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All right, down, ready when you are.

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So we'll go ahead and call the meetings to order.

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It is August 13th at 8.26.

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And this is the Utah Virtual Academy governing board directed

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year. We'll go ahead and do a roll call real quick. Hopefully we have with another board member

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jump on as we get home. I'm down in Dresher. I'm board chair and then let's go this way.

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It's time for Chris and Davidson board member.

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Governor Charles, do you serve this as a minister?

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Tiffany Allen, operations.

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Lacey Roberts, now in the tree school.

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Jillian Brunson, CTA, and the ministry here.

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Laurie Phillips, middle school principal.

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Gillette Hayden, director of special education.

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Shantel Wickson, academic west.

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Crystal Listering, fellow academic west.

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Crystal Taylor, academic, huh?

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we have our monthly Gordon Board Member and members of the public.

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We just ask those comments to be limited to three minutes, so four or less if you'd like.

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No, then should we do our spotlight?

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Principal Robinson.

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Yes, this is me. So I am actually really excited to spotlight

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Kaylyn. Do you have her slide?

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There we go. So Kaylyn, Dewey, is our, she's actually been our special education PLC lead for several years.

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She is incredible at leading her team. They love her. They all say they don't want anybody else. They just want Kaylyn

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She's one of those I was thinking as as I was driving up

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who is just extremely capable and responsible.

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I know she's going to follow through, I know she's going to be thorough, I know she's

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going to show up and lead her team.

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Some of the things I put in here, she has really embraced our school improvement plan last

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year week and this year we're focusing on evidence-based practices and she implemented

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micro-teaching on her team where they watch each other, they read through that practice and

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special education teachers.

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We are lucky to have her.

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She is professional and just an expert in what she does and we appreciate you so much Caitlin. Thank you

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with an actressy, and she more than doubled her reading

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but so dedicated to being better and to learning

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student spotlight. Well deserve. We're so lucky that you're a student at our

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school. Stormy thank you and I'm excited for an equally awesome if not better

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the best part of the meetings and now we get

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you so much. You're awesome. Go

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store me and Kayla and you're welcome to stay on but you have no obligation to do so so feel

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free to log off that you don't have to stay for the boring meeting but thank you so much for joining us.

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And then for the record Northbound Strategy on the Zoom is our

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the Levitt Marty is Walter Ego. So if we can move into the finance report we'll

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turn that over to Shantel. Awesome thanks, Ellen. All right so for the

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finance report today in the packet on the first pages just your highlights but

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I will be covering fiscal year 26 draft financials. They haven't been sent to

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the auditors yet. I'll be sending them off next week. So again these are draft

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they're pretty close. There will be a couple minor adjustments just as invoices

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coming over the next month. We'll make sure they get put in the right year. So you

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can see again your end financial statements. Your revenue overall is

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sitting at 101% of the budget which is like awesome. Slightly over what we

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had anticipated. Scrolling down, you can see salaries overall. Can you scroll it for

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just a second sorry Crystal thank you so much better salaries overall are at

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98.7% so really online with that amended budget your total benefits are

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just at 103.2% of the budget don't worry if the line items or some of the

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categories are slightly over the only thing the state really tests is your

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bottom line your total expenses you can't be a dollar over and you guys are

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about 400,000 under. So you're doing really well with your budget. Looking at your

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purchase professional and technology services, that's at 97.5%. So again,

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really close. Your purchase property services, overall that's at 93.8%. Inline

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with the budget. You can see the other purchase services. So here in Charns,

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you're advertising, travel premium. Overall, you're right at 100% of the budget.

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It supplies the material slightly under 98.98%.

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you'll see the building on there for $435,000.

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from other financing sources.

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That's just the amended lease for this building

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that we had to put on your book last year,

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because the lease was signed in May.

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Accounting Blue Deal, that's they call it.

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Yeah, yeah, we got to book it.

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And then your service in miscellaneous right at 96%, but your total expenses you're at

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98.5%, you're about 400,000 under the budget, so everything looks really good as we're

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closing out your end.

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also your PTIF account is up as well.

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Your account's receivable, you'll see there's a small state receivable, 293,000 if federal

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receivables on your books.

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So that's just, as payrolls paid out through the summer, those of croles are made.

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So, that's kind of why you see an increase in your receivables, jumping down to your fixed asset.

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That increase has to do with kind of your iPad purchase as well as your building lease that we put on your books.

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Depreciation expense that was booked so you'll see that it's increased from the year before.

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is, oh, your long-term liabilities,

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you'll see that they're $800,000 now compared to the $551.

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So more fun year-end accounting.

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OK, and I'll be sending it off to the auditors next week

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and here before we know it, Ken will be here presenting.

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So it goes by fast, where we didn't have a board meeting

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in July we have a couple of allotments to approve so the first one is for the

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June allotment in the amount of is that there's three in here sorry crystal

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okay let's see this is as going to say the first one is two million three hundred

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and thirty one thousand six hundred nine dollars and one cent it

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then there is the final fiscal year 26 which is like a period 13 so

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So you guys get a mid month allotment.

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That's $187,906 in 30 cents.

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And then July, you got another $2,306,635 and 54 cents.

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And all the allotments are in there.

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There's lots of pages on them.

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So do we need a motion then to?

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Yes, please.

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All right, I'll make a motion that we accept those allotments

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as they've been presented.

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motion by Doug, second by Kristen, all those in favor.

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I love that.

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And then moving on, these are just the bank

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reconciliations and the deposit registers.

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account, as well as your PTIF statements.

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I just have one on PTIF.

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we're getting close to 15 million dollars there. Is there a maximum amount before will we take

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a penalty? It can grow as much as we want it to be. There's counties and state agencies have

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hundreds of millions of dollars. That's all I can do to them. But at the same time, that's a good

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little nested to use the muddust.

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Okay, and then do you guys want to make a motion on those?

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those that we accept those. I second that. Motion by Chris and second by Doug. All

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those in favor. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi.

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Perfect. And then moving on we have invoices for approval

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over 25,000 and there is one. I wish I had a page number for you. I think you discussed

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Perfect. Megan, do you want to speak to this one? Actually, Lucy, would you do the

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I love to. So Ed Connective is a company that the USDE has partnered with in

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several of its schools. They have recommended and shared data and shared success

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stories in all of our literacy directors meetings this year. We are hoping with

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your approval to partner with Ed Connective at the elementary school and we're

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actually not partnering with them for literacy based on our data and we'll talk

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about data in a minute when we go through school from the class, but our biggest need for

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improvement is in math.

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And so we are wanting to partner with them for grades two through five are math teachers

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and general ed and special education and our two science teachers.

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They'll also be working with our math coach. And what they provide is one-on-one coaching. They get 90 days unlimited coaching. So they can work with their coach three days a week if they want. We have some teachers who will take advantage of that, but everyone will do once a week at least. They send them videos, and then they meet with the coach. They work on everything aligned with our school improvement plan. So I send them the school improvement plan. They match our teachers with a coach, and then they're able to have some one-on-one.

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The type of coaching we don't have the manpower to provide.

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And so, you know, based on USBE's recommendations,

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we have high, high hopes for, you know,

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increase teacher efficacy based on this model.

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And you said, please, you said that it was 90 days,

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so a total of 90 days for free.

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if other members of the board disagree with me,

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then please, I'll withdraw that.

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But would you, you said that the target is for this to happen at least once a week.

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Would you, without, no need to identify who the teachers are, I'd be interested in what

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the take rate is.

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If it's up to 90 days, are we getting, are we getting all 90 days worth of that service?

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Are we only getting 60 days, are we only getting 45 days?

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So, that would be, I'd be interested in seeing that, and then the second thing, let's take

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a look at the end of the year, is our correlation between utilization and improvement the way

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I'd be interested in seeing that.

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Yeah, those are really good points.

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So, we have our intro meeting where the teachers, you know, we met with them to go through

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I have four times in those 90 days meetings already on my calendar with the the person in charge of our school the one that we're working with and they don't tell me teacher names because this is instructional coaching or the best way to have instructional coaching is to have trust with your coach but they do get me direct data and if there is a teacher who's not using it at that once a week they will and they told the teachers you know we'll send you an email we'll make up a session if we can't then we let the administrator know which is you know

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great but we will have data on how often they did it and we will have data

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throughout so they pull I mean we've got a list of all the data they pull not

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just academic data but engagement and all of those things that that we're

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trying to increase they'll have data on that throughout the process and then

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like you said we'll look at the data at the end of the year but we only did one

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90-day session this is intense coaching bird teachers we want to start

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September 8th, but if it is approved tonight, and we get this paid, they said that teachers

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can start as soon as they want, then 90 days goes through the middle of December, so right

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before winter break. I anticipate we'll have some teachers begging to do it in the spring

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and we'll have some who are ready to implement what they've learned, but maybe don't want

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that intensive coaching. But this isn't really unique opportunity. I'm talking to the teachers

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that are meetings last week. This is a gift. I know I had intense coaching my first year

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of being a principal and it was the greatest growth for me in what I was doing, having

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somebody who's not my supervisor, sit down with me, look at my work, and give me direct feedback,

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who's been there. So they are also, they have a lot of experience with online schools, which

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a lot of companies that you can partner with in this work do not. That's why we chose this one.

