001[Music] he [Music] he [Music] down [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] n [Music] n [Music] n [Music] okay [Music] a [Music] n [Music] la [Music] oh [Music] n [Music] n [Music] la [Music] n [Music] n [Music] to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and Justice Miss lemon we call the role for us please director pres director Bentley present director campus spitzy present director Mash pres director Matthews present director Norwood director Sullivan present six board members present thank you Miss lemon well again good evening Welcome to our board meeting for gy Ev school district 6 we are glad that you are joining us whether you are here with us in person or or joining us online uh but we I
002see a lot of people here here tonight and so I I know we have some very special uh celebrations looking out into to the audience I see I don't know we might have a majority of principles here uh tonight it seems like uh but thank you all for joining us tonight uh just a few few updates on on what we've been doing and what we will do thank you to everyone who came out this last Friday for the gy uh district 6 uh gy Evans school district 6 Arts night um that was a a fabulous night where where art from across the district is displayed downtown it's a great partnership that we have uh with downtown we will have something on our agenda tonight uh about supporting uh our downtown and our desire to as
003a board and as an Administration to uh to stay downtown and so stay tuned for that uh also want to let you guys know that we as a board have a busy week and that's because we will be doing uh negotiations with our gy Educators Association really Education Association um and in I've been on this board this is my eth possibly negotiation that that we've done and um I think sometimes people think that that's that's very a very contentious thing or that that would and at times in this District it has been a contentious thing but it is it is such a delight to get to spend time uh with our teachers and with our administrators and we generally have a um I don't I don't think this is typical throughout the country but we
004generally have a great time together uh solving problems together and so we're we're excited for for that event uh then lastly I just wanted to let uh uh offer a some personal a personal announcement and that is that um that I will be stepping down as the president of of this board in in a couple weeks uh I wanted to give our our board members I let them know this earlier tonight Mr Norwood is absent tonight but uh but I will let him know but I I let them know earlier in our work session uh and that's because i' I've done this job for a while I was elected to as the President on my 44th birthday it was the the night that we also um appointed Miss Mash to replace Mr dwit uh who
005was who had stepped down from the board or was stepping down from the board I I turned 50 a few months ago and and so I've done this for for about almost six and a half years and um means a couple of things I've done it a long time but also I don't have much time left as a board member and so I've just after a lot of thinking and uh talking about this with a couple people decided the best thing to do uh the best way I could help the district would be to help whoever is going to be next I am term limited uh none of uh no one else is term limited on our on our board so so the next president very likely is sitting with us tonight and uh I
006thought it best uh to uh for them to go ahead and and take the Reigns so anyway that's what I wanted to let let everyone know and those are all of my announcements and uh we'll proceed to our superintendent's honoral Dr Pils thank you president Matthews I'm going to invite Mr Anthony osmus to come up um we have a lot of a lot of uh young people to recognize tonight lots of of State qualifier qualifiers and champions from our winter sports and our band and choir students um as well as our Health Sciences students at gy Central and Northridge with the TSA problem solving team and and probably more than what you have given me here so Mr osus I'm going to turn this over to you and let you all get started I know
007we have a a lot of students and uh parents here tonight to watch their recognition a lot of students and coaches to recognize tonight in in several different sports and activities I'm Anthony alus I am the assistant superintendent of secondary schools in k8s and um also support um Athletics in our district just want to recognize just a few people before we get to the schools um first of all Chris Klein is ending his term with us he's our halftime athletic director couldn't make it tonight but we give Chris Klein a lot of thanks and praise for all he does um for our schools so that they can go to their events and do all sorts of things without a hitch um just thankful also for um for Jeff Collins and JJ Barons and Sean scribbick
008um athletic directors of our different schools and they'll get a chance to introduce their teams tonight but we are recognized in um some big honors some All State honors um just some some high recognition and we thank these kids for coming out tonight these are also the same students who are also a part of many other things and so they're very busy and they're very dedicated and talented and just like Athletics they put a lot of time and effort into their skill and their craft and their Sports and it's nice that we as a district get to recognize them so first I would like to turn this over to um Jeff granson tonight who's in for JJ and and we'll talk a little bit about gy West all right uh thanks for having uh students
009from gly West here tonight we have a lot of things going on we had our first track meet tonight we had our tennis match versus Windsor we have Hades towns rehearsals going on so we're trying to figure out who's here and who's not here um so I'm going to turn over first though to miss Julie Ratliff who is our business teacher and F fbaa adviser where we had uh I've been at gley West for 22 years a decade as business teacher and FBA adviser we had more students qualify for State fbaa than than I've seen in the in the two decades I've been at gy West so I'm introduce Julie Ratliff and let her tell you about our state fbaa competitions hello thanks for having us uh thanks for the nice introduction also we do
010have a lot of students we have a track someone at the track meet someone at the play practice so we have a small But Mighty contingent of the 13 students that qualified for our state FBA competition in April we really grew our club this year and we also won the productivity award because our uh enrollment Grew From 5 to 29 students and of the 29 13 qualified in scoring for the top 10 in the top four in our region which included all the four Colin schools so we're excited to be here and thank you for the honor of having us have you guys great on the center yeah all right next up we have our music programs that qualified for State Choir and state Orchestra programs and so our State Choir are at our musical
011rehearsals here tonight but I'm going to turn over to Mr Tom nent to introduce our All State Orchestra student thank you so much for having us my name is Tom Nan I'm the orchestra director at gy West High School and um this year I also got the honor of serving as the chair for Colorado all state so I know that Calvin uh represented one of the uh 112 accepted students who auditioned um out of uh 592 different students across the state who auditioned for All State Orchestra and so Calvin was accepted for his second year and represented gy West grade at a concert at CSU uh back in uh early February um with the uh director of orchestras at Kansas State and uh just super wonderful young man um he'll be performing with the grey
012West orchestras in the pit at Hades toown and is also going to be performing in the grey youth Phil Harmonic concert coming up in um in in April as well so Calvin thanks right here in the middle all right Calvin such an accom musician I had to ask him what we were recognizing him here for tonight with all his Awards and honors um also not here tonight uh gy West hosts the District swim team and we had uh 19 swimmers qualify for girls State swimming uh uh beginning of February uh so we want to recognize those State swimmers um but next up I'm going to turn over to Eli hendershaw an assistant wrestling coach at gy West and along with our boys wrestling team uh we host the district girls wrestling team where we had
013I believe eight state qualifiers I let Eli Hender sh our social worker at G West and our assistant wrestling coach tell you more about our wrestling program uh good good evening thank you for uh having us uh my name is Elijah Hendershot uh like Mr Cranson said I'm the social worker at gy West and I also help coach wrestling uh both boys and girls uh we had a really good year this year we had three boys qualify and then eight girls which is the most girls we've ever had qualified in the uh years we've been running the program um I've got about five of them here with me but uh Marcelo if you want to raise your hand Marcel placed uh six and then Aubrey if you're in the back Aubry placed fifth um our
014other Placer is in Oklahoma watching the Big 12 uh wrestling championship right now so um it was a great year I think we'll have some really good success next year coming off of this and our program just keeps getting better and better so thank you guys have you guys right center thank you all right good job gly West I'll let got this St here either way it's all good next up is our Central High School Wildcats and um led by Sean scrii and I do want to say that Sean scrii was just hired as our District athletic director so I'll turn uh all of the honors over to Sean thank you Anthony thank you Bor Dr pilch um it's always a great night to celebrate uh our athletes and and our state participants and so
015um you've caught us in a bad time we've got the musical going on this week and so uh we've got that we've got a track meet today and so we're a little thin uh but a Shameless plug if you get a chance come check out Legally Blonde Wednesday through Saturday we'd love to see you guys um with that I'll introduce our first sponsor who is kind of the Jack of all trades Greely Central Shelley toning she has a hard time saying no um but she is our Deca and FBLA sponsor and so she would like to speak on her students behalf hi so we actually had three kids uh qualify for State Deca and that took place the end of February and then we had 13 kids who have qualified for State FBLA which takes
016place at the end of April I do have One loan representative for all of us this is no and she and her partner qualified in introduction to social media strategy which is both a test and a presentation and they did an amazing job and they are very much looking forward to going to State and getting to experience all that down there so all of the others are involved in everything else tonight so that's why we have our One loan representative thank you I'll be get right out here uh the next honores that I'd like to honor um Head Coach Maurice Garcia Salazar is going to introduce our state qualifying wrestlers hello so I took uh three uh qualifying um state representatives uh two ended up being uh placers in the tournament um and and top
