[0:03] All right, thanks everyone for joining today. We'll begin by identifying those who are here from the board. We have myself Austin Anderson, Lindsey Owen, Keith Powers. Absin is Rex Galbraith and Paul Baltas. Hopefully they'll join us here soon. We'll also now open the floor for public comments. Public comments need to be limited to three minutes per speaker. Please state your name for the record.

[0:33] before you begin. So that floor is open now.

[0:39] With no public comments we are going to be adjusting the

[0:45] agenda slightly to be more efficient and with the absence of a couple of board members. I'll call

[0:51] those out as we go through. First we'll be very standard though is we need to approve the board

[0:57] minutes from January 8th and January 16th governing board meetings. These were sent out for review beforehand

[1:06] As all of you are able to look those over, but are there any corrections, discussion or comments around those board minutes before we approve them?

[1:16] I've had the chance to read over them quickly. I see no corrections or questions about January 8th.

[1:24] Okay, so I can move that we approve of meeting minutes for January 8th, 2026.

[1:30] I was second.

[1:32] Okay, all in favor say aye.

[1:35] Aye.

[1:36] Aye.

[1:36] All right.

[1:37] Motion passes.

[1:39] I believe did we have a January 16th governing board answer as well or just the 8th?

[1:45] I see January 19th.

[1:47] Yes.

[1:48] Oh, sorry.

[1:48] 19th.

[1:49] Yeah.

[1:49] My bad there.

[1:50] Typo there.

[1:51] So we have the January 19th governing board minutes that we need to approve.

[1:56] As soon as before, hopefully you'll look those over.

[1:59] Were there any comments or corrections?

[2:04] None for me.

[2:06] Neither.

[2:09] So I'll move that we approve the word meeting minutes

[2:12] for January 19th, 20th, 20th, 20th, 6th.

[2:16] Okay, all in favor say aye.

[2:18] Aye.

[2:18] Aye, motion passes.

[2:20] Thank you.

[2:22] Next up is we're gonna give the time order gracing here

[2:25] for a few minutes to give us an executive director update.

[2:27] Yeah, thanks everybody. I did send that over to Austin. I think the most exciting thing

[2:35] always are what our students are up to. And Matt, your campus kind of got showcased in

[2:39] my update this month with robotics and ballroom knocking out of the park. I don't know if

[2:46] any of you were able to go see the drama production newsies that they just had on. But again, full

[2:52] house every night. What these students are capable of is just absolutely incredible and then the other

[2:59] big item of note that I hope you saw in there was our enrollment update. Lots of good trending

[3:05] upward especially for our St. George campus down here which is very encouraging. Vineyard as well

[3:12] adding a couple classes so we are excited for the direction that our enrollment is looking for next

[3:19] school year. I love it. Yeah, um, Terry's going to be posted on the St. George and we have

[3:26] what two or three families that are starting next week after. Yes. Awesome. I don't know

[3:32] if it's just the time of year where people are moving, but well, we'll certainly take you.

[3:37] Come on. Yeah. All day. That's great. Yeah. Um, things grace it an awesome job to everyone.

[3:43] I know it's not easy. A lot of work goes behind the scenes, but thanks for making it run efficiently

[3:47] and run them well.

[3:50] Next up is we have PTIF accounts approval on the agenda. Once again,

[3:56] this is set out for everyone's review beforehand. But, buddy, you're graceing. I want to head over

[4:01] to you for a moment, just to kind of give us a little bit of background on what this is and

[4:06] get some context before we vote on it. Yeah, so that's just a separate account that we have where

[4:12] we keep certain funds. So we just need to update and change the users on that.

[4:17] Okay. Easy. Anything else, buddy? You like to add a slightly unmootive risk?

[4:23] No, no. That's it. She covered it. Everything's up.

[4:27] I have a question. Can you maybe define a little bit more about what certain funds means?

[4:37] So for example, the money that we received from the ERC that came at the end of December,

[4:43] That's an account where we where he housed all of that had a cruise good interest there, and it's just a safe place to keep large sums that we like to keep to safe.

[4:54] Okay, thank you.

[4:57] Good question, Keith.

[4:59] Any other questions or comments?

