001foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] really good we recognize that the Hogan administrative Center occupies the land of the Ho-Chunk people please take a moment to celebrate and honor this ancestral Voltron plan and the land all indigenous peoples will the secretary please call the roll excused I'm sorry here back to Jimenez excused here Mr corberg here Mr absent a quorum of the board of education is President as present rather so the regularly scheduled meeting of February 6 2023 is called to order we will now have the Pledge of Allegiance please stand and face the American flag 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
002justice for all foreign agenda has previously been distributed to the board I would entertain a motion at this time with a second to approve the agenda as submitted unless there's a motion to amend ment with a motion by Dr Cooper Stowell and a second by Dr Garcia the night the agenda rather has been um there's about motion to approve it is there any discussion all in favor say aye aye all abstain all May emotion carries uh I don't think we have a public speaker tonight so we'll move on to the superintendent's consent agenda I will make a motion to approve the superintendent's consent agenda as presented the consent agenda is a mechanism used by the board to deal with routine business that come before the body are there any items that members want to remove
003from the consent agenda with a motion by Dr Cooper Stoll and seconded by miss burkedahl the items on the superintendents could design an agenda are approved as presented next is the board consent agenda I make a motion to approve the items on the board consent agenda as presented second was a motion by Dr Cooper Stoll in a segment by Dr Garcia the items on the board consent agenda are approved as presented moving on to the information portion of our meeting we have first up is the results modern report R 3.3 involved citizenship um Dr lahucki is here to present on our results monitoring tonight just as a reminder it's a process we use to indicate to the board that we're meeting their expectations as outlined in policy Dr lehucky good evening tonight we have four
004indicators for demonstrate effective communication skills which is results policy 3.3 the first two use new language that was recently approved by the board in that it's greater than a state average or demonstrate reasonable growth or achievement to help kind of clarify that conversation that we have as far as meeting reasonable progress three of the indicators have been marked as making reasonable progress one is not applicable and I'll explain when we get to 3.4 why that's the case so first looking at the Wisconsin forward exam that's given in grades three through eight uh the the data that I have here writing exam data so our students in the spring when they take the Wisconsin Ford part of the ELA assessment has a writing component at the end I use the term writing but actually it's keyboarding
005it is a digitally entered information to a writing prompt so students will get a writing prompt they'll write about it and that result is then measured by the state and then we get the results of the students that are proficient in advance uh what makes this one interesting I think is we actually had two years uh where we did not have writing data so in 2021 the spring of 2021 we did have the Wisconsin Ford exam but they dropped the writing component for that one year so now we're back to having the writing exam as well so that's why you see that two-year Gap where generally when I we present the pandemic data there's just that one year that for writing for the Wisconsin Ford there's two you can go back to 2019 that was
006our last pre-pandemic year and now we have a recalibrated number which for grades three through eight the aggregate was a 34 percent of our students are at proficient in advance the state is at 38 percent what we've learned over the last few years even without the exam we've done some data analysis to determine what standards are the most often the ones that are asked about on the Wisconsin forward we have some prompts that we use with our students as just part of the regular instruction to help students be more prepared for that another discussion point is when do you do keyboarding right so depending on what state you're at sometimes it's dictated to you some states start as early as kindergarten for us it's that second third grade area where we start our keyboarding skills
007and then ready for the spring third grade cursive is another discussion discussion as well where does that cursive instruction fall that second third grade seems to be the sweet spot around the nation and also our state if you look specifically at the different grade levels you can see at the state level and also here eighth grade tends to be where we see the biggest drop off of scores that's something we do are looking pretty closely at to see what's what's happening at our Middle School that we can improve going forward the results are broken down by the different reference groups and you can see our Improvement or our performance pre-pandemic compared to this last year and we're actually right in the midst of planning for the upcoming spring assessment which will be this March and
008April for the Wisconsin Ford do you have any questions regarding indicator one okay for indicator 2 this is our ACT writing so once they get another uh we're measuring communication in the form of writing for indicator two act has a writing component for it and unlike the forward we've actually haven't had a break in our data due to the pandemic because uh right in 2020 this is taken in early March generally and we were able to complete this assessment before we release for school for that for the pandemic so we do have results before and after the pandemic we're able to keep the score going this is an 11th grade exam which is unique I think because it is a one grade indicator that you're seeing here meaning that there will be some variance from
