001e e at p.m. on March 3rd 2025 uh we'll start out with some consent agenda items that include the minutes of the February 17th um school board meeting as well as let see if I've got numbers here now just a consent agenda item we've got some Personnel um additions also does anyone need to pull any of these uh consent agenda items items out to be uh handled individually if not I would look for a motion to uh approve the consent agenda items as presented I can do that and I can second thank you Bruce thank you chattman all those in favor please signify by saying I I I oppos motion carries for zero unanimously uh we also have some Personnel items um unnecessary for vote so uh public comments do we have any public comments
002this evening report no we have not received any okay move on to McFarland High School student report do we have anybody in the house well maybe they'll Bop in possible okay um it appears as though we may not um have anyone handy to give us that student report so in that case we'll move to our informational items the first being business and education partnership meting update turnit and Chapman presenting take it away do you want me to go first you go okay awesome uh so the business and education partnership uh meeting we all met as a group last week and I'll just kind of give you a quick rundown of everything we chatted about um so first off we had uh students from Deca and skills USA come in and chat with us and we
003also had a couple of students talk about um our family and I always say this wrong family consumer what what it's like the family Sciences thank you um they came in and brought food and talked a little about what they were doing um he's a smart one it's like the pyramid we were playing pyramid I know right um so then we got into the DECA situation and they went just went through a really lovely rundown of all of the community events like move a muscle young entrepreneurs the reek ghost pink um with our hockey team obviously the craft and vendor fair which is obviously always really successful and then superhero train training camp which went over really well they were super jazzed about it um and said the kids and the parents were really involved
004so that was great um but then the big thing we all uh got to learn more about was the DECA state competition that was held in Lake Geneva um oh I'm sorry first let's talk about districts uh we had 54 competitors at the district which was held at the Forest High School I was actually able to judge some of the freshmen and they were pretty awesome um but out of the 54 competitors from McFarland we had 16 exam medalists 24 roleplay medalists five automatic qualifiers 10 honorable mentions and then 19 of the 54 competitors made it to state so state was just um a couple of or last week actually uh McFarland did fantastic if you follow any of our social media Pages it was all over there um but I do believe that we
005have two to four people going to the international competition which is being held in Orlando in April we had a ton of medalists that so if you want to see more about who won please go to our social media pages and check it out um Ginger who is the DECA adviser did an amazing job and it's great to see so many of our kids doing so well that's amazing so then getting into the skills USA um update they had their districts in Oregon and then their regionals in Platville they didn't get too much in detail about it um just because out of everyone in skills USA I think we have um approximately 20 kids that are involved with it but it's continuing to grow year after year which is pretty fantastic and then um after
006Platville there will be a state competition being held at the Ali Energy Center which is really cool if anyone wants to check it out so another great thing that the be put together is the student employee Excellence award so every month the be um chooses one student to be recognized and they are actually nominated by their employer so this is not a youth apprenticeship um achievement this is a student employee so thus far um we've had four students win it in November it was Tyler brockhoff in December it was Aubrey Berg January Kendall remman Ryman I'm sure I'm saying reman thank you and then just as last month was Trent Brer so um what be does is we all come in and um we surprise the student at lunch with their family and their employer
007and they get a big check and it's a pretty uh fun situation so um it's O we we have a question what is oh business and education partnership sorry about that I said it pretty quick um so then getting more into uh the career and Technology aspect of it we had our career Expo and Advising night on Tuesday December 17th and I know we've talked about that a little bit um but the great one we actually had was our advising night which was just last month on Wednesday the 5th and we had 60 uh exhibitors talking about college and uh post High School School career so it was open during the day so students could come in and actually some of the skills USA students actually helped bring that all together so then looking forward
008as to what we have going on on Tuesday March 18th we have our reality Zone um then we also have on Thursday May 22nd and Friday May 23rd we're going to have our senior exit interviews so that's all the cool stuff happening at the high school now Switching gears to imms what was the date on the exit interviews May 22nd and May 23rd thank you yep and there looking for volunteers for both reality Zone and Senior exit interview awesome um so getting into Indian Mound we are going to do a real world day on Thursday May 1st where we going to have presenters coming in and just chatting about um what they do for careers and whatnot uh we are still working on getting some of those presenters organized so if you have if you
