001Oh man, that's very frustrating. >> Oh yeah, >> there was no taping. >> Yeah, I would be That's very >> No, I would be. I mean, I heard lots of stories with my daughter over the four years there. I'm not surprised girls and >> Oh, okay. All right. Welcome to the student achievement um committee meeting for September. We have four agenda items. We had the public release on just Thursday actually of the forward scores. So I have a couple presentations to update um the board on and of course that information is used for the district report cards that'll be coming out later in o um I it's still an early November release, but we'll get a preliminary check and we have a window to kind of review our scores and make sure that they're accurate.
002Um then I use that updated information to update the district data dashboard. So I'll share that and talk a little bit about what I'm thinking for next year. Um update on our survey information from our new teacher induction program. Um what kind of information did we get? How are we looking at changing the program? And of course um we have our mer values committee update. Um, as you know, um, uh, we talked about it at the full board and they said they would like me to go through the same channels as any curriculum review and just bring the updates to student achievement. So, I think the biggest thing for that agenda item is if we think we're getting to some point that we want to update the whole board on the agenda student achievement, let
003me know so I can um, go ahead and do that. So, let's look at um our first agenda item, the public release of the report cards. Um so, just a couple things. Um you know, the performance levels and I have a slide on there changed last year and so we have developing, approaching, meeting and advanced. It used to be um below basic basic meeting and advanced um and then um two presentations here for you. So I'll start that. So this first one we're looking at is kind of comparing ourselves to the eight feeder school I mean the additional feeder schools into Arrowhead. Um, so once that's released, I go in, I like look at all of their scores and kind of compare them. For district data dashboard purposes, we try to always fall within the
004top three. Of course, I'd like love to be number one. That's still the goal, but um we're really trying to stay in the top three. What's new for this year's um forward test? nothing, which is kind of nice. Um, there is there was some changes um relating to high school level and ACT and writing, but that doesn't affect K8 districts, so you don't have to worry about that. Um and just kind of reminding us that um last year was the first year that they really recommend we compare student report um performance over each other because they changed the scoring. Even though the graphs I'm showing you go back more than the two years um just so you can see trend lines. I tried to um fold that in the things. So again, these are our
005new performance level descriptors if you missed them on the memo. So first we're going to look at Arrowhead Feeder Schools in our overall. So this is all third through 8th graders. Every student that took the test, where did we rank in ELA? That's English language arts. Um and you can kind of see our blue trend line. um where we were starting in 1819 then 2021 212 22 23 etc etc. Of course we're missing 19 to 20 right that was the COVID year. You also noticed that dip from 20 to 21 coming out of COVID and then um as districts um rebounded um and got our students in for for learning what the rebound was. So um this year Merin was number two in our top three spots. So, you know, not much change um from
006last year, which was, you know, I gave you an update on the curriculum review last last meeting, and so you knew that we were doing pretty hanging. I'm hoping we see a little bit more growth in that area actually. Um, ELA is a pretty huge amount of work for teachers to do in one year because it's reading, writing, grammar, word study, high frequency words, just a lot of new um, so we're it's been a nice start of the school year because teachers can just work on refining this year, which I think is a nice good thing to do. So happy about that. scores, you know, on the heels of of swallow at um you know, um our math proficiency um was number three. So, you see everyone except swallow kind of went up. Everyone, the
007majority of the school districts kind of took a little dip or stayed the same in math. Um it looks bigger than what we actually did. Just went down a couple points um with that. But again, you know, swallow at 90, Lake Country around 87.9. So I always look a lot at H Heartland Lakeside because they're very similar in a size and us, how many sections we have, how many students we have. Um, so that's a comparable factor. Our science score, um, which is the first time we've been number one, which has been very nice for science. I um want to keep growing that because we know our STEM fields are really important for students. So this was a nice um uptick and proficiency with us. Um quite a bit actual growth um that we did
008this year. So I'll be interested to see how that stays. Um we have a lot of coursework that actually is science here. Um a lot of what Mr. Wagner does and the make um and the his steam classes are reinforcing a lot of our science. um you know but we're doing a science adoption so that's also going to be interesting because we haven't had those same gurubby numbers but I'll take it but we don't I don't feel comfortable saying we have a trend that our program looks I like to have a trend line that shows more than one year and then social studies um number three again like you see a lot of the districts are very close in social studies I like to call it kind more into reading tests than social studies. Don't
009have know have to know quite as much um content. It's a lot about reading charts, graphs, knowing some things. So that's kind of what our feeder was. And then what I do is just um spend a little time looking at some over K12 districts. Where did Martin fall if we were K12? Um, and I um, so you know, take a look at um, so I only do ELA and math on these comparisons because high schools take the forward only um, in high school in science and social studies. So actually just social studies now science they input into ACT. So it's the only really comparisons that we can do. So, you know, pretty pretty happy. I district continues to be my nemesis, which is all good. But I I will we will grab a we will
010grab a half%. >> That's okay. >> I don't care about tens of I care about tens of percent. I just so um but you know when I take a look at a lot of when we think about where people are choosing to build where they want to go I think it's an important and nice thing to kind of look at um kind of some districts that are around us maybe some benchmark districts you know um and just to give you idea where we're performing so I'm I'm Ron will tell you I'm generally not happy with these scores But I would say like when you look comparable, it's it's we're doing good. Um and then if we're looking at mass scores here, Cedarberg overtook us a little bit this year, but um the only one we
011were a little close last year, so we were number two on that indicator with Cedarberg doing better. And I mean, we did outpace on this. So I'll take that first time. Um, but yeah, so that's kind of all I have for like local comparisons. You know, it's it's different when the Ford first kind of comes out and we can start to look at it before it's and you can see everybody else's because when I look at individual grades, we might have had dips or we might have had plateaus, but you don't know if everyone dips. So for example, a lot of districts for whatever reason dipped in sixth grade math like so you kind of think test design was it the type of questions when you see everyone kind of take a dip it you
012know second year of the new test plus they always put new test questions in so you know you really don't know but I think um we're doing really pretty decent >> it is it all carbon literacy to graphs figure out how to bring that back in. >> Yeah. say at the college level high school somewhat simple things and say oh this >> oh yeah >> not but I wonder if that's something that then look at in our adopting for saying are we choosing materials we have more opportunity to practice looking at data >> well inquiry journeys does a lot with maps and charts so you know at certain grade levels. So I know on the social studies side, I know on the science side for collecting data and creating data tables, they do a lot
013of that. They do a lot of that in steam classes too. I see it very heavy. That's kind of true for parts of the science test too to be honest. It's um same with the ACT. Frankly, a lot of those subcategories are really also a lot to do with reading. Mathematics is probably better still, you know, charts, graphs, creating them uh numerically and then what do what does this mean? I mean when I just in a sixth grade actually just in a sixth grade math class yesterday no today or Friday and they were talking about ratios because we were they were charting it and we're like what does this graph tell us? What's consistency? So there >> nationwide we stillifications everything from their budget spreadsheets if they're getting good information. So I appreciate >> continuing
