001e e started if you'll please stand for the opening exercises LED tonight by Miss anel for it stands one nation God indivisible perfect among United cultures would you bow with me in pray pleas our most gracious Lord father we thank you so much for this beautiful day little from the wind father we thank you for all of the hardworking Village of people that we have in this District so blessed the kids they give 11% to make to put us on the map they do everything they can to be successful and Innovative and compassionate father please be with s we make decisions that affect this District we pray in Jesus name thank you we do have a a quorum tonight so I'll call the meeting to order and are there any adjustments to tonight's agenda okay
002do I hear a motion to adopt the agenda with flexibility okay all right and we love when we look out here and see a lot of special guests and so I'm going to turn it over to the superintendent who's going to recognize each of you I am going to ask that uh sponsors when you when your group is up here would you either introduce your students or have them introduce themselves as we move through this so thank you okay good afternoon or evening H thank you for being here so I have several groups it's just because that's how awesome the wall cats are the first group I'd like to recognize is our student council lemington high school student council [Applause] lington sent 18 students to Albuquerque to represent the school Lexi kpatrick is our very
003own who served as um the State president for this school year and last summer and Stu stuco presented two projects and I'll have you talk about those in a second one was um May the cookies be with you and the quack awak they also and they they received third place for May the cookies be with you and they received second place with uh the quack awakens they also receive Platinum Council of the year which is a report submitted every year that showcases what our student council does and how they are meeting all the expectations for the year Platinum is a designation given when a school is able to make gold three years in a row and continue to receive that designation we have been Platinum for three years which is pretty awesome so Mr Payne
004is um the student council's advisor and yes they are very active and I'm very proud of this group um of kiddos and um he Mr Payne has served in many state officer positions and so uh we'll have him talk a little bit about that so if you guys want to go ahead and present yes yes turn that on um this is edin BR he's our student body president so I'll let him say most of the stuff um but our state our state conference theme this year was um a Star Wars theme it's the leadership awakens so every year the schools pick a thing and so that's where the titles of our projects came from Star Wars things oh yeah you can start with the binder thing okay um I think you should do okay because
005I've not done this before so this is just a b that we present it's it's a annual report that we do to the state it's optional for schools to do but um it basically just says what we do for the year the projects we commit um there's 10 categories we do nine of the 10 we don't do environmental for some reason but we just never have one not yet so but we do that along with our participation and all the other stuff that we have to do so um it's fun for them to do shows us that we're doing our meetings and everything correctly so that's where the Platinum comes from then you can explain the projects yes our first one was the cookie yeah May theie May the cookie be with you some something
006along those lines I love that project so much so we the goal of this was to spread a positive message uh during our holiday season which of course was Christmas and share our positivity with our teachers and staff because they are vital our staff is absolutely vital and we respect every single one of them so we wanted to give them a little a little treat for the little holidays our other project was oh we worked with Miss Hudson no irons irons FCCLA yes they made a bunch of cookies a bunch trades I'm talking huge huge trades guys I'm not kidding our other project was like something quack oh the quack away the quack oh made the quack uh what was it duck for Joy duck for joy we were close we were close duck for
007joy we were close duck for Joy now this came from Mr Payne's brain brilliant I mean it's a way to spread again positivity because that is the main goal of student council to spread spirit and positivity the goal of this was to you know hide around little duckies everywhere and they were real rubber ducks everywhere and they were really cute rubber ducks I'm kidding I'm talking we had one that was a dragon one that was a princess one that was an alien another one that was a bear with unicorn so on and so on they were cute cute rubber ducks and we would hide them in places and students would go out and look for them and I'm talking kids had 15 Ducks that's the most that I saw yeah they really liked collecting those
008so it just a way to kind of improve and make a little bit of joy for September organ and offes so very proud of them um they going to get a certificate for the council to display confidence thank you [Applause] guys okay bye thank you thank you our next group that I'd like to honor is our English Expo group we are in our fifth year sending uh this competitive group to State English Expo represents wcat nation very well since the very first year earning at least 20 medals a year they have competed virtually and this was the first year for them to go up to Albuquerque um there live to compete in person they compete against all classifications and come back with medals and some are state champions Miss Laro is our our head advisor
009for this organization and I believe there's other staff that assists her with it so I will turn it over to our um English Expo group to talk a little bit about what you guys did and we do have some state champions in this group and I believe you they this group this year received over 20 medals brought back home so okay go for it thank you of course well thank you for inviting us to tonight's board meeting English exper would like to express our appreciation to the Lovington Municipal School administrators for the wonderful pancake breakfast before we head into competition so for that we have a thank you letter from Mr Robert Dela [Applause] Cruz um English Expo is also very appreciative of Mr Kirk Morad for his support and paying our registration fees arranging
010for our food making our lovely hotel accommodations and encouraging us by telling us we want you to win so we also have a card for Mr [Applause] Morad we also want to thank our wonderful principal Mr Trey Williams who along with Mrs Sabrina Gonzalez and Mr Chris Auto unfailingly support us and here is their thank you letter [Applause] our very special thanks to Mrs Kelly Howell for providing team LHS with team shirts for the English Expo competition so we also have a card for [Applause] her very special thanks to our kind and wonderful bus driver Miss Marie Huffman who got safely to competition and back home with a happy ride and very gracious bathroom R if our sponsors would please stand all of our thanks to miss Mr Chris Auto Mrs Kelly how Mrs bethan
