001and they make a motion to go to the consil tri. And if there's ever anything you don't want in the nice to see everyone tonight, we're beginning with the community forum this evening. I don't currently have anyone who says they'd like to speak at the forum. Is there anybody who would like to speak? Seeing none, it is 6:30 and so I call this meeting of the board. >> We have to wait till 6:35. >> 6:35. >> Yep. >> Seeing none, we will sit and stare at you. Five minutes. All right. 6:35. >> Okay. Now, I call the board of education meeting on Monday, August 25th, 2005 to order. We'll begin with the uh at 6:35. We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
002and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, this meeting has been appropriately posted in all of the usual places and we are moving on to the approval of our agenda for today. I have a motion. >> I so move. >> A motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I >> opposed. Seeing none, we're moving on to the approval of our consent agenda items. >> Motion to approve the consent agenda items. >> Second. >> We have a motion in a second. Any discussion? Which I should have done before. Sorry. >> Seeing no discussion. >> Discussion. >> All in favor, please say I. I. >> I. Oppos. Same sign. Consent agenda has passed. All right. And
003so we are moving on to delegations to be heard. Have any have anybody signed up? Any delegations? Seeing none, we're moving along. We go to our administrators report. >> Sure. Uh thanks everybody. We are super excited about our new school year starting next week, Tuesday. So we got about eight days. A big thank you to our staff uh who've been in last week and again they'll be in again uh tomorrow and Wednesday. Wednesday is our district open house. So, um if you do get a chance, feel free to stop by and get a picture. Uh Dr. Laflur, feel free to swing by too so you can get your picture in the yearbook and on the web, please. If not, we'll have to take your mug shot. So, um but uh so again, big thank you
004to our staff, our custodial team too, for making our buildings uh look really, really sharp. We did have some comments from some new staff that were just like, "Wow, do these places look good." So, uh we're ready for kids. It'll be exciting to have him come through this Wednesday and see him there again. So, um, some open records. We did have our normal open records requests, finances and staffing and things like that. And we did have u a fairly large open record request on deans uh on Dean's record on the board um with his years of experience. And uh the best part about that open record was is we were able to supply all but one record from a long time ago. So, because Dean's been on the board for a long time. So >>
005from 88 to 93, right? >> The 93. Yep. So we found as many records as we could for that too. And then there was an open records between a dialogue between Rebecca and Dean um as well too. So again, thank you for supplying all the records and everybody supplied records. And we did have records. Big thank you to Peggy too for helping us create those or not create them but find them. Um from a donation standpoint, a big thank you to St. John's Church across the street. Uh they did give us $500. I know it was approved in the uh consent agenda items, but thank you to St. John's Church. That angel fund goes to students who've uh have a balance, outstanding lunch balance, who may not have the opportunities, whose families maybe uh have
006a little struggle paying that. So again, that angel fund uh helps uh take care of that too. So a big thank you to St. John's Church as well. Uh the other piece that I wanted to update uh the board and the community on was uh there was a Arrowhead Consortium School Board meeting that was held last Thursday at the uh Arrowhead High School South Campus. Um I did attend. There were members from the Arrowhead School Board. I do believe they had about five. There was five members of the Swallow School Board, four members of the North uh of the H Heartland Lakeside School District, two members of Stone Bank, and then one member from Lake Country that joined the group too as well. So, from a consolidation standpoint, um there was a lot of discussion,
007you know, about who's still interested in moving forward. Um Arrowhead, H Heartland, Lakeside, and Swallow did express interest in creating a smaller team to kind of explore consolidation. what are the opportunities that are there and to continue the conversation I would say so again they're going to create a much smaller committee um they're finding and I would agree the more board members you put in a room again it gets difficult to get a lot of things done and uh to to make recommendations or to just kind of have a dialogue so they're looking for you know four to one member from each school board who would be interested um obviously I just what my participation there was is they asked you know because I have I can do a financial analysis. Uh it's pretty simple
008uh to take a look at what the community impact from a tax side is. Uh ultimately all of our schools have revenue limits and if you were to consolidate with one, two, three or eight schools, all you really do is put the revenue limits together and you get your new levy and you get your new mill rate. So again, whether it's two schools, three schools, five schools, any combinations of those two as well. Um I did explain that to the group. Uh and then again it it it all depends and it can go from there. I mean there there are studies that can happen to say okay if you were to do this what kind of shared services would be opportunity or what kind of duplication services would exist? You know if you put two
009school districts together you don't need two superintendents. Check that box. Right. But then what are the other opportunities? And again that's a whole another study if you wanted to or it's just a discussion between two schools. So um if the board wanted me to do some analysis, uh the best time to do that would be after everybody sets their revenue limit, everybody sets their levies and their mill rates and then ultimately all the information is very easily accessible and then you just overlay it. So um if the board is interested, uh I certainly can do that. doesn't take long, but it's just getting the information and then ultimately I could show the board um you know the opportunities that would exist between you know Richmond, Swallow, Stone Bank, North Lake I consolidated all eight. Obviously
