001Good evening everyone and welcome to our April 27th duly notice school board meeting. My name is Charles. I'm the superintendent and typically I don't gave in but I gave in this evening because we will go through the process of board reorganization later on this evening. We do start with the pledge of allegiance. The pledge is in the back. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic which stands one nation indivisible with liberty for uh mit call please. Mr. Condan here. Mr. Eagle here. Mrs. Hudson here. Mrs. Mcwill here. Mr. Noling here. Mr. Felt here here. Mrs. Whiteman here. Thank you. Showing everyone's present. We will move on to recognitions. And first up with recognitions are the March Citizens of the Month awards. Let's start with East Elementary.
002All right. Today I get to introduce our citizen of the month from our 5K classroom, Mrs. Parramia Sport and Olivia who is here with you tonight. Well, thank you for coming. All right. Mrs. Par wrote, "Olivia is a bundle of positive energy and joy in our classroom. Olivia comes to school with a smile on her face each day and she leads by example. Olivia always puts forth her best effort and she takes great pride in her daily work. She positively participates in our classroom discussions and she asks insightful questions and makes thoughtful comments. Olivia is kind to her classmates and always wants to lend a helping hand to classmates and teachers. I like to joke with her that she could run the classroom in my absence because she often politely reminds me when I forget
003something. Olivia has a great sense of humor when she is a budding artist, too. Olivia has a bright future ahead of her and I'm so proud of her. Keep shining bright, Olivia. All right. And I get to eat lunch with Olivia two days a week and it's pretty it's a lot of fun, isn't it? Let's continue at alphabetical order with our elementary and Sullivan Elementary. Good evening everyone. I am very excited to introduce to you to Hunter Phillips. He is a fifth grader at Sullivan. And Hunter, who's with here with you tonight? wave. Thanks for being here tonight. Um Hunter was nominated by our specialist teachers. So that's art, music, and PE. So of all the students that we have at our school, he was picked by these three teachers. So uh Miss Hart, our
004art teacher, said Hunter consistently offers to be the first one to take on the dirty jobs in the art room. I can always count on him to go above and beyond. Miss Punzel, our music teacher, said, "Hunter K is a fantastic role model for his peers and is always trying his best and is the first one to volunteer to help a friend or a teacher in any way. He is always polite, making sure to tell everyone to have a good night before he leaves for school for the day." And Mrs. Vogler, our gym teacher, said, "Hunter always comes in pumped up for class. He is always willing to lend a hand on whatever he thinks needs to be done. Whether it's moving cones, various PE equipment, or setting up chairs for basketball games. Hunter is
005also very respectful towards myself and his peers. Hunter is a great student to represent Sullivan, and he is a true stinger. Now, I want to say that Hunter is one of the most helpful kids you will ever meet. He before you even ask if we need a helper, he is like you can't get the sentence out of your mouth and he's jumping up to help. And he likes to help Mr. Jordan, who is our nighttime custodian after school because he's there for kids space quite a bit. So when I talked to Mr. Jordan today to let him know that Hunter was getting this award, his eyes got really big and he said that is awesome. He also said that uh Hunter goes above and beyond. He always asks to help. He cleans the tables for
006kids space. He cleans up after the recess. He's never met a student who is so helpful and takes care of his things and his friends things. And I just wanted to make sure that I note that because he has really touched everybody in the school. So congratulations to Hunter. Next up we have West Elementary School. Okay. Uh I I always start by uh as I'm thinking about a fifth grade here. This is Riley Meyer. Riley, let's introduce mom who's in third grade over there. I kind of point out mom. Good, mom. All right, great. Sorry I stole that. Um, this is a time time of year where I get real thankful because Riley's a fifth grader. It seems like yesterday he was just starting school at West. Now we're getting ready to send him off
007to middle. I'm sitting by Michael and Bennett who are at West and they're getting ready to wrap up JHS. So, it's just a nice time to be thankful for all the different things that that are going on around here. Be a part of Riley was nominated by Mr. Seager and I just have some bullets of of what Mr. see her listed as far as what Riley's all about. And I thought, gosh, if everybody did this, we'd be we'd be in pretty good shape. Number one, kind and caring. Absolutely. Number two, gives 100% effort. Number three, his example to his peers. Number four, dedicated to his academics. And finally, number five, after doing all the good things for himself, he's thinking others. support and encouraging everyone else. Riley, you're a great guy. I'm gonna miss you.
008You're gonna do an amazing job at Jefferson Middle School. Let's get a big round of applause. He's our All right. Good afternoon, everyone. It is my pleasure to introduce Michelle. Michelle's an eighth grader at the middle school. And Michelle, who do you have with you here tonight? My sisters. Welcome. Thank you guys for coming. So, like I said, Michelle's an eighth grader. She was nominated by our eighth grade team. And I wanted to share a little bit about what they had to say. Uh Michelle is an exemplary student who always works hard in all academic tasks. Uh Michelle is a great role model and positively participates in in classroom activities. She's extremely kind and polite. Uh she also participates in our AVID Excel class and does a great job there as well. The eighth grade
009team appreciates everything that Michelle does to make JMS a better place to be and knows that she will be successful in high school and um when you think ahead of high school any anything that you're looking forward to most next year in high school is everything. So please join me in congratulating Michelle Yeah. Jefferson High School. Good evening. It is my honor and privilege to introduce Megan Simson. Megan was nominated by a couple of her teachers. First, Miss Larson Rolls. Megan is a hard worker and a leader. Oh, I'm sorry. I skipped over the best part ever. Who is with your entourage this evening? I'm on my Thank you for coming. I get so ready to read that I just I jump right to it. So, I I digress. Miss Larson wrote, "Maggan is a
010hard worker and a leader in class. She is taking advantage of higher level classes in the walls of Jefferson High School and beyond via her online health careers course. Her peers often look to her as a leader and she manages her own work as well as helping others with grace and ease. Her nononsense attitude serves her well as she pushes through challenges and overcomes any and all obstacles in her way. Miss Whisen, a coach and teacher, wrote, "Miss Megan Simson is an excellent nominee for citizen of the month. I've had the pleasure of coaching her in volleyball and having her in class. She is an athlete and a student that is a very hard worker and is always asking what can she do to improve. Megan earned the Eagle Award for volleyball which is voted
011on by the coaching staff. The definition is the heartbeat of our team player who never stops working. Lifts up everyone around her and represents the school with pride. Like an eagle soaring high, this athlete rises above adversity, stays positive no matter what the score, and gives their all in every single day. I could not have chosen a better way to describe Megan both on the court and in the classroom. Congratulations, Megan. Thank you. Congratulations students. Thank you family members and thank you principles for introducing your citizens of the month this evening. Next up on the agenda is the 20126 valad Victorians and saludiatoran. And good evening again. Lots of student successes tonight. I'm happy to share our class of 2026 valadictorian Michael Wilson and saladictorian Kyla Pulkerbeck. And Michael, if you could introduce who's with
012you tonight. Uh got my parents right there. Thank you. And then also uh as seniors, I do like if you could just share what are your future plans. All right. Well, um I'm planning to attend to study the classics uh Latin and ancient Greek. Um and after that I'm hoping to go to W Madison and study linguistics. I hope to become a linguistics professor. Awesome. Thank you very much, Michael. And Kyla, let's see if you could introduce your family and then also your future plans. Um, my parents and my sister came with me tonight. Um, after high school, I will be attending W Platville to major in data science or engineering. Awesome. So, as validictorian and saludiatoran, highest GPA in our class after seven semesters. Um I did talk with both of them and have
