001So, I'm going to go ahead and call us to order. And um I would entertain a motion to go into closed four. Um under Wisconsin statute 19.851c 851C concerning employment, promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation data on any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. Um, tonight specifically a certified staff member retirement request. >> I will make that motion. >> I'll second. >> Thank you for speaking into the microphone. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, we will go into close session. Oh, nope. Nope. I need roll call. >> All right. >> Nice work. >> Um, thank you. I caught myself there. It's probably because my mom might be watching. Um, it's a special day. It is. Um, okay. So, um, like I said, Howry is absent. So, Chapman here, Huey >>
002here, >> Fischer >> here, >> Vestler here. Okay. So at 6:46 we are in closed session. tonight 7:01. All right. So, we've got some consent agenda items um that include the minutes from our last meeting, November 17th, 2025, certified and co-curricular staffing recommendations um and a certified staff member retirement request. Um would anyone like to pull anything out from the consent agenda items to discuss? Okay, I would look for a motion then. I move to accept the consent agenda as presented. >> I can second. >> Thank you. >> Any discussion? >> Okay. Um all those in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries 40. Um and of course we have personnel items that do not require a vote. Um so next we have public comments. Any of those
003tonight? Okay, excellent. Now we have our McFarland High School student report and I see we have Dean with us this evening. >> Good evening everyone. >> Hi Dean. >> Okay, so um I am super glad that you all got to meet Anna and hear for from her for both of the November school board meetings, but I am certainly happy to be back. Um, I am going to share my screen and then we will quickly get into it. Okay. So, this is the fifth edition of the McFarland High School student report for the 2025 uh 2026 academic school year on Monday, December 1st of 2025. So, getting right into things, I would like to start off with some highlights. Um, last month, student council's junior class officers got together to discuss the McFarland High School 2026
004prom. The DJ has been booked and similar to past years, the location is the Madison Masonic Center's Grand Ballroom. Then the junior class voted on the proposed themes and the winner was Murder Masquerade, which blends the ideas of a murder mystery party with an elegant and old-fashioned masquerade ball. >> Awesome. >> Um, next, the entire school met in the Performing Arts Center on Friday, November 21st for the first Spartan Pride assembly of the school year. Our amazing administrative team led a presentation that featured a wide range of the amazing students we have here at MHS, including academics, clubs, performing arts, as well as sports. Finally, this fall's Super Spartan Award, something that is only given to three students every year for their many accomplishments, was awarded to McFarland senior Hannah Kirch. Lastly, this past week
005during fall break, multiple clubs including Student Council, DECA, Letters of Love, Multicultural Club, and Girl Up, led a joint effort on Wednesday, November 26th to prepare Thanksgiving meals for senior citizens in the community. They later washed a vast amount of mobility equipment, including wheelchairs and canes, for all of our seniors through the senior outreach center. Moving forward, I would like to highlight some of the amazing work of our clubs here at NHS. First, the student council spent one of their regular meetings decorating and writing cards to show appreciation for all of the hardworking teachers and staff at the high school. The letters were either handd delivered by students or put in staff mailboxes at the end of the day. Additionally, the McFarland Hope Squad hosted a gratitude event during both early and late lunches on
006Thursday, November 20th and Friday, November 21st before fall break. Students wrote down what and who they were grateful for on paper leaves before our members stuck them to the bulletin board for everybody to see. And finally, on Saturday, November 22nd, numerous student council members went shopping for nine children in the McFarland community to buy them presents for this presents for this holiday season, excuse me. Um, those same students will meet together tomorrow during home room to assign and wrap gifts for the kids. At this point, there are a few dates I would like to highlight in regard to the performing arts here at MHS. Um, the McFarland music program is hosting many important events this month. Starting off, uh, the band has an MHS band concert on December 3rd at 7:30 p.m. and the annual
007combined IMMS and MHS winter coral concert is scheduled for December 10th at 700 p.m. In regard to our athletics, we have a lot to share. Um, there are numerous winter sports teams that have already started practicing and have games scheduled for this week and in the future, including girls and boys basketball, girls and boys hockey, girls and boys wrestling, as well as boys swimming. Furthermore, our girls swim team had an amazing conclusion to their 2025 through 2026 season. They took seventh place at the WIA state swim meet and numerous swimmers became medalists in the 200 medley relay. Sixth place was taken by Casey Draper, Ellie Forbes, Olivia Tierney, and Lil Gabe. And Olivia Tierney took sixth place in the 100yard backstroke. And in the 400 freestyle relay, Lil Gabe, Helen Satler, Audrey Tabist, and Olivia
008Tierney took fifth place. Um, in our coming up section, we have a very exciting event at MHS. On December 19th, the student council will be putting on the McFarland's Got Talent show for the second year in a row. As we are hoping to make this an annual event, um, participants will compete in front of the entire school in the Performing Arts Center for the chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Any student can sign up to showcase any of their unique talents at this event. Um, student council members will run and MCE the show and the judge panel will be composed of the four class presidents including me and Anna. Um, but yeah, that's all I have for you. Um, there's definitely a lot happening and a lot to come, but since we had
009that break there, um, it's definitely not as much as usual, but I think that every little break that we can get is good. Um, as I said before, it is great to be back, um, doing these again. Um, and as a heads up, kind of connected to that, now that Anna and I have aligned our schedules, um, Anna will I will each be presenting at one meeting a month. Um, so she will be taking the next one on Monday, December 15th, and then we will proceed to each take one a month for the rest of the year hopefully is our goal so that you guys get to see each of us every month. Um, as always, my team's contact information is below if you ever need to reach out to us outside of these meetings
010with any questions or concerns or comments, anything like that. Um, but if there aren't any of those right now, I can let you all get back to the agenda. No, the one thing I would say is that, um, thank you for coordinating the multiple clubs to, you know, level up the Thanksgiving meals. Um, I mean, even I saw comments on the post that, you know, people were really noticing that that made a big difference for the meals on wheels people. So, it's great that we can do that for the community. >> Yeah, of course. Yeah, that's definitely one of our big goals is always to um have more like co-curricular club activities. Like we're always trying to work with each other um on different efforts and it's always great when we can come together for
011things, especially something as heartwarming as this. For sure. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Dean, I'm impressed because you don't read your slides. >> Yes, >> I am so impressed. So, you do a great job. Thanks. >> Thank you. Thanks, Dean. >> Have a great evening, everyone. and I will see you all in January. >> Drive safe. >> Got it. >> Thank you. Bye. >> All right. Amazing. Okay. Um so next we have ourformational items and we will start with our presentation of people non-discrimination summary report. Lauren here to join us. >> Yes. And keep in mind we've allotted 10 minutes for this outstanding presentation. Five minutes for the presentation and five minutes for your questions. >> Thank you for that reminder. >> Three minutes or less. >> Perfect. >> Started yet. >> Now you have wiggle
