001into open session and we are going to start with our taking positive steps of service board. Hi everybody. Hi. Hi. Um so I wanted to recognize and honor Emily Perzborn. Not able to be here tonight but I just wanted to read this off to you and this is something I plan on sending her way. So, the school district of Loi was proud to host the annual regional math meets, welcoming fifth and sixth grade mathletes on April 29th and seventh and eighth grade competitors on April 30th. Uh, each event brought together approximately 60 students from multiple school districts to engage in individual and team-based problem solving challenges. And I want to give a very special thank you to Emily Perzborn, our middle school math lead, who masterfully planned and facilitated the event. Coordinating a regional competition
002of this scale is no small task. Um, and I want to thank her for her organization, communication, and leadership both days. I I was there for bits and pieces of both days, and they just ran incredibly well. uh her thoughtful preparation created an environment where students could confidently showcase their mathematical thinking and fun was focused and in a well ststructured setting. I had uh individuals adults from various districts who were here in Loi partaking where their students were partaking in the competition just come up and just being so thankful of how well it was it ran and it was organized and so there was a lot of time that Emily put into that. Um she had a lot of collaboration with the middle school, the high school staff. Even was able to loop in high
003school students to help uh evaluate the various competitions was which was really cool to see the dynamic between the middle school and high school students. You know, beyond just that event though, I want to highlight um Emily overall. She just she serves our 68 math lead. Her leadership continues to drive strong academic outcomes that you see at the middle school. in this just sustained growth in mathematics that we see. Um, under her guidance, the middle school math team has built a really cohesive collaborative culture that's really reflected in student achievement. But I'll even tell you, you know, short story at the end of the school year, I was sitting down. We were having conversation about mathematics and just kind of praising Emily and the math department at the middle school for their great growth and
004achievement that they've had. and she's so focused on, yeah, but next year we're gonna this is the next thing that we're doing to try to reach this group of students and it's just the type of person she is and um it's just great when you have great people like that in your district. So, I wanted to take a moment to honor her, send this her way where I kind of wrote that up and Yep. Well, and I was lucky enough to be in her classroom like the last couple years when I went and observed in the middle school. I would show up in her classroom because one one year I was can I help them? I can do algebra. Can't call it algebra though. But I but I was in there and helping. But it's
005just really fun to watch because you can kind of see which kids would sort of like struggle a little bit. And it's the just the way they all move together is pretty amazing. Yeah. And they've really built in a lot of structures that really help all students uh develop the skills to be successful. Um we were fortunate this school year as well. Uh the middle school team was gracious enough to have the the fifth grade uh elementary school and OC staff up to better help students recognize the routines that they'll see in middle school math. They visited Emily's classroom so they can try to model some of that stuff down at the lower levels. So well she is. She puts 110% in like everything she does. So I feel like our district is very lucky
006to have her. So you better keep that candy bar for her. Should I get Should I hand this to Derek? He can I don't know. Is he trustworthy with her? We don't know. You're so serious about it. Well, here we have to give a round of applause for Okay. And we Okay. Do not have a presentation. We have do not have public input. So on to consent agenda. So we have our minutes and we have our vouchers. We have fundraiser request. We have four of them. And um numerous fundraiser reports which they look awesome and I'm glad these kids some of them were a bit shocking. Yes. How well they did. No, that's awesome. Which is great. Thank you to the community. [Music] Um and then we have committee recommendations for approval. So our facility
007and finance committee is our property and liability insurance renewal and under curriculum we have our annual textbook approval and our draft advanced learner services plan. Under other we have our staff handbook updates, middle school parent student handbook updates, our summer school family guide book, and our WIA senior high membership renewal. And we do not have any retirements. We do have some resignations. Volunteer golf coach, second grade teacher, volunteer tennis coach, primary school special education assistant, and sophomore class adviser. Under co-curricular, I am not going to read all this. If you anybody is looking at this, you will appreciate me not reading it all. There's a lot on there. And under community program for crew, we have um three lifeguards. Under regular staff, um, we have long-term second grade substitute, long two of them, long-term first
008grade substitute, summer school teachers, 48 of them, summer school educational assistants, 27, summer school teacher, two of them, summer school assistants, three, reduction in high school counselors hours, second grade teacher, staff compensation increase, and special education assistance increase in hours, five of them. And under personnel, we have um one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Leave without pay request. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I'll second. Motion by Terry, second by Sarah Rip. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. Right, we are on to our administrative reports and we will start with Kelly shocked because we're there already. This is my opportunity. Uh, every school year I get to remind the public that we even though it is summer break and we have our
009our students are at home, we have many many many educators who continue to work diligently throughout the summer working on uh ways to improve instruction and and lessons for students. And so what you see here is every year we budget for a certain amount of summer curriculum hours and staff. they put in a request for various projects that they would like to work on, whether it be as an individual or a lot of times it's in team fashion. And so what you have here is the majority of those those requests that have been approved and that those items and projects that staff will be working on this summer for summer curriculums. The next item I wanted to give an update to the board. You may have seen an article on or news report on channel
0103000 about the department of public instruction looking to review and update state and district school accountability report cards. Um this provides you some additional information that we have received from the department of p public instruction uh in what in regards to what that will look like. a reminder that DPI they are somewhat limited on some of the adjustments they can make to that structure because it is set in state statute. But what they're looking to do the kind of the gist of it right now is they're looking to relook at the cut scores for defining where a district would fall in terms of its rating from fails to meet expectations to exceeds expectation. and on that numeric scale, what would signify falling into one of those ranges? That's all the information I have up to
011this point on this process, but I'll keep you updated as DPI works through this structure uh this summer. And then lastly, um around this time each school year, we have completed our spring district assessment window. So those the assessments we give here internally um not the state assessments like ACT preACT forward but our local assessments like IA as web and so I take that information I put that into a kind of aggregate summary report that is shared with educators and they get some additional details as well so they can sit in their PLC teams before the end of the school year and discuss uh the great gains that they've seen students make and things they want to tweak for next school year. I also provide that information here for you and the curriculum committee of
