001[Music] f [Music] la [Music] for [Music] e [Music] n [Music] n [Music] the [Music] a [Music] he n [Music] la [Music] well good evening and welcome to the Board of Education meeting for gy Evans school district 6 today is the 24th day of February 2025 this meeting will now come to order please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance to our flag Al 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 for all Miss lemon will you call the RO Force please director aari presid director Bentley presid director Campos spitzy pres director Mash present director Matthews present director Norwood present director Sullivan all board members present thank you Miss lemon well again welcome all of you
002who are here in person and those you who are watching online I I will say if you're if you're watching online you might not be able to see how packed our our boardroom is right now and so we are we are delighted to have so many families here with us tonight we will be honoring some some Dream Team Scholars tonight and we're anxiously awaiting that part of our meeting but welcome to everyone who's here did want to let everyone know that uh coming up very quickly March 7th uh is the district 6 Annual Arts walk it will take place downtown and so if you've never been to this event before it is is a fantastic event to see art from all over the district uh from our traditional schools from our Charter Schools we even
003have art from uh Ames and UNC this year but it's it's hosted all throughout the downtown businesses so you can um you can check I I know they generally put out a a map or at least put that on online but uh do try to make it on March 7th uh from 5: to 8: uh for the art walk and and check out some some of the art that has been created in district 6 um speaking of downtown I want to let everyone know what we've been doing in our work session and um our work session we we hold each uh Monday before our board meetings we hold that at 4:00 and this last work session just a few um couple hours ago we had the got to hear from richmark and richmark is a
004developer and wants to develop uh put a a very um an incredible project downtown it would house both dis District Six it would house the city of gley and it would house Weld County and um it would it would change the the landscape of downtown dramatically and so you you probably will we hear something about that or maybe you've already heard something about that in the paper but uh and I don't know how the county feels or or the city feels but uh it was pretty um well I I don't want to speak for the board but uh but yeah I I could tell that all of our board members were very excited about the possibility of this of this new development and what it would mean uh not only for our school district but
005but for our city in general and so uh we we appreciate richm and and their vision for downtown those are all the announcements I'll give you tonight so we can get on with our meeting and first thing on our agenda is our superintendent's honor roll thank you president Matthews I am honored to recognize a student this evening for our superintendent's honorable Morrison web Shaw uh student Early College Academy Morrison would you like to join us at the podium come on up and if you have supporters with you you'd like to bring you can have them come stand by you all right right there's perfect because I'm G to ask I'm going to let give you a chance if you want to say anything when I'm done okay Morrison but first i'm going to talk about
006you a little bit Morrison is a student at Early College Academy and he he is has won a very prestigious award he is the winner of the age 15 to6 group for the Desmos math art contest so this is combining math and art right both sides of the brain um the international contest has been described as the Olympics of mathematical design the Desmos math art contest is open yearly to students ages 13 to 18 to Showcase their graphing calculator skills their creativity and their love of math this was Morrison's second time entering the competition if you look up Morrison's artwork you will see the complex formulas used to create this artwork we want to thank you for taking your love of math to the next level Morrison and for representing Early College Academy so well
007congratulations on your award and I do know uh the one thing that I think our board would like to hear and anything else you'd like to share I bet we'd like to know how many calculators were used in your piece do you know that um how many calculators um one just I mean like you don't need more than one they told me to ask you that question I mean like equations like lines of equations there is a 265 which in general is fairly optimized I mean there was um there was actually one winner that had close to I'd like to say like 5,000 that was around the same complexity um my first submission actually was 500 so almost double that of my second so I I do like to say that it's very laomiz yeah
008great congratulations Morrison thanks for representing early college [Applause] and congrat congratulations Morrison and thank you Dr pilch next on our agenda is uh our motion to approve the agenda and so if someone would be so kind to make that motion I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the agenda as presented second thank you both is there any discussion on the agenda I'm Sorry Miss Venegas I did not see you buzzing uh did it's not for the agenda it was for the previous item okay I'm so sorry um any discussion on the agenda all right Miss lemon will you give us a vote please director aari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director mesh I director Matthews I director Norwood I director Sullivan I motion carries 70
009thank you Miss lemon well next on our agenda is our dream team honors Scholars presentation and so I would like to invite our Dream Team representatives to come to the podium and um make this presentation for us okay we're going to fill up the room just a little bit more good evening good evening president Matthews and members of the board uh thank you so much for having us this evening my name is Miranda Ooa the executive director of the gy Dream Team this is Edith Gonzalez the assistant director of programs and our program coordinator Alexis Strada um we are also joined by several Dream Team board of directors and staff members what an exciting and special night it is to have you all join us here as we present our newest and largest cohort of
010Dream Team Scholars um honor scholarship recipients the gy dream team is a community based nonprofit We have partnered with gy Evans school district 6 for over 37 years and plat Valley re7 for almost 2 years now making College a reality for many students in W County providing scholarships is one of many opportunities we strive to give our students within our programs uh in the past 20 years alone we have given over $650,000 um to assisting over 480 students with scholarship dollars tonight and this year is no different as we are awarding a total of $67,500 in scholarships to 41 deserving seniors um among the scholarships gifted this year is the dilia and John W hafley scholarship the scholarship honors two longtime gy Educators who wish to make a lasting impact to students in need we
011also celebrate the bond family Summit award this award will benefit two Dream Team scholarship recipients who have demonstrated Superior academic performance with the highest GPA at this time I will announce this year's scholarship recipients per high school if you could please hold your applause until the end and they have all been read students as we read your name please come forward from gy Central we have Lis pesera Jennifer brandrup Angel kasas Stephanie sea Gomez Joselyn Chavis Gustavo Garcia Krishna Gonzalez Castaneda Milo Kyle Madison sepeta from gy West Nancy banega Vega Brianna chides L Mariana Enriquez HMA Lopez Ivan Martinez Garcia Jocelyn Melendez Montoya areli Mandola Morales Mario Rodriguez Amy sanan and Daniel Zavala Hai from Jefferson High School itati Chavez Brandon Medina salana from Early College Academy McKenzie Franks lensa mum Diana ordones Sanchez Kevin
