001We're just chit chatting up here. Um, okay. So, we are going to start with our taking positive steps of science award. >> Well, I'm gonna turn that over to Mr. Shinman. >> There he is. There he is. >> I think [Laughter] >> so. Um, taking positive steps of service. Um, so G, why don't you come up here? Come up here. >> So, um, Terry Meyers and team, right? So, we got quite a few people here. Um, but they do a lot of amazing work putting backpacks full of supplies together for our students through the free school supplies program housed at Reach Out LOI. Students are connected to the program when their families request the supplies through Reachout Loi or when they are connected through district staff. Terry and her team stay in contact with the
002district to get updated supply lists every year and they only buy name brand quality supplies so that these students don't feel or look any different from the kids who didn't get free supplies. They supply backpacks and school supplies for around 100 students each year, both at the start of the school year and all year long as new students arrive in our district or as students run out of supplies and need a refresh. We appreciate all they do every year to help all students have a great start to the school year. Thank you so much. It is recognized and appreciated and so are each of you. Thank you for being guardians of Lai Pride. So before the certificates too, I just want to say like I always knew this happened and I didn't know how or
003who, right? Like it was like just magically happened and so to put faces to the work that you do. Thank you so much. >> So is there anything you guys want to say? >> I would like to say. >> Yeah, absolutely. I just I'm I'm a retired teacher so my heart is for education for kids and for students and I thank God every day for reach out Loi my team that is um puts in so many hours and it's our pleasure to do this we love it and it gets a little hectic at times it's a little hard in communicating at times I have to say that um the district has been great with us as well. And Mo Palmer, Jen Morgan, is an amazing lady and she has been a wonderful contact for us
004and just so helpful in so many ways and helping us get connected with kids that are in need. And so we do our best and we pack the backpacks with love. We pray over them. We pray over the because you don't always know if the little girl that gets the hearts really likes that. So, but she helps with that too. That's she knows the kids better and so she can switch them out if need be. But it it really is our pleasure to do this service and so thank you for working with us. >> So if somebody wants to support the work that you're doing, how would they do that? >> Um we ask that monetary don donations be made to reach out LOI. Um because I do shop very specifically for the class lists.
005So I appreciate people that want to bring supplies, but they don't always bring what the teachers have on the list. >> So and um so that's the easiest for us. >> Thank you so much. Well, uh to get a TPSS award, you get a certificate. So Terry, >> thank you. Uh, Judy, >> Judy or Julie, Julie, >> Judy's next. >> Judy and Nancy. >> All right. >> Does it mind if I say something, V? >> No. Go ahead. >> I've been doing this with Terry since I retired from the district. And it's amazing how many children we service and how many kids are so needy. And I like her, too. I pray over what kind of backpack I should give them because these kids are special. And I just love all the kids. And I
006still work at the daycare in town here as a cook because kids are in my heart. >> How long were you with the district, Judy? >> 22 years. >> That's what I thought. You >> I retired in 2012. >> You were over there when my kids were living over there. >> Oh, I know her. >> And I have kids that come up to me all the time still. And I'll go I'll go, "Okay, who are you?" Because you remember me, but there was just too many of you to remember. But >> well, they've grown a little bit since then, right? >> I Yeah, they're Well, they're married with kids, a lot of them. >> Yeah. I just go, "Oh, okay. Cool. I ran into them at the beauty shop or anywhere, you know." >> And
007we've had some kids that we've packed back for that are now seniors that we've had since >> That's awesome. And my dad was a school teacher for 26 years. >> Wow. >> Thank you ladies so much. >> Thank you so much. >> So we can't pay you but we give you 100 grand. [Music] >> Thank you guys so much so much. >> And we're going to take your picture in front of the little sign over there. >> Thank you guys so much. [Applause] You want her to be >> president? >> Oh, I know. She was literally >> I was in the row. >> Thank you. Thank you, Jen, for all you do to help. >> All right. And we do not have any presentations tonight and we do not have public input. So, we are
008going to go over our consent agenda items. We have our approval of minutes. >> We have vouchers for September. We have um four fundraiser requests. Powderpuff, our FFA fruit sales, our FFA plant sales, and our musical cookie booth. We do not have any fundraiser reports. We have several FFA field trip request for different conventions and conferences. We do not have any committee recommendations for approval tonight. Under other, we have our disciplinary reports for our primary school, elementary, and OSC and middle school and our book vending machine, which sounds really cool. We have um a res a retirement revision and then we also have two uh resation resignations. Under cocurricular we have five musical volunteers, three first year mentors, a volunteer football coach, a volunteer cheer coach, a sophomore two class more soft class more jeopard
009sophomore class advisors. I was just trying to combine combine three words. >> Okay guys, trying to speed this up. Volleyball volunteer coach. Um, under crew, we have a volunteer flag football coach, crew instructor, and lifeguard swim coach. Under regular staff, we have EA leads um from elementary and OSC, two of them. We have a high school library assistant, sixth grade special education teacher, and elementary school um long-term substitute special ed assistant. And under personnel, we have three leave without pay request. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I'll second that. >> Motion by Terry, second by Teresa. Any more discussion? >> All in favor? >> Anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. And then we have our um administrative reports and we are going to start with the Lai Middle School. >>
010All right. Uh good evening board. Welcome back. You guys have never really >> welcome back to you. >> You don't leave either. So for uh preparing for the future, we are going to start our I read ready diagnostic for the fall uh coming up here uh starting the week of September 15th. We're looking forward to seeing our results. We've had continued growth over the last few years and we look forward to see, you know, how much growth that we can get out of our kids this year. Uh for nurturing the whole child, I just put some pictures on there. Michelle How has a first day a picture frame. Um and the kids, it's it's funny because sixth and seventh graders, well, sixth graders all want to jump in. seventh graders half and half and eighth
011graders there's no pictures of eighth graders up there I believe because they don't have their picture taken uh by the time they're they're that age. So u but it's a fun way to start our school year. We do that before before the school day when we're staying outside. Um for pillar three I had uh sixth grade parents orientation and last year when I had it I had about 30 30 parents come in uh which I thought was great and this year we had 71 families come in which was amazing. So, um, I appreciate their support and I just I'd like the presentation if you want to look at that. Um, for pillar four, just want to thank our teachers. Getting a school year up and running is a monumental task and it is a a
012neverending to-do list of things to set students up for success. Um, so I just want to acknowledge all their work, the trainings, um, the seating charts, the grade books, the everything that they do so that when kids come, uh, they can put their energy into them and welcoming them, uh, and getting them off to a great start. Um, and then I want to welcome April Tinsley. She's a our new special education teacher. Um, so we hired her. She comes all the way from Colorado. We've actually had teachers come from California, Texas, Chile, and now Colorado Middle School. So we are, um, we are the place to be from a vast region. >> Um but we're really excited to have her. She's a veteran education special education teacher and looking forward to having a great year
