[6:21] silence oh now we are we're streaming now so [6:27] good evening um everyone here in person online it's monday march 7th and we do [6:32] have a quorum so i'll call the meeting to order um i have one change to the agenda policy [6:38] 613 needs to be removed from action and put into discussion um so given that change um do i have a [6:45] motion to approve the agenda for tonight's meeting so moved do i have a second second [6:50] we will now vote to approve tonight's agenda all those in favor say aye aye [6:55] anyone opposed okay tonight's agenda is approved and dr stanley will you please quickly review [7:01] tonight's agenda for us absolutely we are really excited to have students [7:08] with us um from global okay i'm going to get that right [7:14] global studies scholars i'm sorry it just left my head but i [7:20] know it global scholars uh here and we're excited to hear from them we will have time to hear from members of the [7:26] public we have a consent agenda i am going to give an update on kovid [7:31] and we have some policies that we're going to review we have some action items [7:37] and we're looking to approve a change in [7:42] schedule for non-student day to a teacher day to day we'll have updates from leadership and committee [7:49] and from me thank you dr stanley first our excellence in action tonight [7:55] we're excited to welcome some of our international students who are attending edina high school [8:00] so we have mrs lindsey smacka who coordinates the school's international programs to introduce her students and [8:06] tell us more about this program welcome miss manca [8:22] welcome students don't be shy come on up we can get more chairs everyone come up [8:34] thank you everyone for coming tonight [8:45] hi everyone hello [8:51] hello everyone is that working no no oh there we go hello everyone [8:57] my name is lindsay smacka and i am a teacher at edina high school [9:02] i teach chemistry and science and i also run our edina rotary global scholars program and help coordinate our exchange [9:09] students so first off about the global scholar [9:15] program it's a three [9:20] by edina education fund and the edina rotary club [9:26] what what the goal is is for students to develop global competency skills for post graduation [9:32] uh they we prepare them for a global career in this interconnected world and we help them develop understanding for [9:39] world issues build bridges um and learn new cultures at the end of graduation there are [9:45] scholarships sorry scholarship opportunities and and they get recognized at graduation [9:54] here is an overview of the program requirements it's kind of small but hopefully you can kind of see the [9:59] headlines at least so students choose a program of study either stem fine arts or humanities [10:07] they do that coursework from their three years on they become proficient in a language [10:13] other than english some students already come in with a language some students reach the highest level at the high school [10:21] they get involved in the rotary whether that's interact club take part in an exchange program or get [10:26] involved in one of the camps they also take part in a global collaboration experience so that would [10:32] be travel based learning or host and exchange students or some other virtual options that we [10:39] have developed over the past couple of years and they take part in a capstone course so this capstone course is a research [10:46] course where they choose a global issue and they look at it at a global level at a country of their choice and look at it [10:52] at the local level here and do an internship or volunteer opportunity here in edina [11:01] so this year we are incorporating our exchange students into the program [11:06] and right now we have 13 exchange students and the represented countries are brazil [11:12] korea germany norway france italy vietnam and denmark [11:19] so what we did was we paired global scholar students with these international exchange students and created a mentor [11:26] program students have met about monthly during flex usually and [11:33] connected taught each other things about the u.s and their home country [11:39] some of my students some of the global scholar students knows the language of the international students so it's been [11:45] really fun to hear all of these rural languages being taught in my classroom or being spoken in my classroom [11:51] played games and just had a really a great chance to connect so [11:56] now i'm going to pass the mic to each of the students and they'll introduce themselves what their role is [12:02] and a little bit about what they've learned and liked about the program so far [12:09] okay hi i'm victoria i'm from italy and i'm [12:15] here i've arrived here like seven months ago so i have like three months left [12:21] um the best part of my experience well there were a lot a lot of things like i got the [12:28] opportunity in fall during the fall of um joining the edina volleyball team [12:34] and i got into varsity so that was like the one of the best things that i've done here i got my first friends and i'm [12:41] still friends with them and was like the one of the best things then all the holidays like the dances [12:49] um christmas and yeah after the new year i finally like got my first friends [12:55] american friends and i'm starting to do hanging out with them and it's it's like one of the best things that [13:02] i've done in my life so yeah [13:08] hello i'm perni i'm from norway and i also came here in august i've been [13:14] there for seven months-ish and going home in three months my favorite thing is i met some very [13:22] good friends i've gotten and i did cross-country and during fall and [13:29] yeah that was really fun and dances and stuff like that [13:39] hi i'm emma rappellini i'm not an exchange student live here in edina but i've been a mentor [13:46] with vito and then also federico which is the new italian exchange student and [13:52] i'm one i can also speak italian so it's really fun to kind of see them in the halls and be like ciao [13:58] which is like high in italian and just kind of it's weird it's like a um [14:05] like a environment switch because you're used to speaking english obviously in the united states but [14:10] yeah and being a um mentor has been cool just [14:16] yeah i don't know we've kind of so far i'm in the capstone project as i'm a global scholar and mentor [14:22] and starting to focus on some of the um like my projects on health and different [14:29] vaccinations so that's been cool [14:35] hi my name is jaden young i'm a global scholar and a mentor so i've worked with kat and a lot of the [14:41] other students and it's just been a cool program to get to meet new students and learn about different cultures [14:48] as well as kind of share parts of edina and america that i really enjoy [14:53] yeah okay hi my name is katz and i'm from vietnam [14:59] i got here yeah last august and i'll be leaving this summer but i will most likely be [15:05] going back to edina next year and i really like my experience here it was [15:10] like really new it's so different and i got i got different friends i have [15:15] uh overall the experience i wouldn't have had this had i not gone [15:22] and i'm really excited for next year too like there are a lot of courses that aren't offered in vietnam [15:28] like college-level courses and i'm excited for cyber security next year [15:33] um i'm also doing badminton they just started and i'm finding it really fun [15:38] so that's about my yeah okay uh so my name is neil and i'm from [15:44] germany i kind of like had this idea of being an exchange student since like fifth grade [15:49] or something and now just like finally realized just really cool and you get to experience [15:54] lots of new things like i was competitive swimming in the fall i did [15:59] nordic uh in the winter and i like i have never done nordic before yeah i know that i'm [16:05] from germany but um and right now i'm doing track which [16:11] just started too and i just i got a lot of new friends meet lots of new people have an amazing family [16:18] so yeah pretty good experience i would certainly recommend to do it for everyone who likes to meet [16:24] new things and do try out new things new cultures new [16:29] language it's like even weird hearing myself speaking german or text in german so [16:37] yeah [16:45] thanks to all the students who came and were brave and spoke today and thank you to the board for having us [16:58] thank you so much for coming tonight it's nice to hear all of your experiences and appreciate you being [17:05] here we're going to move on to hearings from members of the public and pursuant to [17:11] board policy 206 we ask that you do not duplicate information that has previously been [17:16] spoken before you if you have a complaint about individual employees board members or students in the [17:22] district please direct any of these comments to the appropriate site administrator the superintendent or [17:27] submit them in writing to the board the board typically does not respond to or have discussions on any issues [17:33] presented but questions raised during presentations will receive follow-up as directed by the board [17:38] and i would just like to recommend or remind all speakers that presentations are limited to five minutes we do have a [17:45] display three minutes sorry [17:50] um that will let you know when your three minutes are up um so please finish at three minutes not five minutes [17:56] sorry about that um first up is chris moquist [18:09] thanks so much for your time i'm here tonight to ask for your help and support to implement a plan to create an edina [18:16] district owned transition program to serve our 18 to 21 year old students after they leave idona high school [18:23] for years edina public schools has farmed out these vital transition services to the district 287 consortium [18:30] or sent edina students to other districts transition programs it's important for this board to [18:36] understand that today virtually all of our neighboring districts districts that we compare ourselves to [18:43] and districts that are also members of 287 have already created and are already running their own transition programs [18:50] for their graduates minnetonka has sail eden prairie has tassel there's wayzata [18:56] transition the bloomington transition center and hopkins and richfield have transition plus [19:03] as i mentioned eps contracts with a couple of these programs but with the exception of 287 edina students are only [19:10] able to enroll in a program if space is available when programs are full with [19:15] students from those home districts edina students are simply out of luck [19:21] so the program may have space for just two eps students and we need to place 20. [19:27] that seems to be a rather poor strategy each year we are graduating 70 plus [19:32] students receiving special education services and those numbers continue to grow i know jeff jorgensen has presented [19:39] enrollment numbers which show the substantial increase in students receiving special education in edina [19:46] while those students are in eps the significant investments we make in them [19:52] make a huge difference we have a culture here that is incredible no other district provides what we have [19:59] taken so much time effort energy passion and skill to build we [20:05] have the best special education teachers and staff members in the state if not the country and all of our students all [20:13] eps students reap those benefits we also have and we continue to expand a [20:19] culture of unified bringing all students together students served by special [20:24] education and students in general education just like we all live in our world together that's simply how our [20:31] students grow up starting when they're in ecsc in special education eps is truly [20:37] defining excellence that is until our students graduate and reach transition [20:44] today because we don't have our own transition program all of that vital unified programming ends immediately at [20:51] graduation and i can tell you from my daughter's personal experience that is an abrupt shocking and painful change [20:59] everything we build all of our hard work that powerful unified culture stops when we are not intentionally [21:06] continuing that culture in a transition program that we develop design and run [21:12] um i think i'm almost out of time so thank you for your time and attention tonight thank you mr mcquist [21:20] we have emmy mastell [21:31] are you two gonna speak together uh we'd like to do it separately because shelley go first absolutely [21:37] and charlie mastell [21:42] good evening my name is tony masdale i am a junior at [21:50] eden high school i love school my first class is biology [21:57] i also i love performing in fifa law [22:03] [Music] if you know [Music] [22:08] attended our recent play you will see [22:13] how much i i love [22:19] super duh i love [22:25] oh um [22:30] oh okay wait where am i again oh [22:36] i love performing singing and dancing [22:41] i also really like this ufciupe [22:46] and my jesus in this class i [22:51] i would love to see more unified classes one other thing that i really enjoyed [22:58] this year was working with the [23:03] iran football team i helped [23:09] play play by the end of the season [23:16] after high school i plan to go to college [23:23] after college i hope to [23:29] care and i can just um [23:36] in [Music] performing field dance or having my own [23:44] youtube channel i am grateful for my one [23:54] and all of the experiences i've [24:00] had in my time at in public schools [24:06] thank you [24:11] [Applause] thank you mr mistel [24:26] dr stanley chair allenberg and other edina school board members my name is emmy mastell [24:32] also known as charlie's mom as you heard charlie has big dreams and hopes once he leaves edina high school [24:39] we feel charlie's participation in general education classes unified classes as well as his special education [24:46] programming has helped to foster these goals and provide skills to operate [24:52] in the real world we have always advocated for charlie to first and foremost be seen as a student [24:58] of edina public schools and secondarily as a student that receives special education services [25:06] we are happy to say that he thrives in his school community where he is fully included [25:12] there have been roadblocks along the way like when we were told he should not attend his neighborhood school [25:18] or why would he choose to take spanish but under the leadership of the administrators like jeff jorgensen and [25:25] some of the wonderful teachers that are here tonight he has been fully included and we have [25:30] seen more access to opportunities than ever so why am i here [25:36] because i feel like this movement that we call edina unified is one of the best kept secrets in edina [25:43] we should be telling this inclusion and unified story proudly this is how we do it in edina [25:49] the groundwork that these teachers have laid speaks directly to our district's strategic plan [25:55] ensuring an equitable and inclusive school culture and yet i don't see a section of our [26:01] school website devoted to edina unified i really don't see any representation of [26:06] students with disabilities on our school site i barely saw a mention on the school calendar of the recent theater [26:13] for all performance held in january telling our story not only encourages [26:18] people to join this movement it allows teachers administrators students and other community members [26:24] to think outside the box we also know by way of hearing from our students and families directly [26:31] that the edina unified program is equally impactful to students with and without [26:36] disabilities so there's more work to be done these unified champions here tonight [26:43] like ms schaefer and miss olsen have the specifics on how to make this program truly flourish across the [26:49] district they need additional time to collaborate they need resources and [26:54] they need awareness at their school sites let's create an environment where inclusion is not only encouraged but [27:01] expected thank you thank you very much [27:07] um on that note there is a fundraiser for edina unified a polar plunge coming up um at the end of march [27:14] that a lot of people up here are going to be participating in so if you'd like to support edina [27:19] unified you can look for more information about that but thank you to all our speakers tonight [27:27] um we are moving on to our consent agenda is there anything anyone would like to remove from the consent agenda [27:35] do i have a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved is there a second second [27:41] we will now vote to approve the consent agenda all those in favor say aye [27:47] anyone opposed the consent agenda has been approved um [27:52] we have two items for just two discussion items tonight um first we have a coven 19 update with dr stanley [28:03] good evening and thank you uh i i just want to say thank you also the unified program is absolutely amazing um [28:12] just came i just feel like it's appropriate to say this at this time just came from [28:17] working with a consortium of districts of high-performing districts and our [28:23] focus was on our special education programs and jeff