012the board and I take a deeper look at that and we'll do so this week. Thanks. Thank you, Nick. Um, Alcat, I can also read it on my big screen when I make it. Oh, you on it. Sorry. At the May Alcadab meeting, Ellen Ellingsworth, the Columbia County Public Health Officer, presented the newly created Recovery Columbia County app. It was really cool. It's an app on the phone, and this app is free and offers various resources for individuals facing substance use issues and other needs such as housing and food. Um, a flyer containing the QR code for downloading the app was distributed. And that flyer is like all over town right now. It's also on Peach Jar, the LCAP face page and website and the Loi Chamber of Commerce website. It was also provided to
013the school nurse and guidance staff. Additionally, physical copies of the flyer will be placed throughout the community um to spread the word. Thank you to Columbia County Public Health Department for their support and partnership with ECAT. this was the the best thing I've seen ever because I think the reality for people who are struggling with addiction um you know food shortage what whatever it is that they're in a total total mess right then and to try to find the numbers or find the place whatever it's not easy and for families that are you know trying to support her friends this app is is perfect and then out of the app are all these other links of where to go so it's a really incredible the summer and they had developed it through some grant money
014which is really great. The summer safety fair will be held alongside summer school um registration on Thursday, June 12th, 2025 from 400 p.m. to 6 p.m. The community is invited to attend this event and engage with vendors who will provide information on keeping our kids safe during the summer break. The event is always well attended. LCAD is sponsoring a youth risk behavior survey summit on Tuesday, July 8th. And of course, anybody would be invited to come to that from 12:00 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Reachout Loi. These are based on the um results, which is too bad it's so far behind, but it is that were released by the Department of Instruction in April of 2025. Participants will discuss health trends among middle and high school students in our district. We will discuss topics such
015as mental health concerns, um, traffic safety, substance abuse, and much more. Lunch will be provided. Um, our next LCAP meeting will take place on June 18th, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. um, at the district office. The meeting will involve planning for the upcoming national night out. Please join us for this very important meeting. So, thank you. Uh, student services, other Um the LOI school district held activity day in late May. We had it here at district office. It was supposed to be at Gors Park, but the weather didn't really cooperate that day. Um this was the last of nine activities that are held during the school year by the Tri County transition team. So this is a group a cohort of staff and students in our 18 to 21 year old program from Lodi, Barabou,
016Columbus, Sock, and Wanaki. So the goals of that tri county transition team are really kind of tethered within the seven targets that are there. And there's also some pictures from that day. Um I'd like to recognize our school nursing team, Janelle and Nisha. They had a very busy end of the school year with all of the field trips and off-campus activities. Um they were also hard at work to um get prepared for our summer activities like summer saunters and summer school. And finally, um, every five years, school districts in Wisconsin are expected to participate in the procedural compliance self assessment, sometimes that's known as the special ed audit. Um, LOI will be completing this during the upcoming school year. Our work will begin this July at the end of July with a team of educators
017and administrators coming together to get trained on how to do the audit and then also reviewing evaluation and IEP paperwork from a random pool that they will take samples from. Um, this process takes us um like into January of next school year. So, I will um keep you posted as we continue through that process. The steps to the process are there for you to view as well. Thank you. uh Loai Primary School. Yes. Good evening. Um so you can see some of the pictures of the last couple um weeks of school which seems like a long ball already. Um but we had a great busy end of the year. Um for pillar one, preparing for the future. I just wanted to highlight some of our um our our schools SLOs's. Um so you might remember
018this. So, you know, we obviously we have our scorecard which is kind of like the high leverage goals that we're trying to work towards and then at the school level the teachers do an SLO that helps us get towards those different goals that we're working on. Um, and they all have the same one. So, for example, 4K um this year and actually all the grade levels, they really did stretch goals this year. So 4K is typically focused on uppercase letters um but with ACT 20 requirements they recognized that we really wanted to push more of the lower case. So this year they added the lowercase goal. Um and so they had the end of the year 83% of the students met the uppercase goal and 63 met lowercase goal. Um and again we have not
019explicitly taught lowercase letters. Um and yet we're still getting this results as we're supporting what they're doing. Kindergarten um they also had a really big stretch goal this year. In the past their goal has been for students in kindergarten to read and write 30 words. And with our phonics to reading program, they now have 58 high frequency words. So kindergarten wanted to this year create a baseline to see could they really stretch to this goal. So it used to be 30 words and they had a goal of about 80% of the kids getting those 30 words. This year they said let's have all of the high frequency words which is 58 and let's try to get 80% of the kids to get those 58 words. So it was a very very very lofty goal for
020them. Um, with that being said, 63% of the kids were able to read 90% of the words and 31% were able to um, write 90% of the words. One of the things that the kindergarten team found was that when you look at the data, there were five students that were not able to get 30 words. So, last year's goal, they blew it out of the water with only five students not able to read. Five students were not able to read at least 30 words. um to our non-verbal students and then there was 15 students that were not able to write 30 words. So does that makes does that ask those questions? So trying to explain all this with numbers and all that. Um first and second grade their goal was directly linked to um the
021act 20 requirements of Ames web and focusing on fluency and again wanted to stretch was 75% of the students um reading fluently. uh first grade. I apologize. I I really didn't need to include if you look at those two numbers, I I really should have only included the 68.5% of the students met that goal. So, I think there was I know Adam, you had reached out to me that 31.5 is just the opposite of the other one. So, we still had 68.5% of the students uh were at or above the 25th percentile, which for this first year, as we're focusing in on that, uh we were extremely happy with those results. In second grade, 71% of the students met that benchmark. So, Adam, does that answer those questions that you had sent me for? Um,
022we also I just kind of wanted to highlight ready. I was doing some data and looking um long term here at the percent of students in 20 uh 2122 compared to this year as far as proficient advanced and just had a lot of great celebrations um looking long term at that. Um another quick highlight awesome. What? It's totally awesome. So, very exciting. It's amazing. Um, pillar two, uh, we had a costume challenge. The students if they were able to show, um, something that their class did that showed LOI pride, they got to have their picture taken with the blue devil. So, that was exciting there. And then the last one I just want to go down to is pillar five, our safety. Um, we did a reunification training um, on our collaboration day. all of
023the encore team and the assistants came in and we were able to do a trial run um with us and just appreciated we had some people from district office that came and acted as parents and students to help us but um just continuing to work on that practice there and appreciate our staff for for all the work on that. Thank you. And you know when you said, "Oh my gosh, it was only the last week of school or whatever." I was talking to another mom and she was going over her schedule and with her daughter and she's like, "Oh my gosh, summer is like an is flying by already." And the girl goes, "Mom, it's the second day I'm home." [Laughter] But no, I just thought that was funny. So, um, thank you very much.
