001Heat. Heat. [Music] meeting is open in person participation and available to the public. via live stream on Central Consolidated School District's YouTube channel. Item one, routine matters. A, call the meeting to order and verify. Quorum present through roll call. President Hasky here. Present. Mr. Mr. So Mr. Wells, Miss Aspus here and myself. We do have three. We do have a quorum. Times is now 5:33. Item B, pledge of allegiance. Everybody stand please. Face flag. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. Thank you. Mr. Carlson if you would prayer please. Everyone please bow their heads. Prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this opportunity to come before you and before our community this evening. We ask that you
002uh bless all those folks that are here, especially the young people. Thank you for them and for all that they do for our community and thank you for the all the staff and the teachers and thank you for the board members who wrestle with some really difficult decisions. Help us to make sure that we always keep your will in mind and keep our children in mind as we go about our business this evening. These things we pray and bless the food that was provided. All this in Jesus name. Amen. I'll ask the board members to review the agenda. Someone would like to make a motion to approve the agenda or modify it. board president, uh, board member Mononttoya, if I may. I did have a question from a gentleman and asking if he might be
003able to be moved a little bit for for personal reasons. Um, and that is uh I don't believe his name is on the agenda, but it's it's all the way down at letter L. Um, and and that is Gary Mike, who was here for Ashlin Mike. Is that correct, Jared? Um, and we would like for him not to have to be here until the the bitter end, which which is or at least letter L, which is close to the end. So, you're basically saying just do that one last. Um, they would like to do that uh first if possible. Oh, first. First. Yeah. Or or somewhat sooner, whatever. But first would be the best. Yes. First on the reports, please. Board member Matya, if maybe you could move it to item D or somewhere um
004not the very beginning but possibly just maybe a few reports after so him he can travel here from work. Thank you. Certainly I don't think going through the um student staff committee recognition and then moving to that one. I think that would work. Thank you. That work. All right. Are you about ready, Miss Saski? Almost. Still waiting on a motion to accept the agenda. I motion. Second. Move the changes. Do I have a second? I don't think so. Was there anybody else online? Board member Montaya, members of the board, there is uh no, no one else is online. Okay, a motion has been made and seconded. And again, in respects to um the report given by Mr. Mike, as soon as we get done with the student staff community recognition, we'll move on to uh
005Mr. Mike. Vote a roll call. Miss Hasky. Yes, Miss Opospice and myself. Yes. Motion approved. Agenda is approved. On to item two, student staff and community recognition. A celebrating a perfect attendance milestone. Superintendent like to welcome Jared to the podium and he will I believe Jared is going to be um doing the recognition for the next several. Thank you, Mr. Matoya. Members of the board, Superintendent Carlson. Um is an honor today to be celebrating a remarkable achievement. Uh we proudly recognize Miss Miller and the Peters family for their extraordinary dedication to academic excellence and consistent engagement in education. Each member of Miss Miller's children has achieved perfect attendance from preK through high school graduation. A remarkable testament to the family's unwavering commitment to learning, responsibility, and perseverance. This exceptional accomplishment reflects not only the students
006individual determination but also the strong support and values instilled at home by Miss Miller. We are honored to recognize the following students for achieving perfect attendance through the entire academic journey. We have Samantha Peters, class of 2012. Michael Peters, class of 2013. Jonathan Peters, class of 2014. Cassandra Peters, class of 2016. Tyler Peters, class of 2019, and Clea Peters, who will be graduating this year and is the last the last of the Peters that Miss Miller will be have in her house. So, um, the district commends Miss Miller for her outstanding example of bringing students to the classroom and prioritizing attendance, always knowing that students in the school buildings is the best thing for their education. So, congratulations. Thank you, Miss Miller, for your dedication. Uh, would you like to say something, Miss Peters? Well,
007the only thing I can say is I didn't do it alone. If it wasn't for the staff at the schools, my colleagues, my family, I don't have family from here. originally from Wisconsin. So, um I relied on colleagues, teachers. I mean, um Miss Gallagher made sure staff was there at 7:00 so I could be at work at 7:15 this year until my daughter got her driver's license. Then she spent an hour and a half in the building prior to class study. But my greatest accomplishment with her is she will graduate with her AA degree um from San Juan College the week before the high school [Applause] graduation. Board member Montoya, members of the board, Madam President, Superintendent Carlson. Uh put a cherry on top of it too. Miss Kalia Peters will be the valadictorian for
008the Ship Park High School graduation. Oh wow. [Music] And uh Miss Miller and the Peters will be celebrities because they will be on KOB4 actually tonight this evening to recognize her perfect attendance family. So uh that concludes item A board member Matoya. Are there any comments from board? Miss go ahead. you know th those um type of milestones are rare very rare even in employment um even when there's a bonus attached to it um but um I I really in this day and age that is very commendable and that's outstanding that you you know, all the siblings and um just wonderful to hear and um I I really wish at this moment I was rich enough to give her something, you know, and and um may I ask what her associates is inoc She arts.
009That's great. And and then from our district, too. Yay. So, thank you. Anyone else? Yeah. I would I like to add, you know, it it's it's the family and the teachers that foster that that um willingness and want and creates community within the school, within the classroom, and it creates that commitment. So, thank you for creating that community for that family. Um it is really commendable that that the whole family has the perfect attendance which really goes to highlight how important family is and teachers like you. everybody who is involved in the community, how important that is in a child's growth, in their in their um continued growth because now you have a student that's going on received her associates and then will be moving on to her bachelors and so forth. So, it's really
010commendable. I I thank you so much for the dedication and creating that community, that family. Thank you. It's great. It's awesome. [Music] Isn't that what they say? It takes a village. So, it's awesome. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Absolutely. Um, Miss Peters, as much as you would like to deflect the fact that there's others involved, yes, there is. However, if they do not have a strong mother as that foundation, it's like a house. If you don't have a solid foundation, someone who truly believes in their ability and quite frankly, not just nudge them, but push them to that, those kids won't do it on their own. You know that. And that's the honesty God's truth. I have nothing but respect for you, what you've done, what your kids have done. I know all
011your kids, you know, my kids. Um, my wife had I think maybe one or two of your kids in the class and and again, I have nothing but praise for you, ma'am. Absolute respect for what you've done with your children. So, congratulations to you. Thank you. Yay. [Applause] I now yield the uh mic over to the the president. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you board member Mononttoya for that. Um, we will move on to letter B. Skills USA student recognition. Can our students please stand here on the black tape? I can see the the red jackets here. Oh, they're glued to the screens. Well, that's BPA. Excuse me. Oh, Alan, pass those booklets to the people behind you. Madame President, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, Sharon, if you could mind scrolling down
012just a little bit for me to read. Um, so again, our Bond Wilson Tech students uh performed at the state competitions back in March. And uh we're here to recognize the following students who have meddled with fantastic results from Alan Palmer uh Aresa O. many goats. And we have Caitlyn Vashini. Correct. Thank you. And Liliana Nelson, who I believe is Lily. Is is she here? She's online. Uh and Angelo Ben, who have earned gold medals for their state competitions last month. If you could give him a round of applause, please. And then to to follow up, we have silver medal Bradley Franco. If we could give him a round of applause. And we have bronze medal uh Calvin Barber. Thank you very much. Is that you Calvin? Are you Calvin Barber for bronze medal? So,
013uh, just, uh, in to conclude, the gold medals have now earned this incredible opportunity to compete at the Skills USA National Championship in June, representing Bon Wilson and their entire state at New Mexico. So, if we could give one more round of applause. Madame President, members of the board, what you have in front of you is a book made by Alan Palmer Palmer, who earned gold medal for that book that he just made. And madam president of the board, Superintendent Carlson, that concludes item B. Oh, thank you. Thank you. That's great. Any po um questions or comments from the board? Oh, just a comment and congratulations for everything you've done and this is very good. Outstanding. Thank you. Appreciate it. That's [Applause] great. Any other comments? Okay. I really see this liquid. Wow. Because you
014know you're at that age. refresh my screen. Thank you. Any other question uh comments? Okay. Thank you you students. Thank you so much for representing our school district. It's very I know it takes a lot of commitment and dedication on top of your regular school work and and all the things with your house your even with your home life. It it takes a lot of dedication. And so we really appreciate all the effort you all have expended in this and it shows through the your booklet and and I um we're really proud of you. So thank you for representing our school district. [Applause] Okay. All right. Let me see. Thank you students. You may sit down. literacy uh student recipient honored at bilingual award ceremony. Is Isaac also here in the audience? Isaac, are you
015online? Mr. Brady, are you online? Might be at the baseball game. Madame President, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson again, uh Cadence and Isaac are celebrities now in our in our beloved communities. U recognized once again for their bilingual seal uh proficiency in Navajo language. So, a couple weeks ago, they did attend the awards ceremony in Flagstaff. Um and it was just a well celebrated event. Um I'll save all the talking to Mr. for Brady because he did prepare a video just in case if he wasn't going to be here and um we'll have him uh share what happened two weeks ago. Sharon, if you can keep scrolling down and play that video, please. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Nathan Brady. I'm of the Salt People clan, born for the water flows
016together people. My maternal grandparents are of the big water clan and my paternal grandparents are of the folded arms people. That's how I identify myself as a Navajo man. This evening, I would like to express an appreciation for the two young students from Central Consolidated School District who earned the Navajo Nation bilingual seal. First of all, from Kirtland Central High School, my maternal grandchild, Cadence Yazi. Cadence was able to speak from the heart and also sang a song to the listening audience there at the awards assembly. Her song provided a sense of soothing comfort for the attendees as they travel many miles for this award and assembly. Next, we have Isaac Merritt from Shipro High School. Isaac was able to speak to the audience telling them that the learn learning of the language begins at
017home. He stress to the parents and to the grandparents that they should take a few minutes out of every day to speak to their student to their to their kids in our our unique in their language. He expressed that learning the language became something that he had to learn quickly as his maternal grandmother was ill and in order for him to help care for her, he had to learn the language to make sure he was providing the right medication, giving her what she needed at the time of her illness. These two students have embarked on the journey for us and to have paving the way for our students in the school district to strive to learn and try to achieve the bilingual field. I'd like to acknowledge Chipot High School principal Miss Stacy Gallagher, career
018career prep school principal, Mr. Dane Gallagher as they were in attendance to support both of these athletes students. I'd like to also acknowledge from ICO Dr. Berinda Beay as she was also there in attendance and provided words of reassurance and comforting a comforting message as well to the attendees. I also like to take say a big thank you to the central consolidated school district school board president Susette Jane Tasky Overly. Your presence there at the awards ceremony meant a lot to these young young students. I believe you might have been the only school board representative from the Navajo Nation, all these schools that were represented to be in attendance. Thank you for supporting these two students from Kirtland Central and Shiprock. Last but not least, the Central Consolidated School District public information officer, my nephew,
019Garren Noble. Thank you for your continuous support academics and athletic wise for our students. The other awardees were watching Kanan and Isaac as you went around and they placed a mic on them and video videoed them as they spoke. I imagine the other awardees were wondering if they were going to get the same kind of treatment. Your presence there meant a lot to us as parents, teachers, educators. Thank you very much. [Applause] Madam President, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, Cadence is here in attendance. Um, if uh, you know, she spoke last time, but if maybe she wants to recap on the ceremony and maybe tie a bow on this bilingual seal celebration, she can. Sorry. Yes, please do. So um Hello everyone. My name is Cadence Yazi and I currently go to school at
020Kirtland Central High School. Uh I currently reside in um Kurland as well, but I'm originally from Round Rock, Arizona as where that's where my family's from too. Um a little bit about the ceremony I attended. It was in Flagstaff, Arizona and they did a recognition of, you know, all the recipients and it was it was such a cool feeling um knowing there was, you know, only two of us from our area and I could imagine what the other kids felt because, you know, some of them were first time recipients of their schools and there was only, you know, individual from their own schools. But once again, it was it was an amazing feeling, you know, knowing that there are other kids across Navajo Nation who understands and comprehends the language, you know, such as yourself.
021And at being this age, it's it's really it's really awesome. It was really cool to see what um what what things they talked about and how, you know, what their fluency level was. And it was cool being able to, you know, communicate with others in your language knowing they're the same age as you. And so I really stressed um uh youth I I try to advocate as much as I can for you know not only the youth but our communities to get involved with the Navajo language and not only that but you know because we're in a diverse we have a lot of diverse ethnicities here within Central Consolidated. And so um I encourage you all to learn learn your language to learn your culture and your traditions as well. And so with the title
022I have, I'm current I'm the current restorine as well. And so with that, my platform is to encourage the youth and others to learn their language. Um, and I like I try to help with what I can and what I know and to use my knowledge to help others as well. And so that was a little bit about the ceremony. It was it was such a um awesome feeling once again. And I'd like to extend my appreciation to, you know, all the board members who are here with us today and encouraging um and being that support system for us. You know, I I feel like this is uh I said it last board me, but I feel like this is a perfect example of, you know, how important school and education is because, you know,
023Isaac, he grew up with it in his homestead. And so with me, I didn't really have it in my homestead. It wasn't, you know, pushed on us. Like I said, I don't have, you know, family out here. They're all from Arizona. And so with education as I was a little girl, I felt, you know, singled out because I wanted to learn. You know, it was very um it was very awesome. It felt really cool to know as much as I didn't to understand it. Even at a young age, I realized uh you know, there's other kids who went to school with me who didn't understand ceremonies. There was kids who didn't understand. Even the teachers as well, they didn't understand. when I'd bring up a ceremony or when I'd ask about something, they'd be like,
024"That's not how it is." Or, "That's not what we do." And it it being at that young age in kindergarten, it was um it was kind of heartbreaking. It sometimes I get emotional talking about it because I felt singled out. And cuz cuz people didn't understand, you know, the things I would talk about. And so that's when it it was my comfort. It was like me being back home in the reservation. And so that's why I I try to encourage it. I try to encourage the teachers to, you know, specifically make it fun for them again. Make it fun for our youth at the elementary school. And not only that level, but at the middle school and high school as well. You know, I don't take NAVO at the high school. I currently um don't
025take Navo out at all. Excuse me. But I stopped at middle school because that's where I felt, you know, it's not fun anymore. It's not what how it used to be. It's not The curriculum is different. It's not hands-on. And it's not playing games no more. It's just paperwork and it's just do this assignment and turn it in and it's not really we're learning. It's not, you know, it's not intricate no more. It's just it's just kind of there. And I feel like that's something um that everyone needs to take initiative on as much as you can and advocate for it as well. And so with that being said, um that's all I have for you today. And I'll leave you with um just encouragement to continue to teach one another. Even if it's just
026simple phrases like hello y or goodbye. Even if it's just little stuff like that, you're still trying and that's what matters. Thank you. Thank [Applause] you board. Are there any comments or questions? Comment. Go ahead. Congratulations. Absolutely. Um, not only are you preserving your language, you're solidifying your identity. And to me, that is hugely important for people to understand that, especially coming from you and what you've just expressed on how um when you got into high school, the the way it was taught changed. And that's important because it has to be engaging. People have to want to be there and the educators have to make it to where it is engaging and the the kids want to be there and learn that. So I I thank you for saying that and your with your honesty.
027I truly appreciate that. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Thank you. Are there any other comments? Go ahead. as as you said the last time you that you were here and you received the recognition. Um I really took that to heart. you know, um I think you just thinking about what you said about just papers being thrown at you for homework and, you know, for your Navajo language course and and um and I remember I recalled my daughter the same thing and she she wasn't interested and so um it it's valuable feedback what you shared with us and um and I and I really think that and there was a a young man that came years ago that um talked about grandma's boot camp and I like that expression and I like that title and he
028talked about how um he had this theory that where the students could go there for the summer and with the actual grandma and you know and learn the language. age and I think he was on to something and and um and then since then I've heard you know different uh theories of of how to um revitalize the language and and one of them is a board member here Montoya and but it really comes back down to the home and your support because even for myself My personally um at a young age um you know your siblings will tease you and and relatives will tease you and for me I tried to speak I tried to say something to three grandmas from Burnham and and I thought I did well but I got laughed at and
029um my sister was laughing and she says you sound like a white person And ever since then that just stayed with me and and even now you know to where I hear myself. Um, and I shared that with one of the principles and um, and what they were doing was having their students do the pledge of allegiance in the morning or um, introduce themselves in the morning and over the speaker. And I thought, "Wow, yeah. Yeah, that could work." You know, and um but I think there's so many um ways um and and I wish we could find an answer so that you know we have more students like you. Thank you. Yes, Madam President, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, we do have Isaac online. Oh, good. Oh, Mr. Brady. Mr. Brady, would you
030like to say add anything to your presentation? Okay. All right. Thank you. Any other comments or comments from the board? He might have come back. Oh, do you see him? No. I don't know if he's on there or he might have thought it. Yeah, he might have dropped off. So, if you see him back on, please interrupt interrupt us. Are there any other comments? Yes, I I got one more to add. Um Cadence, um I think all of us been there in support of you twin arrows. I know I would have, but um we had our Atlanta, Georgia conference and um the three of us had attended and but um I I just want wanted you to know that and but I think the one that I really really will keep in my heart, my
031memories is the one in the gym. you know, you're surrounded by your family. So, just is there any other comments? Yeah, I just want to say thank you uh for for the the comments and being able to do well at this at this at this award ceremony. I understand that the bilingual seal is one of the highest honors that the navigation can give to students and it's just a testament to show that you've you you are able to do well with the language and culture and just being able to demonstrate your character here. And and as board member Matoya stated, it's uh the feedback that we've we've received from yourself as a student would give us insight about how we can improve quality program delivery with with artistry to make the language more exciting, more
032engaging and hope to get more more students who are fluent the language. Thank you. Yeah, I I I so appreciate that. It was really great watching you Chanel. I I know that you just inter introduced yourself so um and um it was it's amazing and like you said there was not um there was only I think 20some students across the Navajo Nation people that came from Albuquerque and all over. So, it was really it was really amazing to see you and Isaac on the stage and to hear you and to to listen to your your greetings and how you introduced yourselves and how you spoke to the the audience. So, I I think that's really tremendous. It's a it does take a lot of of work. Um NAVO is not not easy. and and um
033um and so I I have at least I I you know that I carry that. So it's it's really commendable that you didn't have that but you learned it that you learned to write and speak and read it. I don't know how to read it. I don't know how to I don't know how to write Navajo. It's really hard for me. And so it's re it's it's a huge honor that you you learned that and and it's not always spoken in your family, but that makes it even more commendable of what you've achieved. So, I really appreciate I really am humbled by how you took it upon yourself to learn that um when I was young and at at Nukem High School, we didn't have that option. Um we didn't have Navajo language. We did
034we only had Spanish. And so, it's it's wonderful that you learned that. So, thank you. Thank you. A with that. Thank you. Um, could I make Go ahead. Um, so I'd tell the board members what um what something is. I might get emotional, but I have my little sister here with me today and um I get emotional because you know I was her age and I was trying to still learn it. But now, you know, the way I grew up with the school system and how Navajo was, it was fun. It was really, really fun in elementary school. And then I got to middle school and it's just, you know, I see my peers not care about it anymore and they they stopped. And so from there on I went to high school and high
035school I I stopped and I wasn't interested in it anymore. And so I feel like I feel for my sister because it's like as you're growing up with this language and how the curriculum starts to um decrease going to high school, it's just it's not fun no more. It's not it's not intricate anymore. And so I feel like that's something um not only with Navajo but you know with Spanish and the other um ethnicities as well is to you know check up on your schools, check up on your your middle schools, your high schools. Make sure they're doing what they're supposed to. Make sure they're incorporating it. Even if it's little games, if it's little stuff like money or playing bingo or playing, you know, little games with like chairs or something. That's how I
036learned in elementary and I feel like that's where most of my language came from was during elementary school. And so that's what I want to leave with you guys today. Thank you. Thank you. Madame President, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, uh just to conclude, um at the ceremony, uh they did award tablets for those who earned their bilingual seal. So, I want you guys to remember that, you know, you guys can get incentives for earning your bilingual steel in Navajo. So, and they got their shaws. And they got shaws and roses. Yes. They got they got showered with gifts. It was It was incredible. Yeah. So, it was great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Don't let go. Next. Um, D. Nukem High School launches first Special Olympics. Madame President, members of the board,
037Superintendent Carlson, um, as you know, the Special Olympics are going on this year. And just a unique story I I think I find interesting is that Nukem launched their first Special Olympics this year uh with 22 students competing in the game. So I just wanted to give them a congratulations for stepping up and doing that. And that that concludes item item D. Okay. Thank you. They're not here. We can't say thank you. Okay. We do have Joel here. Okay. Well, he's just spearheading the whole operations along with um Kim Nakai, board member Aspus. Oh, that's great. M Madame President, can I make a comment? Yes, you may. I uh I just wanted I didn't get my mic unmuted quick enough, but I wanted to tell those uh that achieved their bilingual awards, congratulations. It's quite
038an accomplishment. especially where they didn't have it at home. So, congratulations. Thank you, Mr. Bisuite. Do you want to say anything? That's awesome. Thank you, Madam President. May I? Yes. Uh, Madam President, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, it is our goal to next year compete with other schools in the Special Olympics. So, that's hopefully something we can all get along and get on board with to make that happen. That's great. That's great. Any other comments? Thank you. And next, um, E, letter E, uh, state powerlifting results 2025. Do we have any powerlters in the crowd here? We got one. Go ahead, come up here. [Applause] Madame President, members of the board, Super Coulson, I just wanted to point out that uh do not push their buttons. All right. I just want you to identify
039I want you to know who they are so you don't you know mess with them. Okay. Um so I believe Mckenzie, right? I'll go ahead and start with Mackenzie Ner who's uh who's a freshman, correct? Freshman this year and she has uh competed in the state tournament. uh finished second place with a total lift of 540 pounds, which she achieved uh with squatting 195 pounds per squat, 100 lbs for bench press, and 245 lbs for deadlift. Um and she competed in the 114 lb weight division. So, if you can give her a round of applause. [Music] M madame president, uh, if Miss Nster wants to share a few words. Yes. Um, I just want to say thank you to um my coaches, my family, and all of you guys for y'all's support and dedication and
040giving us the ability to uh use the weight room um and buy the equipment that we need. [Music] Um it's it's a really big honor to be up here. Um I lifted last year at state and I f to come from being in fifth to all of a sudden being in second and not being far behind first is just a really big achievement and I wouldn't be able to do it without it. So thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, she was an eighth grader and she still plays top 10 or five in her division. So, um she's just only going to get better from here on out. So, um and then just to Sharon, if you can go back up one more time. Um, just to recap with Kur
041Central High, Ethan Billy, um, who we did invite, he finished first place with a combined lift of 710 pounds, and he, um, broke state records in all three categories with state, bench, and deadlift. So, uh, then we have Terica Dowy, who finished second place with a total lift of 775 lbs. Um, we have Jiren Tyler who finished first place in deadlift with a lift of 296 pounds in deadlift and the team finished ninth place for uh, boys. Um, Mackenzie, did girls finish at all? Okay, I'm pretty sure we I I might have missed the uh the results for the girls uh, competitions. Sharon, if you can scroll down, we'll go into Shiprock. So, we have Kokalani, Miss uh Gallagher. Did I say that correctly? Miss uh Kokalani Claw, who uh competed in the 220 lb
042class, finished third place with a total lift of 655 lbs. We have Delila Henderson, who finished fifth place with a total lift of 625 pounds. In the 181 pound class, we have Jaden Harrison, who competed in the 220 pound class, finishing fifth place with a total lift of 590 pounds. And the team finished 14th overall at state competition. Uh, last but not least, we have Jordan White from Nukem High School. Sharon, if you could scroll down a little bit. Jordan White finished third place with a total lift of 1,700 lb. Wow. deadlifting. He finished third place in deadlifting with 286 pounds and 45 pounds. It's a lot of weight, Madam President, members of the board. So, uh, with that, that does conclude the state results for state wrestling. Great. Any comments? Okay. Yes. Oh, wow.
