1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,420 Welcome to the board meeting of the severe school district. Today is Wednesday, August 12, 2016. It's clear clock and we are meeting in the severe district office. Those in attendance are board members Rick or Jill Porter, Vice President Ryan Savage, Jack Hanson and myself, John Foster. From the administration, we have Superintendent Dr. Kate Douglas, Assistant Superintendent 2 00:00:29,420 --> 00:00:30,640 Lieutenant Mike Willis. 3 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,300 This was the Administrator of Chad Boyes. 4 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,300 It will be, it is not present, but will be on source. 5 00:00:37,220 --> 00:00:39,980 And I can accept that he, Kristen Millson, 6 00:00:41,180 --> 00:00:43,100 will start off with the preliminary 7 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,720 and really the vast eight levels to prepare for. 8 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:47,500 Our 9 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,540 father and dad are grateful for the opportunity 10 00:00:52,540 --> 00:00:55,500 that we have to meet together this day. 11 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,300 We're so grateful for my hand in our lives 12 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:00,700 with the guidance that we strive 13 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:06,800 I actually see from the grateful for the less even goodness that they come from the grateful 14 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:14,020 for our board members and for their dedicated service, their involvement in our community 15 00:01:14,020 --> 00:01:23,020 and for their concern and support of the students in our schools or so grateful for the teachers 16 00:01:23,020 --> 00:01:27,880 and support staff and the leaders that we have in our schools and pray for their safety, 17 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:33,680 be grateful to their patients and perspective and continue 18 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,500 the efforts to do what's best for the children in our area. 19 00:01:38,260 --> 00:01:40,300 We pray a special blessing to be with. 20 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:44,920 The youth in our area, those that attend our schools 21 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,860 and the children, we pray for which we continue to. 22 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,800 Protection, we pray that our community members 23 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,340 will have led us and continue to support 24 00:01:56,340 --> 00:02:09,080 work together for our community that they. The adults in the community will continue to become involved in the schools and be positive in their efforts to solve problems with us. 25 00:02:10,060 --> 00:02:18,620 And we pray for that help in our meeting today that we will make good decisions and we'll be able to keep clarity and do that a little. 26 00:02:18,620 --> 00:02:25,780 We are so grateful for the valley that we live in here, and we are grateful to those 27 00:02:25,780 --> 00:02:30,560 manually that serve and protect us, and we are grateful to their contingency, as well 28 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:31,800 in the city, as well. 29 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,780 Jesus Christ, amen. 30 00:02:34,060 --> 00:02:34,380 No doubt. 31 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:38,540 Please follow me. 32 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:47,020 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic 33 00:02:47,020 --> 00:02:50,480 for which it stands, one nation under God, 34 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,140 an individual with liberty and justice for all. 35 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,140 But the thank you everybody for being here 36 00:03:11,140 --> 00:03:13,260 to let's go on time, since we've been together 37 00:03:13,260 --> 00:03:13,880 as a board. 38 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:16,960 Good to see everybody, we'll start off 39 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:18,340 with the consent agenda. 40 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:21,920 Is there any comment or any discussion 41 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,560 on any of the items in the consent agenda? 42 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:28,920 Next up, one quick question. 43 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:38,420 The notification received from the view of our courts, is that just something very sinister? 44 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,200 They want to stand in there? 45 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:50,480 Yeah, so this is a new, these policies that you're seeing are based on most recent legislation. 46 00:03:50,860 --> 00:03:57,200 So we've talked about this, how the legislature passes new laws, and then you respond and are required to draft new policies. 47 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:05,360 This particular policy, we actually use Patrick Tanner, he's the attorney for the 48 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:12,220 Justice School Board decision, and he, it's one of the, a real benefit that we've seen 49 00:04:12,220 --> 00:04:19,640 through the USBA, where he drafts policies according to the law. 50 00:04:20,460 --> 00:04:25,140 This one, we didn't, we didn't make hard to get any changes, we just took his draft policy 51 00:04:25,140 --> 00:04:27,540 that meets the law and adapts adopted fully. 52 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,480 Several of the policies will look at that draft 53 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,020 and then other district drafts 54 00:04:32,020 --> 00:04:33,740 and make sure that we're in compliance 55 00:04:33,740 --> 00:04:35,160 with the law that will be making them our own. 56 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,540 So yeah, this has been a program that's been in place 57 00:04:40,020 --> 00:04:42,700 for several years and it just continues to get better. 58 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:48,620 When a juvenile that lives in our area or has attended our schools 59 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,440 is adjudicated to the courts, we receive notification. 60 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,600 And I work with our student services director 61 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,700 if you know what Anderson, he reaches out to the principal 62 00:04:56,700 --> 00:04:57,600 and makes them aware. 63 00:04:59,340 --> 00:05:02,240 Some of the students have reentry plans 64 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,120 that come with them. 65 00:05:03,620 --> 00:05:05,900 This particular policy, the new law, 66 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,520 I think the biggest need of the new law 67 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,020 was ensuring that other students are safe. 68 00:05:13,260 --> 00:05:15,400 So if there's a particularly dangerous student 69 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,660 that we have lots in place to either not allow them 70 00:05:20,660 --> 00:05:23,380 into school and provide their education in other ways, 71 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,140 or have reentry plans to ensure that everyone may be interested in safety. 72 00:05:28,460 --> 00:05:37,240 So that's what most of those, well, every policy you see is either an adjusted policy to meet a new law or a new policy. 73 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,160 I think there's no news. 74 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:40,420 I think there's a written difference. 75 00:05:41,060 --> 00:05:41,280 Yeah. 76 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,420 I think the other sort of news is a different one. 77 00:05:46,020 --> 00:05:47,520 Yeah, I totally think that's a great question. 78 00:05:51,530 --> 00:05:53,170 Any other comments or discussion? 79 00:05:54,770 --> 00:05:57,250 What's your call for any attention to student recognition? 80 00:05:58,310 --> 00:06:03,150 South severe students won the America 250SA contest 81 00:06:03,150 --> 00:06:06,090 at the House of their High School Student Green Mitchell 82 00:06:06,090 --> 00:06:08,550 and South severe mental school student, 83 00:06:08,950 --> 00:06:12,410 Alan Henry, were selected as the Grand Prize winners. 84 00:06:12,970 --> 00:06:15,110 Those students recognized that in the award ceremony 85 00:06:15,110 --> 00:06:17,970 they won $1,000 scholarship. 86 00:06:19,070 --> 00:06:19,750 That's terrific. 87 00:06:19,750 --> 00:06:22,510 We're proud of these students from the South Severe. 88 00:06:25,790 --> 00:06:29,930 Any other items in our consent agenda? 89 00:06:30,370 --> 00:06:30,730 If 90 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,220 not, then I would indicate a motion 91 00:06:37,220 --> 00:06:40,340 that we accept that we can send a agenda and the statements. 92 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:42,220 I'll make a motion. 93 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,760 Second, the move to the seconded. 94 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:46,480 All in favor? 95 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:47,320 Aye. 96 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:48,480 Any opposed? 97 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:50,500 Motion carries. 98 00:06:52,180 --> 00:06:56,100 Next item would be items from the board 99 00:07:04,350 --> 00:07:10,790 On our schedule, we have snow college, scholarship benefit dinner on September 23rd. 100 00:07:11,310 --> 00:07:13,010 Chris, did you need to take a nap? 101 00:07:14,090 --> 00:07:17,090 Yeah, and I can get a hold of you if you don't want to, for sure. 102 00:07:17,190 --> 00:07:17,850 Yeah, I do. 103 00:07:18,090 --> 00:07:18,490 Yeah. 104 00:07:18,610 --> 00:07:23,410 I mean, we've got a town, and I've never missed that, like, they're kind of bad, but I was 105 00:07:23,410 --> 00:07:31,430 going to see if my capacity of 10, might your chat, so I still want to support it, it's 106 00:07:31,430 --> 00:07:36,910 important. In fact, we've talked queues into supporting as well. They now buy a table and 107 00:07:36,910 --> 00:07:41,930 several of the superintendents from the huge region are planning to attend. So I'm 108 00:07:41,930 --> 00:07:48,430 hopefully you still support it and you'll be present there. But I very likely won't be there. 