014and that's where they ask for those Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Um I just wanted to shout and say thank you to the board because I believe we start from the boardroom to the classroom and our staff because the sports are really everyone's work, right? So, uh I appreciate all that because we wouldn't grow without all our team players. So, um, you know, it's not just one teacher, one grade level, one anything. It takes a lot. And our admin team and our interventionists and support staff, it's still takes a village for sure to grow our students. So, um, you know, we'll continue to keep working not only to number one, but till we're at 100. Um, all right. Um so next I have another graph in here um which is just really looking at our MERN
015specific data by cohort. So um where our kids have grown. So um our MERN class for C so our current eighth graders how have they done trend over time. um you know really happy when I look at our eighth grade. I mean when I think about we did two huge curricular changes two years in a row between ELA and math and you know for the most part like the fact that we're growing is amazing especially at this level because they've been in and out of different resources and materials but some really nice growth um with our eighth graders in both ELA and math. So happy with that. Um you know it's kind of a little rooting stone bank on a little bit. They've always really far and they did have some nice growth this year
016in some areas. So continuing to kind of um you know see because they're they they continue to be a little bit of the feeder outlier um in the system. So, um, our seventh graders, um, you know, they they kind of went a little bit plat went up, plateaued, and went a little, uh, little bit down. It's, um, really just a couple points in the trend looks, you know, but still, you know, a couple students um can make a difference on some of those trend lines. um ELA this is our that was two years of implementation of new program so um in ELA and uh three years in our in our RAM >> um I don't know why I didn't put those little graphs on um I think if I exit out of here and I
017actually go to the think I should be able on go to the eighth grade, right? >> Oh, seventh grade from last 33, so we should be up there. Um, so the ELA trend for them or we were it's the ELA difference is 1.8. >> That's not >> 33. Oh, I'm on the wrong slides. >> There you go. >> Thank you. How about I how would I go to that linked chart? Um, so if we're looking at ELA from 81.4 to 79.3, those are two. Yeah, they're they're not, you know, um, you know, math was a bit from 89.5 to 83.9. All right, you're welcome. And then our sixth grade class. Now, as Stephen and I have talked a lot, this I I look at our sixth grade ELA trend line and our goal work for
018our instructional coach this year was supposed to be a sixth grade ELA, but of course, uh the board's probably aware that our coach right now is actually teaching because we could not find a long-term sub for our ELA. Um but that also comes with a great blessing because although she cannot uh coach into sixth grade right now she's teaching it one section of sixth grade and two of eighth. So hopefully we're going to be able to find because that's what I was saying like I'm looking at a trend line here and flatlining is telling me it's more of a core problem now. So, we're going to have to get at that and figure out what we have going on. And our math has stayed um you know, pretty pretty steady with that. >> Not necessarily.
019>> You know, it's really hard for me to say because this first couple years our kids were coming out of teachers college into my perspective and they're night and day difference, right? So the skill sets are coming and even on this year I mean this is the first year our kids are coming from fifth grade into sixth grade with my view into my perspectives. So I really don't um want to say I know for sure. So it's is it because it was such a huge transition for kids between programs? >> Oh I'm looking at those kind of things. I'm looking at the transition between what might happen. I'm going to be looking at the rigor that we have in there. I believe we probably will be adding an additional unit. I think we can be
020a little bit more rigorous and we're really going back to some small group work and that's really where Lauren's been doing it herself like, okay, how can I get our small group um up and going to really challenge our kids more? because we actually have a lot of enrichment programs for our kids in sixth grade. They can take stuff in ELA at the center for some of our high flyers. So, it's not like we don't have opportunities for that, which is also why it's interesting to me that it's kind of flat, but um yeah, I'm not thinking we're getting it done in that. So, I'll be meeting with them once we kind of go math and ELA to take a look at what that is. Um, and with Eureka, this is this was back to
021our implementation here. So, again, we're flatlining on just staying staying the course. Now, I would say there's a lot of research around sixth grade math in particular because it's really um where they go heavy into ratios and proportionality. >> Yeah, it's um it's a big kind of like learning year and you really don't want to skip it. Um, and that team kind of read an article when I was when we lost our coach in the middle of the year and they got stuck with me um, facilitating their content meetings. So, I do, you know, I do process that too. >> I just was talking to the sixth grade teacher today, but this is it was exhausting for students. So, so this regarding talking about that particle or what's >> No, it's kind of like do
022you know like third grade math is when you kind of do multiplication division and it's just a lot of new that same with sixth grade math on some of those major concepts. It's the place where they hit it new. Of course, we always do ration ratios and proportionalities and small sets especially in fraction comparison but like the algebraic beginning work of that is much heavier in sixth grade. Could it be developmental with the brain? Could be. I mean, there's still a lot of research that says why kids can't all do algebra by eighth grade, right? Um, from being able to see the semi concrete to the abstract. Um, so I build way. >> Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It' be interesting. And then um fifth grade kind of the same thing, you know,
023overall um you know, with a transition to new program here in ELA, not too bad. And then uh our um math again, if I I think I brought those 33 things down, those were kind of just a little shy, but in math math saw, those kids came in um out of third grade at 91.6 six and 86 in fourth grade, which you wouldn't want to go down, but we did have a lot of staffing going on in fourth grade last year. So, I think this p prof proficiency rate was pretty good with one staff member only here all year last year from our regular staff. Still still high, but uh hopefully we can uh get them going in our fifth grade year. So, that's kind of our cohort data. I'll be sharing that um with
024the teaching staff in the next couple weeks. Does the uh student achievement have any questions you're good at asking you both? So, >> no, I love it. That's fine. I don't want to get down the road and have to go back to graph. >> Yeah, I mean it's it's amazing we don't have major implementation dips in here. So that makes me very happy because that is common. Um and we might still see a little bit of that um second year in sometimes. So right so updating on our district data dashboard. Um we took a peek at this last meeting. So I'm not going to spend a ton of time on it. Um I just it was able to fill in a couple more things. um which was uh where we were compared to the other
025K8s. So our target, like I said, has been top three. I think we're probably pretty um prompt to discuss in the next couple months. I would like some feedback from the student achievement. What do we want to do with this? Are we happy with our same indicators? And you want me just to update this or um do we want to do something different? Um, and then you know all of these were from last time. So I really only changed this ELA um and forward proficiencies um to represent the scores that are on that and that we were able to hit our um ELA and math district rankings of being in the top. So proud of everyone's hard work. Any questions on that? Okay. All right. Oh, you guys are being easy. All right. New teacher
026induction program. So, um you know, nice to kind of see um that we had uh nine teachers that um welcome nine teachers to our three-day training. You But you say, Maria, there's four links there. We did have our primary for an additional day. That was new this year. Um because we got new ELA materials last year and math the year before, we really needed to spend some more training time with the resources and materials with our new teachers and we'll be keeping that in the future. Sadly, because our elementary teachers teach everything. um they are going to have a little additional summertime compared to um you know compared to our other intermediate friends or people that are singletons at the primary. I did put the feedback link here and I'll go through some of it.
