March 17th NFDL Board of Education

001good evening orial Nation welcome alrighty we are going to call to the order regular meeting of board of education for the District of North bondel today Monday March 17th at 7:01 PM so roll call ter when you're ready all right G here here [Music] here excellent and then H report out on public notification immed uh public notice was posted at the district office FLC bams hor man and the village flag unit stes stand naice all right our next item on the agenda is the board mission statement agreements sure uh the board mission statement is we will develop policy that representative our community set goals and Lead our district by collaborating and the three beliefs that we have as a district are stand up and own it which basically is that individual mindset that uh when

002we take on something that we have within our world we're going to uh do the best we possibly can do with that and uh be the best version of our as well the second one is we are one and that coming together collaborating we're better together than individually so how might we come together to be the best we can be and then finally courage to grow is our third belief and that's really all about continuous learning and uh trying to find a little bit more about just something else in that day-to-day so we can get better together as well right thank you um next item is consent agenda we have three items listed uh the first one is our approval of special meeting minutes from our meeting on March 12th 2025 uh second item is

003approval of regular board meeting minutes from February 24th 25 meeting and then our treasurers report um all of which are found inside our board packet um so if there are no questions I'll look for a motion to approve consent agenda second okay Mo call Matthew yes H yes kman yes humer yeser yes uh our next item is board member share a moment of Pride so first I would just like to thank Terry this is something strange happens between now and uh the first this will be his last board meeting so I want to thank him for the last three years it's been a pleasure working with you and and to miss you appreciate it good I I'll go next I uh just have a couple of activities here that uh call to attention the middle

004school wrestling team hosted a uh WLA and kosum on the 6th and one of the things that I thought was uh pretty nice about that that we had a lot of high school kids that stuck around and watched a couple did the uh scoreboards and helped clean up afterwards so it was kind of nice uh also had this State powerlifting competition on uh the 7th and eth and that was up in Appleton we had six uh six competitors up there and I think uh the highest place was fourth so that was nice competition just uh another thing to note is the track team has gotten kicked off and they have their first meet tomorrow so yeah that's quick oh I want to a little bit different for me I guess um I talked to a

005staff member I'm not going to mention the names CU I didn't get permission to to do so as far as names but son's a senior um he's in a I think it's like a dual credit type program at Marine Park and here at North fondaco before he graduates from high school this year come May so I thought that was pretty awesome and shows the opportunities that we have here for our students and hopefully we'll be able to continue all those things after the referendum elections that's thanks steeve I just wanted to give a big thank you to the those that form the backpack buddies group um it's a group of uh 20 community volunteers led by Miss harbath and several of of the a um they pack over 150 bags per week for those that

006are less fortunate so just wanted to say thank you to them nice yeah and um I'm gonna Echo what Rick said so Terry it's been awesome it's been a pleasure to work aside you and so excit you and you brought a lot of great things to this board that will carry forward so I appreciate a little over three years right three and a half years of service so thank you for that and then um my piece is just on the winter of carnival at FLC so I remember when my kids were little they used to do something like that but nothing as extravagant as it is now so a huge uh huge huge doodles to that team and I know there's many and I would not do ajust for who I'll put time and effort

007into it so look like a cool event another thing quick I forgot to mention is the valedictorians were called out and congratulations to Jakob his daughter pretty awesome yeah congratulations John I'm gonna jump get rid of Carri Terry T soon because actually his term doesn't um finish until the next meeting so it' be April 27th so we might have a special meeting in there that is still hopefully awesome all right we move on all all right well at the Pingo game we raised about $900 so that was very good uh and with the help of my myself we will be returning our school Easter egg hunt this year um this is basically an Easter egg hunt for both the high school and middle school there are eggs hidden around the school and students can turn

008them into prizes unfortunately student council loaded against student elementary school as they will have their own events going on that day prom will be held April 5th and post prom will be at the YMCA in ashkash and student council is also doing kiss a senior goodbye this is a simple fundraiser where any student in high school grades May purchase a Hershey Kiss and write a note to students in a senior class the next board meeting we will have our next year's Representatives introduce themselves and their roles Key Club and National Honor Society had the back backpack buddies food collection for those of you who don't know or unfamiliar with the program it is where the district collects non-p perishable food items for lowincome families within the district between both clubs we had a total of

00957 participants with 40 service hours um the list of a few items we collected were 106 boxes of mac and cheese 39 jars of peanut butter and jelly 22 packages of nor sides 20 cans of chicken noodle soup and another special project we held was the B Mission Project both clubs once again did a combination of donation donations we had 27 pairs of shoes donated donated 246 pairs of socks and a large amount of school supplies the National Honor Society banquet will be held April 6 at Horseman high school we will be inducting 19 new members as for our next year's officers the voting will be held soon Key Club kianis breakfast will be held in May and the date is to be determined Bessie Allen middle school and Horseman high school will be hosting

010the 37th annual jazz band chili supper on Wednesday April 23rd and a congratulations to all the robotics teams that made it to State any question it's a busy time yeah any questions from board I just want to make another note just passing through the horse man I was able to see they had interviews through Youth apprentiship and pfm just about a week ago there's over 90 of our students got interviewed by local businesses and other people coming from the community so I number one huge shout out to all those community members and businesses who came in number two 90 students having that opportunity to engage in that next year we will be up we were I think at 30 this year for around that ballpark for Youth apprenti and now next year it'll be closer

011to 60 62 which is amazing doubling it within a year so all those opportunities the resources that we have and hopefully we can maintain all those as well nice job you're welcome to stay or you're welcome to go P for a trip all right enjoy thank all right next item is B's choir and band members Let's see we have some guests I'll do a brief inro so um just super excited and proud to um show some representation from bam tonight um our students have been really getting involved with the Performing Art whether it be the musical that we did this year um to their great performances at solo Ensemble so um I invited some of our choir and B students to perform a piece of that they did at Soul Ensemble and fortunate enough to

012have our fantastic music teachers here Mr raspon and the sergeant here to help lead them so I will turn it over to whoever's going first [Laughter] [Music] I'm janetti I'm Madison I'm Molly and I'm Audrey um today we're playing veret composed by this is our first time playing as a qu together [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] C [Music] [Applause] [Music] to [Music] [Applause] [Music] now for um Faith who will be singing for us we're going to be over here so you want to and before Faith introduce uh introduces her piece and whatnot um special shout out to um hly Sierra my colleague at the middle school um Julia my colleague at the high school we've combined over you know 50 events com uh combined both Middle School and High School You Know instrumental and vocal

013um couple weekends ago at St Lawrence Seminary I did share an email I don't know if the board got it though but all of those results um next year St Mary Springs is hosting Soul em so it's going be a little closer but just that exposure and I know this Sergeant can speak to it in a bit too about a lot of students it was their first opportunity to get that critique um if Soul Ensemble is not something that they're familiar with or that they're used to getting that Outsider perspective even though they might be saying the same thing that Miss sergeant and myself are telling them just having that other set of eyes that other set of um you know circumstance of Hey try this what do you think about that giving them that

