001We had to send Doug a selfie and then by the end I think he was exhausted. >> He had a great tour. >> All right. >> Yep. We're ready. >> All right. It is 6:00. >> Roll call. Holly is excused. Um [clears throat] we've established the quorum. Head right into the pledge of allegiance. 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 for all. >> Mr. Heidman, before you start, can I address what's on your table here? >> Sure can. >> All right. So, board members at your table. All right. So, Thanksgiving is on Thursday. All right. So, this is where you can be the hero of your Thanksgiving dinner with your family. Let's go set
002this on your table and uh as you have an opportunity to see people that you haven't seen in a while. But what it is, it's just a simple uh conversation starter. But more importantly, it's you know I am grateful you know for you because you know when you're with your family and being able to share that memory and um and then ultimately they can read that. So just a a tool or something if you want to take it and share within your family feel free. uh just wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and and use that to uh remember what's most important in your life. So >> you miss the tally sheets for how many eye rolls from teenagers you >> know I think we've all been at that stage in our life and you just
003got to you got to plow through it. You got and what in one day it just makes sense, you know. So I think that's our job to keep pushing that uh pushing that attitude. So >> um we're going to skip consent agenda. We're just going to plan on discussing those items in close session at the end and move right into new business. Scott. >> Yes. So, new business. Uh, Mrs. McCartney will lead us through the school accountability report card public release items. The I put copies again, hard copies at your workstation. I know you received it uh in your board packet and we'll have it presented up. Uh just before we get into it, just uh to know that our school district report card and the results that that I shared informally at our previous
004meeting, our district has made, you know, some some sound growth uh and achievement this past year and it's shown in our overall district report card of exceeding expectations. I don't want to steal the thunder of how what will be shared, but the one point I'll mention in our uh district continuous strategic plan of continuous improvement and that's that one pillar that sits by itself and our goal is obviously to continue to move that forward. we've met expectations uh the last you know since I've been here uh this year it's the first time that we've been able to you know exceed expectations and yes there was rec reconfiguration and reorming with rationale but likewise that's been throughout the entire state uh but I think our district has plenty to be proud of of what we've accomplished
005over this past year and Mrs. McCartney will share the the specifics and always knowing that we can dig deeper if appropriate uh if questions come up. So tell us >> board I'm very excited to share the very hard work that your staff did last year with you in this school report card. I um I I'm going to start out uh with the first the side. There we are. Just a little background information in case any of our community members are listening in and haven't had the extensive knowledge in in the school report card that you have because I know many of you have done some good research on each of these areas of the school report card. Uh the school report card is mandated um to be received by any school uh public school or
006district and choice schools um every single year. Comes out in November. This year it came out publicly in November 11th. Um, and they're available online, so anybody can go and find exactly the information we're talking about today on the DPI website. The report card, um, offers an overall score rating, has some demographic and school information. It gives us scores based on four priority areas of achievement, growth, target group outcomes, and on track to graduation. And it also includes other nonscored data that's moreformational for families as they consider school districts or look to see how their school district is doing. The report card scoring uh starts off with a general score. Our our score is [music] highlighted there on the screen 71.3. I want to let you all know that last last week I was I
007attended a meeting through CISA 6 Eric Larson. You have all worked with him before. He can just data anything, right? Charts everywhere. But he had some very interesting comparisons that he provided for us. And our growth in this score of of increasing by 8 point or 8.5 uh points put us at a growth um like if you were ranking everybody by how much they grew in the state, we were number 19 out of 421. So, our district had a good amount of growth last year thanks to all that hard work that those teachers have been putting in. So, congratulations on that. I want to point out the four priority areas that are there. That bottom two are those 25% of target group and the on track to graduation. That top is never 25. It's rarely
00825 and 25. And that's because we have a percentage of economically disadvantaged students in our district of 39.3. And that makes their achievement score 22.1% um of the score and our growth priority at a 27.9. So that area is always a little bit which means that our growth score is really important and that's going to come out later on as we talk. In 2425, there are some updates to the school report card. Just so you are all aware there uh the achievement score is based on the past two years because we have two years of the new forward test out there. The test part there could be test participation flags at the top of the front page if we had issues with test participation. We don't. We're good. Uh there is new statutory required non-scoring