027A one meant not very helpful, two somewhat helpful, three helpful, and four extremely helpful. So of course we're looking for threes and fours. Um, let's see. This is my fifth year here. So, it was my fifth new teacher induction. So, we have always collected feedback and we're really continuing to refine that. Um, I think we're getting pretty close to a point where we're people are really positive and happy and we don't have too many major changes. Um, so again, I linked for you if you want to see the agendas here. I'm not going to review that. I'll just look at um what our survey data was. So we basically break down the flow of the day and ask you know of the learning was it helpful or not. So as you can see we really
028have a lot of um fours. How was our meet and greet part that Mary and I ran. Ron you know does Ron wears multiple hats that day literally but also in what he has to deliver because there's a superintendent overview. he works um on his business manager responsibilities and went through how do you order district budgeting um then talked about 403bs and um the benefit parts that they get with their job. Again, all nice fours and threes. And then what we do almost every afternoon in new teacher training is we call it like pick your own adventure because we get people that are new to the profession and never been a teacher before. And then this year especially we hired a lot of experienced staff. So the assumption isn't like you might have came from
029a district that doesn't use Skyward for the student management system. So you might need to learn about that. So come to that if that's you and you don't know or um if you want to find out about our educator effectiveness specifically how many minis and observations that you have like come and find out how that works in Merin. So um the good news is I just here isn't a rating we just let you know how many people actually selected and came to the session. So, I was the most popular that day around educator effectiveness of people who filled out the survey. Um, and then actually like of course out of our nine members, you know, five of them filled it out. So, we didn't get everybody. Um, but that's 50% which is still statistical significance
030if you're figuring that out. >> Well, yeah. I don't know. Yes. >> Yeah. Not enough in the sample, but there's only nine total. Right. Right after I mean at the end of treatment. >> No. Oh, I mean we do this at the end because remember we always end the date. >> What? >> They're doing this in >> they are after all the days. We have them fill it out once for all the days. Um and then second step training. And then we always leave open for comments if they have suggestions. Those are the most important parts to us. Um then Mary did some program induction things, how we support, what our mentoring program looks like. Then we brought team members from their grade levels or departments to come work with them and kind of go
031through this is how science happens here at Harden Intermediate. This is how fourth grade runs. Um and they find that time very valuable. Um, >> we invite them when we know we have openings to give them what day it is and ask them to schedule it and we do pay them for their time. Classroom management um conversation. Mary um does some of that um just good classroom management behavior. I give an overview of our curriculum and our multi-level systems of supports and our assessments. Oh. Um, and Lori does a special education overview. Um, Mary runs through a new teacher checklist like this is how the copers work. You know, this is how you you know you um this is where you'll find your information for fire and tornado drills. even though the principles go through
032that. So we have actually different lists for each groups when we're meeting them. So they went through that. Um then we did some Eureka Square walkth through um with our elementary people. That's why we went from five to three because that's who paid back. You know, some really good feedback to Lindsay who led that just that she did a nice job. overview a lesson and walk through with that literacy. Nice positive feedback from Mary and Lauren. Um and we know my view is very overwhelming. So did a great job at it. It's overwhelming. Yes, it is. Um the one comment we're really processing um with some of this is um we are probably if we have openings, we like to offer that one day session either in June or in August because we did have
033some new team members that would have loved to have the new curriculum and I was hesitant to do that because um access to all of our curriculums come online once they have their mer address. So I'm like, until they're hand in all their paperwork and we give them all of their stuff and enter them in and register their classes, it's hard to get in. And that was my thinking a year ago. And then Maria was like, "Duh, we actually have manuals for these classes, so we could give them manuals." Now, you do worry because if something changes in the job situation, we just gave out our manuals to them. But um we are looking to change that this year. So it's a little overwhelming because doing four days in a row is very heavy and
034although people find it very helpful and if we could break that up somehow, >> you know, it can get there. >> Yeah. So we think we're gonna try that. they can and then people that we hire after that June date can come to the August date. But if you know because we had the majority of the people hired um in June, not everyone, but the majority. So we could have done that and they could have opted for that. That's our one change that we're going to be doing for next year. Balance want you to enjoy yourself a transition. We'll put you our stats our new stats. >> Even if I don't work for the next six weeks, I work on because I have teachers who actually never stop even I know that I can place
035this mostly or I don't know about that either. So yeah, I really want to thank Mary Iwansky. This is part of her job as a new teacher induction and she is trained through CISA 2. So this is just part she runs those four days um primary responsible lead. It's been nice because this was I think this was my first complete full year where I gave everything to Mary, you know, and kind of walked away like, you know, kind of like the mama bird pushing the baby bird out of the nest. um you know but she did uh she did an amazing job as our survey results had and of course her other part now is to mentor them in classrooms. So um we have that legal requirement for teachers new to the profession. So um
036in their first three years. So we do have about I think we have three or four of those and then people that were continuing that are working with Mary. So you know excited about all of all of that. and where I'm working with Mary of how she's going to get feedback on our coaching practices. That's what I am with all the other coaches. So, any additional questions? All right. Last but not least, I'm going to give a quick update of our emer values committee. Um, so we are basically meeting monthly. So, I am anticipating I will um bring this back every other month uh to kind of let you know how it was. So, we've had two meetings. We met in August and then um September already. Um and so we have a couple parents
037from the strategic plan. That is nice. A couple parents that are parents not on our strategic plan. Maybe their spouse was. and then like a nice broad mix of uh classroom teachers, specialist, special education on it. So uh a nice group um that comes together and we we are meeting after school. Um so kind of like when we did the strategic plan, right, because we have community members, you know, the first one I um meeting and I attached to the memo the agendas. So, you're welcome to look at that and click click through anything. As you know, I'm always transparent. I'll put it on. People can read whatever we read, review whatever we review. Um, but um the first meeting we met longer was like four hours. So, I did bring dinner in. Otherwise, I
038just have a collection of snacks. Um, so to get people hungry from after school through I think Steve's eating out of my snacks like that are sitting in there, you know. >> Um, >> so what did we kind of do to date? Um so first we did some activities and actually re like reviewed the strategic plan like why are we doing this committee like okay like because the strategic plan it isn't the strategic plan to work on the values um I updated people um on the committee about what a curriculum renewal um cycle looks like and why we'll be doing pieces of that. It's not a full curricular review because frankly they aren't required to be taught. So it's not the exact same way that we would do everything else. And we reviewed kind of
