the three goals related to belonging, student learning and support and organizational support.

a little bit about Vantage Fashion. It is its first year... we cover two different course loads in this class... we focus on styling, sketching, merchandising, and a little bit of marketing, too. There's a little bit of mix of everything. And then we also get to focus on global studies and economics throughout this class as well.

We raised about $5,000 to donate to the Best Buddies organization. Uh beyond the money raised, the real impact came from the sense of belonging that flooded the commons as a student walked down the runway show.

We look at our work around belonging and five years and looking at our data. What are the things that we are doing on the leading side that shows high results and also the ability to replicate what we're doing...

seeing how much this event changed in organization and leadership in just such a short amount of time really think I think emphasizes the dedication that our school board, our school district and our high school is putting on including student voice.

What does the district do to recognize the Chinese Lunar New Year? There are many school-based celebrations recognizing it. We have an annual community celebration at the high school, really large and well attended. Of course, students engage in different cultural learning in the classroom...

It was shared with us that there's tension between cultural identity and school expectations because people are expected to make a choice in school-based celebrations. lots of support for that and how it's done and the cultural significance. But it was pointed out that that is very different from the personal and family observances that people would like to participate in.

I'm just wondering what will we say to the next community members who come with a c cultural holiday that's incredibly important to them. What I I just, you know, as a schoolboard member, I just I think it's very important that we have some sort of criteria or something that community members for transparency and can see, you know, this is how we make these kind of decisions.

I don't think it should be a test based on numbers. I don't think it should be a test based on majority. We do have cultural holidays in our calendar already because federal holidays are basically cultural holidays that have been enshrined in our calendar over time... I am also inclined to trust the calendar committee and vote for this to go forward.

our student achievement data really is one of those markers that helps us know how are we doing and what opportunities do we have to grow and improve um or make shifts and adjustments as well as to celebrate the great work of our teachers and our students in our classroom.

The Minnotonka graduating class of 2025, 51.3% of students earned a bilingual seal. And so our our district accounted for 10 and a half% of the bilingual seals awarded upon graduation in 2025.

I want to close here with just again that idea of turning to the story... a student... was at the 20th percentile in fall of third grade on NWA reading. By fifth grade, that student was a 544 partially meets on the MCA. By 10th grade, she was a 1052 and meets on the MCA reading... she will graduate with well over a 3.0 GPA as a gold bilingual seal and we'll have three of those college semesters in credit.

Prescriptions are renewed, but orders are not renewed. they actually need to be completed annually or when a change occurs in the medication and or the administration.

the nlloxxone supply would be contingent upon availability of funding either from outside sources or as approved by the school board to obtain and administer. The medication does expire. So there is an ongoing expense for obtaining, keeping and monitoring the overdose medication.

So mine is really more of a comment as a parent of a child who has an anapilaxis action plan... this was not the policy and it was really scary because at that time the policy was your kid's going to be accompanied by another child to the nurse's office or to health services, which would not work. So, this is just so so lovely to know that this is in place now.

I have a a saying that's kind of trit, but no money, no mission, you know, and so we're not in business to make money. We're not in business to, you know, acrew a pile of money necessarily. If we do, it's to support education.

We had an 18-year run of no budget reductions and then um we pretty much ran that string out as far as we could for a while... but for fiscal year 27 uh we have have not had to have budget reductions. In fact, we've been able to add some teaching staff back and uh so hopefully we'll start another string, right?

Minnotonka got $10,725 per pupil for general operating funds. And that's $2333 less than the state average of 13,058... at if we were just getting the state average, uh, you we would basically be pulling in about two $29.3 million and we wouldn't be talking about, you know, gez, how would we balance the budget for the next five years?

So far we've actually pulled about $23.5 million in I call them dividends out of this trust fund and um it actually has a fund balance as of uh 63027 we're projecting it to be 15.3 million... there will be probably the ability for school board at that time to be able to look at this and go okay we're going to be able to pull some dollars out of this to fund other operations.