009reporting data um including third grade reading and some other uh state and local law violations and as you all know and as what Mr. Black already talked about there was like a reorming of that data of viz scores. So that's new. Here's just a screenshot of our front page. I'm not going to go deep into what's on there right now because I will just in a second. But on the very front page of a school report card, we get that overall score from our on our district and then we get the bigger snapshot of those four priority areas and how we scored in those areas. So that front page always gives us just a nice picture of where the district is. This would be if I gave you the front of the front page of
010all of our buildings. So, our district is one, but each of our schools gets their own school report card. And if you take a look at this, that is the overall score of our different buildings compared to our district. There's a lot of growth. There's a lot of really positive changes that are happening on that page. They're significant. They should be celebrated. Lots of hard work is reflected there and lots of momentum has been created that our principles are well aware of. We need to keep going. We did meet with Eric Larson um the some of the principles met with Eric Larson last week in order to do a much deeper dive into our school report cards so we could get a better idea of that of those areas of momentum and how we can
011keep going forward. So that research is something that we are deep into now and we're putting some things into action. I'll talk more about that on the last slide. The first target or the first area priority area is achievement and the achievement measures for uh student performance um in ELA and in math for students in grades three through 11. Again 3 through 8 is the forward exam. The ninth and tth grade take the preac secure and then the 11th takes the ACT. The report card again for this achievement score is using two years worth of data. So this year and last year with this year or with the 24 25 um scores being more heavily weighted. Our achievement score 72.4 is an increase of 5.8. So, that's a pretty significant um improvement in both math
012and ELA. You want to go to the next screen. Here is where you can see just how much improvement we made separately in ELA and in math. You can see the difference between those um how many students scored meeting in advanced and how many um are still working we're still working on. And at the bottom, you can see that our ELA went up by 2.1% and our math up 2.2%. So those are some that's that is a result of some really strong efforts. As I mentioned earlier, that growth score is really heavy in our district. And there's the front uh the snapshot of the front of um that page. We went up 9.5 in that growth score. And that put us at that improvement. Remember I said they compared all the districts to each other,
013the 421. We were number 14. Like we went up a ton within the state. There was lots to be celebrated there with that growth score. The next two screens show you English language arts and math and what's called a value addit score. So that gray line represents the average growth for students. And remember growth is the same kid for example their score in third grade to their score in fourth grade. Okay? And it's the same kind of kid. So you might have a white female uh economically disadvantaged student and that's what they're being compared to across the state when we're looking at that growth and that comparability. These value added scores, we're looking for them to be on the right hand side of the line. And as you can see, we're getting closer to that
014line in ELA. We've made some real great progress in ELA. In math, you want to go there. Those numbers were already close to that line for the 23 24 school year. And many of them have moved into that onto the correct side of the line is what I'm going to say. The reality is that's great, but we can be keep moving forward. And that growth is really important for us to keep having as we move kids along. We need to be making a year, two years, three years worth of growth in a year if we possibly can, especially with our target group students. Speaking of target group outcomes, this measurement here, um, it measures, it allows us to see gaps. It measures achievement, growth, absenteeism, and attendance/graduation of students in the bottom 25th percentile of
015the prior year's test results, which means we know who the target group is, or we have a really good idea of who the target group is for our data for this coming year. and our staff has been already looking at that data, we have some systems and structures in place in order to make sure that we are getting things set to not only speak to those students needs, but when we speak to those students needs, we are actually uh meeting more students needs than just those kids. So that's our target group. This one we went up 17.1. That's a that's a beyond a jump. That's huge. and it was the eighth largest in the state. So, we made some really, really strong gains there. And I keep saying we I literally can't take credit for
016any of this. I walked into this. I'm very, very excited to have walked into this, but this is amazing work. On track to graduation is measures how successful students um are achieving educational milestones. We look at chronic absenteeism, the graduation attendance, third grade ELA, and eighth grade math. Our score was 60 or higher than 62.4% of other districts in the state. One of those areas that was new to the report card was reporting on third grade reading. And this is a report on the proficiency, those students who are proficient or meeting in ELA in third grade on the forward exam that one day they took the test. Right? So, our district had 58.9% that met that meeting or meeting or above and statewide was 50.3. Just put my glasses on so I can see it.