017placers at that um Daniel Romero uh he ended up making it to the finals I had a really good tournament and and you know I'll leave it at that that that last match was really good for him uh builds character to to you know go out you know on top so and they just just had a had a bad little 5 Seconds at the end there but but did really good um uh Gabe Galindo um all these wrestlers I've worked with for very long time and since they were young and you know they're they're amazing athletes as well as like amazing people you know um Gabe gindo he he also made it to the state floor uh did very good um did not um place but still did represented gy Central very well um my
018own son Noah Garcia Salazar uh second time uh at or third time at State um as a qualifier um second time placing uh placed third uh the year before and placed um fourth this year so so very proud of These Guys these guys are amazing athletes and amazing individuals y [Applause] and then before I introduce our girls basketball team um just like to give a shout out to our Health occupation Student Association students um went down to Denver competed against over 2,000 other students in the health uh occupation field uh and competed in different events from um simple things as like teaching a CPR class to nursing skills Etc uh We've qualified six for Nationals which is a huge success um and and kind of a cool thing is our nursing assistant sweep category we
019placed first second and third out of the entire state so I just wanted to give them a shout out because they are not here due to prior engagements um with that Miss Juliet sheets and girls basketball thanks for having us um so I'll introduce my team here but uh last year we had not the greatest season at gy Central and we had no seniors and we were in a definitely a building year and so this year we were excited we came back uh had a winning season um fifth in the conference um 25th overall to make the playoffs and we had we earned a home playoff bid so we won our first home playoff game and then we had a long trip to Durango uh and lost in Durango but really had a great season
020I mean not only a winning season but all of our student athletes very involved uh great students and they always bring a lot of joy and really a lot of Pride for uh gy Central and so very very excited to coach the group but um so actually I don't have really much more to say so they're going to go by and just say their name uh they're like oh no she's making me speak but they'll say their name but um thank you so much for having us here tonight and uh really proud of this group so Juliet sheets head coach oh I'm going to the side uh Carmen Whitehead I'm an assistant coach oh no uh I'm Madison Sapa and I'm a senior yeah my name's Rose suette Rivera Flores and I'm a junior I'm
021Amaya gambo and I'm a junior and I'm Abby toart and I'm a junior Heather S assistant coach I'm Lincoln sver assistant coach okay and congratulations gy Central proud of you all conratulations congratulations guys congratulations good job nice done stver nice job coach and last but not least tonight we have our students from Northridge you or Jeff and I'll turn this over to Aaron Allen to uh get us started good evening board superintendent pilch thank you so much for having us here this evening uh I'm just very honored to be introducing such wonderful students and their coaches um for their accomplishments of getting to state competition not only do we have athletes today but we also have chefs and Engineers uh and we have people from from each group that is going to be speaking to
022you tonight so uh starting with girls basketball they qualified for state tournament and made it to the round of 16 Bay McGee can you come up and share some information I just want to say good job to everyone who is there for the sweet 16 we played our hearts out it was a great season and I'm lucky to be with you guys all and it was a great season good job guys [Applause] basketball to good job good good season next I'd like to recognize Leland kamacho uh while he wasn't able to be here tonight he is a fantastic wrestler for us and he qualified for the state wrestling tournament uh next I'd like to recognize um our JROTC Rifle Team um the team finished fourth out of the top 19 Marine Corps Jr jrc teams
023in the country the highest score and finish for Northridge teams ever we finished fifth out of the previous two occasions and this time we were fourth of 96 athletes here were our Sho Shooters finished uh Timothy Longacre was fifth Ethan Kinsley was 18th Caleb was 30th and Mark Marcos was 66th they qualified the team to compete in the all service Nationals uh which will be happening during spring break Tim was awarded his gold Junior distinguished shooting badge this is similar to being recognized as an high school All-American in the shooting world and it's only the second the second time for this award in North rd's history so Ethan Kinsley can you come up and share some more information [Applause] well first off I just wanted to say thank you for uh recognizing our team as
024you guys might know Marksmanship isn't a very known sport in this District but uh Statewide and nationally it's a pretty darn known sport um it's an Olympic sport the three position shooting so uh pretty darn known um as already said we took first in state and regionals and we took fourth overall in Nationals and it's our honor to continue to put Northridge and district 6 on the map unfortunately next year we got three of our Shooters leaving since of us are seniors um but before we leave we're going to do our best to train up the next year's competitive team hopefully keep District Six known throughout the nation for shooting um again thank you guys for uh inviting us and we look forward to continue representing Northridge and district 6 um one more thing is
025uh as of programs Balian Commander I just wanted toite invite you all to the ceremony our award ceremony on Tuesday April 22nd thank you all right now we'd like to move away from our athletes and move to our chefs um our prart program has a culinary team and they finished third out of 23 teams at last week's state competition uh I'm excited to welcome Sammy batika to come speak to us the team and I have been practicing continuously since October of last year perfecting our menu our menu is themed upon a guat melon and Syrian style Fusion menu as it represents our background and our heritage as a group last week we went to competition at State and we were able to place third but no other than with the help of Mrs Fodor thank
026you for representing us [Applause] [Laughter] uh a quick note about our culinary team they have been practicing uh before our basketball games and I got to try their food uh who knew Syrian and Guatemalan would go together so well but it was amazingly delicious lamb steak lamb shanks and finally I'd like to welcome our TSA team they received first place at our state competition for technology problem solving uh this is the second time this group has been up here last year they went to Nationals and they're going again and so I'd like to welcome Jim Corbett to introduce his team all right good evening everybody I just like to take a chance to recognize David Vera and Jeff WN they beat out 140 of the best engineering mines in the state okay so all I
027did all I did was tell them that you've got to take chances or you won't win and they took chances and they pulled up in the clutch and came home with first place all right I would personally like to take the opportunity to thank thank Aon Allen and Stacy monismith for all the last minute coordination that if that hadn't taken place this wouldn't have happened I would also like to thank the success Foundation uh in particular because uh when our students are going up against some of the biggest juggernauts in the state they send 150 100 kids to these competitions okay when our students get the opportunity to compete not only do they compete and hold their own but in many cases succeed and win and the success Foundation is a great equalizer they can
028put our contributions as a community into very focused places where we can see our students achieve results all right thank you squish two row two rows [Music] great job North range we go this way thank you Dr pilch for allowing us to um show off all of these grade students and student athletes thank you Dr pilch um congratulations Mr Longacre I don't know if I did not introduce you guys but as always we were joined with these two students Mr Timothy Longacre he's the president of our Council of student representatives and Miss Sarah Venegas uh who's a member of the Council of student representatives and they they sit with us every board meeting and provide a lot of valuable input um also I I noticed a couple of plugs in there and so uh just
029want to reemphasize that Legally Blonde is this weekend at at gy Central uh Hades toown is uh April 11th and 12th at gy West and so check out those shows if you get a chance next item on our agenda is the approval of the agenda and so we'll need a motion to proceed I move that the Board of Education of gy Evan school district 6 approves the agenda as presented second thank you both is there any discussion on the agenda I don't see any so miss lemon will we give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carries 6 Z thank you Miss lemon next on our agenda is our Council of student Representatives report and I think tonight
030we have our gy West High School students to present for us I I see principal Cranson coming to the podium so I'll just say welcome gy West and uh again due to some scheduling conflicts tonight we're going to switch it up a little bit tonight and uh at gy West for the last two or three years we've had a student council class to help build the culture and Leadership capacity in our building and so uh tonight uh with some of our board Representatives unavailable I'm going to turn over to McKai Morales our student body president student council president and uh and our executive Council from our student council to share with you uh some of their uh uh things they've been working on in student council at gy West so Mai good afternoon or good
031evening folks as principal Cranson said my name is McKai Morales I am the student body president of the gly West student council I'm involved in future Business Leaders of America Unified sports and a member of the football team the last three years I have taken more than 10 dual enrollment classes at the University of Northern Colorado and Ames Community College next year I plan to attend the University of Northern Colorado and study business administration throughout my time in student council our goal of establishing a culture of Excellence has always been the backbone of our Council our advisers encourage us to go above and beyond and always strive for Success this year our Council applied for the National Council of Excellence award we went through an application process of describing different events that we put on
032and how our Council impacts the community being awarded with this gold stand not only as a merit but also shows the dedication our Council has to Excellence our Council never gives up our Council always finds another way to strive for greatness thank you good evening I'm Madison Vella a senior at gy West I'm the vice president of student council vice president of National Honor Society a member of the dance team and a four-year Avid student next year I will attend Colorado Christian University majoring in kinesiology and minoring in dance my favorite part of gy West has been my involvement in student council I've had various opportunities to step into leadership roles and improve my school Community this past Friday student coun council hosted our first annual Middle School leadership day we had over 50 students