011Mr Joseph Maxi Mrs dor yassy Mr Matt Payne Mr Noah Marshall and our coach Mr NLO who accompan us who accompanied us on this trip to serve as judges New Mexico English Expo requires us to provide one adult judge for every five com competitors we send without the Jud without these judges giving up their weekend to accompany us and serve at English Expo we could not have competed job although not all our English Expo members were able to be here the ones who are would like to show you a bit of their awardwinning work thank you thank you pict hi my name is Mario Rosales um I went fifth place in my book cover Lord of the Flies very good did acrylic salt and little bit of pel um paintings absolutely very [Applause] nice hi
012I'm Elizabeth Waters I play Smith and photo photographic essay photographic what photographic essay okay you bring I got that wrong I'm so sorry I ped F and poster [Music] [Applause] hi my name is Valerie I won four place in short story fantasy um I just basically write a story while we're over there and they gred there and they give me a that's great good for you it right then right there good job off the cup wow okay that's good very good great this is so cool [Applause] I made third place in traditional storytelling which I told the story [Music] so you had to prepare that ahead of time okay and so you knew what your topic was oh that's so cool thank youn I love this hi my name is Jasmine Durant and I W
013second place for a poetry recitation where basically I recite a poem I memorized and I W second you get to pick your poem or the parameters that you I got to choose my poem and I chose Annabelle Lee by po oh nice nice I got speaking my topic was Robotics and I also done another comp unun oh that's nice good job this is so cool my name is Rodriguez and I got Jud so we get to look at it I promise we'll give it back thank you and I got my phot and what I did B off was I like Toc I'm sure the theater was gonna like that okay I got wow that's a start we will absolutely get this back and have our first winners for state champions for [Applause] English my name
014is America and I is for storytelling traditional where you take a story that you want to share and you just say it with emotion and with range and I want a first place for thatal what goes into sorry what goes into the original storytelling like your own story okay thank [Music] you I got first place team dialog where you're in a team two and they give you a prompt and we have to make a script for that prompt in a like a time period right yeah us that's cool I'm Jackson Bell I'm participated in team dialogue with shows she did most of the writing I did most of the Ty for there you go that's great that is I can't imagine oh my gosh holy cow beautiful how long did that take you and then
015protecting it while you get it up there you know that is amazing thank you guys so English Expo is receiving their chapter of certificate for displaying confidence and communication at the latest um competition so good job good job as I told Miss Loro earlier I just I love when you guys are on the agenda because it's such a neat thing and when you started doing it a few years ago it's just a lot of fun to see uh something so creative and yet honestly a very great School uh skill set for you guys to carry forward in other things you do in life so thank you to the sponsors and congratulations to all the students very talented so that's exciting yes thank thank you our next group is DECA so Mr Crawford is the head
016advisor and uh we had a great team of students uh represent us at state in which they had to qualify to compete at the state at a previous competition we had five of our 13 students qualifi for the state competition and we had um let's see that's not true hold on just a second there are over 300,000 students Nationwide and this is a Career and Technical student organization um it empowers high school students with invaluable business skills real world experiences preparing them for future success um this is also a fairly new chapter and we thought we were just going to ease our way into it but no they proved us wrong they just go up there and collect these medals out of the five students competing we had two students qualify for the national competition
017and uh those two students will be um talked about later on as they're going to be approving or trying to get approval from the board to um travel outside the state so um Mr Crawford would you like to say a little something about your group of kids absolutely and sit down we we have 18 kids in our chapter 13 18 qualified for state which pretty phenomenal number out of the 13 we had five qualify for the finals which was uh was amazing last year kind of caught us by surprise that we had a national qualifier it's actually International it's the international de conference last year we had one qualifi she she qualify last year qualify this year as well so it's amazing it's it was wonderful to be able to go up there and see
018these compete there was over 1100 competitors that they were competing against and you're looking the best in Mexico so that is absolutely awesome I am so proud when they performed uh even when they were nervous and uh you know it's it's nerve-racking being able to I don't care how much you practice when you go get in front of somebody brand new and having to to to talk about your event and it's all roleplay stuff they you take several attests just to get for state and once you get there you have to role play and so what they they'll give you a business scenario depending on what your event is and then you have 10 minutes to come up and formulate a plan on your business think quick on your feet and then you go before
019a judge and the judges are all people from that industry whether it be accounting or Finance or business management marketing sales whatever and so they will uh they will ask you questions from the real world so you know sometimes you can blow smoke at people that they don't know going on these fol were very very good at Prof they know so abely awesome to see these young people compete I'm G ask I'm G to ask them to introduce themselves and what event that they were competing of ours I was competing in principles of Finance accounting application Series my name is anaar and I competed in accounting application Series as well and I am a time second place winner and a two-time international and state qualifier my name is Joshua and I was in personal financial
020literacy my name is Sheridan F and I was in the professional selling event shid confence yeah I saw that early that's exciting wonderful that's amazing thank you guys that is so great chapter is a certificate for display confidence and communication in their these are our state champions congratulations and good luck to you Shar and you guys represent us internationally thank you thank you guys that's so cool our next group is our robotics team they always do a great job amazing job representing schools they go State and when they compete against other state schools and also schools in Texas in earlier competition they are a hardw group of students who in a lot of hours you we have a team qualify fors and midle I am Sheamus Van Cleave I am a 12th grader I'm the
021lead engineer for the robotics team we play second overall for the competition for state and since we play second overall we are allowed to go into a further competition which will be in in Indiana which is not the highest competition but the second best and it will allow us to gain more experience and possibly show what Lovington is capable of my name is Marcos Menda I'm a 12 as well and I'm the robots engineer my name is Hector Baga and I'm a senior as well and I'm an engineer as well help with building the robot I'm Fabian Valenzuela I am the robot driver you're the all around me okay my and are you all seniors yes oh man that's a neat way to a lot of pressure on those underclassmen huh so that's fantastic this
