1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:28,380 Okay, we will now begin the Thomas Edison Charter School's governing board meeting. The time is 5.30 p.m. on September 2nd, 5.34 p.m. on September 2nd, 20.26. In attendance are Lindsay Fowers, Court and Carpenter. Michael Schoenbarchi, Jeff Mason. 2 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:34,060 and excused our Esther Ithrossan and Ryan Leaves, 3 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,640 and Courtney Walidus in the pledge. 4 00:00:43,250 --> 00:00:51,170 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, 5 00:00:51,870 --> 00:00:56,650 one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 6 00:01:02,630 --> 00:01:06,790 And if you'll bear with me for one moment I'm having an electronic. 7 00:01:08,090 --> 00:01:08,570 Okay, 8 00:02:14,550 --> 00:02:15,470 we will proceed fourth. 9 00:02:16,010 --> 00:02:20,810 We will, unless there are any objections, we will adopt the agenda as presented before 10 00:02:20,810 --> 00:02:21,170 us. 11 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:28,060 Are there any members of the public who would like to make a comment? 12 00:02:32,470 --> 00:02:32,710 Lindsay? 13 00:02:33,110 --> 00:02:38,210 Just from time to time, I like to just take a second to publicly say to all of you, thank you 14 00:02:38,210 --> 00:02:40,830 for your service and your health with the school. 15 00:02:41,790 --> 00:02:47,850 You guys are fantastic, you're putting in time and effort and energy that you are not 16 00:02:47,850 --> 00:02:55,470 being paid for you are not being compensated in any sort of worldly fashion that I know of 17 00:02:56,330 --> 00:03:01,910 other than our gratitude and so I would be very remiss to not share that from time to time so 18 00:03:01,910 --> 00:03:04,610 thank you very much for your service. Thank you. 19 00:03:06,770 --> 00:03:10,790 Thank you. Okay the minutes from the previous 20 00:03:10,790 --> 00:03:16,370 meeting were distributed via email. Are there any questions comments or proposed corrections? 21 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:24,630 I move that we approve the minutes as distributed motion by Lindsay 22 00:03:24,630 --> 00:03:33,690 seconded by Michael Sean all in favor. I motion passes unanimously. First agenda 23 00:03:33,690 --> 00:03:37,570 item will be the Brian Carpenter podcast. We're 24 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,760 at Lifelong Learning in 2017 which was 25 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,220 nine years after I completed my PhD. I returned to school and earned a graduate 26 00:03:52,220 --> 00:03:57,280 a certificate in forensic accounting and fraud examination from West Virginia University. 27 00:03:57,580 --> 00:04:03,020 Shortly thereafter, I completed the four-part exam to become a certified fraud examiner 28 00:04:03,020 --> 00:04:04,760 or CFE for short. 29 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:12,440 Welcome to Ford Weissan, the end-e-monthly training podcast for charter school boards. 30 00:04:13,180 --> 00:04:17,260 And now, he's your author and host, Dr. Brian L. Carpenter. 31 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,740 Greetings, Charter School colleagues. This podcast is number five of twelve in a series 32 00:04:23,740 --> 00:04:29,360 titled Navigating the Intersection of Governance and Management. The title of this podcast 33 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:35,280 is back-ordered Chinese Lightbulbs. Consider the following excerpt from the actual minutes 34 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:40,000 of a Charter School board whose director of food services was in the process of evaluating 35 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,620 cafeteria tables in order to make a purchasing decision, quote, the director of food services 36 00:04:45,620 --> 00:04:51,740 stated things are going well, and the like board members to come downstairs and see a possible table option. 37 00:04:52,380 --> 00:04:52,820 End quote. 38 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,960 Gotta be honest with you, this is mind numbing minutia. 39 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,920 Unfortunately in the charter school world board meetings are full of it. 40 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:06,060 Pick up any set of board minutes for a typical school and you're likely to see reports on bratty troop meetings, 41 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:12,400 basketball camps, harmonically imbalanced flag poles, whether teachers should wear blue jeans on Fridays, 42 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:17,300 student stock styles and hot dog dinners. My all-time favorite is still 43 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:21,360 back-order Chinese light bulbs the topic of this month's case at point. Though 44 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,960 I do have to say a board member suggesting that quote, the school do 45 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,580 something to commend the crossing guard for his continued service of being on 46 00:05:28,580 --> 00:05:32,300 duty and present-held parents and students. End quote would take a close 47 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:37,600 second in a contest for the most indiscriminate boardroom discussion. I think 48 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,720 there are two reasons why stuff like this gets reported and discussed in 49 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,680 board meetings. First, a lot of minutia is feel good stuff. We like to hear about teacher 50 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,180 enthusiasm for the new school year, community support for the new playground fundraiser, 51 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,800 and parent turn out of the holiday musical because, well, it's just good news. And in 52 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:00,100 a country that has entire television networks apparently devoted to reporting bad news 24 53 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:04,420 hours a day, it makes us feel good to be part of a school where nice things are happening. 54 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:09,420 The second, and more important reason why the meetings of most charter school boards are 55 00:06:09,420 --> 00:06:14,280 often filled with minutia is that board meetings reflect of board's priorities. 56 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,480 If the board's priorities are to have a say in every bit of minutia and its meetings 57 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,200 will largely be a waste of time. 58 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:26,240 In contrast, the meetings of a board whose priority is to end the Black White achievement 59 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:31,900 gap will reflect a regular focus on how well the school is progressing toward that outcome. 60 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:37,980 Such boards know that 90% proficiency rates or higher are doable and that's what they 61 00:06:37,980 --> 00:06:38,500 talk about. 62 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:43,580 In fact, they have little interest in anything but performance, inviting their board members 63 00:06:43,580 --> 00:06:46,200 to view table options might even get you thrown out of the meeting. 64 00:06:47,060 --> 00:06:49,500 So let me ask you, what are your board's priorities? 65 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,120 Are its meetings a continual rallying point around student performance, or are they a place 66 00:06:55,120 --> 00:07:00,540 where no topic, no matter how inconsequential, is too small to warrant the board's attention? 67 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,540 If the latter tends to be true, perhaps your board is never visited in ultra-high-performing 68 00:07:05,540 --> 00:07:05,880 school. 69 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,200 Doing so can be a good first step to realigning your board's priorities. 70 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,080 I heard this month's board self-appraisal questions and recommendations. 71 00:07:14,860 --> 00:07:21,340 If an outsider was trying to determine your board's priorities by sitting in meetings or reading its minutes, what would she conclude? 72 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,920 Number two, when was the last time your board visited an offer for high performing school? 73 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:34,740 Number three, how many times in the past year has your board had a significant discussion on student performance? 74 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:41,540 Now, for this month's case in point, back-order Chinese light bulbs, the following are actual 75 00:07:41,540 --> 00:07:45,820 excerpts with the wording slightly revised to approve grammar and clarity as well as 76 00:07:45,820 --> 00:07:50,980 provide anonymity, et cetera, from the minutes of a single board meeting of a real charter 77 00:07:50,980 --> 00:07:51,320 school. 