033middle school students attend this event we partnered with Central to create five different breakout sessions where students learn various aspects of leadership the sessions were planned and taught by stud members to grow their own leadership skills it was a huge success student council is excited to continue this event in the years to come as we cultivate the next generation of leaders thank you good evening all of you I am rundo ruen OKO flis Jr I am your student G was student council treasurer and forced off a little bit about me I have stood before this board on multiple occasions for Deca and now FBLA and it's thanks to the classes the institutions and the staff we have with gy West that I'm able to grasp these opportunities and to build something of myself um for
034our student council I would love to share with you a local uh event that our entire Council performed freshman Sophos juniors seniors we had the absolute privilege of being able to go to shashin elementary and partnering with book trust and organization meant to help engage and really Spar that loaning and love of books and all of the younger Elementary grades all of our Council went to shashin and we had the amazing opportunity to read to these Elementary grade levels from kindergarten to fifth grade I had the personal pleasure of staying with a class of kindergart reading them all a bunch of stories from Pokemon to uh dog man and it was a blessing so I would just like to thank you all for allowing us to join you today in this momentous evening thank thank
035[Applause] you in addition to the events that ramundo and Madison described we also partner with our local food bank in a dodgeball tournament event hosted earlier in the semester gy West finds itself at a bit of a low Point sometimes when it comes to student morale so we found a way to bring it up by hosting a dodgeball tournament the entire process behind it took a week and a half of planning and it was actually one of our best turnout events that we've had this year uh all proceeds from this including gate donations and the student signup form were all given to the W County Food Bank we believe that it's Our obligation and our pleasure to work with our community and to supply people in less need or in Greater need with what we
036can give them I want to note it I was I finished third in the uh dodgeball tournament here so um I just want to thank these guys for coming out tonight and for all their work uh as students and as Leaders at gy West and thank you again for the opportunity to have them share tonight thank you thank you to to these students at gy West U from Mr Cranson but also Council of student representatives in general um so thank you guys and thank you for the report next tonight we pardon excuse me president Matthews I think we have Mr Casey sitting in the back of the room and we didn't think you high was coming tonight and I believe he has several State recognitions he could share with us if you may allow that
037oh absolutely thank you welcome Mr Casey sorry we saw the track event but then I didn't see you in in the audience yeah I was hiding back I was a social studies teacher so um yeah and I apologize for the confusion our dance team was set to be recognized tonight but they couldn't make it because they're all dancing tonight and I definitely not a dancer um but I was just kind of listing our winter things so I'll share those with you as well and thank you for including us in this as well and um and it's great to see so many kids doing so many great things um so we had 20 students qualify for state fbaa three National qualifiers for Deca we plac three students in State wrestling um including our first girls wrestler
038she was in the finals got second this year and she's young so she's got a chance to be back and then one student that wrestles with us from Frontier that was also a second place um we had four in all state band two in all state jazz band eight National qualifiers for speech and debate um our girls and boys basketball teams are both playing this Wednesday in the Elite 8 um our girls are 25 and0 and rank number one and 4A and we're excited about that and uh the boys had a great upset overtime upset on Saturday that was a lot of fun um cheer te te finished at State just outside the finals and the reason biggest thing we were here is our palms team um was the state champions this year again so
039thank you for including us in the recognition and we're happy to be a part of District 6 excellent thank you Mr Casey and again if you if you haven't um ascertain this yet our students are very busy uh they they stay busy they uh doing a lot of different things uh and so we're we're very proud of of all of them the ones that were recognized tonight and and so many others uh next on our agenda is Brentwood School to watch recognition we've gotten to honor a lot of students and so now we get to to honor a school and so Mr Dr pil is I should give it to you you president Matthews um I'm I'm really excited to have brenwood here tonight to share this presentation with us and uh they are a
040three pach as I said last board meeting at being recognized as as a middle school to watch and uh this is this is a really an amazing accomplishment and I wanted them to come tonight and just share with you all and with our community um a little bit about their school and and the work they do there and a little bit about this award so welcome Mr osus if you're going to kick off I'll turn it over to you quick kickoff so president Matthews members of the board and Dr pel and Council of sud reps I just wanted to get in front of this um and just brag a little bit about the school so Mrs Peterson the principal of this school and her team and her teachers and her students are just amazing so
041they set the bar so high they work super hard every day um their school like many of our other schools um set the bar for other schools and what it's like to educate students um and so we it is no surprise to us that they are a threee in this award and Mrs Peterson will be here to tell us a little bit about this award and and more about what's next all right as uh Mr osus mentioned I'm Nicole Peterson and I have been blessed to be the principal at brenwood for 12 years and I had some of our team members come with us like as Dr pil say an organization is only as good as the people in it and we have a very special school in a special place because of the teachers
042the administration our support staff and I have Aira here one of our students as well and so with that Schools to Watch program in the mid90s a group of K12 educators and highered people got together and they're like is anybody talking about middle school middle school reform Middle School everything because it's just this weird Gap Elementary we know we've got to make readers writers all of the things high schoolers we need to have college career ready graduate and middle school is like that bridge but sometimes was forgotten so that's really where this National Forum started and with that they identified this program called the schools to watch and so I know it's always kind of scary when people are like you're on a watch list but it's not it's like an it's an honor and
043so what that is is they are identifying or like middle schools that really embody like the components that they talk about that I'll walk you through here in a minute and it is a really rigorous application process like there was so much data I'm so grateful for Drew Palmer because he makes miracles happen uh we had to submit a narrative with each of the indicators and then they come and they visit your school and they go into every single classroom they go into every single space they pull a panel of students to talk to they speak with your staff they speak with parents and so they really walk away with a solid picture of what your school is like and you know sometimes like you can you can pull off a visit and you can
044just hide some people here and there every now and again but not with this one so every classroom is seen and so the things they're looking for are academic Excellence which is really why we're here we want our students to learn grow and Achieve and so we've got that literacy focus in all of our core areas um we like have that you know writing is a huge push for us and it always has been and we see really great data good growth and achievement out of that uh we've got IB and Avid which work hand inhand to help our students we great strategies as a result and one thing that I think about brunwood is the culture of learning that we've established uh 12 years ago sometimes it felt like kids didn't show up to
045school thinking they were going to learn that day and every single day our kids know that they're going to learn developmental responsibility is the other component to be a school to watch and so part of this is we really focus on that transition to Middle School morford's here and she puts together our Jump Start program our incoming sixth graders are in that building so much and on day one they're like little leaders and they know the routines procedures and they're so excited and so comfortable we've got our web leaders who are eighth graders Amora is one of those and she helps to get that transition going something special that people talk about all the time cookie delivery we show up at every sixth grader's house and we deliver cookies and welcome them to our school
046no matter how many sixth graders we have uh and then we have our bangal Academy so new students part of being a boundary school is you enroll students like two to five a week for the entire year and so if you're not really strategic about that transition you lose kids and so we want every kid to have a friend and feel welcome on that first day and we want our kids they like they are seen whether they want to be or not birthdays are a big deal for us so we go into their classrooms with their birthday cards and we sing to them and we make it a big deal because they're a big deal oh gosh now I jumped um the criteria here also has social equity and so that Integrity with our rigor
047our kids all have access to that high quality grade level instruction and that's where it starts uh a place to belong we've got clubs like crazy uh Sports Seer our athletic director gave me the numbers today we have 111 girls registered for spring soccer 66 boys for soccer and 69 students ready for track and so consistently we have so much participation in Middle School athletics not to mention we have kids in music we've got band Orchestra we've got a guitar class rocking all of the things um and so we make sure that our students like have a place to belong and if there's something that we don't have that they want they can start it we also really focus on recognizing our students uh we use our Bengals of the week we use our IB
048learner profiles we celebrate students for that and then we have our claw Awards so at brunwood you come prepared listen and learn act respectfully and work hard and then our organizational structure really is like when I think about our organization and our Focus obviously we create opportunities and structures for kids but so much of it is for our adults too and so we have to have teachers who are committed driven all of these people are and all of the ones that aren't here like they are just there every single day doing what's best for kids we do a traveling trophies um that it's kind of like Dr P's Run for the Roses if you've seen that before but we have three traveling trophies so every week whether we have PD or not our staff members