012Tran and from northri high school Melanie Castro Vasquez Madison Conor sky isoo Gomez Shiloh Grim hany Hussein Jazelle Marquez imanol Mena Rodriguez Evelyn Olivas Amy Reyes Veronica Reyes Jaylen sto Soo and Joel Vasquez please join us in a round of applause [Applause] we want to take a picture maybe parents you're welcome to take a picture before we transition do we want to get any board members in the picture we kind of filled this whole part but than guess we're okay thank you all so much again trans as our Dream Team Scholars are exiting um just a quick word about how much we appreciate the Dream Team this is a nonprofit We have a lot of great Partners in gy uh but but this one uh works really hard to serve the students of district 6
013well it has for as you heard a number of years I think they she said uh they've given away $600,000 of scholarships but they they start early on identifying students who who have the ability to go to college uh but maybe don't um have much experience with college and uh giving them the opportunity to to gain experience uh and see what college would be like to give them the study skills habits to help them help them be successful in college so they have been sending District Six students to college uh and this is scholarships are just one way but they've been doing that for um for a long long time and so we're very appreciative of the dream team next on our agenda is our our Council of student Representatives report and so I'd like
014to bring Mr osmus to the podium to introduce our Council of student Representatives as always we are joined uh at the dis with uh by Mr Timothy Longacre and Miss Sarah Vegas we they sit with us each and every time and they don't get to vote on on issues but they do weigh in on on the different uh items that we debate and and we're very thankful to have their voice Mr osus I'll give it to you and president Matthews members of the board Dr Phil Council of student reps I'll tell you a little bit about the Council of student reps this is a group of high school students across our district um which is representation from all of our high schools including our Charter Schools um that play a valuable role so they give
015us feedback as leaders in the district and they also work to support other students across the district tonight we um we honor our students from Frontier tonight as they talk a little bit about their school and I'd like to introduce Jackie Schmidt who's the assistant principal at Frontier to introduce group and probably tell us a little bit about um each of our students Jackie absolutely thank you so much good evening members of the board president Matthews and all of our amazing gy community members that have joined us here tonight I am so very proud to be here um as you may have noticed the dedication with this team is pretty awesome Kaden literally just broke his nose right before he came and he still showed up and has been icing his face the entire time
016so just basketball injuryj literally came from track practice and basketball practice and ice on his face the whole time um so these three amazing students embody our mission at Frontier Academy which is building leaders they do this day in and day out and for some of them they will be this is their last year with us one of them is going to be graduating soon so it's just with great pride that I I introduce Kaylee Josh and Kaden to you and I'll let them speak a little bit about what's been going on at Frontier this year good evening my name is Kaye bum gner and I'm a senior at Frontier Academy I'm involved in the Council of student representatives and the district 6 student health advisory Council I am the President and co-founder of Frontier
017Academy's women and stem Club a co-president of Key Club a member of the Frontier Academy jazz band National Honor Society Academic Decathlon and a technician for our theater program in the fall I'll be headed to the South Dakota School of minds and Technology to study chemical engineering my name is Josh lir and I'm a junior at Frontier Academy I'm involved in the Council of student Representatives as well as a Frontiers Academy's interact Club their jazz band National Honor Society and I'm also a member of Frontier Academy's track team hello everyone my name is kayen Clark and I'm a junior at Frontier Academy I am involved in Council of student Representatives I'm a member of our jazz band as well as our interact club and fellowship of Christian athletes I participate in both basketball and track
018in addition to various service opportunities in my school and my community you guys may remember our presentation last year when we shared our concerns for um student safety regarding exiting our school parking lot and driving on to 16 Street we're glad to share that with the recent addition of a No Parking Zone um to the left of the exit students and parents are able to see with ease when they attempt to leave our parking lot our Frontier Community is grateful for the increased safety of our students and families not only has school safety improved but school spirit has as well in November we hosted a well week which served as a rate to raise money and awareness for the lack of clean water in the Kingdom of eswatini after 7 years of fundraising we met
019our goal and will be sponsoring a well students were excited to participate in raising money and played a huge role in the success of our project we hope to find similar results in this week's wish week and hope to make a difference for the children in the makea wish program we are also pleased to report that student involvement in clubs and activities has increased with the current Freshman Class we've seen a lot of increase and involvement in active extracurricular activities and opportunities over the past two years we have implemented a club fair at the beginning of the year to help students explore ways to get involved D and learn about the diverse clubs we offer we hope to see this trend continue in a positive direction with the incoming classes over the past few years
020Frontier Academy has joined several District groups like the Council of student Representatives as well as the student health advisory Council we would love to grow a relationship with district 6 by finding more ways to serve within our greater District Community if there are more opportunities please let us know we are here to serve thank you for all thank you all for giving us this opportunity to come um to connect with you tonight please please let us know if you have any questions sorry slight concussion maybe Mr longer has a question thank you very much president Matthews um usual thing I do when we have CSR members come in I just want to give a few comments on everything you guys said you all have some incredible career prospects you're all very involved in what you
021do so that's incredible stuff to see especially for a senior that's a really good school you're heading to so I'm very excited for whatever you go on to do and you've done very well as a CSR member same goes for all three of you that was a very good speech I really liked how long it was he gave a good nice deep well view of your school and how involved all of you are it's good to see it your school is getting more involved with everything around district 6 so I hope to see your school grow and get into more programs on here and you're all very incredible members of the group so I really appreciate having you here and having you in the group thank you very much thank you Mr longer Dr campus