013with her. Um, and then lastly, we had our for operational excellence, we had a reunification drill during our preession. And I don't know how familiar you are with that, but that's really a reunification is uh basically a plan where if our buses can't take kids home or we need parents to come get them, that it's a safe and efficient way for us to unite kids with families. And I want to give a shout out to our district office staff that volunteered to be the mock parents and go through that process. And what we did is we ran the drill and then we um gave our staff some time to reflect on their different positions and ways we could change it to improve uh either efficiency or safety in any particular situation. Um and I want
014to thank our our uh safety team uh Kim Rashik, Sarah Hook, Christian Fes, Jill Whale, and Brian Bower. We spent every safety meeting last year going over our sa going over our reunification plan, walking around the building, doing mock kind of a mini mock drill, timing how long it takes to walk to certain places to get kids. So, um, we spent a ton of time on that last year and they had great input and great ideas and so I just appreciate their time and effort and keeping our building safe. >> So, hopefully something you'll never have to use, but >> we're really good at it to be prepared. >> Thank you, Derek. high school. >> Thank you. First of all, I wanted to thank our first day graders. This is something that we've been doing
015ever since. Sometimes we think it just happens, but there's a lot of coordination. Jason Marshall reaching out to coaches, coaches reaching out to athletes, athletes eventually getting back to the coaches. Marshall. So, um I also appreciate the principles allowing our students to come. >> Sure. about good fortune those football boys responded the night before >> maybe to so I'm sorry >> it takes more coordination than we kind of realized so I appreciate everybody involved um second thing is the FF FFA state convention I had mentioned this in the last uh at the last board meeting but um Connor Anderson shared an article with me and that's actually been shared with the enterprise and we were recognized as a three star um FFA organization and it says truly a mark of their exceptionalism less than 10%
016of chapters nationwide are given a ranking from the National FFA organization. So, I thought it was really cool that we were recognized this way and then you can read the rest of the article about um our great >> Mr. Janick. I don't mean to inter well I do mean to interrupt. Um how many stars is it? Three stars. Is that the highest? >> I believe a five star highest, but three star just doesn't have it. The first time this has happened before. >> Nice. >> Um we did have our nth grade orientation night just like the middle school had their orientation night. We had about 50 sets of students. Um, and it's basically what we've done in the past. We did a survey at the end and they love meeting all the teachers and walking
017the halls of L High School. Um, but the one negative thing they said is they felt like they didn't realize it going to be so long and they wish we offered snacks. So, next year we'll probably offer snack during the snack break time that >> or maybe tell them they could bring their own. Not >> regular popcorn machine. >> Yes. So, it was a little a little above average as far as the number of parents that were there. So, that was great. Um, we did have our link crew day for our ninth graders. So, I wanted to appreciate um Jill Gort and Carrie Bar and then Noah McCay for getting the pep rally going. And then of course um Michael Ratloff and my m or Maya Gorski. That name probably does not seem familiar to
018you. That's Maya Ashback. She was just recently married over the weekend. >> Um so those are our link crew um advisors. >> Yeah. So they did a great job and you can see some pictures of our link crew kids, our juniors and seniors and then some of the that were taken that day. And then we just recently had our tailgate party uh with the LOI booster club that happens out on our stadium. So I appreciate everything that the booster club does. Um and then all of our teams had an opportunity to talk a little bit about their season so far. Um next is our Alice training that's going to be coming up uh starting tomorrow with our ninth graders. Um so a letter was sent out to all of the parents about some of the
019things that we do um to help um help our kids practice and prepare for an event that we obviously do not would not want to happen. We we uh work with our 10th, 11th, and 12th graders next week and then we'll do some other drills later on. Um homecoming is coming up. So, it is uh the last week or last full week in September. Uh the theme is under the sea as you can see. Some important things that are going to be happening. First of all, the Powderpuff fundraiser, which happens on Wednesday night, uh which raises more than $4,000 the last couple years. And then the homecoming parade, the starting point of the homecoming parade is a little bit different. So, our community understands this. Um we are going to start on Meadow is going
020to make the parade a little bit shorter and we'll finish where we normally do. Um, I was assured that the homecoming parade, even though it seems shorter, it's longer than the Susie the Duck parade according to the city of Bai. So, if anybody wonders about that, it's still >> the Memorial Day parade was the >> Well, it wasn't. >> Yeah. >> So, anyways, um, that's all the information about homecoming and you can see the map there. And then um I know at the middle school they like to do the first day thing with the uh the frame. Um so one of our seniors decided to come up with the last first day and lots of kids got their pictures taken. So I appreciate that. Um I did want to mention that we did hire sorely
021sponsor Arnold. I didn't put him in the the um my uh admin report. Uh but he is from Madison. He's working out awesome in our in our library. He's our new library media assistant. Um and he is going for his degree to become a library director. So, he fits in perfectly with Paula and he's been doing a great job so far. So, >> that's awesome. >> That's nice. So, the third star degree is the third three stars is as high as you can get. >> Oh, it is high. >> Wow. Nice. >> You have to be gold rated in your own state or in the top 10% of your own state and then you go for a one, two or three. Three is the highest. >> That's completely amazing. >> Thank you. >> I think
022somebody in here was an FFA at one time. vice president. >> There you go. >> Well, and congrats to Ash Borski. And also congrats to Jason Brewer. He just recently got married, too. >> It's exciting. >> Okay. So, sorry. >> Um, curriculum and instruction. >> Yeah. Uh, one of the big highlights is that we awarded $12,286 through the peerreview mentoring grant, which is a competitive grant through the Department of Public Instruction. And um, that is a grant that we have received in the FA in the past. Usually in the spring, I fill out all of the paperwork for that and align it with the uh, competitive rubric for the grant. Um, and we use those funds primarily to pay for our mentor stipens. So um when a mentor is paired with a mentee or a
023new teacher to the school district of Loi, there's a host of activities. We ask them to engage with that mentee in throughout the school year at a minimum meeting them with them uh once a month. Of course they're meeting with them a lot of times every day um to go over all of those important things like how does homecoming work, how does the copy machine work, how do we do report cards, how do I prepare for parent teacher conferences and uh we we use these funds to help um both to do the the the mentor stipens, but also sometimes to do some training. The other thing that I wanted to highlight on here was you'll recall from last school year that we started to use and give access to an artificial intelligence tool called Brisk
024that was developed specifically for the education sector that meets all of our policies and stipulations here in the school district of Loi. And so educators really used that tool at the secondary level um as they would like throughout the school year for a host of different tasks, whether it's taking an article and being able to quickly translate it to a different language or change the reading level on that article or there was even a creation option where you could grab an article and you could turn it into a PowerPoint slide by just the create button on um that to a whole host of things on there. You could give uh you could take a paper and you could have do a first vetting of it yourself as an educator um for giving feedback on writing.