043That's awesome. And he's a junior this year. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that for that information. Our our students are doing amazing things. So, um I know that takes a lot of work to to commit to your your um craft. So I more power to you because I you know that's scary car holding all that. Yeah. Excuse. Yes. Go ahead. I cong I just like to congratulate them all. That's Yes. Quite an accomplishment. Not just districtwide but recognize their their achievements and their hard work. Congratulations to them. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Go ahead. So, um it brings me back to uh when I had knee surgery and they told me that to pass my physical 80 lbs and you're able to do 500 and and I had to walk I believe 50
044feet with it. And then later learned that they gave me the wrong it was supposed to been 65 lbs. But I did it and oh my gosh I mean how how you pull that off and the the things you have to do here. That's amazing. Um I I just hope that um be careful and then you know and I hope this this is something that you'll last in you know sport-wise and um cuz be careful. So thank you. Thank you so much and thank you to all our athletes or who might be online. That's so amazing. So, thank you for sharing your information, too. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. Um F. New Mexico Legislature Certificate celebrating gifted education, ability, talent, and potential in all schools. Recognition acknowledgement certificate by Senator Antoinette Sad Sado Lopez honorably accepted
045by Kate Morris gifted instruction coach CCSD gifted talented and creative program on March 11, 2025 at the New Mexico Roundhouse. Good evening uh Madame President, school board members and Mr. Superintendent. Um, I stand before you today deeply honored to have represented Central Consolidated School District's gifted, talented, and creative program at New Mexico State Legislature Roundhouse on March 11th. I was privileged to be invited by Senator Antoanet Sadia Lopez and stood with her on the Senate floor during the reading of a significant certificate titled Ability, Talent, and Potential in All Schools. This certificate serves as a powerful statement acknowledging and celebrating the diverse gifts uh present with our New Mexico student population. It specifically highlights the recognition of various forms of giftedness including artistry, leadership, academic excellence, divergent creativity and intellectualism. the crucial need of wise,
046intelligent, and creative leaders who can envision new possibilities and develop innovation, innovative solutions for our state's future. Uh the understanding that students uh ready are ready for more complex independent learning and advanced curriculum exists in every school in New Mexico. The understanding that boredom and disengagement can arise when the educational experience lacks challenge, pace, and alignment with the students interests and abilities. And the affirmation that students with high ability, talent, and potential come from all socioeconomic, cultural, and language backgrounds and may also have disabilities. Uh therefore the certificate concludes with a resolution to celebrate students with gifts of high ability, talent, and potential from all New Mexico schools as well as dedicated educators who serve them on this ability, talent, and potential in all schools day. Central Consolidated School District's gifted and talented program has
047been one of the leading districts in revitalizing gifted education and adopting the 2003 New Mexico gifted rule change. This certificate is a significant step in recognizing the unique needs and immense potential of our gifted, talented, and creative students across the state. It reinforces the opportunities and the support necessary necessary to thrive uh and become the innovative leaders of tomorrow. CCSD's presence at the roundhouse alongside Senator Sado Lopez underscores our district's commitment to these students and their vital role in of their future in New Mexico. It is my honor and privilege to present the legislative certificate to the central consolidated school board and superintendent Carlson. Thank you. Thank you. any comments? Go ahead. you know, with this um gifted and um before when right around that time the legislation legislative um sessions were going on. I
048had this question and and um a person asked me this question um as they were looking over the the the items and um some of the bills that were suggested and things like that and and it was um you know in the school system we're always trying for um I guess equity and so how do we have a separate group called gifted you know and I thought um the whole idea was to um you know teach or instruct students everybody the same and um so how do you have this special group where there's called gifted and they're they're um challenged a little bit more. um their curriculums is is different and you know and it brings me back. That is a good question. Um because I feel that sometimes um you know you just the
049same way with um collegebound students to where some just want to go to work um choose um technical trades and um neither one is wrong, you know. And so I'm just throwing that out, you know, and and you know, just that that thought came back to me. Um, and it makes it makes sense. Yeah. In the state of New Mexico, gifted education has been under the umbrella of special education since 1978. And the reason is is because those students learn a little bit differently than the the majority of the population. And one of my passions since I began teaching gifted in 2015 uh was making sure our secondary students get that challenging environment because over 30% of the dropout population are either gifted or nonidentified gifted um because they get bored in school and they
050drop out. Um but we have students that uh are in the gifted program that are collegebound, workbound, and also technical schoolbound. So they they are all different types um of pathways. Does that answer your question? Just a thought. I'm just throwing that out there. I I didn't really expect a right answer, but just throwing it out there and something to think about and thank you. Any other questions or comments? Well, I have a lot of appreciation for the gifted program. my my sons had IEPs for the gifted programs and um I'm so glad cuz in in their their um during their elementary years we were a we had to move to a school district that had the gifted program. So, I'm so appreciative that our school district has that and it's growing and we are
051we have dedicated staff like yourself that are providing those services because it's very hard when you have the students to keep them engaged and keep them keep their growth going. I mean that they're constantly wanting to learn and keeping that the newness the you know the innovativeness in in education. So I have so much appreciation for that because I've I I experienced it firsthand watching and seeing um the difference. So I I I so appreciate you and u Mr. V Dr. Um, Leandro, I I almost had it to to be able to um grow the gifted program. So, thank you. And I'll be giving an update later uh today to show you the growth that we've had this year. So, great. Thank you. Thank you. I do have a comment. I think we heard a
052little earlier um from the young lady who received the the seal that on how again not to um just just a prayer face or you know was disengaged. But again you have to have attentive human beings in that classroom meaning educators who understand that see that and realize and then go above and beyond to challenge students. I mean that's really to her point is what she was saying. So that's that's absolute importance in that classroom to keep them engaged. Then find those that you can challenge even more to stimulate their their inquiry. So no matter what we do, there was a line in a movie I once talked about. There was a teacher who was brought into a new school was in a movie and he says, "Well, I'm a special education teacher." And the
053principal said, "All education's special." Mhm. And that's how they need to be treated because they are. Thank you. Thank you. Yay. That's it. Thank you so much. Okay. Okay. C comments from the audience. Uh number three, a comments. And Miss Aspus, would you like to do your comment during board report? No. Okay. Can you hear me? Okay. So, um I'm coming off the board, my board seat as somebody here public. Um so, hold on just a moment. Let me read this really quick. I forgot. Okay, I'll read the whole thing. In order to recognize staff or community members from the audience who wish to speak to the board, we ask that you fill out this card to which it was presented to the board president prior to starting me. Please limit your comments to no
054more than 3 minutes. Um, and the board requests that your cooperation resolving issues or concerns by asking to follow the chain of command and consult with the appropriate school district personnel prior to discussing the issues with the board. Doing so will usually result in a more timely solution. Public comments and observations regarding non-aggenda items that fall within the responsibility of the board may be heard at this time. Although board members may provide a short response, the board is not able to discuss matters not listed on the agenda. Comments regarding matters under litigation will not be allowed. We are interested in your comments and concern. Thank you. Okay. So, um I just want to let my constituents know, my um those that are from my district and online that uh this is the second meeting. Um
055actually I've I've had a request in before about um lobbyists and that presentation and um I I I don't know if well for example last meeting a board member requested their graduation info. It's on the agenda. So now I'm looking at this. I don't know how many votes I need or somebody to say, but um I'm still waiting and wanting the lobbyist presentation and and now to add our legal fees to that um sometime on the agenda and not in an executive session, not behind closed doors. Thank you. Move on to letter or number four, board and superintendent reports. A board member report. Mr. Montoya, as u Miss Aspa said a little earlier, uh we did attend the National School Board Association conference in Atlanta. It's a lot of good information that was presented um
056in the breakout sessions and um I will be sharing some of those with the superintendent as considerations for the school district. Um some of them have grant money tied to them certainly to help uh support um the education within the district with some of these programs. There was also some very good um speakers that were present and uh one of them hopefully we can try to get to come in and speak. Um but again we'll get that information to the superintendent. But I just want to say again that there was some really positive information that was uh disseminated um in the breakout sessions and it's very educational and and uh progressive in the sense of um being able to expand the kids' mind and that will help them do I think in my opinion um
057a great deal of um forwarding their education. So that's it. Thank you. Oh, also I apologize. I was very fortunate to um attend a couple events at uh Eva B Stokeley. One of them I got to play the Easter Bunny for the uh fourth and fifth grade classes and I was invited and I just the kids had a blast. It was it was amazing. And I there was somebody brought an egg. It was a huge egg and had like about 15 little eggs the side of it. I put a little bonus on that one. And so, um, all the kids were in the building. Myself and the principal's husband were out there laying out the eggs. And so, I told the kids and they're all in the hallway. Said, "There's one special egg out there."
058Said, "If you find it, you have to bring them to the fifth grade teacher and let me know and there's a bonus for that." So, we were out there and and I had them all lined up, ready, set, go. and they took off. And I thought it was going to be at least 20 minutes before they found the golden egg. And within 5 minutes, this little girl starts running up to me. I found it. I found it. I said, "How how did you know?" She goes, "I was watching you. You turn around. You're looking in the back towards the back." So that's where I went. So I was like, "Oh my god." But that that was a blast. Again, had a lot of fun with those kids. I I truly want to thank uh Miss
059Lewis for putting that on for those kids. It was wonderful. Did a wonderful job. And the other one was um had to do with dinosaurs. I think it was a reading program that they had. I went in there the day before and they were putting it up and oh my god, the the that staff went out of their way and really did a wonderful job in incorporating and working with the kids. They had uh a lot of the other schools in the area go and attend. So that was wonderful. I was in there for a little bit and watched them engaged and that was really good too. So again to uh Miss Lewis, that was, you know, kudos to her for being able to put that on in the manner that they did for those
060kids. So that's good. I just wanted to note that. Thank you. Just one question. Did you have to get in a bunny suit? No, I did not. But I was hopping though. Thank you, Miss Aspus. So um our my time there at the Atlanta, Georgia um conference the um first of all I I uh got together with Gallup board and and one of the Gallup board members, she was um had just come out of surgery And so she was on a scooter and um but I end up finding myself on a scooter. Um and I had cramped up so bad my my my legs and um and so I found myself a a scooter and but I used that as a learning tool. Um, and I and I really want to say to to those
061of us that that attend conferences, do that because I, you know, I I don't know if you've seen my my grandchild. She's in a wheelchair and um and to truly relate to some of her hardships and to see what she what they see. Um, I got a chance to do that and and so seeing how the doors are not working and um no ramps provided um business the the coffee shop that led to a ramp was closed and they locked their doors and I mean and then getting stuck in the elevator with Gallup board member and I mean it was it was an experience and um didn't intend for that, but um it truly let me see what um our while my grandchild and and and what some of our students in wheelchairs go through
062the handicap. And so um I I just ask that you guys if you have that moment, that chance, you know, try that. And um and then as the sessions um I really wanted to attend mainly because of what's happening fed federally and really want to see the tune or the tone of um other people in parts of America on how they're responding to um Trump's executive orders. And um and one session I went to um the guy um talked about um how can we keep diversity in on in our teachers and how can we continue that without having to be threatened without being funded and things like that. And then I let him know where I was from and you know the reservation and I said we really don't have that um option and diversity
063because the reservation does not have a lot to offer as far as grocery stores as far as um fitness places. So our selling point is you know free housing and um and employment and so uh a lot of um I don't want to say good teachers but some of the the good candidates they go elsewhere where they have those things provided and um so you know and and I again I was I was kind of um a lot of these people were sitting there truly listening and and I'm I was surprised that they were surprised but um again I I think um just sharing sitting down discussing you know some of these uh what we have here what we know as life here what what is normal um they go on to share it elsewhere
064And um and you know I and then the the the the speaker that um board member Mononttoyo was talking about got to sit down and talk to him the evening before and he shared with me that in Idaho and in in another state that he was banned from bringing up DEI and and then in this particular as guest speaker on Saturday. He talked about how he was he couldn't get insurance as a public speaker um because people don't want to touch these items. The these um they're so controversial. So um he couldn't get insured as a public speaker. Uh so that was that that is just truly surprising to me and but those are the kind of things that I wanted to see and hear. Um and um because I I don't when when you
065it it and it's sad because it it it's all talked about as DEI as an acronym, but when you say it fully what it means, you know, that's where we need to get back to uh what those three acronyms Um that's what we need to get back to. Thank you board member. So yeah uh board members Montoya and Haspus have covered a lot. I don't want to get get too toh say too much but generally like a lot of the the the materials and information presented during the national convention were were were very incredible. So one of the big talk talking words or takeaways I got from the the present dissertation by Ravi is that out of all the changes and things going on in the world one of the things that the future crisis
066ability to pivot meaning that whatever is throwing out your challenges obstacles if you're able if you're able to have the right people in place with with with capable leadership uh if you're able to pivot you can turn on a dime no matter what happens out there whether it's uh what happens in Congress Washington and It's being able to make those type of changes as things happen. Uh and also it's just being able to inspire curiosity, encourage students to keep going even if they even if they fail. Uh the other takeaway is being able to nurture talent, develop new strengths, using all type of types of assessments. So one of the big things that I I think we've been incorporating as part of our board is looking at assessments in a positive way. So rather than
067wait for like the end of year result like the high stakes assessment what do we do in the meantime to look at how our districts are how how our district and students performance such as use of for formative assessments throughout the course of the year. So that would be like short cycle assessments and the the best analogy he that I remember that was made was that when a chef makes their soup they they taste it along the way and they make adjustments rather than wait till the end and hope it turns out for the best. So that that's one of the the big takeways and and again also it's about provoking critical thinking and incorporate a lot of these different ch things out there such as artificial intelligence a AI and so forth. Uh so
068the other big one was talking about the joy joy how do you bring joy into the district and the joy of learning which I I thought was a little bit odd but then it that that particular session also talked a lot about how do you make your school's welcoming cl relevant to what's being taught what's being learned so rather than just focus on textbooks and all these other things what are all these different elements that make school fun learning engaging such as uh the student here who talked about Navajo language and culture what is it our industry is doing to make sure that what's being taught is is fun, exciting, and incorporating elements of what what's been taught to the students. So, it's it's it's fun to learn, engaging, and make them want to learn,
069inspiring students learn in that regard. And and I'm also glad that we're we're incorporating some other elements such as looking at looking at all these other elements such as data to try to make adjustments and improvements to to the district along the way. And of course, we talked about some of the big things out there such as what's going on in Washington DC, President Trump, budget cuts, and all this other stuff. And that out of all the doom and gloom, uh that there that there is still hope and that our focus is really about doing what's best for kids, doing what's best for community, and that and that when it when it comes to talk topics of DEI, being Navajo, being from this community, we are not DEI. It's It's who we are. All right.