109 00:08:01,430 --> 00:08:04,870 I am kind of a cheap guy, but I was willing to pay money and I just got out of it again. 110 00:08:06,750 --> 00:08:08,930 What I felt was a pretty fair bid. 111 00:08:11,790 --> 00:08:13,550 Yeah, as it gets closer all up to here. 112 00:08:14,870 --> 00:08:17,910 I think I'm 90% sure I would be able to make it. 113 00:08:20,220 --> 00:08:22,640 Probably, yeah, Christy can check in with each of you. 114 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:32,370 There's a second point is the Q's reason to legislate the collaboration meeting. 115 00:08:32,830 --> 00:08:37,890 It's at the 30th, it's at the P.M. at the Sickle Bill Elementary School. 116 00:08:38,330 --> 00:08:39,670 We want to drive it individually. 117 00:08:40,530 --> 00:08:43,450 Yeah, I think if we find a meet together like we've done in the past, 118 00:08:43,830 --> 00:08:47,590 and we can get a hand from the high school, 119 00:08:47,790 --> 00:08:49,970 can you help us on that, just to get an hand range? 120 00:08:50,270 --> 00:08:55,290 If there's one available, what do you think we can hear at what time, Chad? 121 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:02,160 Yeah, I'm not sure how long it takes to probably five. 122 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:03,620 It's probably nine. 123 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,520 It's about five to be okay. 124 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,020 And then just to clarify that, I was just board membering me. 125 00:09:12,260 --> 00:09:14,040 I know some time you knew my spouse has a long, 126 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,820 I was just a board member, a bunch of them, 127 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,700 but hopefully you can get over with the other. 128 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:47,820 It's about a year or five. 129 00:09:52,420 --> 00:09:54,060 Discussing the requirements for the board. 130 00:09:56,020 --> 00:09:59,680 Of course, we're going to do about the fact of school bash 131 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:00,460 that's coming up. 132 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:13,040 Nothing else that will move along to the next item, which is the item from the administration. 133 00:10:15,620 --> 00:10:16,100 I 134 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:40,220 looked like I'd gotten a fight. I'm just getting that age where about every year I have to go have spots burned off my face by the dermatologist, so that's what that is. 135 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,940 Real fun, real fun to deal with. 136 00:10:43,940 --> 00:10:47,260 So I didn't get the fight, it was just a squads. 137 00:10:49,620 --> 00:10:54,640 My items, I do want to remind you first off about the back to school bash 138 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:00,360 and our opening institute, just created a little flyer for that. 139 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:08,260 I'm excited, I've been in touch with the three teachers, 140 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:11,100 the former teachers that are going to be presenting it, 141 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:17,000 opening institute and I'm so excited to hear from them. We've called it reflections and 142 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,620 reminders from a lifetime of education and I really think it'll be a lot of fun to hear 143 00:11:21,620 --> 00:11:27,140 from them and just hear their perspectives at this point looking back on their careers 144 00:11:27,140 --> 00:11:32,300 in service to kids and children. It'll be a great day. 145 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,400 And then, as always, the Monday after 146 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:45,340 the first day, which is August 24th at 5.30. We'll do the back-school bash. We're continuing 147 00:11:45,340 --> 00:11:50,200 to see good participation in that. I think most families really appreciate it and it's 148 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,060 a lot of fun just to get together. Also, I wanted to thank Christopher all of her hard work 149 00:11:54,060 --> 00:11:59,760 on our annual video. It takes a ton of work. I think the hardest part is getting the pictures 150 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:04,040 from the principals. It's just constantly reminding them to send pictures and take pictures 151 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:08,140 throughout the year, but that video is really fun because we play it throughout the back 152 00:12:08,140 --> 00:12:13,860 school back, hoping you can all attend and participate in that. 153 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:21,000 My second item, I always include our principal's goal setting sheet, leadership self-assessment, 154 00:12:21,340 --> 00:12:24,320 growth plans, school improvement, professional learning plans. 155 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:31,420 This is a key piece in holding ourselves accountable every year at every school, so each principal 156 00:12:31,420 --> 00:12:37,420 response with all of these different self-assessments, growth plans, goal-setting sheets. 157 00:12:37,860 --> 00:12:43,140 It's kind of their roadmap for the year and we review those very carefully and we talk 158 00:12:43,140 --> 00:12:43,620 to them. 159 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,940 I want to thank Mike Willis for his hard work. 160 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:52,780 He's constantly out meeting with principals and assistant principals and having the crucial 161 00:12:52,780 --> 00:12:53,480 conversations. 162 00:12:53,980 --> 00:12:54,760 They're always friendly. 163 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,240 I mean, we have such a great report in our district, but they're very crucial in critical 164 00:12:58,240 --> 00:12:58,800 conversations. 165 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:04,360 They're not always comfortable conversations about things we can do better, constantly striving for improvement. 166 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,660 So, I just always include a copy of that. 167 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:14,580 My third item, I just wanted to update you, our district website, school registration. 168 00:13:15,460 --> 00:13:21,560 I wanted to thank Craig, Curtis, and Miguel at Javaria, our two programmers. 169 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:27,420 So, I've really done some fantastic work to continue to improve registration for students 170 00:13:27,420 --> 00:13:30,700 and families as well as assurances for employees. 171 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:37,340 It's becoming a very difficult thing to manage and Trista constantly is tracking those 172 00:13:37,340 --> 00:13:39,640 registrations for each school. 173 00:13:40,740 --> 00:13:46,300 Parents have to sign off on certain things every year as required by law and employees have 174 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:47,880 to sign off on certain trainings. 175 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:53,120 It's one frustration we have that I've been talking a lot about up on the hill is they 176 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,820 have heard us that one of our greatest needs for teachers is to provide time for them 177 00:13:57,820 --> 00:14:03,500 to prepare, just preparation time, and they stepped up big a few years ago with two 178 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:10,220 additional contract days for teachers, but then those days have been taken away by requiring 179 00:14:10,220 --> 00:14:16,740 hours and hours and hours of training that the teachers have to take each year, so it's 180 00:14:16,740 --> 00:14:20,440 a little frustrating that for the first year it was wonderful. Teachers had time to catch 181 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:26,000 the breath and plan and be working their classrooms and now there's so many different trainings 182 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,540 that are required that the majority of that time gets eaten up. So we're going to continue 183 00:14:30,540 --> 00:14:37,980 to ask for more time. So we have seen some things that have improved, for example, required 184 00:14:37,980 --> 00:14:44,500 training on, I don't know, you could name, there's probably seven or eight different required 185 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:49,300 training for teachers on various topics. Some of them now are only required every 186 00:14:49,300 --> 00:14:53,280 three years or every two years, so we're going to continue to work with the 187 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:58,040 legislature to find some relief. We do need well-trained and well-prepared teachers, 188 00:14:58,040 --> 00:14:59,960 but we also think they need well-prepared teachers, but we also think they need 189 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:29,660 I also wanted to, we've really seen improvements on our website. It's clear, it's easy to navigate. I've updated the superintendent's scoop. Binary is still very, very essential. It's number one, a safe place. Our employees are all aware that you do not communicate with students in any other way, other than Binary. Because there's more than one adult monitoring and 190 00:15:29,660 --> 00:15:32,620 involved in communications with students. 191 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,340 It's also a great way to keep in touch with parents. 192 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,600 It's like a social media platform that they can see 193 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,400 the good things going on in the schools. 194 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:43,220 Most of our schools do a pretty good job 195 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,220 kicking out pictures and updating the communities 196 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:49,000 at each school with binary. 