001for the flag is in the back there I 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 M BR if we could have a roll call [Music] please Mrs Fox here Mr Condon here Mrs MC William here Mrs winkman Mr Peltier here Mr eel Mrs cipc all right thank you next up is going to be recognitions we'll start off with citizen of the month Mr SCA for the high school and good evening everyone uh Jefferson High School citizen the month is Bennett Layman uh Bennett's a junior with us and Bennett who's here with you tonight U my mom and dad am thank you Amy and Rick for coming uh Bennett was nominated by Mr
002fast our Junior grade level adviser and Mr fast went on to say that he wants to nominate Bennett because he's been working outside of school to develop a mod for Minecraft which allows visually impaired individuals to play the game he's an outstanding student always willing to help others and answer questions additionally Mr buholtz uh was celebrating today that Bennett is one of our students attending Badger boy State this summer and lastly Mrs Howard who's worked with Bennett how many years has Mrs Howard worked with you now six yeah I figured it was about six or so years yeah that was what I thought too uh she said Bennett is dedicated and student driven with a strong talent for technology which he uses daily to solve problems over the past three years his independence has grown
003as he's pushed himself to try new experiences joining various activities in clubs he's involved in wrestling the high school play National Honor Society cats coding Club J club and more Bennett consistently challenges himself by enrolling in rigorous courses and strives to be the best version of himself and all that he does for all of those reasons Bennett Layman is Jefferson High School's citizen of the [Applause] month next up Mr Matson with the Middle School all right good afternoon everybody uh it is my pleasure to introduce ma shatwell maa is a seventh grader here at Jefferson Middle School and MAA who do you have with you here at the board meeting tonight I have my mom and dad with me all right welcome and thank you both for for being able to be here uh so
004ma was nominated by our seventh grade team wanted to to share a couple of the uh the things that she uh that they had to say about her uh the seventh grade team would like to recognize MAA shatwell as citizen of the month made as a great student she actively participates in class and takes pride in her work her sense of humor brings a positive energy that enhances the learning environment she is well-liked by her peers and can collaborate effectively with anyone these qualities not only contribute to her success but also Foster supportive Community among her classmates ma is honest and respectful and has a very bright future ahead of her in addition to uh to those qualities uh m is also a member of our student council as well as uh being involved in
005the musical and also plays volleyball so uh please join me in congratulating her as our citizen of the [Applause] month Mr Howard I'll start okay cool why don't we face this way all right everybody we have represent West Elementary from kindergarten Cole Hackett and Cole You're Gonna introduce your family I have mommy and daddy and they're sitting in the front row yeah all right kid I was pleased when they picked Cole he's just a super kid well he do a nice job in the pledge you guys hear that yeah he rocks Mrs stefansky is Cole's teacher and here's what Kayla had to say about Cole Hackett Cole is an enthusiastic learner and a role model for his classmates he's eager to learn works hard and is committed to doing his best work he shows respect
006for teachers and peers he is kind and thoughtful Cole is honest trustworthy and cares deeply about his classmates he has a positive attitude I asked multiple teachers and they all agreed that Cole would be a great candidate for citizen of the month congratulations Cole great job Cole hacket Mr Wickman for East all right today I get the great honor of having Ronan fer as our East Elementary citizen of month he's a third grader here at East and his teachers wrote Ronan is a wonderful third grade student who is welcoming and accepting of others you can often Find Ronin chatting chatting it up with others in the hallway in the lunchroom he wants everyone to be included and happy at school his helpful nature shines through during the school Day by helping um to pick up
007items that are dropped providing assistance to classmates who are struggling or making sure people have someone to play with at recess Ronan is also an Avid Reader who shares insult insightful Thoughts with his classmates which allows for Rich classroom discussion Ronan shared his love of reading by participating in interpretive reading contest this school year outside school Rodan participates in theater he was part of the missa children's theater play this fall and his currently practicing with the Ford ainson Community Theater for a play later this year this showcases his creativity and enthusiasm for the Performing Art East Elementary is so lucky to have a well-rounded and welcoming student like Ronan and Ronan who is here with you tonight my Mom and Dad yeah and Mrs Patt his third grade teacher back there I don't know if
008you saw her she snuck in but she is here too Ronan here is kind of like the Indiana Jones of East Elementary he knows so much about history he smiled when I said that he knows so much about history and he knows who Indiana Jones is what is your favorite war to read about gota have one what one are you reading about now no I thought it was American Revolution do you like that one okay that's the one I he had been talking about so Ronan fer awesome student and Indiana Jones of East Elementary [Applause] Miss Peterson first Sullivan Annabelle Stewart is our first grade student at is a citizen month who's with you tonight my mom okay and here is what I had to say about Annabelle Annabelle is the type of student that
009all her peers look up to when her classmates are asked who is the kindest person they know they answer Annabelle Annabelle is a hard worker and is always doing the right thing even when no one is looking she was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone who needs it she demonstrates what a positive role model should be we are so fortunate to have her in our class way to go Annabelle [Applause] honey congratulations to all the citizens of the month this month around next up for recognitions is going to be Mr klicker with our Esports is this on okay um so kind of an extension of uh two weeks ago when uh Quaid was the high school citizen of the month and announced that uh we had qualified for the state tournament um
010this past Saturday not this past Saturday Saturday before um at Madison College and um turned out that we were kind of crummy hosts to um Ashland in the first round who drove through a blizzard to get down to Madison only for us to beat them and uh then we went against uh St Croy uh Central and uh they had steamrolled everybody throughout the playoffs and we took them to a third game or a third round match but uh um just came up a bit short so we ended up um the division 2 runner up um for for state so I will have um the team members um give you their names and their favorite track or cup um to race on my name's Christopher angaraka and I like special cup U my name's D Medina
011and my favorite track would have to be royal Raceway I'm Quaid Walter and my favorite favorite cup was the special cup uh just a couple of notes um all season long um Eddie Eduardo was uh um the one who who really took us and challenged uh everybody else on the team to raise their level of play and so um definitely our MVP of the season um had mentioned how Quaid was able to come in after swimming was done in order to give us that last boost we needed to get to the um to the to the state championships um then when valerent started which is our current season that uh begins this this week um Quaid was there and was coaching up the players and I told him you already got this it in a
012month you don't have to coach anymore but uh yeah it's just who he is and uh What uh makes him special so um he's coaching up all of the the valerant players and uh yeah we'll see how this season goes for us so 2 State Runners up in Mario Kart 8 congratulations on that sounds like a lot of fun uh next up is going to be our public comment is there anybody here looking to make public comment about any topics not seeing anybody Run for the microphone we are going to get into the more remediate portion of the meeting if you're looking for a chance to run away now is a great opportunity but you are more than welcome to stay for the rest of this exciting meeting next item up is going to be
013our consent agenda that consists of our minutes from the last meeting catching up here uh presentation of claims and accounts and donations any of that could be separated into a um and discussed separately or could all be one motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so moved second with a motion in a second any further discussion all in favor of the motion say I I any oppose say nay and cons agenda passes I do want to read in the donations uh we had a $2,000 monetary donation from Jones dairy farm to the high school for welding caps and Manufacturing lab safety upgrades there's a $20 Anonymous monetary donation to The High School Eagle closet and then a $55,000 Anonymous monetary donation to the high school's baseball so excellent support from the community year to