025Um we've now teachers have become pretty accustomed to Brisk and and we see the usage especially at the secondary level continue to increase throughout last school year. During the preession this school year, working with the amazing Mr. Potter over there, we were able to arrange uh another training as brisk continues to evolve and have other features. Some of the features now where educators can take that tool and use it in a purposeful manner, a very directed manner to take it and turn on a studentf facing portion of it. So, what that could possibly look like, for example, is okay, we're about to read um a chapter in a textbook or an article as a class. And I'm going to take that, I'm going to give it some parameters, and it's going to turn it into
026maybe a a bot chat activity where you can uh engage in some back and forth pre-learning with the bot before we enter into the activity there. Also, uh perhaps you have a draft of a writing exercise and you want to get some early feedback around the rubric that I've loaded into it. You can do that before you submit it to me to review the draft. So, there's some things like that. I'm not saying widely all teachers are using that right now. We had a pre-training on that and I can tell you there's always some early adopters. So, we anticipate there'll be some educators at the secondary level who will start to kind of dip their toes in those waters. But it's AI is always evolving and we're starting to kind of dip our toes in
027those waters as well. >> Awesome. >> Well, thank you. Um I am um a little scared of AI and all that stuff as many of you know. Um and I you know that whole thing with the computer listening to you. I do want to tell you guys when you said amazing I was having issues today and I emailed Mr. And even before he responded, it was fixed. And he's like, "I didn't do anything." I said, "Oh, I know, but my computer is scared of you." And that's the power right there. And just a note, um, Mr. Potter did put some, I think, really nice review materials together for educators after the presentation from the vendor, and you're welcome to look at those on there because I think they do a nice job of articulating some
028of the features that they have access to. >> Awesome. Thanks, Nick. and Joe, I don't think I said thank you. Thank you. We always appreciate these board reports, you guys. >> Um, LCAT, >> sorry. Um, so the, uh, report for September, Brian is coordinating with the parents of the football and soccer teams to use the Alcat trailer. The trailer will be used for team dinners a total of 15 times between August and October. It will be parked for the year on November 1st and will be available for use in the spring of 2026. Apparently, this has become quite popular at the team dinners that allaver equipment would a lifesaver. >> The LCAT meeting was held on August um 20th at 9:00 a.m. in the district office. The group welcomed two new attendees. Dietrich Gruin, I
029think I'm saying that right. And so a home meeting who presented um from who represented the First Presbyterian Church of Loi, Brian and Sarah shared updates on the activities that participated in over the summer. They discussed the survey results from National Night Out and explored potential locations for next year's event. Brian and Sarah will be visiting these possible sites and will provide further information to the coalition of National Night Out planning partners later this fall. And I just wanted to say because I don't think everybody realizes this, the National Night Outs are all about our first responders and the you know the fire trucks and the and um the EMTs and I mean that's what it is about in every community that has them. And so this year we didn't get MedFlight because Medflight has
030to take turns and I think they went to Portage that night. So I mean those are it's it's all about the first responders and and then we of course have a lot of other things for um the community there. So Brian and Sarah are working with middle school principal Derek Perzborn and guidance counselor um Michael Meyer to implement the preventure program in the middle school. The evidence-based prevention program utilizes personality focused interventions to promote mental health and reduce the risk of substance use among youth. ECAD is applying for a healthy life grant from the Sock Prairie Healthcare Foundation. If awarded, the funding will be used to create anformational event for parents focusing on the trends of social media, alcohol, and marijuana. This event was initiated based on input from the youth risk behavior survey summit
031facilitated by LCAT in July. The next LCAT meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 17th at 9:00 a.m. in the district office. Our guest speaker will be Kelly from Kinship Mattering of Portage. She will discuss the lunch buddies program which is set up to begin in the LOI elementary school in October. LCAD is partnering with the elementary school and kinship mentoring to establish this program. If you or someone you know is interested in mentoring a child during lunchtime, you have lunch with them. You don't have to like teach them something big. It's a lunch buddy. If um you know anybody that would be interested twice a month throughout the school year, please join us at this meeting for more information. So that would be September 17th here at the district office at 9:00 a.m. And
032any parents that ever goes to lunch with kids in elementary school, it's a big deal. It is such a big deal. >> It is. Thanks, Terry. Uh student services. Good evening. Thank you. Um first is the year in review that Pec um sends to us. That's the psychotherapy center of Wanaki. They continue to be our satellite clinic providing outside therapy services to students in need during the school day. Um during the 2425 school year um they provided this data for us and you can take a look at that. Um one of the points that's important is that there was 912 total therapy sessions provided for our students. Um we also kicked off this school year um recently um with the PCA team. We are informed of new therapists, um, tentative building schedules, and that new
033referral paperwork for families to use when needed. Our student um, sorry, our guidance counselors at each of our buildings continue to be the point person for all of our um, pecal therapies. Next, I'd like to say thank you to Natalie Price. Natalie Price is our LOI crew pool director. We partnered with Natalie um for all of our CPR, first aid, and AED training prior to the school year. So, staff engaged in kind of a hybrid model of instruction this year. So, they did some module work um at home outside of class. And then Natalie um scheduled four different sessions where people could come in and do the hands-on portion of the course. So, in all, we had 59 staff members who received their certification for that. And last, just some shoutouts for some new staff
