001we e e e beautiful know why that's that's why we do this right robot right good evening and welcome to the February 24th 2025 regular board meeting of the Northland kind School District wherever you are uh would you please join meag States of America and to theic for it stands one nation indivisible withy and justice for all Becky Jennifer is here here Kelly Ro here Chelsea raker is we have AUM Hasting yes it has thank you and that being said I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as presented and lead the order of the meeting to the discretion of the chair all right the motion has been made in second all in favor please say I motion carries all right first up we have a
002wonderful presentation from our High School Musical something rotten look at that you're getting applauded and you haven't even started yet that's afterwards well I was a little worried when Scott said like you need any technology for tonight for your presentation I like I'm not sure I have a presentation but we're theater people this is what we do we improvise so I just uh I just want to start off by thanking all of you and looking around the table um the success of our musical comes from many places and everybody seated here and with me up here um has a hand in that so from our administrators who support in so many different ways through funding through checking in with me and saying how's it going this weekend um to dealing you know when we have
003a student situation AR eyes and our activities Department being so supportive of kids to the school board who continues to support us and fund us and and we had individuals here Provide support to students throughout the week some of your own children obviously so involved and Technology help but I mean you name it we we appreciate your help and thank you to all of you for continuing to support us this our 16th annual musical which is pretty amazing and uh who knew that's where we were going to be at but um if you know this story but Scott was so supportive 16 17 years ago when I first had this idea and um obviously that's one thing but having um his and your continued support that's a whole another level right we could have done
004it once and said well that was fun let's um particularly this year I mean obviously we have some wonderful adults just want to shout out get out of the way kids I'm just kidding so Ann and Judy and Jeff are are with us tonight um obviously been part of the crew for forever and almost ever and um something that I think is so great about the adult team is uh they help provide a professional experience for the kids and the kids can do their best and the adults can help them do their best and feel their best and it really shows the kids that not only working hard towards something but working together on something um and that can be applied to all areas of their life not just the Performing Arts right to have
005that level of professionalism and working really hard and that feeling of putting your all your whole part to something so adults are happy to kind of support that Journey for the kids and um I could not do it absolutely could not do it without all the adults so I want to thank Judy and Jeff and an and Gary and Lou and Tony and everybody else Jennifer who helps out um on the adult side of things so thank you guys so we had 19 seniors this year and it was pretty exciting to was I think it was Scott that said it's cool to have 19 seniors do anything together that's exciting and I didn't really think about that but that's true that's really good that we uh have so many seniors that want to come back
006and 13 of those 19 seniors had been involved all four years of high school so I think all the kids behind me here have been involved um all four or maybe five if you were a sixth grader that got thrown into Newsies when you were a little have been involved all the way through so they would like to just say something to the board about you know their experience in the musical and a fond memory or maybe what it has taught them as a sign and a a thank you of your support continued support for our shows introduce I'm Davis I just want to give thanks a quick thanks to everyone because uh musical has been a great family for me for five years now even starting from sixth grade instantly I was uh welcomed
007in um it's may become you know a better person I've made some of my most meaningful relationships in Musical and it's just taught me so much even just outside of school outside of musical and I give a lot of thanks to everyone here and obviously Mr Chon and the other adults here hi I'm Maddie and when I was through like all my years of being in the musical it taught me like how to be more confident in myself um a lot of that came from when I got the lead role last year um I don't I do struggle with confidence sometimes and like knowing that people like want to see me perform and like look up to me as a role model that means a lot so [Applause] hi I'm Malia um musical means a
008lot to me I've learned a lot through it um not only performing skills but also a lot of life lessons too of how to connect and communicate with people um very important actually um being able to communicate effectively with your cast and the adults around you as well um something I've learned from it and then again the confidence thing I've gained confidence in myself and through musical I think I've had a lot more opportunities in life like with the Jerry Awards that's a big deal um so just a lot of great opportunities for kids who might not have it elsewhere so hi I'm Owen and I just want to say thank you to you guys because because um it's the musical us just provide such an opportunity it's such a place where I felt like
009I I really was good at something and I finally had an opportunity to show that some of other things I'm involved at maybe I'm not the greatest at but I knew that coming back to the musical it would always be something that somebody was always there to push me to be better which was often Mrs Janson and then somebody always cheered me up is also Mr Jans so it was just always the greatest opportunity to express myself and to be with people that really understood me for just being the weird quirky singer that I am so always thank you to you all just a question does anyone have um plans to pursue theater in college or do anything with musical theater with your plans after school I want to keep it in my life not
010as a I might do a little s I'm thinking maybe some Community Theater there awesome that's wonderful well thank you guys so much we're so very proud of you it makes me almost have a tear in my eye but that's just me because I'm a Sentimental mom board member but to have that um skill and confidence to get up there and throw it out there you know not knowing how it's going to go is just it's very special so congratulations you guys I just want to say that one adult gave a lot of credit to others but didn't give herself a lot of credit that's Mrs Janson when I years ago how about we start small We Didn't Start small and has never stopped small but I will say she's made 16 years of excellence
011and she what's probably most important is she's made 16 years of amazing young adults and I think that's the part I am I'm very so lucky and I look forward to the season of not the show on Sunday and yes it's amazing to see it and I enjoy just sitting there and being the audience but they know I sneak in the back and I sit in the back and I watch from the day they're opening a binder tring to read the words off the to memorizing it to see Mrs Perry putting through the paces of choreography to you know building confidence themselves I think people come and appreciate the show but they amount of weekends and time they these young adults have learned life lessons that's going to make them great adults into the future
012with work with passion with being um everything that can be so just kudos to this amazing program um we ask all our extra activities make them into better Young men and women and that's what Mrs Janson M Perry M CL Mr Janson here tonight and many others and I love seeing so many teachers and community members show talents that they don't show day in and day out Mr Hearts down there drum away in the pit he's a phenomenal um science teacher but then he's down the pit plane in the pan you know and Mrs price and her makeup in the back you know just so many different people that Tak split this together so Kudos and to have 19 seniors and this many do it for four years um is very remarkable and um just