01750.3. Yep, here we go. There's two different screens I'm going to show you here which areformational for parents that could take a look at it when reflecting on our district or looking to make a change into our district. One of those is the post-secondary preparation and this is the big page of it. But if Mr. Black moves to the next screen, you can see that our district um has, you know, 25.5% of our uh students up at the high school um take those advanced uh placement courses in our district. 51.4 357 students successfully completed at least one dual enrollment course, which is phenomenal. Um and then you can see our data compared to the state for those industrial recognized credentials and workbased learning. The otherformational only page in the school report card is the arts
018course information. And again here's that larger uh view of it. But if you go into the next slide, you can see there's some data. And this data reflects uh our programming in art and in music. uh there it does reflect that we have no dance classes so we can see that but it also reflects that we've got some great participation in the programs that we do have and if that's important to parents that we want to see that information as we met with Eric Larson last week and as I've had conversations with principles about this report card we want to recognize that our success is showing like we are seeing some really great things here and we want to keep growing we want to keep moving that momentum forward. I've listed some of those things
019that we're working on this year that reflect this. Again, we have your attendance goal that we are working on and something that we had already been working on as a district. We put some extra things into place this year to help with our chronic absenteeism. Our targeted ELA work for early literacy includes an implementation of UFly and lots of professional development and support of that resource as we implement it and make sure that it's working for our kiddos. Uh close work on teacher practices in math. So we've been working a lot with making sure students are talking about math and can show us their understanding of math in ways that are not just uh a memorized process. We have uh lots of target group identification that's happening um and emphasizing that those practices just like
020I mentioned earlier on um we have the ability to do some heat map analysis. So in uh all of our buildings we can actually pull up the questions the question number not the question and what standard it went with and how are students scored on that. So we can identify specific standards that we can be targeting within our instruction to make improvements moving forward in our instruction. So we've been doing lots of heat map analysis and then we are looking to improve the writing emphasis in that K4 uh resource that we have in ARC um as we look to uh identify some of those ELA um uh growth points in. So, that's my really fast rundown of the report card and our steps forward. What questions can I answer? >> I was wondering about um
021I know like testing is paramount as a parent who did not have the best kids um of standardized tests. I just really find the slide that says participation of type of post-secary prep preparation like I mean those besides being slightly less than the state average of workbased learning like significant dual enrollments over I mean there's stories to tell and I just wonder like >> how can we spread that message >> like there's some good stuff there. >> I do not disagree with you. I think that is one of those messages that we can be uh spreading throughout our district. I think that is something we can >> Yeah, it's an opportunity every time you have a conversation. I think that's the word of mouth is our best way to uh to share the stories when
022you're talking with families, students that are in our district or not. And if the conversation is cool and and how we, you know, find success and gauge yourself compared to others, this is a great slide as you mentioned, Katie, to do that. you know, >> I mean, dual enrollment is like double over the state average. I mean, it's right >> triple, actually over triple of the industry recognized credentials. >> Sure. >> And then even the advanced courses. >> So, I think one of the, you know, ironically, tonight at our instructional committee [clears throat] meeting tonight, we were talking about the course selection handbook. All right. Which students and families will be uh preparing to make their course selections. Um, you know, our district has worked hard with that document tonight, Mr. Schustler and Mrs. McCartney
023expanded on that and if and we will bring that forward for formal recognition at the December meeting. But there's an icon by every class that is dual dual enrollment and either that or college credit earning through AP. And I think students and families are making that connection, you know, because so many of our skilled trades and labors laborers um it's not just to the workforce, it's what do I need to do to be, you know, really good at what I'm doing and those dual credit courses are preparing them for that. So our ability to make that alignment with all pathways I think that's that's the key as you had mentioned four-year institution skilled trade labor workforce military and how can these courses uh find value added while they are while our students are still in