and randy and i were there and [28:29] had on our unified sweatshirts and what was great is jeff was talking about unified programming [28:36] and then we came out with our unified shirts and they thought how did you make those so quickly that's what they asked [28:42] us i said we're serious about this so anyway um just thank you so much for [28:47] coming this evening so i um and actually um dr schnauzel can come up as well [28:53] i want to give an update on where we are at with covid19 and you may remember that [29:02] on february 14th made the recommendation that we would move to masks strongly recommended [29:10] and we have been monitoring that uh since february 14th uh right now [29:16] about 40 of our students and um several of our teachers continued to wear mass [29:21] during the school day i have a superintendent's leadership team at each one of our secondary schools and i was [29:28] with our south view team and i was so pleased to be in with the team [29:34] about half of the students had their masks on about half of them did not and felt very comfortable i was able to [29:41] check in you know how are things going in schools do people ever question you and they said no [29:47] you know they're not being questioned they just know that it's their choice uh for if they want to wear it and so [29:54] i was really pleased to hear that and so shortly after that the cdc actually [30:00] changed their guidelines around universal mask wearing and [30:06] you know there are more some very specific statements that the cdc brought up um [30:13] and before we move into where we're at with status around vaccinations and things [30:18] like that that dr smiles will share i i really do want to be very specific and read this [30:24] information out because i know not everybody looks at the board packet so the cdc states that with current high [30:31] levels of vaccination and high levels of population immunity from both vaccination and infections [30:39] the risk of medically significant disease hospitalization and death from [30:44] covid18 is greatly reduced for most people [30:49] they also state that covenanting community levels can help communities and individuals make decisions based on [30:56] their local context in their unique needs community vaccination coverage and [31:01] other local information like early alerts from surveillance such as those from wastewater many of [31:08] you may have heard of some of that science or the number of emergency department visits for coveted 18 when available can [31:16] also inform decision making for health officials and individuals and on february 14th the information that we [31:22] shared was related to hospital bed availability we thought that that was very important and consistently [31:29] throughout the school year i've provided an update both on state county and city [31:36] covid trans transmission rates as well as our ongoing local vaccination rates [31:44] in the schools i i will say in edina our vaccination rates are superb [31:50] most groups 18 or older are well into 95 to [31:56] 98 percent our elders in the community 65 plus are at 98 [32:02] and that's something that we should be very proud of in addition to that you'll see a little [32:07] bit later that our vaccination rates at our high school at our middle school and at our elementary school have gone up [32:14] significantly [32:19] so there's there's some guidance that we receive from cdc if we are in medium or low [32:26] uh transmission rates and right now the county is in medium [32:33] some very specific information for what we should do we need to to make certain that we are watching out and taking care [32:40] of our immuno-compromised students and there are some very specific steps that students and staff who are [32:46] immunocompromised should follow and then also within if if [32:52] if we are in uh have a close contact so close social contact um [32:59] and we're at high risk um there are some very specific steps that we should follow um [33:04] when we're in the medium transmission rate which again that is where we are at right now [33:11] for the county now what's interesting is when you think about the level [33:17] of um coverage of vaccination as well as the transmission rate for the city [33:23] were starting to drop even lower and so uh several weeks ago we were at um [33:31] i want to get this right um i had it in my head but we were at 1559 cases per 100 000 [33:39] and situation update dropped back to 130 cases per [33:45] 100 000 just last thursday so we are on the significant decline and i think that [33:52] that is for many reasons including the level of vaccination and how serious we're taking this [33:58] so i'm going to go ahead and turn it over to dr smazel to go over edina case rates hennepin [34:05] county case rates school district and then where we're at with absences [34:10] thank you dr stanley um board chair ellenberg our [34:16] school board members and community members it's really important that we continue to monitor the community [34:21] contacts in our school context around the uh the [34:26] covid virus and so i'm going to present you a couple of patterns that were seen [34:33] throughout the community and in our schools so first of all the dinah city case rates have dropped continued to [34:38] drop significantly which is exciting starting off in 336 cases back in early [34:47] january to most recently 30 cases and so across the city of udain [34:52] these are 14 day trends as you can see from the data so again the data is headed in a very positive direction for [34:58] the school district on the next slide looking at hennepin county case rates a little bit broader um seeing that those [35:05] case rates again went through a spike and are now returned to pretty low levels 26.7 per 10 000 again monitoring that [35:15] using our cova 19 monitoring page to articulate and share with the community [35:21] the the percent of confirmed cases and quarantines that we have in our school district [35:26] and then as dr stanley mentioned vaccination rates continue to go up [35:33] and we see very high vaccination rates at the secondary level and vaccination rates continuing to climb at [35:39] the elementary but in addition to these vaccination rates we also have many students who've been naturally immunized [35:45] because they themselves have contracted the virus so actually our numbers of students who are protected are even [35:51] higher than just the vaccination rates we will continue to monitor attendance [35:57] closely we are looking for that factor of a double over historical [36:03] attendance as something that grabs our attention and says hey we need to really look into that [36:08] we are seeing that there's a number of flu cases occurring across the school district and so we're seeing a little [36:13] bit of a bump in our attendance so we did dive into our most recent attendance knowing that [36:19] it was right at that doubling limit for multiple elementary schools and what we [36:24] found was that those were almost entirely non-covered related [36:29] cases we saw two coveted cases in three of the elementary schools and so it's a very very small number [36:36] but we will continue to monitor those percentages and make sure we're paying really close attention to the [36:42] absence rate that we're seeing in schools [36:47] thanks dr smalls one thing that we'd like to add the cdc actually on february 25th changed [36:55] their requirements related to buses as well [37:00] and you know any federal transportation was at universal masking [37:06] and they changed that and downgraded that um to not requiring universal masking and [37:13] so one of the uh recommendation recommendations that we have is that we would also move transportation [37:20] to masking strongly recommended so we would not downgrade below that we'd keep the [37:27] entire district and transportation at that level as well [37:40] questions yeah do board members have questions or comments [37:47] i have a couple but yeah i do too do you want to you can go first um do we have a current [37:53] status update of the number of coveted cases within the school system [38:01] and if you have to look it up then i'll ask my second question which is have we seen an increase in the [38:07] number of students being quarantined now that we've removed the masking given that what that was one of the things [38:14] preventing us from having to quarantine students so those are my two initial questions [38:22] questions and i did look them up right now for quarantine we have [38:28] two students in quarantine right now so we have not seen an increase we have one student [38:38] we have one student at the elementary level and um there are two different reasons