022um this group of uh this group of seniors years they worked on the robot inclass so this was an in-class project um and they worked on it uh they started back in September uh and every day they came in and worked some days harder than others um but over the over the course of the uh the long semester they uh did really well they went to their first competition and it was a rough start but the second competition they were motivated and they did really well so we're really uh we're really proud of them uh as coaches and we appreciate uh the school board support as well as our administrator support um and we'll uh I guess address the the travel we can do that a little B yeah indivual we got and we had
023aom that aous goes by itself robot would go by itself and by the end of the tournament they had three or four T going we hadon driver drove the whole entire time and I think the whole entire time they were sweating and they were nervous and if you ever look y' are too young for that that's great that's awesome I would like to add really quickly that they actually um they did get second but they were the first um in New Mexico the team that they lost to the two teams that uh they unfortunately lost to were actually teams uh from Mexico um and they actually won the overall Mexican Championship so they were the best in in all of Mexico so they did really really great um and um we're the best in in
024the state yes very wow that's great thanks guys and uh they're receiving a certificate to the robotics team for displaying confidence critical thinking and adaptability so thank you [Applause] two more it it's so hard you know when you have so much talent there are four detention centers in the state that houses and serves our students academically we are one of the four the number has decreased from across the state and I don't believe I don't know the whole what was the number 18 18 detention centers to four we are required to provide an educational experience for our detainees and they are also tested Mr godon will you come up her please he has served as an instructor at the detention center for many years he is very dedicated to this Mission as he volunteers past
025his contract hours to make sure all students are able to receive instruction you will also find him in the summer months going to the Detention Center to check on our students provide instruction and simply just checking on their progress I visited the Detention Center a couple of times and I was able to witness him teaching and I was so amazed at his passion and what he does in the respect that is held by the detainees there toward Mr Kon tonight I wanted to honor him and let him know that we appreciate his service and how he goes above and beyond on what he's assigned to do it is truly a calling not everybody can do that job so thank you for demonstrating adaptability IL and integrity and I will call Mr mates up here also
026to say something so thank you well I'm glad the robotics team is here because we think that Joe might be a robot he he's a few years older than me but he never stops and he truly cares about kids and what I consistently hear from him is these are good kids they're good kids and you know for him to be able to make that connection and that bond with kids um it's rare so we really do appreciate he's such an asset to to Lon school we hope he continues for a long time mother nature is not kind to him I'm 83 years old so I don't have but will you stand there so we can take a picture with you and and Mr M yes thank you Mr calderan you do an amazing job thank
027thank you very [Applause] much last but not least is laces laces is our Lovington Autism Center for Educational Services where you will find over 25 30 staff members serving our students with autism pouring out their hearts and doing so with a smile it is a busy place where a lot is going on at one time our students have provided an education in a structured and loving environment students May attend laces all day or their scheduled in throughout the day to meet the needs of their individualized educational plan let's watch this video real quick for some more information for for for what I would love to recognize Luis Gomez as the creator of this video he has done an amazing work getting our stories out and I've asked um the laces group to be here today
028because it is my honor to let you know that the laces has won a national award the Magna award for their service to our students with autism laces will be showcased on the national stage in April featured in the National School Board Association magazine this video will go National at the National Conference and they will get to share their story to others in the nation in a breakout session so let me read the press release to you three school districts earn top honors in the 2025 Magna Awards and Magna is the highest recognition you can get New Mexico's Livington Municipal schools California Compton Unified School District and Maryland's Charles Charles County public schools are the Grand Prize winners in the 30th annual Magna Awards program sponsored by the National School Board Association and the ma
029future magazine American School Board journal the Magna Awards recognize school districts and their dis and their leaders for Innovative outof thebox thinking to address District challenges the Magna Awards celebrate the incredible Innovation and Leadership of school districts that are finding Creative Solutions to complex challenges this year's winners demonstrate the profound impact that Visionary school boards and Educators have on their communities from the expanding Mental Health Services to promoting College access and supporting students with autism we are honored to Showcase their outstanding work and hope they Inspire others to think boldly in the support of Student Success lington won the under 5,000 enrollment New Mexico lington Municipal schools laces is a specialized program that provides instruction and support services to the students diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder so if our laces group that are here representing
030if you will come up here this is a huge huge huge huge honor and uh we are very very proud to send our laces group uh to the National stage and uh Mrs maker would you like to say something I like like I said earlier it's just an honor for us as a board to represent what you all do you you you do the work and um the program speaks for itself and stands on its own um but but what an honor it is to be able to represent you all and and I can't think of enough ways to say thank you for what you do for our students but as the board has always said all children can learn it's just we work really hard in this District to make sure that all children
031have the right learning environment so that they have the best opportunity to reach their full potential and you guys certainly set the standard for that so thank you very very much for what you do for our students we appreciate it I've been luy to work with for years ladies and gentlemen do with our students in all the IAS just I mean story story story of success that they've done for our students that pretty much in the would have been given up on so if it wasn't for them there's a lot you know coach was saying in the video the sports I mean it's a fantastic problem they have because we send people that help those kids out if they need it and so but it wasn't for them giving those kids at confidence thank you
