[7:46] there we go okay good night or good evening tonight's monday may 10th that we do have a forum so [7:51] call this meeting to order people monitor this meeting in person or from a remote location by the district's [7:57] youtube channel i want to quickly note that there has been a change in the agenda and the [8:03] highlands elementary presentation has been removed from the agenda as well as the elementary eba [8:09] presentation um individuals in person visiting us are asked to make [8:16] and their masking requirements unless they are speaking and addressing the board [8:21] and board members may remove their mask when speaking as well on the first order of business is agenda [8:26] approval um as it has been changed do i have a motion to approve the agenda for tonight's meeting [8:33] is there a second second we will now go by [8:39] just to confirm that was lenient and owen yes thank you allenberg [8:47] fox green jones [9:03] tonight's agenda is true um john will you please review the agenda for us yes i will start tonight with the [9:10] recognition of some uh successful and uh winter athletes um we will hear from members of the [9:17] public we have several items on consent agenda both from personnel [9:22] and expenditures and [Music] 287 long-term facility maintenance [9:29] approval and leases as well as some other agreements we will have a presentation by community [9:36] ed around the youth service development plan and uh randy's going to share some travel [9:43] based learning coming up next year we will have a a [9:50] presentation of phase one of the literacy plan that the board heard in the work session prior to this meeting [9:55] um we have a policy in rapid review and then we have policy discussion around policy 625-626 [10:04] from the discussion last month you will the board will take action on ninth graders science curriculum and resource [10:10] and then um you will be approving the general obligation facilities [10:16] maintenance bonds and then another policy in action for approval [10:21] and then there's information around enrollment budget and progress reporting all compensation review and staff [10:27] recognition great uh thank you superintendent schultz uh for tonight's excellent [10:33] excellence in action portion we are going to do some recognition for some different [10:38] winter athletes um i assume that we have troy stein here there we go i see him in the far [10:44] corner here so troy i'll turn it over to you good evening thank you chair ellenberg [10:50] and superintendent schultz and the entire school board i appreciate your time this evening and i [10:55] am extremely proud and and honored to uh to introduce our four winter state uh [11:02] championship teams uh with you tonight and i think um what i will do is as once we get into uh the [11:09] teams um we'll we'll go through each of the the coaches that are with us and allow [11:15] our athletes to hopefully touch on a couple things from the year but i just wanted to start and and say [11:21] what a tremendous honor it is to have them tonight but also to recognize them [11:26] an incredible accomplishment this year uh not only to be dealing with uh you know the the pandemic and the on the [11:34] start of a season the pause in the season the delay of the season the multiple protocols that all of our [11:40] programs were working through and did a tremendous job of it i i will say as well but then to reach the highest level and [11:47] compete at the highest level that they did uh is is a tremendous honor and and we're extremely proud of them [11:53] and i would like to start and and uh recognize i believe our [11:58] kristin our head cheerleading competitive cheerleading coach of game day is here with us i'm going to turn it over to kristen and if you can just [12:05] uh touch base on the season a little bit and then also turn it over to the captains to say [12:11] something that they will find memorable from the year so thank you uh kristen absolutely [12:17] thanks for having us so i am the head game day competition [12:22] cheerleading coach the athletes that we had on our team actually participated in two different [12:28] routines this year one is our traditional routine and the other is our game day routine this is a new [12:34] division for us this is only our second year we brought this division or this routine to state [12:40] and to say that we were blown away by the girls is just an understatement they of course to what troy said had so [12:47] many obstacles and challenges put in front of them but they just did an amazing an amazing job [12:54] throughout our ups and downs through the season so you know many [13:00] individuals are not super familiar with what competitive cheerleading is or especially the game day element and essentially the goal of a [13:07] game day routine is to give the judges and a crowd if you have one um what it feels like to be a part of [13:14] the edina community and what it's like to be on the sidelines or what it's like to be at a pet fest [13:20] and it's essentially three minutes of these girls just going crazy and showing their support of [13:26] course skill and technique and precision and timing are all part of it but really at the end [13:32] of it it's how how well do you show these judges that you're so passionate about your school [13:38] and what was so interesting throughout all of our events in particular the state competition judges always commented on how genuine [13:46] they felt like the enthusiasm and pride was for the school which of course i feel a little bit [13:51] biased but i also feel like that we talk at the beginning of the season about what [13:56] what are you so proud of when you are on the floor you know who are you cheering for what are you cheering for [14:02] and it really came across and obviously was very much rewarded the team that ended up placing first at [14:09] state we ended up taking this routine to a national level and competed virtually where they ended up playing [14:14] placing second so we just feel so impressed by these athletes and it's just a wonderful way [14:21] to without having the same crowds at football games or at any sporting event we attend it's a [14:26] fun way for them to share and communicate what they're so proud of when they're [14:32] on this on the sidelines so i have all three captains of mine here [14:38] um harper yang would you like to share a few things quick yeah so [14:45] i'm harper um one thing that i found like super memorable about the season [14:50] um along with like the team i just thought everyone was so committed and like with kovid they [14:57] just came in on like a last minute notice and came to work really hard which i thought was really inspiring to see all year [15:11] um like kristen said we kind of always got comments about showing our school enthusiasm which [15:16] especially with it being such a long season um just our team rallying together and kind of continuing to be excited about [15:22] it even when we um we're going a hundred percent even longer than we normally do was [15:28] um super fun and so i'm super proud of everyone and it was a really great team it was fun and last but not least angie [15:38] korres hi um one thing i love about this team is that we have um all grades eight [15:46] through twelve and i love getting to know everybody um in all grades and just creating bonds with everybody on the [15:52] team because we were all really close this year [16:02] well ladies congratulations again and thank you so much for joining us and and we really uh appreciate you taking [16:09] the time but um i'm glad that you were able to enjoy the experience as well and uh i always take pleasure in hearing uh [16:16] the pride that you have not only for our school your team but also your teammates and [16:21] that's fun to hear so thanks for joining us this evening and congratulations again [16:38] we usually do a photo op at this time but we can probably just do a screenshot and and uh that will work [16:46] all right i'm going to move uh move along to uh our alpine ski and i'm going to turn [16:51] this over to head coach jared scribner thanks troy and uh thanks to everyone on [16:57] the uh on the committee to for having us it's uh it's [17:03] fun to be here and to to recognize all these great accomplishments so really appreciate the time and uh the [17:10] opportunity i'm probably going to to save a little bit because i want to give our captains a little bit more [17:16] of the spotlight because they they certainly earned it this year but uh i will say before i turn it over to [17:21] sophie and to to anna that again really proud of these these girls and this this entire team a [17:28] lot of challenges as we all know but in particular ski racing as a whole is a particularly challenging [17:34] sport and and for us uh you know we look at the the competition that we have [17:39] within not only our conference but within our section and it's particularly