001Sorry. >> We were chatting. Sorry. Great. >> I'd like to call the Canon City. Let's begin with the pledge. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Miss Mary, >> Mr. Al >> here. >> Mr. Alexander >> here. Mr. >> here. All right. First, we've got approval on the agenda. Mr. Hartman, are there any changes? >> There are one of which we discussed during work session. So this evening you have a change the agenda under 2C3B termination and then under 5 A2 is the slight adjustment to the total output cost on the action items for IT vehicles. So that's new change to the action item for fleet vehicles
002cost is listed as 25590. It should be 25490 for a total of 50,380. >> Thank you Mr. Hartman. We have an a motion to approve the agenda as amended. >> I move we approve the agenda as amended. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. Is there further discussion? >> Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Aubrey. >> I. >> Mr. Alexander. >> I. >> M. Mary. >> I. Mr. Miley. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Reer. >> I. Next we have the consent agenda. Would any board director like to pull off one of those items for further discussion? Hearing none. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> A motion to approve the consent agenda as written. >> Second. >> I have two seconds. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. Roll
003call, please. >> Mr. Albreight. >> I. >> Mr. Alexander. >> I. >> Miss. Mary. I. Mr. Miley. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Reer. >> I. Next, we have our newly positioned board members report. Would anyone like to share? >> I'll start. Um I feel like I was a teacher again. I had a summer vacation. That's kind of nice nice to have. Um but um under board members report, I mean, I know normally what we report is things that we've been doing, um how we're involved in school, what we're seeing, what we're feeling. Um, I I wanted to focus on what I'm I'm feeling, what I'm seeing, and here's kind of what I'm where I'm going with it. Um, here's some of the things that happened this summer. Um, my daughter was fortunate enough to work with
004Todd out of PBLO on uh the summer musical. Um, and I was just talking to Todd earlier that we had, not including Todd and Ryan, we had 14 Canyon City Yites that were involved with that um, PBlo Summer Musical. Um, and if you've been to one, they were always very um, awesome. Todd does a great job with them. Um, even before Todd when he wasn't doing it, they've been really pretty awesome. But it was so cool to see the number um that we had involved with it. Anyway, it was it was cool to see and it got me thinking >> uh about Canyon City and what Canyon City has going for us. Um we have a mayor that brags about our schools and he does it to a level that's that says how awesome we
005truly are. Um, and that really touched me. And then I went and Molly, I saw that you were there. I went to the grand grand opening of the St. Cloud Hotel. Um, and got a tour. Um, and a tour is worth it. You get to go see the speak easy in the back that open with the bookcase and is so cool. But just the fact that Unbridled put $20 million into getting that whole enterprise up and going. And while we were there, he mentioned that his son has moved to Canyon, that his daughter, who now runs the Standard Goal Cafe, which is right across the street from um the hotel, um has moved here and then he is now planning on moving here as well. Um we have people that are investing and interested in
006um Canyon City. Um and for all the right reasons and the schools are definitely one of those reasons. Um we have what I hope and I think all of us are doing this that um the park and wreck is looking at a new way to try to fund to make uh a pool finally happen for Kansas City. I think most of us are again cross fingers but optimistic that that um could finally go through and we could make that happen again um benefit our kids um and all of these things benefit our kids through other avenues as well. All the construction work we're doing and we have interns working with we have interns working at Unbridled. We have um people that were involved locally. Um speak personally, my son-in-law was one of the people working
007on the plumbing at St. Cloud Hotel. Um when my daughter's a dating, the guy who was working on some of the final touches with some of the hotel rooms, um the construction company was working there. um bringing jobs and it's bringing jobs to our kids and our graduates. Um and I'll just throw out one more that's coming. Um it's probably going to be a while before it comes. John Paulry um sold his business but bought the Abbey uh and is currently getting the event center up and going. It's going to be a while before he does, but all his kids graduated from Canyon City Schools. um are still to my knowledge in town and and working related to Canyon City. Um, and I, you know, I'm just looking forward to, you know, the next phase
008for the Abbey and and John Pauler and his investments and where, where that's going to take us. And again, all these people are connected with our schools and it just uh it created for me a summer of reflection and looking at all that. So, probably more than I normally share, but I thought I'd kind of get the ball rolling with that one. >> Thanks, Brett. I think that's more words than you've shared since you started on my grandpa brother. Um well well thank you for your kind words about the summer musical. I just want but that made me think too because I think I've always thought of myself as being a big picture thinker and how I fit in how what I'm I'm very focused about my program but how did that fit into the
009big picture of what we did for kids helping them become their best academic athletic and artistic selves. All that stuff is important, but bigger than that, especially this PBLO summer musical opportunity, and I hope someone's watching from their board, but I'll say it to them when I go visit them. The opportunity is is us to look beyond our schools and how our kids fit in the world. And I think we do a great job doing that. You spoke to lots of ways that that's happening. And that's how I always looked at this opportunity regionally. what what's beyond our kids so they don't just get the music theater experience or the musical experience they get at our high school, our one high school town. How can we provide opportunities for them to get a taste of
010what's out there regionally and in the world? And so they've always been really open to my kids and I've been honored to take over direct the last few years. But um but I've always looked at it as not just Kenyan city. It's just a I just I live in southern Colorado and this is where I can my world of influence and what can I do to help them. So thank you for making that point. And I did have a committee meeting with on CCOE and I don't think we did anything majorly important but it was good to see people. So I did my committee duty. >> Thanks Ty. Anybody else? I well I'll mention that this summer it's been fun driving by the high school and just last week driving by and turning up 12th
011and seeing the pile of stuff and then the absence of the quad pretty staggering um to see all that and staggering and exciting at the same time. I'm also having this summer firsthand experience with with uh process of internships. It's always been sort of removed from from us, but I have a granddaughter who's putting she's finishing up 120 hours at St. Thomas Moore Hospital and boy has she seen some stuff and it's been really a good opportunity. She's interested in the medical field and it's she's seen the whole broad spectrum of it all. Um, and it really makes me appreciate what that's uh providing for her as she thinks of moving forward in life. So, it's been re really reinforces for me how beneficial those experiences are for our kids. >> Thanks. um kind of
012piggy backing off of off of everybody with those sentiments about our community. Um been pretty heavily involved with the um meetings with the rec district and the school district trying to collaborate together um at least in some form of partnership um working towards a pool for the community. Um, so there's been so many people from the community that have been part of those. Um, and the optimism that I'm seeing within the community regarding the community um, has been really uplifting. you know, for I've been here for roughly 20 years in Canyon City and in that time frame, you know, you you get within certain circles of peoples and there's there's there's been a lot of down talk and and but you know, it seems like the more I talk to people, the more uplifting it