[5:02] If not, okay, go ahead.

[5:04] then I don't when was that email sent with that information that should have

[5:10] been sent out yes or sorry this morning oh that two hours ago did you not

[5:17] receive it I am not seeing it no me either about financial okay let me I can

[5:26] shoot that over really quick yeah you wouldn't mind I'd like to take a look at it

[5:31] Yep, absolutely.

[5:39] Did you guys receive an email from me this morning

[5:41] just making sure?

[5:42] I guess.

[5:43] OK, also make sure it wasn't just broken altogether.

[5:47] No, I got the documents for the board meeting,

[5:50] but I just see that one.

[5:52] OK, I might not have included it, to be honest.

[5:54] So that might be why.

[5:56] Well, so I have anything going on, Austin.

[5:59] No, everybody is the same, right?

[6:03] And if we need to table this for next time or grace,

[6:06] If you want to share your screen, if you have it, we can put it in.

[6:08] I'm just going to send this over to you quickly.

[6:11] Yep.

[6:11] Okay.

[6:12] Come in your way right now.

[6:15] Lovely.

[6:21] Yep.

[6:29] Just saw that come through.

[6:30] Oh, I'd like to take a look really quick.

[6:36] It just requires a board vote to change any of the users on that.

[6:40] Okay.

[6:42] It

[6:58] looks like we're adding Steve and Wade Grayson, Matt Laveau.

[7:08] That looks good to me.

[7:13] I can understand it

[7:18] pretty straightforward there straightforward. Yes, thanks for sending

[7:23] over Grayson. Yeah, thank you. I'll hear a motion to approve that if we have one.

[7:29] All motion to approve that the PTIF signer changes as discussed. I'll second that motion.

[7:37] Okay, all in favor say aye.

[7:39] Aye.

[7:40] Aye.

[7:42] Motion passes.

[7:44] Great.

[7:44] Next up is the Land Trust Final Reports.

[7:49] Once again, these are sent over this morning for everyone's review.

[7:52] Those weren't.

[7:53] But.

[7:53] No, we're not sent over.

[7:55] Okay.

[7:56] But go ahead, Gracie.

[7:57] Yeah, we're just going to turn it over to the principals.

[7:59] We're going to let them go in rapid succession.

[8:02] And I will share my screen and let them check in with you.

[8:07] you about their goals and funds that were spent.

[8:11] So let me, apparently I can't, you can't minimize your screen

[8:17] while you're recording on Zoom.

[8:19] So let me pull this up and I will share over so you

[8:27] can follow along and we'll let Sherlyn take it away first.

[8:34] Can everybody see this? Okay. Yeah. All right. All right. So this is our

[8:42] final report for FPA 1 and FPA 2. We actually do it together here. So our

[8:52] the Atlantis money for our campus was used for a partial salary of our

[8:58] literacy coach, books, curriculum and general supplies there. And so you'll see

[9:04] that listed, and if you want to scroll down, I put all of our things in one goal, so we

[9:11] did our science, language arts, and math all under the first goal, and we were using

[9:17] our rice assessment to evaluate. And we're hoping for a 3% increase in all of those subjects.

[9:26] in and this is from 2022 to 2023 school year to the 2023 2024 school year are the scores

[9:37] that we're looking at. And luckily we did increase that year in third and fourth grade

[9:43] in language arts, but we did increase in fifth grade in math. We increased in all four subjects

[9:51] All three grades by 4% but fifth grade increased by 7% in that and in science we

[10:00] decreased by 2% in those things. So we're going to continue working on our

[10:07] proficiency and just raising those scores. But we're happy to have Lancaster.

[10:13] We use the money and it is very helpful to get the curriculum that we need.

[10:21] Absolutely.

[10:22] So is this, sorry, I don't think I scroll down enough, but you just went over this goal

[10:25] here.

[10:26] Yep.

[10:26] Okay.

[10:27] Go number one right there, and then those are the measurements using the rise.

[10:32] Then you'll see our action plan of what we spent everything on.

[10:36] And if you keep scrolling, yep,

[10:42] that's still, you'll see, yeah, and there's goal number two.