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So, in addition to that, so I'm interested in, you know, I'll be interested in that data.

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The other, I'd also like to see the other side of that as well.

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Basically, let's, I'd suggest that we pull our teachers and see how effective they thought

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it turned out for sure, right?

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What were the strengths and weaknesses of this program that they, and then, if it turns out

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to be effective, right, that it's value-added, that we can consider another period of time.

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But if it turned out not to be what they were looking for, the idea is good, but this

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is the wrong package, then we look for something that suits our needs better.

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Let me tell you one, a couple other cool things, because I love starting this with math

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and we've even talked about, this is really great, maybe next year or ELA, teachers could take

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a turn or something.

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I don't know, but they match the teacher to a coach.

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So the teacher does a survey based on our school improvement plan and their own evaluation

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of themselves what they want to work on the days and times they're available and the type of

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coaching they like. Do you like direct coaching? Do you need someone who's going to be a cheerleader

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and encourage you? Do you need to increase your confidence or are you looking for someone who's

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very direct and honest and brutal? So they actually match them to a coach that will fit their strengths

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and at any time if they don't feel comfortable with the coach or like them they can let me know and we

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can switch. So it's it's pretty personalized. I'm serving and doing their job in the classroom.

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Yes. And I think I did that you're focusing at this two to five. That's amazing. Yeah.

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Because that's where we get the foundation, right? Yeah. We're sinking dollars into some

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place that's going to make a huge difference over time. Yeah. And we'll talk about this later,

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but third and fourth grade is a target grade. Those are target grades for us this year. Those are

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based on the last three years of data are two grades that need the most help the students.

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So providing this type of target and support is going to be, I'm really, really,

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but yeah,

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I'd love to share all that data with the face.

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I mean, and this just, I mean, the final comment I'll make to this speaks to Kristen's comment

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earlier asking about the PTIP because we've been able to put a substantial amount into that

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and we're working, we're realizing a significant return in terms of interest.

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It's basically free money, right?

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That's why if this is something that's working great, then we incorporate that as part of a budget in future years.

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But if it turns out not to be exactly what we're looking for, there's no loss because we have that cushion that we've been able to give ourselves and we can find something else that works.

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I move that we accept the proposal and higher ed connected for the

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mentoring program.

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And I'll second that.

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Push in by Kristen, second by Doug. Hallows in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

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Okay, and then the last few invoices are ones is for K-12 for August. And then we

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We also have the AW Services for July and August as well.

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Can you zoom in on those amounts?

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Thanks, Crystal.

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I move we accept K-12 and academic invoices.

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I second that as well.

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I'm ready to take that.

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Oh, Marty.

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All right.

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Motion by Chris, second by beloved Marty Carpenter.

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All those in favor.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Thank

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you.

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Thank you.

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All right. Let's go.

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All right. As I emailed the board school started yesterday, successfully. May I add? This is different from the Excel.

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And every year we have, you know, enhancements operationally, that we've worked probably

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since this time last year, had the idea to transition to, and I think it's a big mainly

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internally for us. It's been a goal for a while to get students logged in through single

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sign-on. One last password, one how do we get them in, we have a single sign-on and we

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did it this year. We have our own domain within Google, Google for Education. We think

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that with Canvas and students, a lot of them definitely logged in and it seemed, I know

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I wasn't laying in the help room all day but it seemed like for a new login and a new process

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and change is always we don't want to lose anybody in the transition and I don't think we did.

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I think we got them in and it was an exciting like crusher fingers and then tip steep exhale and

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they all logged in. That we transitioned our staff to Zoom phone so we were able to cancel our phone

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system which probably will save the school about 60 gram and we added on Zoom phone to our

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already subsidized UEN contract with Zoom,

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and it'll be nice to have so we have our lives

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when we have board meeting in Zoom.

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We have our life, we are Zoom, everything.

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And so with Zoom now, Zoom workplace that pops up,

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now they have Zoom phone and chat and everything

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with Zoom meetings, and so,

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and that is also a single sign on.

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And so now comes, I saw emails even more today,

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to have about more stuff,

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wanting a single sign on another working on adding

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more and more programs that are just all fall under the educational umbrella from

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loom to Canva to we're looking at schmook today I mean yeah we'll start slowly

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building our school out this way and teachers being able to now assign assignments

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within the whole Google suite within canvas like this has been really a lot of

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years in the making as we start to piece and enhance and grow our own

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infrastructure so we did it and we're on day two and we're all here. All right, let's start with an enrollment report.

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So our enrollment, this screen does seem different, huh? Yeah, I don't know. Can we? Let me reshare. No, it just... I'm gonna...

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Yeah, exactly. Okay, let's try that.

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Click on I think you can make a bigger if you click on it.

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I think it's uh I

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guess that would be yeah

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It's a wonder if it's on this one. Yeah. If you want to share again, I got the mouse on here. What do you think?

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Well, this is on its own TV, right? Yep, correct.

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What about

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the full screen at the very bottom?

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That's a little better. Still different, huh?

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That's a really big

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Oh, that's me, I'm trying one last thing.

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I

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feel like

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even that whole, like, you know, you can be across that full screen and

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try one more.

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Oh, there it is, down there it is, yes.

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Yes,

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can I work yeah much better thank you

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Yeah, let me see some of the numbers in charts up there now

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So these numbers were pulled as of yesterday

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So we started school with 1,776 students pretty solid number. That's a pretty solid number. I have 250.

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right there.

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No, it's not right there.

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No, it's not.

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Yeah, we've got it.

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It's the first year of the year.

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It's the first year of the year.

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It's the first year of the year.

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That's why.

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That's why.

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And the breakdown, you see below of the schools, what's been interesting is that third box of

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versus last year, and why that's interesting, and I think it goes over the next slide in

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a different visual, is that we were trending ahead of last year.

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every single day every single week until two days ago and we can go ahead and

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flip to the next slide. So we'll kind of show the trend data that I would like

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to speak to here yet. So this bottom line, that's

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26. So when we look at where

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we this is this year, this middle line, we started a lot higher and that was we

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retained a lot of students. Our retention was really great this year and so

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looking ahead I think I reported to the board in June that hey our retention

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look good. I don't see a reason why we can't be aggressive and say we can hit

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cat this year. And that's the line then so you can see that and we expect it to be

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pretty flat as far as applications and enrollments that come in. We see the bulk

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of it really from August and you can see the peak point about just the first week of September,

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is it a good chunk. So when we saw that wine go up last week, if I broke it down by day and by week,

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what was really interesting about this piece of data is that where traditionally the prior two years

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has jumped up, we went down. And I'm not entirely sure why because we've been trending on par

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with that and I have a few thoughts as to why one of we start early and I'm

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interested to see yeah in a couple weeks.

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Here, if the trend changes at all, that way, but that's it's very different from anything that we've seen before. It's very early, I think to cause any sort of alarmistize, huh? What's going on? And how do we course? Correct? Because, you know, goal for all of us has been, I mean, ideally we want our 2050 seats filled on the first day of school. We want all of our students to start on time. Starting late is hard for everybody.

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and so that's a goal I think that we will always have the more seats that we can

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feel the sooner the better and one of those solutions I think we'll look at

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is our school calendar and starting a week later next year or even maybe even

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behind that a minute or two. Which school district are we or we tie in our school

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calendar to are we doing it to Murray or to when we look at that it was and just

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So like you said, it's about a 50-50 split of it's this week or next week, and I think

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when we parsed it out last year and looked at the majority of our students and where they're

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coming from, and we took like the schools and it was this week that it landed on it.

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So more of our best guess to where the majority of our students are becoming from and where

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they reside.

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But yeah, we really see a clear split in when school started and it seems to be either this week

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or next week.

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Do you think that the bumps are from students who get disassified for a couple of weeks and then jump in?

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Yeah, as far as like from other schools?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I think it's...

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What's it like between the 26th and the 9th of September that went right there?

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You see that?

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A little bit of a...

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Yeah.

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And that's...

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This slide is net enrolled.

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I don't think...

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what do I have on the next slide? I don't know. Yeah, that's what I wanted to show you. Thank you.

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Application influence. So that was net enrollment. We get our net enrollment from applications.

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So we're watching our leads come in and that's once again, that's why it feeds me. It's more of a cause for a long

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because we're getting less applications right now. When we should be peaking, we start

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get that put and then down the road is when the net enrollment goes on because it takes a minute

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for students to get enrolled. So that's the applications that are coming in and we are

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trending quite a bit lower and you see we're last year we really took off to build our

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number and in the prior year we have not and we've gone down. So I don't know if we're

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waiting to see if we just see in the next week or two that wave come back. It does that trend

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and it's a very, yeah, inverse trend.