070Thank you. Thank you. Could I could I could I add to that, please? Yes. I apologize. I think I said that at one of our meetings when I went specifically letter by letter. We are diverse. We are inclusive. And we are equitable in delivering that education. So quite frankly, I'll be damned if anybody tells me I can't apply DEI because we do it every single day. Right? I mean, it's natural. I don't say that combatively, but that's what we do and that's how we do it. So, I don't need anybody to define it for me. And to the gentleman that they're talking about, Robbie, he's the one that uh certainly would, you know, if if we could to try to get him because he has some very poignant uh words I think that will be
071very beneficial to the district and for our educators to hear. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wells. Do you have any reports? I don't have any reports. The only problem I will comment on on DEI and the problems with DEI is not that that we don't include or can't include certainly we do. The problem with it is uh nationwide it has been used to uh subjugate um quality for uh equity and uh it's a it's been used as a as a form of u racism quotas uh quotas in education, quotas and teachers instead of meritbased they're quoted and that's where DEI has gone uh a muk. Thank you. And I and I would like to also um say this the same thing. I think that as a school district, we're trying to find those that
072that happy balance, that friendly balance for our students, for you. Um, we do what the decisions that we make are because of you, all the students that are here today. So um we think about the decisions in the schools. We decid the decisions that we make in terms of of um everything from textbooks to curriculum. Everything that we we do it's because of the students here, the students that are in our school district. Um they're our priority. And as much as um sometimes we get tugged different ways, at the end of the day, you you guys are what keeps us going. You're the ones who keep us making these tough decisions. And so we we or I I speak for myself that I really appreciate all that's said from the students, from you guys, what's
073working, what's not working. and um and it's really important that we see you succeed that you guys are successful but also happy happy and learning engaged and all that. So I I'm so appreciative for my colleagues to be able to bring some things back to the school district so that we can look at how we do things and and refine those things. So, um, I have a lot of appreciation for for all the innovative things that we might be able to do. So, thank you. I have Go ahead. Um just just as what was brought up about coming to that balance I think if we weren't on the reservation and from the reservation [Music] um I'm really trying to formulate this in the best way I can but Um, I think it's best just to
074say what I what I need to growing up on the reservation and the schooling, the education that I had and then now looking back and then when I take these conferences and we go to we have chances to go to different schools, charter schools, private schools, um, and see what they're doing And I didn't know we were lacking. I didn't know that. And and to think had we had those same even grass, if we had those same settings, those same environment and and buildings, um you know, all that uh lab equipment, who who could have said that I wouldn't be here as I could be, you know, scientist or something other than being here. And you know it and to me we didn't know that. I didn't know that until until you know going out
075and exploring and seeing those and um I know it was said that you know the eyes with without merit um the treatment I I remember I got even to to qualify for my apprenticeship into the electrical trade. The treatment I thought I got, I thought it was fair. And then not until years later I know that I was lucky. Being a woman, being one that's Navajo, I was lucky. And so for somebody to say that and not agree with DEI, I don't I I I and and to live here and and and especially me living in all these years. I wish I could say that I wish I could say different, but I can't and I can't agree with that. You know, our students deserve a lot. They they they need that chance. And you
076know, if other people were to come here and sit here and and just take a look at them, who do you think they're going to pick out? Thank you. Well, I Okay, go ahead real quick. If anybody needs a real good definition, the fight for impact aid and equalization which was not equal. That's it. Thank you. Okay. And I and even the discussion that you're hearing here students are some of the things that are going on at the national level. So you guys are are future leaders and a few years from now you'll probably be sitting up here instead of sitting over there. So, um just these discussions that are happening all around you that involve you, that impact you um I think just being able to hear that, listen to that, actually be here
077present to to um to practice your your um civic duty. That's what you're doing is being here and listening and engaging. So, um I think that's important and um even the discussion here that's happening. So much appreciation and I'll hand it over to superintendent for his report. This time I'll turn the microphone on. Um I appreciate all that the board members had to say and those of you in the audience, I'm not sure why you didn't applaud their comments. So if you would do that, give him give him a round of applause for all being able to speak out, all five of them. So I wasn't able to go to Atlanta, Georgia, and attend the national conference. Uh but I did go to a conference that quite a few of the folks who were in
078this room actually went to as well. It's the NASBO conference, and some people say NASBO, which is the New Mexico Association of School Business Officials, uh Wednesday through Friday last week. And and the reason I'd want to kind of talk about a little bit is some of the sessions that I went to. I went to some real specific ones like one on artificial intelligence, one on the principal and the teacher evaluation system. But I I kind of want to talk about the general sessions a little bit more. Uh the first one is one with the secretary of education Mariana Padilla um who got up and talked about um a variety of things across the state, but there was kind of a little bit tension in the room when she started talking about federal funding and
079how how does that affect the state of New Mexico and and so the board members kind of mentioned how nationally that looks. Well, they they brought up some things about DEI, and I'm not going to go into them a whole lot tonight other than to say that um there's talk of withholding funding for states who engage in in diversity, equity, inclusion. Um there's institutions who have had funding withheld for different kind of participation. Um so, it's important that we kind of talk about this, but the secretary of education kind of danced around the topic. She didn't really want it to get into it too deep because there's some pitfalls involved. The state of New Mexico has flow through funding from from the federal government and I could have a bunch of people in this room,
080Mr. Desert and and Clark who could come up and talk about it a lot better than I can, but basically we get money from the federal government that flows through the state of New Mexico and goes to our schools. If we had none of that funding, the state is right now guaranteeing us that they would take care of us for the time being. Um, but that wouldn't last very long because our district does get quite a bit of federal funding. Um, just real quick, I'm going to make a real quick announcement that I just got an email about two hours ago. Um, that are it's a it's an impact notification basically that the check is in the mail is what it's saying. So clap for now, but still hold your breath for the future because
081that's that's for now. Um, so anyway, but as as the secretary was talking about it, um, everybody kind of has the the idea that so much of what we do in New Mexico, DEI is kind of integrated into most things. I mentioned the principal and the teacher evaluation systems. For those of you who are principles here, you you know that when you walk into a teacher's room, you're looking to see how they address the ELLL students there. There's diversity, equity, inclusion throughout all that we do. Um so for someone to say you can't do those things at all would be really difficult for our state. I mean literally everything we do either revolves around DEI or has DEI involved. So, it's a really difficult discussion at the state level. And so, as they're talking about
082it, they have to make decisions on do we reject funding? Do we take the funding and say here's what we're doing and be I mean, you want to be honest about it, right? So, anyway, it's it's very it's kind of a political game right now that's playing out that it's stay tuned. Those of you who are young people, um hopefully you understand what I'm talking about a little bit and you can talk to your peers about it because it's something that's going to affect you greatly in your futures um as as has been mentioned up here. So anyway, that that was one session. Another one, some legislators got up and talked about um House Bill Two. And the reason I want to just mention that one real quick, House Bill Two has the funding called
083the state equalization guarantee. Um that's the money that funds our schools from the state. And that money includes money for ELELLL students. So there's a factor an extra factor for ELLL students. So which benefits our district greatly. Um but there's other things that are included with that. There is something about math scores, a provision for funding to improve math scores, and that's something that our district, we're going to be looking at that funding and seeing if we can avail ourselves of some of that funding because we do have a little bit of an issue with that and we need some work. But I want to talk about the there was a keynote speaker also. His name was I have to had to write it down. Dr. Robert Avasa. Hopefully those of you who are here
084I pronounced that correctly. Um he was a superintendent for Palm Beach County, the 10th largest school district in the United States. And I won't get into all the stuff that he said to me. He gave me one message. Um actually gave me a couple messages. Um, the first one is the superintendent's biggest nightmare when a group of people show up at a board meeting wearing the same shirt. You guys understand that it's a funny joke for a super, but the the biggest nightmare for a superintendent is when a group of people all show up at a board meeting wearing the same shirt. Now, in this case, we have a board meeting with a group of people wearing the same shirt. And it's actually a pleasant surprise because we have some FFA students and some other
085groups of students wearing wearing those shirts and they're they're good things. Anyway, so that's that was one of the messages she gave. But the main one is this. As a superintendent, I need to do a better job of letting people know the most important thing about me, the most important thing as far as education and who I am with children. Um, I've I've said these words a couple times, but I'm going to say them again. Um, because this is this is what he wanted his people to know who he was and what he was all about and what he cared about. And I'm glad that the word was thrown around. There's this word that was thrown around, the e-word, a whole bunch. The board president mentioned it. Okay. Uh, Cadence Yazy, who spoke, the bilingualist
086who mentioned it. I think it was several other people mentioned. And that word is engagement. we need to do a better job of engaging our students in the classroom. I talk about it all the time. Um there's pockets where we're were great, but there's there's room for a lot of improvement. So So that is huge for me. And the second one was was brought forth a little bit by Secretary. So um he didn't use the wording that I'm going to use, but basically he talked about connection and and that's to me that's a huge huge word. Our teachers need to be connecting with our students. And that means when you walk into the classroom, you feel good about being with that teacher. And I can I can bet you right now that the people in
087this room, several of them, especially FFA teachers are making those connections with their kids because they love what they're doing. They love the kids in their class and those kids know it. And I walk into those classrooms, those kids are engaged because of the connection. So, I just want to talk about engagement and connection. I'm going to close um on a a topic on a connection. I just want to bring somebody up real fast. We had a teacher not too long ago who um who passed away and uh she worked for me for 17 years to be careful. I don't want to break down too much in front of all these folks. But her name was Cynthia Nistrom. And the main thing she did, she connected with her kids. Her kids knew that she loved
088them. and the kids were engaged in her classroom. She when she passed away, she got sick for about two weeks before she passed and her daughter came into her classroom and subbed for her. Um she passed quickly and on Saturday she told her daughter that take care of my kids and she met the kids in the classroom. Hopefully I can get through that. Um, her daughter was in that classroom Monday morning cuz she was taking care of those kids cuz she knew her mom wanted that cuz she made those connections. So anyway, sorry about that. Thank you, Cynthia Nistro. [Applause] and thanks for listening to that engagement and connection. Thank you. Sorry I have to get back to the agenda, but thank you so much, Superintendent. Um, next we on the agenda under five reports
089a KC S um HS Lady Bronco Soccer Booster Club bylaws not notice of filing approval and officers by Felicia Felicia Bon Bondlin. Is she online here in person? I'm online. Okay, perfect. I'm sorry I butchered your name. No, no, you're fine. You're fine. You may begin. Okay. Good evening, board members. Um, Superintendent Carlson. U, my name is Felicia Boland, and I'm here representing the KCHS Lady Bronco soccer booster. Um, we are seeking approval of our bylaws and our spring fundraiser from you. Um, thank you for having me and we appreciate the time to discuss our request. Um, I've given the paperwork to the powers that be to put it up for you guys to review. Um, as the board, um, the purpose of our board booster is to promote girls soccer at the high school
090level and support the program at KCHS. The club's mission is to foster an environment that inspires athletes, students, coaches, parents, and community to create a positive atmosphere for all KCHS athletic programs. Our focus is to help build strong moral character and academic excellence in our student athletes by promoting sportsmanship, personal responsibility, teamwork, community involvement, fundraising, and mentoring. We enrich the KCHS Lady Bronco soccer team by promoting financial support through our parent volunteers, members, sponsors, fundraising, and donations. Um, that is basically the article one that you're seeing up on the screen right now. Um, as far as article two, the members, um, the eligibility to become a member of our booster, all parents, guardians, coaches, faculty, administrators, community members, business leaders, students, and alumni that are interested in supporting the objectives and purposes of our club
091without discrimination um can join. Um the people who have voting rights are all the executive board members and anyone who has an individual player in the program. Um members must be present at the meeting to vote and take um and each family will receive one vote per their player. Um the principal, assistant principal, athletic director, coaches, school and team staff shall be non- voting advisory members of our club. Um the resp rights and responsibilities of the members are to attend meetings, events sponsored by our club, um serve on committees, be nominated and elect schoolboard positions. Voting members shall have the right to vote for officers, review and approve the annual budget and approve amendments to these bylaws. So article three, the executive board um consists of the elected officers of the club. They have the
092authority to um operate the club will be managed by the executive board and they have the um transact when necessary business during the intervals being between the meetings. The membership and other businesses as referred to by the membership of the bylaws. Um, it may create standing and special committees, approve the plans and work of the standing special committees, prepare and submit a budget to the membership for approval, and in general conduct the business of the club. The quorum is 51% of the elected officers in attendance. Action without a meeting, any action required or permitted to take at a board meeting, including amendedments of this bylaw committee by taken without a meeting. If all members of the board or committee consent in writing to the action without a meeting and to approve the specific action, such
093consent shall have the same force and effect of an unanimous vote by the board of the committee reimbursement. Um the executive board members shall serve without compensation without ex with the exemption that expenses incurred in the furtherance of the club's business allowance will be in reverse with the documentation in accordance with the club's financial policies and prior approval. Article four the officers and their elections. Um the officers of the club include one president, one vice president and a secretary and a treasurer. and we may have additional officers be elected and appointed by our executive board. Um the nomination committee composed of the current president and at least one additional officer shall be seeking nominations in August of the year in which the candidates will be elected and developed a slate of candidates. The candidate should
094be announced to the membership as soon as possible and additional candidates may be um from the floor by the day of the election for those that consent to be eligible. Um officers shall be elected on in the August meeting of the club by the member presented. Officers shall assume their official duties beginning the next board meeting. Um the officers will serve in a term of one year and officers may be elected up to five consecutive terms in the same offices if they choose to continue in their role. Um any vacancy occurring in the offices should be filled for the unspired term by a person elected by the majority of votes remaining members of the executive board. Um the duties of the officers um the president of the club will be subject to control. The executive
095board shall in general supervision and control of all the activities. Um we'll be prepare the meetings and agendas and present to the meetings at the executive board at all meetings of the membership. Um the president shall vote only in the case that there is a tie that needs to be um reconciled. Um the president shall select and appoint their chair members and of all standing and special committees and shall be an ex officer member of the committee of the club. Our vice president if um in the absence of the president shall perform the duties of the president and any other duties assigned by the president of the board. The secretary shall be a member of the executive board, shall keep the minutes and proceedings of the membership and executive um notices that are duly given
096in accordance to the bylaws responsible for publishing of the meeting minutes and shall manage and keep all the records and tally the volunteer records. shall regularly monitor club postal mail and in email accounts and in general perform all duties and incident to the office of the secretary and other duties as assigned by the president. The treasurer shall be a member of the executive board in authorizing of oversight of the funds of the club according with the club's financial policies. The treasur will organize, document and refund or excuse me, record all of the financial activities. um and will be diligent and conscientious ensuring all funds are received and spent in accordance with the club's taxexempt purposes, bylaws, and budget. The financial records belong to the club and must be available to all officers and members upon
097request. Um the treasurer will also prepare an annual budget for review and approval of by the members of the the booster club. Ensure that numbered receipts are provided for cash received by the club. Ensure all funds are properly dis deposited in the club's authorized bank account. The payments and dis dispersements are authorized by approval budget and amended by the budget. Um present a written financial report including income and expenditures and compare budgets amounts to actual year to amount amounts at the general membership meeting of the membership and at other times requested by the executive board. Um the treasur will also see that an annual financial review and audit as appropriate is done um conducted and presented to the executive board general membership and other stakeholders. Um publish an annual report in a optionally um monthly
098financial summaries on the club's website which we don't have a club website at this time. um we'll work with the booster accountant to ensure all documents including tax filings that are required to be maintained for the nonprofit status are completed. Um article six the finances the budget presented um to the membership at the first regular meeting of the membership after the officers have been elected as soon as they're in as practical a budget of the anticipated revenue and expenses for the year will pres be presented. Um the obligations the board may authorize any officer or offerers to enter into the contracts or agreement for the purchase of materials and services on behalf of the club. As far as loans go, no loans shall be made by the club to its officers or members. Banking. The
099treasurer shall ensure that all funds of the club are promptly deposited into the credit of the club in such banks or depositories determined by the executive board. All deposits and dispersals shall be documented by a receipt, an invoice, or another written document. Subsequently, numbered receipts shall be provided with a copy kept whenever cash is turned over or collected. All deposits and or dispersements shall be made as soon as practical upon receipt of the funds normally daily and immediately after they're received or counted. Financial controls. The club shall adopt appropriate financial controls to ensure the integrity of the funds. Specifically without limitation, the club shall be maintained separate separation of financial controls. All expenses must be approved by memberships by the way approval by annual budget amendments. there too and by approved by separate resolution of
100the executive board. All checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money on behalf of the club must have two signatures um by two of the officers. And this is something that the board and the bylaws do per the district's request. An officer or another person without checking designated by executive board shall review and reconcile all bank statements on a monthly basis. A committee of at least two persons without checking signing authority shall annually audit the all corporate finances or hire supervised outside accountants and auditing form to conduct an review of corporate financial records. Um note that the club's funds and accounts are not district accounts and will not imply that any activity, contracts, purchases or financial commitments are made on the behalf or binding upon any school of the district or the district
101itself. Um as far as the financial report, the treasurer shall present a financial report each membership meeting of the club and prepare a financial report at the close of the year in accordance with the club's financial policies. Um the executive board shall have the report and the accounts annually reviewed. Um if we gross more than a thousand 100,000 per year of financial practices uh CPA will be um taking care of the documents with our club CPA will be doing all of it. Um, as far as fiscal year, our fiscal year um will run from August 1st to June 30th, but may be changed by the resolution of the executive board. Um, as far as the financial retention, all records of the club shall be maintained and destroyed in accordance with the law. Standard recording retention
102guidelines, financial record shall be maintained as follows, and I'll let you guys review those with each record. As far as the meetings, um our regular meetings will occur at least once per month starting in August of each year and most of our meetings will conclude by December and we have special meetings um after that to um ensure that the proceedings of our board continue through spring to get ready for the next fiscal year. um executive board meetings um can be made at the discretion of our board and to prepare for the general membership meetings and to conduct affairs of the club. These meetings may or may not be open to the public at the board's discretion. Um as far as quorum the members present present at any regular meeting of the club provided five or
103more members are present which we only have four um shall constitute a quorum for transaction of business in the absence of a quorum of the membership may not take place in that matter. um conflicts of interest. Um existence of conflicts disclosure. The board volunteers and contracts of clubs shall refrain from any actions or activities that impair or to appear to impair their objectivity in the performance of their duties on behalf of the club. A conflict of the interest may exist when the direct personal, financial or other interest of the club, executive board member or volunteer or contractor complete competes or appears to compete with an interest of the club. If any such conflict is arise, the interest shall call it to the attention of the executive board for resolution. If the conflict relates to a
104matter requiring board action, such as person shall not vote on this matter. When there is a doubt as to whether any conflict of interest exists, the matter shall be resolved by the by a vote of the executive board excluding the person who is subject to the possible conflict. um nonparticipating vote. The person having a conflict shall not participate in the final deliberation or discussion regarding the matter under consideration and shall retire from the room in which the board is meeting. However, the person may be permitted to provide the board with any and all relevant information. Minutes of the meetings. The minutes of the meeting of the board to reflect the conflict was disclosed. The interest person was not present during the final discussion or vote and did not vote on the matter. Annual review. A
105copy of this conflict of interest shall statement shall be furnished to each executive board member, volunteer, and contractor who is present least to bring the club or who hereafter becomes associated with the club. The policy shall be reviewed annually for information and guidance of executive board members and volunteers and contractors and new executive board members and volunteers and contractors shall be advised upon the policy of undertaking the duty of their offices. Um, every member of the executive board may be inidentified by the club against all expenses and liabilities including council fees, responsibilities incurred or imposed by such members of the board, officers or employment or excuse me, employee in connection with the threatened, pending or completion action or proceeding to which and he or she may become involved by reasoning of his or her being
106having been a member of the board, officer or employee of the board or any settlement thereof unless judging there in the liability for neglect or misconduct in the performance of his or her abilities. Provided, however, that this event settle the indignity shall apply only when the board approves the settlement and reimbursement as being in the best interest of the club. This boring right of indignity shall be in addition and not exclusion of all rights which such member of the board officer or employee is entitled. Dissolution in the event of the dissolution of the club any remaining assets shall be distributed to the appropriate charitable organization or purpose as determined by the majority vote of the members at the time of dissolution. Amendments. These bylaws may be amended at any regular special meeting of the membership
107by majority vote of the members present provided that at least 30 days notice of the proposed amendments have been made to the membership. Alternatively, the membership waves the required notice. Adoption. These bylaws shall be adopted upon approval by a majority vote of members present at all regular meetings. Um these bylaws shall take effect immediately upon adoption. our um club met and adopted them as of February 2nd of 2025 and I'm the current president and acting secretary because we don't have a secretary at this moment and our vice president at this time is Amber Red House and their treasurer is Carrie White Sands and those are our bylaws for your review. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Okay. Oh man. So, um my question is with all these um rules. Uh, I just want to know
108[Music] um from our financial director that that we're not caught up in the um um in your board or your officers to where you know reporting the money or depositing um where we end up having to audit finding. Um that's my first concern and secondly um it's it's been in the past where whenever the um what do you call booster clubs are are are implemented they um at the end of the year is where the fuss is um it it's it's because the pre the previous um booster club had um ex you know used the whole made sure they used the whole account. um does it get passed on to the next year's soccer? Um because you know actually people get confused by that and they're some are expecting to have some type of carryover.
109Um, so I I I think those haven't been talked about and and that's usually where the fuss and um, you know, there's times when I get calls due to to that question and and then it's I think the last time I thought I didn't know we had booster clubs. So, you know, I um and it and and I I think our previous uh financial director and kind of um um frowned upon that um not the financial director but the auditor. So I I don't I don't know what else to to say but other than just to keep the board whole and to not have those um findings and that that fuss at the end of the year. Thank you. maybe um would you be like to speak to that and some of those safeguards? Um
110I can speak that um my plan as the president carrying on um with the last president that I took over from we did have funds from their booster and I continue to want to have funds that will continue to the next year. That's why we want to do a spring and a fall fundraiser. So each each new class that comes in has a starting and an ending and will continue to have funds and not be left with to start with nothing. And we plan on doing audits with um as per the board policy to present those by um October. Miss requested. Miss Bolan, hold on just a moment. Our our business manager is going to speak to some of the the safeguards. if you could just hold on just a moment, please. Sure. Uh, thank
111you, President Hasky. Uh, respected board members. Um, I actually just discovered that, um, we were this was going to be on the agenda about a couple days ago. Uh, as the new director of finance, I have serious concerns about boosters as previous directors have. They create a sticky situation uh and a relationship between us as a public entity and some that act um as an outside organization uh using our name to raise funds on behalf of our students. Um as you probably know there can be lots of corruption. Not saying that this is the intent of this group, but uh there can you you know booster clubs where there's corruption that can take place um misuse of funds um stealing uh there's just a lot of risks involved and I actually have not had an
112opportunity to review this and I think that my recommendation to the board would be to take this off the consent agenda to uh table table this uh and allow our department to review just to make sure that somebody within the finance department is reviewing their policies to make sure that they're consistent with ours uh such that if we have any recommendations that we can bring that back to the booster club and answer your questions at that time. Okay, I agree. And then my um on that note, I think my concern is with new organiz or new um groups, committees that are on um under the purview of the school district that I did not see anywhere on here that um parents have to adhere to the district policies in terms of conduct and per in
113terms of all the the ethical things that we usually have parents and students sign at the beginning of the year. So, that would be another area that I I would be really concerned about, too. Absolutely. And I think that we need to make sure that we're doing our due diligence before just blanket signing off on a booster club. There is room for our for our school district to negotiate with these types of clubs to make sure that we can ask for those things to be included as a part of of their declaration. So, um uh I think that we should take a moment to pause. I I think that we should also communicate. I'm I'm not opposed to to boosters even though they're not my preference because they create sticky situations for my department. But
114I'm not trying to eliminate I'm sure these this group has a really good intention. Um but we need to take a moment actually to to pause and review on on our end. Okay. Well, go ahead. Go ahead. So, um again, you know, to to to I mean what's spelled out what she went over I mean it seems like it's so tight that um even there you have that you may have that incident where after the fact comes up and and then you then and and it just turns ugly after that. And so um then you're trying to tell them did I thought we read this to you or you read this and then no and but then that was another concern of mine as as far as the what was spelled out as the um
115the family's um participation and and the athlete. But um does kind of overstepping into the coach and the athletic director. Um that's my thoughts on it. But for financially, this is what we get audited on and the findings and that's what I my concern was and um and then and in this case, you know, I'm surprised that it it did turn over. it did roll over, but in some cases that's not that's not what happens. Thank you. I I I agree with you um to have this um tabled. I think um Miss uh superintendent, can uh would you be able to reach out to the booster club and and with Miss with our business manager Satina Satina um work with uh work with those um those concerns in regards to being fiscally responsible and having
116all those safeguards in place. I also like um to also have our attorney look at the the parameters of um the the issues where um the policy part where the the the club falls under the school district and those parameters in terms of conduct, ethical behavior and all those things that are in our um like the student handbook or the parents where they sign things like that. I would like to see more um something more in line with that because in in my experience I've seen I've seen groups get like get bigger inflate themselves above the school district and this is a club that falls under the school district and and I just want to make sure that those things don't come up um because I've seen it I've seen it in my work experience.