013is, the more prosperous people seem to be, the more open they are to the ideas of of growth and productivity and the new high school and the new stuff at Lincoln and the new stuff at uh McKinley and the new stuff that's going on at uh Skyline School versus ES. Well, that took me back for a minute. Um, but uh it's just been really positive from most of the people within the community with a with a look looking forward excitement. Um, and I see the same thing within the school. Um, we we're looking at in I've been involved in the construction meetings there with the school district as well. Um, helping uh Weber nun make sure that the finances are being appropriately handled. um looking at the new scoreboard opportunities and the new opportunities at
014the at the high school um uh stadium improvements um the ideas that are coming forward with that. And it's just it seems like it's just kind of all hitting at the same moment. You know, where it's like all of a sudden we're going to have this new wing in the high school. We're going to have a new stadium look to it and there's going to be new scoreboard, new technology and advertising opportunities for people within the community. and then you know potentially the the pool that that could be built there. Um and just being able to be a part of that is just absolutely a humbling experience. Um but I think the excitement level that I see within the community and and uh and that opportunity has been great and and having a new CFO
015on board is just exciting um for all of us and um I think there's just a huge huge boatload of optimism. So that's exciting. >> Well, I'm going to ditto everybody. um pool meetings with with Matt. I did have I just pretty much an open book. I struggling a little bit with some stuff in my personal life and and yesterday I got in my car to take a drive and I just started driving around. You know, there's the middle school, there's the addition a while ago at the high school, and I was marveling at the pile of debris and how well they did matching the two additions. And drove by the middle school and Washington, and there is so much that we've accomplished. We our facilities are beautiful. We've just it it's amazing to me
016how we've leveraged resources to accomplish all of that and and a a community that doesn't often approve those sorts of things and Adam's hard work to accomplish the most recent. It's it's just remarkable to me that that we've accomplished so much with so little resources. It's just so I was driving around town reminiscing of the really cool stuff going on and I went to a facilities court meeting lasted about 20 minutes and that's but thank you everyone. Great stuff going on here. I appreciate you starting with rolling that ball out Brett and because we all had something positive to share. So, thank you. And we're not normally this verbose in our speaking, but it's kind of a good orientation for you. >> We're making up for mis meetings. >> Yes, we are. All right. So,
017we don't have any words and kudos this evening. We do have a presentation by Superintendent Hartman. We've all been anxiously awaiting that. >> I have been anxiously awaiting this, too. Is that okay? I'm sure that we can do that or we can do a lapel if you want. >> Good. Looks like it's sounds like I'm excited to do this. um maybe keep a clock on me just a little bit just because this is something I probably have a natural tendency to really want to take some time with. So maybe I should start by saying I'm going to share with you some observations and impressions of my recent learning on trip that it's just a dream to be able to be part of. But my guess is that you may have some questions around application and
018what I'm thinking around um the school district and how we benefit from one person's experience. So engage me, right? And directors feel mic is working. I don't know if it's working online, but it's not working in the room. >> Make sure it's green. >> It is. >> Yeah. >> Maybe see if you can come slightly closer to me. Better. >> Perfect. >> Okay. So um as you know I thank you for that I was invited to be part of um travelbased learning experience. Mom and dad asked me how Adam was it that you were invited to be part of that and I had to think back on exactly how that came to be. But last fall I was at the state superintendent conference and it was recommended to me that I have a conversation with
019a representative from Education First. Education First is a travelbased learning company that is international. You know, their their base, their home base, although I recently on television someone referred to them as an American company. They may be, but they're based inside. And um the person who founded them in 1965 is still alive. His offices as well as his personal dwelling is in the business is in the office where I attended when I was in Stockholm Sweden. Um they have offices in 600 cities around the world. They have over 50,000 employees and they are a major major player in both domestic as well as international travel experiences both for children, students and for adults. But most of their business, most of the work they do is provide structured um travel-based learning that is that is international.
020Um students from all around the world, they get to come go to all sorts of other different places. Kansas City Schools has a history with EF. We've had student groups um that were able to do EF trips. Brett, your daughter did an EF trip and came to speak to me about it last year. Um and I do have applications in my thinking around how we can create this opportunity for more students. So, that's part of what I came away from. But this particular learning opportunity was targeted toward superintendents and senior administrators from school districts around the nation. There were 30 of us. There were 30 participants and I believe there were eight people from EF that were more or less our handlers during this time. But the focus for this one wasn't just around pick
021a place to go and experience learning. It was we're putting together this and this is their biggest event of their year. I mean this is a major moment for EF2 to actually look at education internationally to do a deeper dive into learning about somewhere else and how to do more what we all need to do. So, I did meet with her. Her name is Heather Keaton. In fact, I sent her an email just about an hour ago. Yeah, about an hour ago um to try to connect on some student stuff. Heather represents a large region in the United States. She's responsible for finding some of those 30 people. So, I engaged with her and she asked if I'd be interested in applying to compete for this thing. I said yes. And then in um December,
022I did an interview and then I didn't hear anything for a long time. I approached all of you and said this might be happening but I think it was March by the time that I asked them at EF to say when am I going to know something definitively because I'm actually trying to just plan for the summer. Um it's a work it's a work trip but it's a large commitment of time and and I learned in March that I was going to be able to go. I was anxious about it. Um I was nervous about making my flight change in Munich. Um I had never traveled to Europe before. Um, I don't have a lot of experience in for warm places. I'm not somebody who's experienced a lot of discomfort that comes along with international
023travel. Um, those things I wasn't nervous about that. They did a very good job. In hindsight, I shouldn't have been nervous. I I was able to figure out those things. And turns out that almost everyone I met not only could speak English, but was willing to be helpful and all of those things I was told would be true were true for me. But at any rate, I went and I left. I was gone for I think I was gone for nine maybe 10 days depending on how the clock worked. I was messed up for a little while on all of that. But the jet lag was very real for me on both ends of that thing. Weirdly, I was in Munich at like I was in like I was in Helsinki at like 5 in
024the morning and because of the way the world turns, I actually was in Denver what looks like nine hours later on my calendar, but it was a full like it was not nine hours. In fact, it was a 10-hour flight and another three-hour flight, but whatever. So, I was gone for a while and I appreciate the directors stepping up while I was gone. Thank you, Board of Education, for allowing me to slow my own cadence down around slow my own communication. Um, I flew to Stockholm, um, Sweden. And when I was there, um, one of the things that I was able to do for fun was to vote to actually visit the Nobel Museum. Greg, if you would, you can take one of those and then pass them down. Scott, this is different than the
025one that the board's getting, but I mentioned to you I had something for you. I would consider the leadership team. The Nobel Museum is wonderful. Um, I'm a fan of just things that sound, you know, interesting and prestigious and all of those things, but right in the city of Stockholm, they have a museum that's been there. I think they said it's been there since about the year 2000, honoring every laurate, every person who's ever received a Nobel Prize. We learned a little bit of the history of the Nobel as well as their selection process. But I just want to start with this because it resonated so strongly with this board of education. It says every single minute matters. Every single child matters. Every single childhood matters. Um, in the one that you guys have right
