001almost should I put my coat on well I've got mine right there I get too cold it's going on wonder yeah it was L okay that's what I wanted to know and but she just needed some encouragement didn't she today some nurse care she asked for some Sur oh okay that doesn't Sur yeah that would make sense yeah I mean yeah I think overall okay who had gone with her don't know okay oh I don't know he probably went with her he okay and I her mom is here I know she's a yeah I don't know for e for e and turn the mic on I'm going to call um the meeting to order so Laur Le please call the rooll Stu Boyd here Denise Chapman here Amy Doran here Don Kirk here Barbara Cruz
002here Alexander LOM Nancy rfel here thank you Laura Lee and Nancy will you please lead us in the pledge aliance 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 thank you and Stu would you please read the mission statement sure the Thompson School district will be a school district that empowers challenges and inspires students faculty staff parents School leaders and community members to learn achieve and Excel thank you all right the first item that we have on our agenda is the adoption of the agenda for tonight's meeting which is January 17 2024 are there any changes or additions to tonight's meeting here hearing none I will take a motion to adopt the agenda as printed so
003moves second so I have a first from Stu and a second from Don so laury please call the RW Stu boy hi Denise Chapman hi Amy Doran hi Don Kirk hi Barbara Cruz hi Alexander lesum Nancy rumfelt hi all right we have a variety of minutes to approve again tonight so we'll start out with the approval of the minutes for our December 13th me meeting which was TW uh December 13 2023 does anyone have any changes or corrections to the minutes hearing none I will take a motion to approve the minutes for the December 13 2023 meeting so second thank you that is the first from Don and the second from Denise Laur Le please call the rooll stoy I Denise Chapman hi Amy Doran hi Don Kirk hi Barbara Cruz hi Alexander LOM Nancy
004rumfelt I thank you and then we have also approval of the minutes for January 3rd 2024 this would have been our um last study session but this is for the special meeting that we had first and so um there were minutes attached does anybody have any changes or corrections to the minutes okay hearing N I will take a motion to approve the minutes for our our special session so move so first from second first from Stu second from Denise and uh Laura Le please call the all St boy I Denise Chapman hi Amy Doran hi Don Kirk hi Barbara Cruz hi Alexander lesum Nancy rumfelt I all right thank you and then we have approval of the minutes for our regular meeting that was on January 3rd 2024 are there any changes or corrections to
005the minutes of that meeting hearing none I will take a motion to approve the minutes for so mov thank you second first from Denise and a second from Don and then Laura Le please call the RO Stu Boyd hi Denise Chapman hi Amy Doran hi Don Kirk hi Barbara Cruz hi Alexander Lum Nancy rumfelt hi thank you in all of our minutes passed um at a vote of six to zero all right we will move now into public participation and I'll turn that over to Dr Schaefer good evening Madam president members of the Board of Education our community and our audience this evening uh welcome back to school uh as we've returned from winter vacation I'm pleased to provide my monthly update through this PowerPoint presentation so after a restful winter break we were pleased
006to welcome students back into the classroom on January 4th the first half of our 23 2023 24 school year was excellent and we are go we are looking forward to continuing that success throughout the second semester Martin Luther King Junior Day each year the community hosts a celebration program in honor of the late Dr Martin Luther King Jr unfortunately due to inclement weather Monday evening's event was cancelled however we hope you will join us in continuing to celebrate the impact of Dr King and his longlasting legacy the local celebration is hosted in partnership with Thompson School District as well as the city of love lovelin with funding from the Thompson Education Foundation winners of this year's Student Art and essay contest will be featured soon by the district we actually hope to invite the students
007here to our board meeting in February so maybe they can read their essays and share their artwork with us on a related note and I know it's always a disappointment to our students and staff when we cancel school but I wanted to take a quick moment to mention our district closure evaluation processes that we follow during times of inclement weather each day our staff Works tirelessly to help ensure that we can provide a safe and nurturing environment for each of our school communities um sometimes Mother Nature doesn't cooperate with us and we have to make the difficult decision to either uh delay the start of the school day or close our schools in district offices in working to decide the best path forward for our school communities we evaluate current site conditions examine Uh current
008and forecasted weather patterns and also work with our city and town government Partners to help get a proper assessment on how our district will likely be impacted by a storm or up upcoming inclement weather the safety of each student and staff member in our buildings is and will continue to be our top priority and we deeply appreciate your patience and support with the start of the second semester our schools are already gearing up for the 20242 school year eighth grade students will have the opportunity to start registering at the campus of their future high school with Mountain View High School having completed their special event last week the registration nights allow students to visit the campus speak with staff and explore opportunities please visit our district website for more information the 2024 uh TSD Student
009Art Show Thompson School District is pleased to announce it's 2024 Student Art Show which is on display at the Loveland public library until March 5th an opening reception for the show was held on January 11th we are extremely proud of the students and all their beautiful artwork we hope you will stop by to celebrate these amazing artists High plan 7th grade research team congratulations to the high plane School 7th grade research team who effectively designed an experiment proposal that was deemed worthy of Investigation 250 Mi above Earth aboard the International Space Station the experiment compares the growth of a plant when a seed is germinated in space in contrast to what happens on Earth the team will be working hard over the next few weeks as they prepare trial experiments revisions and safety checks to
010their experiment before final approval and launch in the spring or summer of 2024 this is a wonderful opportunity and accomplishment we are extremely proud of these young scientists as you may have heard January is designated as school board appreciation month and on behalf of our students family staff members and Community I want to personally thank each of our amazing Board of Education members for all they do uh later on in our agenda will be I will get to read a a proclamation Pro proclaiming January's Board of Education appreciation month so I um one I'm extremely um honored and pleased uh we are going to uh be introducing to you six incredible students um all of our students are incredible but we have six really incredible students here uh this evening who are beter semi-finalists so
011um let me tell you a little bit about this and then we're going to um recognize um these students and have them come forward we'll take a picture with the Board of Education um we have six students here in our school district who have been selected as bet scholarship semi-finalist the beter scholarship is a 4-year full tuition and partial living expenses merit-based academic scholarship awarded to graduating Colorado High School students award recipients on average rank in the top 2% of their graduating classes these next few slides will Spotlight our six fantastic honores Mountain View High School has two semifinalists uh this year and a special congratulations and so I'm going to start naming students and when I call you if you can just uh stand and we'll recognize you uh as individuals then as a
012group um so from Mountain View we have two individuals um anakah Suter Suter if you would stand anakah and yep and I'd also like uh Marin napalitano um to please rise as well I think you're here so super proud of the two of you and now we're going to go on to uh Thompson Valley High School from Thompson Valley High School we have Jaden Fitzpatrick uh Jaden would you [Applause] stand and from birth at high school we have uh JC Taylor JC I'm very very proud of uh the two of you and then from Loveland High School we have two semi-finalists I would ask first uh Egan um B I'm GNA I don't want to butcher this um beld you can and then I would also ask Kennedy Lane uh also to rise please the
013beter scholarship is really one of the most competitive and prestigious programs throughout our region it is an exceptionally high honor to be named to semi-finalist within this program we are extremely proud of these six students we're so proud of you it's a lot of work um and I'm going to ask the six of you to come forward because we want to take a picture with you need [Applause] yeah okay so moving on as you know uh each month um we have an opportunity to recognize um three members of our Thompson School District uh Team um a staff member from each of our employee groups so we have classified um licensed and AP which is our administrator group these are peer nominated and so um We Are Tonight going to have the the nomin tours um
014go ahead and um come forward as call your name and you're going to let us know who you nominated and why we'll ask you to come up to the podium please you'll notice that there are some plaques up there so um as you're done reading um why you nominated your individual if you can please hand them uh their plaque that would be amazing and then um when we're done with with this whole group uh we'll U actually then we move on to our community champion award and so the community champion is a new award um we've implemented this year to recognize um a community group a nonprofit group um other groups within our organization that help support um our students and our schools and so we'll uh we'll introduce um actually we have uh several
015uh groups that will be uh recognized this evening for Community Champions and then of course it wouldn't be complete without taking another picture so we'll invite all of our award winners to uh to take a picture so we'll first start with our um AP tonight and so uh tonight we're going to be recognizing brandy stot brandy is a principal our principal at Lincoln Elementary School and Brandy was nominated by uh Kelly Spradley so if you would come forward please [Applause] and yes so's an amazing leader she's professional and yet she's a friend to all staff members her Wednesday morning meetings are well organized and informative she plans fun and collaborative activities sometimes I like her ideas so much that I Implement them in my own classroom she's all handson Deck with disciplinary issues she steps
016up and she calls parents and as we've been short to counselor this year or at least at the beginning of the year um she also was teaching our kids during specials as the counselor so in some she makes me want to be a better teacher and I think she's the best so that's Brandy St thank you congratulations BR thank you so next we want to move on to uh licensed and so this evening we're going to be recognizing Susan Scott who is our business Community coordinator and Susan was uh nominated by terney Lane so Susan has been increasing access to learning work-based learning opportunities above and beyond the classroom by facilitating everything from the initial contact with business partners to the coordination of field trips she's developed an ecosystem of support for both students and
017community members involved in work-based learning experiences she's cultivated high level work-based learning experiences such as internships and apprenticeships for over 50 TSD students over the last few years she's increased the capacity of the College and Career Team so that they we are able to add more people to serve more students thanks Susan congratulations Susan so last but certainly not least um is our classified um so Brandy Wilson who serves as a registar at turer Middle School it's my understanding that Brandy is not here this evening but her nominator Andre Wallace is here and Andrea wanted to come and publicly recognize Brandy so thank you um so Brandy started her role as registar this summer and she's already doing an amazing job she takes initiative is upbeat outgoing and friendly and she keeps a positive attitude
018even while facing a million schedule changes parent inquiries and student concerns her attention to detail and confidentiality are excellent when she has questions she asks them to the appropriate person and finds out pertinent information in a timely manner there are many procedures and protocols to follow as a registar within a counseling office and Brandy has learned them all quickly we are fortunate to have her in this position and can hardly believe she's only been on the job for a few months since nominating her I've heard from countless staff members at Turner Middle School how incredible Brandy is at her new job we did signs of suicide presentations in sixth and seventh grades so far this school year and the survey at the end asked students to indicate trusted adults at the school nearly 20% of