014school year to date that's 95,783 that's been donated by the community so thank you to everyone for the supporting the school that much and then we dive into reports first up going West Elementary we waiting for that East Elementary our our reading team our fifth grade leing team they won the state championship very good awesome the St [Applause] champ wow wow testing Can you guys hear me I I got a loud voice I know stepped on my toes for 20 [Laughter] years well I'll tell you what I'm gonna do I'm gonna get started Nate Nate is thanks Nate for helping me you guys have the reports in front of you awesome um I'm going to go to slide two and uh just talk quickly about the state report card you guys can see I just
015put the demographics there of West that's coming right from the DPI so if you're wondering about economically disadvantaged or Latino population El open enrollment you know just to to know our student demographics I gave you a a four-year window going back to 2021 where we were at 7766 and the last three years we've been about the same spot and uh we're sitting in in the mid6 right now at 63.8 as of this year and a couple 65s and I wrote down on slide two here let me see if I can do this Nate oh hit the middle button got it um I put for the biggest Boulder that we're really working on as far as student achievement in Reading is the science of reading you've heard a little bit about that you know Mrs grundle
016is kind of leading the charge there and we're following her lead um we've got all our teachers taking these video courses and and just learning a completely new way to do reading which is tough um and then we went to wakaa once again miss grundle organized that to see what our new Ela program is going to look like in a school that's already implementing it and it was great to see it firsthand all the principles were there some of our reading staff um and that's probably the biggest Boulder going into next year is is as we talk about achievement the tier one every single student at the elementary getting that new reading program and Implement that with Fidelity and really doing a nice job uh we're going to start this spring with with rollouts uh
017work on a little bit in the summer and then really get after after it come come fall for that reason and this is all three Elementary so you've probably seen it before with our building goals we actually CH chose math this year because we thought reading were in transition we're working on the new program we're getting ready for the new program learning the science of reading and we interspersed um math and the PLC process when you guys see ELO that's that's our essential learning objectives um each grade level has it what I did in our building similar to the other buildings is We Had Each grade level pick a math ELO so in other words there's four or five major things that we're teaching in math each grade level picked one ELO and they focus
018on it from the end of January till our staff meeting Wednesday and what they're doing is they selected the key ELO and they did what's called a CFA which is a common for assessment who did well who does not know the skill and then for the last four or five weeks then they've been working in teams on helping the kids that didn't aset first assessment on building that skill within that key ELO and then what their role is is they've done the group work on strategies practices activities is we're going to be a little vulnerable on Wednesday what worked and what didn't and I already told everybody if you didn't bat a thousand if you didn't hit the 80% that's okay but what did you use for a process what could you do better and
019how could we learn together as a group so our our staff meeting Wednesday is kind of a culmination we're not finished on March 12th with this ELO but we we just really focused for about two and a half months on staying in one lane obviously we taught a bunch of other things in math too just the idea of staying a on a focused learning objective working on it together figuring out who's struggling and how we helped them what worked and what didn't work so that's that's the academic work we're doing in both reading and math um next year is going to be a lot of fun um I put quickly small things that make a big difference I called this slide because I thought what are things that maybe as a school board you don't
020hear about um it's tough to find special education teachers there's a shortage throughout the state um and one thing we're doing at West or at least I'm lucky enough to do at West is I have two pair of professionals that I've been coaching them about becoming teachers taking a few more classes and becoming a teacher versus being a par professional and I got two of my Paras are actually going to be student teaching next year by the end of the school year they're going to be uh qualified to be a special education teacher um so kind of that grow your own thought if you ever heard that before um I have an El a I'm working on next you know just the idea of it's one one it's a great way to retain folks and
021two You're Building skill and then three it's an opportunity for them to get better so that's just a small thing that maybe you wouldn't hear about if I didn't get a take take two seconds talk about it so that's a fun thing trying to grow your own um the Ws attendance the conference was phenomenal it was run by by both Sullivan and East reading teachers um one conference that that or one sectional that I wanted to briefly talk about if you haven't been around for a while um our West Sullivan art teacher was Chelsea Brown if any of you remember her from Sullivan uh Chelsea won the state teacher the year in 2019 and she actually presented about how the time at Sullivan the time at West the time in our district helped grow from
022somebody who struggled remaining as a teacher in her early years to really grow into to being a a state level uh Award winner and we had nine of my own staff members were there and it was just fun to listen to somebody that had worked with us at sdog and really said wow that my experience here really took me to the next level so that was a lot of fun um have you heard of playworks a little bit you I think I think Jake may have talked about it or Nikki um a couple things on that is playworks is where we're actually teaching kids problem solving skills we're teaching them games and I've got junior coaches similar Jake star this program a few years ago so I give him a ton of credit our fourth
023and fifth graders are not only participating in the games but then they're coaching up the younger kids the kindergarten first second third and then one other key component uh thank Aaron and Mike is uh the middle school kids are coming over to our recess at West Elementary and to see my neighbor who's a I think Nolan's an eighth seventh or eighth grade to see him working with my kindergarten by first grade I think that would make anybody happy smile and proud because you got these middle schoolers coming over they're twice the size of our kids they're wearing their vests and they're coaching our kids up so it's lot of fun and in our in our last meeting I don't I can't I haven't spoke to eron yet about Friday we talked to the playworks coach
024and my my teachers were saying my parents were saying they could be a little more assertive which is funny because you think middle school kids talk all the time but they're a little shy around my kids so we were going to coach them up on Friday to say hey you can correct them you can talk to them I'm you're here to help teach them and to me what a great way to not only build skill with my kids but to build skill with the S need graders so uh tons of credit to Aon and Mike for for doing I think we're the are we the first Middle School in the state to do it so I think we're the first Middle School to actually have the coaching take place where that they're coming over to
025an elementary school in the same district and learning that so um we use common language we teach with intentionality you ever heard of R Shambo it's like rock paper scissors we call it R Shambo so we just we just teach the kids what can you do besides cause conflict when you're in the middle of an issue with another student and we've got a big deal wheel that we work on and we're just trying to build their skill because isn't that something we all deal with people we don't necessarily always get along with or not happy with them at at the moment how do we handle that as adults we we intentionally teach the kids and it's fun teaching the coaches who are teaching the kids too so those are small things that hopefully make a
