001hello yes hi okay great 5 Tera here Paul herey I am here adri sorry and Heather is excused we do have and I would motion to I have amend to the agenda under consent agenda it looks like we're asked to approve the January 8th minutes also and I believe those were approved last month so that should be we did not we did not we did not def I see gotcha then disregard right States okay whoever it is please micophone so can we take that one please and give that uh so that they can get for the recording all right can you guys hear me all right um hello everyone for those of you who don't know me my name is Timmy Kong and I along with my wife Caitlyn uh am am a Coler School
002parent and Village resident of seven years our son Theo is in fourth grade and our daughter Nori is in kindergarten both of them began at Coler in the distinguished JK program with the wonderful Mrs Witwer um and our youngest Dash will be entering JK and joining them at Coler this fall I am speaking here today out of concern for the 2025 2026 JK program as as we learn that a third class will be added while we understand the reasoning behind this we were anxious to hear that this third class would potentially be in the afternoon instead of the morning our hope is that by sharing our perspective you will consider the impact of this from a parents point of view as Educators ourself ourselves both my wife and I appreciate the district's care in ensuring
003that all teachers and students are set up for Success each school year however um as I'm sure you're aware there are plenty of factors that come into play when considering an afternoon 4K class I can only speak from a personal perspective but if our child were to be assigned to an afternoon class it would be very difficult to make that work from our fam for our family for several reasons for one my wife's and my work schedules do not allow for the flexibility of us getting our child to afternoon class when we've already had years of preparation in terms of scheduling to make sure that we can send our youngest to an anticipated morning JK class additionally with the rising cost of and difficulty in finding fle flexible Child Care an afternoon class would not
004be feasible for us furthermore we struggle with the thought of our child who is at his optimal learning time in the morning having to adjust so suddenly to being at his best in the afternoon after already undergoing a full morning of sensory experiences while we understand that it is crucial for children to learn to adapt to different routines and structures we worry that this will be too abrupt of a change in addition we believe that not having uniformity across all three JK classes would not only be a logistical nightmare for the entire Elementary particularly the three JK teachers but would also likely cause the afternoon class to feel left out of certain things field trips whole school assemblies and celebrations joint learning sessions Spanish with Mrs BL and Kare to name several we strongly believe
005that all students should be provided the same opportunities and we're certain most color parents would agree that Equity is essential despite this we do understand the issue of needing to create space for a third JK classroom but we're hoping you will see that this program is much less of a challenge than adding that third class to the afternoon would be our family will continue to support the Fantastic teachers and staff we have provided our children with the most excellent education in addition to an endless amount of love compassion Grace and care grateful for the opportunity and privilege to finally send all three of our children to the same school right across the street from our home we know that our opinion alone does not take precedence in a decision as important as this however we
006do hope that you will seriously consider our perspective as an active family in Coler School in the colar school Community when making your decision thank you for your time thank you thanks very much is there anyone else to speak anyone else to speak doesn't look like it Cory pres report teachers St some big executions spring break is coming that's exciting there's an election ail out great thank you Corey so our testing season has begun um the Juniors kicked off our mandated accountability testing with the ACT this morning our freshman of sophomores will follow with the prea I believe on April 9th and grades 3 through 8 will begin the forward testing on April immediately following our spring break we strongly encourage all students to participate in this testing as test participation does play a factor
007in our overall scores and is reported out on the accountability report cards uh we ask the parents please ensure that their students are ready to uh ready on testing days and are consistent with our attendance and well rested and have eaten breakfast that would all be very helpful for them uh the Wood Lake construction project um is going to be starting soon uh the north gate at Ean field will be closed beginning on Monday and will be remain closed during the Wood Lake construction project so we want to keep everybody away from that wood Lake uh Drive area so we are closing that North Gate so anyone who walks through there plan ahead in the morning to and after school to go around for the safety of all we ask that everyone do their best