014exposure that self-confidence that um ownership it's it's a lot of fun to see that progress um so I'll let Faith introduce her piece good afternoon my name is Faith W from best school today I will be singing for you at the river by Aaron C an interesting aspect of this piece is that it has lovely harmonies and beautiful lyrics enjoy we by the riv where bright Angels feet [Music] have with this Crystal [Music] Forever by the of [Music] God yes by the the Beautiful the beautiful r GED with the Saints by the river [Music] thats River soon our pilgrimage will see [Music] oface yes we by the riv the Beautiful the beautiful GED with the SA [Music] could to say a couple more things you know music is such an important part of the educational

015experience I was just wondering if any of our students here today do you have any thoughts or on like why is music important to you what does it mean to have music available at school should I start um music is important to me because music has been with me for like my entire life and hearing people sing always made me happy and um music is important for the school is so kids can express their um talents of singing and playing instruments anybody else want is important to me because it's always been like a part of my life whether it be like just listening to music or like playing instruments or just like singing in the house or whatever but um and music is important to the school cuz like it can express like I guess

016like emotion kind of like you can put like your emotions into the music and it will make it sound like like it's heart thank you for giving fams an opportunity to showcase our talents that we get to experience every day thank you and also that Segways too our next regular board meeting we also have some high school students that um for ask the state we'll offer that um at the April board meeting and then we'll also announce next year's High School Musical for the fall so teaser for the next [Music] all right was awesome all right our next item is our Clips report ter ready all right for donations for um $1,500 from trip backpack bues uh for post prom we had several $500 from fin Credit Union $100 from Nicole and Gus Garcia $250

017from JF Ahern $500 from Steve Wards Builders $75 from NF police Ben benevolent $250 from flood Holmes $250 from J&H controls $100 from puberty and Associates $200 from Tim and Molly Hawk $100 from Stewart's landscaping and $200 from Pollock Dairy LLC and one last um donation Maran hman Memorial music fund $177,000 from Bill and Lori belky very cool thank you to everyone that carried this one through as well um citizens comments we have no one in the room so we're going to move on to our next item uh for superintend report all right we're going to flip right into safe and emotional healthy schools we have two amazing individuals here two leaders within our district that put a lot of heart and soul into our safety obviously as it's a priority uh for our students

018and our staff and everyone else and I'm g to g to turn it over to Brad and Dwayne hopefully you all know him Brad ranky assal principal here atlc Dwayne arov principal of the high school evening everybody uh thanks for giving us this time um we know how important safety is and just um our team continues to grow and put in a lot of time and effort and safety is one of those things that every minute it's changing um and you have to be on the ball and we have a lot of people that are invested in in this district and um like I said it's growing and that's exciting and but we have a lot of work to do and just kind of want to keep filling in on where we're at where we're

019heading and just kind of some of the things that you know we have some hopes and dreams obviously in terms of what we want to be able to do in terms our safety of our staff and our community and our kids um yeah we was kind of going to run through a little bit of what we ran through in February so we we are lucky to have an opportunity occasionally to kind of review some things during a PD day um in February we went through a few things that we want to make sure that we continue to shore up part of our safety stuff is yeah it's repetitive but that's how we get good at it and that's how we remember what to do when the event something unfortunately would happen we have some of

020that muscle memory ready to go so um part of our safety overview in February was talking a little bit about the immigration update and just some of the changes that we know politically within our United States of America here that we have to adjust to and just want to be proactive on that in the event that we would ever have anybody come to our building looking for kids or other that we're all prepared for that and we all have communication on what that is uh we talked a little bit about hard Corners our reunification um and just went into a few activities and and look for SM other things within here so um if you want to talk a little bit about imigration or yeah I mean just a big p I mean that's a

021very quickly changing landscape right now and just making sure we're serving our entire learning community equitably and things like that and biggest thing is being transparent with staff too making them aware and then also more importantly as students age making sure as you'll seen some our information to like providing them that safe learning environment um because what you see on the news and things like that right now can be concerning for a lot of our population right now so it's making sure they're whereare we do have a process a procedure uh things like that and then as are trusted adults in a building we're doing everything within our power to keep them safe and validate them make them feel as though the respecting members of our learning community so that's just a just more so

022making families aware and staff aware that we do have a process that we'll follow all align the board and District policies and those things so yeah I'm not sure if you know that we've got a policy for those things when people come to us but ort a knowledge that too especially when we're doing that we also sent a letter to our staff to a little bit more I can share with that later if you want but it kind of hits right here so yeah that's just kind of the process that we go through I mean we're not going to go into detail today but know that there is a processing event that happens each building is pretty consistent with that and um you know if that ever would happen we'd be ready for any of

023that event and how to document it and go forward so so if they have the subpoena or whatever warrant I guess it I'm assuming it cannot be like a blanket thing it has to be for a specific individual correct correct we wouldn't let anybody in just to walk around and right and and that's the other thing is how do we keep the Dignity of that child too so if there was a request it' be just like anything else we'd bring that student down and then you know then they would meet them in the office area they're not going to go to the actual like room and you know pull the student from that location um also most of the times when those individuals are coming in there's stuff that's going on outside too in the

024community that aligns with whatever they're doing too so they let us know or let the police department know too a little bit more but if they've got a warrant that's legitimate then they have that right to like contact but we have at least a little bit of time to like walk through that and just understand better before just opening the doors and letting people and happen if we have any question on whether the warrants legitimate or not do we have can we get a hold of the lawyer quick enough to get an opinion or yeah we um there's a couple different places either legal we could call or we can call Police Department we can call you know there's a lot of different run throughs with that yeah good here yep okay yeah then we

025reviewed um I'm sure you've seen before that sticker standing over there kind of by that door um you know this is from Michelle gay went to last year great speaker uh um in terms of just advocating for all kids and making sure there's a plan in place in the event that we would have an active threat in our buildings that even our kids as young as K have an understanding of where to go and what to to do um so a lot of it is we teach go to the bird um and that is in the event that you know we would have an active threat within our building and you really don't have have any other options or don't know where to go and they are inside that we at least have a place

026where kids know that when a teacher would say go to the bird they can get to that corner assess kind of what's going on and then kind of Follow That Alice uh active threat and Alice drill protocol so uh we reviewed a little bit of what that is um just to make sure we Clarity around that these are in every building in the North Fin like School District so if you're walking around buildings you may notice the stickers um that's what those are for so yeah that's just a little bit more on when we use them um continue to obviously Hammer through our emergency response protocols again anywhere you walk in North School District you'll see them on the wall um that's who we are that's what we go by that's that collaborative language that

027we continue to work on to make sure that we all understand when each and every one of those protocols means and what your action is to do with that protocol if it's called and even knowing like that's for any emergency situation student or staff member Falls ill or there's a medical emergency those are similar things we follow as well or in the community uh there's you know a robbery or something nearby those are also protocols that apply not just within our building but anything that can impact from outside as well and it's the language right so everybody knows exactly what the same language is so that we're all operating on the same dial so that's a really important part of this too dumpster fire a few weeks ago over there we had to do it

028get in stay in here everybody the smoke playground so just simple things like that continue to you know work out for us in terms of our protocols and procedures so um and we do in just a little bit on reunification we could probably talk about this for weeks uh but this is just the reminder of when we would have to do a re reunification they meant that we have emergency or crisis situations you know earthquakes tornadoes different things we may have to reunify um gas leaks chemical spills active threat obviously and then any type of evacuation that we may have to do um the event that you know we have to evacuate we have that protocol in place um anytime there's a danger piece you know that's another opportunity to reunify um as you continue