032to this grou thank you guys all right thank you sooud of you well this has been a really fun part of our board meetings um there are districts that don't really think that student recognition is an important piece and when people talk to us about how do you run your board meetings we're like we always recognize students and staff because that's what we're here for so thank you to all of you and and we all know that it doesn't happen with family support so um thank you to the family members that make sure the kids are able to do what they need to do and with that I think we'll take just a five minute recess and anyone that wants to continue to stay is welcome to but those of you that might have something
033else you'd like to go do you're welcome to do that please grab a cookie before you leave so all right thank you guys include us than you s [Music] we e e e everybody get their cookie to sustain okay yeah they are good and the building's going to tilt because here we are okay so we're g to go ahead and move into information uh the director's reports and I'm going to open it up to board members for questions SEL did you have any um for reports no I I just had a couple of them on the enrollment is that the 140 day the no okay so close yeah because what was 1403 okay I mean 120 yeah okay okay okay and Tanya would you mind expanding just a little bit more on the disclosure summary
034I wasn't just for clarification I mean not a deep dive this is filed every year for our bond disclosures right it's basically a report that ACU disclose um prepares for us okay okay I just thought you might like that nice little information and you always do a good job of sharing that and I thought okay I just want to make sure that we all were on board with what it was so okay thank you I was astounded at how much the assessed valuation has gone up since 2021 to 2024 just in that it's almost doubled in that amount of time it's amazing so it's very good thank you T can't afford homes any other questions if not we'll move to the superintendent updates do you have any additional information nothing you're hearing from the legislature
035that of course everything still in limbo I think they're scrambling because next Friday is the last day's a coup bills watching okay good some that have gone through yeah yeah going through all right well appreciate you staying in the loop on that so any other questions from the board on our reports okay if not then let's move right on into routine matters take items uh one through four as part of the consent agenda I hear a motion to approve those items as presented so move okay okay thank you next item budget adjustments there are two budget adjustments for your approval one was added pretty late today that one slid in came in late this afternoon so yes ma'am right questions from the board that the one that slid in what what is that exactly they
036it is um they are cheerwing up the budget for FY 2425 so whenever people don't spend all of their budget they'll redistribute it among the districts thank you so did we spend all our money or are they going to take it away and send it to somebody else we're gonna spend all of our money good okay thank you good lots of things moving great great all right any other questions thank you Tanya do I hear a motion to approve the uh bars as presented so move second okay thank you next item bids oh should have just had you stay up there Tanya uh we do have bids for ancillary you can see all of the the acceptance and then the RFP for the special audit okay questions from the board on the RFP the dollar
037amounts we don't have those yet we do yes we do okay and um I'm working on the contract okay GNA be negotiated okay okay yes okay because I noticed you used a a rubric for it so okay and then you'll just share that okay thank you very much and the only other one I had really I guess really is more for Roger for a sped teacher bid I I don't remember us ever doing that before is that we have for the several last s years okay I slept through it I guess I yeah actually we have two teachers no three teachers that are contract right now in our district okay so that is positions that we cannot that's correct F okay and then the positions are um that we do are they still posted so
038that should they get filled okay they should be and then once we get those and so like those positions will be reposted again okay uh for the next upcoming school year okay so when you see those postings and it's not on the thing about retirements on that's what the positions are okay okay all right thank you I just saw that and I thought okay there's a logical reason for that I just hadn't noticed we one at high school one at Taylor and one at sixth grade academy okay okay thank you any other questions from the board' if not do I hear a motion to accept the bids as presented come a second okay all right thank you we don't have any we do have one donation you'll notice there for after grads so do I
039hear a motion to approve the donation is presented okay I always appreciate that local support for that okay thank you we're g to move on into new business first item consider approval of integrated math pathway so this item together has eliminated as we look at our math performance over time at the high school secondary LEL we want to make a change because isn't and so we feel like we have students are so far behind that we need to address them in a different way or give students an option to and thatway separate from alra geometry alra and so we believe the integrated pathway will help move students more quickly than if they were a traditional out one class as freshman um and so we have done some research and a new um our math program
040as it is we use Theos and so we did a lot of research couldn't really find anything um for the integrated pathway because it is new for New Mexico as an approved graduation pathway and um and so we reached out to them and they in fact had a new integrated curriculum that they were willing to let us pilot um next year for the incoming freshman for those who aren't ready for algebra one um and so they said they would be willing to work with us on this new pathway if we were willing to do professional development and of course are willing to do professional development so we know how to be successful with this program and I want you to think about a few years ago when we went to sim scopes for Science and
041we've gotten great results and the achievement level has gone up because we're doing science different just um only biology only chemistry that we're integrating all those math and so I I did an attachment for you so you can see how it progresses how the focuses on students being able to really have the inquiry and then also have small groups how it's more self-directed so you can do the grouping in the integrated math where teachers you know the students would use a device or a textbook um way to help our get further faster and fill in some gaps we believe so we would like to propose integrated pathway for students who are interested you wouldn't be locked in question as a freshman you took integrated one then maybe you are ready into go to geometry and
