001[Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh yeah. Hey [Music] Come on. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] How? [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] Good evening and welcome to the board of education meeting for greatly the Evans School District 6 tonight on August 11th. This meeting will now come to order. Please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance. >> 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. >> Miss Lemon, will you please call the role? Director Zari >> present. >>
002Director Bentley >> present. >> Director Campo Spitzy >> present. Director Mash >> present. >> Director Matthews >> present. >> Director Norwood >> present. >> All board members present. >> Well, welcome back to another fantastic school year here in Gley Evans School District 6. We want to welcome our students, our staff, our families. Hope you all had an excellent summer. As you may have read in Dr. Pilch's welcome back letter, the theme for this year is better together. And tonight is a time for us to reflect on um our mission and vision. Our vision which states that we will um engage and empower and inspire today's students in partnership with families and communities to succeed in tomorrow's world. This summer, many of our rising seniors took part in our internship program with our participating community businesses
003um to get a an idea of careers they may want or careers they thought they did but they might have changed their mind. So, we um offer our sincere thanks to all of those uh partnerships and we are looking forward to continuing to grow that number as we have many students who are interested and don't always um have enough spots. Um tonight we will be voting to um approve a resolution to participate in the civic campus in downtown Gley. Um an opportunity to um revitalize downtown in partnership with the county and the city to um to get new buildings for all of us. again um those relationships that we really value with our other community leaders. And so um as everyone began today, we just wish the class of 2026, our graduating seniors, as well
004as our kindergarteners, who I believe are the class of 2038. Doesn't even feel like a real year, but and all of our students in between. Uh we hope you'll have a great year. Um at this point, I'll turn it over to Dr. Pilch for her honor role. Thank you so much, President Mash. There are so many great things happening in District 6. It was hard to choose just two different groups to be recognized tonight. The first group I want to recognize is uh filled up the back of our boardroom and they are some of our staff from the Girly Oven School District 6 transportation department. So, all right folks, come on up here. Get yourself on camera and I'm going to talk about you for a minute. Come on up here. [Applause] Come on up.
005[Applause] Come on. Those of you who are hanging back. So, this looks to be about oh 20% of our staff. Maybe Chad, >> maybe about 20%. That's a pretty good turnout because bus drivers need to go to bed early cuz they get up really early. So, I I have lots of things to brag about our transportation department about. Um, I have them here tonight to recognize them for for being the best overall float in our Gly Stampede Independence Day parade. And I think Miss Lemon, we have a picture of that float, at least sort of one. And I'd love to show them a little bit about that. If you can see that picture on the screen was very patriotic and um what and so congratulations on that. I am returning your trophy you won back
006to transportation that you gave to me. >> Oh, you have two. Oh, good. Then I'll keep it. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. So, um >> All right. So, not only did they show up and represent District 6 in the Fourth of July parade, I mean, they gave of their own time to ready this bus, to ready their costumes, they always show up. Always. They are they are at community events, they are at civic events, they are at District 6 events. They are some of our best recruiters for for bus drivers, bus monitors, and other staff at our transportation department. But, uh, what I love about you all is you always show up. And you know, one of the things I say is, hey, first thing leaders show up and you are truly leading
007in this school district. And I love it. And it has paid off because we are fully staffed in transportation. I would bet I would bet I don't even have to bet. I am I I am certain we are probably the only district in Colorado who can say they are fully staffed in transportation. And I will tell you it is because of the culture these folks have developed in our transportation department. They and their colleagues have built a culture out there that makes people want to come to work with them and and they all understand how important their job is in delivering our most precious commodity to our schools every single day. And they do such a great job. I had the opportunity this morning to go out and ride with Sydney and and do some
008Centennial bus routes and Bella Romero bus routes and had a chance to really see what it's like to do her job and it's amazing. She's an amazing driver. They all are. And to drive those big pieces of equipment around while you have upwards of a hundred students sitting right behind you and you have to look forward and the children are behind you. It's it's truly remarkable work. And what was most fun about this morning, and I know this is the case with all of our drivers and monitors, is that she knew her students cuz she had the same route last year. She welcomed them by name, told them how glad she was to see them, and that that's a great way for kids to start their day. A lot of those students were really nervous
009before they got on the bus. And right away, they they were welcomed. They found their seat, found somebody to sit next to them, and um and made their way to school this morning. and in a very very cheerful way. So I thank you for that work. I especially want to honor Chad Holly, our director of transportation. He's done a yman's job out there in turning our department around and ensuring that we are fully staffed. And then finally, I want to thank our community because our community is who stepped up with two mill levy overrides. Our initial mil levy override and then the renewal. And it has been those mill levy override rides that have allowed us to continue to pay a competitive wage to our bus drivers to pay for them to take their CDL