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It's interesting.

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Yeah.

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What schools have started already?

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Davis is not.

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I know it hasn't.

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What school districts are in session right now?

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Washington is.

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Washington is.

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Washington is.

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Washington is.

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Yes, we have.

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Which is on the.

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We have our largest population comes with ranna.

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But it's not like I know starts next week.

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Yeah.

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So it just like making this half and half back.

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Yeah.

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And then.

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If you'd like, I'd like to continue to follow on SOEP because it keeps the same enrollment

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trend, which I'd like to keep in mind a little bit.

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So this is SOEP enrollment data.

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For the full year, last year we had 1,218 individual students.

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We are at 415 right now, and this one's a very different trends to look at because we see

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a high amount of students entry and exit the unique students by corner. It is a revolving

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program. So really as far as being on pace, last year we were at 481 or 415, so we're

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not really off in the end. Our peak enrollment blocks are quarter three and in the summer.

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So we still have a minute to go for SOEP to even say, are we really that far behind or

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not, but we are behind.

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And then I think on the next slide,

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I did a comparison.

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I took a look at from their district of residence

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of where they're coming from, if there's

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any decrease or trends.

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And right now, we see the largest from Jordan.

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That last year, we had 71 students from them,

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right now, we only have 20.

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So it's just kind of interesting to see where students

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were actually coming from, if the ebb and flow meant anything,

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or is there any strategy that we can discuss with these schools?

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I'll reach out to Nibble School District,

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they're right in my home boundary, and we'll

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see if they want even more kids to come.

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We're seeing a decrease in the number of students

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just because there aren't as many.

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Really?

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That's a good one.

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So we have seen, hey, we lost three teachers at our school

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Because the student population is down.

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So that's what I've been seeing, right?

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So the overall population is down.

462
00:35:16,070 --> 00:35:21,130
And then K12 in an enrollment meeting also told us

463
00:35:21,130 --> 00:35:24,430
that enrollment nationwide is the trend that we're seeing

464
00:35:24,430 --> 00:35:27,250
is not a typical nationwide either.

465
00:35:28,230 --> 00:35:32,550
So all of that contextually is interesting.

466
00:35:32,550 --> 00:35:40,110
and has a significant impact on our budget and what we're planning on and doing with.

467
00:35:40,330 --> 00:35:46,870
So that's why I think anything is that there is makes a little nervous because we definitely

468
00:35:46,870 --> 00:35:55,250
want to ensure that we hit that 1865, 45, 75, 75, I didn't know the five, but number that

469
00:35:55,250 --> 00:35:58,870
we budgeted to at a minimum to hit for October 1.

470
00:36:01,540 --> 00:36:08,260
Chris, in some of the meetings that you've been in, what is the general handling in terms

471
00:36:08,260 --> 00:36:15,900
of what the decrease in the school age population is? Is it 1%? Is it half percent? Is it

472
00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:16,380
2%?

473
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:18,580
I don't know right now, but it's a downhills life.

474
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:19,060
You're right.

475
00:36:19,340 --> 00:36:20,380
It's 5 to 8 years.

476
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:21,460
Right, right.

477
00:36:28,470 --> 00:36:35,670
That may be something that we should take into account. I'm sure that there

478
00:36:35,670 --> 00:36:41,250
data out there the state board probably has something like that. It's probably

479
00:36:41,250 --> 00:36:47,210
worth at least reaching out or looking to see what the forecasted decrease is

480
00:36:47,210 --> 00:36:52,810
going to be because if we are thinking that we are going to have continued

481
00:36:53,870 --> 00:36:59,630
enrollment growth then that would be bucking a trend from all of the other

482
00:36:59,630 --> 00:37:07,290
schools. And if everybody is decreasing in size, then that probably, it would be prudent

483
00:37:07,290 --> 00:37:13,410
for us since we're so, since our budget is so tied to the number of students that we

484
00:37:13,410 --> 00:37:20,190
have. All right, well, what happens if we come in 1% lower next year? What if it's half

485
00:37:20,190 --> 00:37:24,150
a percent lower, things like that, just so that we have a realistic view of that?

486
00:37:24,150 --> 00:37:28,630
But also being compounded by their offering more homeschool.

487
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:37,210
So a lot of schools, so there are less kids, and there's more people incentivized to homeschool.

488
00:37:37,630 --> 00:37:42,810
So homeschool and online in within the district, like the Davis Connect, which is on the same

489
00:37:42,810 --> 00:37:44,310
standard by any means.

490
00:37:44,830 --> 00:37:50,470
I think the districts, just from the parent, seems like the districts that have their own

491
00:37:50,470 --> 00:37:51,110
or an option.

492
00:37:51,110 --> 00:37:54,690
and they make it almost sound like they have to take it through that.

493
00:37:55,030 --> 00:37:57,070
They know all of them.

494
00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:02,270
And also the general finance lit in high school.

495
00:38:02,410 --> 00:38:06,590
And the counselors at Syracuse High and Vegas, I'm like, no, you have to do it through Davis Connect.

496
00:38:08,670 --> 00:38:13,130
One of our parents that was trying to send up for SOEP has their approval.

497
00:38:15,930 --> 00:38:17,050
That's why I like the deal.

498
00:38:17,050 --> 00:38:20,210
email and say, you're dropping S O E P and enrolled in an auction.

499
00:38:20,310 --> 00:38:24,070
Like the mobile and the others, they may not have their own programs so they can't push

500
00:38:24,070 --> 00:38:24,370
the kids.

501
00:38:24,630 --> 00:38:33,430
And they're going to promote their own programs, but literally the educational value that

502
00:38:33,430 --> 00:38:38,730
we see here is really different and I mean there are some really good teachers in those

503
00:38:38,730 --> 00:38:42,290
programs, but not like what we've got going here and that's.

504
00:38:42,290 --> 00:38:48,870
Well, and Kristen, to your point, I think we find ourselves in a situation where it's

505
00:38:48,870 --> 00:38:55,810
time to be on the offensive of telling our stories and putting ourselves out there in

506
00:38:55,810 --> 00:39:00,910
a very different way that we have not had to execute before.

507
00:39:01,310 --> 00:39:06,530
We talked in the past about, I mean, because we talked about the large school districts that

508
00:39:06,530 --> 00:39:13,910
have their own online auction. We talked in the past about the feasibility or the possibility

509
00:39:14,450 --> 00:39:23,510
of a specifically offering our product, our services to those smaller districts that don't

510
00:39:23,510 --> 00:39:31,870
have that capacity or capability. That may be something. We really start to move out on

511
00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:41,790
in a significant way to say, hey, you're seeing what's on offer at these other large locations.

512
00:39:42,990 --> 00:39:47,950
It's not feasible based on your size, but here's how we can work together to be able

513
00:39:47,950 --> 00:39:50,530
to provide more for your students.

514
00:39:50,850 --> 00:39:52,550
Do we have anybody from Pangwich?

515
00:39:54,450 --> 00:39:55,110
You know what I'm saying?

516
00:39:57,070 --> 00:40:05,070
I attended the rural schools conference and we were in an SOEP session where it was

517
00:40:05,070 --> 00:40:10,650
targeted towards these schools to make them aware of also the state has funding a specific

518
00:40:10,650 --> 00:40:13,970
allocation for a small schools for SOEP.

519
00:40:15,210 --> 00:40:20,590
And they went over the qualifications for that so it really doesn't cost a language a dime

520
00:40:20,590 --> 00:40:21,410
out of their budget.

521
00:40:21,410 --> 00:40:26,130
the states are already allocated that funding for what we need is someone to go like

522
00:40:26,810 --> 00:40:32,610
school-to-school, a marketing team actually visits those areas and the reason I brought them up,

523
00:40:32,610 --> 00:40:37,410
I was in a conference this was years ago now with a lady, she had eight periods, she cut eight

524
00:40:37,410 --> 00:40:40,030
different things, she was the cheer coach and the bus driver.

525
00:40:42,250 --> 00:40:43,810
And the year of the coach you

526
00:40:45,630 --> 00:40:52,670
And that, you know, they can't do everything and this is something that they could embrace,

527
00:40:53,210 --> 00:40:57,530
they could even have a place in the school where their teacher comes in.

528
00:40:58,050 --> 00:41:02,390
And you know, at one point in time, we were doing that at Northridge.

529
00:41:02,530 --> 00:41:08,890
We had a class that was just streamed into us from Utah State for a while through a special

530
00:41:08,890 --> 00:41:09,150
place.

531
00:41:09,150 --> 00:41:15,450
I don't know, online school has grown, everything, technology is so much better now, and little

532
00:41:15,450 --> 00:41:21,950
places like that probably do have it, but we need to be looking at a different way to

533
00:41:21,950 --> 00:41:22,750
sell the product.

