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09/22/2025 - Board Meeting

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2025-09-23
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Jefferson County, WI
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4,909 words · about 28 min
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2026-06-09

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001Yep. All right. The dy noted meeting of the school district of Jefferson Board of Education. We'll start off with the pledge of allegiance and the flag is in the back there. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Minute for roll call. Please note we're all here. First up is going to be our recognitions. We have the WSB business honor role. WSB business honor role recognizes outstanding local businesses that support their schools. The board will recognize the following two businesses nominated for the 2025 business honor role. Playarta Mexican Grill. Playarta has been a heartfelt and dedicated supporter of the school district. They consistently demonstrate their support to our students and community. The restaurant

002has hosted dine out nights in support of our school's PTO programs. And during Hispanic Heritage Month, they donated an extraordinary 100% of their profits from meals directly back to our school. They also have provided some of the some of our staff during or sorry they've provided food for some of our staff during teacher appreciation week. Play of art is also a continuous supporter of our sports teams sponsoring numerous events and offering discounts to our fans. This year they their support included a generous donation for our softball team state tournament shirts and a 10% discount on food for those who purchased a Eagle Pride fundraising card from the football team. Their familial care for everyone in our district makes them a deserving nominee. Our other nominee is going to be the Jefferson Community Foundation. The Jefferson

003Community Foundation has been an invaluable partner to our district, demonstrating a commitment to student success. Their generous support has enriched our academic, artistic, and social emotional programs. In just the last year, the foundation's monetary donations totaling over $7,500 have enabled the purchase of AVID showcase boards, a ceramic kiln for West Elementary, and supported the basics club's free Thanksgiving meals at at the high school in the college and career day. This continued support helps enhance the students college readiness, gives access to state-of-the-art equipment, and supports the school's program and broader community. So, a round of applause for Play of Art of Mexican Grill and the Jefferson Community Foundation. And I believe we have a representative here from the Jefferson Community Foundation, correct? Please come forward. Um, what do you want as a backdrop? Oh, I was

004I got the ball before. You sure you don't want to be in the picture? Are you sure? Thank you very much. And do we have anybody here from Playarta? No. All right. I'll make sure that I get that to them. Probably have lunch there, too. Perfect. Next up on the recognitions is going to be the Wonders of Physics video contest award winners. I believe we have uh Mr. Militzer here to speak upon upon the 2024 25 AP Physics 2 students. Great. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I'm Mr. Miller. I'm a high school science teacher, chemistry, physics, advanced placement physics. And with me tonight is Katherine Emory. Um, one of my students from the AP class last year and AP this year. Um, as were representing the group of students that all submitted videos to the

005Wonders of Physics video contest last year. Um, we do this at the end of the year uh after the AP test. Uh, last year was extremely short. Uh the AP test was the last in the two-week season of AP testing and then of course we had a very quick short turnaround time till graduation. So unfortunately I gave them a very very short time frame but they produced fantastic results. So two of our students uh received uh recognition from the Wonders of Physics group at WMadison. Uh Katherine uh got her recognition for her video on the best video about motion uh where she did a video on projectiles. Um, Katherine let nothing to question. Um, in fact, including even her safety protocols, but I'll let her explain that. Hi. I had my mom, who's an emergency

006room physician, standing just off camera just in case. That was the safety protocol. Where were your projectiles being launched from? The roof. I had my dear friend Eva Franchie standing on the roof and she threw a tennis ball off the roof several times with her arm parallel to the ground so that I didn't have to do any extra math with angles. And then I used I measured the distance the balls landed and counted the frames in the recording I was taking from when the ball left her hand to when it landed on the ground. Divided the distance by the time to find her average flowing velocity with weird form. So from um from uh WMadison I have for you Katherine I have a certificate of achievement for you um that WMadison sent along um congratulating

007you and then I also had commission through our teched department and Mr. Rucks and his wonderful crew down there also a plaque for you as well and they're making a duplicate plaque that will hang up in the classroom as well to uh motivate next year students and the students after that and so you're eternal in the classroom. there. Yes. So, um congratulations. Um in addition to Katherine, uh we also had a second video uh uh done by our AFS student Hadia Tariq from Pakistan. And I know host mother is here, host family is here. So, thank you. Welcome. We also have um I also have another certificate like that that I can I will get to you as well. But we need to figure out shipping. We're going to ship this to Pakistan. First time