024That was awesome day to see all that. Exciting. Yeah. And I just saw it in the newspaper a couple weeks ago, the remember when is when we got approved to start 4K, which is just crazy to think. I believe that was Kogan's class was the first ones and they graduated last year. I started before I became high school principal. Okay. It's just crazy. Remember when that started? Yeah. So, thank you. Yeah. Uh Lai Elementary and OSC. Hello. Thank you. So, I think Tyler, I gave a little challenge today. Um, so I'm gonna while I talk, you can choose to watch that if you'd like. Um, but Kathy Clinky uh puts together these videos. Um, and they are running in our school cafeteria and in our entryway. And they are just ways for our students to
025see themselves. And something that we've seen a lot come out of this is if you come see um our students our bathrooms um our hallways and different things I think they just see themselves all the time everywhere. So it's really helped them become feel like it's their school. Um sometimes we'll have oh this student was um in a race and they won this race and they drive car. There's a student who drives car. So we were able to put that on there at one time. And so all these little things that happen that we don't even always know about each other um we can include on there. There's some videos of field day. Um but in my board report some things I wanted to highlight were uh fifth grade graduation als um just a great
026time. Our fifth graders um were my first group that I've had all three years and so it was just a really uh they are ready. Um but it's a great group of kids that I know Dererick's going to appreciate up there and families. Um we had obviously a lot of fun activities going on towards the end of the year. Um but some other things that I wanted to highlight in my board report were just um the end of this June board report. I always try to reflect a little bit. And so thank you again for trusting me. Um thank you for um the staff for being amazing. Um and like I said in there, I'm reminded each day how little I know, how much I needed, and how what is truly needed is nothing earthshattering.
027Um, and then also we had a celebration of our support staff and so we were able to cover an extra time for them and um, he's still running over there. Um, and uh, we were able to cover for them and they were able to have a lunch together. And a big thank you to uh, case managers Don Collins, Derek Stefani, Leslie Shybach, and Abby Balwig um, for covering for that. And in my end of the towards the end of the year support staff meeting, we just focused on our celebrations and some things that we seen this year. And so these are just some of the things that um, the support staff recognized um, as highlights. And then also wanted to highlight Mrs. Husnik and her retirement um and a little celebration we had for her.
028And that is all. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. I loved that on that field day when the cops came in and did the radar for the kids and I was thinking, "Oh my god, my son would have been all over that." And my brother looks at me goes, "Sawyer would be all over that right now." And his name high schoolers would be totally They would have loved that. Uh 17 was the fastest. Oh, that's pretty good. Wow. Um there were three, huh? Is that you? I I was tied for the fastest staff, but there was only a few of us who actually we did not let Garrett Trevor know that staff were running. So it was myself, Miss Nimble, and Miss Bushman tied for the fast 14 miles an hour. Wow. And that's that's impressive.
029You can catch students. I know. I stretched before you. Well, thank you. Uh, middle school. Yeah. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. Uh, first thing I just want to point out, uh, is our eighth. So, we had another career day. We eighth grade level did a career day and it's just a way that we're carrying out our community's vision within our strategic plan to make sure that our students are getting opportunities to learn about careers. Um, so the way we do it at the middle school, you heard a little bit about this at the gallery walk, but the eighth grade had four different uh careers come in and students rotate through and they hear about a 20-minute presentation on each of those. And it's really just about helping them learn about like what options there are.
030It's not necessarily about learning exactly uh what they're going to do, but just learning about different options there are and what they may be interested in and kind of fields in that area. Um, same thing for blended agriculture. kind of an a lot of opportunities to learn about different careers, but I want to just uh point out Miss How runs this on an extended contract. This is a class that doesn't occur during the school day. It actually occurs during the morning. Um they do this was actually a field trip that they took um to the Midwest Outdoor Heritage Expo where they learned about nature, being stewards of nature. Where is that, Derek? I do not even know. Oh, I was trying to figure that out. It just looks like such a cool thing. Um, but
031this is a course I don't I can't remember how many students she had, but um I think she has like 15 or 16 kids that come in in the morning. Um, I think they do a one trip in the summer. Um, so just an awesome opportunity for our our students to extend themselves if they're interested in that area. Um, on to nurturing the whole child. Um, so life skills covers a lot of different things. One thing that um, Mr. Bower does an awesome job of is bringing in community resources. So he partnered with Sock Prairie Healthcare and they had a dietitian come in and students worked together and they worked on building uh nutritious snacks or energy bite uh in this case which is a great hands-on learning opportunity uh for them. Um I'm going
032to go to the LOI middle school celebration 2025. So this year our student celebration team had an idea that we should do an endofear all school assembly um to celebrate all the awesome things that our students did. Um there were some shout outs to teachers during teacher appreciation week. Students typed up shoutouts and they had some students come down and read them. Um we played some minute to win it games. We have pride passes that we hand out to acknowledge positive behavior in our school. We did some drawings with those. Um so it's really just a great way for us to get together and celebrate our staff and a great way to celebrate an awesome year uh that our kids had. Um let's see here. Um want to acknowledge our seventh and eighth grade band.