010the more school districts you do the little bit more time it is but it's just basically overlaying. So, um, if the board is interested in doing something, my recommendation would be to, you know, wait until after October, see what the tax impact is, because I reminded the group that about 75% of our families in our school district have no students that come to our schools. So, um, a lot of this is is am is my taxes going to go down? So, uh, that's the part that's very easily answered. That's mathematical. the duplicate of service and buildings and transportation. Obviously, that's where it gets much more difficult. But again, there's one answer that can be easily found and that would be after the October to overlay something. So, we can talk about that later if that's
011something that the board wants to in a future agenda item as we move there. >> And I will say in my conversations with Ron, the the other conversations that should happen could happen later, the first thing that everybody would want to know is the financial impact. And so, while Arrowhead is putting a committee together now, I would like to see the financial impact because if people looked at that and said, "Never mind, nobody is interested." Then we wouldn't be going anywhere anyway, >> right? And some school districts did say that. Stone Bank said, "We have the lowest mill rate, so we're not interested. It's not going to be an advantage to us." >> Um, >> and Ron said that he thought it would take him a couple of hours, >> couple hours to do it
012to do the work. So what I highlighted to to Stone Bank was you don't know that until you do the calculation. That's right. >> Because even though we have a lower levy, I can't tell you if it doesn't if it's not advantageous because your cost per pupil goes down, your property values. I mean, it's it's a combination that one would think it go up or down, but until you mathematically know, you don't need to guess. >> And I'd also like to be very clear that having that conversation commits us to nothing, right? It's as we are having that conversation, I always think it's a good idea to look and see. We do have a different school district set up than lots of other places in the state. And so looking to see what that financial
013impact might be while we're having the conversation >> seems wise to me before we even think about what other steps we might want to take or might not want to take. >> Yeah, >> definitely a starting place. >> Yep. Lake Country is kind of the one who said right now they're just don't need to take on something else because they're kind of, you know, taking a look at some of their own challenges, but uh the other school districts weren't close to it. So, we'll put something together and maybe have a discussion in November about it once we have some more information. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> Okay. Uh we don't have any committee reports. >> So, we're moving on to new business and we start with getting me off some of
014these committees. board reorganization, please. >> Our committee assignments are >> should be they're in your packet or it's electronic. >> Looks like it has a staple, but there's no res. So, that's the one you're looking for. You can look out. We go, >> you know, John, >> you got it. Okay, there you go. All right. Thank you. So these are >> I wasn't sure if it >> okay so John what we did was to make sure that we fulfilled state requirements to have the committees staffed with at least two people is we put me on all the rest of them and so uh the ones that I had started on student achievement and as the WASBY rep uh between negotiation policy and facility I need to get off two of those would be my preference.
015Um, I'm interested in what you're because you'll be the person replacing me in those. Is anybody else interested in a wider reorganization or are we good with replacing me with John? >> Well, we would have to make a motion to nominate John as the member open seat. Correct. >> Nope. >> Don't need to. Nope. >> The swearing in covered that. >> Yeah, the swearing in unless somebody's willing to step off. And again, we're just looking at the committees. >> Okay. Um, yeah, since the other four seats are already taken, he is a default. You don't need a nomination. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you for that. >> You just Sorry, I was just making You're okay. >> Very good. >> Rebecca, do you want to get off of policy? >> I uh would of I >>
016I'm fine with any of them. That's the negotiation policy or or facility. So, I'm interested in knowing what other people's area of interest is and I can stay with the other one. time uh constraint for me, policy would be a better one for me to get off of. But if that's not people's interest, then I can stay. >> This year, I can tell you that at least on our cycle, this is an off year for policies outside of things that come up like last year act 20 came up. >> Um next year is the policy heavy one because then that's our five-year trigger for 100s, 200s, and 300s. So, um >> good news is is it hasn't been 20 years. Bad news is is we have to look at it again >> that it comes
017up again. >> Does anybody have any thoughts here? >> Anybody? >> John, I don't know. Is there any Do you have any thoughts about having been >> Patrick would like policy? >> Oh, you'd be interested in policy. >> Do you want to try jump in? >> Dear experience, it might be better. >> Not this year because there's not happening. But >> well, as long as it's not literacy, I might not be able to read. Well, Is it the uh we have the discussion and then we nominate and vote each of these? Yeah. Okay. So, let's just have the larger discussion and then we can go through nominate and vote each of them. Does that make sense to people? >> Start at the top. I'd start at negotiations and work our way down. >> All right.
