001All right, I'll call this meeting to order. We'll start with the curriculum or the committee portion of the meeting. We'll start with curriculum and policy and discuss the K through2 math material adoption. Good evening. Um this spring we are looking at material adoptions for math. Um actually in this tonight I'm going to share with you guys information regarding K12. six years ago. It's been already since we last adopted math. Time goes fast. Um so this process started already 15 months ago. Um working with various teams, the K5 and 612 group like to jump one forward there. Um we first start by looking back at what was previously done, what we determined to be essential. And in this case, go ahead and click next. We're looking at what are his essential standards are and what are
002those key facets of learning we expect all students to know and be able to do. So as we look at resources, we have a fresh understanding of what we previously identified as you know integral in our in the work and in in the teaching we do in each classroom. So as we started that I shared out to the teachers um what they had previously done and said please review these look through them and make sure they are accurate reflect what you now and currently continue to um teaching in class. Go next. So from there we kind of build a lens of you know where are we going to go next and what are we looking for in that new resource. This is where it deviated. So we had K5 and at six Whoops got too
003fast me K5 and 612. K5 in was in a different definitely different spot than 612. In K5 we were extremely satisfied with the resource we had. We've had it since 2013. Um teachers strongly understand what is going on on the in the materials and our test results are evident of being very successful program. Um had no interest in looking at anything else. Um we wanted to stay where we currently were at. Um so that was kind of the one window of the group as we looked at things. 612 was in a little different spot. We had implemented real math six years ago. On implementation it wasn't initially quite what they expected it to be. you do uh all the presentations and all the demonstrations from the publishers and then when you actually start teaching from
004it some things don't line up to what you had previously expected. So they had seen improvements over the last six years in the resource but they were still curious if there was something else that maybe was a better fit or better tool to provide the learning for our students. So we can see here we split kind of the groups. K5 is the jump now all the way from step two to about six. 612 we kind of continued along the process. So we continued working on developing that lens for 612 math. First step was kind of to look at what is our local needs. You know what do we see as teachers? You know instructional materials for lesson planning um students do they have consumable? Is it all digital? um the community is there stuff for
005different learning levels um availability of resources that parents can work with their kids. We sat before we even looked at different resources and tried to say what is in our current resource that we see lacking or maybe not lacking but going well and what we want to ensure is in our next resource that we find or proceed forward with. Um we also then look at ED reports is a independent re viewer of resources. They rate various math series, science series, ELA serieses based upon their alignment with the standards primarily common core uh which Wisconsin is closely aligned. Um the ability to use it in classroom. They have group of teachers that dig into this pretty deep and they provide kind of a consumer reports of educational resources. So that's kind of our first measure. If
006it's not scoring well in their reports, we're not going to take the time to further review a resource that's not meeting a state standards or is unusable by a committee of individuals. U we don't have the time to continue to look at that on our own. So then we went, you know, what is currently available? Go next. Um all this conversation, all this work gets put into a shared Google document. Um everything from the essential standards to anything I get from publishers and we get digital access I cut and paste it into here. Our working document as far as identifying the needs of teachers and community and the stakeholder group we keep it coalesed so that teach this the teacher group and myself can access this at any time as working. So when we meet
007we pull this out we're working from this we're looking at at those at those components so we have not searching through emails trying to find it. That's how we organize kind of that conversation. So, as we move forward with starting to identify resources, we started to um I did some reach out based upon teacher feedback. Well, was ed reports. Go ahead and click next. Um I reached out to publishers and said, "Hey, can you send me samples? They're more than willing to always send you a bunch of stuff." I filled my office full of samples. I got had a stack of two pallets big in my office going on there for a while this year. We looked at nine different resources this year with our high school group was exhaust actually between last year and
008into this year was pretty exhaustive with the number of different resources we looked at that all met green or good on ed reports but approached math in slightly different ways for that 612 group got a bunch of digital copies and started looking through different resources I shared out to teachers kind of gave them some homework saying we're going to meet this was back in May during inservice we need to come consensus here's your here's your homework and um did that work. Quote next because in May last year we said we're going to pilot resources. Uh one of the things we learned six years ago was the importance of the pilot. The pilot is basically many teaching from that resource one full unit of study from beginning of the unit all the way through the assessment
009at the end. Um six years ago we had a few teachers that did that but not universally. That was a piece as we adopted the resource. six years ago we said man we would have benefited from a little more of a pilot. So that was a shift in that practice that been science did the same thing three years ago math team had to do this time around. So we looked at these nine different titles and I said let's figure out two we want to pilot come fall this past fall. So we move forward with into math which is create published by home from the hardcourt a common publisher and envision math which is published by savis which was previously Pearson both approached from a very traditional model of math instruction. Um we are going to
010have some new teachers in the upcoming future. I want to make sure we have a resource that is approachable by all ability levels in our teaching staff, especially new to practice teachers. And a traditional approach provides a much more structured approach for math instruction that newer teachers um we believed would be able to um support their practice and helping kids learn um in that coming time. into math was very computer heavy, relied a lot on reading. Um, as you can see kind of bulleted points, was also very costly. This was a component I included in our conversations with teachers. I was upfront with them as transparent all the way through. It did not um impact our final decision. We said anything we brought in front of you guys, we accept as possibility of a thing
