the purpose of this group we identified as having our leaders um Define a specific project that was specifically stating how students in AIO School District feel welcomed and centered.

we need to focus more on prevention rather than reaction We shouldn't be waiting for something to happen in order to go against it.

some of our goals as we already have mentioned is increase accessibility of Mental Health Resources destigmatize to talk about mental health equip teachers with the proper resources to support students along with themselves as well as um teach students how to use those resources and yeah and then cultivate a safe environment that Cent students voice.

what sets generative AI like chat GPT apart from other Tech disruptors and educations is its unprecedented rate of adoption.

It is critical to remember that this tool is human-made to be used by humans to help humans.

It's not Equitable for schools to rely on kids to build these skills at home or on their own or not at all.

I don't think Banning is the solution they're going to use it anyways but how do we find that um that happy middle ground where they're able to use the technology in a functional way that benefits their learning and um doesn't hinder it right.

Minnesota is always performing above federal statute and often school districts are then trying to perform above Minnesota statute and so if there's things that we're doing above and beyond that are amazing for students then we should keep doing them right but we at least should take an opportunity and look at if there's some that fall in the other category.

let's give these skills to our Genet teachers so that we can take that burden off of our special ed teachers so not only provide all of these different types of instruction but then to manage um unexpected student visits constantly.

as a teacher that's a training that has effort for effect like I'll put in I'll put in time for that training if it if it keeps my kids in my classroom and I can manage the classroom better.

this is a big decision this this was a very big decision for our system and it's not an easy decision to make it affects a lot of people.

this Heritage learning model focused on cultural immersion uh centering our indigenous M East West African and Spanish uh languages.

the original languages of this place I always say we conduct most of our instruction in the foreign language of English you know so it's nice to finally the original languages of uh Minnesota as well as professional development.

we don't want to Simply pick up um let's say the Community Education team was short on office space we're not going to pick up the Community Education team and put them in this repurposed site because that already exists right so hopefully what you're hearing tonight are even in the case of something that meets the the legal requirements to repurpose a school you're hearing about something that will be hopefully viewed as a community resource.