one because a social setting [38:44] exposure and one because of school setting exposure [38:50] our total cases across the district for new confirmed cases for last week were [38:56] 15 you know during the height of omicron we saw many many cases we had 48 alone at [39:04] the high school at one point so uh significantly lower than they have been [39:09] okay i'll i'll let other people ask questions and i can ask mine if they don't get asked go ahead julie [39:15] sure um thank you that's a great report um it's all great to hear so [39:20] for a lot of reasons um my question has to do with we've gotten a little some feedback too from community members [39:26] about the test to stay program if you could give us a little bit of an update on [39:31] how is that working is that how is it working at the at the schools [39:37] because i know there's a lot of layers to things [39:43] sure so i kind of gave uh director jorgensen a nod so he came right up so thanks jeff thank [39:50] you dr jorgensen just jeff just [39:57] so director green thank you very much for asking the question the test to stay model is still kind of in its its [40:03] formative stages yet but we haven't had a whole lot of opportunity to test because the because the contraction rate [40:08] has been so low we have not had to implement much just to say and so we've got a getting a perfect storm working [40:14] for us in a good sense right so the perfect storm is we have generally high vaccination rates which those [40:20] individuals are not required to quarantine or we've had individuals that have had co-fed within the last 90 days [40:25] and have a natural immunity so with that being said with the low transmission rate right now within the [40:30] school environment only 14 within the last week uh that's that's actually a really good scenario we've only had a [40:37] few people that have actually taken taking us up on the test to stay option obviously one is in quarantine right now [40:43] our two are in quarantine but that is an option for our families our goal in the whole test to stay model [40:49] was that we would be able to allow our students to be able to return to school without the need to quarantine unless [40:56] they tested positive or exhibiting symptoms in some way so once again our ramp up it's we don't have a lot of data [41:03] right now just simply because we have not had to implement which is a good thing [41:08] okay i just was curious because i know um i know it has to be a tricky thing to [41:13] navigate because students that have had covet students that are vaccinated the privacy [41:19] and the data of things so i just was curious what that impact was but that makes a lot of sense that you don't have a lot of data on that i mean that's [41:26] that makes sense so thank you thank you [41:41] um i'm trying to figure out the best way to [41:47] put this semantically so i guess my basic question is our current [41:52] guidance is for students and staff that we strongly recommend masks [41:58] in reality the cdc guidance does no longer strongly recommend masks [42:05] in a k-12 setting or pre-k to 12 setting so my question is [42:12] should we downgrade our guidance to say that masks are [42:19] basically personal choice to make sure that we're in in alignment [42:25] with current cdc guidance if there are staff members that are [42:32] uncomfortable maybe want to not wear a mask or even students that don't want to wear a mask [42:38] but since we're staying strongly recommended it seems like it's a little bit out of alignment with the current [42:44] cdc guidance which actually says [42:49] you they no longer recommend them and it could be that for our district [42:54] we feel that we want to say that and i just wanted to get other board members opinions on that and [43:00] your opinion dr stanley about the actual semantics we're using from that [43:06] perspective [43:13] i guess my question about that would be so cdc is one body i guess i would want [43:18] to see clearly what our other organizations or other [43:23] entities that we rely on would feel like that but i'm not opposed to what you're saying [43:29] but i want to get a few more pieces of data about it but it's a good point [43:34] what is the verbiage of the next step down [43:43] the cdc doesn't necessarily offer specific verbiage [43:49] the verbiage that i've seen though is mass recommended mask optional [43:56] um like that it's it's it's vague [44:02] but it's it's not necessarily strongly recommended and so i just didn't know it's not that out of alignment but i [44:07] just want to make sure that we're very clear about what about what we are saying and [44:12] in practicality if people aren't if people aren't paying attention which [44:19] hopefully not everyone in the community listens to every single board meeting because that that takes a lot of time if [44:25] someone just looks at this and says oh the district is still saying strongly recommended i want to make sure that [44:31] we're very explicit about what we mean by what we're saying and i appreciate [44:36] that question i do and i i need to think about that a little bit more because i don't know if going through and changing [44:42] all the language will have much of a different effect [44:48] in the long run but i do appreciate that question i need to think of that personally so maybe it's something that [44:54] we just look into how other entities are utilizing it and maybe [45:01] it's not we come back with a recommendation and i don't think it's a game changer i just again want to make sure that we're being [45:07] consistent go ahead julie yeah no i have two thoughts one is i would love to get um nick kelly's dr kelly's thought on [45:15] that um is just a checkpoint for us we have um our partnership with bloomington health [45:21] has been really informative over the last two years and then my second thought is [45:27] i'd like the question and i think just anecdotally in the community a lot [45:32] of people are going on spring break we are going to be we have people going all over the world leaving the country and so to me i think [45:40] i i would veer on the side of staying where we are right now and then it's spring break we go i'm not a doctor [45:47] that's just my own personal opinion but i know a lot of families are choosing right now to mask [45:52] so they can get on their trips you know there's hawaii you still have to test to go there and [45:58] um so that's where my thoughts are but i think it'd be something that we should [46:03] definitely should think about and talk about again okay thank you um and then my my last [46:09] question is how will parents see the communication and information about the bus masking change because that's a [46:16] a big change i mean a big change and i want to make sure that people are going to see that [46:22] i've just invited uh our communications director mariote up to share about that [46:31] good evening everybody we have an email prepared to go out to families tomorrow [46:37] and then we'll also have this information posted on the website so we'll update the [46:42] the covid pages that we have and then we have the e-newsletter comes out on thursday so we'll reiterate this again [46:48] there and does it change as of tomorrow as of [46:53] when they get the email yes right as of wednesday yes well yes so yes i'm [47:00] thinking tomorrow wednesday when they get it it'll say tomorrow okay great thank you [47:05] thank you great is that it thank you everyone [47:11] thank you thank you thank you dr smallzel um next for our discussion we have our [47:17] policy review um board member green we have policies 213 217 606 and 613 [47:26] thank you chair allenberg we have four policies on for discussion [47:31] tonight just as a quick overview for the community and members here in [47:37] front of us right now um policy committee makes up there's three of us on the board that sit on the [47:42] policy committee we do routine reviews of policies and then we also um every [47:47] three years and there's also policies that need to be reviewed by state statute every year [47:53] all policies are cross-referenced with msba and state statute we also look for an [47:59] eye for eps and expectations that we have here as a district and our perspective and then we work [48:05] with the administration and partnership on things so i just thought a quick overview on policy would be a good um [48:12] policy 101 so let's start with policy 213 [48:17] policy 213 is school board committees i don't know if any board members have [48:23] any questions but we we as a board approved as you guys all recall the legislative action committee [48:29] to become an official board committee and so the language that