009year to year so certain classes are stronger in writing than others and without having that 9th and 10th grade data to really look at it is a bit of a mystery we're starting to close that Gap with our local measures now as we assess our writing skills so you could see last year we had a three-point Gap with the state that did move to a five-point Gap with the state and we will see if how that trends for our current 11th graders this particular year and then we did see some variants with our subgroups or reference groups I should say as well because the amount of growth or variance of scores was 0.2 we did deem reasonable progress the scores were essentially flat are there any questions about indicator indicator 3 we use our student
010report card at our elementary this one is meets developmental expectations for progressing towards expectations in the area of participates in classroom discussions and activities so you could see back to 2019 we pull the end of the second quarter basically the semester grades for this particular area and those that are at those levels you can see the percentages have varied amongst the years so I will say and I you could speak to any of our teachers in the district we do see some more dysregulation of behaviors than we have before which accounts for this particular drop in score one percent uh grades one through five overall so flat from year to year that's it's a challenge you can ask any of our elementary teachers as we we continue to recover our work in social emotional learning
011we believe is going to make the payoff to get us back to those pre-pandemic where we're approaching 98 99 of our students who are participating regularly as we move on I may uh add another indicator to this or more data to this with our secondary report card habits of mind we'll be able to add some data there once our teachers are more attuned at separating behaviors from learning so we will have secondary data I think for indicator 3 soon I have a question on a couple of measures you've talked about um obviously we do have the new language in here um that includes the pot consideration for reasonable growth or achievement which is step in the right direction you've mentioned a couple of times indicators being kind of flat um but you also have those
012checked as reasonable progress I just I just wondered if you could speak to that a little bit more sure if you look nationally what we saw from the pandemic is that students in poverty and students from minority groups tended to be adversely impacted in the pandemic compared to their peers so being able to hold the line in our data and keeping it almost the same to me is reasonable progress because we didn't experience the drop that many students with our demographics did okay thank you I'd say to the way I made sense of it is that the State numbers also had a same similar kind of slide or flatness as ours so we're seeing that impact not just here but also in all over the state I would say though our state is less diverse
013than we are and also a more affluent than we are which is a consideration as well as a whole any more questions with indicator 3 . for indicator 4 we ask our world language teachers to collect some data of students that are meet or exceed The Benchmark based on the level of the course taken not applicable and this is a victim mainly of the timing this is one of the measures that we move to different times of the year we receive this information at the end of the year all of our language courses are a year in length they'll take the proficiency test at the end of the year and then we'll be able to report that out so next February I'll have this data for the previous year so I don't I do not
014have any tonight but we'll going forward any other questions for okay thank you next up is the operational expectations monitoring Port oe3 where the treatment of community stakeholders thank you Mr corberg um so OE three uh monitors treatment and Community stakeholders the superintendent Challenger that the district at all level streets Community stakeholders with respect dignity and courtesy there are six indicators for this operational expectation I'll jump down to OE 3.1 there is no unauthorized release of confidential information in the district as evidenced by the lack of complaints resulting from such release we've got a compliance documentation letter there that indicates that that was the case for the last year indicator 2 there's no grievance or legal action taken against the district for unauthorized release of confidential information I have another compliance documentation letter that indicates
015that that was also the case for the last year and indicator 3 is no documented breaches resulting in an outside entity gaining unauthorized access to District data once again compliance documentation letter indicating that that was the case for the last year OE 3.2 the superintendent will effectively handle complaints the first indicator is the formal complaint process is made available to the public and communicated to complainants when a formal complaint is made there's evidence there indicating that we have a policy on public requests suggestions and complaints posted on the school district website and that as students families and staff access our code of Rights and responsibilities it also includes our non-discrimination Complaint Form and that information is posted on our website additionally there's many other policies that provide an Avenue for complaint or appeal and those
016are listed there indicator 2 indicates 100 of formal written complaints filed are investigated and resolved according to the school district complaint policy and a fair and timely manner we did receive one complaint uh filed uh recently and this complaint is still within the investigation timeline and it's in the process of being resolved OE 3.3 the superintendent will respect and value individual differences of opinion indicator 1 the district provides multiple means for stakeholders or representative stakeholders to express their individual thoughts and ideas and give feedback and input into the district and to the direction of the district attached is a compliance documentation letter which identifies a range of ways that Community stakeholders have been able to express their individual thoughts and ideas and give feedback on the direction of the school district they include some general
