001e e e ladies and gentlemen it is now 6:31 p.m. and a quorum of members is present so the meeting of the Board of Education of the school district of New Berlin is called to order please call the role Miss Crosby here miss Mr Helmer here miss conik here miss Schulz here Mr Sidle here miss Spindler here Mr zalinski here I would entertain a motion to recess to close session I move to adjourn into close session pursuant to section 19.85% matters pring to staff C the employee handbook D the staff compensation for 2526 and E the class size update second I have a motion by Miss Crosby and a second by Mr zalinsky uh please call the rooll Miss Crosby yes Mr zalinski yes Mr Helmer yes Miss kanik yes Miss yes Mr cidal yes
002Miss Spindler yes we're moving into close session and return to open session around 7:00 e e e Happy Spring today huh to the other side I'll be here next Tuesday what the heck Duty wow I guess so just really L yeah right this was a little more to stand in front of them to the side of that I know it is now 7:10 and we're returning from closed session into Open session in recognition of the serious and important nature of our efforts here we will join in the pledge of allegiance to the flag for all those who are able please rise to flag of the United States of America to the stands Nation indiv andice and now for those who wish to prepare for the meeting we will have a moment of silence this is
003a public meeting of the Board of Education prior to this meeting notice was given to the public last Friday by providing the agenda to the city library the agenda was also posted on the district website a copy of the agenda was forwarded to the Journal Sentinel the Walkershaw Freeman and the wera now all of which have filed requests for all Public Notices do we have anyone this evening for privilege of the floor no okay I don't have a message message this evening either so we can move on to the administrative team reports are we going to start with Eisenhower yes we will this is now the second school to present to you of our six schools we do have uh four others I will be presenting but uh we'll hand it off to the uh
004Eisenhower Administration and student leader whom I think you all know uh to kind of share an update on what's happening at Ike so happy that everybody showed up this evening to hear our presentation from the community it's fantastic hello everybody uh my name is Matt Buckley I'm excited uh to have the eyes now administrative team so from on my left your right uh Mr Kevin fit pardon north to south north to south Kevin Fitzgerald our athletic and activities director not a member of the administrative team but I think you know Claire her role will come up quickly Miss Christine Springer associate principal and Mr Andrew gerlock who I think you also know as well assistant principal at Eisenhower um as you know Eisenhower uh is and continues to be one of the top schools in
005our state uh in many regards um our students and our staff continue to demonstrate dedication um Innovation and Excellence uh in many ways both in the class CL room as instructors as students and on the fields and in our clubs and activities um I do want to thank you for your time tonight letting us share a little bit about that and also your commitment to our students both at Eisenhower and throughout the district um tonight I brought these wonderful human beings with me um to share some student thoughts about how things are at Eisenhower I'll get there I'll get there um some data um some of our plans for how we're going to continue to improve um and I always like to start these presentations with the end in mind uh we have the the
006wonderful benefit of being a 712 building so we get students at the ripe age sometimes of 12 and 6 years later when they're 18 years old we we hand them a piece of paper and shake their hand as they cross the stage uh with the utmost confidence I think that they're ready for whatever it is that they want to do next so I thought it'd be a good place to start instead of having me talk about the end in mind I would actually bring someone we would bring someone who has the end very very close that you know well to share a little bit about her story uh and about her experiences as Eisenhower um and how hopefully we're meeting that tremendous expectation and responsibility that we have you ready I'm ready all right Claire
007all right good evening School Board I hope you are all doing well it is an honor today to speak in front of you about my wonderful High School experience at new Brin Eisenhower and the growth that I have been able to achieve within the six years though my time as an Eisenhower lion is coming to a beautiful end undeniably the lessons and skills that I've learned as a student pave the way for a future of success and accomplishment and miss trials and tribulations reflecting on the classes that I took I'm grateful for the diversity of opportunities from exploring interesting computer science entrepreneurship or Ceramics isow strives for every student to find their passion through the elective courses additionally I also took rigorous classes that challenged me and prepared me for future college courses whether I
008found myself in the AP US History AP Psychology or AP Calculus classroom these talented teachers opened up my academics to the fast pace and demands of a college level course Eisenhower truly values the expect Excellence foundation in the classroom but also in extracurricular activities as well the friends I met and the unforgettable memories I made in clubs and sports are lifelong Student Union Deca Spanish Honor Society National Honor Society are just some of the clubs that made my Eisenhower Pride flourish within the community and student body growing up up Athletics has been a significant part of my life and has shaped me into the person that I am today having played soccer since my early years I was beyond excited to play for the Eisenhower girls soccer team my freshman year and it was that
009year that history was made for the Eisenhower girl soccer team a state champion my freshman year was truly an unforgettable experience the grit passion determination and the team culture that felt like family ultimately created the 2022 girls soccer state champion team team as my final season of the team is quickly approaching I am eager to continue the Legacy that has been created throughout the seasons the uplifting hardworking and team values will shine in all that we do this past fall I was a part of my first and only cross country season which was an extraordinary and memorable experience that brought me all new friends and taught me the true meaning of perseverance through all the practices and dedication I was honored to represent Eisenhower at at the state meet as I embark on the next
010chapter of my life Eisenhower has taught me the importance of Excellence friendships curiosity and commitment Eisen now has opened my eyes to the greatness that you can achieve if you believe in yourself and never stop learning and growing though I will soon graduate as an Eisenhower student I will always be an Eisenhower lion thank you thank you Claire also wanted you be great also want to let you all know she told me right before I asked what she's doing next year she's going to Madison to study business law and that's why she had a red pants tonight um to study business law so we're really excited for her and just wanted her to share her story because she's been here for six years and wanted to talk to her about have her share with you