013amazing it shows what it means to be part of it so thank you for coming another night when you may had a chance to catch your breath but you came here tonight and I know myself and the board are very grateful for everything you do for our community and our school I just have to say I absolutely loved it both times I saw it and I don't Sunday is the best day to go because I can cry afterwards as Jans amazingly connects comments every kid that's a senior I'm crying they're crying I I couldn't stop it was it was a mess but I loved it you know my daughter was doing sound and just like from a personal level too just the impact that made it's just remarkable from all the different places you can
014be involved in the musical how many kids it impacts so thanks for spreading that positive Ripple I've then this is my 15 and I feel so blessed because I get to work with each and every one of the kids one onone and like what Scott was saying the character quality and the things that they build these kids are always the most hardworking they take correction they're supportive of each other they're grateful um for what I do they are the character quality of these kids is just the highest and it's um it's really great to see that coming out of young I add something to I just want to say um it's always the highlight of the year when you guys do this it's such a you bring joy to the whole community and um make
015you can be very proud because the you know we just went through a huge referendum and I always think that nothing when those parents and those grandparents and those community members come into the school they're coming to see you they're coming to see this beautiful facility and that's so important they they you do a lot for it be very proud of your thank you guys very [Applause] much last time that's tears of joy you should be very all right next is our public participation section of the meeting do we have anyone that to speak this not we move on to board committee reports and communication does any board member have any that they' wish to communicate with other board members I would like to as long as I'm already emotional um Kelly roach and I
016do believe this will be my last board meeting as an active member because I am not seeking reelection and I um I'm going to be out of town next I'll be out of state I work and so I just wanted to bring that up and tell all of you how much I truly appreciate you all um we may differ on most things and maybe some of the decisions but what we don't is our love of these children and I do believe that you just give up your hearts yourself your time it's it's a huge commitment and um I've enjoyed it very much and I appreciate you all thank you it's been a pleasure serving with you thank you for your dedication and time here on the board thank you just a note in there as
017well um remember U it's hard to believe but policies hting week so it goes fast March is one of those months because of spring break we shove all the meetings up into early in the month so it's coming so just you know want to give your heads up because it even Susan I have to remind your like oh we have to get a policy agenda on this and there is a lot of work to be done in there so important work so just please please communicate with Susie of your committee commitments if you're able to make it or not so but it's the 4th and the 11th just so audience people know at this time we'll go to our board committee reports is there any um has any board member have any questions for other
018board members regarding the minutes of any board committee that they do not consider everything pack all right move on to the next item which is a consent sorry consent agenda does any board member wish to remove any item from the consent agenda we can still discuss the items every item can I ask to have the minutes of the regular board meeting of January 2025 from theenda we will vote on that separately um that being said I just now entertain a motion to approve the consent I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda been made to accept all in the consent agenda do we have any excluding that one but other any other discussion just wanted to point out in there is a $1,000 donation to assist families with their negative food balance from the
019and and I apologize wasak um that's the people that own the potato Farms here just north of town their Farm um has a foundation that they help communities they have farms in and they donated $1,000 to our negative lunch balances so thank you it's just another sign of a wonderful Community we have also thank you um if you still you still have time but if you look at that draft of that parent survey that'll go out um I did also add the timeline just so we're ready in March to vote on that so we keep the process moving forward thank you Erica great suggestion on a question and then those na updates again look at those this is not a batch where there's a lot of different ones the biggest one in there was Title
0209 and we took action on that before neol even brought it out so um we were hurt ahead of the curve on that one so otherwise we take a look at those this is just first review all right any other questions all right not hearing any all in favor please say I I any opposed motion carries okay so let's do that okay so we will address the motion on the minutes of the last board meeting at after the next item which is approval of trash and recycling service contract I will make the motion to approve the proposal by Republic Services of Eagle River Wisconsin for trash and recycling per contract second motion has made second any other discussion looked at this thanks Dave is here um he did put out a full RFP I think
021some our taxpayers want us to do is make sure we get the best quality for the best amount of money possible and um there is a representative here they came also she also came to the finance committee if you do have questions but you can see the proposal and and Dave anything else Dave would be here to answer your questions on the process Andor how we got to this recommendation and the finance committee question question or discussion on that thank you for being here this evening than you very all favor please I was just G to say it's warmer weather so she should be happier all in favor please say I any oppos motion carries back up to so we'll make a motion to with a reading of the regular meeting minutes of January 27
0222025 and approve the meeting minutes and close session minutes as presented I'm second right any discussion I yes the only thing I'd like to say is maybe I missed it uh during that meeting I had requested an analysis to come back to the school board level for employee retention pay benefits uh midyear resignations Etc and I did not see that in there so I would just like to make sure that it either gets amended to be in there or that it's documented to be in there um if I missed it please let me know but otherwise I would just asked to have it amended so that request was in there for document we do have for but I have employe ret and um I don't remember exactly what it all was but yeah it was
023like mid year um resignation just more overation okay I can add a and it'll be pretty General because generally speaking minutes are more topics discussed or motions but I can put it in as a topic that was discussed I just didn't see it in there so I just wanted to make sure there was something ter and I discuss the next day make the right information other discussion on that thank you Chris than all in favor please say I any oppos motion car got glasses s can not tin okay so now we're going to update update on the referendum election February 18th 2025 unofficial Cote totals and I will give a clap Round of Applause for pass can do so as a community so yeah you know as I've spoken in multiple interviews you know this
024is an important thing for kids you know and did quite we try to do a lot leading up to the vote of getting out answering questions talking to people but really it's three years of building trust and maybe there's been decisions that some agree with or don't agree with but the bottom line is we try to use be good Steward of taxpayers dollars to provide an excellent education um constantly get better um make sure buildings are safe continue to make sure we maintain our buildings um and really you know the very next day that's what I felt like as much as it really allows us to make good plans moving forward use the money wisely take care of the building so our community can have access to them as well but it really was keeping
025going with building trust get better at teaching the academics continue to offer great programs of career college and and Vocational programs the Arts as you heard tonight is for a lot of these kids it may not be their career but it may be what they are passionate about and get they get excited about every day after high school so I think sometimes everything we do can't isn't about a career path only it's about what you're become as we say up there you know prepared to be prepared for life and one of it is is how do you function in a community right so Community Theater and other things give back to that U so really um grateful for the decisions this board makes others um probably I think some people always talk about totals um
