001should all know pritter as well as I do by now that the vision of our district is that we provide opportunity achievement and Community for all and the mission statement that supports that is that the school district of Milton in partnership with our community prepare our students for achievement and lifetime Readiness by providing opportunity for all and on that note we'll call to order the Board of Education meeting for Monday March 10th please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance 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 thank you Mr D are you aware of anything we need to change on the agenda no changes to the agenda I move to approve the agenda
002presented second Rick's motion is seconded by Ed to approve the agenda that you see in front of you does anyone have questions and then all in favor of that motion please say I I and opposed thank you minutes are next in board docs there and move to approve the minutes for the regular meeting held on February 24th 2025 as presented thank you Tracy's motion is seconded by Jennifer from to approve our previous meeting minutes does anyone have questions on those then all in favor of that motion please say I I and oppose thank you and voucher but it's not here we not have vouchers we don't have vouchers this month or at this meeting because with Skyward down we weren't able to um pull them up so we'll get caught up at the next meeting
003if the board president would read the agenda he might know that off so we will resume those at our next meeting which will be a month just to everyone knows but at any rate and then public comment as I picked up the sheet we have no one signed up I turned that into so we will Zoom past that and we are up to Rich for red highlights yeah some great things happening across our district uh last week Rocky the Redhawk made a visit to each of our morning 4K classrooms for uh kindergarten Signing Day which which is a really fun event all of the four all of the 4K students uh get to sign their welcome to to kindergarten certificates and get their picture taken with Rocky the Red Hawk and uh pictures and videos
004from that day will be on our social media and then Rocky is going to visit the afternoon uh 4K classrooms in April um next week is choose to include week at Milton Middle School which is a great event that that's held every year and hosted by our Middle School Unity team uh to spread awareness about respect and acceptance of all individuals no matter their abilities or disabilities they have spirit days scheduled throughout the week uh the U Whitewater wheelchair basketball team team is going to be part of a kickoff assembly on Monday and then the week will conclude with the official choose to include pledge signing on Friday uh congratuations to our sixth through e8th grade academic Bowl team so that says students from both Northside and middle school they finished in first place at
005their most recent competition on March 5th against Williams Bay Montana and elorn and they're uh their top finish which was based on their hard work knowledge and teamwork for that team so congratulations to those students we have multiple events that recognize our art and music uh students March is youth art month so throughout the month there are activities going on uh it's a national program highlights the value of Arts education and the talents of our young artists and artists across the country we uh celebrate that by holding a student art show at the mton public library so that is going on now it'll uh take place through April 17th and it'll feature P Pieces by uh our students throughout the library space um I I said it's going on now but actually it starts on
006Tuesday March 18th so it it kicks off with a reception on Tuesday March 18th and the display will be be available for Community to enjoy through April 17th uh we also had students take part in the Wisconsin youth art month state exhibit uh we had nine talented student artists that were are being featured uh in a display that's at East Town Mall in Madison through March 28th so those artists and their work uh can also be seen on our District's social media and then in late February uh Milton middle school and high school students performed at nearly a 100 different vocal and instrumental events at the regional solo and emble Festival held at Craig High School all of the Milton students and groups uh received a rating of three or better there were 24 students
007individuals or groups that qualified for the state festival at ww Whitewater in April so congratulations to our art and music students uh on their exceptional performances throughout the last over the last few weeks and coming up and thank you to our art and music educators for their dedication and talent in helping our students develop those skills and lastly we also want to congratulate all of our winter student athletes and teams on their outstanding seasons and we want to highlight the wrestling team with seven wrestlers making it to the state tournament two individual state champions and our girls wrestling team made history as the first ever girls wrestling team State D1 Champion so congratulations to our wrestlers and coaches for Milton Red Hawks girls wrestling will be forever known as the first ever bu state champs
008all right anything else for Rich all right thanks Rich those are always great highlights to the great things going on in our district all right three we have a presentation from our library media Specialists across the district so in no particular order I would welcome Tina nording Sheila Wilcox Kim West Kelly Mano and Brienne miles up to the uh Podium up here and uh we have a presentation on our library media resources yes good evening um these are amazing District uh library media technology specialist so they go by lmts so that's what it means is our library media technology specialist they are amazing at their job um so they're going to share annually they share their goals and updates around our District Library plan so I'm going to hand it over to them all right