008to stay away from that area and the construction zone utilize the eban Field parking lots and the main entrance and entering evanfield uh we want to use the Southside keep everyone away from that north um construction zone um I I also want to take this moment to address an important matter regarding sportsmanship during our recent basketball games um it's been come to my attention that after the last game last Friday some parents followed the referees into the lobby expressing their frustration through booing and yelling to the refs this Behavior created an uncomfortable environment for everyone involved particularly for the referees who then felt un safe and requested an escort to their vehicles in the parking mile such actions set up for example for our our children uh undermines our our values of respect and fair
009play that we strive to instill in our students so with the St with the shortage of officials it's really critical that we treat them with respect that they deserve so that we can continue to get officials for our home games so we can continue to host home games as a community it's essential that we model appropriate behavior for our young athletes our children are observing how we we handle both wins and losses and it's our responsibility as adults to demonstrate good sportsmanship regardless of the circumstances I kindly ask for your support and fostering a positive atmosphere during our games where respect for the officials respect for the opponents and each other is of the utmost importance I'm asking our coer parents to please demonstrate sportsmanship Behavior to ensure that our sports events remain enjoyable and
010safe for everyone involved and that concludes my report Lisa that's that's disappointing about the um inent have you or a member of your staff reach out to the the parents in question I believe Ryan has addressed it okay thank you yeah before we move on I I just also want to say if if regardless of if there's a shortage of officials or not that's if that happened that's appalling behavior um who do we have supervising at games it varies um there's there's a a signup sheet and it varies for staff depends on the game is there always a an administrator at games do we have is our resource officer at games often not at all not at all of them not all they generally AR the larger games that when we have a lot of
011Spectators they were not at so I'd be interested to hear what your recommendations would be to ensure that we have full coverage so that we can ensure good sportsmanship and everybody's safe at or games hoping that parents will help hold each other accountable for this as well all right thank you di sure I'd be happy um March 21st marks the end of the third quarter so just a little over a week students are encour um students are encouraged to do their best and to finish strongly for this third quarter um we are asisa in the assessment season so today we successfully completed the administration of our act to uh 98% of our Juniors so that is phenomenal the state requires 95% so it's important that every kid counts in Coler um so about 2% per
012kid so that went very well um the Juniors have though so parents your kids have through March 14th um to select four colleges or universities that they would like to attend or at Le have SC sent to for free so encourage them to do that they have the informational sheets at home if they didn't do it at school here with us um we did have sessions they do have that information that have until Friday to add those colleges or universities should they uh choose to do so they do not have to but it is a great Advantage for them um they would do that through the my ACT account they should do it with a personal email address um so that when they leave high school they don't lose that information will be locked out
013the prea is upcoming so that will be administered to freshman and sophomores on April 9th and then they'll be dismissed after testing Juniors and seniors will participate in an asynchronous virtual learning day the entire school day um for that day as well um the forward exam uh this is designed to gauge how well students are doing in relation to the Wisconsin academic standards so and what they know and what they're able to do uh to be College and Career ready this will be administered to middle school students starting April 7th through the April 17th so that's a fairly Long window um middle school students uh grad six through eight will take the ELA and math test eth graders will take science and social studies and then sophomores will take social studies on April 14th and
014April 15th a reminder to families that the PSAT which is the preliminary sat qualifying test scores are available to students if your student hasn't checked their college board accounts they should do so if you would like a hard copy please request that from the main office um The High School academic career planning Focus uh obviously is focusing this month very heavily on selfcare and wellness and it speaks for itself because our students are involved in Fairly high stakes testing uh very appropriate at this time of the month to be doing that um also oural America student ambassador group uh we were so proud of them last month we shared that they were had gotten a grant for $1,000 they're working really hard to put together a staff and student wellness day which is scheduled for
015May 20th um so so far we thank Our Community Partners that have committed to partnering with us and as now we have yoga on the lake and we are looking for some others who expressed an interest we're excited about that character trade Focus for the month of March for the middle school is responsibility um our Focus this month is wearing their student IDs and their lanyards all day every day um for the month of February as well the middle school students exceeded their expectation of 2000 acts of kindness and they enjoyed a hot coco and cookie reward so that was nice for them and then I do want to call attention to on March uh this just recently uh was March 28th sorry officer shook will be doing a distractive driving presentation for our sophomores
