Adults and also staff members, behavior disruptions were the number one concern that was brought up at every one of our community conversation... because, you know, behavior impacts learning and there's a correlation. You can't separate the two.

So they've been involved in setting a policy, um, being involved in technology. Um, they in fact even shared with us some of their concerns about the overuse of technology. Um, yeah, we've we hear from them quite a bit. Um, vaping. We just had a work session with Brooklyn Park on a vaping issue.

Safety is a prerequisite to a healthy learning environment. People need to feel safe in schools in order to learn. Um, but the fact remains that they're there sometimes fights, there's disruption, there's inconsistent behavior, expectations that can absolutely make students and staff feel unsafe. And the board should not minimize that.

It is our responsibility as a board to set the culture and the policies that set the conditions for our teacher supports and that classroom culture... We updated our policy actually around transparency. So now if a student is engaged in a behavior situation or bullying situation, we have details around how they'll be informed, how parents will be informed.

Having SROs in our schools every second, in the case of an active shooter or a bomb threat equals lives saved. Okay. So imagine imagine minutes. Um, so it's it's so important to have them there when we equate it that way. Minutes or seconds equal lives.

I'm proud to be a Moms Demand Action gun sense candidate for the 2026 campaign season. I believe that it should actually be one of our legislative priorities that some sensible common sense action that the vast majority of Minnesotans agree on around guns should be something that the state takes up, and that we should advocate for.

I did not vote for the resolution in 2022, as I felt it wasn't our place to impose gender and identity based curriculum, or asked teachers to teach on areas they are not trained to teach. While I believe the resolution was well intentioned, it ultimately has created harm and division in our district community.

As someone who is a member of this community, I think to my own school experiences 20 years ago, um, and how different it could have been if I went to a school that where I felt welcome, where I felt safe, where I could have had different opportunities.

I believe that girls deserve fair opportunities to compete and succeed in girls sports. I support maintaining girls sports based on biological sex because there are meaningful. Differences that can affect safety and opportunities. I believe that girls deserve a fair and level playing field.

My position is that we should be focused on creating an environment where everyone feels that they can participate in what interests them, in a manner that is both fair and safe... that shouldn't be something that just automatically excludes a certain class of student permanently from being able to participate.

So the starting principal needs to be protecting the classroom as much as possible. So it doesn't mean that every expenditure can remain untouched. But I would start by separating our one time spending from our recurring costs. On reviewing our administrative and contracted services, looking for any duplication, and asking whether programs are producing measurable results.

The first question is always to ask, does the spending directly improve student learning and outcomes? It's about outcomes and looking at programs, reducing programs that aren't producing measurable results... I don't believe in cutting for the state of cutting, but prioritizing what matters most.

We've just invested, as I said, in special education. We've invested in Avid across the middle school, which is a program that benefits scholars. We're going to be looking at math standards and new curriculum. We've invested in literary instruction the past three years.

It is one of our legislative priorities and should continue to be for the state to fully fund the special education cross subsidy. Um, it's going to be a harder fight, I think, at the federal level, where Ida has never been fully funded in the 51 years since it's been enacted. But we need to do what we can as a district to help address this...

I think that the best way to represent as many, if not all, is to go listen, go talk, hear what they're experiencing. And that has been my favorite part of running for school board is being in conversations that I probably wouldn't have engaged before. And now I get to hear and see things that I didn't know. But now I really care about.

I think being at large has actually served our district really well. Um, you cannot get elected to the school board if you are not out in the community in every part of this district. And if you're not earning votes in every part of this district, you can't win Maple Grove and lose Brooklyn Park and get on this board. You have to win across this district and you have to serve across this district.