026there says about the future. What what is it? How does it read to you? If you do not envision Go ahead, Greg, can you read it? >> If you do not think about your future, you cannot have >> and as I was listening to all of you guys talk, that was a really interesting board report. I actually really loved that because tonight what you were talking about is you were talking about things that aren't just what's happening in our schools. you were talking about the future of our community and that's the stewardship position that we get to play that's so important and I'll be introducing Glenn later but when he came it was like thinking about kind of the bigger of this that's what we get to do every single minute every single kid it
027all matters if you do not if you are not thinking about that future you have one that's the work that we get to do I was in Sweden for three days Sweden's a largely socialist country they do have a a monarchy but they it was fascinating just learning about the evolution of these different countries and who may have been run by and why they existed and um I just you know that that was kind of like the appetizer I guess in terms of the educational focus because the conversation was not precisely about education. Sweden has it's clearly a very educated society. Um, one thing that I took away from Sweden which I loved was I just felt like the design of the way that those folks were going about life was very thoughtful. I fel
028felt like they were just living a purposeful but perhaps a little bit less stressful and very thoughtfully designed lifestyle. An example of that that just really resonated with me is I my sleep was messed up the whole time and after the first day which was sad and unfortunate for me because I slept through and I don't do that but my clock was messed up from what it felt like but after that I was scared to really sleep heavily while I was over there but it was daylight I mean a lot of daylight that I refused to close my windows so I was experiencing sunlight very early in the morning and I was waking at 4:00 a.m. every night that I was there just getting up before in the morning. But I was going to bed
029at like midnight. So I was just running on not a lot of fumes. But I kept running on kind of fumes, but I was so excited it didn't even matter. But truthfully, I was getting like half my sleep. But I got up and I went down to the hotel lobby and I asked the young man who spoke English by the way. Um I said, "Hey, is it can I get coffee?" Yeah, just get coffee. And there were no paper cups. And they had these nice mugs. I think they were branded with the hotel. And uh he said, "You just take one of those in there." I thought, "Last a while. I'm about to go walk downtown in a city." And he just gave me this nice mug. So I'm walking around Stockholm. It's beautiful. It's
030clean. Um and I'm done with my coffee and now I have this mug and I was probably 30 minutes away from where I started. It was a nice walk. Where are we going to put this? Oh, maybe that's why they gave me this mug. So I'm not going to throw it away. And then I looked further and it turns out they weren't in trash cans. They had just been very thoughtful about singleuse waste. And I experienced that for the remainder of my whole trip. I just wasn't being presented with things that I was promptly throwing away or finding a need to recycle. They weren't creating a lot of it in the first place. Very fascinating. Um I do I'll say one more thing about Stockholm because I think it's emblematic of some of my my
031my big aha moments. I went to a museum on the second day. I went to a museum to see an exhibit that was interesting to me. And I walked up to the young man and I said, "Do you speak English?" And he was not being condescending to me. He wasn't he nothing. He wasn't being cocky. None of it. He said, "Of course." And it was it was just like this itch that I had had around like how is it that you are able to have a society where not only is it it that is that our folks you know fluent in all their languages they're biiterate in English too. This wasn't just the ability to speak it but to read it and communicate it too. And the answer to that question I I found that
032answer I found it in Finland. So if I don't say it remind me I'll tell you. But this is what happened to me when I got to Finland. I I was in Stockholm in Sweden and we got on a boat. They called it a ferry. I call it a cruise ship. It was not I thought it was going to be like a handful of Vikings that were like rowing me through the Baltic Sea at night with rough waters. This thing had karaoke and a casino on it. It was not a ferry. It was Well, we parked our tour bus in the ferry and then the ferry fied us with our bus to Helsinki, Finland. Um, if you've spent time in Alaska, and I have, I found Finland to look very Alaska. It's pretty. Lots of
033rock, lykan, mosses, green, not a lot of actual elevation that you would see in a place like Alaska, but it looks like a city that grows up out of a forest. Helsinki is is interesting. It's very north. Um, those people are remote and you feel it. Uh, the the the cultural identity of Finland is strong. Um there's a lot of pride in those folks. They're they're pretty alone right there. So I wait now I'm in hell thinking this is what happened to me. I learned from the place I did. Um multiiteracy is something they emphasized in their schools. And they you know the point was made hey look if you were interested in learning about Finnish education you could have probably done that on the internet but you came to Finland to learn about Finnish
034education that there's mult there's literacy just in the experience of the place interpreting the nonverbals and all of the psychology. But the place taught me some things. I learned from the people. I was around some really wonderful Americans that were part of that. They who showed up as the EF tour guys were were they also just had an eagerness and a curiosity about them that blew me away. These people traveled all over the world, but they were still taking photos just like the rest of us. And some of them had been to these places before and they were just that excited still about seeing me. That quote there was provided to us by Petri. Petri was our educator. He's a he's an expert in education both in Finland but also pretty renowned here in America
035as well. He's my age. Nice nice guy. Petri and he said teaching is taught as a science. I went over there holding some misconceptions about finish education. One of which being that they're that their teachers are super high paid. They're not. But what they are is they're super well respected. They are as welcome in a cocktail party. I was told this as as any like politician or doctor, right? and more so than would be an attorney. They don't like litigation over there. They've got bad attitudes about attorneys and lawyers and suing and all that stuff. But that teaching is taught as a science. Every one of their teachers has completed college and is a master's degree held pedagogical expert in this stuff. They respect them and if you say you are a teacher, you are
036proud of that over there. It's really interesting. So the the commodification isn't in the dollars as much as I think it is in actual the position of society. They really respect learning. And then the first morning that I mentioned, I slept through and I was embarrassed. I held up the entire tour party. They were waiting on a bus for one person. That person was me. And it was a good learning for me because one thing that I'm not especially is I'm not super forgiving and I can be hard on people around things like being punctual. I was embarrassed. It they waited and the it was okay. But there's a learning that I'm going to carry in my leadership around and mistakes do happen too, right? In my case, it was I mean I didn't just
037sleep in. I was like sleeping hard and the tour director was knocking on my door to get me to even wake. I was messed up tired. And then lastly, there a lot of differences, but you know what? We're more similar than we are different. This is what I learned about a factor check in Finnish schools. Finnish. I've been curious about Finnish education since I was about 19 years old, by the way. And uh so this is this 32 years of curiosity around smartest kids in the world and how they get that way, all that stuff. How do you measure smart? Why are they known to be so brilliant? All that stuff. These are right out of the gate, first day. That building right there, that is the equivalent of the United States Department of Education.