016um as we have a few new drivers on campus and safety is a priority so um that we're looking forward to her doing that we'll get some more information on parents thank you I can't wait see in the room would freshman be able to attend that dist I mean I have a freshman who's learning feel like that would be presentation for so I I I don't know why we couldn't but I think we had it scheduled four sophomores um just because they are driving they are the ones that sometimes that message Falls uh is received a little bit better for those who are driving than for those who are anticipating the driving so I think we may want to just keep it to our sophomores at this time and if we find that there are
017I'm very open to if there are parents that would like their freshman to participate to let us know and we them join rather than have all our freshmen go and them not have an interest so if you're interested in having your freshman attend on March 28th please let me know and we can include them in that presentation all right guess next sure so as Lisa and Natasha um eloquently shared out there will be testing started um for the elementary practice is going to be this month already somewhat before that last week of the month is our spring break and then when we come back in April they'll also be taking the forward as well as the as web plus and that would include the 4K um they will go into the that new assessment this
018time around um our 4K and our 4K 5K classes had a a lot of fun this this month starting out with Dr Seuss and doing all kinds of activities for the the past couple weeks reading a lot of books doing activities and I know our 5K went ahead and made Ock um led by Miss Bitner let's see um Marty grow is actually celebrated in our fifth grade along with Miss Mrs marker and just the the historical relevance how it's not you know it wasn't started off it was a historical relevance not starting in America so that was really exciting for those fifth graders to do activities re revolving on that PBIS and social emotional um learning has been really big too um Miss Swanson she's part of our fourth and fifth grade leadership team and
019um led by Miss Swanson but there's a whole team also and they did some activity with the librarian um Sarah degraph as well as Miss Swanson just what does a a good leader look like what are those skills and um those will be put up on the new monitors around the elementary school um they did Wei videos and did some activities with that there will be um let's see sources of strength I wanted to highlight too just with just wellness and both teachers and the students have really shared just the love of kind of that program that was new this year and we're looking at extending it to other grades as well but um just a lot of success kids are using the language it's it's neat to see um just having the same language
020the vocabulary activities and it it helps to build the students confidence for sure um we have some artists to celebrate this month it's youth art art month Miss delger and the elementary really our whole school want to help celebrate some Elementary artists the following students had their art selected to be displayed at the State youth art month show in Madison Henry GE uh sorry dear cus berus thank you birie clish clasher and Elise um vilwalk these art pieces were chosen by the Wisconsin art educator Association and they'll also be displayed at the East Town Mall in Madison March 22nd through March 28th additionally elementary middle and high school have had their art being displayed it as its um youth art month and that will be shown around Shaban County until through the end of March
021um as we talked about you know they already talked about the assessments and lastly um I just want to share some really exciting updates that will be happening um with the elementary and this is ongoing um you know just really a lot of planning goes into the 25 26 school year one of the exciting things will be new outdoor equipment so the equipment um which will be enjoyed by the Elementary but middle school as well that will happen this summer um bathrooms also um I know Lisa will go into more of that at some point but those are going to start with the upstairs this summer kind of getting a new facelift and then we also Additionally you know from last month we have as some speakers spoke tonight um a third classroom that will
022be added which is really exciting I appreciate all of the feedback that has come in regarding desires and what so thank you school board for approving that and then also they approved a an additional a full-time teacher for the steam or stem program we're in the process of opening that up to see who might want to help further that whole um initiative of steam and just to expand our current practices we have a an amazing steam program now but it you know there's always room for improvement so that's exciting to have a full-time teacher for that and and I think that is about it um actually one more thing since we have two 4K teachers here there's a sensory additional some things going on with the 4K which is has been a lot a lot