033They went to the Beyond the Notes Festival at the Kalahari. Um 77 students, uh seventh and eighth graders went up there. They actually played at the water park all day and their concert wasn't until like I think it was at like six o'clock at night. So Doc was a little nervous about that, but she said it went really, really well. The clinician said uh they played really well and it's just a really great opportunity for them to have an authentic experience playing in front of a clinician. But it's really important that you know they're building relationships because that's how we're going to build these programs is by the connections they make with each other. So I appreciate all the effort um she put into taking them. I also want to acknowledge our music boosters. They
034put up $1,500 for our students. Um so be a little more cost effective for our families. Um then uh end of school year stuff. Uh we hopped on buses and uh we went to the Kalahari and it was just a beautiful day. Um, and that last year we went to the Kalahari because Noah's Arc wasn't open. Um, but this year, um, the Kalahari we could go to the indoor or outdoor. So, it was nice that kids could really spread out and it was a really beautiful day. Um, and the kids were just they were just super great. Um, you know, I'm so thankful for our families and the kids that we have um to be able to take them a place and just know that they're going to do uh what they need to do
035to be successful. They are very inclusive of each other. So, um, it was a really, really great trip. Um, and then I want to thank uh, you know, district workforce. I just want to thank our staff for all they do. Um, you know, the end of the year, like they're they're running on fumes, and that's because they just give it their all all the time. Um, whether it's emotionally or physically or mentally. Um, I know that there's a lot of naps being taken by Emily around the house uh, these days as trying to wind down uh, from the year. Um, but just thankful for, you know, not just our teaching staff, but all of our support staff, too. They're really just unbelievable people. Um, and I just feel fortunate to serve uh along with them.
036Uh, and I didn't put it on here, but we also had our eighth grade farewell on Tuesday, June 3rd, which was, you know, just a way that we can uh celebrate our awesome eighth graders as they get ready to move on to high school and and uh to bigger and better things. Do they I have a question. I I don't know if I was talking to somebody on the school board here or somebody else. Do they still do the most growth from sixth to 8th grade? They they do not. So, Mr. Zilker did that and that was actually one of the things that I had talked about with the eighth grade team of like that's a really cool thing because they grow by like some kids grow by like so two of my kids won
037that loan grew this much in middle school except for maybe a pinky of the paper. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. Oh, it was at the it was at the it was at the breakfast. Yeah, it was at the breakfast. We were talking about that. Thanks, Derek. uh Loi High School. All right, thanks Em. Uh first of all, I wanted to recognize a few staff and uh uh students. Um Sue Efford, you know, she's our athletic director. And if you know anything about spring sports, if you have experienced softball, baseball, or golf, uh there you have to contend with weather all of the time. Um and Sue does that really well and um she's very flexible about things. This is an email that I received from a a softball umpire. I'm not going to read through the
038whole thing. Um, but if you have a chance to, I would. Um, she makes, um, the experience for our reps an exceptional place to be based on our communication and that's one of the things that we always can do better. She does a really good job at that and it's so nice to get someone recognizing that straight to Sue even though it's very frustrating in the spring sometimes. Um, it she was thrilled to to hear this from an umpire. So, make sure you read through that. Um then the second person is Jillian Gourd who is our new administrative assistant uh in the CRC and actually Angie Griffin reached out to her because she was there presenting a scholarship on her senior honors night and you can read the email but she said by far this
039was the most organized night that she's experienced over the years has a lot to do uh with Jill. She handles all of the applications that students um submit. She handles all the scholarships and all the givers. she puts together the program, she's making changes the day of because of people reaching out and there's somebody else that's presenting or whatever. So, there's a lot that goes into it and and I would agree um since I've been there was run really smoothly. So, I just wanted to really appreciate Jill for all the effort that she put into it. Uh next page, Microsoft Office certifications. Um these are some of the same students that actually got some certifications last year. So, congratulations to Tyler, Trent, Bentley, Matthew, and Mason for getting their Microsoft certifications in Miss Ziggler's class.
040And then state uh qualifiers in track. I know Jason will probably um talk about this in the co-curricular report, but we did have three um that made state and track this year. And Izzy, I believe, placed fourth in the discus. Um but also Natalie Kelly and Olivia Hay Roth were lucky enough to do well enough to get to state. And then I wanted to appreciate um Doug H and the drum line. I reached out to the three girls and asked them, "Are you guys interested?" They they had just graduated. So, all they really care about is track right now, right? Would you guys be willing to come back to school in the morning when you could be sleeping and be a part of a drum line? They're like, "Yes, we will be there." Uh, they
041they enjoyed it. I thought it was great. Um, so anytime we have an opportunity to recognize them and then the kids that were involved in drum line, um, it turned out to be a great experience for them. Um, and then senior honors night, I did want to talk just briefly about this. It happened May 21st. It was from about 7 till 9:30, so about two and a half hours. Um, and it was well worth the time. Um, I did want to mention there were there were 52 kids that applied for scholarships, which is the most I've seen since I've been principal. And that had actually a lot to do with Miss Gort as well, reaching out to kids and making sure that they did apply for scholarships. And over $124,000 were given out that night,
042which is a high mark as far as I know. 119 scholarships were given out. Um, and again, the efforts of Jill, Grant Lumpky, um, all of our presenters, and then all of our senior families for raising great kids and putting them helping them put themselves in positions to to be awarded scholarships and and receive other awards. And then you can kind of read through um, some of the things that happened that evening. Well, from I remember being with that group uh during Lemi and um Miss Pulse was there, Pasy, I can't remember the others for the scholarships. This was everything's gone I mean the amounts have gone up significantly with several of them. So, right and I we made it a goal to make sure that students understood exactly what the process is like. um
043we've done that in the past, but we feel like it was falling a little bit short and not enough kids were applying for scholarships. So, it was one of our goals this year to make sure that as many kids as possible would apply. We even um there was somebody that reached out just recently that wanted to offer another $2,000 gift scholarship to our seniors. Um so, we sent that out to our senior class and hopefully some kids are applying for that. So, yeah, it was the amount some of the amounts were crazy. Yes. Crazy good. Yes. Crazy good. Um, I wanted to thank our other administrators um for the graduation walk. Um, so Amy, Eric, and Derek for allowing us to walk through their schools. Um, and if you ever get an opportunity to see
044what that's like, it's kind of the highlight even though graduation ceremony is really important. It's a highlight for a lot of our students to be able to walk through, see old um, you know, teachers that they had and get high fives from a lot of students that look up to them. Um, so that was a great uh, morning. Um, and then you can see some of the pictures uh from the graduation walk that were taken by Audrey Parart. And then the commencement ceremony. I say this every year. It takes a group effort to get through this. I basically just kind of plan it. I don't say a lot. I just kind of show up and run things. Um, but the speeches were great from the students. I appreciate Heather and Vince um speaking on behalf
045of the board and the district. Um, you guys did a great job. um our class speaker Mitch Howser, which was obviously that's a perfect person to pick considering he is graduating himself from into retirement. Um he did a great job. And then all of our student helpers uh building grounds, we we finished setting up for graduation in about 35 minutes because of the number of student helpers that got there that morning. So we had like 15 kids that came from NHS and and FFA that helped out. So that went really smoothly and quick. Um, if you notice the sign on the bridge, it says class of 20 2025. Um, it's kind of small as far as the picture, but that is a new sign. Um, so appreciate all the efforts and and that were put
046into that. Uh, that actually Joe from our building and grounds, Joe Folks, put together and worked with you like in the fab lab to put that together. So, they did a great job. Um, and you can see all the pictures including Caleb, your board rep. I know about you guys. Might be so proud sending them off. Yes. Um and then of course we have senior art signs and we have um the same groups uh that that donate towards so LOI music boosters, Loi athletic boosters and the LOI FFA and the Optimus Club. And then I wanted to thank Pam Cunningham. She actually designed it this year. Oh, she did? Yes, she did. And she did a great job. And then seniors um that helped um put them out which were Shelby Rip and Madison Barry.