78 00:07:51,940 --> 00:07:52,400 Here we go. 79 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:57,620 A board member made a motion to retain the facilities manager at the same compensation 80 00:07:57,620 --> 00:07:59,180 as in the current contract. 81 00:07:59,180 --> 00:08:03,740 The board discussed a revised organizational chart. 82 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:09,440 The school is still waiting the installation of an electronic sign and waiting for the management 83 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,120 company that operates the school to send a check for $10,250. 84 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:18,080 The lights for the sign are imported from China and have not been received. 85 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:23,640 Work on a nearby stoplight is in progress and expected to be completed by August. 86 00:08:24,580 --> 00:08:30,020 The vendor of the school's sound system was contacted whereupon it was discovered that 87 00:08:30,020 --> 00:08:33,080 some settings had been altered after the company had preset them. 88 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:38,140 A board member recommended that they install a lock cabinet with designated key holders. 89 00:08:39,100 --> 00:08:42,600 It's clear from these excerpts that the sports priorities are misplaced. 90 00:08:43,300 --> 00:08:47,780 Besides the meeting brimming over with mind-numbing minutia, the discussion boards are being downright 91 00:08:47,780 --> 00:08:52,700 insulting to the school leader. That is, is he really so obtuse that the solution to 92 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:56,940 unauthorized access to the sound system necessitated the wisdom of the board to solve it? 93 00:08:57,860 --> 00:09:02,600 This case also illustrates that when a board is mired in minutia, the time that should have 94 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:07,540 been devoted to discussing true priorities becomes squandered. In other words, when a board 95 00:09:07,540 --> 00:09:12,500 wastes its time on trivia, the things that it should be focused on, such as student performance, 96 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,180 students get short-changed if discussed at all. 97 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,020 In the case of the back-order Chinese lightbulb sport, the school is performing in the 98 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:27,000 bottom 9% of public schools in its state, as measured by the percentage of students 99 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,920 meeting our exceeding state standards in both math and English language arts. 100 00:09:30,580 --> 00:09:35,920 Boy oh boy, it should be obvious that this school would be much better served by the board 101 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,160 if it were to radically realign its meeting priorities. 102 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:43,740 My advice to the board for doing so was the same as I would give to any school with such 103 00:09:43,740 --> 00:09:45,160 an under-inspiring performance. 104 00:09:45,740 --> 00:09:50,440 First, by a majority vote, if the board determines that it's willing to continue using the 105 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,940 management company, the board should direct it to analyze the causes or reasons why the 106 00:09:54,940 --> 00:09:56,920 school was floundering in the bottom desis. 107 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:03,660 Next, management should be required to prepare a coherent action plan, one of two pages should 108 00:10:03,660 --> 00:10:08,960 do, indicating its goals along with the metrics that it will use to begin regularly tracking 109 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:13,960 the school's progress. If these goals meet with the Board's approval, also determined by a vote, 110 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:19,540 the Board's meeting priority should be to evaluate the school's progress. Nothing will be lost 111 00:10:19,540 --> 00:10:25,720 by leaving the light bulbs to arrive when they arrive. This concludes this podcast if you've 112 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,420 been listening to it in the Board meeting. Be sure. 113 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:30,200 Any comments? 114 00:10:35,530 --> 00:10:37,010 I don't have to say that sometimes 115 00:10:37,010 --> 00:10:43,430 I'm bad and do get that feel good stuff and I'm not going to totally stop but I think our meetings 116 00:10:43,430 --> 00:10:49,390 are very focused on what they should be focused on. So in our board reports, we've put a lot of 117 00:10:49,390 --> 00:10:52,770 the field good stuff, but we don't tell you all the details because if you want to know it, 118 00:10:52,970 --> 00:10:54,770 you get the opportunity to read it. 119 00:10:56,990 --> 00:11:01,270 I do think there's a balance, a healthy balance with it because 120 00:11:01,270 --> 00:11:11,690 I think that it keeps a healthy relationship for the board to know what's happening and some of 121 00:11:11,690 --> 00:11:20,850 the feel good things and keeps the realness of relationships with people. So I think that's 122 00:11:20,850 --> 00:11:31,610 nice too. But is good to stay focused on letting you do your jobs and us stay in our 123 00:11:31,610 --> 00:11:41,870 line and let the light bulbs be the light bulbs. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Then we will move 124 00:11:41,870 --> 00:11:49,390 to section 5,000 of the policy and procedures manual any comments or questions regarding 125 00:11:49,390 --> 00:11:50,030 that. 126 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:05,680 Then we will move right along to Jim with the text philosophy and financial report. 127 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:05,860 All right. 128 00:12:11,690 --> 00:12:14,350 Once again, thank you for setting up my chair. 129 00:12:19,150 --> 00:12:26,290 So last board meeting, you'll recall we discussed that the school teaches at an advanced 130 00:12:26,290 --> 00:12:27,970 curriculum and advanced level. 131 00:12:29,110 --> 00:12:32,610 So what we're going to talk about today goes right along with that. 132 00:12:33,090 --> 00:12:39,130 If you open up, if you're looking at your packet or online, you'll see this page here and 133 00:12:39,130 --> 00:12:49,030 recognize it as page two of exhibit A of the charter and up we've it's go through the top. 134 00:12:49,330 --> 00:12:54,110 It's a circle there in yellow. Why don't we start with me a lot of just each of you take a bowl 135 00:12:54,110 --> 00:12:58,330 and we'll just go around the table out there. Classwork and homework. Classwork and homework 136 00:12:58,330 --> 00:13:04,610 completion enhance academic success and personal development. Homework is an integral part of the 137 00:13:04,610 --> 00:13:07,450 academic program and serves the following purposes. 138 00:13:08,310 --> 00:13:12,590 The primary purpose of homework is to be a vehicle for teaching student time management 139 00:13:12,590 --> 00:13:14,930 skills and personal responsibility. 140 00:13:15,790 --> 00:13:20,570 It is a communication device between school and home provides parents with the opportunity 141 00:13:20,570 --> 00:13:25,710 to see what concepts are being discovered, sorry, being covered each day during school. 142 00:13:26,390 --> 00:13:31,250 It is used by the teacher as an assessment tool to determine the effectiveness of their instruction. 143 00:13:31,250 --> 00:13:36,310 It provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of concepts 144 00:13:36,310 --> 00:13:41,010 that have been taught and practiced in the classroom setting without the security structure 145 00:13:41,010 --> 00:13:42,770 and assistance of a classroom teacher. 146 00:13:43,550 --> 00:13:44,150 Great. 147 00:13:44,390 --> 00:13:44,650 Thank you. 148 00:13:44,790 --> 00:13:51,710 So, the classwork and homework is one of something that's different with Thomas Edison 149 00:13:51,710 --> 00:13:58,030 in charter school relative to other schools, and I know that there are families and students 150 00:13:58,030 --> 00:14:04,730 who don't like the workload and some of them leave for that reason, but on the other hand, 151 00:14:04,850 --> 00:14:09,930 there are lots of stories I've heard over the years of students who've been through the program. 152 00:14:10,870 --> 00:14:17,310 And as I mentioned last time, who've gone into high school and found that out was really easy 153 00:14:17,310 --> 00:14:23,070 because of their training here at Thomas Edison. And I believe, you know, the classwork, 154 00:14:23,070 --> 00:14:28,110 work and in-class work and homework is a big part of that, builds up there. 155 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:32,420 Doing homework 156 00:14:32,420 --> 00:14:38,680 is become the routine for them, you know, doing work in a society where I think it seems 157 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:44,200 like there's less and less willingness to do work. It's nice that the school has that 158 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:51,380 has maintained that work ethic in terms of learning and so forth. Any comments about that 159 00:14:51,380 --> 00:14:55,300 from either administrators or board members. 