026you know voter participation this was the highest one in the last three years so it did go up um and really that's almost every Township um went up except for the biggest change was St Germaine which was down two volts which doesn't seem like a lot except you realize it was only 334 volts minus so and what what also though was unique and looking having a little time to look back was that total was the same as it was two times ago so instead of it being a fluke that it was down 182 it might have been a fluke that it was up 182 last time so you know the other thing that I think has become taken for granted but I don't because I've lived through the ones that didn't pass in every Township
027so that I think is important piece and finally I just add yeah it's building trust and doing a great job but um I want to give kudos to our staff and students because they're the ones the reason why this passed I think even though this was a money referendum um when you pass it at 67% it doesn't say you're doing perfect and you just keep doing what you're doing it says you've earned our trust for three more years keep getting better um if that's what you believe in um you have work to do get it done um but keep working at it we're give you some resources so you can continue on that path also I think it continues to show because we have to make cuts and we're going to use some fun balance
028that we're in this together it's not just we expect you to give us money and this board will make decisions it means the board knows the board and what we've done to help us be in the spot needs to continue so kudos to this community um it's a great place I've been proud live here for 30 years of what this continue to do in supporting our students our staff and really continue to make this a community Hub investment so we can get better and make Eagle River and all the surrounding Community other nine Comm communities that make us up even even better yet than prod graduates that want to come back and live here and make this all our communities better so thank you thank you and now we update on board goals at midar
029Point thank you I'll take that um there is a document for you um Sue is not here tonight she did help I want to give her credit for helping me compile this data the one thing I want you to focus on is tonight you're going to hear from our three Elementary principles that data is for AGR but that is just for each of their buildings and remember monor isn't in that because they don't qualify for AGR the data I'm talking about tonight is districtwide so it does include all students um across their District our goal is North L Pines will increase student growth in English language arts through strong collaboration within a districtwide professional Learning Community um we we still use star you're going to hear stuff as we go through the rest of the
030year with as web that's the state required test we elect to use star we are as an administrative team as a staff of switching everything to as web but that's a next year we need to do star for AGR Tony and can talk a little bit more about that but um you can see as I put on there where we at mid year where we decid of we're progressing or Co met or not started I put progressing um our elementary teachers our instructional parent professionals everybody's working together and to try to make sure all students can read um that's our early L early literacy showed 82% proficient um and we I did say it's down almost 3% proficiency rate because remember this test isn't like ABC the same test as they took in the fall
031the test gets harder as as they get older with star it should show that you are getting better so you're always up up against the better harder test it's not like you know you give us the same test three times it's actually scale so it keeps moving to see how you grew um almost 88% of our students did show growth so that's really important because if you're a struggling reader to get to that spot of being a proficient reader you got to show growth and it isn't as easy to make that jump you just got to keep on that path um in second through sixth grade we saw an increase of almost 7% in number of students showing Proficiency in Star reading and 75% show overall showed grow two through six um star reading in
032seventh and eighth grade um we saw almost 69% proficient and then an increase of 3% of those small students and 57% showed growth um I will say we continue to have discussions middle and high school students really don't invest in taking tests when it comes to something they don't get a grade on doesn't count for anything um we do engage their parents and send it home and make sure their parents know about it talk about the value of it it just it's something we're discussing about how as a district level team how do we um make sure we we want to know besides just classroom how our students are doing except on that one state test of year we want to see that growth so we can help them all year long so we I
033do believe we're progressing um the elementary administrative team is really doing a great job working our staff have really rolled up their sleeves it is not easy um to be taking and onboarding new methodology learning new things and still trying to teach and be prepped every single day um so reading isn't as easy to do teaching reading for those that got came easy to it's kind of like why can't everybody be proficient reading well it's not that easy for a lot of kids it's learning to read is a a really challenging task um and then you throw in core attendance being hungry trauma and a lot of those percentages that are not there yet are ones that we're working really hard with but we got to get them to school we got to get them
034engaged with their parents so I'm not saying any excuse whatsoever I'm just saying we have that's why you'll hear us talk about attendance you hear us talk about Behavior programs you hear us talk about parent communication engagement because all those things make a difference in math it's the same goal we want to increase our student growth um the testing is different in math and is the levels there is not a 4kk it's grades 1 through four we did see a slight increase of 1% to be just over 70% proficient 315 out of 351 which is almost 90% of our students did show growth which is what we want to see um obviously we want to get that 100% efficiency Mark and then gr grades 5 through eight we saw 69% efficiency rate which is over
0353% growth and then um 72% show overall growth across so um we we're heading the right direction but until I can say we're 100% for all those and then duplicate that on our state testing that's our end goal we're not going to stop until we get there any questions on that first goal our second goal was to um review and Implement strategies to retain employees through consideration of pay and benefits um one of our strategies was to bid out Healthcare and try to give more options for health care so maybe we could move some funds into pay instead of health insurance um we did bid out our health insurance terara worked and the team worked hard to look at options we've been working hard to find new ideas ultimately we did switch carriers to get
036a get the lowest bid it still costs more than previous years um but we did switch insurance companies to try to keep cost in line unfortunately the ability to have a Choice still doesn't exist um it's getting harder and harder up here with the competition between um Aspirus and at Marshfield it's not driving better product and cheaper cost it's actually doing just the opposite so I know that's something that's being talked at the state federal level of some changes possibly which would be positive hopefully um we are working on a salary structures for the support staff that's something we'll talk to Personnel about T and I have been trying to do some data and then and run through some scenarios to bring to personel and then eventually the board and also we're started and working
037on support staff so I put progressing in goal met because we did the goal met for healthcare uh but we're working on the salary structures for um support staff and then also we're bringing you some new and different data for personnel for the certified staff as we just start discussing their pay increases next year as we do on an annual basis um finally facilities and operations goal we already talked about it the goal was to pass the referendum and the goal met it's glad we're able to put that one in there you we put high goals with high expectations for all of us for yourselves as a board and this is um one that is as you mentioned earlier it's very critical for our success into the future and we're able to that and with