013their permission to share just a little bit about their academic records with you. Uh so Michael had a cumulative GT GPA through seven semesters of 4.2836. Uh took classes including so we have weighted classes where it counts more than a 4.0 AP. So his AP courses were AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP English Literature, AP Microeconomics, AP English Language, AP Physics, AP US History, AP Computer Science, AP European History, AP Human Geography. But I also want to point out four years of choir, four years of our drama club participation. Uh so both very well-rounded students in regards to academics and outside of academics. Uh for Kyla, you had a 4.2759 GPA. uh took courses including AP calculus BC, AP English literature, AP psychology, AP calculus AB, AP chemistry, AP English language, AP US history, AP
014European history, AP human geography, four years of band, four years of steel drum, and also was just a part of our musical as well. So, both super well-rounded students. Great honor to for me to introduce you as our valictorian and salutator. Congratulations, Michael and Kyle. Our next agenda item is a recognition of Skills USA state podium finishers. All right. Good evening. So, I would like have the pleasure to introduce to you uh Colton and Tyler. Colton and Tyler uh this year at our Skills USA, well actually since last year they started uh competing in something called robotics urban search and rescue through Skills USA. Um Skills USA is I think the best way to describe it is a a skilled trades organization. Um lots of us know about FFA but it's kind of like that
015but for tech department. Um, and these guys have been competing in robotics competition. Uh, they started off with kind of a kit and quickly realized that they could do better than what the kit could do for them. Um, so they started brainstorming some uh new ideas on how to improve it. And I I mean maybe could have brought some pictures or something like that, but this they went from uh something very I think uh a lot of us played with a recctor set, right? So it's recctor set on steroids and then they took it to a whole another level. Um effectively it's a bomb squad robot. So it grabs what they call ordinances and they have to transfer them around courses. They have to navigate, works on communication skills. There's an engineering notebook involved. Um
016speeches to a panel of judges. It's pretty neat. Um and these guys uh competed in a few competitions over the course of the year and uh went into the state competition. Uh you know, their conversations with me were they wanted to do better uh than they had done and that's kind of about it. They just want to do better, right? They thought that they can make the podium and uh not only did they make the podium, but they took first at state. Uh everyone was blown away with the uh project that they put together. They uh one up second place by like 30 points. It was pretty cool. Um enough that they have some uh like suppose you say coaches from neighboring schools that have had kids win nationals before say, "Hey, we want to
017come down and work with your guys. We don't want them just representing the state of Wisconsin. We want them to win nationals. So, admittedly, like I'm I'm an auto guy. So, I'm going to let someone who knows robotics can and uh help these guys out because they they are beyond me with robotics by far um with their their programming of the controllers uh the different servos and motors that they have involved with it. I'm going to let them see a couple things. Just talk real quick talk up their their project. So yeah, I would say that the whole project and all was just such a fun thing to work with and we had a lot of time and a lot of more fun experiences that we could and add to our life. Um it was
018great getting to know my friend even better and just work out our things together. We spent a lot of hours and time and we're just really happy that it actually showed in our competition. Yeah. In all, I really enjoyed this the building process and all the different prototyping phase phases we had to go through and building it. Then competing too was also great fun. We're all good at doing each other. Not here tonight. So there's Tyler not here tonight was Brady Crow. Uh Brady Crow placed third in first aid CPR. He is a local uh member of our fire EMS and sometimes even like has to run on emergencies out of school. It's kind of crazy um to see this level of dedication from a young person in uh at JHS. But yeah, Brady took
019competed in first aid CPR and uh while didn't quite go to nationals, um he did place third of the state. Congratulations Tyler and Colton and thank you to Mr. for presenting. Our next agenda item is recognition of vocal and instrumental music students and instructors. I see Mr. Good evening everyone. Uh we are here on behalf of the music department to uh present uh state soul ensemble uh participants. But to give you a little background on that, mid-Marchch we had our district solo ensemble festival in East Troy. Um at Soul Ensemble students prepare um they can prepare either a solo on their own. They can prepare a duet or small group ensemble. There's large group ensembles. Um a number of things and and several of them did several events as well. um they perform their piece
020for an adjudicator who follows a rubric and gives them a score. Much like golf, you want the lower score out of a you know maximum of 50 points. Uh to make it to state, you have to do a class A which is the most difficult uh pieces and you have to achieve a score of between five and eight to make it to state. So slim margin for error and um we had a number of of vocal students and instrumental students made it to state. And then uh we just had our state festival this last Saturday and uh we we have a small subsection of our part participants because a good number of them were also in the musical this weekend. So they went to state soul ensemble on Saturday then came and did a show
021including all four of them. Uh we had two pit members and two uh actors on stage. So uh busy weekend but they they did really well. Of note on the vocal side, um we have Michael and Landon who both qualified for their classical and their music theater solo. Um and both achieved ones as well at state which that same slim margin for error between five and eight points is a one at state. Otherwise then you're a two. So um so both did really well at state as well as performing with our um vox ensemble. And then a number we had a good number of firsttime participants in solo ensemble on the vocal side. Uh made it to state, performed at state and and also did well. So great experience all around on the vocal end.
022I'll let Denise talk about the band side. So on the instrumental side, we had uh four events make it to state. It was an ensemble year for us. our whole percussion ensemble went. Um, and just kind of to paraphrase a little bit of the adjudicator. He's been adjudicator probably longer than I've been alive. Um, I see him around. I've seen him around for a long time. Um, he talked about our piece. Our piece was called Saber Dance and he talked about how he has heard that perform many, many, many, many times over the years and that uh we were one of the best performances that he had heard. So that was very cool to hear from a uh a very seasoned adjudicator. Um so professional received a first and then uh these two sister ladies
023here also did a mima duet that received a first at states. Um and then we also have Hayden Hunt who I believe is doing tennis right now for a stereo solo received a first and Maline Libby on a clarinet solos receiver first. And as they're taking that photo, they can just uh at state soul ensemble festival, each adjudicator can nominate up to I think about seven performers in their room. Now granted, they see upwards of 40 events in their room all day. So they can nominate up to seven events for an exemplary um performance award. Um and then out of those seven, two actually received the award per per room, per site. Um, last year Landon was nominated for his musical theater solo. Um, those results will come out this week. Um, but, uh, just
024all around really fantastic performances by all of our students. We're very proud of our our music department. So, thank you. Thank you. Our next agenda item is a yes I can award recognition for Bennett Leman and Miss N here to say a few words. Good evening. I'm here with Bennett Lannon um this year's award recipient of the CEC or Council for Exceptional Children's Yes I Can award in the area of transition. Um, the Council for Exceptional Children is the largest professional organization that's also international and they focus on and being dedicated to um the success of um youth with different disabilities or talents and gifts and they do an award every single year at their national conference. And this year it was in Salt Lake City. So Bennett was able to go with his family