047And then the final broadcast for the advocate. If you haven't watched that, make sure you do. It's very funny. So that's the high school. Awesome. Thanks Jos. Yep. All right. Um, our district administrator report. Thanks, Heather. Uh, as as the other administrators mentioned, uh, end of the school year, I just want to thank our students, our staff, and our families for a great school year. Uh, as school year wrapped up officially June 4th for students and June 5th for staff and June 5th, we were able to also recognize our retirees from the district. Special thanks to our retirees for their tremendous impact they've had on our students, our schools, and our school district community. We wish them nothing but the best. Julie Hag, our primary school EA. Um, Lisa Houston, who was teaching third grade,
048and Mitch Hower, high school social studies. Um, the district also recognized retirement of Carrie Riley, who's worked many years for the school district food service, but now works for Taher food service. Um, we just wanted to appreciate her as well. Um, the district's in the middle of a strategic plan refresh project. Um, the strategic plan refresh committee has met twice, so we're meeting again tomorrow night. Community should be looking for information over the next several weeks on how they can provide input in this process. So stay tuned. Uh facility planning and community engagement process. A reminder, the board of education has contracted with CG Schmidt to help us with the facility planning and community engagement process. The board will have a special meeting on Wednesday to kick off this process. I've shared a master planning
049outline and board docs that kind of lays out the timeline the board will be following over the next 18 months. Um, I've heard board members say that's really exciting and board members say that's really scary and board members say it's both. Um, yeah. Uh, district balance scorecards and schools balance scorecards. Um, we are putting our final touches on stop letting uh those balance scorecards and we're already starting the process of creating the balance scorecards for next year. Uh, as a reminder, these are the tools the district is using to implement the strategic plan. The new scorecards will come to the board in September. Um they we will base our our scorecards on the current strategic plan and then we may need to tweak them based on what happens the strategic plan refresh as we get
050that done. Uh referendum projects that are going on this summer. We are kicking off two major referendum projects. Well really three. Um one at the high school. Uh the roofing project has begun with the staging materials which started last week. Um the uh LS OSC playground project is uh started also at the end of last week but pulling out of the old equipment and it'll be putting in new equipment um this coming week. In addition, we have um some new cabling being done at the middle school starting um I believe not this week but next week um as well. Um, in addition, the district administration gave the facility and finance committee an update on the completed referendum projects, projects that are slated for this school year and projects that are still slated um, in the
051coming years at their June 3rd meeting. Um, and then in front of every board member, um, this is our last meeting before we have the LOI fair. Isn't that hard to believe? It's a late meeting in June or July. So two years ago the board decided they're going to select pieces of art at the LOI fair which have been framed which we've done now for two years. So uh asking board members to do that again. Um so I laid out um different levels for board members. I'll put this on our weekly notes as well but just to give to you. So uh remember to you guys done a great job the last couple years going and doing that taking pictures and sending them to Mo. So thanks for doing that. It's a really hard job.
052I know. I know really hard. It does. I take all but it's fun. It is. I love the look at them. Absolutely. And then just a reminder, district office and all office buildings will be closed this week from July 4th and then the following week for cleaning and different things of that nature. Um we have the first three weeks of summer school, then there's a week break and then the last three weeks of summer school after that. So, thank you. Awesome. Before you go, if you want more of Caleb, he's going to call some of the bingo at the fair. So, Of course he is. Oh my god. Everywhere. It'll be on his resume. You guys, you have to be there at like 4 though to get a seated thing. Oh, it's intense. And if
053you're calling numbers, you can't walk in whenever you want. How do you get signed up to? No, it is intense. You got to get there early. I have your little smudge thing. And when I win at bingo, everyone knows by the way. All right. Summer is finally here. And as you all know, it's going to fly by. So take it all in. Make plans before the weekends are all filled up and enjoy the memories that you are making. Now with the school year over, many of our students have signed up for summer school. I believe LOI has a great summer school program, and I'm proud of what we are offering our students. It's a perfect blend of giving the kids some time for summer activities while still staying active and keeping them engaged in school
054learning. I want to thank all the staff and teachers that have and will be putting in time and effort for our students and the summer school program. I want to keep everyone updated on our strategic plan refresh process. We have met two times with our committee and have made a lot of progress. Like I stated before, our comm community our committee is starting with a small group of people, but the ultimate goal is to hear from as many community members as possible. We went over the original process that we went through three years ago and have discussed what the plan is for our refresh. We have started making a list of people that we plan on asking for involvement. Whether that be to interview them, attend one of our info fairs or to take our
055survey. The committee is compiling a list of people in our community trying to make sure we are talking to people with diverse viewpoints with different roles in the community, but ultimately we are trying to get as many aspects as possible. You don't have to be invited to participate. Please be on the lookout for more upcoming information on how you can share your thoughts and opinions with the district through this process. We would love to have as many people as we can participate. We have a lot of difficult decisions to make about our district with upcoming expenses, green space decisions, maintenance upgrades, and deciding what our district needs with the possible upcoming referendum. Making those decisions knowing as many people's ideas and opinion is going to make the process much more doable. Notice I did not