038the efforts of everybody involved to put that so that's your midyear update on your building goal or your board goals I should say I have one one question it's kind of a twofold question I apologize for that but it's um knowing that the topic may come up here soon or later in regards to the spring 2024 uh we'll just say on the bottom of page one bottom left 44 proficient in Reading we 9 through 10 grades 11 38% or if we scroll down a little further 36% proficient in math or 28 proficient in math if you could please elate a little does that mean that 28% of 11th graders know how to do math remember the ACT is a preol exam and a lot of Juniors who are not looking to go on to college
039don't choose to participate real well um not trying to make excuses but it's just the reality um credit to Ryan who's here tonight and Dan and Haron we have been doing um even just prep because it's a unique test first off it's not like the state ones they've taken before there are some differences so we do offer prep uh yeah we want that number to be as close to 100% as possible but is a tall task to ask non-bound students to take a College Bound test one they don't care um and two you're they get numbers um where that proficiency is they do get a score we it goes home to a parents so we do put the effort into prep obviously the main importance is the day in and day out work as you
040do to get ready to take that test so yeah it's something we're working really hard to get better at frankly and remember that's that I'm glad you bring that up that's the one day test that's not the report card proficiency that you see necessarily either so so that's just for the ACT that's just for one group of 11th graders who take the ACT and remember a lot of the kids going to college or some of them and Mr T here can um elaborate if you'd like but many of those students will take it a second or third time to bring that score up if you're trying to get into an upper level College they'll use this one as their first time taking it it's proven that you can gain multiple points so if it's a
04118 and you need to get a 20 to get your college if you take it a second time just from seeing it and going through it you almost gain a point or two so remember this is our one day test that they take here at school it's not um if you go and see you might even see that North Pines has a higher average in some places where it's reported it's because sometimes act will report out that second or third higher score as well so but it is the one time and you know we're we're accountable to it and we want to see that number grow the preac secure um that is a a little bit of a newer test for our students to take thank you questions coms I think just thinking the act
042that doesn't me that's to we use the word proficiency this kind of achmar for over District but it's not measuring Proficiency in Reading it's measuring how will a child performin College LEL so it's just two different should well the state does use it to dictate on if you're a cut score yeah but I mean I guess I just want to be clear it's not like they're not proficient iny is just a little different I know it's going to come up later today and yeah and that's good that's good feedback because I think we need to really be thinking about like how we're communicating what the different tests are measuring and and there's no other there's no other test for they still take an eth grade don't they take the eth grade gr regardless well so
043to to Compound on that question and the go back to the reading proficient in reading so the 30 preac secure 44% proficient in Reading at college level reading or how they're going to prepare for the college test yeah it's prediction of how they'll do on the AC assessment me and I'm not anert I'm giv you minimal um experience with this so anyone else can chime in but the prea is measuring um it's giving us feedback as Educators on how students are performing and what will be measured on the actual act assessment which is a college preparatory assessment so we're able to get information in terms of these are areas of strength and they're like on track to to demonstrate that they're going to do well on the ACT in these areas these are the areas
044where they need more growth so it's more information for the student the family and the staff to be able to provide the level of support to get them there not necessarily like the term proficiency with and then the ACT is measuring how well they'll how well they're likely to do in a college level course giving their skills in Reading written language and math and a 036 scal score and obviously we want those numbers to go up right like I'm not I'm not saying that there isn't room for growth within all of those assessments I'm just I just want to be clear on what they're actually measuring so as a as a district goal obviously do you know what 20 spring 2023 percentages were for reading or math I don't see that on here obvious we
045want an increase right each year you want to try to improve but the reason I didn't speak to it now is because we don't give it until was it March right is the Act date cor well but what about the year before that though spring 2023 I could go back and look I reported it out at this board meeting right I just didn't know we could open up and you're ESS like what is our B what was our increase I mean you know if we're looking at as a district goal what is our goal what was our percentage to get to you know did it go down to go up I could go back and look at J July's board meeting to see what the goal was there because I reported out in July no
046I'm just thinking outside the box the one thing I will say in all testing we're not making I work to manufacturing okay in a product in a material you get quality change materials change Machining change processes when you say 11th grade we're they're human beings on a one gate given test but you're not even comparing a to group you're comparing group a to Group B to group C there's a new group of 11th graders every year so one of the challenges as a school that we hold ourselves accountable to is try to get the every time 11th grader takes that test get that number as high as possible you know if if they want to see a 17 then we should try to get every kid 17 or higher right or 18 or higher because
047it's a 36 scale score but you don't think of it as 50% it's not that a lot of colleges will be between 18 and 20 to get into you know when you get to your Madison's lacrosse's you're looking at a much higher number like 25 to 30 so it's meant to give colleges a direction of how this child will do um you know even two-year schools will look at it just to kind of skip some of the other tests but you know one thing to keep in mind yeah it's a burden to keep ourselves pushed to make sure that every 11th grader does well but we also know 11th graders the same as the prior group 11th graders and so on we've seen our scores go way up and we've seen other classes say you
048know what we're it's just the group isn't as strong as a prior group you know so we try to make get rid of those variables and have every kid do well on it but we also have been working unfortunately we've had to work on incentivizing it in a good way is because kids don't really care about that test the ones that are going to college are going to try hard and the ones who aren't say you're wasting my day well it's data I was just looking at data and just asking a few questions about data so if we had an increase obviously we want as a goal I would look at is we should have the increase in every level and at least Mak an a effort to do it so without knowing what the
049level was before now asking about you know Jesus are we only having 44% of the people take an AC test can read I mean that that would be a question right you know so can't hurt to ask the question and if that's the case obviously there might be other areas that we need to improve on but um I don't think we need to sit here for an hour or to talking about this obviously we know that we're increasing towards it and thank you for your input and'll everything you do to try to get every 11 grader to 100% it's not related but it is related um you had asked earlier about a report concerning retention rates for our staff and something that at the Personnel level that we' talked about for establishing our human resources
050annual goal is to make it a go specific measurable attainable goals so like what kind of retention rate have we had in the past and what do we want to have that for a goal we incre I just want to mention that brought up talks any other discussion thank you everybody that and our next um agenda item is achievement Gap reduction otherwise known as AGR all the report so we have our three Elementary principles turn that oning all right so yeah achievement Gap reduction also known as AGR just a reminder that achievement Gap reduction is federal funding that we receive because of our schools reaching a certain poverty level um and then that those funds can be used in one of three different ways they can be used to support smaller class sizes and they