025and I was able to witness him receiving that award which was really exciting. They have um awards in academics, arts, school and community activities, self- advocacy, technology, and transition. And to be honest, Bennett could probably get an award in every single one of these categories. So, um, when I nominated him last summer, um, I wasn't even sure exactly which award he would get, but, um, but they chose transition. And, you know, just a a few things that that Bennett um, you know, does that's incredible. He's a high honor student um, in National Honor Society, student council, wrestling, theater, Rotary club, coding club. Um he's also passionate advocate for digital accessibility. He's already working for companies testing apps to make sure that they're accessible. Um and then he's also and you might speak to this. Uh
026you're on an advocacy board for Vanderbilt. Uh yeah. So Vanderbelt University has a study that was commissioned to them to kind of help um people with blindness in like more rural areas find resources and be connected to what can help them be successful. Um, so my role on their board is to kind of listen to presenters speak and then kind of consolidate and condense that information into something that can be shared out to vision teachers and their students um with a particular emphasis on rural areas. And Minecraft you do work for? Uh yeah, I work on a community made modification for the game Minecraft to make it accessible to play for blind and visually impaired uh people. Um, I'm very passionate about like mainstream video games being accessible just because there's so many that aren't
027right now. Um, so any, you know, any way I can help make that happen, it's just really cool to me. And the Milwaukee Public Museum. Yes. You all night. Um, no. Oh, yeah. There's my mom. Forgot to ask. Um, no. I'm on the W museum. I helped them design and audio tours. So it basically describes things that are like behind glass or kind of out of reach uh that like in there showcases that blind people might be interested in. Um so we did a lot for like the streets of Milwaukee for example. Um just to kind of describe the scenery because that's such a visual exhibit that's very immersive. So kind of bridging the gap between sight and the other senses of like listening to things and hearing descriptions of things. So that was really
028cool. Um I believe Milwaukee Museum was the first museum in the state to do something like that. So that was like really exciting to be a part of that um and kind of bring it to Wisconsin. So that was really cool to be in. And what are your plans for fall? Um I'm gonna be attending the University of Wisconsin Whitewater to study cyber security and possibly minor computer science. Um I have a huge passion for kind of like the work of cyber security and kind of carrying on the mission of you know um like finding out the trying to stay ahead of like attackers and things like that and kind of secure assets and things like that to help prevent you know accidents and tragedies from happening to to people in their data. So yeah,
029I'm really excited to kind of dip more into that and learn more about it. Well, congratulations. upside down. Oh, it's upside down. Oh. Congratulations to all of our students, families. Thank you for being here this evening. This is the point where I'll say we would love to have you stay, but if there is an opportunity to leave, we're going to move into more of the business portion of the agenda at this point. Yeah. Okay, our next section is the reorganization of the school board. Talk about office verification first. Mr. as the officially signed I superintendent will verify that. All right. Our next agenda item under 3A is the election of officers for 2026 2027. I will open up nominations for president. I nominate Matt Deltter. Second. I have a nomination by member Winkman and a
030second by a member Mc Williams. All in favor? Actually going to order myself. Are there any other nominations for president? All right. I nominations all in favor of healthier from president signify by saying I. Any opposed? that passes 70 unanimous. I will happily turn the gavl. Thank you. Next elected office is going for the vice president. Open up nominations for vice president. I would like to nominate Terryman for president. Nomination, Miss Wickman. Is there a second? Second. Any other nominations for vice president? All in favor of Miss Wakeman for vice president say I. I. Any oppose say nay. Congratulations. All right. Next up is going to be clerk and that is also the um deputy treasurer. So is there a nomination for old clerk? Previously it was Miss Williams. Any other nominations? All in favor
031say I. I oppose say nay. Congratulations. Next up is going to be uh nominations for our treasurer which is also our deputy clerk. Are there any nominations for that position? Anybody else? Previously it was Mr. He was really good at this nominated and I'll second that. Any other nominations? All in favor of Mr. Eagles say I. Any oppose say nay. Congratulations. Next up is going to be our list of appointments. Um, previously Miss Fox had our WSB delegate position. um that is somebody that would be going to the education conference in January. Is there anybody that would like to take that position? See, they might jump for I will be going this year been the delegate in the past. When I was the delegate, there wasn't a whole lot happening with it. The main thing
032was the as the delegate, you receive all of the WSB proposed legislation, what they're going to they're going to lobby for with the state legislatores, reviewing it, and then having a meeting at the state education conference to uh vote as part of the WSB as to how they feel about some of those lobby positions. not outside. Well, just a meeting in the convention and a little extra reading. Uh there weren't any outside meetings. Of course, there's always the WSB meetings that happen. You're w to go to any of those, but nothing specific requirement as are you hoping for it this year? All right. No, it's not a vote. It's an appointment. So, I can just say, "Yeah, you are." Wow. No. Are you comfortable with that? Okay. Um, we'll have Miss Mc William as our
033delegate. If it's all right with everybody, I'll be the alternate. So, if anything comes up, I I'll go to that. Um, our CISA 2 representative, Mr. Evil, are you comfortable doing that again? Excellent. JA negotiation representatives, Mr. condent. Are you comfortable doing that again? Yeah. M want to do that one too. Would you would like to pass that on the floor? Anybody wants to take it? I don't want to keep anybody opportunities. Is anybody else joined up to be the negotiation representative? 12 minutes before 5 p.m. We typically we could set them afterwards but for teachers they they like it after school. We can set up whatever I'd be interested but I can't think of anything. You want to do it again? I'm I'm fine. still are the meeting times. I mean it it's a
034preference on their part. Sometimes the meetings are quick, sometimes they take a while. So we started by April 7. Um I really have we have typically had really good working relationship with the JD. I think if they would understand it, are you helpful with that then Mr. Noble? Yeah. I can just tell that's that's Mr. Mr. Noble. Thank you. Next up is going to be the Jefferson Community Foundation Ward. That actually is Miss Mooney. She's in year 305 of that. So then we have our TU board representative. Mr. Van, are you good with continuing that position? Yes. Thank you. Jefferson Parks and Recreation Board representative, uh, Mr. Peterson is not here to defend for himself, so he can continue that position. Sponsorship advisory committee board representative. That was us last year, but I don't know
035a single meeting about that. your head's been for quite a while. I'm good with staying on that. Are you all right with staying on that, Mr. All right, we'll keep that one going. Jefferson Public Library board representative was miscond toxic hazard preparedness officer. Mr. Graphic is falling for that one. Perfect. All right, appointments are set. Any questions on any of that? Perfect. Next, we'll move into the consent agenda. As noted in the Google doc there, that consists of the minutes from our last meeting. No new employments. There is one resignation. There we have our claims and accounts and a long list of donations. Any of this could be separated out into a separate topic or it could be all taken together. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? So second with
036a motion and a second. Any further discussion? I just had one point of clarification. I noticed that the letter says I'm retiring, but we are voting on it as a resignation. So does it make any difference or does it? It doesn't. Yes, but it is a requirement for Okay, good clarification. Any other questions or comments on the motion? All in favor of the motion say I. I. Any oppose say nay. And I'll start reading in these donations. Uh, first up is monetary donations to the high school fabrication lab. First up is Nick Wo of Wo Wildlife Creations donated $500. Greg Featherston donated $60. Tom Richmond also donated $60. Next is monetary donations to sponsor the Formula Student and Electricon cars. Tom Hahawk Manufacturing donated $1,000. 2011 Waterfront Dental donated $500. Graham Cell Battery donated $300.