160 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,920 I think this is one of the hardest things to get family. 161 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:11,500 It is one of the most important and the one that is the longest lasting that makes the biggest difference for our students. And sets them apart from everybody else. 162 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:29,800 It's worth the battle. We're the we're the poster family for this concept because we didn't start here. And I thought that the no court that we were getting at our previous school was fabulous except I have the child. 163 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:36,620 that thought yes this is fabulous and this should be the rest of my life. How dare you ever 164 00:15:36,620 --> 00:15:43,180 give me anything to do after school and I didn't realize what a problem that was going to 165 00:15:43,180 --> 00:15:53,140 be and realized I needed the habit formed very early and it actually made our family functioning 166 00:15:53,140 --> 00:15:55,720 more difficult, because we didn't start out that way. 167 00:15:57,540 --> 00:16:03,520 As a parent myself and my twins, you know, they're at the same grade level. 168 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:08,920 So when they come with their homework, when they were really young, they would like 169 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,040 play school with each other with their homework. 170 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:13,420 So like, do their homework and play at the same time. 171 00:16:13,660 --> 00:16:22,620 Which I think I benefited our family culture in addition to, because they're engaging with 172 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:28,000 those concepts that they engage with at school but doing it at home and they're bonding 173 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,120 while doing it. 174 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:36,460 And I really like that that's actually been a positive thing in our home. 175 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:37,560 Good. 176 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,620 So we'll all be shocked if we have future teachers in the making. 177 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,260 Yeah, we've already got that. 178 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:45,620 Yeah. 179 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,460 So Lindsay, how long ago was it that you started your kids here at the school? 180 00:16:51,760 --> 00:17:02,300 We came, well I don't know what year it was, but he was starting fifth grade and he started 10th this year, so I fished years ago. 181 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:11,500 So, did you re-able to come up that learning curve relatively fast or did it take a while to get custom to the... 182 00:17:12,180 --> 00:17:14,960 That's a whole other meetings topic. 183 00:17:16,420 --> 00:17:19,500 Okay, we'll save that for the next next month. 184 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,980 Do you have a positioning and two Thomas Addison? 185 00:17:24,580 --> 00:17:32,160 No, I think the transitioning into Thomas Addison, it was beautiful and the teachers made, 186 00:17:32,940 --> 00:17:40,540 but the beauty story was the second grade story where my daughter who is a perfectionist 187 00:17:40,540 --> 00:17:50,580 was the phonograms, oh my, because she didn't start out with them and so she didn't know them and she panicked because she was not doing well on her test. 188 00:17:50,740 --> 00:17:56,400 And I mentioned to her teacher the tears because she didn't do well and her teacher was like, 189 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,400 oh, we'll let set her up for it to be a positive experience. 190 00:18:00,780 --> 00:18:05,720 Here's the tin that are going to be on the test next week, just have her study those so she can get 100. 191 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:12,560 it. And I was like beautiful. And so it increased her confidence. We knew which ones to study. And it 192 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:20,620 it was wonderful. And so I shared that with a mom this year who was bringing a fourth grader to 193 00:18:20,620 --> 00:18:28,200 the school and said don't stress the phonograms if you need to. Like the teachers will work with you to 194 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:33,640 make it a successful experience. It's it's been wonderful, right? 195 00:18:36,140 --> 00:18:36,880 Any other 196 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:38,380 comments before we move on? 197 00:18:41,260 --> 00:18:43,880 They've started now in Keshe County, you have a 198 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:49,940 it's called a like at Richland, it's a River Hawk class and all freshmen have to 199 00:18:49,940 --> 00:18:55,140 take in and teach us them how to like do homework and write in a planner and be 200 00:18:55,140 --> 00:19:01,520 nice to other people and stuff like that and I just kind of giggled and I tried to 201 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:05,360 opt my kids out and they wouldn't let me but I was like they've been doing this 202 00:19:05,860 --> 00:19:11,360 for years at Thomas Edison and I just thought how ironic that everyone now 203 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:15,120 is just realizing the importance of it when all these kids get to high school 204 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:22,700 and they are disorganized and don't know how to turn things in and you know so I'm 205 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:25,980 I'm hearing stories of kids entering college. 206 00:19:26,780 --> 00:19:29,320 They can't even do, hardly do basic math, 207 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:36,060 and they're reading, writing skills or poor and so on. 208 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:41,200 So, I'm sure that's not the case of those students 209 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,880 who've been through that Thomas Edison program. 210 00:19:43,260 --> 00:19:43,360 Right. 211 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:45,820 It's hard. 212 00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:49,120 We'll move on to the next topic. 213 00:19:49,300 --> 00:19:49,700 Let's do it. 214 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:50,500 Okay. 215 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:56,760 So you'll see, I believe most of you probably saw 216 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:04,700 that Steve's out. The August record, August 31st, the snapshot of the expenses the schools 217 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:10,500 had to date. I'll start with the South Campus first because that's the easiest one to 218 00:20:10,500 --> 00:20:17,140 talk about. You'll see that the first two months, South Campus is spending well below the 219 00:20:17,140 --> 00:20:27,680 monthly average. In other words, that red line is 97,000 per month below what the 220 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:35,380 monthly average would be. That includes the cash surplus or contingency amounts 221 00:20:35,380 --> 00:20:41,540 that's been forecasted. Anyway, I'm sure that there will be large expenses, you know, 222 00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:48,640 was the year goes on but it's nice for this for at least South Campus to start out 223 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:54,640 and stuff to good in the black position. I'm moving on to North you'll look at the 224 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:19,120 So you'll see that there was a huge expense last month and under the August comments you'll 225 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:25,660 see Steve's comment that Ruth repairs was you know over 330,000 I guess that was probably 226 00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:27,640 the total bill that came in for the roof. 227 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,260 Is that correct? That wasn't just a partial payment. 228 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:31,140 It's done. 229 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,240 Okay. Then there was an artificial turf payment there. 230 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,140 And I looked at that and I responded to Steve. 231 00:21:39,220 --> 00:21:50,340 I'm sure many of you saw that where I suggested that 60% of that amount could come out of the accumulated contingency or cash surplus amount. 