rewarding for for [17:45] these ladies and the the accomplishment that they made really can't be overstated uh they worked hard uh it's a very [17:51] demanding sport from both the physical and mental perspective and uh i'm really really proud of them [17:57] this is their their second year at state and they they capitalized on the opportunity this year so uh with that said i'm going to turn it [18:03] over to uh we'll just go in alphabetical order anna do you want to go uh say a couple things [18:09] sure um hi i'm anna and just one thing that really stood out to me about this season was [18:15] how close we all got and how we kind of just all had this like collective mindset to work really hard [18:21] and everybody always showed up to practice and races and was just willing to give it their all and even though [18:28] skiing's an individual sport it was just super cool to have that team aspect it always is with high school [18:33] skiing but especially this year everybody just really came together in this weird time and all kind of then [18:41] we pulled through so yeah [18:48] great thanks yeah and i gotta tell you anna was a rock star this year i mean she she stepped up her game and uh just [18:55] really really proud how she led the team um both you know with a captain's title but also [19:01] just on the hill kind of leading by examples was terrific sophie are you with us [19:07] yeah hi um i just wanted to say that uh kind of like anna was saying we just [19:14] had a lot of support this season with all of our teammates and like with skiing it's hard because you're on [19:20] all kind of on like a different timeline because you're on the chair at different times but even though we were all separated and we [19:27] weren't like riding the buses together and going to invites as a team it was still really fun because we like had [19:32] supporters out at sections and we had a lot of people who would go to the jv races and so it was just a lot [19:37] of fun because everyone was still able to like create bonds and like make [19:42] actually like be friends this year even though we weren't like having all of those bonding opportunities [19:48] as past years [19:55] thanks sophie and as i say sophie again one of our captains and again i kind of look at so he's the heart of the team [20:00] she's so welcoming and accommodating and she's what helps build foster that that team mentality [20:06] and as what you mentioned is somewhat viewed as an individual sport but uh they they come together [20:11] they boost each other up and uh that that collective drive is what helps make a program successful so [20:17] really appreciative of the work that both these ladies did to leave their team to a state title because it is a very difficult [20:24] thing to do so congratulations thanks ladies and and thanks to the school board again for allowing us the opportunity [20:40] congratulations again uh uh ladies and and uh jared i appreciate you coming tonight [20:46] and i would i would echo the thoughts that i don't know if any of our other sports had as [20:51] many adjustments to the protocols and the routines uh than alpine ski and um to be able to [20:59] say that you still walked away with um that type of experience is really gratifying to hear [21:05] because i know that a lot of those bonding moments both even at the hill at the base camp were gone this year so [21:12] i appreciate hearing that so thanks again for joining us and and congrats one more time [21:17] i'm going to transition to uh boy swim and dive and uh love to introduce our head coach [21:23] uh scott johnson scott if you can touch base and give us a recap on on the season [21:29] uh would appreciate it thank you uh hi troy um superintendent schultz and school [21:36] board uh it's my distinct pleasure to uh uh be at your meeting today and to uh [21:44] uh proudly announce that we have won our 13th state championship [21:49] and 190th uh total championship for edina high school [21:54] uh we're very proud of our athletes for doing this we were 7-0 in dual meets competition [22:01] we won our section meet and uh we won the state meet we had 13 athletes that competed and [22:08] represented edina and we had an entry in every event during the meet we set three team [22:15] records in the 200 medley relay 200 im and 100 back and we scored [22:22] 302 points we also had uh several several times that were fast [22:28] enough to be deemed uh all-american we had our medley relay [22:33] was all-american automatic and we had uh six other performances uh that were consideration [22:39] and we'll find out at the end of the school year whether or not they will move up i'm also very proud [22:46] to recognize that they do well in the classroom as well our team gpa this year was 3.68 [22:54] and i with the 29 years that i've been with the team i believe that's the highest gpa that i can recall [23:01] [Music] we also had three seniors that are academic all-american and that [23:08] is an unweighted gpa cumulative gpa of 3.75 [23:13] so not only do we do well in the water but we do well out of the water and so i'm very proud [23:19] of our athletes for all the accomplishments that they were able to do and to overcome uh the different [23:26] adversities as have all of our sports and so i i have one word to summarize our [23:32] season and it is blessed i'm blessed to be a part of these this group of athletes and parents and blessed to represent [23:39] edina high school in the highest fashions possible both uh statewide and and nationwide so thank [23:46] you very much [23:52] thank you uh coach johnson and and uh really uh really appreciate those comments and thank you [23:58] again for all that you do for uh supporting the boys and and well what a year it was so [24:04] a huge round of applause to boys swim and dive [24:15] okay i i don't think we have every anybody on the um on the call or the the [24:22] virtual right now from girls uh hockey i know that uh we had some potential conflicts and they were running tight [24:29] but uh i would just like to uh recognize them in in terms of winning you know the the [24:36] fourth state championship in in five years for girls hockey um you know just a tremendous run going right [24:42] now and represented by just some amazing student athletes uh that you know to to what scott and kristen [24:50] and jared said some kids that love to compete uh they they love to play for their school and [24:56] uh they strive for excellence both in the classroom and athletics so extremely proud of their accomplishment [25:03] as well and if we can just give our girls hockey program a round of applause and recognize them [25:15] so in closing i want to thank uh thank uh the board and and uh the superintendent and udina [25:22] public schools for all their support for edina athletics and and all the support that has been given to our student [25:28] athletes in this trying year and and appreciate the support for allowing them [25:33] to compete and continue to excel uh in extracurricular so thanks so [25:38] much for having us tonight thank you thank you um thank you director stein and thank you to all the athletes [25:44] that showed up tonight and it has been a trying year and you guys should be so proud of yourselves for your [25:51] accomplishments um through this year and the coaches as well i know has been [25:56] uh tried their coaches as well so thank you for everything that you've done for example schools as well as you [26:02] um dr stein so one more round of applause for all of our ashby [26:11] thank you okay we're going to move on to hearings [26:18] from members of the public and i first want to thank people for coming tonight to speak [26:24] um and as a reminder members of the public who wish to address the board remotely still the option to submit their statements ahead of time and have [26:30] them read at the meeting and we did have one of the community member that did that so could you read that director [26:40] this letter writer writes jury dyna school board please help the district with their [26:45] communications or your incident command team of their information i have passed along my [26:51] regular communications with minnesota department of health the minnesota health department [26:56] ndh and mhd and do so again last week you communicated a [27:02] consideration for reduced quarantine this has been available for four and a [27:07] half months last week you strongly recommended face masks at recess [27:13] this was not a part of the governor's announcement in fact his announcement ended mass quarter [27:18] outdoors accepted venue with 500 plus people [27:23] this communication of this magnitude erodes public trust not only the school system but our [27:29] public health system as a whole written by nicole schnell [27:34] thank you director tool um and for everyone here that's speaking for pursuant to board policy 206 we ask that [27:41] you do not duplicate information that has been previously