026big difference a couple additional supports that that we threw in this year I I have a retired behavioral specialist named Paul Gasser um he worked for uh Gunderson out of Lacrosse for 35 years our PTO sponsored three visits by him he's coming again on Friday the 14th he's met with uh my entire staff he's met with uh specific teachers he's even met with some families and some kids once again anything from working with a kid with ADHD to working with kids that talk in class to working on kids that aren't motivated and just going through all the things he's taught for 35 years he's now retired and he's just come in and helped build skill with our staff because I think every staff in in the United States would like hey what do I do
027with kids when they're struggling doing X so that's been a nice thing that that we're really excited about and then reading Corps it's reading Corps week uh all three elementaries actually have a reading Corps program it doesn't cost the district to Dime it is a is a grant program what they do is they come in and they teach our kids K3 tier 2 interventions they progress monitor their interventions that that are approved by by everybody involved their their high impact and when you're a teacher and you've got seven kids you got to meet with in tier two and all of a sudden three kids are going to a reading Corps teacher to get one-onone or two-on-one instruction that gives you a chance to get at more of your kids during your win times so once
028again that does not cost the district a dime it's just a win-win uh we got them coming back again next year and we're actually celebrating reading Corp this week so if if you hear about reading Corps basically that's that's what that is and what we're having to do student growth seal we talk about that all the time like the social emotional learning uh two examples matter of fact I just got back from Culver so to Mr Wickman thanks for coming Jake um those that's my student council on the left trying to give them leadership opportunities as fifth graders getting ready for Jefferson Middle School that particular picture they were working at the Humane Society and they were they uh they gathered uh food for the for the animals for a week and then they went
029up there and worked with the Humane Society for a morning and my second one those are my grit winners we still teach about Grit not giving up digging in working tough when things get tough and we've got our book vending machine going in each month uh when the kids that are selected as the grit winner of their class uh they get a free book and I like the idea of kids being excited to put a quarter in instead of getting a candy bar they get a book so those are a couple examples of how we're we're trying to grow our students in in social emotional learning I'm especially happy with our BLT team and where we're going um you know everybody has a leadership team and and I I think I had the combination I've
030been looking for for quite a while we really divied up our BLT work into three things um reading math andal and our staff meetings we meet we can have previous to the staff meetings so we can kind of script it they can help keep me organized keep my eye eye on the ball and um Jamie Orville Jessica Krauss and Linda are my subcommittee where they're always doing Ela and they did a a high impact strategy on self-grading which is basically teaching kids how to goal set and to see how they do hey before you do this how many do you think you can get and teaching our our teachers a very easy High uh strategy on if I can set a goal ahead of time if I can get a picture in my mind of
031how good I can do I can do a little bit better that was a quick little mini lesson they gave a few months back Amanda goulson is our math interventionist Megan is one of our third grade teachers throughout our elos the one thing we found is our kids lack number sense and number sense is knowing that 47 is big bigger than 31 and what does 10 really look like and getting the kids kind of kind of understanding numbers the way we know them in our brains and Amanda and Megan have been doing high impact Gam games that you can teach number sense get in a circle count by twos they have all these little mini games that we've been teaching in um staff meetings so in other words people can go okay we know number
032sense attaches to all our our important math elos and this is a game I can play while we're in line waiting to go outside for recess or we got picked up for math we can play or music we can play quick in music and get back to class so just quick hitters that are impactful and they they're really focused with something that we're really trying to teach and really trying to get hard and then Jenny fer and Austin are doing Mini lessons where they're sending out something with my weekly bulletin last week wasal week and they're just given many lessons maybe teachers are reading three of them a week maybe they're reading all five maybe they're reading one but we're hoping to get that good information out there so we're not just teaching the kid
033and reading and math but also building skill with their social emotional skills um and then lastly these are just a lot of the opportunities we try to do similar to the other other schools um the bottom one is one I'm just going to highlight quickly I I wrote down dealing with Challenge and if you see the picture upper left hand corner that's actually Jenny Shel and jod who who run our office and they've got a picture of a son and you know you know how the year gets so busy you just kind of forget about things that was a celebration of the two weeks we had East over at West remember that with the fire and it's funny that feels like a million years ago that was that was this year and that was when
034we had uh I think I had 4K somewhere I had somebody in my library someone in a special ed room someone in a conference room and we just made it work for it was about 10 days Jake yeah yeah you should know um they were all over the district and Jake's just running around and the teachers running around um and then you know to kind of add on to that we had the pipe burst was a couple weeks back and we had to shut down one hallway and we just shuffled the I use the East plan we put somebody in the library some in the conference room so that that adaptability of just knowing hey whatever challenge comes your way you got to just get after it and fight through it um it's funny as
035a year progresses when you have to look back and go gosh I'm giving good news it's kind of neat to say that you know we dealt with a couple natural disasters and just uh not missed our stride for the most part um and that's all I have I'm willing to take questions but I I Tred to keep it short and succinct as far as what we're doing at West for good news the only one I have on slide three using cfas help me out with all the acronyms what's a CFA okay CFA is common form of assessment I'm sorry common common for common right yeah good got it right common form and assess so in other words let's say we're assessing counting to 1220 like the first graders are they would every every first grader
036would take one assessment Jimmy can go to 67 Mike can go to 71 Matt can go to 119 so we kind of know where everybody's at okay then we're then we're building skill and then we're going to give another assessment maybe maybe same one but we try to give a different one but but we're measuring the same skill if that makes sense yeah sorry it's just so many acronyms I know I'm glad you asked figuring them out so glad I'm glad you asked and in some cases like a third grade they give one a week so they have a whole bunch of them other grade levels maybe they only have two that they've been using in the six weeks others are using more and we're trying to build skill because more often you assess more
037often you know where everybody's at you know exactly where there's at they're at so we're trying to get specific and focused with with the skill building we're doing in the elos if that makes sense yep all right cool and I'm sorry we just start spitting out terms and we all know them or at least we think we know them I usually know two of the three letters yeah any other questions all right thank you very much thank you guys appreciate thanks Nate should I turn it off Nate Deb well you can have Jake start not here yeah Miss leminger for advanced learning like did you leave this sign for me then set me up for here right where go yeah I usually do want the mic for the recording so you can turn it on
038okay I think you might have been on that was great well for those of you that don't know me I'm Deb leminger I'm the advanced learning coordinator for the district and I always like to hear the good news reports because I get to go into all of the buildings but I don't always uh I'm not always able to see everything that goes on but I'm there on a weekly basis just one day at a time so and as Mike said we're pretty adaptable because he meets me at the door quite often and says ah well we had a flood this week so you're out of your room and so how about if we find a different space for you and we just adapt as we as we go so that works out perfectly um just