038They call it the Finnish Academic Academy. You know what they told us at the door? They said there's no politicians in here. That's something that's really interesting. They first of all Finland has 5.5 total million people in the whole country. We have cities in America bigger than that. 5.5 total right and Helsinki that they call the Helsinki which I thought was interesting and I never learned why has about 700,000. So it's their largest city center. It's a big country. They have 200,000 lakes by the way in Fland. So Minnesota is not that impressive 10,000. But they told right out of the gate they were able to say things like this is what you will find. there is a consistency about the way that they do their work. In America, I learned among other things that
039when it comes to education, if you've been to one state, you've been to one state. We're not all the same. These folks are able to really say some things that are consistent about this is how we do our business here. And these are the factors they said that they really you could find in every school. They call them all good schools. They don't rank their schools. They don't break their schools. They don't blame their schools. They don't do any of that stuff. They assume that every school is going to be a good school. That here's what they have. They have a home-cooked meal, which I think is really interesting. No private schools, no ranking of schools, healthy balance between instruction and breaks. First morning, before they even let us in the school, Petry told us
040that they had 800 kids between first to nth grade. And that at one point during the day, they dumped out all 800 kids onto the playground. And immediately, as American educators, we all said, "How many people adults are out there surveying?" and he said, "Well, you might get five, but if we were three out here and if everyone was trying to do their best and a kid gets hurt, she breaks her leg, you go, nobody's getting sued." And that was a fundamental difference that wasn't just around education, but around society, around this kind of overall trust issue that's going on with most of people, right? Later, we were we were in a classroom where he was showing us the tools, and I mean the actual tools, coping saws, screwdrivers, long saws that they use starting
041in first grade, they use power tools. By third grade, there's a big emphasis on being handy. They call it handy works. Um, he told us straight up, and if a kid cuts their finger off, as long as we were doing our best, nobody gets to. It's just different. So there's things that you need to hear that are just that the conditions are different around the way that they're doing their work. But they do uh healthy balance between instruction. So they're outside a lot. The kids take a lot of breaks. By the way, their school length of school year, I finally got the answer that you were asking for, Jamie, is pretty commensurate to what we do here in America. And their length of day is pretty commensurate. Um teachers are trusted to be good. I
042ask our principles if if possible every classroom every day please make yourself the presence known in the classroom not feeling they say the teacher is the expert this is his classroom or her classroom the the principal has more of kind of a headmaster kind of a feel to it in my opinion they help with establishing classes they do a lot of review of uh some data they help set groups and then they get out of the way they don't go in the classroom very often which I thought was really interesting and it's again trusted to be good. But I just want to say this and there's I'm not attaching something that isn't there. I'm attaching something that's pretty direct here. Remember what I told you about the level of preparation amongst their teachers earlier. I
043mean there's something that comes along with that, right? It's easier when you know that these people are highly trained around that that establishing that potential for trust flexible curriculum. There's a variance on how but a consistency on what the 2014 standards that they abide by are really interesting. They are not terribly academic. They are very much aligned to that our graduate profile. They talk about things like civil behavior. They even teach their kids how to behave in traffic, how to be good pedestrians. They're talking about things like what it means to be a good Finn. And their their standards are loaded with it. I mean, the the the comm you know the idea of being a good citizen lives in all of these transversal competencies. So their deal is there's the consistency is on the
044what, but they're teachers. This is really interesting. formerly a teacher right here, Brett. Brett was a teacher. If they realize that Brett is especially good at one particular style of teaching, they really error on what the teacher does well. Not so much trying to rotate for all the learning styles for the kids. They'll say, "We know that you're especially good with theatic seminar and elevating questions. You pre-plann do you?" Well, it's just different. I mean, again, I'm not saying better, but there were some things, right? There were some things that were really interesting. um looping in some cases in the primary grades they'll teachers will loop with their kids for four years and usually we go two or three but sometimes we go four years and they're just pretty chill about that stuff high quality
045teachers I mentioned to you professional status plus the MA and then that finished national agency of education no political interference um they didn't even have a check-in process to walk in that building there's no security. It was like an empty building pretty much and just a few educated people and a bunch of Americans learning about how they do their business. I thought you guys would especially enjoy seeing these transversal competencies. These are the things that show up in their standards, thinking and learning to learn. There's a high emphasis on reflection and metacognition. They're teaching their children how to be critical thinking thinkers. They literally teach a course on the media, the purpose and role of the media and detecting bias, seeking truth. It's it's like again part of what they think good Finn should be
046doing is questioning. It's really I mean I I agree but the way that it's complemented in this idea of like there's another one taking care of oneself and managing daily life like home what we would call home is alive and well in their schools. Uh Dan has already heard me say this a couple times, so it won't be as a terrible surprise, but they are an advanced society. In fact, there's a lot of industry that's around tech over there. Their schools did not have a lot of technology in them, and they didn't have a lot of stuff in their classrooms either. It kind of looks barren, but there's a huge emphasis on collaborative cohort-based problem solving that I got to think those schools are loud when they're in session. They're encouraging kids to to activate
047learning, communicating. Yeah. Um, cultural competence, interaction, self-expression. I cultural competence probably really does include not walking when the light says red. They are furious about how to walk around in Finland. Like we as Americans made some mistakes and got parked out by our tour director like that's not how they do it here. Any uh multiiteracy, exploring things from various angles. This is really about depth and complexity. This is about looking differently and con reconsidering what does research mean? Researching authentically through experience, looking at data, conducting research perhaps, yes on the internet, but also through conversation. They're in on this multi-iteracy. Maybe think of Brian Z is not here tonight, but maybe think of Nicole Corpo because she's keeps talking about technology as being its own language and math being its own language and reading. We
048say literacy here. we tend to think about learning to read the things of thinking about this bigger um that ICT piece and I would like to get with you and learn do a little bit more with you on that but again information and communication technology like that's they're being very intentional about how they're letting the world in in the world that they're putting out working life um at grade nine they take the one big assessment they'll ever take they do it in nth grade and it will decide in part what they do from that point forward will they go to an academ IC high school kind of a white collar track will they go toward more trades skilled trades right no track the difference is in their society they don't seem to put as much
049distinction between if you do H track versus if you do doctoring they just know that their society has a need for all of those roles and they respect them and they don't have near the same wealth disparity based upon what someone does because they know that they need everyone fascinating I was asking questions around wealth disparity and they're starting to experience more of it, by the way. I'll get to that. Um, but the answer from this woman was really interesting. She said, "Well, here we don't care about owning all the same stuff that Americans do. So, it's hard to know kind of what you're looking at because we're not we don't care as much about our cars and our houses and how it's just a different society, right? There's that." It was it was kind
050of refreshing. It was like you don't see it quite the same way. Anyh who um yeah I look at participation involvement and building a sustainable future that is one of the actual competencies not of their district of their nation. Interesting phenomenon based am I are you over my time Kristen? >> You are 25 minutes. >> I'm 25. Yeah. All right. Sorry I knew this could happen to me. I'll >> bored you. These guys I respect you. these guys. You're my boss. If you're okay, I'm going to keep telling I love every second of that. >> This is their version of what we would call PBL. And I think that the summation is probably the most succinct kind of what I learned over there that I can share with you and what we can apply right
051here in Kansas City schools. a cohort of students. If you're thinking about community, forming a learning community, building, do you catch that? You know how we say growth matters most? Building understanding there have a high high tolerance for mistake making by the way. That's another part of the thing interesting. And then look at together we make a difference the phenomena together by digging into viewpoints that are relevant to their experiential world. Like relevance is really high. So even little kids are being asked to think about challenges that are real in their lives. So I I don't know I I can whip through them multidisciplinary. So yes, you're going to see a lot of things that would be considered thematic or crosscurricular. And the words that we use they say multiddisciplinary linked to the students world
052in life. Kids do have a lot of power I would say over really pushing toward some of those things like this is what matters in my world. But at the end of the day, those teachers call the shots. And that's really clear. By the way, the families don't push hard back on the schools the way they do over here. One of the principles said, she said, "They trust them and they send." And I said, "What do you mean exactly? They trust the schools and they send the kids. They trust the schools and they send the kids." That building, it was in your board notes. There was a photo of it. I put it in your notes. That thing has 800 kids. And she said they have almost no parent involvement. She like, "Uh, we try
053to get a pair go like you guys call it a PTO. We have like a PTO." And she said, "We're like three moms of fifth graders or something." What are you kidding? They said, "Yeah, they just trust they just trust it. My kids's going to go to school. That school's going to do a good job. You do you, I do me. It's just a different It's just different." Now, I'm not saying I like that especially. There were lots of things about this. I'm like, I don't know that I love that. But some of it that sort of thing like that the trust really good. Yeah. Um, inclusion of student generated questions, focus on process and skills. This is very Canyon City Schools. You should be proud of it. We should be proud of this. This
054is this is what we're doing around here. That learning for life future focused, right? And not that you need to be like Finland, but I will tell you that these kids have a long history of being very successful in a global competency way. And I think we're doing some of these things and can do better, too. and an authentic audience that they put real people in front of them to demonstrate what they know. I aligned this to our strap and the next several slides I'll actually show kind of major takeaways for leadership intentions. Uh oh, that's Petri by the way. That's the guy I was talking about. And those are the tools in their classroom. Oh, this is interesting. A couple of you um um I thought might have an interest specifically in their emphasis
055on what we would consider either extracurricular life skills smarts or otherwise. Not a high emphasis. No. Interesting. They one of them told us something along the lines. They said we kind of think that American educators are a little bit like party planners. Like what do you mean exactly? They said ah like your school district has to like celebrate like the anniversary of the schools or something. They said, "We're here. We're just focused on the school stuff." Like, "Really?" He told me at one point, "Now remember my background, gifted and talented educator is part of my story." He's like, "Ah, in Finland, how do you say?" It's like, "We know there's gifted kids, but our job is to make sure every kid has this much." So, we're we're they're not as interested in things like differentiation.
