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002Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Good evening and welcome to the board of education meeting for Gley Evans School District 6. Uh this Oh, thank you very much. On Monday, March 23rd, 2026, this meeting will now come to order. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat] >> Miss Richards, will you please call the role? >> Director Azari, >> present. >> Director Bentley, >> present. >> Director Campus Fitzy, >> present. >> Director Edmmonds, >> present. >> Director Lemos Garcia, >> present. Director Mash >> present. >> Director
003Roi >> present. >> Seven members present. >> Well, we do thank you for attending our meeting this evening, whether in person or online, and we sincerely apologize for our delayed start. We had both an executive session and then a very robust discussion during our work session and it just um was a little went over for sure. Um, I just wanted to take the opportunity to share with the public. Um, there's just so much more that goes on behind the scenes and I wanted to thank our legal counsel, Mr. Nate Fall, who helps us to write our board policies, which helps to govern um the everyday going on in each of our buildings. And then also to our our both district administrators and our our building principles. um they're doing everything they can to support their
004staff and to keep their students safe and comfortable while they're learning and it is just hours and hours of work on top of their daily lives. So I want to say thank you for that. Um that is what you know prompted this robust discussion. I also want to thank our seven member board who are all so engaged and um just allowed for a very respectful and engaging conversation. Um welcome back from spring break. Seniors only have eight weeks of school left and I will take that opportunity to introduce our students sitting with us, both whom are seniors and we're going to miss them so much next year, but Sarah Venegas and Abby Tovar with the Council of Student Representatives. So, um, my little plug to seniors, whatever you're planning to do next year, if you
005meet with your school counselor, they can help you write a resume, apply for jobs, apply for scholarships, and make sure that everything is in order for you to graduate on time and walk across that stage where we will all be um, eager to shake your hand for that accomplishment. We will now approve the agenda, which is an action item, which requires a motion. Um, I move to amend the agenda by removing JICA student dress code from the policy revisions under item 11.0 for further revisions and consideration at a future meeting. >> I second. Is there any discussion on the amended agenda? Seeing none, Miss Richards, will you call a vote for the amended agenda? Director Azari. >> I. >> Director Bentley. >> Hi. >> Director BR. Uh, Campus Bitsy. >> I. >> Director Edmmonds. >>
006I. >> Director Lemos Garcia. >> I. >> Director Mash. >> I. >> Director Roi. >> I. >> Motion carries. 70. >> And now on to the best part of our meeting, all of our celebrations. And I'll give it over to Dr. Pilch for her honor role. Thank you so much, President Mash. I am super excited to welcome back to our boardroom a face that I think you all will recognize. Um Joanna Fedor is the Colorado ProStart teacher of the year. Joanna, stand up. Let's recognize you for a minute and I'm going to bring you to the podium and I'll bring you up here in just a minute. But I want to talk about you first. Um, so Joanna is a teacher at Northridge High School and and we're just honored to yet have another District
0076 employee chosen as one of the Colorado leads um, as she has been in the ProStart teacher of the year program. I want to tell you a little bit about the Colorado ProStart. It is a high school hospitality education program and it is a part of the Colorado Restaurant Foundation, the Colorado Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association Education Foundation. Um the program offers restaurant and hospitality management to students. They offer culinary arts and business economics for juniors and seniors to be able to take as part of of our career pathways programs. Um, and students typically earn college credit uh while in the ProStart program. There's lots of scholarship opportunities as well as paid work uh experience opportunities for students through the Colorado ProStart program. And they serve currently hundreds of students at 40 different
008high schools across the state of Colorado. Um Joanna I is a wellrespected leader in our school district and uh she's known as her colleagues for bringing energy and joy and enth enthusiasm to Northridge High School for the students and the staff. Um and whether it's her work promoting wellness activities, spirit activities or or her highly engaging instructional practices. Um Joanna is a vital part of our district 6 and our Northridge High School staff. Um, we're honored that Joanna chooses District 6 and we uh want to congratulate her on this very much well-deserved recognition. Come on up, Joanna. We're so proud of you. Yeah. You want to say a few words? Oh, you want to get a picture first, Casey? Go ahead. You can get a picture first since you're here. Yep. >> Thank you. Thank
009you. Okay. Oh boy. This is kind of nerve-wracking. Um, so Dr. Pelch told you a little bit about ProStart. Thank you very much for that. I I think for me what I want to share with you is what means the most to me um about ProStar and about this award is really being able to see my students gain confidence in themselves um gain industry experience and really be able to gain experience that is going to help them in whatever career they choose whether that's in hospitality or not. and I genuinely feel so lucky to work for a district that supports um CTE and uh programs like ProStart um as much as you do. It really makes a difference in students lives and the uh trajectory that they decide to go uh in. So, thank you
010so much for your continued support of CTE programs. I really appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you, John. And moving on to another celebration, we would like to celebrate the classified employee of the year. And so I will invite Rose DS to the podium. And I think Jamie Gagos is also joining Rose at the podium. Both from our classified council. Hi. Um, good evening um, school board and Dr. Pouch for having us here. Um, I am Rose DS, the president of classified council. >> And I'm Jamie Gyos, the recorder of the classified council. >> I am honored to talk about our classified employees. They are the heart and soul of D6. So many of them go unrecognized um for the hard work and dedication that they put in on a daily basis. They make sure