019our students in those two grades selected Brandy as a trusted adult proving how well she's built relationships with our students she has become a tremendous asset to the Turner Middle School community and we are incredibly grateful to have her on our team and I'll make sure to give this to her when we get back to Turner tomorrow thank you thank you so much and your so last but not least uh I'm like we're going to do our community champion uh Awards I'm going to uh ask uh Kim ich Sharon uh to come forward um and Kim nominated this is from the governor's art show so we have representatives from the Thompson Valley rotary as well as the lovelin Rotary Club so if uh the representatives would please come forward uh and Kim will uh recognize
020thank you Dr Schaefer um through Thompson Education Foundation of course one of the things that we do is we create a bridge between the community and the school district and here at TSD and at TEF we spend all of our time thinking about kids and how we can help kids um and it's pretty incredible when we have members of the community who step forward and they do the same thing um for the last I'm sorry has it been seven years SE six going on seven years um the governor's art show which is um an incredible show at the lovelin museum that is put on by both Thompson Valley rotary and lovelin rotary have dedicated a third of all of their proceeds to our resiliency fund for unhoused youth so not only are they thinking about
021youth in our community but they are thinking about our most vulnerable Youth and I thought that was worthy of recognition and so I would like to just thank um all the members here of the governor's art show committee as well as their respective rotaries for supporting our youth supporting our district and uh thank you very much thank you so we're going to invite um our all of our award winners up so uh staff as well as our friends from the rotaries uh we're going to take a picture with you if that's okay all right ready um let's see Nancy can you slide that's great yeah go just that way a little bit for me there you go thanks go this way that'll help okay on here we go on three one two three great thank
022you okay finally is Theo Robison here this evening okay Theo is here okay so uh we are gonna move on to uh as as the board knows we um showcase and highlight um a school each month at our board uh meeting tonight we have uh Mountain View High School and so I'm going to have Theo Robison um go ahead and introduce the school and the administrative team and staff so greeting Dr Schaefer Madame President members of the board I'm Theo Robison executive director of secondary education so I'm pleased tonight to be able to uh invite our Mountain View staff with their principal Mary Ramirez here to talk to you about their presentation for tonight good evening and thank you thank you for the opportunity to share some of the amazing things that are happening at
023Mountain View High School and who better to talk about those amazing things um but our students so let me first introduce Danny Baler who is going to speak um she is our Lisa coordinator um our program coordinator at Mountain View High School she's going to catch you up a little bit on the fun stuff that's been happening this year and then our students would like to share some of their stories hi nice to see you guys um thank you Mrs Ramirez board members Dr Schaefer uh I'm honored to represent me uh mbhs in the Lisa program here this evening uh last year was the first year that I took on the coordinator position and uh we are really really proud as Al Lisa team of where the program is and where it's headed um that
024I believe that we have a video ready to roll thanks does this happen every day why does everything look the [Music] same I just to find cles I just to find place maybe Lisa's what I'm looking for a friendly face I need a space to be myself cuz every other place feel so plain full of eccentricity you're welcome change of pace so manyas is what I'm looking for to be my Saving [Music] Grace I found my passion here and it grows more and more all I had to do was find that open door L confrontation and a strong Foundation maybees what I'm looking for to find my favorite art integrated project that we did in Lisa so far was for geophysical one of our finals we took in a specific element from the periodic table
025and made it into like a superhero or a super villain and I think that was just a very much more fun and interesting way to look at some relatively simple science subject L just what I've been looking for to be my saving gra Lisa just to me the most beneficial thing that Lisa has brought to the table within the Arts is definitely for the finals week uh I was super nervous for my first year of high school's finals cuz I've never done something that big all those tests in every single class it's a lot but for Lisa it actually just gave me uh a bunch of there's so many artistic challenges I had to make my own business hi to me Lisa has been a great place for me to exhibit my creativity and be
026able to Showcase um a lot of the art skills that I like to use on a daily basis I've been able to do a lot of projects that um exist of me drawing and painting as well as exploring other options such as creative writing and using a lot of my brain power to incorporate both academics and art which has been a really great experience in something new and fun to learn [Music] to be myself every other place feel [Music] so family having a group of people that you know and feel comfortable with and being able to push yourself both artistically and academically in a class acceptance that's say a verse okay um Lisa is a creative Outlet family acceptance me Lisa is the ability to express myself without having to worry about what people around
027me are going to think when I think of Lisa I think of the relationships and the friendships that I have made through the program and I think of how it has helped me with my high school transition giving me a bit of a smaller Community to focus on after coming from a bit of a smaller Middle School Isa to me is the ability to freely exess express yourself without having to worry about what your classmates think so uh just a little side note the the music that was playing was a song that the Lisa students created at the fall frolic two years ago so we like to they wrote the music and then did all the lyrics but U some of the things that we're proud of as as the Lisa team uh We've doubled
028all of our numbers over the last two years with our incoming freshmen uh we increased uh teacher professional development provided unique cultural experiences as you saw uh and then implemented quality Arts integration with especially with the community uh here in Loveland uh but most important aspect uh to remember about the Lisa program at mvhs is that it is truly unique to the Thompson School District and the surrounding area there is no other Arts integration High School uh within uh the a few hour so um I would like to speak for hours on how much this program means but I would like to introduce five Lisa students that we have here uh Cade Prather is a freshman here at Mountain View hello my name is Kade prayther as you said and I'm a freshman at Mountain
029View thank you for allowing me here today um I want to be honest with you coming into high school I was really nervous it was it was almost scary for me because um you know I didn't I didn't know how I felt about being around upper classmen and you've all heard the horror stories of them bullying the the new people the newbies um and it was a big school you know like I didn't know in in middle school I was with a Titan a classrooms I didn't know how to walk around and find my classroom so um I like to talk about when I was younger like in fifth or sixth grade maybe I took school a little more seriously and cared about my grades a little more than aot of my friends and it
030made me almost feel like a cast out almost alienated from a lot of my friends because when I talked to them they'd say Kade you know why why are you focusing on your grades they don't matter they're not going to matter in the long run all that changed when I joined Lisa Lisa surrounds me with active listeners and Learners that not only you know celebrate me when I take class seriously but also celebrate me when I get good grades and complete projects in class class it's a great Community Lisa has empowered me to you know um improve my social skills it's as simple as that um small talk is a huge thing that I've learned making new friends and sharpening my grades I've never been so proud to say that I have a 4.0 GPA
031thank you and public speaking I would in the beginning of freshman year I would not have been comfortable with doing what I'm doing today um I'm proud of being a Lisa student and I feel like it's going to make me become a better person in society when I get older thank [Applause] you uh hi I'm Gabby Gabby Forbes and my experience has been pretty similar to kades when I was growing up I also focused a lot on my grades and I've been surrounded by people that didn't really care about theirs so integrating into Lisa was really good for like surrounding myself with like a positive community and it's it's really better for me to learn around people that actually are like encouraging me to learn and the community is really important to me like a
032long time ago I was really nervous to speak in front of people and I am really nervous right now but uh the Lisa classes that I took in like the type of Arts that we do has really prepared me for that and feel a lot more confident speaking in front of you guys than I used to um I think that the that the Arts is is like really important to me because it's a lot more about like how everything like makes me feel and what I learn from the situations than just like the facts that people want me to memorize and yeah it's just really important to me and I'm really looking forward to spending my next few years in high school in the Lisa program so thank you hi my name is Hannah Coulson
033um I'm a sophomore and for me I would have to say that Lisa has been the best experience that I could have had in high school so far um I went into eth grade not really like that excited because all my friends were going to different high schools and I just didn't know I had already been accepted in Leisa that point I was really excited exced about it but I didn't know what I was going to do I went through freshman year and I not only I made some of the best friends but I learned how to be academically creative um this year I kind of sorted to Pivot and I started to hang out with some of my more like nonr friends and I just did not feel that sense of belonging as if
034I did with Lisa and my teachers have been nothing but supportive I as well also have a 4.0 and I um thank you um my teachers such as Miss Evans and Miss wans and all of them they've just been completely amazing down this whole Road and I'm so thankful to be Lisa's student and get the opportunities that I do every single day I'm a little short I'm sorry guys okay hi I'm Valentina Hernandez I'm a junior Mountain View um and uh Lisa has been okay well more than okay it's been great actually um yeah sure the projects are fun and I mean we do get to be creative but what really makes Lisa impactful is the teachers it's not necessar the program it's the teachers it's how they're so patient with us because FYI Lisa
035kids talk so much but and they're always curious like we always want to know everything in a normal I've been in normal classrooms and most teachers are like uh we're digressing let's go back into the lesson but with the Lisa program we're allowed to be uh weird be fun F we um think outside the box and that really contributed a lot to my intellectual growth because it helped me question everything from like uh how a bill is made uh to just uh you know how a cell works but what's more impactful is um the application because for example uh my freshman year in Civics um we had to create a board game on how a bill becomes a law and first of all that's amazing because we as to be like better citizens we need
036to understand understand how our government works and Lisa has a certain class called Lisa with an intro to economics which not every actually only Lisa kids have and it f first first of all it taught me a lot how to be a better Citizen and second of all it's just really fun I uh created a very chaotic board game but I digress um Lisa um Lisa has just impacted me so so much plus I met Miss Bal and I wouldn't be the same person without Miss Bal um and um I created a lot of friends um I'm still a little bit of an outcast because I'm like more of an AP kid but still Lisa is always home it always makes me feel safe and comfortable and um I can't imagine like having a normal
037high school experience I just the Lisa is just a huge and important and impactful thing and uh thank you guys for you know letting the Lisa program uh exist have a good night hello um my name is Miriam beer I'm a senior at Mountain View um I also love the visual arts and I love percussion I was the head snare for this year's marching band um which has been so much fun by the way and people I've asked I've been asked this like a million times this year like what does Lisa mean to you because we've had we've gone to middle schools to tell them about it um we've had like our whole Lisa what was that like a Lisa Lisa Capstone thing it was so fun um and just everyone has always had so