056Now, it's also convenient because you know what? They don't provide buses. When I asked him the question around how do all your itinerate and support staff delve in and dedicate themselves to the success of these kids, he's like we don't do the particularly good job with that and we don't have a lot of them. They're not doing so many things that American schools have been asked to do, challenged to do and in fact required to do, right? We're meeting so much bigger needs and so many more diversity. So kids, they get their kids to school. They their government also however incentivizes a few things. Their kids don't start till first grade. They typically start at age seven. And almost all of them know how to read before they get to school. Remember my question earlier?
057I said, "How do you get a whole nation to be bilingual?" It is expected. That's the answer. But they're able to do that. They start those kids in English when they get to school. Petry told me that this is fascinating. He said that um how did he say first of all I said both of his kids are better at English by the time they were 10 than he was at age whatever 50 or whatever. What was that? Um, and he said also that they don't provide Yeah, that's it. They show American television over there and they don't provide Finnish subtitles. Isn't that interesting? So, like they're gearing toward the idea of being globally competitive and speaking the most common language in the world right out of the get-go. Yeah. They also said things like, of
058course, when you would ask them if they spoke if they spoke English, although they didn't say quite as nicely. So they don't have they don't have extra curriculum. It'd be interesting to see what they >> they have it but they have it later. They have it later. And the reason I was highlighting this picture is classroom teachers are responsible for teaching a lot of things like PE and music and art and they're with those kids that they're teaching these things and their handiccrafts or whatever they call it. They're doing more academic subject. >> Correct. Yeah. It's it has value, but it's valued in a different way. Then at that high school level, then kids will compete to go to different types of high schools, excuse me. And some might have a really great reputation as
059being an arts focused public school, whereas another one might be really famous for having a really great sports tradition, but they don't really advertise them as such. That's more like common understanding like and the kids are competing at that point to get into the school of their choosing. Um, or they don't have that option and they go a vocational track on this side. Again, just different, right? Uh oh, yeah. Everyone goes to college. They're paying outrageous taxes. I mean, let me be clear. Both Sweden and Finland, tongue and cheek, told us that they were the world leader in taxation. I thought that was funny. Uh but wealthy folks who are paying up to 50% income tax over there, but they're not sending they're not spending separate money to send their children to college. Everyone has
060education guaranteed beyond high school experience. Yeah. I'm not saying it's free. paid for through taxation, right? Okay. Um these were some some major takeaways I thought for leadership intentions, but um our strategic plan. So one, two, three, four. So Glenn, this is going to be new learning for you, but we have a STRA plan that's a three-year plan. We're going into year two with four priority focus areas. Learning, people, engagement, and resources. And I have here the connections that I think are greatest in our area. So for all these strate areas um our strat plan sets the direction. Now our clarity is about ensuring that every leader can articulate and act upon the vision. So I have work to do now that we started class leadership to really making that thing man like implemented and
061attainable and equitably attainable for all of our kids. So communicating priorities in a time of noise is what I came away from. Those guys are intentional. They get real real over there around this is what we do. And I think that we've done a better job with a finer focus on this is what we do. It's just that we're doing more. Um, we've placed a strong emphasis on communication and building trust within our community. These guys have trust, right? So, we must keep that momentum. I like the way that you were talking earlier about things like our mayor is an ambassador for our schools or Stan Bullis is interested in making sure that they're partnering with us through internships. Every time we do that, every time we do that, we get better and this community
062gets better and they don't we're working to be part of the community and the community be part of us, not separate, right? So takeways building and sustain high trust school cultures story of leadership connecting through our challenges and I think that we're doing the leaders especially doing very fine work there whether it's advocating for school needs investing in workforce housing implementing high quality instruction. district exemplifies bold. They're bold there. Student center leadership and that's always demonstrate the courage to do the right thing on his part advocate speaking out. Todd gave me a little bit of feedback that he liked that particular picture of that was >> it's pretty neat that sits in the courtyard. So what where I was I was at the headquarters for education first and uh this was an outdoor courtyard. They're
063building. Have you looked at the buildings in Sweden? You have any of you been there? It's um it is a mix of old and then intentionally preserved old but artistically presented with a consistent and colorful palette like that. I was in the old they call it like the old part of the city. I think it was called Donalan or something. Kristen, that little gift that I brought for you came from this part of the city, but you're walking on cobbles that had been walked upon for hundreds of years, but you see the same kind of soft palette of of light greens and kind of this kind of buttery yellow and blues. Just do do an image search for Stockholm and you'll you'll get a quick sense pretty fast. But this was an indoor courtyard in
064this kind of not particularly descript building from the outside but in it there were birds flying around. It was the most like I don't really know what fune or fen I don't really know what that is. I never really understood that but this place made me just want to like sit down and rest and be let your heart calm down a little bit. Just slow down like just peaceful. Um and that and that piece of sculpture Todd is clearly a reference to academics. It's pencil but I thought the twist on it was really interesting. So, um, at any rate, um, like Finnish educators, our clarity isn't about rigidity. It's about giving teachers shared purpose while trusting them. That picture right there I took at like maybe 12:30 at night. We were I was on the
065ferry between Stockholm and Helsinki and the boat had pulled in to some little I don't even know what country it's associated with, some little island. They stopped there for a while, but I thought that was really beautiful, that little harbor right there. I was trying to tell myself it was time to go to bed. By the way, the sun wasn't quite down. By 400 a.m. it would be bright enough that you'd want sunscreen and a hat on if you were a bold person like me. So, they were only getting that time of year, they were getting right around three hours of real darkness. So, they had told us we'd get 18 hours of daylight. It was a legit 20 plus that. And by the way, they have darkness like that when it's not this time
066of year. It is not terribly hospitable. Takeaway sustain trust among staff student and community isn't built overnight. Their system shows that it comes from structural and cultural choices. That to me that was maybe that second sentence was the thing that just really kept resonating. This was intentional and thoughtful and reflective of the greater society. And then challenging for like what things can we push to deepen that trust. I've gone really long. Bold leadership isn't always about big gestures. It's about every decision to put students first even when it's unpopular or hard. That's our fourth core belief. And system embodies this. They're pol they I mean they are all about every kid having like the same shot like this idea of they're all good schools like they're really invested. They're going to do that. I think