034members. um that are joining special education. Derek talked about April Tinsley, our sixth grade special ed teacher. Also, Laura Hansen is our new physical therapist, and Olivia Melberg is also joining our occupational therapy team to provide services one day a week. >> Awesome. Thank you, Lai Primary School. >> Good evening. Um it's been a busy five days, I guess, now that we're looking at this. Um but we're getting into some really great routines and the kids have to be back in the building and the staff as well. Um just wanted to highlight uh our school goals. So as we have our scorecard um there are lots of things that we do to help us reach those goals on the scorecard. And so these are some things that the staff have chosen as their um their
035SLO or the school learning goal. Um so 4K the student uh teachers are going to be working on identifying those uppercase and lowercase letters. That will help um as we think about like I said those bigger goals. kindergarten, first and second grade are all going to be working on the AS web reading uh readiness screener and working on trying to ensure that our students are reaching that um 25th percentile or above that. So, um those goals are defined there. As far as for pillar two, nurturing the whole student, um just continuing the efforts from last year in our September newsletter, we let families know about the things that we did last year as far as our 4K through five bullying prevention team that Mr. Schneamman and I um were facilitating. And so share that information
036with families. Tomorrow in the morning announcement, we're going to be sharing the video about what is bullying and some different measures you can take um to support that. So the students will start learning about that right from the beginning of the year. And then we're working on planning our um four K through 5 PAC meeting on October 13th at 5:00 pm at the elementary school. So inviting families to to attend that if they'd like and if they want to join our bully youth prevention team um we welcome any families that want to to do that as well. And then as far as for pillar four district workforce during our presession, one of the activities that led the staff through was um you know as far as for staff we what we do is we teach
037but one of the things that's really important is thinking about why we teach. And so in their campfire groups. Those are the vertical teams. Um the staff were able to really share like why it is that they're teaching and use that kind of as the foundation for for what we're doing this coming school year. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Y and last but not least, little elementary. >> Thank you. Good to see you. Um sorry I missed the last one for grandbaby. Um >> congratulations. Congratulations. >> Um got to throw that out there any chance I get. >> Um and then um just wanted to highlight a couple things. Um, first of all, we had a great kickoff um, back together with staff um, during the presession. It's so great to get them back in
038the building and then even better when our students come back as well. Um, wanted to highlight the for love of learning program that um, Mrs. Shy, Mrs. Vulk um, work so hard to offer. Um, we had 111 K5 students um, read a total of 119,978 minutes um, and counting this summer. Um, also this summer we did a lot of work behind the scenes in preparation. And so the impact team had the opportunity K5 impact teams um had the opportunity to go to Mrs. Fospender's house and um just think about what we could do together to not only celebrate what we've accomplished but also as we think about our goals for this coming school year. And so they really did a lot of the work um with us as well as we started to lay that
039foundation for what we wanted to accomplish this year um and review what we are doing well at. Um and then also just a reminder about our um our processes and how we help all students learn. So our SSIT team um stands for student success intervention team. Um we really collaborate around student need. Um so just the visual layer of what that looks like. Um what we provide all students um you know the few students who maybe might need a little bit more in either direction. Um and then also uh just wanted to remind that you know as I think about not only challenging students and challenging staff and their goals but also what I set for my goals. So, um, last year, every year I send out a survey to staff about if I'm living
040out my values and the impact team reviews that with me and I set goals for the following year as well. And this is just a visual that if you come in our building, you probably see everywhere um that we just remind students >> um about our what what it really looks like to succeed and grow >> steps in that way. >> Yeah. >> Thank you so much. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Uh, district administrative report. >> Yeah. So, I just like to echo uh what's been said. It's been a great start to the 2526 school year. Thank you to all of our staff, all our teachers, educational assistants, custodians, IT, uh, food service, everybody for, um, doing everything they can to make our buildings a welcoming place for our students at the start of the
041year. Thanks to our part families for partnering with us and education of child. We really appreciate the communication back and forth with families and their students. Um, and we thank our community for all the support that we've gotten um, referendums, through other things to help support the things that we have in place. And I also want to just thank this team over here for all their hard work and starting and organizing to get those uh inservice days off right and to kick off the school year and just making the culture of their buildings. Uh so that's just a great place to be. So um we're just very fortunate to have such a consistent team there. Um as the board is aware, we are currently working through our strategic planning refresh process. I know Heather's going
042to talk about this a little bit more in her report, so I won't go into it a whole lot. Uh the committee last met on August 19th. start to look at data and our next meeting is Wednesday, September 17th. We're hoping to have a recommendation from the committee either coming to the board in October or November um depending on what happens at our next meeting. Uh the board has also assemly a separate group of community members to assess the district's current and future facility needs. Uh this work focuses on accessibility, student opportunities, community use, and long-term sustainability in both school facilities and outdoor spaces. Uh final recommendations will present it to the board of education to help guide long range planning um and investment. A referendum decisions a press release has been shared that was
043in the paper this week just talking about that work. Our first meeting is uh this Wednesday. Um so there's been a lot of planning behind the scenes uh to get to there. Um, one of the other things that, um, some school board members may have saw, the August edition of the WSB, um, magazine, uh, page six has a features, uh, Caleb Russell and the school district of LOI. Um, just talking about our school representative um, and having a student representative on the school board. I know the high school right now is taking applications for that. Um, but there's a really nice article from there's a couple other people here too who are on representative and so if you want to look at that you sure can. >> Just a nice nice thing for uh LOI.