009we're going to get started again yes this is our yearly status of where we are with our board approved Library plan so it was approved by the board a few years back and we Revisited yearly with the board and then next year we're going to go back to the drawing board again and revisit and tweak our plan and share with you again so we're just want to share with you where we're at we do follow the Future Ready Library framework so it's much different than traditional Librarians where our future ready it looks sounds feels different hence also why we have the name kind of changed with library media technology specialist yeah we can go to the next slide so we follow the guidelines set by the Department of Public Instruction they have trained us into
010becoming futur ready Librarians and to share with us what that looks like so just want to let the board know that and we can go on to the next slide um our we did create a vision and mission for the library and it also ties in with the district vision and Mission but it's important for everyone to know that our libraries do have a vision and mission for what we want to achieve in our spaces we can go on to the next slide oh I'm sorry I can't can't anything from over here sorry and then we also um these models are integrated into our plan so we have the Future Ready Library framework the portrait of a red Haw and then lastly the Wisconsin digital learning plan we also have that digital learning plan set
011in our very first goal so we can go to our goals now so our first goal is about um how we are developing and implementing a K12 scope and sequence we put it on whole towards the end of last year because DPI was creating and updating the Wisconsin information and Technology lit standards and they were supposed to be updated this year actually they're starting the process now so by next year we'll know so we kind of put this on pause but we can continue to add this to our plan next year I double check with DPI in regards to that um but we also are looking at using and utilizing 80% of the Wisconsin digital Lear Wisconsin digital learning plan in gear one and what does that mean we are promoting effective and engaging teaching
012and learning which is so supported with instructional technology and so this is what we have achieved so far on the right where we've done digital citizenship at k6 when I come in and collaborate at the middle school level I am integrating that digital citizenship or digital Wellness within what I am teaching with teachers and staff we really are spending a long time and a lot of time focusing on Destiny Discovery we're only been in using this platform for two and a half years now so we really want to get the kids really embedded in it and seeing all the great things it has to offer as well as staff we're going to continue to develop our K12 scope and sequence we are integrating new digital ebooks and audio platforms to support teaching and learning our
013new databases this year is makim that is a Spanish um platform with Spanish speaking books in it and then also back site K12 we collaborate with staff using technology to support the cour curriculum and we also have the new library standards based English elective course offered to students in grades 9 12 so if we go on to the next slide how does it connect with the Wisconsin digital learning plan well we um continue to serve important leadership roles in our buildings whether it's teaching teaching and support roles within each also the district buildings uh as um District all district students have access to a District Library mediate Tech specialist we provide digital tools we print we have printed and digital resources ebooks and audio books we spent some time last year and this year creating
014a 24 25 online library resource we did that last year we updated it this year but we also created a Tech Tool information sheet these things are shared with staff so they know what resources they have available to them provided by the libraries uh we are stre Ling their resources to make sure they are Equitable and accessible to all students and staff within the district settings so we want every library to have the same materials no matter what school you're at and then on to goal two uh we really strive to build instructional Partnerships with our classroom teachers and we really work on doing that in our library spaces again we feel that the library is the heart of the schools and we push out Innovation and creation to our buildings so we try to
015attend uh grade level plc's as possible or maybe in passing or emails we might be doing that we continue to find that just in time PD for staff is very necessary and we welcome that at the at a moment's noce we love it when teachers come to us and ask for their help they have an idea and we come together and we problem solve how to support them we collaborate with staff using technology to support the Core Curriculum uh we integrate coding or makeer space materials into collaborations with the Core Curriculum as well so we might have high end Tech tools as well as low and Tech tools supporting the classroom teachers we have acquired class of VR we've added two more sets so one at North side and one at the high school as
016well so we have four sets of them to really help support teachers um using class VR we've integrated maker space and additional Library resources to support curriculum and instruction with collaboration with teachers our goal three we really are striving how to help support um PD for staff at the district level so we came up with some solutions this year you know there's so much going on with um act 20 this year so we kind of brainstorming and had some ideas and we've been implementing them we did did have a book study again this year elevating the school library we attended slate again this year on AI and and focused on AI digital citizenship and integrating Tech in the curriculum we have developed a collaboration with the tech department on Tech troubleshooting and teaching and learning
017Tech resources so it's a website that has both the uh tech department resources as well as library media uh the other thing we decided we really wanted to help impact this the district by providing PD so we created tiny Tech bite videos that they are shared with staff by um um weekly so twice a month they are presented to staff we also just last PLC created a survey we will be sharing out with staff just three questions on what do they want to see next year what are some suggestions so we can really help support the teachers and then we continue again we just appreciate the availability in our schedules to help support the teachers with just in time PD and we purchase scribe which is a platform that makes it easier for us to