018So, in negotiation, so I would like to be off that or facility. Does anybody have a John? Do you have an interest of which things would be most interesting to you? >> I'd do facility. What's negotiations look like? >> Negotiations is a one time one time a year we meet in uh approximately between right around March um where we meet ahead of time as a board to kind of then give the negotiations team the parameters for negotiating with the teachers. Um it typically happens in March. In the past it's been one meeting. >> Sometimes it's been >> in the near past. in the near past. In the old past, it was lots of meetings. >> Lots of meetings. >> But it happens one time a year in the spring. That's it truly. >> I'm happy
019to stay there unless anybody else is interested in learning the process. >> I'd like to stay on there. Okay. Follow us. We already need to do any nominating. We don't need to make any motions because that's didn't change. >> Okay. Uh finance Dean and Pat are you >> I'll stay there >> then facility we'd be looking at John and Dean >> stay there for you >> John Pat you're still are you still interested in being the CIS rep >> John would you be interested in being the WSB representative you do as little or as much as you want from that position means means they mail stuff to you. >> Sure. >> Okay. >> It's hard to get out of junk mail anyway, so >> that works. >> And then Pat, are you interested staying on
020student achievement? And I am as well. >> Okay. >> All right. Any other discussion about any of the positions or spaces? >> Everybody happy? >> Happy. Happy. Sure. >> We need to make a motion per Can we vote the slate? >> Really hoping to get on that you didn't. >> Okay. >> Got to arm wrestle anybody for it. >> No. >> Okay. >> We have all of these in the minutes. So, we just need to I would say we probably just need them. Do you want to do it individually? >> What would change policy facility and >> Yep. >> I mean, as long as you guys are good. >> Yeah. >> The slide. Yep. So, I would recommend the board make a motion to um keep all committees the same outside of facility committee, which
021would be John Laflur and Dean Doberton. >> No policy >> and policy committee. >> Patrick and Nicole. Okay. And WB member John Laflor. All I need is a so moved. >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion and second. Any discussion? All in favor of v voting the slate, please say I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. >> We pass. >> Thank you very much. >> Good. >> Okay. At this time, if Mr. Chsky could come on up and the board, we will head to the audience. Um, Marie and I were talking about how we wanted to present the event, whether it be committee or uh or the whole board. Um, as we were thinking about this, again, August was a little bit light and this is all really feel is super important for
022uh the full board to hear as well as our our community as it relates to our student achievement update. We're excited to bring this forward because you've heard a lot about act 20 particular. So, you're going to get an update on that along with a bunch of other things too as well. Mrs. Kachar. >> Um, so I have >> No, I'm good. >> Um, I have kind of four things I just wanted to share with the first board, I mean with the full board, excuse me. Um, the first one is um the change in district and school report cards. So, as you know, annually they come out at November and we were informed um in June that they were looking at a process to relook at that standard setting and um I just want to
023give an update to that because they are redoing that. So, that really kind of affects I feel like I'm up here saying it like every year. It affects um you know our data dashboard, how we're comparing because we don't know all the changes that are coming. Um and so in the board memo and you can read that at your leisure. I gave a little background which is basically the information that um our superintendent received our district administrators as well as DAX which is district assessment coordinators who are responsible for information. Um the main thing that they're saying is that they're going to be updating through this web page um which is a um I clicked on it for the board. Um it kind of brings up this process. They have a short twominut um video
024that I'm going to play and then just um let you know um kind of what's going on. I can get it here. >> Every year since 2011, Wisconsin produces report cards for schools and districts. Similar to the purpose of student report cards, these report cards help districts understand opportunities for kids. It also helps families, educators, understand how their school each report card looks at multiple years of across board like achievement, growth, progress of students or students academic performance, attendance, and graduation. Based on these data, schools are given quantify overall fails to meet expectations significantly exceeds expectations. But things have changed over time since reports began. Wisconsin has proved how better performance schools with more lows are difficult. student growth form academic progress and absentism hasn't hurt using the old or poor part of the Mormon
025benchmarks. It's like using a GPS 10year-old the roads have changed. We don't update the map we might end up on the wrong path for our destination. That's why this summer over two dozen education groups from across Wisconsin are coming together to update the thresholds for each rating. They will review available data recommend system with guidance from national experts. This standard setting process ensures school ready to expectations, not it's all about making sure Wisconsin are consistent, clear, fair based on how schools are truly fun. Learn more at eiw. So, as you see, um, they had their last meeting on August 14th, 2025, and, um, they did have recommendations to submit. So, they are with our state superintendent, Dr. Utterly. So, we will not know exactly what she would maybe approve or not approve at this time.