117So, appreciate the input. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. I would just offer, you know, for example, I I in Farmington booster clubs can have over a million dollars. That's a lot of money. And, uh, you know, where the intentions start out good, like for every group, but again, uh, politics can get involved, parents, there there's just a lot of stuff. and we want to make sure that we're putting in the right guardrails and negotiating with these groups that they'll be following our policies. And again, I haven't had a chance to review this and uh and would like to take a look. Um, appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? So my comment really is to Miss Bolan, I hope you don't take this as we don't certainly want this to occur, but
118we have to as a board do our due diligence to ensure that um the board is protected in respects to working with your organization. And I went through the documents and I did see that also that you did apply for the uh you had a filing approval through the um state New Mexico as well for your organization as a nonprofit. So I appreciate that. But again, just um allow us to do our due diligence through the superintendent, our board attorney, and our uh finance director. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um Miss Moses Bolan, um that uh like Mr. Montoya said, don't let this be a a um a barrier. We just and and to safeguard your your organization too, your group because um what was stated previously stated that things happen and um you
119can never you can never be too careful. But it's just to safeguard your community, your your uh booster club, and then also the school district and the students. the students um their their what the expectation is if there's equity all those there's a lot of questions but I appreciate that thank you is there um uh Miss Bolan real quick what is your time frame or turnaround time to have uh have this approved that that's my only question and the appropriate board policy is policy K uh 2600 just to help speed things up I mean for me I'm I'm I'm All right. I feel comfortable. They provided the bylaws and everything. I don't see why we need to delay, but it's you're not comfortable. Yeah. Okay. Well, well, um, if I may, I do to just
120jump in, but the, you know, I I can't remember what event was just recently, but um I did mention that with with um the club or them using the facil facility, the gym. Um, and then that's usually free. Uh, and then as far as concession, I mean, this topic has come up before to where even to make money in a in a off um concession or food or whatever, that's still a violation because you're um you're getting the facility for free, not having to pay. And so, um, there there's just so many, uh, um, state statutes that we have to comply with and make sure that with, um, our financial director has to look out for as well. And um so you know for for this really looks well put together but then again um
121there's always those fusses at the end. Um, and and I'm just trying to uh not have those fusses and and especially that after the fact funding and then not getting things deposited right and um and because if if that comes up as another finding um right now they're they're being pretty um the auditors are being pretty lenient with with the district because it occurs almost every year, but pretty soon it may they may not they may toughen up even further and say, "You guys have this finding year after year." So, just watching out and and um but um um do appreciate your your due diligence and and setting this up. I mean, you went above and beyond. Um, but again, we we need to check on our on our side, make sure that we're we're
122good. Thank you. We'll move on to letter B, fundraising requests, KCHS, Lady Broncos Booster, uh, soccer booster spring fundraiser 2025 through May 1st, 2025 by Felicia Bolan. Madam President. Yes. If we're going to table the first one, you might as well table the second one because it's tied directly to it. That's true. So, we'll table Is there um Miss Bolan? Mr. or so asked if there was um a timeline. Is there would you be able to answer that when um we would like to have approval as soon as possible with our bylaws, but we're willing to work with the entities so that we can make sure they're done appropriately and within district policy to make sure all of their concerns were addressed. And then as far as the fundraiser, the um team would like to
123go to Fort Lewis in July for their um that's what this fundraiser was was to earn money for um so that the girls can go to camp this summer. Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. So I don't I don't think we we need to table this along with um I think if if if we can just submit it as Kirtland um Lady Bronco soccer and exclude the booster the bylaws. Yeah. Okay. We'll do that. We'll um we won't table the fundraising request. Uh but you can uh present on that. Let me open that up. Okay. So, if you could go through um sure. Um so, again, I'm representing I'm Felicia Bolan and I'm representing the KC Lady Bronco soccer booster and the request for our spring fundraiser. Um we would like to partner with um fan
124pledge um to earn um some money to be used the um to proceed with the fundraiser to be used for the soccer camp for Fort Le College for athletic um for athlete development. Um anything that isn't used within that to take the girls to Fort Lewis would be used for team building activities, banquets, senior night, and any other equipment they may need. Um students involved would be 15 to 20 depending on how many players want to go to Fort Lewis and the volunteers would be um us as their parents and those that want to help. Um we're hoping to do this fundraiser. We were hoping for April but it looks like May looks like a better time frame. Um as far as and we're going to try to raise $8,000. Um let me find my
125other paper. Um so how the fundraiser would work um the girls would ask their community members, parents and family friends um to sponsor them and um we would work with um Jason um Davis from digital fundraiser with the fund pledge and we would um the girls would be put into teams and um Jason would share a document with our team to have um where the document explains how the participants would create their um profiles. And then on the live day, there's one live day where the girls would call all of their sponsors and for their funding and um get their pledges. And then after the 30 minute time frame where they would call their sponsors, if their sponsor didn't answer, they would receive a text message from this um group um to one text message
126a week for 3 weeks. And then the fundraiser would conclude after 24 days and then we would uh get a check from the um digital fundraiser and we make 85% of the funds that were sponsored. Um is there any questions? Okay. Okay. I think we have to just table this for this moment there. There um Miss Balden. Miss Bolan. Um yes, we need a sponsor from the school district. So we will take Okay. So, we're just going to amend your the fundraising to have um the principal from Kirtland from Kirtland High School, Miss Westbrook, to to be the sponsor. Okay. Okay. Are you okay? Okay. All right. Okay. So, Okay. So now we'll we'll um amend that to include that change. I think they call that volunttold. Volunte. Okay. Okay. Are there any questions board
127members? Okay. So on consent it's going to be approving this as amended. Yes. With the KCHS principal. Yes. Okay. As amended. Okay. Just Yeah. That's just the fundraiser. just the fundraiser. Yes. Um if there aren't any other questions, we'll move on to the next item is see unique trip requests NHS FFA state FFA convention and state D LDE a science fair Los Cusus New Mexico May 26th through the 31st 2025 by Miss Egan Shelly, superintendent, board members. I believe so. Uh, can you hear me now? Yes. Hello. All right. Yeah. Okay. Um, I'm from Nukem High School. I am the agriculture teacher and the FFA adviser. I have some very special people here with me who took their time and their lovely parents took their time to drive up here to speak with you. So,
128I'm going to turn the time over to them and then I'll be back. All right. Thank you. Hello. Um Hello. Today I will be speaking the FFA creed written by Em Tiffany. I believe in the future of agriculture with a faith not born of words but of deeds. Achievements one of our present and past generations of agriculturalists in the promise of better days through better ways. Even as the better things we now enjoy have have come to us from the struggles of former years, I believe that to live and work on a good farm or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits is pleasant as well as challenging. For I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold inborn fondness for those associations which even an out of discouragement I cannot deny. I
129believe unless I believe in leadership I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from others. I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly with such knowledge and skills as I can secure and in and in the ability of progressive agriculturalists to serve our own and public interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil. I believe in less dependence on begging and more power and bargaining in the life abundant enough honest wealth to help make it so like abundance make it so and playing score with those whose happiness depends upon me. I believe that America that um I believe that American agriculture can and will hold true to its best traditions of our national life and that I can exert an influence in my home and community and that will
130stand solid for my part in aspiring task. Thank you. She's in seventh grade. Wow, that's great. That's awesome. Hello, my name is Jamie Soul and I would like to take this opportunity to share my recent experience at the Los Cruus Livestock Competition. This trip offered an invaluable opportunity to engage deeply with the field of livestock management, exceeding our expectations in numerous ways. Each day was filled with immerse hands-on experiences that significantly enhanced our understanding of animal husbandry and livestock evaluation. Our team diligently studied various breeds, animal care practices and the complexities associated with livestock judging. I am pleased to report that I have achieved a commendable score just under 100 points from the highest score. Last year's team placed 38. This year we placed 27th out of 39 teams. However, the most significant outcome of
131this experience was the intensive knowledge and skills we gained which will undoubtedly be benefit us in our future endeavors. A partic particularly rewarding aspect of this trip was the opportunity to connect with fellow students and industry professionals who share our passion for agriculture. Their enthusiasm and insights empathize the importance of collaboration within this essential field. I firmly believe that experiences such as these are critical for students and they cultivate a deeper understanding of agriculture, encourage teamwork, and foster lasting connections. I encourage continued support for agriculture programs and initiatives like this one as they prepare students to confront future challenges and seize opportunities in their careers. Thank you for your attention. I look forward to discussing ways to further enhance our agriculture education programs. She's a seventh grader as well. Wow. Um we have Tristan Lee
132is our uh chapter president. Is he online? He wanted to address you as well. Sharon is just Oh, there he is. Okay. Um, let me turn on my [Laughter] camera. Okay. Sorry I couldn't make it. Um, but Amber bit silly. Erling, Robert, a Neola. Hello. How is everybody doing? I hope everybody is doing well. Some of you may already know who I am, but I am the ambassador for Newcomm High School representing as Mr. Nukem and the Nukem FFA chapter president for 2024 and 2025 and also a former Nukem FFA chapter treasurer for 2023 and 2024. I am here to discuss our chapter's accomplishments. As a proud member of the future farmers of America, my life has profoundly shaped by the experiences and opportunities this organization has offered me. FFA has not only enhanced my
133understanding of algor practices, but I also instilled in me the values of leadership, teamwork, and community engagement that I carry into every aspect of life. One of the most significant roles I have taken on within FFA is co-managing the f farming the future grows. This project has allowed me to apply my theoretical knowledge in the real world settings fostering both personal goals and growth and practice practical skills. Alongside my fellow members, we maintain these grow racks, optimizing conditions for plant growth and experimenting with various agriculture techniques. This hands-on experience has been invaluable, teaching me about the numerous of crop management and the importance of sustainable practices. Alongside our work with the grow racks, our team has devoted over 35 of volunteer time to support the Special Olympics. Volunteering allows us to make a positive contri
134contribution to our community and working with the Special Olympics has been especially rewarding. It has not only enhanced our teamwork skills but also deepened our empathy and awareness of challenges faced by others. The joy and determination displayed by the athletes remind us of the importance of her servants and the strength that community support. These experiences I had developed a strong sense of responsibility and appreciation for the impact we can make as individuals and as a team. FFA has taught me that leadership extends beyond our projects and into how we serve others. Each hour spent volunteering or managing the grow racks is a step toward becoming a more engaged informed citizen. In conclusion, my journey as an FFA member has been transfor transformative. The skills I have acquired, the friendships I have forged, and experiences I
135encountered have profoundly impacted my life and outlook on the future. I am excited about continuing my journey in agriculture and community service, knowing I have the backing of the FFA and invaluable lessons learned along the way. hat. Tristan's been involved in our chapter for two years and like he said, he's our chapter president and he's done an amazing job. He is a sophomore at at Nukem High School. Hello, my name is Kelly Wood. I'm the become FFA chapter secretary. Our chapter had 44 members last year and this year we have 86 members. We would like to invite you to our annual award banquet on Thursday, May 8th at the Newcome High School cafeteria. Thank you for all your support. [Applause] Sure. We we have invitations for you and we also have the New Mexico FFA
136um newsletter that we were highlighted in and we brought you a copy. And then Andrew is going to bring up our scrapbook and this is a scrapbook from last year. The trip that we we are wanting to get approved. We would be taking this year's scrapbook. So you can go ahead and get you can hand it right here. So this this is a this is last year's scrapbook. It was at the the state convention. We didn't win, but we were there and and Nukem was was highlighted. So we hope to be able to go and and do that again as well. Are there any questions from the board? Yes. Go ahead. I I see some ribbon skirts here. Was that you guys? That's not in that picture, but we do have members that have the
137the official dress ribbon. And then Mr. Tristan, he's the one that has the bluebird outfit. And he actually has made ribbon skirt pants that are for for the official dress. Yeah. Wow. Y Yeah. And even the governor wanted him wanted to know how many bluebird bags would it take to make one for [Laughter] her. I I think I think what you guys do is great. um you know um it's not I always thought it was just animals and you know that's that's all I thought it was and and and that that's why I keep asking about um you know throwing into your your m toad's that about um dog and cat and because I'm I'm that's where my mind is. We do have some students that are doing small animal care as their SAE project
138which dogs and cats fit. Uh so I I I think um that would be something great because you know NAVO Nation has a um you know they they deal with a lot of that even just um the basic vaccinations would would even be helpful and um but uh I I've seen some of the itinerary when when you go to the conferences and and I really like this public speaking and um also with with Tristan, you know, being there in Santa Fe with him, meeting the governor, you know, not even shy, you know, and just I I I just think that's amazing and it's awesome that our students get those opportunities. Thank you. Any other comments? Just comment. I just appreciate the fact that all of you are very young in the respects to actually advocating
139for what it is that you truly believe in. That is outstanding. It it really is. It's impressive u for all of you to do what you do. So, good luck and congratulations. Mr. Wells, do you have any comments? Yes, I do. I uh think it's really great that the Nukem chapter is uh uh doing well. Um I think they've been uh overlooked for for quite a while. In fact, I think that uh uh the the district failed the chapter down there because they had um an offer. I'm not uh I'm not really familiar with it. I think uh um Miss Eden could probably explain it better. They were offered a a greenhouse all paid for several thousand dollar and and the district didn't move. Uh wanted quick enough to uh take advantage of that. And
140I think that's a I think that's a um real travesty. Um I think that uh the fact that these u members are up and coming and uh I think it's commendable. We can see what uh what the progress has been achieved in Shiprock and and in Kirtland uh chapters and this uh this chapter now coming up in Nukem. I think it's great and and the fact that they're recognized being recognized already showing their their abilities with just uh what is it now uh Miss Eden? Two years, three years. It's it's since November of 23. Oh, wow. So this is already they're already they're showing uh uh in state and and doing well and uh what was that uh what was that greenhouse offered? Can you explain that a little to us? So, NTEU had offered
141a greenhouse um before I got there and the principal uh last year's principal had made me aware of it and so NTU um offered it again and and at the district level it was dropped um for for a significant amount of time. and when it was reressed and and brought to brought to our attention or brought brought to the district's attention once again. Um, NTU said it's no longer available. So, and it was it was a nice greenhouse. It was $19,000. So, it would have been an amazing thing for our land lab. Yeah. So, Wow. And what a what a travesty that we couldn't have moved on that and and got that facility down there for Newton. So anyway, um I heard about that and just wanted the the district and the community to uh
142to be made aware of that. uh if something like that comes up, let's not uh let's move on it and get it taken care of uh so that they can have the facilities that they could use to improve their program. Anyway, congratulations to your to your students and uh they represent themselves very well. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Any other comments? Yeah, I just I just want to say thank you for speaking very very proudly and I'm full support. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. And and Nukem, I wish that I had we had programs like this way back in the day cuz I see leaders amongst you guys. You guys are leaders and to be able to speak before all these people, that's a skill. you guys have that skill to be able to speak
143before a lot all these people strangers so it's amazing commendable and and I think um even like Miss Aspus has stated I didn't know it you what your FFA FFA went beyond just the animal husbandry you are volunteering what Mr. Tristan said that that you're volunteering and doing doing more than just um the the showing of animals. So that's really commendable. So thank you for sharing a little bit of what what your club um the out for what we can see and um we'd like to hear more. So thank you so much for presenting. Oh yeah, that's that's awesome. And good luck with your tests. Yeah. So appreciate anything else. Okay, it's Miss Ellison, right? So you're eaten eating. I'm sorry again for what you're doing. I appreciate it. Thank you for guiding them. Thank
144you. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Um, next, are you still We're hoping for approval for that special trip. Okay. For the week after school, after school gets out, we want to be able to take We wanted to be able to take 12, but we had to narrow it down to five due to funds. and we're hoping that the funds will be there that we'll be able to do that. But we want to take five down to the state convention and also um have them compete in the Agra Science Fair and then also have this year's scrapbook there in that competition. That's in Los Cusus, right? Yes. Okay. Go ahead. Uh, superintendent, when situations like that that come up where they have to scale back, uh, especially on students, uh,
145is there a way that, um, or does that happen where if extra money is floating or there's a money tree somewhere that we can get? I like it. Yes. Get. Are you volunteering a a money tree? [Laughter] I mean, you know, instead of um rolling it over or waiting or, you know, is there a way to to get them to to make it happen for more students? We will we will do our best to make it happen. I mean, we can find ways. So, we want we want our students to be involved. So, that would be phenomenal. they would be grateful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I like your jackets. They look really neat. Very impressive. Okay. Um, letter D, unique trip request. BWTC, Skills USA. Skills USA National Leadership and Skills Conference
146Atlanta, Georgia, June 23rd through 28, 2025 by Athena Davis. Is that right? Okay. Good evening, uh, Superintendent Carlson and members of the board. I am Athena Davis. I am um the lead adviser for Skills USA at Bond Wilson Technical Center and we are seeking approval to take um our students, five students who qualified for nationals to get to take them to the Skills USA national leadership and skills conference this June. Um we would be taking Alan Palmer um the career pathways human services students who um did a fantastic project. They worked with um Judy Nelson elementary prek students on the importance of eating healthy and eating the rainbow. Um and so they did an entire unit plan, they did lesson plan, they did um a they created a coloring book to give to the students
147as well as to distribute within the community. Um and they did a fantastic presentation like I said um just going through everything they did and also we have our information technology services student Angelo Ben who will be going. is our first year we ever entered that competition. Um so that's really exciting for him. So we're just seeking approval and also if possible um funds um we as a chapter funded our entire trip for state um which depleted most of the funds we raised throughout the year. So that too. Great. Are there any questions from board questions or comments? I have none. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wells. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. Okay. Next item. Um, E, unique trip requests. KCHS FCCLA National Leadership Conference Orlando, Florida, July 5th through the 9th, 2025 by
148Donna Yazy. Good evening, Madame President and Secretary and School Board members. And let's not forget Mr. Carlson. We are requesting um approval of our um budget to take um one of our students to um nationals in um Orlando, Florida. And um we cut we trimmed everything and um were able to afford to take a student and myself. and um I teach family and consumer science at Kirtland Central High School and um I'm here to introduce my students so that they can tell you a little bit about our program. But before I do that, I'd like to say that as a former student of Shiprock High School decades ago, I have the honor of teaching family and consumer science for 38 years. And so I just love it. I keep getting out of retirement and coming
149back to work. And so this year I came and introduced one of my kids. She's doing recycle redesign and we were putting our heads together and I thought I know exactly what you're going to do. So I all I did was show her, tell her what to do and she got to work and completed it and went to um regionals, got a gold medal in Farmington and then she went to state and got a silver medal. So hopefully she'll be able to score something really good in um nationals. But I'd like to introduce Philip Horsley and um Madison Medley. [Applause] Good evening, um, members of the board and Superintendent Carlson. Is this better? Okay, there we go. Uh, today I'm here to talk about a little bit about myself and what FCCLA has done for
150me and means to me. So, my name is Philip Porsley. I am the president of Kirtland Central High School BPA. I'm also the vice president of Kurland Central High School FCCLA. I am a Skills USA member and I also am in Bon Wilson esports football powerlifting and I am a dual credit student at San College and National Technical Honors or University. Um, so basically FCCLA is a fun organization. It is a CTSO career technical student organization. This is the president, Madison Medley. Um, FCCLA has taught me how to work with kids as me and two individuals who worked with Kur Elementary prek. We taught him about colors, which was pretty fun. Um, it taught me basically how to lead an organization and it brought me out of my comfort zone. That's how I'm able to
151talk to all of you. And uh I would like to recognize my wonderful principal, Miss Westbrook, and my wonderful advisor. And now here is Madison Medley, who has a gold medal at regionals and a silver medal at state. [Applause] Good evening, members of the board. I am Madison Medley. I'm currently the president of Kirtland Central High School, FCCLA. And today I just wanted to talk to you also about why FCCLA is important, why I think this trip is very important for me to go on. Um FCCLA has taught me a lot. I've been in it since 7th grade. Um it's taught me a lot about communication, how to work with others, a lot about kids, um health, um and a lot of different aspects in the world that may have to do with myself as
152well as my community. It's taught me how to work with my community, how to be outstanding. um to advocate for what I want as well. Um overall, this trip helps me learn more about myself as well as other FCCLA members. I get to meet people from all over the world. Um uh all types of states, almost all 50 states. Um but overall, it's such an amazing trip to go to. I get to meet leaders, mentors, people who get to teach me new aspects of the world and how to learn from the world and from myself. And overall, it's a really big teaching moment. I've been to nationals for the past four years and every every year is a new experience. I always get to meet new people, new friends and I get to make friends
153from new states and I get to meet new adviserss and even the adviserss learn from the other adviserss. Um for my project I actually got to make a um as my adviser told you I did repurpose redesign. I got to make a blanket out of recycled denim and as well as fleece. And overall, the judges seemed really proud. I get to learn my own type of craftsmanship. I'm a really crafty person. My grandma taught me how to sew and crochet, and it's a big part of my life. And so, I got to do Repurpose, Redesign again. I did it my first year, and I was allowed to go to nationals with the gold medal again. And this year, I hope to do just as good and to make my family proud again. That's awesome. Uh,
154probably somewhere. Um, I don't think I have a picture with me. Um, but if I do, I will find a way to try to send it to you all. That would be great. And I'll be sure to take many photos this nationals considering I'm a senior and this would be my last trip. [Laughter] Well, I'll try my I'll try my absolute best to get a gold medal in nationals no matter what. That's great. That's awesome. Well, um any questions or comments from the board? Uh comment. Yes, superintendent. Um, were you able to work with not just this group but the one prior to see if they can go through and utilize uh JOM as well for assisting and funding? I don't know if we did that for these folks. Um, but that's something that whenever
155we've had folks present, we have let them know that's a possibility. We try to place it on the agenda whenever possible. Mr. Deswood has a something to add to that. Thank you. uh board Mr. Carlson guest colleagues we did ask JM however we did have enough money in title one I believe fan is here somewhere so I believe we use some title one to pay for a majority of the trip considering they um did majority of the fundraising on the road so thank you that's awesome any other comments I think you guys are doing amazing amazing job and thank you to principal and to Miss Yazy and everything that you do. The passion shows and the kids are really the students are really picking up on that. So, it's great to see them very enthused.
