacher in the Wawa Tulsa School District and and I will tell you I I know the district administrator at the Wawa Tulsa School District and every school district faces its own challenges and every school district has different bars and um benchmarks and thresholds that they need to meet and different goals that they set and achieve. Um teachers are one of the lowest levels in terms of being able to change any major decisions. They are the people directly impacting the kids. And I would guarantee you that if you talk to parents in a school district, they love their teachers just like our students love our teachers. And so change, big change starts at
159the top with administrators. So regardless of what you've heard about the school districts, I would say that as a teacher, um, we've learned through the reference check process that Miss Remy has been a fantastic educator. She's also been involved um, numerous events and committees that are intended to help improve whether it's student um achievement or staff engagement. She has done a lot to immerse herself in that process already as an educator, as a teaching um educator. And so as an administrator, a future administrator, I think that she would be an excellent hire. She recordership in the district. We also mentioned we did excelled writing writing before you're meeting with your interview. It's a lot of stress and right now office. I would make a comment that my son an eighth grader was part of um
160they had children um also interview and my son actually when I was going through this and I said oh you know I've got um there's a deep students he goes oh is it the woman and I said it is and he goes she was amazing I'm sad I'm leaving central and that resonated with me because that just shows to me thatever whatever Whatever she did, the interaction that she had in that brief time with those students enlightened them and they were excited. And to your point, Don, I know that you're concerned and and I agree, but I don't think we're topheavy anymore. I was very concerned when I came into the district three years ago that I did feel like maybe we had more district level employees and we got to, you know, streamline this.
161We need to make sure that we're paying for quality teachers. And so it was very important for me to make sure that we were balanced and honestly I can't imagine doing the work we do with less staff that we have at the district office and at central we are really momentum you know we bu we're building momentum and we need this person I truly believe it. I have children in middle school and I am seeing the results from what has happened this year and I would be very disappointed did not have just a quick add um someone who gets kind of comes all the buildings and see the behaviors the reason that Lori and Jordan have been able to do so many things all the things that you guys see the last president the board
162meeting was huge it's because they're not running around dealing with behaviors all day that's the team of students doing that. And so if they don't have students to do that, that's going to directly impact counselors and sites times or pit because they're going to have to go and do all the running around that they that the team is normally handling and it's going to impact. They will not be able to do the programming pieces that they need to be doing to make sure we're writing ship. So Morgan was great. We were really really impressed with her. Um she brought in letters from parents of the kids she teaches saying how wonderful she is. Um she talked so much about student voice. That was a big thing in her interview was really wanting to get to
163know the kids and make sure that they have a voice and really belong in at Sense Middle School. Um so you know hearing the discussion it it was good to hear everybody's perspectives but it would be a big miss to not jump on board but also keep I realize I'm coming in late but I want to say something. Um, I left this meeting right after we voted on some board goals for this upcoming year. And the first of the board goals that was unanimous for the board was that we should invest in our teachers to retain and attract the best staff we can. It sounds like I'm walking into a discussion about whether or not we should be hiring a dean of students at Central Middle School. And that's a little shocking to come from
164this one perspective of like we should be retaining and investing in the best quality team that we can for our students to achieve those goals um to this. I would also just say as someone who had a middle middle school student, not this current year we're in, but the last three, um, the tone of what I hear from parents and in the community and from students I know who are attending has started to shift. And I would say that the dean of students that we've had has definitely been an impactful thing. If even if it's not that one person, which I do think it sounds like Morgan, I've heard only great things about Morgan, but I do feel as though it does allow the other people there, Dr. and Mr. Stevens to focus on things
165like, and this is one other issue, Dr. Mr. Stevens is also now handling the athletics, which that was a board I mean, it wasn't one of our three pulses. That was a board initiative that Don, I mean, you were really in that before. I was really before. We were so passionate about it and I'm really proud to to see the students with the Central Wildats jerseys on at track meetings. I think it's awesome, but I don't think we can do all of these things and set the goals that we just did an hour and a half ago without this person. And I say that as as both a a board member who who strongly believe that that goal is where we should be focused and also as a parent and a community member because I