012room. >> Do you have one for me? >> I don't. >> You have access to this. >> I know. then I'm not looking at my screen. >> All right. So, if you first refer to the other sheet that came in your packet, I will start there and then we'll move into the one I just handed out. So, this each year we have to submit to the Department of Public Instruction the number of either discrimination or harassment complaints we have received based on a protected class and we have to any revision. >> I'm sorry, Lauren. I'm sorry. Could you move the microphone closer to and then maybe >> to our board policy? >> Amazing. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um, so as you'll see at the top, we did make a revision, and by we, I mean
013you made a revision to our board policy around discrimination. And that could even just be a subtle tweak or edit to the actual policy. They don't they don't ask for what the correction was, just if we made one or what the edit was, but we have to submit the amount of complaints we have. So, I just want to kind of orientate you to this chart. So, on the far left is the type of protected class. So, we only look at these areas. The complaint category is either based on discrimination or harassment. So discrimination being that treatment from a staff member to a student based on the protected class and then or if there is a neutral policy that impacted a protected class differently. Um and then harassment being unwanted behavior that is offensive, intimidating or
014hostile towards a student and that would be student to student. So those are a little bit different um which is why they separate them. Then the next the next columns are formal, informal or other. Formal means the school board took action. So that would be if there was a expulsion um or an abance agreement, which I'm not sure goes through the board, but if the board took action on a specific student or staff member. Informal being that either the complaint was withdrawn, we still have to report it or if our building principles handled it. And then other would be if the police, the office of civil rights, DPI, someone other than us as our district handled it. So, as you can see, there were eight complaints last school year. Uh, six of them being in
015the area of race. So, five harassment and one discrimination. Um, one harassment in the area of disability and one harassment in the area of sexual orientation. Um, one of the the important notes I think in this report is to note is that you know we have incidents that happen throughout the year of students making inappropriate comments to other students. The numbers that are reported here are have to be complaints that students filed to us. So it's not when a teacher overhears someone say something and intervenes. it is when the student makes an an official complaint to us that we then investigate and learn more about. So that's where I think it's it's just a little bit different. Uh any questions on that? I mean the since the most of them reside within race is there
016um I mean what kind of followup after the investigation or you know or do you have any concerns about that? Is that related to our practices or >> I don't Okay. Um, you know, I think we could and if it actually that's it's a good question because if you look back at the other sheet I just gave race tends to be our area >> over the years that that is the highest. >> Um, and I could speculate all sorts of things which I will not for for this but of why that is. Um, but I think one of the key pieces that our administration does a really nice job of really addressing what the incident was either working if possible kind of a restorative between two students or even the student and staff member. >>
017Okay. Well, and I think I think we talked about this last year, too. Um, that in some ways when we see a larger number, it can be a good sign that there's safety in feeling like it they can report it and have something done about it. So, >> yes, agreed. >> Okay. I think we've also in the last few years provided more education to students around racial issues and so then you see those numbers when you know they do hear something they feel comfortable reporting it. >> Y >> the other sheet that I gave you is just overtime. So you'll see it is not that different last year's totals compared to other years. we are we are kind of in line with where we've always been. There isn't any kind of outlier that I would
018worry about from last year compared to other years. Um race continues to be an area that I think will will continue to be a concern as as we move forward. >> Okay, >> any questions on that one? I think I asked this question last year, so if I did, I apologize, but you don't have access, excuse me, to other um districts of similar size. Okay, that's what I thought. >> Any other questions for me? >> Yeah, one that I hope isn't a dumb question. Can can another student file a complaint on behalf of another student or Yes, >> they can. And I don't know if >> we'd look into it. >> You do look into >> you. Yes, because the person that was targeted >> typically has to be okay with with us investigating and
019reporting that and they could withdraw that complaint because it's about them. >> Okay. >> But yes, we often get information that way. >> Yeah. >> So, if it's one like event or situation, let's say is it one complaint or if multiple people say XYZ happened or complained, is that two separate complaints or one? >> It would depend on the incident, right? So you know if one person called five people the n-word, we would count that as five separate. If it is one person to one person but said five times, it's still one incident. If it happened >> all at the same time. Yes. As opposed to over the course of months, then we would count those each separately. >> Okay. And are these tip this is did not prepare you for this question at all
020but are they do you know if these incidences are the same people do like how >> that I don't know >> okay yes I don't I typically do not get the students names unless it comes to the the level where I have to investigate. >> Got it. >> So okay >> yes but typically our building administration would would investigate and then report back to me. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. All right. Next up is athletics update. >> Do you want a little longer than three minutes? >> Sorry about that. >> It's okay. It's a little bit longer. >> The official time keeper. >> Paul will take more time. >> We have allotted more time for the >> this update. We have provided
02115 minutes for the presentation and five minutes for questions. >> All right. Welcome Paul. >> And I believe we're doing these three times a year is what my memory tells me >> now each season. Does that sound right? >> That's what I think I remember. >> Thank you. I'll go through that handout after I get done kind of reading through some things here quick, but you folks can take a look at that while I'm reading if you'd like or look at it later. So, we'll have some time. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Our fall sports teams had some very successful seasons, showing growth and success during the regular season and making it to varying levels of the WI state tournament series. I asked each coach to do a seasonal writeup for our
022recent student assembly that was discussed at our student council. >> And I thought this would be a great place to share these thoughts as well to all of you. So, I'm going to go through each sport just kind of highlighting the season briefly and then um I'll recap it with some state performances and then at the end of the season I meet with all the head coaches and I go through an end of the season kind of feedback form that we send out to our student athletes and then I wanted to include some of the comments that were listed by some of our student athletes so that you could kind of hear what our student athletes are saying about the program that they're in as well as the coach that they have within that program.