010and to buy new school buses. What a difference it makes when you know you're you're buying state driving state-of-the-art equipment that is safe and is going to do the job for you as a driver. And because of our community, we've been able to do that. And I am so grateful to this community for stepping up and saying, "Hey, we support the children in this district and this is just one way we do it. We take care of transportation so transportation can take care of our students." So I I thank you all so much. You amaze me every time I see all that you're doing out there and out in our community. Mr. Holly, I would invite you to the podium if you'd like to say a few words. >> Okay. >> Is this one? Thank
011you, President Mash and board and Dr. Pilch for uh inviting us here. And I just want to share with everybody, it took 29 folks to do that job right there. It's all handmade. It it was donated supplies, donated time. Um it started about six years ago and the mill levy overlight Dr. Pch talked about, we took our first new bus, put hiring and thank you public for the mil levy override. That was the first time we went to the parade and it just kind of morphed from there and more people got involved. So, this isn't only a community event for our staff. It's also for the little kids. As I as I drive down the thing, I told these guys if I would get a dollar for every time I heard I love D6 or
012hey, there's my school because all the stars on there represent our school kids. So, it's it's it's phenomenal to see from the driver's seat from my perspective. A lot of them walk and spend their time on that. So, I'm going to turn it over to Diane because she's got some really cool fun facts about this. So, if anybody really wants to know the time that was put in, it was about a little over 100 hours that these folks put in handcrafting this this phenomenal thing. Um, so Diane Elkins and her fun facts. >> Hi, thank you for having us. So, we did compile some fun facts as we created the float. the white feathers on the head of the eagle. There's 2,400 white feathers there. We also used 2,400 pieces of paper, ironically. And there
013were 560 red and white flowers, 200 blue, and it took 12 circles to make each flower. >> 15. >> Okay. She Yep. They were her >> 15. I stand corrected. >> And then our eagle had a wingspan of 23 feet. Thank you. [Applause] Heat. [Laughter] Thank you. >> Thank you again for your significant contribution to the school district and to our community. Thank you. Well, the next uh individual I'd like to recognize is Mr. Kirk Vogle. Um, Kirk is a a former teacher in district 6. I believe he had already retired when I got here 11 years ago, but we we met quickly because he wanted to make sure that I was deeply dedicated to the arts and and to music in particular and and he wanted to let me know he was still around
014and he was still watching. Um, and I'm I'm so honored that I've had a chance to visit with him over the years and that he has stayed so committed to our community, to District 6 and and to music. So, I have asked Mr. Ari to help me here in a minute because he has known Kirk far longer than I have. But I want to just share a little bit about Kirk. He he dedicated most of his career to middle school students, middle school orchestra, middle school band, and middle school music. And Mr. Vogle, those of us who have a heart for middle school, we have a special place one day. Um, and I too was a middle school teacher and I know um how important the role of a middle school music educator is because
015this is the time when you really really spark their interest in in perhaps going on to high school and and making it something bigger um than they ever imagined it could be. And and Mr. Vogle has been not only a teacher at at at Heath Middle School and Junior High, he also had a stint in a few other districts. We're glad we got to keep him for most of his career. He has been honored um by the Colorado Music Education Association, has been a guest conductor there, has been an adjudicator there. He has he has recently been given the very very prestigious honor of uh being inducted into the Colorado Band Masters Association Hall of Fame. This is a big darn deal and we are so proud that you continue to compose and continue to
016make music in our community. Mr. Vogle, congratulations. Now, I'm going to have you come up in a minute, but I want Mr. Assari to say a few words about you, too. >> Well, I'm honored to do that, Dr. Pelch. When I came into school district 6, uh, Mr. Mr. Vogle had already had an established career at Heath Middle School and I had the opportunity to work alongside him as the orchestra director there prior to his taking over orchestra at Heath as well. And I I sat down this afternoon and I thought I'd just write out a few words about Kirk. Uh some things that are from the inside uh looking out rather than what other folks might uh view. Kirk being a middle school educator because um he has extended his musicianship out uh quite
017a bit. While he is a local legend in band in our city and state, and he truly is, he is actually a nationally, if not internationally recognized, composer as well from little old Gley. In fact, I've been a judge myself at music festivals and contests where I told the teachers and kids that I know Kirk Vogle, and they always say with astonishment, "You know the composer?" Yes, I know the composer. I had the chance to work alongside Kirk for many years while we both directed at Heath. And as a composer, he wrote many pieces for orchestras, something unusual for somebody who's tied specifically to the band world. But I had the opportunity to direct uh several of his pieces and several of them were premieres, including one we performed at the Gley Central High School
018Symphony Orchestra called Perceds. Now, for those of you that are astronomer types, you know that the Purcad's meteor shower happens at this time of year. In fact, if you stay up late enough at 2:00 a.m. tonight, you'll start seeing those things whizzing across the sky. And when you do, think of the Gley Central High School Symphony Orchestra. Yeah. He also wrote a piece called Cocappelli that we premiered at Heath. believe that was his first uh composition for orchestra of all things about that little Anastasia flute player which figures prominently on the ancient rock walls in southwestern Colorado. Kirk loves Colorado and the natural environment. Talk about an educational opportunity to tie music into history and anthropological studies. Kirk was way ahead of the game and he does that with most of his music. It is