039want to mention a couple things about the pictures that are on here the first picture uh this uh gentleman does a leadership uh with our middle school students and his name is Ted nski with cesa 6 and he's amazing he's so um Dynamic and the kids just love to listen to him and um if anybody would ever have a chance to listen to him he does he does podcasts he's the mayor of Shaban he's uh the uh president of the cesa 6 he does all these different things and um he has all this energy to burn and he shows it when he's at this leadership and the kids just really uh get his positive energy and and they just leave there really um refreshed I think and rejuvenated so and then the other picture is
040our math 24 we have um some of our high school students that are former math 24 players that will go along and help Proctor um then we don't have to take as many subs and take adult because we have to take adults for every team that we take along and that way we get to take more teams but we have some adults or some kids that can go with us from the high school so it's a nice little Cooperative thing that um will um go with them into high school and and they really enjoy that so um whoops all right I like to start with just the Jefferson definition of advanced learning and basically it's probably what the whole state of Wisconsin whole federal government has we kind of have the same thing but we
041kind of have taken it as to the partnership between teachers specialist coordinators School administrators parents and the community we all work together to meet the exceptional abilities of the students that we have in one or more of the five um exceptional areas of gifted education and talent development which is general intelligence academic subject area creativity leadership and Visual and Performing Arts we also recognize that these talents and gifts are fluid and dynamic meaning that people can kind of e and flow throughout this and they can be in multi- talents and gifts at any given time and that school systems are responsive to students needs in these in these talents and Gifts my role um I think it's actually being revamped and I think things are um uh changing a little bit and and um being
042restructured slightly but I kind of see it as three main sections one is where there's like the direct service leader where I work with kids directly in groups another one is where I'm kind of the le as on and the um advocate for students and then another one is um is uh where I'm an event coordinator so there's kind of like three categories where I do all those jobs like kind of within within the uh realm of a week and the first one with a direct service leader I work with small groups of students mainly in the elementary um go to East one day West one day um Sullivan another day work with small groups of students have about 36 students throughout the week that I work with and then um I go to the
043middle school another day and I work with teams of teachers and um kind of talk with kids who would be best um suited to go to events that we have um I'm also the liaison between the Advanced Middle School um language arts program and also with the um compacted math um and we kind of do some development with that and then just the communication between we have remote teachers in the advanced language arts uh program and then we have like the teachers that are homebased so students kind of get um um Core Curriculum and then they also get some um like remote learning and then we also do some face- to-face learning so that's another another way that we have the kids in that program and then with the coordinating the events the events kind
044of Encompass a lot of different parts of of a gifted and talented student either social emotional leadership um and then sometimes it's specific academic and maybe they'd be are science immersion for sixth and fifth and sixth grade or seventh and eighth grade we have Arts immersion we have theater immersion um sometimes there's um with Southern Lakes Anthology we take high school students and they display their artwork and we do um an exposition for that so there's all sorts of different trips that we take for that and then not only are they just exposed and maybe do some some immersion and maybe go to college campuses see what that's like but there's also other events that we go to that are actual contests and competitions and um part of those are within um math 24 we
045recently had our fourth and fifth graders who went this year to ederton most of the time will host um the fourth and fifth grade but this year we condensed it a little bit because there were some um some schools that didn't uh decide to um come into the competition so so then we just took all the schools that were left and we kind of split them up into like uh like smaller areas um with with the schools and so uh we had one of our fifth grade participants got a sixth place Trophy and then in fourth grade they nearly swept the competition we got a first a second a third a fifth and a sixth and it only goes out to six places so they did wonderful there and then our sixth and seventh grade
046we had nine total participants that went there and we always start with a larger group and it always kind of will down to then who goes who's the competition group so um we always start with you know maybe the whole grade level and then they all work on their math 24 and then it's whoever ends up um you know they kind of have playoffs and different things and then it's that's who ends up going um to the competitions and then our seventh grade students received second third fourth and sixth places so they did really well too our math meet starts the same way we have the large group like maybe the entire algebra class um takes uh pre pre-test or pre-screener and then they kind of test and then they it kind of um they
047in the end then it um Mr ultramat helps out with that and then they decide like from the sixth seventh and eighth grade um then the teams that end up or the students that end up on the team eventually based on the scores they've taken along the way and then we have a um the uh Wisconsin math Council Middle School like State um test and then um we just took that on Friday so we await the results and I think we'll get those probably in about a week we'll know what how we did on that uh we actually won that the last two years in a row hoping for great results again next year um let's see then we have the other clubs and um special events that are sponsored kind of through the advanced
048learning but they're not necessarily um run by um I don't necessarily uh say get a get a permission slip ready and the events ready for so for example the investment Club has run through Mr um utri and he'll have a fall investment Club one student received second place in the state this year he'll now have a spring one going so he helps run that and then we just kind of fund help fund that through the advanced learning um funds and then Battle of the books as Mr Wickman alluded to um Mr Ally runs that in the elementary schools Middle School to high school and um East did just uh learn that they did receive a first place um which I wasn't gonna announce I was gonna let Mr ell announce but since Mr Wickman let
049the cat out of the bag yeah okay uh but anyway so they did get a first place and I think that's the highest school has ever received for anything I mean I know we've done pretty well in the past but yeah so the the students did really well and that was really exciting really exciting news for for us to do too yeah yeah it's it's it's a huge huge huge thing and tons of tons of students are involved in that and then Southern Lakes Anthology we participated in every year local participants we take it down to Regional entrance and then um so many are selected to be published this is the most we've ever had since I've been in this position and as I kind of look through the books I don't think we've ever
050had as many selected to be published so um a lot of talented um students that were published this year in in the book um and AC IC bowl is to be determined that is to be held this this week yet so that is coming up and um they again have been three Pete uh three Pete Champions so hopefully they're going for fourth this week so that would be great um let's see and then in the Middle School just a little bit more with the um you know like like as far as the liaison and the advocacy there uh JMS compacted math is a second year running for the compacted math program so um it's going well every year kind of working to refine and refresh it a little bit more and get everything like communication
051just a little bit more with communication each year um and just to try try to get more out to the parents so that they know more uh further ahead of time than um previously so a letter went out in febuary about that kind of let them know what's what's upcoming and what they can expect and what their kids should look for if they want to be in the advanced um compacted math program and then Advanced Ela the same thing this is a third year going in that and um this year instead of having classes in Jefferson we did our face-to-face buildings at the my arts building in um Madison so that's just a little bit of a change for that and the students seem to um really enjoy that because they got there with a