[10:46] There was the portion in there where I actually wrote, it's under the measurement portion

[10:51] then it will say please choose one of the following and under there has the

[10:55] report of the percentages. So goal number two is the secondary campus.

[11:02] That was that we're Matt starts. That's me. Yep.

[11:04] You're able to be with everybody today. I hope you're all having a great day.

[11:09] I have two goals. Good job, Sherlyn. Do you explain land trust really well?

[11:13] So I'll just jump right into my two goals. The first one you'll see there is like

[11:17] sure lens. We're trying to increase proficiency level on the end of year rise assessment for high school

[11:23] and middle school. High school, it's called Utah Spire Plus, but it'll change to rise next year.

[11:30] So I'm focusing in on English math and science and then grace and beauty and scroll down a little

[11:36] bit for me. So we have many different subjects that are tested. So three tests per grade, six, seven,

[11:44] eight for middle school and we also have some eighth graders that are in secondary

[11:51] math one which is a high school level math class. So essentially we had 10 tests

[11:56] and seven of our 10 we reached our goal or exceeded it which was really awesome

[12:02] to see kudos to the teachers all their hard work so we felt like it was time well

[12:08] spent there's a lot of data in there that you can kind of look at that and see

[12:14] see the increases. One grade such grade math increased by two, so it didn't quite reach

[12:22] our goal, but they still increased. So super exciting to see and a huge celebration for

[12:28] us from last year's end of your testing. With the high school, it's a little bit different

[12:35] for ninth and tenth graders. We only had two subjects that increased, that met our goal.

[12:43] So definitely focus for us there.

[12:46] You can see the data.

[12:48] We increased in our 10th grade reading.

[12:51] And we increased in our 10th grade science.

[12:57] So for high school, we met two out of the six.

[13:01] So yeah, that's a first goal. Any questions with that one?

[13:06] Is I'll go ahead.

[13:09] I was I noticed the trend with the ELA rise test in sixth and seventh.

[13:14] But those decreased, whereas everything else looked pretty strong for those grades.

[13:20] Do we know what might be the contributing factors there?

[13:25] We're still digging into that.

[13:26] The rise for English actually changed a little bit this past year, and we actually didn't

[13:32] get those end-of-year scores until I want to say February, January.

[13:40] So I think they made some tweaks in that test.

[13:43] So I'm curious to know, yeah, kind of how much those tweaks affected us. We're still looking at that. That's a great question.

[13:52] Any other questions?

[13:57] Yeah, if you can scroll down a little bit more for me, Grayson. My second goal has to do with graduation rate.

[14:04] So our goal for, yeah, just keep going down a little right there.

[14:09] So, for fine arts and robotics programs, so we set aside land trust monies to help support

[14:14] those programs.

[14:16] And our indicator was graduation rate for students that are in those programs.

[14:21] And our goal is 100% graduation rate for those kids.

[14:26] And Grayson begins to grow down a little bit more for me.

[14:28] You'll see that we met that goal this past year.

[14:31] It shows you 23, 24, but 100% for all students and 100% for fine arts and robotics.

[14:38] so that was the previous year and then the land trust money that this was for

[14:41] 24 to 25. We met our goal for all the kids and fine arts and robotics. So our

[14:48] programs are so good. Coaches teachers are doing amazing work. I know Grayson

[14:54] commented on a few of those today and he saw some end results for their programs

[14:58] and her report to you.

[15:00] Nope, but really helpful to have this money to help support them and continue to help kids have a place where they succeed and they feel really connected to the school and it helps out a lot. So any questions on that goal? Well said, it's hard to go up from 100% Matt. You guys are always hit so. Yeah, well, I think Keith, buddy and Matt will all tell you that our graduation rate something we've always been very proud of. Exactly.

[15:29] Okay, thanks. That's all for me. All right. You're about to see some cute kids.

[15:36] Oh, my gosh. That is adorable.

[15:40] Expectations.

[15:43] Okay, Carrie. Hi, everybody. So I just made a summary of what's on the Land Trust website. So I can provide that information in a different format if you'd like.

[15:59] But this is just a summary of it.

[16:02] Happy to report.

[16:05] Yep, happy to report that our reading assessments from the 2024-2025 school year,

[16:14] the students K through 5 increased by 6%.