is used in the [48:35] policy mirrors the bylaws that we passed in january [48:40] so i don't know if anyone has any questions about policy 213 [48:46] i meant to actually ask you this earlier i think under g2 [48:54] i is that i meant for policy committee [49:05] hang on pulling it up [49:13] or is that meant for i'm sorry that's on page [49:18] page 95 oh is it oh yeah i was like oh [49:26] or are you relating to policies for the legislative action committee [49:39] i think that we should strike that line okay i was wondering okay [49:45] and the reason for that is so this was a following the same format of the policy [49:51] part of the that's what i i thought but okay oh that's a good catch okay all right thank you a couple of quick [49:58] questions on lac sure uh first there's like a lettering or numbering issue [50:05] so under edina public schools school board legislative action committee starts with e should start with a [50:12] [Music] the other thing is [50:18] there is the legislation legislative action committee but then we talk about the lac steering [50:25] committee so i think that the steering committee is supposed to be the action committee [50:32] we talked about this in when we presented the lac [50:37] correct me if i'm wrong dan but we talked about the steering committee being the leadership committee and the [50:43] action committee is phase two of how we're bringing lac back with community members that wouldn't necessarily be the [50:49] steering committee but to expand that so when our the plan was when we come [50:55] back with as we start to roll out the plan for recruitment what that looks like um but [51:01] that's why it's in here the way that it is because they're right now kind of two different groups working [51:08] together so what is the steering committee the steering committee right now is [51:14] um member aaron and myself dr stanley and dr george oh my gosh i'm so sorry [51:20] director jorgensen um the policy though says that the steering committee includes community members [51:28] so it it's the broader one under f [51:34] right eventually it would next year right but we're adopting this [51:39] you want we want to adopt this policy now so if we adopt it now [51:44] you have a steering committee that has community members now got it okay [51:51] so because it wasn't clear to me when i read it i thought it was just old language [51:58] right no that's how we we had it set up that way i mean that was on purpose but if that's [52:03] confusing i think part of it is that lac right now is being regenerated and [52:08] evolving and so we're in this spot for it so so i would just recommend that whatever [52:15] status exists this year should be reflected in the policy and if if you want to [52:21] put a note here that says that in the future it'll be somewhat different aligned [52:27] money doesn't make any does it make any difference that it says in addition the committee may [52:33] include does that kind of cover it for this year and next [52:40] so i just think that there's a lack of clarity about what the legislative action committee is versus the [52:46] legislative action steering committee so if you could just get some [52:52] level of clarity that might be better no that's a that's a good question and a good point and we can take it back and [52:59] look at that i mean this is how we have it in the bylaws that we approved so the bylaws currently are this way [53:05] set this way so maybe that's we would then need to change those as well [53:14] that why didn't go back and read the bylaws no no that is i mean karen's point that [53:20] we put mae in there and we did that because as we're evolving and figuring out how this is going to [53:25] look and make sure we're um so the steering committee is a subset [53:30] of the steering committee is the leadership of the lac correct [53:35] i think i would just then add a note about that i think there's i think it's it's not an [53:42] either or i think it's both and here and i just think it's a clarification sentence about [53:49] the legislative action committee is composed of [53:54] a steering committee and then you know however you want to embrace it but i think it's a both and i [53:59] don't that's all right and our bylaws are written that if our steering committee if we decided and [54:05] it made sense to have a few community members who were wanting to step up in that leadership role we would it allows [54:11] for us to do that but we don't know if we have those community members and right now it's [54:16] dan and i you know working with the administration so um [54:22] so if we add in a qualifier is that does that answer your question lenny just something that creates a little [54:28] clarity as to what the different functions are okay i like janie's suggestion yeah i think curse is fine [54:35] and then we have a minimum of two students so if we don't have two students who follow [54:41] i think we might have a target of two students i don't know if we want a minimum of and again maybe that's [54:50] well this is again evolving what our goal would be because we the goal would be in our bylaws that we [54:55] had talked about was to make sure we have at least two students i wouldn't recommend actually just having one [55:01] that wasn't we kind of thought through that and talked about that a lot so but you can do that just by saying [55:07] the committee may include a maximum of nine committee members and two student and in addition to student members [55:16] just take a look at it well i think i think the most important piece here is that we make sure that the bylaws [55:22] match up with this and so word smithing it i want to make sure so my recommendation would be then to go back [55:29] dan and i will take a look at it and look at the bylaws as we're kind of rolling out a recommendation for how [55:34] recruitment will work um so maybe we just put this on pause until that conversation happens too [55:41] because our bylaws are working right now the way that we're operating does that seem is the board okay with that yeah yes [55:48] okay all right thank you sure great those are great questions [55:54] okay um next up is policy 217 [56:00] which is legislative involvement and there is just one change and this is board legislative involvement and it was [56:07] just to identify and align us with that and acknowledge that there's a now a legislative action committee [56:14] um that is also working through legislative items [56:19] so this is totally nitpicky but shouldn't there be apostrophe in schools [56:25] oh you're probably uh utah public schools yeah and that's in the other policy as [56:31] well sorry no that's not we are school system apostrophes is there not a board policy [56:38] that has actually review of from staff so they can correct all the grammar [56:43] concerns for this they are a public education as well that's right [56:49] we'll send it to the writing lab that's right any other changes other than the [56:54] apostrophe okay [56:59] great and that one will go to action um next month um okay then next up i'd [57:04] like to invite up director dc hubert policy 606 [57:11] which is selection and review of instructional text materials content or issues [57:25] done okay good evening dr stanley and chair ellenberg and board members um policy [57:30] 606 has um we have edited with a couple of minor [57:36] changes to what was cur in it in the past um and so i think that the biggest goal [57:43] would be to see if there's any questions from the group [57:50] i'll just point out that there's a numbering issue but that's okay since we're doing that i [57:55] normally wouldn't have done it but um under b it goes one two three four [58:01] five eight so [58:06] all the apostrophes look accurate though yes thank you [58:13] i assume this was mostly just to make sure we all of our [58:18] ducks are in a row for immersion and all that yes there is an immersion component added in [58:24] under the section that you're in right now janie as julie [58:31] ford chair green mentioned we did look at msba policy and just compared to make sure that everything is [58:38] up to date and alignment i just had one question about [58:44] appendix 3 and the item 3 is supplementary supplementary materials [58:49] does that include like um or what's kind of included in that [58:59] um is it appendix 3 supplementary materials [59:05] okay um well the primary [59:12] we've talked through this a little bit in alignment with our curriculum review process and where this falls within that [59:18] and so it is a variety of materials and this would be primarily um things that [59:23] teachers are choosing to enhance what is the core of what's within the classroom [59:29] does that help