197 00:15:49,220 --> 00:15:50,420 I know you're all familiar with it. 198 00:15:50,460 --> 00:15:52,380 I won't take the time to show you. 199 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:58,620 But if you want to see just really feel good about what's 200 00:15:58,620 --> 00:16:02,460 going on in schools and I do it. If I'm having a bad day, sometimes I'll just jump on 201 00:16:02,460 --> 00:16:06,140 binary and look at the schools and it makes me feel better. There are so many wonderful 202 00:16:06,140 --> 00:16:11,980 things going on every single day in schools. We still don't do enough of it. We really 203 00:16:11,980 --> 00:16:17,520 ought to have teachers sharing at least one post a week. Some teachers are really good at 204 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,480 it. Some schools are really good at it, but it's one of the principles that we believe 205 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:27,180 in is that we need to share our story and share the positive. Otherwise, it seems like 206 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:34,000 in society today those those empty spots get filled by negative. So finally is a key piece 207 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:34,380 of that. 208 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:43,380 My fourth item is actually really exciting. I think I've spoken on this but maybe 209 00:16:43,380 --> 00:16:52,000 I haven't given you enough of an update. Last year, about a year and a half ago, I was in 210 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,600 leadership in the superintendent's association and there's four of us. So there's a past president, 211 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,780 President, Vice President, you know, there's four. 212 00:17:00,540 --> 00:17:07,460 And I was at the time, I think I was the Vice President, and the four of us got kind 213 00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:13,520 of ballin' told by the legislature that we were going to be in a pilot for service. 214 00:17:13,980 --> 00:17:18,520 Remember the original proposal from the Governor and Lieutenant Governor was to require service 215 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,000 as graduation credit. 216 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:26,500 We were able to help them understand, hey, let's not do that, let's find other ways to 217 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:30,960 make service more important, more strategic for students and families. 218 00:17:31,460 --> 00:17:36,400 Anyways, we're basically a year and a half into this now where we are one of 219 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:42,380 four districts piloting, and it has been really a blessing. It's a really positive 220 00:17:42,380 --> 00:17:47,340 thing. One of my core values that I've been taught ever since I was young by my 221 00:17:47,340 --> 00:17:51,500 parents is if you're having a bad day, you're not feeling good about things or you're 222 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:56,640 depressed, go serve, go serve other people and better yet serve them without them knowing 223 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:02,760 that you serve them. Try to do it in a way that it's something you can do for someone 224 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:08,040 without receiving any credit for yourself. And our students in schools, our four high 225 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:14,000 schools have really taken hold of this opportunity and we've received a little bit of funding 226 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:20,920 to help us. We have service coordinators at each of the schools that function on a very 227 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:25,140 part-time limited hours basis but they're navigating looking for service opportunities. 228 00:18:25,940 --> 00:18:31,960 One of the pieces I love the most is reflection on service and we have a platform, a technology 229 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,580 platform that helps students track their hours and reflect on the service. 230 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:42,360 So every good teacher knows that closure to a lesson is super, super important. 231 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,680 If you teach a great lesson and then you don't have any closure, a lot of times the kids just 232 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:47,820 leave and it's gone. 233 00:18:47,820 --> 00:18:54,200 But if you have a way to reflect on the learning or what was learned, it sinks in and sticks. 234 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:02,220 So this program that we utilize tracks, what the students did, and how they felt when 235 00:19:02,220 --> 00:19:02,740 they served. 236 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:05,200 And it's been really powerful. 237 00:19:06,020 --> 00:19:11,680 The numbers have come in from last year and it's super impressive. 238 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:17,840 So, for our district, with our four high schools, all four high schools are participating. 239 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:23,460 We have just over 71% of our students that are fully engaged in this, which is good. 240 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,860 We'd like to see 100% because we know what service can do for kids. 241 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,560 And they've actually put a dollar amount. 242 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:37,420 We've had over 8,000 hours of service that students have documented. 243 00:19:37,420 --> 00:19:44,040 And we knew that I'm sure we had a lot of service going on in Utah and in severe county 244 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:48,840 before we started tracking, but they put a dollar amount that the service rendered by 245 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:55,820 our students is almost $300,000 worth of service, and there's been some wonderful opportunities 246 00:19:55,820 --> 00:20:03,100 serving younger, you know, older students serving younger students visiting lonely, the visiting 247 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:08,520 care centers I mean any any type of search you can think of they've done some 248 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,940 projects with the BLM they've done just wonderful service opportunities to 249 00:20:12,940 --> 00:20:17,620 help others and then they're reflecting on it and we all know it's why we do 250 00:20:17,620 --> 00:20:22,760 what we do in schools when you're tracking something and monitoring it you tend 251 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:26,100 to value it more and it becomes you become more strategic and deliver it in 252 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:32,660 your your service so one of our major goals we know that we have amazing well 253 00:20:32,660 --> 00:20:38,580 around it out outstanding students that are serving. We want to get every single student 254 00:20:38,580 --> 00:20:44,620 serving in our district. It's been a good program. It's been an additional thing on everyone's 255 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:50,180 plates, which has been tough. There's been struggles and challenges with it. But overall, 256 00:20:50,180 --> 00:20:54,580 it's been really, really positive. And I thought it was pretty impressive, as the numbers came 257 00:20:55,270 --> 00:21:00,520 through. Several other districts are now wanting to implement service. One of the areas 258 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,920 we need to do a better job is celebrating it and letting our community know that we're doing this, 259 00:21:05,140 --> 00:21:09,460 that it's been a real positive. So, any questions on that? 260 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,320 How do we see that? 261 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,460 Those hours and those... 262 00:21:16,060 --> 00:21:17,760 Okay, yeah, so they... 263 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:18,440 Is that school? 264 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,920 Yeah, we have the data by school. The reports I received were just by district. 265 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:29,520 I have a presentation that I presented all the other superintendents two months ago. 266 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:36,980 Jennifer Tristan sent our CTE director as she's overseeing the project because it actually has some really good alignment with CTE 267 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,860 And she in that presentation 268 00:21:41,620 --> 00:21:44,680 It's got pictures and act it's it's showing all the different 269 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:50,700 Kit you know the kids in action the things that they're doing north severe for example the whole NS project 270 00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:59,100 It we really tried to align it to this as much as possible and we actually received a little bit of funding through this to help with that project 271 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:00,880 And it was really cool. 272 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:05,700 Friends will hear us send some pictures of those community members up there working on 273 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:06,320 the NS. 274 00:22:06,540 --> 00:22:07,500 I know there was some controversy. 275 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:12,460 People just wanted the ask for Salina and others were very clear. 276 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:13,260 They wanted NS. 277 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,060 You know, it's kind of a struggle. 278 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:17,080 Yeah. 279 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,380 I didn't see it up there for a long time. 280 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:20,660 Oh, wait a minute. 