042on um let's say a student starts as a freshman in Algebra 1 and they just are struggling alternative pathway perhaps they want to do work based learning and it would work better um for them to have an integrated type of math so they get many levels of math as opposed to just locked into geometry let's say and so it's we're not going to be static they can go back and forth okay based on counselor recommendations paway initially where they so so who decides sorry who decides who goes in the program um well the what we're doing right now is we're recommending that the eighth graders who um are two or three uh three grade levels behind three grade levels behind were making a recommendation to their family that they be in the integrated pathway um
043anybody else could elect to be in the integrated pathway or in algebra one if they're already in Algebra 1 more than likely they would continue into geometry all right in the pathway that they've been in but we really would make that recommendation for those students who are behind is this a an online program or is this a teacher-led program it's teacher Le but it is also um it has a digital and a a hard copy version so that students can also access it in their language choice I guess it said it had over a hundred languages yeah so it and and you know it's it's going to assess them it has assessments built in it also has Project based learning um opportunities and it also um the program will help the teachers group students based
044on where they are and so it it's much more um I believe focused on moving each individual student as opposed to everybody's got to get through Al at a better pace and so we pilot it for one year and then well we would like to recommend integrated one two and three right now to say you know what kind of like we have STEM Science one two and three but we would start with integrated one then sophomore year it'd be you know we would offer to freshman integrated one integrated two sophomore year integrated three um senior year and then you'll see on item two our recommendation is for seniors to have financial literacy their senior year or if they're um all students would that's a whole another topic okay let me stay on and integrated well
045and I think the thing I like about that also is um you're able to one year you're not going to be able to see that movement so I like that you're the commitment that I'm hearing is that it's going to happen over a long haul so that you can see is this working and our kids can have the opportunity to be more successful we're what we're doing is not successful right so we have to figure out a way to move them quicker faster I guess and I I think my only other thing is is uh professional development to make sure that our teachers have what they need to be able to do it successfully and you know it we'll take time I that's what we experienced with stem Scopes is we brought it in we
046did the PD they did it for a year and then all of a sudden they were like oh I want some professional development it was like oh we gave you professional development we'll continue to give you professional development but until they really get in there it's like I don't what questions to ask type of thing and so now going into our here we are um three years with stem Scopes and now they're it's just embraced and it's because we are getting the results and and I believe we wouldn't have we wouldn't be where we're at with science if we hadn't done something differently so and not that we're putting all our hope in this but we are being very targeted both with what's happening at middle school and how we can move this well what
047we're doing is is n working and so we have to figure how many classes we'll have so I couldn't hear do you have any idea how many classes or how many teachers will be involved um so no not yet I would I can answer that question probably for you on Friday because we are in the process of building that schedule and looking how many students are been put in there and working through the master part of that um May an update at the April meeting give an update yes ma'am I can do an update then and let you know how many section how many classes that would be yes ma'am okay and teachers are are going to volunteer to do this or be volunt told to do this kind of like scheduling what works in
048the schedule and you know it's also about best fit do buy into it it's not gonna right it has to be best fit is it are you are you a person that we could say this would be really good for kids if you took this on you know so yeah Mr Williams do you have anything else to add just to answer miss anel or answer Miss question as far as teacher buyin um we started this after we got our last um scores back from the state which aren't aren't very good and I presented in the TLC the math department what we're doing it's not working and before the state or somebody comes in to tell us what's doing what can what are the recommendations that you have and one of the things that they talked
049about as a group was an integrated math and we said that's a great idea and so from there uh with Dr Parker with Lacy with our some of our math team we came together and kind of put down the guidelines of how do we select kids how were kids determined to go in there so was off thei from their IR ready scores that they take on their eighth grade year and there's so many grade levels behind well that's a good Baseline for us to start so our teachers are already buying into um what's taking place because they're wanting to move that ball forward as well so so have they seen this program I assume yes so this has been shared with them um M Taylor has talk to the group as well um and they're
050on board um with with what we're trying to do yes other questions no I'm good not till superintendent's recommendation par we've got to do something totally different with our math we want our kids to be successful and if this isn't working then finding something else and I know it takes a lot of time but thank you for yes working on this okay do I hear a motion to approve the integrated math pathway for starting FY 26 let's so move okay huh you made the motion yeah there you go all right next item and they like like Dr Parker said these kind of dovetail together consider approval of adjustments to the graduation requirements so thank you we're excited about this agenda item um as you recall when the new graduation requirements came out I did a
051crosswalk for you of what we do and what the requirements are and then now it's time to act on that and so um we still haven't gotten anything from policy Services uh I did check on that um but because uh we have all of the materials I wanted to go ahead and share with you um I guess our recommendation on how to move forward so I had several attachments for you one of them is this manual which is really good and spells out here's the change here's what we're looking at and and the the key page that that I referenced and everything that we're doing is the page five key changes and um because that's the greatest impact for us and so we as I shared a while ago about if they're doing work Bas