011our students arrive to school on time. They um make sure they have a clean and safe environment to go to school. They are fed breakfast and lunch and snacks throughout the day. They have the materials they need to learn, books and technology to keep them moving forward and learning to the best of their ability and to make sure they are healthy and well enough to stay in school to continue learning. So tonight we are here to honor our classified staff for the classified employee of the year. We had close to 76 nominations. It was wonderful for Jamie and I to see and read all of the positive and hard work that these classified employees do on a daily basis. I would like to say that all of them are winners in our eyes, which they
012are, and I know they're winners in your eyes, too. The difficult part is to select one out of the 76, but we have our top three here with us tonight, and it's an honor for us to introduce them to you now. Okay. So, our first um person that we'd like to recognize is Jason Harmon from Northridge High School. Jason Harmon is a trusted leader and role model at Northridge High School whose impact reaches far beyond his role as campus monitor. Through the strong relationships he builds with students and staff, Jason helps create a safe, welcoming, and positive school environment where students feel seen, valued, and supported. His dedication strengthens the culture of Northridge every day and his influence is felt through the entire school community. Okay. And our next person that we'd like to recognize
013is Jim Leechman from Gley Central High School. Jim Leechman is a dedicated campus monitor at Gley Central High School, whose professionalism, reliability, and genuine care for students make him an invaluable member of the school community. Through his calm presence and approachable nature, Jim has become a trusted adult for countless students who know they can rely on him for support, guidance, and encouragement. His kindness, strong work ethic, and commitment to building positive relationships make a lasting difference every day, strengthening the culture of Gley Central High School and District 6. Sorry. Now, it's my honor to introduce our outstanding classify employee of the year, 2526, Gina Holman, office manager from Hyman Elementary. Gina Gina has been the heart of of Hyman Elementary. Come here, sweetie. Down there. >> Thank you. Love you, too. >> Okay. Gina has
014been the heart of um Anheimman Elementary since the school first opened for 22 years. She has served at the school as office manager, steady force behind the scenes, ensuring everything runs smoothly for the largest elementary school in D district 6. And she's also known as Mama Gina. Congratulations, Gina. [applause] >> Okay, you come come up. Okay, stay here. Oh, sorry. They're still taking pictures. They're still taking pictures. You'll trust me. Thank you everyone for having us here. We greatly appreciate it. Um do you have any questions or concerns for us tonight? >> No. Okay. >> Oh, >> I I'll just um echo what we've said a lot before is what oftentimes when you think about school districts, we think about teachers, you know, in front of the classroom, we think about principles and whatnot. But
015all these individuals, I know that every principal would say that they can't do their job well with even without employees like this, especially when you talk about the making sure the kids get the food in the in the cafeteria and make sure the kids are being safe and you know, all those different things that can get overlooked that make us successful. So, I just appreciate >> um the hard work of having to narrow down that list because I'm sure it's very hard cuz there's so many that go unrecognized, but we just as a board we're very appreciative for how well they represent district 6 for our students. >> Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. >> Thank you for being here. >> Good evening. [applause] Our next item on the agenda is a
016report from our council of student representatives, students from Gley West High School. Welcome, Spartans. >> Hello, Board of Education. Dr. Pilch, thanks for having us here tonight. Uh, my name is Jeff Cranson. the principal at Gley West High School and I'm excited to uh introduce to you two students that are going to talk to you about the opportunities they have and and the things they're involved in at Gy West High School. So without further ado, I'm going to turn over to Ivon. Good afternoon uh members of the board and Dr. Pilch. My name is Ivan Hime and I am a junior at Gley West High School and I simply want to share with you some of my experiences in the programs that make Gley West High School unique. Now, GLU West IB program is an
017essential part of what makes us unique. IB otherwise known as international balora is one of many programs offered within the school's walls and provides students with ample opportunities to challenge themselves and grow into individuals. I'm not a conventional IB student, but I am taking IB language and literature SL along with all of the other juniors and seniors in Gley West. Having the IB course as a requirement for all students challenges us with a more rigorous course and allows all students to see that they can succeed in a college level class. From my experience, many kids have generally improved upon their reading and writing skills uh because of the push that otherwise they may not have had. This week, we are currently kicking off the individual oral assessments, which is a 10-minute presentation of a comparative
018analysis between media pieces. people get the choice of picking pieces of media that were explored throughout the school year and develop an analysis of something that uh similarities between the two. My involvement in the course is something that I value and is also something that I otherwise would not have taken. But I am glad to have that extra push. That extra push to all of the juniors and seniors is something that in my opinion has helped many improve upon their skills that they otherwise lacked or needed aid in. Another program uh I have been involved in is HSB or High School of Business. In my opinion, one of the most valuable classes you can take is in fact within the HSP program. That class being personal finance where I've learned general money skills such as