029to go here we'll kind of dive in a little bit here um skip next one uh this one right here yeah that we talked a little bit about when we unify you remembering our rally points um and just where those are and making sure everybody in the district continues to know where they are uh no matter what building you're in you know where to go and what to do um our goal one of our action steps is May is to get our students and staff all to take this walk on one day everybody's going to be exposed to this so even our students will know where this places too um we haven't quite done that we did it with our staff um this fall now we want to include the kids in May so that

030would be a big next step for us what's the importance behind that I know you all just went to the conference and they were talking about that quite a bit but more coming back to the practice idea again is that yeah it's the practice idea of knowing that um you know we don't know where you're going to be on any given day right and we have staff that go in different buildings go from FC to bams bams to high school you know we have meetings at different places you need to know where you need to go or be if you're in those buildings that includes kids uh the amount of high school kids that we have over here on the daily is a lot event that we would have to unify you know they need

031to know too like hey flc's over there we would be you know at at Village Park or just being able to practice that and know that um that's a big thing um and that's kind of one of the things that conference that was hammered through is like practice practice practice practice practice until people start talking about you practicing too much cuz then you know you're on the right path because in the event that something would happen you know that muscle memory practice would come back and help you and even just building the awareness too like you may be in your P class in the gym or maybe you're down in the science lab your route depending where that active threat is May differ like rather than jumping on on McKinley or something you might just

032need take a different route so maybe a little more for the older age students too like so they have that self- advocacy effect in there whereas uh the younger AG is like our our trusted adults also the opportunity okay if it's here I might take this route instead of going directly as we practice in class so yeah and Paul we we did take that walk you know at least like for my group at FC we talked about like what could be some of those barriers right with your kids and this is be another great opportunity in May to like actually do it and walk with kindergarteners over there and be like hey what is that barrier or first graders or other even fifth graders or even high school like what are those barriers that might

033be there that we aren't thinking of in the event that we would have to you know roll so when you do that May is that going to be kind of like a like a situation that's explained and then it's kind of like let let the teams react based on their training and kind of go yeah do it you know kind of yeah it would be a little probably more organized in terms of hey maybe I practiced that active threat and then after active threat hey we're going to practice reunifying and then just rolling out that way too um sure just because of that exposure part we want to make sure that kids understand like where that is um um not that we have them all scattered all over the village and then you know you

034kind of lose that practice a little bit we want to really solidify this is where you go this is how you get there no matter what that path is maybe um that's where you need to be so we can account for you how do you do the so if you have uh students kind of like high school students might be over here doing something and how are you uh organized with like the role call scenario so that just everyone has a list or yeah every staff member we put binders in place last year for an accountability measure so every roster is in there for teachers so some of those students are in like their ya or youth apprentiship hours during that time and at that point it' be likeing them accounting them like they're accounting

035for but maybe not necessarily in class at that time in high school but every teacher in our district has a binder with every roster for every kid to account for make that process easier the anomaly a little bit is our y students over here or even at Musa things like that it's still accounting for them we'd have that documented like hey I know that yeah Matt isn't here right now he should be at ya but we also need to make sure we account for that individual even though they weren't part of the threat so got it yeah just to add on it too I mean obviously in a a real event you want your kids just to get somewhere safe so it's not going to be perfect lines that's going down the h i mean

036but they at least know where that R point will be but some kids might you know head to or whatever might be there might be classes that remain in in part of their action of just blockading their door and staying in that zone so again it's more of the practice and the recognition of saying okay if something were happen and it's going to be scattered at least you can get to that spot um so they can all rally back up with the are the hopes sure that'll be part of it it'll be a tabletop exercise whatever scenario we go through our room May determine okay we need to barricade in but we're still going to go rally as an entire District or building that day depending how we split that just so you still get

037that one rep in your mind walking and doing that no matter what your determination was and then those locations within there too like on the next slide there are locations that every school will have so there's that accountability piece too uh that's also for busing I mean because the buses are going to be rolling up at that point so they know like hey here's our high school counter for here's bams here's tra here's you know LC and here's FLC um as you can see l park is a lot of half bams depending on the side of the building you're on flc's on the basketball courts district office is there um what else is there I believe exploration is there I gotta change that yeah so um that's kind of where they roll and then obviously

038Bam's high school and traford they're over at Village Park so yeah just those different rally locations the event we need to reunify um we'll just skip that one yep two or we nope that's good and then we developed on fall we went through in service a little bit with roles and duties so um this comes from I love you guys um great organization um yeah Michael Keys um yeah we had our conference everyone's the most standard reunification method out there yeah everybody's kind of using that one um yeah we heard a little bit of the story had one of the uh SWAT team members that was at Coline spoke at the conference yeah could hear pin drop on that one um just a lot of impact on on what they've done in terms of the

039tragedy they've had for schools and safety um if you ever get an opportunity it's called I love you guys it's all free um it's pretty amazing site there's so much resources on there and just different training and different things to think about um we've pulled a lot from them um we've looked at the roles and duties and kind of as a safety team narrowed that down to what we think we can do in north finac or what fits us best um we re reviewed a lot of that in Fall with our staff initial roll out um that's something that we need to continue to roll out um one of those things that we also want to try to drill eventually um we went to a couple if you want to slip to the next slide

040yeah we went to um a couple really good ones together um just because reunification is so big it's it's a lot um one of them was our road map unification where we learned how we improve um Howard swo couple guys from there did that one um it was really good hear just on some of the things that they were doing versus things we are doing pretty similar um a lot of validation in what we're doing and trying to put together with what other districts are doing too um the other one was standard reunification method how we begin as a district that was a group from DeForest uh they just started pretty much this year so they're walking through things that they were doing or developing and we kind of looked at each other like all

041right we're on the right path we're doing right things so it was like we felt good about it like yeah we probably could have gave that one but uh uh it was good because it was like okay like we're checking the boxes on things that we know we have in place right now um you know our big thing moving forward is obviously how do we make it even better how do we get it over the to right um and that's kind of what we started to do a little bit with um if you want to slide to the next one see anything to add on that no I think just to add to is like Howard swam go for example like we thought we had the perfect plan and then had uh was a gas

042leak that was actually not even accurate like it wasn't actually a gas leak but they started to reunify and go through that whole process they said we just identified so many gaps that day that we didn't anticipate existing but they like you can't plan for our safety coordinator was out that day our principal was on maternity leave uh our other like backup lead there was out with a child like literally The Perfect Storm happened for them and then it was a big kind of a moment of panic like wof like what do we do now so then they talk about you know leveraging like their district office and things like that where a building principal or assistant principal like if it is an active threat or crisis situation odds of us being the ones necessarily

043responding pretty slim uh it's more so like someone there that's a little more stable at that time in the sense of you're not dealing with that crisis so just having that plan of you know you think everyone's to he with the Capon in that moment but reality is pulling some of that responsibility off with people who are coming in in a calmer sense know the plan that's drilled in and odds of them being there that day are you know almost 100% so those are just good little takeaways uh just for us to continue process big time um yeah then we always like I said review continue to review our active threat protocols the AL protocols on what we do in the event that we would have an active threat um continuing to hammer that home

044so we had that in our brains and and our in our memories so he me that this would happen can I just say one thing this is about empowering our staff too it's not there's not a wrong way it's like make an action take take an action evacuation is the the best thing that you think at that point in time you got to do it and and make it happen if barricading or locking down is the most important that's what you do um I I just think it's extremely important that we Empower people to make the choice at that time because the last is we want them just Frozen in the action of what it is yeah a lot of the message that the conference do is like four minutes like that's the average time