232 00:21:50,340 --> 00:22:00,960 so that it doesn't look so, you know, there are big expenses will occur. We've had situations 233 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:07,820 where there's been expansions and the same thing has occurred where the cost of the expansions 234 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:13,360 rather than going out and getting another loan, we've gone into the cash surplus amount and just paid for it directly 235 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:18,100 and not had to enter into more debt for the school. 236 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:24,580 And this is one of the reasons why we have this accumulation 237 00:22:24,580 --> 00:22:28,220 of cash surplus amounts to pay for things like roof repair 238 00:22:28,220 --> 00:22:32,260 or roof replacements, or if there's some big flood 239 00:22:32,260 --> 00:22:35,380 that requires tens of thousands of dollars or whatever, 240 00:22:36,140 --> 00:22:40,520 that there's that cash surplus pot that's there to pay for that. 241 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:49,260 There's also this special project amount which is in the regular budget, but since this 242 00:22:49,260 --> 00:22:54,320 really exceeded it by quite an amount, at least for what is in the current forecast, 243 00:22:55,180 --> 00:22:59,260 I thought it would be good to have at least a significant portion of it come out of the 244 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:00,280 accumulator. 245 00:23:00,460 --> 00:23:05,320 So next time, Steve replied and said yes, that sounds good with his response. 246 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,140 He didn't have any issues with doing it that way. 247 00:23:08,140 --> 00:23:11,700 So next month that you'll see that the 248 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:14,840 marks would be so here's my sidebar 249 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,040 comment. Looking at the bright side we've 250 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,400 been around for over 20 plus years we 251 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,520 wouldn't need a new roof if we had been 252 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,760 around so long so we're doing good this 253 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,820 is good that we need a new roof after 20 254 00:23:28,820 --> 00:23:31,780 years. Right? Good. I like it. 255 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:42,020 You know, it's great over time and so forth, roofs are perfect example of that, so it's 256 00:23:42,020 --> 00:23:47,840 not, this isn't anything to be ashamed of or whatever, it's one of those things that 257 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,300 does happen occasionally. 258 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,920 That's right, that's a good way of putting it. 259 00:23:53,920 --> 00:24:02,960 If I can all be serious for half a second here at least, it speaks loudly to the people 260 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:03,740 that have come before. 261 00:24:04,260 --> 00:24:10,440 We are in a position that something like replacing the entire roof, we do not have to go out 262 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,540 and borrow money and pay interest in other things. 263 00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:21,120 We are able to save ourselves money because of the good planning and those that have put 264 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,320 that work into it. 265 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:28,140 And we're going to spend more money, but yeah, we're in very fortunate place. 266 00:24:28,460 --> 00:24:33,740 There are lots of things that are going to need replacing and I'll talk about that later 267 00:24:33,740 --> 00:24:42,560 in the evening, but we are in a very good place because of the management and the support 268 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:48,880 by Jim, Steve, and the many principles that have put the effort in to make this possible. 269 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:55,260 we're in a very good place and I honestly feel like I'm reading the benefit of the hard work 270 00:24:55,260 --> 00:25:03,340 of many people before me. Yeah. And also to go along with that, North has built up a fairly 271 00:25:03,340 --> 00:25:10,980 significant cash surplus amount over the years and so paying for the roof or even a 60 percent of 272 00:25:10,980 --> 00:25:16,820 the roof or whatever it's not so hard given the cash surplus that's there. 273 00:25:21,070 --> 00:25:21,990 I know you all 274 00:25:21,990 --> 00:25:26,110 knew about this. Approved at events. Yeah. 275 00:25:28,310 --> 00:25:32,310 Okay, sounds great. Thank you, Jim. We'll move to 276 00:25:32,310 --> 00:25:38,670 Angela Williams with student data and followed by the LEA licenses. All right, tonight we're going 277 00:25:38,670 --> 00:25:48,390 to look at our district accadience reading scores. And these are our scores for all three periods, 278 00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:54,210 beginning middle and end of year for last school year. So if you look at this first report I think 279 00:25:54,210 --> 00:25:58,050 is the reading and we've been doing the reading longer than we've been doing the math so we've 280 00:25:58,050 --> 00:26:03,050 got more data on the reading and I love how we had some like yellow and like light blue and a few 281 00:26:03,050 --> 00:26:08,450 dark blues and then COVID happened and ever since like COVID we have been like on a really nice 282 00:26:08,450 --> 00:26:14,370 dark blue trajectory. So that's really exciting to see and we continued with that trajectory again 283 00:26:15,270 --> 00:26:25,070 All of the things that are coded with the dark blue were more than 10% above the state average and I put the state average in those little parentheses if you want to see where the state was at. 284 00:26:25,790 --> 00:26:30,170 So that's on there for the last four years if you want to kind of track that to be trending. 285 00:26:30,790 --> 00:26:34,570 So I just want to look at kindergarten because they've got kind of an unusual pattern there. 286 00:26:34,890 --> 00:26:42,070 Their beginning of year score was 67% of them were proficient and the state average was 56. 287 00:26:42,070 --> 00:26:47,830 And then in the middle of the year, we had 78% proficient and the state average was 72. 288 00:26:48,370 --> 00:26:52,530 So we were above, but it was within 10% or below, so I color coded it like that light blue. 289 00:26:53,150 --> 00:26:57,670 And then at the end of the year, we had 76 and the state average was 78. 290 00:26:58,570 --> 00:27:07,690 And I was concerned about that, so I looked at last year's end of year score, which was 93. 291 00:27:08,770 --> 00:27:22,310 Kindergarten really figured it out. They went from 76 at the end of 24, 25 to 93. And I would have this whole column color coded, but it takes the state up wild to compile all that data and it's not online yet. 292 00:27:22,810 --> 00:27:25,750 So 93 is for sure going to be dark blue. 293 00:27:25,750 --> 00:27:39,650 because if you look at the state average, it's been $69.74, $78, $78, so it'll probably be $78, or maybe $79, maybe even $80, but we're going to be just fine right there. 294 00:27:40,250 --> 00:27:46,390 But that same group of kindergartners from $24.25, and that was a year we did struggle with kindergarten. 295 00:27:46,390 --> 00:27:52,930 garden. They became first graders last year in 2526. And look, that's 68 right 296 00:27:52,930 --> 00:27:58,470 there. That's down from the year before, which was 72. So the state average 297 00:27:58,470 --> 00:28:04,810 there's been 55, 55, 59, 60. It could be 61 or something. That's probably 298 00:28:04,810 --> 00:28:08,370 going to be a light blue color is what it's going to be. So I think we've got 299 00:28:08,370 --> 00:28:12,110 kind of a tricky cohort of kids right there. But I also think that we're 300 00:28:12,110 --> 00:28:20,170 following figuring it out because we went to 83 after that and then we went to 79, which is pretty 301 00:28:20,170 --> 00:28:25,370 consistent with what we have been at the end of first grade. And I find it interesting. It kind 302 00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:31,250 of appears to me like in kindergarten and the beginning of first grade, it's a little bit of a struggle. 303 00:28:31,790 --> 00:28:38,130 And I think spotting kind of can be. It's tricky. It's complex. It's unique. But something happens 304 00:28:38,130 --> 00:28:43,650 like at the beginning of first grade and it seems to click and it seems to click well. 305 00:28:44,230 --> 00:28:49,490 Like after that we are well above those state averages. So I find this fascinating to look at 306 00:28:49,490 --> 00:28:55,050 and kind of theorize about, but I'm thrilled with that 93 last year as the end of year scoring 307 00:28:55,050 --> 00:29:00,590 kindergarten. That is half the charts and just phenomenal. And then I wanted to look at third grade 308 00:29:00,590 --> 00:29:07,030 end of year. There's some new legislation and what they're proposing is in four years from now 309 00:29:07,030 --> 00:29:12,630 when like this year's kindergarteners become third graders, there's a lot of new legislation, 310 00:29:12,630 --> 00:29:17,170 but part of this new legislation is that if students aren't proficient, that that retention 311 00:29:17,170 --> 00:29:24,690 will be at least considered unless there's like one of these good cause reasons for like not retaining 312 00:29:24,690 --> 00:29:36,970 them. So when we look at where our scores used to be clear back in the beginning of 1516, we were like 313 00:29:36,970 --> 00:29:42,090 in 2005 at the end of the year, 2026 last year, 89. 