008I've ever shipped anything to Pakistan, which is fantastic. but she did her video on specific heat capacity. So, hers was the best video about heat. So, two of our students won awards for that. So, um I can give you this plaque tonight, but I I will get the other certificate to you as well. She can explain it. Well, thank you. I would let her explain. Yeah. Um but that video was about um the specific heat capacity of water. Um, and Hadia demonstrated that, you know, an empty balloon that she put a candle underneath would pop right away. And then she used a filled balloon uh with water and noticed how the candle would not burn through the latex of the balloon in a significant amount of time because of the amount of heat being transferred

009into the water. So, her video uh was recognized for that. And then after we received these awards, I got a a second email back from the UW. Um they notified me that another one of our videos was going to be chosen to be played at their live show next February uh at WMadison. They do live demonstrations of physics and stuff and uh that was a video called the physics ABCs. Uh three students worked on that together. Piper Crabtree, Sarah Germanson, and Anthony Shunk uh put that video together. All three being seniors, so unfortunately they're not here tonight to do that, but we will get them their plaques and so forth. We have um duplicates being made as well. Um and uh that video is is wonderful. I know it went out on our Facebook uh

010messages and so forth. They wrote all the lyrics to the ABC song, but then they uh hired AI uh to come in and sing and write the music. So, it's a wonderful like uh children's learning song and so forth. And then they're in the videos demonstrating all the concepts that they're singing about. So, it's a great video to catch if you see that online. And then um luckily because I work with all of these students and we submitted seven videos in, they notified me that they were going to give me an award. So I'm here to present myself with the plaque. Um and this plaque uh is sponsored by a company called Verer Software that we use in the science department. So they gave me the Verer physics teacher award for submitting the largest number

011of highquality videos in last year. So our school was able to to do that and so thanks to the students. uh one of the software that we use for like counting frames and doing analysis of videos um they re-uped our subscription to that as part of this award. So thanks to the students they've now made it easier for me to assign more assignments to next year students. So yeah, thank you. I'm lucky because I get to work with them and then they Excellent. So, next up on the agenda is going to be public comment. Of course, we always welcome comments from the community. Is anybody here to provide a public comment? If not, um so that is the end of the recognitions. If uh people are looking for a graceful exit, now's great. You're always

012welcome to stay for the whole board meeting, too. Um, now we're going to get into a little more heavier topics of it all. Next up is going to be our consent agenda. Consent agenda this month consists of the minutes from our last meeting, no employments or recognation resignations. There is a presentation of claims and accounts and a long list of donations that'll be read into the record. Any of this could be separated out into uh different topics. Does anybody have any questions, suggestions, or anything on the consent agenda? Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? So moved. Second. Uh with motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor of the motion say I. I. I. Any oppose say nay. And consent agenda passes. And I've asked Mr. Condan to read

013in that long list of donations there. All right. Uh we have a 40 uh $4,930.15 monetary donation from Anhalt Music Trust scholarship to JMS to purchase four marching bass drums, four marching snare drums and carriers. We have $1,125 monetary donation from Joan Then Hostess Memorial Fund Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin to East to support projects and programs of first grade classrooms at East Elementary School. A $500 monetary donation from an anonymous donor to West to support students at West Elementary. $50 monetary monetary donation from an anonymous donor to JHS Eagle's Closet. $60 monetary donation from anonymous donor to JHS Eagle's Closet. 750 monetary donation from Kimanas Club to JHS to Eagle's Closet. 400 uh monetary donation from Kathy Cornelius Shandorf to MU the vocal music programs at JMS and JHS a $44,300 monetary donation from

014Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation to Sullivan for n 19,300 and west for 25,000 elementary for the 2526 school year playworks program hourly rate match for hours Nike Corporation employees spent helping East Elementary physical education classes donated back to East in the amount of $500 and $510. School and cleaning supplies from St. Luke's Lutheran Church to Sullivan Elementary with a value of $100. School and cleaning supplies from Sullivan United Methodist Church to Sullivan Elementary with a value of $350. School supplies from Jefferson Memory Care to East Elementary with a value of $100. Backpacks and school supplies from Sunshine Healing and Massage Therapy to West Elementary with a value of $400. And a snowblower to CTE classes at JHS from an anonymous donor with a value of $200. a 2005 state champion girls basketball team poster from