045you have to wait four minutes before PD or some reason there so what do you do in that four minutes is that's that empowering piece of making that decision um whether that's you know evacuating or barricading or other I mean that's that's what it is is like four minutes try to make the best decision you can so we want to continue to give obviously much resources and different training that we can with our staff and Empower them to make that the right call we trust in everybody to make that right call and that's why we do PD and certain things to keep talking about um a couple schools at tabletops I don't know if you've ever been a part of a tabletop um just walking through different scenarios and just talking as groups to like

046really get through some of the nitty-gritty so to speak of like what would you do in these circumstances so we had a lot of um just different scenarios either High School Middle School school or Elementary or other just beforehand just you know different scenarios in there during and then kind of after and then walking through some questions with each other like hey what are those initial actions Who's involved who's effective uh you know who's responsibly responding to the situation just it's things you want to think about before you're in uh because that's when you start hashing all hey what are those things we're missing what are some of those barriers you know what are our strengths uh we do have a lot of strengths in this District already in terms of just our buildings and

047just our practices and just our language in general is a strength so just a lot of things in there that you start talking through and uh kind have through as a group so another thing we're finalizing to is our plan for extracurriculars as well so making sure event workers managers things like that no protocol you know just what is the exit per player um because unfortunately you have a lot of little kids at basketball games things like that that accidentally even pull the alarm but we have to evacuate the building till we giv the all clear so it's making sure they're Weare like hey you're going to exit out of this or use a concert things like that at the elementary school just making sure that plan or baseball softball if we get alerted that

048you know we're in a severe weather watch what door are we actually entering in FC to come in I know last spring we had one for soccer but so what does that look like where are we going and just again repping uh as many times as we can just how to do this uh to take care of everybody in any situation for that matter yeah that'll be you know we have sckers going on for all our exterior doors in Spring as soon as it gets warm soon as the doors warm up those will go on to so then uh if you're inside our gym or any gymnasium and there's an exterior door have a number on it so you know like that's the door I can get out um kind of working through those protocols

049so um let's see where are we here I went through this because I think you kind of walked through yeah we kind of walked through that yep and then one of the things that we started as a safety team was we're kind of at this point of like we're getting a lot of good things in we have our protocols we're updating our crisis manuals is where are gaps right we constantly talk about where our gaps where our needs um so as a safety team we kind of developed and talk a little bit about I think it's the first link and if you want to link down there you can just some of the gaps that we thought we had within our district that we want to try to improve upon and obviously we have a

050current state and a desired state that we really want to be in and talk about those things and really you know continue to strive for those the best that we can with what resources and different things that we have and trainings and all those different things but um you know the big thing here is um is really looking at like what are the desired State how do we get there but there's always different things that you know important considerations that factor into that right like involving our stakeholders so one of our big things was during our PD is to get our staff in North onac to also participate in this to say hey what do you think our caps are um because we have 20 some members on our safety team which is awesome but

051we also have a lot of staff that have a lot of good input and they living it every day that we want to make sure we're not missing anything um so that was an important part for us datadriven approach obviously any type of incident report surveys observations you know we've had a couple medical things within our district this ween fact that those are opportunities that we learn on and try to be better with and you know we take those practic seriously and talk about them we are at principal meeting or other uh just to make sure that we're continuously having good practice um prioritization obviously focus on addressing the most significant safety gaps first so you know we want to make sure that we are solid on what those are um you know if it's

052a height need or you know we think it's like entering a building or we need a lock or a camera you know those are things we want to really hone in on First and make sure that we have them um obviously continue to get better reviewing up updating any protocols every year annually we look at that we update them people move things change uh we want to continuously have the right people on those teams whether that's medical or other um and then cost um you know that's a big one too is all this stuff a lot of the safety World cost money so continuously looking at cost of things how do we get grants is there other things out there that we can do to continue to be better with this stuff so keep going

053Brad or yeah that's fine you know a lot big thing here is this is one of our questions that we honed in on a little bit too with our Panorama survey and you know just some of our um key performance indicators and that is looking at hey what do our kids think about our district as a safe schools right um you know everybody interprets this a little differently and all different levels um so as you can see FLC is 88% of our kids said yeah they feel safe at school um Trafford at 80 bams 81 you know the high school 75 expiration 58 um you as a district 76 6.4% you know so we ask ourselves are we okay with that you know I don't know that we are okay with that um but there's

054a lot of different ways that we interpret how do you feel safe at school right FLC it might be somebody pushed me down a slide and I don't feel safe that day versus High School may be a little bit different so you know part of moving forward is really clearing up that question so we can really get laser like and focus in on what are those things that don't make you feel safe at school that would be a big part part of that too I know our counselors at high school they one to that r cuse a little bit some of the students who scored that low at the high school why don't you feel safe at school and a lot of it was you know good in a sense for the school we found

055out a lot of those factors are actually from outside of the school um more of it's no home related when they come to school they don't necessarily feel that part of it is clarifying the question to Brad's point of you know when we Define safe at school you know what does that mean to you so even trying to Loosely Define that for students like this is our adult version possibly of feeling safe so just continuing to dig in on those factors because ideally in the perfect world 100% feel safe but um right now we have some work to do yeah these are just some of the gaps that you know we discovered as a team safety team um i g go too far into them but there's just some physical stuff um there's some you

056know safety procedures we kind of did staff training we narrowed down um if you scroll down I add it on here in case you have any interest all the way down if you want a students I added all of the responses from our staff that were collected on our PD day so the question the first question is on top a little bit there what gaps need you feel we have in our safety measures in the district so all responses are right here if you have any interested in reading them they are here if you need access to this um this helps us move the needle on where we are or what we're missing um so a lot of it just general summarization is a lot of doors and locks um that's a big B one

057is the glass is a big one just feeling some of those safety concerns and what we can do to help feel people help people feel a little more safe in those spaces um our buildings are beautiful but yeah they are a little bit of a safety you know piece to that in terms of the windows and how how do we prevent that but that comes with practice right and the police department though coming through the school said this is one of the safest schools even though we have those glass pieces because of all the shutdowns and lockdowns that we have so just different pieces FLC yeah they came through in the fall and kind of went through it and like we can caterpillar out of here there's so many different places to get through and

058um there's a lot of other things though that we can get like glass Breakers different things that we know we have to continue to try to do those are those resources piece so um just yeah this was just what thoughts or action steps you have to help with that um we just always want to make sure we have action steps moving forward and you know a lot of it is that's kind of where you get a little bit more crickets it's hard to make decisions or have action steps on things um but a lot of different locks um some things are reasonable and some things aren't you just kind of sort through that and we just know that we wanted their input and to be able to look at that move forward with some you

059know some exal steps to help with some of that yeah and as it's going to back up one step officer Jagger came with us as well to the safety conference and he got to go to a few sessions to actually join him with in one uh where the Secret Service actually rant it on how they've averted since like 2018 I think they started really documenting this how school shootings and bomb threats things like that have been averted and just a good Takeaway on that and really the Genesis of some of that is you know how do we threat assess students too uh with local law enforcement so a big piece that is our continued partnership with them and the trust you know if we have a student we're concerned about or even adult for that