166think um I think it's really important that we have those people in place to set the tone for everything else. I was going to say two things. You spoke to part of it already. The responsibilities of of the Dina students. Maybe we're not clear on that. And second, this goes to the person, Mrs. Miss or Mrs. Ram Ramy. Remy is does she know it's something? Yes. Temporary, I guess you could say. Okay. We talked about that. Because I'd hate to ruin her dreams. No, we we talked about that. I also shared that in terms of our own leadership team, we may have some people who are closer to the end of their career than the beginning of their career. And so, while this is a temporary position, there could be room for growth or movements
167in two years. I would also say I mean I don't know maybe maybe this is again optimistic of me but um if our goal is to invest in staff and two years from now we don't have I mean we either find the money to allocate to it because we see no after two years this person and this position has transformed continue to transform what's happening at Central School and therefore the district then we we work to find it that's our job it's Adam's job more than our job but we'll instru Well, as as your money guy of of course I'm as concerned as some of you may be in terms of this becoming a permanent fixture in our district. I mean I I certainly think it is important. Um I think the plan that we
168started out with to try to get things right and set kind of a course so that they can be successful over there. get a whole generation of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders through to give us time to do the things that we want to do and put in place. Um, you know, I was willing to support that recommendation. Um, you know, I have the same questions that you did in terms of communicating with Miss Ramy about whether she knew this was going to be temporary or permanent. Um, so again, I I think it's being recommended to you for all the right reasons. I think you want to continue to have somebody that's going to spearhead and lead the behavior side of things to make sure that everybody can be as effective as they can trying
169to get students to learn and have the adults do what they need to do. You know, obviously you heard tonight you you have people that have spent time working on the behavior matrix and what is again teacher managed behavior, office managed behavior, but yeah, I mean I think at least for now um two years we can deal with the two years we can deal with um making sure that we have the money and the support for this person so we can try to launch all the initiatives and get some like foundation at at Central Middle School. Was this same discussion had when we hired the Yes. students like I mean did you guys have the same hesitations Don and Louise when they when we hired the first team students? Was that a year ago? Yes.
170Was that right? Yes. Um but one of my hesitations is the district. It's not necessarily all what I said about the another layer of administration and and again I would go back to in every district there are concerns and every district has celebrations and I would say especially from what Miss Connealy shared of with her bringing information from her students and families and from the reference checks from Lori whether the district itself is something saying that you have a concern with the individual there is not indicative of the entire district. I mean if this yeah if this person wasn't resigning Mr. uh I forget oh Mr. Thomas Mr. comments. If you did resign, it would have been status quo for the next three two to three years or three to five years and that was
171approved perhaps when Don was on the board. Yeah. So, that's correct. Any other conversations? Sounds like we're going in the right direction and improvement versus because he resigned. We didn't ask him. So, he doesn't want to be here. We make we're making any other conversation. Has Morgan already been here to kind of get a feel for the district? She was here for interviews. Didn't also students do a meeting. Yeah. Yeah. There was like a student. Yeah. Which is so cool. Said she loved it. Yeah. That's awesome. Love that. Any other discussion? Or I can do roll call vote then pass it. If it was in the middle of the we will have a roll call vote please I Louise I Aaron I Don no and I will vote no. Motion still passes. Number 16. We'll
172transfer it back to Aaron. Uh the consent agenda. The consent agenda includes approval of minutes. Treasury report personnel recommendations. Is there a request to pull an item from the consent agenda? Seeing none, I would ask for a motion. I motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll second. Roll call vote, please. Don, I Aaron I, Louise, I, Ian, I. And I'll vote. Motion carries. Um before we adjourn, we're going to motion I need a motion to move to close session for Wisconsin statute 19.851c for the purpose of approval of the April 29th, 2025 close session minutes. Um I will discuss that into close session for Wisconsin statute 1985 for the purpose of approval of April 29 25 close session minutes discussion and potential action to issue notices non-renewal of individual teacher contracts pursuant to Wisconsin statutes
173118.22 and discussion and potential action individual teacher contracts. Thank you. Do I have a second? A second. Use your job there. Roll up, please. Hi, I Aaron. Hi, John. Hi. And I'll vote. All right, we are back in open session and I am looking for a motion to approve a teacher contract as discussed in closed session. Make a motion to approve contract and discuss. Second. Oh, I think that'll be close. Uh, can I have a roll call vote, please? Don, hi. Aaron, hi. Louise, hi. Ian, hi. And I'll vote. Item number nine is board meeting reflection and feedback. It's included in your packet and a reminder to fill it yours for tonight. And then I would take a motion to adjurnn. Yes, I move. Oh, second. All in favor? Any opposed? We are journ.