022spitzy I also wanted to congratulate you on your future career in chemical engineering that's quite impressive um and I'm curious uh since joining the Council of student reps um I I'm just kind of curious of how like what you learn from each other as students from the charters versus the non-charter and kind of ideas you've gotten or or shared with the rest of the group of students um I think that having a different perspective as a charter school definitely helps to like communicate more cuz I know uh with the cell phone policy that put into place this year it was really good to be able to talk to district 6 students because we've had a similar policy for most of our um schooling so just being able to exchange ideas and talk about what it's
023like at different schools like it puts things in perspective that maybe the cell phone policy isn't actually that bad and things like that um I've got something as well I think it's just really cool especially cuz like Frontiers are really small like small school compared to a lot of these schools in gy it's just really cool to like check out the different opportunities that they have cuz I feel like Frontier just um just because we're smaller we're like limited in terms of that stuff just because there's not as much interest um as other schools with more students so I feel like that's really cool Miss Mes well I just wanted to say thank you for the presentation I'm sure you're all very busy this time of year um and also just thank you for being
024involved in the um both the student health um group Shack as well as the council student reps because I I really appreciate like what you said sharing sharing ideas um just getting um all of the students from different schools together uh I I think that anytime that that's an opportunity it it benefits everyone so thank you for coming Mr no thank you president Matthews first of all congratulations you guys have got such Bright Futures ahead of you it's uh it's really rewarding to see that the district has such great young people involved and I did want to reach out to Mr long aner as well too um maybe somebody somebody people didn't know but congratulations on your fifth place finish in Nationals with Marine Corps OTC team so um you did well I don't see
025any other questions or comments uh for you guys I will just say thank you for being a part of our Council of student Representatives I get to work with that group quite often and and appreciate your voice and and your participation and the time you put in uh to that I do think it's valuable to have our charter schools there along with our traditional schools and uh Mr Mr longaker does a great job of leading that group and we appreciate you as well sir um thank you guys thank you next on our agenda is our school social worker week Proclamation and this is a motion we'll need a motion to move forward I move that the board of educationist gy Evans school district 6 accept the proclamation as presented second thank you both before we
026go any further Miss Mash would you read that Proclamation for us yes be happy to honorary proclamation of the Board of Education of wel County School District 6 Proclamation recognizing March 2025 as school Social Work month whereas the significance of school social work as highlighted in the elementary and secondary Education Act of 1965 and the individuals with disabilities Education Act underscores its integral role in educational settings and whereas School social workers play a central role in cultivating positive School environments and whereas School social work workers unwavering commitment involves guiding students to explore their unique abilities strengths interests and talents employing evidence-based strategies while Champion championing educational equity and whereas as licensed mental health professionals with educational settings within educational settings School social workers administer crucial assessments interventions counseling Family Outreach and Community referrals and where
027a school social workers scope extends to a myriad of student issues including but not limited to mental health concerns family Dynamics trauma homelessness and substance abuse and whereas National School Social Work month serves as a platform to acknowledge and celebrate the unwavering dedication professionalism and compassion of school social workers in meeting the diverse needs of students and families now therefore the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 proclaims March 2025 as National School Social Work month recognizing an honoring the invaluable contributions and accomplishments of school social workers in fostering the well-being and academic success of students in gy Evans school district 6 thank you Miss Mash are there any questions or comments on this Proclamation I'll oh mismatch well I'm pleased that I got to read this um it is always fun to
028give a resolution because it kind of um just really sums up what one group of our employees do and this is so very much um it can't really all be encompassed in in one document but um thank you so much for your your work to Foster the mental health as well as the social skills of our students um helping them to discover what their strengths are and their interests and um again just your work is invaluable in the academic success as well as just these students becoming wonderful members of society so thank you very much thank you Miss mesh and I'll just add my comments um I focused on this one line in our Proclamation that says um that uh the extent documenting the extent of your work and it says the school social worker
029scope extends to a myriad of students issues including but not limited to mental health concerns family Dynamics trauma homelessness and substance abuse and I I think I can speak for everyone and saying that we all wish that um that you didn't have to be in our schools that that there was no trauma that our students um under underw there were no mental health issues uh but but there are and so we we're just so thankful that that you're there that you've chosen to work in our district that you've chosen to serve our students and um yeah thank you very much and I'd like to invite whoever would like to if if you have any words um to say in acceptance of this Proclamation um thank you so much for having us tonight my name is
030Jesse cajano and I'm the school social worker at Northridge High School as well as the lead School social worker for district 6 um I'm here tonight with a few fellow social workers we have Jessica Fernandez who's at Maplewood Elementary School Elijah Hendershot who's at gy West and Susanna Fuller who's at that Gap really really Alternative Program um we would like to thank you Dr pilch president Matthews and members member of the school board as well as members of our district leadership including Tammy Brandon who's been a huge support of our district six social workers our school social workers are dedicated to fostering positive School environments where every student feels safe supported and empowered to thrive academically emotionally and socially we are so grateful for the teachers administrators other school mental health staff parents and Community
031Partners that we have the privilege to work with to support our students so I'm honored to accept this Proclamation for school Social Work Week on behalf of our district six School social workers thank you m Mr Longacre has a comment thank you again president Matthews um I just wanted to speak on my experiences with school social workers I've interacted with a majority of them from around the district in my past 10 years in this District so I I must say with my life and how much you have supported me and the countless numbers of students you all work with I don't know how you do with the amount of Courage it takes to be able to handle these situations that these students go through by yourself and with the small teams you may work with