314 00:29:43,030 --> 00:29:45,510 So if they're on an IEP already, 315 00:29:45,630 --> 00:29:47,030 if they've already been retained, 316 00:29:47,310 --> 00:29:49,130 like some of those are some of the good faith causes, 317 00:29:49,510 --> 00:29:51,930 which could account for a large percentage 318 00:29:51,930 --> 00:29:54,470 of that 11% that were not proficient. 319 00:29:54,970 --> 00:29:57,470 So I feel like in four more years from now, 320 00:29:57,550 --> 00:29:59,490 we're gonna have that number even smaller. 321 00:29:59,690 --> 00:29:59,970 And we're, 322 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:30,490 There's so much more ahead of the state, who is normally historically been around 70% to 71. So we're looking at like, okay, we've got 11% of our kids to figure out, have they been on IEP, have they been retained before? Like, what kinds of accommodations have we already had that we might not have to retain them or whatever, but the state's looking at like 29 to 30% that they're dealing with? So I feel pretty good about that. What questions do you have about the reading before we move on to the math? Or we can go back with comments or questions to the end? 323 00:30:30,490 --> 00:30:36,870 Okay, let's move to math. We've been doing the math less, less, less, less long, for 324 00:30:36,870 --> 00:30:41,650 not as long as the reading. So we just have scores from back to 2021. These have the 325 00:30:41,650 --> 00:30:48,150 state scores on them. Everything's almost dark blue except for, and I say more than 10. 326 00:30:48,150 --> 00:30:53,510 So I was really tempted to shade it dark blue anyway. But we were 75 and the state was 65. 327 00:30:53,910 --> 00:30:57,950 And so we were light blue, and it's that same kindergarten group, which I think might 328 00:30:57,950 --> 00:31:00,410 just kind of be an interesting little cohort going through. 329 00:31:01,070 --> 00:31:02,950 With us teaching math a year ahead, 330 00:31:03,030 --> 00:31:06,350 we generally do really, really well on this. 331 00:31:06,510 --> 00:31:07,770 That first year we did this test. 332 00:31:07,970 --> 00:31:10,310 Second grade kind of had a little bit of trouble 333 00:31:10,310 --> 00:31:12,950 getting going on there, but we're doing amazing. 334 00:31:13,290 --> 00:31:15,210 And again, I wanted to look down at third grade. 335 00:31:15,890 --> 00:31:20,930 Our end of year third grade has been 87, 91, 95, 92. 336 00:31:21,190 --> 00:31:25,130 And last year we were at 97% of our third graders 337 00:31:25,130 --> 00:31:27,430 who scored proficient on that test. 338 00:31:27,430 --> 00:31:33,850 So I wish we were looking at retaining them if they weren't proficient in math instead of reading, but it is what it is. 339 00:31:34,090 --> 00:31:36,470 Anyway, or both. No, I'm just kidding. 340 00:31:36,910 --> 00:31:41,050 Anyway, that's where we're at. I'm thrilled with these numbers. I think they look really good. 341 00:31:42,550 --> 00:31:47,810 That's 75 in first grade beginning of year. It is 2% lower than it was before. 342 00:31:48,270 --> 00:31:54,390 But I think overall we're still looking at a good upward trend. 65, 73, 70, 77, 75. 343 00:31:55,170 --> 00:32:02,580 So that's where we're at with our math scores questions on those questions or 344 00:32:02,580 --> 00:32:09,320 comments. Awesome. This is a very pretty blue. That's what we like. We like. Well 345 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,520 and I like to see that it used to be more yellow and there's less and less of 346 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,880 that. Like to me that's exciting seeing the yellow change into the blue. It shows 347 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,740 me that we're on a really good trajectory overall so and our yellows it's good to 348 00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:28,560 know that we're not far behind, like that yellow in 2324 and first grade, the state average 349 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:34,540 was 59.2 when we were 58. I mean, we're talking like probably two kids, you know, scores. 350 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,040 So when we are yellow, know that we're pretty close. And I think that that's important to, 351 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:44,240 we're not 20% off or something like that. So we are yellow, and that's definitely things 352 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,880 to be concerned with. Also, I want to say, we used to have these things called the early 353 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:53,520 really early learning plan, and they were always based around like growing this way. 354 00:32:53,740 --> 00:32:58,340 And so a lot of our grade levels would wait until the fall to find out what our early 355 00:32:58,340 --> 00:33:01,740 learning plan goals were, and then they would set those as goals for their grade level 356 00:33:01,740 --> 00:33:06,940 for the year. And a lot of them came to me, and the early learning plan is now dissolved. 357 00:33:06,940 --> 00:33:10,780 It's replaced with some of this new reading legislation. And they're like, what's our early 358 00:33:10,780 --> 00:33:14,960 learning plan goal? Did we have one for our grade? And I'm like, no, those are gone now, but 359 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:20,180 But you can set your own goal if you want and several of our K-3 set their own goal. 360 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:25,540 Like our goal is to increase from at least 2% from our beginning of year to our end of 361 00:33:25,540 --> 00:33:25,680 year. 362 00:33:25,820 --> 00:33:29,260 Even though it's not part of it anymore, I was impressed with that. 363 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:30,960 So I love seeing that. 364 00:33:31,940 --> 00:33:32,300 It's great. 365 00:33:32,620 --> 00:33:32,740 Yeah. 366 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:34,400 Okay. 367 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:37,420 Thank you. 368 00:33:37,980 --> 00:33:40,740 If there's no other questions or comments, think I'm next. 369 00:33:40,740 --> 00:33:46,580 I will say, I really, I really think you do a really beautiful job explaining all the 370 00:33:46,580 --> 00:33:53,020 numbers into the area, your story, like when you talk about the different cohorts of students. 371 00:33:54,660 --> 00:33:58,940 I appreciate the visualization. Yeah, it's one thing I like to be able to do is kind of like 372 00:33:58,940 --> 00:34:05,120 look and follow kids, kids and groups down those charts. Yeah. Because I think that that's telling. 373 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:10,100 Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. It's nice for somebody to pick it up and say, oh, that's cool. Yeah. 374 00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:15,480 It's wonderful to listen to Angela explain how it all works and what it means for us to read. 375 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:21,580 Well, as someone who does literature and reading, it's nice to be able to say I can read numbers, right? 376 00:34:22,020 --> 00:34:23,660 You can see the story behind it. 377 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:25,240 Yeah, thank you. 378 00:34:25,420 --> 00:34:28,940 It also goes to show you're talking about the value of the homework, right? 379 00:34:29,060 --> 00:34:34,340 Because you talk about year-end performance followed to the beginning of the year performance associated with it. 380 00:34:34,740 --> 00:34:39,240 And when you're looking at math, you have kindergarten that's at the same score you have. 381 00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:46,380 So I mean, you're not talking about drops in year over year, from end of year to beginning 382 00:34:46,380 --> 00:34:49,840 a year, which is a historical norm, I think, for most students. 383 00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:54,480 So it does speak to the value, again, coming back to the learning concept of how homework 384 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,460 matters and why it's so valuable. 385 00:34:56,700 --> 00:34:58,180 So thanks. 386 00:34:59,420 --> 00:35:02,020 Very, I think we're all really proud of our scores. 387 00:35:02,540 --> 00:35:03,580 It's a good point. 388 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,100 I'm a cohort from years here and seeing. 389 00:35:07,380 --> 00:35:08,380 Alma said it's every year. 390 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,380 It's a year and year and year and year and it's. 391 00:35:10,780 --> 00:35:12,000 Yeah, it's amazing. 