051sizes as one teacher for 18 students we can use it for instructional coaching or we can use it for one one tutoring so those are the three different ways we can use the funding um in your packet you've got an overview of what AGR is and explaining what the spreadsheets are that you have in front of you and then you have the three spreadsheets in there as well too so one of them is for St Jermaine Elementary one is for Landa lakes and one is for e Elementary School just like Scott said those are the three schools that receive HR funds so that's why we present to you part the federal requirs that we present to you mid year February and then we do at the end of the school year all too and then
052we set goals in the fall we use that Baseline data winter we do a progress check and then in the spring um we look to see if we met those goals or not so I'll just kind of summarize what we have for stain Elementary School um the spreadsheet that we have there you can see obviously the grade levels on the far left then we've got the assessment whether it was literacy math or reading um second grade up their focus that assessment is on reading kindergarten and first graded on early literacy so that's why there's a difference in the name between literacy and reading uh list the AGR strategy um so you can see at St Germain most of our classrooms we use one toone tutoring and the reason being is because we have more than
05318 students in that class so we can't use fonts to support classroom size if we're over that number so we use one toone tutoring for most of our classes except for first grade because we have 16 students in that class then you can see our Baseline data on the in the fall so that was when we gave the Assessments in September the end of year goal and then our winter scores so I guess a celebration let kind of focus each of us will mention like something to celebrate maybe an area of growth as well too something to celebrate all of the classrooms showed growth from the fall until spring in math and literacy which is great um and especially we have some high achieving scores in kindergarten and first grade in our primary grades area
054of growth um the scores are not to be honest quite where we would want and expect and second gr so we want even though they showed some good growth we want those to get higher um so they're not quite where we want but hopefully we have some personalized reading plans in place tier three plans in place IEPs to really help get those kids where they need to go and I will say also it's kind of unique we've got sometimes data is influenced by class sizes at second grade we only have six two six kids in that class and it's a multi- so our second third grade we put together right now because of that small class um because we don't want to have teach kids so we made a multi AG this year and it'll
055be a multi age again next year as well too so just just something to consider um when looking at the data uh group of six um and you know sometimes we look at a group of students as well too between second and third grade kind of the things that Scott mentioned earlier some of the kids are the background you have to consider when making these tests to how many kids have IEPs how many have suffered trauma how many kids um things of that nature family Dynamics so not making excuses we still want those scores to go higher and be better and we'll continue to work so that's it for stain and for what AGR overall hand BR unless you have questions about s main scores or AGR in general spent a lot of time looking
056at the data um we showed quite a bit of growth in several different areas um specifically if you look at third grade our growth for reading and literacy we went from 57% to 77% so we just thought that was an area of Celebration uh we just brought this data actually to our BCIT and discussed it and one of the positives that we came out of this was that we have um essentially our grade level teams are um running like a walk to read which is like a structured approach to um reading instruction where the kids are based um based on their abilities so they move classrooms um during the wind time to get instruction on the foundational skills that they need and the Anis that we did really drives that um as we created the
057personal reading signs for students and so um it just ensures that all the kids are getting that targeted um and responsive instruction that they they need to deserve um an opportunity for us as as we continue to grow with the science of reading training um and the teachers are deepening their understanding of the instructional practices through that training um they're really refining their their um teaching practices to better support the students and we're Ling dat to really look at that foundational um skill Gap and then build from there as we um uh put them in that walk to read or that wi time and um this was something that we weren't able to do with the star data we're excited about that that it gives us more deeper thanks Tony um I just want to
058um highlight a couple of things about land of lake so just a reminder that it is a great celebration I highlighted in green the winds where we've kind of already met that goal but what it what it is is it's recognizing the target of being 40% tile and above so yes it looks like green and yes you made it good job but um that that's you know there could be movement within there both ways that kids may have grown a little bit kids May grown a lot kids may have not grown um if I'm being super honest so um I share that with you only to say that it's not done you know just because it can feel like it's in the green light um you know there's still a lot of work that regularly
059happens and uh the celebrations that I would share about it is that um you know I'd like to say and sometimes I jokingly say like well Patty Dar is the reason why uh we have lots of successes there and that's true but that would be giving a really it would be doing a big disservice to all of the rest of them and the efforts that they put in um so I think that it's a combination of the classroom teachers responding and absorbing information for what to do when kids don't uh quite understand things it's about protecting classroom times and it's having the secretary not make 10 phone calls to the classroom during the day for information that can be withheld till the end it's about uh how much time is spent on task and reading
060and uh preserving the time of that that you know when there's other disruptions in the school and life and you know the secretary is out and other things that um if the priority is what's happening in the classroom and you try to maintain that as much as possible and um when I think about uh a prime example happened today uh we have a a new student joined us I don't know a couple weeks ago um that happens to have an IEP and so some would think like oh they already have a way of being supported so we're good um even though they might not kind of be academically as sound as the others um but the classroom teacher came to me and was like okay well this student being supportive with an IEP by the
061special ed teacher and Mrs Stars taking for title one but the schedule's a little you know squished so we have the instructional pael working with them and she said and I noticed that Mr Jansen the P teacher has a little bit of time on Mondays and Wednesday mornings is it okay if I have to do a group with him and I was like absolutely and I think that just speaks to teach not just in Land of Lakes but in other places taking advantage of opportunities because especially in land of lakes with a really small crew if you happen to have 15 minutes extra in your schedule the teachers is going to find a way that you're going to support a student that needs it so um I think it's kudos to the the teachers and
062the team that that do that um and when I think about next steps I also think about with the in uh web testing we did and the creating those personalized reading plans and and yes was about creating the plans but when I would check in with teachers or work with teachers for with Patty Dar and creating the plans uh 99% of the focus was great that's the plan what are we doing tomorrow it starts right now so it's a constant effort and and collaboration for um continuing to improve I think that's just a second car said I think all this data data data data what does it mean I think is a great question ultimately know that the two biggest reasons is not to come in front of you to show it yes we want