060matter you know when we bring that threat or concern to those individuals you know what's that process on that and that's really the biggest indicator that we heard there too even the session with the swap officer were the combine shooting uh was just a lot of these there were millions of tips out there like these were all there was a pretty good awareness even the guy spoke on Coline you know he's like that wasn't even meant to be a school shooting that was meant to actually be a massive bombing uh situation there it didn't go well so then they actually diverted to going and opening f uh so just learning more about that and then he really H home on that one at the end where it's like you can control so many factors and

061that's really the biggest thing that this daughter spoke to she was a victim of a shooting at a nightclub too but really that's a lot of what we're doing and that's probably the biggest affirmation was the last session and even officer Jager was like Hey a lot of things we're doing we're building those reps making our students aware and there is a plan we can control a lot of factors but um just kind of how to walk away from that so I just want to make sure officer Yager to he to quite a bit from that conference as well and continuing especially as a first year SRO with us yeah a lot of different SRO there which is good for him the network and just us for network with other SRO too is it's great

062conference so it's very good um next steps I didn't put everything on here just some brief stuff on you know this year we really looked at active threat drill rally points you know going to do that students and staff in May fire drills are ongoing 10 a year we're hitting our marks it's pretty hard to do in Wisconsin there' be two years in a row you got some in December January and February so there's a win um continue to address the gaps obviously with our safety protocols and procedures and then really looking at our reunification how to get over the top school kits GO bags there certain things that we know we need um and want to put together this year yeah hopefully and then moving forward just update any planning planning of inservice um

063PD days drills our crisis response manuals or Med teams um all those things need to be updated every single year and you know there's new key players in those spaces every year monthly safety themes you know that's one thing we're continuously working on is how do we keep safety in light of all our students and staff to keep talking about hey what are some things within um our safety Realms that we can control or learn about or know uh just want to keep you know preventing and providing our staff and students with some of those things and then working on evacuation drills reunification drills some of those things to continue to get better do the Reps uh feel good about what we're doing and then accountability right uh improvements in technology is you know that's

064where that comes back to that um wish list a little bit you know there's certain things and programs up there that we could do and get to help with that accountability piece um ultimately paper usually is the best but uh we're a growing District I think we've gotten about nine kids this week at FLC so that paper piece is tough to keep up with um that's accountability piece we want to make sure because that's the most important part of when we would have to reunify our other that's it we want to account for every single person that's in this District to make sure that they're safe um and then training for a safety team and staff you know more training we can get the better um it's important um and then just action steps based

065on student staff surveys anything that we get we want to be actionable on that we want to hear what people are saying and you know do things the right way and make sure that we put things in place to help people feel good about being here nor so yeah that's a lot I know there's more we probably talk for hours on this uh but anytime you have questions or anything about what we're doing feel free to ask um we have an amazing team 20 some members this year it's growing a lot we a lot of people interested in it and they working really hard so it's just over the three years that I've been watching this stuff the progress you guys have made is just amazing worth three years ago yes yeah I guess the

066conference probably really helped us with that really reffering and reassuring like oh like okay we do that we do that we do that we do that so that was that was a big thing this year for us in terms of moving in the right directions and doing the right things and we have a long way to go though and kind of a humble group and want to keep working hard and make sure we have things in the right direction and people feel good about what we're doing so I appreciate what you guys are doing obvious when you go into education this is the last thing You' ever think about having to do and like you know going in this 25 years ago plus um the evolution of like how far I think at least the

067systems I've been part of have made it happen and to your point Rick like where we've come in just a short period of time and it's because of these two gentlemen really like going at it and keep with it you know and sticking to the the work and then facilitating the learning with everybody else to a point where I mean there are stories where educators are in certain situations kind of like uh the daughter of that SWAT team person and we had a situation at the Fox Valley Mall still remember this there's like four or five um Appleton Educators in the the area they were telling other people how to react when this all was going down and like other people did not get that same kind of training and it's like we're very fortunate

068that we have that training but I think some people have no idea we do this at the same time so obviously it's the last thing we ever want to do but at the same time we know we need to keep our area as safe as possible especially our kids and our staff so appreciate all you all do yeah the most to say at the conference it's the most work you're ever going to do and hope never everybody would say most work you'll ever do but hopefully you'll never refuse so there's not many things like that so thank okay we're gonna move into a little bit of the learning academic Zone here just for a couple minutes good night guys thank you appreciate it so there's several different things going on right now uh in terms

069of financially obviously we're always trying to be fiscally responsible uh currently we have about three different systems for collecting data uh we have a system called Edge climber which basically is that warehouse where supposed to get the attendance Behavior grades um assessments all compiled in one we have uh Panorama which is that survey that they were talking about in terms of surveying our students our families our staff so we get a little bit of understanding what that's going on and then we have our student management system Skyward which really basically is the mothership of making sure that everything is running in terms of being an informational system for the district DPI takes and pulls everything out of Skyward okay so all of our our data that means grades behaviors U attendance you name it sometimes

070looking though at the stuff in Skyward is not that clean and not user friendly and so what we're in the process of doing um we've had Edge climber for a number of years it's been part of a company called Renaissance uh company who bought them and since then um it's done its own thing we started getting information from several different other players saying hey have you looked at this yet and this um husband wife team in the state created this next PATH it's the next area who also created Edge climber they sold EDG climber and said okay we're going to set a Renaissance it is what it is right now and as they were going through that relationship they didn't really like it too much so they left it and now they recreated a new

071system that really hits some of those areas where they were struggling before and helping that one of them being how uh a system like next PATH talks to Skyward there was like a break in the the conversation between the SMS and the actual like data gatherer so every night Skyward rolls in the data so the next day you can see that up front on edge of climber I excuse me on next PATH so you can gather that next PATH is cheaper than Ed of climber and next PATH will also do what Panorama is doing right now so we are in the process of losing Panorama and ener climber and we're probably going to save close to 156 ,000 right there and it'll all be housed in the one area I'll just show you a quick

072example of next PATH so you can see what it's all about but the whole point and what they try to do hopefully I can sign in okay you never know uh is trying to make it as user friendly for teachers and for administrators and others just to access quick families will also be able to access this as a dashboard to see where their students are at at some point in time not there yet I'm still applying with this here's probably one of the better features though so at any time we can pick up data from any one of these areas from Star assessment to Wisconsin forward to access for our El students for students with El excuse me am web any kind of assessment we have on here course grades GPA you name it but

073the bigger things is like we know how we've brought you all in and like Brad and Carrie come in and say hey here's the attendance this is far easier and far quicker and I'm not going to jump into this but it shows comparisons disproportionality I can literally click on one of these uh toggles right here and it would show me exactly who those kids are in that 1.7% I can also see who is at 70.2% and how many kids are that and then you can group them um there's everything I can go into uh the attributes so if I just want to look at students with uh let's see here go down a little bit here um where is that one I'm not going to get that there let's just go economically disadvantage so you

074can even do that and see that how that rates across the board um we can also do it versus another thing so a lot of area to play Brad loves this because it's actually sinking with Skyward and it's a a great little find you can also put that up as a wall and keep that as a data wall so you can share that with public or whoever you wanted to this is another really powerful one so this is all the incidents as a district uh showing you all those things on the side here just breaks it down you can even go into like what are the best um but you see here the most dominant one throughout our district is language right now we've got some fighting incidents these are all majors by the way