026What I can tell you is our report cards are going to be different. How are they going to be different? How is that compared to our past measures? I will not be able to speak much about it. So, as soon as information is kind of coming out um to boards, I'll update student achievement about kind of where we're at with that. But, I think it's important to note that this is the first major revision since they've been out and we'll have to wait and see. Are there any questions from board members? So there's nothing there's nothing for us to do with this but just to know this is >> right because our district dashboard and things are items are built on some of these things but it's I'm not sure how it will influence how
027we want to you know what what changes and what that impact is. Um, so just know it's coming because I think it's important for boards to understand if all of a sudden, you know, we're not even rated whatever, you know, we you have to know that there's changes, you're often the one publicly kind of out there, you know, in the community being asked what's going on with that and you can say they changed and this is what I know about it. And um I assume we'll have information um before then cuz their categories can even change. Who knows? I don't know how they're going to look at them. All right. So, you know, they say they're going to keep this website up to date. So, you know, if you're needing to sleep at night and
028not sure what you want to do, this is often something on my to-do list. Browse DPI. It helps. All right. Um, our next agenda is just a little bit of an act um, 20 update. So, I did um, I've been treating this board memo as kind of putting all presentation and information that I've shared with the board since it went. So, it's a laundry list of just every presentation where, when. And I thought I'd give a little update of that because it might surprise you, but there's changes. Um, so if you ever I I don't know how schools without a me right now honestly are keeping up. It's crazy. Um, so a couple things just um for act 20 um that I just wanted to update the board on. So um there was Wisconsin required
029reading training for the science of reading. As you know, we gave um it was about 30 hours worth of training for our teachers. We started it last year and we gave them approximately 28 of the 30 hours built into our professional learning calendar. So they had small part to kind of finish on their own. Um so that's complete. But the law stated um that any um they had a start by July 2025. So we do have new staff members that are not science of reading training. And of course that's not time we're giving anymore. So, we've been working with them at getting them the information so they could begin the training over the summer. So, um as required by law, every school district handled that differently. Um a handful did come with science and reading
030training and some did not. So, they are going to have to complete that um Cox Academy training on their own. We gave them the resources, the materials, and um the information to begin that. Um so another part of act 20 which I think um is going to be um kind of interesting is and we started this last week just a little you know we brought in the data warehouse next path and we really just used it for act 20 for pushing out as web scores personal reading plans but we actually I just did light overview training and let all the staff know they can get into it. So there wasn't a lot of obviously new student data for them to like break into, but they could look at all of their students in their classroom,
031go into last year's data and find out and learn about their kids. In Next Path, um we do have um the IEPs at a glance for students with disabilities. That's where our 504 plans live. um and our English language learners, our individual learning plans, ILPS are in um transitioning over to Next Path. And then of course we have any data that we had on our kids. So when we implemented that in early fall last year, we went back to like three years worth of data. So that information our teachers were all able to get in. I have one straggler person that's just not sinking right with Skyward. Um, but there was a lot of nerd time happening. I did about we gave him like an hour and I gave like a half hour of kind
032of a little background and then like book I've already bookmarked that. I've been in that. I found a lot, you know. So, just a really good tool. And um I will be continuing um more training on September 26. That's our first professional learning day um of the start of the school year. And that's a great day because we should have the majority of our data all complete and um all of that gets autosynced nightly. So every time our students take an Ames web assessment or an I Ready, the information is available the next day to teachers. So I'm going to show them how they can make data walls and find out more about their kids in next path. So I think they'll be excited about that once they have data. And then of course um
033we also will be teaching them that day of how to create their personalized reading plans for students that need them. So that will be a next training piece. Um here the biggest thing was that Ames Web has changed. Um and that was the main measure of identifying students with personal reading plans. And in kindergarten and first grade, they actually changed a few assessments that we're giving them. And that's the big change for those grade levels. Um assessment went away and I kind of denoted in there um they added something 5K midyear. Um and then added nonsense word fluency also in there. And then in first grade they added another test to fall administration. and then added another measure. So those are all individually administered. So we're working with Peggy. We do bring some subs in