024here and that's a story to tell you know because every year all of you kids you know students oh this student had 15 dual credit courses that or credits that went to the tech to uh maybe a job place advancement uh you know that was prepared for or if a four-year higher ed it's I'm a you know first semester sophomore starting and uh the financial piece and what that means to students as well it's uh it's a good investment to to work hard now and reap benefit down the road >> you know in the eight years that I've been on the board we I've just noticed a steady increase in the number of those options that are made available what I've al also seemed to feel like is happening is it's almost an it's an
025almost an expectation and I don't know if that comes from the staff, if that comes from the counselors and then the fact that so many kids are involved in it. I think that expectation just kind of happens naturally. >> Sure. >> And um and they and they see their their upper classmen gaining benefits from it. >> Yeah. Oh, I should do that and I should do that, you know, and then and again that part of that of that book continues to grow. >> Yeah. >> you know, I think our biggest advocates are are our staff >> when they have students in front of them and they're talking about, okay, I'm in whatever the classes, but why am I here and how how will this help me and what are the opportunities, you know, direct and
026incidental that will find their way into that child's, you know, playing field, if you will. So staff that actively um you know talk about what opportunities are there and within the reach of the vast majority of our students. You know a dual credit course when a person hears that oh am I ready for that? Well, yeah, you probably are. You know, uh it uh it's they're built in a way that most students can find success with, you know, a little hard work, you know, that goes into it and the dividends keep paying on. >> Well, and I think that speaks to the variety because if if you've got an interest in something, it's not additional work. >> Yeah. It feels the worth is there. >> Yeah. I just wanted to give kudos to whoever in
027admin came up with the idea to have sophomore parents actually meet with the counselors because this is my fourth child. It was my first time doing it last week. Josh's counselor is Mrs. Flanders. And when you actually go line by line of how many college credits you could attain. I mean, I I knew it. I guess it was like this enigma to me, but when you see the pen to the paper of I just hope parents take advantage. I know you're down to the wire a little bit with scheduling, but if it's worth another email shot, I mean, I found it extremely beneficial. >> I appreciate you taking advantage of that opportunity. >> That was a good idea. >> Yeah. Um, John, I think, um, uh, one of the things we got to give credit
028to is that the staff created this team approach to instruction and learning when we lost our director too late to to get into the pool to uh, find applicants and what was there about 10 people in that in that group that >> Yeah, it was uh you know it was all hands on deck of our admin team uh building principles and strategic leaders within departments to you know bring real focus and energy you know whether it was act 20 you know those are things that we were developing or revisiting curriculum uh at at the high school or delivery at the elementary um yeah it was definitely Definitely a team approach led by our admin team that was shoulder tap to to take on those responsibilities as well as the line share of our staff that
029said, "Hey, let's do this." You know, whether it been the development of our K12 math team, you know, where individuals representing kindergarten through high school really sat down and look with looked through through the supervision with the process from Mrs. Pinch and Mrs. Peterson to understand what are those non-negotiable tiers that we all should be thinking about. And I'm pleased to say that um those processes are continuing on with with Tamila and in her role now uh to to continue on revisit revise and continue with that momentum which I think is advantageous to us as a district. In in hindsight, it seems like a very good decision and it was a very good recommendation >> that you made. And um it seems like uh it seems like it replaced the thing where you put everything
030on one person to solve all the achievement problems. Uh you're creating a team approach. And you know if there's things that we can do to to continue that as a team approach um I think I think it'll benefit you know going forward. >> Certainly I know that we're always open to ideas suggestions and how we can make you know best progress. So >> I think that's where the PLC's come in very strong and um you know I kind of I kind of compare this to being a a coach on an athletic team. You always want to improve your team every year. And that's what our staff want to do. They want to improve their team, their kids every year. And um and they're and they're they're working on it. >> Right. Key takeaways here. Now,