023of planning so kudos to them they kind of didn't give up and so they'll have some sensory area with the 4K as well so thank you Jerry it's great to hear the you're moving along on the planning for the additional 4K classes can you elaborate a little more on what all work has been done to make sure we're hitting the ground running for a a fall start of that additional section sure I mean we really truly are doing diligence I can say lots of meetings have happened with both teachers and taking in a lot of out you know whatever information has come we've looked at locations to you know to see what is possible and we really are trying to think outside the box on what those locations could be you know with the three
024morning versus the two morning one afternoon it's still a work Pro in progress but we are truly doing diligence and think talking to a lot of people and trying to make you know a solid decision that's best for all kids great and is the stem position posted it is posted it is posted internally it will close the 17th of March so and then from there perhaps interviews and we'll kind of go from there and right now again oh go ahead did you have a question just internally just internally yes yes for now and if there was no um desire and interviews didn't go further of course we'd open it up up externally you're welcome all right thanks I gu to so uh just after the last school board meeting the student council yeah here too
025um the school board meeting uh the last one the student council partnered with uh the co Coler school friends to surprise teachers with a Valentine's Day treat um on the Friday in service day we came in and made treats with a little note that said teaching is a work of heart and it really is um and then this past Friday we hosted the blood drive and we had a lot of people come in from not just the school but outside in the village which is always a good thing um all of the Coler students are proud of how the boys and girls basketball teams this year didn't end how we wanted but we're still very proud of them and then we are thankful for everyone bringing school spirit this year the junior class is hosting
026prom on May 3rd and an exciting theme will be announced shortly and then there's there was a middle school and high school band concert this past week and tonight there's a middle school and high school choir concert so if you can come out and join support support the uh kids so the DECA Business Club thanks Coler school for funding the state competition this year special congratulations to Ay Baxter who medled in her Quick Serve test I competed this year with Melanie pelino Delany drevin Ella Le and aosa subti and we are thankful for this experience it was fun to meet other business-minded students and compete with other high levels of talent thank you for investing in us we are also grateful to Colleen olafin for serving as the adviser for the club for the second
027year in a row right after spring break the school will sponsor a large group of students for HOSA state in Wisconsin Dells from April 6th to the 8th good luck future health professionals lastly we hope everyone has a fun relaxing and safe Spring Break um Finance met at 4:45 so right before this meeting um nothing out of the ordinary just regular um checks and income to report that's it culture survey please thank you so um I have a overview of the climate and culture survey results um the culture and climate survey um hits our priority to fostering a positive School environment and um we had 66 out of 84 uh teachers response so was a 78.6% uh rate I was rooting for that 80% we came really close to that so really happy with the
028the turnout and the feedback that we received so um the elementary school in 202 2024 I put the results there so you we can see uh 2025 uh two of the six categories showed Improvement in the scores School climate and belonging both showed some improvement although these scores were already relatively High high from last year but they still respected they still reflected some growth um the middle school we had three of the six categories reflected Improvement staff leadership relationships School climate and school leadership all show growth uh belonging was our highest overall score last year and that showed a little bit of a decline this year the high school all six categories showed a significant Improvement staff leadership relationships School leadership belonging School climate professional learning and coaching and feedback all some improvement at the
029high school level so six out of six Improvement there uh same with the support staff all six categories showed some significant Improvement um in all of those categories for staff um for for the support staff when I break them down by each category um in the category of belonging uh we have Elementary had 65% uh respond favorably uh that's up by five from last year but then I also put in the unfavorable because the ceg there were five of them on the survey so when they say 65% responded favorably that doesn't necessarily mean the other 35 were unfavorable there was a middle category so I thought it didn't give quite the the full picture so I pulled out what was unfavorable so when that doesn't hit to 100 that means that middle category is where
030some of them sat so 65% were favorable only 15% unfavorable Middle School had a decrease in 14 like I said though that was pretty high last year but they still had a 60% responded favorably 11% were unfavorable the high school 58% was 15 unfavorable and the support staff had 80% responded favorably on sense of belonging with only a 7% unfavorable so both the district Wellness team the sunshine Club have done some really great work this year uh to help build our climate culture and Foster that sense of belonging bomber pride is healthy and strong and we'll continue that through the 25 26 school year staff leadership relationships um Elementary a decrease of 19 43 responded uh favorably 31 unfavorable Middle School 61% favorable up by nine with only 9% unfavorable High School had uh a