049share that and celebrate a peer we do our stairway drops um we just our staff is working together all of the time I know uh Anthony loves to talk about e teacher efficacy and that's like a a huge push and then our stairway drops are really our celebration so if we don't have a PD in the morning we still come together at the bottom of our stairs and we celebrate birthdays achievements all of the great things that are happening and we always end in the fight song which is always a trip and then um we have some of our quotes from our site visit I put those up there I think when they did our evaluation at the and the one that really resonated with me is our building is really good at dreaming and
050then achieving those dreams and I think that really does sum that up from our visit but even better than just quotes from our site visit I have Amora who is an eighth grader and she's going to come up here and tell you a couple things about our school hi my name is Amora villamil thank you for having me I go to Brentwood Middle School um I'm involved in volleyball basketball track and soccer I'm in speech and debate student council and I'm president of njhs I'm in sources of sources of strength and I'm an eighth grade web leader and I'm in band next year I'm going to gy West with the goal of being a senator when I grow up something I love about Brentwood is most importantly the teachers they can communicate with students very
051well and I really like how I can I have several teachers that I can go to whenever I need help or I'm stressed out with something or there's something like a struggle going on in school I can always go to many of my teachers with help and most importantly Sports I love how I'm able to do so many sports throughout the school year um I'm even able to do soccer and track at the same time I love how the coaches really push us athletes to do the best of abilities that we can um they have they set goals for us at the beginning of the season and then throughout this season they push us to the best of abilities and they help us complete the goals that they have set for us and overall I
052really love the school that I go to they have helped me be a much greater student athlete than I could ever imagine before I went into Middle School I was really nervous to go in but I feel very welcomed and and I believe that all the students that go there feel very welcomed as well thank you and so what's awesome about Amora is on Friday I was like Hey Amora on Monday There's a board meeting and she's like I got you and then she just walked away and so we had the Basketball Championships on Saturday which we came up second to mcalli whatever in vars and JV but um when we were there she's like oh that board meeting when is it and I said 5:45 she's like in the the morning I was like
053nope and she just she would have been here at 5:45 this morning if that's when you wanted her here so um for so for next steps for this recognition is we do get to go to Washington DC to the national middle level conference which is awesome but then something really cool is that they have asked us at Brentwood Middle School to host the state conference for all of the middle level Educators in the fall which I'm like we've gone to some of the like SE and I get to go on a lot of site visits which is really cool because we can give other school's feedback and we learn and bring things back to our own school but we're like some of these buildings of these conferences are so fancy and they're like you know
054what you the magic it's not in a building it's in the people who are in it and I'm like 100% And so we've been saying that all along but it really is they're so excited because the reality is our demographic doesn't match necessarily the same as the other schools that receive this recognition and then Diane laow who is in St Frain and she works with this um organization as well she asked um me to present at the Cas conference and a panel that she's putting together too so there's some really awesome opportunities um we're working with the principal red eaten middle school and so some really cool things schools come visit our school and they get to learn from some of the very best people that I have ever seen or could imagine seeing in
055education and then um so Brentwood truly special place one of our teachers Lori hador she sent an email just out to staff over things that she was wrestling with in her mind and I really think like she said this yesterday unsolicited just um and so I just want to read it to you because it is pretty pretty telling of our staff and our culture how lucky are we to get to work with children during a time in their life that is like no other time they'll experience emotions identity maturity puberty social media oof it's a lot but we get to be the stability in their lives when they need it most I am humbled that you all chose middle school as the place to pour your professional love into I celebrate you all today and
056I'm grateful to work side by side with you who knows what state the minds hearts and souls of our students will be tomorrow but together we will love them through it until they get to the other side and then when they get to the other side we'll keep on loving them so there you go any questions I know I bet we have a few coming in um well we'll go ahead and start with Mr longer he's first thank you president Matthews I just really wanted to speak on how amazing that school sounds the the amount of morow upkeep that must take to keep a middle school up I I know many people even I when I was a middle schooler just found it tough it's it's a transitional stage for students it's it's weird it's
057strange but seeing a principal just Administration and student that are so motivated to go into a school such as middle school and just bring that amount of positivity such as Anora that's your name right Amora Amora sorry I don't want to mess that up wanted to be a senator already having an idea about it as a middle schooler that that shows something both about your personality and who you are as a human being and about the school being able to Harbor and create students like that that already can have a dream for their future that's that's incredible stuff I I really want to know how you do it it's incredible stuff because I personally want to lead later on my life as well so I want to learn how to upkeep things the way you
058all do and bring the same motivation the same smile you brought when you gave that whole speech that was amazing stuff so just wanted to recognize thank you so much ma'am thank you Mr Longacre Dr Kempo spitzy yeah I wanted to congratulate you guys as well that this is the third year you let people into all of your classrooms which is amazing um so yeah Middle School gives me cringe memories but it is a a time we all go through and to have Educators passionate about that stage of life and um and yeah winning this award three times in a row that's really cool Mr aari yeah just congratulations again I spent time in my career working at Brentwood and uh I know uh firsthand the challenges and the fact that you folks have um
059risen to such a high level of recognition is truly amazing uh the state level Middle School Conference when does that occur it is on September member 27th it's a Saturday and then the pre-conference will be on the 26th so people will be able to come and walk through classrooms and all of those things and so definitely something worth celebrating thank you don't see any other questions from board members I have one though how many students did you say played girls soccer we have 111 registered right now 111 just so everyone understands how many students are at britwood 565 so I'm assuming 565 half of those are are girls right so you know a little less than 300 girls a third of the girls are are going out for soccer so something this Council of student
060Representatives has been working on is is helping uh our students get involved at an earlier age and Mr longer was alluding to this and you touched on it but can you just say how how do you get that much participation come here our extracurriculars and our um how do you get that much involvement um I think I always talk about our coaches you know trying to get the kid magnets in front of kids and we can teach them about the sport later but kids go out for the humans that are in front of them so that's the big secret get get adults in front of them that kids love percentage of kids are oh gosh a lot yeah we were I think we were at 72% last year that at least one activity throughout the
061year 72% had at least one activity that's amazing yeah um well again thank you guys for being here thank you for for the wonderful work uh that you're doing is there anything else Dr pilt uh for this this group of high Achievers no you know I yes not no yes I I am just so proud of the work that that has gone on throughout the district but there's no question that brittwood Middle School truly is a a jewel in our crown and I am honored to have them here tonight to share a little bit about what they do there and for us to get to celebrate you and just so proud of you and appreciate all of you for your leadership and remember you lead from the seat you're in and you all are doing
062that thank you so [Applause] much again congratulations thank you guys for being here and Dr pilch I'll give it back to you for your superintendent report okay Mr Matthews I'll keep this short we've had a lot of recognition tonight uh I I want to congratulate all of the students who were honored and recognized tonight for the awards uh I am so pleased that you all agreed to add that piece to our agenda to bring more students in front of us and to get to see what they do and again uh to see what Brentwood has been doing and you're you're about to hear about um some pretty excellent adults here a little bit later as we uh have you consider some room naming uh rights here uh this evening I do want to say congratulations
063um to the the staff with Megan n nent and the other choir teachers who were and retired choir teachers in district 6 who were a part of the gy Evans Elementary Coral Festival um here last week what what an amazing event I think we had over 400 students um on the stage at the Union Colony Civic Center and they just had that day to practice and it was just truly beautiful um thank you to Megan Nan again and to her colleagues and and to the the gy children's Carell for your leadership in this work and um just really a nice nice event to see all those parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and staff in the audience was really something so congratulations everyone thank you president Matthews thank you Dr pilch next on our
064agenda is our i230 update strengthening Partnerships goal two external stakeholders I'm not sure who's coming to the to the podium so Dr pilch I'll give it to you for introductions or Miss Myers Miss Myers is coming to the podium and uh our our um other co-leads on on this committee from the Strategic plan so we'll let them take it away well thank you president Matthews Dr pilch um members of the board we are here tonight to give you an update on our strengthening Partnerships goal 2 [Music] um sorry I haven't been up here for a while um which of course is part of our uh strategic plan Innovation 2030 as you well know the mission and vision of that plan this also fits in with at least two of our values we build positive relationships