023So, kind of a seasonal recap. Boys soccer. The boys soccer team had a very successful season going 5-2 in conference and 14-7 overall. They were regional and sectional champions and advanced to the state semi-finals where they took on a very talented Notre Dame team. This season was driven by a large group of seniors that led the team on and off the field. Football. This year's team qualified for the WIAA Division 3 playoffs and had a conference record of four and three. Congrats to the coaches and the players for a good season. They made some significant improvements throughout the season and congratulations. It's kind of weird, but congratulations to coach Ackley for achieving 100 wins. Cross country. >> Our boys v our boys varsity cross country team finished third at conference and our boys GV team
024finished second at conference. The boys team won the Fort Atinson invite. The girls team took second at the Badger small conference meet behind the state champion Mount Hore Vikings. The girls team also won the sectional meet and they were division 2 state runners up. Congratulations to Andrew Garvey and Scott Fischer. I found this out today for being recognized as the district 5 girls cross country coaches of the year. >> Uh they received this award through their through the Wisconsin cross country coaches association. Girls swimming. Uh, as noted in our student council um, presentation as well, the team took first at the Elhorn invite. Both the JV and varsity teams took second overall in the Badger Small Conference meet. The varsity team placed second at the WIA sectional meet and qualified eight girls for the WI
025state meet where they took seventh place. Girls golf. The girls golf team competed extremely well in a tough Badger Small Conference, finishing third place with three girls shooting personal best at the WIAA regionals and just missing at WIAA sectional birth for the team. This program continues to have more girls participating in their sport each and every year and we have seen great improvement in their talent and participation numbers. girls tennis. The varsity team finished second in the Badger Small Conference and finished third overall in a 15 team Badger Conference tournament. Kimmy Mender and Lydia Mikkelbank were both conference champions in singles at their respective flights. Overall, the team earned a 10 and3 season record, dominating their competition with 86 match wins and just 22 losses. Girls volleyball. Volleyball finished 20 and 21 while playing the
026fourth strongest schedule in all of Division 2. It was a milestonefilled season as we advanced all the way to the regional final game, taking on Sock Prairie, who ended up winning the Division 2 state title. Those career milestones that were mentioned was 1,00 kills for Kayla Landerude, 1,00 assists for Alex Foust, and Kayla set a new school record for career kills with 1,285 with the previous record was 1,080. Uh, and also, Coach Morerti reached 100 wins as well. Dance team took first place in D4 Palms and D2 Jazz at their first fall competition at Wawaossa West. They only have one fall competition as their winter season is full of competition starting up this Saturday. So that kind of recaps our fall sports. Some state performances that I want to highlight. I have mentioned a little
027bit but I also want to give recognition to some of the athletes. So girls cross country as we mentioned was state runners up participants on that uh state runnerup team was Aydah Guyger, Ava Thompson, Brooke Desong, Bailey Wagner, Hannah Kirch, and Alyssa Brassette. Boys cross country, we had one boy participate in the state meet, Henry Pak, uh who uh placed 11th at the state meet. Girls tennis, uh Anna Melllin, we didn't mention Anna in the first. I saved it for this. Anna Anna Mlin qualified for the division 1 WIAA state individual tennis tournament. Anna was the first McFarland tennis player to qualify for the individual state tournament in five years and our very first division one qualifier. We had went up a division in um tennis recently. >> Boys soccer, as mentioned before, qualified for
028the WI state tournament. There's obviously too many names. We had 25 boys on the roster um to list here at this meeting, but know that they competed very well and then just came up a little short against Notre Dame who obviously played they were state runners up losing to Wau Catholic Memorial. Girls swimming as mentioned took seventh overall at the division 2 state meet. Uh, as mentioned in our presentation um earlier, Olivia uh Olivia Tierney, Lil G, Ellie Forbes, Sophia Oleski, Audrey Toast, Helen Sadler, Casey Draper, and Kaylee Kunzie were all participants in that meet as well. So, that kind of wraps up the recap of the sports seasons. Just some things here. Like I had mentioned to you earlier, I send a kind of a feedback form out to all of our student athletes.