056say easy. You'll be hearing strategic plan refresh process from me a lot since I'll be giving updates on the ongoing process with my school board president reports. Like I've mentioned before in previous reports, just because the school year is over does not mean our district is not working. Summers may be a little more flexible, but our teachers, administration, and staff are still in our buildings working, working from home, and putting time and effort into planning for our next school year. Our board and committees are still having meetings, discussing, and making decisions for our district. Always remember to use our district website for a great resource. Not only what is going on with our students, but what is happening with our district that affects our entire community. Our district is here to serve our students, and
057we want our community to feel educated and in the know when it comes to our district. And of course, don't ever hesitate to contact our administration and our board members with any questions or concerns you may have. Thank you to our entire community for supporting our district. Before you move on to the next, just because of the reports and with summer school starting, I saw today one of the my kids favorite things to do during summer school was saunters. Look at summer saunters. And I read that they have their largest group of 115 kids this year. 115. Yeah. So steran, as they say, on awesome. That's like a graduating class. I'm just so impressed that they're all willing to they they work hard. Yeah, they do. They hike. They don't just, you know, chitchat and
058walk around a block. They work hard and they're like counting the days down until it starts. Yeah. Normally five to seven miles a day. Only only. I know. Our hiking group goes 5 miles budget. All right. So, our 2526 draft budget. Yeah. So the LOI board of education by state statute is required to act on approving a proposed budget uh around June of the prior uh of the prior school year. So we have to do it by July 1st that the adopted budget by uh November of the current year. Um so as we look at our current data as we um for the 2526 proposed budget, we are projecting a deficit which was anticipated when we passed the referendum. The district is still waiting on some very important information. um such as what's our student
059count on the third Friday of September. What's our state aid finalization which we get on October 15th and what's the property value certification which we got on October 1st. Um so we are just looking at is a proposed budget. We don't have that information. So uh but we do have to have it in place uh so we can start purchasing things starting July 1st. Um the facility and finance committee reviewed the budget at their June 3rd meeting and unanimously moved to the full board recommendation of approval. Um, just a reminder, the board approves a final budget after the annual meeting on all that we have all that information. We look for approval. I'll make a motion to approve the 202526 draft budget as presented. No second. You guys should first and second motion by Sarah
060Ramish, second by Adam. Any more discussion? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Okay. It was very clear like to thank uh Mr. Brewer for all the work that he put in on that. Yes. It was very clear. Thank you. visuals that he put together to make it as clear as possible for people. So well and even listening to when you say that we're going to get more info in October. And I'm like so right before the meeting. That's got to be and make sure all your kids show up in third Friday. Third Friday. No kids can be gone from school. They all must show up. Something like that. All right. Thank you very much. Um food service fees. Yeah. Uh because the food service district food service management contract was out the bid at the time
061uh that we did fees. The food service prices were additionally left out the past discussion of school fees for the 2526 school year to allow collaboration for the selected food service management company and our food service prices. Taher um who was selected is working on driving up their participation numbers. So their proposed budget was based on not raising any prices this year. Facilian finance committee reviewed the information and moved to the full board recommendation approval. School district load 2526 food service prices as presented which are the same as they were last year. Nice. I'll make a motion to approve the school district of vote 202526 food service prices. Second. Go ahead. Motion by chair, second by Adam. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. Our open enrollment survey. Yeah. So,
062we uh continuously monitor open enrollment trends both in and out of the district. The administration believes that now is an appropriate time to gather feedback from families who chose to open and roll into our district or out of our district. Um during the 24 25 school year, we had 110 students open and roll into the district while 101 open and rolled out. Uh for the current upcoming year, we have 110 students slated to open and roll in and 115 who applied to open and roll out. Um again, it's kind of like we just got done talking about with the budget numbers. Those are just a tentative. We don't know until pe people sometimes put in to open roll in and then stay or sometimes they put in the open roll out and stay. Who knows?
063Um so but we just think it's a good time for us to really kind of take a look at better understand the factors influencing decisions. Like I've talked to some families right that um they had no intent they've moved into LOI but they were in Wanuki their whole life and they're staying in Wanaki and they're just taking their kid back. Their child has never come here. Um and vice versa. We have kids who were in Loi who may live in a different district but have always gone to school in Loi. So um we just thought we always said good or bad reason. Yeah. Right. Sometimes sometimes just it's what happens to their families and what works for them but we thought it would be worth us taking a look at it. Um so we I
064look uh reached out to school perceptions and the Donovan group to who both conduct enrollment surveys. The Daman group's proposal was a little more cost effective. Um and I was able to talk to a district that had recently worked with them and they thought it was a great process. They got um some good information from them. Um so cing finance committee reviewed this proposal at their June 3rd meeting and move to the full board recommendation. Okay. And I thought this was a good time too just because with the referendum and just the more info we can get about what people are looking for in our district I think better. So, I'll move to recommend to the full board moving forward with the Donovan Group to conduct an open enrollment survey at a cost of $2,000.