534
00:41:23,290 --> 00:41:29,910
The only problem with strategies like that is I imagine that it would be quite a bit of

535
00:41:29,910 --> 00:41:36,650
effort for a relatively low return, like you're going to spend a lot of time in effort to

536
00:41:36,650 --> 00:41:39,730
to get 50 students from a small district,

537
00:41:39,890 --> 00:41:43,250
whereas like Provo High probably spits out

538
00:41:43,250 --> 00:41:45,310
that many a year on their own.

539
00:41:46,870 --> 00:41:49,350
But I think what it comes down to really is,

540
00:41:50,750 --> 00:41:53,950
we probably need to spend some more money

541
00:41:54,570 --> 00:41:58,370
paying a marketing agency or someone

542
00:41:58,370 --> 00:42:01,830
that does this for a living

543
00:42:01,830 --> 00:42:04,890
and can help us have more targeted.

544
00:42:04,890 --> 00:42:07,830
And I appreciate what Cory Illinois does,

545
00:42:07,970 --> 00:42:11,150
but that's more of like a public image in relations,

546
00:42:11,710 --> 00:42:15,530
communication, focus versus an actual targeted advertising

547
00:42:15,530 --> 00:42:16,070
thing.

548
00:42:16,830 --> 00:42:21,790
So I think that's what I would be inclined to research is not

549
00:42:21,790 --> 00:42:24,950
how do we fix the problem, not that it's a problem,

550
00:42:25,010 --> 00:42:29,610
but who do we bring in that has the experience

551
00:42:29,610 --> 00:42:32,550
improvement track record that can help us with that

552
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:47,510
and work in tandem with our other partners that, you know, we appreciate their help with advertising and all that, but, you know, I think we have the resources that we could bring in the specialists and help get ahead of this trend that we're starting to see.

553
00:42:47,810 --> 00:42:48,570
Yeah, I

554
00:42:50,780 --> 00:42:51,180
think so.

555
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:58,920
May it do you need something specifically from the board in terms of an approval in terms

556
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:04,540
of direction and I say this because you're sitting right next to me but I would open this

557
00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:10,200
up to Laurie or anybody else is there something that we need that you need a specific direction

558
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:15,280
or action from the board or do you want to come back and say okay I'm going to come up with

559
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:20,460
a plan and then bring it back for our next meeting and say this is what we've come up with

560
00:43:20,460 --> 00:43:26,820
And this is what we need, which course do you think is better?

561
00:43:27,060 --> 00:43:33,460
Well, I think this is fairly two weeks old information for us to see us not go up but go

562
00:43:33,460 --> 00:43:33,720
down.

563
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:39,360
And I hope that you have some confidence in this team that when we see data we like

564
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:40,980
the course correct pretty quickly.

565
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:48,560
So with that, and I think I feel supported enough to put our heads together and make a plan

566
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:55,700
to go forward with it and bring it back to the board on a marketing strategy and then

567
00:43:56,270 --> 00:44:03,200
would love any thoughts from the board here or outside of board meeting if there's

568
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:12,100
any random thoughts or ideas or strategies you want to try to say this is new but I definitely

569
00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:19,240
have worked as a former K-12 employee and in around I understand it a bit and I

570
00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:25,780
think we can find a new skill set to all of our skill sets here on Enrollment

571
00:44:25,780 --> 00:44:29,640
and Marketing and what a great opportunity for us to tell our story. I think

572
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,500
that's what the cool thing is gonna is gonna be for us is we have a cool

573
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:39,240
opportunity to tell our story about Stormy and and our data increase like we've

574
00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:46,340
We've got an awesome story to tell and a product to promote within the education industry

575
00:44:46,340 --> 00:44:47,420
for sure.

576
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:52,940
They just heard about what we did last year with the 3rd and 4th graders and reading.

577
00:44:53,460 --> 00:44:56,320
That would be a big jump in the numbers.

578
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,980
When we have an opportunity to show them what we do it's

579
00:45:00,110 --> 00:45:27,750
All right, because a lot of online programs that are AC grants, parents are unhappy with this. Yeah, those are hard, right? That are just a secret as we offer. Okay, are we present to this kind of information and are we market? You know how you go to a conference? Yeah, they're there promoting whatever. Why don't we do that? Yeah, we need to go to the AC to eat conference to December. Go to the the child development conferences.

580
00:45:27,750 --> 00:45:32,250
Just to pick and choose, there's some technology concepts in Florida, you can get them.

581
00:45:32,670 --> 00:45:40,190
Just do a search and then get on their presentation, they can go to do it and see if you can't

582
00:45:40,190 --> 00:45:42,830
mark it in some of those places to awareness.

583
00:45:43,790 --> 00:45:55,530
Because this is students in Utah, but no one, maybe an Oklahoma who is on a board in K-12,

584
00:45:55,530 --> 00:45:59,730
and I'll call and ask them to see what they did tomorrow.

585
00:46:01,910 --> 00:46:08,430
That would be very one thing that we've been planning.

586
00:46:09,490 --> 00:46:12,970
The WAN is collecting stories, oxygen stories.

587
00:46:13,170 --> 00:46:19,290
There's a system in place right now for anybody on our staff to submit a story to the WAN.

588
00:46:19,290 --> 00:46:21,130
I'm going to embed some sends it to Corneloy

589
00:46:22,170 --> 00:46:25,410
with our new website, the more we add content to it,

590
00:46:25,630 --> 00:46:27,030
the more it'll pop up on the SEO.

591
00:46:27,990 --> 00:46:31,430
So we'll be blog posts and pictures,

592
00:46:32,050 --> 00:46:34,510
and hopefully that helps our online marketing.

593
00:46:38,940 --> 00:46:41,060
Hopefully we see that turnaround tomorrow, though.

594
00:46:41,660 --> 00:46:42,260
That would be great.

595
00:46:42,980 --> 00:46:43,480
We'd love to.

596
00:46:44,380 --> 00:46:44,760
Great.

597
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,760
Thank you for the conversation, anything else?

598
00:46:52,620 --> 00:46:54,720
School improvement plans.

599
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:03,480
Just a brief, and try to be very brief, just a reminder of kind of our school improvement process.

600
00:47:04,380 --> 00:47:10,760
It's everything is very intentional and designed around the school improvement process as the school is the board knows.

601
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:21,780
We end a school year, we do a full, each school does their own full comprehensive analysis of where did the year end.

602
00:47:23,060 --> 00:47:27,460
reflect on the school improvement strategies and then throughout the summer we're meeting

603
00:47:27,460 --> 00:47:32,400
with our school improvement teams, Mattel and just this last week we finalize it with

604
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:38,580
the rest of the staff and so every single staff member has had input on each of these

605
00:47:38,580 --> 00:47:42,540
plans. They know what a school improvement plan is, they know what the goal is and they have

606
00:47:42,540 --> 00:47:48,780
an idea of what's important for the school this year moving forward. With that, they see

607
00:47:48,780 --> 00:47:54,900
think elementary's up first. Okay. So we saw huge gains last year with our

608
00:47:54,900 --> 00:47:59,540
School of Primaplan and did make a shift in that plan last year. So when our

609
00:47:59,540 --> 00:48:05,760
team came together they looked really heavily at our data. They looked at our

610
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:09,580
School of Primaplan. We analyzed it and a lot of things are staying the same.

611
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:15,500
Some of the changes are in our goals. You can see that in addition to having a

612
00:48:15,500 --> 00:48:21,200
growth goal for just first or third or for the whole school and then the state

613
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:25,260
tracks first or third we've got an additional growth goal for each grade level

614
00:48:25,260 --> 00:48:31,840
based on their baseline data from last year. We've also put a floor so if we

615
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:37,340
do have teams that that backtrack a goal for not backtracking a very

616
00:48:37,340 --> 00:48:41,920
specific goal that is identified in our school program but we are continuing to

617
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:47,380
focus on student ownership of their data. Students tracking their data, knowing

618
00:48:47,380 --> 00:48:49,660
their data, understanding where they're at and where they're going this year.

619
00:48:49,820 --> 00:48:54,680
We're adding an emphasis for parents, our learning coaches, with, based on SB 241

620
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,520
and all of the changes and these individual reading plans that have to happen.

621
00:48:59,340 --> 00:49:07,220
We're adding parent ownership to our our plan and we've already started the

622
00:49:07,220 --> 00:49:10,880
prep work for training our parents on their responsibility when it comes to

623
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:17,200
this. And then evidence-based practices last year we focused heavily on student

624
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:22,160
building and student thinking with our staff and our professional learning. This

625
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:27,360
year we are focused on Anita Archer's explicit instruction so very healthy

626
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:31,240
combination when we are using explicit instruction and building student thinking.