029You know, some sports get a really great turnout and others, you know, it just depends if the kids read their email, but we try to encourage them to fill it out. We send it through infinite campus so that they can fill this out. Some of the questions are what are the strengths of the program and what did the coach do well? So, I want to read some of the comments from our student athletes of the strengths of our programs. It was very well organized and executed. Athletes knew what to expect from coaches and themselves every day. It was a place to call it family, somewhere you could go and find support in the form of a teammate. >> The culture of the team is something that keeps us together like a family throughout the season.
030Also, the coaches give the players a the confidence and support to play their game. I felt very welcome and included. Everyone supported each other, including the coaches, and it was very it was a very friendly and fun environment overall. It was very fun and welcoming. I look forward to it every day, and I'm excited for next season. lots of opportunities to get better as well as always being involved in the community, giving back in some way, shape or form and lots of tradition in our program. Having a consistent support system and making the team feel like a family. So those were some of the comments that were uh written down when the student athlete was asked what are the strengths of our program. Some of the comments that the student athletes wrote down is what
031did the coach do well? very approachable, listens, genuinely cares, uh genuinely cares, knowledgeable, encouraged, believes in athletes, brings great energy to the team, makes practice fun, and a good communicator. Supported every single one of us and never gave up on any of us, and always had us pushing ourselves to get better. Coach made a strong coach made a strong team dynamic and encouraged everyone to support it as well. The coach made sure opinions were valued and truly wanted to make everyone happy when making a decision. All of the coaches did a good job at dissolving the line between working hard and having fun. I thought that was a pretty nice comment that a young person wrote. My coach creates a sense of team and great culture. My coach always knew what he was talking about
032and gave good sport and non-sport related advice. >> So, I wanted to share some of those comments that I share with the coaches at our end of the season meeting that I have with all of our head coaches. Um, now the handout that I gave you, how we doing on time? Was there a timekeeper? I think we're doing okay. >> 10 You're 10 minutes over. >> 15 minutes left total. >> Oh, wonderful. We have plenty of time. All right. So, this is a report that I've given to the school board uh in previous years. So, what it does is it's just uh Michelle Eversaw just a wonderful asset to our district when it comes to Infinite Campus. Um, we're able to do what's called a sports participant analysis report. um from Infinite Campus. So, you
033can look through there. It'll it gives us all of the participants on every fall sport team, their grade, their gender, their race, their ethnicity, and whether or not they qualify for special education. Just trying to get a a full grasp of who's participating and how many are participating within our fall sports. So, you can look through each individual sport in the fall if you'd like. Um it gives you the total. Now, occasionally, like for example, um in some of our sports there are managers. So, if you see like there's a a girls swim team, but there's two mill that would be that they're the manager or vice versa, a male team with um managers. But we also, you know, kind they're part of the team, right? Some of those managers uh in all honesty are
034working just as hard as the athletes and getting the season ready to go and attending all the events and supporting the team in that way. If you look at the bottom right hand corner for each uh sport, you can see the average cumitive grade point average for the for that group. I was impressed with all of our grade point our cumulative grade point averages. We don't have a term grade point average because we just had uh midterm progress grades and not a semester grade. >> What's the minimum GPA needed? I I know I've seen the >> the athletic code um meeting numerous times, but what is it? 1.75 set by the WIA. Yeah. And and not failing any >> super y to that. >> Yep. >> Awesome. >> And you can see too how many
035participants uh how many ninth graders went out, how many tenth graders went out, how many 11th graders went out. That's all broken down in that chart. And then again over ethnicity. It kind of breaks it down by uh cultural uh uh breakdown there as well on each score. So I'll kind of let you peruse through that. Um, if you want, maybe go to the very back page where it kind of tabulates all of the fall sports for us. That kind of gives you a big picture. Each page there is kind of a separate shot of each sport. >> Whereas now in the back page, it says fall totals. That's going to give you kind of a a snapshot or a large view of our fall sports. So, kind of breaking that down, if you look
036up here, we had uh special education. We had 12 students in our all of our fall sports participating in our special education students participating in fall sports, 12 of them. We had 75 9th graders. That includes girls and boys. We had 96 10th graders, 61 11th graders, and 58 12th graders. You can look over on the right hand side again culturally the percentage or the breakdown of participants that we have. We also can go down to the male and female total. So out of if you add up the column or the rows ahead, so 75, 96, 61, and 58, that equals 290 participants in fall sports. And 147 of those 290 are male, which gives you a 50% uh participation rate. And 143 uh out of the 290 are female for 49%. And then it
037can show you here the percent of males in a fall sport that is taken from the 395 in our school. And again that's 37% and then 43% females in a fall sport taken from the 331. So those percentages are based off of just the specific. Um when I kind of looked at it, I was very impressed with our average male cumulative GPA at 3.2. our average female cumitive G point GPA cumitive GPA uh at 3.7 and then our average cumitive GPA for all of our fall athletes is 3.478 which I think um going over this with Mr. Jacobson today. I think we were both very impressed with that. Uh really signifying the true meaning of a student athlete for education based athletics here at our high school. >> Um I kind of looked at it
038also one other number here. We had approximately 40% of our student body participated in a fall sport in some way, shape or form. So we had 290 out of the 726 um that we have on this report. So, I thought that was pretty significant as well to see that we had a lot of kids participating and as mentioned in our student council, you know, many clubs and activities for our students here at MHS to participate in. >> So, that kind of wraps up my report. More than happy to field any questions. >> I have a dumb question. Why' the girls tennis team get bumped up? >> Just enrollment. Uh so our girls golf and our girls tennis >> participate in division one. >> Okay. >> Uh in the fall and how that works is it