019interdisciplinary which is something we strive for in the world of education. He also wrote Sounds of a Prairie River following a request by Ray Chillard, the former director of the Pter Learning Center. Ry too wanted to tie the arts and sciences together and Kirk did that with his composition. And finally, another one of Kirk's many, many pieces he wrote includes an orchestral piece we also premiered with the Gley Central High School Orchestra entitled Dragon Flies and Glitter. This is a very touching piece in reflection of Aubrey Sakau, Mike's student concert master and the first chair violinist of the orchestra. Aubrey tragically disappeared in the Himalayas. Uh to this day, we don't know what happened with her. And in the program notes, Kirk wrote, "Dragon flies and glitter were two things that Aubrey loved and have
020become rallying symbols for family and friends who dearly hope for the day of her safe return. So again, I am deeply honored to sit as a member of this board and honor the service of this extraordinary person who has given so much to our school district and to others everywhere. So ladies and gentlemen, Kirk Vogle, come on up. So nice, Doran. We we spent quite a few years together and I will never forget the day you ran into my office and you you came pretty close to my face as you leaned down and I was I was sitting at my desk and and you just came in after a class and you said to me, "We have the best job in the world." And you meant it and and Yeah. Yeah. It was wonderful. Uh
021just just a couple things from me. First off, thank you. Thank you for this recognition, and I'm especially grateful for you to take the time to recognize me as a as a retired district 6 educator. My second point is to state how incredibly thankful I am for having the opportunity to teach for 26 of my 33 years here at in in district 6, specifically at Heath Junior High and Heath Middle School. I have a colleague that makes a distinction between having to do things and getting to do things. He calls it the power of get. It's all in how you frame it. I spent a lot of time getting to teach at Heath Middle School and the longer I taught, the more the teaching profession revealed to me. As the years rolled on, I enjoyed
022teaching numerous siblings and of course then the moments when you ended up teaching children of former students. I noticed the students t the students I taught shared many layers of connection. These numerous connections made me realize that you don't teach kids, you teach families. You don't teach families, you teach neighborhoods. And you don't teach neighborhoods, you teach communities. Teachers have a profound impact on students, families, neighborhoods, and communities. Teachers make a difference. Theodore Roosevelt said, "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." That's an appropriate quote for the teaching profession for today, the first day back to school for students. District 6. Thank you for acknowledging my induction into the Colorado Band Masters Hall of Fame and thank you for allowing me to get
023to teach in the Gley Evans School District for 26 years. [Applause] Thank you, Dr. Pilch. Congratulations to our transportation team and to Mr. Vogle. Thank you for being here. Our next item is to approve the agenda, which is an action item and will require a motion. I move that the board of education agre school district 6 approves the agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, Miss Lemon will give us a vote, please. >> Director Ozari, >> I. >> Director Bentley, >> I. >> Director Campus Fitzy, >> I. >> Director Mash, >> I. >> Director Matthews, >> I. >> Director Norwood, >> I. >> Motion carries 6. >> The next item on our agenda is a resolution supporting civic campus project. Mr. Matthews, would you read
024that resolution for us, please? >> Glad to hear, President Mash. Resolution to support civic campus project. Whereas the board of education of Weld County School District 6 supports the unique opportunity to partner with the city of Gley, Weld County, and private developers to revitalize downtown Gley. And whereas the district's administration building no longer serves the needs of district employees, the community, and the students we serve. And whereas a facility review and evaluation recommended full replacement of the administration building as a more more cost-effective approach rather than repair due to significant defects. And whereas district administration has been working collaboratively with representatives from city of Gley, Weld County and private developers on a concept to swap land holdings and develop downtown civic campus and construct facilities needed to conduct business of each entity. Now therefore, be
025it resolved that the board of education of Weld County School District 6 direct staff to finalize all necessary agreements and documents to enable the construction of a new administration building in coordination with the city of Gley, Weld County, and private developers. Be it further resolved by the board that staff is directed to pursue certificates of participation as a funding mechanism for the construction of the building. I move. Oh, sorry. >> Yeah, I was gonna say go ahead and make the motion if you like. >> You can go ahead and make the motion. >> I move that the board of education of Weld County School District 6 approves the resolution to support civic campus project as presented. >> Second. >> All right. So, um, for those of you who may have been watching our our board
026meetings, we did receive, um, a presentation on May 12th. And then again, um, this afternoon, we discussed it in our work session. So, if you'd like to see um, kind of more of the details um, the reasoning behind why this building um, needs to be replaced, um, you can you can find those on on the um, the YouTube page. Uh, does anyone have any further com comments or discussion on the motion? All right, seeing none, we'll take a roll call vote again. >> Director Zari, >> I. >> Director Bentley, >> I. >> Director Campos Spitzy, >> I. >> Director Mash, >> I. >> Director Matthews, >> I. >> Director Norwood, >> I. >> Motion carries 6. >> All right. The next item on our agenda is the superintendent's report. >> Thank you, President Mash. I