019saving, budgeting, and investing. As I have been a member of the program itself, I can say that High School of Business is a very valuable portion of Gley West as a whole, and it helps it stand out as a school within the district. Along with this, we have advancement via individual determination, otherwise known as AVID. As an AVID student since my freshman year, I can say that Gley West's attention towards the program has made it quite valuable to students as a whole. AVID targets the development of waker skills, but it does so much more than that. Along with helping my academics by pushing me, AVID has also helped create a tight-knit community of students who can rely on one another for assistance. I can say with confidence that my involvement in the program has led
020me down a better path academically with its direct involvement in me taking very rigorous courses such as AP Statistics, AP Calculus, AP Biology among some others. Not only that, but it has also helped me aim higher than ever before with plans of differential equations, calculus 3, linear algebra, and much more within the remainder of my high school career. I can say with confidence that our AVID program is one of the biggest things that makes us stand out, and I am certain that we will be able to regain the title of AVID demonstration school very soon. >> My name is Maybelline Sarate and I'm a a sophomore at Gly West High School. I'm part of the AP program, tennis, the the AVID program and a CSR CSR officer. But today I will be talking about my
021experience in the band program and Gly West performing arts program. A big part of Girly West culture is our performing arts. You will find many students involved in various activities at West which include theater, band, orchestra and choir. Gly West gives the opportunity to all students to make a perform to take a performing arts class. Whether you want to take orchestra or band, but you are new at playing an instrument, GY West has the option for you to take a beginner level class and make your way to the advanced level classes. Band plays a big role for me at West. Marching band performs at our football games as well as assemblies which showcase our school spirit. Many band students audition for higher bands like CSU honor band, all state honor band, combined league honor band.
022I myself am part of West Marching Band and Wind Ensemble. Band is a class that I look forward to as it gives me a break from my schoolwork and it's some and do something that I love. Marching band is one of my favorite things at West because I get to perform at a lot of events and it's a way to spend more time with my friends. I always look forward to parades and competitions during marching season. Wind ensemble performed at CBA at the CBA festival at the beginning of the of the month and hopes to make it to state. Band is a great way to make new friends and a part of the comm and be part of the community. Um, I am looking forward to continuing band for the next two years at West
023Gilly West Wind Ensemble and concert band will be playing alongside Brentwood eighth grade band during our concert March 25th. And I am excited to play Skyfall by Adele. Orchestra also has many students audition for combined league orchestra and all state as well. Or orchestra has some exciting events coming up. Chamber orchestra will be representing district 6 as they as they perform at the state of the state of the city event on April 15th. Our theater program has been up to some great things. Let they just wrapped up 9 to5 on on the 14th. 9 to5 had many student students participating in which included in the theater singing and as well as a live band from from all from students all over our district. Really performing arts will be hosting their annual gala April 16th. There
024will be music and singing and many activities to do and it's a great way to get the community together. Performing arts is a is a way is a great way to bring the community together and Gilly West Performing Arts is no exception. Gley West would like to thank the school board for our facility and all of all of opportunities provided at our school. With this being said, we would like to ask the school board to help students reach opportunities that are available for them. issues within the school mainly reside with the lack of communication at at the parents and communication community involvement within the school is something that we we believe we should prioritize more. We believe that the help communicating promoting and opportunities at our school as well as helping with helping with drive
025students and staff involvement would be a great benefit to the school and community as a whole. Do you have any questions? >> I'm sure there will be a few. Thank you for coming. Director Limos Garcia, >> I don't have a question, more of a comment. So, thank you both for showing up today and sharing with us about the things that are happening at your school. More importantly, the amazing things that you all are doing. It's just so amazing to hear all the things that you continue to do throughout your short school day. I don't know how you all fit it in, but um thank you for sharing. I appreciate you coming in. Thank you, >> Miss Venegas. >> Thank you, President Mash. Well, I always say a little something with my CSR people come up
026here, but I think especially right now, West was our last CSR group to present to the board. So, you guys will hear about our schools once again next year. So, that'll be exciting. But, I think you guys did great. You guys are awesome. them. I love when our schools come up here and just, you know, talk about all the amazing things they do and highlight their schools, but not only highlight their schools, but highlight themselves as individuals. And I think that's so important, especially since you guys do do such amazing things. And yes, I'm just so proud of CSR as a whole and every school that's come up here and had the opportunity to present to you all and you listening to their stories and listening to the students and about their schools is just
027so important. So, thank you for giving CSR the opportunity to do that. Good job, guys. >> Director Campos Spitzy. So, >> I have a comment and a question. Um, the comment was, "Thank you for highlighting so many of your school's strengths. Um, I always love to hear about how strong AVID is and your IB program really is um amazing. I love um that you described yourself as not a conventional IB student and I think that's the whole point um at Gley West is to bring more of our students into these advanced courses. Um, I also really love to hear about oral assessments. I think in the world we're living in now with AI and um the oral assessments are kind of the the way to really assess a student's knowledge of things. Um, and thank