018help um create um howto for teachers in a quick and easy manner then our long range plans again is creating a library space that is AC accessible flexible and comfortable for all students in all of our spaces and we are striving to create the um collaborative and cohesive K12 Library plan what's going to happen next is each librarian is going to share a little bit about their Library spaces we thought it was important for you to see pictures but then just to share what's really goes on in our spes go ahead okay well I'm and my two schools the pleasure of working with our Consolidated in harmony so I have two slides of photos and yes can you switch with Tina so you get on screen yes sure thank you that so in my Consolidated
019and Harmony Library spaces I work really hard with the students and sta staff to Foster the love of reading and learning through a variety of low and high tech tools and you should kind of see some of those examples and some of the photos um Consolidated iny thank you hi I'm Sheila Cox from milon East and it's really hard to tell you exactly what goes on in our library space I kind of usually refer to it as beautiful chaos because we work with kindergarten through three um grade three and there's always something new and interesting going on I would say my favorite part of my position is getting to know kids individually as readers and helping them find that book that they really really really want and they can't quite explain it but we managed
020to find it together and I take a real sense of Joy when I see them reading their books in the [Music] bus yes and at West here I just have um various pictures of high end and low end Texs my favorite thing at West was the U hook tasting that I did this year where I made it an airport theme base and dressing the kids up as pilots and my favorite was one of the girls that I was putting the uniform on she's like this is so so just having a picture in their hand something so simple as that dressing up and having the background con read the front these guys really at home why I enjoy what I do in my space and then also you can see I have stamp that come in
021before too to be able to explore and taste the books as [Music] well I'm Kim Westley the north side LS um besides our regular curriculum just like they said there's so many things we love to do but one of my favorite things to do is work with the classroom teachers to enhance the learning if you look like right in the middle right where our name is um you see the VR goggles the virtual reality goggles and I got to work with the classroom teachers and we uh did different we looked at extreme weathers we looked at National Parks we looked at the different states and we looked at festivals around the world and these were part of the curriculum and so it was a great way to enhance the classro culum another thing if you
022seen in some of the pictures is the maker space options um really these hands out experiences are so great for the students they can be creative they can design they can build but you see them working together sometimes they're you know different kids that you wouldn't think they're working together and they're just doing this amazing job and being so imaginative of course just like they said finding books for students is such a joy a book series or a book um in the bottom right hand corner you see um a book tasting I set the library up like it's a restaurant um not not as cool as the OS but um and then I dress up like a chef and my kids have menus and they walk around the tables and they look at all the
023books and on their menus they write down books they might be interested in or they just take the book out with them um and then each week they just try to find time that they can just settle down and sit down in some pumy chair and uh read their new books really the greatest SP the greatest joy is just finding that space and creating space so the kids can be uh they can read they can create they can explore and just uh just you enjoy themselves while they're in the library before you start quick what is the upper left picture with the called they're called ke block and we just got them like two days before I started the makeup space and kids were just like trying to make the tallest tower and that wasn't
024the tallest one the tall we had the record of 6 feet 7 in we learned how to use a tape measure and the kids were on the chairs and you know they after they were like it was I me it was pretty tall and then they got to crash that's fun thank you and I'm back again for the Middle School you are going to notice another thing going on at the middle school again this year so I was blessed to get a flight simulator this year and I really put together and launch the whole thing with passports and having the kids come into the library space it was so much fun because I had um class V going on I was having them do the flight simulator they were doing a green screen in the
025back and they were looking at books on the world of Aviation that are up on display in the library and that was just the Highlight probably of my first half of the school year was them coming in and so excited and getting boys into the library space is so important my mom of boys so seeing them in the space just melt my heart so that's and then at high school I'm PR High School um we also have very very use of space um we see some students there working on the Ste rooms and a group that just right now unfortunately the young men in the lower left corner did not break out any time um but also a lot of what we're doing at the high school is clevering the staff to focus on Independent
026research and helping students be ready to dig into both text and digital resources determining bias and finding information for themselves so you'll see a few shots of students there working their way through that process um The Lego station is a huge hit and we have a lot of those big giant Lego sets these girls are working on the haunted house in the bottom right corner and then in the upper left corner you can see our Cadet Lily our Cadet program started last year and students can take a full try where they a library helper um in place of taking a study hall they can come in and help create displays they sh books they help design programming and it's really amazing to see the ownership they take of that space Lily's display there was a