015Ken Olsen to JHS with a value of $500. All right. Well, thank you very much. That brings this month's total to $54,275.15. Early in the school year, we're already at a total donations of $56,861. So, that's a lot of support from the community. Thank you all very much for that. Next, we'll jump into our reports. First up is going to be uh Miss Courtourtney with the transportation report or not Miss Courtney. Okay. Uh so, good evening everyone. Um thank you for allowing us to be here this uh this evening. I wanted to introduce myself uh to everyone. My name is AJ Crezel. I'm the director of operations for Dman Transport and I'd like to begin by thanking you guys for having us here and your continued partnership. Um one of the things through this presentation

016that you'll see today uh in the reporting is uh safety um how serious we take safety and the different initiatives that we're putting forth through this uh school year. And um I'll pass it over to Caroline. Thank you. Thank you. Um again, my name is Caroline. I know I've spoken to a couple of you on the phone. Um Mr. Noing, I spoke to you a few weeks ago begging the use of your um driveway for a group stop. I follow that. Um so AJ mentioned safety and that is um a big focus that we're going on this year with the bus drivers. Now we've always been there but we we're taking more steps this year. In May our president Larry Kirkley attended a um senior leadership safety conference for safety first culture and he shared

017that information with us. um uh more of a something we've always done, but we're handling it uh a little bit more firmly this year. Um we have more intentional candidate selection. So, it it's sometimes it's difficult when you're short-handed and you know a bus is going to be a few minutes late. Um athletics really wants their teams out, but we're not going to take any shortcuts. We really only want drivers who are safety- minded, who understand that the 100% of their job is to be safety- minded and are on board and have the same vision as we do for the safety for the children. So, that's pretty much what we're using to um gain our candidates. So, sometimes it's taking a little bit longer. And as you know, um last year towards the end of

018the school year, we were having some difficulties. This year, I currently have three people in training. Um, I have somebody coming in for an interview tomorrow. So, we're we're getting there and we'll have our subd drivers and um, we'll be able to do marvelous things. I always tell my my team because we're a pretty small uh, terminal, but we're small but we're mighty. We can do a lot of things. We have um volunteers that work for us that volunteer in the area and we have years and years and years of wisdom in driving and um in teaching children and teaching Sunday school and um I brought Katherine to school this morning and Scott uh Johnson who works for us also um works at her church. So we're we're very community-minded in addition to our safety.

019Um, our emphasis with the drivers when we train them is on skill development, preventative maintenance, and stronger inspection procedures. So, the drivers do inspect their buses before they go out every morning. Um, and we with fantastic results. One year there was a baby deer sleeping behind a wheel and because the because the driver did do everything they were supposed to do by going underneath and checking everything, the poor little deer didn't get hit by the truck as it pulled out of the the parking lot. So, we really um use flashlights when it's dark out. So, any preventative measure we can use. The drivers um are told anytime they think of something that could make their route safer, something safer for the children, the place where they cross, they bring it to me and we 100%

020will implement anything that makes it safer, even if it adds a couple minutes to the route. Safe operation. Again, we do focus on compliance and ongoing training. So, we do have ongoing training with our drivers constantly. And if um say somebody um I feel that they've made a mistake on the road or a parent calls and feels there's been a mistake, we we do retraining. We have video retraining. We have a trainer who actually works right out of our office right now and he will take the driver out and retrain them. So, um I do encourage parents to call. Um I'm not I'm not that manager who's going to sit there and say, "My people never do anything wrong. But I I need to know because I'm not always in the bus with them. So

021that's really important. That's part of keeping a safe operation going. We do we did have an annual manager meeting this year um in July with a guest speaker uh name is Joe Mscaro and she talked to us about student management and deescalation strategies which was it was just wonderful and I'm very appreciative of it. Um Jim Banley Shout, I don't know if any of you know him, he's one of our bus drivers. He will be heading up bus safety with the elementary school kids this year. So, we'll be visiting the schools and we'll have a bus out front and the kids will come on and he'll go over bus conduct with them and he'll show them all the danger zones around the bus and we'll make it fun. You know, when the kids answer a

022question, right, they can run up and beep the horn or something, you know. Um, we're working on making it more interesting for our middle school students and our high school students and they do know um we do constantly tell the children that they are also a part of making the bus safe. So, our older children, because we do um practice emergency procedures six times a year. And usually it's the older children who will open up the back door and get down and help get the younger children out and get them to a waiting area by the bus. All the kids learn how to do this. Children that are old enough from 10 up. They learn how to set the emergency brake and things of that nature in case something happens to the driver. And it's