011all that she's done and we're really proud of her my job next is to talk about some staff celebration as well he was hoping he could stop by tonight but can't so I'm just kind of sharing some of the information that those of you who may not know Josh Kimble I have his picture up on the screen he's been at Eisenhower for eight years he is our Orchestra um Orchestra teacher he's done a phenomenal job of really building the program so we wanted to highlight him and the Orchestra program um some of his highlights the past years he did a side by-side performance um with some professionals where they actually performed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Symphony two years ago which was absolutely incredible um and I know that the professionals are really impressed with the caliber
012of students and their ability to play Such difficult Works um he they had the performance at the Schoolboard state conference a few years ago and they also um West and Ike together created summer Orchestra Camp starting last year if you want to see a bunch of I think fourth through sixth graders really having a blast it was in August last year they're doing it August again I've never seen so much excitement and so many instruments drewn all over the place um bless you it was just such an exciting time um and really really has bolstered the program um some highlights of this current year he has the largest group he's ever had with 140 musicians I know at the beginning of the year with his seventh graders I think he has 47th graders um we
013talked he said that's a lot of energy in that room he's like it's going to take a little bit of time to figure this out and within a few weeks he was able to um but he's he has a reputation and his class has a reputation for both being a lot of fun but also really challenging he's always pushing his students to play really challenging work um and the repertoire is increasing in challenge in fact he was saying that which he usually left for his highest level um Orchestra he's now moved down a year um because the caliber continues to grow if you want to hear some of that caliber as well and how it continues to grow this week's Pi Day concert is on Thursday um March 6th is not correct um it's this
014Thursday um the 13th and there's a particular piece that um he's excited about for our eighth graders it's called Professor wiggin's amazing Melody machine and if you don't know it's on the 13th Pi day is Friday the 14th they always like to talk about how math is a part of Orchestra with all the counting and all the things they need to do with notes um so they actually have piie afterward too so if you like pie and music you should come on Thursday it's delicious and fun the other update I wanted to share with you is kind of a staff update but also a celebration of us embracing AI in our learning our English n team has really done a lot this year with trying to integrate AI into learning to teach kids how to
015use it as an effective tool this is just one example um where students had to create an AI generated image of a word using canva magic media so they were given a word these are two examples of the word initiate that's their vocabulary word and they had to put it in and see what kind of image came up when they put an initiate and a particular definition for it then they had to learn how to within the AI component kind of tweak it to really fit what they wanted it to look like and what they thought initiate would look like and then they had to write a reflection on it too what is the definition of it how did the image reflect it and what steps did you take to get to the final result
016because if anyone who's ever used chat gbt knows the first time you say something in it it might not be exactly what you want and so was really teaching kids how to use AI in a creative way um because it's very much a part part of our world um so that's something this is just one example of it but a lot of our teachers are embracing that use of AI um so it's something we wanted to bring up because it's continuously changing and something very exciting that we're teaching our students how to use properly so next I'm going to pass it off to Mr gerock who's going to share the data portion of this evening when it comes to literacy there's lots to celebrate one particular point that we noticed in our uh winter data
017comes uh when we look at our students who scored below the 25th National percentile in the fall okay that number is important because below 25th percentile would be our students most at risk for not uh reaching grade level expectations right so in the fall we had 57 students across grades 78 and nine who are below that 25th uh percenti mark when we looked at the winter data then for their a reading reading comprehension screener uh we saw growth both on an individual basis and collectively as as a cohort so individually 31 out of those 57 students grew uh with average growth of the whole group 15.7 to 21.1% so this matters because a lot of times we're looking at those those charts where it says students above at or above Benchmark right which is the
01840th percentile but if we're only looking at the 40th percentile we're not going to be noticing growth that happens below that point uh so for example we might have a student grow from the fifth to the 35th percentile which is massive growth but it wouldn't show up on those charts so that's that's the idea behind this celebration here that when we look at those students below the 25th National percentile we're seeing fantastic growth at least this year from fall uh to Winter an area of growth is on the other end of the percentile band uh when we're looking at students who scored in the advanced range so that's the 70th National percentile or above uh in grade 7 eight and N because those are the grades who take uh the a reading screener we did
019notice decreases of call it 10% in each grade level uh about 10% um from fall to winter so we're noticing uh these students took it in the fall and then in the winter we have um many fewer students scoring in that percentile band so that's an area of growth interestingly so this is reading right next slide is math and it's almost exactly the same story okay a decent uh number of students 44 uh below the 25th percentile th those students grew uh then when we look at the advanced range of students those the that number of students decreased uh from fall to winter Andrew while you're up there and I don't mean to put you on the spot uh but between you and Kelly and maybe other members of the team what are we doing
020about the areas of growth that have been identified he's going to whay that to me Mr cars okay so that's that's the segue right to this slide yeah what is I promise he was it was not a plant I should have known that plants it was not but thank you for asking um first thing I for those who didn't know Mr gerac was an English teacher and just the way he delivers and the way I could listen that guy talk about Shakespeare like you just like tell me more about this uh this Juliet character anyway um sorry uh you're GNA hear me talk a little bit out of both sides of my mouth and I apologize uh to you for that number one I think um we're going to talk about that winter um screener
021being a little bit um of a challenge for us because because traditionally speaking our students don't love those winter screeners and tend to underperform at the same time we just told you that our students uh in the lower lows percentiles did better than they did previously so uh both of those can be true at the same time um but we recognize that uh the students who are in the advanced areas of uh their their screener scores uh in order to maintain that have to continually make significant gains to stay in there it's a very small margin of error and so having them slip back towards the say the middle um makes sense and we are going to obviously um take a deep look at that when we get to our spring results as well we