627
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,060
So that's the shift we've made there. Another cool thing that I just wanted to show

628
00:49:35,060 --> 00:49:39,440
you in my planner, we have our school improvement plan, but then this year our

629
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:45,460
school improvement team they put together a success criteria for each of the

630
00:49:45,460 --> 00:49:49,660
milestones just like we do when we teach in our classroom which is kind of

631
00:49:49,660 --> 00:49:54,100
a cool way that we're tracking it a little bit differently it was a couple of

632
00:49:54,100 --> 00:49:58,280
our teachers came up with that and I thought it was really genius and I think it's

633
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:02,520
gonna make tracking it more enjoyable for the teachers that something that they

634
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,110
recognize and are using in my classroom so those are some shifts that we're

635
00:50:07,230 --> 00:50:12,850
but really just trying to continue the momentum we've seen with our data improvements from last year.

636
00:50:13,190 --> 00:50:15,550
So, any questions about elementary?

637
00:50:18,350 --> 00:50:19,870
I'm proud of this team, I'm proud of our staff.

638
00:50:20,290 --> 00:50:23,850
They do this, this is their work, they do they dig in, they do the research,

639
00:50:24,430 --> 00:50:31,070
they, you know, it takes two weeks for us to really figure out exactly where we're going to go

640
00:50:32,750 --> 00:50:35,490
and it's a very rewarding process.

641
00:50:46,250 --> 00:50:48,130
Talk to any of the...

642
00:50:48,130 --> 00:50:52,630
Yeah, so we did hit our reading growth, which was amazing last year.

643
00:50:52,950 --> 00:50:55,630
So, so amazing.

644
00:50:56,330 --> 00:51:01,530
But this is our baseline data, so we'll improve from here.

645
00:51:01,890 --> 00:51:02,910
This is where we're starting.

646
00:51:04,450 --> 00:51:07,670
And then the other cool thing, if you look at the rise proficiency,

647
00:51:07,850 --> 00:51:11,970
rise proficiency by gradin's object, our fifth grade team

648
00:51:11,970 --> 00:51:17,530
has consistently improved in both rise and Acadian's data year-over-year.

649
00:51:17,930 --> 00:51:31,090
This year they had some really big improvements and we're sending them to the 6th grade with some better data that you've seen in a few years, but that 5th grade team, they are on fire.

650
00:51:31,370 --> 00:51:40,310
They are passionate and excited about what they've been doing and it's all based on research, based curriculum, and evidence-based practices in the classroom.

651
00:51:40,310 --> 00:51:46,450
So, and then the next slide shows you just our strategies in milestones if you wanted

652
00:51:46,450 --> 00:51:49,630
to take a look, but I spoke to those.

653
00:51:55,210 --> 00:52:02,790
So the middle school, our priorities that I've shared last few years haven't really changed.

654
00:52:03,530 --> 00:52:11,530
We started with these same three focus areas in 2023-2024, and we have built on those

655
00:52:11,530 --> 00:52:17,430
every year since. The one thing we did was in the very beginning we spent a lot

656
00:52:17,430 --> 00:52:21,990
of time defining what these were going to be and how we were going to achieve

657
00:52:21,990 --> 00:52:26,350
the goals that we set and then the following year we were building on that

658
00:52:26,350 --> 00:52:31,950
process and then 2026 we spent a lot of time refining the processes that we had

659
00:52:31,950 --> 00:52:38,010
put in place because as we were looking at our data the goals we set our data was

660
00:52:38,010 --> 00:52:40,470
is continuing to improve year over year.

661
00:52:40,690 --> 00:52:43,110
So we were like, hey, we must be on the right track.

662
00:52:43,270 --> 00:52:48,510
Since our overarching goal is student learning outcomes

663
00:52:48,510 --> 00:52:51,470
and improvement there when we're seeing those outcomes

664
00:52:51,470 --> 00:52:53,690
improve, we stay with that.

665
00:52:53,870 --> 00:52:57,910
So this year, our 2027 school year, which sometimes I say

666
00:52:57,910 --> 00:52:59,770
that and I'm like, how is that even possible?

667
00:53:00,070 --> 00:53:00,850
But here we are.

668
00:53:01,610 --> 00:53:04,570
We're spending a lot of time sustaining the things

669
00:53:04,570 --> 00:53:05,670
we put in place.

670
00:53:06,250 --> 00:53:07,890
And at the end of this year, we'll

671
00:53:07,890 --> 00:53:12,990
actually end up closing some of them out because they will be fully implemented within

672
00:53:12,990 --> 00:53:20,430
the middle school over the last several years. And then we'll re-evaluate and see what

673
00:53:20,430 --> 00:53:25,590
our next steps are without taking our eyes off of the things that are fully implemented

674
00:53:25,590 --> 00:53:30,450
because we don't want those to, you know, go away. We've spent a lot of years getting

675
00:53:30,450 --> 00:53:34,050
them in the process. If you can go to the next slide.

676
00:53:35,130 --> 00:53:41,330
As we're looking at the data, I mean, our growth year over year continues to increase.

677
00:53:42,370 --> 00:53:48,330
I know our achievement, I actually had 27% I think, I just saw that, but I want to

678
00:53:48,330 --> 00:53:54,870
back up with achievement, with our proficiency or achievement prior to implementing the

679
00:53:54,870 --> 00:53:59,810
school improvement plan that we currently have, our overall achievement in the middle

680
00:53:59,810 --> 00:54:06,610
school was only 18 percent. So looking at that versus just those few years of

681
00:54:06,610 --> 00:54:10,570
having this plan in place like our growth and our achievement have gone

682
00:54:10,570 --> 00:54:15,850
significantly and you can see down there there are state or overall

683
00:54:15,850 --> 00:54:22,490
accountability for year over year continues to grow which you know leads us to

684
00:54:22,490 --> 00:54:26,810
believe that the things that we are implementing are working so that's very

685
00:54:26,810 --> 00:54:31,470
exciting. We don't have our data yet for this year. We have preliminary data from

686
00:54:31,470 --> 00:54:36,610
school year 26 but what we've seen from the preliminary data is we should see

687
00:54:36,610 --> 00:54:43,530
increases again on top of that. I don't remember what the next slide. Oh our

688
00:54:43,530 --> 00:54:48,530
strategies and milestones. We do tweak those a little bit. We've had the same three

689
00:54:48,530 --> 00:54:54,110
focus areas but we do spend a lot of time like Megan said. We dive deep into not

690
00:54:54,110 --> 00:54:58,110
not just our rise data, but all of the data from the school.

691
00:54:58,470 --> 00:55:04,790
We take stakeholder feedback, we take, just from our teachers, from our PLCs, everything

692
00:55:04,790 --> 00:55:10,030
and we look at that and dive into it over the summer and then make the tweaks to those

693
00:55:10,030 --> 00:55:13,070
milestones that are supporting these goals that we have.

694
00:55:14,870 --> 00:55:19,410
Which has got us to the point we are now and hope to continue to see those.

695
00:55:19,410 --> 00:55:46,370
The whole middle school team I can say without a doubt could tell you what our goals are and what we are working on as an entire school because we have all of them on committees working to push those milestones and strategies in the school and then I know I've mentioned this before but we had our last week we had our in-person meetings where we go over the data.

696
00:55:46,370 --> 00:55:50,850
again we go over what our school improvement plan is, the tweaks and changes that we have made to

697
00:55:50,850 --> 00:55:57,950
how we pivoted and the why behind those pivots. And then they take that information and as their

698
00:55:57,950 --> 00:56:05,530
PLC teams they set their team goals based on those. So it's all that holistic cycle that all comes

699
00:56:05,530 --> 00:56:12,930
back to our school improvement plan. I have a question I guess for everybody. Elementary, how many facts?

700
00:56:21,990 --> 00:56:23,130
so I get them at 50.

701
00:56:25,420 --> 00:56:30,040
I believe I have well if I count my mentors and stuff I have around 40

702
00:56:30,740 --> 00:56:38,760
and then some part-time paras that are hourly okay and what about the high 70-ish?