037Galitz Grading donated $250. Premier Bank donated $250. Red E Innovations donated $250. Ols E DBA business has bronze market donated $200. Insac Industries donated $200. Indeco, sorry, Indeco donated $200 and Fidelity Land Title donated $100. There's a $100 monetary donation from Dale and Janet Gddard to the high school art department. $200 monetary donation from Jefferson Girl Scout troop to the middle school for student fees for the eighth grade choir trip. There's a $2,825 monetary donation from the Sullivan paths to the Sullivan Elementary School for 202526 yearbooks, 2026 27 planners, and to cover field trip bus costs. There's a $1,934.96 monetary donation for Culver of Johnson Creek to the high school from Give FFA Day. It's a $51520 monetary donation from American Online Giving Foundation to East from Nike employees volunteering time to cover PE class
038and an anonymous donation of the drone set at the value of $964 to the high school. Quite a lot of support from the community uh the past few weeks. So, we really appreciate that and we will get those totals of community support at our next meeting. Next up is the opportunity for public comment. Of course, we always welcome comments from the public. Not seeing anybody jump up for that microphone. Uh, of course, we always welcome public comment here. You can always reach out to us by email as well. Our emails are listed on the uh school website. Jumping into reports, superintendent report, Mr. Ernest or Dr. Ernest, sorry. Thank you. You'll uh see a memo um at your in your Google doc and then you'll also see the strategic plan update slides presentation. I want
039to point out a couple of things. Um doing the slides to talk about how this aligns with our mission, our vision, our commitments, and our strategic plan. Um, so just for Dr. Hudson and everyone else's review is we we try to align everything to the strategic plan as much as possible and then we use a process that has wildly important goals as uh acting on lead measures, keep a compelling scoreboard and then create a cadence of accountability. Want to highlight some of our that cadence of accountability piece this evening. Uh so you can see we have our two really important goals. student reading achievement and then staff collaboration, leadership and growth. And one of the things that we do as a as an admit PLC, professional learning community is on almost a weekly basis, we
040hold ourselves accountable to ourselves and the team. And by doing that we're we talk about what we're working on that aligns with the lead measures and then goes back to the wildly important goal then pulls back to the mission and the vision and our strategic plan. So you can see the slide there that says um after week one it says driving week one the instructional core. So I mentioned um we do a cadence of accountability almost every week and we meet almost every week and we just share and we talk with each other. What I did is I took all the responses and there's hundreds of them and you can see my little cheat sheet. I threw it into notebook LM for that slide just to talk about some of the things that our principles
041are doing and our directors are doing as well. So you can see Mrs. Grundle and Mrs. uh Krauss are actively co-planning to implement the new ELA curriculum that's benchmark advanced and uh you know just just the change that's required in that this year I want to say kudos to the principles to Mrs. Grundle and then all of the teachers as well it's you know change is hard but I we have seen some good things as far as the work that's been done so far and then our interventions uh Mr. Howard Mr. Madison looking at fast bridge data and Ames data and also those targeted tier 2 interventions. Uh sometimes you hear us talk about win stands for what I need those are periods we have during the day like you might need some intervention you
042might need some acceleration based on uh where you are at in that unit of study and then data driven adjustments. Mr. Wickman for example leads team in teaching. He's really stepped in to work with the fifth grade team for benchmark advance this year and then also to build targeted student plans for Wisconsin preparation. And then the next slide more accountability. Uh one thing I want to talk about for kudos for Mr. Scrret over 200 plus and Mr. Layman is involved with that too. Over 200 plus wicker le checks. So Wicker is part of the strategies used in AVID and AVID is both the middle school and the high school are AVID schools, AVID recognized schools. So he goes in there checking that on the writing, the inquiry, the organization and the reading as long as
043collab collaboration sort of wicker and then uh instructional rounds. You've heard us talk about this before. We go in and we work and we go and try and it's this idea of appreciative inquiry. For example, just last week, uh, Mr. Howard and I went into two kindergarten classrooms, taking a lot of the good teaching and tying that back to a lead measure with the benchmark advance ELA curriculum, just seeing all the things that those teachers are doing impact on kids. Um, as far as week two, that's a staff collaboration and leadership. The survey is out right now. We hope that we have a good result. our staff is better than our parents. So, we're putting some reminders out there for parents to take that survey. You'll get the results as a board in June. Um
044the window closes for parents and staff on May 1st. That's this Friday. And then then the next slide just looking at the you know the input that we have the strategy and the outcome as well. Uh we had a compensation advisory committee last fall. uh we host meet and confer and we had some good feedback from the most recent beat and confer which will then help us with the things we can't negotiate as far as the attracting and retaining highly qualified staff members. So we we can only negotiate base wage when it comes to act 10 and negotiations with the JBA, but we can look at some things that might be low cost or no cost additions to our stat handbook that would make a difference for both certified and non-certified staff. And then our
045our outcome is just having uh here's another example. We do a district-wide calendar survey. And uh hopefully not everyone is going to be 100% happy with everything in the calendar, but we do that on a regular basis to make sure we get to our staffing. A couple switching now to a couple of legislative updates. So the first one is 2025 Wisconsin Act 160. And I mentioned these because you may get them in the WSB materials you get sent to home. Uh what this added it allows for audio and video recording on buses. In the past that was it was uh video only. So now it allows for audio and video recording. Uh you can imagine that sometimes the choice words are said uh and our bus companies working with our partner DTC transport uh company
046to make sure that they know that and that follow those requirements. And then um another most recent law is Wisconsin Act 2222 and that was enacted in April 8th of just this year. It allows for um it allows for guarantees the right of pupils for traditional travel regalia and graduation ceremonies and school sponsored events. We make sure that we uh follow all those new laws that are in place as well. And then the next slide I have a little bit of show and tell tonight. Um, one of the things that I'm sure you're aware of is the changes to, we'll talk about this with um, some of our Niola updates, the changes to both a law and a proposed bill in Wisconsin. The law is no cell phones next year for instructional time. And we've
047done what we needed to do from a board policy already. There is a bill in the assembly. I don't if I had as a betting person I don't think it would pass this year but it could come in the future where there's no bell from the beginning of the day no cell phones from the beginning of the day until the end. And there's a lot of ways you can do that. Um we got a sample pack from Yonder. Yonder is one of many companies that do this. Um they're one of the companies that have been doing it the longest time. Believe it or not, they started out with concerts and uh if you follow the comedian uh Dave Chappelle, he used to have these at his concerts. Never been to a Dave Chappelle concert, but
048you can only imagine. Um so you put the phone in here. There is a magnetic stop right now, so it's locked. Can't get in there. And then classrooms have this magnet. The magnet is a frequency. It's similar to a garment magnet you've seen around there. So the idea is every kid in high school or in middle school has a yawner and then they're able to carry around their little thousand dollar babies all day long to know that they're safe but uh they can't access them. So they make different kinds. They make one that blocks the Bluetooth and one that doesn't. So we'll bring you know as we talk about that and we set policies for next year. It is something I'm working with the principles with to gauge their interest in it as well. There's
049both a proactive model and a reactive. So the reactive model is you just buy a few of them and you get in trouble and your phone is locked up. Proactive model is everyone has a yonder of course you recommends proactive model. Uh have some experience with this. We could talk about this more and and later on you can take one and take a look at it and see how it goes. But this is something that we need to plant the seed now. We'll talk about it later as a board coming up to prepare for believe it or not the 2026 2027 school year. They plant the seed. We also watches glasses and Yeah. So that would be um that would be we need the block of Bluetooth as well. So yeah, you're exactly right. If
050you just get the right one, they even make one that's just velcro, which use of that one, they need to for students with accessibility needs, diabetes monitors, things like that. There you go. Right. So there's our there's our show and tell for yonder. Uh the next thing I want to mention is an opportunity for learning for schoolboard members in July. It's July 10th and 11th. Um and that is the holiday in at Steven's Point. It's the WASB summer learning poison. I believe the registration uh open there opens May 11th. So if you're interested in attending that, please uh contact. I'm certainly open up to any questions or more discussion on yanders if you have them. But that's my time. Uh, I don't have a question, but I am uh fully behind the idea of being