039really depends on how many schools in the state of Wisconsin offer the sport and then it takes it from their enrollment there. Okay. >> And every sport's different like football has seven divisions, soccer has >> uh four divisions. Um basketball has five. Volleyball now has five. So everyone is a little bit different but your enrollment is what puts you in your division placement. Unless and I can get into a much deeper conversation. Now the WI think it was a couple years ago now maybe maybe a few years ago passed at our annual meeting the um basically it's a success factor is what it was kind of originally called but it's a point-based system where if you accumulate six or more points throughout the tournament series over a three-year period you move up a division for
040competition >> which makes sense that you want to punish the teams that are good. Yeah, especially the ones that smaller groups. >> Sorry, >> I'm just helping out. You've been sarcastic. I just want the people to know. >> Well, I just want people to realize that that's so crazy. >> It's one of the things that I think is starting to get looked at a little bit more closely. You know, once something has passed, you kind of >> Yeah. >> see it and look at it uh and then just kind of evaluate it after a few years. But it's definitely viewed differently by many people, >> right? And I know in cross country there's a division three team that is competing in division one. >> Yeah. >> And I'm going they have triplets who are extremely
041talented. >> Our volleyball team was impacted by this not this year but last year where we went to division one when we qualified to six points over the three years. >> We did appeal. >> We did. Yep. We did appeal and unfortunately did not >> was not successful in that appeal. >> Okay. >> I apologize for being sarcastic. >> No, it's okay. I just want the public to know. So, just a point of clarification from the non-sports person. Um, when you say the enrollment determines the division, is that enrollment in that specific program? >> Nope. Enrollment in our high school. >> Okay. >> So, we we do a third Friday count. >> Our third Friday count this school year was 705 students. >> Yep. >> And so, therefore, that will place us divisionally for the
042next school year. So this school year, I think our third Friday count last year, I think was 7:35ish, right around there. And that places us tournament wise this school year. Got it. >> So they always use your previous third Friday count to put you in the division for the following. >> But that does bring up a good point, which is that our school has always historically offered more opportunities, more sports than schools our size. And so in that sense, we're being punished by uh and notice I wasn't sarcastic on that. Um for the fact that that we're doing what things school should do. I mean, we provide opportunities for kids, but just >> the public, you realize, you know, we keep watering down our our potential, I guess, uh pot of athletes, as it were.
043There just not as many to go around >> because they're going to other different events. And that's great, but >> opportunities are wonderful, but then you have to also look at it as we have so many opportunities for our kids that they're going to naturally spread themselves out, >> right? >> Yeah. I will say uh for the board's benefit that in looking at the the totals across demographic groups when you look at you know the number of of students male and female when you look at race ethnicity it's very consistent with our overall >> school population. The only area of the demographic shared where there is a a bit of an under representation is students with special needs. >> That that they're a bit under represented. Um students with special needs make up about 11%
044of our student population at the high school and about 4% of our fall athletes. So it's just, you know, that's maybe something to kind of think about for future growth. >> Interesting. as well. >> Okay. >> I would also argue that's probably pretty typical >> maybe >> in all at all schools. I mean, it's there's not much. >> Yeah, I'd prefer to not be typical. >> I don't blame you and I don't think we are in most >> um I am curious and this is if you don't have an answer now that's fine. Um, but because we, you know, these evaluations are so great and I love hearing the strengths, but I'm wondering if there were any themes in the growth areas for the programs that you identified. >> I think, you know, I couldn't
045probably put my finger on it right now without really kind of digging into that, but as I'm thinking of my end of the season meetings with my head coaches, you know, there's um >> comments about playing time, >> right? Kids want to play more. uh they want to participate more, which is great. Uh the fact of the matter is that I think our coaches do a great job of getting our kids in that can get in uh or participate in races that they can participate in or having JV opportunities or things of that nature. That would be one thing that would come off the top of my head. Um I think, you know, when you're asking a young person to fill out a form on feedback, it can be challenging at times for them to
046really put in words what they're thinking or feeling. Um, so I think sometimes, you know, maybe the comment might not come out the right way. If I could have a verbal conversation with them or and a lot of the coaches do end of the season meetings as well with their athletes to kind of see what are the things that they liked about it, what are the seasons that, you know, what are the things they're looking forward to next year, what are the things that they can do differently. Um, our coaches do a great job at the end of the season meeting with me to be open and and honest about the comments. they sit right down with me and look at them with me so we can go over them and and I think it's
047a good opportunity for them to be reflective. >> Okay. >> So, I hope that answers your question. >> Yeah, totally. And we have one minute remaining. >> Any observations about middle school athletics >> this fall so far? >> Yeah, we had unbelievable number of middle school cross country participants. I think we were like like right around 75 plus. Our coaches do a phenomenal job. We did add a coach this year to that program just for better supervision. Um but they do a phenomenal job. Girls volleyball has always continued to be a strong uh participation level. Um and they do a great job of getting games in. We are in a what's called a quad. So we have um the two Verona Middle Schools, the uh Glacial Drumland over in Manona, and then we have McFarland,