022we recognize that that score in the middle of the year the doldrums of winter are a challenge for students um we're going to come back to it for sure in the spring specifically to those areas of growth that Mr Garza asked about what are we doing um in math it's pretty exciting um I will say that we are have the benefit this year of having brought on a tremendous uh math instructional coach who's doing tremendous work for us in in the world of math in our math curriculum um the most important thing we have done and we'll continue to do is put that data about why students are over or underperforming in the hands of the teachers that teach those subjects in those grades for us that's seventh grade math teachers eighth grade or content
023specific ones like our algebra geometry and so on so forth um but what's really exciting is with with our new math coach and along with uh our administrators and Math teachers we're really able to begin to align the interventions that we've done in math much in the same way we did them for reading so we've gotten to a point now in our in our literacy and reading work Mr regards it where um we're very specific about this group is getting together for this specific skill that they struggle with or they haven't learned or they haven't been able to do yet we haven't always had those diagnostic tools and those diagnostic things available for us in the math world and we have those now we have that that expert uh we have that Collective um mindset
024to go in and find out you know if a student's struggling and they're in algebra algebra is this big right so what is it is it pre-algebra we're finding out a lot of our students are struggling maybe with some some pre- algebra things and that's showing up in some of these screeners um so really piloting you know a math interventions by topic curriculum so really identifying what those topics are and and getting those students into those groups into those Flex sessions and into those interventions with teachers who know what those are and can address them directly has been really important and I think we're going to continue to see that um tremendous growth so those students who are in those interventions are already making a lot of growth on our progress monitors um so exploring
025new assessments and new Diagnostics in the world of math I think is going to help with that um and mirroring what we've done in our interventions and reading um with regard to our ongoing literacy work I say it all the time Eisenhower is blessed with a tremendous amount of outstanding instructors um our teachers know literacy it's something we've been doing um as a focus in professional learning and in our instructional uh Focus for many many years um it's not that they don't know what to do it's about changing instructional habits because a lot of them have instructional habits so our job as As Leaders of professional learning and our job as uh the designers and developers of of that professional learning is to push teachers out of their comfort zone with what they've done traditionally
026and force them to do things directly resulting from that data that we see on those tests um for example our Middle School English teachers there's a gap in morphology in in our in our middle school students they designed uh created and our implementing entire units whole group instruction in their classrooms in grade seven and eight on morphology specifically and we're seeing those results uptick in these assessments already so it's really just a matter of giving the smart people who do the teaching the right tools and the right information and say this is the challenge this is the area and the Eisenhower staff is good enough uh year in and year out to be able to go in and make those changes if we give them the time and the information so the other thing that
027we've simply asked them to do which I think is going to pay dividends although it's not calculable in the true sense of the other data um we challenged our staff simply to put challenging texts in front of our students and make them read um sometimes in the interest of time or trying to get through units or get through curriculum there shortcuts that have been made and we said we don't want those shortcuts we want students doing that reading we want the text in front of them give them the challenging the the graphs the charts depending on the content and have them do the work and we're starting to see students becoming more and more comfortable with those um and that aligns to our a lot of our teachers slos as well a lot of their
028student learning objectives for their individual classes are based in that increased rigor in Reading um in their individual classes so Joe I don't know if that answers your question well enough or if you have other questions I'd be happy to go a little bit deeper um but I'm at this time I'm going to hand it over to Mr Fitzgerald to talk a little bit about our co-curriculars all right thank you Mr um there are not too many awards out there for High School athletic programs U but at the wi level there is one and it's actually a pretty big deal so you can see on your screen here that uh there are 513 member institutions at the wi level and we were proudly one of 27 schools this past year to be awarded the Award
029of Excellence from the waa um you can see in the picture here too we're one of seven in District Seven so South Eastern Wisconsin to be awarded this this distinction um the benchmarks that need to be hit to receive this award would be sportsmanship e ethics Integrity um making sure that we're in compliance with all the forms and the participation reports and rules compliance that the wi has um making sure that our coaches are first aid CPR certified um that they're not getting ejected from contests that we're showing sportsmanship at the post postseason level so a lot of different benchmarks that very very proud to hit these um and then another one would be community service and student leadership something that we emphasize as well um in those two those two categories leadership and character
030earlier on this year coach Hogan um also a fet instructor took four of our female student athletes to the Wisconsin female athletes Summit earlier this year at Alverno College they got to spend the day with athletes all across the state here from some highlevel uh keynote speakers and all in all a wonderful day for them to experience um another thing that we've done over the last couple years is choose some high participation events that we have on our campus um Ike verse West football would be one when we're a year that's hosting every year we choose Ike vers West basketball as one of these events um and our sport captains from the fall came together and wanted to raise some money and do a miracle minute during the first and second quarter or between the
031first and second quarter um and they were nice enough to choose the Mac fund and on behalf of New Berlin West Nora Watry um a young lady that's near and dear to our community and like I said in between the first and second quarter 60 seconds on the clock you can see Ben fur in one of those pitchers passing the hat around in within 60 seconds raised just under two grand that we were able to donate to the Mac fund on behalf of Nora um similarly in the in the winter we chose Ike verse West basketball Deca whenever they do a charitable fundraiser they usually choose MDA or muscular distrophy Association as their charity of choice they did that again and again in 60 seconds we able to raise just under $1,000 um so that's