032it's incredible it's incredible work what you do for these students saves lives helps their lives and sends them towards the district six goal of a college ready and job ready student and because of you students that come from rougher patches or rougher backgrounds can achieve just as much as the students that come from a rich family rich and poor no matter what in this District because of your work and many other people's work in this District we're all put on the same level and I find that level of equality to be something unique to district 6 I really appreciate all the work you all do as our amazing social workers thank you thank you well said Mr long Acer I I think we are I don't see any other questions or comments so I think
033we're ready for a vote Miss lemon director Zari I director Bentley hi director Campos spitzy I director MH I director Matthews I director Norwood I director Sullivan I motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon oh I have a proclamation for you [Applause] next on our agenda is our superintendent's report so Dr pilch thank you president Matthews um lots lots of things to celebrate in district 6 right now lots of recognition for staff and students and so the these that I'm going to mention tonight I'll just mention briefly and then I want to bring them back before the board for superintendent honor roll um and and a little bit of presentation to the board because there's such a big deal so the first one is Brentwood middle school that has been named uh the 2025 a
034a225 Colorado tra Trailblazer school to watch this is a three repeat this is their third time to receive this recognition it is a prestigious Colorado recognition and they will travel to Washington DC this summer to present and talk about their accomplishments and I'd like to bring them forward to the board to share with you all a little bit more about what their work has been and and how you get recognized like this for three years in a row so pretty exciting and then uh two young men I want to recogniz just quickly from Northridge High School both seniors uh David Rivera and Jeff WN they took first place in the problem solving category at the state tests of engineering aptitude math and science stem competition for middle and high school students earlier this month and
035this qualifies them to go on to a national competition as well in Nashville in June and so I want to bring them in um and and get to know them a little bit better and and what their competition was and then finally uh I think that all of you have seen the coverage with our former gy Central Alam and UNCC Alam Andrew alz he just wrestled in his final wrestling meet at UNCC um but he does go on to compete in the Nationals but he has a 10-year wrestling career of being undefeated uh and so that started at at gy Central and went on through UNC so congratulations to uh you uh C gy Central Alum Andre LZ um we continue to be so proud of him and his accomplishments and I believe we had
036a a pretty large group of students that got to go watch him wrestle on Sunday from from our school so pretty excited about that so congratulations just so many uh good stories to tell in district 6 and I'll I'll just tell everyone what I told the group of superintendents and other school leaders last week when I had a chance to speak as the Colorado superintendent of the year one of the things I said was we just have to keep telling the good stories you know our three good stories um and and telling the good stories about what's going well in public educ ation and it's a time when people need to hear what's working and and what we're proud of that that we're doing that our colleagues are doing and that's happening districtwide so tell
037your good stories thank you president Matthews thank you Dr Pils next on our agenda tonight is innovation 2030 update student learning and achievement goal two professional development update so I see Mr Tuttle standing up like to invite you uh Mr Tuttle to the podium make this presentation thank you good evening board president Matthews members of the board and Dr pilch so privileged to be here to be able to share with you an update on professional development in our district going from new professionals Academy to supporting teacher leaders to facilitating professional development themselves with me this evening I have two co-leads of our professional development i2030 task force Kim Silva director of schools and Allison Ferguson principal at Meer Elementary School this sits squarely in our student learning and achievement um section of the Strategic plan
038specifically the work of professional development sits in that strategic plan and goal two around implementing consistent and coherent aligned curriculum assessment and instructional practices that are research-based to ensure that all students learn and under that objective number two Implement a professional development plan that supports education to ensure quality teaching and learning our outcome objective by 2028 100% of educators will create a professional development plan based on their learning needs taking into account the professional practices rubric and measures of student learning let me pass this over to Kim Silva to share a little bit more about this year's professional development um professor professional development within our district takes place through a variety of avenues designed to support Educators at every stage in their career we focus on foundational training growth throughout the school year and Extended
039Learning opportunities our foundational training um does begin with new professionals Academy where we welcome and Orient our new Educators to our district throughout the school year we prioritize continued learning within our community offering districtwide and school specific profession professional development session that promote growth and collaboration among Educators additionally we provide Extended Learning opportunities through specialized Summits conferences and targeted strands that deeper insights and Advance Lear Advanced learning in specific areas of Interest no no this way I need to go back okay good the new professionals um Academy we we call it NPA is probably what you've heard it to be called um for certified staff it took place this past summer um from July 31st to August 2nd the this professional development experience provided participants with several days of orientation where they became familiar with
040our District's mission and vision key Focus areas and the essential curriculum components vital to their specific role this year we had 152 participants as detailed in the breakdown on the slide uh notably while all were new to our district most had previous experience um with within education in addition to the new professional development sessions we also hosted a district 6 information and networking Fair which was an excellent opportunity for participants to connect with various departments including payroll benefits GAA and more the new professionals Academy encompasses a wide range of focus areas designed to support Educators in their role We Begin by introducing the i2030 Strategic plan and aligning our new uh new Educators with the district's Mission Vision and goals we also ensure teachers are well acquainted with content and resources specific to their role
041key Focus areas of the academy include fostering professional learning communities with an emphasis on learning for all students additionally we cover curriculum essential instructional strategies and effective assessment practices to support our new teachers we offer a comprehensive Mentor program each building is has assigned one to two lead mentors who guide new staff through the induction process these mentors provide ongoing support throughout the school year meeting regularly with their mentees the mentorship serves as a vital connection within the building helping new teachers familiarize themselves with the district the school as well as curriculum additionally mentors assist with professional development including support during a classroom management course after the first year mentorship continues with the assistance of an early educator lead who provides guidance to certified staff during their second and third year of teaching this is