067we have done that. Well, that picture, by the way, there is was taken um as I was about to get on another boat to travel to Estonia. So, after four days in Finland, I got to go to Estonia just for one day. It really was a ferry. It was two hours each direction. Yeah, Estonia is like a medieval kind of field. It was totally different. And that photo there was taken in Oh, Kristen, we need to put the adjusted image in there next time I do this presentation. Um that that white piece of paper bothers me in the background, too. It's like the only modern stand otherwise looks like a you know like a thousand year old courtyard. I was there alone and I kept telling I mean I just couldn't believe that this place
068actually existed. This is a real place. It isn't a destination. I didn't pay to go there. I was just walking the streets with talent and dipped into this little courtyard like that. And if a monk had seriously walked out of this top of that staircase or if like I don't know a couple people were swashbuckling with swords and like joker hats I wouldn't have been surprised. I felt like I was living in a different time, not just a different place. I was there for about 25 minutes and then I started getting nervous thinking that I might have been on someone's patio and I didn't know it. Then showed me the best systems are both clear and flexible, rigorous and humane just like Kansas City. Clarity, connection, courage. That building down there was built in 2005.
069It's really artistically aesthetically attractive from the outside. Has a Nordic feel. Fin Finn Finland has that kind of what I thought on the inside to the point you guys made about our facilities. Our facilities are way nicer than what I see. >> Is that a school? >> It is. I'm curious on the um connection two slides back the connection and it ends with a question what structural or cultural choices. >> Yeah. >> You had that conversation with leaders. >> Yes. That's >> I'd be curious >> the same slide deck started my work on Thursday morning last week. >> I'd be curious to >> not last week. No, this week >> what they come up with. >> Yeah. Me too. Yeah. It' be interesting. >> I mean, but that's the thing. We always have to keep
070We cannot rest on our laurels. You guys are right. Like, there's some really exciting things happening in our community and we're part of that, >> but we have a responsibility to keep the pedal down on this stuff. I like I one of my I have a lot of these little goals that aren't on my evaluation, but you hear me think about these. And one of my leadership goals is really around 13th in college. Like I have a vision of that just being the nicest little intersection in the world, right? Between Rug Park that our community has held on to. It's beautiful, right? It's it's got history. Our schools that reflect a a proud heritage but also a real vision for modern learning. That pool, I want to see that thing happen. That that all comes
071together right there. And to do that, like I just feel like we need to double down on deepening trust all the time. >> Yeah, >> we are. I mean this here will come my harder tone but you you guys all know me well on this too. Public education is in a fullblown fight for the continued establishing or continuing the trust of the people that serve 100%. We do not enjoy what those folks over there were enjoying when they said things like nobody gets sued here right or trust them and send them. We have to work harder for those things. And if I went over to Finland, if I flew all the way over there to do my experiential learning and I only wanted to focus on the things that were different, then I think it's
072a wasted opportunity. I want to come back and think about things that we can just keep hyper local and do really well for that reason. You know, I'm going to introduce Glenn in a little bit, but I mean, one of the things about Glenn is he can say the same thing that was said earlier around he has kids that come through here. We want to be able to have those kids do the Tim Ren goal, Tim's goal that he shared with me years ago where he said, "I got a goal. I got a goal of seeing my grandkids play around in my yard." Meaning that his sons would choose to live here, to stay here, right? That's a future focus. It's not just now. So, >> the word using the word structural was interesting to
073me because we've been focused so much on the construction and those structures. >> Yeah. >> But what are the other structures? Yeah, I mean I I will tell you that I think that as a leadership team, we've made nice strides. Um Jamie and I had an opportunity to present at the Colorado Colorado Association of School Executives last week. Um and we were talking about the work that we're doing with bench development. I'm talking about pipeline development right here inside of the district. That's structural. And when you can start getting beyond the concept of a person who carries this name and how great she was at her job and actually be talking about systems that are born for sustaining change. I mean this is an example of this right now. Now you're structurally more resilient. And
074I just think the district has done I mean I'm can be a little bit over the top the way I compliment sometimes but I think that we are the second largest but have the absolute best group of employees in the county. Um I think that the leaders that I get to work with are outstanding and we're systematizing this work. It's we're we're bulletproofing this thing. And that's what you're doing. And and that's how they should work with boards. You know, forgive me because that might feel like I don't have appreciation for it, but healthy governance cores build systems that keep places. That's what I'm thinking about. I'll challenge the leaders to continue to think the same. >> I mean, even though I feel like American society doesn't value educators like we should, like they do,
075>> we do that here. We do that locally. And we do a lot of that continue to do that. >> Yeah, I it was I too drove the sites the other day. Scott probably didn't appreciate that I was calling him with some of my musings about the construction sites, but I drove on Saturday and I drove in yesterday on Sunday to look at all the projects. Um CES, by the way, was humming on Saturday. There were a lot of people working inside of that building. I don't know what they were doing, but they were working. >> Everything. Yeah. I now have a better sense of what they likely were doing because of my Sunday trip, but I had on Saturday I was like, "Wow, this is a Saturday morning." >> You were working in McKinley
076on Sunday. >> Well, then Sunday, yeah, yesterday you're I don't know what was going on in McKinley, but the gate was open in the back and there were some workers that were at least getting better. So yeah, we're I don't know exactly where I was headed with that, but um we're we're those enhanced facilities, that statement of pride, you know, and Robin, I appreciate what you said earlier when you said in a community where sometimes it's hard to get the support, but the school district, I just think that all of us at advocates and appreciated what what's the word? Thankful. There we go. Thankful advocates for the school district should really keep in mind that our community has done well by us a lot of times. So, I want to tell that story, too. I'm
077I'm so thankful for this place. And yeah, I learned a lot and there were things that I thought, boy, I like what they do over there, but I was also really happy to come over to Kansas City. So, anyh who, yeah, it was a um transformative um life-changing experience. That was really good. For the record, I also want to say that um that was a scholarship. EF invested in me and they invested in each of us to the tune of almost $8,000 to have that opportunity for us. So I think it's important the community knows that this wasn't a junket and that I wasn't over there on vacation and moreover that the school district wasn't spending money for it to happen. It was an earned opportunity. I was with um I tallied it but there
078were there were soups from nine states there and I learned a lot from those people. They were great. >> Any that's a lot. Sorry. I'm sorry. All of you resentment >> and I know that I speak for the rest of the board when I say this. We're very proud that you were selected. >> Yeah. >> I got feedback at the end of it from the EF people that told me specifically, I will share this because I'm proud of this. They felt like this particular summer trip was very successful. And they said that specifically that they felt like I was someone who right away helped it from becoming what could have been clickish. They said they noticed that I made outreach right away to get to know people. And I mean there was a representative there