044I got uh somebody reached out to me at our CISA meeting on Friday was asking me to send all the stuff that we do because they're trying to start it and their board members had seen all the great things we're doing in LOI. >> How many um and maybe you don't know the answer to this. I'm just curious how many other school districts have like a student representative at their board meetings? >> Not a lot. Um I think it's becoming more popular. Um and as I was saying that like one of the neighboring school districts reached out to me asking specifically what policies we have in place and what's the process for doing that. So >> when do we start? >> Uh it's been probably this is probably he's probably I'd say Caleb's been the
045fifth >> person. He was there for two years. >> He graduated 21. >> Yeah. So we had um Yep. So, we we've had quite a few. I think Emily Targe might have been the first one. Um, >> trying to think of my >> Y >> Joe's trying to think over there. I can actually >> sister a sister of one of the twins class. >> But we've had great idea. >> We've had Yeah. five or six and create and all been different. >> Yeah. >> Um, so it's been really awesome. Uh, and finally, uh, you may or may not have seen the LOI Pride video came out. So, a huge shout out to Erica Bardwell and Steven Ricks who and our entire staff and students for their work on the 12th annual Loai Pride video. Erica
046and Stephen um, do such a phenomenal job on that. Um, and a special shout out to our art department and art students for creating the art that starts the beginning of that. If you go back and look at that beginning when they're showing the side, the wall, it was actually right here. Um, we had uh put out our sharpen logo before it was really even approved by the board. Um, and had our students use that to create designs based around the Incredibles so we could use that as a scene. So that our artwork is all of our students um K through high school uh K through high school. Um so it was great and you may have saw some of it at the LOI fair as well. Um, so if you haven't seen it, 25
047or 26,000 people have seen it since the last time I last time I looked. Uh, so go on the Facebook page and you can watch it. >> It's always it's always entertaining. I love them. They're fun to watch. >> Thanks, Vince. >> Yeah, >> um, what an exciting time to be a LOI school board member. I'm sure that everyone already assumes that being a school board member is really exciting and action-packed. But in addition to all of our meetings that can keep everyone on the edge of their seats, we are right in the middle of our strategic plan refresh. It's actually more exciting than it already sounds. Okay, so I'm being sarcastic for the sake of the majority of the population, but in reality, we board members are truly very excited about this. The district
048strategic plan is literally a gift to our district and our school board. Obviously, our main objective is always what is best for our students, but we also are always thinking what is best for our families, our staff, and our community. So, because of that, decisions can be overwhelming, pulling you in different directions. And as you can imagine, a lot of times there is no easy answer. Community input is absolutely golden to our district and school board. Our refresh committee is currently going over the data and seeing what our district needs to do to refresh things. We will follow the new strategic plan just as we have followed our current strategic plan. It keeps our district aligned with curriculums through all the different school buildings and subjects. It makes sure that we are giving our students
049the best possible education and opportunities. Oops, sorry, I repeated a word there. It makes sure that our staff feels they are working in the best work environment so they can be the support that our students need. And it makes sure that our community has a voice in what is important for the future of our world. There is always room for improvement and sometimes a time for change, but we always want to make sure that we are not losing sight of our values and morals of our close-knit community. Believe me, I was once that concerned parent of what is being taught in our schools and concerned of what the schools were spending my tax money on. These things, among others, were the reasons I decided to run for school board. Even though these things are obviously
050still very important to me, I was shocked at how things can be misperceived and miscommunicated. So, if you miss getting your voice heard for the strategic plan, don't fret. Our district is all ears and ready to listen always. Please do not hesitate to ask questions, bring up concerns, and get involved. Our website has so much info in every aspect of our district. Our staff and administration are some of the most dedicated and devoted staff around. Having discussions with them about what is happening in our district can be quite inspiring. All are welcome at our board and committee meetings. Come to our annual meeting in October. Our schools love volunteers and getting our community members in our classrooms. Whether you have kids in the district, maybe you are an alumni, or you live in our community
051and have never had ties with our school, you are a part of our district and your voice is important to us. LOI is such a unique and special place, and that is because of our great community. This community thrives on each other's succeeding, and that is very evident in our district. Thank you for making this community and district what it is today. and please make sure to be part of its future. >> Thanks. >> Yes, >> it's pretty exciting stuff. >> I know not everybody agrees, but it is >> um our school forest parking lot. >> Yes. Speaking about exciting stuff, >> um our school forest logging project has been completed. As part of that work, the loggers used the site that we designated for potential parking lot as their staging area. Um so they
052they would have had level off a little bit. They leveled it even more for us, did some bulldozing. Um, so that not only supported the logging operations but also created some cost savings for the district by preparing the area for future parking lot development. Um, provide that we move forward with a parking lot uh before vegetation regrows. Um, so point of beginning uh engineering has assisted us with the final layout plans and grading specifications for a gravel lot designated to hold three buses and up to 16 vehicles. So the buses will be able to pull in and then back into the parking spots and then they can just drive out. Um, so they won't have to have any backing on the road. Um, the district hopes to finish this lot this fall. We had bids
053from three contractors reviewed by the board in close session. Um, and the lowest bid came from Buchanan um for about $31,000 to finish that second. I recommend moving forward with that. I will make a motion uh to approve or to >> choose >> to choose sorry to choose uh Buchanan's mowing and maintenance bid for the school forest parking lot. >> And I'll second that. >> Motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Terry. Any more discussion? >> All in favor? >> Anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. All right. strategic plan. >> Yeah. So, as we've talked about, we're in a refresh right now, but in 2021, the school district created a community group that held conversations for our future and over 100 community members came together and created a strategic plan which was approved by the board. Um,
054to put that plan into action and ensure it didn't just remain a document on a shelf, the district created a district district-wide balance scorecard allowing building level scorecards. These scores scorecards act as a snapshot of our progress, capturing our vital signs. Um, for each strategic pillar, much like a doctor checks the heart rate and blood pressure, each school form an impact team of staff members to help develop and refine these building level scorecards to just measure our vital signs in our district. Um, the scorecards use researchbased tools adapted from KR and Hartman to set rigorous yet achievable goals, ensure alignment to the community and board's priorities. Um to support understanding, the district has produced videos explaining both the district building level scorecards and for the first time what I community action team scorecard and video
055as well. Um that way board members, families, and community members can view them before or after the board meeting. Um we're not going to go over all those videos and things tonight. Board had opportunity to do that, but the administration um is available to address any questions you may have, but we would recommend approval um of the scorecards as presented. These were taken to the curriculum committee and curriculum committee moved them to the full board recommendation of approval. >> I'll move to approve the district building level and LCAT balance scorecards for the 20 2526 school year. >> Second motion by Terry, second by Adam. Any more discussion? >> I have just a question on the LCAT one >> because I know this has been brought up. >> Um I don't know if this is the
056right place for it, but with a new location, is that because of the >> constru for doing a new location? Sorry, for national night out. Is that because of the construction that's going to be happening? Fair Street. >> Fair Street's going to be torn up. So, we will not be able to use Herman Park next year. >> Okay. >> For National Night Out. So, they're looking at what are the other options >> for using that. And what what will our first responders Yes. >> What's going to work for them? Right. Right. Right. We have to in um Columbia County Sheriff with Columbia County Sheriff. So we have to be in Columbia County because Dane County would be a different >> right. Okay. >> Yeah. I'm sure people some people would be like well >> does
057Dane have anywhere? Well that's a different county but it's a different county >> different county sheriff's etc. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well and then you need all the logistics of parking and bathrooms and >> so that's what they're looking at right now. >> Okay. Thank you. And I just want to thank everybody for doing all those scorecards. It obviously helps parents see what's happening. I know it takes some time, but it I know it helps you guys, too. But >> it really does help everybody just they can look up stuff and see what we're doing, which is nice instead of just >> I heard this and I heard this, you know. >> So, thank you. Any more discussion? >> All in favor? >> Anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. All right. And our seclusion and restraint report.