392 00:35:12,180 --> 00:35:14,740 The second and third grade and even middle of year first. 393 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:17,940 That's when it really, yeah, it really kind of clicks in. 394 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,020 So that's fun to see. 395 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:19,740 Yeah, it's been. 396 00:35:20,620 --> 00:35:22,840 Well, especially considering like kindergarten, 397 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,200 you have families from all different. 398 00:35:26,620 --> 00:35:26,920 Yep. 399 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,720 Kids who have been reading, kids who don't read, 400 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:37,160 who don't recognize the letters and then being able to see that visually is where it clicks. 401 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:42,360 It's really exciting. Yeah, we're really fortunate to have the good programs in place that we do. 402 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,260 It's really effective the things that were set up from the beginning. 403 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,140 Yeah. Okay, do you want me to talk about LEA specific? 404 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:55,740 Yeah. Okay, we have one teacher to propose for an LEA specific license this year. 405 00:35:55,740 --> 00:36:02,600 The LEA-specific license is a way that the state has allowed schools to give a teacher a license 406 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,300 who might not be able to obtain one otherwise. 407 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:13,580 So it can be really anybody that a school feels is competent to teach a course. 408 00:36:13,980 --> 00:36:21,100 But what the LEA-specific says is that we will support them and give them feedback and work with them 409 00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:24,680 and develop them professionally and have them come to professional development courses. 410 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:30,560 And so, um, we're going to propose tonight Christina Davis, she's our first great teacher 411 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,180 over at North this year. 412 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:38,680 And I feel very good about proposing her name because, um, part of why we were going to 413 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,340 ask for an LEA specific was just in case her associate license didn't come through in time. 414 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:45,280 She already has a bachelor's degree. 415 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:51,020 She's looking at possibly becoming licensed through Apple or getting a master's degree in education 416 00:36:51,020 --> 00:36:52,900 and she's exploring some of those routes. 417 00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:59,680 And she's just not sure which route she's going to take or whether she wants to teach long term or do elementary or secondary 418 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:05,840 She's kind of at an interesting crossroads. So she's agreed to take on our first grade Thomas Edison north and and we feel 419 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:13,920 Good about her with the training she's received so far and the training she'll continue to receive from us to teach that class for this year 420 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,320 So one LEA license to propose and that is Christina Davis 421 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:25,140 Okay. I've proposed that or I move that we approve. 422 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:26,380 Sorry. 423 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,460 What additional supports does that person have where they're not certified? 424 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,800 I mean from you guys specifically. 425 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,060 Is there extra that takes place less that takes place helping you? 426 00:37:39,060 --> 00:37:40,080 There's definitely extra. 427 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,260 So with our first year teachers we go watch them in average of once a week. 428 00:37:43,860 --> 00:37:47,640 So we've already been in her classroom twice to observe. 429 00:37:47,640 --> 00:38:01,640 and given feedback, which is really nice and yes, we're there to make sure that we can do whatever they can and she's reached out for help in several different areas and we've been staying after school to give her some supports and some of the specific things she needs. 430 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:10,120 So yes, we're well aware that she is in need of more support and we're giving that to her as is needed in an appropriate times. 431 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,080 Yes, so we have a schedule that has all our first year teachers on it and they're once a week 432 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,100 And then our second year teachers and we fade a little bit more on our third year 433 00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:22,700 We fade a little bit more and then even our fourth year teachers. We're seeing at least three times a year 434 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:29,060 So everybody we're getting in their classrooms frequently at least three times a year for our veterans 435 00:38:29,060 --> 00:38:33,140 Thank you. Yeah, we're just feeling strongly about like the positivity 436 00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:37,500 look and leave them for teaching quality. We want to just train them and get them going in the 437 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:41,900 right direction from the beginning and that's one way that we can ensure that is with those frequent visits. 438 00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:47,240 I was going to say I can't overstay the benefit of having the divide that can go in and support 439 00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:53,940 and help them but even like that that's basically unheard of but even beyond that there's other 440 00:38:53,940 --> 00:39:01,020 supports that we've done to help her because she came in last minute so we took one of our most 441 00:39:01,020 --> 00:39:09,740 experienced AIDS that's been here for a while, like when I was teaching here she was an 442 00:39:09,740 --> 00:39:16,300 80 year and but she's fantastic so we gave her a very experienced AIDS that can help support her 443 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,260 and then there's always our PLC meetings where she meets with the first grade teachers. 444 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:27,360 I believe today we have arranged so that she could go down and observe first grade teachers 445 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:32,880 of the South Campus as well. She's working with her peer here, the first great teacher here, 446 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:38,580 but also just giving her opportunities to really immerse yourself into the curriculum, 447 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:43,220 who we are as a school, which she's very familiar with, but also seeing 448 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,220 different first-grade teachers in our program. 449 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:48,900 Beautiful. Thank you. 450 00:39:49,620 --> 00:39:56,060 It's been fun for her to look at life at different routes to licensure and like, 451 00:39:56,060 --> 00:39:59,540 Yeah, we feel strongly that she's a really good candidate, so. 452 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:01,140 Okay. 453 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:07,140 I move that we approve Christina Davis for the LEA specific license. 454 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:08,240 Second. 455 00:40:09,180 --> 00:40:09,960 Motion by Lindsay. 456 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,280 Seconded by Courtney. 457 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:12,240 All in favor? 458 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:12,860 Aye. 459 00:40:13,340 --> 00:40:15,300 I motion passes unanimously. 460 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:16,240 Okay. 461 00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:16,700 Thank you. 462 00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:23,080 And we will move to Sarah and Delaney with the mental health grant. 463 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:23,960 So 464 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,520 we were able to receive the grant again, which was super good. 465 00:40:33,420 --> 00:40:40,100 We were funded at $54,525, $4,775, which go to indirect costs. 