009would like to get more involved obviously Fred Bartman I believe is going to be um spearheading that as well as our Mentor program so the mentor progr program is to provide a support system to students who are not engaged in their education and really help to promote their strengths and also develop some of their weaknesses um so with that being said Fred Bartman is also going to be that contact and so if people are interested please feel free to reach out to him um we are looking at more towards that sixth and seventh grade level but like I said we always need um more mentors for our kiddos so please get involved if you would like then looking at fundraising that's going on at the High schol school um they're looking at possibly putting up
010announcement screens throughout the building um doing some collaborations between our CE CTE courses and special education which I think is fantastic um we're looking at changing some of our branding as well as putting together some other fundraising options for Indian Mound with um web shirts so for those eighth graders they going to help some of those incoming sixth graders will all have the same t-shirt so updating that as well as trying to do some fundraising for the ski and snowboard club for Indian Mountain just because that can be a very costly activity to be involved in then we just talked more about some of the business-led opportunities that are going on uh within the school district like winter wonderland and the village we're still maintaining those Spotlight coffees um bands by the boardwalk which were
011obviously really really successful and then the golf outing we'll be having here I believe that golf outing is the summer yeah it's WR August and then we just did some brainstorming on some other uh ideas for futur Le programs like careers on Wheels and then really trying to partner with um the elementary schools as well as indiam Mound did I do it did I do it in five minutes anybody in for the The Branding we are looking at trying to um really focus on McFarland area businesses to help with that um anytime you do any kind of rebranding strategy it's it's it can be a little costly so that's why we're looking at sponsorships um and other fundraising Avenues to help alleviate some of those costs I think you did an amazing job thank you
012I just rattled through you very well very comprehensive thank you thanks for inform and I do have one question yeah I mean what's career on Wheels I know what are they thinking about with that that's a great Erin you can probably shed some better light on it than I can is that was that with the the kind of the Spartan Cafe idea no that was different I think career on Wheels is where we tried to do like mobile career like handson I believe gosh I don't remember that at all I know we talked about it like super super quick because it was towards the end um and what we actually ended up doing at the end of our meeting is um myself and some other Business Leaders in McFarland actually went and helped some of
013the DECA students do some presentations and so I think we cut that short a little bit um but I can I'll find out for you and I'll get back to you yeah I apologize and I had to head off to another meeting too so maybe I was on my way out yeah it was a very like end of the meeting and then people kind of scattered to go do Deca stuff so I will share interesting fact about the mentor program at the middle school they have 20 mentors which you know it started off with a handful and um they're hoping to bring on 10 to 15 more to get 30 to 35 mentors so they have they have a need for that man yeah oh yeah yeah but I just thought that was that's impressive
014that it's already up to 20 fredes remark job any other questions comments are you guys does that complete your update I try to fill as much info as I could in my a lot of time you did very well by the way thank you we have a monthly board report sir this is this is the uh from the February uh board meeting um enrollment Elementary enrollment is increasing at a faster rate than middle school or High School enrollment these are interesting facts there has been a 5% increase in expenditures but a 7% increase in funding due to enrollment and that was similar to what what I reported last month nice uh the 25 26 school year has been approved with the two we winter break uh staff development uh has been built into the calendar
015with five flexible days during the summer which really I think enhances the ability of teachers to get together uh on their time um through virtual instruction the St requires 150 days of instruction for virtual schools weeva has 170 plus instructional days so there uh will beyond the number of days of instruction you said 150 150 is the minimum of course that is combination of days and instructional minutes um they hired a new uh marketing firm fin Partners um and using in local media result in better enrollment than anticipated for K12 this past year uh they did a family survey and family survey showed that socialization is not a significant factor in student retention contrary to what many of us thought maybe um wow the family survey indicated that parent satisfaction is at 85% uh the
016the these are a couple dates that are coming up uh so since I won't be the re rep we probably should note this May 7th uh we'll be in Green Bay with a large event at the Hub the DCA a connect building and then May 8th will be the regular Spring retreat day uh number of monthly reports were included uh including the family advisory uh they talked a little about their participation at the day of the capital with the legislators uh what WEA did was that they differentiated the co virtual versus mindsets of what weeva is actually about uh they're requesting full State funding for weeva students they're conducting State Testing they're advocating for conducting State Testing at locations environments where students are comfortable rather than you just a few sites across the state uh