058>> Yes. State requirement that the administration must present the district seclusion restraint report to the board of education by October 1st each year. Administrator has provided the board a summary of our district's annual seclusion restraint uh report. So it's there for you to view. Um I would recommend approving it to approve the seclusion restraint report. I will make a motion to approve the seclusion and restraint report as presented. >> Sarah Sarah Sarah >> and Sarah motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Sarah Rip. Any more discussion? Uh, all in favor? >> I. >> Uh, anyone opposed? Motion passes 70. Thank you for doing that, Adrian. I'm assuming. Um and our uh our draft annual meeting and budget hearing agenda. >> Yeah. So the annual meeting notice needs to be approved by the September board meeting. Uh
059the meeting is scheduled in October and we need enough time to get things out uh to the paper. Um it was the annual meeting agenda was reviewed by the facility finance committee who moved to the full board for recommendation of approval. >> So I'll make a motion to approve the annual meeting notice. Second >> motion by Terry, second by Sarah Ramish. Any more discussion? >> Um I just I do have a question on that just because the date and everything is on there. Um >> are we availing I will be >> in a different country. >> Yeah. Is that the expectation though that we that as many people >> the annual meeting you have to be in person at whether you are um like you're a community member obviously can watch this meeting um during
060a board meeting we allow board members for our policy to come in but annual meetings are different than a regular board meeting so you have to be in person >> I mean like as many board members as possible you want to have >> yes because we have a board meeting after the annual meeting >> part of We had three people come and we'd like more community to come. >> Yeah, we want the community to come. That's what it's for. >> It'll be in the LGI at 7 o'clock on Monday, October 20th. >> That's at the high school >> be there or be square. >> They also will not be able to attend. Okay. teaching a class. >> Okay. Make sure that >> that's important. Yes, of course. >> Okay. Any more discussion? All right. All
061in favor? >> Anyone opposed? >> Motion passes 70 and district administrator evaluation and goal setting. >> Board's favorite thing to do over here. uh board policy uh 1240 and associate administrative guidelines. Uh according to those things, there are steps required in September in the evaluation process of the district administrator. The board receives the district administrator self-evaluation and proposed goals in close session. Um and the board receives an evaluation instrument at this meeting. So the board is getting that today. Uh the board can schedule a meeting to adjust the goals that were presented in close session or accept the goals that were presented. Otherwise, all this other work is um you reviewing those other documents as you do the evaluation process. Um and that information will come to the board then uh by Marine. Um and
062you have a discussion in October and hopefully wrap it up by Deep. >> Depends how much we have to talk about. >> Yeah. Right. It could be December. It could be next December. Who knows? >> Move to approve the district administrator's goals as presented. >> I'll second motion. Oops. You are not Adam. Motion by Scott, second by Sarah Ramish. >> Any more discussion? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? Motion passes. 70. This was crazy. >> All of that stuff that Vince put in there and all those documents. We might need more than that hour of session. >> You take as much time as you need. >> Yes, >> absolutely. It's like, oh my gosh, there's more. >> Well, if you want less, you I can provide less. >> It takes time. >>
063Yeah, I was going to say it took him a long time. >> The policy. >> Yes. So, policy committee met on Thursday, August 27th, uh to review the most recent uh updates recommended from Niola and a couple other policy recommendations we had as well. The committee reviewed and unanimously approved 31 policies to the board with recommendation of approval. >> And I'm just going to say we are a welloiled machine because Sarah over here was just saying, "My gosh, that's a lot." >> Yes, it was >> a lot. >> We've got a system. >> We do. >> Was there any that seemed that had a lot of discussion or stuff? It was pretty self minor revisions >> and it's Yeah, it's nice. And when you look at them, I mean, it kind of breaks down like
064the green is the new pink and lined out, you know. So, everything else is the same from what we've already looked at before. It's just looking at the new things and making sure things are >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, is Niola providing in green is are the suggested changes? That's what I wasn't sure when I was reading these. >> Do they do that or do you do that? >> We do it together. >> Okay. >> Also, with Nola, they usually have things and they'll highlight them, but we'll sit down together and go through them. Um, and sometimes we'll have conversations like with a policy that impacts the business office or health or services. So, I may pull Jason in and have a conversation with him or I'm going to pull Adrian and or the
065school nurse in or depending on who it impacts and we'll like >> make sure that they have some input on as well. >> Okay. >> I think just about everybody and Mr. Potter has been, >> you know, at some point. >> Their names are on there, too. And I have witnessed you guys in action and you very have system. >> Well, you do read ahead of time and you make your notes and >> and every single state statute, federal code, everything. >> Question for >> so the third grade, >> yeah, >> hold kids back now and that kind of stuff. >> So those parents will be notified. Of course, that's what this policy is about, right? >> But those parents know well in advance, right? It's not like they just >> Oh, Nate, I'm sorry.