466 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:45,080 We're working with the family place and we just need to get approval tonight to continue 467 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:45,500 with that. 468 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:53,820 And just right now on the surface of our school, she has four clients that she's actively 469 00:40:53,820 --> 00:41:01,200 see in and we have four more that I refer today. So she can have as many as eight on a Wednesday. 470 00:41:02,340 --> 00:41:07,160 And then the other campus right now has one that they're actively seeing and they don't have 471 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,880 to be referrals yet, but I'm sure will happen. So we have one. 472 00:41:14,540 --> 00:41:19,060 There is a need. So going forward, 473 00:41:19,220 --> 00:41:23,400 we just need to approve that working with the family place and improve using the grant for that. 474 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:29,880 Okay. So, approve how we use the grant. Not. Okay. Could you all read it? Got it. 475 00:41:30,740 --> 00:41:37,280 Okay. And we do get the same amount of money each year. So, it's not just one amount. It's for the next few years that amount. 476 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:51,020 Okay. Perfect. So, I move that we continue to work with the family place and approve them for the Mental Health Grant as we have in the past. 477 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:59,680 second. Motion by Lindy, seconded by Courtney. All in favor. Hi. Thanks. Motion passes. 478 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:06,540 You're down to sleep. Thank you. And Melani with school fees. So we just have to quickly 479 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:16,720 ask these of our families. So if you look at the policy it talks about the law saying that we could 480 00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:22,300 charge fees for some of the old shoots, but we don't. And the only thing that we ask for, 481 00:42:22,460 --> 00:42:28,060 we ask, we have a suggested school supply list, but the students don't purchase those materials. 482 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:33,640 They will be provided for them. Most of our parents do a great job of doing the supply 483 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:38,320 for us, but occasionally we've got some homework full versions of some different things for them. 484 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:46,460 And then we do ask for a parent donation that goes towards school parties, school events, 485 00:42:46,460 --> 00:42:50,960 different things but not all of our families pay that either. So again, they are 486 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:55,440 donations. So the bottom line is you just need to vote that we are a school that 487 00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:03,020 has no fees. Okay, I move that we approve the school policies fee, the school 488 00:43:03,020 --> 00:43:11,100 fees policy as written. Motion by Lindsay, seconded by Jeff, all in favor. Hi, motion 489 00:43:11,100 --> 00:43:20,000 shuntastic unanimously. And then our last item of discussion is the Brian Carpenter training 490 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:27,100 that we have the opportunity to have him for, which what we were going to discuss with 491 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:35,380 that is Nicole might know more details possibly about that. Do you want me to talk about her? 492 00:43:35,380 --> 00:43:42,100 Well, I think a lot of it is when we purchased new materials from him that are more updated because as you look at the dates 493 00:43:43,260 --> 00:43:43,680 2011 494 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,060 He offered a free training to us for the purchase of the materials and I think 495 00:43:50,660 --> 00:43:53,760 It'd be a great idea to use that training 496 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,280 But the question is when do we do that? 497 00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,440 So do we add it on to a long meeting at the end of the night when everybody's trashed or 498 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,480 We don't have our governing board meeting in December 499 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:08,700 So that was a thought that Lindsey had or we could do like a lunch Google or something 500 00:44:08,700 --> 00:44:15,900 I I think that's what the discussion is what would be the best time for governing board members and administration to come in and 501 00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:20,680 Do I is it an hour training? I guess an hour, right? I 502 00:44:22,100 --> 00:44:25,280 Don't remember but I want to say it's an hour. I thought I read somewhere 503 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:32,060 But she said to reach out when we want to do the training and so I would just thought maybe we should have a few options 504 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:38,620 a couple options in case you say come and say never at this day and he's like no 505 00:44:38,620 --> 00:44:48,680 cancer. Yeah so we have a couple of different knots. So I think I mean I don't know how 506 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:57,760 flexible are you at lunch time. I mean that doesn't seem like. If you give me my schedule right now, 507 00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,780 if you give me three months out. 508 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:18,640 I can make anything work almost anything. Okay. Is it more convenient to schedule during a lunch time or something like that, or to go with our regularly scheduled board meeting time? If you do it that far out, I think the lunch is probably the most 509 00:45:20,690 --> 00:45:31,250 accommodatable. Okay. That's the word. Yeah, because we also don't meet in January. So. If we're talking them. 510 00:45:31,250 --> 00:45:32,230 same 511 00:45:35,460 --> 00:45:41,260 day, which is Wednesdays, those are historically my most available days for 512 00:45:41,260 --> 00:45:46,920 December. So I would I'd be able to make a lunch, I'd be able to do in the 513 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:55,000 evening, but specifically January or sorry December January for me. So don't 514 00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:01,200 get, don't try and schedule it in like November, October, November. I got to be 515 00:46:03,380 --> 00:46:10,220 hard-pressed to make it there. Actually, if you did the third week of November, I have a 516 00:46:10,220 --> 00:46:18,920 availability. So maybe that's option one. Do you, Jeff, are you? Sorry, guys. I mean, middle 517 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:23,440 of the day, I'm usually in the car running kids around, like my littles. 518 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:31,180 I'll bend them 519 00:46:31,180 --> 00:46:34,660 Make whatever work during the day as well, okay 520 00:46:36,430 --> 00:46:43,010 So options we write down the options and then go back to them and see what works best. So what's the first date? 521 00:46:43,710 --> 00:46:45,630 Third week of November I 522 00:46:45,630 --> 00:46:48,630 would say I mean wasn't that 523 00:46:48,630 --> 00:46:51,570 Weekend that I think 524 00:46:52,150 --> 00:46:55,610 It kind of sounds more flexible if we say 525 00:46:57,230 --> 00:46:58,850 December or January 526 00:46:59,710 --> 00:47:06,690 rather than specifically the third week of November or if that doesn't work 527 00:47:07,410 --> 00:47:13,710 like to give if we're giving him a window of why don't we say time like do you 528 00:47:13,710 --> 00:47:18,690 have lunch or evening opportunities available what do you have available on a 529 00:47:18,690 --> 00:47:22,990 Wednesday does it have to be a Wednesday does everybody want to shoot but a 530 00:47:22,990 --> 00:47:26,530 Wednesday for you right I'm gonna lose so much we will take a day off for it so we 531 00:47:26,530 --> 00:47:36,240 should be good. I just realized, you know, I mean, we'll be fine. Seriously, they do need to 532 00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:43,300 take leave or I'm giving it back. Let's put it that way. Oh, oh, oh. Before Christmas, like before 533 00:47:43,300 --> 00:47:50,140 the end of the year. Okay, so in December. So in December, if we're looking at a lunch or 534 00:47:51,060 --> 00:47:56,380 are there any evening times where we definitely looking at a lunch time? I'm good with either. 535 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:14,240 I don't care if you can, if you want to, agree. I'm happy too. 536 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:16,080 I can't ask him. That's fine. 537 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:25,960 Okay. I asked lunch for first maybe evenings. Got it. Probably much. December. One space. 538 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:33,240 So that's three options for options. Yeah. We're so flexible. 539 00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:39,620 And if none of those three work, let's see what options do work for him and then bring him back in a little. 