042an example of the work bridging between our work and the work of the retention team with within operational and organizational Effectiveness our District offers a diverse range of professional development opportunities throughout the school year this year teachers can choose from a variety of PD sessions that are tailored to meet their individual ual needs the offerings focus on math and Literacy for elementary teachers as well as foundations of professional learning communities and specific content areas for secondary teachers additionally we've created specialized sessions for multilingual learner Educators elective teachers special education teachers and special service providers to address their unique needs so just in one of the key teams supporting the professional development in our district is our professional Development Council this team plays a crucial role in shaping our learning opportunities and has um already determined
043the theme for this Summer's professional development events and so the theme as you can see this year is maap being our way to success this upcoming summer we're offering three exciting professional development opportunities um within strands conferences and Summits this this summer Su we will offer three different Summits one Summit will focus on technology providing valuable insights into our our diverse technology platforms used across our district another Summit will Center on culturally and linguistically diverse um clld education and as well as co- teing offering a CDE approved certificate program that meets the English learner license requirement that our state has our third Summit will support special education and Behavioral Health aligning with the new 10 hour license renewal requirement and offering essential support in those areas these Summits provide opportunities for educators to both deepen
044their experience as well as stay aligned with the latest license requirements each summer we also offer several conferences this summer we will continue offering consensus training providing valuable tools for collaboration and shared decision-making additionally we will host our special education Summer Academy offering in-depth training and resource for educators in this field and then to further support our commitment to Avid we will provide Avid path training as well as send some teams to Summer Avid summer Institute for specialized professional development lastly we are excited to offer professional development strands once against this year these strands are designed to be either building specific or content focused typically spanning 1 to two days teachers who participate will earn District Six credit for their attendance I will we'll now turn this over to Allison Ferguson who is my i230
045professional development team co-lead and the principal at merer elementary school good evening our i2030 action team includes 10 Educators from all levels of our K12 System including District directors we work together to collaboratively refine priorities for district-wide professional development over the next four over the next 5 years this included identifying specific action steps for each year to ensure progress towards our i230 goals we outlined in the next few slides are the key Focus areas the action team has agreed upon our three key Focus areas in oh thank you thank you um are going to ensure comprehensive support for all staff members including certified Personnel classified employees and special service providers these Focus areas allow us to provide a structured and intentional approach to professional learning ensuring that employees receive the necessary foundational skills and information
046as they enter our district while also fostering continuous growth throughout their careers by establishing clear Pathways for professional development we can support both new and returning staff in refining their expertise and expanding their instructional and operational practices our goal is to create a system that not only strengthens individual competencies but also enhances overall organ organizational Effectiveness in addition to supporting staff in their professional learning we are committed to building internal capacity for the facilitation of professional development by equipping our Educators and Leaders with the skills and resources needed to effectively lead training and mentorship opportunities we can foster a culture of shared learning and collaboration this approach ensures that professional development is sustain able aligned with District priorities and continuously evolving to meet the needs of our staff and students the first area of focus
047is skills and information which serves as a foundational framework for staff as they enter our school district our goal is to provide employees with the Essential Knowledge tools and resources tailored to their specific roles ensuring a smooth transition and a strong start by offering clearly defined professional devel vment opportunities and a structured aligned system of support throughout the year we'll create an environment where all employees feel prepared confident and empowered in their positions a key component of this work is our mentoring program which provides targeted support for our new teachers first year certified teachers are paired within building mentors who offer the guidance coaching and professional support as they navigate their initial year in the district um this is the same work that Kim touched on earlier so so it's kind of weaving all those
048pieces in teachers in their second and third years continue to receive the structure building support as they further develop their skills in instructional practices integrating mentoring with our foundational training we are not only strengthening the development of our Educators but also enhancing teacher and staff retention a Wells supported Workforce leads to Greater job satisfaction improved instructional quality and ultimately better student outcomes additionally we are actively collaborating with the i230 r to align our efforts and ensure that all Educators receive comprehensive support that they need through initiatives we are committed to building a strong knowledgeable and resilient staff that contributes to overall success of our schools the second area of focus is refining complex practices and deepening content knowledge our goal is to design professional development Pathways that enhance your subject matter expertise while strengthening High
049leverage instructional practices within the classroom room by providing structured opportunities for growth we aim to support Educators in refining instructional strategies deepening their and ultimately improving student outcomes to meaningful and lasting impact these development Pathways will be reinforced at the building level creating a cohesive and streamlined process for Teacher growth professional development must be accompanied by consistent followup and feedback to effectively Translate learning into practice by providing support and monitoring the implementation of high leverage instructional strategies we bridge the gap professional learning and classroom application leading to Great Student Success additionally this work aligns with our certified teachers professional practices rubric in Randa allowing Educators to continually develop in this established framework oury area to capacity with District weed to equipping for I think we may have a few Mr Tuttle uh thank you guys