075and then you see down here possession of alcohol from throwing objects lore so Reeds there now you can go by action so out of school detention what what would he actually serve for them uh where do the where do the incidents happen well 62% of them happened or 62 of them happened in classrooms 14 happened in cafeteria 13 happened in restroom and we could break this down by school all along and then the cool thing too I think these are just where I geek out a little bit is you can go to report and I can see over the last how many years like here is 21 22 226 Majors reported uh 22 23 192 last year 187 and right now we're currently at 125 so some nice little um blips of information they can

076also I don't know if I can this is just another little like we can start going in and data I'm but we've got all the kidss faces on here so they're not just a data point and then you can go specifically to one of those kids and go right into their dashboard and on it you'll see everything from grades to attendance to behavior to how they did for State assessments to how they did on a survey they took about social emotional learning so everything's packaged really well parents have access to their own child's uh information teachers who are intervening or helping out they can actually message this you know to the uh the parents too and the Guardians they're going through here act 20 the big thing that Lauren's working a lot on is also

077programmed and played in here I can get there while you're clicking that did you say will this from a parent perspective replace Skyward then no okay did oh God there is still there will be and and that's the the difference on Skyward I we're upgrading that so it's again user friendly the version we have is like 1980 did we did we put that upgrade out for a little bit and then pull it back I don't think so why did you see something different for a little bit Yeah it what was it recently or uh last I got a couple people reach out so last week and I just think we need to manage that curve because it is visually different so very visually different so the app that you'd have on your phone right now

078is like again 1980s style the icons on the new version is just so user friendly where you just push oh tenants oh push um um my food budget still lower you can hit that and like everything's right there assignments from the teachers or what they're doing or not doing also feeds into that so they can see that up to date emails can go directly to the the parent or a direct message can go to the parent if it's not and then student also can see that as well at the same time so some pretty amazing things that are I'll show you the upgrade of Skyward here in just a second but this is the this is the reading plans act 20 so if you look at I can give you screening window spring um I

079want to go to excuse me winter okay so this was just the last assessments and remember Lauren came in there's a number of students who didn't reach that point in terms of um the the prior reading at that level for you know the different grades and there's over like 200 students and this is normal again students um they are then you can go into each one of these and and check out um specifically how those all work but she's able to document forms through here and templates and they can send it directly to the families it's just really clean and efficient and the two creators have done a really nice job of like making it more efficient four schools a number of schools in the state of Wisconsin are shifting over to that the other

080nice thing is I can call them directly and say hey I'm having a difficulty with this one thing can you help me out with it versus in the other one it was the big multi company where you get online and then you have to wait for a while and try to figure things out so we're ex excited about it cheaper nicer look everything above it's a really kind of nice feature that we're we're walking into when when does this are planning on happening so this will start happening next year okay so but our principales are already playing with it um we're in the process on Lauren conver in over from edgy climber into because she's got the heaviest lift with the ACT 20 stuff we also the other thing too we had am web all

081right am web was the Diagnostics assessment for math for ELA for reading okay across the board it is extremely extremely clunky it's not easy to handle interventions are very difficult to make happen so currently we're looking at another program which I think is the answer um let's see if I can get back in this quick sorry everybody think I cut myself out um it's called I ready and a lot of school districts across uh the state use I ready uh I ready is again a go to this come on there we go um so the the reason I already is so powerful first of all it's really clean people understand it it's user friendly the second thing is it as the students like take the assessments and afterwards a teacher can like are getting like

082resources to say like okay now what can you do with this noting that you do it am web to have nothing of that you had to come up with your own interventions come up through the whole thing so this is a real power uh platform um we have a number of Staff who have used this in the past but uh they've also like push for it as well I'm just see if I can grab a quick demo here um here we go see if it lets me and if you'd like we can have individuals from each of these platforms come in and share more if you really want to dig into it a little bit more um let's see here let's go with drop this down oh come on Wisconsin I think I don't know

083it gives me a de enter your class number I don't what I would before okay okay maybe I can't do this um I was working this today so worked at that point in time but maybe I'm just out of luck I can share this with you too though and you can you know kind of play and navigate if you want um see here if they gave you a little break on this video will Orient you as a teacher to where to go on how to find your data so you can get insights into the needs of your class and instructional resources to support support every student when you log in you have two ways of getting around the top navigation where you can access all I ready features and the dashboard your quick start home

084the dashboard takes you into your most important insights and reports right away select the I ready logo from anywhere to arrive right back [Music] here click the tab that corresponds to what your students are doing in I read and you'll see at a glance data in real time and links to dive into in-depth reports for instance if your students have just finished a diagnostic and you want to see the results select diagnostic results on the right as with every screen on the dashboard you'll find links to key tips and resources to help support your students and know what to do with your data on the left for this tab you'll find an overview of how your students perform on the diagnostic and links to go right to key [Music] reports let's take a look at

085how you get to all of I ready using your top navigation rosters is where you manage your student settings check the accuracy of the students listed in your class when you're starting the year and obtain student login information assess and teach will let you see upcoming diagnostic Windows assign online lessons and get access to teacher-led instructional resources reports allows you to access all of your students I ready data and see student progress you are default to looking at reports for your class based on the results of the I ready Diagnostic and with monitoring but you can also move to see reports for online instruction and standards Mastery the reports available to you will vary depending on which areas of ey ready you use switch to the student level to see reports for individual students if

086you don't know what you're looking for hover over each report name and a description will always appear you can also select batch to batch print student reports for a group or class of students you can navigate to the most important class reports from the top navigation or from the dashboard from any class report you can use the report name drop down in the blue bar to switch the report you viewing for a class use the subject drop down to change subject or the class and Report group drop down to change to a different class or report group Bas your filters and sorting remain in what prints to see a student's information click on their name you can switch the report or subject you're viewing to get more information about that student or you can pull

087up a report for another student from the drop- down menu or by typing directly in this bar help from any page select the question this is this is like uh test like testing to determine how well our students are are progressing against a a standard yes and then it it's like the well it's basically standardized testing right and then uh this gives you more like grouping tools and things like that to help is that the purpose of it is that we we want to teach our teachers to become datadriven Learners and then making that data that they find to make those adjustments that are needed for their students right now it's like oh I think I think they're doing okay you know blah blah blah this actually forces the hand up saying okay how can

088I get better at doing what I'm doing within that area and it also coaches them up so just like we had in the past we had star here so we had a you know fall winter spring it'll be the same kind of thing here now some students might need more help or more assistance those areas the only uh area that we will not use and that we have to keep using am web for is reading state mandate we have to do it we do not have to pay a cent for that okay because that is the only thing funded through the state Mandate of the state literacy report that we can actually use this we'd have to invest in which is comparable to what we were paying already for am web but a lot more

089user friendly for our teachers and they can become more data driven in their um learning and teaching as well so they're constantly coming back to it it's like a source of like okay how am I doing and they can always assess their students at any time too so it doesn't have to just be fall winter and spring I mean they could do checkups on it all the time and see what their Dash looks like so is there I'm just thinking of like uh now we have multiple systems to essentially do the same thing but in different subjects is that confusing at all I I think this is more of a K8 this is not like all 12 all right so because for 12 or 912 we will be still prea and act that'll be the

