Can I make a motion to remove number um 5B uh from the agenda? Um just um to allow more time to um revise the policy before coming for first reading.

I think we should keep it on the agenda so that we can have a conversation with the rest of the board and get their point of view. Uh it is a state statute with the recommendations that they have on 620. Uh but again it is just a first reading and not a whole lot of changes uh on the content is really done other than what number do we want to allocate to to get a few things.

I think my only concern is that I don't feel like we've um it appears we haven't consulted like the content experts and how the revisions and the policy would affect both this next academic year um but in general. And so I know we've heard from all of our secondary um principles that they're highly concerned with our first draft reading.

There doesn't seem to be a mechanism for how we validate the stat the the coaching and the adviserss that we have for these co-curricular activities. And when parents are investing uh roughly $300 in registration fees and if they happen to be in in uh let's say varsity sports there are booster fees there there are bond fees and trial fees. I mean a parent is investing almost close to $700 or $1,000 just to participate in the sport in these sports. But yet from what I'm hearing is that there is a lack of parental input, a lack of parental um uh survey or feedback loop to validate is the program being success is a program uh helping my student perform helping my uh uh student ac uh you know get better is is a good team culture is a uh whatever it may be.

I'd like to make a motion uh that we establish a formal process for collecting and reviewing a structured feedback uh from both student participants and their parents or guardians for all district sponsored activities or corecurricular activities that include both fall, winter and spring. Um and with that feedback it gets brought back to the administration brought uh and then the data is then shared with the uh the school board around okay here's how our programs are going uh here's the uh coach evaluations uh for for us to validate coach coach retention uh reassignment andor removal.

I mean technically, that motion would be improper. I mean to to add something to a future meeting at this point or I make a recommendation that we could discuss this at a future meeting. I mean I can make a promise that I can put it on for a future meeting. How about that?

I think one of the things that's really important is the discussion that uh Superintendent Bowman had with us and that is to focus starting out with academics. Um, you know, last year, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there were a total of five goals, uh, 22 23 goals. I I thought I saw five core goals. Um, 14, 15, 16 goals. I I I think that's too much to give as um as a directive, if you will. I I think we need to look at the academic side, give Superintendent Bowman um five, six goals on the academic side, give or take, and try and get them to him by the middle of August so that he can get back with his principles and anyone else in the administration that he needs to um cascade these down to so they can start creating initiatives to successfully complete them.

I guess my concern is that we we haven't done a board evaluation. We haven't done a superintendent evaluation. Um we haven't really put goals forward in a very timely manner. So that is one thing that I think we should be thinking about as we move forward is really how do we better plan in a way that the district leadership can execute more efficiently in terms of passing goals tonight.

If you are running a business, how do you know that your business is being successful? What is the health of your business? ... I think the first step we've got to get to is what do you want to know as a business owner to see if the state of your business or the state of your schools are doing well? And so, Superintendent Bowman last week shared there were four categories of things that that you would want to um identify metrics to see if that's enough for you to tell you that your district is doing well.

So the first one was um seeing on the dashboard fast bridge data uh the the percentage of students that are at metrics or at at benchmark or above uh for reading and math grades three through eight fall, winter, spring. That that's the first metric. The second metric would be on the dashboard. what is the MCA score or percentage whatever the score is that we get annually for grade three through 11... and then the third metric that I'd like to see is from the MCA um uh results that we get annually uh the number of benchmarks that each grade is hitting.

So the remaining six that that I'd like to add in the academics section... GPA distribution... course failure rate... graduation rate... average ACT score... AP placement score... curriculum audit result.

I'd like to add some more metrics um to to academics or to other Yeah, to academics. I mean, we haven't even defined what that really means, right? So, that's a whole conversation, but um I want to know our early childhood programming involvement rate with entering kindergarteners. I would like to know um in subgroups for MCA and FastBridge, what are our measurements? Um because we're already tracking that, right? So, we might as well look at subgroup data and make sure that we're supporting all groups evenly and equally. Um and I'd like to know if our graduation rate is on target.