028you for highlighting the HSB because every year we get to hear that a a number of you get in the top 10% of the country like the scores and and that's just such a cool opportunity um at Gley West. And then I also really like that the performing arts were highlighted because Gley Central gets the rep for being our magnet school for the arts. Um but really there's amazing um performing arts happening at Gley West as well. Um, I got to share during the work session that I, uh, my children and I got to go to 9 to5 on the last night of the show. And I don't know how many of you were there that night, but the mics turned off for the entire stage for I want it felt like three minutes, [laughter]
029but the show went on. It was so incredible. The kids didn't skip a beat. They kept singing um, even though no one could hear them. There was no pause. There was no awkward anything. And then once eventually the microphones turned back on, it was like nothing had happened. So I was so impressed um with the performers and the the mu the musicians that entertained us that night. So thank you guys. And then the question um you mentioned an area for improvement was better engagement with it sounded like community and parents and I was curious if as CSR if you guys have ideas for how to bring that engagement into your school. So, our main thing as Gley West High School is that we uh we're not necessarily lacking on resources like uh other schools. We
030have a lot of programs. We have a lot of that. But the issue is that there's a lot of people who aren't necessarily taking advantage of those programs. Like HSB is a really big thing. I am a really big proponent of the personal finance class. I personally I think that's a very important class to take that everyone should be taking. not a lot of people are taking them like uh con all things considered and it should be required like something something along those lines to increase uh not only that not only like taking the HSB course taking uh the IB AP like having that as a requirement but also within outside uh school times like within the sport sections there's also uh sort of lack of school spirit with within that like if if there's
031something along those lines like that could help maybe requiring personal finance maybe having a requirement uh a few AP classes for graduation. Something along along those lines, I think would go a very long way. >> Um well, at West like Ivonne said, we're not lacking a lot of things. We have we have many resources, but um one of the great things is that we have a lot of programs like the HSB, we have our AVID, we have our IB, and then we have our FFA. Um we have a lot of programs but just students don't know many don't know much about those programs and sometimes they just don't know how to like join the programs or they're not aware that we have those programs and we just want to know like how would we how
032would we get those programs out more to our communities and like maybe possibly to like the middle schools that are looking middle school students that are looking to come to West like encourage them to join those programs. Yeah. Um, I would just I was going to ask Dr. Pilch about what exactly happens at the Oh, that's a career expo. What all do we do to tell our eighth graders about the programs at our high schools? I know there's like >> incoming freshman night and things like that. So, there's incoming freshman night and counselors are visiting the schools. What else, Miss Dross, would you add? >> The career expo coming up. the cur expo for the eighth graders that comes up at Ames Community College. >> Okay. Yeah, that's that's always um a challenge is there's
033so many amazing things happening in district 6 and we we want to shout it out and tell everyone about it. So um we continue to look for creative ways to do that. But thank you for sharing that you're fully engaged. I think I think your voice with your peers is also super powerful. >> Mr. Mr. Cronson, >> I was just going to say and then you know in the summertime along with the registration we have our jump start programs and so try to get each of our elective teachers to do a couple days to a week of uh courses uh for incoming freshmen to kind of get to know the extracurricular opportunities. I know some of the things that we talked about today in preparation for this is just u we got a lot of
034great things going on and and how do we get more participation? We'd love to see every kid part of an extracurricular activity, um, a music program, a sports program, and how do we how do we really bring that community together to to get get in part be a part of of the great things happening in our community and our schools and so continuing challenge a continuing challenge for all of us. >> Thank you, Mr. Kryson. The other thing I'll remind you all about is is our big box truck, our portable uh STEM lab, and that our current teched lab um that does go out to to um all of our middle schools. And so students have an opportunity to be exposed at through that program as well. And then uh was that and Zello? Yes,
035that was the other thing I was thinking of Zello. And so that when we presented Zello at last board meeting, um remember part of what we're doing is beginning some of that career exploration earlier on in the grade levels. So students begin to think about that and then once you know once we've fully built out where students are building that high school plan, that'll make a big difference because they'll they'll be thinking about what what's the career I want and we can help them to determine you know maybe there's another high school that you should look at that offers more options in that in that career interest that you have. Well, thank you all for taking a Monday out of your school week, fresh off of spring break, and best wishes for the last two
036months of school. Have a good night. Okay, and back to you, Dr. Pilch, for your superintendent report. Thank you so much. Um, I will just remind everyone that we actually have an extra Monday in March. So, we won't come back together for three weeks. And by the time we come back together, we will be in the thick of Colorado state testing. And so, cuz state testing will start on April 6th and go through April 24th um with the the CMass testing. And then the other reminder I'll put out there is that our um 9th and 10th graders will take the PSAT on April 13th. um and through the 24th and then our SAT administration day is April 15th. So although we're talking about only eight or so weeks of school left, this is a really