yeah okay okay [59:39] does anyone have any other questions [59:44] great thank you okay thank you so we'll move this to action for um [59:51] next month thank you and then the last [59:56] policy is policy 613 graduation requirements this as you recall we discussed last [1:00:02] month since then we have gotten some feedback from the community and some board members had [1:00:09] additional questions and the administration wanted some more time to look into and give [1:00:15] sk provide some more clarity around the graduation requirements [1:00:20] especially in terms of math and so that is why we are recommending that it go back to [1:00:26] policy committee to have a deeper discussion um and take a look at that [1:00:31] so that's what we're proposing to the board instead of it going to action [1:00:37] the other thing i wanted to clarify too is that there was a little bit of confusion [1:00:44] and understanding that any changes that are made to graduation requirements [1:00:49] our current high school students are grandfathered in so i just want to make sure that anyone [1:00:55] listening understands that that's it so any changes and there's no changes happening right now they that would not [1:01:01] impact the current students were you gonna say something karen no i was just gonna say i support moving [1:01:07] it back to policy okay thank you so when you take a look at the [1:01:13] effective date in which group it impacts since kids are accelerating in middle [1:01:19] school then you may want to look at the effective date [1:01:26] different depending upon what opportunities we've set up for kids to accelerate [1:01:32] because by the time they're in ninth grade they may already have a couple years of high school [1:01:38] that's a great point [1:01:44] and lenny in your opinion if i could ask that's the only one that has 9 through 12. if we remove that language does that [1:01:50] solve this problem oh yeah i believe so and does anybody know why that was added [1:01:57] in the first place you know i oh i just want i don't mean to stop but i just i think this is we aren't prepared to talk [1:02:03] about this from a content standpoint so that's why we're bringing it back to policy um and i don't know then if it [1:02:08] actually would be recommended then go to teaching and learning to look at some of these items but so i don't want to get too far into a discussion because i [1:02:14] don't we're not prepared for that okay so we'll take it back to policy [1:02:21] committee great thank you thank you um being nice one quick question just so [1:02:26] i'm clear on the board committee policy i'd have to go back and get my numbers [1:02:31] right where will that come to action next month or you that's going to go [1:02:38] because you and dan are going to look at it oh for the the lac yes [1:02:45] for lac we will go back i my thought and i want to talk to dan about this is that [1:02:50] when we come back with like here's our recruitment plan that's when we will bring that part back okay so we will not [1:02:56] see that policy back next month i just want to make sure unless you could bring it back [1:03:02] to your expectations or okay we must be perfect back for discussion correct i just want to set expectations thank you [1:03:07] yep thank you for the question anything else [1:03:13] okay thank you thank you very much um we're going to move on to our action items do i have a motion to approve the [1:03:21] 2022-2023 general fund budget so moved second [1:03:26] okay uh i was going to say director tope we have [1:03:31] all sorts of new titles for everyone tonight so welcome [1:03:40] before uh director hope gets started i did get a couple of questions that came [1:03:46] through and i wanted to make sure that we got some clarity on that um [1:03:51] there was a question related to the uh [1:03:57] two pathway two new pathways and specifically dual spanish immersion [1:04:04] and wondering about administrative coverage for that so for the 20 2022-2023 [1:04:13] school year we are working and and outlined this actually in our [1:04:20] process when we brought that to the board to outline what the program would look [1:04:26] like because it's only two classes we know that we are not going to need a full-time administrator or quite [1:04:31] honestly even a 0.1 administrator and so we have uh partnered [1:04:39] with val burke um and know that we are going to be able to utilize [1:04:46] um because we have analyzed analyze schedules and and timing [1:04:52] um we know that we are going to be able to utilize some of the supports from uh leah byrd [1:04:58] who is right now now we've done a time study we know that she has it and it's it's ten hours it is not like a half [1:05:05] time or anything like that because it is two classes [1:05:10] the other thing is we have several individuals who are in teaching and learning who are in you [1:05:17] know my district office randy me jody several individuals have [1:05:23] administrators license as well and so in the event that there was some additional need we'd be able to do that but we just [1:05:29] believe that it is too early on right now to add an administrator having said [1:05:35] that randy is working with sonya sailor and [1:05:40] just so that you remember the name she is our new human resources director and looking at [1:05:46] what that support will look like once the spanish immersion pathway moves into countryside because [1:05:53] we know that that that's going to be additional supports that that will be needed at [1:06:00] countryside in no way shape or form though in our in our time study we know that this is not going to take [1:06:07] away from early learning center supports we know that that doesn't mean that we're going to have a reduction in early [1:06:13] learning center or any you know supports like we wouldn't be able to have as many courses hopefully we'll have more maybe [1:06:20] so we know that this is not going to impact [1:06:27] in an adverse way our early learning center center programming for that we [1:06:32] just believe it i believe it's too early to move in administrative support [1:06:39] right now so that was one of the questions that came up and then the other question [1:06:45] that came up was kind of related to that it was you know we are adding uh fifty thousand dollars [1:06:53] into communications budget so that we can really work to um [1:06:58] advertise for the virtual online pathway without once again [1:07:03] adding in administrative oversight and time so [1:07:10] john has worked with jody worked with randy and worked with [1:07:16] um sean and mike right now are really helping to develop that and they've worked to develop a budget and we are [1:07:22] going to know more once we we have once we know our final numbers we'll really be able to know what level of [1:07:29] administrative support is needed so in the event let's just say that we [1:07:35] end up with 400 students in online there would definitely be administrative [1:07:40] support that would be aligned there we'd be tighter on our budget to be able to figure that out [1:07:46] at that time and again similar to what we did what we [1:07:52] were able to do with sean this year we have individuals [1:07:57] that we'd be able to assign to that position if you will [1:08:03] so it's just too soon we don't know our numbers yet and it's too soon to say do [1:08:08] we need a half-time administrator what that role of that administrator would be is that going to be an ap is it [1:08:15] going to be a dean you know what that would be it's just too soon for us and so i would ask [1:08:20] um that you give us a little bit more time on that before we declared that because i'm i'm honestly i'm trying to [1:08:26] be fiscally responsible at this point around that [1:08:31] and then uh last question that came in is um the percent of our [1:08:38] budget for administrative funding is at 3.2 percent [1:08:44] which is remarkably lower than um some of our neighboring districts tonka has 5.2 percent why is [1:08:50] that a 4.8 percent hopkins 6.2 percent um [1:08:55] being fiscally responsible i think that's a good thing because we want our monies to go into our classrooms [1:09:01] and um you know the question was do we see an increase [1:09:08] possibly the need for an increase the increases that i discussed you know looking at what are those needs going to [1:09:14] be when um we move um the spanish dual language immersion [1:09:20] into um countryside what is that additional administrative support going to be definitely what we're looking at [1:09:26] and then that um idea of what what is the administrative supports that we're going [1:09:32] to need for our virtual online pathway for for evp [1:09:38] that is