017they talk about the rationale with their legislators for uh weeva student learning uh they're trying to establish meaningful relationships with their legislators and I think we're trying to do the same thing and WEA has drafted sample letters uh that parents can send to their legislators so similar to what we're doing now but as you can tell they're actively involved with uh the politicians uh the eighth graders is part of their civic class civics class take an annual trip to the capital at that time they produce more money of this uh the weeva Highlight high school highlight this month was on uh four or five students that featured students that want to go into teaching medical technician and computer computer programming and all the students have dyslexia so yeah making those accommodations to help students be
018successful and again the growth goals are on target at this time for students and that completes the February report any questions comments what is their enrollment looking at 4,000 something it's more than that I think it's yeah CL 5,000 I don't know where they're at now yeah it's remarkable considering fiveish years ago they were probably at 2,000 weren't they before Co I don't know that's it's grown a lot that's for sure but they anticipate a 10% increase each year but that does not include students that with that withdraw from weeva right so their retention rate is higher and their new enrollment rate is higher than those that do not come back to WEA okay yeah they were what I think they ended the year at 4,400 that sound right last year so yeah I think
019they're projecting 5,000 yep the largest virtual school in the state of Wisconsin yep anybody else yeah well I just was say Tom you do an exceptional job so thank you very much Tom sure um we are going to move our citizens advisory facilities naming committee recommendation and discussion to uh the next school board meeting on the 17th yeah I'll explain a little bit about that the the group is hoping to be able to present uh a recommendation to you tonight they do not have uh a recommendation ready they're still spending time gathering information and we've had four meetings and that's what we were projected to have and the group unanimously felt they needed some more time to do that work so we're hoping to be able to present at the next board meeting but we
020also are not rushing the process it's too important but if anybody out there um happened to see the front page of the State Journal this morning there was a big article about the renaming of schools in Madison School District and coincidentally enough one of the two in Madison is their lvm school the the second being Lind lber yeah they're they're they can do two a two a year yeah and those are the two that they're going to address this year yeah and there's a uh uh I guess a a presentation that you can see at Belleville um Public Library it was at manona Grove at manona um Public Library uh last month and it is going to be going on at Belleville this month and so um also in related to that I think it's
021pretty much the whole month um it's in the paper actually in on Sunday's paper in the State Journal okay because there was an article also about the you know these racial covenants so it'd be well worth people taking the time to look at those things sure and I think they're scheduled for our library is it a year from me it's a year from now yeah yep it's called unjust Deeds oh that's right it's about racial covenants in Daye [Music] County okay District administrators report Mr tarit the floor is yours thank you some great recognitions first of all we had the uh open house at Conrad alvan primary school that happened on the 20th and I know I ran into Tom there and it was a great event so well attended it's always fun to see
022the students students uh leading their parents around and showing off their school teachers did such a great job um it was so well organized so special thanks to uh Jenny Jefferson and uh Greg Nelson uh for their leadership and all the teachers that were involved in that it was just really well done so I think parents really enjoyed it this was an experiment that the building leadership team wanted to try to have it a little bit later open house a little bit later when kids felt a little more comfortable there was a lot of student work out invisible um to show so really special event and well attended it's hard to find a parking spot yeah anything you would add about that Tom well you must have read my notes a have time Aon but
023oh so we came up with some s of things let me see if I have something um what I observed also was teachers were welcoming back some of their former students oh yes you the older students just love coming back to see their former students and particularly those that have siblings in those home rooms now and the teachers just love it too you know they certainly acknowledge them and appreciate them it's really neat uh parents shed their gratitude uh for staff ateps just thank you for you know providing this opportunity for us um there were staff there were staff at both entryways giving parents out family open house piece of paper uh the first stop was a classroom then visit related arts classrooms then don't forget the other stops along the way like the gym
024the Sentry path the office Spartan star Etc so again as you mentioned Ain very well organized um let's see uh the kids showed their pride and excitement by showing their fames out yeah if if you can just see these kids they're full of excitement and they want hit every place of course and a whole time and again you identifi the parking challenges that's why I walked the three blocks because I knew parking with the issue but again I just want to express my gratitude uh for the teaching staff Administration um because this is time above and beyond the school day and they put a lot of work into it talk about all the numerous student work samples and I do like it being conducted later in the year so parents can actually come and see