052lot more students and um um got to you know experience more kids and more perspectives I think whereas um when we were here we had our students and then just a few more that joined us whereas there there's a lot more students and a lot more um perspectives and then um a lot of thank yous to go out to I mean the advanced learning program could not be as Su as successful as it is without all of the staff members and administration and people that run clubs and take students to events and organize teams for events and chaperone and drive people because I'm kind of the lone Department of one but it just takes you know takes a village to help with all of the advanced learning and so I just you know really a
053big huge thank you to everybody who always is helping with with all of this and um I used to have building leaders at each of the buildings and I don't have that anymore so like you know just if I go and I ask people people are still pretty willing to help out with all of that and then with that you can see there's an um a a numbers page that I think you have attached to yours um and it kind of goes through and it just kind of says what the events are how many people are involved in that and you know just it doesn't even include High School AP courses because I don't really touch on that as much it's kind of you know an entity on its own and you know but even
054if you include you know if you have you know Athletics and clubs and stuff it's not even on that sheet it's just that sheet is just events that you know that I organize or that um are my department kind of basically that we just uh I should say I guess um you know like with the kids that I see in groups and Direct Services and things like that so all those numbers on that sheet are just basically that come directly from the advanced learning department but then there's you know it encompasses so much more if you include all the high school APS and then even all the clubs that are not listed on there that are at elementary schools and middle school and high school besides and then just goals and vision for the next
055uh school year just to keep going with the um tier 2 services at the elementary level um monitor the elementary for Equity make sure that the three elementary schools are still um you know if if something's happening at one Elementary School it's happening at the next and at the next so that we have some Equity going there um in the GT Pathways and at the middle School level to continue to monitor the advanced learning um or the advanced learning language arts program and then also the um continue to oversee the compacted math program review and refine the selection and communication process with that and then um at the high school level again I don't get into that level as much um but promotion of the AP classes with the middle schoolers um I see a
056lot of middle schoolers I see a lot of elementary students and that's the one thing I really do like about my job is I feel like I get to see really all of the students in all the elementary schools and I get to see them in the middle school again and and I I get to really build a lot of good relationships with a lot of the kids because they see me everywhere and um whether they like to or not I guess but they see me all the time and then in high school when I coach and I I get to see them in the halls and everything I just see a lot of the kids that I've seen all the way little on up so I really enjoy that part of it and then
057just to continue to monitor some of those extracurricular activities with those students also and then the final thing I kind of want to talk about is um when I go to my way tager my um Wisconsin Association for talent and gifted convention um they talk a lot about equity and inclusion and uh a big part of it is educational equity and policies and practices and resources and just um the you know one of the speakers talked a lot about equity and inclusion with in the equity and another one talked a lot about inclusion and Equity within the inclusion and I think um it it was so funny because the lady on the you know as you're looking at the right hand side of the screen she I could hardly even get her face because she
058was so walking all over the place all the time and um she just said I'm a I'm a gifted person with ADHD and I feel like I'm still I'm on the autism spectrum at at times to and she said and and yet I don't feel like when we see a linear Spectrum she goes that isn't what I feel like I am she said I feel like I'm a spider web and she just showed this this visualization and and for me it just really was a great visualization because it just talked about how there's lines that lead to the middle to you you know to you and then you have these points on those lines that everybody has different points on those lines that point to you and you might have one that's further out and
059further in but nobody's really linear you just have all this webbing and that makes everybody an individual it was just such a powerful talk that she had and she was just made such great um reasoning behind um why she felt like she was a spider web and how everybody really is a spiderweb because at every different time you know you have all these different you know you can have verbal ability but your visual spatial can be not so high but yet your fluid reasoning can be way higher but then somebody else can have way less reasoning but way higher visual spatial and just just how it's just so different um for each individual person how everybody's individualized and how we should just recognize those individualisms and and um include everybody and um recognize that when
060they're on those spectrums and then just at the end it's just a couple of um sayings that were at the wayte convention that you know just uh had to go along again with the individuality and the equity and inclusion and they just kind of popped a whole bunch of different ones up but it you know everything can resonate different with other you know with everybody differently and um those were just some of the ones and um hopefully you know with the pictures along the way the kids really enjoy a lot of the programs and um and that's really all I have for you and I just don't know if you have any questions you can ask away and if not have a great night any questions from the board um my only thing is at
061the very beginning Ted you talked about with his Buffalo leadership I just discovered that podcast and it is great not just for teachers or School administrators but as a parent I also have find some of the episodes really good so it's a great podcast that he yes yeah he's just very positive and very just uh for anybody like I say yes exactly I agree excellent amazing perfect all right all right thank have a great night next up is going to be Dr Ernest with our strategic Plan update thank you so you have an attachment at your spots um in the past what we've done is we've at the end of the year we've done uh an update at four meetings a row for each of the pillars and to remind you what we're doing a
062little bit differently this year is to give you updates throughout the year as we go towards uh completing and Achieve trying to achieve doing our best to achieve are wildly important goals so really focusing on wildly important goals lead measures um a scoreboard and then a Cadence of accountability and what I'd like to talk about tonight we've talked about the scoreboard we've talk about uh redefining ready at one of these updates and what I'd like to talk about uh this evening is the Cadence of accountability so each week principal's directors and the superintendent complete a Google form um that goes into documents and to document their progress and future commitments for wildly important goals one and two so we have two this year we review the responses during our regularly scheduled administrative team meetings and
063I want to point out that the Cadence of accountability is not meant to be a gotcha exercise instead it serves as a tool for individuals to hold themselves and each other accountable for their commitments and this process is designed to help us achieve our worldly important goals and ultimate fulfill the Strategic plan so I I I put a few examples of the Cadence of accountability on the slide nine for you just so you can see that and I think we should explain the acronyms so wicker comes from Avid so it's you know writing um inquiry organization reading and so that comes from Avid and what our Middle School and High School principles do is one more acronym for you it's the elf it's the adult learning framework so they've done a nice job with walkthroughs
064and they take staff members with them to go from into other classrooms and collect data and monitor progress and to see how well that we're implementing the Avid strategies for writing and inquiry and um and organization and reading for example um so that's one of the things that you know we've talked about and what's what we what we do on a weekly basis is we talk about the commitments we make and then we report on the results of the commitments that we made the week before here's an example the selection and benmark of Benchmark Advance is a new Ela curriculum tons of hours went into that in the elementary level staff Mrs grundle um another example of a Cadence of accountability is the February 7th uh Wisconsin state reading Association conference we've heard you've heard