034to administer them. They're quick, but it allows us to go through that. So those are some of the changes. The main change is that Ames Web has went through reorming and Lori and I were talking about it nerdingly on Friday and then Lori spent her weekend normal nerding out about that because she's a school psychologist and statistics is very interesting to her. So I just wanted to kind of show the board a little bit of an example of what they're reorming. So, um, I just gave some examples of the ASW web measure up there at kindergarten and then I showed you what last year's norm was. Um, that would be the kids at the 25th percentile. What cut score do they need to get to be in the 25th percentile to trigger a personal reading
035plan? And then how the reorm went. So, um, want to know if any board members have noticed anything about the reorming. Um, all but one had dropped quite a bit significantly. Um, and to give you an example, last school year, a kid would trigger a personal reading plan in third grade in the beginning of the year, right? if they if their cut score on the ORF was, you know, less than 67, now it's going to be less than 45. And if you look, that was the measure for our second graders in the beginning of the year. So what that means for us, I'm not quite sure because you'll see one norm did go up. letter world s letter world world sound fluency one measure did we have a couple of them that went up a
036tad and a lot of them that went down a lot so I'm anticipating for Merin we may have less personal reading plans based off of the new norming and um Lori went on Ames web and found out their reorming information and sent it to me and she read it and I read it and really they say a couple things have happened. Of course with any test the norming is by the amount of samples that you get, how many people participate and um so many like the state of Wisconsin right now every student in Wisconsin is tested public school in Ames web that affects normie right maybe the year before Merin only had a small group of kids kids we were progress monitoring in Ames web so an increased pool from a lot of states that
037have included their whole state um has affected norming. They also have kind of said, "Yep, this is down the it was normed pre- pandemic and a notice and they called the pandemic out specifically that they believe the drops of the norms um are are part of the pandemic. So, what this means for us, I can't tell you yet. Um, but just know again, so I won't be able to compare for you how many personal reading plans we had last year at grade levels between this year's and say, "Oh, we're doing a much better job teaching because it may have to do more with norming." Are you following me with that? So again, it just is, you know, our goalpost is moving different places, some more, some less, a lot less. And you know what that
038means for Merin? I don't know. But I just wanted to give that again to the board cuz you know, if someone says, "Well, you had 80 personal breeding plans and I saw at a board meeting now you only had 30. What is what are you doing in Merin that's so different that kids aren't on plans?" I want you to be able to articulate that it might have something to do with the norming. Patrick, >> what are the individual teachers going to tell parents about personalized reading plans? I mean, like you said, there's there might be from 80 to 30 when a parent comes in and asks what happened. So that's going to be as good as my communication, Patrick, when you know the time comes that we're releasing personal reading plans of how I'm communicating
039this to families, which I will do in the best way that I can and same with our staff. Um this um reorming is very recent. Um, and matter of fact, if I didn't save Lori and I were talking about this, I saved a document from last school year in a file folder that had last year's cut scores in. If we would log into Ames Web now, and Lori did, we couldn't find them. They were all updated. So, you know, how many districts even are going to realize that? Um, I I can't tell you. I only knew because I could look at last year's stuff from DPI which is not accessible anymore and isn't insistically that might we see more trouble with science curriculum? Might we see more difficult bill because the state didn't say this
040group of people no longer need something that >> I'm I'm not really anticipating that um Rebecca because our students that um might have really been struggling in literacy even before personal reading plans we knew because we use multiple data points. So I'm not you know and I will tell you we had a lot of kids trigger for personal reading plans that we weren't concerned about when we gave them additional diagnostics were really good core phonics had phmic awareness you know had comprehension if we gave an oral reading record would be very close to on grade level so how it's going to be I don't know I I don't know the impact in I noted in second and third grade the ORF, that oral reading fluency is the only score that triggers a personal reading plan.