066So the third grade promotion promotion policy is required per state statute for Wisconsin Act 20. Um it really in my mind articulates our multi-tered systems of support structure. So the pieces we put in to both recognize when a student may need additional supports, additional dips of instruction and then to intervene the things that are highlighted really in your board report. Absolutely. We we communicate right away and throughout the school year and the statute language requires that we do so and that we provide updates every tech week so there is no surprises. >> And um you'll notice in the language it's not so much about holding kids back at the end of third grade. It's recognizing when supports and structures need to be ongoing into fourth grade and potentially beyond. And so those are conversations we
067continue to have. How do you make sure that we have those pieces of plays not only for fourth and fifth grade, but potentially when they get middle school and high school as well. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Nick. >> Make a motion to approve the policies as presented. >> I'll second them. Motion by Scott, second by Terry. Any more discussion? All in favor? >> Anyone opposed? >> Motion passes 70. And we do not have any gifts or donations. >> That's unusual. >> Um our committee reports. We'll start with CISA 5. >> Five. That's me. We talked in depth about special education that CIA 5 provides and then we spent a big chunk of the meeting on their health insurance cost increases. So their services are over a large area and they have many many different
068providers for their health insurance. So they don't just have one or a few, they have many. Last year their average increase was 10% about and I thought that was astronomical. This year their average increase is 13.3%. Which is even more astronomical. I mean, for a CISA five, just that 13% increase is $550,000 >> more than what they paid last year. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> 5 5.3 million on insurance, health insurance. >> That's crazy. >> And Adam, you mentioned the special ed. Say that again. >> They went over the entire special ed department, what they all do, who the people are in charge, and all that. Wonderful. It's amazing, >> right? And are they doing well getting people or is it >> Yeah. No, they So C5 takes care of their employees. They pay them
069appropriately and they give them benefits and they are flexible and their their administration is really good and flexible. It sounds like the most amazing place in the world to work. So >> can you explain a little bit to the people that might be listening what CISA 5 does for us? So season five, there are 421 school districts in the state of Wisconsin and they are put together in cooperatives of 10 units. It's 10, right? And ours is a season of five. >> Oh, there's 12. There's a 12. >> Okay. So there's 12 different districts. So it allows districts to pull resources and use. So if we can't afford to hire a specific person to do this job, we could go to CISA 5 and they would hopefully be able to pro provide us with a
070person to do that job, but also provide another district with the person to do that job. So they could share that way. And so they have many many many different services. Um hearing impaired is one thing I think that we use or seeing impaired, visionaire. >> Oh okay. is some of the services that we use here in we don't use a large amount of their services here. Other districts use massive amounts of their um including like a business um >> services person to do their books and their accounting and stuff like that because they can't find one or can't afford one >> and we have >> we have soas in general are really great. >> No, it's it's thank you for >> especially for smaller districts who like maybe don't need a full time or
071something, right? Yeah. >> Part time. Well, now you can share them amongst districts and >> Yeah. Like there's like less than 20 that graduate from high school >> in their special >> education service department. They have 169 employees that they're providing in that area. >> Wow. >> And that's just one of the 12 >> cases. >> Awesome. Thank you. uh co-curricular items slashreport. >> Okay, so cross country. The cross country team opened their season on Thursday, August 28th at Westfield. In the boys race, Everett Clemens placed third, followed by Nolan Herzbborne in fifth. In the girls race, Aubrey Shinnamman took home second place. This past weekend, the cross country team hosted the Lodai Invitational. Aubrey Shinnamman took home first place in the girls race. Football, the LOI football team is off to a 2 to1
072start on the season. Lodi opened the year with a 2114 victory o over at Monroe followed by a 2710 win over Edertton at home. They opened conference play this past Friday at Columbus losing 742. >> The Blue Devils will host Bigfoot this Friday night before traveling to Clinton the following week. Soccer the soccer team is off to a 1 to3 start with early losses coming against West Salem and Edertton. This past weekend, LOI hosted their home quad. They won the first game with a strong 5-1 performance. They lost the final game of the quad by a store score of 13 against the Madison Country Day co-op. Tennis tennis is having a strong start to the season. On Tuesday, August 26th, Loi competed in the Edertton quad, winning 70 over Edertton and 70 over Columbus. Last
073week, Loi beat Wapan by a score of 70 with all sets won in two games. Loi will host Wanaki on Alaska Lutheran in Pachelli Catholic at the home quad this Saturday. Okay, moving on to volleyball. The volleyball team is off to a 4-2 start with a conference record of 1 and 0. The team started the year with a quad at Portage, winning 200 over Wisconsin Dells and losing 200 to Portage. They open conference play last week with a huge three-0 win over Poet. the head teams to Lake Mills tomorrow before hosting Columbus in their home opener on Thursday. Finally, we have swimming. The swim team had an exciting start to the season, winning the Milton Invite with several swimmers starting the season with strong times. They finished fourth place in the Badger Small Conference meet
074against eight other teams. And this week, the team hosts a home swim meet at the outdoor pool in Spring Green on Tuesday uh and host the LOI invite on Saturday. >> What's that? It's good that it's warming up. >> Yeah. I had the same thought that it's gonna be could be real real chilly. >> I just want to say if anybody has never been to a cross country event, >> it is amazing. And Westfield is always one of the favorites that I would go and watch because you can see them all over one place. Oh, that's >> Yes, it's they they're intense. >> Yeah. Yeah, they are. >> Awesome. Thank you. Um OC report. Okay. On August 20th, the OC board met in the LMC. The meeting consisted of OC update. Mr. Trunaman shared information
075about the welcome back communication that has been sent out to families and all the preparations that have been made to welcome students, lots of new third graders. So yes, discuss discuss the math curriculum review and pilot. Discuss the work the adviserss and Mr. Schneamman did on the charter readable document. um a discussion about different strategies, new and ongoing, that will be used to support student behavior. Um and a discussion that will be welcoming Josiah Tester, the new OSC educational assistant. Um new playground discussion held um held OSE event planning meeting on August 19th. It was very well attended. All OSC families were invited to attend. They learned about the difference between a field study and a field trip. Field study. Nick, can you give the field study difference? >> I can do that. >> All