052if a student is doing work-based learning some of that can count as math credit and in order for it to count as math credit they have to have certain scores and that's also included in here um on their sat their PSAT the the reading and math and so there's certain requirements so that we know that that child is successful already in math to be able to earn work-based learning so that's that's what the first key change is and then the elimination removal of Algebra 2 um and then again they can do algebra one Health and or geometry which we don't do but health and uh algebra one's still in middle school and then it keeps the honors and the AP and our our dual credit um a key component is uh the the next to
053the last bullet the local Education Agency two units and so um we have a recommendation for you I put together the current it says lemington High School plan course plan overview um with the graduation requirements the new Total is 24 and of those 24 15 would be their core for English four math three science three uh and four social studies and then the 1.5 for one credit PE and 0.5 for health two District requirements which we're recommending and we can discuss that a little bit more um one unit for a Capstone project and then one unit for communication skills and then um a requirement a key change is that students must have two units of a two unit pathway all right so that means like if they're in band one they have to be in
054band two or if they're in Spanish one they have to be in Spanish two something that would be a two pathway two credits in that if they're in opep one and then they're in opip too so that they check that box for every student stting starting with next year's Freshman Class by the time they graduate would have a two unit pathway because they want them to have at least some concentration um and then the 3.5 remainder of that would be electives and so we gave you uh below that the course progression by grade level so you see their freshman year English one or preap English one integrated math algebra one or geometry and we go through and and show you what what they would take whereas uh down to the senior year embedded in the
055changes that students would either have as an elective or requirement the financial literacy and so our recommendation would be that all seniors would be a senior level math either a oneye that cels their fourth year of math of financial literacy or if they are um if they're an AP math student a nerdy college student adult credit student we would recommend that that student because they have a different fourth year for math they would just take the uh 0 five a semester course of financial literacy so they fulfill that okay does that make sense um so that every senior would have financial literacy if you take it for your math credit it's a full year if not you do have to take it as a an elective for a semester so it's required but it depends
056on which pathway you're okay as to because you can count it for your math but then that requires the full year okay okay I just if you if you're an AP student you will have to take a semester of financial literacy as an elective credit okay in order to have that financial literacy on your transcript okay I like the way you laid this out it's very ni so our recommendation is um conversation I guess for the what would the board like for the two District requirements and what is the recommendation that the cap the Capstone project Capstone and Communications okay okay Capstone and what I'm sorry Communications oh a Capstone would be a senior class um the communication skills we could offer to sophomores Juniors and seniors um um because we believe that what they'll
057learn in there besides just not not communication skills as many of us know like public speaking and that sort of thing well the the uh these students tonight I thought were a perfect example of communication skills you know so that every student would know how to fill out a job application how to greet someone how to um introduce themselves how to how to function after they get out of high school in a way that fulfills that um communication attribute of on our portrait of A Wildcats and the communication piece you know so that we're really are making sure that we're zeroing in and targeting what we expect our graduates to walk out of the high school with so and it really ties in with our portrait of a wild cat so really pulls in there
058all in all of this that we did we tried to align with both the attributes and the Strategic plan and what are focuses as a district what year do they take uh Health 8th grade so what do they do the other semester since health is a semester what do they do the other what do they I'm sorry what do they do the other semester is in eth grade is that what you're asking in health one semester created the course overview for for you and so there is um electives there that they can choose from to offset so as a senior if they're going to take one semester financial literacy what do they do the other semester they take an elective another elective that's only the students who are advanced level math students so they can
059take another elective um opposite that like what what do we offer uh well if you look at this course description all of the electives are listed in this course description they're all one semester elected not all of them some of them are a year but many of them them um they would there was several once I'm looking at the last page and it has um society and the law one semester introduction to robotics that's a year um interpersonal communication a semester public speaking a semester but they're already taking us a year of communication right that would be a require that's just what we're saying a requirement instead of requiring a foreign language or requiring um something that we don't necessarily have as a district a value on but there are many semester classes could take
060another you know their athletic classes a could be a semester if they're in a sport so so this is just an introduction to um I guess the graduation requirements also I'd like to bring your attention because we did tailor in the high school we also put in new hopes um the courses that are offered at new hopes so you could see they offer some pretty amazing courses there as well so I just wanted to make sure that you were aware of what was going on in secondary thank you for that those are handy to have okay questions from the board this is an action item for us to vote on tonight it is if we so choose if you don't feel comfortable with that um I'd like I'd like a chance to look at it
061more closely okay so you would like to I'm sorry I didn't print all this out today and look at it okay okay so you want to table it and for next month April okay is that a problem as far as your master plan stuff when when do they start no the Freshman it's freshmen are kind of locked in issue because um the freshmen are pretty locked in we've approved the integrated map that's going to impact the Freshman the other is saying okay where are we headed and if we adopt this what does that look like and so you know you could also say you don't want you want the two um District requirements to just be electives you know and throw them into the too so everything else is pretty locked in um it's just
062that really there's no flexibility uh what's on here is locked in except for the two District what are we going to do with those two credits those two units and and again you could say we don't want to do anything and we just want them as electives so well thank you for yes having all this for so do I hear a motion to table this I so move second and so um I'm going to ask that we just Vanessa if you can just include all of these documents in the April there would not need to be I mean unless something else came up yeah yeah absolutely absolutely if if the board wants some additional information prior then we'll sure let the superintendent knows okay thank you thank you for that all right we're going to