039any current laws or statutes related into them. And then we spent like a chunk of our time kind of beginning to dig into the values like what do they mean um for us um here at Merin. So we kind of did activities and rotating centers. I actually had value centers that they rotated and experienced and started to talk about like what what does be courageous mean here in Merton. So we begin to do that and then um like I said after that first of big initial launch we are meeting monthly. So there's six meetings, one for each value. And we're digging deeper into the value and we're actually defining it. So we know because you can't teach something when you don't know what it is. So we're coming up with definitions on what that value
040means from the committee and developing a shared understanding. Um, and we actually learn together with that. We do some I I do some teaching around it. We read materials about it and then we always have a learning section to that meeting where we're actually looking at some research standards. What are the competencies from the social emotional learning side which is what a lot of these values are falling under? What does that mean? And we're doing that work. Um the research that we did this first time was around um like companies that value values and what does that mean and how does that help? So we did some learning about that. Then we spent time value mapping. So like the first one we did was be courageous. So we took okay there's three pillars in our
041strategic plan. the employee experience, the community experience, and the staff experience. So, we with our kind of definition that we kind of worked on, where are we doing this in each of those experiences? I have to tell you, I was a little thought I'd be Debbie Downer and we wouldn't have much in our community and staff experience for being courageous. But that group like we do things and they did a really nice job of coming off like where we where are we doing this? where do we have some people take risks? Where do we have some of these things? So, they did a really nice job with that for be courageous. So, um and then we take time to explore some resources. Um we might have a resource that I bring a copy, but actually
042there's a lot of open educational resources. Um to be honest, I think we already kind of decided at the first meeting there probably isn't going to be a canned program that we can buy around Martin values because they're very specific to Martin. So once we define them, we probably are going to have to build that. And so looking at kind of what's out there, what is free. There's been so much great work around that that um we give time to explore and then they give some feedback like a quick um delta plus over what they liked about it, what they didn't, can they see it connected to to some of the work. Um I can tell you I've already the teachers are like, "Maria, why didn't you tell me we had this? I could be
043using this for morning meeting." It's like right like because they get very nerdy so they're excited to find a resource. You mean we can just use these for free? Yes, we can. Um so and that is also part of our strategic plan. We're always going to be looking at open educational resources because so much that happens with federally funded grants are actually given that way. So the more we can kind of use that the better off. >> Yeah. AI but it's doing it like it's not really taking information. >> Oh >> and making something that looks like an open access resource. >> Oh yeah, these are programs that I'm verifying I hope. Um, >> but that's so good because >> we're noticing some of these are further and further and further. >> Yeah. because every
044so for us trying to make sure that we go that path so we don't find something that looks like >> well we're looking at tools for AI and they're actually tools where you can curate your own re uh curriculum resources in so your teachers have a one shot shop spot where they can find them now so that's part of our strategic plan for this year some of that AI work so we'll probably be seeing some of those things to eliminate some of those worries. Um nothing that >> um so you know again you know we aren't required to teach it but we learned we were in this strategic plan you know we rein like the health standard actually has a lot of this in in our ACP courses so we should probably have a sequential
045plan for that and the teachers are asking for that um you know and we do should be um having some of those in science and health in particular um where some of our social emotional type of things lie frankly um you know and that school boards re determine the course of study of course you know that that's why you approve my report in my um my resources again I have a you know so we started by being courageous um in our actual document and I cut and pasted from strategic plan down there. This is where we started this week with use your voice, take risks, be you, and be confident. So, like I said, we started what does use your voice mean? Take risks, all of that. So, we're excited about kind of the work
046um that we're going to be doing in that in each of the pillars. I'm excited to see where the community goes. I don't know, maybe we'd find a strong core. Um it doesn't look like it just because these are very unique. um to us. Sadly, I told Ren it probably will be um just even hearing from the teachers now, you know, they're a little skittish like they were with social studies in our community about making sure that they feel supported with the resources that we're doing. So, um for the board members that were on the board after my first year, so three years ago, I mean, I literally reviewed every social studies video article and resource myself. I feel like that might be our similar situation for the mer value work and that's fine because
047then our teachers feel very confident in that. They don't think twice about what they're teaching and social studies and um because they know that it's been looked at and reviewed and and that. But I'm kind of hearing that from the committee people too like we're a little worried about like you know people are wondering about the second step lessons or whatever. So can you just make sure Maria we it's all good. So >> another part of that process review to our community open times. It was a lot of transparency and a lot of asking for feedback that show that was all part. >> We always leave everything open. I you know but that was able to do it with a stocked resource on this if we actually have to create it oursel it's a lot
048of curriculum work so we will be having to put a lot of hours for teachers to help curate it um and I mean this is at the same time where we're doing two other reviews updating curriculum science and um 4K so I I'll probably need some help um so I'm thinking about what that looks like because I can't um manage reviewing everything for all of that. Um, probably without some more time sadly. Anyway, any questions about the Martin Values Committee? >> Yes. Our hope is our last meeting should be March. Um my hope would be to as much as possible um you know get it to the board um if everything works out by by March. >> Thank you Maria. >> Yeah doing his as a sign Ron's favorite line in my contract. >> It's
049doing something different for me. So, you know, thinking about how how this could have played out was kind of fun to process through to be honest. And I think everyone kind of likes how we have it structured. So, and Lori is on the team, too, as well. So, there's two of us admins in there. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, Marina. Great work. >> 551. Community Forum. That's right. >> I'm sorry. I thought charged double for that. >> Oh, no. No. When you we vote that was definitely in the fine print when we voted you out. You are floor Canadian. Go ahead. Was this this is not a joke, but the one of the cutest things this week, our exchange student, we're talking about carving pumpkins and she kept saying, "What do you mean
050carve? What do you mean?" >> And I finally said, "Well, we carve the pumpkins." She said, "They don't come from the store that way." Said, "Nope." >> Because there are no pumpkins are not a thing in Spain. So, carving of pumpkins are not a thing in Spain. So, we got some pumpkins and she's very excited. But we did that. We told her what's inside of the pumpkin. She's a little less excited about that. All right, we are uh in the midst of our community forum. Do we have any community forum? Anybody who I don't see anybody who'd like to speak. Would anybody like to speak? >> Very big. >> We'll just wait till 6:05. >> All right, then we'll hang out. >> John's gonna tell us jokes. >> I know Steve said it, so >>
051I can't be bothered by his requests. [Music] Gotcha. >> Everyone, ple we call to order the board of education meeting at 6:05 p.m. on no September 29th. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge alce to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, this meeting has been posted in all of the customary places and we are moving on to approval of our agenda. >> I move we approve the agenda as presented. >> Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of approval, please say I. >> I. Post same sign. Abstensions. All right. Thank you. Moving on to the approval of our consent agenda items for approval of minutes. Approval of financial