063to be held accountable by use a board we've been very transparent the most important conversation is teacher to teacher teacher to par teacher to reading specialist what am I going to do different in my lesson tomorrow to make sure this kid is can learn to read and have confidence and be good at it the second most important conversation is with those parents how can we work together with those parents to help them and and if you sat through any of the reading plans that the state is requiring that's a lot of that conversation is really how because parents get very upset when they hear their child's under reading plan but they also it's been great to hear how many of them said okay what can we do together to make this better they want to
064partner with us and realize reading at home at night is a really important strategy if we're going to make our kids we only get them for so many hours a day so I really think what's really important is that where we're having the conversations what are we using it for so otherwise we're putting kids through a lot of testing the second other piece of I just want to hit on is that growth we added the word growth in our goals because as Carrie said you can be on Target and what's all great but if you don't keep that growth or when you have that conversation with a high achieving reader that parent doesn't want to hear that the whole class is On Target they want to know that Jane or Johnny or whoever is going
065to keep growing right as a parent you want to know that your child's being pushed and getting better at reading and math and all the other skills that we are teaching here so that's why that growth is so important to us because we want to see all kids grow it's not about getting proficient it's getting all kids to grow from where they're at to the next and hopefully it's proficient and higher but as we've shared tonight there's areas that we're going to got to keep working on right any other questions for any of our elementary principles principle all right thank you very much for the information all right our next item on the agenda is the approval of Charter contracts for S high school and Northland pance mon storic Learning Center I'll explain that as
066well too um so in your board backet you've got the SAR High School contract as well as the monary learning center contract and then also something called the benchmarks in there as well too um but just a step back a little bit just a reminder so we have these contracts so basically called schools because we this Charter or contract between the governance board and the school board that allows for some autonomy for this those Charter Schools over things like curriculum um some policies calendar things of that nature and all that type of stuff is outlined in those contracts as well so Sor high school and mil Learning Center are both up for contracts we've it's a celebration they've just both have this is our 10th year so it's pretty great that they've gone through two
067full complete cycles of a contract and now we're going to be seeking another one so um you know sometimes often Charter Schools if they failed within that first 10 years and not only have these two Charter Schools survive but I would say that theyve really thrived over the years and they've been a great asset to our school district and to the community as well too so what we're looking to do is to have these contracts um for another five years so the contract is expires June uh 30th the summer and we'll be starting a new contract is what we're asking for tonight starting July 1st 2025 and it will go to June 30th of 2030 with these go contracts outline um in the contracts there really isn't any changes from what we're doing right now
068so what we're asking is to kind of continue to do the main things that we're doing right now at Sor high school and at the monor leing center um so the benchmarks that are in there why those are there it's a requirement by the state that we submit these contracts after the board sign them to the public of instruction and include those benchmarks so those benchmarks are all the things that we have to by law required in the contracts and then we specify what page they're on what part of the contract they're in um so it lets us know exactly that we've included those things in the contract to make sure it's a sound contract but also it communicates to DPI that it's a sound contract and they can easily find everything to check it
069um so these contracts are get the best interest of the governance board as well as the school board in mind we har and I wrote These contracts based off of the contracts that we did five years ago and at that time we had Charter School Grant funds that we paid a lawyer to review it um we also didit these contracts to DPI already and to the Wisconsin Resource Center for charter schools to have both of them review it um and they both have approved them as well too uh so yeah what we're looking at is for the school board approval for this for another five years starting in July 1 and in these contracts also say it's not just just contractual stuff it also does outline what is the educational program we're going to have
070in these schools and what are some goals that we have over those next five years with family engagement academics and things of that nature as well to questions it's a real quick one just maybe not even for my benefit as much as somebody else's but real quick can you kind of elaborate a little bit about how this goes between the board and the governance board yeah so the governance board so har harlon and I wrote These but then we had a subcommittee that helped write it so they went through with the fine tooth com to make sure everything was sound and good with it and then the governance board approved it at our meeting last Thursday so they approve it first once they approve it then it goes to the school board for approval once
071approve it then it goes to the Department of Public Instruction and they have to approve it to make sure that we have everything that's in it that's makes it legal a unique aspect of our governance board is that there's seven member board they are non paid they are not elected they are um volunteers um of the seven one represents each of the three schools so that's three of the seven and then the four have to be community members so you know not a vest interest in each school but a interest seeing Alternative Learning options um I get a little frustrated when you hear about school choice school choice school choice there's so much amazing school choice within the public schools of Wisconsin and in this District especially so I think these are just um two
072outstanding models of parents and students who have um opportunity to choose something that they feel like their child May succeed in more so but it is important know that there is you do have uh by and voting on this tonight there is ways that if something isn't to your satisfaction there are mechanisms in this contract that protect you as the go the elected School Board to have input um they're supposed to be autonomy so they're able to run their own and they do but ultimately if there's something like there's mechanisms for to sit down with that governance board or um to the far extreme of ending a contract but know that you know there's would definitely try to mitigation and work through the situation versus just a termination is what and you have some great
073governance board members too you're very we're very lucky to have good community members and parents any more discussion we didn't make a motion yet so I'll make a motion make a motion you guys are ready I'll make a motion to approve the charter school contract between North andine School District and North andine School District charer governance board LT for the monor Learning Center in s High School commencing on the first day of July 2025 and ending on June 30th 2030 unless termination terminated pursuant to the terms of those contracts as presented I'll second all right motion is to approve the charter school contracts has been made in second any other discussion not hearing any all in favor please say I opposed motion carries thank you thank you John yeah thank you sorry and govern and
074sta students all right our last discussion and action item is approval of Chip seal for the middle and high school Park I'll make a motion to approve the chip seal proposal by pck and wicking of Eagle River Wisconsin for $258,400 payment to be split over the 202 2425 budget and the 20226 budget I'll second all right the motion to approve the chips Hill proposal has been made in seconded any other discussion or information Dave is here tonight he did conduct a thorough request for proposal and tried to get as many quots um just the quality of work from Pit Lake and Wick um the partnership they've been good to us and giving us advice and feedback and helping over the years but they were the little bit as well so it's just nice to know