027just have a few items. First, I want to recognize our community, our staff, um all the volunteers, our students who volunteered, uh and many of you all who came to out to support the school kickoff event. Uh again, we were able to serve over, uh 3,000 students that day and and had thousands of people attend the event. And the community volunteers continue just to be so impressed with all that we're able to do for families on that day. And it was especially um popular to be able to get all the physicals done. In the past, we haven't been able to complete all the physicals um that families needed. And we were able to actually get through all the physicals this year. Haircuts were very popular and of course face painting, but but also just families
028walking around talking to representatives from UNCC, from CSU, from Ames Community College. And so so really a good event for our families and our community. And and when we talk about better together, we are better because so many community partners came together to support us that day and our staff. We could not pull off that event with with the hundreds of staff um not being involved and and our students who stepped up to help us. So, thank you to everyone uh for success on the community kickoff and especially our chief of communications, Theresa Myers, and her team who take the lead on that work. Very, very well done. Um today was the first day of school. Uh it's been a great day and uh we we are our numbers are up. Our principles were still
029enrolling new students today. So if if you haven't enrolled yet, get to school. We need to get you in school. And kindergarten starts on Thursday. So if you haven't enrolled your kindergartenner yet, it's important that you you go online or you come down here to um the enrollment center and you get your kindergartenner enrolled in school. And you can always check in with your neighborhood school if you need assistance with that. But um Thursday morning for kindergarteners and today the rest of our students started Union Colony will start on Wednesday. Uh Frontier and University started last week. So we are rolling and school is in session. So um thank you to all of you for your continued support and um that's all I have for tonight. President Mash, thank you. >> Thank you. Our next
030item is our innovation 2030 strategic plan update. Uh student learning and achievement summer school. Look. >> Good evening, President of the Dr. >> My name is Anthony Osmos. I'm the assistant superintendent of secondary and K8 school leadership. and I'm here tonight with Kim Sila, our director of schools, and Brian Lamos, our director of multilingual learning and family partnerships. So, we're here tonight to recognize summer school and the part it plays in overall achievement. Summer school directly supports the increase in graduation rates, which we'll see again this year, the increase in SAT scores, AP scores, concurrent enrollment numbers, NWA, and elementary doubles data. It is all connected. I want to give a big thank you to all the teachers, staff, and all the departments who supported this great summer school that we had this summer. And
031also want to thank the community for supporting the MLO. Without supporting the mil levy override, summer school just does not happen. Summer school is grounded in our strategic plan and lives under student learning and achievement under that focus area. And the first goal of um our strategic plan as a student learning achievement is to provide a personalized learning experience so that all students graduate on time and are career and college ready. And it's opportunities like this that keep our students on track with credits so they can graduate on time, close achievement gaps, and accelerate learning. We track this progress with our state math and reading scores. Unfortunately, these scores won't be released until August 28th. So, we will report back to you um around that time. There are three main actions for our summer school.
032First is to implement a robust summer school. Also, we offer accelerated programs like accelerated geometry as well as GT and some of our multilingual classes. And then also to help our students finish their credits to graduate on time. And I want to shout out all of our high schools and GAP and Jefferson High School um who did an amazing job this summer and it will show in our graduation rate. Kim Silva who supported our summer school this this year is here to present some summer school data. Thank you Anthony. So let's continue by taking a look at the elementary school program. We held summer school experiences for uh 17 of our sites. Um we had roughly 17 or 1,784 elementary students that participated in the program for the half-day 4-week program in June. Then in
033July, we had 10 sites hold a jump start program supporting incoming kindergarten students. In addition to the learning opportunities in the classroom, we provide excursions and activities for students during the four-week summer school program. Here are just a few snapshots of what students experience experienced and the smiles on their faces. Some examples included a visit from the Gley uh fire department, field day types of games at multiple sites, a visit from Dinger from the Colorado Rockies, and visiting the Gley airport to look at planes are just a few of some of some of those fun excursions that they had. One way we assessed the effectiveness of the elementary summer school program was to complete a pre and post assessment in both English language arts and in mathematics. You will see the gains here across all
034grade levels for each content. Middle school students also had a blast. This summer, 834 students uh in our traditional middle and K8 schools attended an intensive academic program focusing on math and English language arts during the month of June. In addition to summer school, fifth grade students also had the opportunity to attend transition programs. Middle schools uh held a transition program designed for students to get to know teachers and to follow a middle school schedule. Transitions allow students to feel more comfortable and ready for the big move to middle school. In addition to core academic, schools offered many different summer school activities. Students took advantage of our amazing learning labs, participated in activities with local leaders, stayed active with outdoor sporting activities, and much more. Like previous summers, we had our students take a pre-EST