052report bill listing and donations and approval of personnel action. Do I have a motion? >> Some moved. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Discussion. Ron, you'll you'll talk about the donations as well. We're not skipping over that portion. >> Any other >> part of the personal actions would be accepting Peggy's resation and >> like to thank her. >> I'll highlight that too. Yeah, >> we can do that now. >> Yes, do it now. Can we do that? >> Yeah, I'd like to thank Peggy Bleski for her last approximately three years. Um and uh Yep. She's done a lot of lot of great things. just, you know, great support staff a little bit, you know, closer to me as well as it was my assistant, our assistant as well, too. So, big thank
053you to Peggy and we wish her the best of luck and we're excited to bring bring Jod on. So, y >> and I echo those thanks as well. Peggy did a lot to help to keep us organized and know where everything is. So, we really appreciated that. Thank you for your time. >> And by the way, tonight I did forget to go and bring everything. So, everything was over there. That's I was like, "Darn it. I got to go get it. I forgot it." So, got you living here. So, thank you. And again, we're going to welcome Jod. It's going to start August October 7th. So, yep. >> Any other discussion? All in favor of approving the consent agenda, please say I. >> I appropped. Same sign. Any abstensions? >> Thank you. We are two
054delegations to be heard. I don't see anybody wanting to be heard this evening. Is there anybody who would like to be heard? There we go. Thank you very much. And we are moving on to our administrator's report. >> Sure. Um, open records. I don't think I even got the normal, you know, give me your staff open record request. So, no open records uh to speak of this last month at all. Um, donations. A big thank you to our PTO who is going to be filling up our principal buckets to each. I know it was over $1,800$1853 I do believe. So, big thank you to PTO. 89 $1,893.88 88 cents that will be distributed to equally to our building principal so that they have $1,000 of discretionary funds. So, thank you very much. PTO, thank you
055very much, Megan and Katie who are present. >> Can you speak a little bit to what types of things that gets used for? >> Sure. Stephen >> or Stephen, could you >> Yeah, I can start. Yeah, we'll use it supplement um usually last year we used it a lot for staff um just if we supplement some meals or some staff prizes or some different like culture building things we used it a lot for last year there's some student pieces we used I'm trying to think examples what we used it last year so I think um you know I see a combination of both student and staff one this year to use this thanks throughout the year There's an example a few years ago on the ability center last year we did the school assembly at
056the end where I can fry rand but we wanted a surprise different things in through there to just a quick thank you to bringing our attendance been fantastic for our staff just saying thank you whether you bring donuts or >> last year Steve I know we used PTO funds or principal funds to uh our eighth graders the NAPE test, that national assessment. Um, I know we rewarded the kids with donuts afterwards. >> Got naped again. >> We got naped again. We did. That'll be later, >> but we love it. But we love it. >> So, yeah, a lot of different things. >> Thank you for that. It's helpful. >> So, thank and we also got a donation from Kona Ice, which is a rebate from our celebration day. Um, and that gets run through. So,
057they come on to campus, our kids uh purchase Kona Ices, and then they give us a percent back. So we'll just put that towards next year's celebration day. So thank you very much. >> Um and then also finally uh you know per state statutes we are required to submit uh annually in September our seclusion and restraint report that is submitted in our board packet uh for our board officially to review as well as our community to see to as well. So um that's all I have. >> Ron on that. Is there is that pretty steady? I mean we don't have to do anything different for the state every year. Does it change at all what they're looking for? Is it just the standard? >> Well, there's some additional questions that come in like this year
058the question was was law enforcement had to be notified. So, um that's the again outside of we're just required to report to the board this state again was law enforcement involved. Um actually the national level we do some national seclusion and restraint things and then they actually ask if there's fatalities and injuries and things like that too as well. So, but for the state it's pretty simple. >> Thank you. Anything else, Ron? >> Nope. That's it. Off to a great start. Very, very good start for the school year. >> And we're rep committee reports. >> Yeah. So, right before uh if you do get a chance to please review that uh some really great things that I'm going to share with our community uh in our Sunday update uh coming up. But the forward scores
059just came out and those came out and that's why in your paper packets you'll see that nice little sign right there that says it wasn't ready to go because at the time of production uh these assessment results just got uh reported out Thursday or Friday Thursday afternoon or Thursday morning to so uh Maria compiled all them and in the report you will see one of the aspects of the reports where how we did uh across the feeder system. Um we rank between first and third in all of the cores. Um so again some great job and again great job as from our instructional team, great job from the board. Thank you for giving us the resources. Thank you for our staff and thank you for our families. Uh again another very good performance. Obviously like
060all great coaches and organizations, we take a look at it, we celebrate it, and then we see where we can continue to improve. We'll talk a little bit about that when we get to our strategic plan update a little bit later. But um a big thank you to our staff and our families uh who have done phenomenal work to to really assist in that too as well. So some really great uh charts and graphs, but ultimately it shows how we did in comparison to the feeder schools. And then you'll also see for literacy and mathematics how we did compared to other K12s that are local. Um I do believe we were top two. We were second in mathematics just barely, you know, number one. And I think we were third in ELA. >> Thought it
061was the other way. >> The other way around, >> might have been somewhere in there. again very competitive. We're talking about, you know, ten of percents at some times, too, as well. So, um, again, it just really reinforces that we've got a great, not only our system, but we are very fortunate where we live in southeast Wisconsin, some very great schools. And, um, you can see how we did. Again, we did very, very well. So, >> and we talked about it in student achievement, but I wanted to highlight here as well that congratulations to Maria and to all of our teachers because we had big implementation changes in curriculum which often come with implementation dips that we did not see. So, thank you to all of them. That's a lot of work. >> Yeah. And
062we continue to build. I know like our Friday uh professional development at the primary school as part of our science of reading morphology walls. And again, we continue to try to uh really build into that too as well. So again, just try to keep keep moving that needle >> student by student. >> Yep. >> Um the other the next thing we talked about was our district dashboard. Again, just kind of updated that per those results. Uh from that standpoint, um the other piece that we uh we Maria highlighted was uh we also had oh let me pull it up. Uh the new teacher induction. So again the feedback supplied to uh that was given to us from all the new teachers. Again, a big thank you to Maria, but Mary Awanssky who really is solely
063in charge of that with Maria's support, but ultimately the principles and Lori uh myself and Mr. Benny and Dawn are all part of that induction and you'll see the results there are very positive. Again, we take that and continue to try to uh do better next year. Uh there was one piece of feedback that we're going to do, which is basically a new teacher manual, try to get it to them a little bit earlier uh than what it is that we've brought them in August. So, uh, again, we'll continue to tweak that program as we go, but again, it does take a a lot of people, including our our regular ed staff, too. Our teaching staff does come in, uh, for some of those days, too, to really support that new teacher, uh, or new