065with students families and communities and we promote access opportunity and choice of course this is one of the four Focus areas of our strategic plan strengthening Partnerships specifically the district 6 enhances Student Success by communicating engaging and collaborating with our communities and school Partners so there's two goals in this and we're presenting tonight on goal two which is sort of the external communication part of this which is to communicate and collaborate with external stakeholders including businesses local government and Community organizations our objectives under this goal are to develop and Implement a district-wide plan to partner with businesses Community groups and individuals and to develop and Implement a plan for students and staff to contribute to the community so here are the some of the outcomes that we would like to see from these objectives schools
066and District departments will Implement a district right Community Partnership plan district 6 will support volunteerism by documenting and annually annually increasing the number of students and staff who engage and service to the community and here are some of the overall actions underneath all this we want to develop and Implement a comprehensive Community Partnership plan which we'll talk about in a minute create and execute a training for that partnership plan create and Implement guidelines for supporting and recognizing local businesses and philanthropic organizations to partner with D6 and create a web page on the district and school sites that recognize business partners as well along the volunteer um area students will be given the opportunity and tools to contribute to the community throughout their school career as included in their personalized learning plan and we will create
067and Implement a volunteer plan for staff who are able to volunteer during contract time and with that I would like to bring up um our assistant superintendent of um Human Resources Annette Overton and Nelson Rodriguez who is our Community Partnership administrator to talk a little bit about our D6 gives back program thank you Teresa and uh good evening to you all um so in an effort to increase um staff uh involvement in our community district 6 has developed a pilot volunteer program called D6 gives back and really this program encourages district 6 employees to volunteer with various Community organizations and gy Evans um through 8 hours of paid time off um we have a committee that has uh worked to develop a website and some marketing material here but also to create a process where
068those interested in this program could actually go to the website uh register to participate in this program and use some of their paytime off um to work with our community organizations this program was developed by a committee of district 6 employees and community members that met regularly over the last 2 years and as a committee we researched other um similar volunteer programs we conducted some Outreach to community organizations we met with GAA leadership we also administered a staff survey to help inform the development of this program we also worked with uh district 6 Communications as I mentioned to develop our marketing material um our website does house um different resources in contacts with various Community organizations in the community who are looking to um host district 6 employees for various volunteer activities and I want
069to invite uh Annette to share um some specific insights and some data uh from this this program that we did just recently Implement thank you Nelson and thank you Teresa um I'm excited to talk about this we've been I've been part of this program for the two years um bringing it to fruition and um the pilot was EXC exciting for all of us to participate in we had it run from October 7th through uh January 31st and we invited initially 40 organizations to participate in uh the application process to be part of the pilot program we had 12 that were interested and finalized everything with us so we had um our employees participate with those particular 12 particularly particular 12 organizations uh 22 staff were part of the pilot and they um uh resulted that
070the the volunteer work that they did resulted in over 80 hours of service back to the community so that's that is an exciting um thing to think about because so many of our organizations give to us and this gave us the opportunity then to give back um our employees volunteered at places like Weld County Food Bank um a local church board and Meals on Wheels and then um United Way to name just four out of the 12 the pilot allows us also to fine-tune a process and to determine feasibility for a larger rollout next fall uh we also plan to incorporate staff recognition in this program and then certainly we're developing a budget right now on how we can actually do some more work and expand the work that we're doing um we're also increasing
071our um we're making another rally toward uh the community and different organizations that might want to participate and as people have learned more about this then they have been inviting their own um places that they volunteer to reach out to us to get involved so it's um that small start and then it's going to become this uh lar much larger um program right now teachers and school-based staff have the challenge of taking time to volunteer and to participate in these opportunities because they have it's a little more challenging for them to leave so we're uh we're working with organizations to develop kind of a oneandone model or a one-time um opportunity where they they will do maybe a shoe drive or they'll do uh food baskets during the holidays or a coat drive or um
072a hygiene um kits that they can give that we can utilize at the Family Center or other places around town so we think about those um things that teachers can do so that they can become involved and that'll be um uh that will build capacity with District Six gives back so we'd love to um answer questions probably at the end of the presentation right yeah I just want to add that my team at communications went and spent two hours packing um boxes for senior citizens at the food bank and it was such a great experience for us and such a good team building experience and I think that that's some of the feedback that we received um piggybacking on what we've done with the staff we're also looking at formalizing some um volunteer hours for
073our students and Ann Ramirez who is the principal at Hyman elementary school has been leading some of this work she's had a couple meetings really talking about what that would look like at the different levels um maybe 5 hours at elementary 10 at middle 15 at high schools a lot of our schools are already doing this and I think the more we're researching this we're finding this isn't unattainable for any of these schools they're doing you know elementary schools are doing food drives they're doing coat drives they're doing um giving out meals to families at Thanksgiving they're doing a lot of work around this already so we really feel like that this is probably an attainable goal and then um we've recently found out that we can utilize um zel which is the career in
074College Planning tool that the district has attained to actually track volunteer hours in that so that will be a super help tool um for our schools moving forward some of the next steps with that group are looking at just what volunteer activities are out there that that kids can do I know a lot of organizations don't want people under the age of 16 or people under the age of 18 volunteering for various reasons but we really want to find out what those areas are that our students could physically volunteer in and then some of the opportunities to do things for Community organizations maybe at the school site um some of this could include something as simple is an elementary school choir going to sing at a nursing home or or um uh last year they
075drew cards for our nurses at Banner Health so all of that is considered giving back to the community so we're really trying to get creative around that so they are going to contact Bright Futures see what volunteer opportunities there are for young people and then they really wanted to work on a recognition program for these students possibly even a pin or a cord that they could wear at graduation so we're looking into all of those areas so the last area I'm going to touch on quickly is the development of a Community Partnership plan I've talked to you about this before we worked with the Colorado education initiative who facilitated some of these meetings for us we had a really great reput representation from community members and local organizations businesses and our staff on creating this
076plan CI kind of drafted a plan for us which I've been retooling um and looking at for the last um few months and then meeting with Julie Hill from the success foundation and Nelson Rodriguez to really go over that plan and make it a district six plan and some of the really key Focus areas are ensuring that these are two-way Partnerships I feel like um sometimes when we've had Community Partnerships it feels like what can you do for us instead of what can we do for you as well um so we're really focusing on that and ways that schools can give back to these organizations that are giving so much to us and then creating partnership ship that really meet students academic goals um there's a saying that backpacks and bagels are nice and we
077do appreciate those and we need those but are there Partnerships that can delve more into what we're trying to achieve for our students on an academic level so can they come in and talk about what they do in their business can they give our students some in insight into the careers that are available in their businesses so we're really looking at some of that more um focused work around academic achievement and then of course Partnerships always and can include donations but we want to make sure that that's not a barrier for any Community organization that if they want to volunteer if they want to provide tutoring if they want to provide job shadowing opportunities or if they can have some of their employees come into schools and talk to kids about careers that's equally as
078valuable so we're really trying to get away from that what can you do for us financially but what can you do for to give our students more opportunities so this spring we'll be working um with Nelson and Julie to revise that plan make sure it's it's in a good State and then our next steps will be to try to collect an inventory of the existing Partnerships in our schools it's a bit of a challenge um we've tried to do it before but we're going to try it again um honestly some of our our schools don't even realize they have Partners sometimes because they're just so used to working with organizations and things and they're like oh yeah that would be a partnership so we're really trying to change that mentality of of let's recognize everybody
079who's doing something for our school and then once we get that inventory then we can kind of identify where we have redundancies and overlap we don't want to be constantly going to the same people all the time as well and um it's really good to have Julie Hill on that that too because the success Foundation has so many Partnerships so we really want to make sure we're we're being cognizant of that and then um we will hope we're hoping by next year we can find four schools that are willing to part to partner with us to Pilot this plan um we'd like to have a school at every level Elementary Middle K8 and high school really see how it works get in there and do the work with them to see how that would how