035in both math and reading at the start of the summer and a post- test at the end to measure growth. As you can see in the chart, students benefited from summer school and the rigorous instruction provided by our teachers. The chart shows a significant increase in proficiency from beginning of summer um till the pro to the program end. students at the high school level how also had a very successful program. At the high school level, u there were offered intensive credit recovery programs that allowed students to extend their semester or retake courses needed to stay on track to graduate. We had a large number of high school students take advantage of summer school this summer. They either took an advanced uh they took some credit recovery courses uh they took an advanced class or they
036attended an AP boot camp. All in all, high schools offered quite the array of offerings to support our advance support or advance the learning of our students. In addition to credit recovery and extended learning opportunities, our students also enjoyed some fun field trips. Some of the examples included the Gley Climbing Collective, a Colorado Rockies game, and a visit to the Denver Center for Performing Arts. At the high school level, we had 542 total students completing at least one class at summer school. This includes credit recovery, finishing, finishing coursework, or accelerating in math. Last summer, 332 credits were earned while 391 were earned this summer through credit recovery. Accelerated geometry also increased from 102 students completing summer ge geometry while 119 completed this year, which allows our students to take higher level math courses their junior
037and senior year. However, the greater impact is the higher number of students that are back on track to graduate on time in their own high school, which ensures them to op the opportunity to take concurrent enrollment classes, advanced classes, or take more classes in their preferred pathway. Now, I'll invite Brian Lamos while he'll talk about some additional opportunities offered this summer for our students. >> Thank you, Kim. Uh, my name is Brian Lamos. I'm the director of multilingual learners and family engagement here at District 6. I also am the director of our 21C programs. So, I just want to thank you members of the board and President Mash for this opportunity to present in front of you. Um, first of all, I just want to share some great data. Uh, 50% of our students are
038multilingual learners are on track to proficiency. we know when they get on track that it opens up the opportunities academically for them and that is way outdoing what we're doing um compared to state throughout the state and so we're doing a great job there. The other piece of that is if you as all of you were at our graduations you noticed that we had at least one student speaker who is a multilingual learner there. So the doors are are open for our multilingual learners and are doing fantastic. Our graduation rates, as assistant superintendent Anthony Osmus uh talked about, is going up. No different since 10 years ago when uh Superintendent Pelch got in here and me taking over this program. We have set the bar every year to a new record for our graduation rates
039for multilingual learners. And not only is our graduation rate going up for multilingual learners, it's also going up for our access to AP. Out of over a thousand students that took AP courses this year, 24% of them were multilingual learners. So that's a great great celebration. These results are are direct reflection of our intentionality to support our multilingual learner students, our families, and also just as important is our staff. And so we do a lot of professional development. But that doesn't only happen during the school year. It also happens during the summertime. And this last year we had some programs that I would like to um share with you that were directly involved with our multilingual learners. One is at Northridge we had language development support for multilingual learners and also credit recovery support intentional
040for them. At other programs we had language development intentionality to help them with their um on track to proficiency for English as we know that's so important. And then also at west we had excursions for real life connections and a group of new arrivals which are new to the country within the last year went to water world and got to practice their social language. So that was a lot of fun for them. But one program I do want to point out and that is our work our four-week academy that we had in partnership with soccer without borders Lutheran family services. And um the academy was really around how do we engage our students with their language development but also keeping them aware of how important it is to be in school to be comfortable be
041school and find their spot here in our community not only for the students but also for the parents and so we offered English classes at those schools too. So when I look at those three bullets of community partnerships, community engagement, family engagement, and our four-week focus on academics plus language proficiency, it really aligns tightly with our I2030 vision. The second program I want to highlight is our 21st century program. We have 11 sites here in our 21C, our 11 21C schools and the focus is on academic extensions. So these opportunities happen after summer school or during elective time. And we really talk about or offer programming that's going to help them academically and support them academically. What's also nice about that program is they can do hands-on experiences which means field trips and it really
042connects to the academics. This last year we um this last summer we took kids to the butterfly pavilion, a Rocky's game, we took them to the climbing center. But these are all partnerships that happened and also a partnership that we had with UNCC just in our back door here where we had coach Lindseay Oats come run a camp for us at Bella Romero. Uh those that don't know Coach Oats, she's a fivetime coach of the year and has done a phenomenal job there at UNCC. To have her here running one of our camps and helping out with their students was pretty awesome or their athletes. We also ran a basketball camp that was done at Bella Romero um and had some of the UNCC basketball players come and help out. And I know um Director