presented and if you have a complaint about [27:46] individual employees board members or students in the district please direct these comments to the appropriate site [27:52] administrator the superintendent or submit them in writing to the board the board does not have question on [28:00] issues presented but questions raised during presentations will receive follow-up as directed by the board [28:05] i'd like to remind all speakers your presentations are limited to three minutes when you have about 15 seconds left i'll just prompt [28:12] you to let you know that you're getting close um to your cutoff time um if anyone has not filled out a form to speak tonight if [28:19] you could do that if you could do that and then i will just we could pass it down the row so i [28:24] can call you um at the end then that would be great [28:30] um so first we have tim coleman [28:37] where do i register please we'll show you there's just a piece of paper over by the face masks [28:48] [Music] good evening school board members my name is tim colvin [28:54] i'm with transportation i'm a bus driver i'm here today representing school [29:00] bus drivers and mechanical mechanics it's been a long challenge here for parents [29:05] students and dyna staff thank you for the challenging year you guys did a [29:10] wonderful job this year thank you very much uh school bus challenges is having we [29:17] had increases with riots this year roadblocks construction and speeders it makes parents very [29:23] heritable driving our challenges that we didn't have any fatal accidents this [29:31] year and we had very safe drivers that's one of our pluses [29:38] um with the increases of groceries few and health care our challengers just our challenge is to [29:46] survive in our own homes we're cutting budgets just to survive [29:51] increases of of costly i've noticed that in the parking lot we have [29:57] signs to scientists hiring school bus drivers and custodians [30:05] we have to retain what we have as an employee i'm a sixth year an employee i [30:11] love my job i'm a special needs bus driver i take very special care with my my students they love me [30:19] dearly i take pride in my job [30:24] it's very tough for me to survive it only right now with dividends [30:31] me and my wife really cut back with expenses just to survive because the cost of groceries [30:38] i know you guys have a budget [Music] and money is tight [30:45] but we really need to retain our bus drivers [30:50] because i see so many of them leave and i've been hearing there's not many bus [30:56] drivers out there to hire and you guys really need to look into [31:02] your budget and try to find something to give us competitive raises to give us [31:10] to survive in our families to provide food and please have some type of [31:19] entertainment me and my wife all we do is stay home the extra income just to go up enjoy we [31:26] walk the parks we're just barely getting by if if [31:34] we don't get some type of increase we might end up selling our house and might just end up [31:41] living with one of our kids just because we just can't afford our cost of living we're not [31:48] asking much we haven't had decent raises for many many years it's [31:53] time to really think about looking towards at the bus drivers and giving [31:59] them a really competitive entrance i want to thank you for your [32:04] time and everybody have a wonderful night [32:15] [Music] [32:25] hey there boys i'm george rebrett and i'm a parent of a middle schooler going [32:31] into high school next year number one i was really impressed with [32:37] all the sports teams director stein has done a great job and all it's amazing to me how great [32:45] sports are here in china and the passion that the community has the wonderful coaches we're able to get [32:52] and just the the students and their gpas you hear this 368 uh it's just it's it's truly amazing [32:59] so i think that's going great um and there's a lot of talk about equity and [33:05] equality in the school i was just looking at this bus driver speak and i've heard that you can find it in your heart [33:12] to pay a living wage to the bus drivers i'm i'm not a bus driver i'm a parent but [33:17] i think that should be a goal of all of you um anyways what i'm here tonight is talk [33:23] about this bond offering um i lastly wrote um trying to [33:30] call and then wrote and found someone who i guess is supposed to be answered my [33:36] questions and at the end of the day finally today around three o'clock i got an [33:43] email saying you know sorry george i got your email i've been working on this and i'm [33:51] sending this email the information that was given to the public earlier [33:56] was based on outdated information this is information that was just given to the public [34:02] three weeks ago two weeks ago i mean not long ago and uh the information was outdated [34:10] so here's a new draft that i'm giving you tonight um i had asked for backup but asked for [34:16] assumptions and asked for you know a complete understanding and i get a pdf of [34:25] one page of a scratching um saying sorry the information we presented [34:30] before was based on old information and [34:35] here's what i've got today um and you know if it's a corporate bond offering they'd say wait a minute if the [34:42] information was old when you presented it to the public you should probably stop and start over [34:48] you shouldn't just pull ahead you should dig deeper and figure out what's wrong and what's right i don't know what [34:55] obligations u.s board members have or the administration has but i was just [35:00] totally shocked and i felt it was my civic duty to come down here and walk my dog and [35:06] decide i'm gonna come down and make sure that they all know what i received today i'm pleased to [35:11] send you a copy if that's helpful but i found it shocking so that's why i'm [35:17] here thank you oh thank you thank you very much [35:25] um anna hernandez [35:34] hi i'm anna hernandez i have um fourth grade twins here in the [35:40] district um and i'm here tonight to declare my support for the tech levy and bond issue i am [35:48] speaking on behalf of myself and my husband greg hernandez as well as the following community [35:54] members stephanie and james pierce josie and jason tober [35:59] meg and tony rodriguez kathleen and dave mclennan maggie and rich mccracken ann and mark [36:07] schulze tricia and steve london ann and john gotti [36:12] tricia and stosha leur carrie and lou lambert sarah and josh johnson and kelly and [36:19] jeff seaman together we are urging edina voters and school board members [36:25] to vote yes on both the extension of the existing levy and on the important bond issue [36:32] in edina where our schools are a pillar of our community we all understand that young people are [36:37] our most precious resource how well educated they are and how well supported they are [36:43] in their educational pursuits is directly correlated to the quality of leaders and decision makers they will [36:49] become as adults as such it's imperative that voters make a student-centered decision [36:54] as they cast their ballots tomorrow at its core tomorrow's vote is all about our children [37:00] it's not about distance learning it's not about the teachers union it's not about politics it has been a [37:07] wildly turbulent year with all our lives being turned upside down and certainly our students have not [37:14] been spared if this tech levy fails to pass we have to cut six and a half million [37:20] from the budget which is the equivalent of the entire operating budget of one of our elementary schools [37:25] this presents teachers and staff with yet another crisis to juggle the consequences of which fall squarely [37:32] on the shoulders of our kids in terms of their academic outcomes we know edina parents will find these [37:38] consequences unacceptable our kids have had more than enough to deal with over the past year [37:44] this is a moment when we can ensure stability for them by continuing to support the infrastructure and security [37:50] they already have in place today yes it'll cost us all a bit more the average home in edina is valued at [37:57] about 575 000 which means the average homeowner will see an increase in taxes of about three dollars a month [38:05] about the price of a cup of coffee that is a small price to pay for a very [38:12] long term for very long term student benefits in edina we prioritize [38:17] local education acutely aware of how chronically constrained state education budgets are [38:22] while also being aware of the increasing demands of providing a high quality education to our students [38:28] the pace of change is rapid and the jobs of tomorrow demand that we keep innovating and stepping up on behalf of our [38:35] students we have a vibrant community because of our strong educational system [38:40] to current parents voting yes is a no-brainer we want the