038much fun and people always ask what does Lisa mean to you and I honestly feel like I couldn't tell you what Lisa means to me because it's just been like such a community that I've never had in any other way um in a lot of like in my past I've had you know like mediocre grades um and I've also you know had a history of people looking at me and going oh I don't like you cuz you look weird and I'm like okay thanks and I just I've never had that in Lisa because the community in Lisa is just like it's just so different and I've never been made fun of in Lisa I remember I have a friend her name is Cody and our sophomore year we would have um a Lisa class at
039the end of the day and at the beginning of that Lisa class is when she would take up take up all of her makeup because she felt like in every other class she needed to have the makeup on for people to like her and as soon as she got to the Lisa class then she felt like she could take that off because she was around people who um wouldn't be mean to her for just looking and being like how she is and I've just had the most fun in Lisa I've had more fun in Lisa than in any other class and I I just feel I feel really strongly that I think everyone should have Al Lisa in their life to you know feel that sense of community thank you so thank you all to
040miss Baler and to our wonderful students for speaking and telling their stories tonight they really are the best ambassadors for our school and the Lisa program so thank you and good night thank you so much all of you you kids Inspire some really important events that are happening in our schools and we need to have more people hear about them yes we got we take can't get away without a picture can we take a picture of you guys [Music] yeah all right slide in for me everybody okay all right all right on three one two three good thanks must turn the heat on yeah it's warmer here or maybe it's because letting down so much okay must be our turn now all right um this is our evening for doing our board and committee reports
041and I asked them to just think about a new committee because it's the because we have new um officers we also have new committees and so we all or most of us changed um committees and some of us gave up all of our old ones and have all new some kept some so we're going to just give a little summary of what we're doing if we've had any new information from some of the committees or not so I'm going to start Denise have you had a chance do to go into anything yet any committees I didn't know where you are with yours yeah adership and the biggest thing that came out of that meeting was the overview of where a school district is with putting multiactor authentication on accounts all know cward it's rolling out
042to teachers board members and others going to the classified staff next and then eventually to students so um uh it's good to see someone who works the school district also taking on these really important safeguards to information and and privacy ncy um so the three committees that I have been moved to I they really only have like three more meetings for the rest of the school year so what I thought I would do is talk about um Dak which is the committee that I'm no no longer on and just really talk again about how the two years that I spent on it I really enjoyed it I think it was a it's a great committee I've loved watching Dr Schneider kind of grow into her role because um she was not the original leader of
043that it was Don Huckabee and I think it's important that we have the district accountability and advisory committee because the the legislative intent is that it's really about a way to bring parents into the schoolg district and get them engaged and so for that I think think it's really a good group I'd like to hope that it would keep growing when I first took it over it was at 17 members and it's now at 26 which you'll see tonight on tonight's agenda and love to see more parents join um we need to know what parents think and we need to have them engaged and involved in the process and for me that's what Dak was all about and I may still pop in occasionally because you guys were a great group thank you go last
044I'm the member of two committees one is the master planning committee and the master planning committee didn't meet in January so I don't have a report for you I'm also a member of the Colorado Association of school boards legislative Relations Committee it's a lot of words um that's a committee uh with or on which I meet with representatives from around the state of Colorado uh we had our first meeting uh last Friday and this is a committee that I report on at each of our study sessions so um no report actually tonight from me on either of my committees but uh you will hear for me soon and later on both of my commit so um my new committees are um family p and so family Pi we met um Pi is partnership and education
045um and so we met on January 9th at the Early Childhood Center at stanbury we reviewed the findings of the class system which is the classroom assessment scoring system it's an observational instrument that assesses the quality of teacher child interactions in center-based preschool classrooms um they look at the three domains um that support children's learning and children's development emotional support classroom organization and instructional support um the results were off the charts in all three domains for our Early Childhood Center um and stanbury is recognized as a regional leader and others from um different programs and centers come and when I talk Regional I think it was like 10 states so not just Colorado um so you know we're pretty amazing um and we also talked we had our training from Jenny Linder um on Head
046Start finances and the Early Childhood Program and Jenny is the grants coordinator at stanbury um we reviewed the PE card the purchasing card report and the accounts um and the cost allocation and funding for the three categories there special ed Head Start and Universal prek just as the entire TSD budget is transparent um and available to the public public so is all of that financial information um cak is the special education advisory committee we met on January 10th um they began the meeting by um reviewing the operating procedures that they had updated and those were approved um Maria Gabriel from Equity diversity inclusion Department provided us on updates on the district's unified programming to support inclusion and belonging for all llo updated cak on the CDE facilitated onsite and then he also presented cak um
047the state of the district um and that was pretty impressive lots and lots of glows and of course there's some areas to grow and we discussed that so um that's the end of my report so uh I am on again on the federal relations Network and they met but the conversation was round a trip um planning for Washington DC and I'm not going so I I was thinking I could skip that that's just going to make me sad um and so I'll I'll dive into the security and Emergency Management committee which is a committee that I've been on um we met last week and we really dived into um really talking about Communications at every level when it comes to uh anything with safety related so we used examples of you know when there's a
048law enforcement presence that's somewhere close to a school that impacts the school uh how are we getting that word out to students and you know especially like high schools when there's open campus and you're trying to catch students who may be off site at Taco Bell as they come back and how do we inform our neighbors um parents caregivers uh staff and how how do we debrief on um what worked and what didn't and um I was really lucky because I got to sit with Transportation which is kind of a big deal right now thinking about you know how um how everything uh is impacted by how we move around and uh just hearing the perspective of of like how seriously they take safety and you obviously right you're driving a School Bus full of
049students so obvious obviously that's really really important all the time but they you know really their role in some of these incidents and and having to pick up kids on demand when something happens or know where to go when something changes because of something um was an interesting perspective and there's a lot of other groups uh in the district who are all who are similar right that it's easy to like think oh why would that matter and yet every single person who is involved in our schools really does have a role in safety and needs to be informed um and stay updated at the right level to know what to do and what matters and so I'm I'm really grateful that we took a deep dive into that one thing because Communications can really be
050impacted by what we know and what we don't know so it's good stuff thank you um the Committees that I'm on now are curriculum curriculum Improvement Council and that will be one that meets in the fall I'm on professional C concerns committee and that meets monthly and then I'm also on the Thompson Education Foundation committee and um we were supposed to meet last night but we didn't because of snow so I will find out more about that in in February I also wanted to just kind of update you on the executive session that we had we were in executive session for um the first hour we were here and the purpose was to offer Dr schaer his um midyear evaluation where we provided for him some Clowes of what we see working really well within
051the district and some offering suggestions of things that we can do um as a district that will um enhance where we are so that completes all of our board and committee reports and I turn it over now to Don if she would please read the um protocol for public speaking before we do that if I could just share one other thing about the committee reports in general that the uh the public might be interested in um as board members we don't chair the Committees that we're on we serve as Representatives or Liaisons from the board to the committee and the Committees are composed almost exclusively by members of the community and the chair of the committee is uh very often a parent or another Community member so I didn't want to leave you with the
052impression that we're in charge of the Committees that uh on which we serve we represent the board on those committees we're not voting yes correct we're also not voting members okay yes uh so because the board wants to hear the viewpoints of the public and also needs to conduct its business in an orderly and efficient manner it will schedule time during its regular board meetings for brief comments and questions from the public the board will set a time for public participation prior to the business portion of the meeting the time for each speaker will be limited to 3 minutes and each individual will only be recognized once if there is a large number of speakers the board may elect to take comments for 1 hour before the business meeting and conclude public comment after the
053business meeting public comments and questions at a regular meeting May deal with any topics related to the board's conduct of the schools speakers May offer such criticism of school operations and programs as concerns them but are encouraged to exercise their speech rights responsibly Personnel matters will be discussed in executive session um I'll call you up by name and then um I will also start the timer when you start speaking which will light up the green light right there and um when you have 30 seconds left it'll go to Yellow it'll make a little noise and then at the end of your time it will start flashing red and it'll keep beeping at you so first up we have an Bradbury Dr schaer board members and staff thank you for the opportunity to address you tonight
054after hearing all those positive stories about the Lisa program and some of the positive things there are so many positive things going on however that being said I'm going to address something that's tough this is tough I've been doing research and um I know that the mental health issues and suicide rates in the state of Colorado have shot up and I know for Northern Colorado and the school districts it's on the rise that concerns me I a uh Community member here for over 31 years raised our boys here they all went to the to the schools here in Loveland and we never ever worried as parents about this so I'm hearing more and more of it so yeah they're kids that are falling through the cracks basically and I I wanted to address it because
055I think this it's a serious problem I know that the mental health issues are dealt with at school and that there there's staff that take care of kids that have problems however that being said I know that a lot of these kids they don't they don't talk to anybody they just are quiet they're lonely they're sad they're feeling hopeless and so thus I see the the rates have gone up quite a bit it really troubles me to think that kids are feeling that way because they should go to school and feel safe at school they need to know that they're in a very good environment and a healthy one and I and I don't want to think that the theme Here is that suicide is starting to feel normal to some kids and I believe