079who represented homeschool for all of the state of California. There was a representative there who was a CEO in a forprivate charter thing that goes on in Arizona. There were black leaders there. There were Hispanic leaders there. There were regional differences. There were white people. there was the potential for people to want to just be with the people that were like them and we didn't do that and I'm super proud of that and I think I made a lot of friends and new colleagues out of everything. I mean personally I'm now friends with the superintendent of Philadelphia public schools. That's cool and I learned from those people. So thank you for saying you're proud of me. I was proud of the fact that they felt like I meant something relationship wise because I think that
080GC schools does relationships so well and I did that while I was at. Cool. >> That's awesome. Appreciate was some of that success over there because they were finishing schools. >> We did at least one bad day. >> There are instances because I had never really been using the term finish like that. And I duh people from Finland Finnish. But there were instances where you would hear them say finish and I was thinking of it as a verb like about to complete doing something and they were using it as an adjective inspired people in their nation which I thought was kind of fun. Yeah. And the people were cool in all the places. That was neat too. People just lots of nice people in the world and they're not all doing life the same way
081and that's okay. And Adam Hartman had never kind of thought about that like that. So that was that was neat. So >> all right. Thank you. Thanks. >> Request to address the board of education. Miss Solano, >> no. >> Fantastic. Thank you. Mr. Hartman, do you have something to add in your superintendence report? >> Yeah. Did you have some good food over there? >> I think I think I ate salmon seven times. That's awesome. >> Yeah. A lot of seafood. Somehow even way up north and so remote the food that I was eating is fresh fresh fresh. They don't they're not interested in boxes and packaging and all if you see it it's really interesting. I got to think there's not a lot of preservatives diet all that stuff that people tell me like because
082I eat like Pringles over here at DIA I got Mountain Dew and Pringles and then I get over there and they're eating strawberries and like >> I wonder fish that was caught 10 minutes ago. Is their life expectancy higher there? >> I just I don't know. >> I'm just curious. I was curious to look it up. And >> is it? >> Yeah. The average male's life expectancy is almost 85. >> Oh, wow. That's not small. >> I have a few things as part of my superintendent's report. And I think the first one that needs to really be codified in the records is welcoming AR CFO. So, I know that you guys had an opportunity to shake hands earlier and at least one of you was on the hiring panel for that. But Glenn Hayes, we
083are happy that you are here. >> Well, thank you. >> And we're happy um because the work you do is critical, but I just the way that you're approaching the importance of serving the school district, I feel like you've seemed to be just a great fit for us. So, we miss Heidi. I already sent her a text today and said, "I hope you had a great first day." I mean that for her. Um but we're happy that you're here and we're especially happy that you're here. Daniel told me earlier, he's like, "This is great. I don't have to What was all the tech that you were talking about? Because we've been having the live stream synced up with the dope team. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, this is great, Glenn. So, um and I'll give Glenn
084just a moment here in a sec. So, Kristen, start handing me a microphone down to Glenn if you don't mind. But, um as you know, Glenn is a Canyon City person. Um he served most recently. He's been working as CFO at the at the Railroad route at at the train. um and has I mean it's 20 plus years experience and doing the work that although not the same has a lot of um heavy implications and similarities to the work he's going to be doing for us. So um Glenn would you mind just sharing just a little bit about yourself with the board. These are these are this is our education. >> Well thank you. I appreciate the warm welcome. Um you know like like Adam said I've I have lived here a while since 1998.
085I've seen Canyon City change a lot and I've seen it change a lot for the better. Um, I'm just really proud both my kids came up, you know, they went to Washington, CCMS, and CCHS. I think they turned out to be really good humans. You know, I do give the school a ton of credit for that. I've known Adam back since whenever he was taking care of of my kids back in the day. Um, I'm really proud of the work that I did at the train. you know, it's it certainly had its challenges, but I loved it. You know, Canyon City's been really good to me. It's been great to my family. What was missing at the train, though, whenever Jamie approached me about this job that just really caught my ear was um just
086the chance to really give back and and just do a great necessary community service. And I was honored that she talked to me. I was honored that I had the position. And you know, I really say it with a lot of pride, you know, that I that I am the CFO for Canyon City School District. I mean, it it really makes me proud. I'm honored and and yeah, I just can't wait to fight tooth and nail. I mean, it's I'm excited. >> Welcome. >> Well, thank you to the family. >> This is going to be great. And I alluded to our graduate profile a little bit ago, but I'll just call your attention to the right hand column, but the one that's midway down with the hand like this is contribution. And uh you're surrounded
087by a whole lot of people that do hard work, but for all the right reasons. I mean, the folks at this end of the room, these people are these are these are elected officials. They they are not paid. They are and they are hardworking and investing invested and we just have a shared ethos around doing something that's more important than us. and it's through contribution. So, thank you for using that work because that's what we're going to ask you to do. Thank you. >> Thank you. Welcome to Ken City Schools. >> I then just wanted to share a little bit of gratitude. We did have registration support for the online portion of um registration that was taking place last week. That that help that kiosk level help if you will um was offered here as
088it always is. And it was I want to say Julick was here. I saw Sheila Rosson was here. Who else was here? the mayor. Um, and those guys also stepped up to help get my mailing out, too. So, I've really appreciated that and Kristen's efforts to get that out. But, um, registration, good start. Real registration in terms of in the schools if families want to go in or in the case of two of our buildings need to go in, high school, CCMS starts tomorrow. That's Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Um, so we've had to get really flexible and creative. Scott's been very flexible. is thinking not only about how we're using some of our staff this summer to support areas of need where they can't be in their other schools, but also how we're problem solving around
089some issues to include registration. So, um, in-person registration support is being offered for McKinley, um, CES and Lincoln School over at the Access Center right now. Again, lots of flexibility. People like Dorothy Day and and Nick Kroshi saying, "Use my space. We can make it through this." um 25 26 is going to be there's some pain associated with just what folks are going to live through with some of the construction especially at your high school. Okay. But those years after two years from now, two years from now, we're going to be like, "Yeah, man. Look what we just pulled off for this town and for the future of it." So anyway, registration Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Um we have new staff orientation. Jamie, how many new certified are we welcoming on Thursday this year? >> We're
090planning for 40, but I think there's like 30. We over plan. We are Canyon City Schools. I don't know the real reason that we are doing that, but you know, we do. We roll over staff and one one of our greatest challenges is when we lose great people, how do we find more of them? And our HR department has done a great job. Our leaders right now, Kelly Jones sat down with me this morning, a task force that I was working on and she said, like they're really feeling good. We can start school. There are vacancies. There always are going to be some vacancies, but critical positions are hiring and we are ready to rock and we welcome those folks on Thursday the 31st this week. And then the last thing that I want to