011that we can support budgetarily, but I want you to know where the cost is. So it's making this resource is it worth 50% more than where we're currently at for example which HMH happens to be was 50% more than where our current proposal stands for this year that I'm briefing to you guys today envision math similarly traditional approach a little different approach to how content's developed um from a mathematical um practice got more into especially in the high school developing proofs instead of sometimes math fact building Um, for a few of our math teachers, that's not how they currently teach. So, it have been a different spin on them. Um, so that was kind of a a negative as we looked at that resource. Another piece is a consumable component for the resource would have
012been at an additional cost. Um, I think it was I didn't get final numbers for it, but I think they were looking at 20ome dollars a year per student for the consumable component, which gets very costly very quick when you are looking at the number of kids we have involved. Um, as we moved along this year, we met multiple times. I think it was three different times I came to the group. Nove uh it was November, December, and January, I believe. I said, "We need to make a decision where we're going to go come April or late March. I'm going to present to the board and this is what we're going to present. I need to know where we're going to go because once we made a decision as a team, there's next steps that
013I need to take before I brought it to you guys." So we sat three different times and as we were talking and back and forth and looking at more resources and going back and forth the question arose of why are we changing because as we dug into the new pilots and what we currently have there's not a discernable difference in what they were experiencing. So the conversation came up why are we changing the um the team decided to stick with preview math which is our current resource for multiple reasons. one, they already have a familiarity with it. So, it's not going to be learning a new resource. The high school teachers found it important that they could then dig into it deeper. We're going to do um PD with the team with Reveal Math should
014be approved come August and they're going to be able to come with new questions saying, "We taught this for six years. How can I also utilize this better than I currently am?" We also um during the research phase with real math found that the 68 edition is being rewritten. this was this year. So we had an opportunity to look at the new addition which addressed some of those concerns we identified in that framing our our picture conversations back 15 months ago. So after multiple deliberations, multiple conversations, the team came to consensus that reveal math was the place we wanted to stay. Go ahead and click next. So it became my next part is I look at the budget. What pieces fit into our adoption? What do impact our budget? because um what we observed this
015year um the cost of material adoption 612 nearly doubled in the last six years. So what I brought to you guys six years ago now cost twice as much. Uh it's pretty pretty startling. I initially went to Mr. Borne um eight months ago or more when we were doing our initial budget said this what I'm looking at doing a 20% increase. Is that enough? Sure. Sure, we'll go with that then. I started getting budgetary quotes back in September and I was like, um, I need to make an adjustment here. Can we do some of the pieces? And, you know, we kind of made sure we're ready for that. Um, and then even as you looked at in the board packet moving forward here, we're kind of splitting math between two budget cycles now with high
016school being this year, elementary being next year. So, as we go down into the future, we're not going to try to do a K12. We're doing 612 and K5 separate across two budget cycles. Um, another piece is as I worked with the publishers is how do we account for professional development needs of our staff to implement for us what are the same resources but hopefully be able dig a little bit deeper or provide some new insight into how we can use them better. Um, so inside your packet I share with you guys the budgetary components to it. Um, we took the allocated aotment that was budgeted for this year, applied it against the K12 purchase, and our work with the publisher to roll over the remaining part of the K5 adoption into next year for
017a six-year adoption of 612 and a seven-year for K5. So that way, we're going to stagger those two um adoption purchases. roll out will include professional development coming this summer. Once we agree on sport approves proposal, I'll move forward with the publishers, get us on the calendar hopefully during inservice um to do some online learning with the publisher and their trainers. Um there's also resources available digitally through their resource library um how to use various tools and the like from an implementation lens. Um, I'll work with their technology integration teams to make sure everything's rostering is set and ready to go. Get the teacher their materials as soon as we possibly can and all those components are ready to go um for the fall um September teachers are utilizing in the classroom. Lastly, >> last
018one. >> That's it. >> All right. Um, and as we go into the fall, we will, um, I know the high school team is going to be looking at our essential learning and revisiting how what they identify as key and critical and, um, guaranteed and how they're utilizing the resources to support those learning components. Um, I just wanted to be able give you guys kind of a synopsis of what how we got to where we at so that we can ask any questions or or the like, but you'll be asked later in the board presentation to approve uh the proposal as um for the K5 working with our card now and math expressions which we've had since 2013 and reveal math with McGraill. I had a question on the reveal. Math you mentioned that at
019the 612 level they're doing some revisions. Will those be done? I mean are we implementing just right at the neck and neck? You know what I mean? >> Yep. 68 is done and it's completed. We looked at the we had digital access to the those resources. So as we start next fall the sixth through 8th grade will have the new addition. >> The high school is not updating it. So we'll have the same resources we currently have. They make changes as they go along in a digital world. If they find an error in the text, they modify it. Uh they make those adjustments as as needed. >> Were you able to you talked about the pilot? Um so you did that last fall. >> Yeah. >> Right. So you just kind of squeeze in their
020like would you say unit? >> Yeah. We try to so we try to take a unit of study that the students would have gotten through for example right now I'm feel math and use HMH instead for the same unit. >> Um I got to give credit to our teachers. It's a lot more work for them because it's a brand new resource. They don't it's they said they had to relearn teaching from that. Um but we did an entire unit of study all the assignments assessments and the checks and the quizzes. So, and had physical copies for the kids to work with, digital access for the kids to get into. So, it was like they were teaching if they were adopting it for next fall. >> Okay. And then so really the only thing that's changing