031we need to to maintain and sustain momentum moving forward. And that that's the key takeaway in my opinion that um to to really keep that wheel spinning and you know, maybe even crank it up a little bit more in certain areas. Well done by everyone. >> If you >> students and families, >> please congratulate them. This is a lot of hard work. I mean, you can say good job the admin, but the teachers were putting in that hard work. Please, please, please give them the kudos that they deserve. >> And for a board of education as well, understanding and knowing the importance of what we need to do, you know, and hearing that hearing that conversation and creating those creating those pathways. So, thank you. >> Thank you. All right, moving to new fall co-curricular
032activities report. Bill, >> Mr. SW is with us tonight to uh let me get this queued in here. One second uh to share the results of our fall cocurricular season as we do three times a year. Um all the great highlights and where we've been. >> Yeah, Mr. Thank you, Scott. Thank you, board, uh, for having me here tonight and again, uh, talking about the accomplishments and successes of our teams and student athletes during the fall uh, season, as well as touching base on our students who are involved in various clubs and their activities that took place um, during the fall. So, the slide right there just kind of gives you a little bit of an overview of what we're going to be talking about uh, tonight and Pamela's presentation. Uh some of you had
033questions to kind of highlight what our students do in dual credit and why a and I will share that with you here. 219 student athletes which uh includes 51 seniors competed in seven fall sports at the high school. Uh this equates to about 36% of the student body participating. Of the 219 students involved, 134 AP courses were taken by 77 student athletes and 220 dual credit college courses are being taken by 150 student athletes. In addition, we have 14 student athletes who are part of the youth apprenticeship program. And it's also worth noting that the overall grade point average of our fall athletes is a 3.31. So, we're doing f those kids are doing fantastic. Mr. Black, you can go to the next slide. Our fall participation numbers between high school and middle school has
034been staying pretty consistent over the course of the last few few years. Uh then you will note on the very bottom girls golf uh started again. Thank you to the board uh for that opportunity. We have nine and that that will continue to grow. So that was a good good start to the inaugural season there with girls golf. Moving on to the next slide, talking about cross country, the cross country conference meet was held at UWGB on October 18th. Uh just to give you a little bit of a rundown of how individuals fared between first team, second team, and honorable mention. Top 27 runners receive conference recognition. Places one through nine are first team. students that or excuse me, athletes that place 10 through 18 are second team and 19 through 27 place are honorable
035mention. You can see the individuals there. Girls on the left, boys on the right, uh who who received first team, second team or honorable mention. It is worth noting Braden Clark, who was in the top five in many invites this year, qualified for the state meet held in Wisconsin Dells or excuse me, Wisconsin Rapids on a on November 1st and he placed 35th out of 150 runners. Next slide, Mr. B. Thank you. Football. Uh the varsity team was well represented with conference recognition this year. Bay Conference coaches recognized the talent of our athletes and selected five of our athletes for nine conference honors. Uh you will note uh the asterric up up there by Reed Overberstat. He was a unanimous first team selection. That means that all football coaches uh voted him as a first
036team uh athlete. Uh it is also worth noting that you coaches cannot vote for their own players. So this is a well represented class uh by the peers by our coaching peers I should say in the b conference. Uh we had five new coaches in in the program between the varsity and JV levels. Uh Reed Oberstat was selected all region as a defensive end and we had two athletes on on the team who received academic allstate Brett Markort and Thomas Burrow. So a good a good showing from our football team. Next slide. Mr. B girls golf as I mentioned it was their inaugural season under the direction of coach Joe Sams. Uh we also want to thank Shamrock Heights for providing our team a place to practice as well as allowing us to host two
037events. uh during the season. By season's end, uh the girls averaged a 13 stroke improvement from the start of the season. So, that was a highlight uh that that the team really had for themselves is how can we improve and Mr. Gman just kind of mentioned that a little while ago as as a coach, we're always looking to improve. It's not always about winning the championships, etc., but how how can we get better at the end of the season from where we were at the beginning. Jenna Hansky uh received honorable mention at the conference. Next slide, Mr. soccer had a successful season not only on on the pitch but also at the allconerence uh coaches meeting. Five of our soccer players from from the season received allconerence honors. Again, you can see the unanimous selection