080that would look and if we can create these really robust sustainable Partnerships so we will be creating a training module we want to get a lot of feedback from this pilot program to see what's working and what's not working and then of course ask for additional schools to participate in 2027 and 2027 I do want to mention that some of the reason that this is in the Strategic plan really is driven by our school leaders who said There feels like there's inequity in our schools like some schools have tons and tons and tons of Partners and some schools don't have any and how can we bridge that Gap and a lot of it is um a lot of This falls on our leadership at our school because when a company comes in they want to
081meet with the principal like they don't want to meet with the principal's design all the time so um some of the feedback we got from um the school leaders on this committee was that there needs to be somebody at the district level who owns this and that's why we've talked about would it be possible to hire a Community Partnership coordinator at some point that could coordinate all of these Partnerships keep those relationships going intervene if there's trouble you know um take new businesses that are interested in partnering and make sure that they're getting with the right schools that kind of work and so we're hoping somewhere down the line that we may be able to create a position that would be able to do that other districts have it I actually spent a lot of
082time talking with the person who does this for Jeff Co and they have had some real success it's a position that would cost money but it also brings resources into the district so that's a further conversation for down the line and then this is some of the outcome data that we're hoping to achieve by the end of this that by September 2027 100% of schools District departments will Implement District White Community Partnerships plan we actually added that um departments because there are some departments that really want to do this work nutrition services Transportation some of them want to be able to create those Partnerships and then this data is around the volunteering uh 10% of students will be engaged annually in community service 100% of schools will be engaged annually in a community service project
083and then 10% of Staff will be engaged annually in service to the community so those are definitely um outcomes that we're hoping to attain and with that I will turn it back over to you m Mr Matthews and if there's any questions we're happy to answer those thank you Miss Myers uh we do have some questions first is Dr kampo spitzy um you began answering one of them which was what were the 12 Brave organizations who they're all on our website oh cool good um and then I I wanted to say nice logo I like the D6 gives back um how have you been getting feedback from participants from the staff that you piloted with well I I'll turn this over to Anette but they did host a focus group with the staff who participated
084in those virtually and I think they got quite a bit of information we um outside of that we've also at the end of the um their volunteer time we send a survey that goes to the organiz ation the supervisor that um sponsored them and then we also send something to the employee to say is this a great experience that perhaps other employees might want to participate in and give us a little feedback in that in that form so every time you volunteer at a different organization or at within that you take time off um from district 6 we ask you to give a little bit of feedback for that and so we've been receiving feedback thanks so much this was great or maybe we could consider could you consider this organization and so that's how
085we're we're building that um that list again and then um getting feedback from the organizations about what we what they would like to see for example they'd like us to have something to wear that looks like district 6 right so District Six gives back we're also um getting t-shirts that we can have them you know so in the next round of volunteer times so cool thank you um I also just just wanted to and I think I said this last time um we were given information on this um pilot but that I'm so glad that it's on paid contract time I think that um is important um and then you guys trying to get creative so that teachers can participate as well um um I think the last thing I wanted to say I just
086think it's it is so important um not just for staff I I'm thinking specifically for students um for us to instill that seed of philanthropy and and volunteerism um and just today I know at Meer Elementary they're doing a penny drive or like they're they're collecting coins um and there is a a prize the class that gets the most gets a movie and you know um so my daughter comes home and is like where's the money you know um and uh but it was really fun because her brother who's not in school like gave her money to add to to the coins that she's going to give um and he connected it to the success Foundation uh bowling with the Burrows and he's like because I was like this is fundraising we're giving to United
087Way which is a program that helps people in need um and he's like oh like when we went bowling you know the other day and so even in these little ones just putting in those seeds of of um of helping others I think is is just such a a great cause thank you Dr Kos spitzy Mr oari yeah I just have a clarifying question it's probably directed more to Mr Mr Rodriguez so we have business partners and Community Partners that partner with individual schools and we have business partners that partner with us to support internships there I'm I'm presuming that's not one and the same I mean we it would be a completely different uh process a different yeah program well that's a great question we do have uh various business and Community Partners that
088support the school district in many ways so um an organization that might be hosting a summer internship for some of our high school students are also contributing uh financially to one of our schools uh or hosting a job experience or coming in and speaking to students about various careers and so there are some organizations that are involved uh in many different ways I think with the Community Partnership plan that Teresa highlighted is that we really want to be uh intentional about how schools go about building Partnerships with with or organizations with businesses that is also long-term and it's not just these oneoff um you know donations but really together uh you know schools and and Community organizations are meeting regularly to address different needs that they both have and so there will be some overlap
089I think in in in in these programs but um I think it's it's a little different in that we want the schools to really have one at least one partner uh that they could rely on throughout the school year Miss Vegas thank you president Matthews um I just wanted to I just wanted to Echo um what Dr kpos Fitzy was saying about how important it is to encourage and motivate those students from such a young age to want to volunteer within their Community it builds their communication skills and those different um environmental settings and it helps build their character as well to be a people person to want to go in help their Community I also think it is a great idea to make maybe um have that pin or recognition for those graduation students
090who do put a lot of their time and effort into those volunteering hours just um recognizing their success within that as well I also think hoping that Bright Futures um Bright Futures encourages to add more volunteer opportunities is also very important a lot of students do struggle finding where to volunteer and where to get their hours so I think it's very important to can just add that extra support for our students um as someone who has volunteered many many hours within our community in different forums and different environments I also think it's important to help track those hours because it can be difficult especially for those students who hope to volunteer at a younger age how do you track those hours how do you keep those hours where can those hours go into as you're
091getting older and as you're applying to a scholarships um but thank you I think you guys are doing amazing work thank you for that I appreciate your feedback on that as well any other questions from board members comments I'll just say thank you it's it's um I think one of the great successes we've seen over the last 10 years is uh the ability to to bring people into our district as we've already heard tonight right our our our partners are so important to to what we do uh I mean you heard it uh specifically about the success Foundation tonight but we have so many other partners in this community and they are they are critical in in so many different ways to what we do and so thank you to all of our all of
092our partners and thank you guys to your work in recruiting more and and helping our district engage and and give back so we appreciate it greatly thank you president Matthews next 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 2 minutes for comments our board members typically will not respond but we may ask our staff to do so all written testimony or handouts must 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
093be 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 this 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 uh tonight we only have one speaker I think and that's Miss Michelle sren is Miss sren with us thank you for being here tonight miss sren um and you'll have two minutes thank you for having me sorry I was trying to multitask um I did want to touch base really quick I appreciate you guys allowing us always to continue to make comments um as
094parents um last time I was here um there was an individual that said that he had free speech and so I wanted to touch base real quick on that to to let parents know that there is constitutional restrictions on time Poli and matter and they can't just come and be crazy when they're here so I appreciate you guys keeping comments um limited by these individuals cuz that day I did have my son with me and he was a little bit distraught so I appreciate that thank you um but my main reason for coming to speak to you guys today was to talk about Billy Martinez um drop off um and in the back on Second Street um I had already reached out to Mrs mash and I appreciate her phone calls um I wasn't able
095to answer due to working um and I appreciate Mr Wade reaching out to me as well um it has been an issue since my son started school there um the drop off is not very safe since we have the CTE school and now um the Boys and Girls Club there as well um the drop off has come more congested Ed and unsafe for students and for parents um number one because there's three different signs that say no turning left but there's a gazillion parents that turn left and then there's signs um there's a double yellow for not turning left in but they turn in um I've seen on several occasions when I've left gone to leave my son um students coming from the backside of the school to get into school almost getting run over