090majority of it right this is more of that level now with the next path that we we can flood this information into that as well okay so then it's all in one pocket if we wanted to the reason why I ready is kind of nice is it'll give them specific it'll give staff like okay students performing at this level here are some resources that you can possibly use to show differentiation within your classroom or something like that so they actually start giving them ideas and that's a different thing than they've ever had usually it's to come up with it and figure out those things but at Le least it it's coaching you up on actual visible learning that's research based that will produce Better Learning in the classroom okay so the the standardized testing can

091help you identify gaps but then I ready is actually helping you fill them as well correct okay yeah and then as a grade level you can use that too in your Hoops your intervention all those other things you can see it right out in front they can have conversations together they can even calibrate together off of that as well so That's The Power of it um the bigger school districts have been using this for many years and it's if you can do it well it's it's great but you have to be really data driven too as a district and if we're gonna increase achievement scores we have to be we have to relearn how we're doing our learning so and I would say FLC is closer than anybody in that right now in terms of

092their learning and and the others will will reach that at some point but it's just because of the platforms they've been using for the last couple years gotcha so uh that's those two and then I think I can try to find a Skyward thing quickly here um let me just grab [Music] something just trying to see let's go Google class I don't know if you know that this is just so you all can understand I we also model the learning too for even our leaders so these are all my classrooms for everybody like the safety team was just in here and so I go to safety team and I had a record of like the ongoing things that were going on throughout the whole time I can communicate to anybody on that team at any

093time I can send them an assignment they can do the assignments all at all that jazz so I have stuff for like our district leadership team our team Beyonce is our strategic PL uh planning team here's our principal team so I go back to any of those sessions that we had before kind of knocking back I want to kind of look at this one and our agenda this is our agendas these are Level 10 agendas we use it from our EOS or entrepreneurship operating systems point of view and a level 10 is based upon I think I got him at the bottom maybe if it loads here quickly oh there we go so at the end of a meeting we evaluate one to 10 and you if it's a lower than an eight you have

094to explain why but did it start end on time did you follow L10 agenda is everyone on the same page % or more of the to-dos or your action steps get done from last time and did you solve the most important issues so the majority like we we kick off we go right into like our wins quickly and where we're at in terms of our asses uh then we review our agreements as we move through here we then go through the rocks that we're working on the bigger things and then we get into the issues and we start looking at and examining like what is the most and they get to choose as the leaders to say what is the most pressing thing that you want to talk about at this point in time we

095knock that out we and might one issue might take the whole time usually it doesn't but uh it's at least you know some of those things now this one on this time and you the check boxes we try to knock as many out and then we add new ones as we go along then once we're done uh we plan for what are those action steps for what we have to do next and we calibrate like where we're at with that and then again we evaluate at the end at whether or not it's a level 10 or not um it's just a really efficient way of running a meeting and we've saved a lot of headaches and people don't come to meetings like oh my gosh I got to go to this again um so just

096a little sidebar of how we do our work here too this is um Skyward and it gives you a lot of different things in terms of like what will look like in terms of that cumulative what we're talking about those upgrades um let's just look at the family mobile app um see if they do a little rundown of what it looks like watch preview see I can make this bigger but I don't think I can we try there we go so this is the capability that people will have next year is there an app now there is an app now but it does not look like this yeah so see how it has the bigger icons and you got your student right on top and you can switch profiles just really easy something so much

097easier for the get your whether or not you get them for [Music] much as I can turn this down a little bit sorry calendars you can see when they're taking quizzes when the kids are doing things um what they're getting currently in grades homework where that's [Music] happening to events that are coming up all locked in on that one spot for you know parents to have access to if they want to again we've had iord we just haven't had this new interface this new interface is going to be the old system is going to go out in two years they're gonna just you have to move to it one support yeah because it is very very old and clunky will all of the data simply back yep it's already there transfers over to it the

098biggest thing we're trying to do is get rid of old old data in there right now so we have it's easier flux through so our secretaries right now and district office people are just purging purging through um online course request let me just see if I can go back to one more thing and show you and then we'll be done um let's see here uh let's just do this Behavior tracking for teachers um watch preview here quick I can give you this link too and you can see everything that you want to and [Music] more so every one of our ins has a code right and it has certain specific to it so dropping that in and then an easy click to your family so they can see it right on the dash too as

099well if they're tardy or they're late or if they're not showing up for school for class they can send it out when did uh when did this come out cumulative well yeah this whatever the the upgrade of it um I think like two years ago I just they weren't gonna like if we were G to roll into something new there wasn't something new coming like brand brand new just that stuff all said like 2018 2019 their videos so I was just like yeah I'm sure it might be even older than that John because we've been talking about it for the last few years since I got here so um it's just a matter of like making that happen but and how are we GNA so both things lots of change right yeah how how and

100how are we going to communicate with other parents so we've got specific we're going to show like these kind of points where the're modules so people can just watch through it especially at the before the start of school year they'll have access to that we'll also have like when you come to open house night availability to that but they're going to have to I mean the tech part of it is the tech part so you have to get on your phone and use that um which for some people they might not feel as comfortable but for the majority I think we're going to be okay with it but like actually hold sessions to even at that open a saying hey this is how this works this how you can log in this is what you

101can get this is what you're G to see yeah it might be nice to have you know a place where they can sign up with the app right then yeah oh absolutely that's what we want yeah just because I know there's probably a lot that need to do it to understand it absolutely um me being one of them so you'll have one person there I promise sure there be a lot of people in the room but yeah I mean if we could be more efficient for our families and it's more of ease uh that's what we want we want to make it um the communication line streamed so that there's not barriers and not slowdowns and I think there are just some being the technology that we have right now so I think it looks

102good so those are just some updates I can bring people in if you want to like really dive in more from any of these players they're more than willing to come in and talk to you um but it's just depending on if you want to know more and learn more well I the the one that showed the first uh the teacher driven one yeah will that bring in all the old data that we have yes everything so we've already transfer all of that in as well my personal preference would be wait to let s and have some teachers were actually us yeah show us how awesome I this also helps with our path like our three-year course and I'm not getting into that tonight but uh we met with um a player from cesa 6

103on Friday just as a leadership team we're really trying to Dr drill down I'm super excited about this we've got it like per year what is that laser like thing and it all builds upon our data um where are we at and what does that look like and then I mean I'm tired of seeing the achievements course of where they're at and I think we've got some things that we're going to tweak in on and really get solid I'm excited for it but we can share that plan with you so you can kind of see where we're going in terms of a full District um we're we're in draft phases right now but it should be done by the end of the year um which is also exciting too we're if we wanted to share

104that with staff they could see it then like here's all of next year like what we're doing and how we're doing we're really fine-tuning the CT time too to get product out of it so we can see that on the regular of seed growth or not within most players as well which again another exciting factor that I'm I'm looking forward to seeing it but a little bit more work to do on that uh but that's just some updates in the academic and learning so okay uh I think I can close on most of this stuff so you get to see a little bit of the ends of the principal schedules how we do our business um it's a Power Hour like we come in it's just you just go I mean there's not we don't

105waste time it's like here we go this is what we're doing and you gotta own what you're doing in there and you gota you got to make a voice and um everyone's pretty comfortable speaking up and sharing where they're at so that's also rolled really well recently uh engagement in Communications spring election obviously we're less than almost two weeks away from the election on April 1 obviously pushing out a big get out and vote um this kind of ties into the referendum update as well from the financials but last week we were able to get to the Optimus on Thursday night we brought a couple teachers and a parent and actually Dave man joined us too just as that person who had been with the system for a long time and we got to open