032something that we're proud of and we'll continue to do and then something new this year Eisenhower basketball both boys and girls spend a Saturday with our our athletes from new berin special Olympics something that we're going to continue in future years um hopefully spend many many Saturdays throughout the winter and then supporting them not only at the practice level but when they have their competitions as well um something I'm always proud to to report on every year is our stady participation rates and our academic success that goes along with that as you can see 81% of our students that are Walking The Halls are doing something in in relation to co curricular activities and those uh academic success there's a correlation there 3.5 cumulative G GPA for students involved in at least one co-curricular and
033then when you single out the student athletes a 3.49 cumulative GPA I did choose the weighted um just to be clear we we chose three high-fire student organizations just to highlight them and what they've done this year ik DEA um boast a really really high participation rate and of those participating 28 qualified for the state competition I was lucky enough to be a judge last month um and see it firsthand that was really really neat experience of those 287 International qualifiers so they'll represent Eisenhower down in Orlando in the spring as a chapter we were recognized as a diamond level recognition um due to some initiatives at community service and other things that they take part in throughout the year you all I believe know Mrs bonson she is fantastic and when I was there
034in um Lake Geneva whenever I said Eisenhower they said oh you get a chance to work with Melissa bonson so um very very proud to have her on board too and then in Eisenhower first Deca now recognizes state champions Tanya Alder a senior of ours uh was a Deca state champion um apparently she wasn't even thinking of participating in the state competition but at the very last minute decided to do so and she's so darn talented that she went in um and was named a state champion and food marketing was her was her category uh our middle school science team participated in a national competition in December they placed first place among schools in Wisconsin 42nd nationally and then just last month participated in the Wisconsin science bll where they finished third place over and
035just missed qualifying for their national competition um just last week Ike ATC ended up finishing as the state Runners up so second in division two and for those students earning individual recognition at the state level so very proud of their performance as well um since we met last spring we've had a lot of Team success and individual success um in athletics you can see that we had six teams earn conference championships uh softball with their second straight boys tennis fourth Straight girls golf eighth straight since we've started girls golf eight years ago we've been Conference champions every single year hates us and that's okay that's recorded I'm sorry um boys volleyball 10th in the last 12 years they don't like us for that either uh boys soccer also won boys swim and dive won a
036conference relays earlier this year and it's of note that girls wrestling won Woodland conference's first ever Conference tournament um and when I slide down to five team state qualifiers I'll skip to the bottom and recognize girls wrestling again they were the sectional Champions this year and they just dominated um the wi does not yet sponsor a team state championships but they will next year and certainly they would have qualified by virtue of being sectional Champions this year um at the team level softball went to State for the second straight year girls cross country went for the fourth straight year thanks to Claire and her teammates um boys cross country went for the first time since 2003 and that was the first time that Eisenhower had both the boys and the girls go um at the
037same year so that was a wonderful experience for them as well boys volleyball went to State uh dance with were the state Runners up in both pal and Jazz for the second straight year and then sheer made it to State and place third in coed division that was the first time ever that they've been in the coed Division and they had a wonderful year um and then I mentioned girls wrestling earlier we had SE 27 individual state qualifiers 21 coming from track and field three from Boys Tennis two from girl swimm and dive and then again Eisenhower history when Mackenzie Stanton a senior qualified for the wi individual State wrestling tournament in her weight class and had a wonderful year um so a lot of success on and off the court on and off the
038field um and looking forward to having a successful spring that's it thank you I have two more celebrations co-curricular that we just learned about um one Ethan Robert one of our seventh graders won the New Berlin spelling be and then won the cisa region Regional spelling be and will be competing at the state spelling be on March 29th one of our seventh graders so that's outstanding wonderful Testament to the to the district uh we also on Friday learned that our Middle School fluid power teams and we had three one seventh grade team and two eighth grade team one four of the five awards at the fluid uh the msoe fluid uh Power Championship thing that they that they put on so that was outstanding so our middle school students are are killing it uh which
039is f fantastic but just want to share those two that just came to us other than that we've already been longer than we intended to be because we like to talk about Eisenhower not about ourselves but if you do have any questions we'd be happy to try and answer them right now otherwise we thank you for your attention and and for your time we know you're very busy so so thanks a lot for supporting Eisenhower are there any questions from anybody that we can potentially answer well then thank you all right thank you you know where to find us if you haven't thanks so much thanks um I'll hand it over to Oliver and then I do have an update several updates all right good evening everyone I hope everyone's having a good night I
040want to start by thanking our school social worker Mrs Johnson during school social worker appreciation week we appreciate everything she does for our school many people in classes are preparing and working hard in the weeks leading up to spring break after lots of prep practice and learning the Juniors tomorrow are taking the state ACT test with hopes of great scores a big congratulation goes to the National Merit Scholarship final finalist Vivian Den in our classrooms members in applied retail marketing and operations designed new merchandise for a school store Verns Village New berland West band Orchestra choir and trim Club work together for triam week with themed DRP days in the school talent show last Friday clubs have also been very active in our school and winning Awards out of school six members of the New
041Berlin West Deca podiumed at the state business competition in Lake Geneva qualifying for the international competition in Orlando Florida Deca adviser Miss Gardner won the Red Apple award at Deca state for outstanding marketing education the new berland West Academic Decathlon team went to State for the third year in a row and defended their back-to-back state championship titles best buddies had a magic show which was open for everyone with free snacks and drinks they also had a visit from Fox News who were reporting on their upcoming friendship walk as many sports seasons are wrapping up many players and teams deserve recognition the girls basketball team which was seated seventh in the playoffs had an impressive upset win against cedarberg which was the second seed the boys basketball team had a great season with a dominant first