025when had it been done when had that been scheduled I think October sound right yes uh recently it's been October mhm the years ago we used to have what we called when I was up there young authors's Workshop we did that in the spring oh okay back then all right so kind of bringing it back yeah sort of bringing it back so um anyway there were hundreds of families there MH you know again I can't say enough about the teaching staff Administration up there they just put their heart and soul into this really I think it was highly successful I do too they are asking for feedback from those that attended and going to do some problem solving to and improve it even more next year so one one suggestion I would have because sometimes
026it's hard to get feedback after the fact maybe just have two or three staff members um as parents leave the building just you know two or three simple questions yeah yeah they probably can get a better return rate that way that's a good idea so I know the parents I talked were very positive yeah was very positive thanks other things going on um we've got kindergarten orientation been happening so getting ready for that 4K orientation as well coming up the uh orusa string fling concert I wasn't able to attend but that happened since the board met last so thank you to lyanna Hershey for her leadership there we um had the family fun night at the middle school I also wasn't able to attend that was last Thursday but I heard things went really well
027very successful I think a lot of people good yeah a lot of people good guarantee there were parking challenges there yes there were but that's okay because people come and go so yeah yeah good event um so that you know is it's nice that we've been having those at the at the K8 buildings and getting people out I want to do a special recognition just so of our McFarland Education Foundation this is a really busy time for them and I didn't want to wait until May to say thank you for all the scholarship work that they do because the work is being done now it is unbelievable what they put together in reviewing all those essays and making sure kids know um to apply it's just really powerful we're very lucky that process has been
028cleaned up significantly over the last 5 to 10 years I would say and now I think so you would have a significant percentage of kids just not apply for for anything I don't if if they were unaware that's unfortunate it's our fault but uh I think now they they put a much greater emphasis on applying for these various scholarships that are out there there's a ton of them it's a great it's a lot of work it's a very generous Community work when that when that organization I think the first year I think we gave out seven scholarships yeah and I know there have been years where it's been over a hundred yeah that's a remarkable group other work uh the uh there's been a health insurance subcommittee a subcommittee of our employee Relations Committee that's
029been reviewing our health insurance proposals which um our current plan will end at the end of August so uh in September we'll be starting a new plan we've been working on that we're sharing that with the employee Relations Committee the full committee this Thursday so excited about that we've got a couple bids in and and a lot of good work there thanks to the club advisors and the middle and high school leadership they've been working on uh doing a our first of an annual process for reassessing nonathletic non-director co-curriculars so clubs basically and making sure that they align with the percentage of compensation that people are getting because what'll happen is a co-curricular will evolve sometimes it gets bigger sometimes it gets smaller but yet that percentage stays kind of the same and so sometimes
030it's it's adequate sometimes it's inadequate sometimes it's uh more than necessary and so uh we're making adjustments to those so it's been a lot of work that process continues last week was Public Schools um week with a lot of activities throughout the state want to give a special shout out to our Angie bazan she was chosen she's one out of 30 Educators from across the country who will be attending the Holocaust Educators workshop and that uh means she will be going this summer for nine days to Poland um to learn about the Holocaust and bring that back to share with our students so quite an honor for her uh and just really lucky to have her doing that and then our students are lucky too she's the Energizer Bunny she is she does a whole
031yeah yeah she's very excited about it she's amazing I wanted to just an acknowledgement we continue our standards based grading work uh we actually have a meeting tomorrow with our our 6th through 12th grade um administrative team and and Melissa fo our director of teaching and learning the middle school is doing a survey of their staff kind of gauging where they're at and what they need to learn next the high school just had their U midyear administrative team survey and standards based grading came up in that too so doing some information gathering so we can continue to improve um and be very strategic about that growth wanted to acknowledge um our progress on our grow your own program So currently we have a couple things so for staff our special education assistants have an opportunity
032um to have their education paid for to earn their teaching certificate we also have um an agreement with Edgewood College for any staff member with a bachelor's degree can earn their teaching certificate and a master's degree at a reduced rate but we we're looking to expand our work with our students so this year we have more students than ever serving as assistants in our in our schools next year we'll be moving that into the actual youth apprenticeship program oh wow so it will be one of the things they can choose we have a grant um we call it the Vape um money which is a money that we received from a lawsuit um for Vaping products and so that's we can use that however we deem necessary and what we're going to use it for