027group of books that started as online comics and it was probably our most checked out group of books for triester [Music] one and that's do you guys have any questions for us have comments but have questions I got a couple questions uh what would you say is your ratio like staff time versus student time like how much time do you guys spend with each one of those for students roughly prob varies by school yeah say days okay yeah uh another question uh where or how do you need more support from us or adment don't ask for a St I guess maybe could we get back on that sure just so we yeah that would be great okay and then one last question uh how do we sign up for the flights and you want to
028come in I will let you come in I need more than three minutes so I did do it by a little bit of time but they can come in at lunch time now any they want sign up perfect question are you make them more the Hat actually they wore those hats which someone said how did you make seventh and eth grade that I'm like I don't know I gave them a little on top of it and they just was surprised that they liked it so they really are [Music] like I I would love to come to the flight invite love to do that um just I want to celebrate the work you guys are doing it's amazing um I couple things that really touched my heart was the fact that you're embracing the framework of
029future ready I think that's great framework there's a lot of good ones out there it's a great one to land on and it's clear that your your your path is not just words that you're actually living what's happening in in the framework so I just really appreciate that and some things that really stuck out to me were the fact that you you use the words equity and accessible that's another thing that really touches my heart I appreciate that's part of your thought process and um also the pictures I I just a small glimpse a little window in your here I can see that you're doing some amazing things some things I saw with flex see um you know you mentioned the high tech and the low Tech um all things that just really um really
030make me happy and it's super important my opinion not only my opinion that um you know we prepare kids for the world they're going to live in and that's evolving faster than any of us can keep up and you guys have the unable task of weeding through the good and the bad and then delivering it to students and teach so I just want to compliment it looks like you're doing amazing I want to just highlight to that when I'm out in the school I like to stop the library tech centers and always see great things happening they really are the HS all our schools and our staff does a great job of uh inviting students and staff to utilize the resources that are there answer questions and promote especially promote skills and that Lifelong Love
031of anyone else well once again thank you you're obviously a pillar of our uh entire effort across the district so thank you for [Laughter] that all right Chris is making his way up we're going to switch over to R to give you the summary of the HR meeting that I believe was last week um yeah last Monday HR met we had two brief items and I'm going to turn it over to Chris to go over those for us are you okay if I combine a b together yeah please absolutely um so on Monday uh March 3rd I presented the attached matricies that are listed in board dos uh to the human resources committee and these matrices have been used internally by payroll and human resources department to calculate past increases for the building ground staff
032and the nutrition team staff tonight I'm sharing these two uh matricies with the intent of bringing them back to the board once the human resources committee reviews potential uh 26 uh rates for the support staff groups uh later in April and May so it's important to note that these two matrices if you're like these look really familiar well they are very similar to our current instructional support staff uh Matrix and our Administrative Assistant Matrix that we shared with the board uh last May so we are finalizing our last two employee groups to be on a matrix so they can see how they progress through uh their career here any questions about the attached matric that I can [Music] answer I think so thanks ch right thank you that was it yes sir okay excellent and
033we will roll down new business a and I don't know if this is Ross Rich tag team but uh we have consideration and possible action on a resolution authorizing the acquisition of equipment by lease purchase agreement with apple and this is a subtle tweak to the terms of the lease that Ross will explain for us to really briefly go over why we're talking about this after taking action last meeting uh we received the packet of lease paperwork the day of the last Bo meeting at 2:30 p.m. which was too late for us to notice the documents that required board action that night so we're coming back to get that resolution identified and approved here in board dos in addition Apple reached out to us last week with some changes or proposed changes to that lease
034that we need to look at and consider one of which is a change in iPad model from 10th Generation to 11th generation due to a supply side issue they've identified they would not be able to fill the 10th generation iPads so they're going to be giving us 11th generation at the same price in the original lease they also indicated that they recently change the price of the m2s we'll be getting those at per unit cost of $779 down from class quarter price aside from that it does result in a reduction or anual lease payment because current Le cycle right now is about 590,000 the new cycle will now come in at 579 only thing I would add is that there's a recommended motion uh at the bottom of the memo that's included along with the
035the updated lease payment schedule and and pricing based on uh the change in the quote from Apple I move to approve Apple quote 22133 4592 in the amount of $2,448 3117 beginning July 1st second that's not the quote that I see on theend agenda I think it all comes up the same but it's different okay and technically what we need the motion to be is to approve the resolution um okay so I will resend that and I will move to approve the resolution authorizing the acquisition of equipment by lease purchase agreement with apple per quote 92604 as presented yes okay sorry I now I'll second that okay now we have C's motion seconded by John but you just uh went over there just so everyone's clear it's one that aligns with what's on the screen