042round win in the playoffs and a huge shout out goes to the New Berlin United wrestling team eight wrestlers qualified for the state meet in Madison and two athletes podiumed New verland West very owned Tessa morero who plays Sixth and Natalya papalski who placed fifth in their respective weight classes thank you all right uh thank you uh Ike team for being here appreciate it I do have several updates that I wanted to share with the board the first one being we did get an email from a constituent of the school district who had uh asked about the dismantling of the US Department of Education uh at least that's what the email had said um wanted to clarify several things with the board one is we get about $3.5 million in revenue from the federal government
043government most of those come in forms of Grants as well as to support uh student services students with disabilities and so on um what I did share was I believe and prior to the US Department of Education ever being established and founded in 1980 under the Jimmy Carter Administration the monies were directly funneled to state so I I know that there's a lot being talked about in the media of what does this mean does that mean we're going to lose the money I don't believe we're going to lose the money I believe we're still going to get money but with less bureaucracy attached to it similar to what it had been prior to again 1980 we're certainly keeping a pulse on that uh we'll certainly keep you posted um but again I I don't know
044that the that the goal of the current Administration is to dismantle it for simply just evaporating the dollars with it it's really just to lessen the level of federal government uh which I think is just a general part of what the current uh president is looking to do um I I also wanted to let you know that I did receive an email from a person with the development of the college and uh College in Morland proposal uh it's a multifamily uh proposal you housing proposal um I did clarify to her directly that uh she would not get my support on behalf of the school district for that development for many reasons two of the biggest reasons are one uh it is not part of the city master plan um so we are not planning for
045you know they were Sugg tting that we might end up getting I believe it was Janet 60 or 70 students as a result of it well student enrollment is great when you're planning for it um in this case it's not part of the grand plan and then the other thing that I mentioned to her was yeah can we ask yeah thank you um only because I can don't close the door because we have to have an open meeting just ask her to uh well it'll be it'll be clean um but I also don't know what tax implications that would have on the school district so if you're taking current uh zoned property for industrial and turning that into balai housing residential that will have an impact on our tax base to what degree we're not
046sure and again that's also a part of the fact that this is not part of the plan it's not zoned for that and those are two again of many other reasons why I would not support that development on behalf of the school district now on the other hand we do have a development on the other side of Morland uh over by greenfield in Morland that is part of the city master plan uh and it was really just a matter and several different uh outfits have come in and proposed several things well this one over in that area is getting real now um I believe they are actually uh through the process I'm not sure exactly how city government works but I think again that's zoned for what it's zoned for which is uh that is
047also multif family housing with retail and that's what's been approved uh similar to kind of what you see popping up kind of throughout southeast Wisconsin but that is zoned for that and again we are ready for that impact and so on and again because it's zoned for that already um we we're ready for the tax implications that that could have um so again two different scenarios but I did want to clarify that email response to the development on College in Morland which again I and if you do have questions please let me know uh because I don't I don't support it and I wouldn't on behalf of the district for again many other reasons that I've just listed so far um and I I did did want to let you know Janet and I got
048the email and then I did copy Matt at the board City liaison uh Matt and I have actually met with the city council chair Ken herenda asking about these types of things and so I did let Matt know but now I'm letting the full board know of my response Matt go ahead I did go to the city meeting the developers meeting in January may it was February so if anybody wants any specifics of their proposal I have it okay sounds good thank you uh there are two more items and the next one I I do want to share um my dismay with the city of New Berlin um the city of New Berlin has a new activity and Recreation Center uh that's been built it's multi-million dollar facility and I've heard from many stakeholders that
049are involved with the city and just general stakeholders uh in the city of New Berlin that that facility is under utilized um in fact you could be the judge of that if you drive past there at any given moment you can see you know what their parking lot looks like compared to say The Princeton Club Vasa uh and other places or like say the school district parking lots with that it's not only usage but ALS but it's also revenue for the City of New Berlin and where my concern comes in is we went to them with a proposal that would increase utilization and increase Revenue by taking over the four-year-old kindergarten wraparound care uh so they would how they would have you know we proposed to them you will have the opportunity to house this
050could be anywhere up to 210 uh four year olds which again they are all residents of the school district of New Berlin their parents are taxpayers in the city of New Berlin and Not only would you UTI you know kind of split that between the morning and the afternoon during the school year this would complement their summer program that they already have for four year olds and Beyond youth a youth summer program and again with it would come Revenue I was I was um pleasantly surprised that they would not take the opportunity to take that 4K wraparound care uh under their Direction um I did speak to the mayor I have spoken to uh at least one Alderman and I have got a voicemail into another uh I'm not sure what if I'm getting a
051straight answer I know they did talk about it uh I did hear and I and and again this could be rumor but you know that one of the reasons why they didn't necessarily want this was because they may not be ready for this well they built it for utilization why wouldn't they be ready for something like this um and and again these are your stakeholders that we're talking about that would be taking advantage of it the other thing that I heard which again was baffling was the fact that uh they didn't necessarily want I guess and I'm just going to I'm I'm not this is not a quote but these noisy kids interacting during the when they've got their seniors that are there um that's just not good enough for me uh now I'm no
052longer a taxpayer in the city of New Berlin but I had been for 18 years um we've been doing a lot of things with the city of New Berlin to compliment each other that would help positively impact our community this would have been one of those things it's centrally located it's you know uh they've got the space for bus pick up and drop off uh an opportunity for revenue for the city utilization of what I believe is an underutilized space and really not a good reason why they chose not to and they're also revamping hicking Grove and so they've spent now millions of dollars in Hickory Grove for their senior center and the food pantry and all of these other things and I'm again I'm just wondering why would you why would you say no