best for our kids and the [38:46] best for our community to those residents with former students your children have benefited from the [38:52] financial support of the community in years past and your yes vote tomorrow will help ensure we perpetuate that vibrancy [38:59] and continue to produce strong future leaders for the next decade please join us in passing the levy okay [39:07] great thank you thank you thank you very much eric gabler [39:22] good evening my name is karen gabler and i am one of the co-chairs of the 2021 vote yes eps committee [39:29] and to hear from anna it was a pleasant surprise to have a surprise guest speaker from the [39:34] community spoke to speak about the levy both yes eps is a community group formed around supporting [39:40] the yes vote on this spring's referendum to renew the expiring 10-year technology levy [39:46] and improve the facilities bond the technology levy currently funds school security systems [39:52] retains media specialists at every school which is unique to dyna public schools updates educational hardware software [39:59] and informational systems and supplies basic technology infrastructure the facilities bond will improve traffic [40:06] and pedestrian safety patterns at several of our schools and expand the bus garage which will [40:12] allow us to bring special education busing in-house saving our district a minimum [40:17] of 140 000 a year if the levy renewal does not pass [40:22] it would result in cutting the budget by six and a half million dollars a year and removing many educational and [40:30] extracurricular activities for all learners cuts of this magnitude [40:35] would have a devastating impact on every school in our community denying approval of the bond prevents [40:41] much needed safety improvements and long-term cost savings for the district [40:47] as a school community we need you to vote yes on these critical funding issues by [40:53] voting yes you are setting up edina public schools and our new superintendent dr stacy stanley to move into the future [41:01] and build on edina's tradition of academics and whole child excellence to learn more about what this [41:08] funding is and is not for voters can head to edina public schools website or [41:13] vote yes eps.com thank you to everyone that has voted early [41:18] election day is tomorrow tuesday may 11th from 7 a.m to 8 p.m you can vote at your polling [41:25] place but make sure to check ahead of time as some polling places have changed locations due to covet 19. [41:31] we encourage everyone to get out and vote yes for our kids our teachers [41:38] and our community thank you thank you bob ryder yes [41:47] [Music] [42:01] [Music] [42:07] first meeting i've ever been to so here with me [42:13] hi i'd like to introduce myself um i'm bob ryder i'm a i was a 36th year resident [42:20] of edina with over on grove street both my children and my two children and my and two of my [42:27] grandchildren went completely through down to school so i have a long connection with united going [42:32] back to 1975 and i've also spent the last 21 years as an indiana driver [42:38] bus driver mainly for athletics i have a proposal to make the board [42:45] i would like to see david white the current head of edith transportation his name [42:52] put on the transportation building i think david white i wish it to be david white he dined a [42:59] transportation building he has no idea who he is no idea at all [43:04] he does not here's why i propose this in 1999 when i [43:09] began at the diner bus garage the garage was completely inadequate [43:14] uh formerly the dino bus garage over on eden avenue by perkins down there was uh united's first fire station there are [43:23] pictures of the old fire trucks out in front of it it was completely adequate but any means [43:29] of measurement you want the bus bays were too small or broken glass broken bus mirrors all over the [43:35] place on the ground because buses kept hitting each other and hitting the sides of the bus space employee [43:42] parking was inadequate cars were damaged mine was damaged twice while working over there and whenever it [43:48] snowed we had piles of snow in the dryer and the parking lot uh cars couldn't park there [43:54] and as it was we had to park all over nearby streets fuel access was terrible there was one fuel pump [44:00] and buses would line up out in the eaton avenue trying to get fuel and blockade and avenue from traffic and the bus [44:08] uh parking was so bad that they had to park a number of buses here at ecc on a regular basis and of [44:15] course if there's a football game or something then they had to move the buses back over the bus garage sit them in the driveway and then [44:20] somebody had to bring them back over here so that was a completely inadequate facility now david white [44:26] was working on this problem long before i came in 1999 because i can remember some of the first [44:32] meetings we had it was always on the agenda david would always tell us where we were what was [44:37] happening he probably he's uh shepherded the project from start to finish [44:43] uh finish was around 1914 uh 2014 excuse me uh 2015 somewhere in there when they [44:50] finally got it completed with the help of a referendum of course and lots of people in the administration [44:56] uh people i don't know who they were what they did but i do know that david worked [45:02] constantly on the state possible so the precedent for this [45:10] uh for renaming of course is obvious uh court uh coach art downey of this boy swimming [45:17] team coached for 52 years and now he's got a pool named after uh ken dragseth [45:23] has a wing on southview name prominently displayed on the outside [45:29] raleigh ring has a street named after him that's long before my time um coolman field was named after he died [45:35] a person and the girls tennis coach steve paulson was most recently honored to have a tennis court named after [45:42] so there's a lot of precedent for this and i'm proposing that um the united schools [45:50] name uh for david's loyalty and his hard work uh before his rumored retirement i don't [45:56] know that for a fact i keep hearing about it and while he's still alive uh because a lot of times people are [46:03] honored after they die i hate that i wish people were honored while they're still alive as a way of thanking them [46:10] for the hard work they did if anybody deserves that it's david white think of the um [46:17] what the transportation department means to the district uh you could you could talk about a [46:23] swimming pool you can talk about a part of a building you can talk about a tennis court all you want [46:28] but think of the number of people who are affected by the transportation almost all the [46:36] students in united schools from here way back andy diana david did a great [46:42] job if you don't david he's active he's either out checking buses before our [46:47] spring break uh before our spring uh check by the highway patrol every year we get a top [46:53] grade all the time we never have a bus taken out because of some fault because david checks him he actually goes out [46:59] and gets under buses and checks them uh if the grass needs mowing you'll know it uh so he's the kind of [47:06] guy that you want running part of your school system and i think david has done a great job of that [47:12] and i hope that the school board will decide i don't know how this is done i've never been involved in anything like this [47:19] before but however that goes whether i should do this again sometime or not or whether [47:25] individual board members needs to take it out i sure wish she'll do it because he deserves it thank you thank you very [47:33] [Music] much [47:39] and i heard a rumor that david white might actually be able to call tonight is that true he might be here [47:49] yeah i didn't check this with him nobody else knows that i'm here doing this david are you here [47:58] okay well morning we'll send him the recording so good and i'll get back with you with the process yeah thanks oh thank you [48:06] everybody um we're now going to move on to our consent agenda is there anything anyone [48:12] would like to remove from the consent agenda do i have a motion to approve the consent agenda [48:27] [Applause] okay thank you uh ellenberg [48:45] [Music] michaelson [48:55] then did not come back no okay um [49:02] the consent agenda has been approved um we're now um going to report this question and [49:08] first we have our development plan we have um director of community education valerie [49:14] burke here and cheryl goodness i'm sorry cheryl goddess our community [49:19] involvement coordinator so welcome both of you thank you chair allen berg and good [49:25] evening members of the board superintendent schultz and community members and colleagues [49:31] thank you for the introduction i'm valerie burke director of community education and i'm here tonight with community