021well outside of you know probably some minor things is that 6 through eight section >> for us as a district. Yes, it'll be a new addition. It's going to be very similar. Um there's there's some tweaks and updates as far as what they call a few of the items as far um from the structure of a lesson. Um but u there's a famili already a familiarity with it having utilized previous edition for most of our staff. >> Yeah. When you I think you said this just want to clarify you addressed the question or the the problems that you had. you had talked to the vendor about and that you know and they determined that they were addressing or you determined that they were addressing those issues. >> Some of the some of the shortcomings that
022we identified in that initial conversation as we went through like HMH or even Sabbath don't exist yet in a digital in a in a text series. Some of them are teachers would would really appreciate if text would individualize the student level where they created adaptive instruction at the student level instead of more broadly you know that isn't that widely available or accessible. Um other things um you know ability to access for videos was another example that teachers you know being able to provide resources for parents to retach. Well, one of the advantages we have some teachers like Miss Marks who have created a library of videos to reveal math already. >> So, she's able to rec will be able to continue to use those. You know, some of the shortcomings of that original um series
023or one we currently are on, we've filled or supplemented to improve upon for our students. >> Okay. Anybody else? I was just wondering um with each of these there's different allocart items and so the if the contract itself is like six years or seven years do you have an opportunity each year to change those alle cart items if you to either like add or remove or modify if you feel like there's something that's more beneficial for the students >> there's a couple things that are set one of the things I have to do is I take projections of enrollment and we got to figure out roughly how many seats of licenses copies of text we need a nice part with our digital and it being a consumable component for our high school and most and
024our elementary school is that I can shift if we have a bubble of kids I'm able to move those seats as a follow the bubble of kids that's the main one that we see shifts or changes um if we were to identify an additional cost um depending on the the outlay of the budgetary outlay we might not be able to do that outside of a budget adoption. Um, as you can see, some of those items are pretty expensive when you start compiling them. Um, if it's a small thing like I know one of the things that may come up is um, Mr. Campbell came from North Branch, brought with him a resource for additional math um, practice worksheets. He had access to this resource. be able to provide that resource to other teachers at a
025subscription cost of $50 or $100 a teacher for a year is not exorbent versus thousands of dollars for consumable for students. >> Um so there is a little bit of flexibility but not not a whole lot. We don't do a whole lot of shifting between an adoption and the end of a resource um window which right now we're doing a sixear cycle as we work through. >> Is that like a normal cycle for something like this? just thinking like as I mean I don't know how much things change over time but six years or seven years seems like a long time. >> It's the reuse cycle currently by the state of Wisconsin for their standards. That's where it initially stemmed from. And then what I did is I had to lay it on a grid
026and looked at all the different content areas across our district and try to strategically place them because ELA and math are the most expensive. >> So I can't put ELA and math on the same year all the way through. So I had to stagger them a little bit. So they're not always aligning with that EPI standard option. And then but um with those re renewal standards every six years, our subscriptions also fall in that. It also seem to be pretty industry standard for that six-y year window is what is where most districts land because of that standards adoption timeline as well. >> Okay. Thanks. >> So, is that a annual cost then? >> The cost is a onetime cost for six years. >> Better than I thought. >> No, that's still a lot. >> I
027have I do have a question about the the cost. Um, did the two publishers did they have a conversation Uh why the cost increase apart from just like increase of expense? Did they switch a platform? >> All the publishers I I received as we piloted and we're getting narrowed in especially the pilot ones. I reached out to the publishers and asked for budgetary quotes. >> There's several all others that um team wanted to look at as well. I reached out for budgetary codes and there was no way our district could afford it. worse than what I presented what I presented to you guys is a lot of money and not I don't think it's a small amount of money. Um there were other resources that were doubling these costs. Um but the industry definitely has
028gotten much more expensive um in the last six years. I don't know enough about it to be able pinpoint the exact location. Why >> I was I was curious. I was just curious because I know like why our costs, you know, go up and such, but I was just curious if like in another six years is it going to double and get, you know what I mean? Or did something significantly happen within the last couple years where they were like this is why our cost is this? I was just curious. >> Any other questions? >> All right. Thanks, Brian. We will move on. I'll call the board meeting to order. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which
029it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Roll call. Matt Fry, Tasha Raer >> here, >> Don Milky >> here, >> Johnny Scheler >> here, >> Mccertie >> here. >> Ronnie, would you please read the mission statement and the rules of the meeting? >> The mission of the school district of St. Croy Falls is to provide a supportive student centered learning environment that cultivates character, fosters academic excellence, and embraces diversity. Our board meeting rules are to focus on the mission and vision statements of the district. Come prepared, be respectful of others and open and accepting of ideas, actively participate, avoid side conversations, and to remember that our board meetings are in open form. >> All right. Thank you. I'll start go through the principal comments. We'll start with Mr.
030Wilson. >> Sounds good. Thanks. Um short uh short list here this week. We had spring break obviously last week, so a little shorter than normal. Um, Tuesday the 10th was uh the ACT for all our juniors. So, uh, testing session and the day went very very well. The proctors were really pleased with what appeared to be 100% effort. Um, care to share how it went. You don't have to say like specifically for you, but thoughts on the test. >> It was interesting. >> So, >> no, it felt I think it went good though. >> Yeah. So we uh we set that we make that day kind of a special day for the juniors and the testing atmosphere is a very strong focus and with test prep the week prior, you know, ramping up to it.