091share and I'm going to do a better job about doing this in other ways too, but some of you know Kenny and Erica from Sagendic, also known as DARE. They have two businesses. One is a web presence and one is DARE who does a lot of printing work. Kenny is actually part of the compass committee. He served as one of our instructional program review people. He came to me last year and said, "Hey, we want to do something nice for the schools." Now, when people come to you and just out of nowhere say they want to do something nice, you got a part of you like, "Okay, what game are we playing? And is there an expectation that I do something?" You know, not from those folks. Flat out said, "We want kids to feel
092like they belong to something and we recognize that there's kids in this community that can't don't belong to lots of stuff. We want to give them a shirt." We literally said, "We're gonna give shirts to kids for clubs and organizations, and we want to rotate this opportunity through all of your schools and departments, including the charter school." I mean, he couldn't give a thousand to every one of them, but he gave giving hundreds of shirts, and they're like, "Nice shirts to our school district, right?" I thought maybe it'd have a stamp on it that said provided by DARE. Nope, none of that. Doesn't say that. It's so cool. In fact, he's told me that one of their goals is to do something in the tag that actually has like the little community schools learning behind
093me. Yeah. No, like these are really good people. I just want to share this. Um and Jenny, you can probably fill in some of the details, but Kim gave me some. Um Dare not only donated these shirts for for new staff that we are on boarding. Um but there's more. So, 30 to 35 to 40 black and gray t-shirts print printed with the teach bunch of college ruled notebooks, um, note cards, 33 cloth pencil, pen and pencil bags, miscellaneous colors, 40 plus classroom learning information, skills and signs, some large one large science feelings, canvas, and this stuff is their stuff like they it says DARE on it. They've produced these things and they're giving it to the schools. Now, that's really interesting. I said, "Well, Kenny, what's in it for you?" And he said, he
094said, "Yeah, I've had a really fortunate life. I've had some nice opportunities and we love supporting two things, schools and humane societies." He said, "What is that?" He said, "Kids and animals." He's like, "I don't like messing with adults." So, I said, "Great, because we've got a bunch of kids, so thank you." And so, I just wanted to highlight that a little bit. I'll figure out other ways to do that. I would hate to create a situation where it feels like we're ever in any sort of exclusive relationship, but but when businesses step up and we have a lot of them that do are doing these generous things, I think it's worth it. We say thank you. So there's that. >> That's it. >> Thank you, Mr. Hartman. >> Okay. All that really great stuff
095and now we've got to do policies. All right. File IHBA-R abbreviated school day schedules for students with disabilities presented to the board for first reading to first vote. New policy from director of special services Tim Ren Tim Ren required by state statute. I have a motion, please. >> I move we approve file IHBA-R abbreviated school day schedules for students with disabilities. >> I'll second. I have a motion in a second. Is there further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Albreight. >> I. >> Mr. Alexander. >> I. >> Miss. Mary. I. >> Mr. Miley. >> I. >> Mrs. Reer. >> I. Next, we have file JH, student absences and excuses. Presented to the board for first reading and first vote. Update the current policy from Superintendent Adam Hartman to clarify timelines for excusing absences.
096Align excused absence definitions with current practices. I have a motion, please. >> A motion to accept file JH student absence and excuses presented to the board for first reading and first vote. I'll >> second. >> Have a motion and a second. Further discussion. >> I can I just say really quick about this one. I found it kind of confusing to read that the definitions of absences came after the first paragraph because in that first paragraph it talked about parent excused absences which confused me until I read down further and saw what the definition of a parent excused absence was. So I don't know if other people I just >> Chris it must make a note for me to look at that. Are you really just thinking thought that perhaps it didn't feel like the right
097logic flow? >> Yes. the definitions first about what it what these what they are and then the policy regarding them. So >> you remember please to put KH in front of me being presented. >> It could just be me. >> I appreciate that's what I need you to be doing. So thank you. >> So do we want to do the vote on it next time? Well, we still have second reading second vote. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I don't >> We can still make changes. Yeah, it still counts that it was in tonight and that's part of review process. So if it if it warrants a change, it'll be reflected next. >> Okay. Second. >> So roll call. Miss Molly, >> Mr. Alre. >> I >> Mr. Alexander. >> Hi. >> Miss Mary. >> I Mr.
098Miley. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Reese. >> Hi. Next we have file JHB truency presented to the board for first reading and first vote. Update the current policy from Superintendent Adam Hartman to clarify procedures when a student is unreachable for three consecutive days and to outline steps for addressing habitual truency. We have a question. >> I move we approve file JHB truency. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> Miss. >> Mr. Alexander. >> Hi. >> Miss Mary. I Mr. Riley. >> Hi, >> Mrs. Reer. >> Hi. Next, we have two for information only. File ADH, wellness policy, presented to the board for information. Update the current policy from wellness coordinator Brian Vani Warden as part of the triannual review. We'll vote on that
099next meeting. And then file beb agenda presented to the board for information update to current policy to align with current practices. We'll vote on that next time as well. We have new no old business. We have a couple action items under new business. The first one is 2025 regular bianial school director election. It's recommended that the board formal for formally stre Oh my goodness. It's recommended that the board formally state its intent to participate in the 2025 coordinated election and appoint Director of Business Services Glenn Hayes as the designated election official for the district. May I have a motion, please? >> Move that we approve Mr. Glenn Hayes as the designated election official for the bianial school director election. >> Second that motion. I have a motion and a second. Further discussion hearing none. Roll
100call, please. >> Mr. Rob >> I. >> Mr. Alexander >> I. >> Miss Mary I. Mr. Riley. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Racer. >> All right. Motion passes. And finally, >> just like that. Your job. >> He's smiling. >> He is smiling. Is that a smile? I don't know any better. >> Wait. Wait. Is that a grimace? >> Is that a grimace? >> What's that? >> Is that a grimace or a smile? >> I'll work the grimace in there, but >> yeah, it's a little early for the grimace. >> Canyon City own America's Got Talent. You got five yeses. >> All right. Then we have an IT vehicle requisition. It's recommended that the board of education approve the purchase of two 2026 Chevrolet Trailblazer fleet vehicles at a cost of $25,190 each for a grand total
101of 50,380. This purchase will be made using allocated IT department funding and will provide additional transportation of tools, equipment, and personnel throughout daily IT duties. May I have a motion, please? >> A motion to approve the IT vehicle requisition of the two Chevys. >> Second. >> I have a motion in a second. Further discussion hearing none. Roll call, please. Mr. >> I. >> Mr. Alexander. >> I. >> M. Mary. >> I. Mr. Miley. I >> and Mrs. Reer >> I we have a motion passes Daniel has a new car. I'm kidding. >> All right. We have no miscellaneous business and no further business before the board. We're ajourned.