096by my parents trying to turn left in and out and um it's become very concerning for me number one it also takes forever to leave my son um also there's dirt and there's no cement so it's muddy thank you Miss sren yeah thank you so much and I again thank you Mrs mash for returning my phone call have a great one thank you next on our agenda as is our consent agenda and we will need a motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the items as presented on the consent agenda and authorizes the officers to sign any and all contracts second thank you both any discussion on the consent agenda saying none Miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley I
097director campus spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan hi motion carries 60 thank you Miss lemon next on our agenda is the naming of the Heath Middle School shop and this is also an action item that will require a motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the recommendation to name the heath shop Don Reed industrial Arts Center as presented second thank you both Dr Pils before we open this up for board members is there anything you would like to say by way of introduction um I will just say I think that we have Mr Reed and his family with us and so if you all would like to move closer or if you're comfortable where you are that is fine too um we will
098have you um come up and be introduced here in just a moment uh Mr Reed um but we I I think that um Heath Middle School began the process of of considering the naming of the Heath Middle School shop you all are aware that we we redid that shop as a part of the bond issue work at Heath Middle School and so it's had a pretty nice facelift since the time when Mr Reed served there um and so I'll let Miss Myers walk you through the process um and she she was a part of the process and then I I think um that we also have some some additional information from uh Dr ker um superintendent pilch and members of the board I was honored to be part of the process both for the Heath
099Middle School um naming of the wood shop and the PLC naming of a classroom um as you all know there is board policy around how we name um rooms buildings any facility in the district that needs to be followed and I will say sitting in with both of these groups groups they did an amazing um job of involving their communities their parents um students in this process so they did take nominations they followed board procedure and specifically they followed um policy ffr which is the regulation for policy FF on guidelines of when considering facility names and specifically I want to draw your attention to uh number four which is in recognition of the contribution to education by a resident or family associated with the local community both of these namings um refer to that part
100of the policy and I think you'll be um honored to see who these uh schools have chosen to name areas after so I will bring forth Dr Dr Don creger from Heath Middle School to talk about their process I'd like to start by thanking our generous Community for their support through the bond which led to the additions at Heath one of them being a state-of-the-art shop and I'm really excited to introduce Don to you but I want to start with just the the members of the committee were very diverse including our current shop teacher we had a professor from the University of Norther in Colorado we had Parents participate and then we had District level leadership as well so it was a great conversation and a great opportunity to learn about the legacy of Don
101Reed and what he brings to our community we met on January 23rd and initially when I opened the spreadsheet and saw that there were 81 submissions I was like wow this is going to take way longer than I thought but then we started reading and we realized that 100% of the submissions were were for Mr Don Reed and and so then we just had the pleasure of of learning about him and what he brought to our community and and the love and passion that he continues to exhibit and give to our community so I want to start with just some of the characteristics that that were shared about Don um it was really clear the message from his former T students that they communed his passion his kindness his patience his dedication to them and
102their development as Learners as well as lifelong community members who continue to give back many of those students shared that Don had a creative energy that led them to enjoy their experience in the classroom they still continue today to use what he taught them they also they had one former student who summed it up as Mr Reed's contribution to our community more specifically the heath Community has been Monumental his passion for Woodwork and more importantly teaching Middle School Scholars was inspiring in addition to the numerous former students who nominated Don there were several former colleagues who completed the survey and they said as a lifelong district 6 educator they saw Don as someone whose love for Education extended Beyond his own classroom as he was a mentor and coach for several of them and allowed
103them to grow as Educators overall there was overwhelming support for the shop at Heath to be named after Don Reed he loved his work he loved his school and he continues to love his community there are a couple of quotes here that stood out to the committee and so I wanted to share them Laura gurn shared Don Faithfully taught at Heath for many years equipping students for success in the shop his commitment dedication and passion have inspired many to make a living in the trades literally building the foundation of our community I can think of no better way to honor the history of this program at Heath while recognizing someone who has been an outstanding citizen in the grey community and then Amy Gayden reason for recommendation sums up what so many others in the
104recommendation shared there could be no other suitable name that would carry as much character dedication and Devotion to the wood shop and to the school Don spent many years of his life teaching his skills to others which aside from his masterful woodworking would also include his fatherly guidance warm demeanor and his wonderful sense of humor the whole purpose of naming anything is to give it a greater meaning I can't imagine any other name than Don Reed the committee read through all of the submissions and we would formally like to recommend that the shop at Heath be named the Don Reed industrial Art Center at this time we'd like to ask for your approval to move forward with this recommendation do you have any questions for 32 years in all um Junior High T for 32
105years uh all in junior high that that's pretty amazing Mr Reed I I'd love to invite you to the to the podium and just to to say a few words I imagine that we will approve this uh so I think that's something of a foregone conclusion so before we do though I'd like to invite you to say a few words if you would like well the only words that I could take of right now is wow my sonin law Scot back is the one we started all of this and carried it through I knew nothing of it it said the principal at at Heath joined in and I knew nothing of that until the night he took us on a tour and found out some of the changes that were made at Heath uh this
106fall or this winter over what I used to have and it you it used to be a long time Drive in there we could drive in at that time we drive in park go and talk to a little bit our friends go down and talk to the uh principal or the principal's helper pick up our letters if there were any had back to their shop and I had the med shop for the entire time that they had metal shop year after I retired they had a different program in there and year after that something else completely so I was kind of bragging a little bit about having a class this longer than what I left and he stopped it you know it felt kind of good then so but the real the real thing is
107guys and ladies the the you the the I I also have a speech problem and sometimes I'm starting to talk and I can't finish them I will try to come around another way but the cre board is responsible for all of this because you make it make it so kids could come to school and you make it so we could uh give to them what we have lined up so you guys are the response in the beginning and after what I see here tonight I will stay out of your way I just you guys are do it fantast fantastic and I just want to add that um I took my daddy's class and um he would not grade my projects He had Stu two student teachers that had to grade my projects and they were
108scared to death because they didn't know how to trade but at my 10-year class reunion um one of my uh classmates walked up and it's not Carolyn how are you it was Carolyn how's your dad do you know I became an industrial arts teacher because of your dad so that was one but we just it's so much fun we're out in the community we had one here tonight that she walked up she Mr Reed you know and so between in uh he taught several business classes typing um and uh different things over the 32 years but I think the thing that he's probably one of the most proud is he never had an accident in his class my daddy was a very strict disciplinarian and um uh Mr Reed your dad he made me do
10950 deep knee bins today or I had to do 50 push-ups but results were very successful and the counselors always said the kids that were needed a little extra guidance if if they uh came to Dad's class they knew they were going to learn that day so thank you so much thank you I will make a COR correction there we had a section of which our B shop that was to let the kids know what it was like to be working in a factory so we were I had some stuff for them to use and we had different places that they were working we had I can't remember how many kids we had 16 17 somewhere in there and they were doing a wonderful job they're doing their job what they were supposed to do
110and if they had to wait for the person behind them or the person in front of them they did they didn't cause any problems however one day we had one of their friends come up to him and while they were waiting for the person next person the visitors poked the guy he was running drill press they poked him in the hand he jerked and the hand went across there was drill press and actually hurt him real bad and so in in reality we had no no problem with kids in our class we just couldn't handle the ones that were doing nothing so so but again thank you you guys you're the ones to makeing it happen and you're the ones that have approved this this is a a meeting or it's a stamp goes on
111a woodworking tool up by the head of the of the yeah anyway it's something that I did but yet I got rewarded for it and I am very very pleased of that reward so thank you and thank you for serving this and I guess you're going to get thank thank you Mr Reed uh Miss Mash has a comment I just wanted to say it's such a pleasure to get to learn about your legacy and the way that you cared for so many kids we've already talked about middle school today and how that's such a challenging time for students but it was unanimous that this shop be named after you and so that's just amazing that that you you had such a lasting effect on so many kids that were in that awkward awkward face and
112so um we are I also want to extend our thanks to our voters who allowed us to to have such a successful bond that we could add that shop that beautiful shop at Heath and we know that when kids feel connected and they have an extra activity at school that they do so much better and so thanks for creating that Legacy at Heath that is now gonna continue on in a new space thank you thank you Miss Mash I don't think there's anything else but to to just make this official so miss lemon will you give us a vote please director aari I director Bentley I director campus spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carry 6 Z thank you thank you very much giving well I'm not sure we