703
00:56:47,540 --> 00:56:55,920
The team work is I mean they all have buy-in, they all know what it is, they do and it's paying off

704
00:56:55,920 --> 00:57:02,060
and I think that my with the University of Utah project is very well spent all what we're doing

705
00:57:02,060 --> 00:57:11,780
here's come into fruition. It's awesome. What were the, I think, the magic happens in watching

706
00:57:11,780 --> 00:57:16,320
Lacey and Laurie leave their schools as the implementation. Like I see those like,

707
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:23,100
we're like, but you should, it's not just words, like the way they run their implementation meetings

708
00:57:23,100 --> 00:57:28,120
and they go around the update and people are holding each other accountable, like things in the plan

709
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:34,500
move and I think yeah that's one thing I yeah it's really cool to watch the

710
00:57:34,500 --> 00:57:39,960
actual plan in action it's not just some pretty paper that we've loved on a

711
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,920
pretty paper presenting it to the board and to any other stakeholder to show

712
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:48,020
exactly the transfer about what we're doing but the implementation that's the

713
00:57:48,020 --> 00:57:53,860
grit and grind and it's really cool to see it in action. All right I would

714
00:57:53,860 --> 00:57:56,960
want to add one thing to that because I found it interesting in the middle

715
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:02,760
school last year. At the end of every year, we have our, our, my PLC leads are my SIP committee,

716
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:11,760
they're over the SIP committee. And I was every year at, in May, I always send out something

717
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:17,040
that has them reflect on the SIP and their committees for the year and they do a deep reflection

718
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:22,420
and a deep dive with what their PLC teams have done. Anyway, it's actually very time consuming for

719
00:58:22,420 --> 00:58:28,480
them to do what we've done it every year. And I was a week later than normal sending

720
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:33,340
it out. And I am peeling, leans reaching out. Hey, when are we getting the survey so

721
00:58:33,340 --> 00:58:38,120
we can like dive in and look at the sit. I mean, they were already anticipating it because

722
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:42,540
we have that process in place. And they were asking for it. And I'm thinking, this tastes

723
00:58:42,540 --> 00:58:48,100
them like several hours to do. However, they're still asking me for it because they know it's

724
00:58:48,100 --> 00:58:52,080
such an important piece of the reflection of what we've done for the year and setting

725
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:55,100
us up for the work we're going to do over the summer in the

726
00:58:55,100 --> 00:58:58,800
morning. It is very rewarding. And I think too, we talked

727
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,840
about, you know, the student sharing the story, this is part

728
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:06,580
of the story. You could sell the process. This is the process

729
00:59:06,580 --> 00:59:09,440
that we've undergone to educators to the state.

730
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:22,060
Have you

731
00:59:22,060 --> 00:59:30,300
you can really lead it. You can take it. You have a model here that is phenomenal. We have PLC.

732
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:37,800
We have this. I hear this. We have all this but it doesn't work like this and to take what

733
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:43,940
you've done and implement it and help other people with it. I mean I think that's part of the story

734
00:59:43,940 --> 00:59:53,180
here too. And that if I as a parent listened to what she just said to me, you know, we've

735
00:59:53,180 --> 00:59:59,520
got, here's Laurie's story, you know, and we video it and we put it out there and

736
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,520
This is what my teaching team does. All of a sudden, it's like, wow, I want to have my kids be part of this. So, yeah, it's not just the, it's not just the statistics, the magic way to kid. It's the process, the process and the process is working. It's amazing. Good job. Oh, man. Thanks. Thanks. High school, our priorities, areas are math, both proficiency and growth.

737
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:36,200
there are baseline data in the gray and our gold data in the purple and then our

738
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:44,480
other cattle yield progress and improving our baseline measure with our

739
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:45,460
wheat assessment.

740
01:00:48,180 --> 01:00:53,040
This is more so the bottom bar chart those are all of the

741
01:00:53,660 --> 01:00:59,520
report card indicators so the very top you can see what we're strong and that's

742
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:04,280
kind of, I mean, graduation being the top is pretty awesome considering

743
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,800
graduations the one that put us in turnaround. And where we got to learn this

744
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:12,280
great school improvement process and haven't looked back since. A move

745
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:17,480
graduation right to the top. So the two at the bottom, the EL progress and

746
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:21,700
achievement, we're looking to move those closer to the percent of points

747
01:01:21,700 --> 01:01:26,300
earned to the other metrics in the board. EL stands for what?

748
01:01:30,670 --> 01:01:31,190
English

749
01:01:31,190 --> 01:01:38,870
priorities, they are very intentionally designed to instructional excellence through competency-based

750
01:01:38,870 --> 01:01:44,950
learning, and that is targeted in those teachers know that everything put into this part

751
01:01:44,950 --> 01:01:52,430
of the SIP influences the academic part of the state accountability system, so growth

752
01:01:52,430 --> 01:01:59,550
and proficiency. This year, our teacher's focus is really building out

753
01:01:59,550 --> 01:02:09,490
quality and engaging guided learning work in hesitate even using the word, you

754
01:02:09,490 --> 01:02:14,310
can see I'm searching for lots of other words to avoid the one asynchronous. But

755
01:02:14,310 --> 01:02:19,190
the idea of building out a Canvas course because we've for a decade have tried

756
01:02:19,190 --> 01:02:25,470
to do live classes and 30% attendance to that and takes up a lot of teachers' time.

757
01:02:26,230 --> 01:02:31,870
And instead of bringing our head against the wall a little bit, we said, hey, 100% of

758
01:02:31,870 --> 01:02:38,830
our students are exposed to standards through our curriculum and that design.

759
01:02:39,030 --> 01:02:45,970
And in an online school, we should have an elite engaging system that can help students,

760
01:02:45,970 --> 01:02:54,490
It's to it is tier one instruction the way that their courses are designed while still having we still have live sessions

761
01:02:54,490 --> 01:02:58,270
We're just not being kind of flipped in like the dependency model, right?

762
01:02:59,110 --> 01:03:06,690
In building those out. So that's a I'm excited for a little bit of shift in in philosophy and mindset as we build out those

763
01:03:06,690 --> 01:03:09,530
courses and our teachers are building out some phenomenal

764
01:03:11,070 --> 01:03:12,870
courses and then the other

765
01:03:12,870 --> 01:03:16,970
Our priority is the other part of the state accountability system.

766
01:03:17,130 --> 01:03:22,710
This is our graduation and college career readiness piece and our staff, our mentors and

767
01:03:22,710 --> 01:03:23,290
our counselors.

768
01:03:23,570 --> 01:03:29,710
This is their priority and their strategies are on the board.

769
01:03:30,450 --> 01:03:35,210
Are you incorporating a new durable skills so that the state is put out?

770
01:03:38,220 --> 01:03:44,120
That's a real push in me, yes, and even into the seventh and eighth grade, it's where some

771
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:44,820
of that is coming.

772
01:03:44,820 --> 01:03:49,260
Yeah, good, because that's what's going to get in the job.

773
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:59,160
The objective for all of us, all of us, all of the employers are saying, we can teach

774
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,200
them that stuff that they need to know to work for us.

775
01:04:02,540 --> 01:04:07,160
Please teach them this somewhere that they're having, yes, they're not playing with their

776
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:07,780
phone all day.

777
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:19,120
We were all teenagers, we'd be sitting here, we would be conversing at all, just talking

778
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:19,580
on our phone.

779
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:21,080
Yep.

780
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:25,680
That's it?

781
01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:31,520
Any questions on our school's strategy or feedback, or then

782
01:04:34,980 --> 01:04:35,980
on we'll go to day three?

783
01:04:38,260 --> 01:04:38,940
It's on.

784
01:04:39,340 --> 01:04:40,440
First Friday of the year?

785
01:04:40,620 --> 01:04:41,580
It is.

786
01:04:42,340 --> 01:04:43,860
It's very positive.

787
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:44,860
I like that.

788
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:45,580
We need that.

789
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:51,720
Up on base, we celebrate first Friday.

790
01:04:52,260 --> 01:04:55,380
So for the young, for the young airmen who are assigned at Hitler,

791
01:04:55,600 --> 01:05:00,620
first-based first-time, anybody can come, but they always will have a first- Friday event,

792
01:05:00,740 --> 01:05:04,000
whether it's at the bowling alley or something else like that.

793
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,420
first Friday. First Friday is what it is.

794
01:05:09,300 --> 01:05:10,340
I think so.

795
01:05:13,780 --> 01:05:18,420
Yeah, it used to be less fun.

796
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:22,220
So we've turned the corner as far as that goes.

797
01:05:24,300 --> 01:05:24,780
Well,

798
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,500
we have board business, just three items.

799
01:05:30,740 --> 01:05:33,440
So first, we have the June 11th, four meeting minutes.

800
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:33,900
It's

801
01:05:36,750 --> 01:05:39,510
my entertainer motion to accept those minutes.

802
01:05:40,030 --> 01:05:40,570
So moved.

803
01:05:41,590 --> 01:05:43,110
Motion by Cristina, second.

804
01:05:43,730 --> 01:05:44,210
I'll second.

805
01:05:44,630 --> 01:05:45,510
Second by Ted.

806
01:05:45,690 --> 01:05:46,410
Call those in favor.

807
01:05:47,090 --> 01:05:47,230
Aye.

808
01:05:47,590 --> 01:05:47,650
Aye.

809
01:05:59,500 --> 01:06:00,860
Yeah, I'll take that one.

810
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:05,400
All right, hang with me for a little bit on this one.

811
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:15,980
Um, I met with Stravis in July and they go out and they bid for our insurance originally

812
01:06:15,980 --> 01:06:22,040
When they brought it back, they said that Select Health had an overall 14% increase.

813
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:24,340
It's one of our largest that we've seen.

814
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:32,320
And they said actually that that number was actually smaller than what the market that they were getting on other companies with.