065about that before that was a a big success for this District uh right now we're doing some ongoing professional learning with the principles for educator Effectiveness to make sure that we all are good at our jobs and doing what we need to do with regard to uh the ca 6 model that we use for that and then I mentioned this already the redefining ready uh Middle School individual student report cards which are will come out at the end of the year uh wig two we've got something called special education new teacher empathy interviews uh so this is similar to a stay interview but it's also you know um getting to know our new teachers uh special education is is one area where people might move from District to District or be on an emergency license
066and these empathy interviews are something we took from the ne new teacher um mentorship program and we've implemented that in the district with some success we also do something called rounding with our new staff to make check in and make sure that they feeling uh supported and then we have uh the recommended Staffing plan which you'll see later on tonight the completion of that a lot of work went into that Staffing plan and then um Ryan and I just had a Mee and confer with the Jaa so will'll be set to move in a direction in the future um to start base wage negotiations with the Jaa and then we're also working on the parent and uh staff survey contract uh services for school perceptions we'll have that survey out late April and have the
067results by June so I wanted to give you a quick update uh again giving you bite-sized chunks throughout the instead of one big presentation for four weeks uh in April and May happy to take any questions you have any questions otherwise we can roll into the superintendent report superintendent report you have a memo for me attached uh in your spot so um I'm going to work backwards so the main reason we're doing this is uh day at the capital and so you can see that if you scroll all the way down to the bottom you can see our agenda um So Lisa and Georgia and I are going to the day of the capital so we'll start out at the manona Terrace and what I like about that day went went a couple years ago
068um is there's programming in the morning you'll have a panel of both assembly people and Senators uh from both parties Democrats and Republicans and they'll talk about you know their beliefs and their vision for public education and they'll even take uh questions from from the group as well um so that's the morning program program on Wednesday and then after that we head to the capital and we were able to meet with our legislators we'll get a schedule that morning like who they have set up I'm I'm assuming it'll be with Senator jagler and representative uh penterman but it could be any of the people listed there um and so you see it says who represents the school district of Jefferson and Wisconsin for the most part when you look at our district and how that
069overlaps with both Senate and assembly um districts our school district that is um it's mostly William penterman out of Houston and then John jagler out of Watertown John jagler being the senator and penterman being the representative in the assembly so that's Wednesday and part of this and I'm glad uh Georgia asked for this was a little bit of a legislative update is the assembly and the Senate they're deep in it right now they're holding committee meetings they have a bunch of uh proposed bills and a little bit of civics 101 remember a bill now certain bills can only start in the assembly and certain bills can only start in the Senate but a bill has to be agreed upon by both houses of uh the Wisconsin State in in Wisconsin and then of course has
070to be signed by the governor governor does have vetto power it takes twoth thirds to override that veto power and what's interesting is um you know we've got a republican assembly and Senate and then you have a Democratic governor they get along plenty of times but they're not always especially on things like public education so I put some uh some things there and there's hyperlinks for what's been introduced in the assembly AB 051 is an interesting one the superintendent or people in public education are are watching because it's called the public records applicability and what that would mean is the wi all of their records and emails would be open to an open records request um for example hey how would you come up with those uh that team for that football conference we could
071requests their emails um so we'll see what happens with that uh that's introduced in the assembly right now you'll notice that um there's firearms on school grounds uh some states have gone that that route um it's introduced in the uh assembly right now I don't give that a a big chance of turning into the law uh and then there's a couple on um National model display both in the assembly and the Senate uh having In God We Trust uh displayed on public buildings and in classrooms as well and that's both in the uh Senate and the assembly um there's a couple uh proposed legislation on flag display um one uh if you if you look at the the assembly introduction or proposal um that is is uh it has to do with the exterior of
072local buildings and then there's a a flag display also that would make it um that would eliminate certain Flags really I think what that's talking about is things like a a pride flag uh in June and things like that so those are proposed legislation out there in the assembly in the Senate um and you notice if you look at introduced in the Senate you have the national model display there as well uh an interesting one there's a few that are on referendum questions there is there is a proposed legislation out there to uh eliminate recurring referendum remember recurring goes from year to year to year to year and does not have an end date we actually have a recurring referendum in Jefferson from 2018 and they would say that all referendums could be only nonrecurring
073and the longest length of time would be four years so we'll see if that um gets any traction in the assembly or the Senate uh as well uh and then there are some um some simple more common sense ones with the co-sponsor consor uh ship the school resource officers would not apply to us because that is a first class City uh and now what that means is by size we all know that Jefferson's a first class City but we're just not big enough to be a first house City so interesting time like I said a little bit of politics being played there will definitely be negotiations that go on with the biannual budget uh the governor has given his wishes the DPI has also submitted what they would like to see for public education um
074so um a lot out there from the people that make our laws and set our agendas I'll pause for any questions the school meals is that basically because I know that they uh there was Bo of um presenting that School meals be free yeah this one is um and it kind of reads that way but to all pupils yeah so it'll be uh under the bill the skate the school is eligible for additional State reimbursement for lunches and breakfast served in the school year uh if it produ if it's in the state school lunch program so this would um look at um you know free me s for uh everyone I don't think that has much of a chance of uh of passing but you never know in one of the workshops they were talking
075about this and one of the things that was an aha moment for me was not only the co the cost of spending for the people that qualify but when you're looking at the cost of oh I can't think of the word um the the lunch accounts that you basically have to write off because they're not funded if you take those two together it's really not costing people that much money to provide free lunches to all students so I just thought that was interesting and just wanted to ask about that there you know it's politics there was a little politics played on both sides as we come of this time type of the year uh that came up during the delegate assembly and that was one of the bills that wasby decided to support was the
076refunding of the unpaid lunch meals at from the state level so it's kind of interesting to see how this is going to come up Wednesday we're we're really fortunate in Jefferson we do um we have people who donate money which is fantastic and we do other types of things but if you can imagine a a larger District a district with more families from low-income families you can you can guess what happens with some of those lunch accounts because you don't want to you don't want to see a kid go hungry and and you don't shame them for by giving them a cheese sandwich either so all right for or comments on the superintendent report thank you all right next up uh Mr SCA is he is there somebody else that would know about the um