065I'll second that. Motion by Terry, second by Teresa. Any more discussion? All in favor? Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. Policy review. Yes, we have a couple policies. Um, in accordance with um, act 20, early reading act, which we hear about so often, um, all public school districts are required to adopt a written policy by July 1st, 2025 outlining the criteria for promotion of a student from third to fourth grade. Um, we already have a policy on fourth grade promotion and eighth grade promotion. That's in state statute. That still stays. Um but because uh act 20 is K through three, it has to do with third grade. So now we have to add that as well. Um so we worked with Niola and um looked at what they were offering, looked at what DPI had and
066and kind of crafted our own policy. Dr. Carl's kind of led that process. Uh and um so we have policy we have put in place. It has to be done by July 1st. So that will meet this requirement. the other policy, uh, the fourth and eighth grade policy, we just added the reference that there is now a third grade reading or a promotion policy in place as well. That's the only change to that policy. So, we recommend approval. Um, the only thing I will say on this one for the 5411 third grade promotion, that's our our policy. Correct. Correct. It need it should say before the legal at the very bottom. It should say school district of Loai or however it states. It's missing that it's missing this piece. So that's the only piece that's
067missing that I saw. All right. So I'll move to the full board the recommendation for adoption of the third grade promotion policy reading criteria and accompanying reference in the fourth grade promotion policy. I'll second that. Motion by Terry, second by Sarah Rip. Any more discussion? Do we have to add that? That we'll just add it. Notation needs to be added. Okay. Okay. Uh all in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. And we do not have gifts and donations, but as we saw from the field or the fundraising fundraiser request, I think we've had a lot of donations. Yeah. So, thank you. People have really Yeah. been in on it. All right. Our committee reports. Uh, we'll start with CISA 5. I pass that around while I'm talking. Okay. Pass it all to them. Um,
068CISA 5 had two meetings. The May 15th meeting was the annual meeting where they figure out who which schools are going to represent their board and oh, all the same schools are there, but and then they all elected to stay in and there's only one rep that changed. So, wasn't a big nothing nothing burger kind of thing. It just took time. So, um, and then we had another meeting just the other day and we talked about, um, the new tool to track kids I Ready forward exams. And there's one more, isn't there? Ames web. Ames web. So, you could you could track individual students in the past. That wasn't a problem, but you couldn't track like a classroom from third grade and then how did that classroom perform in fourth grade and then fifth grade
069and sixth grade all the way up. And so CISA 5 is developing a tool that allows our people, our administrators and teachers probably or probably administrators to track those kinds of things. So you can see is it that class? Is there something going on in a certain grade or what is it the curriculum that's used here or there that's making things change and you can see where else and you can compare it to other schools and you can compare it to the national average and the state average and that'll be for us to use free with Fred. Oh, I doubt it's going to be free. The cost will be very low. Silly me. The cost is always very low. We will analyze that and see if that would be a good tool for us or
070not. Exactly. So, we have next path. So, we we have a lot of data analyzing tools right now. So, right. Okay. We'll see. And this particular one isn't done yet. They just preview it. And then season 5 always has tons of things they're doing for the teachers and par professionals and admins, but that particular one I sent around is one that board members might want to attend. A lot of board members do attend that one. So, and if any of the board members did want to attend that, the school district would pay you to go. So, yeah, if it's of interest to you, just let them know and they will sign you up. Can I I will say, Adam, one of the most amazing things about that tool that he was using when they were
071showing it to the group of superintendents, right? Um, and I shared this at the meeting the other day, right? That's what you were talking about. The really cool thing is when they were showing different schools, um, and then we were able to like they kept looking at the top line and the superintendent kept asking who is that top line and I was able to go and I finally like, okay, click on it. So that was the one that that's what Yeah, you were talking about that. Yeah, it's a great tool. No, this is a great district. Did you tell the whole story? Did everyone hear that though? We heard we talked at the committee, but that No, I talked that the whole the staff staff breakfast. Yeah. Yes. We were at a meeting at CESA,
072a bunch of superintendents and they were looking at this new data tool and they were like be able to compare districts and they were looking at the middle district, some in the middle of them and they're like, "Who's that district on top?" And they they kind of ignored the question and kept going. And then they as somebody else asked, "Well, who's that district?" And then the presenter kind of looked at me. I'm like, she clicked on him. Vince said right here. Right here. No, I said right there. Right there. Yes. Yes. I meant to everybody else. They weren't there. You were at the meeting. I was You were representing us. It was a good meeting. I just walked out. Nice to not have the mic. just Mike and so that's why when they showed it
073to us they chose a different CISA and different score so we would recognize that's awesome thanks Adam uh co-curricular items report okay well we'll start yeah the LOI baseball team finished the season with an overall record of 18-6 and a conference record of six-2 taking home the conference championship the team earned a six seed in the WIAA playoffs. The Blue Devils hosted number 11 Richland Center on Thursday, May 29th in the first round of the playoffs, coming away with a 4-2 win. In the second round, Loi Loi took on number three McFarland, coming away with a 6-2 victory. Then on Thursday, June 5th, Loi hosted number seven Mont Horb in the regional final, taking home a regional championship with a score of 122. Wayne is all I know. Tomorrow the team will be headed to
074sectionals in the Dells. Their first game will be against number one Reedsburg at 10 a.m. And if they win, they're going to play in the sectional final at 400 p.m. That's all very cool. That is softball. The Lai softball team finished the season with an overall record of 159 and a conference record of 62. The team earned a number three seed in the WIAA playoffs. The Blue Devils hosted Bigfoot in the first round of the playoffs, coming away with a 12-2 victory in six six innings. The season came to an end in the regional championship with Loi losing number two to point to number two point by a score of 73. Girls soccer. The girls soccer team finished the season with an overall record of 842 and a conference record of 231. The team earned
075a number seven seed in the WIAA playoffs. On Thursday, June 5th, the Blue Devils hosted number 10 Living Word Lutheran, coming away with a 10-0 victory. The season came to an end this past Saturday in the regional finals in a 200 loss to Azaki/Random Lake. Moving on to track and field, the track team participated in the regional regional track meet on Tuesday, May 27th. The girls team walked away regional champions with 19 of the 21 girls advancing to sectionals, which is pretty fantastic. Pretty impressive. Yeah. And the boys team finished in fifth place, which is also great. On Friday, May 30th, the boys and girls track teams participated in the division 2 sectional in McFarland. The boys team finished in 30th place and the girls team finished in ninth place. Olivia Hayroth, Natalie Kelly, and