033is sta students involved in the youth apprenticeship program to compens them um for their time assisting our staff excellent awesome and in Pursuit Of Education ultimate ultimately the year after that so 2627 we would like to um start a club an Educators Rising Club you're hearing more about those around the area and then if that has good numbers possibly adding a class uh as a high school course educator that's so neat of course this is awesome yeah really great oh wow we're excited it's kind of coming together it's one of those things a someday maybe thing that's starting to become a hey this is this might really happen do we do we have any initiatives out there that address uh recruiting and retention of uh you know uh teachers of color not specific to teachers
034of color um what we've done is we have looked at our hiring practices to remove barriers for for all applicants to make the process easier and more um to have less barriers for people for applying you know regardless of you know race gender ability language and so that's the focus that we've taken um with that the biggest thing you can do um in terms of uh attracting staff is have a reputation as a place where people want to work I think that's been our Focus uh with our high retention rate that's that's really wonderful yeah excited about that some things coming up uh it's inclusion week at the middle school this week it's also School Social Work week so be sure to thank our school social workers for the amazing work that they do often
035behind the scenes working with families when they need us uh need them the most it's also National School breakfast week we certainly have a breakfast program we're very proud of the numbers just keep going up uh it's parent Guardian learning night well just it's over um um tonight it was from 6 to 7 I was able to go there for the first session um there was literacy math school safety Internet safety social emotional learning I feel like I got it about all assessment assessment overview um so thanks to the staff that volunteered the students that volunteered to provide child care uh a well organized first Riot an event and so we're we're hoping that can become an annual was it aend pretty good yeah I mean it wasn't like you know you could find a
036spot to park yeah um and what I you know for the first time I think they felt it was uh worthwhile and what I always remind people is if you have you know six people attend your session those six people are going to talk to at least six people and and share and I think it's great that they provide child care yes because that removes one barrier for yes some families and many families took advantage of that good and kids were excited uh uh um Corey shef principal told me a story he said there was one kid who was you know at the going into the child care and he said Mom go you you you need to go and learn I'll be here you go learn and so I thought that really um so
037that's thanks for organizing that tomorrow as you know is is Casmir palasi day um who is recognized for bringing order to the American Calvary using modern training methods and establishing the necessity of an independent Calvary during the Revolutionary War you know I said that like I was reading it but um you know if you would like to know more um about about him ask somebody else maybe our very own Bruce fiser well there was a state park or is a state park in Rhode Island that I used to go to palaski state park to reflect no on palaski yeah it was a beautiful little State Park but yeah he was very involved in the the American Revolution yeah so so that's one of those things that we recognize here in the State youth art month
038opening is Thursday Thursday's busy uh so you have the youth art month opening we also have uh our legislators will be at the municipal center for a listening session about the state budget uh it's Middle School conferences do we know what legisl legislators are going to be there all of them there's three listed there three representatives in the assembly from the assembly Senator Co Roy yes I made K that in the co um C Roy um representative rackliffe stub and representative stubs Udell and stubs Udell yeah there's four yeah so that's pretty McFarland's kind of unique that way yeah that we have kind of a a larger percentage of our Representatives good so that'll be this Thursday and then um let's see if that's I said Thursday so Saturday I guess the eth Saturday uh
039International women's day it's also whoop whoop yes yes thank you well said um we also have the the district Solen Ensemble competition here on Saturday so there'll be 486 performances from 15 schools 168 of those 486 are from our very own students wow parking maybe in yeah a little bit of parking isue yeah probably that's a that's a it's amazing that is a huge deal and they they thing runs like clockwork and it's just kids everywhere parents everywhere teachers and instructors everywhere judges I did solo and ensemble in high school and it's petrifying both my kids thought that too so you are wel because you're shy yes horribly shy yes yes the horn yeah I will uh just doing it early your welcome to the business Community uh for supporting our businesses on that day
040with that many people in the area you're you're welcome Culver and um next week we have a high school conference ton night on the 12th the kindness Retreat for fifth graders uh the annual kindness Retreat for fifth graders on the 13th we're back here on the 17th I'll share District photos as you are thinking of anything you um want to share board members and recognitions well the hockey team yeah it oh that's right CU we didn't have student report right yeah so Thursday morning they're playing in Middleton I don't know who they're playing tomahawk tomahawk okay I'm assuming it'll be live stream at 930 :30 yeah okay 0 small venue yep the old capital Ice Arena oh really yep we have 600 tickets and we will have a high school fan bus and it should