063move on to item three consider approval for out of state Tri travel and we have three different groups Ballet Folklorico Deca and Robotics okay we'll go ahead and start with Miss Lopez and ballet you were ready last month go before anything I want to say thank you for um letting me be here um so our travel will be to the University of Texas premium Basin in Odessa um last year I wanted somehow to get our kids to go experience and see a university and because a lot of our students really have are are do not have that opportunity so um I researched found some in California found some way out in Texas and then I found one I found Odessa and they have a valico team um we were able to uh visit the university
064they got to see the university CH and tour they were able to tour and um just listening to the students like they were so excited like can I come to the school how can I get how can I go to the university I mean these are fourth grade to seventh grade students that were asking me all these questions and I was like there's a way you can get here and you know I wanted to put that little seat on in them where um you know unfortunately a lot of our community um don't have that opportunity they don't have the uh support um a lot of their parents have never been to a university or have gone to school Beyond high school so I really wanted them I just didn't want it to be like about
065dance but I wanted them to have you know to know that there was something else out there for them these are students sometimes they're not into sports they're not into robotics they're not into all these awesome other programs so uh dance is their way their Outlet so um I just wanted to let you know that part before um I asked if we will be able to go and visit the university and take our students uh we started with 12 kids we're up to 30 students from fourth grade to high school um three of our high school students have been with us since fourth grade and they'll be graduating this year and they're all going to University either to Los Cruses the junior college or somewhere else but we're very excited and happy for them so
066I really want our little ones to come you know see that example and um that's why I really wanted to find somewhere to take them and fortunately we have um the university in Odessa um Albuquerque has one too Balo but we're closer over here so this is great this is great questions from the board what a wonderful opportunity for our students and you do such an amazing job with the students and and I like what you said it's an experience and it kind of plants that seed so then you know going to a different college campus and and to see things so that that's great that is great okay superintendent's recommendation I recommend we approve okay do I hear a motion to approve the travel for the ballet folk GL you know what we've got
067to take it all in one so hold that thought we it's all in one agenda item so it'll be one thing but um I don't the superintendent recommends it and I don't hear any questions from the board so thank you very much okay next one is DECA y'all gonna dance or what I thought y Dan exciting that uh we have the two young ladies that um were qualified for the Nationals I believe Nationals is in Orlando Florida this year um with Deca it's kind of a quick turn around they go to state they compete they find out and then they got to know almost that night whether they were going to attend Nationals or or and so last year we were unable to because we didn't know that turnaround something that we learned this year
068um so I believe you've got the information on um Deca um travel to and it's going to be quite an experience um unfortunately Mr Crawford will not be able to attend he's got tennis they then asked myself and I would love to but I've got prom and awards assembly that I cannot attend Mr Sloan looked at it I think he's got State powerlifting taking place at about that time so we have Mr F and Miss F Sheridan's um parents which are both employees of the school district that um would be able to chaperone the two young ladies um to that um competition um which works out well for us and them as a family as well that watch her Kido absolutely I was really hoping that they was going to move Deca you know I
069I had little influence that they moved the national competition a week back so I'd be able to go we'd be able to go I missed out on Disney World by that much oh my goodness that's a great opportunity and we certainly I as you were saying all these people couldn't go I thought oh I don't want our students to not have this opportunity so that is fantastic and it's great that uh Sheridan's folks can go and kind of a winwin par Grant's paying for the yes ma'am awesome and and to that end as well Dr Parker and Andy Sloan has done a fantastic job of taking care of the DECA program so I wanted to to let you guys know that theyve done a great job so thank you that's an exciting thing so okay
070questions from the board superintendent's recommendation to approve okay all right thank you guys and our last one is robotics all right is it any questions because I had to say you know this is probably the furthest robotics has ever been offered to be traveled to it's in South Bend Indiana and so it's a uh almost like is kind of a quick turnaround but at the same time it's not until June but uh but in order to make everything cheaper that's why we put for right now so you guys any questions how fun questions from the board um I know that y'all have gotten some grant money in the past um will any of that cover some of the travel expenses or we have uh HF Clair will be giving us $10,000 oh that's awesome okay
071thank you travel travel and hotel flight and hotels okay that's twoth thirds of it right there so that's fantastic very generous very generous fantastic and then the rest I know the they have other uh other monies that already that's been Sinclair and other fundraisings that they have done in the past and I know uh these guys are are they going to be doing a fundraiser they have some fundraisers and they're also looking into they've inquired about the uh program that they have that you talked to me about yesterday through the city through the city and it uh I contacted an individual today and they would be have to do four hours I believe of community service for $800 so it's oh wow oh that's good that's great you guys ever been there okay all right
072I think just one question I had I this is just a clarification deal is is on like on the other out of state travels the meals are $12 a day and these are at $20 a day is it just different places or I I I've never been there so I didn't know what I just was curious cost is and I don't want I don't want short if we fly over there we we do not have a a way to get around so I don't know if usually if you're there in uh the place where they're having it food oh much more expensive captive audience I got you yeah it say had a convention CER so we're GNA probably be walking around kind of like a downtown area um or hotel food so yeah it's much