037important time for children to be in attendance, our little children and our big children, and to get plenty of rest and to have a good breakfast and and to show up um as a part of this this testing. Uh I'll also share that uh we haven't had an AI task force update for several weeks. Uh, and we did put some information in eweek last week about that, but but we are um right now in some gathering input stages and going to the district accountability committee uh tomorrow evening to gather some input from parents around our our AI work and their understanding hopes of AI. It's it's a it's a big thing and we know it's here and I've heard some of you mention AI tonight. Um, and then finally, uh, Thursday evening at 6:00. I
038don't think you all had this on your calendars and there's not an obligation for you to attend, but you're certainly welcome to. Uh we are a part of a community meeting concerning the downtown civic project. Um so the the developer, the city of Gley, District 6, the county will all be a part of this meeting Thursday evening at the rec center at 6 pm. Uh it's an basically a neighborhood meeting to talk with downtown employers and people who live nearby about what the project is and and to give them an opportunity to ask questions really about the block that it that the the city building is on right now and the juror block. So pretty exciting. The project's moving ahead and um barring, you know, no delays, we'll begin actually the the actual work on
039the project uh on the site in the fall, early fall. So, we're pretty excited about that. We're in design in design phase mostly through design phase and uh >> rocking and rolling. No, >> schematic design. Yes. Not the not the where is the plugin and where does the projector go, but the the stuff we're all interested in like where who is whose office is where in the building we've been working on. So, exciting um going forward in the next few weeks and it will go quickly um no doubt. So, thank you for that. >> Our next item of business is an update for our innovation 2030 plan, climate and culture goal 2 safety and security annual safe schools update. And I will welcome Chief Corass and Mr. Leki up to the >> Okay, so I'm
040gonna try to get through this a little bit, but I may end up turning it over to Brad because you can tell I've lost my voice a little bit. So, so, uh, President Mash, members of the board, Dr. Pilch, and council of student representatives, um, this is our I 2030 updates for safety and security in our annual safe schools report. Um, this first photo is of our team, um, which includes myself, Brad Lubkey, the director of safety and security, Brian Breees, the assistant director of safety and security, uh, Jasmine Overshiner, who is in the back row. There's our threat assessment coordinator. It also includes uh, 25 campus security guards, two of which you saw tonight that were representative in the uh, classified uh, awards. So, um, our work is in line with the mission and
041vision of District 6. Um, I will tell you I just a disclosure real quick is, uh, I did push the AI button on these slides. So, that's why they look a little different. I don't know if I'm going to push that button again cuz it changed a bunch of these slides. So, but this that's why the mission and vision looks a little different. Um, this is with our uh the values of district 6. Um more specifically, we work uh to ensure safe and secure and healthy schools um within the safety and security de environment. However, uh our our unit works to serve all of these values uh in a different capacity. Um again, here's a the part of I2030 of student learning and achievement uh strengthening partnerships, climate and culture, and operational and organizational effectiveness.
042Um, I would say we work in all of these areas. Uh, but most specifically, uh, safety and security will be tied to climate and culture of our schools. Um, this is a, uh, I I I created this. This isn't like a nationally recognized model, but this is the simplest way that I can break down safety and security. Um, opposed to just saying we do a lot of things for safety and security. Um, we call this the five pillars of district 6, safety and security. And it's also in line with the national preparedness goal of prot prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. I also put that line across the top, which is kind of shows you where we're operating throughout the day. And I would say right there in the middle where you see it between
043green and yellow is I think as a as a school day progresses, we're operating between the green and the yellow on a daily basis. Um each pillar indicates a barrier that we're putting in between ourselves and uh potential um negative things that could happen um criminal events. Um the first department that significantly supports us is IT information technology um that goes in with the Chromebook monitoring uh communication systems um and tech support. Second is environmental security and control systems which includes uh building secure buildings um building technology and traffic safety. Um the third one is our threat management and our daily practices. Um what how are we operating within our school building every single day and that goes down to our administrators and implementing the safety and security procedures that that they're asked to do
044at their school buildings. Along with that is the climate and culture of the schools which which goes along with response to behaviors and restorative practices and the things that we're doing to support our students at the building level and again uh completing uh threat assessments and resp uh response management and safety support plans um to support students. Um third the fourth one is uh emergency management and crisis management. It goes down to our safety protocols and initiating our standard response protocol um through I love you guys foundation along with the building safety plans and our command center functions within that within that area. But it also covers all all five of them together. And then the last one is our law enforcement and our first responders and our local uh partners that support safety and
045security at our schools. Um that leads into the great partnerships that we have with Gley, Evan, and Aven PD along with the Weld County Sheriff's Office. Um the Gley Police Department expanded to seven SRO's this year. Um and they have one sergeant. Evans PD has one officer, one sergeant, and they have one Well County SO deputy and one sergeant. So those are their photos below. The one in the middle below is not an Evans officer. That's Seth in the back row with his uh K9 Onyx that he frequently brings by the schools to to check in with the kids. So Onyx is more popular than all of us. So I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Brad. Let him take it from here. My voice becomes a little raspy. Let me know.