031really significant in in increase here with staff leadership relationships with 80% responding favorably up by 19 from last year with only a 4% showing unfavorable um so that's like two people um support staff again 78% favorable 8% unfavorable When leaders are reliable and present it builds the trust among the staff and students so having um consistent leadership uh will really make a difference in those scores continuing to rise School climate Elementary had an increase of six from last year with only 9% unfavorable Middle School had an increase of 12 uh with only nine unfavorable High School 47% with that's an increase by 12 the 16 unfavorable and support staff 81% with an increase of 26 um more favorable this year than last year um School leadership uh Elementary had a 21 Point decrease Middle School
0328% um up uh High School 16% up and support staff uh 3% up so again consistent leadership um and building that that climate culture uh will certainly help and professional learning U this one was kind of a unique one for me that I didn't really feel the comments matched the the results so every category showed a decrease in professional learning um with some fairly High unfavorable rankings but the comments um that the staff would make were actually very favorable the staff appreciates the professional learning opportunities provided them um but we have some work to do with ensuring that the staff understands the importance of the professional development offered during our district um they appreciate going to to conferences they appre appreciate when they come and say I'd like to attend the neuros sequential model of
033learning we say yes we're able to do that but um appreciating or seeing the value of some of the Well here here's your new resource materials here's the professional development with that um they're not real pleased with with that kind of professional development which is sometimes required some of that professional development we have to do um to give them the tools for their job but it's not real fun and exciting so I I really found that the comments that were made individual didn't really reflect um the unfavorable um rankings on this one so we've got some work to do in helping our staff understand um and see the value and utilizing that time wisely for us WEA have so I'm a little uncomfortable with with the strategy just being to to just that people don't
034know what professional development is because the data I mean it is what it is have you reached out to maybe the the survey company to say hey I I reog I I don't I can't reconcile this perceived disconnect can you help me understand have we done that because I'm sure they've had this all the time they do schools all across the country the day is the data I mean it I'm just uncomfortable with negating it because some qualitative comments are contrary to the data yeah we're certainly going to take a look at that it's just I just saw a big disconnect I have not reached out to the company to ask if they've seen disconnect in their comments versus versus this but that's kind of what I picked out of the comments for that that
035difference and just having conversations with staff about our professional development so certainly not negating it certainly not sugar coating it we absolutely have work to do in making sure that we have good quality PD on those days and utilizing our staff meetings and those times um wisely so that we have valuable training and when we looked at the data in the um HR committee I did not see a disconnect between the comments and the quantitative data um I thought there were very specific comments about um things where the in-house training could um improve but there was also a lot of positive stuff about the conferences and and some of the those right PD offerings that we value PD and we are able to extend them places there were lots of comments on ways in which
036to improve the in-house PD also I would agree what do you think the percentage of St we have even staff go to P maybe 25 30% for sure on a regular basis read the same and I I also I'm a little uncomfortable with the perception that well they just don't understand the importance I think our teachers do and I think what came through on the comments is that it could perhaps be delivered in a different way or a more efficient way um so I I think I think the data is clear and it's something that we do need to look at um and I I don't want this to be swept under the rug yeah certainly won't that's that's where some of the trainings we have to do and that's where I say when we
037we need to see the importance of it maybe it's the delivery of it we're doing doing we're not doing something when we deliver we've done when we deliver the PD we have done you know standards based grading we've done aligning the standards we've given them you know support in their curriculum CH these are all things we have to do that are good quality but there's a disconnect somewhere of not understanding or maybe our delivery of the value of it are there teachers involved in um helping create the calendar of professional development and also in um you know going to conferences coming back and sharing with their peers is it is it all at all teacher Le we do reach out to the teachers to find out ask we had a survey that went out that