031Um the ACT handful of years ago became way less important than it used to be. Um but it's starting to make a comeback now with more and more colleges asking for scores again. You know, it went optional when CO came and a handful of universities were almost all universities said we don't need that anymore. But it's starting to bounce back. Um and students can also use the their ACT scores for the technical college world for admissions and um scholarships as well. A lot of scholarship or offerings required or request an ACT scores. So that was good and it's nice to have it done. Right. >> Great. Um winter athletics obviously all wrapped up and uh I don't know I haven't been outside since 7 a.m. but apparently it's nice out today. So spring sports are
032happening. >> Care to share how how's it going so far? >> Uh good. We just had our track I'm in track and field and we just had our first meet on Tuesday and it went pretty good for everybody. Strong first meet and we have one tomorrow at River Falls. >> Both are outdoor >> uh indoor Tuesday is at River Falls too and is indoor. >> Then you have one two one more indoor at Ashlin I believe. >> Yeah, I think so. >> Before we start shifting out. >> Yeah. >> It'll be nice when it goes outside. >> Yeah. Yeah. And and uh oddly enough, I believe this year we will have a baseball game in March. We schedule one every year, and it never happens for obvious reasons, but this next Tuesday, the 31st, um
033is an away game on a turf field and a high of 51 degrees currently. So, it's going to happen, which is probably once every 10 years that we'll pull off a game of fresh. So, kudu. Thank you, brother. Uh, last thing I have, uh, a Care 11, uh, news reporter was here yesterday to interview Marley Haps. So, I've got, uh, I'll read through this, but I don't have all this memorized, but Marley was accepted, uh, into the pro into a program called Silent Heroes, untold stories of the US Marine Corps in World War II through National History Day. So, as you guys know, Marley, Mrs. Apes is big into history and National History Day. Um teachers lead a group of students through a research project um around the life of a member of the US
034Marine Corps who served during World War II. Uh the teachers develop strategies to help their students think like a historian, conduct original research and draft a profile for a publication by the Veterans Administration and National History Day. And so they came, the news reporter was here yesterday and interviewed a handful of the kids that will be presenting um their people. Um, so she was here and the news reporter was here for about an hour and a half, met with the kids in class and then um met with Mrs. Haps for a little while too. So I don't know when that will be coming out, but we'll be sure to share that for you. So >> very good. Very cool. >> Thank you, Mr. Wallace. >> Yeah. Uh, right before break, we had our middle school
035talent show and it was wildly entertaining. um every kind of potential thing you could think under the sun and things you probably wouldn't think of uh were were done on stage. So, it was uh kudos to um kudos to Terra and the student council and Kirk for for doing the sound and lighting. It was it was awesome. Uh kids had a blast and it was a nice way to send us off in the break. Um next up for the student council of the middle school is our uh dance and activity night. Should be a wildly awkward fun time. Um, and that's coming up here in the April 10th, I believe. So, kids are looking forward to that. And then our youth wrestlers over the uh over the break there. We had 26 qualifiers for Youth
036State. Um, a large contingent of them are from middle school. So, uh they're all heading down there, both boys and girls, to compete uh starting I'm leaving tomorrow. So, yeah. So, they'll be heading down and representing our wrestling club. And then last thing on my list here, um our forward exam kicks into full swing next week. So, kids are getting ready for that to uh be doing those Wisconsin exams. So, >> very good. Thank you, Miss Plat. >> Same. Just kidding. We're we are starting testing, too. So, we're right in the in the throws of test prep right now. Um, we had parent teacher conferences just before break. They're optional conf conferences, so they aren't as well attended as the first round, but reasonably well attended. We had an awards ceremony for the end of
037the second trimester, and kids were awarded for penmanship, um, character, quality work, math facts, and reading growth. And they are so proud of themselves. Um, absolutely adorable. And um I can't remember if I told you this or not, but our Battle of the Books team won first place at state again this year. And that was out of 234 schools. And the grade band is through fifth grade. It's for but we only have fourth graders on the team. So it's huge. And this year, without any doubt, was the hardest questions I've seen in 15 years of coaching Battle of the Books. So, they're very excited. And Mrs. Klein and I have to have a sleepover with them in the library. Back replacement surgery to be scheduled soon after. >> Bring your air mattress. >> Not an
038air mattress big enough in the world. All right. Thank you and congratulations. >> Uh two presenter comments. >> Yeah, I'll spring it on Jacob now, too. But we're going to plan on having the student uh board member update portion uh in April. So, there'll be a brief time. You don't have to have a dissertation plan, but a brief time for you to share some of the happenings of St. Croy Falls High School or anything else student related. >> Okay. >> And if you got nothing, it can be well, we got nothing. It's been a quiet week or whatever the case may be. Fair enough. So, we'll add that. That'll be on the agenda for April. We never formally finalized that. A couple of things happening at the state capital. The legislators adjourned the regular session
039and they still have yet to um identify what to do with the state surplus. Um that'll be in process and we anticipate something happening although we don't know the timeline. The only thing there's nothing that's a guarantee because again it's not u completely established yet. But there's signals from both sides that something to rectify the special education funding that I talked about not too terribly long ago to meet the 42% and 45% threshold originally established in the budget will take place. That's about 200 or $220 million that I believe um they'll do some things with. Then the following conversations are about a combination of tax relief or tax rebates to individuals or families and so forth. And so they're going to work through that. Um and hopefully we do get that additional percentage with respect
040to special ed funding because again that then serves as a decrease to our fund uh 10 to fund 27 transfer which is a de facto increase in fund 27. So or fund 10, pardon me, our general fund. So, um, we're hoping that that does take place, and it appears that it will in some way, shape, or form. The timeline's unclear. Um, there were three bills that made out of the legislative session that are on the governor's desk to be signed, so they're not law yet until the governor signs. Um, I'm not certain if they will all be signed or um potentially vetoed. Uh the first one is a prohibit pro prohibiting education employers from entering into certain agreements related to information about alleged immoral conduct by an employee and civil immunity for information provided to
041a prospective employer. This hit the news a couple of years ago um or within the last year or so with respect to some districts that have engaged in non-disclosure agreements with staff members which frankly is shocking to me uh depending upon their conduct. I haven't been part of an organization that's chosen to do that. St. Cray Falls hasn't chosen to do that. We had a records request for any agreements that we might have on file. It was good to respond. No records exist um not too terribly long ago. Uh but the the point is is that there would be some and again it's not always to hide nefarious conduct. It might be to protect identity or you know other things along those lines. Um but uh in some cases districts did enter in agreements with
042staff members that um might have engaged in some conduct that you really don't want to pass along to other school districts or want to have further ramifications to their license or their professional, you know, ability to be a teaching professional in the future. And some of those things didn't happen because of these non-disclosure agreements. Um that's one of the pieces. So my hope is that the governor signs the bill so it becomes law. Um I don't anticipate that means any shocking ch I know for a fact it's no change for SR fall school district would engage in that conduct anyway but it does make it it would make it illegal. Um and they're also and you might have heard on the on the news from various outlets that they're looking at increasing um uh investigative