050for your presentation and it looks like Dr Campo spitzy will lead us off um more a comment than a question um I I just really love the focus of not just professional development but using professional development as I don't know a pathway to retention and um I love that mentorship that it doesn't end with the first year but it continues into the second and third year um at the building level and um just really you know handholding as much as we can to make the job um lighter for these early Educators and make them better Educators right um so thank you for the work that you're doing thank you Dr cost spitzy Mr aari yeah I'm just wondering uh for those teachers that are new to the profession and I'm presuming this is just the
051teachers or is this the staff in general throughout the district before I go on just wondering so okay so directed toward just uh the teaching staff the instructional staff for for those new teachers is there some checkin um with the group if you will towards maybe the end of the year to determine if the new professionals Academy was s helped them actually throughout the year e had a similar question to Mr oari um I come from a family of Educators and I said I know that professional development is something of a source of contention between administrators and and teachers and uh it is that contingent is ages old um but it but it seems to Center on this that uh that everybody believes in professional development and finds it valuable and wants it to to
052be good and teach teachers often times want to spend that time in their classrooms or grading papers or doing uh lesson plans and so uh how do we how do we balance uh that that tension if you will or how do we balance uh the time of of educating teachers but also giving them uh giving them the chance to um Hang on we're going to we're going to we're going to fix our microphone [Laughter] and and it sounds like from your response to Mr aari's question that we do measure our teacher satisfaction uh but can you just speak a little bit more uh to that a couple things and feel free to add into this um one of the things that we did this year was we um also TR um created opportunities for Teacher
053choice in the professional development so it wasn't that they all had to take the same thing that they got to self- select into saying I really want to learn more about this so this is something that's going better my practices and so there's a lot of teacher voice in those professional development the sessions this year in addition when I think about the calendar and I'm looking to Aaron um as we added those days in we balanced their individual plan time with the professional development days so there was usually a half and half so a time to learn but then also a time for them to be able to have that through individual plan time and we recognize that that's important as well to add and we do measure that I mean to make sure that
054teachers from teachers that yes uh we're getting uh that plan time um both so we are constantly monitoring that and then we do survey at the end of every single professional development session we collect data on the effectiveness of that and very very high ratings this year we're looking at revamping it so that it can also give us feedback on how do we change to make it better so we're looking at the questions to make sure we're asking thoughtful questions that give us feedback to guide that work further yeah well thank you thank you for for that answer I appreciate it very much and uh thank you also for the inclusiveness of our professional development uh I'm just looking at saying that long-term substitutes are are in our new professionals Academy um uh heard you
055mention that are classified I know they're not all uh receiving professional development but but I know that are C classified are receiving professional development as well and so I very much appreciate um including everyone in in that professional development there any other questions from comments from board members well I don't see any so I will just say thank you again for uh for your report we appreciate your presentation tonight 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 two minutes for comments our board members typically will not respond but we may ask our District staff to do so all written testimony
056or 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 be required to sit down or to leave the boardroom speakers are responsible for their own speech and should refrain from profane and obscene remarks all remarks must be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through 12th grade students the board is committed to providing a safe environment where all members of the school Community are treated with dignity and respect we expect all speakers to exercise their speech rights responsibly with that read first on um first two sign up are uh Mr David Meek well thank you all tonight welcome Mr Meek thank you
057thank you hey I really appreciate all you do and I think you think I'm half crazy but we are we're a fool for Jesus I wish we had more fools for Jesus y all do a lot of great stuff in that but my main thing is uh I have a dream I've had a dream for over 20 years right here that y'all would be a premier uh District in the whole America but that only will come about is when you realize that every boy and every girl needs to know that they are created in the image of God and they have a Divine Purpose and a divine plan and then somehow you will realize that's your responsibility it's your moral responsibility your civic responsibility most of all your god-given responsibility because at any moment all
058of us are going to stand before him and give an answer to him for what we did and what we haven't done a lot of books is wonderful and buildings is wonderful but when they read your thing at the funeral I wonder what they're going to say and will they have to lie that hits really home to me you know the front page of the paper a while back it really hits me harder because I sat with some of you at the funeral of a girl that committed suicide you had three of them at all three high schools in 2018 after I appeared before you and after you said no to Bible in schools and the Good News Club in 2018 and you had three suicides in three high schools the little girl hung herself
059you know and that so I'm just here to to help you and the only way it's going to happen is that you personally ask Jesus to be your savior it's only it's going to happen and then the next thing you're going to have to ask the Holy Spirit to help you to do the boldness to change this mess because you can't do it by yourself the only reason I'm here is because the Lord and the Holy Spirit and so I pray that for you and then I pray you don't sleep until you do it so anyway thanks again and the Lord bless you thank you Mr Meek next tonight we have miss Patricia Nelson welcome Miss Nelson thank you for being here you'll have two minutes thank you so much um I'm here this evening
060to discuss my concerns about the policy change uh jih first the concerns about the policy this not only introduces a new search method into the school policy this also changes the policy so students have no way to refuse the search with the oneand without being subject to disciplinary action per the red line a students failure to cooperate would be considered grounds for disciplinary action as drafted the policy change includes No Parental discretion unlike the policy surrounding questioning students without parents present secondly I have concerns about staff members being part of the the searches I would suggest a red line um so that the change would be as follows only Law Enforcement Officers or SRO assigned to the school shall conduct these searches parents should be notified prior to any searches and only the person who