156So, thank you. Yeah, if I may add just just as a comment that I made at the beginning of the meeting in respects to the mother and their children and the same thing in that classroom. Mhm. um the adults in that room can become and should be the parent to these kids and and express that through their passion, desire and commitment and it shows. So to all of them and to you Miss Shazi, kudos to you. Thank you very much and good luck. Thank you so much and it's really commendable Philip for all the things that you're doing too. So that's amazing. So you guys are doing awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. [Applause] And then next we are going to that's where we're going right now. So I have it on my agenda. Okay.
157So, we're going to letter F, but we're going to have Ashlin Mike memorial run by Phyllis Meases. Is Mrs. Mayus online or here in person? Good evening again. I'll actually present for her. she had a family commitment that she had to uh attend. So, uh I did find some information on the Ashlin Mike run. Um if you go to the actually I think the picture's up there. We saw it on Facebook and then it takes you to the Shiprock Marathon um website where you can register and if you go to hit register um entrance can pay $10 to do the the run and I'll I'll read what it says on Facebook. It says, "On May 2nd at the Shiprock Youth Center in Shiprock, we will add Ashlin Ashlin Mike's mile to the registration page on
158run sign up. You can also register online. It will be $10. The website is under Shiprock Marathon. It will run through the regular registration platform which is on May 2nd and noon. The run will be on May 2nd and May 3rd. It will start and end near the youth complex, completing a onemile loop toward the high school baseball field and return. Gary and his family will take care of the t-shirts for Ashlin's run, including the art work designed for the tea along with ordering and purchasing the t-shirts. Navajo, yes, will provide Ashlin Mike's mile medallion 150 first runners and race bibs for the first 100 runners. Please join us in keeping our children safe. Love your children. Please share this with family and friends and everyone else. Thank you on behalf of Gary, Mike, and
159family. Thank you. Mr. Mike, would you like to um add anything? Uh good evening everyone. Uh, Madame President, board members, superintendent, thank you for inviting me here to tell you about uh Ashlin's uh legacy and and the memorial one we're going to be holding again this year. I know that uh we've had a pause since 2019 because of the CO 19 pandemic. Now that most of that has gone away, uh we we are excited to start uh uh memorial uh running the memorial run for Ashen again. Not only that, we'd like to uh invite everyone to run for somebody who they've lost through uh either who they've lost uh either be by being murdered or somebody who hasn't been found yet. I know that life is tough and that um the thing that we're going
160to be doing is focusing on child safety. And that's the reason why we want to hold this or start this again this year to let people uh become aware about child safety because we've all been a child before and those are the best times of our lives and and some of the things that you do here as board members and and teachers, instructors, I commend you for that because the passion that you put into what you do inspires our students to become better in life. So that's what we want to express at this uh memorial run also. So uh let me uh let me see if I can some notes here that I just jotted down. This year, uh, Ashton's run will be on May 2, starting at 11:00 a.m. This day commemorates 9 years
161since she was taken. And uh we're going to and the and the legacy that she has given us here uh gives each each tribe across the United States across the nation an opportunity opportunity for them to have their own Amber Alert uh to issue Amber Alerts in their nations in their country. So, uh, I'd like for you guys to be aware of that legacy that Ashton has. She, uh, she went to school at, uh, oho Amarillo, um, up until the age of 11 and in the grade of five years. This year it's more important that we uh give people the idea that you know children are sacred and they they are joy to their parents. And just recently, most if not all of you have heard about what happened to Emily Pike from the San
162Carlos Apache. Um, because of that, it gave me more incentive to to uh have this memorial run again because not only are we honoring these children, we are also honoring the parents that are there for them. And so again, you can register online uh just by searching for 2025 Ship Rock Marathon. I'll have I'll take questions now if you have any comments. Board members, any questions or comments? Mr. Mike, can you share us share that um your the flyer with us? I don't have the flyer uh only because uh in the short amount of time that we have left uh I I'm still in in development of that. Okay. So I'll go ahead and maybe give it to Christina. I've been in contact with her as she can distribute it. Okay. Thank you. Go ahead.
163So be there. Run as an individual. Run as a team. not only for you, not only for your loved ones, but also for everyone else who's been missing or murdered. Okay. Appreciate your help. Miss Aspus. So, I I I I don't want to take the spotlight away from u Mr. Mike. Um but you know some of the things that he shared with me over um the last month is um it it seems like there's a lot of support with u the shiprock marathon coordinator and Tim Tom I can't say that last name but anyhow um you know and and I'm really grateful that that there is and um reached out to Sassy as well and superintendent and principal and to see how they could help with either volunteer or um donation or you know just
164getting their students um aware that this memorial is coming up. And um and just as he mentioned with um the the the young Apache girl Emily Pike, I think the on social media on Tik Tok especially that um they they always end it with say her name and and I believe that should have been the same with Ashlin Mike. um you know the the tragedy and um not only to them but to the families that that have to continue I I don't see how that could happen. But um if if that were me and um but I I just hope that everybody can come out and uh and um participate and and show that we do we do um we do care for our kids, you know, and um and we do want to stop
165and we need to show those authorities that um we can't um the response has been very poor you know when when asked when asked to help and and then even to um uh one thing that Mr. Mike wanted to do a month before was to travel to Washington and um to make sure that Ashlin Mike's name and the um what do you call it? The um Amber alert for for her was still there, especially after what's been happening with federal funds. And um so we can't let those things go. There's a lot of work into it. And then you know um sadly we we lost Ashlin in order to have to to get that and and so um you know I just ask that everybody share this information. um let your your students know, your
166building know, and and um as soon as I get something from Gary, Mike that we can I can send it out to the to our schools and Facebook. Thank you. There are there any other comments? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mike. Thank you for the information. [Applause] Okay. Um, next on the agenda is G, graduation information by high school principles. We'll start off with who's the bravest. No, I'm kidding. Um, closest Kirtland Kirtland High School. [Laughter] Madam President, if I get I think for these reports, can we keep it as the like a high level summary and not really get get bogged down just the highlights? Thanks. Thank you. Okay. You Yes, I can do that. It's just a great question. Is this the elevator speech? All right. Okay. Um um board members, uh Superintendent Carlson,
167um community people, thank you for allowing Kirtland Central High School to go first. Um our graduation plans are still set for May 23rd at 7 p.m. at Bronco Stadium. We have currently 172 seniors with 166 on track to graduate in in May. We are currently imple implementing a um more layers of support for those students to get them graduated. We're specifically working with the state of New Mexico for a credit recovery option so that we are trying to get all of our students graduated. I stand for questions. Go. Any questions? Go ahead. Yes, ma'am. Um, so right now we, like I said, we have 172, we have 166. We have four that are right there on the edge to to make it up to 170 that we're currently doing daily interventions with. Um, that so
168we're projecting we're going to get to 170. two two two will be in the summer. Parents know we have had uh we've had parent meetings. We have had student meetings the most recent as of today and then we're calling in parents and students as well and having bi-weekly meetings with them. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. No. Okay. U Mr. Wills, do you have any questions? No. I missed when she said how many she had. uh perspective and how or how many seniors and then how many graduates but she answered that later on so no I don't have any other questions. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. Um Chip Rock High School. [Laughter] Good evening board members, Superintendent Carlson, colleagues and audience. Um, Shiprock High School, we currently have 123 students
169in power seniors in power schools. 115 of those are on track to graduate if all their classes are passed. But I want to break that down a little more. Three seniors may not graduate this year. One is on a long-term expulsion and is just struggling a little bit to stay on task with all of those online classes even with support. One is an H3 who thought she wanted to graduate early but then chose not to. So, she's not going to graduate. She's going to hang back and walk with her class next year. And one is working with Graduation Alliance, the New Mexico organization to get back on track with an online course. So the state of New Mexico is coming in and working with that one student has worked closely with our college and career
170readiness person and our counselor. Five of those students graduated last year but they are in project search. So they are still in our numbers even though they have already walked and received their diploma. So that's where and then three seniors graduated in December. So, if you take out the five that graduated last year and these three that are on the bubble, we'll have 115 that should walk in May and hopefully 116 if we get this one back on track with graduation alliance. Um, and one of those will complete their associates degree in May with perfect attendance as we all know. So, that's awesome. Yeah. All right. Any questions or comments from the board? No. That's great. Thank you. Thank you so much. Newcome High School. Good evening, Y members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, guests,
171and NCCS um D staff here joining us this evening. Um I'm Dr. Karina White, and I'll be um presenting this on behalf of our newcomer High School seniors. Currently, we have 56 seniors. um 56 are on track if all classes are passed. We are monitoring um 10 students who are enrolled in credit recovery. Um nine for sure we're looking at um paying close attention to their short credits. Um, and then we have one who moved from we thought one was going to be a summer grad, but she's really has made she has made progress, so she'll be able to graduate in May. And then we have unfortunately one senior who dropped. Um so I think um when I presented um before we had 57 seniors so that one senior dropping we're down to 7 uh
17250 56. When you say dropped what do you mean dropped like dropped out? Yeah. Okay. So once he turned 18 um he just made that decision. We tried to bring him back but parents just left it up to him as well. So, we tried to lasso him but just couldn't. Thank you. Any comments? Go ahead. Yes. Yes. She used to sub. She used to sub for the district. Okay. Just just real quick. Um uh the two two other high schools, Sherlock and Kland, had students who uh are going to be graduating with an associate degree. Do you have any students that come that are on track for that or close? We don't. Um, and I think the reason for that is we don't really have um, we really need to, to be honest with you,
173we do need to work on our dual credit program and even giving them some pathway options. Um, at this point we just don't have that interest and I think part of it is just presenting it to them and then letting them know that those opportunities are there for them. Um, and I know it's a priority that we have in our plans for even next school year. The other thing I wanted to bring up was because um the way dual credit goes, most of the classes are online and it's not best fit for our students. and um they prefer the one-on-one over um the online and even with just having um I would say our staff to actually be like the edge of faculty it's it's we're very limited because of our um number of teachers
174So we're like I said we're we're planning you know to address that and then hopefully we have more even students interested. uh we have provided surveys and I think with the current like next plan this next step plans that we're doing it's going to really um bring a lot of that I'm going to say like um future planning for them as well because they they didn't even have those in place I heard Yeah, I I heard and you hope to bring that back. Mr. Montoya, that kind of addresses part of the need, the absolute need [Music] to redevelop or extend or improve enhance that community library. Mhm. Now, obviously the challenge of having adjuncts down there within the community in and of itself are a challenge. Um, and I know we have coming up on
175the agenda the um ASU Prep Global MOA that's that's in line for discussion. And again, everything we can do to certainly try to provide that opportunity, whether it's UNM or Western New Mexico down out of Gallup to be able to provide those services, something to improve the opportunity for them to have the same as the students in um Kurland and Shark. and maybe superintendent if we can brainstorm to find some solution to work on that too. So appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I think this conversation is actually leading to what we're talking um career prep. Yay. [Laughter] Good evening, President Hasky, esteemed board members, Mr. Carlson, fellow CCSD uh colleagues and guests. Uh career prep is is moving along toward graduation here. We started the year with 45 uh on our
176role for being uh seniors. Uh we've already had 17 graduate this year and have moved into graduate status. Most of them will still be walking though. Uh currently we have 25 students who are on track to graduate. Uh we had three students that left us and went back to their home schools. So that's where our number comes back. We we had kids that got back on track and a couple went to Kirtland and one went to Shiprock. So they they couldn't graduate with their original cohorts. Um, unfortunately we did lose one student this year in a car accident and uh who would have been graduation eligible and we will be commemorating him at our at our ceremony. But that's what that's how we get to 42 at that point. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions
177for I don't have any questions but thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um Okay. H report on high school ACT SAT scores by Dr. Ventrina. Is that correct? That's correct. President, I'm not used to being called like that, but I'll get to that point. But yeah, thank you um Superintendent Carlson, President Hasky, um members of the board. Um we were asked um actually I have um our testing coordinator for the district with me um to present the ACT and SAT information. Um unfortunately we will not be able to kind of like a a disclaimer uh we're not able to give you the result for this school year's SAT um simply because our our juniors just took that couple of weeks ago second. So um but we will be preparing those presentations once the result uh
178is available by I think the state said May yeah not until June um that will be available for us but we would like to give us or give you guys some information about ACT and SAT. So ACT is actually not a a required assessment for for the state of New Mexico for our students. So that's an option that our students take freely and within their time. Um, of course they need to pay some of the fees that they need to um incur during testing or administering that test. So some kind of like background and Amy will jump in as well um later on. Um, go ahead Sharon. Um so by the way those two SAT and ACT test um both um um test and and evaluate our students skills in reading, writing and and and
179math. Um both are acceptable in any co colleges and universities for college entrance, financial aids, scholarship and of course academic placement when when students are being placed on classes that they will be taking in in college. So just basic um SAT school day we have that again last um April 2nd um scholastic assessment test. It is a standardized test widely used for college admission primarily in the United States. administered by a college board um to grade 11. So, it measures the proficiency in math, language arts, and all 11 grades in New Mexico are expected to participate in the spring. But I'd like to highlight it's not a graduation requirement. Um it's a participation that is required for our juniors to to take. Um yes. So, ACT is American College Testing. It's the same way as
180SAT. um it's not mandated by by our state. Um again, our kids, our students are able to take that um as well um anytime they they wish to. I can uh talk a little bit about the ACT. So many colleges and universities require um or consider the ACT scores as part of their admission process. Uh the at ACT scores um can be used of course to determine eligibility for scholarships. Um it's administered to 11th or 12th grade students and of course as we mentioned it's not statemandated uh timeline. So the um the PSAT um is actually administered in October. Um results are available in December and we did share those in January. um the SAT school day. Um the the window is actually still open through the 25th, so we're catching a few uh makeups.
181Um as of last Friday, we had 91% of our students that had tested. Um uh the results will be available in June. Uh ACT is given pretty much throughout the year, September, October, December, February, April. Um and the results are available within that month. Sure. Go ahead. Yeah, I'm not sure each colleg's um requirements um but a lot of the time it's it's used for scholarships. So, I'm not familiar with New Mexico State and their the state of New Mexico does not mandate. That's what you said, right? Yes. Yes. Then that's what you misunderstood. require to take the ACT assessment to graduate to gradu and of course it's not a graduation requirement as well to to to pass the or there's a certain threshold or cut scores um but we are required to participate um
182to take our students or to have our students take the test um and another and that's another layer of having or taking the test but also Um with with colleges um some we say some because not all colleges and universities are requiring ACT or SAT as entrance exam but also um they look looked at um those scores to properly place and evaluate those students to place in a proper courses. Um we added also um scholarship and financial aids that um that our students can apply for and most of them are meritbased and they they require one of the requirements to to be eligible to those scholarships and I'm not particular which scholarship um in our state um the opportunity scholarship is open to everyone and and they don't need to have a certain scores in
183SAT or SAT. as long as they keep their um I think the GPA is 2 something 2.5 and then they will have the scholarship but again I don't want to speak with other universities that requires for for certain scores in ACT and SA or ACT and continue we we have the last slide and you more. Thank you Sharon. Um so this is also shared um within our reports um previous reports with the directors. So here's our current data and we pulled the last three years for SAT and ACT. So again just a quick comparison between the two. um most since we don't have our kids have options to take ACT and it's not free so that we have less students to take ACT. So and then SAT we have we we let our kids encourage
184them to take SAT during SAT school day. So we have more you can see we have 20 in 2022 we have 374 students junior took it in 2023 to 338 and 2024 we got 200 uh 417 so you see the trend here SAT average course have consistently recent from 2022 to 2024 with a notable increases in both evidence-based reading writing and math sections and I guess um that really kind of like constitute to our graduation or graduating our students to to you know make that um you know pathways to going to the college or career um readiness pathways. So you you see that also the range is from 400 to600 and the US I just put the US average to um 1024 or with 1,024. So I wanted to let you know also with the
185progression that we have um although there is a we're we're below the US average but the trend of our students taking SAT is significant and we're improving in those areas. Um the second part is the SAT ACT. So you see there's 64 in 2022, 28 in 2023 and 2024 uh we have 22 students and um I think we have um little kind of like glance of how many kids took it this year and I'll tell you it's five students who took SAT um this past couple of years. ACT, sorry, ACT. Um, so again, the the the ACT average course overall, math, science, and ELA have shown consistent upward. Again, um, just a disclaimer because of the small population that took it. Um, we have that uh trend. But I mean, kudos to those 100 plus
186students that took the ACT in the past three years. So largest increase are seen in ELA and science and the overall composite score has also recent on those um sub I mean u groups or sample size. Any questions or comments from the board? What's the highest SAT score that you've seen so far coming out of CCSD? um based on what when I was in at the high school I I I had a student I that I know the 1200 um who who took it and I don't want to mention the name but it's it's pretty outstanding that particular kid who who graduated last year was uh having had that what about the ACT um so I've seen in back in the days it's 30 I think 34 35 I've seen one kid or I think
187several kids in our district that had that score. Um you know the highest the average now is 19.4 but previous years it was like 21 when I was teaching AB statistics. So um the average went down but I think that you see the students that we have um have been like in that threshold 19.7 the 22 kids that took it had 19.7. Maybe you maybe you need maybe you need to turn back to the classroom to pump up the scores. I will definitely I have no I have no hesitations going back to the classroom and I love to teach um our our students. So, um, so I, so I had Khalias Peter's older brother in my class and he's one of my outstanding student um, back in the day. And I just wanted to mention
188he was, he was a junior, oh, sorry, he was a freshman when he took my algebra 2 honors class in Chipro High School. And he had a perfect attendance, too. Just a shout out to um Tyler Peters. Any other comments, questions? Okay. Thank you. Yeah, this is really good information. I think um we'll just wait your the next results in June. So, we go for a second. Thank you. Thank you. Um, next item is um I CCSD gifted, talented, creative spring 2025 update by Kate Morris. Hi everybody. Um, thank you again um, Madame President, Mr. Superintendent, and school board members. So, um I'm not going to call them out by name, but just to give you a little idea of uh how of how much our gifted students are involved, um we had three identified
189gifted students at tonight's board meeting that were being recognized for other things. Um so, I was super excited to see those. Um so, Sharon, um if you'll go to the next slide. Um, so last year in January of 2024, we really uh started to uh kind of revamp and revitalize our gifted education program. Um, and so last year we grew by quite a bit. Um, but for our K through 12 2025 uh new gifted students by school, we had a total number of 42 new identified gifted students. Um, so you can see the arrangement. Um, we have a very large gifted program at Judy Nelson, a very large talent pool. Um, but, uh, we had some very, very good scores even at our, uh, our middle and high schools. Um, which is a little bit
190harder sometimes to recognize. Um, uh, to brag on one of our students down at Nukem Elementary School, we actually had a, uh, kindergartener that scored 100th percentile in all cognitive areas on the Kogat 8. Um, which I'm going to look into looking at um, tests that can show us if he's highly and profoundly gifted, which is a whole another set of uh, situations. So, uh, we're super excited. We're really finding some diamonds in the rough and um super excited to add them to our program. So, 42 new gifted students this semester just from the uh referral. Sharon, with those um girl power, uh 64% of those were female. Uh 36 were male. Sharon, the next one. Um by race, uh we had 76.6 six Native American, uh 14% Caucasian and white, 4.8% Filipino, and 2.4%
191African-Amean. And so they don't align exactly to our numbers. Uh but when they are, uh aggregated together, um they do match our populations, which means we are identifying correctly. Next one. Um so uh we had a lot of areas of giftedness um general intellectual ability uh creative and divergent thinking problem solving aptitude and achievement in mathematics and English and then uh we did add uh several students with the new areas of giftedness for leadership and artistry. So we had a very diverse uh selection of students uh showing their talents. Um so I was very proud my uh PDP my professional growth you know uh uh plan I wanted to hit uh 141 students for uh identification for the 2425 school year. So that's what we had projected and I actually was 11 students over and
192we uh we uh as a district hit 152 gifted students um which almost doubled our population from the beginning uh number of 78 this school year after seniors left. Um and so this is a huge increase. Uh we also uh identified four students that were dual exceptional which means they are both specialed and gifted. Um and so that was really nice to see um in our program. Our next so this is the total number of gifted students uh that we will have for the beginning of next school year. Um and so you can see we have uh gifted students at every school site at this point. Uh Nashchitty all the way to KCHS uh we do have eight gifted teachers on staff. They are amazing. Uh some of them share schools. uh and they're doing
193amazing things. And with the gifted and talented and creative program, we are um implementing uh new curriculum next year uh highquality gifted curriculum um and also um supplies and and stuff for them to use in the classroom and uh utilize with their students. So when I uh began this journey last year in January of 2024, we were at 1.8 8% identified gifted. Uh last year we made it to 3.2% and this year we have exceeded our goal of 4.2% and gotten to 4.5%. And so we are well on our way to identifying uh the average is around 10%. Um and like Mr. Carlson was talking about earlier with House Bill 2. Uh the equalizer uh the school um equalization uh the SEG also includes students that are gifted and talented. So there are funds that
194are connected with those students as well. So uh we have lots of new exciting things happening with uh gifted and talented and one of the things that um I've given credit to amazing year um has been our partnership with Arizona State University uh Prep Global Academy and Accelerate which is their dual credit program uh for our students. It allows the flexibility of uh going to a dual credit um or high school course of their interest. It allows for high rigor, opportunity, acceleration, and college and career readiness. Um I've spoken about the a student at Mesa who was a fourth grader last year. He is now a fifth grader. Um he has successfully taken pre-alggebra uh through ASU prep digital um which was an eighth grade level course. Um he finished the second part of al
195a pre-alggebra and will be starting algebra 1 next year. He also took life science 7 as a fifth grader as well. Um we also have h we had um almost 10 students at the middle school levels that ended up taking high school biology um and other high school uh classes like principles of engineering which they were interested in engineering. So they've had a lot of opportunity. Um I projected to have about 20 students uh at the beginning of the year. We had over a hundred enrollments by by the gifted students across the district. uh Nukem uh Nukem uh Shiprock and Kirtland. So um on the consent agenda, we would like to renew our uh memorandum of agreement with Arizona State University Prep Academy, which will focus on our elementary, middle, and high school gifted students
196and their acceleration and curriculum compacting. And then also would like to continue our partnership with ASU universal learning courses. And yes, they are two different entities um and focus on our high school gifted students. Um the Arizona State University learning courses are the accelerate are very important because it allows our students especially those that are gifted that want to go out of state um and also to Ivy League universities. uh ASU is a number one uh research-based uh university. Therefore, if they want to go to Stanford or Harvard, their transfer credits will go from CCSD and ASU to those institutions. So, they can put in a lot of hard work and get the benefit of it. All right. Thank you so much. I stand for questions. Are there any questions? Board members, questions. Go ahead.