053um and and you know and you know it's you know we're not you know we may not be ready for it well when would you be ready then uh and so again so I we will take over the 4K wraparound care we will do it successfully but it's extremely disappointing that that the city turned it down um for many reasons and again I I'm I'm surprised uh again pleasantly surprised that they would not want to take advantage of an opportunity that would support their stakeholders taxpayers and bring in revenue for the City of New Berlin um I'll leave it at that the last thing I will end with uh is that we have an incredible event the toast to education uh is a fundraiser for our foundation it's a big event it is this Saturday
054from 7: to 10 if you haven't got your tickets let me know but it's a great time I know one of the board's goals is to attend Education Foundation events um if you can't be there this Saturday there is another there's a hall and notes tribute band next Friday which I will be at with my wife uh I'm a holl and Nots fan I know that and that's aging me a little bit uh Mitch you know that that may be before your time but uh but I am a fan right so but so you may want to kind of check that out they do have also have an additional concert next month as well that you may want to check out that's my update thank you all right thank you I think most of us
055actually are going to be there on Saturday so to there yep uh then we have let's see our district reports which includes um well there is not an incident report this time uh there was an enrollment report a suspension report and the donation report Mr CLE would you please read the donation report it would be my pleasure uh the first one is for Ike New berin West safe way psych Psychological Services support the boys volleyball Co-op at Eisenhower and West with a donation of $5,000 the next one was for New Berlin West PPG support the construction program at New berin West uh the next one was also from PPG to support the math field trip at New berin West in the amount of $1,000 next one was Christopher and Rhonda Porter support robotics at New
056berland West in the amount of $250 the next one was for New berland West Daryl and Julia web or Julie web uh support robotics at New berland West in the amount of $500 next one is for New berland West Charities Foundation of America care of cyber grants support robotics at New berland West in the amount of $500 next one was also for New berland West Crohn's Incorporated support robotics at New berin West in the amount of $2,500 again New berin West Heartland Overhead Door support Trap Club at New berland West the amount of $1,500 next one is also for New berin West Central Services Company Incorporated support Trap Club at New Berlin West in the amount of $1,500 the next one is for Elmwood Pamela Kavanaugh support Elmwood with a don of two violins valued
057at $500 that's an in-kind donation of $500 uh the next one was for po Creek popular Creek PTO support pop Creek by paying for the bus for a kindergarten field trip in the amount of $826,000 7694 thank you so much to our generous donors and that ends my report thank you next up on the agenda the consent agenda which contains the notice the approval of minutes of the board meeting on February 10th the financial reports and boa Grand Nationals field trip application are there any items that should be pulled out for separate consideration then do I have a motion for the consent agenda motion to approve second I have a motion by Mr Sidle a second by Mr hler to approve the consent agenda as presented any discussion hearing none all those in favor raise
058your right hand motion passes on to our regular agenda we have our postsecondary experiences in high school presentation so one of the things that was included in the board goals was a request to learn more about what we have to offer our students other than AP coursework and so in that vein of Kelly is here to present with you postsecondary experiences while kids are in our high schools Kelly yeah absolutely thank you for having me tonight so we're going to talk about why the school district of New Berlin provides postsecondary opportunities which postsecondary opportunities we do provide and what's coming up next for the school district that we're considering so we start our work with the vision of The Graduate that was developed about 2012 and two statements within the vision of The Graduate are
059effectively be able to navigate both the world of higher education and employment to support the transition to adulthood and then how do students goal set so all of our post-secondary experiences are really rooted in these values that we set in the vision we also measure our vision of the graduate through the College and Career ready framework and I'm not going to go through it all because I know that you've seen that but that is the place where we measure our work so this is the academic career and life ready you'll notice underneath the academic we have a few places where we measure postsecondary success whether it's dual credit math or English Advanced standing AP courses those are all gathered into the bucket of college level coursework I'm proud to say and you've heard me say
060it before that 96% of our graduates specifically the class of 2024 graduated with a post-secondary or a college level coursework experience which is pretty incredible we also had 43% of our students graduate with a career-based learning experience and I'll talk about what that means to in this presentation so Which postsecondary experiences do we tend to add on or evaluate within the school first it's um courses that expand a pathway um second is General Ed courses so there's students who might want to just take a course to be able to decrease a degree or maybe they don't know which pathway they want to go into especially when you think about the 15 and 16 year olds that we have but they know that they're ready for that next level of rigor so they might want to
061enter into a science or social studies class so these are the pathways that we do have in the school district of New Berlin all of our Pathways du will have du have dual credit opportunities college level credits or AP credits so why do students want to experience these dual credits or AP credits or post-secondary experiences while they're in high school well it depends we have students who are very rigorously trying to decrease their time to a degree we have students who are getting Associates degrees right here in high school we had three last year I know we're going to have one this year we also have four who've already ruined already earned a technical diploma with wag County Technical School we might have some that just want to decrease the time to degree by a
062year and they take 30 college credits or maybe 15 college credits and already have a semester and maybe that means that they can dual major so we really try to get our students to think about their academic and career plan and if they're not sure they might just want to take a dual enrollment to access can I do this rigor do I want to school go to school for four years or maybe they're interested in a pathway like health care and they want to try to do take a class like introduction to diagnostic medicine and they realize they might hate it and now they've just helped inform their postsecondary option that they don't want to go into Healthcare and maybe they're interested in something else instead like Claire's business law so what do we offer