where i would see that increase with administration [1:09:44] right now okay so having said all of that [1:09:52] director tope now good evening sherry allenberg superintendent stanley and members of the board [1:09:57] uh the board's fully aware that we started our budgeting process on january 10th when the board approved the budget [1:10:04] parameters those are attached to the report the report starts on page 110 of your [1:10:11] packet i'm going to focus starting on page 114 just like i did in [1:10:17] the board workshop on february 24th by just telling the public and the board members that we did focus on some [1:10:24] high-level budget assumptions some of which had changed a little bit since we approved the budget parameters on [1:10:30] january 10th so knowing that those things change we want to make sure that we adjust for those within our budgeting [1:10:37] at least as far as having the board approve it on a preliminary basis so in that board workshop we talked [1:10:43] about our federal stimulus carry-in uh that i was projecting uh 2 million of estimated revenues although we're [1:10:50] carrying into the expenditure calculations 3.7 million dollars of expenses that's [1:10:55] what was in our fiscal 2122 budget we don't know how that's all going to come out [1:11:01] at the end of 2122 but it's a conservative estimate and it gives us some flexibility [1:11:07] we also i also explained that we had overestimated special ed aid for 2021 [1:11:13] due to a staff person that had left and we had gotten our data in late so i had to do a an [1:11:19] estimate thought it was going to be pretty close i was a little over on that estimate so that impacts [1:11:25] 2122 as well as 2223 so you see that adjustment downward in special ed state [1:11:31] aid as an estimate the next thing we talked about was license retiree replacement savings [1:11:38] we had been averaging historically about 11 teacher retirees per year last year is [1:11:43] 15.02 and this year it's at least 26.8 [1:11:48] what does that do for us well each retiree that we replace at least on an average basis we would [1:11:56] hire at a lower rate which would generate about thirty thousand dollars of replacement savings [1:12:02] at eleven teacher ft's that replacement savings would be about three hundred and thirty thousand dollars and at twenty [1:12:08] six point eight fte is replaced it would be at least eight eight hundred and four thousand dollars [1:12:15] uh we continued on with uh the elementary virtual pathway that was [1:12:20] included in the fiscal 2122 revised budget so that's moved forward [1:12:25] into 2223's preliminary budget as is and we do have [1:12:31] a 0.3 as dr stanley mentioned we already have some administrative time in there [1:12:38] for the edina virtual academy and that's just the elementary [1:12:44] we are studying i i met with sean beverson and michael walker last week we're really trying to [1:12:50] vet that out as far as how many open enrollment kids do we need that aren't [1:12:56] in our projected adm over here because that's a one number over here how many more open enrollment students do we need [1:13:03] to pay for the mou that is with the teachers union as far as paying them for doing online classes [1:13:11] so we're trying to work that out and we had a pretty good meeting last friday and they're going to get some more [1:13:16] research do some more research and i think we're going to meet again and i can't remember the date but we're going [1:13:23] to meet again and start vetting that out and like dr stanley said we'll have more information on that [1:13:29] as we go along and i know we did talk about that at the board workshop also on and that's a bullet point here [1:13:37] um in the high level assumptions is that right now i have that as cost neutral if we get enough open enrollment [1:13:42] students we might be able to generate revenue from that on the online staffing so we don't know [1:13:50] what that number is yet it's revenue neutral right now if we have a better idea which we will [1:13:55] as we move along then we'll change that number we also have the dual language spanish immersion staffing [1:14:01] two additional classes but we're reducing one kindergarten class for an increase of about 125 000 [1:14:08] uh no school election next year and then dr stanley talked about the increase in the marketing budget [1:14:15] we have some other parameters that i'm using for licensed [1:14:22] staff salary schedule changes and administrative changes other staff [1:14:27] health insurance benefits purchase services supplies and then dr stanley referenced it [1:14:35] in her remarks we also provided you with some comparisons to other districts around us [1:14:43] in the budget package and then we also i had a graph in there that shows the gen [1:14:48] ed formula allowance the history of that i'm sure a lot of board members might be getting [1:14:54] information from amsd they released some information this morning saying about 230 million dollars in reductions [1:15:02] across their 47 member district districts so still looking at reductions [1:15:10] you can see on the graph that i provided the gen ed formula allowances went up at least two percent over the last nine [1:15:17] consecutive years uh the comparisons that we had with our neighboring districts and we did go over [1:15:22] these at the board workshop we compare favorably in the areas that you want to be low spending in and [1:15:29] we compare very favorably in the areas that you might want to be higher in spending [1:15:34] so i think that was good information for the board and the public to see and then i gave you some information on [1:15:41] capacities in the different buildings when we [1:15:46] modify and use those high level assumptions that are different from what the board approved on january 10th [1:15:52] we are looking at a slight deficit it's less than one percent um in our budget of about eight hundred [1:15:58] and seven thousand dollars for fiscal 2223 we are asking the board to approve the [1:16:05] budget utilizing uh 807 000 of our assigned for comprehensive [1:16:11] literacy and virtual programming to cover that deficit so we will have no [1:16:16] uh reductions next year if we can do that so it would be a maintenance year [1:16:22] again with the flux of federal funding that we're we have right now and not knowing how much of that will be spent [1:16:29] and how much we'll carry over to to next year i think it's a real good idea if we [1:16:34] look at it that way gather more information in march april and may here as the [1:16:39] legislature does their work they might provide additional funding we'll see [1:16:46] there certainly is some pressure after the last forecast that they might provide additional funding [1:16:51] so with that um again we have a slight deficit we're asking to use an [1:16:57] assignment off of positive audit results from 2021 so we assigned 1.7 million dollars [1:17:03] specifically for comprehensive literacy and virtual programming that's what we're asking to use uh [1:17:10] that assignment for for the following year fiscal 22-23 so i'll stop there see if there's questions [1:17:16] from board members [1:17:22] carrie i have a couple um director tope and superintendent stanley [1:17:29] just to make sure that it's the correct information is out there um [1:17:34] when you speak of taking some of that money from the comprehensive literacy plan i don't want that to throw up red [1:17:39] flags could you speak it a little bit more detail to that [1:17:46] thank you i can start maybe dr stanley can finish we we knew when we started to get our [1:17:52] federal stimulus dollars that dr stanley and the board had pushed for a comprehensive literacy program [1:17:59] director d st hubert is implementing that program right now so we have hired staff we are paying for [1:18:05] some of those staff members with federal funds we also started the [1:18:11] edina elementary virtual programming which wasn't in the budget that was approved last june [1:18:17] i included in the revised budget so now we're able to carry forward that eevp budget into 2223 and we're still [1:18:26] only looking at a deficit of 807 000 and we're still going to continue our comprehensive literacy program [1:18:33] moving forward into 22-23 so i'll stop there let dr stanley add [1:18:39] yeah so um i can't remember which month it was i i feel it was november or december [1:18:46] um john came to the board and he shared that we were awarded an additional [1:18:52] 1.2 million dollars for esser funds and so what john is saying is we we [1:18:58] believe with the federal funds we are going to be able to we know we are going [1:19:04] to be able to continue our efforts with