[16:17] Our goal was 3%, so we doubled that.

[16:21] And then in math, we went up by 18% school wide.

[16:25] So that was huge success, really, really good learning

[16:31] progress for our students and math and reading.

[16:36] Our second goal, we base this off of the rise assessments

[16:41] for our fourth and fifth grade students.

[16:44] Unfortunately, we did not meet this goal.

[16:46] We were hoping to increase by 3%.

[16:49] Instead, we actually decreased by 5%.

[16:53] So we have, and we knew these scores coming into this school year.

[16:57] So we have set a really good plan at the beginning of the year to try and help support these students in science.

[17:06] The teachers are working really, really hard.

[17:08] We've been doing some simulations and some benchmarking and pre and post tests on our science.

[17:15] So we're really hoping for good results this year when they finish out their tests at the end of April 1st of May.

[17:27] Yeah, what's the secret sauce? I mean, 5-6% that's great.

[17:31] 20% is significant. What is, can you identify what differences you guys did or what happened? That's incredible.

[17:41] Oh, you mean in the math?

[17:43] Yeah, you're 18% increase in math.

[17:46] Yeah.

[17:46] So I contribute that to, first of all, excellent teachers.

[17:51] We have amazing, really dedicated teachers across the district.

[17:57] But of course, I favor our vineyard teachers a little.

[18:02] Just some good instruction, also progress monitoring.

[18:06] The teachers have been doing a great job.

[18:08] uh, showing up those facts, basic facts. That's really where we're seeing the most growth,

[18:17] because the computation automatically goes up once the students know those basic

[18:22] foundational math skills. Did you guys implement something where you were

[18:28] following up more often, like you're saying, or is this just kind of a flash in the pan?

[18:36] No, we were actually seeing really good growth in math right now from just this school year 25, 20, 26, middle of the year is really good growth.

[18:47] So whatever they, whatever our teachers were doing last year, we're just replicating that this year because it was so successful.

[18:55] Really, I think we've just been using the materials that are provided to us by the state to, as practice,

[19:02] is to make sure that these kids, when they do these assessments, it's not something new.

[19:08] It's not a surprise to them.

[19:10] We're using those materials and we're seeing great results.

[19:15] I mean, there's other things that we use to help support that growth and learning, but

[19:20] really, it's just making sure that kids are, they know what to expect when they're being

[19:25] assessed, these high stakes test, they know what it is.

[19:30] They're not worried about it.

[19:31] It's not like, oh, you've got to do so, so good on this.

[19:34] You know, it's all rating on this test.

[19:36] We want them to feel comfortable.

[19:38] We want them to feel confident in taking the test.

[19:42] And do you feel like this 18%?

[19:46] If you know what the topic would be great,

[19:48] if not, it's okay.

[19:49] How does this compare our overall assessment to statewide?

[19:53] Was this 18% correction?

[19:55] Because we were flying a little bit low.

[19:58] Or is this something that we're just crushing

[20:00] going above and beyond. It's just such an outrageous number. It's a awesome.

[20:05] Yeah, we are crushing it. We've seen significant growth year after year from our students here

[20:13] have been here. I would say that we're always above the state in ELA and math when you're comparing

[20:26] it to statewide. But we have a very high proficiency of students' growth. And I would say particularly

[20:36] in math our third grade students performed really, really well. And these are the accadians' tests.

[20:43] It's not rise testing. So typically students do test a little bit higher using accadians' assessments

[20:50] then they do rise assessments. However, we saw translation in our third, specifically our third

[20:56] grade students performing extraordinary well on the rise, math testing. And I think it's due just

[21:03] to the the benchmarking and the practicing and the student monitoring during this school year that

[21:12] help them test well. Yeah you are truly you know I mean to call up you

[21:19] drill down on it but if we have that big of a jump I just I want to be able to

[21:23] spread that through all the other campuses if you guys are doing something

[21:26] right let's put it in everywhere so it's why it's kind of asking if you can

[21:29] identify that but what we'll done Kerry that's so impressive sure is thank you

[21:38] Carrie, all right, Brandon.