076Izzy B advanced to the Wisconsin State Track and Field Championships this past weekend. Senior Izzy Bay ended the weekend with a fourth place podium spot in Discus. Good for her. The Lodai golf team finished their season in third place in the highly competitive Capitol Conference. On Tuesday, May 27th, the team traveled to the Prairie Duchene Regional, finishing the day in seventh place to end the season. And finally, the lacrosse co-op finished the season with an overall record of 315 and a conference record of 08. They earned a number 20 seed in the WIAA playoff playoffs and lost to number 13 Sun Prairie by a score of 64. So overall, the sports teams are doing fantastic and they finished off the year really in a really great place. Nothing to do tomorrow, go watch baseball team
07710 o'clock in Wisconsin. Must be nice tomorrow, isn't it? Yes. It's always a great day to watch baseball. Yeah. Full eye baseball. Yes, exactly. Uh OC. All right. So on May 21st, the OC board met in in OSC. The meeting consisted of OSIA update. Project night was a success. Um have finished spring assessment forward ready and act 20. Discussed the amazing field study students have experienced this year and highlighted some recent and upcoming field studies. Finished trips to King Fisher Yoga School Forest. Kurt Wilson joined um Goris Park. They did the fish shocking with the DNR. Measured them and did all that good stuff. I love that. Um Wisconsin Dell's boat tour. U Mr. Shinman shared improved attendance procedures and was a success. All school recess a big success. Fifth fifth and sixth um grade
078math meet successful. Fortify fourth and fifth bullying prevention efforts and stride with provide try that again. Even if I tried with pride event was a success. OC fundraising the lemonade jelly update good sales at project night. sell sell remaining jars at national night out is one of the possibilities there and a lemonade stand at the fair and sign up genius is created and has been shared with families for signing up for the lemonade stand because that's always a a big issue and it's a hit at the fair. So um next OSE board meeting is Thursday June 26 at 1 to 3:00 p.m. 1 to whenever um at Mary Klein's house. So, can I ask a question? Busy busy um about the lemonade stand. So, I don't know if maybe I missed it, but I don't
079recall receiving that um invitation and I don't know if maybe I don't know if OST like sends it out to a kid alums parents or not. Correct. But we should we could uh we will for sure send it to some alum because I mean like my kids and I would be happy to sign up. I was going to say that's probably a really good idea. A lot of alumni people and kids run that lemonade stand. So, you should send it to alumni. I mean, it's possible they already did and I just didn't see the email, but I don't We just sent it to families first. We had a lot of uh good interest. Oh, good. Okay, good. We We want to make sure people here anyway. Others as well. Well, I just remember last year
080we were really struggling to get people to sign up. So, that's that people are signing up and that's great. Yeah. I want to buy some of that lemonade. Awesome. Lemon and lemon. All right. So now our board committee committee report. So personnel has not met since last meeting but we can start with curriculum. Okay. So the curriculum committee ma met on May 28th and um these are the sort of the highlights of the things we talked about. Um there there was a discussion about the German exchange program which um included its background structure and the rubric that that's currently being used for student selection. The program coordinators and administrators uh were in attendance and they provided an overview of the application and interview processes including how the rubric scores are determined. concerns had been raised
081by a hosting family uh which um one of those individuals came to the meeting during the public comments and kind of shared their experience some of their concerns. So the committee members recommended a review of the current rubric which was originally created over a decade ago and passed down through multiple coordinators. The committee support supported the idea of a rubric review across all exchange programs in including the Germany, Spain and Thailand programs by the respective pro program coordinators. There was a discussion about the act 20 promotion policy which we discussed um earlier in this meeting. Um sixth grade social studies adoption proposal uh which is a proposal to adopt TCI social studies as the core program for sixth grade. The resource aligns with the current fourth and fifth grade curriculum and the digital license for
082three years and a cons and consumable workbooks which come to a cost of $800 a year which were included in the curriculum budget. There was an annual approval of the annual textbook um including the sixth grade TCI resource. We also discussed the draft of an advanced learner services plan outline aligning with Miola policy and DPI guidelines. The plan outlines identification processes, service options, and includes a parent referral form. Our next meeting will take place on June 11th at 4:30 in the high school library. Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, that was a really good discussion I felt like we had you guys had at um about the rubric and all that. I think it was I think it I mean it makes sense to refresh it. Shared their experience to us. So, and it was
083good to hear from a parent who had the experience, you know, and get those feedback. So, uh facility and finance. Um we just met. Yeah. Uh the first thing on our agenda was go over the 22 referendum. We keep talking about this new referendum coming up, but at the last board meeting, there was a long discussion during the bathroom stall thing, and it to me it sounded like we didn't know what was on our referendum and we might trade projects and stuff like that. There's none of that's happening. we are going to pay for all of the stuff. We are going to do all the things that are on the referendum in 2022 and it will we know what all those projects are and so the district website we're going to update that with a
084little more detail so you can see all of that stuff on there. So, but we went over all of that stuff in the committee. Um, we talked about our property liability insurance which we just approved, the open enrollment survey, what we just approved, and uh, we also had a discussion, quite a long discussion about all of the facility planning process that's coming up. So, green space was a big thing, right? So, um, Scott wasn't on that committee for a while and so he wanted an update about all the green space, the discussion that had happened while he wasn't on there, but then we also talked about the PAC and the CTE and all the other areas, the wrestling, the pool, all of it for the upcoming referendum and all of that stuff. So, seeing the
085thing that Vince posted about the timeline and his report, that's why it's a little scary because there's a lot of stuff to discuss and get through. Yeah, this end, but also on the community side also. Yeah. And hearing from experts as you just mentioned, plus hearing from admits and it's there's a lot of stuff to be done before the next referendum. So, yes, that's why I find it scary. Anyway, uh and we talked about food service and that was it. Awesome. Thank you. Uh policy. Policy. We went through our the few that we have. We did them. All right. So, our um future meetings um let's see, we have um our curriculum committee meeting is going to be this Wednesday at 4:30 at the high school LMC change of venue. And then after that, we're
086going to have a special board meeting at 5:30. And then it does say policy committee on that's wrong. Now, we don't have so we don't have any policy coming up. policy. All right. And then um our next regular school board meeting is going to be Monday, July 14th, 5:30 close, 6:30 open. Yeah, that's why. Yeah. And then our um personnel committee is going to be Tuesday, August 7th at 4:30, followed by facility and finance at 6 o'clock. I do not believe we do not have to go into close session. Then I will make a motion to adjurnn. Can I have a second? Motion by Sarah Ramish, second by Adam. Any more discussion? All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? Motion passes 6. We are adjourned. So policy is up on Wednesdays now because I think I
087have in my Thank you guys. Are we going to So no policy in I had the 25th policy in July. We did committee meetings. Oh, so that's why we need this one only. Okay. So,