063we offer a lot so we offer the advanced placement programming which I know that you all know about we offer on-site dual enrollment we offer some online dual enrollment we offer programs such as cap through Oshkosh um college and high school through W Green Bay Pi through Whitewater transcripted credit which are free to the school district and free to parents through Waka County Technical School Advanced standing through wakha County Technical School that's with some of our Project Lead the Way courses and then offsite we do follow State Statute where we allow students to participate in the early college credit program so that's if we don't offer a course in summer fall or spring they can take a college level course up to 18 credits um sometimes Beyond if it's a program that they are starting
064in high school to reduce time to degree the start college now which is the same thing is early college credit program but it's technical school we also have dual enrollment Academy that we participate in we have anywhere between 15 and 30 students in any given year depending on the year and then our newest program that we participate in is called the accelerate program through wera County Technical School and that's I'll explain that what what it is shortly all of those are marked with a star and our academic and career planning guides for parents or students so they know which one our dual enrollment and may care carry a credit with them AP courses we offer over 23 courses and this is where the student needs to earn a three or higher perhaps a four or
065five if they're going to a school like w Madison or Marquette um to get credits and every single post-secondary institution has their own policies on how they're going to transfer those credits so if that's really important to a senior or Junior that all of those credits perhap transfer they might pick a different school over other based off of that and we give our students that information within advisory but the links are out there online so students can see how it will transfer and how their credits may or may not transfer all of these courses are taught by school district of New Berlin teachers we offer these courses on site either at West or Eisenhower most of these courses um we pay for through contract some of them are through early college credit placement because we
066have so many students who take this that we are Contracting with section but others are optional when it's an optional credit where we have a teacher who serves as an Adjunct professor we give the families an option to pay for those credits or not some examples would be our W Green Bay personal finance course as well as our cap U um UW ashkash Spanish course and if they pass that Spanish course I think it's a beer higher they get 11 retroactive credits um for Spanish so pretty good deal for families excuse me you might also ask why do we use so many different institutions well remember how I talked about the transferability with the AP it's the same thing and not all wws offer the same courses so that introduction introduction to accounting course through
067wuw Whitewater is highly transferable to some of the other UW schools um not all of the accounting classes are three credit some are four some are not an intro level some have to be Juniors to take so if we're interested in expanding our Pathways we really have to dig into almost all the uws to see which course is going to give us the biggest bang for our families and students so that is why we work with so many different post-secondary partners we also offer on-site wsha County Technical courses right down the hall is our CNA course um that's held at Eisenhower but we host students from Franklin Eisenhower and West in that room and they get their CNA course and that's taught by a WCTC teacher so our WCTC transcripted credits are taught by school
068district of new berin teachers they are authorized as adjunct professors to WCTC we don't pay WCTC for the students that credit earns our families don't it's through a partnership with the technical school and the the high schools that we're able to do this but our students sit in the class with other students they can elect to take the course for WCTC credit free to them and they get that credit upon graduating the tricky part with this is transferring again some of the post-secondaries four years or two years accept those some don't so we've become really strategic on which one we want to transcript there's something that's called the universal uh credit transfer agreement between the UW system and the technical college and they've committed to these courses if a student takes a transcripted credit or
069a credit through a trans um a like a Technical College they're going to autot transfer to that UW School one of our courses that was most recently added was sociology so the students who take sociology through the transcripted credit WCTC course that transfers to every single UW system course so we started looking at which ones are we going to add through transcripted credits which ones are on that list that are going to guarantee transfer to the u schools and college math is also on the list that one was also a recent ad so um how many of our students take credits well I can tell you how many credits our students took last year so this was in the 23 24 school year we were proud to have our students take 1,595 credits through WCTC
070and you can see some of the schools um who have bigger enrollment might have even smaller credits so we're doing a great job uh providing this opportunity for students and still working to improve our WCTC dual enrollment Academy um these are students who are offsite from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. we do offer Transportation so that's not a barrier to these students um they leave Eisenhower pick up at West and they go to WCTC they are earning anywhere between 16 to 30 credits per year you can start this junior year you have to have a GPA of 2.0 to qualify and apply um it is an application-based program so not everybody who applies get in there's an interview process through WCTC but these are the different um opportunities that students can engage in I will
071say it has allowed us to partner and maximize our opportunities we don't have a welding shop we don't have those big CNC machines but if students are interested in that and they know that's what they want to go into or firefighter they can start in high school and then finish up their associates degree either their senior year or maybe two years Beyond depending on the program and how they can work within the program they also offer accelerate so while all of these different programs are great we sometimes have students who want to go into programs such as cosmop cosmetology um autos and other programs Hospitality that aren't always on the dual enrollment Academy accelerate is a program for them those are for students who are in high school who know they want to start their
072associates degree while they're in high school and they can start those courses now so it's for students um Beyond dual enrollment Academy for some of the other Pathways and um I talked about this before the start college now early college credit program um the deadlines are March 1st for fall October 1st for second semester and we do have quite a few students who are engaging into the those um those courses and then we also offer the external course applications once in a while we'll get a student who will want to take a college course through like Northwestern or somewhere out of state we will evaluate those credits to see if we want to transfer them on our transcript we do not pay for those um but it is an opportunity for students if they find