075that we're supporting a local company and who've helped our district in the past and many of our parents work there as well so it's kind of a winwin across theorder any other discussion all in favor please say I any opposed Mo all right we will move on to administrative reports is there any administrator that would like to add besides their time highlights obviously highlights fourth grade in then our monory YouTube class Madison this Friday so exciting so it's big trip to a little bit new this year they're going well Capital they always go to um but then also wisc V then also this year they're going to the W physics Museum and geology Museum so so yeah so it's a great trip for those kids it's a lot of you know some of our kids
076neverin so be in the capital that's all about pretty awesome good authentic learning experience but we learn about our history and government and yeah so it'll be an exciting day for them and big thanks to the Rotary Club because they know donated $400 to pay mon curul is other so every Tony loves it so much he's going along too it's one of the long days the not the bus breaking down like the one here right that was like kids come back so excited learn so much that they get to see the office the the chambers and all the pl they actually get to sit where their representatives sit and it's just a great amazing experience I've been on it multiple times with our students and they make us very proud this community should be very
077proud of the students are raising too they when you're down there they conduct themselves and you have very few problems it's they do a great job they represent their schools and community at a very high level thank you anybody thank you um and then also in the board packet is our school resource officers report from um officer Le and officer christon moving forward to our district administrator report yeah so tomorrow's a big day um actually Deputy Wilson and I have been campaigning for quite some time that the doj realizes that we do exist this far north um and come up here and do safety training for school members and law enforcement um here in the area instead of every having to drive so far away so they finally agreed um so we're hosting a Statewide
078there's um people from the region and around the state coming to Northland Pines tomorrow for what's called threat assessment um you get certified and really that's the big strategy of identifying a possible threat to school safety and then how do you mitigate that so multiple and people will go through that um quite a few of us have been trained prior um but those will be in the auditorium and then on Wednesday is something myself and um some of the people in this room will join me as well um that is on safety protocol and reunification including law enforcement our local fire departments um it'll be how would we deal with a crisis where we had to get all our students back to their parents but maybe off on another site so really looking forward to
079that I think there's going to be some time to at least have conversations and for some of our fire departments they don't have any idea we rely on volunteers across their whole Community but they would be a pretty critical piece even just for traffic controling things so that's on Wednesday um there is an opportunity I know speaking of long days it's not quite the fourth grade trip but it's right up there um every year the Medford School District has asked to host or has hosted a legislative meeting with school board members administrators where they invite in legislators and you U they do a presentation on the the stage usually the school reps um just a couple sign up ahead of time and share like hey what's going on um in schools to give the representatives
080some background on some maybe really critical topics especially this year being a state budget year a two-year cycle um so if you would like to go to that we have had board members and I've been to it with them and I know Dr Richie has traveled with them in the past um I just need to know we probably need to leave here around 3:30 um and then you're going to get home sometime around 10 so it's uh but Welcome to our what our student athletes that go to Medford feel like because they have to do that for games and this would be your chance to do that I do recommend it but please let me know if you're interested we do have to sign up I would be happy to go with anybody that would
081like to go um I think it'd be a good experience but just I think this year would be a state budget something to consider is ited for newer MERS I think the veterans really get especially if you're a pat chair president I did include U my next item is state budget update it's very early um but it's very typical politics your Association um sent out uh update of what the governor proposed I also participated on a noon hour lunch and learn with your Association um this last week talking about many of our members and you'll see at the very bottom of this document say the two parties aren't going to agree on anything and this budget doesn't really matter but I do want to start building your vocabulary of what it would mean for us
082and our taxpayers uh first off the biggest topic I think you're going to here is special education reimbursement I think it gets labeled that and people think it's only to help students in special education and that's not the case at all it's it really would help us fund learning for all students because currently we mve $2 million plus over from fund 10 into special ed so we didn't have to move that much that's money we could use for educating all students and that's for every District in the state the last year budget they were trying to get to 33% however this year that's a great thing to say it only not it won't even get to 30% because they made it that when the money runs out it runs out we're not going to guarantee
083you 33% so that's something called sus sufficient appropriation that's really what they're looking for this time around is whatever you say you're actually going to give us so we can budget and plan accordingly also know voucher programs get 100% % or 90 90 or 100% I think it's 100% um of special ed funding and public schools are only getting less than 30% so that's a problem to me you're funding two different systems um the governor proposed 60% in both a lot of our organizations are asking for 60% instead of 33% and to guarantee 60% and that's one of the things that we hear a lot about is winners and losers in the budget but that's pretty equal and the idea that a school would now like oh I'm going to identify a bunch of kids
084so we get more money you're not getting 100% why would you increase you're still losing 40% and also as Mrs Roy would say and show you it's a very comprehensive process to identify a student with an IEP that would qualify and we and thankfully we have a great staff here that do the process as do our colleagues around the state I don't buy that argument nobody's doing it to get more money we just want to be reimbursed for the challenges and the extra costs it faces um Revenue limits you're going to hear about that that's still in the Supreme that's still in the Court's last time budget the governor made it so that it was 325 every year for 400 years that's in the Supreme Court race right or not Supreme Court race oh that
085might be in there we're not going to touch that tonight um that's in the court system to be decided I think that will hold up the budget a little bit until the the party that's very upset about that gets to hear what the courts say I don't think we're going to see a lot of movement on that um remember that was really important in the last budget for us because the gap between districts that get you know 13,000 per kid and we get 11,000 per kid so certain districts are getting 2,000 more per every student than we are how is that fair in the state of Wisconsin so the formula not only does it require a scool to referendum it really gives certain districts a whole bunch more opportunity to ask their taxpayers than we
086get so that's something they're trying to narrow that gap down um the governor has talked about maybe moving it that low Revenue sing that's the next thing up to 12,000 some groups have argued to make it 12,500 we're at 11,325 right now so the only thing I will say there that is Loc taxes in other words what that would do for us is probably eat into REM making us not use as much of the um fund balance that we're planning to use over the next three years I don't love that one as much as some others because I think it's unfair to our local taxpayers I would rather advocate for those aids to come back that's your money that went to Madison and should come back to the E River North ples Community another one