197Mhm. So, uh, part of the part of it is the amount of students that they originally had before I came in. Um, so Kirtland Central High School, I actually was the gifted case manager um that took that position in January of 23. There were already 35 students that were identified. Um when I took over the program last January um the majority of our students were at the the middle school and high school level. We had zero kids identified at the elementary. Um so what we have tried to do is uh we are taking the state guidance and starting to have uh talent pools which is where we take our students that score high on I stationation and um the MSSAS and make sure that uh they're getting some of this enrichment even though they're not
198identified as gifted. Um, we have a very spunky and very amazing uh, gifted teacher at Judy Nelson, uh, Denise Pierro, and she had over 70 students in her talent pool. So, that wasn't just her, uh, me telling her a group of names to do. That was her working with all of and collaborating with all the teachers to make sure that any student that needed that enrichment was available. Um, right now Oho and Kes because of their smaller case loads are split and so the gifted teacher is only there half time. Hopefully in the next several years we will be able to get to the point where each school can have a gifted teacher themselves. When do you say split um or sh or shared? Um what is Kartland? Well, okay, let's keep it the same.
199Judy Nelson is are do they share? So Judy Nelson has a case load of 25. So they do not share uh uh if I remember correctly on the top of my head. So, excuse me if I'm off by a few numbers. Uh, KES has 14. OHO has eight identified. And so, that that teacher is split between KES and OHO. That has to do with their full-time equivalency, their FTE. Um, every gifted teacher with level one students is 35 to one. That means a full case load. That's per the state. So, but we we had some spectacular showings from um Oho at the third grade universal spring uh third grade universal screener at the beginning of the year last semester that I reported on at the January. Um but uh it's slow but we are really
200seeing strides and seeing it increase. Um so they've gone from zero to eight in one year. So what I don't want to see happen is like in Nukem, you know, they a few years back it was said that there were some senior students that could have gone on to Stanford, you know, you talked about Ivy League schools and but the lack of a counselor and so to me um if we're sharing and especially and I'm on fight a little bit more for Oho. Um perhaps, you know, we're we're doing the same thing we did there, you know, by by um you know, we could have had more students. Well, and my goal is for every school to have at least one full-time gifted teacher, have at least a case load of 35. It does take
201time. There are state requirements. they have to meet the 95th percentile. Um, we do use uh local norming. Um, and actually uh in some most districts in New Mexico, we actually they use local norming per the district. I actually locally norm per school. So, I'm only comparing ohho kids to oho kids. I'm only comparing NSJI kids to Nashitty kids when we're talking about the gifted uh numbers of of their qualification. Do you need more questions? I have a comment more really more so than anything else or I guess a question or comment. Um in respects I I understand the testing for all these things but every once in a while you get kids that are either mislabeled or just aren't caught. um what are we doing in respects to working with the grade level teachers
202to when they see these kids and I've said this before publicly um that are bored that can and do excel rather than let's just say a fourth grade teacher just teaching straightforth and not challenging that student. Mhm. Um are we making a concerted effort to ensure that those teachers are challenging these kids? You have one, let's say, in fifth grade that is at this point doing capable of doing sixth grade math. Uh what are we doing? I guess it's more towards the superintendent as he trudges in. what what what are we doing to to get the again attentive human being in that classroom to really challenge these kids and and push them forward? I mean, that doesn't take a a test to see if they're gifted, but you can see that and then utilizing that
203differentiated instruction in that classroom to move them forward and to challenge them. So, a couple couple ways we do that. First of all, um we use an alternative protocol. Um and we actually use a mixture of both New Mexico State alternative protocols for identifying gifted. One is called the talent assessment and or talent and potential assessment system which is TOPUS. Um and then we also use the Gadston case study which we actually adopted as CCSD because they disbanded it. Um and we're we're working towards um making it our own. Uh, and what those two do is it allows for local norming, but it also allows for us to use portfolio-based systems. So, if a student does not get that 95th percentile and they're like on, you know, in their upper 90s on those tests, but
204they're showing artistic and leadership ability, we're able to do that without that 95th percentile score. So, that's one of the ways we're able to open it up a little bit more. The other thing is uh for our students um one of the missions of the gifted, talented and creative program what we will be adding in next year um is we are required to do gifted advisory councils. And so we will have three different meetings throughout the year where we will meet with uh community members, stakeholders and parents um and talk about what they are wanting out of the gifted and talented program. Um but with uh training for the district, um there was a House memorial bill 33 back in 2021 that was done saying they asking the legislature what is going on with gifted?
205Why is our gifted population going from 13,000 in 2012 to under 9,000 in 2019? Statewide it was going down. Um and so what uh what we're really trying to do is trying to get back on track, get those students identified and then have those supports for them. So one of the things that CNI and curriculum and instruction and gifted and talented and creative program will be doing will be implementing more um professional development not in like full long but more like bite-size uh professional developments for classroom teachers. We also are utilizing the gifted teachers that are at each site as a gifted ambassador to help those teachers. So, when I was a case manager at KCHS, one of my one of my biggest uh loves was working with the regular ed teacher to show them
206how to differentiate for these students that learned at higher levels and faster speeds. Superintendent, how much does it cost for a fifth grade teacher to really see and understand and realize to challenge a student? I mean, does it take professional development to do that? is again is that that attentive human being is working with the principal to know that there's an expectation to challenge these kids if they do find one or two or three that can do the work let's say in fifth grade can do it in sixth grade is there a special PD for that or is it just a human being that understands that so it's both actually um teachers have had a fair amount of training how to recognize areas of giftedness um and that's something that I I see where you're
207going with it that there is a certain portion of it where uh teachers kind of understand that but I don't know if you saw some of the numbers there. We did have a higher number of girls that were identified and I think that's very typical because traditionally I think the attentive human being that you're talking about that that notices the gifted students um tends to think of gifted students as their performing students or high performing students and those are the ones who tend to get identified first. So that's why we have special kind of extra training that says, "Well, those aren't your only gifted kids." If you notice the numbers that we have, there's more than 30% of those kids that are identified in this district that are gifted that are identified creativity um and
208and not for math or for English skills or for those kind of things. So, it's real important that that all folks kind of first off keep that in mind, but then it's good to have a training that says here's how to spot that. Um and again, some of that's going to be natural. you're going to see a child who is just an amazing artist. We have that throughout the district. Um and and the teacher notices that those those kids are going to get noticed right away. U but with through training, we can pick up more students to identify it. And to give you an example, we actually had a student at an elementary school that was a parent referral and um this child had actually been going through SAT, the student assistance team for behavior
209issues in second grade. turns out he qualified for gifted. And so all of those behaviors were related to him being bored in class. Um and so sometimes that aha moment um can really affect teachers and teacher teams when they realize, oh, this wasn't just behavior. This was he was just bored and wanting to engage and and make sure they have a rigorous program. I'm not going to go too far under Louise, but but again, that's one of those things about especially with little boys, they get mislabeled, ADHD, can't sit still. No, they're little boys and God help them. If they're creative, then they really get suppressed and really get mislabeled. I mean, how many times has that happened? It damage the kids. Whereas again that attentive human being in that classroom seeing that, understanding that,
210realizing it, and doing something about it to get some positive reactions from that child. Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, on to the next one. I think you kind of bounce onto the next uh area. Miss Morris, are you have the next one? J ASU I'm like hello. Yeah, I know. Sorry. ASU prep global MOA and ASU accelerated MOA. Um so these are the MOAS that I was discussing in the presentation. The first one was with uh ASU learning uh learner course agreement which is through ASU accelerate and those are the dual credit classes that are offered um and so um basically we're um asking for the support of the partnership with them again we've been very happy with them um and want to continue our relationship. Let's take let's do like a quick five
211minute uh recess. I think there might be something with the document. We just want to make sure it's it's correct. So we'll just take a five minute recess. Okay. [Music] Hello. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Um from my understanding one is okay but this one is mislabeled. So uh this one is uh actually an amendment to the MOA that we had last year which started on 71924. Uh when they sent when ASU Accelerate sent this to me, they didn't attach the MOA. So I will get the MOA attached and then I will represent for ASU Accelerate ASU learning courses um in May if that's okay with you guys. That would be fine. That Thank you. Do I need to explain the second one? Yes, the second part. So, this is the second uh or this
212is the ASU prep uh global high school courses, a middle school and high school courses that we have a uh memor memorandum of agreement. Um we are actually they gave us the same rate they gave us this year even though prices were going up since we were uh such good customers. Um and uh we we are uh signing for a one-year term um from uh July 1st to 2025 to June 30th 2026. And so that is with ASU Prep Global. No tariff increase this year. Tariffs. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um Mr. Wells, are you still online? I'm still here. Okay. All right. Just making sure. And please let me know if you have any questions. Sorry. No, I didn't. Okay. All right. Thank you. Uh we will move on to letter
213K discussion on recommendations regarding House Bill 171 2024 legislative session by Miss Chappelle, Miss Lee, and Miss Gallagher, uh board president, board members, um superintendent, and members of the audience. Uh we just brought this back uh because pursuant to statute, it's part of the board's um responsibilities to vote on changes um to the um academic uh programs. And so this is just kind of being brought back in case you have questions on the recommendations. That's all we're doing. Okay. Any questions or comments from the board? Uh the reason we had Miss Cal here is that we had uh the principles and and the counselors all meet together. So we had the little PLC in regards to that and so she just was available. Mr. But it's all all the principles were involved in in the
214recommendation. Uh both secondary, middle school, and high school principles. Mr. Noble, do you have something to add? Madam President, members of the board, Superintendent Carlson, Stacy Gallagher was also a big role in diving deeper into the local requirements. uh she did really great work to reach out and just to offer exactly what the local requirements can maximize the benefit for the graduation requirements. Are there any additional questions, comments? Okay. So, it's basically on the electives part, the electives of each of the courses that are required to graduate. So, for English, there's four credits. For math, there's four credits. For social Oh, okay. from our meeting. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. We'll get that to you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Next. L update on bus stop light by Mr. Armenta. You just you light up
215my life. You give me hope to carry on. For who? Hey. Um, yeah. We'll just This will be Mr. Po for Mr. Wells. Mr. Wells. You know what this reminds me of? Superintendent Carlson, President Hasky, U. Vice President Wells, Secretary uh So, Board Member Aspus, and Board Member Montoya, thank you for having me tonight. Um it's always a pleasure to be able to come up here and discuss some of the issues that pertain to our, you know, the operations side and the maintenance side of Central Consolidated Schools. Um I'm here tonight to present on the update for the light for the uh school bus uh stop out on the Nanazawa chapter road. So after our last discussion I spoke to um Mr. uh Beay Norm Beay from the chapter and uh he had informed me
216that uh we had that the light was ordered and that when it did come in it was a very very poorly manufactured. it was in no better shape than the one that's out there. So, they sent it back and it took quite a bit of time. As of our conversation tonight, uh this picture is not rotated. It'd be um um the light that's pictured here in the the the handout I gave you is exactly what he sent to me. This light will be a fixed on top of the light pole. Um right here, this is the light that will be placed out on um on the existing pole that is out there. So um they did they have an electrician that they're working with and they said that they they ordered this light and that
217it is four to six weeks out currently as of today. So um once it's here um he will contact me and we'll make sure that it is affixed to tops of that pole and secured and um they will maintain it is my understanding. No, it is a solar solar light. So it is not how hardwired in it. It'll be attached through a Ubolt on top of the pole. So, this is a I believe a lot sturdier and a lot a lot better light than that is that was out there in the initial. And so, I'm grateful for the for the chapter house for I I they didn't give me any other information as to a brand, a a name or anything else, but this is what he did give me. So, I was happy to
218see that we're making progress. So, I do stand for questions. That is correct, Miss Lope. That did come from the chapter president, Norm Beay. Yes. Um if if they're not relaying to the to the community, um I did have to reach out to him. He didn't um ever since our last meeting, I have been staying in contact with him constantly. So, it's um it's the proverbial two weeks, two weeks, you know, but uh this time at least I wanted confirmation of what they had ordered and apparently they do have an electrician that they are working with and the electrician is who ordered the light. So, um it is a it is a solar power light and it looks to be of of a lot better quality than the one that is currently um dangling on
219the pole. Yes. So I know this has been ongoing I don't even years but you know people um that have just come in it it it I I think it's um they think it's something that we're doing for personally for the low family. No, this is for the students safety and the bus um driver safety. Um and because that road um and I'm really surprised the fact that um both Four Corners Power Plant and um Intech won't get involved because it's that traffic that that poses the um risk, the hazards. Um I I've seen where um people are passing each other and um at at high speeds and then around corners and um especially when the the down times come in, you know, and and um so that's that traffic and um and and all
220we're trying to do is to make people aware that there's going to be a bus and there's going to be the bus stopping for students. That's it. And make that visible. Um it's not to um help the Lowe's with their farming or you know um you know for additional lighting. It's it's all for the um the bus stop, the students there at the bus stop. Thank you. Comment. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. So, in the event that there's a change of the daylight savings time and we stay where we're at, obviously it's going to be darker earlier. Mhm. um what would be the consideration for the district to have a light at every bus stop because again it's it's not I the safety aspect is very clear and evident in and of itself but with
221that change and I said this before about that about the change in time and knowing and understanding that there's that conversation at the national level to do away with it to where we stay where we're at. And that's going to pose again the safety risk that's involved at every bus station that we have. And you know what would what would it take to do that to light up some of those areas and and signage again? Not not just the light but signage as well. Oh, for the sake of all the safety and is is that could that be something that can be proposed to the state of New Mexico to be able to provide those again under the opice of student safety. Mr. Armenta, um this project with the the light and everything, how much
222do you estimate that it costs? I would I would estimate that if you were going to tackle that project from scratch, get all the materials and the labor included, you're probably if you were to buy a quality light and using the fixture and the concrete, I would say you're probably around 2,800 $3,500 for a good good quality light would be my assumption. So, comment. Go ahead. Aside from aside from the monetary cost, Mr. Mononttoya asked what would it take? We've been doing this for four years. If we had to do it throughout the district, and I'm just being sarcastic, it' probably take 20. Well, now Yeah. Go ahead. Well, in in in in real in respect to that, I think we would have to reach out with the state, look at, you know, the the
223New Mexico DOT, look at the rideways, look at the easements, look at the the look at our bus stop routes and look at the ones that are poorly lit, the ones that are in maybe look at the worst case scenario. when I come on board, this issue had come up and I know that we had a team of people that went and looked at the site and there was many discussions. There was a there was a group involved and now it has really come down to us taking the lead with the chapter where before there was many entities involved due to the amount of traffic on that road and and everybody's just peeled off. We are committed to doing what we set out to do. And I know the four-year the four-year project in any
224other project that the that the district does or we tackle through through our process, it would not take this because we would have a work order in place. We'd have a PO in place. We'd have a procurement process followed and we follow all the the procedures and protocols that are set forth in our district. This has gotten because it's where it's at and and how it's involved. There's a lot more into it. So, we have kind of just, you know, we're doing everything we can to do it in the right way where we don't, like you said, we, this is the first of some of the stuff that you're saying that I've heard as far as maybe um where the light is placed. So, we just we want to make sure that our our part
225is done and our that it is it is there and it is is there and it is done properly. And then that's that that part of it. as far as the other stops and the other I think it was something that we would really need to evaluate and I know that our transportation coordinator has a good map of our stops and it'd be a matter of looking at them and see where our trouble spots are and look at some like that maybe work up something and meet with the state. Yeah, I I understand there's that bureaucracy between the Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico and even if it's with the federal government in respects to being able to tag and locate some of those areas and put up again just as with this
226a solar light to be able to address that. But it certainly I think it would behoove us to even start thinking about that so we can get our ducks in a row just in case because I believe the conversation at the national level is getting a lot more serious about actually keeping the time in place and not uh doing the adjustments. So I I think we need to think about it at least like I said make sure we have a plan in place to do that and start those conversations. Thank you. Good idea. Mr. Ormana. Yes, Mr. Wells. I wasn't uh I wasn't faulting anyone. I was just making a sarcastic comment. No point taking, sir. No, no, no offense taken, but no, we do recognize that it has taken a long time. And I
227was thinking about how many stops we have multiplied by that four years and thinking I could No, no, I see your point though, and I do I do think that if it's something this is a one-off thing, it's something that the district had taken on. It was it was uh it it became it was it was brought to the attention. It's a one-off thing. I don't think we have another one in the district. So, um this is definitely a learning experience for all of us. Well, thank you. And and point taken for sure. And I think these are the conversations we'll have, especially with our new finance director and and leading with the team and the group and in the meetings we have. At least we'll have good direction of what we can do and
228how we can approach this and look at budgeting and look at stuff like that and grants. reaction. Yes, If you could just limit two for five minutes. [Laughter] Six school board members student safety safety this evening they're discussing uh safety for the students. So this is part of their safety, getting them up in the morning, making breakfast for our children, our grandchildren, and that they get on the bus safely and drive safely in the bus to get to the school. So the people here and the education system can do their job and the students can do their jobs. So thank you for that discussion and then as uh Mr. Arment I had you and your crew you came out quickly and put up that uh the base and then the pole that what even that
229was taking um over close to 3 years I started this um over 3 years ago for people that don't know about um this um topic here and it was also due to our my schoolboard member Miss Aspus that one morning when she drove by and it was dark and at that time um the bus would come by uh at 6:28 in the morning. It was still dark. Then the following year it went to 6:30 and then to 6:32. So, and it was uh dark for most of that time. And then as Miss Aspated when there's a lot of people that work up there at APS and Navajo Mine that zoom through there even though there's a sign slow down, school bus stop ahead on both ends. people drive through there, zoom through there, passing each
230other, and then we have the students standing there right um right by the road. So, um and I only became aware of that when my oldest grandson who graduated just recently from uh Kirtland Central High when he was a freshman. He started riding the bus and um we'd make breakfast, Mr. and I would make breakfast for him and we'd stand on the porch at that point because we live right right off the road. We stand on the porch and make make sure the bus stops over there, make sure he got on safely. And of course, the other students, the other children that are that are down the road, they catch the bus and the bus goes on and at that time they had made another stop right before the uh bus stop uh the bus
231went up on the hill. So that we took that on until Miss Aspus brought that up at the schoolboard meeting and then that's what prompted me to ask for help from the chapter, ask for help from inte uh approach APS and you know that's not part of our our job. So it just kept going on and on until uh Mr. Benvitas um who was the superintendent at that time and Miss Aspus had brought it up to him during the schoolboard meeting and then so immediately that um when he made a report to the chapter house he and his uh manager at that time came out and looked at the spot and had uh I think started things rolling and then of course then there was that pause there in leadership. So uh even that had
232part uh partly to do with with why this has gone on so long and then also um getting help from the chapter. So like I said it's good to hear that um Mr. Arant uh contacted our chapter president. He hadn't um said anything to us. So we weren't aware about um the latest one. So I don't know how large that is and then how uh much of an illumination that it will provide for the students. And then due to the school schedule changing for this year, now the bus stops at 6:45. And then of course at this time the sun is is up. But then um as Mr. Mononttoya stated, when the time changes and it gets darker, then there'll be a different story then when the students get up um get on the bus
233that early. So I just want to um thank Mr. Arant and the school board and um other people that who took a part in this and were getting this far. So thank you very much on on that behalf. And then and Mr. um Wells brought up um other then it made me think okay what about other bus stops within the district like down the farm road and ship out towards new how is how safely is their waiting spot as they wait for the buses in the morning and then even when they get off the bus you know how's the traffic there so as I had um brought up at the last uh school board meeting. There's um a plan to um build a solar plant out by the lake, Morgan Lake. So even the traffic
234there, the traffic that's going to increase going through Ninahan, even on that side on N36. So we have to um with your help think ahead and for the safety of our children. So So that's what we think. That's what I think for my grandchildren. And I'm a former educator here with from this district. Um I taught Navajo language over at Kirtwin Al for about 19 years. And I just add a little t a little tidbit here. I'm thankful that we have two of our students that um were awarded the bilingual seal. So all of that effort that the teachers well even from the family themselves the grandma a they're the teachers that teach the who we are as other than even though if they're going to graduate for them the students themselves sh to hear