017opportunities as well as specific District opportunities some related to various [Music] um departments and directorates in our in our school district as well as specific meetings with the superintendent and then I have included our referendum informational sessions and of course the ultimate input by our community was through voting at our last election letter which is for my own clarification on the list of um there are many examples of the community meetings that you attend since there aren't dates is it are we to assume that um you attend all of those every time or um the meetings of the superintendent with the community groups yes those are meetings that I have at those times on a in on a regular basis yes okay and then the the meetings that are identified above are often just biannually
018or ongoing or ad hoc you know or annual meetings are all regularly scheduled things OE 3.4 uh the superintendent will reasonably include people in decisions that affect them uh indicator one the district meets regularly with unions that represent staff in the district the compliance documentation letter there indicates the dates that the district met with unions and representative groups OE or indicator 2 buildings have leadership teams that include staff members in their buildings and use these teams to Aid in making decisions the compliance documentation letter indicates um that building leadership teams are established and then the second link there identifies the individual's honor building leadership teams in each building indicator 3 The District's cabinet needs regularly to address District level issues the cabinet meets twice a month for at least two hours to engage in District
019decision making OE 3.5 indicator 1 there are no verified complaints of dishonest communication by The District staff evidence is the compliance documentation letter which indicates there were no verified complaints of dishonest communication and OE 3.6 indicator 1 there are no valid complaints against the district that it did not meet open records requests as defined by Wisconsin state law and there's a compliance documentation letter indicating that that was the case for this last year any additional questions that folks have about any of the indicators listed I have no questions but I have a comment since this is the policy on treatment of community stakeholders I was particularly impressed during the referendum information sessions last fall with how you navigated those and with great Civility and respect and Grace Under Fire and I just wanted to make
020that comment thank you we do have plans to continue Outreach and engaging our community stakeholders in new ways it's an area where you can never do enough and so we're looking at putting together kind of a book study and an informational series over the next uh school year to further engage folks and help expand our community's understanding of what goes on in schools the challenges we face and how they can be involved and then we'll also be extending our kind of long-range facility work over this next year as well with the convening of a facility advisory committee to help look at current and ongoing issues with their facilities so I look forward to continuing that work and then expanding upon it to continue involving our community and the decisions that affect them any other questions
021for Dr England yeah it's a group that we want to be able to make recommendations to me and to the school board and so it can't be too big it has to be functional and so we're looking at a group of somewhere around 25 to 35 it will be made up of representation from parents from staff administrators and community members we're hoping to identify folks that maybe have you know multiple intersections along there also folks from historically marginalized groups as well to ensure that there's representation across their community and then thinking about local experts in our community who understand facilities in ways that are more advanced than even we do to provide that extra perspective for us so whether it's folks from uh you know the train company or other vendors that we work with
022in the area or construction companies hopeful to find a range of expertise and interests to kind of work through some challenging issues and provide recommendations that we connect on something before will be invited to participate in as well yep the board will always be uh you can attend you know anything that they desire uh the one thing we would have a concern about would be um you know their their goal is to you know generate recommendations for us and so we want to let them work to some extent you know through the process themselves and if we do have a anticipated Quorum we just need to post it but sometimes with our committees there is a board representative for various organizations that might be an opportunity to think about as we approach the spring you
023know does the board want a person given the significant political nature of this to just sit on and report back um that's certainly been a strategy used in the past [Music] other questions and um looking uh toward the uh options as far as emotions I'm thinking there's kind of a general consensus that it would be the that the compliance is is evidence there any comments on it I don't have any concerns okay about the indicators that we're presented it says no forward to me right yep no I'm just saying for next week just prepping yeah okay moving on to the wasbe convention report uh you can see there and I'm uh Katie and I were the ones who board members who attended along with Dr Engel and and uh Amy zabrowski and as well as
024Dr Hersey um opportunity to talk about some of the things that we've learned about Mrs Burke but all do you want to go ahead start us out or sure uh it was really really interesting and worthwhile so if anybody has an interesting going next year I would highly recommend um I tended to choose workshops that were about the issues that we face so I went to one about declining enrollments and the challenges of that but I didn't read the fine print and it was about rural communities so it was a little bit different than what we're facing here but similar issues and learned that a lot of what we're facing here is the same across the state I didn't I didn't realize that and so it was fun to find community in other districts and