023all very safe. Um it's very easy. So, we're not we're not encouraging them to get up there and do anything they're not supposed to do. was only in the case of an emergency and they all got to practice on the radio calling in and saying you know bus 65 we have an emergency. So we do have um ongoing reinforcement with that and targeted inservice training. So we do have mid midyear season training. So in our back to school meeting this year for example we set up um in our in our um area outside the shop where we keep the buses. We had a backup course. We had a course where um they had to get through the lines and they had to practice side parking and all sorts of fun stuff. And we had um

024a couple of other stations where they sat with the mechanic. And the mechanic told them about um if you smell this, if you see this, this is most likely what it is. Open up the hood. You can tell what's leaking by that. Things that the driver would need to know before they call it in. Or if the driver says, "Okay, that smell means that there's possibility of fire." then they can immediately move the children and um their first their first protocol is to call me and then I call the police if we need to block off a road or something like that. So it they have a a full folder on their buses with protocols for any type of emergency. So with that, we're going to have engagement with the schools. Like I said, Jim

025will be going out to the schools. Also, I had the opportunity to have a one-on-one meeting with one of the elementary schools, and it went fantastic. they have a better understanding of what we do behind the scenes when we put routes together and all the drivers names and why they show up when they do. And um just for the record, I'm willing to do that with with any of the schools. I'm willing to do that with your folks if you'd like to have a meeting and ask me those questions. I have um zero qualms about doing that. I want you to have a good idea of what your bus company is doing for you as well. We do um the safety outreach for the students. We spoke about that. Currently, we're working to be fully

026staffed to meet 100% of route requirements. Route requirement is number one thing. And then next is our field trips. And then we also have athletics. So, we can get really creative to get, you know, three buses out for athletics because athletics are very important to our school and they're very important to me too. I've got two nephews in track. So, it's really important that we get those kids out and and all the and make sure that they're able to show off all their hard work. So, we're we're working towards getting that done. Like I said, we do have trainers uh employees training right now to drive. They're about I would say probably about two and a half weeks away from getting their CDLs. So, that means each one of our routes will have their own

027driver all the time. And then I'll have a couple subd drivers for when drivers call in sick or if we have an extra athletic trip that has to go out or something like that. Um we've had a few adjustments um some weekly transportation adjustments. We did absorb one route into uh two other routes, route five and route 12. They're more rural. Um they don't really pick up any of the students in town. Um shout out to Lan who's on route five. That's your kids. and he's done a fantastic job putting all of those kids in in one area where he can do one good loop and then back out and the kids are not on the bus for any extended amount of time. And the kids have been fantastic by the way. Shout out to

028those kids on route five. They're all out waiting for the bus which is that helps us so much to have them all out there because we know then that we have to stop and because you know we don't always get a phone call if a child's not going to be on and that's that's just fantastic. I I think it's great that the parents have pitched in to really help with that aspect of it all. Um we've done a lot of creative scheduling to support athletics. I wish Mark Peterson was here tonight. We have some great conversations and um it really goes well and the drivers really want to get these these um teams out as well. So, we have um Bill will take 11 students from route nine and put them on his route at

029no extra time to his route so that that nine can rush back here and be here at 3:45 to pick teams up. And it's kind of fun. You know, it gets a little frustrating. We're looking at like, what are we going to do? But once we get it done, it's it's a lot of fun and everyone's willing to do it. The drivers really want to be a part of our athletics and our field trips, but we haven't had as many field trips yet this year. So, that is what we're doing right now. Um I am re um every week I will be sending a um transportation update to Charlie and Brian and it'll have um how many routes we have um the percentage of when they were on time, how many field trips, how many

030athletic trips, um what steps we're taking towards recruiting. We do recruit every week. We have different um places that we visit. We have our own recruiting tables. I'm making up a recruiting table for Bontton where I can sit out there with a dollar coupon. Anybody that goes on and applies, they get a dollar out of their donut. So, we're we're making things up. We even took the bus out one day with the megaphone and I had one of my driver's kids shouted out the window that we were that we were looking for help because we are we will do whatever it takes to get the right people in there. And we would really um love to have folks from our own community driving the buses, which is great now because Greg, for example, his grandsons

031go to school. So, he takes the elementary field trips and he's got a son who's in middle school or a grandson who's in middle school band. So, it's it's it's great for us, too. Um, I think we might have time for one or two questions. Does anybody have any questions? Um, you mentioned that three are in training right now. They have about two and a half weeks left. What is the time frame for the total training? How how long is that program? Total training, um, it depends on how much time the trainee can give us. So, they may have a second job or they may watch their grandkids. But if somebody can give us every day, Monday through Friday, they're usually they're usually um ready to go in about a month, five weeks. Okay. They