281 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:21,000 Yeah. 282 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:21,440 Yeah. 283 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:22,300 It looks really sharp. 284 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:23,380 It was re-engineered. 285 00:22:24,660 --> 00:22:31,360 There are some exciting things that have happened with the service, but I can even all 286 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:32,960 share with you my presentation. 287 00:22:34,020 --> 00:22:36,540 I'll just email out that presentation and kind of take a look. 288 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:44,280 Well, that would be nice especially when, at the end of this school year, when we try to choose who your service, 289 00:22:44,980 --> 00:22:49,560 I mean, your scholarship winner is, you can go back and kind of look at some of them. 290 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:56,620 I'm actually glad you brought that up some of the funding other districts and we were too late in 291 00:22:56,620 --> 00:23:00,960 the game but other districts that are piloting it have created additional scholarships using 292 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:06,220 the funding for students we'd like to do that we need to do it it's just we came up with the idea 293 00:23:06,220 --> 00:23:11,600 after it was too late I don't like to do scholarships or awards without clarifying the criteria before day 294 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:19,100 one so it's it's fair to everyone involved but the others concern we had was we're not we want 295 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:25,040 service to be self-driven. We don't want kids to do it because they know they're 296 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,620 going to get a scholarship per se. We want them to do it because it's the right 297 00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:32,380 thing to do. So we're trying to find balance. But we are very much considering 298 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,960 some scholarship opportunities while we have the funds. It's not something that 299 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,720 will stay funded forever, but this pilot's been a pretty positive thing. Thanks 300 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:47,200 for bringing that up. And yeah, I'll try to give you more data. I think my 301 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,900 My favorite part of the whole thing is when the students do little, just simple self-reflections 302 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:53,420 about what they felt more, pretty good stuff. 303 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:59,340 The other one, item number five that I love, this stuff, school merits. 304 00:24:00,620 --> 00:24:06,780 So again, one of my favorite quotes is you get what you expect and inspect. 305 00:24:07,740 --> 00:24:14,200 So when you truly inspect and value and start measuring growth in an area, is when you 306 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,500 really see focus and strategy. 307 00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:19,720 And this merit, we call it our school merits 308 00:24:20,050 --> 00:24:21,300 for lack of a better term. 309 00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:27,220 What it is is when we deliberately send communication home 310 00:24:27,220 --> 00:24:29,140 and choose a postcard to parents, 311 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,140 when their students do something great. 312 00:24:32,060 --> 00:24:35,020 I know in our home, my daughter's a student, 313 00:24:35,220 --> 00:24:37,340 she'll be going into seventh grade at Red Hills Middle. 314 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,200 And last year she received three of these cards 315 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,020 at different times, and it's just a teacher 316 00:24:42,020 --> 00:24:43,380 that's taken the card and said, 317 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:46,040 hey, you did a great job in this area. 318 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,860 Thanks so much for helping another student 319 00:24:47,860 --> 00:24:48,920 or whatever that might be. 320 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,320 And it's male home to the family. 321 00:24:51,540 --> 00:24:53,720 And let me know those hung on our fridge the whole year. 322 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,180 We still have one hanging on our fridge. 323 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,140 It really is a positive, it's wonderful. 324 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:03,280 When you communicate home with positive, not just negative. 325 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,100 Some of the principals and teachers are calling home. 326 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:09,500 And sometimes it's interesting because the parents 327 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:11,260 and it's like, okay, what did K do now? 328 00:25:11,780 --> 00:25:13,480 And it's like, hey, actually did something great. 329 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,640 I'm calling to tell you things. 330 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,000 He did something great. 331 00:25:17,580 --> 00:25:20,220 The cool thing is, as we started tracking these numbers, 332 00:25:21,460 --> 00:25:27,480 so we had 10,216 positive notes at home last year 333 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,800 in our school district, which I just love. 334 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:30,940 I'm so proud of that. 335 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:33,960 That means every student surely got one. 336 00:25:34,140 --> 00:25:35,640 Most students got two or three. 337 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:46,860 The prior year we were at 6,000, the prior year we were at 6,000, before that 4,500. 338 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:53,900 So this year we really accelerated and I truly believe in my heart and soul that communicating 339 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:59,700 home positively with parents and students will do more for our academics than anything else. 340 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:05,400 It's a powerful piece of success in our schools. 341 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,000 So I love that. 342 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,180 I didn't know if you were aware that we tracked that, monitored that, and we're getting better 343 00:26:10,180 --> 00:26:13,460 and better at doing that work. 344 00:26:14,060 --> 00:26:18,180 So positive communication is really helpful. 345 00:26:19,180 --> 00:26:20,380 Any questions on any of those? 346 00:26:23,140 --> 00:26:29,240 By discussion items, number one, I just wanted to mention the rural schools conference. 347 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,680 We always take all of our principals. 348 00:26:32,140 --> 00:26:36,500 Principal Blackworth, Mitchell, I, and Principal Hepworth from south severe high both presented 349 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:41,200 at the conference and talking to our principals who attended those were their favorite presentations. 350 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:47,040 I thought that was pretty cool. They learn a lot from each other and it's amazing the good 351 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:52,340 things that are going on in our district. The keynote that I enjoyed the most, his name was Brad 352 00:26:52,340 --> 00:26:57,860 Monagu and we're working on see if we can't get him for maybe one of our opening institutes down the 353 00:26:57,860 --> 00:27:02,460 road, but I don't know if you're familiar with the Kid President, if you Google Kid President, 354 00:27:02,460 --> 00:27:07,060 and it's really fun. He's the mastermind behind Kid President. He's kind of the producer 355 00:27:07,060 --> 00:27:11,220 of that. He's written a few books. I'll be talking more about him at opening Institute, 356 00:27:11,580 --> 00:27:16,300 but one of the quotes that he shared that I wrote down, and I just love it. I feel the 357 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:22,040 same way. He said, be who you were needed when you were younger. Basically, be the kind 358 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,020 of teacher, kind of person that you needed when you were younger. And we all needed that 359 00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:32,860 extra caring adult so I think we'll keep him on our radar and you'll hear more 360 00:27:32,860 --> 00:27:36,620 I'm gonna read one of his books that he wrote at opening institute like I like 361 00:27:36,620 --> 00:27:43,480 to do I gave you my second item a copy of what great teachers do differently I'm 362 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,600 very excited Todd Whitaker has always been one of my educational he-vows I'm 363 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,920 gonna have him autograph the book when we get him here like he's he's awesome he's 364 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:59,260 a veteran expert. This book details 19 different things that great teachers do. 365 00:27:59,820 --> 00:28:06,920 What makes a great teacher? Some of the 19 focus on people on programs. Say 366 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,800 what you mean, mean what you say. Prioritize behavior prevention over revenge. 