113can top that but we'll try um next I'd like to bring up Jim Butterfield who's the coordinator of the pter Learning Center who will talk with you about their recommendation to name a classroom at that facility as they're coming up um this too is an action item so would someone be so kind as to make a motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the recommendation to name the pter Learning Center classroom the hayy classroom for excellence as presented second thank you both um Dr pilch do you have any words of introduction on this one or shall we turn it over to Mr butter I will just share that um Mr and Mrs Halley are not able to be with us tonight I do think they are watching
114remotely and uh Mr Halley does look forward to seeing us early tomorrow morning at the success Foundation breakfast where you'll have an opportunity to say a few words to him personally um if you'd like to it with that uh we'll turn this over to Mr Butterfield who is our coordinator out at the pter Learning Center we okay students members of the board Dr bills thank you my name is Jim Butterfield I'm the coordinator out of the putter Learning Center um I'll try really hard not to uh get a little emotional here that last presentation was pretty dang awesome so started off my career as a shop teacher so I definitely am very excited for that honor uh for him um out at the PLC we are um we are a Center for Science and um
115stewardship of the outdoors and we educate kids pre112 uh using outdoor experiences and inquiry learning we're very excited about the work that we do out there um and I keep going backwards so uh we did go through the process that was outlined before by um Teresa and and um we had a committee that put together it actually started back when we were at gy West a few weeks ago uh before that uh talking about the Buddy bench that they wanted to do for for Mr Hayley and I thought well we should probably get one out there as well cuz we know he was a pretty big angler and and so we started there there simultaneously The pter Learning Center Foundation started a committee went through a whole bunch of stuff had a bunch of meetings
116and then I had to whoa we have some processes and things so we slowed them down um but I felt like it came from the place of the heart which is really where John hafley is for me um on a personal note I got to meet Mr hafley last year when I came back to to District Six and back to the Front Range uh through basketball um I I just don't think you can meet a a better more Stellar human being he and his wife Del are both just pretty amazing people so I'm excited to talk to about them today so we formed the committee and uh we went through the process and went through all the same procedures and and protocol that were named before and uh we convened on January 16th after having
117a couple other meetings uh as a full committee we created a survey uh and then we met again on February 4th to review the process uh we had uh 14 responses to the survey and 13 were some variation of John John and deia or general support for the process so pretty pretty well overwhelming for a place that is not a school it's a site and a lot of people don't necessarily know we did advertise the same way but I felt like it was a pretty good response in our committee was pretty varied so going forward from there um let me tell you a little bit about John andela uh longtime District Six Educators John served two terms on the board of education Delia served as the president of the success Foundation the couple has created
118the Delia and John W hafley uh opportunity fund through the success Foundation uh they both supportive The pter Learning Center menley John has served on the foundation board out there as well and then they've served on both numerous Community boards and committees here in gly um this is probably a really great summary of uh the process and the survey that we went through every single person that responded wrote about this much um either in support of the process or in support for them so John and Delia Halley have made extraordinary and Lasting contributions to the pter Learning Center just six in the gy community as classroom Educators board members volunteers mentors and philanthropists they have demonstrated unwavering dedication and love for education in community their efforts have brought tremendous value to the entities they serve
119and have positively shaped the lives of many in our community this classroom stands as a testament to the rich history for the schoolhouse connecting the past present and future and reflects the integration of Education in our natural world just as this space Bridges these elements the hayle have seamlessly integrated their passion for lifelong learning and the commitment to enriching the enriching the gy community naming this classroom for their honor would celebrate their profound impact in enduring Legacy that was from Larry rogad one of the respondents and he also sat on the committee so our recommendation to you tonight is to consider the Halle classroom for excellence it'll be the first classroom uh as you walk into the small school house we have a library and then the big classroom next door this will be the
120big classroom and we'd like to name it the Halle classroom for excellence any questions thank you Mr butfield uh I imagine we might have a a question or two we'll see looks like Miss Mash not a question um just my wholehearted um support of this recommendation um as you already have mentioned both John and dilia are um just the most kind and generous uh folks that you'll ever hope to meet and um they spend so much of their time in The Great Outdoors such fabulous fly Fisher people um so many pictures of just the most amazing fish I have having received from them so um I just think it it is an excellent choice and I'll be voting a whole heart thank you any other questions from board members comments from board members well I
121will just echo my support for this um certainly it as you said there it's hard to find um more generous more giving uh people than than the hayle and and people who who are more committed to the outdoors and and to fishing and U so it is and for those for several of us on on the board this one's emotional as well for several in the room it's emotional as well because John one of the things that that John did was serve on on this board and so uh he is a mentor to to many of us and um yeah I imagine imagine he will have absolutely unanimous support we have commissioned a local artist um should we get permission tonight and we will uh let you all know when we decide to do a
122room ceremony out there for him and we'll invite you all I don't see any other comments so again let's make this official Miss lemon director Zari hi director Bentley hi director Campos spitzy I director MH I director Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carries 60 thank you so much thank you Mr Butterfield our last agenda item tonight is a letter of support for the Downtown gy Development and this to is an action item that will require a motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves a letter to support for Downtown gy Development as presented second thank you both not sure I did not ask anyone uh but would someone like to read uh this letter before we vote on it Miss smash okay sure yes let me zoom
123in okay all right dear W County Commissioners city of gy downtown Town Development Association and richmark Properties Inc the gy Evans school district 6 Board of Education and elected seven member volunteer board is proud to serve 23,000 students and nearly 3,000 staff members our mission as outlined in the district six strategic plan titled Innovation 2030 is district 6 engages every student in a personalized well-rounded and excellent education preparing students to be College and Career ready we are committed to ensuring our students are ready to serve the communities of Gan Evans as employees employers business owners philanthropists volunteers consumers and most importantly participating citizens of our community we know that a healthy public education system helps create a healthy community and we know public education cannot be healthy without strong Community Partnerships district 6 has a
124unique opportunity to be a part of a history making partnership with the city of gy and W County that could result in badly needed facility upgrades upgrades for each of our entities all well contributing to the economic health of our downtown gy Center the plan developed by richmark Properties Inc gives us the opportunity through land swaps and collaboration to create a welcoming structurally sound safe and healthy place for the 130 plus employees in our Administration facilities downtown gy has supported our educational mission in district 6 in many ways including the annual district 6 Arts walk which features art and musical performances by district 6 students opportunities for students to perform at Friday Fest and other events providing internship opportunities working with horiculture students at gy West to install landscaping and much more we the district
1256 Board of Education support the richmark plan and sincerely hope that it will move forward with the support of the Weld County Commissioners and the City of gy we believe a strong downtown is key to the economic and social success of gy and are committed to keeping our administration building in the area thank you for our consideration sign the Board of Education gy Evans schol district 6 thank you Miss Mash are there any comments or questions on this before we vote you guys must be ready to go home uh I I will just say it it's an honor to get to to vote for this and support uh of our of our downtown we say often that as the school district goes so goes so goes the city U but the reverse is also true
126and very dependent on on the city and and the downtown and uh having a great community and we I think I can speak for all of us and and saying that we firmly believe we do have a great community and a great City and so it's uh it's a wonderful opportunity and I certainly will be voting um in the affirmative any other questions or comments Miss mesh I will just Echo the same as having been a business owner and a business investor in downtown gy and just just loving where I live spending my dollars at um independent businesses and and watching the immense change in downtown gy as as businesses moved out early in the early 2000s um to the DDA making a concerted effort to make it a a destination location for arts and
127culture and food and drink and um I think that downtown gy is beautiful and I'm so excited for all of the the potential in this um in this plan and um I feel honored that we as a district um have been seen as a partner as well and that and that our input and our participation is welcomed and and desired so I will also be voting Hardy yes any other questions or comments all right Miss lemon will you give us a vote please director aari I director Bentley hi director campus spit I director Mash I director Matthews I director Sullivan I motion carries 60 thank you Miss lemon well that is all the business that is all the business that that we have tonight and thank you to to so many who were with us
128tonight congratulations to so many who were honored tonight this meeting is adjourned a [Music] a [Music] la