025Personnel that are facing the same challenges that we are um I went to a session about how to have a successful referendum and I talked a little bit about that at our last meeting and one of the biggest takeaways there was um how important it is for the community in order for referendums to pass the biggest thing that we need is for the community to have trust and faith in what we're doing and I think we need to do it every weekend to build that up sure I don't need to give a whole play-by-play of each session I want to write but we do get to go to uh is it Vincent Benson High School Vincent High School which is an agricultural High School in the city in the city that's been there since the
02670s yeah in late 70s yeah yeah and they have also like they had a miniature horse and chickens chickens and goats are making some money for selling X right now so yeah it was pretty cool and they gave us freeze-dried Skittles and they were awesome not fruits and vegetables but freeze right here I was able to attend a number on strategic budgeting um financial planning an outlook on the fiscal cliff that's coming up kind of in preparation of the state biennium attended a session on school-based Mental Health framework that our own folks were able to present on uh Kurt teff and zebrowski things about that when I was in Milwaukee some of the school board members attended that and recognize that the presenters heard from the Army was from the cross I said well I
027hope you went up and introduced yourself they would be happy to share information and they said they did so I heard good things about that session I've seen some version of that presentation probably 20 times now but they always adapt it for the audience and I was impressed how they made it relevant to school board members and administrators and actionable you know even though our situation may be different than others they identified a very engaging way to to make it relevant to others I think that that given all the challenges that we in other school districts face I always appreciate it when I hear from other districts who are like we want to model the things that you're doing it's always encouraging to hear as a school board member my hope is that every year
028we're able to present a wasb with some you know practice that we've been engaged in here we have lots to share I think I know Dr harcity attended as well did you have anything you wanted to highlight yeah sure one of the things that's been interesting attending over the years is the standing room only breakout sessions because it's an indicator of what's top of mind for school board school board members and superintendents around the state a couple that I'll just mention that had just standing room only there's a session uh on book challenges but clearly it's an indication of what school boards are are sensing around and they were they're talking about the the trend towards more and more book challenges that the districts were facing another one was uh by Bob Butler WS wasb
029um attorney and then Tess O'Brien from Boardman and Clark around relevant laws associated with Title IX uh and then again standing room only in some of these sessions probably no surprise that those were um hot button topics I will too kind of jump on the bandwagon curtain Ami session was exceptionally well done and with Dr cooperstol's point it is validating to recognize the school district lacrosse in many ways has efforts around for example our hotel framework but many areas where other school districts are pining to have the resources and the approaches that the school district of La Crosse has and then finally I'll just end with you know some of the Keynotes were excellent one of the things that one of the Keynotes shared was how difficult it is I'll reverse this how easy it
030is to be a Critic and a cynic and critical uh uh and how difficult it is to be a leader in protection of our communities uh most valued resources are children and that keynote speaker happened to be Tom Thibodeau again right here in in our area but was just given accolades to those who are serving on school boards and recognizing how difficult his it has been whatever your circumstance around the state but just saying thank you to school board members recognizing that it's been a challenge to be in protection of children over the last several years it was an excellent conference I'll add a couple of things that I too want to say it was it was wonderful to have uh Kurt and Amy um represent the district for for us at that convention and
031I I do hope that we can always have a some kind of representation and uh and program because I think we we are on The Cutting Edge of a lot of a lot of things in education uh one session I went on was uh detailed new physical education curriculum uh incorporating nutrition and activity it wasn't like you go out and do jumping jacks and that's it anymore it's it's a lot of creative things that they did and they had a student uh I can't remember what district they were from but they were their middle school elementary age students and they were there on their day off and they had to get up and it was an in-service thief in their district and I think the enticement was they got Dakota who hot after after the
032event but he had said he'd also done some nutritional things and that the the manager at HuHot was going to be presenting some things to the students as well so they were very energetic and it was great great to see some of the new new things going on in the curriculum and I also went to a session on air quality uh talking about the studies that are showing how the impact air quality has on learning and I thought some of those things were interesting and I was going to talk with uh Mr Levina about some of those uh to see what our district is is doing and how we're performing on that end and then I'm and in the Vincent High School tour where it was really interesting I had no idea that there would