046Hopefully I'll bring a little clarity to this. So uh I 2030 goals for district 6 safety and security. again to support the social emotional uh well-being of students and staff. Um one of our main objectives districtwide is to update the district-wide plan for crisis response. So if there's an emergency district-wide building specific, what do we do? What does that look like? And then the uh our outcomes are to implement uh safety and security measures across the entire district to include our support building. So the administration building, facilities, transportation and so on. some of our actions and strategies. Uh most everybody should be familiar with the I Love You guys Foundation, which is our standard response protocols for lockdowns, evacuates, Raptor Technologies. Whenever you go into a building, it's the cool little white sticker that you
047get that has a barcode and your picture on it that says, "Hey, I'm here visiting all these kiddos." Uh emergency plans or EOPS for all the schools. So, those are sight specific. So, if you're at one school, what does the emergency plan look like for this school as compared to another one? Um, we've trained all school administrators and district 6 leadership and incident command systems, which is a nationally recognized systems for kind of the hierarchy of what do you do in an emergency, who's in charge, who gives the orders for that. Next is our the functionality of the command center. I believe it's where you had your meeting earlier today when we were in there. The command center is up and running. looks like the the main space deck of the Star Trek when you
048go in there. Um, we're still fostering that and doing what we can to make that top-notch. I want District 6 command center to be above and beyond anything else you've seen in the state of Colorado. And we're getting there. It takes a little bit of time. There's some glows and there's some grows, but it's getting there. It's pretty fantastic. And then uh our collaboration with school resource officers, which I attribute to having partners that were in law enforcement and still having those strong connections there. Actions and strategies, [clears throat] the focus on collaboration, communication, and consistency. the three big C's that we have the development of the response to behaviors website and any changes that are may be need may be necessary to be made in that uh consistency with data entry into infinite and
049campus that's across every building within the district to make sure that we're always consistent in that restorative practices. You'll see a slide on Mr. Dr. Hayden tonight back in the back row on restorative practice as well as threat assessment and response management plans. Miss Overshiner um that will lead us to alternatives to suspension. Our frameworks and outcomes MTSS PBIS that's all we've gone over before our focus on improving culture and or climate and culture of schools. Tonight you'll see a little little bit on that to show there's been some some major headway. and then our uh monitor behavior data via edge of climber. >> Yeah, the EO E EOP is an admin training. So yearly every building in the district we get with the administration in that building to go over that sightsp specific emergency
050response plan. So who has changed in the building? Who's the new leadership? Who are new teachers that are now in active roles to help an emergency in that building? get them inputed into this binder, so to speak, that we have access to and then let them know, hey, in an emergency, this is your role. This is your responsibility. This is where you may evacuate to and so on and so forth. Just covering every crisis that we can foresee for each specific building. You'll also see information tonight on our site risk assessment. So every year, safety and security goes to every building we have in district 6 and performs a a site assessment on that. That's checking everything and anything under the sun in that building to include locks, windows, just make sure everything's operational and
051still up to par. So I talked a little bit earlier about some edge of climber data. So part of our stop grant was to see an an overall total of 80% districtwide as parents and students feeling safe and secure within the district. You can see we've gone back from the winter survey, the winter parent survey as of 2017. You can see we hit that we hit that 80% mark this year, which is a gigantic improvement for safety and security. I'm I'm super super happy about that. I'm super proud that we hit that mark. But that's up 3%. And it also, like I mentioned, made us hit our percentage on the stop grant. So, it's one of the it's one of the measures we met on there, which I'm very proud of. Uh, the grants awarded,
052some of the stuff was from last year. We'll skip to the middle to the safer grant first. That was a grant that was written mostly, I think, by Mr. Czech with a little bit of help, but that covered support for the command center and electronic infrastructure for that to include radio infrastructure. The school security dispersement grant which we went over last year that we had got was really the big grant that District 6 got to start the command center. So that was a $59,000 grant from the state that got the command center up and running and started to get the tech all put into it. We just finished buying some additional portal portable radios for the school district because that grant sun sets here um in June of 2026. And the Bureau of Justice, the
053STOP grant, which is the grant that's funded both our threat assessment coordinator and restorative practices coordinator that was for 810,000 that sunsets later in October. So, Jasmine Oversteiner, the district's threat assessment coordinator. She leads the district in any and all threat assessment. She is the primary contact in the district to help out. How do we support these kids? How do we wrap around them? How do we get them through whatever they're going through and get them to graduation? Um, she's completed over a 100 successful RMS plans. RMS is a response management support plan, which is a plan that that wraps around kids. How do we service these kids? Is it they need an adult to talk to? Do they need a counselor they need to see? Is there some type of in-house mental health support