051proactive with yonder and whole day cut it out. I've talked to a bunch of kids about it, my my son's friends, and they don't like they don't hate the idea of it. They don't like the idea of not being able to have their phone, which I think is actually maybe the most important time for them to talk to their peers. I I can't make this up, but Mr. Scar was actually in my office. They were talking about something and I got a phone call and it was a parent that said that they and their parent wanted to know why their child sent them to staff at whatever. Now, they were the child was on lunch so they actually could do that. They weren't breaking any school uh policy. And the one thing I said to
052the parent to echo what Mr. Evil just said is I said, "Well, I think a lot of parents would like this. A lot of teachers would like it. Kids might dislike it initially. Maybe over time they'll get used to it." If you've read the anxious generation or some of the research that's out there just far as far as the the dopamine that you get every time you cell phone included, right? Um but uh there's other things that we can be focusing on. Yeah, I'm okay getting out ahead of any potential legislation coming. Yeah, I I I see just happening sooner or probably later or whichever one any comments or questions on. Did you look at the cost? Yeah, the regular ones I believe I'm putting up top my whole head they sell them now. They
053used to lease them. They're $25 a piece. So, we we'd want to have an overage. So, you know, we're looking at our we have to decide if it's middle school and high school or just high school. We'd want to have an overage. So, with the magnets and everything else, we're looking at across. So, you'd have that one time upfront cost and then over time um you just need to replace the ones that are worn out. Of course, if a kid damages them on purpose, we can go. But I'm curious if the middle school is necessary. So, it would be good to hear from the team on because they do have a kind of bell to put it in your locker, but I mean I don't know that that's permission to use it. So, I'm not
054sure if they are doing it anyway and a door is necessary. One of the first things one of my son's friends said was, "Well, that's nice, but it's not going to work. Kids will have their focus." And it was one of those like some kids will, you know, I mean, if and and you know what the funny thing is because I have experience with these as when I was a principal, kids will put a fake phone in there, kids will break them, kids will try to find a way. you I don't think there's a 100% solution to anything. What you do is you you you administer it and police take care of them. All good conversations to have what and so we know what the law is what's best for it's it's our going to
055be our recommendation. Thank you. Next up is going to be the high school's good news report. Mr. All right. Good evening. Thank you, Jason, for getting that going. Excited to join you talk a little bit about how JHS is empowering futures together on some of our work this year. I ask you please stunt me on different slides as we go through just so we can talk about those if you have questions. So first off here uh taking a look at our state report card or student demographics score summary uh circled in red you can see that our school scored a 58.3. Uh this is an increase from 58 from last year from 55.5 previous year. Um a change in our report card for this year. We talked a bit last year on this would just
056be the percentage of students um identified as economically disadvantaged. Uh we've gone up each of the last two years, but then this year we dropped down to about 35%. Uh because of that change, our priority area weights actually um evened out this year equal as far as that 26.7%. So just a bit different. We had more growth last year in fact back even amounts of growth and achievement this year. Looking at those prior priority area scores, we have increases in our achievement and on track to graduation scores, decreases in growth and target group outcomes. As a reminder, target group outcomes, there's a bottom 25th percentile of students scoring on the test. used to be smaller subgroups but now they just said anyone in that bottom 25th is your target. Um so looking at this we
057know that we have work to do but our goals and action steps are helping us address this. So as far as our goals we have two different uh areas of focus related to the ACT. Uh one goal is related to students scoring at or above career readiness and college readiness benchmarks on the ACT. Um, additionally, we need to increase the percentage of students scoring uh on target um and decrease the percentage of students identified as in need of intervention and each subscore area of the ACT. So, that be our English, math, reading, science, and ELA. Uh for action steps, we supported each of them with time and focus during our professional development days, professional learning, community meetings, uh committee work. Um, and then also on a side notes, uh, we don't typically have goals related
058to our AP courses, but you heard me mention those a little bit earlier with our validatorium saludiatorum. Uh, this year we were recognized as an AP pace setter school uh, for having 10% or more of our students participate in at least one AP exam. And of those students, more than 60% uh, earned a three-year absence. So again, that three, four, or five, you're in college credit for those. So first time that we've gotten it. We've been close year after year, but we've always been right around that 58 59% earning a three or better, but last year was our first time over that 60%. Let us accomplish these. Mr. Lane will talk about our attendance. The next couple slides are just some data off Wise Dash for Jefferson High School and our attendance. I think every
059year in April I come and say the the same thing. We're doing great work myself with our school counselors, administrative assistant, our school social worker, representatives from Jefferson Health and Human Services, our SRO's officer Pelco and Detective uh Eric Weiss. Um we're right in the range of like 93% right now. I met with Dr. Ernest two weeks ago. We're at 95%. So this fluctuates depending on storms or in January viruses and influenza, CO 19, all these other things that come at us. Uh the next slide is just a yearbyear. So that was a breakdown of grade level. This is just our overall we're at or just below right now as of April uh the state average. part of my PPG is to increase our student um enrollment, our students attendance. And right now we're we're
060just slightly below the that state average at the end of the year. I say this every year and all of a sudden we have a April, May, June upswing towards the end of the year and somehow we always kind of finish just nudged slightly above the state average. So this fluctuates from time to time, moment to moment, and every time we up at midnight when P school uploads all of the current data to um wise dash and we're monitoring this with the use of next path. We're contacting families, letters are sent at five and 10 days and we're inviting families in to talk and communicate. Um that's a that's a difficult obstacle there in in that nutshell. So, that is the work that's being done with our student attendance. Oh, and the last slide is
061just the the summary of uh the state averages from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, and we're we're working on gaining ground on on that aspect. So that is something that we we're striving for on a daily basis and working with students and families and important um as a school obviously when someone has a doctor's excuse we recognize that they cannot attend school. The department of public instruction recognize that as instructional limits lost. So if students are not in school with a medical excuse that is also kind of a ding on our our attendance report. So those are some of the variables that are just loss of instructional minutes and not being physically present in the building. So those are all variables that hard to predict and are to kind of adjust as we're we're
062working with students and catching them up when they return from any medical or or doctor related excused absence. Of that percentage, uh how many are like habitually true? Like do do we know those numbers? I think we're kind of like in the seventh percentile of now habitually true is below 90%. So right now at the end of the year if we have 174 days of school if you are below 17 or if you are above 17.4 days absent the state views you as chronically habitually truent. Um we're working with those families. We have a couple of students they're significantly beyond 17.4. for um we have students that are in at risk programs that we already know are are not going to meet the 90% mark. Um years ago we set kind of a motivator for
063seniors. When I first got here I think senior itis had set in and we now have the 90% rule to participate in the graduation ceremony that might affect some that doesn't have an impact on all. So those are things that we're we're doing to try to help the data to help students not lose instructional minutes to make gains and growth and learning and we all know we have to be here and present to uh to take in what's what's happening in the classroom. Has that has that stayed pretty steady throughout the years? Does that fluctuate at all? It fluctuates. Yeah. Yeah. class by class, it kind of it peaks in some classes as they graduate and then it just kind of es and flows and it's it's it's very hard to predict. Um, but we
064know from previous years who are students that are at risk of of meeting that state requirement of staying under that that 90 percentile mark. Any other questions with attendance? Just uh regarding statistics, do you see a correlation with the economically disadvantaged and the truency? Yes, I I could probably get into a lot of my philosophical uh beliefs of working with the data and meeting with families and what are their needs and barriers and how they prioritize being here on every single day. It's uh that that is a struggle and that's why we have health and human services uh working with us um trying to find what families need. Is it transportation? Is it other needs? Trying to find help for for families that need it. And one way we might identify a family just based
065off of attendance concerns. So it takes a it takes a village. Yes. I noticed we I remember last year, I believe, we were told that there was something done about hours and minutes and changes to attendance tracking, if I'm remembering correctly, in hopes that it would improve kind of our numbers, but our numbers actually went down. It's improved our accuracy. It That's what I'm just kind of trying to wrap my head around. So, like, did it not help? Was it not really Were we not were we trying to hit a target that really wasn't helpful? We were we were trying to match what other schools are doing and how they are coding attendance. They found their improvement this year. The data uh probably helped some students that were the tardies. Oh, now that's a truency.