235that within our district at our schoolboard meetings to you as our leaders to hear that language being spoken from our children. So I'm uh thank you for uh I went over the five minutes. I don't know how many you were trying to go for the six minutes but anyway so Mr. Mar Armenta um what is the timeline? It's not up right this is no no that is on order. It's it's four to six weeks out. I'd like to thank Miss Low and and honestly for the for the communication. We come to these meetings and and it's nice to hear from from our community and you know and the students. You know, we hear from each other a lot, but it's nice to hear from what the people in our, you know, our communities have to
236say about what we're doing out here. So, and I thank you for, you know, giving us the praise and you don't hear that a lot and thank you for for acknowledging that. Um, but yeah, we're looking at four to six weeks. So, that was as of today. So, I will update and hopefully by the next time we will have and I know it's going to be a lot better than what we had. And I do know after driving the district and looking at some of the stops like that this particular road there's not much of a shoulder. There's you know other places there's a lot wider shoulder more place to pull off this there's a very small shoulder. There's a lot there's a lot not just because of the traffic but there is hardly any
237shoulder there where some of the other roads we have a little bit more of an easement with a with a with a shoulder. So there's a lot to take into consideration there as far as uh things like that. So thank you for your time and thank you if you have any other questions. But um I appreciate you. I think on that note, superintendent, if we can start pre-planning planning as was stated that to identify those areas, those those areas that might need light. So if we're applying for a grant, then we're ready with all the information. So thank you. Appreciate it. All right, next bus stops. Yeah. And then um now to letter M. School updates by principles, Nukem Elementary. [Laughter] The closest one. Anyh who, I should have I should have I should have
238made a wager said, "Hey, let's see if the newcome will go up furser than the lights." No, I'm just kidding. Oh, what? So, and one thing I didn't do was I didn't go to school at Nukem public school. I did not I'm a product of a boarding school and you know I went to Nukem and not newcome to and prep and yeah so anyh who Mr. Carlson, um, Miss Hoski, uh, Matthew and Miss Aspus, and Gary. So, uh, anyh who, uh, Nukem Elementary, we have 160 students as of last week. Yeah. Uh, we have 17 preK and 24 kindergartens, 24 first and 21 second. Third grade, we have 25. And fourth grade, we have 25. And fifth grade, we have 24. So we have 46 staff members. So and our attendance from August to the
239end of March our attendance rates at 90%. And August to December first semester our attendance rate was a little bit down at 89.9. However, uh from June, not June, January after the break to March 31st, our attendance has improved really well. So, uh, last week our attendance by itself was at 95.7, which was like, yeah. So, we were super proud about that. That was a celebration. So, we did that. So, next slide. So, our 90-day plan, you know, we we focus on ELA, English language, arts, mathematics, and attendance. And you probably see teachers, EAs, custodians, you know, everybody has a voice in our plan. So most of our teachers um we require require them to do PLC's on a weekly base and do a data data dive data um reading and all that good stuff
240and we utilize HQIM materials resources. Right now we have in reading and great minds and some um other teachers are also using other HQMIM resources with math and right now attendance is a is a challenge but we we've been we've made it our focus to address it. So that's it. So hat. So okay. Uh this is our first year I would say maybe sorry say third year though but I would say this would be our first year doing a dual language program that is 50/50. Uh the first two years we did 9010. Uh the 9010 was coming off the ground pretty well and this year when we went to 50/50 program things were a little bit challenged within our program just because we had to get more teachers from K to fifth grades. Uh before
241we only had kinder and first grade and we just had kinders in one room, first graders in one room and we did 9010 that was working really well and our student growth was super. Uh when we went to 50/50 uh we seen some challenge. Uh we are ready to uh do some interventions on how to tackle it from now on moving forward. Um, however, you know, it's it's it's doable. So, right now we have 47 students in our dual language program. Uh, almost a third of them a third of our students are enrolled in dual language and we do have like four kids from NS Chitty which is cool. I'm sorry, Miss Dr. Bitsoule. So, um, they, you know, we bust them in. So, uh, which is good. So, So what do they say 14,000
242per child? So that's if I quick comment um I think myself and miss we actually stopped by the was a basketball game and the students did amazing performance with language culture and they were they were flowing. I was I was blown away I was impressed. Oh and I I miss it bitta. Yeah. Yeah. And she did uh high school games for like four or five games and and the students were engaged. The community will all they all supportive and supportive. Yeah. And you know an outsider coming in when you show them the um when you visit a dual language classroom uh it's very rare when you go into a classroom kids talking their own language and everybody be like whoa I'm dying super you know they're they're blown and and they're super excited about and
243they just the language that they talk and sometimes they'll throw in some little slang but you know they're learning So, uh, I am super proud of that. So, and for me, uh, I I've I've talked Navajo growing up all the way to high school and for me to start talking English was a challenge for me and but I all I know was Navajo and that's all I talk even at to when I was at boarding school. So, anyhoo, moving on. uh our data for K through 2nd MOI or BOI MOI reading data uh we've slightly increased but we're still gaining which is you know we're really proud of it. So what we're really proud is our first grade students right now that are coming up second grade you know it it's a challenge but they're
244holding their own. Yeah. Next math. math, uh, kindergarten, first grade, you know, they're doing their thing. They're they're improving. Second grade, however, they're a little bit flatlining and we knew we expected that. They did the same thing last year and now we we are addressing it. Uh, we are contacting some parents in terms of how do we address fluency math facts in the little things. So, so that's what we're doing with our second graders. So, go ahead. And this is our uh Cogna BI and MOI data. And I am super super excited about one area. Um we've improved practically in every category except for one. Uh one thing I would like to say is I'd like to thank u Mr. Carlson. um he went to our third grade teacher and thanked them because our third
245grade teacher or third grade class at the beginning of the year they were 96% needing support. So when they took the MOI they decreased it from 96 all the way to 16%. And improved it in near target and on target. So, um, I was super my my my my my third grade teacher was super proud and say, "Hey, guess what? Mr. Carlson came over and congratulated me." So, I told all my parents that we're going to have a party. So, that was a celebration. So, we did celebrate. The third grade, they did they celebrated. So, which was cool. It's not often when you hear um an admin coming over and personally uh congratulate teachers. So, thank you, Mr. Carlson. I got a question. Yes. Go ahead. I don't mean mean to for this to sound
246derogative, but with the comment that that you just made, it seems that you're inferring that they don't show up. And it's very rare that they do. They do show up. It's just the fact that um to congratulate someone personally was uh was special was special because of the growth that was uh seen from the admin and for them to see it and then to come over personally to actually Okay. The other question I have is what is your um from first through fifth grade? Yeah. What's your student to um teacher ratio? Uh our FTE is very low due to the dual language enrollment. Uh right now our student teacher ratio is like 10.8 I think it was. It's very low. So if it was for dual language then you know our FT would have been
247a little bit higher. Okay. And I thought I was the Debbie Downer here. Anyhow, let's get it correct. It's Gary Downer. I I um you know I I applaud you know I I I like hearing that that our superintendent um I believe all the years that you know I've been on the board I've never seen one um emotional you know and um of losing you know a teacher so you know and that's why I stood up and applaud him because uh we can get wrapped up in all of this stuff, but still we're human. And but the one thing I wanted to ask about is your um you you talked about the feedback, you know, you you wanted to you you told the parents about the math scores. Mhm. So, what kind of feedback did
248you get from them? Um or what were you asking? My my my attent uh initial message was I need students to be present and attendance you know is the utmost important thing that we were trying to ask for parents to help us with their child's attendance come in so that we can implement our own instructional to increase their academic growth. mainly I wanted to hear um how are we um supporting those students that are not um maybe um not necessarily intellectually at risk but you the ones that are having the hardships even from home, how are we supporting them? How are we um keeping them in school? Um because I I think that is is important too. Yeah. Uh I've always said this at Nukem Elementary and Nitty you know schools we are in a
249unique situation and we new unique location too um you know um a 0.5 in of rain can create havoc and you'll get messages saying that uh bad weather stops and it'll affect probably I would say maybe 60% of our students and that's something we cannot control. Uh however, you know, we do our best, you know, to send work home when they come back and then, you know, try to work with them in in that case. So, um there's a lot of families, you know, that live out in the rural area and their struggle is, you know, they don't have transportation to the bus stop or a bus stopping near their place. So those are issues that we have and there's a lot of things that we can't control but whatever we control we can control
250we we we kind we we address it and we try to use a liaison more often. So um I myself used to be a liaison and I found out one dime. Uh when I was at making home visit to Nash Chitty the the student live west of Nash Chitty maybe like maybe half a mile up the highway I mean the the mountain. The only way to get to their house was you have to go to shoot spring store go up the mountain then come back up. And those are situations that we have and we do have people still live in the semi higher elevation. So yeah, we're in a unique situation. So and we even have one student that lives our bus have to get on to Farmington District, go on 371, then come back
251to pick up that student and then come back around. So yeah, so we have our challenge. So any qu Mr. Well, do you have any comments or questions? Okay. Any other comments or questions? I think um Mr. Gleason, it's really a tribute to you and your staff and all the teachers that despite those challenges, your attendance rate is at 92 something%. So, and that that tells me a lot that the students want to come to to school. They want to learn. Even the scores reflect that. So, that's really amazing. So, good job. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, your data is on the right track and a lot at least from what I saw there was a lot of at least with that that presentation by the students, there was just a lot of people that celebrated
252the students who were doing quite well, especially with language and culture. Um I think that's good. So I guess I guess in that respect like back when um we had the A throughF grading system there were only two schools that I recall in S County that had a grades. One of them was Nukem Elementary and the other was the country club elementary and farm. That tells me that Nukem has that type of potential too. And I we tell our kids and we tell our parents also that you know we are so fortunate that we we rely on our tradition and we don't have the luxury of using our fingers to turn up the heat or fing to turn on the light. Uh we still have kids that you know when you shake their hands their
253hands are rougher than mine. So um that tells you you know they're they're working for it. So uh their experience are totally different. So um I really compla uh applaud their parents. It's it's amazing. So yeah and for me to be um within that community coming from there it's more special. Yeah. Thank you. Go ahead. It's quite a challenge. I'm glad you're uh cognizant of it and and able to meet it. I uh uh I guess the thing I would say is uh coming out of that challenges make you tougher. They do. Go ahead. Go ahead Mr. Montoya. It's one of those things of constantly saying that that our uh our students irregardless or respect of what the circumstance is, they're just as capable as anybody else, but they have to have the educators standing
254in front of them that believe in them and to draw it out of them and to show them that they can be much much better than their circumstances are. Yeah. and and we tell them that we relay that message to that. You know, we're no different than um like a 9-year-old kid at Judy Nelson or Kurland Elementary. Um you know, every kid, you know, has that same opportunity. They have that resource of materials and we do too. So, uh it's just the location we have. Um but, you know, bottom line is we're doing our best and and I have really great staff. So, so that's that's a that's amazing. So, and I'm so fortunate that my staff really work together. So, so their work is pretty awesome. So, and moving on. Is it okay if
255I move on? Yes. So, yes. So, our challenge right now is math scores and I think it's just not only us, it's across the boards across throughout the state also. uh our challenge is math scores improving. What we've done is we starting to and we contact some parents and we've been doing math fluency for an hour or 30 minutes. Uh it's just straight math facts, you know, two 2* 2 2 plus two just constantly just install that little memorization and just do it. And that's the interventions we're doing. And same way with our uh our reading and uh you know our phonic awareness, we do the same thing with that too. But math scores we're trying to improve. I I know back in the day they used to say math only has one language but
256since common core came about it's a little bit different. So but um you know our second challenge is student attendance. And like I said before, we have we did unfortunately had to put several students on contract because, you know, they've missed way too many days. So, we're working on it and we've been meeting weekly to get that higher and it does show in our data that we are over 90%. So, and professional development is another challenge that we have. But however, um seems like this semester I'd like to thank Jerry Merid uh you know Candace Kes and uh Mr. B. They've been challenging us moving the professional developments and training to our own building to the schools which is a big plus and our teachers don't have to drive out here like we did to
257present here. So no I'm joking. Um yeah so um which is a huge thing because substitutes are hard to come by uh and for them to bring the training to us is a is a big thing. So it alleviated a lot of um stress on our on our behalf. So and our last challenge is uh dual language intervention. uh it's it if you were to compare like a regular ed uh core teacher they would teach reading and math and later on the day they'll do interventions right for about an hour 90 minutes however dual language do not have that luxury so um that's a challenge that we have but then I'm thinking about maybe teaching math for 30 minutes or uh maybe an hour hopefully Miss Dr. every day uh see if we can do
258math for 30 minutes in Navajo language maybe just implement some interventions that's the plan we have moving forward so um like we said math is we need to improve our scores there so yeah so next our celebration I think this is the reason why most of our students keep coming back is we do have a student of the month for each class We celebrate with them. Uh they do watch movies and they do get awards and they get little a little toy at times. Uh every month uh uh we do trading posts. Uh the trading post is like a each teacher gets like an we call it an eagle book. uh we give them like 50 eagle bucks to each teachers and if a student you know is worthy of getting an eagle book they'll
259get one or maybe two or three. So at the end of each month they get to spend that money. They call it trading post. We have items all the way around the tables and they get to choose to buy and that's you know by doing that they even use their math to buy an item and we do cook popcorns and everything. So, that's one incentives we have. And then the one thing that we're really looking forward to is a book bending machine uh that we haven't really installed it, but we're looking forward to. We got the machine last week, so we're super excited about it. And uh I know the kids saw it and whoa, what is that? So, that is pretty cool. And yeah. Yeah. I told him to give me an autograph book,
260but he didn't. And we had Reservation Allstars. Um they presented a um anti-bullying, which was really good. And the kids liked it. They participated. It's through basketball. And we did have Jim Jones, basketball Jones, come last week too to do a motivation for pretest motivation, which was pretty good. So, you know, it's a motivational thing. And we do have spring concert coming up in May and that'll be the first time we'll ever have a spring concert. We usually have winter concerts and we did our spring family uh literacy night last Wednesday and then our attendance improvement. We do do celebration along with um student of the month. We do that too. And we had several students that transferred out to our own CCSD schools within our district and they come back and says, "You know
261what? you're the only school that had field trips, so I'm coming back. So, that's one incentive that we have, too. So, um I know that we have students going to Paige and to to Albuquerque Zoo and you know, uh even our special ed students are going to swimming trip too. So, uh they're all excited about it. And uh effective professional development um the empower last week was here and our teachers really really really loved it and they were like yes. So we had Mr. Brian come uh four times in the last two weeks. So and he was super excited. So, uh, yeah. So, and spell winners, we celebrated that and we had one one fourth grade kid, uh, student that took first place and went to Navajo Nation. So, that was a a good celebration
262that we have. I think only three students went from CCSD and she was one of them. And we also celebrated the ARC winners, too. So, four. Okay. I I don't know how to do my math. So So yeah, got to learn my fluency. So do this kind of math like this. Yeah, a little bit tougher than engage, huh? So Eureka, that's all I have. And any questions? I comment maybe. No, it's good job. Thank you. [Applause] Um, Nashi Elementary School. But I grew up in Los City. My name is Dr. Alvara. Nice to meet all of you. Um, board members, um, Mr. Mononttoya, Aspis, Mr. So, Mr. Rels, Miss Hasky, and Superintendent Carlson, and your cabinet here, your team and colleagues. I don't know if there's any parents here. Um, we have a presentation here
263um on behalf of Nashi Elementary School. We are um the home of the Badgers. And uh I was looking at Lash City Elementary School. I said, "Can you guys hear me?" Okay. Okay. Um, so I went online and we were researching and it we found that we were on the best elementary schools list for US News Today in the World News Report or the World Report and and Eva B. Stokeley was u number one in the school district. I don't know if that's something that the school district contributed to, but we were very proud to see ourselves in that list. So go ahead. You can go to the next slide. Um, like I said, I'm Kia Anie and these are pictures of our children. Um, and you know, we just love our little babies there
264and we're all related, but not really like that, but by clan and we come from different regions and we greet one another by um, and we have that. We don't have the dual language program, but we have our own program. So go ahead go to the next slide. Uh we do have we're working on our vision and our mission statement but we do commit to welcoming each child so they feel welcome they feel safe and that's what we're stressing you know in this day and age there's a lot of we are on an index of 50 51% at risk students. So um Herman mentioned some of those attributes. Um so we are revisiting our vision and our mission statement statements and um our average attendance rate is 89%. Our student population is 78 and it
265was at 82. So it fluctuates is what I've learned. There's a lot of trans transitions um from in and out of the community in schools and um and there's a lot of variables to that. We have um teachers that are full-time FTE. Uh we have five and then we have um 4.5 FTE teachers. Educational assistance we have three counselors we have one um at 2.5 um which is one day out of the week. Social workers the same. A heritage bilingual teacher we have one support staff we have eight. So, um, if you could show the whole slide, could is that possible? Like a slideshow? Okay, this is an interesting, um, slide here. When I just came on board, um, all these little words here were just all I felt like they were just all over.
266And so I said, we're going to work on a framework. So, this is the EPIS um, research framework. And it starts with ex exploration, preparation, implementation, and sustainment. So, we looked at what do we have? Um, and Herman use a 90-day plan um as a reference. So, our educational plan for student success has all these different components. So, um the implementation is the commitment, and I can go down that list, but I can't really see it. I mean, my glasses. Um so but outcomes are to produce highly effective students, highly effective programs and to bring the community together to increase attendance assessment data. And just recently Lisa said we can proclaim to be a community school. So we're very proud of that. And um here we have our growth and non-growth of um that I
267station IP math for um the beginning of the year and the ending of the year. So we'll go to the the next one the next slide with the charts. Um we'll go to that one next one. That one there that Herman showed too. Okay. So as you see here um kindergarten has made significant I would say significant growth first grade as well and we we talked about this and we have we've had conversations during our PLC's and um we believe it's because we have the early childhood program the pre prek program and um second grade there are different reasons like we had a teacher and then we didn't have a teacher and then we had a sub. So, some of these things, you know, do exist in remote and isolated areas. And as a nation,
268we're faced with a teacher shortage area. So, third, fourth, and fifth, um, third had some growth, but fourth and fifth just plateaued out. So, we're having those conversations, although it's not really plateaued out. If we go to the next um slide, um we also have um reading here. And so we've talked about how did how did we get how did we have some growth in kindergarten and first grade? Um let me see. So uh we talked about that and um can you go back to that slide six please? Let's see. And excuse me, but I had a cold, so I'm trying to get over that. Um, slide six. Go back up one more. Okay, six, I guess. Five. I apologize, but I'm trying to go through this. I'm not going to take I'm not going
269to take 30 minutes like Herman. He's my little brother. He's hush hushing. So, number five. Okay. So it says in May data conference and work in domain specific areas of needs. That's what we'll be working on to increase the test data. Best practices that are in place now are sacred time and math in the mornings. Reman school you're doing better in reading and language arts. Our school is doing better in math and reading and um language arts is what we're we need to work on. And then they also teachers have come up with um fidelity to the core. How are we implementing the HQIM materials? Studentled conferences also contributed to the growth. Um can you bring up the slide itself a little bit higher because we did identify several attributes. Data talks with students, goals
270are identified and um goals are set. small group centers and trans transitional um centers like eye stations um using their little iPads is is important in the classroom. Teacher emphasized the importance of testing to students and parents. Those were some of the variables and attributes of um success for the teachers. Okay, we can go all the way back down. Okay, here's reading the the first slide was on U math. So in reading kindergarten did um increase their test scores are their eye station progress monitoring assessment data and then first and second as well. Um third again there was um some progress but very little fourth and fifth as well. So, we are um meeting more and we're doing data walls and we're going to have a data night. We're having math and um ELA literacy
271nights as well with the parents. So, just bringing them in and um having more communications with them is is what we're doing. Um to the next slide. Uh this is the rate of improvement that um the I station um consultant work with our teachers on our school. Level one is the lowest level for um reading. As you can see there is some growth although we're still they're still in the red. this level two um there's also just so there's growth in each categories each area although um level five there's a very low growth rate but we are still growing as far as our test data shows okay and go to the next one math is the same way in level one where there where you saw all the red even though it's in the red
272we're growing and we're making some um progress Yes. Okay. Go to the next our our priority areas that the students work um the teachers worked on for each grade level kindergarten was phmic awareness and this is that um layer 1, layer two and layer three um is required. Um so first grade they focus on alphabetic decoding. Second grade was spelling. Third grade is spelling. Fourth grade is vocabulary. and fifth grade is spelling again. So if you'll see the boy beginning of the year and then the end of the year. So um for instance for kindergarten at the beginning of the year they were at 72% in level one and two which is the lower levels but now they're at 31% they've actually grown. So, so a lot of data analysis and looking at data is
273really important with our features. This is a beautiful picture of our NSI area with a name. This is um the state u math testing for math um for third grade, fourth and fifth for at the beginning of the year. Uh 100% were not performing by um mid year it it we know the yellow line or the yellow graph or the yellow bar increased. So there has been some changes and some improvements. Um for fourth grade they kind of have sustained the same um level of data and fifth grade um you can move it up a little is also the same. So we're having serious conversations, courageous conversations with the teachers. So um and going back and looking at our data and getting the parents involved, having them ask those questions that you all are asking.