041In K1, it's a composite score. So, I just gave you some examples. So, I would tell you right now, if Lori and I went in with these same measures, we would have s had significantly less second and third graders on personal reading plans here in Martin. Now, what it will be next, I don't know. and they added some assessments we didn't assess last year um in kindergarten and first grade as I shared on the slide although so I don't know it's another journey of fun any other questions about the change >> thank you for straight >> that's that's my job um all right um let's see what we have here I I'd also want to um you know, every time we do major curriculum adoptions, I want the board to know I'm always looking at
042data with them. How are we doing? How successful are um at that? And um we did some major changes first in math and then in in literacy. And I wanted to see how we're doing. And you could look at data in many things. We could look at our kids that were at grade level on above. I chose to look at kids that met their goal growth goal um and share that with the board because to me it should matter where are kids coming in but that they're meeting their growth goal that we're growing them one year or even better their stretch goal a year and a half. So the data that I'm sharing with you um is really kind of that um how are we growing students? Um but if you're interested in more you
043can always let me know. So I just put a little presentation of some data for you of where we were with reading. Put in slideshow so it looks a little cleaner here. So what I kind of did is in this first um thing is a um last year's students. So those were last year's kindergarters and last year's first through fifth. And what I did is I compared where they were the year before when we were using Lucy Caukins units of study and some Sunday like kind of a a cadre of stuff and then that same group what was the percentages in my view that made their growth goal. So let me just kind of talk over. So obviously last year's kindergarten kids are new to MERN. They weren't here. So you see an NA, but
044we had 57% of those kids um meet their goal. And then if you go to the other um blue thing, you see 29% met their stretch goal. If you're looking at first grade when they were in kindergarten, only 17% of them actually made their goal. And then after uh the year of my view, we had 81% of them. Um, so I'm not going to go through all of those numbers. The board can see them. Um, you know, kind of where they were between our old curriculum and new curriculum. And you kind of see it's either went up or kind of stayed relatively the same. um between and I would say if you look at your stretch goal um you know again either went up or stayed kind of consistent. Some of the ones that went
045up was was quite a bit um and so I'm I'm probably most happy with fourth grade last year to be honest. We had one of our regular staff members here all year at that grade level. We had a lot of um set. >> Yeah. So, so um the fact that we were pretty stable at that grade level with new curriculum and the amount of turnover and second grade also was pretty much a whole new staff. I'm not so surprised that those might be the places where we see, you know, kind of the most of this um uh because they weren't teaching Caukins and they were learning everything new. But overall um we didn't have a huge implementation dip and I'm really happy about that. We were either stable or we saw good growth. Um so
046I I will take that. Um if we're looking at Ian math um again um we were a year on that implementation. So I actually did two years and I just did year growth. I did kind of green where I saw compared to Envisions quite a bit of good growth of the amount of kids that were um meeting their their growth. Um again, I'm not surprised. We might have saw a little bit next school year. Anytime you're implementing something really new, sometimes you aren't focusing so much on preparing your math or other things. they wear many hats. But um so what this is kind of telling me and I look for trends over time, right? Like these were good moves. Um they definitely are growing kids at a at a good rate. Um I say I
047think our biggest change that we probably saw was our implementation in math. Um and I'm interested to see year two of my view. You know, math is one curriculum. when you're implementing my view, you're teaching grammar different, spelling and word study different, reading different, writing different, and our small group was a little bit slower to roll out with the changes. So, I'm really excited to see where we are with my view a year from now. But just wanted to let everyone know we're looking at this, you know, because if something isn't working well, right, like we have to pivot, we have to refine, we have to do better. I'm not just leaving it to chance. So >> I'm sorry what? So for instance you see that the percentage control for second grade it's 75% >>