056families are super busy right now parents are busy working sometimes they don't come home and talk to their K the kids don't talk to their parents so after looking into this I know that there's some confusion in the schools and some of that is identity some kids don't even know who they are right now they're dealing with transgender issues lgbtq all of those things let's face it it's it's real uh oh okay so anyway my thought here is we got to do something about it I know we have counselors we need more help Reach Out here's a suggestion let's reach out to the community more faith-driven organizations churches so my goal as a community member and all my grandkids are homeschooled so I care about the kids I care about the future gener generations and
057I'm seeing some problems so thank you I hope you address this thank you for your time Sharon Penny Dr schaer members of the board I read a recent newspaper article describing The Angst some students are feeling when they are uh being taught to view their friends through a different lens what lens I hate to use the words but cultural Marxism is the lens that has been taught in State teachers colleges since the 1950s and has been slowly and quietly filtered down into high schools and elementary schools what is it a cultural Marxism places everyone in groups based on color or minority status then these groups are brought into opposition with each other by calling them either privileged oppressors or underprivileged victims standards for current Colorado social studies curriculum tell students that every event in American
058history needs to be viewed through the lens of oppressor oppressed groups and one group is constantly singled out to be damned what does this what does that do to students in that group should children be made to look at one another and history that way do we want eight-year-olds eyeing their classmates as being either part of the good guys or the bad bad guys do we want middle school students to suddenly look at their long-term friends in a new suspicious way I have four great grandchildren here in Cleveland who are a mix of three races no one in our family cares and I don't want their teachers or their classmates to care either they are little Americans with rights recorded in our founding documents all men are created equal those are beautiful words equality not
059Equity Equity is a current buzzword and is incompatible with equality they are not the same I know you know this what would happen if every TSD classroom began to teach the great worth and equality of all students where teachers would say each of you are gifted and we are going to give you all the academic tools that you need to develop your gifts Marxism does not do this it purposely divides it is legalized discrimination I'm guessing that this is not what you really want for Thompson classrooms but it is where the Colorado Education Association stands today I don't know how much TSD is under the thumb of the cea but I have four questions do school districts have any autonomy okay please wrap up thank you uh David Cook thank you David Cook Center for
060government accountability on January 5th Cal Thomas wrote an article regarding how the Ivy League colleges put out people who rioted for a group of folks in the Middle East who slaughtered people who cut off the heads of babies who raped the ivy league did this the top schools in the in the United States a study was done in the 80s that showed that before in the 40s 50s America had the top education in the world by the 60s and 70s it had dropped to 18th and or the 2000s and right after the 2000s we were at the bottom of the list in education however we're at the top of the list in cost the uh government did a study that before 1963 all the good things were happening divorces were going down crime was going
061down ATC scores were going up 1963 that all reversed why because in 1963 an illegal decision by the United States Supreme Court changed the religion being taught in the schools from Christianity to the religion of secular humanism the reason is simple it's what's being taught it's what's being taught at the top and it's what's being taught all the way down including here to the bottom government statistics prove it Society proves it and the better educated people in other nations prove it so last year I presented a redress of grievance with open-ended a year ago to this board to change according to the law in article one article 3 sentence one of the Ordinance of 1787 nothing happened nothing changed so I'm back now with a little more you have received and passed out to you
062another redress of grievance it details all that needs to be said at this point on the back of that is the uh legal Ram the legal uh uh reasons for what it says now here's the way this works if this board continues to teach secular humanism communism the rest of that that everybody laughs at and then teaches it in these schools then this board will have the Ordinance of 1787 on their hands but also the Declaration of Independence Prime statement of law which states that if any form of government which includes you becomes destructive of the end stated it's a right of the people to alter and abolish present it also to the city council and there are copies back there for anybody that needs it [Music] a okay and there are no phone ins
063right okay we're good all right now comes our action consent items and there's a long list of these and what we're going to do is I'm going to read through the list and then we will do a vote is there anything on here that somebody needs to have um addressed first no okay um these are all items that we have spent time with in our study session so we know the history behind them the purpose whoa the purpose behind um behind them and so what we're going to do is there's they policies that have just tiny little word changes that had to occur uh maybe changing the name or the way the the uh person who's in charge of it in the district so just as a name change basically is what almost all of
064these were the first 15 or 16 of them I think were that way and then we have a couple others and so I'm going to go down the long list of of these and then at the end Dr Schaefer is going to read the uh Proclamation for us so I am going to uh just bear with me this is a long a long list like 20 items so hang in there we'll vote on them as a group 6.1 is the approval of personnel extra Duty coaching recommendations 6.2 is the approval of donations over a th 6.3 is the approval of second reading policy AC non-discrimination equal opportunity St would you read the donations can you find them on there thank you 6.4 the approval of second reading exhibit ac- E-1 non-discrimination equal opportunity 6.5 approval
065of the second reading ac- E-2 Complaint Form that goes with that above 6.6 the approval of the second reading regulation ac- non-discrimination equal opportunity complaint and compliance process 6.7 approval of the second reading policy GBA open hiring Equal Opportunity Employment 6.8 approval of the second reading policy gde gdf classified and non non-licensed administrative professional technical staff recruiting and hiring 6.9 approval of the second reading policy JB equal educational opportunities six 6.10 approval of the second reading policy jbb sexual harassment 6.11 approval of the second reading policy JF admission and denial of admission 6.12 approval of the second reading policy jfba jfbb Choice enrollment 6 point one um 13 approval of second reading policy J I I student concerns complaints and grievances um and R which is the student concerns complaints and grievances 6.14 approval of
066the second reading regulation jiir student concerns complaints and grievances I told you there was a long list of these 6.15 approval of dis oh those are the lists of the Grievances okay now these are changes so you'll you'll hear something different now 6.15 is the approval of District advisory and accountability committee which Nancy was talking about Dak that's the membership from um forms membership for uh 2025 okay for uh school years 6.16 approval of the Loveland classical schools Charter extension 6.17 approval of the submitt of building excellent schools today that's the best Grant 6.18 is the approval of project budget and Associated contract over and it says 110,000 on our uh bulletin bu according to feeg policy it's really over a 100,000 so it's just a change in the amount um that we're approving and
067that's the shelter the Youth Shelter 6.19 approval of the proposed 2023 2024 amended budget and 6.20 would be the approval of the Proclamation declaring January as National School Board recognition month and I who are you able to find it yeah Stu's going to read the donations that I mentioned right up here because we approved the donations of over a thousand um $1,000 okay thank you sure uh donations that the school district receives need to be in alignment with Drive 2025 our strategic plan 4.2 States assets are properly inventoried maintained and used appropriately without waste and 4.3 provide transparency and use of resources donations over $1,000 are presented to the board to assure transparency and to assure that the assets are used appropriately um the purpose is Schoolboard policy states that donations over $1,000 need to
068to be approved by the Board of Education and so I'll Now read the two donations that we're going to be discussing um or actually not discussing that we're going to be voting to approve this evening a donation of $1,720 to Mountain View High School for the wrestling program from the Danny Warez memorial fund and $1,500 donation to Mountain View High School for the baseball program for batting cage from Sam Holt via the black bod giving fund okay thank you st and Dr schaer yes Schoolboard recognition month Proclamation whereas the mission of public schools is to meet the diverse educational needs of all children and to empower them to become competent productive contributors to a Democratic Society and an everchanging world and whereas local Schoolboard members are committed to children and believe that all children can
069be successful Learners and that the best education is tailored to the individual needs of the child and whereas local Schoolboard members work closely with parents educational professionals and other community members to create the educational Vision we want for our students and whereas local school board members are responsible for ensuring the structure that provides a solid foundation for our school system and whereas local school board members are strong advocates for public education and are responsible for communicating the needs of the school district to the public and the Public's expectations to the district now therefore we declare our appreciation to the members of the Thompson School District Board of Education and proclaimed January 2024 as school board recognition month in Thompson School District please join us in recognizing the dedication and hard work of local Schoolboard members
070and in working with them to mold an education system that meets the needs of both today's and tomorrow's children thank you very much my pleasure all right I um have read and shared all of you the whole long list of things that we're approving so I will take um a motion to approve I move thank you Nancy second and Don Nancy and Don for approving that long list of items Laura Le please call the role Stu Boyd hi Denise Chapman hi Amy Doran hi Don Kirk hi Barbara Cruz hi Alexander lome Nancy rumfelt hi thank you Laura Lee all right that concludes all of our action consent items and we now could I of course offer some clarification again for members of the public who are here and and watching at home I think a
071lot of times because we're so familiar with what we do we assume that you also understand what we do this long list of uh changes to policy Etc we saw for the first time before our uh recent study session so we had an opportunity to look at that information to submit questions to District administration we discussed these at the study session uh with the knowledge that we can't vote to approve things at the study session and so we received uh this entire uh batch of information again prior to tonight's meeting so the board has had three different opportunities to review and to ask questions over the material um many of us have submitted questions received answers uh Etc I just think it's important that the public understands when Barb reads this long list that we're
072not just giving cart blanch approval that we've had the opportunity to review these uh in this case three three different times and so just as a point of clarification and as uh the evening goes on if there's anything else that I'm that I think that perhaps we know that you don't know um I'll interject some explanation okay thank you all right we'll move into our discussion items and the first item for our discussion is the it student intern update so Kelly so Dr chaer Madame President and TSD board members I want I have the pleasure of introducing some people behind me who are going to talk to us about the TSD intern program these are the people who make it happen I've got a few slides that just talk at the beginning but then I
073will bring them up so our intern program supports strive 2025 by providing you know positives students student outcomes by making sure that we do modern and opportunities for our students to use instructional technology to assist in Recruitment and retain of Staff you'll learn about a little bit about how we've used this program to help fill positions in TSD we have continuous Improvement in a growth mindset by giving our students opportunities to learn about how to fix technology and we've investigated in compensation and benefits in Thompson School District so we're competitive by using our students and creating that pipeline we have a great stewardship of resources by providing students as we are the business that we are providing opportunities for them to learn how to work within its so of course we're also connected to strive