367 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,280 When we talk about that all the time with our in our schools, with our 368 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,940 principals, we want to do positive, positive prevention and reinforcement, 369 00:28:19,940 --> 00:28:26,140 the non-punitive, those types of things. Focus on students first. Create positive 370 00:28:26,140 --> 00:28:31,240 cloud to classroom atmospheres, monitor student comfort levels. There's just 371 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:36,860 some really good principles that are backed up with really great stories in the 372 00:28:36,860 --> 00:28:40,380 book. You'll enjoy reading it. It's a great book. We're going to probably study it 373 00:28:40,380 --> 00:28:47,440 for two years. Next, not this January, but the next, when we have our next Midwinner 374 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,780 institute, we're going to try to, we've already got a book, I think, we're, we're planning 375 00:28:50,780 --> 00:28:56,060 on him. He'll come and present, we're, we're faced to face with our principles and 376 00:28:56,060 --> 00:29:02,280 teachers, and we'll likely figure out a way to have him come back. And like we've done 377 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,980 in the past, have him come and spend time, time in our schools with our principles and 378 00:29:06,980 --> 00:29:11,760 teachers. So I'm excited about it. I think it'll be a really good. Re-focus on instruction 379 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:15,600 and teachers. Any questions on any of those? 380 00:29:18,180 --> 00:29:20,060 I just wanted to mention that you look on 381 00:29:20,060 --> 00:29:24,420 our vision mission and goals. We're really excited. We've kind of rebranded. There's 382 00:29:24,420 --> 00:29:29,680 not major shifts because we're still not there. We still have a gap from where we are 383 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,060 and where we need to be with the vision mission and goals. But the teachers are excited about 384 00:29:34,060 --> 00:29:37,860 it. We've created these new signs. They hang in the schools. We've created the classroom 385 00:29:37,860 --> 00:29:42,760 signs that are small, so every single teacher has them from the center in their classroom. 386 00:29:43,460 --> 00:29:47,640 We've made a few small tweaks, you know how hard we've worked on. 387 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,320 We don't just teach, we ensure students learn. 388 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,500 On our old vision, it had teaching across the out. 389 00:29:53,580 --> 00:29:57,220 We were trying to be very bold and help teachers realize that they're not hired to teach. 390 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:58,980 We saw from that a little, because I think we have, 391 00:29:58,980 --> 00:29:59,920 we saw from that a little, because I think we have, 392 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:27,500 Close the gap. And it's actually a little more clear. It just says, we go beyond teaching. We ensure students learn. And I think that's more easy. You know, these are teachers to understand what we're trying to do. But we're, we're excited. If you look on our website, you've got the vision, mission and goals. Then you have all the initiatives. They're all lined up. It's, it's a little more simple. Wanted to think, Christa and Shiloh were really hard on that. Really rebranding it, making it look crisp. 393 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:32,080 Just has been gluing these up all over the place, printing them, and getting them out 394 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:32,520 of the teachers. 395 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,780 I'll talk more about it at an opening institute, but I'm excited for it. 396 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,660 I think it'll re-energize our vision mission goals. 397 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,600 Last thing on my list is the JLC priorities. 398 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:44,680 I just gave you a draft. 399 00:30:46,140 --> 00:30:48,640 Jack attended this year. 400 00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:53,220 I wasn't able to attend, but they were actually pretty smooth. 401 00:30:53,420 --> 00:30:57,080 We didn't have quite as much controversy as we sometimes do with board members and super 402 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,880 attendance just wanted to give you a copy of that draft and I that's what 403 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,760 we'll stick to and push really hard for this legislative session. We'll be 404 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,360 bringing it up when we do our meeting at Circle Bill Elementary. We've already 405 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:16,140 sent it out to most of the representatives and senators and it's I met with I 406 00:31:16,780 --> 00:31:20,080 spent a lot of time last week meeting with the speaker of the house just 407 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:26,280 in advocating the legislative issues as later I so any questions for me that's 408 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:26,980 all that I had. 409 00:31:30,290 --> 00:31:31,110 Okay, thank you. 410 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,120 Even get the air going in here. It's a little dead, isn't it? 411 00:31:52,980 --> 00:31:57,720 It's been a dead air in here. A while since I've been in here. 412 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:00,220 It's old air. 413 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,540 Okay. I hope I don't sound like broken record of all these things. I just want 414 00:32:07,540 --> 00:32:13,780 to reintroduce. New year. I could tell it's a new year, not by the calendar, but by how many 415 00:32:13,780 --> 00:32:20,700 parents, and having to talk to on a daily basis lately. So it means new year, this year 416 00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:31,980 parents are going to be interested in their child's education. So first off, starting 417 00:32:31,980 --> 00:32:38,560 with some of the things that we'll be doing next week to prepare our teachers for the kids 418 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:49,760 coming. We're starting with a new teacher training on August 19th, 30th, so just a reminder 419 00:32:50,090 --> 00:32:57,640 this used to be a full two day seminar if you will and now training it was brutal way 420 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:06,440 back when we've fine tuned it. We work with them pretty much throughout this day and then 421 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:11,620 And then we have follow-up sessions, three follow-up sessions afterwards. 422 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,280 So it's a lot to go over in a two-day stint. 423 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,680 They feel very overwhelmed. 424 00:33:19,020 --> 00:33:23,640 They're trying to get a new classroom ready and jump in with the right attitude. 425 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,960 And if we overwhelm them too much, sometimes they lose a little bit of that excitement for 426 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:28,420 the first day. 427 00:33:28,540 --> 00:33:32,920 And so we've learned that if we cover what we need to and we try and pump them up, 428 00:33:36,420 --> 00:33:36,420 I 429 00:33:36,420 --> 00:33:41,780 district and in a very positive light with them and getting them excited about being 430 00:33:41,780 --> 00:33:42,120 here. 431 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:43,220 And then we train them. 432 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:47,420 We use our curriculum council members that I'll go over here in a second with you. 433 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:55,440 And then we save a few things and then if they formulate questions in the upcoming months, 434 00:33:55,940 --> 00:34:03,440 we do about an hour to two hour of training, three separate times, one each month for the 435 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,200 following three months after our new teacher training. 436 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,540 Our efforts are to support all the new teachers. 437 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,060 We give them the mentor. 438 00:34:13,540 --> 00:34:16,260 They're mentor teacher who is the assistant principal, 439 00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:19,460 basically, and they are required to spend time working 440 00:34:19,460 --> 00:34:20,720 with them and helping them. 441 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,080 And if they have questions, they need some advice, 442 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,760 or they need some training, so forth. 443 00:34:26,380 --> 00:34:27,460 They need to go see other teachers. 444 00:34:27,460 --> 00:34:29,640 Whatever it might be, the principals in the assistant 445 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,860 principals have been really good to help with that. 446 00:34:31,860 --> 00:34:37,240 And so it's a very valid part of what we do with the new teacher training. 447 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,660 Our goal is to hire the best and retain the best. 448 00:34:40,820 --> 00:34:46,860 And a lot of times if we burn them out right out of a gate without the support, then that defeats our purpose. 449 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:54,580 So that's our plan and that's what we've done and it seems to, it's done as well. 450 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,020 So we're excited to get this new batch. 451 00:34:57,020 --> 00:34:59,880 It isn't as many, we didn't have as many retirees last year. 452 00:35:00,420 --> 00:35:07,800 And so it's not as many as we normally have, a few less, but we have some great prospects, 453 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,640 really, really good people that we're excited to have come on board and be a part of our 454 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,860 district for the sake of our kids. 455 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:21,560 So that will be on the 19th and then, like I said, in, we'll just show you real quick. 456 00:35:22,220 --> 00:35:27,700 We'll also invite our principals and mentor teachers or assistant principals to come 457 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:39,120 in and do a working lunch on that day and the goal is that you'll see all these checklists 458 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:44,940 this for the principally or no the mentor checklist here and then the principals checklist. 