540 00:48:40,180 --> 00:48:40,580 Okay. 541 00:48:40,820 --> 00:48:40,980 Okay. 542 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,640 Next meeting, I will have more answers. 543 00:48:44,180 --> 00:48:44,300 What? 544 00:48:44,660 --> 00:48:45,980 Next meeting, I'll have more answers. 545 00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:47,460 Well, we can get it before that. 546 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:53,140 But we can email options because we've already discussed the fact that we're doing it. 547 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,820 We just couldn't send out the email, just the cool forum thing, but I think we're okay. 548 00:48:58,380 --> 00:49:00,680 Now that we know that's what we're doing. 549 00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:02,820 I can send a blind copy, everybody. 550 00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:04,940 Yeah, that's a good point. 551 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:06,420 Are we the blind copy, everybody? 552 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:08,340 Well, let's see what he says. 553 00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:24,120 Let's move to principal reports and vendor requests and we have 12 minutes for those things. 554 00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,320 I'll go first. Like a doofus, I sent a wrong report. 555 00:49:28,620 --> 00:49:31,080 If you look, this is last year's, I did write them. 556 00:49:31,720 --> 00:49:34,260 And I do have the right one but it's not with us. 557 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:35,800 So I will do a little bit of this. 558 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,020 I don't even notice that information. 559 00:49:38,020 --> 00:49:38,960 and that's on me. 560 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,060 So, our strategic outcome number six 561 00:49:43,060 --> 00:49:45,040 is the number of students on the wait list. 562 00:49:45,540 --> 00:49:50,820 We're actually at 443, it says 453, last year. 563 00:49:51,380 --> 00:49:53,480 That puts us at 80% capacity. 564 00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,280 I am actually kind of happy with that number. 565 00:49:57,660 --> 00:49:59,340 I was anticipating worse. 566 00:49:59,860 --> 00:50:02,100 We've had a number of students that have left 567 00:50:02,100 --> 00:50:04,940 because of the shiny and new schools going up in the valley. 568 00:50:04,940 --> 00:50:10,840 and so the that close means that we are filling in some of our other openings 569 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:16,200 and other places so as much as I hate to see it go down I'm actually happy with 570 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:21,680 where we are and hope that it will continue to go up. We had a back to school 571 00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,080 night I don't remember that percentage or the numbers there but we did have back 572 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:30,260 to school night. Student Council is going to look a little bit different this year. We 573 00:50:30,260 --> 00:50:37,420 We have moved that from being a teacher led to one of our secretaries. 574 00:50:37,420 --> 00:50:39,760 We are having Callie Larson, who is going to run that. 575 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,380 She is also going to run our assemblies and many of those things. 576 00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:49,520 Hopefully, that will bring a lot of those different parts on your one roof, one hat, so that it 577 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:54,620 will be smoother, and we look forward to what that's going to look like. 578 00:50:55,400 --> 00:51:00,960 Art, LTAG, Robotics, and those sorts of things are getting signed up, many of that has 579 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:01,400 gone out. 580 00:51:02,420 --> 00:51:08,080 Something that I wanted to, the thing that I'm most sad about not being on here is that 581 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:14,560 we had a student, oh, what is her first name, any? 582 00:51:18,380 --> 00:51:27,680 Exactly. Yes. Yes, Joseph and me went to nationals for national history fair and placed 583 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:28,660 in the top 20. 584 00:51:31,420 --> 00:51:35,600 That's why I want that's the thing that I feel bad about not having here. 585 00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:41,340 So I will send you next month I will try to get you both and so you can look over that. 586 00:51:41,340 --> 00:51:44,940 But I wanted to make sure to give her a shout out that she has done a great job. 587 00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:51,960 We have upcoming events, many of the same ones, but the day is probably off. 588 00:51:52,780 --> 00:51:56,700 I don't have any vendors and we no longer do the personnel requests. 589 00:51:57,020 --> 00:52:00,320 That's really the thing that I was like, wait, I should have deleted that. 590 00:52:00,580 --> 00:52:00,740 I did. 591 00:52:01,820 --> 00:52:08,520 And just to make you aware of the approvals, we talked about replacing the roof. 592 00:52:09,260 --> 00:52:14,920 We've been informed that some of our rooftop units, the air conditioning no longer works 593 00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:21,840 and can't be fixed, so we've got to replace some of our rooftop units, so that is a process 594 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:28,640 coming down the pipe and we're starting to get bit, so look for another spike later. 595 00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,760 here. Should we say that's a issue that's heating up? 596 00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,280 It's true. Well played. 597 00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:43,080 Okay, so we did our numbers, our current student count is 672, 598 00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,400 which you can see it's gone down every year for the last several years. 599 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,420 We lost a lot of students to the new schools as well. 600 00:52:50,940 --> 00:52:55,120 We did have 61 new students this year, 601 00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:56,940 which there's pros and cons to that. 602 00:52:56,940 --> 00:53:01,400 great that we're getting 61 more students but transitioning into the schools 603 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:06,400 as we talked about is always challenging and we don't always know what we're 604 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:10,360 getting so sometimes we take in some really low students that our teachers have 605 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,900 to do extra work that takes away from other students so again pros and cons with 606 00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:19,100 that we want our numbers high but we want to be filled with students that are 607 00:53:19,100 --> 00:53:26,920 coming to our school for the right reasons too. Back to school nights 94% of our 608 00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:31,980 middle school, so overall attendance is 92.7, which the whole point of that is it shows 609 00:53:31,980 --> 00:53:35,920 that our families are committed and coming and ready to start school. 610 00:53:37,060 --> 00:53:43,600 The last thing I have is our positive behaviors program, which is a state law to have this 611 00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:48,340 program in your school, and I think you can do it quite minimally, but for the last three 612 00:53:48,340 --> 00:53:54,100 years we've done this big thing because we have an amazing parent, Daphne Blase, who has 613 00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:59,280 taken like done hours on this. So our school wide positive behavior program 614 00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,560 this year is spread kindness like confetti that's kind of our fun thing but 615 00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:08,820 the overall theme is power of kind. The power of kind is a program that is 616 00:54:08,820 --> 00:54:14,540 throughout this state and I think even maybe nation that is all about 617 00:54:14,540 --> 00:54:17,640 obviously being kind. So you can read through the cool things that we're doing 618 00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:22,440 we'll be sending more information to families, we'll talk about it in our 619 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:27,500 e-up days, but it's just kind of a fun thing that we get to focus on each year with our students 620 00:54:27,500 --> 00:54:32,400 and kind of get everybody involved in having some fun while they're learning at a very high level. 621 00:54:33,140 --> 00:54:38,060 I have no benders and you can see our upcoming links. Any questions? 622 00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:50,060 Having covered all agenda items, this meeting stands adjourned at 6.28 p.m.