066Well, now we have a tardy truency, which is a minute-by-minut um adjustment on how we're coding it on our end as a school and how the DPI would upload that data and then view someone not there for the half the day or miss part or all of a day as truency is concerned. Um we thought that we would have a much bigger impact. Um, the thing that we didn't predict is the population of students that are that we're working with on an ongoing basis with attendance. Those tweaks in our attendance coding are not helping the students that are chronically habitually truent. Now, we have a couple of open enrollment students who are are in that fray of um not meeting the 90% benchmark for the end of the year. So and and I guess just
067to piggy back up what Tim had mentioned just numberwise and you may not have this but I I just looked up like 7% of 600 students again I don't know the exact numbers at the high school for your total enrollment but that's roughly about 42 kids you're saying are habitually truent um when you said we're at about 7% is that concentrated in more like if I teach 42 students I'm thinking That's 10 or 11 a grade. Is that not true? Do you have grades where you've got 25 in one grade, five in another, and five? I mean, like you you'll probably find it spread out, okay? Not like evenly, okay? But it it is just scattered through the the four grade levels. There's not one senior class anomaly. Um, now the senior class is 164.
068That's the largest class in in data that probably would have the most uh concern with meeting the hut patrol truency chronically habitual truency mark by the DPI. So is the 7% that you're kind of in your ballpark per grade 7%. So if we were to look at how many in each class or would you say it's you saying 7% of both high school? Yes. Okay. It's probably it's yeah you would it's probably double digits in every single grade level. Okay. And then the last question I have is do you have an overall theme top one or two reasons when you meet with families that you're hearing? So you mentioned a couple but is there like I mean do you have the data to say like this is the number one reason that's always given or
069this is kind of the top couple reasons for eventually true with kids. is personalized I would say rather than boy there's like two overarching number the the barrier that is hard to argue with a parent is I'm a parent and they're going to stay home today well they're past their 10 days per Wisconsin state law if you're gone for more than 10 days it has to be medically excused well I'm not going to take my son or daughter with the snipples to go get a doctor's note because I have to pay a co-pay with my insurance. So they're held out of school marked as needs medical which is in theory a truency because it is not board approved reason. They're beyond their 10 days. That is our by far. We send out 10day letters. It
070has all the information per state law per board policy. And we work with families. If they're communicating with us, that's that's the main thing. if they're meeting with us and talking with us, it's the unknowns that we we don't have that communication with and are continually going above the 10 days. So, it's not transportation. It's really parent preference, but not also wanting to get a medical excuse. So, we have to count that as true is what you're is one of the bigger feats. Biggest that's the number one biggest that's also what the parents are telling them. Yes. So that's the other side to it is a lot of these older siblings are watching the younger siblings and stuff like that. That is in some cases that is exactly right and we've gotten the county involved
071because that is the parents duty to ensure that all of their students are attending school on a daily basis under the age of 18. medical sounds that way. So yes, it's um it's kind of like trying to hit a moving target of how how to achieve excellence. No one's going to have perfect attendance for the entire school. Um but how how can we go? We're good. 93% I'll take 93%. Great. At or above the state average? Excellent. Let's I I view this school and school district as an exceptional excellent school district not just in the tri county area but in the state of Wisconsin. So we're we have we're having a team of people we're addressing attendance and sometimes it's uh it is a slow process and every year hands you different obstacles. So can
072I ask? Yes. Has attendance changed precoid to now? Like the the statistics and the numbers? During COVID and just after COVID, everyone kind of had an exemption. They they didn't report out your data because everybody was doing things a little differently. But now before now we we're back Yeah. to the same standards as before CO. Are those statistics? Yeah. I I I think I think we're actually we had like in 2019 we were at 95% 94% attendance. It's not a big anomaly, but I think now people are more hesitant. Snipples stay home. Uh oh, fever spiked. We're going to take a few more days. And this it might be the right reason, but after you burn 10 days and there's I could go on with 20 to 30 different reasons why parents or students are
073not attending school on a regular basis, which is a small pocket of percentage when we're talking about 93% of their students are doing what they're supposed to be doing. All right. Thank you, Mr. Lamb. Uh, college and career day. So, just last Thursday, April 23rd, we had our third college and career day uh fair again had over 70 different businesses, organizations, colleges, universities. Uh, we had uh different breakout rooms with I think 16 different presenters uh that were presenting to our students of of more in-depth knowledge that they wanted to share. Our juniors went on five different trips to eight different locations. Um but our seniors that knew this year was our senior exit interviews as a part of their graduation portfolio. So some of you had students participate in that. So we actually had
074within the library here uh 13 different interviewing stations with a community member um with a staff member um and then our students were scheduled every 15 minutes 130ome interviews that we rolled through that morning. um and great positive things from our community participants within that and then also from our seniors to for some of them have their very first interview experience. It was just interesting to see how you know the nerves of that first interview um before and then after. So it's in my view just very much a safe space to be able to have that first interview, talk about yourself, talk about your experiences, talk about your plans. Um, so it was a good experience overall, but again, this is a milestone for our students as they transition from the school district of Jefferson
075to the next chapter. I would invite you um next year to participate in that. I think it'd be interesting for you to see just how our students exit, what information they would share. Um, and just as we try to make that a better experience for our students and uh really try to um put more importance on that portfolio and their individual academic and career paths. So you could tell for students that felt going in fairly prepared and that they, you know, had a good plan or path for them, just the difference in their anxiousness or excitement going in compared to students that felt it's my first time doing this. I'm not quite sure. Let's see how it goes. Um, so just good takeaways from that being our first time. Uh, instructional rounds and wicker lesson
076checks. Um, so we do have our staff go around to other classrooms to learn best practices from one another. Really, it's those mastery experiences uh that we're trying to get them to learn from one another. What are the things that they can include within their classes and that they can use to improve student learning. So, we had over 40 different entries this year from our departments going to see other teachers teach. And then also, like Dr. Ernos had mentioned earlier with the Wicker lesson checks completed by myself, Mr. and Miss Grundle. I think I had my 260th uh today. Uh so yeah, plenty of different times just stopping into lessons, seeing what they're doing within writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and read. So I think it was an AP Cal ABNBC with both Michael and Kyla
077and maybe some others today. Uh so in conclusion, some appreciations that I'd like to share. So, thank you to our students for their hard work and preparing for their academic career paths. Uh, thank you to our staff for helping our students shing ensuring student learning for their support. Uh, thank you to our families for the support of their child uh and for their educational journey. I appreciate our work in empowering futures together. And lastly, thank you each of you for your time and for leading our district. Um, what questions you have for me? Any other questions from the board? I was just curious because you're here. Um, how many total AP courses are we offering? So, we have, let's see, 20 different in-person courses. Uh, we do have access to others. Uh, but we don't
078utilize those as much, but we do have access to others. I have a question. What is the percentage of students in the high school that take the ACT test? That was kind of a benchmark. So we last year in this reporting day or data we were at like 95.1%. So we have very few opt outs. Um some that they end up opting out because they were sick for the testing window and then didn't you know end up making it up things like that. So I would anticipate this next year we'd still be somewhere 94 93ish 94 93 to 95%. somewhere within their review, I guess. Any others? Right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next, policy and community engagement topics. Uh first up is going to be our own uh board self assessment results. You
079have the results there. also the perceptions resulted from last year and then that SWAT analysis um as well are we due for a board workshop soon remember when that is yeah we've done a board workshop last year we did a board workshop the first meeting in July so I think this would be certainly more to talk about tonight at the level of interest in the board but we can take this information um for that that workshop as well. Talk about the the results. Um the SWAT analysis took 30 seconds to put together because it just generated everything that was already done through the school perception survey. So you can see the full results there and you can see some strengths and opportunities as well. And this is the first year we did just hit the
080ASP. So we had six out of seven six incumbents survey. So thank you. So as you look over that if you have any suggestions things we can improve let me know. Let Dr. know we can definitely u start working on that. I have some ideas of myself. So all ears any comments on it at this point is there to shifting the timing ticket a little bit earlier maybe so it kind of falls within like last year I purposely didn't think because I had just started you know what I mean so it's like yeah that's a great point we've just in this district we've always done it in April we get access to the WSB survey in like December so we wanted to shift it to a Januaryish type of thing. Makes sense to me. Yeah.