043procedures at the DPI with respect to professional licenses and and uh so forth and so on. And that I don't believe is completely figured it out yet. um with resp respect to circumstances involving um you know children. So uh some important stuff. The other one is operation of drones over school property and providing a penalty for that. So as you know we have for example like the football team flies a drone above their practice on occasion not typically during games uh but flies their drone above practice to take video. Um because back in the old days you'd have somebody standing there with a video camera recording what was going on. now you can send a drone up and and do that. That doesn't mean that we can't do that. It just means the board has
044to approve when that's going to happen. We'll have to have policy developed around that if that gets signed into law. Personally, I also think that's a good idea because frankly, there's nothing that precludes anybody currently from flying a drone wherever they feel like. And I mean, what are you going to do if you have a drone flying around school district property? It's not safe. And frankly, it's potentially an invasion of privacy, although it's a public building. Um, >> we already have a policy against that or pertaining to drones and when you can use them. >> You know, I'll have to double check. I know >> there is. Perfect. I thought >> I thought there was wasn't 100% certain, but it may have to be updated and we the the backdrop then would be to include
045a board approved approval portion of it. So, you know, if we know they're going to fly one at football practices, we'll have them develop a request in that regard to come forward and you folks would approve it. So, >> yeah. Um, and then the last one that came through u for potential signatures, peoples wearing traditional tribal regalia at a graduation ceremony or school sponsored event, which was allowed in the past with some modifications to the bill that um better specify what traditional tribal regalia would include. So, That's what I got for you. Some interesting things happening. Um, aside from that, you've heard about the cool stuff that was going on. I'll echo what Mr. Wallace said that the middle school um, talent show was absolutely phenomenal. It was >> It was the best 60 minutes,
046I think, of my recent life. It was fantastic. Some of the talent that the kids have and just the fact that they're willing to get up and >> and perform in front of their peers is is cool. And they did a great job. It was a lot of fun. Did you record it? >> Oh, no. >> Can you tell us about some of the acts? Like just >> Sure. Mostly singing, dancing. >> There there was some singing. There was some dancing. There was a student who wrapped. Um there was like some skits. Um there was some standup comedy. There was >> a drum a drum set. Um >> couple of kids did art. >> Yep. >> Like they would >> do slashpainted. Yeah. So it was at this spring all fields. It was it was
047really it was something else. It was fun. So >> very good. >> All right. So we'll move on to the board uh comments related to training. I was not here in February. So I will talk about the state convention which already feels like it was a long time ago, >> wasn't it? >> Two months. Um, so the the first thing I uh went to was the uh data uh session, building a data informed student driven district. Um, and lo and behold, I walked in there and one of our former staff members was one of the presenters, uh, Zack Johnson. He was there uh, and he started talking about Balsson Lake and I'm like, you look familiar. And he said, well, you know, I used to work at St. Croy. And I'm like, well, I'm the
048board president. So, uh, so it was good to see him again and do all that, you know, talk to him a little bit before it actually started. Uh, but he works for, uh, well, it was Watertown and Wise, is it Wise Dashed? Do you know >> Wise Local 10? >> Yeah. Yep. Um, so that's, you know, who presented this and they talked about their three-year journey. uh how the of course there was software and you know company that you know that Zach works for uh is works on helping us districts do their their journey uh you know just talks about you know how the year one uh is just kind of that first step into looking pulling data from Skyward or whatever your systems are attendance ACT scores data assessments etc and then you know
049you start you know looking at that then you start throwing And uh in year two you start looking at um more data you know start access accessing you know additional systems whatever we have basically in the end of that is basically they can pull it into these things create dashboards uh look at it obviously there's there's training and different things board members can have access to it read only you know type things to go in if we so chose to do that. Um and basically you know in the end they were saying you know if you build it they will use it type of thing. Uh you know you know and I didn't go there to you know because I thought we were not using data. I just thought it was an interesting you know
050session to go to um and listen you know learn about how others are doing it. And of course the technology piece pies my interest a little bit too. Um, so if we're interested in something like that, we do have some contacts there. Uh, the next one was a keynote. Um, and I got to apologize. She was, uh, in the one of the more recent magazines that we get. Uh, but I just wrote down the ESPN lady. Um she was uh you know kind of a re well not kind of she was a reporter but she talked about I thought she was very good and maybe one of the better speakers that uh I heard down there and maybe it was because a lot of the sports annotations and examples and she was talking about Michael
051Jordan and the Bulls and you know stuff that obviously I you know was a fan of back in the day and all those kind of things. Uh but in the end she just talked it was about public schools and they have a special needs son and how potentially you know public schools save in the end saved his life you know gave him an opportunity he ended up being a you know they found a some kind of I don't know if it was I think it was water polo uh that he ended up being really good at got him into college you know all that kind of stuff stuff that when he was younger they never thought he was going to you know be able to to get get to college, graduate and all that kind
052of stuff. But his teachers and the public school system and all that kind of stuff really resonated, you know, that uh or again she said it kind of save potentially saved his life because who knows what path he would have went down, you know, to have the people looking out for him. Uh we had another we did one of these last year. It wasn't very successful, but calling out board presidents. Uh basically, oh before I get to Thursday, we had the uh delegate assembly which Craig sat in and listened to too. Uh if you remember, we had the a unique situation where we had uh two things uh kind of on the to vote on and basically were the opposite of each other, right? And if I remember right, neither one passed. So basically we're
053status quo. Uh well the the one to to not advocate for decoupling passed. >> Yeah. >> The one to advocate for decoupling didn't pass. So technically yes status quo. So generally as it stands right now the WSB's stance would be that they would advocate for maintaining the current approach to school voucher funding and reflection on the on the uh school district revenue cap districts that are impacted by the voucher funding. So generally, yes, it's the same, but one passed and one failed. >> Yeah. Great. Um, but you know, it was a much better RAM, I think, this year than last couple years. The technology worked, so that helped speed things along. There was still plenty along. There was a lot of motion, you know, uh trying to adjust the >> thing, amendments and, you know,
054doing all that and going back and uh but, you know, was definitely worth it, I guess, this time. So, >> I understand why you went to that, but Craig, why did you go? >> Seems like a unique brand of torture. >> Morbid curiosity. Um I was very curious about that and I was also curious about I have to refresh my memory but there was another portion that came up with respect to um advocacy. Oh gosh. Anyway, I don't remember but there were two very specific things that I wanted to see what the connotation of the of the group was >> and in the nature of the um discussion and both of them worked out the way that I would prefer preferred. It's not all about me, but that was that was the curiosity piece. Yeah.