involvement [49:37] coordinator cheryl dennis upon the adoption of our districts 2020 [49:43] 2025 strategic plan community ad went to work we began looking at ways that our [49:49] programs and services could support and enhance the course strategies we noticed right away that woven through [49:56] all the strategies is the desire to elevate youth voice and empower students to discover their [50:02] passions and possibilities so as a decision was made to ask cheryl [50:08] gunnis and our youth enrichment team to focus a part of their time this year on thoroughly reviewing our former youth [50:15] development plan at the legislation surrounding it in the intent [50:20] specifically behind the five key components of it the dovetails so beautifully with our [50:26] strategic plan guided by research our district plan [50:32] best practices from the field of youth this team has reinvigorated our youth [50:37] work tonight we're excited to share with you and bring forward for discussion our renewed youth [50:44] development plan and i welcome coordinator cheryl gunnis to walk you through the five [50:50] components of the plan thank you [50:55] thank you thank you for having me i'm really excited to be here to um share the work that our team has [51:02] been doing over the past year and after this year of waiting am i being here tonight just feels like we're that much closer to putting our plans in motion [51:09] for the coming year so um just to recap a youth development plan is something that [51:14] we create each year each year and on a very basic level we have one on file to meet the [51:19] requirements of state funding but bigger picture we have devoted more time [51:25] than usual to our plan this year for a variety of reasons one is that as we work [51:31] to do some rehiring to get our community a team back to full strength post covet this plan will help us shape and [51:38] guide our staffing and hiring decisions again as we think strategically about how community ed can best [51:45] drive some of the strategic the elements of the strategic plan this youth development plan will help us [51:51] be more strategic and where we focus our time and energy and resources but perhaps most importantly i feel like [51:58] as we look at events and mindsets unfolding and revealing themselves in our community [52:04] and in our world it just feels increasingly more urgent that we do everything we can to elevate [52:10] youth voice to recognize the gifts and talents and strengths and perspectives that youth [52:15] bring to any project and we in community i'd want to focus our full attention and do everything we [52:20] can to um support and uplift and empower and launch these students as they go out into the world that [52:28] they're going to help us reshape so i have you have the full plan in [52:33] front of you with details and also a few of our specific goals tonight i just want to um [52:39] share a few highlights and i want to assure you that in developing this plan we have been guided by best practices [52:45] very in tune with the edina public school strategic plan we listen to our community and their [52:50] hopes and suggestions for youth development we've engaged our community ad advisory [52:56] council in reviewing and refining this plan we've also done research as val mentioned tried to learn from [53:03] best practice from the university of minnesota center for youth development ignite after school the state of [53:09] minnesota and communities all around us i do have a presentation let me see if i [53:17] can make that happen [53:23] with me just a moment here [53:28] nope [53:37] nope wrong one so sorry [53:58] all right that how does that look [54:04] looks good okay now if i can only advance it okay [54:11] [Music] [54:17] [Music] [54:22] okay no this is maybe not going to work um [54:28] so uh the legislation surrounding youth development youth service plan outlines five components for youth [54:34] development plans um the first one is youth service and service learning [54:41] [Music] what this has looked like in the past or in recent years is [54:46] a key component of this has been our community service letter so every year perhaps around 150 to 200 [54:53] students our lettering and community service every year they're donating about 21 000 [54:58] hours of community service which translates over half a million dollars of impact when calculated at the national [55:04] volunteer rate being poured back into our community we also have [55:10] over a hundred youth volunteers every year supporting all kinds of classroom learning [55:15] mainly with younger students through classroom support before and after school [55:20] academic support summer academic enrichment special events and more so moving [55:26] forward how we feel we can best advance this work is um to do some staffing restructuring [55:32] so in the past we've had several part-time and piecemeal positions handling various parts of this youth [55:38] development and youth service work and we are going to reorganize to discontinue the piecemeal approach [55:44] and give youth development work which we feel is prioritized both in the edina public school strategic plan [55:49] and also in the community ed plan a clear owner and an anchor and someone who can better [55:55] leverage resources build relationships provide program consistency and clarity [56:01] and we think that giving um by focusing and streamlining the [56:06] staffing we're going to be able to collaborate more closely with all schools especially with principal beaten eddie [56:11] diana's high school and also we feel that we'll be able to more closely tie [56:17] the idea of community service to college and career exploration so that in other [56:22] words we see service as a way ready to begin to explore college career and and [56:30] in career skills not seeing them as separate we also want to reinvigorate [56:37] our middle school programs so while we expect to dive right in and focus beginning at the high school in the 21 [56:44] 22 school year school year we're also going to spend the coming year doing an in-depth study of [56:49] out-of-school time programmings that were offered through community ed for middle school students so that those programs can [56:56] build up to the experience at edina high school and be connected to them and so you'll be hearing more about that [57:02] in coming months and just moving forward we want to be very sure that we don't lose [57:07] what we've already done and what we feel like are key components of any high quality youth service and service [57:14] learning program which is we're really going to be giving these students who are participating high quality training and supervision [57:21] and focus skills development we're going to be sure that they're working on [57:27] genuine and needed service in other words that the service is responding to [57:32] identified community needs and we're going to be working to be sure that we're giving students ample opportunities for reflection to [57:39] integrate and learn from from the service that they're doing [Music] [57:46] boy the second component of any youth leadership program is youth involvement and leadership [57:54] you have heard me speak about this before in the past year edina community ads enrichment program [58:01] has made a significant shift to hiring more students from edina high [58:06] school to lead our enrichment team our enrichment classes and programs so as paid hourly [58:13] rec leaders we are working with edina high school students and recent graduates to [58:19] create curriculum to teach camps help manage communications and logistics [58:25] many idonia high school groups and organizations have been organizing their own camps to do outreach so examples in this past [58:32] year have been the izan high school student council created and led a leadership workshop [58:37] for middle school students which is a great um leadership and mentorship experience um clubs like the ping-pong club and [58:45] hip-hop dance team have created and led [58:51] camps for younger students that serve not only as leadership opportunities for those for those people [58:57] the students in those clubs but it also has been fundraisers for their their [59:02] clubs and has served as a recruitment tool for their clubs so moving forward our goals um [59:11] in this area to the next slide um this is just [59:17] ridiculous [Music] [59:24] we want to expand the paid leadership opportunities we are very excited to be collaborating [59:30] with student leaders to create a new platform and maybe more than one platform to elevate student voice so [59:36] you know that community ad has led a tedx event where exploring the idea of what would a [59:42] tedx youth event look like or what about an intergenerational podcast led by students but we want to um have [59:48] time to engage with edina students and have them tell us what they're interested in doing and bring the full resources [59:54] and and energy of community out to help them make those things happen and then we [59:59] also are planning to add two student members to the community advisory council um [1:00:07] the final three components of the youth development plan i can lead through lead i can go through more quickly [1:00:15] because i presented several times on them in terms of the youth enrichment components we do our goals are to add [1:00:23] additional staff so that we can contain sustain the current programming and enable program growth [1:00:29] we're super excited to be leveraging the new spaces as construction is completed at the adonic community center [1:00:35] especially the um the wood shop has been complete is in the process of being completely redone so we're excited to be [1:00:42] getting students into the wood shop and do some intergenerational programs there [1:00:47] and then we're very excited to continue the partnerships that we have started internally for [1:00:52] enrichment programs so i've spoken about our partnership with special services this summer we're so excited to have [1:00:59] added six new unified camps um that we've worked really closely with jeff jorgensen and [1:01:06] his team to create and um so these unified camps [1:01:11] intentionally partner students with special needs and typically developing students in [1:01:17] classes ranging from sports to art and we are building on [1:01:22] that strength that we're for this summer and our goal [1:01:28] is to have unified camps going year round in edina public schools [Music] [1:01:34] the fourth component is college and career readiness [1:01:40] um this one i can move quickly through because it's really in its infancy [1:01:45] before covid we had some amazing programs going with the um edina high school counseling [1:01:51] department partnerships with minnesota state mankato and normandale community college [1:01:56] we hope to re-establish those in the coming year but we have also made a commitment as a [1:02:02] community ed staff that our lead team is going to be focusing on spending [1:02:07] a lot more time on college and career readiness going forward and then finally the fifth component [1:02:15] is you support networks and services um very briefly the diner resource [1:02:20] center is a collaborative venture between the city of edina and edina public schools overseen by rsf [1:02:27] and the resource center does help us with our scholarship distribution and so our [1:02:34] goals are very simple for the coming year we want to increase the scholarship dollars that we're available to offer and make [1:02:40] sure that we're giving out every last dollar that we have to offer [1:02:46] so those are some of the highlights um i'm happy to take any questions that you might have right now [1:02:52] um i do welcome your feedback and just high level summary what i want you to hear is that [1:02:58] um within your energy around our youth development plan number one we do see youth as an [1:03:05] incredible source of untapped potential in our schools and in our community and we want to do everything we can to unleash that power [1:03:14] we feel like out of school time programs like the ones offered through community ed are the perfect opportunity [1:03:20] for students to have real world experience to step up to take leadership take charge and also [1:03:26] be fully supported as they both lead and serve and then [1:03:31] you know community education i feel like we are committed at our core to the principle of avoiding duplication [1:03:37] of services and working through partnerships so i think our staff has a lot to offer in terms of organizing and amplifying [1:03:44] the great work already going on in our schools related to youth development and youth service [1:03:49] but sometimes it can feel kind of piecemeal and i i feel like and many ideas just maybe need [1:03:55] a little bit more extra time or attention or resources and i feel like community ed is going to be a great partner in leveraging those [1:04:02] resources maybe being a project manager and really being a bridge between [1:04:07] community and schools and finding that sweet spot where schools and community connect [1:04:12] and i'm excited to be part of that [1:04:18] so do board members have questions or comments [1:04:24] i do cheryl thanks for coming in um you've talked about the discontinuing [1:04:30] the piecemeal approach and [1:04:35] having a new what has been [1:04:42] specifically with where we're moving [Music] um yeah so we've had um several [1:04:50] just because of history and because we keep growing and we've had several part-time positions [1:04:57] people who are working 10 hours a week maybe just overseeing the service letter program or somebody who's just helping with the [1:05:04] hornet mentors program then we've had part of um a volunteer manager's job to be helping with [1:05:10] different aspects of it so it's been like if you're interested in youth development if you let's say you're somebody a [1:05:17] community member who wanted to contribute or be a partner it would be challenging to figure out who is the owner who is the person i [1:05:24] should start start with and so we want to make it very clear that we have [1:05:29] one person who is the owner we have you know an entire team of people who are committed to this work but one person [1:05:35] that's our starting point and our lead team who's really going out and developing these relationships [1:05:41] so it's just combining some part-time positions and making it focused into a full-time committed [1:05:47] anchor and point person so it's consolidating a number of [1:05:52] part-time roles correct full-time positions correct thank you [1:05:59] anything else [1:06:08] thank you cheryl and val this is um this was great um i'm also on this um community ed advisory council so i [1:06:15] have had a preview to this work and this plan um i guess couple [1:06:21] month or two that you would presented it so i just wanted a couple things um one i just wanted to um [1:06:28] say the plan really does an amazing job of showing how you're going to elevate student voice and youth [1:06:34] voice then one thing that i think to owen's question about [1:06:39] the piecemeal approach which i know is just more logistics not mine thinking the logistics and the anchor um i think that anchor [1:06:47] really helps tie and thread the youth and the youth's voice all [1:06:53] throughout our whole system and that's what this plan to me seems very seamless right like [1:06:58] you're able i can see it i can see how that student voice is coming from all the different um [1:07:04] buildings all the different programming all through and funneled through community ed as kind of elevate that so [1:07:10] i thought you did an awesome job of explaining that and i'm super excited for [1:07:16] our students to get to benefit from that um one question i had too was under um [1:07:23] you had some there's some really amazing program i know the writing goal was something that was successful um i love the unified camps um i know [1:07:30] that is listening to community feedback and student feedback but in the leadership piece what what [1:07:37] role do students play as they come in to kind of join this effort like in [1:07:42] terms of bringing in new ideas um is that built into the system that if a student came [1:07:48] to community and said i want to do this how what is the plan for having that [1:07:54] door open for them i guess um well i can speak to it in terms of the enrichment programs like [1:08:00] how it has worked in the past for example when that student there was a student at udonna high school who [1:08:06] was very passionate about writing and she had an idea that she really wanted to connect with younger [1:08:12] writers and serve as a mentor for elementary middle school writers so she had participated in some a writing bowl which is a day-long [1:08:19] writing event with prompts go away and write come back so she came to our enrichment [1:08:24] team had the idea we saw it as our role to [1:08:29] um offer the infrastructure and the support that she needed to just bring [1:08:34] her vision to life and so i think that it's like again having that anchor who is somebody you [1:08:40] would go to no matter what it was whether it was writing an enrichment club you know establishing a new service [1:08:46] project assad with establishing a new platform like a tedx [1:08:52] youth event or whatever it is i we want to be open we are here to make their dreams shine [1:08:59] not tell them what they need to do you know a lot of school i feel like is still [1:09:04] you know a good amount of the school day is still setting and getting and listening and we are trying to in our out of [1:09:11] school time programs support students teach them [1:09:17] let them take the lead and show us what they've got bring their strengths to the table [1:09:22] um see things from new perspectives um and i