0742025 and of course the portrait of a graduate by empowering our TSD students to learn and grow using Innovative technology today so I'm going to introduce Andy larkens who started this program Andy is our a manager of client services and I'm going to let him start all right good evening Dr schaer board members Madam president uh thank you for having us here tonight to speak with you um we are very excited about the program that uh we are running uh that I can find we are the only program in the nation that is running things quite the way we are um it's a a statistics I'm very proud of um on the slides here we have an increase in devices we have an increase in repairs because of the more devices we have we do
075not have an increase in staff so From its's perspective uh this is very much a win-win situation because we get additional staff and our students get uh more enriched education to go with uh that um this goes along with recruit and retain uh because we've created a pathway way uh you start as an intern in our high schools uh if you're really interested uh you uh can become a paid Apprentice so the interns get course credit the apprentices get course credit and they get an hourly wage and uh we've had some apprentices also go on to become full-time employees uh intern program growth so uh this program started uh around 2012 2013 school year I started with four students from birth at high coming up and just saying hey we're really interested in technology would'
076like to help out in the summer is there anything we can do um from there uh seed got planted and it's kind of grown and I'm going to let Rebecca talk about the current growth because she's really focusing on that right now come on good evening board my name is Rebecca Becket I'm the its client services coordinator and one of my main focuses is on growing the internship program as you can see here we've grown it um just in this year we started in semester 1 with eight interns across the high schools thanks and starting in semester 2 we're up to 17 interns across all four high schools um I have been able to participate in all of the high schools at their promotional events for eighth graders for incoming freshmen either at the beginning
077of the year or the middle of the year the events that they have we host a table we put out um kind of like the guts of a laptop or a Chromebook so it kind of peques their interest and you'll almost know right away if you're like does this interest you and they're like uhuh you're like okay it's not for you that's okay it's not everyone's compet technology um we've also are going to be going to the uh TCC with the work-based learning group to do the eighth grade um fair that they have and then also the wbl fair that they're coming up both in uh February at TCC we've created new Flyers with QR codes that are posted up around the buildings at all of the high schools including Ferguson and uh we meet
078with our counselors and get them interested too we get a lot of Word of Mouth from other interns as well as a lot of um counselors being able to talk to the students when they say I don't know what to do with this off period and they're like well are you interested in this do you like working on your hands um and they kind of get a pathway to us what's interesting about our program is it's not just a class you can sign up for we want to make it as close to a work-based learning opportunity as possible so they fill out an application then they have to do an interview and then they have to wait to hear back if they get invited in the program or they'll get tips on what they can
079do better next time if they don't get invited in uh like I mentioned a little bit earlier we are partnering with all of the high schools so we meet with them on a fairly regular basis especially near registration times we also are working with the TSD work-based learning group um Susan Scott and TIY Laney I don't know if they're here they were here they were here got it um and then the CTE our Career Technical education group um so that's Andy Stevens we work with him and making sure that it's as close to the CTE Pathways as possible um and like I said we do work with our high school leadership whether that's the principles the aps the media Specialists the counselors to make sure that it's working for each individual school individualized but also
080as a um very across the board so everyone gets the same type of opportunity and then vivacity Tech is one of our vendors we work with them they have a online program called the SR or student uh oh my gosh repair acad thank you student repair Academy all of the interns go through that within their first quarter to get certified as a repair technician all right and we'd like to introduce Hayden Kellog yep one of our interns hi I'm Hayden Kellogg just like the cereal um I guess the best part about the internship is like uh Rebecca was saying is it's like a actual it job you know uh you go repair Chrome books you get to actually go to classrooms and help with tickets there um same thing the ticketing system it's like an
081actual it's like a real uh Tech I guess it Tech specialist and it's just I like it I have fun uh I meet a lot I met a lot of people uh through I've have good friends from that too uh I also had an opportunity to do a paid uh internship over the summer so I went into the SSC building and actually help repair there and that was more of that kind of apprenticeship uh like job type thing but because of that I've been doing it I still want to Pursuit want to be an apprenticeship one day and I like it it's fun it's cool the actual text that work there that come in they're great they uh you know really taught me a bunch of stuff learned a bunch of stuff something I want
082to pursue After High School yeah and which school are you at here oh Loveland High School Leland High School are you a student there also yeah I'm a junior all right uh so benefits to our students as you heard from K uh Hayden excuse me uh also include public speaking as Hayden has just done uh we also presented at in Edco and the case conference this summer uh we've been approved to present at isty this coming summer and we will bring students and did bring students um so an opportunity to get up in front of people such as yourself and community members and present what they're learning uh work-based learning Hands-On actual uh in the dirt work professional experiences and professional networking so uh students leave the program with items to put on their resume
083and professional contacts I've provided many letters of references for students to get jobs um and Industry standard certifications to go along with that high school diploma to really uh give that education an extra punch awesome so for the future goals and dreams of this program we're hoping to have a total of 72 interns through the district which would be two per eight blocks at the four major high schools plus one per each eight block at Ferguson High School they just have a smaller population so yeah um you can see on the slide there that's what their certification looks like when they go through the vivacity student repair Academy they get that when they complete as well as an electric screwdriver just to say thank you for completing this thanks for getting that work done and
084here's a tool that can help you to continue to be successful uh it is is very useful yes uh our student help student is the norm that's our Norm now it's what our Norm is to continue with this program too is to really build up that community and knowing that they can rely on each other to fix the technology that comes up as well as relying on or having the staff rely on our students too and build that community and that relationship together we are just now dipping our toes very very new to this right now very dipping our toes into doing a pilot at the middle school level uh we're doing it at Peak View Academy right now they're in their first quarter of that we're um working with them on figuring out how
085that looks for a middle School level and how it could continue through those programs before we make it official and potentially bring it out to all the other middle schools yeah our our vendor vivacity has successfully had middle school students complete the SRA um and gain that certificate and we said if they can do it we can too so we are piloting that we have a few other ideas on how to expand this in the next couple of years as well so I look forward to standing in front of you again in the future and sharing those dreams with you right Hayden is there anything else you'd like to share with the board you guys should totally do the Middle School thing all right that's one thing I like about it I got to it
086early a lot of people don't get to doing that till after high school yeah yeah right thank you thank you so much for your time do board members do you have any questions Nancy go ahead um I think this program is great because it helps kids see beyond High School what they can actually that they can actually make money with what they're learning which is always good and this may already be happening so if it is I'm sorry but can can this be used as a model for the throughout the rest of the district meaning Gordon needs help so he could actually leave the building like maybe before 6: p.m. and so he I'm thinking he could use an intern and who doesn't want to learn about accounting or Bill over there HR I know
087he needs some somebody to keep him in line and then Houseman he he needs help with you know the whole Facebook Instagram so and and teachers so it seems like maybe we could do interns for HR business admin accounting even teachers because if it's helping these young students see that there's a career for them and they can experience then why wouldn't we find a way to put it throughout the rest as well as the Apprentice opportunities so I think you're blazing a path and I would love to see us do more I don't so to answer that question a little bit we are in talks about bringing it to other venues right now if tney was here she'd be able to talk about how we have the future Ed which is an apprenticeship program that
088is going on for the teachers in the education and so kiddos that are wanting to go into the teacher Avenue they have an apprenticeship through that and Tyne and I are working pretty hard and our our fellow people uh Susan Scott and Y here we go Andy I'll dive in good evening Dr schaer Madam president and the Board of Education I'm Andy Stevens I'm the director of current technical education and my team uh oversees uh the future educator program uh that we are developing and also works uh in lock step with our its uh colleagues in the uh it intern and Apprentice programs we are developing for launch next year a new uh educator pathway program and that program is going to offer students districtwide an opportunity to earn uh not only high school credit
089but concurrent enrollment credit through a program called teacher Cadet y uh it will be housed at leveland high school and then ultimately those students when they have successfully completed teacher Cadet which includes both a semester of classroom work and then a semester of practicum work they will then be prepared to enter into an apprenticeship very much like our friends in its and then ultimately Our Hope as uh Nancy you pointed out is that we could potentially model an apprenticeship program for those future Educators much like what we've done in itss to help grow our own Talent um and partner with HR to identify these students who are passionate about education um there's also state level programming through What's called the TR program which is a concurrent enrollment program where students get the first two years
090of their college education paid for uh very much like the ascent program if you're familiar with that with concurrent enrollment so instead of one year for Ascent Tre is two years and it's specifically geared towards teacher preparation and helps those students who have said yes and passionate about being an educator I want to be in the classroom really jumpstart those opportunities so that districts like ours can really start growing our own Talent uh for the future so that is in the works uh and just like Andy Lin said I look forward to being back to share more about that uh next year thank you how how young can we take future bus drivers boy I'm not familiar with CDE Tod what's what's C 19 dang it that's that's a few people that's not like nothing
091we'll take every 19y olds but Don I will say uh you know we do have an an automotive pathway in the district at Thompson High School and I do think there's opportunity there for those students that Express maybe not necessarily to drive but absolutely to get into our transportation department as mechanics to start working on those diesel engines all of our Fleet of you know facilities vehicles uh and so again in this same model how can we build apprenticeship type opportunities for those students that complete that program and say Yes I want a future in auto mechanics and now we're growing our own Talent so another opportunity thank you very much and this is why we partnered with him yeah so just not with understanding everything that uh Andy said I do want to um