048Stoton, and Oregon. So we kind of have a a closer group, which is nice for traveling purposes. >> And they get kind of a double round. So, they'll take on each team twice and get 10 events, which is great for volleyball. Cross country, I think we did five events this year. Traveling down to Monroe and Sun Prairie and um I think we were also over at Stoton and did a nice job with that. But our our cross country do a our cross country kids do a great job of just getting that participation philosophy at that level of just trying things out. We don't offer a ton obviously. We have, you know, football through our community and other kind of youth programs to our community, but our our sports and we also have a middle school
049dance program that we started up years ago to try to get a feeder program getting into and that's done a great job and our participation numbers at our high school dance are seeing the impact of that. I think on there we had 16 girls participate on our dance team, >> which is great. I know when my daughter wasn't danced here at McFarland, I think there was >> maybe 11 or 12. So, our numbers have been up and it's a very competitive program. We were, you know, state champions last year in um Palms, I believe it was. >> So, so little middle school recap as well. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> That's kind of nice to know. >> Yeah. >> Ding. >> Awesome. Awesome. Perfect. Well, thank you. >> Awesome. >> Thanks, guys. >> Appreciate it very
050much. >> And on to winter sports. >> Yes. >> 10 inches of snow. That's right. >> Yeah, that didn't take long, right? >> No. >> All right. Thank you again. >> Have a good night. >> All right. Now, it's your turn, Mr. Turner. Your administrator's report. >> All right. Um, thank you so much. I am going to um start, but we'll see some scenes from around uh the district here. I think it's always a great way to start the presentation so you can kind of see some of the highlights and remind ourselves, oh yeah, that's why we do what we do. So here you can um see the celebration that they had after their family book club. So, that's something the primary school has been doing now where there's a shared read and then um
051they get to to watch the performance on the big screen at the PA. >> That was a blast. >> And those they do such a great job. >> Yeah, they really do. >> Have we thought about doing more like family movie nights in the PAC? >> I haven't, but >> I just think that could be really fun. >> It's a great place to watch a movie, that's for sure. Yeah, it's a it's a fun thing to do. Yeah, >> a lot of siblings, too. >> That's fun. >> You know, you have to work with copyright issues, but get around those. So, um Yep. The bad guys. >> Here you can see, well, look, there's our very own >> Bruce Fischer >> there at family fun night. So, it's just nice to see some scenes about
052it. We talk about it, but it's good to see it in action. And >> and you're sitting next door. You're sitting next to my next door neighbor, Charlotte. >> Those kids are so good. >> Sharing some wisdom, I'm sure. >> Very fun. >> Sarcastic. >> Look at you. Nice call back. >> Sassy and sarcastic. >> The crochet club. You can see Kelsey Garvey there with a a student and other students. It's I think a newer club I think at the the middle school, but the numbers keep increasing. And what a great thing for kids to do. Notice they're not on devices, they are crocheting. >> Yeah, crocheting is so popular right now. >> Is it? >> Yeah. >> Yes. It's like half of the vendors at Crafts. >> That's cool. Nice. >> Here you have
053Club Unified. Um they uh celebrated Down Syndrome awareness and had uh some parents come in to to to present as guest speakers and really powerful thing that really organized very well that Club Unified did a really nice job engaging with the families and students and >> recognizing that building a community of empathy. >> Here's they did a little recruiting breakfast here. So, kind of a a fun thing there. Excellent. You can see Jackie Hickey there coming back from that retired educator. >> Heather on to the courage retreat which you've heard about that that day away. Um they have their high school leaders which do a great job and then um a group youth Frontiers comes in and leads that. So all about doing things, you know, um that are courageous and following your heart and
054being who you truly are, being true to your identity. Can see the Veterans Day breakfast. I think this is such a great picture. Such great attendance for that event this year. and it's just nice to see them and celebrate our student council doing a great job recognizing uh our veterans. One of the things that's really neat about this particular event is that the veterans are encouraged to bring in artifacts or things to share and there's a lot of storytelling >> that they do with one another and also with the students. >> So, and it's very interactive. The students sit at tables um and they interact. Also, some students come in with with a family member, you know, a grandparent or a parent. >> So, really special event. >> We've been doing this for a long
055time. >> I feel like it. >> It is. It's just it's such a beautiful thing to do. >> It is. Really is. Um just want to again thank the the McFarland Education Foundation and the Ganon Grant specifically for helping um let us purchase this cooler for the Spartan Fuel Cafe there at the high school. So just some recognition and appreciation for the MEF and all they do. >> Where is that Erin? Where was that? It's taken. >> So that that is located in the off of the cafeteria where the old >> store was. >> Yeah. Okay. Got it. >> Yep. It was storage before. That was one of Brett Jacobson's things that drove him nuts. Why is that space storage? It's so such a great spot. >> So that's a >> lot of hard work.
056>> Here you can see our transition um program students working on some job skills. They're together prepping some materials for primary school. >> Grateful for their work. >> Awesome. >> I don't did I don't remember. Did I show I felt like I showed this before, but I don't think >> you did, but it's still fun to talk about. >> Did I? Okay. The hideand-seek. Yeah. >> Couldn't remember if I have. I've talked about it so much. >> Um and imagine what it's like to play hide-and-seek in a school. I think when you're growing up, you have like these ideas of, wouldn't it be fun if we could do this in a school? And I think those are one of the things that I always thought would >> Well, do you remember when we used to
057do lockins? >> Yeah, >> those were so fun. >> Yeah, they were. >> And our kids, I mean, our kids are a lot better behaved in a lot of ways now than they used to be with >> lockins. There were a lot of worries that we had. >> If we ever do a lock in, I will >> the day. Did you get to participate >> if this was a dream of yours? No. In the hideand-seek? >> Oh, I've never been in a hideand-seek. No, >> not in a school. >> No, we didn't do that. Um, and then you can see here a kind of a neat collaboration of um our adaptive uh PE and our other PE coming together to play some softball. >> That's super cool. >> That's so cool. >> I love that.