064to the new to the district teacher as well. Uh, the last piece that was updated was the Merton Values Committee. Again, uh, you you can kind of review what they've been doing. There's a little presentation there, but ultimately there's a very diverse group of people who have come together, very similar to the strategic planning team a couple years ago. Um and they've meet they've met twice now, Maria. Right. Twice. And they'll continue to meet throughout the year to uh you know develop and work through all of our values and then ultimately create a recommendation to the board about what that might look like bringing that to um in all three of our pillars to the students to our staff and to our community. So more to come in on that and again that'll continue to
065be updated through our uh student achievement committee. So again a big thank you to Maria who is leading it but Lori Larson is also assisting. How many members of the committee do we have? >> I think 13 >> 13. So again a very very wide range. So again thank you to all those individuals too as well. So that's our uh committee reports. >> When do we have upcoming committees? Um we will have a policy and personnel committee which we've set for October 29th uh which is a Wednesday at 8:00 and that will be for meeting and confer and then that's when we're going to take up the uh um our community forum aspect two as well. Um we'll hold a facility committee uh meeting uh a little bit later in in October too as well
066and then I'll also pull the finance committee together as well. So this month of October uh will be a busy one. Continue to move through there too as well. >> And the policy committee that's the where people have the opportunity to come and get >> that'll be meet and confer and we actually are doing well we'll talk about that in the strategic plan but talk about that. Very good. >> Maria are we going to need a student achievement committee meeting? >> Yes. Well we have we're going to have four to five committee meetings. So it' be a busy month for everybody. >> Rocking and rolling. >> You bet. >> All right. Anything else about committee reports? >> All right. We're moving on to new business. First order of business is our 2526 strategic plan, action
067plans and key performance and indicators. >> So again, everybody, you got a paper packet or it is all online. Uh again, a big thank you couple years ago. We created it. We are now in year two of our strategic plan. Uh we did celebrate uh the the accomplishments of that. I do believe we brought that to people in June. I think we highlighted that. And just like we've done in the past through student achievement committee and through board updates, we'll continue to keep the board updated on how we are doing and you'll see the yellow, green, and red where we're at. But uh this year is no different. Again, we've taken a look at what we kind of wanted to do in all three of the pillars. Um our first pillar obviously is our student
068experience about how we try to continue to uh grow that experience. Again, you're going to find science renewal, mer and values, 4K standards, uh, understanding by design, UBDs, again, just really trying to enhance that, uh, that student experience. Again, continuing that ACT20 work and that literacy curriculum too as well. Um, the other piece from the student aspect of it, again, student staff is when we start to think about those growth indicators, is really honing in on and focusing on our our special education population this year. So uh again that started actually uh last Friday where we've met with our special educators reviewed progress u progress goals you know what are those IEP goals what kind of progress monitoring are we using and then ultimately having the right people in the room and saying is that
069the right resource is that what we want to do so this year from a special education standpoint taking a look at really assessing how we're doing progress monitoring and the resource that we're doing developing a a a plan to really then ultimately implement uh the following year as we start to take a look at either whether it's for through the budgeting process, the professional development plan and meet making sure that we have all those staff members getting those students what they need from that standpoint too as well. So, and the other piece too from a professional stain training standpoint this idea of all means all okay that every child who walks through your classroom is everyone's responsibility and again really trying to develop that under continuing to develop that understanding too as well. So, so
070from the student aspect of it, obviously we want to continue to highlight, you know, that academic achievement while inspiring curiosity and personal growth. Really taking a look at those indicators. >> Um, >> can I ask a question? Go ahead. >> So, we have a lot of things that are coming up due in May and June of this year. Do those do those timelines still seem appropriate for your plans? >> Right now, this is just our our first run at it. We will keep everybody up to date on that and we'll highlight that probably in a couple months. But yes, we do believe that everything on here um and how we put just so everybody knows how we put this all into action as an administrative team. We reviewed it. We let it sit. We brought
071it back, reviewed it again. Our building administrators and Maria brought it to our guiding coalition teams. They reviewed it, gave us feedback. We reviewed it again in instructional team and then ultimately uh Marie and I sat down as recent as of Tuesday I think Tuesday Wednesday uh and refined it. So it was a very collaborative process uh and everything in here we do believe we can meet but we'll keep the board updated. >> Have you had any unanticipated challenges that we need to address with resources or anything like that? >> Not yet. Not yet. Um we're feeling really good and again we'll know more about our budget as we go forward but again we continue to refine that. Um like for instance we found out one thing already where we really felt that we could
072use something uh in the area of special ed. I said just give me a requisition we'll take care of it and then you know what's the process for the training and the development of that too as well. So we don't want to resource oursel out of things. Again, we want to make sure that we've got that that strong plan, but ultimately if we see a hole, we're going to make sure that that gets filled as soon as we can. >> As a part of this, we we're really proud of this coming forward, but it is ambitious and we're getting into the everything will start to come due. So, if there's things that we need to be resourcing to make sure that it runs smoothly, I would like to know. >> We appreciate that. Well, we
073heard that from a student achievement committee standpoint already from the Merin values team, for instance. what they're asking for, what they're going to need is very ambitious and it's going to be in the form of time. So, uh, more to come on that. I know Maria's mentioned that too as well. So, that will be one of those things again that we can allocate as we move forward or it could be a big allocation for the 2627 school year and particularly that science adoption. So, yep. So, we're going to resource what we can and ultimately we'll know more about that as we finalize our budget. But we feel really good. So the student side again very solid ready to go from a staff standpoint again trying to really continue to enhance that employee engagement right last
074year's big work heavy lift was the compensation right uh big success again a big thank you to our compensation team and the board uh for being able to support that by the way that process we did get uh approved for WASB so we will be presenting at the uh WASB state convention as well as our strategic planning process So, uh, we'll get some good PR and again just share out some of those ideas. But from an employee experience, again, we just want to raise that level of engagement and we we start to talk about, you know, how do we give more opportunities for our staff to participate in particular those uh, you know, meet and confer like we were talking about before. One of the pieces of feedback that we got was is can we
075hold them during staff professional development time and when we're here. Um, so again, big thank you to our instructional team. October 29th is a Wednesday and that's our Wednesday morning meeting time. We're going to host it on that day. So, we've tried a lot of different things. Nicole knows before school, after school, whatever it is. So, now we're going to try that piece of feedback to hopefully we can continue to get that high level of engagement. Same way with our survey results. Again, we have our we'll be using school perceptions again, that same survey over and over. Um, one of the things the board asked me is say, how do we raise g get up? you know, we're right around that 60 to 63% participation. We are going to allocate time during our professional development