038there of Ryan Peters. Uh the varsity team outscored their opponents this year uh 73-19 and finished with a 133 and1 record and for the second year in a row they won their first round regional game. So again another successful season for our soccer team volleyball. The volleyball team had won all conference selection with Aiden Smith on honorable mention. Three of the four coaches were brand new this year in their respective roles in the volleyball program. The coaching staff has done a great job building team culture and setting the foundation for the upcoming years. Uh back in October on October 7th game against Seymour, the team sponsored a dig pink event uh to raise money for breast cancer awareness and they took in over $3,000. We want to thank everybody that came out to support that
039uh cause. Swim team. Uh the conference swim meet was held at Clintonville on October 30th. Uh four athletes in three events received conference honors. How it works at a swim meet. Your first place, your first team, your second place, your second uh if you're second place, your second team, and if you're third place, your honorable mention. The swim team finished their conference season with a first place finish at the conference meet. and when he tallied points throughout the season, uh, the team ended a second place overall finish in the conference. So, very successful. First year head coach Tiffany Schultz and first year assistant coach Mary Dickro. So, uh, those two coaches along with the swim swim team had a very successful season. Uh and one stat or two stats rather share with you throughout the
040season 282 PRs that means personal records or new events were swam and 350.91 seconds were taken off good time. So the girls improved throughout the entire season. Moving on to tennis. Uh the conference tennis tournament was held September 27th at Xavier Pipazog received honorable mention. Uh the tennis team competes on the road for all their matches. Uh but they were able to host two intra squad scrimmages this year uh for fans and community to come out and watch the girls play. That gives you a rundown of the athletics. Moving into the activities we can talk about FFA, the dairy cattle judging team competed at the World Dairy Expo on October 30th. On October 2nd, uh we hosted a fall leadership workshop. We had 18 schools here with approximately middle school and high school students. Uh,
041and the reason why we were able to hold the event is because Evan Rzzoff, class of 2025, former student board rep, uh, he is our section 8 FFA parliamentarian. So, if you have a state officer, you are required to host uh some of those events. So, we were very pleased to have that opportunity. At the national FFA convention held at the Octo held at the end of October, our egg issues team received the bronze and I know Charles mentioned that at the last board meeting. Uh, and the club FFA is also collecting hygiene products for the nursing home and ringing bells for the Salvation Army starting in December. Moving on to esports, 18 students uh make up the esports uh team. They participated in a few of the program or games they participated in this
042year. Chess, Pokemonite, Rocket League, Madden 26, Super Smash Brothers. Uh Casey Martin, uh again led a strong Super Smash Brothers team that came up just short of making the playoffs and that that program continues to grow as well at the high school. Next slide, Mr. Blood. DECA. DECA has 130 members uh with a six member officer team. few things that they did uh over the course of the past couple months. DECA decorated and assisted a haunted trailer at Punka Pumpkin Palooa painted pumpkins for local businesses during our October meeting and over 30 students participated in trick or can uh on Halloween and they collected over,300 canned goods that were donated. Six students attended the emerging leadership workshop held in Wisconsin Dells. Uh students learned about leadership, networking, and competition prep. Students volunteered uh to work
043in sessions in fall and winter, and they are filling bags for New London's uh chamber, winter wonderland, and to make pies and cookies for residents at St. Joseph. Death students are always busy. Moving on to our performing arts. Uh two things to touch base on here. The big band dinner and dance uh was held at the high school on October 18th. uh the middle school jazz band as well as the high school jazz band uh played music for about two hours or so. It's a fantastic evening. About 200 people or so showed up to this catered event. In addition, the marching band had their annual homecoming halftime show. Uh the theme for this year was from the Sing Movies which is part of the DreamWorks Studios. The band is also participating in the Appleton Christmas
044parade as we speak. Uh so that picture in the top right that is from last year. That is not a a live picture that drew in there. So that is a la last year photo. And next Friday they will have the New London uh parade as well. So hopefully they stay dry tonight. The musical the musical pajama game spanned three nights October 10, 11, and 12th. Uh 46 students were part of the cast crew or pit. 19 students involved in the musical also participated in a fall sport. New London once again entered the performing arts center stage high school musical theater program which is a high school performing arts competition similar to the Tony Awards. All three performances were critiqued uh by members from the uh PAC and the PAC will vote on the performances