815
01:06:33,980 --> 01:06:43,280
When they brought that to me, I asked them if they would go then and do a full market bid on if there was looking at switching carriers.

816
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:50,620
years and they came back with that and think about four of them declined to even bid on

817
01:06:50,620 --> 01:06:56,700
our school emeritus I think was one that did bid and came back 10% so they came back in

818
01:06:56,700 --> 01:07:03,360
the 14% less than what select health was but not enough to even look at it switching carriers.

819
01:07:03,780 --> 01:07:10,880
So this as far as renewal options for the plans that we currently have select health was

820
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:14,440
was the best choice even with the premium increase.

821
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:18,240
Because it was such a significant increase,

822
01:07:18,580 --> 01:07:22,100
I took a deeper dive into this than I have in prior years

823
01:07:22,100 --> 01:07:23,380
on where we sit competitive.

824
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:25,060
It was like, hey, do we need to switch plans?

825
01:07:25,540 --> 01:07:27,520
Where do we sit in the market with this?

826
01:07:28,300 --> 01:07:33,600
So currently our plans, as they are, are very competitive.

827
01:07:33,780 --> 01:07:37,520
The plans itself are quality coverage plans,

828
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:39,620
very competitive in the market.

829
01:07:39,620 --> 01:07:49,040
it, where I found a lot of different experience was in the contribution amounts.

830
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:56,600
So right now, I just want to point out what we currently contribute to the premium.

831
01:07:57,360 --> 01:08:04,820
So for all this conversation, we really sent it around medical is 100% for single, for

832
01:08:04,820 --> 01:08:12,600
Only cover 70% of the premium for two party and 60% coverage for family.

833
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:16,560
So you can flip to the next slide please.

834
01:08:16,940 --> 01:08:25,320
So when I did a comparison to what other districts pay for as part of the premium, I found

835
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:33,680
that we were not near where the other schools were that I looked at were by different plant

836
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:33,880
types.

837
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:43,780
So what that is showing is the amount the employee pays for a very similar plan.

838
01:08:44,060 --> 01:08:44,280
What

839
01:08:46,650 --> 01:08:53,650
percentage of our teachers use the insurance element of the spouse versus does everybody

840
01:08:53,650 --> 01:08:54,770
have the insurance?

841
01:08:54,770 --> 01:08:55,930
Do we cover everybody?

842
01:08:56,490 --> 01:08:56,690
Yeah.

843
01:08:56,990 --> 01:08:57,950
Will you flip back to?

844
01:08:57,990 --> 01:08:59,150
I think I have the number up there.

845
01:08:59,150 --> 01:09:08,570
So, we have 123 enrolled out of the Elizabeth 150 and of that number, right in their half, is employee only.

846
01:09:09,210 --> 01:09:10,250
That's free, doesn't it?

847
01:09:10,330 --> 01:09:10,770
That's free.

848
01:09:11,250 --> 01:09:12,650
Yeah, exactly.

849
01:09:13,630 --> 01:09:13,910
Exactly.

850
01:09:14,790 --> 01:09:20,130
So, on the next slide, looked at a couple different things.

851
01:09:21,290 --> 01:09:28,350
And this, as far as if we wanted to enter and adjust any of our contribution to enter at a competitive marketplace,

852
01:09:28,350 --> 01:09:32,550
marketplace where the other bar graphs were on the previous slide.

853
01:09:33,210 --> 01:09:36,970
It would look a little bit like the contribution formula on the board.

854
01:09:37,150 --> 01:09:45,430
When I surveyed the other plans, what I found is there's not another school that offered

855
01:09:45,430 --> 01:09:46,950
100% employ only.

856
01:09:47,570 --> 01:09:49,310
The highest one I found was 95.

857
01:09:50,230 --> 01:09:53,150
So that's you see the recommendation on the board.

858
01:09:53,150 --> 01:10:00,370
And then the other two of 82% on traditional and then 87% on high deductible, both again

859
01:10:00,370 --> 01:10:04,010
is very reflective of the other schools that were surveyed in the plan.

860
01:10:05,970 --> 01:10:11,350
One change, I'd like to keep the same plans, regardless of the contribution amount, these

861
01:10:11,350 --> 01:10:12,710
two would remain the same.

862
01:10:13,570 --> 01:10:21,750
This one, right here, we shift it from a thousand dollar deductible to a 1500 on the traditional

863
01:10:21,750 --> 01:10:29,270
plan, the cost to employ is cheaper and it saves 46,000 and it was just kind of a

864
01:10:29,270 --> 01:10:35,750
little bit better overall plan for the money on that one. The other two plans were

865
01:10:35,750 --> 01:10:41,750
very reasonably priced within the marketplace and feel so about our options with

866
01:10:41,750 --> 01:10:47,270
select health. Going back to our $15,000 that we currently have and we're

867
01:10:47,270 --> 01:10:54,410
every night, right? Is there a way for us to either maintain, or do we have to

868
01:10:54,410 --> 01:11:00,950
save the $46,000? Is there, to see what I'm saying, do we have enough money to

869
01:11:00,950 --> 01:11:05,570
help us at some of this cost over time? We ask God He's sustainable.

870
01:11:06,230 --> 01:11:09,790
Right, and that's exactly, let's look to the next slide because I got some

871
01:11:09,790 --> 01:11:16,370
numbers for the board to consider. So we've got a couple different decision, one

872
01:11:16,370 --> 01:11:23,830
is just to renew it as is with the 14% increase and that is a $210,000 increase to our budget

873
01:11:24,190 --> 01:11:27,830
over last year, just with the 14% increase.

874
01:11:29,490 --> 01:11:36,730
The second decision, the $252,000, that is if we entered the marketplace and adjusted

875
01:11:36,730 --> 01:11:43,990
the premium coverage from the school to the employees to be competitive with the other school

876
01:11:43,990 --> 01:11:44,390
districts.

877
01:11:44,390 --> 01:11:49,930
That's how much that would cost on at least this year's that I mean who knows next year and who knows

878
01:11:50,490 --> 01:11:55,890
The other thing I think to consider is if the coverage changed to shift towards

879
01:11:55,890 --> 01:12:02,290
Supporting our family coverage more. I don't know how many employees would drop off of employee only and pick up family as well

880
01:12:03,230 --> 01:12:06,250
That is a as a possibility. I'm not entirely sure what our

881
01:12:06,870 --> 01:12:10,350
Insurance trends would look like that if we changed our practice

882
01:12:18,070 --> 01:12:19,390
if they're picking up the family.

883
01:12:20,510 --> 01:12:20,530
Yeah.

884
01:12:24,850 --> 01:12:27,250
Have you served any of the teachers been asked?

885
01:12:27,790 --> 01:12:28,950
What are their thoughts on?

886
01:12:31,620 --> 01:12:36,260
As far as, you know, do you have a group that meets and talks

887
01:12:36,260 --> 01:12:37,760
about insurance?

888
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:41,220
Like, I know there's somebody who negotiates

889
01:12:41,220 --> 01:12:42,320
with the district people.

890
01:12:42,460 --> 01:12:43,040
Oh, yeah.

891
01:12:43,340 --> 01:12:43,480
Yeah.

892
01:12:44,020 --> 01:12:44,160
No.

893
01:12:44,480 --> 01:12:48,360
I did have one employee that's a veteran employee here.

894
01:12:48,900 --> 01:12:50,780
When I told them, you know, hang on.

895
01:12:51,020 --> 01:12:52,460
We don't know entirely yet.

896
01:12:52,460 --> 01:12:58,380
wait till board meeting and then they're gonna open a moment very quickly here and he did say

897
01:12:58,380 --> 01:13:03,560
thanks for looking into family because it really would mean and I have been aware of the differences

898
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:06,440
and so just even looking at it means a lot thanks.

899
01:13:08,910 --> 01:13:10,990
So you guys are running the numbers over there.

900
01:13:12,450 --> 01:13:16,990
What what could we do and what's the what's the max we could do all the time.

901
01:13:24,230 --> 01:13:25,170
This is where academic

902
01:13:25,170 --> 01:13:30,590
Give us a question of the amount of money that we have to see in here.

903
01:13:35,690 --> 01:13:40,570
Year over year you guys have been consistent with your net income. This year you're at

904
01:13:40,570 --> 01:13:46,810
over 800,000. I felt comfortable with it. I think we can put it in the budget and just

905
01:13:46,810 --> 01:13:53,470
watch it closely. If you look at it, how you budget every year, you tend to budget in the

906
01:13:53,470 --> 01:13:58,030
five figures and end up closer to the seven figures, right? So it's one of those. If you

907
01:13:58,030 --> 01:14:03,370
throw it in your budget right now it's going to spit out a negative number but how you actually

908
01:14:03,370 --> 01:14:09,430
performed is much different. Exactly. Yeah that's what that's what it's it's hard to I think

909
01:14:09,430 --> 01:14:14,850
Shantel pointed out if we make the decision based on the budget you'd be like well we can't do this

910
01:14:14,850 --> 01:14:20,990
it's too much based on our based on what your actual results have been because I watched one of

911
01:14:20,990 --> 01:14:24,190
This week's was almost $46,000, yes, one day.