054that we can offer to get this kiddo up and going again and try to get them to 100%. Um, and Jasmine single-handedly alone has created a threat assessment team at every building within District 6 so that she's not running call to call to call to every building, but they can start to handle in-house now with with her oversight, with her guidance on that. Mr. Jeremy Hayden serves as our restorative practices coordinator for the district. Um, currently every district, six schools at least one administrator that's trained um administratively trained. Yeah. The whole nine yards, right? As a uh restorative practices person within that building. some of his work to showcase since he's just started is we're seeing ISS in school suspension is trending towards a 13% reduction already since his since bringing him on. We've also
055seen a 16% reduction in OSS so out of school suspensions with Jeremy and these are all um alternatives to suspension. So with Jeremy, we've gone from 57 restorative circles, so to speak, to almost 1,200 districtwide to let kids kind of know here's here's the here's the wrong. How do we write the wrong and and bring it back together? The command center I pointed out just a little bit ago, uh that's that's the hub. That's that's my goal to be the heart of the district. So they monitor surveillance cameras for the district. They do requests from administrators to I I don't have time, but I heard something was going on in the playground. Can you take a look to kind of give that time back to the school while they research that access control? The two
056gentlemen that work in there can single-handedly communicate with the school, can lock down a school from the touch of a button behind their computer there. So if they see something on a camera before anybody else in that building, they can initiate a lock down, a secure, and evacuate right then and there and then use radio communications to talk to them. A direct line of communications with first responders. Again, I I attribute this to having a good relationship with both GPD, Evans PD, and the Weld County Sheriff's Office that we now have a direct line with dispatchers for Weld County Communications via um some radio equipment that we have there. So, no calling into 911, wait. We can our own little radio codes and we can talk to them directly to get them there because seconds
057matter. They also assist in monitoring safe to tells uh GoG Guardian alerts on the Chromebooks and any raptor alerts that we may get while school's in session. Couple of pictures. Uh Jose Diaz on the left, Tony Ligus on the right. safe schools audit. These [clears throat] are the things that we look for when we go to the building to check to make sure everything's up to par and that we're ready to go. Uh you'll see traffic and parking, exterior, office, so on and so forth. Kind of changed some things in how we score them. It's either going to meet standards now or it's going to be needs improvement. This is because Brad's algorithm failed how I originally had it in my Google Docs. So, I had to change it so it would correctly show up
058on a bar graph. Uh, safe schools audit this year, almost all of our schools that are 100%. The schools that you see that are just under that 100% line could be a door that we had a lock that some screws had broken out of so the mechanism won't close. um some windows that had a missing lock or a lock that had been broken and may not have been able to secure all the way. The big jump for here is the jump we have at the GAP building. Last year it was significantly low, but since we've acquired that building, it's been easy to submit a work order via the new program that facilities has pushed out and now gaps all the way up to to 100% now. So pretty amazing. >> Which one? >> Okay. safe
059routes to school. So, the safety and security team collaborates with the Gley Evans district or the city of Gley was it their traffic operations to find safe routes to school. So, part of that was meeting monthly to establish what what does a safe route to a school look like? So when you drive some around some of the schools now, you'll notice the the white pillars that are on the roadway that kind of bring traffic traffic calming pillars. That's all stuff that we have worked with the city of Gley to do to try to calm traffic and keep traffic safe around schools. The city came and presented to us a couple of weeks ago some improvements that can be made on the city's side. Um and so we're partnering with them by getting this part done.
060It now allows the city to apply for grants to start doing those big projects around the school to start making those safe routes to schools improvements. Next steps for safety and security team is continue to improve uh safety and security and support the climate and culture around the schools. I'd love to see that 80 go up even more. I'd love to see trend to 100 and stay there. Um emergency operations plans are a constant continuing update. We always assess those and look at those every year, every couple of months. Make sure the same folks are still there, there's no turnover. The memorandums of understanding we have with locations are still good. The same people are there. Um, and to continue to strengthen our response to behaviors, resources by providing the school staff with whatever we
061can to be supportive alternatives to suspension. Jeremy is another great one, but to continue that work. Okay. Yeah, I tried to rock through it pretty quick. >> It wasn't your responsibility to make a bar last time. Sorry, [laughter] but we appreciate it. >> We got behind to begin with. >> Oh, no. It's all good. Uh, thank you for the presentation. Um, we have a few comments and questions. Mr. Aari, >> thank you. Thanks for the presentation, guys. Just a question. Um, obviously Jasmine and Jeremy have done some great work for the district and uh those positions are covered under the uh grant, right? The BJA stop grant. >> Correct. Yes. >> And that grant sunsets in October of 2027. >> Yes, sir. >> So, are we take what are our next steps? Do we reapply?