045from area high schools and the awards ceremony will take place May 16th. And then last uh slide to talk about two induction ceremonies that we had, National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society. National Honor Society held their induction ceremony on November 13th. 20 juniors and eight seniors were inducted. Students are selected based on four pillars: scholarship, leadership, character, and service. In addition, each member of NHS is required to perform a minimum of 15 service hours each year. And then on the right side there is Spanish Honor Society. 20 students with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and enrolled in Spanish four or five were inducted into Spanish Honor Society. Each year, the membership chooses a service project to dedicate their time and talent. The high school students once again are partnering with eighth
046graders currently taking Spanish one. In addition, high school students are working with elementary students on various cultural projects, uh, book reading, craft projects, and some students go to Sugar Bush on Thursdays, uh, during their 5K library time to read read the kids. Again, I want to thank the board. I want to thank the New London community for your continued support of our co of our co-curriculars. We'll come back in a few months to talk about winter. So, thank you and have a happy Thanksgiving. >> Thank you. All right, we'll move into a discussion of our business partner of the year. >> So, board members, uh, if you remember last year, those of you that were um, in your positions, we used to to recognize the Wisconsin Association of School Boards business recognition partner of the
047year. And last year we made a change or to even personalize it more specifically for our board recognizing business partners that support the school, work with the school, uh are just all great school community uh partners. So this is that I'll say kickoff. All right. Nothing needs to get decided tonight, but for our timeline to to move through that, we'd be looking for recognition in that January February time frame. So, if you have suggestions, all right, uh who you think uh a community partner that's been advantageous to to meet our mission of success for all students over the past 12 months, uh I would love to know andor discussion at uh at the board meeting here to to bring forward a recommendation for consideration. >> Just send you an email or John or >> Yeah,
048that would that would be fine. Yeah, if there or if they have open dialogue as if there are >> we didn't get it last year like we I felt like we had some ideas. >> We've had tiger we've had >> that was last year, right? >> Correct. >> Core I believe one year >> farms Florida. >> Yeah, the care uh was another one that was recognized within uh recently within that. >> Anybody >> send us some ideas? recommendation from the floor. >> Shamrock ice is one that comes in. >> Oh yeah, for launching the United golf. That's a good idea. >> Good suggestion. >> Do we have time on that, but we will have that conversation uh going forward and if there is interest or if you are driving home, you think ah that you
049know that business partner uh let Mr. Mr. Heidman or myself know and we can put together some a recognition or a slate if you will of potentials for the board to consider as we move forward. >> All right, moving right into our annual board of education self- evaluation process. >> So again, this is moreformational and strategically planning out the process annually. district office receives the the link uh for access to the board self-evaluation process when it's really is what it's designed is for self-reflection and then board alignment and priorities to say you know this is where we are okay there's always that longitudinal piece from last year to this year that's you know always thanks to comparison but then as well as our priorities as a as a district or as a board change based
050on whatever circumstances are where where would we like to go? Where are our are areas of focus? And traditionally, we've had initial conversations about this. Uh the service itself is is available, you know, basically through the end of the academic year. Um but to start it, to complete it and then time to reflect on it takes time. Okay. School Perception is the uh that holds company that facilitates it and then as well WASB throws a narrative to the results as well. Um is there a perspective of of when the board would like to receive that link to um take the uh take that self-evaluation? Typically we've done it in that early Januaryish, but it it's uh discretion of the board. >> I have just a little bit of thoughts on it from >> [clears throat]