081Then we come or sorry, any other comments on the assessment? All right. Then we come to the 2026 summer school staff handbook. This is the second reading of that. Any other questions or comments on that? I just had one and I probably should have brought up last time, but in the part about good news, is there a guideline somewhere for staff on who can and can't have pictures taken? like staff that aren't, you know, when they here during the school year and they're helping us with summer school and submitting pictures like does it go through something? So, um let's start with the first part we have um parents can say I do I do not want my child to be photographed. So, we continue that through summer school. So, that's the first thing that we
082check to make sure that the child can be photographed. And then we have digital communication managers and then that goes to our summer school coordinators as well to put things up on the social media. Oh, so somebody's checking the good news parts like if there's some, you know, like as somebody who works in a different district doesn't isn't always familiar and taking pictures, submitting them or something. Somebody's checking that. The great news about our two coordinators being principles, they have a sense of it to begin with and then we have an official list so we can check them against we have a list. We send that out so that staff knows also which summer school staff know who that was just something I thought of because we have a lot of people that aren't here
083during the school year. And then do we have nursing services also? We do. We do. We have an overlap. Um and we able to adjust things so it's not every single day, but we have enough to help prepare for summer school and then have enough to prepare till the beginning of school. Any other questions or suggestions from the board? It is an action item. Is there a motion to approve the 2026 summer school staff handbook as presented? Second. Second. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. Any oppose say nay. School is set. Thank you. Um because that's all that's needed to get ready for service for the first reading. Um we have act 57. Dr. speak to these. Yeah, I'd be happy to say a couple words about the act 57 overview. So, uh
084you can see if you click on that, you can see how that impacts a number of policies. missing board docs. Um so you can see how it it it does align with um a number of policies there. Um so these are existing policies just adding language to existing policies. Act 57 is notification to parents when a report of sexual misconduct is by a staff member is received. The ba the big point is that notification has to be made by 5:00 pm. In the past, it was always I would say uh in good and great school districts of practice, but now there's a time which is which is at the minimal high standard in my opinion. So that's act 57. Yola has made sure that we have all our policies online. Now we see exceeded track
085changes as well. And then there is a a a update summary as well for all the policies in this update version. Um so you can see everything from policy 5830 6605. So that's it's fundraising. It's crowdfunding. It's um accountability and oversight. Um just some so GSB that's gby 84 that's accounting language and federal reporting of that. And then you can see so the school support organizations as well. Um and just making sure that all of our policies are in alignment with both federal law but then also liability standards to for our insurance providers. So this is a first reading. Um we'll ask for specific update and uh approval at the next meeting second reading. You can see the track changes there. I would I would say nothing huge this time around. In the future, you
086will see act 88 and 89 adjustment. That's not ready yet from Diola, but that'll kick in for next year. That is how we communicate with students. I added that to my board report at the last meeting. So, you'll see that coming in a future update from you. And just to remind everyone, Viola is the service that we use that they have a team of lawyers that take the new laws, federal and state, and then they run them and they check them with our policies. We have Jeffersonized policies, but then we also have policies that are recommended to us from a warranty behind their policies if any were anything were to be challenged or we would um have a a legal suit or something policy. Again, just a first reading. No action on those today, but
087any questions. Okay. Then we'll jump into finance and operations topics. Uh 2026 27 substitute staffing services. Mr. B. Thank you. Good evening. Oh, thank you. We appreciate it. all the board uh school support organization policies on the floor. So, um so good evening. This evening um wanting to bring before you uh just a change to how we support our extension of our classrooms with our uh our extension of our staff, excuse me, um for our sports staff uh members. So, um, just as a maybe kind of reminder for for those of you that maybe were around then or just for those of you that are new, um, the district moved in the 201718 school year from an inhouse substitute platform where we would do the sub calling and all those elements uh, to a contracted
088service teachers on call at that time. And a lot of that was financial reason based on versus having someone in house to handle that specific portion of that responsibility and to alleviate a lot of the the good work that our administrative assistant teams do. Um so what I have for you this evening here linked is a recommendation to transition. So because that was a recommendation brought to the board back then wanted to bring it back for your uh review and approval. Uh a recommendation to move to a different contracted company called Edge Staff. Um so going through kind of due diligence due diligence and process evaluating and going back to well both of them at least for bids um or for proposals I should say qualified proposals. Um currently we are paying an administrative markup
089higher than what both of them came back to. But my recommendation for EDG staff um just maybe wanting to provide where we've been and then kind of what the hope is of why we would move to this. Um and so through this past year teachers on call had been uh gone through a corporate restructuring called just uh they were always a Kelly education company but now they are Kelly education and so with that brings transition brings changes and challenges. uh we have seen a decrease in our our staff pool by about 25 staff. Some of that is just naturally from change and transition you know having to get and quotequote rehired. Um so throughout this process and even with this recommendation it's something keenly aware of that I want to be mindful of of making
090sure that we can support our substitute staff in that. Um but with that this will be a decrease in cost overall for overhead. We use a front, it's called frontline services for uh our uh substitute staffing to place substitute uh needs out there and then people can take them. Uh edge staff will continue to pay that portion on our behalf. But one of the benefits with transition to edge staff is right now teachers on call, excuse me, Kelly Education um owns that platform, kind of owns that data. We will now get we'll have to pay for it, but we'll get reimbursed for that annual subscription fee and we own that data. Uh so there's a lot of fringe benefits with that um that recommendation. Um likewise within the memo the the big things that I'm
091excited about is one their education uh of their new substitutes is is superior in my opinion to uh teachers on call Kelly education. Um they are also um in the past it hasn't been something Kelly education has been interested in but education support food service or custodial staffing and we would be interested in building that out. uh that was just a need that we heard fe feedback from various committees of just continued growth. Um and ultimately while we want to uh evaluate what's best for the school district Jefferson um some of our neighbors some have already taken action some are still evaluating and kind of finishing the process of that um but anticipated that many of our surrounding districts that currently use Kelly education are also going to be migrating um just as a result
092of some of the challenges with that corporate restructure they'll say. Uh so tonight just wanted to bring with you a recommendation to move to edge staff as our contract service partner again kind of bringing back what we had done years ago with teachers college. So there's a memo there. Um there's also an agreement that I'm happy to talk through any of the different parts of that just for your review. Um, but it is one that is going to be replacing and then we would ultimately providing Kelly education a notice that at the end of this school questions what data when you say we're going to hold the data and they're not going to hold the data. What? Yeah, it's a great question. So there's different uh tiers. So we use the frontline platform for both