04853% >> and that's for second fourth and sixth a little lower than secondary >> again I'm not going to excuse they're lower they're still better than in the most part what we would have been in envisions which is the purpose I'm looking for but as you know we had pretty much a new second grade team here so that was their first year of implementing Eureka no one came with that knowledge. And in fourth grade, you know, we had one person at that grade here, um, that was our regular staff member all year. Sixth grade is one that I'm always constantly looking on. Um, you know, it's even in forward, it trends very different. And a lot of the research actually says sixth grade math is one of the hardest years of math. They really are
049starting in um, you know, much deeper in fractions, um, integers. It's just a important year. So, I don't um have a thing. I'm not quite sure I've seen a trend all that much. And if I do, >> yeah, if if I do, then that I'll kind of, you know, address um because really it's only that second grade score uh score that isn't green, meaning doing better than they did in envisions, which was the purpose of what I'm looking for. But yeah, any other questions. All right, I have that by domain if anybody wants to see it, but and then last um I just put the agenda item here. Um we did I did kind of update the district dashboard with last year's data for the pieces that we have. Um and so um you know
050key performance indicators these are the ones that are really talking about um that's the report card piece. We like to all exceeds expectations. I'm going to assume that's still a really good goal for us. I don't know until I know what's changed with that. Um, you know, or if they're even going to have a five-star rating, if these benchmarks are going to even be the same. I don't know. So, that might be one indicator. And then really here in student achievement, we talked about um you know, we like to look at where kids are um and be about I ready will tell you that you want to be about um these are the national norms that we get um in spring like the percentage and then where we are in Merin and our target always
051tries to be 25% more than the norm. So, if the norm is 25%, we want to be 50. If the norm is 50, we want to be 75 or above. Um, and Eric Larson from CISA 6, who helped me kind of develop this, felt like that was a pretty pretty rigorous and good thing for our size in part of the district. So, you know, overall, again, really close or exceeding that. Um, so really happy about that. And then um where again are they with their growth and again um where our targets are. Working with Eric Larson helped me kind of produce those. So um looking about kids meeting their growth goals, their stretch goals um in math and reading at different grade levels. And then the bottom one is second step which we're not going
052to have after this year. um to measure. So I'm not sure one of the things I would like to talk over student achievement would be you know do we wait until our merant values committee which started meeting already in August what those recommendations are and to change that um or if we just want to sunset that. So that's kind of where we are. A big thank you to Maria and but ultimately a big thank you to the board and all of our staff too because ultimately we are looking at uh continuing to improve um you have given us the resources of instructional specialists which you know assist Maria and all of this work but ultimately the work is done by our staff. So uh big thank you to our staff and we're really continuing to
053see a lot of the fruits of that hard labor a lot of that work. So, uh, thank you to Maria, her staff, and ultimately our care teaching staff. Bob and Steve, thank you for it. Does truly take a village board. Thank you for supporting that village. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> All right. One more thing. >> Right. We're moving on to the approval of 25266603 with the H Heartland Lakeside School District for physical therapy services. >> Yep. So, this has been a great partnership for a shared service. When we start talking about shared services with other school districts, physical therapy is very rare. It is a related service for students who have a unique need through an IEP team. And uh the last seven years, we've been partnering with those school districts. So, the
054administration is recommending the board make a motion to approve the 6603 with H Heartland Lakeside School District for physical therapy services for the 2526 school year as presented. >> So, moved. >> Second. >> Move and a second. A third. >> Any discussion? >> Ron, have we seen any change in our amount of need for this service? >> No, it actually has been remaining very consistent. It's about five hours, three to five hours. Again, one of the things is is Lori continues to to monitor that and ultimately is uh is in charge of that too as well. So again, tomorrow that may change based on uh new students coming in, but again, it is truly driven by students IEPs. >> Any other questions or discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. >> I. Same sign.