032do a permit, which um we offer a $100 bonus if they get their driving permit to train on the bus within a week. And then that kind of speeds up the process because then really it only takes about four weeks tops after that to get them. there's they watch a series of videos um with safety, student management, and then by the by their first week of training, they're already on the road on the bus. Okay. All right. If anybody would like to come over to us and test drive the bus in the parking lot, they're welcome. Uh kind of on the same lines as uh Mr. Peltier's question, what if they come to you with a CDL? if they come to us with the CDL, they still need to train with us because not all

033bus companies go through the safety protocols that we do. Their safety is not their priority. So, we do ask they we do ask them to train with us and they have to do everything they would have to do somewhere else. Their physical and all that goes through us and and our um businesses that we partner with that do that for us. Thank you. Thank you. I I did have one question about the I I guess I was a a lifelong or until I drove a car, I was riding the bus. I lived out in Sullivan, so I'm familiar with the bus evacuations and older kids helping, but what we didn't train for when I was a kid is using the radio and the emergency brake. I think that's pretty unique. Um, and then with the

034radio, I guess with um are do the buses have GPS locators now so that like if the kid can get on the radio and say there's an emergency, but if they don't know exactly where they're at on some road, so are they locatable now that they have a program called Zonar and actually I when um I'm not driving I have the ability to um during dispatch I will actually I check on a weekly basis to make sure the drivers are doing their speed limits. Okay. It's a great tool. All right. So, if there was a problem, then you could find it right away and and direct emergency vehicles or Okay. Yes. Wow. I was um I was just going to give a compliment uh transportation being a pretty big expense and also one that we

035never want to make the headlines and we really don't want to hear about. So, just a huge compliment to you that um honestly you've stayed off the radar uh for the most part. That's a big deal. Uh because if you know and watch any news um lots of transportation issues. Um so, taking safety really into account is really good to hear. I think that um all the the measures that you're taking are are great to hear. Uh, I also wanted to just compliment you because I know our district is unique in that it's shaped like a cucumber with a lot of rural roads. Um, and so it does it does require a lot of creativity. So, thank you for doing that and thank you for you know, you're very welcome. I enjoy all of it.

036Even the days where the phone doesn't stop ringing and I have to get out and drive. I really I I really enjoy this. I enjoy this district. And, you know, a lot of it has Well, I know all the kids. I I just um I started out on Route Nine and I got two kids on Route Nine. I subbed their route the other day and and they told me they were in high school and it's it's it's hard. It's so hard to believe that that's actually happening, but you know, I'm not a parent. You're probably all parents and it's so crazy these kids growing up. But um I I love it and I love all these kids' names and going and seeing their teams and everything. It's great and my drivers feel the same way.

037We're enjoying ourselves. I had just had one question then which was about the athletics which you kind of addressed. So when you have to move stuff around um as far as a team leaving early from school or changing the competition time and things like that and that's certainly appreciated so that nothing has to get cancelled. My question is it has nothing to then to do with the number of buses you have. It really has to do with the number of drivers. Right. Well, we at this time we we have two extra buses and um once we're all our traineees in, we'll have two extra trainees, perhaps even more. And then in that case, then the drivers wouldn't have to do their routes at all and we would have the two spare buses with the two

038spare drivers that would go out and do that. So, we can do two trips during route time. So, say we have one athletic one field trip, we can do both of those on the same day. So that's why we have to get creative in other ways in order to get them all out at the same time. Okay. Any other questions from the board? All right. Well, thank you very much for your time and for your questions. Thank you. Have a wonderful evening. Next up, it looks like our first reading of the 2026 27 new Jefferson High School course proposals and changes. is we just started the year and already we're talking about next year. I think it's on. Is it? It's on. Okay. Yeah. It's funny because I send an email out literally uh the

039week of inservice about, hey, if you're going to change any courses for next year and we haven't even started school yet, so we're we're on that game very early. Um so this year I created a memo um to kind of highlight the different areas. Um so we'll start with business of education. Um they're in alphabetical order by department. No rhyme or reason other than that. um business. If you know um the last year we came with um our proposals at this time and then we approved the course guide and then we found out dual credit had changed on the side of Madison College. So I came to you in the spring and said um we need to drop Microsoft basics um and we have to add the course mobile. So, we did that out of