274And um here's the reading uh achievement levels for third grade again like it was almost at well 90% and um by moi I believe that's right right there is that EOI sorry um so I'm get I myself am getting familiar with the state testing and the district assessment data not only summit ative testing but formative testing that um teachers implement. So this is just showing the graphs and um it's a really good way for them to take a look at themselves as teachers and sometimes we don't want to um really exam I guess self-reflect but we're I like I said I'm having those courageous conversations and thank you to Mr. Desuit and Jerry for coming in and you know guiding us as well. So for here's fifth grade they were at 44% and um 56%
275for um I think this was was this math or reading but you have the presentation reading achievement levels. So, um I apologize. I can't regurgitate all the data off the top of my head, but we do have the charts here. Okay, go to the next slide. Uh language use um for third grade. So, this is the state testing third, fourth, and fifth for third grade. Um again, the red, it's actually red, but it looks orange. um they were almost at 70%. And by the end of the year um they did um have some students go into the yellow zone or the yellow colors which is making some progress and by eight is um proficiency. So um that's for third grade and then fourth and fifth is there as well. So you just see the colors
276and it tells you it tells you a good a good story about what's happening in the classrooms. Okay. And then these are the growth strategies and what we're we're going to do and in working with um our professional development plans, monthly formative assessments, and there's like 12 areas like that priority report that I just we showed you earlier in the slides. Um and really looking at test data I think is really important. Okay. Um again we went to uh training with the state department and they said data driven instruction data informed decisionm I talked about that culturally relevant learning the 90-day plan um effective school leadership and systems. These are all um indicators of how we can improve our school. Student wellness is is up there as well as teacher and staff wellness. Um we
277we are increasing family community engagement and we're planning a spring community celebration and enrollment drive. Okay, you can go to the next slide. That's kind of like the same thing. Um, so when when I got here, there was a young lady presenting about um her achievement in earning the New Mexico bilingual um seal. Um, and she said that she kind of um I get it did get did a stopout from her culturally relevant and language classes because it was no longer um engaging due to it being turning to paperwork or just maybe filler work. But we called this bedi placebased learning community of learning and resources. And when I was asked to do the presentation um I I understood that we show our data and what are we going to do to address those areas
278of needs. So um in my background you know I believe in language and cultural learning and I believe in um you know for instance this diagram shows like this is a study of corn how that extends to the community our parents our grandparents and also community resources like NAPI college how do you bring those um people together to help us to help our help us help ourselves and our communities Physical and overall health is also part of um just the simple fact of learning about corn planting community resources our elders or lo our local farm growers maybe a trip to NAPI. So we're these are things that we're working on with um even we're thinking about working with the career technical education program for our parents and um our students. Okay. Again, this is is
279just another diagram of how um we can make learning culturally relevant and engaging for our students. Okay. So, we start off with a picture of a young girl that was showing the house. Can you go back to that one real quick? Real quick story. There's a little girl holding Yeah, she's um I think she was like in second or third grade. Now go down to that picture where Oh, I maybe maybe I didn't send it in time, but this young girl is now graduating from the University of New Mexico um in Tohachi High School in a dual credit program. So that's what our school district has produced is young people graduating at age 16 with a high school diploma and a um college degree. So I just want to say that you know um N
280City is a good school. We have people that have graduated from there and have gone on to excuse me Harvard um University of Oxford you know really good prestigious schools. So that's my presentation and thank you very much. Okay, hold on. Hold on. If there's are there any questions or comments from the board? Okay. No, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Pouie. Okay. Um, Nukem Middle School. Yeah. No, that's separate. It's different. Sorry. Okay. Um, so this evening I want to thank the board um um madame chair and then ladies and gentlemen of the board and superintendent um Steve. So we I first of all I just want to say um that I truly appreciate um you know the invitation to have our school come here and present and uh give you information about you know
281what we do and I I really appreciate that. So I'm with um Newcomm Middle School. I've been there for n and a half years and I feel like um I've grown with the school. I remember coming there and I looked at all the um reports that were left by uh the former um uh principles and the thing that I saw in those reports were um that uh back then you know how the schools were graded. So there were um our school was you know it had a lot of um D's and Fs and I think just one year it was a D and the rest were F. And I one of the things that I thought is that you know this um our our kids deserve better, our community deserves better. And you know we're
282we're really going to uh make Nukem Middle School a name that we're going to be proud of. So with that our um journey begun. So with and um one of the things that uh we have done that work and help us to accomplish um is getting the um school designation of uh traditional. So coming from when I started there n and a half years ago we were at uh uh comprehensive school improvement low performing that's like the lowest. So with you know as I said before with grades of F and 1D and then uh CSI low performing and then uh this year our designation being traditional you know my staff and of course students that went through uh you know they have done a tremendous job. So I really want to um emphasize that and
283I think that you know we I we did a a presentation here but as I have heard um you know my colleagues presentations one of the things that um I think is foremost for all of us is the 90-day plan. you know that's when we do that in the fall we look at our data we look at everything that we have and um I take a look at uh the skills of my teachers you know what are they um good at what do will they really help our school uh we identify the needs and so um that's that's how we began so just a little bit about our student body we have 128 students students and uh 41 6th grade, 7th grade is 39, 8th grade is 48 and then um I have a small
284staff. Um and and it's going to even decrease less. Uh we're just we're um sixth graders are going to stay with um Herman and also um Elvirra. So next year our uh enrollment will drop again. Then we also, excuse me, have core classes. And then um we have elective classes. And all of the elective classes except for Navajo language and culture and PE. Uh those are not shared with um Newcomm High School. So we share a lot of our our teachers with them. And then what that also does is that we share um our bell schedule. So we don't stand alone, you know, if we're going to make any changes, if we're going to um, you know, do like um any type of programs over there or, you know, we have to let each other
285know. And I always tell my staff, I said, it feels like, you know, when you go to um uh the fairs, they do this sack race. So you have one leg uh one person has one leg over here and then the other person stands by you and they have the other leg and this one hogan I mean sack and then you you run you know that's how it is. So we have to always make sure that we're coordinated and doing things together. So um let's move to the next slide. Um so what's working um as I said is that our 90-day plan that we've done for the fall we've implemented and a lot of these programs that we're doing here that are listed here you know our professional learning communities those are done on a
286weekly basis and uh some of our um other others they do it on every two weeks so it it varies based on uh the need of the um the departments. So those are ongoing and then just the communication that we do with our uh stakeholders. We do monthly calendars. We do uh newsletters and and then the teachers individually they do their own communication with the with the parents. And so um there's many ways that we do that. And we also have included the chapter houses. We serve um six chapter houses but seven communities. So we keep them uh you know in the communication loop about everything that we're doing. And then the other thing you know we're we've been talking about safety all all evening and our LSAs have really contributed to ensuring that we
287have a a safe campus. So I'd like to acknowledge all the work that they're doing. And then our afterchool programs, uh, those are all part of, um, aligning everything so that it's it works with our 90-day plan. So that's what we do. The next slide, please. And these are some of the um the new new programs. One is working with the um uh unity equity and student council. So they have um started uh we have a sponsor she's been working with our students and they have attended many uh conferences in Phoenix, Albuquerque, I think they even went to Las Vegas and so those have really um taught our students leadership skills so that that uh it is so successful. I think that what um uh they have done with from ICO and helping and supporting
288our schools is excellent. Excuse me. Then the other thing that um uh we uh we were informed that uh we were part of the outdoor learning program. So we have been purchasing you know anything that you know plants and anything that we can work with. So, I have a team that's working with the outdoor learning uh program and that is combined with the community schools. So, making it um more of a community effort and we're really including the um students and we have um some parents that donated the tires for our gardening areas and things like that. So, uh, that's how we're we're moving on that and we're going to be, um, applying for the community schools for the next school year. So, now it was just kind of getting to become familiar with that
289this past year and uh, Miss Le Lisa Rener really helped us with uh, some of her funding. We don't have it at our school level, but she was able to help us and support us with that. And as the last one I mentioned that we are now uh the traditional school status. So I think that is the the greatest accomplishment that my my faculty my staff have done and and and our students. So we're very proud of that. Next slide please. And um student attendance. This is a lot of information but you um have received the presentation. So we just provided what our data has been for the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter and then some of the challenges that that we uh encounter out in the the newcome area. So a lot um
290Mr. Gleason has brought up and uh it just um you know we have students that live um west and they uh live in the mountains. They live in you know really rough terrain and and then the there are some that live east of 491 and they will say that you know they get all the rain from the runoff from the mountains. So it you know they they get their areas flooded and so those are challenges that uh they deal with which really uh impacts their attendance and so um then um as I think Mr. Gleon said, you know, we don't we majority of our families don't have transportation or either they have to have um relatives bring them to the school or bring the kids or come to activities and things like that. So those
291are the challenges that that we we deal with. to the next um and and in helping uh to improve attendance, we've done uh monthly attendance challenges and we usually begin that at the school year, but we have we we decided those work very well. So, let's do another um attendance challenge and and we do a lot of rewards. we provide a lot of incentives um on a weekly basis when we do those things. So that has really helped. And then um the second one it's the school um attendance team. We have a team that comes together every month and we meet and we go over all of the um you know just getting an update on how many students really have excessive um absence and you know we try to find out what's going on
292and then if we have to send a liaison or if we have to do a a you know a check at home you know those are all things that we do and and making phone calls calls. And so we we work together as a team to do that. And then the next one is that for all the student count days, we want to make sure that our students are there. So to bring them, we we do celebrations so that we're we're really, you know, our goal is to make sure that we have I think one of them we actually had the one for October, we had 100% attendance that day. So we were really happy. So that's the the purpose of that. Then the next slide please. Um I'm not going to go into details
293but this is just the um uh beginning of year comparing to the middle of year data for the sixth grade and for reading language arts and math. And so I think we all have different ways of presenting our data. And this is for the seventh grade. And we've seen increases. you know, we want we always want to see more, but um you know, we're happy with with the increases that we've seen. And then this is for our eighth graders. So then going to the next um student success, we've um done that with the professional learning communities as as I indicated earlier and then the attendance notices and then also the um social emotional support. We're using the capturing kids hearts and they we have monthly meetings with the um with our coach through that program
294and and they provide us with all the resources so the teachers have access to the capturing kids heart resources. So that's what they use um on a weekly basis in their classrooms. Next slide. Uh the um continuit of school initiatives. And so this is just like this is you know all the things that we're doing and all the challenges that we're we we encounter you know these are things that we want to continue because they really uh help us in in in working with our students and really identifying their needs and focusing on how we can best help them. So it's with continuing the um uh social emotional learning and then the um eighth grade teachers which Miss Simo heads that with the counselor is the um next step plan. So they're going to be
295working on that next week and then helping the the eighth graders as they uh transition over to the high school. Then we use um for skills development and we do that during our advisement classes on a daily basis. So we we have just 30 minutes but we really take advantage of that and we started from the beginning of the school year and really wanted to build up uh the skills that the students need. so that teachers do a very good job in their PLC meetings identifying who those students are that really need the help and supporting them along um on that basis. And then we also have sports, you know, we we do all the the fall, winter, and now the spring sports. And then we have the um National Junior Honor Society, too. Next
296slide. Um some of the challenges as I went along it's been mentioned but um the uh in our building we just have unreliable uh power uh and internet services and Miss Simo can you know she and and it really impacts like our testing our assessments or uh when the teachers have to use online work to to do their um lesson plans if they can't get on or then they have to you know uh make some uh changes to until it comes on. So those are on a daily basis. So I think that that I know that the district is working on that and helping and we appreciate that. So then the um just the lack of professional development time in in our calendar. So, we have to really get creative and uh earlier someone mentioned,
297you know, it's hard to get substitutes and especially in our area, we we have to be uh um you know, really the high school and the elementary, they take the subs or vice versa. And so, we're like trying to make sure we could have coverage. So, um that that I guess it's going to be ongoing for a while. And then the other area is just the um uh you know working with parents. I think when they get to the middle school level they I don't know why but it changes. At the elementary parents are really involved. They come for everything and at the middle school it's it's a challenge. So that's all I can say. Um then along with the the power and internet we also you know don't have really good cell service. So
298that's um something else that we uh deal with. And then just getting certified um teachers, certified staff uh to come and work at our school and stay for a long time is is a challenge. they come for two years, three years and maybe some for four years but not beyond that. So that's an ongoing um uh situation that we deal with. So next slide. And then this just shows that you know with our community schools you know we have been really um working with these communities. We have Nukem chapter um Burnham to Grey Hills. The writing is to Nashi Sheep Springs and oh Sasti. Those are all the chapters that we serve. So, you know, we really want to work with them when we um apply and if we're um given the community school grants.
299So, next one. And these are just some um community school events that we've held this year. So, that's all it lists. And that's the end. There any questions or comments from the board? Go ahead. I don't think She can't Any other questions or comments? Yeah, I I just want to comment that I mean just look looking at your test data, it looks like things are moving in the right direction. There there's growth at all grade levels. Um so I'm definitely looking forward forward to seeing what the end of year assessment is going to look like for for your school. Mhm. Um so like some of the issues that we talked about such as power internet services, is there something more that we can do like uh um even like power back like solar or battery
300power that if the power gets disrupted, do we have something that would be able to kick in? That's something that's within our control as a district. And I think the other one that was t that was mentioned was lack of cell phone service. Um I I don't know who the current providers are that work that way, but I I know like in sell windows. I'm not sure where the towers around. So maybe the other other discussion is maybe do we need to put a a tower in that area because I know that that that area within our district is has really bad service. I'm ahead. No, that's some good thoughts and I think Leandro or Dr. It goes back to the question that we have is what do we have within our air control that
301we can like within our our land lease library what can we do to help solve some of these issues at the system. Good good points good questions. Yes. Um and those are great points. Um uh Miss Mr. So, and we have a current project that's ongoing uh which we anticipate um the sacred winds and uh the project that they've been connecting you know it's the digital highway from from Bloomfield Kirtland Shiprock then newcome and then NASGP. So that's been in the in the work and we were told by our vendor that um that will be completed by June 30th. So we are really positive that that will happen and that will help alleviate some of our connection issues with with the new fiber optics um connections within this this area. However, I will I cannot
302speak for because if there's no power even we have those breakthrough upgraded servers connections network that will not be possible either. So, I'd like to have Ronnie to Rodney to answer some of those. Well, thank you, Dr. Ventrina. Um, and and I know that that uh that out there and we do have challenges and I know that we have um talked to Wagner Power. We've talked to Rocky Mountain Cummins about designing or maybe looking at getting power generation out there utilizing, you know, the propane um and have some power backup for the middle school uh to help with alleviate some of the issues that we're having on the brown outs or the blackouts and have some type of consistent power. And I know that's been an ongoing issue and like we we've stated that if
303we don't have the power no matter what you know what we have as far as the system that's there even it's all upgraded we got to have the backup. So we have started them conversations. Um we we're having Wagner doing a lot of our um PMS and keeping up with our generators, the power generation that's there now at some of the high schools and and and and we'll look really look at um where we're at in in and encompassing that into our budget of looking at the future of having power generation out there school. Thank you. And and one more thing to to add. Um we also have the current category 2 project for -ate which is our access points. Um will be actually started installed at Nashi Elementary School and we were planning to
304have it live in the next coming weeks. Um the next one will be the new middle school and New Y High School and New Elementary. um our our contractors are working even at night to make sure that those um access points again adding those um um boosters basically to our connection. So my our coordinator, he's not here today. Um Mike Thomas actually made a test run this week um from 50 Mbps that connections will um boost up to 150 to 200 Mbps for for those new um category 2 um project. And then aside from that, um I know before I share that we have a Starlink um like a secondary um internet connections down in NOO which we have a a kind of like a pilot test if we if that will be something that
305we want to um pursue with other locations. And I know our finance director um is pushing us to to get that going. But I am recommend to to wait for the project that we have been waiting for so many years with our sacred winds and comnet um contractors or vendors. So if that is something that we need to um supplement with our connections and internet then we will go that route as well with with new area. So we do have some plans um in in the works for for those areas and I do um feel Miss Manuel about those you know during testing it really um prohibits to continue our students taking those and sometimes we have to report test irregularities for if that happens. So so just sharing some of those informations. Thank you.
306Hi uh just wanted to let you guys know um as working with all the departments here finance operations and with IT uh we are putting in place three additional POS um for the cell phone uh boosters and for the radio communication boosters to get those ordered. Um Miss Ray did we actually get those POS put in? We put in the requisitions for those. So we'll we'll keep you updated once that comes in. We get those installed. That's the the last portion of completing our our upgrades for the communications. Um and then those types of boosters for that. And then that'll that would have that completely upgrades our our district for the radios to be able to use the radios in the buildings um that we've already completed in uh Kurland and in the Shiprock area.
307So So that is also in the works as well. Thank you. Thank you. There any other questions or comments? Um go ahead. with that. So with that backup um power is that Generrack. Okay. Thank you. Um Mr. Wells, do you have any questions or comments? I'm good. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Okay. Now item number six, review consent items. See below and items pulled from consent agenda for discussion and or approval. A possible items removed from consent agenda. I have letter C, notice of filing approval for KCHS Soccer Booster Domestic Nonprofit Corporation bylaws New Mexico. And I have letter I, memorandum of agreement between ASU Accelerated and Central Consolidated School Districts. Were there any other ones to pull? No, I believe that would be it. So, I'd make a motion
308to pull those two items. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay. Um, Mr. Mononttoya, yes. Miss Aspus, yes. Mr. So, yes. Mr. Wells, yes. and I vote yes. Uh I guess going back with that said, I'll make a motion to approve all the items in the consent agenda. And I believe we wanted to modify item D to where the the fundraising request is amended to have the Kirkland Central High School principal be the sponsor of the fundraiser. Yes. Second. Okay. Did you get that Sharon? The second. Okay. Mr. Mononttoya, how do you vote? Yes. Miss Aspus, yes. Mr. Cell, yes. Mr. Wells, yes. And I vote yes. Okay. On to the next item. Uh, executive session. A convene session discussion on personnel matters regarding the board's goals and expectation of the superintendent and as
309permitted under NMSA1978 section 10-15-1H2 of New Mexico Open Meetings Act. discussion pertaining to threatening or pending litigation regarding legal advice as permitted under NMSA1978 section 10-15-1H7 of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act. Do I have a motion to go into executive session? I move. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Mononttoya, how do you vote? Yes. Miss Aspus, how do you vote? Mr. Cell, yes. Mr. Wells. Yes. And I can't hear Miss Aspus. Yes. She said yes. And I vote yes. We will. to the community. We will be continuing executive session on April 17th, Thursday, April 7 17th at a.m. Also here in Kirtland and We take a vote. Okay. Okay. Um, board member Mononttoya, how do you vote? Yes. Yes. Board member cell. Can we make a motion? We make a motion to continue.
310Okay. Um, Mr. Wells, I need a motion to continue for Thursday. I so move. Second. Second. Okay. So now, Mr. Montoya, how do you vote? Yes. Mr. Wells, how do you vote? Yes. Mr. So, how do you vote? Yes. I vote yes. Dismissively. Okay. All right. We will see you on Thursday. Thank you so much. Hey, uh, check your dick. [Music]