comprehensive literacy there will be no reduction [1:19:10] there will be no concern about moving forward with our comprehensive literacy programming [1:19:15] whether it is our efforts around letters whether it is our efforts [1:19:21] around everything that we're doing with the data in the classroom utilizing the curriculum making certain that we have [1:19:27] instructional matches none of that will go away we will have all of those things continued in [1:19:34] place and just add one more point that the money that was put into the literacy [1:19:39] bucket was put there for a accounting reason because of what bucket [1:19:46] it was going into we decided to over fund that budget for what was asked for so that it was allocated correctly [1:19:52] rather than being unallocated and now we're able to given this deficit be able to use those funds to make that up so [1:19:59] that's a really key part that was an accounting element of allocated versus unallocated to be able to address that [1:20:04] and i would just add that we we spent those federal funds last year to the [1:20:10] highest degree possible so that we could take this assignment like director birdman is mentioning [1:20:16] so that it's our control not the federal dollars that are controlling it so we did that on [1:20:22] purpose so that we have that flexibility moving forward great thank you all for that [1:20:27] explanation i just want to make sure that was clear um superintendent stanley when does evp [1:20:33] come to the board we've moved that around but i believe [1:20:38] it's april 14th march 14th it is march 14th [1:20:44] thank you oh it's a week from now okay and then my last question um [1:20:49] director tope do you know when do we feel like we will have a better idea about virtual numbers knowing that [1:20:54] that's obviously fluid but enrollment has started correct [1:21:00] you'll also get an update on that on march 14th i believe so yes okay all right [1:21:06] thank you [1:21:11] did you no i actually don't have any questions dr stanley thank you for answering my questions anyone else so [1:21:20] no one oh okay great okay uh we will now vote to approve the [1:21:28] 2022-2023 general fund budget all those in favor say aye aye [1:21:33] anyone opposed uh the 2022-2023 general fund budget is approved [1:21:40] thank you director thank you chair ellenberg do i have a motion to approve policies [1:21:45] 425 and 522. so moved is there a second second [1:21:52] director green yes so we have two policies up for action tonight policy 425 and policy 522 [1:22:00] um these were for discussion last month there was um no real substantial [1:22:05] substantial changes in the discussion and um they are ready to go so [1:22:10] if anyone has any questions on either one of them no [1:22:17] excellent so they are ready for action jerry ellenberg [1:22:22] okay we'll now vote to approve 425 and 522. all those in favor say aye aye [1:22:30] policies425 oh anyone opposed okay all those oh wait okay [1:22:37] policies 425 and 522 are approved um do i have a motion to approve the [1:22:42] april 18th change in school calendar so moved second [1:22:48] who wants to claim it karen karen gabler [1:22:54] dr stanley or is that director's superintendent smiling [1:23:04] someone has to has to talk about it can't [1:23:10] thank you assistant superintendent [1:23:16] [Music] good evening again we are here to discuss that [1:23:22] april 18th proposed day-to-day for the school district the proposal for this day would provide [1:23:28] teachers with one final planning day to review learning data to create an instructional plan for the [1:23:34] remainder of the school year which would be about seven weeks this additional preparation day would [1:23:39] greatly enhance our teachers abilities to address learning needs in what has been a year [1:23:46] that is non-typical child care options would be available for families and all of our employee [1:23:53] groups will be working this day either on current projects in preparation for that final learning [1:24:00] push or that final learning window or they may be in professional training that we have an opportunity to complete [1:24:07] yet this year so on a day-to-day our teachers would typically not have meetings [1:24:13] they would have the opportunity to work in their collaborative teams and partner with each other as they [1:24:19] review data and put together their plans for student learning [1:24:26] thank you questions from board members [1:24:33] can i just ask a quick question so um i know there's been conversations with the principals are and are they in support [1:24:39] i'm thinking more secondary i know we're bumping up against ap testing so [1:24:44] i did you get was there any feedback or what is the pulse at the high school [1:24:49] yeah we did have a good feedback both from staff and from our leadership and in support of the idea [1:24:56] um there were a few concerns about um advanced placement content and then [1:25:03] losing a day some teachers were neutral on the concept concept but over 90 percent of [1:25:09] our staff were supportive of the idea great thank you that's helpful [1:25:15] and will there be child care availability for parents yup there will be child care [1:25:21] availability we have been working with val and her team to make sure that that's an option for families [1:25:29] and similar question to the busing how will this can be communicated to parents [1:25:35] and when will they find out in the same email that's going out [1:25:41] tomorrow thank you mary that was mary from the corner for anyone then [1:25:50] any other questions for board members nope okay we will now vote to approve the [1:25:56] april 18th change in school calendar all those in favor say aye aye anyone opposed [1:26:02] the april 18 change in school calendar is approved thank you thank you [1:26:08] um we're now going to move on to board leadership and committee updates um the only update i have is i want to [1:26:15] let everyone know that we're finally going to take our board photos before the next board meeting so that [1:26:22] will be the april regular board meeting at 4 45 so i just wanted to let everyone know that [1:26:28] and that's the only update i have any committee updates [1:26:36] uh dr stanley any superintendent updates i started to share a little bit earlier [1:26:43] was just out with my colleagues assistant superintendents and actually [1:26:48] brought in directors of special education with our seven member district consortium [1:26:55] of high performing districts and the those days are an intense time we go [1:27:01] from 8 a.m until 10 10 30 at night we are constantly in groups and we're [1:27:07] breaking down and digesting the information we received an amazing presentation from [1:27:13] a professor at uh from stanford [1:27:19] on student mental health and wellness and um just really spoke to [1:27:25] a lot of the work that we're already doing in the district and just solidified [1:27:31] um why we need to have the focus that we have on student mental health and wellness [1:27:37] really looking at the whole child he provided some really staggering statistics quite honestly [1:27:43] related to students who die [1:27:48] by suicide and as i was writing down notes i just [1:27:54] thought you know we have some things in place to make certain that we're taking care of our kids and and we can definitely [1:28:01] continue to get better um so it was [1:28:06] and always is an amazing experience really pushes me to think differently as a superintendent i know that it pushes [1:28:14] randy and jeff and i talked about this um on our on our way back in and all during the time that we were there and [1:28:20] just really appreciate being with um leaders and in systems that just push us [1:28:26] to be better and you know it's kind of funny because i hear from them that we're pushing them [1:28:32] to be better and that's really important when you have a high performing district like ours [1:28:37] they are coming to edina in the fall and so we we're really excited to be able to welcome them in [1:28:43] and help them to learn about some great things that we're doing we are going to determine in the next [1:28:49] couple of months if we will extend this idea of really looking at student supports do we need to dig deeper into [1:28:55] that or if there's another area of focus that we need to go into so i just i want to [1:29:01] say thank you for that opportunity to continue to allow us to go out because it is it is incredibly important [1:29:08] for us to continue to thrive and strive to be the best [1:29:15] thank you dr stanley if there's no other updates then we'll adjourn the meeting [1:29:21] thank you everyone [1:29:54] you