076right, you do that. >> Yeah. So, field study versus field trip. So, obviously both need to be tied to our um curriculum. Um field study is where you are then taking whatever you're learning and you're bringing that back and applying it to something that you're already working on in class. So, it's not just um obviously they both involve curriculum um but when you come back is to then take that information and apply it to something. >> So it's the collection of >> it's the project based learning. >> It's the beginning of it. >> So you do do they do more field studies than field trips? >> Yes. Yes, they do. Um Okay. They also learned about the importance of fundraising because obviously when you're doing field studies you're out and about and had the opportunity
077to sign up to get involved in a number of different opportunities and there seemed to be a really nice a bunch of people that were signing up for volunteering. OC fundraising between the LOI fair and national night out um the lemonade selling made $6,000. >> So even with the fair kind of being a little do you understand what that means? >> Weather related. So, the next meeting that >> is December 17th at 3:30 p.m. >> I get teased about that all the time. >> Um, now our board committee reports. Personnel. >> All right. We had our personnel committee meeting on uh Tuesday, September 2nd. Um, first we talked about workg groupoup meetings and the workg groupoup meetings my understanding is an opportunity for different work groups to actually spend some time together. Um, they've done
078it the past two years. So we decided to do it again in the 2526 year. Uh they go from 3:45 to 4:45 in the district office and they are scheduled for September 23rd, December 2nd, January 29th and March 5th. We also talked about the 2627 um calendar and talked about the last three years parents had been surveyed mostly about when they wanted to start school. Um and but we decided that basically most parents want to start at the same time of the year anyway. So, um, we're not going to go through the whole process of surveying again. Um, we're just going to kind of leave it up to there was a draft calendar submitted to us and we'll let all of you look at it and decide what works. The DPI says you can only
079start school at a certain point. >> So, we we we started school early, right? We >> w at one point. So, the parents or families are pretty split about starting from start early. The DPI only waiver. The other thing we looked at last year was doing transition days for a couple days because it would bring additional funding to the district. Um but again, we started school a couple days earlier and there's some strings to that. It's not days and things of that nature and families when they were surveyed uh chose not to do that. So we've kind of surveyed them and we kind of also feel like the group talked about like they like surveyed out about that kind of this topic right now. >> Well, and it wouldn't be that big of a change.
080You know, it's not like the first time we did it, it was quite the >> Well, we're looking at major changes like this year. It's it will that this calendar has it starting on September 1st. >> Yeah. >> Um and ending in in early June. So, >> excuse me. >> We'll we'll look at as an administrative team and bring that back to the committee at our next meeting and u it may come to the board in October already. ready to go. Typically, it's in November. >> All right. I don't need to say that part again. Um, so future meeting, we're going to talk about the compensation model and the calendar. Um, and that meeting is October 7th, probably at 4:30. >> Thank you, Teresa. Uh, curriculum. >> Okay. So, we met back on August 27th
081and Angie Griffin and Deb Bul came to our um committee meeting. >> What's that? >> Well, actually, they did both report. I mean, we like they weren't reporting, but they did mention that they both been here for like >> ever >> long time. They were trying to figure out who like how many years they knew each other's schedule even. It seemed like how many years they both have been here. Um there was um uh sort of a review and um discussion on the summer curriculum vendor fairs. Uh there was a discussion on the K2 focus of materials on literacy as well as the K through five focus on mathematics. Um we we talked quite a bit about the mathematics um for a bit well not for a bit for a while. Everyday math has been
082in use for nearly three decades. So um the group had looked at um four different programs. Eureka math, illustrative illustrative math is that >> illustrative illustrative >> illustrative let's say I can't say that word math ready math and bridges and actually also um it was kind of cool because the samples were here so we were able to pick them up and touch them and kind of go through them um ourselves which was neat. The consensus was uh to discontinue exploring bridges in Eureka and continue exploring illustrative math and ready math um alongside everyday math 4 and um let's see here also there was some information presented about state assessment data review um DPI released state assessment data earlier than in past years and what was some really cool information that Nick shared with us was
083that the ACT and preACT results were above state averages in all areas with notable gains in writing after targeted instruction and the digital ACT transition. Um in addition also we uh Nick uh presented to us the DCC reporting schedule which is the district curriculum council reporting calendar which includes required reports um ESL updates, textbook adoption and school forest updates. Okay. Then there was also a presentation on the building scorecards that were mentioned earlier in our meeting. And um our future uh agenda item will be a math department report. This next meeting is scheduled on September 24th. And that was kind of the synopsis. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Sure. Um facility and finance have not met since the last board meeting and uh policy. We went through it all already. >> We did it. We
084did it, >> guys. With your welloiled machine, right? >> We are. >> Keep your welloiled machine. >> What was that? >> What? >> You can tell me after. >> She said you keep your little salty. >> Okay. So, our re our next regular school board meeting is Monday, October 13th. 5:30 close, 6:30 open session. Our staff board engagement session will be Tuesday, October 7th at 3:15. Our personnel committee will be Tuesday, October 7th at 4:30. Our facility and finance will be Tuesday, October 7th at 6. A busy day. And then our curriculum committee is Wednesday, September 24th at 4:30. Our policy committee will be Wednesday, September 24th at 6. And then we have another staff board engagement session on Wednesday, October 22nd at 3:30. Do we remember? So the staff board engagement on Tuesday, October
0857th. Do we know where that one is? I don't remember. >> Okay. And then the other one is going to be at the middle >> middle school, I think. Okay. So those are always helpful. I love talking. I liked hearing from them. And I believe we do not have to to close. >> I mention is the annual meeting >> also on October 20th at 7 p.m. at the high school >> and be there or be square >> that's what I've heard >> where the street is. >> Yeah. >> All right. We'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Terry. Any more discussion? All in favor? >> Anyone opposed? >> Motion passes 70. >> Thank you everybody.