092again just really um illuminate the work that you know Rebecca and Kelly and and our students are doing uh truly um we are a state and national leader um in this area um I have no doubt that we'll have 72 um and more um you know to this is really very exciting and um it's really helping our students see a future um and and really a purpose behind their Ed education so that It prepares them uh gives them the skills they need right now um honoring their talents um compensating them not only with um credit and credentials but but salary quite honestly and getting kids really excited about their future and um it's a win-win for the district because again it provides a necessary and needed service uh for us um and so again I
093couldn't be more proud and it's it's it's really special what we're doing yeah so thank you all very much thank you thank you for having us before we move on say something to Quick um before you all sit down just one other thing quickly um I don't need to explain anything and um I don't actually have a question but um Andy Stevens the board heard uh from a young man who's a student at level and Tha and part of the cadet program there at a recent meeting at Centennial High School or um Centennial Elementary pardon me and I think we were all really inspired by what he had to say um the other thing that I want to point out is that the Thompson School District always likes to recognize homegrown talent and the reason
094that I'm bringing this up is that we have many staff in our district who are products of the Thompson School District one of whom is Andy larkens who's a product of the Thompson School District and of berth at high school and I think uh it's a credit to our district when students decide to come back here to work and make uh contributions in a variety of ways and so I just wanted to mention that too socca is as well oh I I'm sorry Rebecca I didn't I didn't know that so that's terrific all right we are moving on to our next topic which is um graduation and Dropout rates so hello Melissa good evening Madame President members of the board and Dr schaer tonight we have some good news to present to you regarding our
095newly released graduation rates and I have Theo Robison our executive director of secondary education and Carrie Bartman our director of assessment and evaluation who have collaborated tightly on this presentation to provide you some some good news tonight so I'm going to let Theo get us started yes it's a good night I tell you so I'm Theo Robison executive director of secondary education for Thompson School District so in TSD we're striving to eliminate disparities in student achievement growth graduation behavioral outcomes and education opportunities in student groups in addition assuring all students graduate on time the four-year graduation rate these efforts aligned with Focus area one of strive 2025 student achievement so on our four-year graduation rate this means the number of students receiving a regular diploma in four years or less upon entering High School four
096years of an ontime graduation rate based on anticipated year of graduation which is considered the AY cohort by school and by District our rate is 91.1 which surpasses the state average of 83.1% in this next set of graphs you're able to see our graduation rate for males is higher than the state average by 8.3% our female graduation rate is higher than the state by 7.7% we also see a 5.1 um difference between our TSD male and female students we also see that we've been able to maintain or increase our graduation rate in in each of the race categories that you see in front of you except for in one area which is two or more races which decrease by 8.8% Within These next set of bar graphs I would like you to see that we
097have increased graduation rate in each student group two major celebrations are the increase in the in the high I'm sorry the highly mobile graduation rate which increased by 14.5% and our English learner grad rate which increased by 13.2% in these graphs we're able to see our graduation rate gains in each of the four Comprehensive High Schools leveland High School Mountain View High School Thompson High School sorry Thompson Valley High School and ber at high school we also seen gains in graduation rates at our alternative school Ferguson on this next set it focuses on our Dropout rates here we're able to see that the Dropout rates for students through 7th through 12 12 grade A Dropout is a student who leaves our school without enrolling into another school or education program our TSD dropout rate is
0981.6% which is lower than the state's average of 2.1% this next set of graphs you're able to see that our dropout rate is lower than the state average for males and for females also you're able to see a 4% decrease in our mail dropout rate from 22 to 23 school year we also see a 0.1 increase in our female dropout rate on this next graph we're able to see that we've been able to maintain or decrease our dropout rate in all race categories except for again students with two or more races which increased by 05% our bar graphs here show that we have continued work that we need to accomplish for our students with disabilities orio mobile students when it comes to accessing other programs that can support them with obtaining their diploma or GED
099on this next set of bar graphs I'd like to point out the Ferguson high school team has been tracking and monitoring their dropout rate as a key indicator of their students post-secondary Workforce Readiness over time improvements efforts Staffing priorities and decisions and programming improvements have contributed to the successful engagement and re engagement of students of at risk dropping out of high school Ferguson as the Thompson School District's only alternative education campus is tasked to serving a population of students at increased risk of dropping out and this data further proof that the school is providing quality alternative education experience for the students they serve here we'd like to sew some successes that we've had over the last year within our graduation rates so here you able to to see 14.5% graduation rate increase for our highly
100mobile students 13.5% increase for our black and African American students an increase of 13.2% for our English Learners our Hispanic and Latin students have increased to 5.6% in their graduation rate our gifted and talented graduation rate increased by 3.9% and our overall grad rate increased by 3.5% and we've also had increases in our students with disabilities grad rate by 3.3 % so as we further develop our guaranteed viable curriculums across TSD and we further develop a strong tier one instructional framework and Institute more professional learning regarding professional learning communities across the system we expect to continue to see decreases in the disparity gaps and we hope to see them diminish some of the current work that we're engaged in thanks to our TSD instructional V vision centers around data literacy work helping unpack the Professional
101Standards in our teachers evaluations in order to have more Cal or calibration across the system and best practice and also the work in inclusive and supportive culture with centered around our building implementation teams work and with the professional development that we've been providing with Cooperative learning all Learners Network for math professional learning communities through solution tree we hope to keep seeing increases in our gradu uation rate as we strive to see 100% graduate here in TSD are there any questions start down here questions not a question but I just wanted to let you know that I sobbed when I look through this today I'm just so happy to see that all of the other work that that we do you know all the other presentations like is showing up and and ultimately you know the
102final product of of what we're producing right which just graduates and it's amazing to see um so many successes and so many celebrations um I'm especially grateful for that lower dropout rate at Ferguson that's amazing in one year especially like that's honing in on something special but there's a lot of stuff in there that brought me joy so I want you to know that because it's awesome thank you thank you Testament to all the hard work of our staff members our students across the system and all the opportunities you've given us through professional learning and curriculum across the system as well as a board and it's superintendent so we really appreciate all the work in the whole system yeah I would just say here here in regard to that that um this is great news
103and I'll Echo what Don said when I saw the result of the dropout rate uh at Ferguson drop or decline from 10.6% to 1.7% I thought what an achievement and what an opportunity for celebration and so in regard to the graduation rate in general congratulations yes first to our students to our parents to the staff to the community that values education yes inde indeed yes indeed I I just would like to thank the staff for all of the hard work that they've done in and tenacity to stick with this and the support that everybody at our district office has helped with keeping it going so thank you so one thing I wanted to add too is that so when I went back and looked at the graduation rates from 2 to 2023 so TSD had
104a 90% graduation rate in 2005 which was the only other year that we we've had over a 90% graduation rate and this 91.1 is second highest in the metro area in Colorado as well or fourth highest I'm sorry I'm thinking about a couple years down the road we're number one I meant to say fourth highest repeat what repeat what you just said so in this uh Denver metro area Thompson School District has the fourth highest graduation rate I think they have about 20 school districts on that list and we're number four wow anybody else um first just just so for the Public's benefit I did submit a question which I know um Dr Melissa Schneider and her team's working on just wondering what is the college remediation rate for just the colleges around here I
105know you can't know for the whole country but and then do we track similar to what I know llo does um over in Special Services where do the high school graduates go do they go to trade College military what kind of where do they where do they go so thank you for that Nancy so I have some answers for that so so one of the things before I share this data is I want to share with you so um two years ago when we moved to exelo we stopped using the national clearing house uh as we made that purposeful transition to exelo we're going to look forward this year at going back into the national clearing house so we can have more uh accurate up-to-date matriculation rate data so we believe that there's some increases
106that we would see if we were still using that system so we're working currently to increase that or get that system back into place but what I want to share with you so from 2022 class uh out of all 1,088 graduates we had 144 students which is 13.3% of those students go to a 2-year Community College then we had uh we had 18.7% which is 203 students go to a four-year college and then we had 100 students which represents 99.2% uh go um I'm sorry complete school with a CTE certification or apprenticeship and then we had 6 which is six of our students go to the military so again knowing we had that transition from exelo to Naviance um that kind of impacted our ability to use the clearing house but we're going to go
107back to that because the previous year when we had the Clearing House we had like about 52% of our students that we could have matriculation rate data so so this is a lower percent uh this time around but we're expecting to go back into that system to get more accurate data in the future and then when it relates to the your question regarding uh remediation so I'm still working with uh Tyler schel our College coordinator to figure out how to pull that data uh for this last school year typically what happens though is that uh you either go in or you're recommended for a second semester so we think by the end of the year it would be easier to figure out students ended up that but he's going to figure out how to run
108that report for us no that's awesome thank you one last thing though I because I think this is really important because the increase in graduation for the Black and Hispanic Community was really large so yes what I mean what are the what were the key factors that really drove that yes so I really believe that our teachers in our buildings do an incredible job building relationship with kids and the thing that we know when it relates to sense of belonging or students um doing what's necessary to get themselves uh successfully to complete their diploma it takes typically one adult at a school that they have a strong Rapport and so when we know some of our programs had these ninth grade uh freshman seminar opportunities like Mountain views had uh this was the first year
109that that class graduated and that was a pretty high graduation rate just at that school alone we also know that Thompson Valley has also had a system like that in place as well as well and we also know that other schools are trying to figure out ways to build similar programs if not completely uh one class that I'm sorry one teacher that supports one class of freshman throughout they would at least have some type of touch Point through Extended Learning opportunity or other type of activities where students have a stronger relationship with the adult that they can trust so it sounds like it's really key the way that kids in ninth grade get brought in to the high school and then they don't feel so like oh my gosh where am I and one of