058If you had fun, everybody wins. >> Yeah. And here you can see just a picture of our students that participated in the Thanksgiving meals. Great thing. And it was American Education Week last week. And it was substitute educators day. So we continue to break records for our fill rates. And >> once once they get in the door, those subs don't leave. So we just got to get more in the door. Sweet. >> So thanks to everybody for their great work with that. And uh other things I wanted to to recognize uh I wanted to thank Angie Stout for her leadership with the United Way campaign. Uh we broke last year's record by $172, $6,962 and that was up from the previous year. So we just continue to break records. I think we're up over 800
059over a couple years. So that's great. Um, so a lot of contributions are specifically designated for the McFarland Youth Center. That's something that in her communications Angie promotes and >> hopefully that will help support our youth center. >> Appreciate the generosity. And she organizes all the raffles and giveaways. Almost one. >> Awesome. >> Almost. >> Sure. Um, yeah. Y >> yeah. She said we would almost had a decision to make. So that was fun. Um wanted to give a recognition. I know I put this in the minutes, but I just think it's important also for the public to recognize uh that we've added feminine hygiene products to the fourth and fifth grade bathrooms at Wabisa, which means from grades 4 to 12, we now have feminine hygiene products in all um the bathrooms going through.
060many bathrooms going through. >> Uh so thank you to Corey and to Leah Corey Chevchek and associate principal Leah Lackey as well as health assistant Satie Frank student services for helping make that happen. One of the things that you know in thanking them that I acknowledge though is I don't love that it's donations. You know I really wish that it was something the district would just support as one when one society would just support. um in general in >> in public facilities. So that's always something to work towards. Yes. >> But we'll take donations now and >> that's a big change. >> So if people want to make donations, can they just drop them off at >> Wisa? Yep. >> Okay. >> Any school will take them. >> Awesome. >> So thanks to them. You
061already heard I was going to have the big drum roll and I forgot that Paul was presenting about coaches Andrew Garvey and Scott Fischer being recognized. just that's hot off the press today >> is when I found out about it. So, >> yay. >> Congratulations to them as coaches of the year. >> Also hot off the press as Bruce Fischer sent us a screenshot the Wisconsin school news publication. Okay. Provided by the uh W Wisconsin Association of School Boards includes an article called Shared Vision Accessible Play. How the McFarland School District and Village collaborated to build a playground for all. >> That's awesome. That's the article you were asking if I saw. That's awesome. I hadn't gotten to that yet. >> Me neither. >> You have a job >> with you. I don't >> My
062favorite is is >> um it was all quotes from Jeff Mahoney who did a great job. Um it's a yearround resource. Every day kids are using this because when we're off, the community is on. >> So, that's a good one. >> Isn't that good? That's a bumper sticker, right? So, the idea that it's used during the school day and used outside of the school day. I think the article does a really nice job summarizing >> the benefits. >> Cool. >> So, that was great. We got some things coming up. Um, National Special Education Day is tomorrow. On this day in 1975, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, also known as IDA, was signed into law reaffirming the importance of inclusive education. So that's tomorrow. Reminder, I am in Washington DC for the remainder of the
063week uh attending a stride summit uh in association with the Wisconsin Virtual Academy. So I look forward to reporting out about that. The third is the International Day for Persons with Disabilities where we annually observe and promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. It's also the high school band concert at 7:30. This weekend is Winter Wonderland in the village, >> so be sure to attend. I know Meredith indicated she will be attending. Uh, and we have >> out and around. >> Yes, we'll be out and around. It's a lot to do. It's good stuff. >> There's so much to do. >> The um schoolboard work session is next Monday from 5 to 7. Some of which will be um my self-evaluation as part of my
064evaluation process. >> It's also the high school in uh NHS induction ceremony >> at 7 o'clock. It's human rights day on the 10th where we we mark the adoption of the universal declaration of human rights by United Nations General Assembly and it lays out the fundamental and entitled human rights of all human beings. So wonderful day to recognize human rights day. We need some more of that. It's also coincidentally McFarland School's equity collective meeting that night and we will be having a high school student equity leadership panel. >> Be very fun. You're welcome to attend. Um also the choir concert. The 11th is the orchestra concert. Then we have um Hanukkah starts on the 14th and schoolboard meeting. on the 15th >> right here. That's all I have to say. Any recognitions you all have
065to share? >> I actually have one. I would like to give a shout out to the Girl Up Club. >> Um they let me attend one of their meetings. >> Oh, that's right. >> I randomly reached out to uh Jill Kavanaaugh and Kelly Thompson to see if I could just come in and check it out. Um, and first and foremost, I haven't spent a lot of time in high school, like specifically McFarland High School, and there's a lot going on, you know, like during the day. So, shout out to the teachers for making it all work. Um, but the Girlup Club was super fun. >> Uh, they made bracelets and they hung up posters talking about um, dating violence and warning signs. But what I found the most exciting was I was able to do
066like a little school board 101 >> with them and talk about what the school board is all about, what we do. >> Oh, cool. >> And I got such great questions about the referendum. >> Oh, really? Wow. >> Yeah. Like some of the kids were like, "Oh, did you do the referendum?" Oh, my parents were talking about it, but don't worry, they voted for it. And I I went into like school financing a little bit and kind of explained why the referendum happened and that sort of thing. >> And then we talked about the cell phone policy >> and they were I was super impressed by how much they knew. >> Wow. >> They were like, "Well, yeah, Tony signed it into law and you know it it's all cell phones are going to go
067away." I'm like, "Well, actually that's not exactly correct, but I appreciate you know you getting excited about it." Um, and it was just really interesting to see how much they knew. >> Yeah. >> Especially the referendum question. It came from two a freshman and a sophomore. >> Interesting. Wow. >> So, and I brought some snacks. >> Kids these days, >> you know, it was these days, but they all said they enjoy the cell phone policy. >> They walk in, they put it in the slot on the wall, and they said, "You know what? It's cool. We learn more." And I was like, "Awesome." >> Okay, >> that's good feedback. >> So, yeah. So, thank you to Jill Kavanagh and Kelly Thompson and the entire Girl Up uh club for letting me come in. >> Beautiful.