[21:45] Okay, so starting off while Grayson's pulling that up, just with our budget, you know,

[21:52] we did spend every penny of that budget and just like Sherlyn and Carrie, you know,

[21:57] it's all going towards just our standard curriculum we use every year and with a couple of supplemental

[22:05] programs that go with that as well. So we spent all of our land trust money as

[22:11] expected for that fiscal year land trust. Our goal was to increase the number of

[22:19] students on grade level in reading by 2% math by 4% in science by 3%. And so

[22:26] looking at those starting with reading we met that target goal and increased the

[22:31] of students on grade level, according to Acadians rise,

[22:37] or sorry, Acadians testing.

[22:41] And then, and we just compared from beginning of year

[22:44] to end of year within that school year.

[22:46] And so we were able to increase that throughout the school year.

[22:51] For math and our 4% increase,

[22:53] we actually fell short of that goal.

[22:56] We actually just maintained the same percent.

[22:58] So we didn't see a decrease in the number of students at proficiency or on grade level there, we ended up maintaining.

[23:07] So Grayson, that's page three and I think now I'm kind of transitioning into page four.

[23:16] And then for science, that one we did not meet either.

[23:22] We didn't hit that 3% improvement and this was compared to rise summative testing from the 2022-2023 school year to the 2023-2024 school year.

[23:36] So we actually decreased, I think it was 2% on that overall proficiency.

[23:42] The only two grade levels that do test science rise is fourth grade and fifth grade.

[23:47] So we didn't hit that benchmark goal. We sat there like Carrie mentioned she's been great enough to ensure

[23:57] Linda too because they've seen, you know, success in different areas too. They've been, you know,

[24:03] sharing across campuses where they've been seen successes as well. And this current school year,

[24:09] we've kind of revamped and retooled several systems to see hopefully better results moving forward.

[24:18] While, yes, along with what Kerry said, we do see our students performing better than the state

[24:26] percentages show. We still think we can achieve higher than we are. So we've retooled some systems

[24:36] this school year and comparing so far are beginning of year data to middle of year data.

[24:43] Our middle of year data has never looked better than it has this year. So really encouraging

[24:49] things and we attribute that like Kerry said to awesome teachers that are willing to just do what's

[24:55] best for students. Our paraprofessionals have stepped up in a huge way this year and how they're

[25:01] able to support teachers and students as well and it's just it's just been in all all hands-in

[25:09] doing what's best for the students and then you know between Provo and Vineyard and

[25:13] and their teachers and their administrators sharing their best practices with us as well.

[25:21] I'm really excited to see what our interview results look like this year.

[25:27] Great, best we ever had mid-year, contribute to the teachers is all the credit, so yeah,

[25:35] we recruit well.

[25:35] That's awesome.

[25:36] They do.

[25:37] Yeah, they're doing awesome.

[25:41] Hey, I think that's everybody.

[25:44] Awesome.

[25:45] Well, well done, everyone.

[25:47] Those increases are fantastic.

[25:48] It goes to show the hard work you're putting in.

[25:50] We have good people who care about the children and their educations.

[25:53] Thank you.

[25:55] Truly.

[25:55] So, um, this will need a motion and a vote to approve these final reports.

[26:03] Okay.

[26:04] We have a motion to go ahead Keith.

[26:07] I'll make that motion that we approve.

[26:09] Excuse me.

[26:11] The principal reports as stated.

[26:15] I second.

[26:17] All in favor say aye.

[26:19] Aye.

[26:20] Aye.

[26:22] Motion passes.

[26:24] Perfect.

[26:24] Perfect. So from here, we're going to push the academic calendar approval to April's meeting.

[26:34] Instead, we're going to jump to the financial services RFP. There are some

[26:39] items we need to discuss about this in a closed session. So we will need a motion then to move

[26:46] to closed session if it's getting appropriate. Yeah, all motion that we move to a closed session.

[26:54] Okay, and this needs to be a roll call vote to move to closed session.

[27:00] Lindsay Owen.

[27:01] Yes.

[27:02] Keep powers.

[27:04] Yes.

[27:05] Austin Anderson.

[27:06] Yes.

[27:07] Okay, let's go ahead and stop.

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