055And again, in 16 years of doing this, I've never seen dueling um items on the agenda. So, it was very interesting to see how that went. >> Was it the one where they were trying to change the membership? >> Oh, that's right. Yeah, it was the membership one. Yes, that's correct. So, that that was voted down. So, you're either a WASB member or you're not, and we'll see what the ramifications for membership means long term. >> Yep. Thank you. Thank you for your input. Um, so then the next one, the next day was calling board presidents. Uh, so they did try to split us in the northwest, north, central, you know, whatever, all the different districts. And unfortunately, uh, my group, there was only our group, I should say. Uh, we had us, Oyola, Spooner,
056Somerset, and they, uh, I can't even remember the name. Real small district northeast of Spooner. Um, Uh gosh, I can't remember if I somehow he fit into our our section, too. Uh but he was getting off as the board president, so he just said that I don't know if I'll be any help. Uh so what was interesting to talk, you know, they had us talk about current things going on and no matter the size of the district, it seemed like we all were kind of going through similar issues with financing and staffing and, you know, all that kind of stuff. We only had an hour, not even an hour to talk, but the the premise is uh basically to, you know, we exchanged some contact information. um nobody has taken the initiative to reach out
057to all of us that were at least there and then try to spread it out to you know we want to get a unity you know what would our region consist of type thing uh there uh to kind of start talking about this some of the other you know regions or cases or however they have done it have had some pretty successful meetings uh with you know getting together uh at they kind of rotate schools or pick a few different somewhat centrally located schools where they, you know, bounce around through once once a month, once a quarter uh to talk about those types of things. Uh so they they've been finding benefit for it. So uh now that I'm reminding myself about that, I'll probably reach out to them and uh at least see if
058there's any interest in things. And I, you know, sometimes I rely on the superintendent to help gather that information. So shoot, I just lost and Marie Anderson is the ESPN lady just >> You're welcome. There we go. Technology. Uh then I attended a blueprint for AI. Um and they talked a lot about you know different things. uh like the first thing that they talked about was just making uh again you know AI you know is I deal quite a bit with this at work as far as you know using it and being encouraged to strongly use it and different things uh but they talk a lot about how AI is not here to replace people you know it's here to help augment give it routine tasks give it that kind of stuff and you know
059automation you know obviously robotic type stuff is in there too but it's a was a lot about uh automation. Uh simple things like uh you know obviously they're selling it. Uh but uh the first section they talked about was your business office and how you know you you know this district I didn't write down who presented it but um how this district was able to use a Google doc app or not a Google doc but a Google app or something that was compatible with Google and oh notebook LM is the name of it and they were able to take like all their contracts, student handbooks, employee handbooks, all that kind of stuff and put it out out there and then people can go out instead of calling the office and asking questions. How much PTO
060do I have? How much uh what's my what do I get for bereavement relief? You know, those types of things, they can just type it in and it goes through the things and finds out what you get. You know, those types of things. So, eliminating uh you know, phone calls and that kind of stuff. So again, not necessarily looking at the reduced staff, but a reduction in maybe the work or becoming more efficient and different things, which you know is common to what uh we hear, you know, where I work and stuff too. Uh using it u you know, they talked about using it to create RFPs for different things. You know, plug in the information. Uh that's just using Gemini uh automation and robotics um equipment, you know, different things that you can do
061with your HVAC systems, smart buildings, you know, all that kind of stuff. Um and the you know one of the presenters was a uh well he was a superintendent but also his wife was the uh um AI curriculum developer whatever director for one of the technical schools down by Milwaukee. Uh so they he had a lot of you know feedback from her and what she sees as well too. you know, obviously talked about teaching and learning, you know, creating AI AI policies, frameworks, uh, those types of things. So, your staff know, not just teachers, but everybody kind of knows what we can and shouldn't be doing with it. Educating, it's not going away. Um, you know, so embracing it and, you know, and also being able to use it, teachers to use it and to
062teach it, right? Here's how a responsible responsible AI, right? Is how we can what we can do with it. um you know and obviously talking about validating your you know research and all that kind of stuff too because AI at times gets confused um and different things like that. So it was I thought it was a very good uh session um again on the technology side of things but uh it's there I think you know I know we've got policies and stuff and um in place and different things but we you know potentially might even want to look at you know what's what is our AI framework what is our you know uh strategic not strategic plan but strategy you know with it and different things. So um then of course we had another u
063keynote um Mickey Smith. He was the saxophone guy. He played a lot, you know, music and just talked a lot about how um, you know, that was u he was on the cover of the most recent magazine if you know you have to see if you happen to see that if you get those um about how um you know playing the saxophone was kind of his out and different things like that. He's a teacher and a motivational speaker and still talks a lot about music and uh kind of his journey uh to and how how he came to be, you know, there. Uh he, you know, had some messages, keep it going, you know, because, you know, obviously when you first learn how to play an instrument, you're not very good. But his mom, you