077early college credit applications I can give a little bit of information on it so um this is a something we do two times a year so this would be for fall of 2025 and no names are listed uh but you can see the uh courses that they're requesting um and uh registering for and if you remember in the past sometimes they just because they register for those courses doesn't mean they'll take all of those courses um and the one is is the in essence um the action requested that is approved for high school credit uh paid for by the school district of Jefferson um so everyone we see on this list is recommended by the high school guidance comp uh office and the high school administration this is pretty typical to what we've presented and
078asked for approval in the past and then uh president paler has all forms there to sign if they are approved tonight with the student names on them any questions on that uh just curious about one of them I'm not sure if anyone in the room knows what what the Python program is python is a type of coding for um for computers okay I just curious funny enough as I looked at AI everybody says Learn Python and then you'll understand artificial intelligence better I know neither of them that's what I keep hearing any other questions is there a motion to approve the fall 2025 early college credit applications as presented so moved second a motion in a second is there any further discussion otherwise all in favor say I I any opposed say nay and those
079college credits pass next up is going to be our um review process for the completion of the 2425 Board of Education self assessment tool and on this you'll see that there's two different options for us to utilize there last year we did use both previously we just used our own system the Google Pages uh we could choose one we could choose the other we could choose both again this year does anybody have any preference one is provided by wasby no cost to it um but it's a assessment tool that they formulated of course if we stick with the Google Docs there's a lot of historical um information there that we can refer back to uh see if we're looking for any sort of Trends does anybody have any preference one the other or both were
080we supposed to take them or will or just look at them because I I went through it it seems like the wasby one there's a lot of questions and some of it I understood and some of it I didn't and I was unsure how to rank it so I I I don't know I guess maybe we want more opinions on it but it seemed a bit tedious but maybe it's better that way so I I didn't get a chance to get to the Google one but I think I've taken it before then if that's the case so you said the Google one has history if we continue to do both of them will we develop a history with the wasby and then eventually yeah okay we have history of one year so far I would
081say let's do both I'm comfortable with both yes both okay all right we'll keep doing both have we done both in the past just last year oh okay yeah I suppose we could do another year and just kind of look at how the results look and see which one we like all right and I'm looking at the notes here I'm trying to remember when do we do these by April 15 okay there we go all right so we will have fun over our spring break doing these one question though I guess I think Valerie you do the Google forms compilation who does the wasby do they do they do that it's done through school perceptions but then I get the results and then compile them into that form oh but that's free for us to
082do in in school perceptions does the compilation or the school perception we would have to pay school perceptions to compile them or analyze them but we just get the raw data oh okay okay now I get it and they and they are private so it's you put your email address in so we know that everyone took it but we don't know who said what okay is that part of the package that we talked about it no it's actually through WB so they're a partner with WB so they give out the survey free to all school boards pretty smart if you're a businessman because if you like that survey then you might use it for something else okay but would didn't we do some sort of contract with school we did a contract with school perceptions
083yeah they're very well respected so that is the survey that will come out for parents and for staff uh in April okay not this one this would have to be another fee to it's just the same company yeah okay they're good at surveys any other questions all right next up is our enrollment uh driven certified Staffing plan first reading Dr Ernest yes so this is the first read um so we want to make sure we present this to you a lot of work into the Staffing plan uh and it's it's a good news Staffing plan because we were able to pass the operational referendum in November of 20 24 we still need to be fiscally responsible we still need to have appropriate Staffing uh but we put a lot of work into this and you
084can see all the people that have uh that had at least some say in this information uh so just moving in I'm going to go from top to bottom um the table of contents um it gives you all the information you need uh but on page three I want to talk through the Staffing plan guidelines we use a teacher pupil ratio and the teacher pupil ratio is different as you move from 4K all the way up through uh grades 6 through 12 so do we want to have a class of 30 in sixth grade or 10th grade or whatever no that's our teacher pupil ratio that's our limit um so we don't we really uh get some concern when we come within two of that that's called a hotspot um but we use that because
085there is some research out there um as far as class sizes you want them to be appropriate uh there is a law of diminishing returns when they get too small but there's definitely u a loss of learning when they get too large as well we're also basing the Staffing level on the bearded model and the Beed model is something that you have heard uh Mr B talk about in the past bared is what we use for our finance analytics so we combine our third Friday count numbers that's the third Friday in September our second Friday count number in January and then the Beed model to come up with uh three points of data that that give us a good indic indication of what our enrollment will look like uh next year uh the DPI has
086guidelines for ML that's multilingual sometimes you hear that as elel uh English language Learners uh and then special education and pupil Services as well so we keep those uh in mind and then when it comes to guidelines for instructional time for special Area Teachers we use 15 00 minutes per week we also use the number of sections that they teach as well because you might have a teacher teaching some sections at West and then driving to Sullivan also uh we're asking for some flexibility in uh Staffing of High School departments um for certain classes for example you're not going to have 30 students in a welding class you might only have 10 or 12 in a welding class just for an example and then we do have some smaller rooms in the high school that
087only fit you stick uh high school kids in them they only fit 28 deaths so you can't have a 30 to1 ratio when there only 28 deaths fit in in some of the rooms um so you can see there as well uh course enrollment um fls for a minimum of 15 students anything below that uh requires uh my okay to to run so we've we've got some exceptions out there maybe a class that's only runs every other year it's an AP class that's needed for um completion of a program um those are few and rare but few between and then the one thing we put there as a guideline as well if if a certified staff member resigns after a staffing plan is approved we'll examine attrition possibilities and inform the school board of the
088changes uh to a building schedule and uh keep that in mind because I'll talk about that um uh later on so page four the enrollment driven uh certified Staffing plan executive summary this is here just to lay out the fact that we get funded we meaning the school district of Jefferson based on the number of students that we have there is a revenue revenue limit formula and law in Wisconsin and currently we're approximately 12,600 students so every student that we have other than 4K because they're point six of that we get 12,600 the authority to um um to have a revenue of 12,600 uh for every student so you got to keep that in mind the more teachers the more students you have the more more teachers you need the less uh teachers students you
089have the less teachers you need so keep that in mind uh so if you look at what we've done we've looked at in our best guess estimates using third Friday count second Friday count and the beard model is a decrease of seven at the elementary level for next year across all three buildings decrease of 29 at the middle school and a decrease of zero at the high school status school at the high school so if you're really if you're doing your numbers we're looking at probably a decrease of 36 students students for next year uh that's best on our that's based on our best case estimates and you can see we've laid it out for you 4K all the way up through 12th grade um the number of you can see the common the column