033be an agricultural emphasis School in in the city was on the edge City of Milwaukee kind of law is has a couple of Jigs and it kind of went out to the the western suburbs practically but um it was very very good and very um to see what they were doing they also had a a greenhouse and reptiles there was this huge Turtle walking around uh in the middle of the classroom and so a lot of innovative things going on there and and especially talking about the education of children in in a city district where a lot of them have no idea about farming or or Agriculture and I think there are eight different areas of Agriculture that they could go they also talked about some other things they were doing and how in solar
034and as well as sustainability and how they changed the district and the Milwaukee Public Schools has has modified a number of their parking lots to not just be parking lots but also to be trees and and have different sustainability efforts with it so I thought there was a lot of good content on there as well so I too thought it was a good conference any questions right away I have information we have about the same student body as Logan I think yeah I think it was around seven seven eight eight next up kind of uh is uh dovetails into the convention it's the the wasbe delegate assembly report and it actually is out already and so I don't have to um go through a lot of the changes as you can see it uh there's
035a PDF attached to to the uh agenda item that talked about the resolutions and I knew it was going to be kind of a long afternoon when it took 45 minutes as to whether we should add um that students should should know about political or about voting in as one of the key key there was a lot of discussion about that as to that interest created by by different uh politics and things like that but we finally got through it and I think that the challenges for especially newer people who are are at the assembly to vote is it's hard for a lot of people get past that this isn't what your district has to do it's what was bee is going to be lobbying for if issues come up uh in front of the
036legislature and it's a general agreement but it's not a document that says any school district is required to do anything so I think that's that's usually part of the part of the challenge to get through some of some of the but if you have any questions on that let me know but again I said it is attached there so you can go through uh go through any of the um no no big hot hot ticket items um as far as that I thought but um but a lot of good materials in there um moving on to announcements um Ms Bauman is at home with a attending to a sick child so we don't have any uh updates on the foundation for the vice president it's just a reminder that there's a middle school staff linkage
037with the Board of Education here at Hogan at 5 pm on February 20th that's a Monday if I remember I I think the day before the election uh primary election uh Dr angle announcements on your behalf yes uh this week February 6th through 10th is National School counseling week our school counselors provide a critical role in our schools and helping students through all facets of their life oftentimes they are Swiss Army knives adapting to any challenge that's in front of them at the drop of a hat and so incredibly thankful for all that they do and excited to recognize them next week is school bus driver appreciation week they are a crucial resource in our school district and part of our partnership with go right way and transporting kids to school every day kids need
038to be at school ready to learn and the at school part is the most important one can't learn until we get there and so thankful to bus drivers it's been harder to recruit folks in recent years with some of the employment challenges and the rising wages for CDL license pizzas and other things with distribution networks in our area and so thankful for all of our school bus drivers and the service they do to our students and I would just add that we are at the front end of the budgetary cycle you know so pay attention to the legislature over the next five months it kind of starts with the governor's State of the State address and then he'll make his budget request to the legislature they'll either accept it modified or develop their own here
039in the coming months there'll be hearings in Spring and early summer on the budget and then the governor will hopefully sign something by around July 1. as it relates to students in the governor's State of the State address he identified Investments to improve reading and literacy outcomes and expand financial literacy curriculum as an uh something to focus on he is proposing a pathway to get experienced Educators back into our Workforce by making it easier for school districts to hire retired teachers and staff and to invest over 20 million in recruiting developing and retaining teachers and student teachers and then with the school mental health piece kind of being a theme indicated he's going to make kids get ahead a permanent State program and invest more than 270 million dollars to ensure every student has access
040to mental health services so kind of some early indications from the governor what his priorities are in the State of the State address and that his budget request will be kind of a more formal document and we can look through all that to kind of see where that's at if you have any interest in legislative advocacy or have any questions about that happy to work with anyone who would like to thank you Dr rinkel uh next up is the agenda planning for our next February meeting on the 20th the 20th 2023 Board of Education agenda with any additions or second motion has been made in second motion has been made by Dr Cooper stolen seconded by Ms Leahy to approve the February 20th 2023 Board of Education agenda with any additions or Corrections any discussion
041all in favor say aye all oppose I'll abstain the motion carries any board to briefing tonight comments they should have things okay once we adjourn we will go to our workshop and it's in in downtown [Music] meetings return foreign [Music] foreign [Music]