040sequence, out of normal time because of what the dual credit requirements came out of Madison. So, I put that on there as a reminder. That will be changed in the course handbook for this upcoming school year. Um, it will be correct communicated to students. Um, but that was a change we already had implemented for this year. Um, English is under review this year. Um, so I've been working with them under curricular review. been working that with them all summer. Um Nick and I uh so they had two changes that we've been talking deeply about. One of them is uh ACT scores and the um the idea of taking writing. So currently um students have to take English 9, English 10 and then they have to take credits in English in 11 and 12. One of

041those has to be a half credit of writing. And what we want to guarantee is that a student takes that half credit during their junior year to ensure they have a reading course and a writing course their junior year. So that first bullet is saying that they must take one writing course at least a half credit their junior year unless they're in AP. That would be the only exception out of that. Um so that will start with the class of 2028. um they want to change the name of writing uh for college to writing for the university to better reflect the content that is preparing students for 4year um postsecary school instead of so really it's just a language change the actual course is not changed at all uh family consumer ed um Nick can

042probably speak a little bit more detail on this one than me but removing the prerec for child development um we want to change it to recommendation of parenting or intro to psychology. Um, part of it was that we didn't want students to feel that they had to take um what was it? Sorry, I'm blanking on this one. Um, it was more or less that it pinhold some kids into taking saying that they wanted to they had to take a very young child course if unless they weren't interested in older kids. Does that make sense? So, pinhold kids to take a specific course um that they didn't want to. I can give more detail on that one when we come back next time. I don't know why I'm blanking on that one. Um music education. Uh

043this is really in the choir area. Music for your knowledge is also under review this year. So, I've been working with them starting um at the beginning of the school year. um they want to propose in choir and last year we did a pretty big overhaul of choir as well by combining a bunch of stuff. So the first attachment to this is um the course called art of composition and music modern music creation. Um the purpose of this course is really to have a um music course that isn't singing or playing an instrument that students can engage in music in a lot of different ways. Um and so that's what this course is all about. Um inside here you'll see um that it can be creating music, it could be understanding the rhythms of music.

044Um, so we linked or the third page is all about what those units would entail. Um, and it's all about kind of composition. The next one is technology education. Last year, we came to you with a new course, uh, construction, and it was a year-long course. Um, one thing we, this is only a change to make it a two semester courses. What it allows a student to do is only take part of the course one year and part of the course another year. It does have the prerex saying if you're going to take construction 2, you obviously have to take construction one before construction two. What it does is it allows us to have great greater flexibility in scheduling um and fluctuation of student numbers. Do you know now? Oh, and back to child development.

045So uh the the thought on that is it did have parenting as the prerequisite uh which if you think of for some students might not be necessarily interested in the parenting course as much as they are the child development or psychology end of things. So we said that that should be a recommendation but not just the only requirement or prerec uh for for child development. Um and the last thing is theater. Theat's in its own department. We made that change um two years ago. Um we currently have um a theatrical side of like performance and then we have stage craft in theater. Stage craft is the actual construction of the set design. This course is called theatrical design and the purpose of this course it would always be semester 1 um and stage craft is

046semester 2. The purpose of this course is to work with the musical. The beginning part like right now in the school year would be all about learning design elements um in a theatrical setting. So lighting, sound, um color, so on. Um, and then once the the um musical is decided, then they'll start designing for that specific musical. After they have the background and content knowledge, they'll make proposals to the um people that we hire in order to do the um design of the set, the lighting, the sound. um and that those proposals they'll take in consideration when they are actually designing it out for stage craft to implement. So that is what that course is. Any questions? And this is a first reading. All right, sounds good. Thank you very much. You're welcome. We'll take

047a look at that when we come back in two, three weeks. Next up, we're getting to future agenda topics. Does anybody have any suggestions for future agenda topics? And then any announcements? I don't have anything. Dr. Thanks. Um just a way too early. Hold your calendar for the um celebration at East. That's October 27th. So you can see we added the invitation that's out there. So we're sending out the invitation right now so people are aware. That's 5:00 pm for a tour of East. Um, a good old neighboring partner, Gordies, will have pizza as light orders for us. And then we'll have our board meeting at East Elementary School at 6 PM in their library. Great. Next, is there a motion to convene into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85, 85 parents 1 and

048C to discuss the quarterly formative evaluation of the district administrator. So moved. Second. With a motion in a second. This would be a roll call vote. Mm. Mr. Condan. Yes. Mrs. Fox. Yes. Mr. Eel. Yes. Mrs. McWill. Yes. Mr. Nobling. Yes. Mr. Peltier. Yes. Mrs. Wankman. Yes.

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