076day on October 23rd to make that happen. So hopefully, again, we can't make somebody put a survey. They're like, "Yeah, don't make it mandatory. Don't check a box that you did it." But just trying to up that because we do want to hear from everybody and how do we move that needle from, you know, 2/3 to 80 75 to 80%. So we'll know more about that as we go from that standpoint. So, we've got that employee engagement experience that hopefully will continue to build from last year to this year >> as well. But, uh, again, a lot of professional development and making sure that people have whether it's resources or time being able to move forward with that too as well. Um, and then finally, we've got our community standpoint, too. Again, continue to try
077to engage those folks as much as we possibly can. U, we'll continue with our newsletters that we go out. We'll ask again if people want to be part of our weekly Sunday newsletters. We had seven community members. So, seven community members are getting that information that they didn't have before. But, uh again, just really trying to continue to engage our our community at a high level and and it's interesting because we're hearing a lot from uh our values team about how people are engaged and how do we highlight that as we go forward too. So, >> when we send out the community newsletter, is it in the newsletter that they can sign up for that link and it's highlighted? Okay. >> Yep. Yep. It's just a QR code that gets you to a Google form
078and then Mr. Jim hands it to me when he's done. >> Do we have do we put anything in there that if the QR code is not something they know how to use or are comfortable using, they can call the district office? >> All of our information is there, but we'll make sure that that's to say, hey, either sign up either this way or that way. We can make sure that that happens. Ron, just a quick question on that pillar goal. Engage all. How all are you? When you say all, are you going for 100% of everybody or or do you have a >> which one are you looking >> a threshold? I'm looking at the pillar goal on strategic objective two. Pillar goal, engage all community stakeholders in support of our mission. So, I
079guess what I'm looking at is, you know, where where have we been? If we're trying to get to something being all as a goal, um it you're never going to get all I mean, you never will. I mean, >> we're going to keep trying, but yeah, I understand. >> Exactly. I mean, you start to look at a critical mass in a a survey and you know, you're happy if you get 35%. So I guess you know what is when you really look at all what are what are we really trying to get to? >> We're trying to touch as many people as possible. So for instance every taxpayer plus would get a newsletter. Um that's from from the community side obviously from the family engagement standpoint. again continuing to try to raise and raise awareness
080again through a more effective communication strategy whether it's through our website design and more social media presence um you know some of those those items um we're going to ser be surveying our families as well uh as well as students so we're going to do all three of them again to kind of use some of that data as we go but those engagement indicators you just want to continue to move the needle on specific uh items that are listed here so when we say all again we're open to however that that that means like even Patrick tonight was saying, "Hey, can we put our websites up on the uh on the villages, you know, or do I just email our Sunday newsletter? Do we include that to the clerk or or an assistant and that
081they can put it up?" So, just about trying to get some other avenues to try to get our message out just to keep people informed. I do I do appreciate that because I think we we said all being on the committee very uh aspirationally and >> operationalizing all is unlikely. So the opportunity we wanted the opportunity for everyone to have that information and then also proactively to make sure that everybody who's a taxpayer got that information so they would know how to get a hold of us, how to interact, how to be involved if they wanted to. But I do take your point. >> All right. >> And all the way from is but what talents do you have? I mean that was another question we asked. Do you have a talent that you would
082love to share with us and how do we fit that in that's appropriate to >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Yep. Thank you. >> Did anybody share any talents? >> No. >> Then I had another Don't give up. >> Don't give up. Nope. Nope. >> Have you gotten any other feedback about the Sunday night newsletter? As a parent, I found it very useful to know what where in my email to go back and find the things I'm looking for. Have you gotten any other feedback? >> Um, no. I haven't really gotten that. I think people are really because when I start to put it together on Thursday, there's people looking at it already. So, they've kind of gotten into the sense of it that by Thursday afternoon, Friday afternoon, they don't need to wait. And
083that's kind of what we've highlighted before. And that's probably a good reminder to highlight that to say, "Hey, the newsletter is done by Friday afternoon. If you want to access, it's the same link over and over and over." Um, so if you want it Friday afternoon, Saturday evening, Saturday morning, it's available from there, too. So, but no, ever since the kind of the initial launch of it, the thank you this this really works and then I think there was some feedback around all the way from like the board board packets going out and again Jim pushes that out on social media you know on Thursdays and not only and people are starting to know kind of realize our patterning. >> Okay. So, a lot of uh ambitious things. We appreciate that. But again, things that
084we feel that we can we can accomplish and again, we gotten a lot of feedback from it uh from all of our stakeholders internally and we really believe that uh we can continue to move that needle. >> So, thank you everybody. >> Great. >> Any other questions about the strategic plan? >> I would just say everybody out there in radio land, I hope you know what all is and that you participate because it's our district and we want it to be great. Yep. >> Thank you. >> Agreed. >> All right. We are moving on to new business item B. Approval of maintenance custodial floor scrubbers. >> Yep. So, um it's been on our actually our 10-year facility plan for the last two years, and we've been, you know, just continuing to to to band-aid I
085say band-aid, but um but now is the time when we started to take a look at investing in uh new floor scrubbers. Again, the floor scrubbers are used for everything. all of our hard surfaces, whether it's the gymnasium, our cafeterias, our hallways, they do everything except carpet. So, um, right now we do have two in the district that are that are fairly old and we're replacing batteries and things like that. Um, so when we went out to try to investigate purchasing new equipment, um, we found an opportunity where, uh, basically we had one quote where they were going to give us $12, you know, $200 or whatever it was uh, per item. We're like, whoa, that's a really good deal. And another person gave us a quote for that same item at 20,000. And then
086we started to look at the 2025 2026 versions of the equipment and it was even higher between 21 and 24,000. So, um, what my maintenance team and I are recommending is is us going forward with two new pieces of equipment. The current floors forevers do hold value. They do have value. Um, we would go to Wisconsin surplus. So all those radio listeners out there, uh we'll have two floor scrubbers out there for sale soon. Um that uh we would then flip those and then obviously that would just go to offset these. But when we see the opportunity for the pricing that of the same equipment that we have, same but new batteries, the batteries that don't require uh distilled water anymore. Uh they don't require off charging them, you know, with special chargers. These batteries
087are all what I would say 2025 versions of batteries onboard chargers. All we do is plug them in. The fire department will greatly appreciate this because we've had our last two uh CO2 detectors have been because of the CO2 being emitted from the old floor scrubber batteries. >> So, I know uh Chief Prell and myself will love not getting Mr. and Jordan Zer will love not getting those 10:30 p.m. CO2 detectors. So, uh, these are updated and we know how to maintain them, too, as well. So, uh, just felt it was time to bring it to the board for two new floor scrubbers. So, just looking for a, uh, a board motion to approve the purchase of two floor scrubbers for $25,1452. >> So moved. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. discussion.