041be very exciting a five overtime Victory MH they were just going to three on three yeah I I can recall a follow having a nine overtime game oh wow in the state tournament oh my gosh yeah so let me see if I can hit some of these in here and there's some sports announcements in in here too so here you have the Buddy classrooms from second grade and first grade just loving their time together decorating cupcakes to uh together um which makes me want cupcakes and uh just love the smiles having a good time building Community we also um here have a little dress up day uh you can see Mr Brown here um you know H 100 days of school is always a big thing there and it was also kindness week so love
042the school spirit the girl up Club traveled um for women and stem dat to to third through fifth grade so at Waba talking about that doing experiment together and so that's an annual thing that's been happening and a great tradition that continues so thanks to all involved in organizing that and our students for continuing to do that our cross age stuff is just amazing recognize our fifth grade scientists you can see their um you know the Facebook headline was like you matter or something part of their matter unit so doing some observations about the characteristics of different states of matter so having fun there and making a mess so we've got to cover those tables robotics we had two middle school teams um going to state so they're very um I think robotics if you
043ever get a chance to watch a competition I'll have to try to remember uh it'll involve probably some traveling but they're really neat um and I can actually point out kind of they have it set up in this back room over here I can show you the setup for the high school team but it's very exciting how long have we had couple of years oh it's been for a while oh the Middle School one's been yeah 10 years at least but the high school hasn't High School is is it two now is this the second year I feel like something like that yeah it's either the second or the third it started when I was here it's impressive stuff in the when I was the superintendent so I feel like this is the second year
044um and they have fun it's rarely it's rare that I hear such laughter um coming from this direction um it's always from from right there you can see our state uh wrestlers that were able to go and compete just really um really exciting and and good competition the the parade was really fun to see one of the things that really warmed my heart was having the two Monona Grove competitors come over here for the for the Dr line in the parade yeah that parade is such a it's such a great tradition yeah y yeah and uh our our heavyweight there ended up in the semis got third oh really yeah from mg third in the stat that's amazing very exciting um here you see we had assembly today to celebrate our back to back state
045champs it was really exciting um during the assembly this afternoon to hear when they go down the list of accomplishments and talk about you know state record here second in the state and across divisions yeah so just really impressive the things that were accomplished um record-breaking times just I you know I I don't know it's going to be hard to top what they accomplished this year they they obviously lose some senior leadership and performers but they've got a bunch of points back as well they lost a lot last year right you know and they came back so very excited and there were actually two events that they didn't have a state qualifier uh so you know they won handily and did it without anybody in two events wow that's how good it was so really
046great and a really great culture on that team I and I would say that too about our hockey team CTE month uh we're so uh fortunate to have well Penny Thompson for our amazing leadership but then it it takes those business partners in our community so here's just a a couple of them but you got about 70 Partners in our community supporting our our youth apprenticeship programs so very grateful for them we H we were able to host once again the uh we are many United against hate Unity youth Summit here so that was excellent yeah it was very exciting 250ish kids here from Southern Wisconsin and um just a really really great event uh they had a speaker and then breakouts and the state superintendent came and spoke and the three students on your
047left there were the MC's they facilitated it our students wow uh as the host I was telling Craig after that orientation session in the morning I didn't see a single cell phone out during that morning presentation they're just glued to Tony Meier in the message that he had to convey to them cool it was very impressive if that subject matter can't hold your attention you need some serious work that's true the kids will be kids also you know but very impressive at at the end and I was attending at the end um it was amazing they're all lined up on the stage and they're talking about things that their school does well yep and then things they would like to to you know improve upon and the number of them talked about McFarland mhm and
048I thought that was really you know what a kudos to us as really neat yeah so thanks for our student leaders and Kelly Thompson especially and everybody involved um in that you know Kelly takes a lot she's a very quiet advisor um and really gives all the credit to the student but we know that she brings the best out in them so thanks to Kelly for her leadership there and everybody involved D in hosting we had some students go to msoe for the regional SCI science Bowl competition they always get that that picture on the chair it's the favorite one it's in our strategic plan brochure um from previous years so a lot lot of Pride there um we can you can see our transition crew having a blast to helping out at the Humane