038asked you know what would you like to see for training I know Natasha has designed stuff specifically from what the teachers have asked for and then sometimes the the evaluations aren't as great as what we would like them to be so there's definitely a disconnect there that we are we have some work to do so ensuring that our professional development and staff base and our staff meetings are utilized to the fullest definitely something that we're going to be working on and then feedback and coaching uh we're going to continue to work on what feedback and coaching looks like how to better provide that coaching and feedback to the staff to drive that Improvement so professional development and feedback and coaching are the two areas where um we e we have a lot of data to
039work with and a a large area of growth in those two areas so so it's great we're seeing the growth in the two areas if we've done work this past year on what on how to Cod how to develop be interested in learning what's worked well right so what steps have we taken for that feedback me some coach because it's working at high school and support staff how can we replicate that I'm just curious been working on a year yeah Middle School is pretty flat um it kind of uh stayed the same and of course at elementary we've had a change in leadership which is going to take a I don't want talk about those I talk about the the ones have gone up that we've been working on what has contributed to that and
040maybe that's Tasha or someone else question I'm just I'm curious so I think what contributes to that is the ability to sit with staff and work them those who are mentors iend a large amount of time to really revamped the mentor and created a teacher kind ofh surve people quity to go backs that's great yeah paying off great work so the comment section the support of colleagues was by far the most mentioned comment followed by the love of the students and support of administration the incredible volume of positive comments regarding the fondness of their fellow uh staff and students reflects what makes Coler school so special uh there were 25 comments regarding the school board not respecting and trusting the Professionals in the building and their need to stay into operational decisions so it's our
041hope that the school board will move forward and honor and respect those recommendations of the staff moving forward as well I think the timing uh was on this yeah so um so I've read all the comments and reflect on them and I know others on the board have also read the comments in full I won't speak for them um I'm just disappointed that's what you've chosen to highlight from the comment section and framed it as a clear us verse them and and I do have more comments on that but I don't think it's worth getting it back and forth um I'm just disappointed that's how you chose to frame it in this uh presentation Fe feedback yeah yeah I've got one I have one more one more slide here so areas for improvement our next
042steps in coaching and feedback uh to identify the different ways in which feedback can be presented both formally and informally uh professional development seeing the value in doing work with our standards and assessment practices uh seing value of embracing new initiatives to drive um Improvement and the relationships and Trust will continue to be valued and built as a priority as new leers sh comes on that concludes my presentation all right wrap this up I just want to say thank you to everyone who participated as we do this annually next year hope we get 100% participation get people participate too many yellow dots on those early slides right we got a lot of FR FR new OPP bekri Cory Corey before we move on I just want to make a comment about the the survey results
043um I don't want to speak for all of the board but I do want to um just say something um on my behalf um just addressing the teachers and staff um I just want to let it be known I join the board because I do believe in public education I believe in the important work that the teachers and the staff do and I want to support them um I do want to acknowledge that trust needs to be rebuilt in some areas um Lisa has provided us with some good Baseline data of where the current relationship stands between the board and staff um and I am confident that our incoming superintendent can help us repair this relationship develop and realize shared goals um his leadership and vision give me hope that when we look at results
044from the teacher and staff survey a year from now we'll see Improvement in many areas including the relationship between the board and staff I would Echo Kelly's comments all right anything else good okay on to okay we have excuse me we have uh nothing significantly new in finance this month um pretty much as Tara mentioned was just the standard monthly checks nothing really big happened been a relatively quient month month on that front and uh starting to prepare for next year's budget so are we projecting and looking into next year hopefully uh getting some good news from the state as far as budget numbers go so we're we're watching that quite closely that's about it not too much Cory I don't need to pull anything out but I'm going to abstain because a check is
045made out to uh Lakes Shore College I just feel comfortable approving that since it's Paul moving on action discussion items is an opport yeah we thank Lori for her over 20 years experience um as our high school specialed um teacher her position is all right thank you I so moved right thanks everybody