459 00:35:45,180 --> 00:35:51,080 All these items are just things that prep the principals and the mentors to go over and make 460 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:56,280 sure they're ready to answer any questions along those lines so they're prepared to discuss 461 00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,840 us these things with them and then if the new teachers have additional questions that 462 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:06,220 pertain mostly to the schools and they have that opportunity to sit with them and discuss 463 00:36:06,220 --> 00:36:11,640 those things. It's really a welcoming way to do it. We found it's not intimidating. We 464 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,420 try and make it as user friendly as possible and it's, like I said, it serves us well. 465 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:21,440 These are the additional days. You see that we, people from the district office, we give them 466 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,880 assignments to kind of go over other aspects of the district. There are so many things 467 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:32,140 that they have to learn and know about, so it's been a good program and we're excited to continue 468 00:36:32,140 --> 00:36:34,300 that with our new teachers and help support them. 469 00:36:42,340 --> 00:36:46,300 Okay, and then Superintendent mentioned our 470 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:51,580 opening institute. I just wanted to point out our, which remind you who are curriculum counsel, 471 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,480 specialists are in the district for secondary math. We have Melissa, but I'll not only introduce them at 472 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:04,360 opening institute as well, Peyton Ashby, secondary language arts, Jessica Ivy, whoops 473 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,420 side, let me change that real quick, he is actually a social studies, 474 00:37:12,820 --> 00:37:15,060 Peyton Ashby is 475 00:37:15,060 --> 00:37:21,180 over the social studies, Jessica Ivy is secondary language arts, Amy Morris science, Ashley 476 00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:26,580 Larson is elementary math this year, and Amy Nielsen is elementary language arts, which incidentally 477 00:37:26,580 --> 00:37:32,120 will be our textbook adoption for this year, so we're here enough for that as well. 478 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:39,380 So moving on down the line, I mentioned that we have as many, if you took time to go over 479 00:37:39,380 --> 00:37:44,940 that graph there, you'll see that we have 26 new assignments, but that doesn't mean 480 00:37:44,940 --> 00:37:46,220 that we have 26 new teachers. 481 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,480 We have a lot of shifting, one person that's been in the district for a number of years might 482 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,180 become an assistant principal or a principal and a lot of shifting is the shell game basically. 483 00:37:55,180 --> 00:38:03,500 And, but 12 actual new teachers that will be attending new teacher training for that day. 484 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:11,120 Another thing that I'll be bringing up at our opening institute is that the Master's 485 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:18,680 Grade program, the reimbursement program that we support, will be recognizing those from 486 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,100 the 2526 year that received their Master's degree in our district. 487 00:38:24,020 --> 00:38:25,560 It's something that we believe in. 488 00:38:25,660 --> 00:38:29,520 We want our teachers to be well trained and continue to further their education and 489 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:35,820 not only for them, financially, but also for the fact that we feel like as long as they're 490 00:38:35,820 --> 00:38:40,700 learning and growing and become better at their craft, it's going to benefit our students 491 00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:42,240 in the long run. 492 00:38:42,380 --> 00:38:50,380 So we continue to promote things like this so that they can continue to get better and better 493 00:38:50,380 --> 00:38:55,040 and sharpen their skills and so forth for our students. 494 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:05,360 We have our individual school assessment data reviews coming up which we put together 495 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:11,680 a chart that shows all the scores from all the various assessments that we do throughout 496 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:12,200 the year. 497 00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:18,900 Mostly our end of level from the previous year it helps us like superintendents said to 498 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:22,520 keep them accountable and we can sit down with them. 499 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:27,540 And it's their opportunity and their responsibility to share with us their data. 500 00:39:28,220 --> 00:39:32,860 We already give it to them and then they share it back with us and where there's places 501 00:39:32,860 --> 00:39:37,240 to celebrate and also places that might need extra attention. 502 00:39:37,460 --> 00:39:40,520 We can all put our heads together in that meeting and discuss that. 503 00:39:40,540 --> 00:39:45,560 We'll be doing that in the next few weeks with all of our schools or principals and their 504 00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:47,260 administrative teams. 505 00:39:49,780 --> 00:39:53,000 This, it's kind of an ebb and flow, when you're, you might be really good at something 506 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,920 and you might need to make improvements the next year and so it gives us the opportunity 507 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:02,360 to sit down with them and really push that narrative that we should always be striving 508 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:03,200 to improve. 509 00:40:03,420 --> 00:40:10,560 There's always room for improvement and we need to continue to do that and so it's just 510 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:16,000 another way that we not only hold their feet to the fire but give them that responsibility 511 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,800 to really look at the data and use it in their meetings, their faculty meetings, their 512 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,700 PLC meetings, and all these things that they get with their teams and their teachers. 513 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:32,300 And then they could also, if they see a wholesome word, as a good assistant principal or 514 00:40:32,830 --> 00:40:36,700 instructional coach in the principal, they really need to focus on, what can we do to help this 515 00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:43,800 teacher do a better job and maybe relaying the information or those types of things to 516 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,760 where those scores will continue to improve. 517 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,820 So this is a great opportunity for us to get in the schools 518 00:40:48,820 --> 00:40:50,540 and talk about individual success 519 00:40:50,540 --> 00:40:52,980 and areas we can get better at. 520 00:40:56,380 --> 00:40:57,720 Last couple of things there, 521 00:40:58,780 --> 00:41:00,740 one big push right now, 522 00:41:01,220 --> 00:41:03,140 due to Senate Bill 241, 523 00:41:04,060 --> 00:41:06,140 where you've heard about that one 524 00:41:06,140 --> 00:41:10,140 where by 2030 it's an expectation 525 00:41:10,140 --> 00:41:13,420 that high percentage of our students 526 00:41:13,420 --> 00:41:19,080 are on reading level or grade level. And if not, there will be retention. It's kind of 527 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:26,060 a big deal right now. And so we are being very proactive with that. There's money attached 528 00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:33,740 to this bill where there's expectations of professional development and training teachers 529 00:41:33,740 --> 00:41:41,480 and so forth. And so we've already jumped kind of in and wrote an MOU, put it out, and 530 00:41:42,220 --> 00:41:49,400 are an R&B rather and it was a very, we had a lot of great people bid on this to come in 531 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:56,440 and train our teachers along these lines and it was awarded to impactful learning and they've 532 00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:03,800 already got dates in place. I put up their September November March May just depends on which school 533 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:09,160 what day and those months will happen but impactful learning will come in and work with our 534 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:15,700 principles and their teachers on how to address some of those things listed in 535 00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:23,080 Senate Bill 241 to make sure that we're ready for when that happens so that we 536 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,080 get those kids where they need to be and there's no question that we're doing 537 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:33,500 our due diligence to to help move that needle. So we're excited for that and 538 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:44,140 We really think you're all familiar with the model where we've been hiring some of the best experts in the world in certainly in the country. 539 00:42:44,740 --> 00:42:53,560 We started the model with Jimmy Cossus with Culture Eyes where we actually hired him to come in and mentor principals and assistant principals in elementary, middle and high school. 540 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:58,060 He spent two years working with us and our principals. 541 00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:02,800 We realized back then we weren't investing in our pencils. 542 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,840 We were possibly looking for professional without amount of opportunities, 543 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:10,480 professional learning, professional opportunities for teachers. 544 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,320 We wanted to start investing in our new years. 