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Reimagine Vision 2030 Presentation and Conversation - Rdale Study Session from 9/23/25

Date: Friday, October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PMActual: Friday, October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM

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Published Friday, October 17, 2025

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I love all the talking in the room. I love all the volume that we had in the room. But it is time for the work study study session to begin. So, thank you. Welcome everyone. Welcome vision team members, welcome community. When we start a study session, we introduce ourselves and we generally introduce everyone in the room and we are not doing that part tonight, but we will introduce ourselves as board members because that is a tradition at today's sessions. I'm greet Evans Becker. I am the board chair. We'll go this way first. Caroline Long, vice chair. >> Aviva Hillenbrand, treasure. >> Renee Bowman, clerk. >> Connectto school board. >> Helen Bassid, school board. >> Kim Holmes, school board. Terry Stal, superintendent. >> All righty. Okay, let's get right to it. I'm going to turn it over to our superintendent and let's get started. >> Excellent. Uh the purpose of study sessions is for board members and the administrators to share information and prepare ultimately for decisions that are made at the board table during business meetings. Tonight as we look at the board planning document that's uh posted, the sole agenda topic falls under the board governance role of community engagement, engaging the community and the reimagine Ardale vision 2030 recommendations. And as we prepare to hear from the vision team, I'd like to provide some thoughts and just a little bit of context. The Reimagine Ardell 2030 initiative has three components, all geared toward learning from and engaging with our diverse community of stakeholders in a common effort to shape a new vision for Robbinsdale Area Schools. First of all, there was the comprehensive community survey. It was available in multiple languages. We mailed brochures to all community members to make sure that they were aware of it. Uh we made the survey available online and then we also administrated it in multiple face-to-face uh engagement events. For community engagement, we had eight district-wide community events including two virtual sessions and four sessions specifically geared to indigenous, pan-African, Somali, and Latino affinity groups. We had student meetings or activities at every school kindergarten through 12th grade including including grade level meetings for all six through 12th graders at every school. We had staff meetings at every school and in most departments. We had popup engagement events at various locations within the district and the vision 2030 team who many of whom are sitting in front of me this evening. This was an advisory group of students, parents, caregivers, staff, and community members who met for eight months, reviewed and discussed huge amounts of data, engaged in deep and challenging discussions about challenges and possibilities for Robbinsdale, and created recommendations for board consideration. All told to date, about 17,000 stakeholders provided input that informed the vision team's discussions over the course of those eight months on topics that were both we…

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