043Bentley is going to like this. We also offered a wrestling camp. So that was good to see as well. Um and then we had family class, family engagement classes where we were doing English courses at those sites at West and at Bella Romero to really connect them not only with the importance of learning English but also the connections they can make with our community resources. So uh the next slide is just some pictures the aquarium uh of course a picture of us going to the Rockies game and then here at the aviation center here in our backyard at the Gley airport. So, a lot of great opportunities to make those real life connections. So, now I'm gonna hand it back over to Assistant Superintendent Anthony Osmus to talk about I think it's Gear Up. As
044you can see, it's a very busy summer and we'll keep this going. I also want to talk about our Gear Up and what we offered with our Gear Up students. Now, Gear Up stands for gaining early access and readiness for undergraduate programs. This is a federally funded grant that we have here in district 6 that helps middle school and high school students, especially those from lowincome explore career and college readiness activities. You can see here um students on college campus as well as exploring some different career opportunities. Um and it was very successful. These students actually went to their summer school with their middle school or their high school and then went over here in the afternoon and did this on top of what they did. So, they had a full day and so um
045they enjoyed every minute. Also want to recognize the staff that supported our extended learning extended school year program for students on an IEP. They worked very hard this summer to help students close gaps in goal areas. We also offered a gifted and talented program that offered um some support and enrichment for our students and that was a week-long program and we also offered a dual language opportunity for our students in our dual language immersion program. So very busy summer, very successful, very fun. Next steps for us, um, just get this year started. We are ready to get this year started. Keep the rigor very high. Keep looking at the data and finding opportunities to support our students. And we'll take any questions that you might have. There we go. Okay. Uh, Dr. Campospy. And so
046more comment than question, but I tallied up your elementary school, middle school, and high school. >> And um the students who participated in summer school, it equaled about 3,60. So that's really impressive. And I didn't count the 90 Gearup students because I wasn't sure if I would be double dipping. >> Um but that's about 13% of our student population being served through our summer school programs. Um I guess maybe I do have a question. I am curious next year if we'll be able to have the same offerings. Will we be limited by budget? Can you speak to that? >> It's our it's our goal and our promise to our community that we'll try to offer this and so we'll continue look at the budget and but it's a high priority for us and we can
047see the results that we gained and you saw that in the data and just the the smiles on the faces. >> Mr. Rosari, >> I don't know if summer school is is offered consistently enough for this, but the question is about the longitudinal data data. We we see that with the high school and obviously very impressive statistics as as we see the AP scholars come through and with the ELELLL, very impressive. But um for the standard summer school program at the elementary level, have we tracked that over time to see what the success of the program is? >> We Yeah, we we look at data all the time. So we've got the student data that we track all throughout the course of the year and then that's what a lot of times gets gets them
048an invite for summer school, tracking that data where they are and what is the gap that they might still have into that next year and then we just pick up right from where we left off. And so it's it's just continually looking at data for students um throughout the course of the year. Summer school just helps close the gaps that we have that we have seen and then it gets them closer to being on track and every year we're just closing that gap. >> But Mr. Ozari, you do make a a really good point in data that I think we haven't looked at which might be to take students who've say been in our summer school program since we started summer school with the Milvie override. If we were able to identify those, you know,
049a cohort of students and then we're able to compare them with students who perhaps were not in summer school during that time and and really who are of a simil similar demographic and achievement and really see the difference it might be making. We've we've done that with our ninth graders who do the nth grade startup and and then looked at ninth graders who didn't do it and you see a high you know you see more successful grades and a higher graduation rate in those those high school students. So I think we could do something >> more students that come to the bof. Great. Thank you, >> Mr. Matthews. >> I don't really have a question. I just wanted to say thank you for the work. And I don't know if everyone fully appreciates what summer
050means for for some of our kids. So, for a lot of our kids, it's fun. It's vacations. It's it's swimming pools and and doing things uh that they don't get to do during the year. And for some of our kids, um it's a tough time. It's a tough time to be away from um from from their teachers and the support systems that they have in our in our school system. And we know that so much learning is lost uh in summer. And so to be able to provide this for 3,000 some odd kids uh every summer and and to know that they are they're eating and they're cared for and and they're and that learning loss is is limited. Um and again, just so thankful thankful for you and your work and thankful for the
051community. uh for this MLO that enables this to happen. So >> I think those are all the comments. Thank you for the presentation. I always look forward to this one, the first meeting of the year. Um and yeah, the the pre and post tests are are really fun to see that that progress in such a short period of time. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> The next item on our agenda is our public participation. As a board, we welcome the comments of community members and we dedicate a portion of each business meeting to provide an opportunity for the community to present brief comments. All speakers are limited to two minutes for comments. Our board members typically typically will not respond, but we may ask our district staff to do so. All written testimony or handouts