073a course somewhere else that they might want to take um as part of their academic and career plan so what are other postsecondary experiences Beyond just dual enrollment credit or trans um transcripted credit 22% of our students um who are graduates of the class of 2024 earned an industry related certificate so this is something like a manufacturing skills certificate CNA the ask business and marketing certificate and 43% of our students graduated with a career-based experience such as an internship Co-op or youth apprenticeship so we realize College isn't for everyone and sometimes it's College and Career and students are still exploring that wall in high school so we also have those opportunities for students too so next steps we have some of our teachers right now earning dual enrollment to maximize our offering so I talked
074a little bit about that Spanish opportunity where you can take credits in high school um and parents can pay and get the credit we're looking to do the same thing as in French so we currently have one of our staff members working on their master's degree through a grant through the state um so she'll be able to teach that for students in the future we also have noticed an uptick of our students um taking abnormal psychology which is a course that could be a transcripted credit course so we have another teacher through the grant working on getting her Masters in Psychology to be able to teach that for our students in the future and then they wouldn't have to go on campus and they could earn that opportunity here any questions that was a lot
075just one um you brought up the link for credit transfer yeah okay how long has that been around the transferology yeah um a few years before it it was called something else I think it was called the transfer Wizard and it wasn't as easy to navigate my daughter spent a year and the reason I'm asking this my daughter spent a year at Oshkosh and she lost credits now she transferred to Carol and all the credits transferred and it cut a complete year off of her yes so how is this communicated to students as well yeah it's in our advisory class but we're realizing we have to communicate to families too because families are also the people right now I have a senior who's helping their students go through that transcript process to be like you
076have these courses you need to self- Advocate but the families also need to know what kind of questions to ask well they need to self- Advocate I agree with that statement so I want to make sure that it's actually communicated the importance of that to them so that that's all thank yeah thank you I'll make sure it's in our Junior conferences too because that would be a great opportunity to talk to families and students together about that thank you yeah thank you um I have a question do any of these cost the district money like if kid if a student takes a class at let's say Marat do we pay for that class or how does that work we do we do pay for that class so if it's through early college credit program the
077state law um states that we pay a portion of that tuition so the student can't enroll in that class unless there's spaces available so that does pre sometimes present our problems with our students because they don't know if they're going to get into that class until July or August but we do get a discounted rate that we pay and then there's another portion of a grant that we apply for in September nope I take that back July July where we we get a portion of those dollars that we spent back to the district that's new as of the last five years um and if they think we overpaid they will tell us to look into it and um then we have to rectify the situation yeah I think at the end of the day Amy
078back to your point though is we budget and allocate dollars for those potential costs but at the same time you know like like Kelly mentioned I I'm not sure that I want to invest in a welding fabrication lab or an auto uh lab like some of these other districts do when I can just transport our kids to WCTC to get that taken care of so in the end quite honestly it it and then I don't have to hire the instructor you know or FTE that goes with that maximizing the opportunities for our kids yet still also keeping that investment on behalf of the district or the commitment at a very very basic level in our opinion but again this is something that we've developed and grown uh grants are great uh but we're also happy
079to support it because that is our mission and our vision is to provide these all these opportunities for our kids and their families and you know I think we've all may have experienced or at least those of us that have have kids at the college level already that I think kids in like my kids have experienced you know my daughter could have graduated early she chose not to Janet's daughter did graduate early um and so you know if people take advantage of it but then also back back to Ron's point we have to make sure we're communicating that clearly with with our it's appreciated well I was just surprised because you said that the UW credits transfer at one for one or they don't not always they don't no and I find that kind of
080interesting that well anyway I'm going to stop now oh yeah we could we could talk about the UW system and transferability and lack of probably found it interesting that a private university accepted all of these credits it was just interesting so thank you thank you thank you all right now we have discussed approve the 2026 27 school year calendar do I have a motion so moved second I have a motion by Mr Helmer a second by Mr Sidle to approve the 2026 2027 school year calendar is there any discussion none okay then all those in favor raise your right hand motion passes and then we have three action items from Clos session I move to approve the Employment Services report as presented second I have a motion by Miss Spindler and a second by Miss
081Crosby to uh approve the Employment Services report as presented all those in favor raise your right hand motion passes and the next one I move to approve the employee handbook as presented second who was that I'm sorry was that cidal okay I have a motion by um Miss Crosby is second by Mr Sidle to approve the employee handbook all those in favor raise your right hand motion passes and our last one I move to approve the staff compensation for 25 and 26 as presented second I have a motion by Mr Mr Linsky is second by Mr Sidle to approve the staff compensation for 2025 26 is presented all those in favor raise your right hand motion passes then we have future meetings and dates our board meetings are generally held here in this room uh
082begin at 7 o'clock p.m. unless noted otherwise which happens to be otherwise this coming next Monday we're having a meeting on the third Monday of the month due to spring break now it's my understanding that there's going to be three of us not available on Monday um so who who will be here we have Matt okay all right so we're GNA say it's tentative just in case there's not a quorum as soon as we know from Allison for sure and I'm sorry Ron you'll be here and then you'll you're not sure here I think we might have to cancel yeah Monday because I don't think we're gonna have a quorum yeah you know I I think we'll be okay uh because I think the board did a lot of heavy lifting tonight with the compensation
083things uh which will prepare us for the contracts to be approved first meeting in April okay so I I think uh I think if you want to declare theare cancel okay let's just declare it canceled for Monday then all right so then our next meeting then will be April 14th and the one after that is April 28th do I have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second I have a motion by Mr Sidle and second by Mr hmer to adjourn all those in favor raise your right hand motion passes this meeting is adjourned