051>> Uh previous years uh we waited until we went through the um evaluation process, the administrator evaluation process and that was completed before we we did the board one so that we didn't get hit with two different two different forms to fill out in the same month that are very very different but somewhat similar things there. So, u I I think if you look, it probably wasn't done until about February of last year. >> Yeah, February. I think we got results back in Marchish or so. That type of thing. So, end of January. I guess one of the one of the strategy points that I think is always worthwhile for those of you that attend the WHB convention. >> Yeah. You always hear you take in a lot, you know, and that might be something
052that is utilized to reframe or re um, you know, refresh ideas as to targets for the board to consider. You know, you're taking in th those ideas to reaffirm, hey, we are hitting the mark [clears throat] on this or, you know, is there something that uh you can look with a closer eye. So, the convention is over January 23rd, I think it is. Um, so maybe sometime again after that we send that out to to meet that mark. >> I'm glad you brought that up, Scott, because I was going to suggest that we do it after the convention because we might come up with some ideas might want to start to look at >> next year. >> Good consens consensus then. We'll revisit uh just for a point of planning and bringing that out. Chris,
053it's like you knew what the next item was on the agenda. >> I think I read the pack. >> Yeah, there there you go. Right. Exactly. Jack, can we move to that one? >> Yes, we can. >> Okay. So, the annual district administrator uh evaluation timeline protocol. Uh typically this is when the board starts to to gather that process of what that looks like. Uh um typically, you know, it's an online the survey that board members receive. It gets pushed out by district office. um this year with the the district off and functions there. We'll we'll have to work through what that looks like. But I don't know, John, if you want to lead far as what we've done in the past or what you're anticipating. >> I think unless we hear somebody that has
054a different a different idea. We could revisit using the existing format from last year. Um like to see those go out first part of December. Hopefully get get the re everybody to return them by December 20th. um wrap that up. >> Yeah, Jill always played a big role in helping us tabulate that. [clears throat] >> Yes. >> But uh >> yeah, >> I was kind of in the middle of it and I'd be glad to help. >> That would be >> Yeah, we can uh look at our office functions here as well. all the access accessibility to that. I think it goes out on a survey monkey platform you know where um you know the calculating and you know sending those out but we'll definitely we could work collaborative John >> you want to use
055the same survey to compare apples to apples right >> it'll be the it'll be that's what I'm hearing anyways yeah would be within that process >> when is this usually due by Scott >> it's due you know typically in it it's board discretion when you want to review it but it you know I would highly suggest that that that takes place at the January very regular meeting you know that uh review of that you know we have that one meeting in December so that would be the first next time where it could be reviewed you know >> so the in the past we've had people send them back in we've had a deadline around the middle of December if I'm not mistaken >> so you you'll have about >> okay >> a week or a
056couple weeks a couple weeks would be Nice first couple weeks of December. >> Yeah. If it goes out little >> and if we don't change actually put some thought into it. >> Any anything particular you're working on >> if >> flashing lights sweatshirts >> if we keep questions the same um there will there will be less work to right. >> Okay. >> All right. So timing of that will John you and I can can work today then communicate out with appropriately what that might look like. >> Sounds good. Do we have a motion to move into close session? >> I'll make that motion. >> Second state why we're going in though. >> Okay. Pursuant to section 19.851C 851c Wisconsin statute. The board of education will convene in close session to discuss the continued employment of
057certified support and co-curricular staff members of which over which the board has jurisdiction and exercises responsibility pursuant to section 19.851c Wisconsin statutes. The board of education will convene in close session to discuss the employment and compensation of certified support and co-curricular staff members over which the board has jurisdiction and exercises responsibility pursuant to section 19.851A and F as well as 120.13 1 C statutes. The board of education will convene in close session for the purpose of a student expulsion proceeding also pursuant to section 19.851A. 851 AFNG and section 124.131C Wisconsin statutes. The board of education will convene in close session for the purpose of approving the minutes from an expulsion hearing which was heard in close session. >> Okay, we need a roll call vote. >> Mark Gman, >> yes. >> Nay Grundy, >> yes.
058>> John Haidderman, >> yes. >> Chris Martinson, >> yes. >> Andy Thorp, >> yes. >> Katy Batam, yes. What time do we have? >> 748 >> 648 >> 650 >> Okay, we will uh meet you in the back room. Thank you everyone for attending.