062Is that a grant an ongoing repetitive uh renewal grant? >> Not right now. It's not a renewal grant. It's a federal grant. Um, so you know, it'll be something we'll need to consider in that budget cycle when we get to the the previous spring to that. So, um, it'll be our goal to keep the positions at least through that school year and then we'll need to look to see how if there's a way to continue. As you all heard earlier tonight, we're we're we're facing some pretty significant um budget cuts probably in the the next coming couple of years. So, we'll have to talk about all of it, but um we all see the value in the positions. Um our administrative team sees the value in the positions. It's they're they're truly critical and beneficial
063positions here in the district. >> So, so just to recclarify, Dr. Pilch, uh that grant, we can't go after that grant again or can we reapply? >> I don't think that grant will be available again. We don't expect if if it would be we would try to apply but >> of course and and every to to piggy back on what Dr. Pch said I aggressively search for grants every single day to find how can we lessen the burden on the district to keep these two employed because of the numbers you saw. I mean it's it's good work that it's trending where we want it to go. I I don't want to see it stop. I don't want to see it stop and I hate to lose two two good friends that work for the district
064now too. So >> Okay. Well, thank you. Yes. I hope we we need to get we need to keep those. >> I I would agree. Yes, sir. >> Director Campos, >> um I just wanted to highlight the trends that you just mentioned um that are very impressive for the inschool suspension to be down 13% and out of school suspension to be down towards 16%. That those are big numbers. Um and then to increase restorative practices from 57 to um about 1,200 is also very significant. And so I agree that >> it is important work that's happening and >> and I'm glad you two are on our team. >> Miss Jovar, >> where's your goggles at? >> Goggles are down there. But [laughter] I just wanted to say thank you um for keeping our school safe.
065Like we really appreciate it. I don't think like there's been a day that I haven't felt safe. Like it's been it's been good. And that's been since I was in middle school, too. Um so, thank you. That's like really really appreciated. I see a bunch of stuff like on the media, as I'm sure we all do. And I I'm just really grateful to be here and have such a a great team um working for us. And then also, I want to go on that center the I've had the opportunity to be in there in the summer one time cuz I was doing my work with Josh. We went to go um take a picture of Cameron, I think her name was, which was uh Mr. Corass's intern. And that room is so cool. There is
066like a billion TVs and it's like they were telling me like, "Oh, this button like you can lock down any school like as I said in the presentation." So, it's really cool and I think that it's a great center. Um so, I wanted to add on that. And then also lastly, um to talk about Jim for a second, he was recognized earlier um as a part of one of those uh members. And I just think that that's really it's really cool because Jim, he is a trusted person in our building specifically. And like I've never really interacted with our security guards before, but Jim, he's he's a really cool guy. And we have like posters of him like in our English classroom, too. Like he's just like that guy. And he he's good at his
067job, too, of course. So, [laughter] but yeah, I just want to say thank you overall. So, thank you for all your guys' um hard work. >> Happy to help. >> Thank you. that the Oh, do you have something else to say? No. Oh, no. Um, just looking at the number of buildings we have and that they're all at 98 to 100%. That's that's so encouraging. I was just thinking too, I think after this city, the new civic project is done, we will own all of the buildings that we utilize. Is that true? Pretty much very close. Anyway, um I just like having our own buildings where you guys can put >> Yeah, we rent warehhouse space right now, but we're looking hopefully to purchase that in the future. And then the early college academy is
068owned by Gotcha. >> And then on that safe schools audit, I mean, that's a huge tribute to the MLO and bond >> is that's why our buildings are where they're at on the safety and security side of it is is those projects and Mr. K Hansen and his team. So >> yeah. Well, and I also to add on to Miss Tovar's point that the relationships that the SRO's and the security team make with the students makes all the difference. Um they can see when a student's having a bad day. The students feel like they're just a member of their educating team as they are. And I think that makes a a real big difference even in that survey data of perception of of safety is that you know somebody's there and you have that relationship.
069So yes, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> I will say while I'm skeptical of AI as a whole, I really liked this presentation. [laughter] It was very pretty. >> Oh my goodness. All right, the next item on our agenda is public participation, but we did not have anyone signed up to speak. So we will move on to approving our consent agenda. I move that the board of education agree Evans School District 6 approves items as presented on the consent agenda and authorizes the officers to sign any and all contracts. >> Second. >> Is there any discussion on the motion? >> Seeing none, Miss Richards, will you please call the vote? >> Director Aari, >> I. >> Director Bentley, >> I. >> Director Campus Fitzy, >> I. >> Director Edmonds, >> I. >> Director
070Lamos Garcia, >> I. >> Director Mash, >> I. Director Roi >> I. >> Motion carries 70. >> Thank you. All right. And then we've amended our agenda to eliminate that last item. So, it was a late start, but it was a quick meeting. Thank you for joining us, and we'll see you back in three weeks. Enjoy the spring weather. This meeting is a drink. >> [music] >> Hey there. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [bell] >> [music] [music]