055And that passes. So, we're moving on to future meeting and agenda items. >> Yep. So, the annual meeting uh we know Nicole is not going to be in attendance, but uh again, our annual meeting is September 9th, which is coming up at 2025. And again, that is a uh a budget hearing and ultimately a state of the state. That is a meeting of all the electors. So, uh individuals who are taxpayers of our school district are all welcome to attend and that is when they get to vote. So, on recommendations. So time on that >> uh 7 o'clock. >> 7 o'clock. Thank you. 7 o'clock. Yep. >> Yep. The most important there's a lot of important things that happen at that annual meeting. One is we set schoolboard salaries and then we introduced from a
056budget standpoint. The one piece that is set at the annual meeting though is our fund 41. Okay. That is a facilityonly fund that has to occur per state statute at the annual meeting. So um we have uh thank you Peggy for publishing all the required uh notices. everything is ready to go and uh I'll continue to push that out to our families, but ultimately give our community the budget report ahead of time and stuff like that. Uh it's basically a replica of the last uh preliminary budget presentation that occurred in May. One other update would just be from the state aid uh estimate that we got. So you'll hear that on the 9th and then September 29th, still work with everybody. our typical end of the uh the month on a Monday. I do believe
057that is Monday. >> Yes. >> Yep. >> And everybody recalls we shifted that from the 22nd. Yes. >> To the 29th. Yep. To the 29th. And then the October 27th meeting um is very important for that to be as late as possible because we get our last key to our school finance puzzle on October 15th, which is the final state aid value that we get. Uh from there then I put it all together, bring the finance team together ahead of that meeting and then ultimately we would approve a final levy uh which ultimately creates the mill rate at that October meeting. So that's what I have >> question for agenda item. Um >> yep >> like tonight we you set the meeting for 6:30. Why did we change it from immediately following the forum community
058forum? >> We um would have been a couple >> we've always given a fivem minute I shouldn't say always it was brought to our attention that our policy it has to be outside of the regular meeting. So that's why we start one meeting at 6:30. If there is no uh community input as we input as we saw today, we do have to set a new time uh per policy. So again, it was requested and kind of implied that we can't go 6:30 or after the community forum was is to set a specific time >> and that policy be looked at. >> Absolutely. because you can easily incorporate the community form. Prior to kind of the policy being called out, the community form was part of the regular meeting. >> Do you want us to look
059at >> Is that something you'd like policy to look at? >> I would I would like to see policy look at that. But >> no, in the meantime, if we wanted to, I mean, I could set it for 631 as well if we wanted to. I mean, or after. I mean, whatever is the board's pleasure, >> but we can review it as a policy team, too, as well. >> Review as I just there's sometimes when common sense just doesn't work. >> If if it's okay, October is a time when typically we do a meet and confer with our staff. Um, I wouldn't anticipate when I mean, unless you wanted to have a special policy committee to take a look at that. Oh, I whenever they >> it didn't seem like it was, but in October
060we typically bring the policy committee together to have a meet and confer session and we certainly could put it on that agenda item. So, and Dean, if I understood you correctly, you were kind of talking about the policy team looking at that policy and saying, can we incorporate it into that the monthly meeting? >> Right. >> Yep. Okay. >> Okay. Ryan, I'd like to think about I don't know if I'm going to want this as an agenda item, but um could we get the last how long have we been using Nicole Schmidt for exit interviews? >> Um for the last three or four years. >> Could we get all of the data is so we can see it longitudinal? >> Yeah, I can I can share that with everybody >> and then once we've had
061a chance to look at that. I think we'll know better if that's something we want to discuss. >> We want to continue. We were I was going to be bringing that to the board a little later. When I say later, as we get into the spring, but I can share that with the board. I certainly can. >> I'd appreciate that. Thank you. >> That's an easy communication. Then just looking Were you done Rebecca? >> Yes. >> Then just looking forward to November just so it stays on our radar the numbers for consolidation. >> Yep. Yep. That'll be there. And since we are Did we want to take a look at the no November is kind of a a different month. Um it is the last Monday is the 24th which is the week of Thanksgiving.
062>> Thanksgiving. Um, we could go a little earlier on the 17th if you wanted to, or we could do the 24th, but I know school is out. We don't have any students. Our staff is going to be coming onto campus. And again, obviously, since they're done at 4, they may be heading out of town. So, is the 17th a good day for everyone? It's a Monday. >> I can do the >> I Let me check. You want me to check the packer schedule? >> Not really. Sometimes I if it's important people, I can. Some people are like, "You scheduled one in a packer gate." >> Natalie has a doctor's appointment, but if I should, it should be fine to get here by 6. >> Okay. >> How's everybody else looking? I'm good for the 17th.
063>> No, we're good. >> No pack. >> So, the 17th is something that uh people are okay with untenatively right now. >> I think that's Yes. >> Okay. >> makes us most available to people. >> All right. I'll send a board invite for everybody too. >> Yep. >> Thank you for that. >> I move we adjourn. >> We have a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> All in favor, please. Oh, sorry. Discussion. >> We don't have to have discussion on that motion. >> Thank you. Uh, all in favor, please say I. >> I. Opposed. >> And we're returned. Thank you, everyone. >> Thanks, everybody. Thank you.