106for backback buddies backback buddies definitely stole the St we were just the the under no uh but we get to share the information and obviously the optimists had heard the information from the fall but we shared what the changes were and what's going on and then the staff and the parents everybody just got to share like why is North like important to us in terms of the district I thought it brought a little more personal you know component versus just me talking the whole time and sharing the narrative so that's been a really good thing and then following that immediately we went out to town of friendship and we were able to share the same thing that we were actually on the agenda which is perfect um got to talk to the the president of

107the the board there and he's inviting me back in April so that's also exciting I never got the invite before just making some relations there they felt the presentation was very good um obviously it's informing and they're they're learning firsthand from the people who are sharing uh so that's also important to we had probably about 15 people in that boardroom and uh again you learn a little bit more every time and learn meet a few newer people so that was exciting too on that side uh last week we had an informational meeting too um we had I think what maybe 10 or 12 people total um again just informing people of what's going on the recording did not work last time for whatever reason the sound didn't work so it's my technical difficulties that's on

108me but uh hopefully we are going to switch the Wednesday night one to tomorrow night and we had some you know things that we had to switch up so we're going to do the same vat Channel same bat time at 6 o'clock tomorrow evening um we are not going to Van Dy um they said that we've already been out there so um we're going to respect that at this time and then we're gonna complete the informational sessions tomorrow night and be basically done until the referendum in terms of like getting information out I was able to go to uh greater Envision uh this morning for our monthly politic meeting I guess you could say so we've got there's legislators there so Senator fan um uh repr represent of Alex dolman uh who is out of

109like the lamartine Alero kind of side of our worlds uh who else is there we had uh representatives from Ron Johnson representatives from Tammy Baldwin representatives from uh Glen growman so it's really well attended we had city council officials there and then we had like the mayor and other folks so we get to go around the room and basically say what's going on in your world um I was the only School District there which is awesome good uh and then uh we had mptc Bonnie's always there sharing a little bit more information but I get to share more about the referendum um supported by you know Fen and dolman I've met with them so many times already that they know that what I'm sharing and obviously we're trying to work together and and do the

110best we possibly can but that was very positive and then obviously this past uh just tonight we were uh over at the Village sharing the information of as well um again good questions good part um just getting the information as much as we can out there I feel we really accomplished two goals within everything we were able to reduce our ass significantly the other thing is really be informative and you know getting out there and being um sharing the story as best we can in terms of what our narrative was over the last how many weeks um now it's hurry up and wait uh two weeks from now and we hope we've done our job of getting people to the polls and and just voting which is what we really want especially our families and

111we hope our families go out and do that as well we've been sending information home with them to to tonight there was another blast that went out um in terms of just how to vote how to get there even absente as well so trying to hit every angle we possibly can oh last thing uh with the referenda quickly uh we did finalize and this is just uh I think I can do this I think this should be fine come on Bab this is the uh little video that we crafted with the people coming in and sharing stuff about North vac and this will go out [Music] tomorrow you will [Music] we [Music] down day what I love about the school most is like they have tons of activities and why I love coming here every

112single day is because every everybody is nice to me and the reason why we love North School District is because of the staff so I don't know of another District that has or another school that has over 600 kids and the staff knows all the kids' names when we walk in the morning at drop off you know the staff greets all the kids by names librarian standing right there and ask them how their day is I think that's a really cool thing um I think when I was growing up and going to school we never saw the principal unless we were in trouble and now whenever I'm in the school I always the princial out and about bringing kids walking with kids eating lunch with the kids in the classroom doing all these fun things

113and I think that makes the school district a really incredible place I've gotten to see firsthand how much the staff care about the kids but as being a staff member here I love how my admin team sees my strengths and they celebrate those strengths and I feel like I'm truly cared about here I like to people and all the whole school at up sea I also like lunch cuz our lunch ladies are very nice and I like the the food and I also like MTH because I like WF places and if I put a c into a wolf place and someone put with me we could have played together it is a place that we've always felt welcomed um when we decided we wanted to create a family we knew that we would want to

114live in the North School District something that my husband and I both love is um the dedicated staff that's within every school um whether from back when we were in school or our boys teachers now they have a great sense of community for all of us it's not just my teaching that I love here in North vandelac I was able to send my children through the North vandelac School District they had an excellent education with wonderful teachers who cared about them who taught them wonderful things my son my oldest son is a medic in the Army and he learned um medical information from his teachers at the high school which helped him in his everyday job my youngest son graduated with 24 college credits a whole year of school which saved him between 20 and

115$27,000 when he's all done for the school so we have a wonderful district with people who care about everybody these are some things I like about the school they have nice teachers in every grade they they make good food and uh they provide stuff for you even if you don't bring something I love being part of the North School District as a teacher I get to see myud students grow up I need to see them when they start grade and finish them out as seniors and that's dist get our students so many things I love about this District I have to say first and foremost is just the incredible staff the teachers the admin custodial I mean across the entire board we just love the staff um other families it's just such a supportive Community

116supportive District overall across the sports across academics and I'm just so thankful to be here so this is an older version We to add a couple things in but gives you the gist [Music] of how was that going up just on the website or um we're going to do we're g do a social media blast sorry my C is not working there we go um yeah we'll do it on social media blast tomorrow and just put some messages with it it's also on YouTube it's that's where we'll generate we're not going to send it out on this profile and this is an old version so um yeah thoughts very nice okay yeah okay um and hopefully we can share with all bunch other people too as well but I guess that's my update I I

117wonder if there's any other questions that you have um in terms of those components so that'll be tomorrow you send out the blast on the change in the DAT done yeah we did that tonight too and then we'll do it again tonight we'll do it tomorrow too just so people are aware I mean as much as we can but we will be at ORS man same place at 6 o'clock tomorrow I'm just thinking I don't know if you want to put a sign on Wednesday night or something people that's agre and if they have if they were coming and this is what I said to them too is if anyone shows up for whatever reason or is asking about why you know just let's talk because I can give you that information and hopefully if

118the recording works tomorrow night we can just have that available for people too as well all right is that everything yes oh well must say again I know you all honorary and we're still like a away one away or so uh from that but I I just want to say on behalf of the district and our staff and our students and I just anybody who can come in and serve and be part of our community and really doing it for the best of kids like we're just truly truly grateful for all you've getting back so appreciate it and it's a little card for you and um obviously we wish wish you the best but don't be a stranger make sure you not going anywhere well and and show up once in a while for citizen

119comments I'd like that you know we welcome that thank you everybody it was a great experience really I mean it was awesome we learned a lot and um very glad I went through with it and got into this this because it was awesome really and the group of you guys excuse me um I have no doubt that you guys are going to carry this forward and we're gonna pass this referendum I know it so I'm confident in that so really with all the hard work from everybody um I said to John a few months ago like I think as a group whenever you get into something like this and you get into a board or whatever and do leave um you just um hope that you left it better than when you started it and

120I think with the help of everybody here this group um I think we when I'm ending here is better than when I when I got on to the board so um that's C to you guys for sure so yeah appreciate you awesome thank you I don't want toour the meeting all right meeting is adjourned as of now 8:37 good night orial Nation