064know, his family, you know, just kept encouraging. His grandma told him he was going to win a Grammy. and you know I think it was his grandma and eventually he did win one but it took many times of getting there and different things like that to to get there. Um and it just staying true to what he wanted to do and different things. Um then uh the other one you know the superintendent evaluation framework we talked about that a little bit probably a year ago started talking about it. Uh but when I went through it it was enormous gigantic a lot of work. Apparently, they've revamped it. And I think it's something that we should take a strong look at. Uh we could start it at any time. We could start it now. You know,
065to get ready for, you know, the end of the year. Um I'll be ded if I I have it cost somewhere and put it in here, of course, but it's not it's not it's less than $1,000 a year. So, I think, you know, it would help us track everything, you know, throughout the year. It's all uh in in Everything's saved obviously in the online portal. Um, and I see here I also want to say there's well a couple of things, right? I don't think that like last year when we did it and I don't know that you've ever did you ever have like a signature saying we reviewed this with the superintendent was technically supposed Oh, did you >> on the superintendent? >> Yeah. We usually would have the soup and the board president sign
066it when we reviewed it. Sign and date it. >> All right. Well, that's good because I didn't know that we were doing that. Maybe I didn't last year, but probably still that told me to. So, >> well, >> I learned from the best. >> Yeah. Um, so, you know, so, but it handles like all the legal requirements and different things that you're supposed to do. Um, it it it helps with that kind of stuff. But again, for the um the amount of money, you know, it's minimal. I think it's probably something we should look at. I did reach out to you guys when I think you were on your way home when I was texting you about it. We have money in the budget to be able to do that. Um different things. So, >>
067yeah, what I'll do, I just made note. I I'll get a link so that you can send it to you folks so you can evaluate it and then if we want to formalize it, we'll communicate with WB to take care of. >> Yeah. So, thank you. No problem. >> All right. And then the last one, you know, the keynote speaker on Friday, um, talked about, you know, he was a former superintendent, uh, might have been superintendent. Do you remember that? >> I think so. >> Yeah. I think I was at the thing when he won it one year. Um, uh, so he talked about, you know, assuming good intent and your students, you know, staff, all that kind of stuff. you, you know, never know what other people are carrying, you know, personal items, your
068personal things going on. Uh, always be in control, you know, of whether you want to, you're always in control if you want to add weight to them or lift some weight off of them. Uh, be present and curious about others. Uh, we're all better together going on. Uh, mental health, of course, you know, talking about that still being out there. Those are the things that he's hoping to address and things like that. So again, another >> the consent agenda. >> A motion by Don. >> I'll second. >> Second by Ronnie. Any further discussion? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. We'll move on to curriculum and policy. >> The ECCP program applications for the fall of 2026 as presented. Have a motion by Ronnie. >> A second. >> Second
069by Tasha. Any further discussion. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. Motion carries. Next is the to vote on the K through 12 math material adoption based on the presentation that Mr. Craig presented earlier tonight. Motion. >> I'll go ahead. Um, I will go ahead and make that motion to approve the um, presented K through 12 math material adoption. >> We have a motion by Tasha. >> I'll second. >> Second by Ryan. Any further discussion? We'll do a roll call vote on that. >> Matt Rice. Tasha Rager. >> Yes. >> Don Milky, >> yes. >> Ronnie Scheler, >> yes. >> Brent Mccertie, >> yes. All right, we'll move on to financial and last uh meeting as well, we went over the 2627 CISA shared services contract. >> We'll look for a motion
070to approve that. Uh there was there's no changes, right? >> As presented, then >> I'll make a motion to approve the 2627 CISA shared services contract as presented. >> Motion by Don. >> Second. Second by Tasha. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Oh, better do a roll call. Thank you, >> Matt. Bryce, Tasha Ragger, >> yes. >> Don Milky, >> yes. >> Ronnie Scheler, >> yes. >> Brent Mccertie, >> yes. Move on to the go for healthcare LLC contract for athletic training services. Again, that was presented to us at the last meeting as well. Make a motion to approve that. I'll make a motion to approve the go for healthcare LLC contract for athletic trainer services as presented. >> We have a motion by Ronnie. >> I'll second >> second by Don. Any further
071discussion. All those in favor say I. >> Oh, sorry. Roll call vote. Yes. Thank you. Sheena Rager, >> yes. >> Don Milky, >> yes. >> Ronnie Scheler, >> yes. >> Brent McCertie, >> yes. So, we'll move on to the partnership development agreement for the facility planning services with Nexus Solutions. Uh, I'll take a motion to approve that. Again, that was in our packet and discussion last meeting. I'll go ahead and make that motion to approve the partnership development agreement for facility planning services Nexus Solutions LLC. >> Motion by Tasha. >> I'll second. >> Second by Ronnie. Any further discussion? Um I was just going to ask if you could uh just go over the So we use them. We have what? Three years to use that. We don't pay everything up front, right? >> You
072don't pay. We're going to pay nothing. >> Yeah. >> Up front. So then what happens is if we go actually go to referendum and it passes, those costs are seated into their cost of that later on. So if we would work that that if we use them as a construction manager, that's where their costs are recouped. If we don't, we would get a separate invoice for this planning process. So, the only thing we're tied at the hip on is to engage in this um facility planning um and uh referendum planning and support, that sort of stuff. And if it doesn't pass and we just go back to business as usual, we will get an invoice from them for those services that there will be a deliverable product and there'll be presentations for the board. So,