073so yeah do y'all uh do y'all use the cats k a TS or k AZ I was just informed that I had it wrong that it's with an S it's with an s yes what's the deal with the K I'm just curious just because be different I guess they just wanted to be different they're all seniors you know so and then to go along with it there's two teams and last year we had robocats one and two and it was uh with everyone uh at the competition it was kind of a a confusion thing so this this year they decided to have the robocats and then the black cats that way they wanted to keep the cats and for Lovington but at least be disting from the other team to not cause confusion for the
074event supervisors I team one and team two then I forget sometimes I forget their numbers because one is five S8 n and the other one is five all right any other questions from the board superintendent's recommendation to approve okay so thanks for all to all of you for staying and presenting for that um do I hear a motion to approve the out ofate travel that has been presented tonight so okay all right thank you next item consider approval of outof country student travel that's a whole different it's a whole different it is okay go ahead all right so this is Miss Robert she's our Elite sponsor she has taken over for the EF Tours from Andy Sloan this year Andy and his group I think they're traveling to France and they're going to look at
075the beaches of Normandy and so forth last year I had the privilege of going with Andy to Spain and tour Spain it's phenomenal the educational experience when you walking across the Roman bridge and seeing you think we've got old history go to Spain they got old history so this year uh with him kind of passing this along to us and we met with the E tours and we're proposing to go to Peru to go to Machu Picchu which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World um this would be in June of 2026 so we're looking at about 15 months away from now I believe the uh student cost is around 35 40 45 43 and then the adults is 51 somewhere there so you're you're around $269 a month to $314 a month
076if we can get this approved and start advertising we're looking at um individuals no younger than 14 so we're really looking eighth grade up um also with um if they're employees of the district so if you have um like myself last year I took my daughter who goes to school in at Liberty um she went with us because I'm here at the district so they had to have the connection with the district so if they're a um a teacher that is over at third grade and their student goes to school with us or an eighth grader at Taylor Middle School by all means um that would be a way but we're not opening it up to the whole County or anyone else it's really with our students our people we don't want to do that
077we don't know them so how many do we have going on this year do we know this year I do not know I did not ask any okay no that's fine last year when we went to Spain I believe we had eight that included one two three four four students myself Miss Barber Andy and his wife yes so that was eight that went for okay have you ever done anything like this before Mr yes I have um I actually worked with a different company in a different District on street it's okay we got her back over here that's right well and uh that's a big big job so thank you for being willing to take that on questions from the board is there a minimum number of participants there has to be at least six
078paying at least six okay and when do you announce this for the kids to start thinking about is it when they come back to school or do you go ahead and start working on it pretty quickly with your approval we'll start right away I think at the end of this month right after spring break we'll try to have our first meeting and starting to adver it so that we can start getting people on board I like to start putting out posters tomorrow yeah okay okay and then doing fundraisers or whatever yeah so okay any other questions from the board superintendent's recommendation to approve okay do I hear a motion to approve the outof country student travel for June of 2026 move I'll second okay come along with us I've been on a couple of the
079trips and they're phenomenal yes they are I mean you see things that you read about but that's great and thank you Miss Roberts for being willing to step up and do that it's my pleasure thank you thank you thank you all right next item consider approval of disposal of assets I'm asking for your consideration to dispose of two suburbans that have zero Book value there what the mileage wasn't on here but I could only guess what the mileage was so okay questions from the board is are they going to pay us the 1500 have to pay them to come get it wow they've had a w a life well- lived I believe all right do I hear a motion to approve the uh disposable assets presented that's okay yeah I looked at that and saw
080those two old subar on there okay next item first reading to consider approval for policy Services advisories 246 through 260 yes for your nighttime reading yes it was fun um so policy advisory 246 is basically about the retire return to work that we communicate uh what that policy is to our employees retire and um guide them in the direct in the right way to file for that the other ones are basically um talking about adding the word nicotine um into our policies that it is prohibited um on campus out of town functions anything that has to do with the school so it was basically a clean up from 247 I believe to 260 about adding that word uh Nic in there that it is prohibited because it used to just always say tobacco and so
081now it's going to say nicotine in addition to Tobacco yes yes and then that we have to post that around our district that it's um not allowed on campus and on the school buses out of town trips by student staff or any community members that are on our premises it's basically what the 246 through 260 State there are some um policies that have been deleted because of the cleanup um it was just redundant so they just kind of put it all together so okay and this is a first reading so board members can read through it and if you have any questions between now and April certainly reach out to the superintendent on that and uh president maker it also stated about the consequences of what would happen if that was violated so and is
082that way out of line of what we already have okay no okay we'll just need to be sure and double check that okay okay thank you uh moving into other information just a quick rundown we do have the region six board meeting in Aria the Monday after we come back from spring break so Vanessa needs to know in the next uh 23 minutes if you're going to be going and the annual conference in Atlanta Georgia if you're going to be attending that and then also spring budget in Albuquerque and April so just double check your schedules if you're going to go uh you need to let Vanessa know as quickly as possible so and that our last item is public comment time is there anybody here tonight uh who wishes to speak on public comment
083okay hearing none do I hear a motion to adjourn move the robotics would like to show oh cool all right all right so the meetings Jour okay well one time we wanted to play with it and I think that scared them so thank you everybody thank you yes know you know I'm always there for you always I told him he didn't look like he was feeling good you know how to make me feel love you know I just knew you'd been really sick I will not a Washington DC because I was reading it