It's the the countless hours that they do outside of, you know, um the just the PTC, PTA or PTO meetings that we have at each of our sites to make sure that everybody does feel welcome and uh and engaged.

I just want to tell you that the hard work and time that you put in really matters. It's so important that we have parent partnerships.

Specifically with this 505 policy that's in place on the back of equity policy being eliminated from the district. While it might on the face of it look like, oh, this just is capturing current case law. I'm just articulating current case law. In reality, I'm well aware and many in the community are well aware that the board has been members of the board for multiple years have been making efforts to remove rainbow flags and rainbow stickers from the district.

Stripping away these symbols doesn't create neutrality. It removes a vital lifeline for a student carrying heavy burdens. Seeing themselves on a sign or seeing something that looks like them in a classroom is not a political statement. Instead, it says you can drop your guard here. You are welcome here. You are seen. And you can focus on your learning.

The new version will require prior approval of anything on school property that is not directly tied to instructional purposes. It's so extreme that a coffee mug with an identifiable text will require prior approval before it can be used on school grounds.

The streamlining policy work has been exceptional through nice job in the data dashboard. balance scoreards are score boards are hard but I can say a lot of things that were said here I know to be incorrect based on that earlier today are incorrect based on that scoreboard and thanks for uh middle school band which was also looking to be cut when you guys came in regards to community engagement thanks for everyone showing up become involved show that community engagement with higher um ends up with higher test scores faster literacy higher graduation ation rates and and better math scores for the community.

The reason we're doing this is to build relationships, partnerships with those employers, potential connections for student employment in the future. Again, opportunities for those kids is really what it's all about. And again, understand those skills for success that we keep talking about is what can we prepare the kids for in the classroom when they get out and they're either going right into the workforce or onto college.

Have there been has there been or is there are there any plans to do additional work to find out what else our students might be interested in to expand those opportunities or are we just kind of focused right now on on what we've got and and getting better at that and growing that?

Is there something then that we generate where those skills are aligned to a rubric and then we can have a profile of someone who's workforce ready or post-secondary ready?

Typically tier one instruction doesn't work for 100% of students and so that we need some level of intervention today we're going to talk about the interventions that we have.

If students have difficulty hearing and manipulating the sounds and words, it makes the next step of connecting those sounds into written text much more difficult.

Progress monitoring is really important for all of us in intervention because we want to know that what we're doing is working and if not we want to modify and adjust our intervention to better meet the needs of our students.

Fluency is really the bridge between learning how to read words and understanding what we've read.

Intervention isn't about making the work less rigorous. Intervention is giving students the tools and support that they need to access that rigorous work.

I think sometimes as board members, we're just not boots on the ground and we don't know the the intellectual work, the researchbased work that's going into improving reading and and why we're walking down the path that we are. So, I really appreciate that.

Just a quick reminder that the building construction fund accounts for the proceeds from the 2017 voter approved bonds that provided over $49 million uh for renovations and improvements throughout the district.

Since our last board meeting, we have had three new data requests that have been submitted. We currently have five um data requests that are in process or pending. And our legal cost for the month of September related to data requests equated to $6,569.

Um it uh um we got some more solid numbers on what some options are. And tell me if I'm saying this right, director Gino Mazali, am I saying that right in the end? um was there and he was pretty on top of like the the people that they had talked about doing the construction with. He was familiar with them.

And just to again urge everybody in the community to read up on that so that you are not getting to the ballot box and just not knowing what to put for your vote because again, leaving it blank means no and you want to be informed on what your choices are on that.

Policy 214 is a little bit different. We actually expanded that to include all expense reimbursement um, and pre-approvals for schoolboard members because we didn't have a standalone policy for that.

I just want to mention that on October 1st, we actually decided to send this to legal. So, it's it was with our legal team. They're actually we we will discuss all of the recommended recommended revisions tomorrow at our policy committee meeting and then we will bring it back here to the board for our November or December work session with the anticipation of bringing it back for adoption by the end of the year.

We as a board decided that we wanted to ask questions a bit differently to get uh more information, additional insights, that kind of thing from our surveys.

And again, I want to just thank our extremely generous community. This is over $54,000 worth of donations that we've received in the month of September, which is just phenomenal.