087don't bring up parity to me that one's a very frustrating one um the governor did ask for us to get reimbursed for full-time 4K what we're watching real closely is a couple of the different legislators are arguing that it should be Community Based um that's really hard for a lot of small Ro schools that don't have Community Based daycare um as you've seen daycare struggle in this in all of our communities to force us to do it and then not get give our money to a private place and not have control over teacher training and what their services and all everything they get because is concerning to me and that's one of the ones we'll be watching um asking the governor's asked for more money for literacy that's another thing that's in the courts um
088there's $50 million that was supposed to be for ACT 20 that you've heard a lot about and not any school district is seen a penny about it because the two parties are arguing and fighting about that the governor did Universal breakfast for everybody that would be amazing I do think as we've seen families struggle I think it would really help with learning it does tied to learning but um I've no I'm not really that's meals all meals not just but all it's it says Universal to do all but um The Proposal I've seen more closely talks a good start would be breakfast maybe not both meals but at least breakfast so we shall see but I just want to give you kind of about as brief a snapshot as the governor's proposal there is no
089proposal um currently basically they're just so you know they're going to start with the current budget and work from there the biggest argument is there's a huge surplus of money that's your tax dollars sitting in Madison and the argument is should that just go back to taxpayers directly or should that go to some of these programs that are a dire need of support and help last time the counties really came out well um they really tried to enhance County gave the counties a lot of money one of the things we'll have to watch with school funding is they'll say school funding but they'll put it in property tax relief we don't get any of that property ta get very little of that property tax relief so we'll see if they're going to actually give US
090Dollars we can spend or if they'll put it back into school funding those districts that get state aid that's the battle we'll be watching for we're fortunate that s falowski is the Senate State Senate President right now and she controls what bills go forward so and she does come to C9 and and ask us questions um we do have a celebrity in the house tonight Mr bonan he loves he's really having a great day he was interviewed today on stream all the things that Mr Bowen loves to do but Kudos in all seriousness um you have in your packet um the boc Bolton um and to be as you can see in there Dave's picture and also what's more important is him talking about the district and typical Dave way talking about his amazing team
091and staff um that works to make sure our buildings and grounds are doing great also a highlight of how he has been energy focused um there's a picture also at the bottom there of our students out at St Germaine so great to see that and and really um it's nice to have our district recognized even though we didn't ask for it or anything it's just recognizing the great work Dave does I think you because of the level of work he does you sometimes hopefully don't take for granted the work he does here but anytime I get to sit with other people they they remind me like you realize other schools don't their boards don't even know that they have utility bills and what they're spending on and how educated they are and they would even
092consider solar because they don't even know what they're spending on energy so um thank you Dave and just nice to see another spot the billing operator certification program recognizing Dave who uh models for our students lifelong learning because that organization it's all about getting learning and learning new methods to run your buildings and take care of stuff so kudos to Dave for being in there congratulations thank you another celebrity up here is Mr Seager he's going to he coming back participate in book for badges or I will be coaching again okay you laying down anything here do we want to just start right away or you just going to stay uh that night I will be team badges is that no matter where the scores lineing at that time or is that the whole game
093or I couldn't jump sh all kiding aside in a good thing is Kudos um to the actually the sheriff's department who started this came up with the idea Mr buer here in North and Pines has played a key role in this as well um Ashley helps with some of the work and then our Fab Lab does a little bit too but what it's done has really impacted families it it's a great Community event it's fun um it is a fundraiser um this year um the money is um and has been driven to different families um this year is going to the KERO family of Pines alumni who recently was diagnosed with a Rec pin alumni who is recently diagnosed with cancer so um the funds for this night um and great donations from our local
094businesses in different groups and families U but it's a great night if you're looking for some fun uh maybe see some people that are playing past their Prime in basketball but playing part so uh it is fun night it's a great way to celebrate our community it is so fun to see law enforcement and our staffs and it's not just Northland Pines you can see um um I do think Iron County must have some pretty good Sheriff's basketball players up there because somehow they snuck onto this list we're kind of watching that a little bit some recruiting going on maybe or just keep an eye on that the book side of things it's it's just one of our guys trans okay all right yeah all right losty but he comes back to play basketball that's
095right it's all fun and that's we hope you can come out lots of people donate time and for that the other one that I really want to highlight I think it's going to be a great event I just so proud I get to see the work and some of you talk about concerts and the musical um Mr griter and M Zam um Mrs running do a great job with our art um but let's bring it all together colonary Arts our Performing Arts um our band choir so um you know it's great when a lumni come back and say to me boy we can't believe how much the Arts are supported now compared to when I went to school um and I just think it's something we're proud of we have a great staff that gets
096kids excited so if you're available Thursday March 6 stop stop in between 6:30 and 8:00 pm and you can see all kinds of great opportunities you can see there for hearts and some good things to eat from our students as well um if you get a chance when you go out here tonight you notice the 3D sculptures hanging I just love seeing that we get a lot of complements that during basketball games and the music Cod but that's just a small sampling of the great things our St our students do for Arts but I really kudos to our staff for coming up with this night I think it's going to be a fun night it might be for some students the only time their stuff is showcased and you know they're not in activities and
097it's great to see their classroom work being highlighted so want to pass that along and the last thing it's on the agenda but a good reminder um the eighth grade play is coming up March 14th and 15th it'll be a Friday night and a Saturday afternoon and a lot of those kids are future Musical cast but the other thing I want to highlight about the eighth grade play is I think it's what I love about it is there's a bunch of kids that'll try something once they'll go on stage and try they may never do it again but they took risks they tried something new it's their only shot they'll probably tell people forever they were on the mus in the eighth grade play and they had the lead or played on the you know
098but they took a chance and our staff makes it safe but they do a really high quality High there as well and they do a great job so you get a chance to come out see the eighth grade play would love for you to do that and that concludes my report any other anything anyone else wants to say during Open session not hearing anything I thank you all for coming to the meeting this evening and I will make we'll now go into close session I will make the motion to convene into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 2.85 sub to discuss administrator contracts and compensation secondly to discuss our certified staff memb contracts and resignations one of which involves liquidated damages third to discuss the issue of a contract to a certified staff member and
099fourth pursuant to Conant statute 12.13 subsection one and c and 19.5 subsection one and F to approve the special meeting Clos session minutes of February 11th 2025 second I'll do a roll yes yes is yes Chris patrias yes Ro yes and we're in close thank you