It is 7:03. I would like to call this meeting of the Robinsdale Area School Board together. Uh it is Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025, Earth Day, and we are in the Education Service Center. Will the clerk please call the role? Evans here thank you. We definitely have a quorum. All right. Uh the first thing up on our agenda is approval of the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? Approval. Moved by Bowman. Seconded by Holmes. Seeing no fingers up, all in favor of approving the agenda, please say I. I. Oppos say nay. We have an agenda. Number three on the agenda. Ardale proud. Cooper High School. Please take it away. Superintendent Stall. Excellent. I am delighted to uh Principal Smith and a Cooper High School team are here um to highlight opportunities for students to exercise their voice at Cooper High School and to show how to build student skills for them to use their voice now and into the future. Um we'll also hear from Emily and Chad, students at Cooper High School on how exercising their voice affects their educational opportunities. will discuss uh experience. Oh, Miss Lizer will uh discuss her experiences growing up in and path back to the district. So, thank you all for being here. Principal Smith, I'll let you take it over. Hello and good evening members of the board. Uh thank you for inviting us here. It is our pleasure for student. I would like to welcome my team up. All right, for our land acknowledgement, I'll call on Chad Hill. We acknowledge Robinsdale Area Schools is located on the homelands of the Dakota and Ojiway people. We recognize the painful history of genocide and forced assimilation of the indigenous inhabitants of this land. We honor and respect the many indigenous peoples who live on live and on and hold sacred these lands and we stand with the members of these nations to fight injustice in all its forms. We uphold the preservation of the Dakota and Ojiway languages, landbased education and tribal sovereignty. Thank you, Chad Hill. And the mission of Robbinsdale Area Schools is to inspire, educate all learners to develop their unique potential and positively contribute to their community. Our agenda today, we are going to do introductions very soon. Uh we're going to talk about how we incorporate student voice at Cooper. Uh we're going to have some um voices from our student speakers and from our Cooper alumnists. All right. introductions. Of course, my name is Shaunie Smith, Cooper, principal. I also have Mr. Ned Nelson, assistant principal. Dr. Josh Maym, uh, at Mantosa, Emily Blanchett, and Chad Heel, our student speakers today, and Amanda Leisure, alumnist. All right. So, this is just some of the ways in which we incorporate student voice at Cooper High School. What we know is that student voice is vital in education as it empowers learners to actively participate in shaping their educational experiences. It fosters a sense of belonging, autonomy, and engagement, which are crucial for academic success and perso…