545 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:19,940 So if we had give you costs, then we had Mike, Tom Schimmer, 546 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,420 Tom Schimmer, Miron DeWitt, and we kind of started, 547 00:43:24,420 --> 00:43:32,860 But we had such a tremendous need in the standard-based rating that the last four years have been heavily invested in our high school and middle school principals. 548 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:48,460 This is a shift now taking some of our limited funds and really investing in elementary principals as it relates directly to improving sharpening, needing instruction, really digging into the data. 549 00:43:48,460 --> 00:43:56,400 that the target is to have every single student on a big level by a third grade of course and this SB241 550 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,360 made it easy but it's expected. 551 00:43:58,620 --> 00:44:02,200 We've got to work through to ensure that every single student has quality. 552 00:44:03,180 --> 00:44:05,420 We're going to see more and more heavily on this. 553 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:12,460 We're in a good place with reading instruction, but we need to refocus and 554 00:44:12,460 --> 00:44:17,320 a certain lack and really sharpen some of our instruction 555 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:18,540 in our data with reading. 556 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,280 So it's a good opportunity to invest it 557 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,360 in secondary principles for the last several years 558 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:24,440 and I was talking to you. 559 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,080 You invested in elementary principles. 560 00:44:26,460 --> 00:44:28,760 But the most part, they seem to be embracing it. 561 00:44:28,980 --> 00:44:30,900 This is a good opportunity to support them in your area. 562 00:44:31,380 --> 00:44:33,880 They were very, very welcoming of it. 563 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:35,000 They're excited about it. 564 00:44:35,100 --> 00:44:37,380 Matter of fact, Jill recognized the engender for throughts 565 00:44:37,380 --> 00:44:39,480 and she is the one that is running. 566 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,080 That's her company is impactful learning. 567 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:47,560 So she is, no longer with USBE, she was the curriculum specialist over the whole state, 568 00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:52,560 super smart lady, and just really good to work with, she's great. 569 00:44:53,340 --> 00:44:57,460 It's her company impactful learning that won the bed, and we'll be working with our principals 570 00:44:57,460 --> 00:44:59,980 and I think us jumping on the... 571 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:06,740 That right out of the gate, like that, puts us in a really good place because having Jennifer 572 00:45:06,740 --> 00:45:10,960 Thronson working with our teachers, especially her time is going to be limited anyways with 573 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,620 all the things she's doing. And so others that think about it after the fact, we've already 574 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,820 made those commitments, so we're in a really good place with that. 575 00:45:21,060 --> 00:45:23,660 And then just a reminder, 576 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:28,700 Deloitte University, that was a courageous principal's conference. We're looking at a second 577 00:45:28,700 --> 00:45:34,060 At run of that, we went two years ago for crazy principals one. 578 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,460 We're mostly going for two, but we do have some new, obviously, return over. 579 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,440 We do have some of our principals that will be in the park one while simultaneously. 580 00:45:43,860 --> 00:45:46,140 The rest of us that have been to part one will be going to part two. 581 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:51,500 That's an investment with our funds as well that we're excited to, again, 582 00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:53,540 and like superintendent said, invest in our principles 583 00:45:53,540 --> 00:45:58,160 and try to make them reach their potential 584 00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:58,780 the best we can. 585 00:45:59,740 --> 00:46:01,360 And then obviously the solution tree, 586 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,940 you'll see a work conference will be June 8th 587 00:46:04,940 --> 00:46:06,760 through the 10th, you'll hear me talk about it all the time 588 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,040 because I think it's such a valuable training 589 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,260 for our teachers in the district throughout the year. 590 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:18,480 And so we've already purchased the slots for next year. 591 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,240 And excited for that. 592 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:26,420 So that said, the only other thing up there, number eight, we will be doing Noel and Anderson 593 00:46:26,420 --> 00:46:28,780 and myself will be doing our substitute. 594 00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:37,820 Hiring and training coming up, roughly August 31st, so that'll be one more thing done 595 00:46:37,820 --> 00:46:41,460 for the beginning of another year, and we'll kick it off right, so there are any questions 596 00:46:41,460 --> 00:46:41,800 for me. 597 00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:43,680 Okay. 598 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:44,720 Thank you. 599 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:45,780 Mr. Lewis. 600 00:46:48,570 --> 00:46:49,370 Mr. Lloyd. 601 00:47:00,500 --> 00:47:01,060 Oh, yeah. 602 00:47:01,060 --> 00:47:01,560 The 603 00:47:06,070 --> 00:47:11,070 items, um, which scroll, what's the one before that? 604 00:47:12,350 --> 00:47:13,690 Nothing before that? 605 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:19,720 Rather be normal. 606 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:20,860 Where should we do that? 607 00:47:22,070 --> 00:47:23,540 It's definitely last one. 608 00:47:25,460 --> 00:47:32,360 So if you're familiar with saline at all, um, across from the middle school parking lot, 609 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,760 we own, we own a parking lot, but it's unfinished. 610 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:41,640 it's well maybe it was paved one time but the pavement's pretty much gone. 611 00:47:43,780 --> 00:47:44,340 There's 612 00:47:44,340 --> 00:47:51,180 some apartment buildings there. Can you all see where I've written this 613 00:47:51,180 --> 00:47:52,120 property on there? 614 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,480 So it's that little square trunk right there. There's apartment 615 00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:04,980 buildings just to the east of that that are some old church, old LDS church 616 00:48:04,980 --> 00:48:09,380 buildings. And those were recently purchased by a guy in 617 00:48:09,380 --> 00:48:13,920 Salina and he's he's actually contacted us about purchasing 618 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:14,740 this property. 619 00:48:16,820 --> 00:48:20,260 Talking through it with Anthony in the school 620 00:48:20,260 --> 00:48:24,220 and just my knowledge of the property is God I would love to 621 00:48:24,220 --> 00:48:31,120 get rid of it. It's kind of a pain in the neck. We've had over 622 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,260 the course of the years that I've been here we've had weed 623 00:48:33,260 --> 00:48:38,320 issues that we've had to go in clean up the city's got mad at us or we've had 624 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:45,600 homeless people living here in trailers that we've had to go evict you can 625 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:50,020 see to the north at the top of that property we do have some storage buildings 626 00:48:50,020 --> 00:48:56,140 there they're old and I'm not sure what's in them if we did consider selling the 627 00:48:56,140 --> 00:49:00,360 property we we might have to figure out where to relocate those or get some new 628 00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:06,120 storage on our actual campus which is there's plenty room on the campus. That's not really an issue. 629 00:49:07,740 --> 00:49:16,140 So what I'm seeking is just and I have it listed as an action item is just the ability to pursue 630 00:49:16,140 --> 00:49:24,140 selling this. I would like to just get a hold of a reputable agent and have them give me a cost 631 00:49:24,140 --> 00:49:31,120 estimate or a value estimate as well as a write-up on what they feel like the highest 632 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:36,420 and best use of the property is and if they think it's feasible to just 633 00:49:36,420 --> 00:49:44,210 negotiate directly with the person that's interested in the property or if they 634 00:49:44,210 --> 00:49:49,750 think it would be a value to actually list the property. I have my own thoughts on 635 00:49:49,750 --> 00:49:55,870 that. I mean it's basically a parking lot for those buildings already 636 00:49:55,870 --> 00:50:02,810 So the highest and best use is probably going to say that, but it's best use is being a parking 637 00:50:02,810 --> 00:50:05,330 lock for the adjacent rental buildings. 638 00:50:05,650 --> 00:50:13,310 But I would like to, like I said, get ahold of somebody that lives in that world, contract 639 00:50:13,310 --> 00:50:20,890 with them to give me those things, especially the value, and then move forward with presenting 640 00:50:20,890 --> 00:50:28,990 that information to the board next month and deciding if we're willing to sell the property 641 00:50:28,990 --> 00:50:43,860 here if we want to list it or how you'd like to proceed so yeah it's basically been basically 642 00:50:43,860 --> 00:50:48,520 been there free parking lot for I don't know I mean probably even back when you're in the principal 643 00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:58,940 I don't know that the districts ever actually used it for anything of value. 