061should the only person who should conduct these um searches are the sro's um I also want to bring up how this policy was announced the way that it was announced and um other parents that I talked to were under the same impression is that this policy had already been approved um the email I received set per our school district Safety and Security Department district dist administrators have approved the use of a metal detector wand um there were no red lights provided in the policy announcement and per state statue a safe School plan must be created and updated following the consultation with but not limited to accountability committee parents and community members at large the changes may happen in response to any relevant data in this case I don't feel like there was an explanation provided
062for this policy change uh this policy change should have had a more more robust stakeholder process a longer announcement lead time and there should have been an invitation for community members to participate prior to the vote I reached out to the chief of School Safety and Security twice but my ask my questions around the stakeholder process were not answered nor did I find any information about this in previous minutes this is especially important because as I was notified by the um superintendent this is only going to go in front of the school Bo members once prior to the vote so I really urge that you guys consider this prior to making this change of this policy that it's not fair to our community members are thank you for being here Mr Nelson we appreciate your
063comments next on our agenda tonight is our consent agenda we'll need a motion to proceed I move that the Board of Education of G EV school district 6 appr approves 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 I don't see any so miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley hi director Campos spy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Norwood I director Sullivan I motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon next on our agenda is is policy revisions and the first policy revision uh is to a foundation and basic comments AC non-discrimination Equal Employment and so this is an action item that we'll need a motion or are
064we grouping all these we're grouping all these together so we'll we'll have several that are group together will someone please make that motion I move that the Board of Education of G Evan school district 6 approve the revisions to a foundations and basic Comm commitments policies as presented second thank you both are there any discuss is there any discussion on on these policy revisions Dr pilch is there anything you would like to say in thank you president Matthews I'd like to invite uh attorney Nathan fall to the podium please just to give some overview of of this several policies you have coming before you the AC policies as well as the gbaa policies as well as the revisions to the J uh policies they are all uh similarly related to one another impacting staff um
065District action and then um students as well thank you Mr fall and he won't walk you through each one but I want to give H him to give you some a broad overview of of why these policies are coming before you and what our intent is with the revision on these policies and then we'll be happy to take questions that you might have thank you Dr pilch president Matthews members of the board uh my name is Nate fall I'm in house legal councel for the school district uh in front of you are the least we're talking about right now are the policies in our a section of the board policy manual these are the policies related to our non-discrimination uh we know that the with the new presidential Administration they had well let me let
066me backtrack so uh last president Administration they had implemented new rules under Title 9 we are just calling those the 2024 rules for sake of Simplicity uh this new Administration has rescinded those rules meaning that we are now going back to the original uh Title 9 sexual harassment rules which were adopted in 2020 so these policy revisions are essentially bringing us back to align with those 2020 regulations we did um keep some of the language um from our prev our last policy revision that we passed last summer if you wouldn't if you do remember we did a kind of proposed policy adoption and then we ultimately passed the policy in August um and so this is essentially just kind of dialing that back a little bit um but we did keep some of that language
067in so you'll see that some of the changes um weren't fully made and we did keep some of that language in there but just know that these revisions do align with federal law now with those 2020 regulations uh but we also have state law uh that we need to kind of tangle with which is Senate bill 23296 which was another policy that this board adopted last summer uh and so we are still trying to make sure that we're um our policy language captures those requirements from Colorado law so that's kind of why we are doing this and I apologize for the messy policy adoption last summer and here we are just kind of resending it but I'm happy to take any questions thank you Mr fall we have a question from Dr Campos spitzy um
068in acr1 the harassment and dis discrimination investigation procedures for students um I just wanted to know what our definition is um when we say sexual allegations of sexual discrimination um under Title 9 must follow the complaint and investigation procedures so what you know I like just by searching um I've seen definitions for sex discrimination for sex-based discrimination so I wasn't sure exactly what was meant by sexual discrimination yeah sexual discrimination and sex discrimination I think are one and the same and that may be I I think I'm I can that may be an error on my part and I can fix that if it says sexual discrimination if the question is should it say sex discrimination okay that's probably just a grammatical typo and you said that was on acr1 yeah acr1 um like the
069last paragraph before investigation process I see that well Dr Kos spitzy if you want to make a motion right now to change that to sex discrimination you could certainly do that um but uh I I I think that that's a technical typographical change that I can make um after the board makes its change to yeah if I need to make a motion I will um I move to fix a typographical error um and that it should say allegations of sex discrimination rather than sexual discrimination on acr1 second and just just to clarify I apologize that was an amendment to the original motion this is an amendment to the original and so what what we now have to do is vote on on Dr Campos spitzy's Amendment uh to the original uh motion is there is
070there any further discussion I don't see any so again we're voting on the amendment Dr Campos spitzy's Amendment to the motion please give us a vote Miss lemon director aari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director Mash hi director Matthews hi director Norwood hi director Sullivan I motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon are there any other questions now that that has become uh the language that we're adopting is there are there any other dis is there any other discussion I don't see any Mr fall so miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director Mash hi director Matthews hi director Norwood hi director Sullivan hi motion carries 70 thank you Miss lemon next on our agenda is our policy revisions gbaa
071sex-based harassment GB gbaa sex based oh sorry um we have a new program and it looks a little different than what we're familiar with uh so it we will need a motion to proceed I move that the Board of Education of gy Evans school district 6 approves the revisions to policy gbaa sexual harassment as presented second thank you both Mr fall is there anything you would like to say about U these changes yes the only thing I'll say is you'll notice that in this policy that that whole definition of sex-based harassment prohibited has been redlined and just know that that was the 2024's definition of sexual harassment um and so we've we've St struck that language um but the remaining policy you can see we just made edits to the definition of sexual harassment there