073you'll be in the loop on what all of that looks like. If we do pass the referendum and then we go the route of hiring a construction manager and they get the job, then we would not pay anything. We pay their construction management fees as we are working through dealing with other general contractors in that whole process. So you think of it as two separate compartmentalized things. If you carry on, there's no separate invoice. If you do not, there's a separate invoice. And generally like there's there's scenarios with uh you know as I mentioned Krauss Anderson Myron all of the major construction companies that either have construction outfits themselves or they're basically GC's and Nexus is no different. Their slant is more around the facilities in from the um energy efficiency exemption days. Uh but
074point is is that if you use like a a Krauss who's technically not a construction company, they're a general contractor. they would engage in the similar thing and then of course if you would get the referendum and go with them to build the referendum that's when they're making their money. So it's a similar approach you're using in this approach. The only uh main difference is that if you went with Nexus as the construction manager, you know, they're the outside entity. They're not performing any of the construction work. So they best basically supervise your GC, which with GC's that are operating for large construction projects will supervise themselves. They serve as their construction manager, but then they might supervise their own crews and whatnot, too. I'm not sure if that's clear, but like my will roll
075in and they have they'll be your construction manager, but they also have a masonry crew and they have a you know, whatever you name it. A lot of the crews under the sun and other things are subcontracted out. So, it kind of depends on what entity you're working with, but it is a similar approach. The difference is is that Nexus is not classified as a construction company or a general contractor. >> Do you have any idea if this were to bill out as a standalone billing because we did not move forward or did not have a successful referendum um what that cost might look like? >> I I want to say and I can get that number from from Nexus for sure for certain. I want to say it's like 10,000 or less. >> Okay.
076And I think there's a difference between what what the size of the school district and the scope of the projects you're talking about. But from this, we'll have a comprehensive facility study that we'll be able to utilize for the next multiple years that may uh well, it'll definitely be a companion to our 10ear facility plan or perhaps even replace that depending upon what that interface looks like, which can then be updated with regular frequency, too. So, um yeah, and I could even be on the high side with that. the the this is um it'll be a um an intensive process, but on the same hand, their bread and butter comes from being the construction manager, right? So, this is more of a service they offer than it is um a money-making venture. But I'll get
077that number so that you folks know for sure. >> It just if it were going to be 250,000, I'd know that number up front. No, I have no idea what we're >> No, I know for a fact it's not hundreds of thousands of dollars at all. >> Doesn't sound like it's even tens plural of thousands of dollars. >> No, I don't believe so. >> When would that process start? Anyway, >> well, if uh the contract's approved, we will um have a sit down one hour kickoff meeting with the admin team in LA. Um and any point in the future, in fact, the admin team and I just carved out a date, not knowing whether or not it'll be approved. So if it is, we'll solidify that date and get the contract sent back to them
078and hit the ground running. So within the next couple weeks, >> following a timeline like I mentioned. So we're going to put a bunch of stuff together to get periodic updates. We'll have to do some fairing uh pairing down and you know better understanding what we want to do. Um, I'm sure Nexus will be involved in some of that those conversations too with you folks and then um begin to talk about that with the community in a broader sense. >> Any other discussion? >> All right, we'll have to do a roll call vote too, I suppose, just in case. >> Matt Grace, Tasha Raer, >> yes. >> Dan Milky, >> yes. >> Ronnie Scheler, >> yes. Mccertie. >> Yes. >> Do we have any announcements? >> I do not. >> Or um so April will
079be our normal uh committee meeting. Um well, first we have April 1st, the joint get pack and BOE meeting at CISA. Uh I know Craig and I are going. Um if anybody else wants to, you're welcome. Don't forget to vote on April 7th. Uh we have the regular meeting on April 8th. Um and then we are we have the canvasing on April 14th in the fine arts center. Um and then we are still doing the Monday meeting on the 27th. Right. >> Yes. Because that will be swearing in a new member and um I think the board reorganite too. >> Yeah. It is the board reorganization. Why? >> Yeah, last time we thought Ronnie would still be here and they would take over. >> I thought we reorganized the following one. I don't have a
080statement game. We don't reorg until the regular part of the meeting though. >> And it's also because Ronnie's the clerk >> who swears in the new board member. And then so after that portion I think you can >> sign or you can be the public in the in the uh >> Mr. Wilson. I don't mean to put you on the spot. What is the graduation date? my calendar 22nd, right? >> 26. >> May 22. >> 22nd. >> Yep. >> So, you know, I'll start thinking about that for board members. We usually have two up on the stage. Um I plan on meeting there. Unless somebody two other people really want to do it. So, just we don't have to have an answer tonight. Just wanted to bring it up to start thinking about it. Ronnie,
081will you discuss the rules in the meeting? Yeah, this was a quick one, so it was pretty easy to stay focused and be prepared for a nice job. >> All right, thank you. >> That's it. Right, we just need a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make the motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Motion by Don. >> Second by Dasha. All those in favor say I. >> I oppose. We are journed. Thank you.