088>> It certainly sounds like it's a it's a pretty fiscally sound um maneuver to to get those things, especially um looking at those prices. I did check with another school district to remain anonymous. Um and that is a that's a solid deal. Those are expensive units. So, very good to find something like that. Thank you. >> Yeah, we were we were happy with it. The last ones have lasted 8 to 10 years. So these will be in the district for a long time. >> So we're are we replacing one with two? >> We are replacing two with two. >> Two with two. >> Two and two. Y. So we still have >> expect 8 to 10 years off of this >> off of both of them. Correct. Yep. >> Yep. >> And you don't have
089any do you have any kind of estimate for Wisconsin surplus? Do we get $1,000 or >> Not really sure what to expect. We haven't investigated that far yet. We just know there is some value to them, especially one of them. I mean, one of them is in better shape than the other ones, but uh but we'll get something for them. >> Okay. >> Because we don't want to store them. >> Not next to the CO2 detector. >> Any other questions? >> Right. All in favor? Sorry. Before I start this, Ron, do I need to do this at an upper level or do I do it for the exact amount? >> Exact amount. Okay, >> we got that exact vote. >> All in favor in approving the expenditure of $25,1452 on two new floor scrubbers. There's
090already a motion on the table. What am I doing? >> You have to read you read it right. >> See all the self-doubt I have up there in front of everybody. >> Exactly. You're supposed So all in favor, please say I. >> I oppose. Same sign. Any abstensions? All right. Thanks for finding those, Ron. >> Okay. Well, that's team effort, Mr. Kirk and Mr. Jordan. Well, so upcoming meetings, we have October 27th at 6:00. Again, uh we'll have the 2526 uh budget presentation. So, that'll be the time when we set the levy, which ultimately creates the mill rate. Uh later this week, we will be receiving our property values, which then October 15th gets our state aid, and then we'll put it all together. We'll hold a uh finance committee meeting and then put a
091recommendation forward. So um also this month as we were talking about it will be a heavy policy month with student achievement with policy and personnel as well as facility too as well. So yep and I would expect in October us bringing uh some reviews from our facility team because that's where we're going to start talking about our library project um and then taking a look at some things moving forward too. So we'll have an update on where we're at there too as well. Ron, are we able to look at um scheduling beyond two months with our um meetings? Is it possible to perhaps calendar those out so we kind of know and I think it would be nice for the community to know >> well in advance on things as well. >> So before we
092go too far, I see December 15th out there >> and I have a conflict that day. We do it the week earlier. >> The the week earlier I would be paused because that's our concert week. >> Okay. That's the >> And the following Monday there's no school. >> The following Monday is no school. So we >> second >> are kind of locked into that week of the 15th. >> I mean you guys are free to go without me. >> Everyone else is available. >> Is this something you would want to attend virtually? Like would you want to be on the call? If I'm available, I I will absolutely check. >> I know sometimes when I'm traveling, I don't know if I can be, >> right? >> Everyone else can be here. >> We don't have
093a lot of options in December. >> So, we'll keep with the 15th then right now >> and I will call in if I'm able. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Just to go back to John both, normally our meetings are the fourth Monday >> typically. Yep. November and December always is a problem, >> right? >> Because of Thanksgiving week and >> Right. Not so much Thanksgiving week, it's deer hunting week. >> Thank you, Dean. >> I still attend though. I would attend. >> But normally the rest of the the calendar year usually are that fourth Monday except for when just happens that everybody can't >> and we changed it. This must second had a conflict >> looking ahead. So that would be January 26th and there's also no school that day. Is there school here that
094day? >> I might just be on Arrowheads. >> I haven't moved to June. >> Let me pull up our calendar. >> I'm impressed. I knew what day last week. >> No, the 26. We have we have school >> is AHS off on the 26th >> according to the family. >> So the 26th we'll have it. Is that does that one work? The last Monday the 26th. >> Yep. >> Okay. Uh in February the last Monday is the 23rd. >> Good. >> March is another one of those goofy ones this year because of spring break >> would be would have to go the 23rd. >> February 23rd. >> Wait a minute. The spring. When is spring break? >> The week the 30th. >> Yes. Okay. So, the but if we go with the fourth Monday, that's
095the 23rd. >> It' be the fourth Monday would be the 23rd. >> What February one are we doing? >> February is the 23rd. >> 23rd. >> March the 30th. >> Nope. That's spring break. >> The 23rd. >> 23rd would be the fourth Monday. And yeah, and then the the fifth Monday is spring break. So, >> I will be gone the month of April if I can call in. Okay. And we'd be looking at the 27th for April. >> And that will be board reorganization. >> Yep. Board reorganization. Yep. And then May we hit uh again Memorial uh Labor Day, I'm sorry, Memorial Day, >> right? >> Did you want to go the Tuesday after or the week before? Typically, we've gone the week before and held the Mondays. >> Week before. >> I do the
096week before. >> The 18th. I would also we could keep scheduling them out, >> but maybe we just about six months in. >> Maybe we just uh schedule them out through the through May. >> Yes, I thought that for the academic year. >> All right. So then what I will do is I'll communicate that out to the board. I'll send you guys invites, but then also send that to our families as well. >> Thank you, Ron. >> Thank you for the rest of the members here. >> Appreciate that. >> And I have an agenda item I'd like to add for October. >> Okay. did this already. >> We've looked at maybe doing part-time HR before. I'd like to revisit that. I have some ideas that I'd like us to talk about again. So, that'd be
097for this next meeting. >> Okay. >> That'd be for October. >> October. >> Thank you. >> Then, uh, Rebecca, what I'll do is that just ahead of time just say, "Hey, if you could prepare something, we'll put it in the board packet for everybody to look at and you and I can connect in." >> Sounds good. >> Okay. That's all I have. >> Any other agenda items for October? >> Move. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> We are adjourned. >> Thank you. Microphone.