049Society learning there so celebrating uh another one of their amazing communities outings Spartan headquarters gold certification for for the uh retail operations with uh the head Spartan headquarters so what a job yeah they are what a job they've done so I was able to see the presentation of what they did um at State Deca the amount of money and their profit margins are out of control like amazing like they are I mean they they could write a blueprint to success on retail operations seriously that program spits out some remarkable Learners yeah they're they're deadly serious about thata it's really neat you can feel it when you walk back into that area yeah some driven people you might have seen the commercial the Quick Trip commercial that was filmed uh just a couple little shots you
050know we would have liked more airtime of our Performing Art Center and our students but kind of a neat neat thing bring in uh bring in Pizza to the rehearsal there so that was fun uh mrap had the the gutter Busters youth bowling event hosted that so looks like they had a great time nice group there and grateful for the police department for their partnership with that fun thing there speaking of the police department a school resource officer appreciation day was was February 15 you can see this picture of our amazingly talented and beloved officer zitsa he is presenting on Internet safety just tonight to our families and as I mentioned before here's our school social workers here's so celebrating them um Emily who's in your upper right uh had a baby on Saturday oh
051that's exciting so congratulations to her Margaret um yes I can't remember the middle name but um Margaret's the first name I remember that I think uh healthy baby girl Olivia is that uh alera uh special ed yeah I can't think of I can't think of her first name now but she's Danielle alas yes MH I think she's pregnant as well oh yeah we yeah you aware I'm there's there's yes we have uh definitely some uh maternity leaves coming up and paternity leaves as well something in the water so yep yeah several people all right um so that concludes my report what do you guys have to share I have just one one thing that I attended that I thought was impactful and that was U Tom Farley's event in the P yeah you know talked
052about his family history and kind of talked about addiction and grief and how how addiction affects all almost every family in some way somehow so that was that was very interesting as well I thought and that was well attended also yeah and I I'm glad you mentioned that Craig I mean in some ways there was a kind of a I I almost think he had he had given his message and he didn't quite know how to end it in some ways but I thought our students were so well behaved and they enjoyed the interactive parts and uh I think in the end it it worked out well I was just really happy yep I do too anything else moving on our first action item is action on second reading and Adoption of policies 2264 non-discrimination
053on the basis of sex in education programs or activities and 2266 non-discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities the board's policy and grievance procedures for responding to sexual harassment alleged to have occurred prior to 81224 I would look for a motion to approve I move to approve the second reading and Adoption of policy 2264 non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education programs or activities and policy 2266 non-discrimination on the basis of sex and education programs or activities beautiful do I have a second to any discussion I'll just kind of remind you and the listeners I know I said this last time but just in case someone's just tuning in now where this comes from um so uh the Biden administration had issued updated guidance on the title 9ine uh uh
054enforcement and that was ruled by a court to be unenforcable and so what we had done was once we had gotten that guidance we and all the districts had to develop a policy to cover kind of two policies our old policy which was the previous guidance that covered any incident prior to August 1st and the new policy we adopted you adopted was for anything any incidents that happened after August 1st of 2024 so what you would be doing if you vote to approve these is you're basically resending the policies for after 2024 that we that you just adopted and saying we're just going back to how it was before um so the previous Title 9 policies which we've had for for many long time many years thank you any other discussion hearing none all those
055in favor please signify by saying I I I oppos motion carries unanimously 4 Z next is action on application for girls lacrosse w a a Cooperative team renewal could I have a mo uh motion to approve sure I'll make a motion to uh move to approve the WIA girls lacrosse Cooperative team sportsmanship agreement as recommended by Administration thank you do I have a second I can second that Bruce discussion yeah the only thing I I felt both girls and boys is that you know the preponderance of athletes were all from Oregon yeah and I just kind of is that typical or it seemed to be more even evenly kind of split up I think that's kind of and is it yeah I mean it's like we've always had a c 80% of all the athletes