912
01:14:25,550 --> 01:14:27,490
That's what I was thinking about every month.

913
01:14:27,910 --> 01:14:28,170
Okay.

914
01:14:28,790 --> 01:14:37,670
Now I think that whatever you feel like is fair for the employees, I think we need to be

915
01:14:37,670 --> 01:14:41,410
more equitable and be more like what they could get someplace else.

916
01:14:41,770 --> 01:14:41,910
Okay.

917
01:14:42,250 --> 01:14:47,590
And the reality is we don't need to get too caught up in the

918
01:14:47,590 --> 01:14:56,170
that this year, as long as we recognize that there is a chance that we get too aggressive

919
01:14:56,170 --> 01:14:59,970
or something that we will have to cut somewhere down the...

920
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,280
Like, we have the PTIF that if this year did not perform as years passed, we have plenty to cover it for several years at this point. And so it would just have to come with a recognition that as we approach that line, somewhere will have to be cut. I would be opinion, I would cut somewhere else before I make cuts here. I do think this directly

921
01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:34,160
the goals, towards retaining teachers and attracting teachers.

922
01:15:36,020 --> 01:15:44,560
I do think I don't know what that increase directly impacts to an employee.

923
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:45,980
It's about 2000.

924
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:48,440
It's about 2000 back in their pocket.

925
01:15:49,260 --> 01:15:52,640
And so I don't know if that's enough.

926
01:15:55,250 --> 01:15:58,930
That's probably enough that we're going to see a bigger increase in that number

927
01:15:59,570 --> 01:16:03,890
because people will sign up for employee plus spouse or employee plus family.

928
01:16:04,290 --> 01:16:05,670
Which is fine, like I don't know.

929
01:16:06,430 --> 01:16:11,810
I'm not concerned that that would be so big that we couldn't absorb it.

930
01:16:12,530 --> 01:16:13,710
Even as within the budget.

931
01:16:14,070 --> 01:16:17,290
And you use the language, you have to cut in the future.

932
01:16:17,450 --> 01:16:20,170
But what it's really going to be, it's going to be, like you said,

933
01:16:20,330 --> 01:16:21,650
you can't be as aggressive as that.

934
01:16:21,650 --> 01:16:23,590
Yeah, you have to manage it.

935
01:16:23,690 --> 01:16:24,650
I guess that's right now.

936
01:16:24,810 --> 01:16:27,150
We're in a losing game, it's always going to go out.

937
01:16:28,590 --> 01:16:34,170
There's been some years where you do lose money or the people do have to pay out more

938
01:16:34,170 --> 01:16:36,530
or whatever, and that's a given, everybody.

939
01:16:37,050 --> 01:16:42,370
But if we can side on the benefit of the employees, I think we're better off.

940
01:16:43,330 --> 01:16:47,650
And as we've seen year over year, your cash balances are increasing.

941
01:16:48,670 --> 01:16:53,810
You could, you know, if worst case scenario were a couple years of pulling from that rather

942
01:16:53,810 --> 01:16:54,350
than adding.

943
01:16:54,350 --> 01:17:01,350
you're not, your cushion isn't so small that you couldn't, you know, again, make less

944
01:17:01,350 --> 01:17:07,150
or less aggressive increases to it in future years, it's still being.

945
01:17:07,590 --> 01:17:13,690
And when we've talked about unhappy and aggressive with the far more case, but frankly, I think this is more impactful.

946
01:17:14,230 --> 01:17:23,410
Well, you could actually earmark a piece of those dollars to generate funding specific to insurance all the time.

947
01:17:29,100 --> 01:17:31,300
10 years ago I wouldn't be saying this.

948
01:17:34,060 --> 01:17:37,200
Do that as an unofficial board goal.

949
01:17:37,420 --> 01:17:41,280
We don't want to get into like endowing funds, and that's good.

950
01:17:42,380 --> 01:17:42,940
I do.

951
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:43,500
I do.

952
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:43,780
Yeah.

953
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:44,280
Yeah.

954
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:47,060
I'm good with it.

955
01:17:47,540 --> 01:17:48,680
I don't know if anyone else has any thoughts.

956
01:17:53,930 --> 01:17:54,030
Yeah.

957
01:17:54,030 --> 01:18:02,950
I'll accept a motion that we adopt decision to with the increase in the premium contribution amount and the other changes underlying that number.

958
01:18:03,870 --> 01:18:04,990
I'll second that.

959
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:08,700
All those in favor?

960
01:18:09,260 --> 01:18:09,560
Hi.

961
01:18:10,100 --> 01:18:10,200
Hi.

962
01:18:15,870 --> 01:18:16,490
Thank you.

963
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,760
Thank you.

964
01:18:21,780 --> 01:18:22,520
That's a big deal.

965
01:18:22,900 --> 01:18:27,240
And to be able to go report that back to the staff.

966
01:18:29,520 --> 01:18:32,960
I know they weren't even kind of expecting this.

967
01:18:33,380 --> 01:18:37,540
So thank you for that opportunity to now go present them

968
01:18:37,540 --> 01:18:39,760
with a little bit of good news.

969
01:18:40,820 --> 01:18:43,020
And I think let's keep this in mind for the future.

970
01:18:43,220 --> 01:18:46,240
Like I would love to get even more,

971
01:18:46,480 --> 01:18:48,660
like I would love to get more aggressive with it.

972
01:18:49,060 --> 01:18:50,300
I think we need to see the impact.

973
01:18:50,900 --> 01:18:51,340
Yeah, first.

974
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:52,080
She with the numbers.

975
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:54,960
But I definitely think that's the top priority.

976
01:18:54,960 --> 01:19:06,940
I will say insurance of the racket, and as someone who works for, to someone who works for a company based in California, just I think happens when I'm based in California.

977
01:19:11,820 --> 01:19:14,000
Okay, the LEA-specific licenses.

978
01:19:17,060 --> 01:19:25,380
This year we have three proposed LA specific license for the board to grant.

979
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:36,940
One is one of our English teachers in the high school Marciosaurs.

980
01:19:37,180 --> 01:19:40,620
She's done with everything in the Apple program.

981
01:19:40,740 --> 01:19:42,400
It's an alternative route to licensure.

982
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:47,980
Just kind of waiting for it to be posted and just not sure if that waiting game is going

983
01:19:47,980 --> 01:19:51,340
to hit the October funding mark or not, so just to be safe.

984
01:19:52,020 --> 01:19:57,060
She's on the list for the LA specifics.

985
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,680
The next one is Brittany Wannlisch.

986
01:20:01,180 --> 01:20:09,780
She's a longtime veteran employee at Utah Virtual and so excited, she's adding another pathway

987
01:20:09,780 --> 01:20:26,000
or school with this LEA endorsement and yeah and then Cynthia she's also a

988
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:33,400
veteran teacher here a lot of teaches a lot of CTE courses. Her multi-media

989
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:38,280
one was one I think we had kind of planned to go ahead and let laps but there's

990
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:42,580
She's not qualified applicants with that specific endorsement,

991
01:20:42,700 --> 01:20:44,760
especially with Cynthia-level talent.

992
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,920
So that's a sheet you may have recognized her name

993
01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:50,720
in that endorsement on prior years.

994
01:20:50,860 --> 01:20:53,280
And yes, she is back.

995
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:56,060
And we would love to have her back fulfilling

996
01:20:56,060 --> 01:20:58,380
those digital arts courses.

997
01:20:59,060 --> 01:21:02,520
I move that we accept the LA specific recommendations.

998
01:21:05,410 --> 01:21:05,850
I'm second.

999
01:21:06,630 --> 01:21:08,690
Motion by Kristen, second by Amberly.

1000
01:21:08,690 --> 01:21:10,150
All those in favor?

1001
01:21:10,570 --> 01:21:11,010
Aye.

1002
01:21:11,310 --> 01:21:11,450
All right.

1003
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:20,000
Very exciting.

1004
01:21:22,260 --> 01:21:22,820
Agriculture.

1005
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:24,720
Move

1006
01:21:33,710 --> 01:21:34,810
the wee adjourned.

1007
01:21:36,670 --> 01:21:37,230
Second.

1008
01:21:37,850 --> 01:21:38,810
All those in favor?

1009
01:21:39,430 --> 01:21:39,590
Aye.

1010
01:21:40,330 --> 01:21:40,450
Aye.

1011
01:21:46,420 --> 01:21:47,840
And October 8th, we'll see you all.

1012
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:48,440
Thank you everybody.

1013
01:21:50,740 --> 01:21:51,320
Thank you.

1014
01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:51,700
Thank you.