110the things that that does is does the work in our strive 2025 and when you think about also with our um portrait of a graduate that self- advocacy piece that we ask our students to have that's another piece that that type of class really helps students uh generate some understanding around is how to advocate for themselves or how to use that adult to help advocate for themselves but also I think our teachers they they understand that there's multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate learning as it relates to our portrait of a graduate as well and so we're doing a lot of work there by looking at how you may have written uh say for an example if you take a biology class you may have written some type of uh research proposal how can we
111look at that type of work in order to reinforce your learning in ela so it's some variety of different things that are in place in our schools that are really Champion the each student aspect well thank you so much for all your work and thanks for the answers it's really great what you do all right thank you anybody else thank you nice job all right we have um youth mental health update thank you madam president so tonight we bring to you an update on our uh youth mental health task force and we as Thompson School District are kind of a host or a facilitator for this task force that is countywide and incorporates a ton of different um organizations within the county who all care about the mental health of the youth in lir County
112so um I have asked uh Dr Jennifer guthal who is our director of Student Success to give you an update on this task force good evening Madam president Dr schaer uh members of the board so glad to be here tonight um so I just wanted to first start with making the connection to strive 2025 um obviously inclusive and supportive culture is key as uh Mr erson was just talking about in um helping our students have the success that we dream for them and so that really is the heart of this task force is um trying to remove barriers for our youth to graduation and other successes by removing those barriers to the mental health supports they need in our community um I did want to take you back even though we've talked about this task
113force a little bit um to take you back to how it ever came came to be because it's it's been a little bit since we've had a chance to talk about that so um if we go back to Spring 2022 um The Alliance For Suicide Prevention in lammer County Health and environment hosted um a summit that they called connect with intention um and the idea behind that was really to um bring together folks around the topic of mental health in our in our County um and since this was post pandemic to reconnect us all both just getting to know each other again and to reinvigorate uh this work and to see what questions were out there and what needed to happen next to help um the youth in lmer County succeed and so what happened
114um was we had this incredible day there's over 300 people there TSD was just invited to present that was how we ended up there okay and at the end of it um the session that uh uh PSD ests Park and US hosted around K12 education and mental health was one of the highest attended sessions so we ended up kind of in the middle of this giant room with the people who put together the event with those of us from the school district and all of us were like oh my goodness we have to do more so there's just a lot of energy excitement in the room to do more so that led us into um fall 2022 when we um helped host the youth mental health Summit so um what we did was at the
115um the the first one we had a list of names the people who created that event had a list of names people were interested so we sent that out and we asked them who else did they think should come and we ended up with an in invitation list of around 3 to 400 people to come together around the theme of eliminating barriers and Illuminating Partnerships um we were unfortunately still in um the uh covid era obviously you all have been going through that recently again too but right before this event there was a big wave of it that came through and even with that we still had over 200 people um that came to this event um and so we did this amazing activity hosted um mostly by the county to gather deep information about
116what all of these participants were seeing and hearing and feeling about why our youth may not be able to access the supports they need in our community around the topic of mental health so we collected this enormous pile of um data and then we had to figure out what to do with it so kind of the same thing happened we ended up in the middle of the room some people in this room were in the middle of the room with me and um we committed to forming this task force so we asked the people who had attended that event to nominate people to be on the task force to represent um a bunch of important stakeholders within our community to continue these conversations so I'll get a little bit more into who those stakeholders were
117um on a later slide but we gathered this group we started this task force and the idea was to continue this partnership ship between the county um Private Practice um and other organizations providing mental health and support and child care and that sort of thing and the school districts in lmer county and come together to take action right because we kind of spent two sessions thinking and talking about the problems and connecting with each other and we needed to do something about it we felt a lot of energy around doing something about it and that led into the formation of this task force so that's a very brief history of how we ended up with the task force so as far as our current membership um we currently have 67 members of this um Team
118it's definitely the case that not all 67 show up every single time but 67 people are invited um each time and how that happened was that we asked for nominations from the first two events of people they thought could represent the um basically kind of the knowledge base within our community around mental health and specifically Mental Health Services for the Youth of larer County and so what we were looking for was a representative group of stakeholders um that would include private clinicians Educators from all three school districts members of the county some elected officials and Community Partners such as Alliance For Suicide Prevention so we we tried to build a team that was first of all very inclusive but also we had people who are doing the work and decision makers in the same room
119because one of the things that came out of the two earlier meetings was that often times those things are separate right so we have a lot of great ideas um say in our folks doing clinical work but they never get to talk to a superintendent or you know Tom Gonzales for instance at the county and so our dream was could we get some of those people all in the same room so that these ideas can be freely exchanged and we can start removing some barriers to helping our our kids the other thing that came out of um the very very first task force meeting we had it's a little embarrassing to look back on this because we didn't notice it until we were in the meeting that we were having a task force about youth
120mental health and we didn't have anyone in that room under probably the age of 30 or so um so luckily somebody caught that I cannot take credit for that but somebody did and then we have really amazing Partners at the county Zack duch charm is one of them and he leveraged his wonderful contacts among um the youth um organizations in larer County um to find US representatives and the youth Representatives um on this task force have absolutely blown us away they are so committed they want to meet in between meetings they they I mean they speak up you know uh Mr oron was speaking of um advocacy they are incredible advocates for um themselves and their peers so we are very grateful to their addition to our team so as far as what do these
121meetings look like how often do they happen how do we come up with what we're going to do so our full task force met three times last year and as we worked through the topics that the group wanted to do this is a very organic um experience right so it's all consensus driven by the members of the task force they we ask them what they want to learn about what they want to do um at the meetings and work on with each other and then our planning team which I help facilitate tries to bring that to them and so it's a unique position to be in for Thompson School District because we are really just at least my role is a facilitator um and so we come together with members from the county from the
122three school districts from the lines for suicide prevention we take all the ideas that the task force um is interested in and then we try to plan the next task force meeting based on that um at some point I can't remember exactly where in those series of those first meetings we realized that this group was too large um because we wanted to be so representative to actually get work done and so what happened next was we decided in the next round of of task force meetings to have work groups so in between the large task force meetings we have these small work groups that formed and the topics for those um work groups I'll go into in just a moment but those topics were both generated from within the task force and based in that
123data that we had gathered at the summit so it's all databased um so we formed these three work groups this year and um the whole group has met twice this year we have um our our next meeting is coming up on February 13th so it's very soon and I did put something in here that you may be interested in looking at in all of your spare time because um at our last meeting um we were very lucky to receive the first Public Presentation of the health District's youth Behavioral Health assessment mapping results and key findings which is a very long title but if you are interested in the topic of Youth mental health it is well worth your time to go look what they put together it is absolutely fascinating um and so we got
124to be the first to see that publicly the task force was and then we incorporated that data into the work of our work groups um an example of um some of their recommendations that came out of that was this it was a massive effort that they undertook to gather this information but a recommendation for instance was attraction retain a diverse and Cally competent Workforce um increase awareness and education of Behavioral Health expand wraparound services so on and so forth and so we were able to then bring those recommendations into the task force to further help the stakeholders um there incorporate that into the work groups but also take it back to where they spend the rest of their lives I only get to see them you know every once in a while very exciting um
125so then oh one other thing I wanted to mention I said this was kind of a unique unque situation because um we are facilitators and so my role on this team is that I help lead that planning team and really it's just to to help organize thoughts and help create the slideshows get the meetings on the book um send out the invites all that stuff and then when we bring the task force together I'm the main facilitator of that as well but all of the things that we're doing are generated by requests and ideas from the task force itself and then the planning team which as I mentioned is made up of from the county Alliance For Suicide Prevention in the three school districts so I did want to share with you the um topics
126of the work groups that have come together over the last few months um so we have three of them as I mentioned uh one of them is working on youth events and destigmatization of mental health support um so their kind of overarching goal is to plan and host resource events um in sorry there's an extra word in there I apologize uh plan and host resource events in several environments in order to inform build connections and support for our youth and families to minimize existing stigma uh stigmas around mental health within the next six months um that is massive because what they're talking about is the entire County remember this isn't Thompson School District this is all of larer County so you can see that's a that goal I think is a great example of why
127we need to bring together practitioners Youth and decision makers because there's no way that just our practitioners or just our youth or even those two together could try to pull off something like this without having some of the decision makers in our community be part of it the second um work group is working on accessibility and school-based mental health it's interesting because most of the people on this work group actually um don't work in our schools uh and so it's very interesting to hear their conversations about how they want to really work on those Partnerships with our school districts so they are wanting to develop and Implement greater access to behavioral health and healthcare services that are destigmatized um in both peer and community- based School settings and then our third group um is working
128on financial infrastructure try and say that five times fast um and this group is really interested in developing comprehensive Financial infrastructure to improve um in stream process for accessing funding to provide high quality services for youth so that one is probably the most kind of high level behind the scenes um project that people are working on then I had a few celebr and next steps I wanted to share with you and then um and then we'll open up to questions so we as I mentioned earlier the ongoing and enthusiastic youth engagement in this project I think really has um kind of a all of us just phenomenal kids and several of them are from Thompson School District and I will say to just hype up Thompson School District students just a little bit I think