090from 2425 3 third Friday count to the 2526 thirdd Friday count as well and the analytics that we have the data we show you there is we actually have a decrease in projected enrollment in eight of the 14 grades uh so we kept all that uh in mind so with that to go through elementary middle and high school with regard to enrollment driving uh assumptions uh and our recommendations uh so what we're looking at is we actually want to increase 1.0 kindergarten at East Elementary for 2526 and decrease 1.0 FTE in first grade from 24- 26 why that if you remember last year we went with one section of kindergarten at East two sections of kindergarten at West well that is moving up so next year we'll go with two sections of first grade at
091West and one section of first grade at East we do have the numbers to go back to two sections of kindergarten at West and two sections of kindergarten at East so that's why you see that there on the elementary assumptions um we also uh recommending the reduction of offering for fifth grade band uh finding a fifth grade band teacher is extremely difficult we do need to hire for a general music teacher this has support of our six through 12 uh band directors uh Denise and Jenna they'd like to just start students at sixth grade um I there's a lot of things I like about fifth grade band it is a little clunky at the beginning of the year you really don't really get going with fifth grade band until halfway through the year their fifth
092grade year uh anyway ways Denise and Jenna think that they can catch students up if they would start it uh right away in sixth grade a lot of districts have gone um that direction over the past several years Middle School we're looking at a reduction of a PE intern allocation we made a PE reduction last year of 1.0 FTE but we needed a little extra time just to fill in for and we used an intern this year um so that intern reduction would be you're going to find it later when you get to the grand total of .16 and I'll get to the spoiler alert uh now our overall reduction in the Staffing plan is going to be 1.96 FTE effectively budgetarily almost two teachers so but I I'll get to how that comes out
093uh High School um we're proposing a reduction of 04 in social studies and 04 in science if you remember we made some reductions last year we're very fortunate to have two retired teachers come in and fill in the gaps we needed because we had some bigger numbers uh we think that we can make those flow reductions for the 2526 Staffing um in there as well so now we're at 0.16 and 04 and 04 so we're up to 096 if you're uh in our running total uh multilingual multilingual Learners also known as English language Learners uh we're recommending maintaining the multilingual Staffing levels to next year special education we're recommending maintaining those levels we have uh as many or more students with IEPs we may have to do some reallocation or adjustment of the Staffing within
094the district but the district Staffing will stay the same uh and that will be determined by the director of pupil Services special education and then reading teachers Specialists and math interventionist we're recommending the reduction of 1.0 for FTE and reading teacher but that is a TR from a resignation in 2024 Jen colan resigned in August of 2024 we knew we weren't going to find another reading teacher uh we went to the reading group went with the principls other administrators and we were able to um reallocate some of that time Jill dson stood up and said hey I'll do it she is now shared between West and and middle school and it's going well so if you're keeping track on that scorecard I told you about the 0.16 the 04 the 04 and now another one
095we're at 1. N64 budgetarily for Staffing uh Staffing reasons and if you look at just to doing some simple math if you're down from a district with 36 students and you reduce 1.96 FTE that's reducing about one teacher for every 18 students and that's a that's an effective ratio to be in um and then what's great about this is no one's getting if the Staffing plan is agreed upon no one is receiving a layoff notice for um Staffing reasons based on enrollment okay additional considerations we want to mention I mentioned the hot spots we don't have any hot spots right now but we're watching that if we were ever get between uh 2.0 in the Staffing plan uh and then we really want to look at um we're always keeping in mind the 2627 Staffing
096plan looking at uh having the goal at least to explore um some shared um schedules between buildings Elementary building middle school and high school to be able to share staff as we uh decline in enrollment um when that decline is going to continue to come it's really interesting uh Mr B and I had a meeting with um with city leaders the other day and they're talking about all the housing going in and the um and the opportunities are happening so we just need to hold on long enough in my opinion to to get that D County bubble that's going to be the one County in Wisconsin that grows more of the rest of the state so wait and see on that uh you can see all the certified composits so that gives you all of
097the information from 2425 to 25 26 uh you see the first page is east west and Sullivan and then you can see the Middle School composite and the high school composite uh as well and then FTE change of minus 1.96 uh pendex a is our Schoolboard policy and our administrative guidelines for enrollment and how we do our staffing plan and then appendix B if you are following everything diagonally you can see something um called a survival rate and this shows you that okay when we have a Kindergarten class come in uh what's the survival rate from one year to the next um so you'll notice that you know it's c certain grade levels there's 100% survival rate at certain grade levels there's a 96% survival rate so we use that U information over time to
098give us our best guesstimates for next year when we're doing Staffing because you want to be accurate with Staffing because you receive that per pupil uh expenditure for every kid that you've got so the one anomaly there that that sticks out to me is 110% for seniors we do get some seniors move in uh believe it or not but sometimes if you don't graduate on time you might need some credit recovery and you graduate in uh September for example you'll be counted towards the next graduating class so that's a little bit of that of an anomaly there that 110% you can see some of the big class sizes we have moving through the high school uh being replaced by some smaller and that's not just not just Jefferson that is uh the state of Wisconsin
099for about 75% of districts right now and then penx C the very last page is a both a it's a point of Pride but it's also something we need to be aware of we do it we do very well with our um teacher pupil ratio with our staff teacher ratio we we're going to have some smaller class sizes uh next year which is a thing to be proud of but then a thing to realize it comes with a cost we need to be be aware of that in the future as we look towards the 2627 Staffing plan being is a is efficient we can with our resources and then when people do retire we use those uh we always ask that question you know how do they need to be replaced and then do they
100need to be replaced uh as well because every everyone's valuable but again back to that thing I talked to with at the start um you know we have to have appropriate Staffing based on the funding that we get from the state for the number of kids so that's a big overview first read you'll have a chance to ask question questions and talk about this uh later and then we'll have the second reading at the April 14th Schoolboard meeting what questions you have now we realize this is just raw put on so I don't expect any questions now but if you have them I'll be happy to take them anything now all right we're jumping into future agenda items does anybody have any requests for anything special to be added to the agendas then we get
101into announcements I don't have anything Dr Ernest election day is April 1st so we've got Georgia running uh for area four seat and Tim nobling is for the area three seat so both are running un opposed um and this is our only meeting in March so we'll see you winners in April uh and then uh just a reminder so you can put it on your schedule um it's been on the calendar for a while but I know how things creep up on you uh on me too um the board annual facilities tour is April 26 so we'll do what we've done in the past we'll go through the buildings and see the updates we usually start nice and early because sometimes it can get warm uh on the 26 so just block off 7:30ish to
10211 on your calendar uh if you're if you're interested all right with that is there a motion to convene in to close session pursuant to Wisconsin statutes 19.85% 1 c e and f to discuss quarterly formative evaluations of District administrator and to consider contract negotiations with the Jefferson of Education Association for the 2526 school year so motion second Motion in a second roll call right yes yes Mrs Fox yes Mr Condon yes Mrs P William yes Mrs winkman Mr Peltier yes Mr eil and Mrs Sal