036and what's in board docs all right so that motion's on the floor questions from anyone just to confirm the 25 lease is was it 11 or $20,000 cheaper than the 21 Lee about $1,000 per year yes okay thank you uh anyone else then I will call the question on that motion all in favor of approval please say I I I opposed clearly pass thank you [Music] sir yeah right have a document the the signature pages are color coded by who needs to sign on which Pages we'll get them we'll get them all right Item B on new business as Mr billhorn has made his way up is early college credit program and start college now for the fall all right Jeremy so as we bring forth uh three times a year these are the students
037who are elected to take part the start college now that's with the technical college program and then the early college credit that's with PW system uh these are the students who made their request uh for courses this coming fall all the students have met all the deadlines they're supposed to submit those by March 1st which they did uh and we're bringing those tonight to share this information you one note I will say that this is actually less than the past um with the CNA courses that we've been able to we contracted BGC to offer that course at the high school uh and we contracted Mercy Health to offer the EMT course uh that represented 24 students who were able to take those courses inous those are two classes that would have in past years been
038on uh been larger numbers on this list like actually us being in off those inous reduces some of these requests as we offer those courses here and I could say if we could I could get more BTC I could probably offer a lot more CNA this growing and crazy any questions about the BCC or start Jeremy what is the destinations is that new yeah no destinations Academy is uh a program that's work and I forget the tech school it's one of the ones in northern Wisconsin that is with the operators union of in Coloma so there's a program for students who to take some of the course work and preparation foring heavy uh equipment uh the bulldozers Etc the the school that's up there there's a program that's in align with a tech school and
039check exactly which one Wisconsin it is but they can take some the beginning work while in high school as they prepare the public thank you so information only we don't have action here so thank you Jeremy thank you all right that's it for new business miscellaneous a is our staffing report make a motion to approve the Staffing report presented second Rick's motion a second by Jennifer to approve the Staffing report questions from anyone and all in favor of approval please say I I oppos Staffing report is good meeting dates Mr D as Joe mentioned earlier our next regularly scheduled board meeting isn't until April uh it's on Monday April 14th at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday of this week on March 12th is the wasby day at the Capitol um I'm registered to attend and then
040nette was registered to attend but she's not going to be able to make it if any board members would like to fill her spot let Chelsea know either at the end of the meeting today or right away in the morning because if if not we're going to cancel Net's reservation there registration there um we don't need to we've got a couple uh committee meetings that we need to schedule in early April uh and we could look for dates on those uh tonight or else you could reach out uh we're looking at a finance committee meeting sometime in the first two weeks of April prior to that April 14th uh board meeting uh nhr committee meetings sometime during that same time frame uh We've often done the HR committee meetings at 6:30 on Monday nights and
041we' have Monday March 31st or Monday April 7th as possibilities during that time frame we'll be looking to schedule a benefits Advisory Group meeting in April after the HR committee meeting so one of the agenda items for the HR committee will be talking about what we're going to be sharing with the benefits Advisory Group so once we get that HR meeting scheduled we then will'll schedule a benefits of group Advisory Group meeting and then uh Joe had talked to Shaina about a board roles and responsibilities uh shaya's annual presentation on that and and Joe do you have any when that will be yeah so we tentatively went to two weeks from tonight March 24th uh John's not able to join us he's going to be gone did you have an availability Tracy or no I
042think that it's a Monday you said it would be a normal board meeting but it's not because of spring break yeah so all right I'm debating whether we're going to follow through or that I really like the whole board to do it so I guess I when I talked to shanea I said I was waiting on responses from everybody so I will yeah I I will let uh let you guys okay all right we certainly can get out in the April too because we can we've got a little time here for this uh do you want me to check with Shaya and other dates that she has available and then get back to actually I'll get back with her I I I mention that I would so I'll I'll follow up and and um I'll
043let you know but so here let me make a caveat decision we are not doing it on the 24th because I really would like everyone to be able to come so thanks for your response but 24 is going to open up again for you so so if it helps you us those y just stay tuned I'll still I'll keep you updated I was going to ask if the HR committee wants to to book their date now [Music] yeah let's do 7th at 6:30 April 7th at 6:30 for HR and then Chris will will advertise a benefits Advisory Group for sometime later in that week we typically do those on Wednesdays so maybe Wednesday the 9th for the benefits Advisory Group okay works for you could we piggy back Finance with that meeting we could your
044Finance would like to meet that same evening let's make sure it works for Anette she's not here so chse yeah do that via email good for dates all right that's all right that's the rest of my regular agenda we have an executive session schedule which I will read for you we are not returning to open session tonight so thank you for joining us through this portion I would entertain a motion to go into executive sessions pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.85% we are an executive session thank you [Music] every e