the draft that you have on the board report is page one and two of many more of a total of five pages of the guiding change document and so we shared that with the teaching and learning committee last friday and under the guidance of the teaching and learning committee we are going to make sure that we review that and tighten it up

the goal was to basically re-look at the guide and change document not change anything substantively but probably narrow it down so there are more general statements with the specific ones ending up in the literacy plan itself

what's really interesting is ever pretty much every one of them is dealing with academic achievement moving students forward focusing on 21st century skills you can see strengthening the academic program and the curriculum was just about 50 percent of your respondents that's a very significant number

we heard many of the same words we need somebody decisive yet collaborative uh an excellent communicator an active listener somebody that makes decisions based on input and data not the loudest voices a team builder a team builder that can attract outstanding talent to this district somebody who's passionate humble confident transparent a unifier a community builder insightful inspiring charismatic visionary equity vision aligned with high achievement inclusive courageous strong spine fine alligator not afraid or threatened by pressure from great people a strategic thinker who makes strong definitive relation uh recommendations to the board somebody who gets things done puts students first committed to edina embraces literacy diversity and equity

the cultural competence and experience bullet i had also wanted to try to find another word that demonstrated a quality in the superintendent that could really advance that work and so i added the word motivating so foster is a school culture that is motivating inclusive respectful and responsive I felt I I added that word only because I felt like it was um a good descriptor of the internal motivations that that our superintendent would have and then if we could just put something in there about is a strong advocate for equity so maybe calling that out in a bold way

I think the most important thing in my mind is that the person in this role that he or she or you know whoever takes the role that they have... the ceo of the organization is fully responsible for the outer strategic thinking on a long-term basis communicating the message clearly basically selling the vision... the role of a president looks at the day-to-day functions... I think having somebody that has some level of experience understanding both and incorporating that into the superintendent level is really important

I think this is a great tool for us to have in our tool belt um yeah thanks matt so um just to reiterate what matt said these are additional documents uhd did produce um most of them with input input from eps and of course legal from our side

it will look really clunky the first week it's going to look clunky um the volunteers know that uhd knows that we're doing training this week tomorrow for the pool testing and then training for the optional diagnostic test that students can do through school through the school if they are in a positive pool that will happen on wednesday

the pool testing specimens are not being stored correctly nobody's keeping correct the q-tips with the stuff completely unidentified that's right it only goes over with the student id number not a name not a birthday not a social security number not dna that's staying forever right so nobody's saving that in a freezer no

the question that you're asking whether you're asking the question behind the question there is twofold right the first one is you know why why would they do this right like why would a public company lose money doing this and it's two issues or two reasons the first one is their mission statement their mission statement is to improve the overall health and wellness of the US population so companies are required according to shareholder rights to make sure that they follow their mission and follow you know that's what they're supposed to do and the second one is because they are insuring such a large swath of the population in addition to doing the public good piece the hope is less people get colder less people get sick less people cost money to the overall system