072any questions or comments from board members seeing none Miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zari I director Bentley I director Campos spitzy I director mes hi director Matthews hi director Norwood hi director Sullivan I motion carry 70 thank you Miss lemon next tonight are policy revisions J student policies and so again we need a motion to proceed I move that the Board of Education of G Evan school district 6 approve the revisions to Jay's students policies as presented second thank you both um Mr fall I'll give it again to you to introduce this but I I would since we've had uh some public comment um if you could answer any of the the questions that were brought raised in public comment um about the the J policies I can say that
073we we're doing with these policies what what we do with all policies um we we bring policies pretty much every meeting uh with with Redline changes we're updating uh all the time and so this policy is not different from uh or there is no different process for any other uh policy from any other policy um but can you address any of those other questions uh that were brought up in public comment yes thank you president Matthew so um the I I just want to say that this doesn't change anything that we are already doing with our search and seizures procedures the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution still exists it hasn't changed in almost 250 years um and so or longer than that I should say and so this is just an additional tool
074that school staff can use uh after really all other attempts have been exhausted um we know that uh vaping in particular is uh epidemic uh in this country and also in this school district we know that uh students are doing it widely uh in the bathrooms and in dark classrooms and you know wherever it may be they're very hard to locate you can smell them you know they're there but you can't find them um but a metal detector can um and so we know we know that this is just one other resource that school staff have um to uh potentially identify Contraband or illegal materials in district schools uh another piece is that all School staff that are going to be using these wands have been trained in the use of them uh and again
075these are they're just aligning to our uh Safety and Security procedures that we already have when it comes to searches so nothing has changed in our searches process uh school officials have always been able to search students this isn't anything new certainly if there's a more invasive search uh we always direct those to law enforcement we never direct staff to do uh more invasive searches like actually searching on the person um and then the wands themselves are very in non-invasive items you don't have to do Pat Downs with them you don't have to touch anybody with a wand it can really just detect metal that is out there so just as far as our process nothing has changed this is just an additional tool and what we wanted to do was provide the public with
076notice that we are going to start using this tool we know that there are other school districts even in Colorado that use kind of these handheld metal detector wands that don't have policy on this uh so really if anything we're doing a service to the community by letting them know uh that we are going to start including these in our search procedures um and this is kind of part of that reason we adopted that or shared the communication out with the School Community last week just so we can put folks on notice that this is something that we are going to start using that there is a real problem in this school Community uh that we want to address and we believe that um wands are uh a really great tool for doing that and
077then as far as the the public comment and notice piece this is an adjustment to our search and seizure policy uh this isn't for our safe schools reporting policy I know that they're there are sections of the safe School reporting policy that include search and seizures but this doesn't align to that to that policy polic so I'm not sure what that comment was about um I I think this is just a regular policy adoption or revision thank you Mr fall Dr Kus spitzy yeah I did I did want to comment and I guess just Echo a lot of the points U Mr fall just made um but but we do already have policy that allows search and pat down um when school officials have reasonable grounds to suspect that a search is warranted so that
078already exists in my view um I see a wand as a way to keep hands off the kids um and so instead of doing the backhanded pat down which is part of the policy um it would be a way I think um the Educators and administrators uh who who are trained to do this would would probably prefer to use a wand rather than do a pat down um I was also concerned about who was doing them um mostly because of an event that happened in Denver a couple years ago um that we may be aware of that an administrator found a gun and um and then was shot by the student um so so I was assured that there would be training for everyone using the wand and um that if it is going to
079be a more invasive search or a student who is higher you know risk um that it would be done by a law enforcement official um if we were implementing something I would say like metal detector at our school entrances um which would be very costly for the um for the district I first sure would want many months in advance of town hall meetings and a lot of community input before we would do anything drastic like that um but you know I regularly go to Colorado Rapids games and we all get wanded down as we enter the stadium I just don't see it as much of a a a controversial issue yeah thank you Dr campus spitzy and I I just want to add to that that that that they're not going to be used randomly
080they're going to be used when there is articulable reasonable suspicion to initiate a search and that's what the fourth amendment requires in our in our school staff that can use the wands who are only building administrators by the way um they they know that and so they know that this is just not something to just pull out uh that they really need to have that grounded suspicion in order to even initiate a search to begin with so um anyways thank you Miss Sullivan thank you for uh the clarity of um the policy and whatnot but I just want to verify then because I know I found it before we do provide the redline version online for parents to um check out so was this one posted so that they can go back to see that
081yes yeah all red lines should be posted on the public website Mr aari one of the concerns that uh the speaker brought up was the line in the policy of students failure to cooperate with school officials conducting a search will be considered grounds for disciplinary action that line is listed earlier on in the policy in an older version of the policy and then that's included under the handheld uh procedures in the red line is there any difference between how those two statements will be interpreted by Administration it's the the same sentence I actually just copy and pasted it I'm pretty sure may maybe I justed some language but I just wanted to make clear that that which was already in policy that rule still applies to these searches as well okay any other questions or
082comments from board members I don't see any so miss lemon will you give us a vote please director Zori I director Bentley hi director Campos spitzy I director Mash I director Matthews I director Norwood I director Sullivan I motion Carri s zra thank you Miss lemon that's all the business we have tonight thank you for joining us again congratulations to our Dream Team Scholars this meeting is adjourned [Music] n [Music] n e e e