052must be submitted to the board secretary, Miss Amy Lemon. We ask all speakers and those in attendance to conduct themselves in a dignified and non-disruptive manner. Cheering, snapping, clapping, and other distractions are not permitted. Anyone who disturbs order may be required to sit down or to leave the boardroom. Speakers are responsible for their own speech and should refrain from profane or obscene remarks. All remarks must be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through 12th grade students. The board is committed to providing a safe environment where all members of the school community are treated with dignity and respect. And we expect all speakers to exercise their speech rights responsibly. Our first speaker this evening is Mr. Don Pearl. >> Welcome, Mr. Pearl. You will have two minutes. >> Well, thank you very much, Dr. Pilch,
053members of the board. Actually, I'm delighted to be here. Um I'm a passionate proponent of public education and as such I am a advisory board member of advocates for public education policy and um I'm going to talk right well I only have this much time. I'm going to talk very succinctly about initiative 22 that will be before you probably within the next six weeks or so. And initiative 22 is a an attempt to inscribe in the state constitution school choice. Now this has been attempted before. Um it was rejected but it was a close call. What is the um initiative 22 state state? Essentially that um our tax money, our public schools and our public tax money can be diverted to private schools. This is something we abhore. Um public education while it's the bull
054work of democracy. We're very passionate about that. At the the last time this came forward, it was rejected, but it was a close call. So, we are encouraging. When I say we, it's the advocates for public education policy. You all have a card in English and in Spanish, and you can find out more information about this, I better be fast about this uh initiative because we have a lot of uh research done. So in the last analysis, we are encouraging the board to uh develop and adopt a uh resolution for the entire community that says we as a board of education here, District 6, we've done our work and we oppose this initiative 22 and if you do that, my heart will soar like a hawk. >> Thank you, Mr. Pearl. Our next speaker is
055Miss Sonia Miller. >> Welcome, Miss Miller. You'll have two minutes. This board is composed of a doc and some teachers, a nurse, and a welder, and even a preacher. It might sound like a balance of skill sets and factors, but it's just a big drama played out by bad actors. The titles have changed, but it's the same by and large. Just shuffle the siege, and now Mash is in charge. She pretends to be sweet while pushing agendas from rainbows to shots like her friend Dr. Brenda. They'll shoot up your kids with those toxic vaccines that cause cancer and blood clots and edit our genes. Now, it's time for new actors, so elections draw near to recycle the playbook and shift up the gears. Vote them in, vote them out. Mix up those committees. Stack the
056deck, play the game like Epstein and Diddy. Concerned weldcitizen.substack.com is where you can go to read up on these cons. But here's what I know. Despite how they behaved, Jesus died on the cross so that they too could be saved. Because he came to save sinners, not angels and saints, from the grip of the devil in the hell that awaits. There's coming a storm the likes of which you have never seen. For those unrepentant, profane, and obscene, a court date of sorts with no record concealed, our darkest of secrets will all be revealed. Without Jesus, our souls forever condemned will be righteously judged and found guilty of sin. So I pray you repent and call on his name. His mercy and grace changes the game. Forgiveness of sins, even those that defile in exchange for
057his blood, a plea deal worthwhile. But not all will believe or turn from their ways. Some will stay wicked till their very last day. Handed over to Satan for them hell to pay. We've all been forewarned. Our God doesn't play. Cast into the fire of eternal damnation. Their victims avenged by the God of creation. He sees what you're doing. There's no place to hide. His vengeance is waiting. Hell's gates open wide. Thank you, Miss Miller. Our next item is to approve our consent agenda, which requires a motion. >> I move that the board of education of Gley Evans School District 6 approves the 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, please give
058us a vote. >> Director Ozari, >> I. >> Director Bentley, >> I. Director Campos Spitzy >> I. >> Director Mash >> I. >> Director Matthews >> I. >> Director Norwood >> I. >> Motion carries 6. >> And the next item on our agenda also requires a motion. Our 2025 2026 district curriculum guide adoption. >> I move that the board of education of Wel County School District 6 adopt the 2025 2026 district curriculum as presented. >> Second. And >> I see Mr. Tuttle coming to the podium. Good evening, President Nash, um, Superintendent Pilch, and members of the school board. It's our privilege to come tonight to present to you the 2025 2026 curriculum guides for your approval. With me are directors of curriculum, instruction, and assessment. I've got Jenny Jensen for elementary and Dr. Dean Andrews
059for secondary. Let me turn it over to Dr. Andrews to start with. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Tuttle. Uh we update our curriculum guides annually for several key reasons. Uh to stay current with the Colorado academic standards, to align with new teaching resources, and to ensure consistency with state tests like CAMASS, the PSAT, and the SAT. This work is required by state law and is also directly supports our strategic plan innovation 2030. Specifically, it fulfills goal two of student learning and achievement. This goal emphasizes the implementation of consistent and coherent aligned curriculum, assessments, and instructional practices that are researchbased to ensure that all students learn. This summer's curriculum updates for involved 97 educators, including 73 teachers, 12 instructional coaches, and two administrators. Together, they reviewed, updated, and enhanced our district's curriculum guides and assessments to