056it seemen to me or more MH yeah so and that's a good way I guess for the schools who can't really feel the team well you know it gives it gives kind of runoff kids an opportunity to participate in a sport that we don't right sponsor here um we we've done several uh that I can recall uh co-ops for just one or maybe two yeah two kids going to a school that has the program and we've done it in gymnastics and we've done it in wrestling yeah we did it in wrestling yeah I know yeah it's a great the more opportunities the better as far as I I agree any other discussion hearing none all those in favor please signify by saying I I oppose motion carries 4 Z unanimous uh next is action on
057application for boys lacrosse WIA Cooperative team renewal do I have a motion to approve I move to approve the WIA boy lacrosse Cooperative team sponsorship agreement as recommended by Administration thank you Chapman do I have a second I'll second thank you Tom gotta get a little flare in there any discussion hearing none all those in favor please signify by saying I I opposed motion carries 4 Z unanimous [Applause] okay action on recommended weeva destination Career Academy and insight School of Wisconsin Wisconsin statute 11848 G student transfers to resident residental resident districts at this time weeva destinations Career Academy and insight School of Wisconsin are requesting approval of recommended student transfers back to their resident districts due to lack of Engagement could I have a motion to approve please sure I move to approve the WIA
058weeva destination Career Academy and in Insight School of Wisconsin recommended student transfers back to their resident districts due to the lack of Engagement thank you do I have a second I can second thank you Megan discussion of course yeah again yeah just taking a look at the statistics things are improving nicely though you when you when we began few years ago to warri are now particularly over the past two or three years but again there's two children in kindergarten one child in fourth grade two uh pre-adolescence in uh sixth grade and four in seventh grade I mean these are young kids yeah M how can we throw them some type of life preserver and as we were talking about earlier we're talking about the mentor program up up the middle school it's adult to student
059but I was wondering I wonder if um some of these students especially the high school students had peer-to-peer mentors if that would anyway impact their success do you mean like high school to high school or okay yep High School to middle school so I'll talk to the we for about that sorry I was just going to say I I thought about it too and you just can't help with some of the younger grades wondering if in some ways virtual school just doesn't really fit for what they're looking for perhaps they thought it would be something that it just wasn't what they were looking for they may very well not have anticipated the amount of Parental yeah input there's that that to to thrive in a virtual setting yeah it requires you know hour or hours
060per day of your engagement along with your your child so that's a that's a big commitment yeah I would think previously that was probably very accurate with the change in their onboarding strategies that they now have I mean it's pretty stringent is it parents know upfront what type of time commitment is required well if weeva staff don't feel like like they can do that they are not even you know enrolled in weeva so these are changes extend circumstances mhm well there was a time within the last 10 years that they couldn't turn anyone away mhm and I don't know if it if that's they virtually could not turn anybody away or it was just real easy to get and that just created super low test scores and yeah yeah and they still can't I mean
061they you know if someone applies for open enrollment for weeva they do need to accept them but but this is for people you know they've been accepted and then they're just not participating but I think there's probably a difference between um kind of what what Bruce is saying what I'm hearing Craig say is part of it is you know maybe the virtual they thought they would learn well virtually and they didn't I think what I see this is my my two cents is I wish them people would withdraw exactly versus them having to go through it like if you figure and it's like oh wait this isn't working say we're going to go back to our resident District we're going to choose to go back to our resident which they can do instead of here's
062the letter you're not engaging you need to engage schedule meeting that they don't attend because you can see it I think I just closed out I think there's two of them that attended parents I think that's where my frustration is my frustration but that's good point that's a very good point yeah I think um what do I gu you know but my question is how many of these students these uh six7 n nine or 10 students how many of them will actually reenroll in their home District right well that's what we don't know you know they probably left the home District because they didn't feel that was a good fit for them and then they come to that might not be a good fit for them either where do they go there has to be
063another option their home district is their home District obligated to take them back they have to take them back if they reenroll yes but they're not automatically enrolled does that make sense yes so the parent has to take action to reenroll them which I think we would well I shouldn't speak for you I would prefer that they are automatically enrolled back in their home district and that attendant starts counting in their home District if that makes sense but that's not despite lobbying efforts that hasn't acted upon anything else in that case all those in favor please signify by saying I I opposed motion carries unanimously for zero and I would entertain a motion to adjourn Fischer's going to do it tonight do it all right hey I'm more than happy to share please please do
064I have a second I will second it chman second all those in favor please signify by saying I I oppos motion carries 4 z um Megan fesler feel better see you in a couple weeks yes and we are adjourned at uh 757 [Music]