068>> Thanks for sharing. >> And could I just mention about the fact that on Friday night? >> Yep. Do you want to mention No, go ahead. >> Yeah. Well, President Fesler was there. It was just fun. It was awesome. the uh uh uh let's see a Celtic Christian uh Christmas and um brought to us by let's see a taste of Ireland >> and it was so well done >> and there was probably close to 600 people there >> and I just again I want to thank you Aaron but I also forgive me now what is Zach's last name >> Zach Francic >> because yeah >> yeah what is his last name >> Francic I think that's how you pronounce that >> okay sorry forgive me, Zack, cuz I was talking to him backwards. He said
069he had been spending he had spent like six months in contact with them >> and and working that in and it was just an amazing and the only thing that was disappointing to me is I wish I would have somehow gotten even more news out and it just makes me realize how important it is that we kind of just kind of spread the news on this. But it was just a fantastic I think >> everyone left and it was just like >> so pumped. I know. >> It was an amazing amazing show. >> Yeah. >> And uh McFarland's got something very we should be very proud of. >> Yes. >> I was gonna I was going to say the same thing. >> Yeah. especially since it was, you know, the day after a holiday and
070to have Zach and his team there >> and kind of giving up what would normally be one of their off days, you know, and >> we talk a lot about ways to the community to use our facilities and to be involved and like this was a perfect example and I know that >> that team has been trying to do more and so it was it was really fun. It was um lots of community members there and if you're into Irish dance >> Oh my god. >> I grew up going to Irish Fest. It was it was really fun. >> Yeah. >> It was also amazing the number of people who I sat next to a former track coach from Oregon High School. They said last time I've been in the school I was in I
071don't know like in 1960 something and uh it was just interesting. There was a lot of people from Madison. So in a sense it just kind of showcased our community. Yeah. And I think that's just it was amazing. >> And it was I mean it was I don't you said 600 but like from a visual standpoint it looked almost full. Yeah. >> You know. >> Yeah. >> So yeah, that was a really fun event to have here. >> Did they end up opening up the balcony? >> I think so. >> I don't know. >> Okay. >> I think I saw people up there. >> I know that was something they were debating. >> It it was a good, you know, test of kind of the model just to see when you bring in sort of
072a national thing. Now they handled all the promotion and things. >> Yes. on their own. >> Um, but it was just, you know, we're kind of seeing and also, you know, wanting to recognize what what has value and what we have capacity to do. >> So, it was a kind of a good test. So, Zach was very curious how it's going to go. >> Yeah, Zach did a wonderful job. Wow. >> Wonderful. >> Cool. >> All right. >> Anything else? >> All right. Awesome. We're on to our action items. All right. So, our first action item is the agreement between the village of McFarland and school district community park cross country course. You want to give us some background, Aaron? >> Sure. So, um this is something that's been talked about um repeatedly. So, this
073should be familiar to the board and and to the community. Um you have the community park and part um what this agreement talks about is it for a nominal fee it provides the district access to the park for a couple of things. Um one is for cross country there'll be a cross country course there and we'll be able to have some practices and events there. In addition, similar to what we did with the the hockey arena, it provides access to the facility for our um MRAP, our our recreation activities. So, we're limited in what we can provide during the school day on our current facilities because our kids are there and they're using them. So, uh this allows us to use the facility during for programming on those other times. Awesome. All right. Um I
074would entertain a motion unless we have any discussion first or we can discuss after the motion. But um I move to approve the agreement between the village of McFarland and school district community park crosscountry course. All right. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any discussion? >> No. I just want to this was the community park in general is a really big coordination effort >> with the village specifically but also >> this endeavor you know things like this are a couple years in the making at least so I again another collaboration between the village and the district that I'm I'm appreciative that we are able to work so well together on that stuff. >> I agree. >> Yeah. And I think I'll just another really good example of being um good financial stewards
075of the district. Yes, it's it's it's money, but it's um pays us forward um with all the programming that we're able to do and and community members coming to this park um for meets and for activities. So, um all paying each other forward. So, >> yep. Agreed. >> Yeah. >> Um okay. Any So all in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 4 Z. All right. And then we've got our um action on the recommended um WEA DCA Insight School of Wisconsin student transfers to residents districts due to lack of engagement. I move to approve the WIVA EVA destinations Career Academy and Inside School of Wisconsin recommended student transfers back to their resident districts due to lack of engagement. >> I did like the fact that it was
076well I guess I should wait. >> I can second. >> Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, I did. >> Thank you. Any discussion? >> Yeah, sorry. I forgive me. Um I just I'm really happy they kind of put it by uh grade level. It was all as opposed to it's been kind of mixed. >> I noticed that too. They saw that. >> Yeah, it was very nice. Just kind of go through there and quickly see what grades they are. >> They've replaced kindergarten with grade zero. >> Zero. Yeah, I saw that too. >> Um, it was nice to see though that there are attendance or there are parents attending. >> Yes, I saw that too, Megan. >> Uh, the conference which is nice to see. So, >> y >> baby steps. >> Yep. Exactly. >> Excuse me
077again. You second it. >> I did. You're okay. Thank you. Sorry. All right. Any other discussion or questions? No. >> All right. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 4 Z. >> I would then entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> I move to adjurnn. >> Thank you. Do I have a second? I will second. All right. Uh, any discussion? >> All right. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Motion carries and we are adjourned at 8:03. We came in two minutes early.