appreciate your saying that about [1:09:28] um you know having an anchor i think in terms of the way we're restructuring i [1:09:35] think we've done a little bit of de-siloing of our programs in community ed in the way that we're [1:09:41] bringing all kinds of our programs together under this one idea an umbrella of youth development service and i feel like community i can [1:09:48] also be a catalyst to let the school district as a whole de-silo some of this youth development [1:09:54] work because there's so much great stuff happening in every school in so many departments and programs [1:10:00] even just at the high school alone but it's sort of like a little bit here a little bit there a little bit there and [1:10:06] i feel like we can maybe just organize them or put them under one umbrella so that we are um better leveraging our [1:10:13] resources and our talents and giving students a clear place to start [1:10:19] that's great thank you um and the only last thing i would be remiss if i didn't say the numbers from 2021 for enrollment [1:10:26] the offerings the revenue stream um i mean to be able to pivot in this [1:10:34] year especially and to see that growth is pretty outstanding so well done to your team amazing team [1:10:44] i just wanted to make a quick comment um i'm so appreciative of this work cheryl [1:10:49] i it kind of goes to what julie was saying it it to me it feels like a great piece of [1:10:55] that foundation you know eric has made a comment in the past about how our school is such a strong part of our [1:11:01] community and our community is such a strong part of our school they're they're like one can't exist without the other and this is just [1:11:07] another really good example especially for new members of our community to see how important they are to our school system [1:11:15] and how much every member of the community and especially our youth are valued so i just wanted to give you a big thank [1:11:20] you because i know this is a lot of work for you guys so there's so much potential and i'm so excited to get our staffing [1:11:28] um get a few more staff on board so that we can really like bring these ideas to life [1:11:35] and i think you're right we can't do it without um really involving our entire community and businesses and organizations [1:11:42] like we haven't like we haven't been able to in the past i think there's just so much untap potential [1:11:47] in our community and in our youth and i can't wait to start igniting it again i'm gonna say i hope [1:11:54] i i'm pretty sure they do but i hope our communities appreci our community members appreciate that this [1:12:00] relationship and this kind of work is pretty special to edina i've lived in many other places around the country and [1:12:07] this is really unique and it's really special and and that connection means a lot so thank [1:12:12] you for finding a way to really tap into that show i'm just organizing [1:12:18] it honestly i'm i'm happy to just um i will be so excited if i can just [1:12:24] organize some of that again the potential that i see and let these students shine thank you [1:12:34] first thank you i'm as excited as you are cheryl i think that this is really great work and [1:12:42] um i have just a couple comments one um i see the [1:12:50] in your goals is to continue to partner internally for enrichment program [1:12:56] development and i don't see any comments about partnering externally [1:13:01] particularly with career and college readiness and i was wondering if you [1:13:08] wanted to speak to that perhaps it's just not in here and planning it or what are your thoughts [1:13:15] i do um we we do also want to partner externally so internally i think the [1:13:21] really the interesting thing is where um [1:13:26] um you know i think there are interesting places where in school and out of school curriculum [1:13:32] can um inform one another so an example um this [1:13:37] summer we we heard from our community that we wanted more academic classes so we worked with reading [1:13:43] specialists developed some more reading camps you know i i think i'm so excited about working with [1:13:49] teaching and learning department to figure out like how can um where are these intersections between [1:13:56] you know curriculum and then how does out of school time bring that curriculum to life and then [1:14:01] externally we do already have many partnerships we're looking forward this summer to [1:14:06] a camp enterprise program which is a leadership program in partnership with the rotary [1:14:17] you know we we have a program with the urban boat builders where we have them coming into our [1:14:23] wood shop and maker spaces and they're working with youth on create on making on building canoes but [1:14:30] what they're really working on is youth development um and youth leadership skills [1:14:35] um so i think um yeah externally we have we have so many partnerships that can [1:14:41] enrich our curriculum our leadership our learning it is part of it i just probably didn't [1:14:47] do a very good job of of highlighting that today thank you for your work [1:14:56] else well thank you very much um cheryl and val we appreciate the [1:15:01] presentation all the work put into it so um and randy before we get to you [1:15:06] i inadvertently left up [Music] in the community that can speak and so i [1:15:12] wanted to apologize both to you randy and to our community members so that was my error [1:15:17] and i wanted to welcome you up to um to speak um so we have pat martinez [1:15:34] hi my name is patrice martinez i worked for a dining school district for 10 years and i'm i became the union [1:15:42] steward so i have a voice with our health insurance we cannot [1:15:48] afford our health insurance october 2019 that i got sick where i [1:15:54] couldn't breathe i was out of breath i had four doctor hospital visits [1:15:59] three ambulance rides and they didn't know what was wrong with me and then i came back to work in december [1:16:06] and then january of that year i had to go to the hospital and get a cat skin long story short it cost three [1:16:14] thousand dollars my two fifteen hundred dollar deductible back to back i had to go to the bank and get a loan [1:16:20] to be able to pay for just that we have people families our custodians have to pay over [1:16:27] nine hundred dollars that's somebody's paycheck just to pay for their health shirts a month we can't afford the health [1:16:33] insurance i don't know if you're aware of it but we turned down our contract because we're unhappy we're taking a [1:16:40] stand out we've been sitting back and getting the crumbs that you're offering us and we can't live on [1:16:46] what's your is i met a custodian a couple weeks ago he had just started here one week [1:16:53] and he quit to go to another school district there's so many school districts that are paying way more than [1:16:58] a diner we don't understand that we really don't [1:17:06] with the covet that's the whole another issue because we're told [1:17:14] i'm sorry because i don't have anything written down but we've been busting our butt i've been in the i've been [1:17:21] here from day one with the co-fit my school was one of the schools for the first response [1:17:26] i've kind of shut my school down because we had parents coming in i try to keep it as safe as possible i [1:17:33] take pride in my job i take pride in keeping my school safe i'm like the watchdog at my school you [1:17:38] know that because i protect everybody there and we don't get the respect or the [1:17:45] recognition that we deserve there's other places [1:17:51] target gave their their employees a 500 incentive we never even got a thank you [1:17:56] from the district and we're still going through this we we it's just a mess and we have a lot [1:18:04] more issues and we're going to keep we're in with our union now and they're [1:18:10] backing us and our custodians and bus drivers are uniting and we're becoming stronger and we're [1:18:16] going to have a voice and we're not going to go away we're not going away so we feel that we [1:18:23] deserve more money our health insurance is going to go up 10 next year if you give us one [1:18:30] if you give us a 14 raise it doesn't make up for our health insurance we're digging [1:18:35] in the hole more and more because we can't afford our health insurance we're not getting our raises are [1:18:40] terrible i work two jobs just to be able to afford to pay my bills there's so many people it's it's just [1:18:48] really hard working here financially so we're we're not gonna stop [1:18:57] so i gotta say thank you thank you thank you thank you and kelly gibbons [1:19:11] hello everybody hello [1:19:18] my name is kelly gibbons i wasn't planning on speaking tonight um [1:19:24] i'm the executive director for seiu local 284 and our members were going to speak [1:19:31] tonight but unfortunately they had to go back to work they all took off and