093our professional development side that we we get u that that's one aspect of it. Um we've always kind of owned that piece. Uh given CC6 the the keys to it I guess is the way I would say that back in 2023 um edu staff I'm sorry Kelly education keep fixing them up they had taken over uh just prior to my time they had taken over the contract for that and started u paying that on our behalf. So with that, we turned over all the data essentially. And so under our current agreement, we just have limited ability to run reports uh to just mine different data without have to ask Kelly Education for it. Um because they're ultimately it's a think with a circle. It's it's a portion of their whole subscription. And so they don't
094want to turn over all of the data because Kelly Education owns the owns the rights currently for many different entities. And so they kind of restrict us a little bit for the uh time off data, excuse me, um absence data, all of those things, the reasons we can get information out of it, but right now we don't have the full the full gamut of resources. And so with transitioning away from where someone else is currently owning and managing our data, paying for it too, right, for that service, um we will now gain access that back to how it was prior to 2023. Um, and then we'll be able to start getting a lot of that information out with their support. They'll still provide us information about our subs and our most most used reasons. Um,
095but it it's going to be a little bit of a opening up because now it's just ours again, if that makes sense. So, kind of piecing out our part of it that they've been overseeing for the last three years. That helps answer your question. It does somewhat. Um, and then you have we evaluate our variables independent. Yeah. So, I guess here's the story. There there is a person that's currently a substitute teacher. I'm not sure if they still are, but when we made a move, it was quite a bit of work on the part of the substitute teacher for something that they were kind of felt like they were doing us a favor by being a pretty regular sub to our district. So, I'm sitting here thinking through it's only one person, but in my
096mind I'm like, is switching do there are we going to lose our pool or are we going to create a whole bunch of work again for our substitute teachers that have been in our district and doing it for a pretty long time to now have to switch and get all their data uploaded and all that stuff to a new contract in place? Yeah, that's a really good question and actually one of the biggest concerns that I've had as far as the migration process um and I addressed that a little bit with some of our administrative assistant team on Friday. um we have different rule sets that should we approve to go with them we can based on if uh they're coming over from a Kelly education um they can expedite that process where they just
097need to provide um like for example if it's about it's they told me that if they're a rollover for example coming from a Kelly education that the application period takes about 15 minutes uh they can upload those artifacts and even I think show them electronically um granted one of the things I have And I kind of mentioned the um education aspect of edge of staff that's really impressive. um even if should this be approved they had talked about setting up uh maybe rollover meetings so that in-person uh quality and I think to your point that was a frustration that uh wasn't um we had a very good account representative when we were under teachers on call um and as naturally she moved on and so uh I think throughout that process we had thought it
098would have been a lot smoother and so you couple maybe an unrealized expectation of what we thought it might have been with someone who now is uh virtually supporting us versus the person on site. And that last I think our substitutes kind of in the lurches a little bit with dealing with all of that. Um what I'm grateful for is just a again Kelly education is over the last couple months tried to kind of revitalize what it used to be. Um but I think that opportunity I think is now for for at least my recommendation as you have to take. So to your question, I think it is uh really important to think about that sub experience. Um the application if they click that rollover, it should take about 15 minutes and then we can
099provide a lot of the things that um if they've had an updated background check, for example, we can expedite that that product. And is there someone within the district that's going to alert our 67 or whatever amount there is that this is the decision if that's the route we go? Yes. And uh some of that too as well. So, one of the changes with teachers on hall to Kelly education is um staff members used to be able to be in five districts um now. So, the the uh 94 and 67 I think the two members that we had over the past two years um those represent teachers or substitutes um teachers or pair professionals that are either in our district and one other. So it could be Lake Mills, could be Edertton, could be Port
100Ason. Some of which have maybe decided already that they're going to migrate, some of which that are still finalizing recommendations from their their teams. So with that, one of the pieces that we should this get approved, um we'll be coordinating a strategy to send that out to everyone because it's it'll be it could potentially be a entire region changing. Um so that communication will be happening in the next week. Um, but they they did ask that should the board approve this, would we be willing to host some some sessions so that people could come in and actually see a person face to face and help them walk through the process? And we said absolutely. Um, so I've already added it to our district office calendar is just kind of blocking out some dates just to
101help with that process. Um, so that we can avoid any of the speed bubbles we had last year. And a sub couldn't say that Lake Mills, Chris example, say that Lake Mills didn't switch Yeah. to the new one. they stayed with Kelly Education. Y I I have no idea. Sure. A sub that currently works a lot in our district and also in Lake Mills, would they be able to do that? They could from two agencies. It would just be a little bit more work for them to now have to register. I actually that's a great comparison. I actually one of my neighbors um outside of Exonia, he uh he does sub for Kelly Education. He he exclusively subs for Lake Mills. um I believe it was in their last board meeting they did decide to
102move to C to Edge staff um but he specifically it's Lake Mills and us right now and then Okconwalk they don't have a contracted service my concern with you know the the elements to your point about the independent versus the region is I also want to be cautious that we don't now make someone choose between us and one of our neighbors as well and that's a real you know that we have a very tried and true um a lot of our our subs are dedicated to Jefferson. Um, but I think also at the same time there are fringe people that I know that we share even um as far back as Edton and Milton and and things like that that you wouldn't think that they necessarily think. Um, and I so I think making sure
103that we have qualified um and our dedicated people in front of our kids and not trying to split that I think is a point of emphasis as well with making this transition. Any other questions from the board? Mr. Gordox, um, is there a motion? May, um, I believe I made a recommendation at the end of that, uh, recommended to move to ED, uh, edgy staff, excuse me, for the 26 27 year thereafter based on the agreement. Is there a motion to do that? So move second. Fishman is the verbiage. All right, on that one. Okay, any other discussion report? All in favor say I. Any oppose? Say nay. Thank you very much. Thank you for your time. Uh, now communications future agenda topics. Um yeah, the only thing is just uh looking to solidify date
104for that uh board workshop, get that on the schedule and uh be able to go over that board self assessment. There's some other topics that any other suggestions for future agenda topics. Okay, then get into announcements. use my memory for this one. Um went to the musical on on Friday. That was fantastic. And I missed my opportunity to shout out Mrs. Reco and Mr. Wshaw. Of course, Mr. Clarkson, everyone else did fantastic, but our pet man really phenomenal. So, and so very proud of our our kids as well. Um, and then the other thing I want to mention um and brag about is a Wisconsin school recognition. This is an award that is eligible for schools that receive Title One funding. And our own West Elementary School led by Mr. Howard is one of 71
105um TE schools in the category of impact. So I want to say congratulations to elementary school. There'll be a celebration down the road at the capital but I'm he's a be able to go and receive an award for our state attendant. Uh but uh much deserved. Typically in the past it's your pre and reduced lunches numbers are over 60% and I believe west is at 62% right now. So they met that threshold and then they also met the threshold for providing growth for our target groups. So congratulations to West. Right. With that, is there a motion to convene into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85 85 parents 1, C, D, and F to consider contract negotiations with the Jefferson Education Association for the 2026 27 school year, discuss an insurance renewal brokership partner broker
106partnership and discuss the student behavioral issue. So move second motion to second. Any further discussion? Favor close session saying oh I'm sorry Mr. Condan. Yes. Mr. Eagle. Yes. Mrs. Hudson. Yes. Mrs. Mc William. Yes. Mr. Noing. Yep. Mr. Beltier. Yes, we