644 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:02,560 It's the middle school. 645 00:51:05,140 --> 00:51:06,260 That's the middle school. 646 00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:07,660 Is there a doubt? 647 00:51:08,180 --> 00:51:09,060 20 of parking. 648 00:51:09,940 --> 00:51:10,220 Yeah. 649 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:17,800 The big parking lot across the street is probably three or four times the size of what the middle school actually means. 650 00:51:38,540 --> 00:51:47,560 I don't know the people realize that's even a public, you know they probably think it's a private lock so I don't know the people parking it much. 651 00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,240 You know, I've never seen people over there 652 00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:51,320 who are home to me, and you have the home to them 653 00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,240 and you're afraid you'd like to see a parking lot 654 00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:55,140 that sometimes I may have a little rest of it 655 00:51:55,140 --> 00:51:56,700 because where those trees are, 656 00:51:56,900 --> 00:51:58,600 the people that believe in the apartments, 657 00:51:59,740 --> 00:52:00,900 part, right? 658 00:52:00,940 --> 00:52:04,420 Yeah, that's basically just been their free parking lot anyway. 659 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,020 So I actually think that the person that's approached us 660 00:52:08,020 --> 00:52:09,880 has, you know, some level of integrity 661 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,380 that he feels like he probably should just own the parking lot. 662 00:52:13,740 --> 00:52:13,740 But, 663 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,080 any other questions about otherwise, 664 00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,920 of it just be for the end of the meeting for action. 665 00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:25,220 My 666 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,400 second items are just giving 667 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:37,620 you a project updates. Northsphere high school auditorium is really close to being done. 668 00:52:39,380 --> 00:52:46,080 They did have a beginning of year like freshman orientation in there either today or yesterday 669 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:52,840 they were able to utilize the space. Ryan gave me positive feedback on that and the community 670 00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:56,860 members and what not that have been that have been attended that really loved it thought it was 671 00:52:56,860 --> 00:53:03,180 awesome all the lights aren't installed the house lighting isn't installed they've been on 672 00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:11,720 back order we probably won't get them until September but like the sound the systems I believe fully 673 00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:18,900 functioning they were installing all the stage lights when I was there on yesterday so those things 674 00:53:18,900 --> 00:53:23,840 are going to be up and running and I don't think they start their play until kind of 675 00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:29,140 the start of play practice until kind of the middle of September so everything should 676 00:53:29,140 --> 00:53:30,560 be in line and working by then. 677 00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:37,040 We've done a bunch of lists on it so all those indie things are kind of getting buttoned 678 00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:37,280 up. 679 00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:46,460 North Korean middle school that administrative remodel, safety remodel, that's essentially 680 00:53:46,460 --> 00:53:46,820 done. 681 00:53:46,820 --> 00:53:49,840 If I can't think anything, it's lingering out there on that job. 682 00:53:51,700 --> 00:53:56,640 The storefronts down the entryway, which we were waiting on some ceiling lights in the 683 00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,520 entryway and some walk-off models, those things are all done. 684 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:00,480 That looks great in there. 685 00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,820 That project turned out really well. 686 00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:11,720 That faculty and staff should have now have a great space to utilize for faculty means 687 00:54:11,720 --> 00:54:14,180 or on the prep period or whatever. 688 00:54:14,180 --> 00:54:23,320 the admin area just looks great, it's modern, and then the fact that we were able to make it a safe secure entryway. 689 00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:30,120 So it was kind of hit a home run on that project, it got done. Right on time, Tusher really did a good job managing that job. 690 00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:42,840 Richfield High School Track and Field Project still mostly in the planning stages of that, especially for the track and field itself. 691 00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:49,240 The bleachers, we have finalized the plans on those and the plans have actually went out to 692 00:54:50,580 --> 00:54:51,020 the 693 00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:58,420 Subcontractors and bleacher providers, so they're they're reviewing those plans right now, and we're gonna bid that at 694 00:54:59,260 --> 00:55:00,120 The end of August 695 00:55:01,020 --> 00:55:06,720 Just because we needed we need to get that out and bid before the rest of the project because of the sign frame of getting those orders 696 00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:08,900 They're just a really long lead item 697 00:55:10,380 --> 00:55:15,020 last I think the last one told me there about 200 days out so we're on track we 698 00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:19,120 should be able to get those ordered and have them here in time for the end of 699 00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:20,680 next summer to be able to install. 700 00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:26,020 That's the items like just little details on 701 00:55:26,020 --> 00:55:32,080 the track, track colors, where the electricity needs to be, where water is 702 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:36,160 thickens need to be, those things we're kind of working through still with the 703 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:42,600 architects out of the West London with the school, so probably next board meeting, I'll 704 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:47,520 be able to give you an update on the only bleacher bid and how that went. 705 00:55:50,220 --> 00:55:51,400 Any questions on 706 00:55:51,400 --> 00:56:01,120 those items on projects? Okay. Number three item, I have time to come in but she's actually 707 00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:06,900 off today, but we were able to go through the hiring process for Carey Carter's position 708 00:56:06,900 --> 00:56:14,880 and we had a really great hiring pool and we'll say too much public meeting about it, 709 00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:19,860 but we had a very competitive pool, but we were able to hire a great candidate 710 00:56:19,860 --> 00:56:28,980 and Tammy Hanson, she's a CBA, she's got tons of experience in high level accounting 711 00:56:28,980 --> 00:56:34,520 and governmental accounting, and it should be a great replacement for Carey. 712 00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:39,540 Any questions about that? 713 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:42,680 She lives in Gunnison. 714 00:56:44,900 --> 00:56:46,600 Yeah, she's born and raised in Gunnison. 715 00:56:46,860 --> 00:56:50,180 She asked if she could wear her Gunnison high sweatshirt, 716 00:56:50,660 --> 00:56:51,560 or if she told her no. 717 00:56:52,940 --> 00:56:54,540 The only requirement we had, 718 00:56:55,980 --> 00:56:57,920 I think she did show up in the one day 719 00:56:57,920 --> 00:56:59,260 as she's already breaking the rules. 720 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:02,440 No, she's great. 721 00:57:02,660 --> 00:57:03,900 She's from here. 722 00:57:03,900 --> 00:57:11,280 She was actually probably our first applicant to put in for the job she saw it and was excited for it and timing was right like 723 00:57:12,940 --> 00:57:19,360 Things just seemed to fall in place for her to be able to even apply for the job. So 724 00:57:22,100 --> 00:57:28,960 That's all I have we do have some things to discuss and close meeting and then that action item at the end 725 00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,840 I'll know to you guys to debate that and take action on 726 00:57:32,940 --> 00:57:33,420 Thanks. 727 00:57:35,820 --> 00:57:36,920 Thank you Mr. Wood. 728 00:57:42,050 --> 00:57:48,230 So we do have a closed meeting and the purpose of closed meeting is to discuss the real estate transaction or what else. 729 00:57:48,470 --> 00:57:49,250 No, just personnel. 730 00:57:49,970 --> 00:58:01,540 First of all, so I entertain motion to come out of our regular meeting and go into closed meeting. 731 00:58:01,540 --> 00:58:04,600 I'll make that mentioned in just a couple of seconds. 732 00:58:07,580 --> 00:58:10,620 We'll do this by order. 733 00:58:12,820 --> 00:58:13,750 Mr. Orr? 734 00:58:14,060 --> 00:58:14,420 Yes. 735 00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:17,720 Is it Porter? 736 00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:18,240 Yes. 737 00:58:19,220 --> 00:58:20,140 Mr. Savage? 738 00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:20,640 Yes. 739 00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:22,380 Mr. Henson? 740 00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:22,800 Yes. 741 00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:24,200 And I'm a yes. 742 00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:30,160 Mr. Perry's will close his meeting and pick a short recess. 743 00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,520 and we'll keep that up for a couple of days.