060better support our educators. Lisa McGee led the revision of the middle school English language arts to align with updated priority standard and a revised assessment calendar. At the high school level, the ELA team selected four core units from the new curriculum into literature for English 9 through 12. The team also established vertically aligned priority standards across grade levels. Science and social studies also identified priority standards and updated district common assessments aligned with priority standards. Kathy Azari led the work to update and vertically align the health and nutrition standards in collaboration with our nutrition services department. These highlights represent just a portion of the extensive summer work dedicated to updating our secondary curriculum guides. To provide insights into the work done at the elementary level, I would like to turn it over to Jenny Jensen, our
061director of curriculum instruction and assessment for elementary. >> Good evening. At the elementary level, the K5 literacy curriculum team consisted of teachers and coaches who met to provide additional support and guidance regarding the vertical alignment of our ELA curriculum and priority standards as well as to update the curriculum guides. Resources were developed for school administrators and school leaders to support teachers and recommendations were given regarding instructional days to support teachers year-long planning with the curriculum. The K5 math curriculum team led by John Fiser consisted of teachers and coaches who met to refine the priority standards and redesign the curriculum guides. These new guides are more userfriendly for teachers as well as aligned to the curriculum edition updates and it supports more effective personalization and math learning for all students. The curriculum guides presented to you
062this evening include all core content areas of K12 language arts, math, science, and social studies and elective areas of K12 music, art, PE, health, and 6 through 12 world languages. This curriculum will be implemented across district 6 classrooms in these content areas for the 2025 2026 school year, pending your approval. Following board approval, the curriculum guides will be posted on the district website so that our staff, parents, and community have access. Additionally, these guides are shared internally through Google sharing so that all teachers have access to curriculum guides and all accompanying documents. We would like to share our sincere appreciation to the teachers who worked on the curriculum guides and the leaders who supported all the vertical teaming groups this summer. We have some of those leaders in the room tonight. John Fischer, Lisa McGee,
063and Kathy Azari. Thank you for your continued leadership. And thank you all for your consideration. >> I'm going to turn it back over to President Mash and Dr. Pilch to see if there's any questions and for your approval of the curriculum guides. I'm not seeing any additional questions. Dr. Pilch, did you have anything to add? >> No, I will just say, you know, to the summer school presentation and to this one, I just hope you really can see the the deep quality of work that is happening in district 6. I'm just so proud of our team. Great job, you guys. >> Absolutely. I think um one of the words that stuck out to me was user friendly. We want this to be user friendly for the staff obviously, but also for um for parents, for
064any community members who want to see what those standards are. Um so thank you. I'm I'm sure that is an enormous amount of work. So um I think at this time we will take our role call for director >> I. >> Director Bentley I. >> Director Campos Spitzy I. >> Director Mashi I. >> Director Matthews I. >> Director Norwood I. >> Motion carries 6. Our next item of business is declaration of board vacancy. Um, this is an action item and then I'll have Mr. Bentley read the resolution. So, would someone like to make a motion? >> I move that the board of education of Weld County School District 6 approves the resolution to declare a board vacancy as presented. >> Second. >> Thank you. Mr. Bentley, if you would read that resolution. Whereas pursuant to
065section 22-31-1291D, a school director office shall be deemed vacant if a person who is duly elected or appointed becomes a non-resident of the school district, which the person elected was during the term of the office. And whereas in June 2025, director board director Taylor Sullivan became a non-resident of Gley Evans School District 6 during her term of office. And whereas a vacancy has occurred within 90 days of the upcoming election scheduled for November 4th, 2025. And whereas the board of education recognizes the statutory provisions that allow for such a vacancy to remain open until the election provided that the expired term does not exceed two years. And whereas the board of education is committed to efficient governance and upholding the principles of the electoral process, ensuring that the community has the opportunity to elect a
066representative to fill the vacancy. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of Gley Evans, school district 6 accepts the resignation of Taylor Sullivan from the board of education effective immediately, and be it further resolved that in accordance with state law, the board hereby determines that the vacancy shall be filled through the election process on November 4th, 2025 rather than by board appointment. And be it further resolved that the board of education affirms its commitment to transparency and de democratic principles by allowing the electoral electorate to choose their representative in accordance with the statutory guidelines and the principles of democracy. >> Um I believe that resolution covers everything. Sometimes the wherees um make it somewhat complicated I guess. But just to in summary, um board director Taylor Sullivan moved out of the district
067and um the board is not required to appoint um a replacement as we are in the 90 days before the election. So um we discuss this in the work session. Are there is any other comments or discussion on the motion? All right. Then Miss Lemon, please give us a roll call vote. >> Director Ozari, >> I. >> Director Bentley, >> I. >> Director Campos Spitzy, >> I. Director Mash I. Director Matthews >> I. >> Director Norwood >> I. >> Motion carries 6. >> Thank you. That is all the business we have for this evening. Um please go home and relax after your first day of school teachers. Um and welcome back everyone. We'll see you in two weeks. >> This meeting is a Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music]