129they might be the most enthusiastic students there and we're so appreciative of their time I mean they're coming at like 6:00 at night on a school night and yes I do feed them but they still come and really engage It's amazing And then I think the other celebration that all of us talk about every time the task force comes together is building bonds across organizations on behalf of Youth you know all of us who work in these service Industries as as you well know are incredibly busy so trying to find time to get to know each other um is really really difficult and the fact that now you know out of those 67 people you know we know we know each other right we we recognize each other for out and about and if somebody
130asks us a question we're like oh I know who to call I know how to ask so those barriers that happen just because we're really busy even those are starting to break down of course trying to address the financial infrastructure issues is a very complex issue we're not going to solve any complex issues if we don't have relationships with with each other and know each other so our next steps um despite all this time we've had together we continue to feel a bit mystified about how each other's organizations work so despite lots of opportunities to try and figure that out I think we still need to work on that so that's the next step and then we really need to get cross the finish line with our work group goals that I mentioned previously um
131so very um I feel very lucky to be a part of this task force and thank you so much for listening Dr schaer yes nice job uh Dr guthal I'm before the board um if you have any questions um I will share with with you um you so the next meeting is on February 13th as Jennifer shared um on February 13th uh Dr Schneider myself and Theo Robison uh will actually be speaking uh to a national group on this at the in at uh the aasa National Convention in San Diego so um in addition to presenting in our co-responder unit which is another presentation we were accepted for um we are part of and I've shared this with you a national cohort so there's four or five school districts nationally that were invited to to
132um uh invited as Lighthouse districts really that's um really Illuminating and elevating the work in youth mental health what makes our program and our um our task force so unique is that it is a Consortium of the three school districts here in lore County and a partnership uh with County City nonprofit you know lots of agencies that are working together to address this very complex um issue and so um nationally um they're they're taking notice of of a number of school districts that are embarking on this really important work um we will um actually as Jennifer shared this PowerPoint I'm like we're going to use maybe a lot of this PowerPoint for our presentation so thank you for doing the work no problem but um we we really want to share our learning as well
133as learn from others but again I just want to point out that we're one of like four or five districts in the country um that are part of this group um that will be presenting at this National Conference okay um are we ready for our questions okay any questions for Jennifer over anything ncy um go ahead um so one of the things that I find interesting as I listen to this presentation and read this presentation and even other numerous presentations I hear a lot of talk about um bringing Youth and the practitioners together and all of these agencies together to figure out how to work on this what I do not ever hear mentioned as one of the large stakeholders are the parents I mean these these students they didn't just like get dropped by
134a stor into our schools so where where do the parents fit in all of this conversation 67 members and we don't have parents as part of that stakeholder we think to bring in the youth but not the parents I think parents are key and they're critical to the mental health of children and to assume that they're not needed or that maybe they're the problem I think does a disservice to the parents as we say we want a partnership with them so what how are we going to bring the parents into this yeah parents are absolutely part of the task force um many members of the task force are parents in our community and including myself uh so we do try to check in and make sure that we have parent representation um in any group
135that we build like this I'm sorry but if they're already there as a a CL clinician or some other role and they also happen to be a parent that's not the same as having a parent from the community in my opinion thank you for that feedback anybody else have questions so Jennifer to follow up on that are there parents who are part of this of the group who are not clinicians well not everybody there is a clinician because we have Educators members of um you know or local organizations people who work in our schools so yes there would be parents there who are not clinicians okay all right anybody else have questions you know I do and I feel bad that I didn't send this in advance but I have sort of like I thought
136of it as you're speaking um so it's okay do it later I feel like it's probably baked into some of the things you said as well so forgive me if I missed it but um you know one of the things that that youth tell us is um how much the adults um and you know having a trusted adult but also the adults just everywhere um impact was uh what supports they get and so the the fact that part of the big challenges that students tell us is that it's you know they'll go ask for help but they don't always get that help because people don't know how to help and um so when I when I saw the demystify I know that could mean a lot of things and for me that's what it like
137brought up is like is demystifying is how do how does everybody become better at being able to help you know because everybody cares but we don't always know how to actually care in a way that helps and so I was hoping that that's part of part of this the work that some of those groups are doing yeah I think that you know you're right what we're trying to demystify has many uh components to it but one of the main components of that is understanding what do all these organiz ganizations have to offer and how do we connect people with that right so I just got a question today for instance about um a certain provider wondering if they could meet with a student during school hours right so you know that that for instance perhaps
138I'm the only person in Thompson School District that knows that process is probably not the most efficient and effective way to remove that particular barrier because there is a process and we need people to know it um and so that is one tiny example of the types of barriers that exist just because we don't know how each other's organizations and and groups work um all the way to you know the group that's working on that Financial infrastructure luckily we have some people on that team who do understand health insurance for instance right like I mean when we start working on the topic of accessing mental health the unfortunately the barriers far outnumber um the um supports right and so um trying to have there's no way anyone one of us in that room can understand
139how all of the pieces work but there are some aspects of that that we can understand better so that we can uh if a student shows up say in one of our counselor's offices and has a particular need that maybe the counselor doesn't know exactly where that need can be met in the community but they at least know who to ask because um I think that we make a lot of assumptions about what all of us know about each other's groups because some of them have been around for a very very long time summitstone for instance has been around for a very very long time so I think people might think well all of our school counselors know exactly how to help their families access Summit Stone and vice versa that everybody at summitstone knows
140exactly how to connect with um you know our schools and and the answer is they don't because our organizations are so completely different from each other and how they function so we have to continue to um understand each other better because that that cannot that can no longer get in the way for our students um as uh somebody mentioned earlier you know we watch the these statistics and we know that that those statistics are real people those are real people and real people's children and so we've we've got to figure out how to get these bearers out of the way so our kids can have what they need to succeed um so demystify demystifying things includes a lot of things but definitely includes what you're asking about thank you and um you know I also
141want to just call out um something that would have been a whole another presentation and that is um also how all of these in all of the people who have come to the three events you called out and are on the different groups have taken things back from these events and it's not just what's happening in the three meetings and the three work groups that exist today um you know I I I have conversations regularly with with people I think I met with somebody from summitstone a few weeks ago and they were they're doing like a huge new project um that really comes directly right out of this work and that's just one person's job out of you know probably close to 500 people that have been identified as part of this someway and so
142it's really cool to see how how it's spinning off and then um I will also mention that in addition to the people who are who are sitting in the room and the different hats many of many people are wearing several hats um there are also people in that room who are specifically uh representing like the best interest of a of a group of parents there's several people who you know are talking to parents who are saying you know I need to know how to navigate my insurance I need to have somebody who can support my kid while they're at school and not have it be something I have to miss work for you know I mean some of those things are things that are directly coming from some of these service providers who support families
143the health district is one of them where people go to get support and they are you know sitting there as you showing us data that comes from what they hear every day from from real parents and so that's showing up in this consistently and in the room consistently as well so people who maybe don't wear multiple hats are being represented because they're going to some of these resources and asking for these things if I may share another celebration based on what you just brought up um because of the relationships formed on this task force actually a member of the health district reach out to us and um let us know that they had been inspired to write a grant that allowed them to extend some of the health district Services down into our school district
144um the health district services are primarily centered in Fort Collins um and so it's very short-lived so we've already met with our counselors we got them the referrals and um it's going to provide some free services for um the students and of Thompson School District for the second semester um that partnership and conversation none of that would have happened if we hadn't known each other because um I don't really think that some members of the health district really understood how isolated um Thompson School District feels from the services of the health district so hopefully that is just one small step that we will take to continuing to expand that partnership there too and I will also add that um the conversations we have with Estes Park because of this are fascinating you know we we
145sometimes feel like we don't have as many services Fort Collins they're a whole different world up there and so we're just really excited to continue to share ideas back and forth because they've also figured out some things because of being more isolated um that we haven't figured out yet so we're always um learning from each other thank you very much very informative tonight thank you yeah appre having me all right um we have one written report it's the monthly financial report and will the Laur Lee will the um board report be also posted eventually the board report that we filled out online it is there but just not listed is it on our paper board reports okay I'm sorry it's under board reports were you guys reported that's where it's listed oh up here okay
146I was expecting to see a written report it is a written report under board reports okay all right I don't see it I was looking out for on here as all my mistake all right um if anybody have any further request for information at all I just have I just have one and it's actually a followup to what Stu was saying earlier when he was explaining about to the public about our study sessions and that we go through all of this so go ahead so I was wondering would it be make sense for us to find a way Laur in board docs all of the rfis that get submitted that then come back with answers to post those on board docs because then the community can see what questions we're answering we're asking and what
147the answers are I will refer that to Dr Schaefer and we'll talk about it okay yeah all right anything else all right meeting is adjourned