came up here we [1:19:36] had about 50 or 60 employees from the transportation and the bus [1:19:42] um the custodial group and they wanted to you to know what [1:19:48] they're going through and um [Music] [1:19:53] you know mark gave me his list of things so i hope that i do him justice tonight because [1:19:59] he really wanted to speak and he needed to go back this is a year of firsts [1:20:07] this is the first time we've ever been in a pandemic these folks they didn't want to go into [1:20:13] the schools they didn't have the opportunity to work from home like so many other [1:20:19] people did they were here taking care of the community and the kids and making sure these schools were safe [1:20:26] and clean and maintained and these schools are beautiful [1:20:31] i mean i've come in and i oh my gosh the floors just sparkle here [1:20:37] and the bus drivers make sure that the kids get to school safely or we're delivering lunches [1:20:42] people pivoted and shift through this whole pandemic and they were calling us and they were [1:20:49] so scared and i said to them please you've got to go in there and take care of those kids [1:20:56] because the essential workers expect us to take care of their children and if we don't take care of their children [1:21:03] who's going to take care of our families in our community and so they did it and they've come in [1:21:11] and they've gotten covered and they've been sick and they have long lasting effects from [1:21:18] it and they want you to know that this is the first time for them for [1:21:24] for covet and a pandemic but it was also first time for them to say i am not [1:21:31] accepting this contract 14 cents was an insult to these people [1:21:36] they're angry that that's the best that edina could do for them when they came in and risked their [1:21:42] health um it's a first for them to show up and do [1:21:48] an action they wrote petitions they came in here [1:21:53] they sat in the other room and they wanted you to hear their stories they're going backwards and i know [1:22:00] that's not what you want for them i know edina cares about this community [1:22:05] it's a beautiful community and you need to you know understand that [1:22:11] you know some of these people have worked here 22 23 years more they're part of this community [1:22:18] they're dedicated to this school district and they want you to show them that you care [1:22:24] their insurance is going through the breath they can't afford it like pat said she had to borrow money [1:22:31] she doesn't make that kind of money we're not getting 20 000 a year raises like some people they [1:22:37] don't make a hundred thousand a year these are the lowest paid workers [1:22:42] but they're here and we have to take care of them you know um when they can't afford their [1:22:50] medical insurance they're going backwards and they're paid because the insurance is going higher [1:22:55] than what they're getting they're frustrated and they're tired and that's not what we want to do we [1:23:02] want to take care of everybody and they were here to take care of you and i'm hoping that you will also say [1:23:08] you know what we can do better than this and so i came to talk on behalf of them [1:23:14] today i'm not here to negotiate with you i'm just here to tell you that like i [1:23:19] understand i've got grandkids in schools i did the same jobs that they've done [1:23:25] i started where they started and these are hard jobs and you know [1:23:34] still hard people are still having after effects of colbit and we just want to make sure that you [1:23:40] understand that this is why they're doing this this is a first for them [1:23:46] and like pat said they're not going to wait they are really angry that [1:23:53] that was the best that could be done for them 14 cents i've negotiated contracts all over the [1:23:59] place the governor gave two percent and 2.5 where's the money [1:24:06] he got coveted money minneapolis gave their essential workers three dollars an hour [1:24:12] extra and then they increased it to five dollars an hour extra we didn't even negotiate that they gave [1:24:18] that to them yep yes you got it so i just want you to [1:24:23] know that like you know there is we need to do better and they came here and unfortunately they all had to leave [1:24:30] and they wanted you to know that they were here and so i thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on their [1:24:36] behalf because i had no intentions of doing this but they were really upset that they had to leave and [1:24:43] not have the opportunity to talk tonight so um i want to thank you and if you have [1:24:49] any questions for me i'd be glad to answer them otherwise i'll just vote thank you very [1:24:55] much thank you very much [1:25:03] and thank you for contributing and thank you randy for pivoting as well [1:25:11] so um we are now going to talk about travel basically [1:25:19] uh good evening uh chair ellenberg superintendent schultz school board members community members [1:25:26] we have a proposal for three travel based learning experiences before the board [1:25:32] this evening just very quickly travel based learning experiences provide an authentic way for students to apply [1:25:40] skills and knowledge that they've gained throughout eden public schools and it also provides them an opportunity [1:25:46] to obtain some new knowledge and skills as a result of that experience these experiences are often cherished by [1:25:53] kids as being incredibly memorable because of that application but also because of the [1:25:58] friendships that they build along the way as they're preparing for the trips and also during that [1:26:04] experience and edina uh public schools has had a long history of providing opportunities like [1:26:10] this so these are not unique or new but are just something that we typically bring [1:26:15] in front of the board as those are presented to us we did share uh two of the three [1:26:22] experiences i think we discussed at the teaching learning board committee and the other one i didn't have at the time [1:26:28] and i shared that electronically with the tnl board committee these are all planned for june of 2022 [1:26:35] so that's about a year out per policy the policy 538 kind of governs this this [1:26:41] work and and whenever we have international travel experiences to the board so we have a trip [1:26:48] from edine high school to the dominica we have a middle school [1:26:53] extended french trip to quebec and montreal and then an elementary normandale trip [1:26:59] these are for students who are transitioning out of normandale the last [1:27:05] few years that haven't been able to participate in this so it would extend into some middle-aged [1:27:10] school students that had participated at armadale and they would be going to bordeaux france [1:27:16] we did have colleen mine from uh normandale here i don't know that she's still here we have [1:27:22] pier schmidt from valley view jen carter from the high school and i think lindsay smacka is going to join us a few minutes [1:27:27] also from the high school to answer questions we did talk in the teaching learning [1:27:33] board committee about um you know what do we do with kovid in these trips and i touched base with [1:27:41] our legal counsel about that and we looked at the cdc guidance and believe that we [1:27:46] will use the cdc guidance for international travel and we will build out a [1:27:52] covet planning form for each of these trips so that that can be completed prior to the trip [1:27:58] and we should have that available for the board in june so we're bringing these for discussion tonight or for questions or clarifications [1:28:05] and then it would be for action in june i think there was a there was a [1:28:11] correction on the edina high school trip it should say june 15th through the 28th i believe for 2000 [1:28:17] excuse me in 22 and then per policy we would bring the final itinerary to the board within four [1:28:25] months of uh that final travel and we're here for uh um questions that the board has so that [1:28:32] we can try to clarify those and if we can't answer them we'll try to work on those answers and bring it back to you [1:28:37] so with that we'll turn it back to the board with questions you have about any of these three adventures [1:28:48] i have a quick question hi dr snozzle great are there i know that there's [1:28:55] these three identified are there any other churches that we typically do um in an international basis over the [1:29:02] summer that's not included in here like we've said okay we're not going to do this moving forward [1:29:09] from a historical standpoint i'm just curious yeah there there are definitely other [1:29:14] trips they may or may not be coming forward um i don't know jen could you speak to that a little bit in terms [1:29:21] of what the high school is planning or thinking so we do have some national trips that [1:29:26] we're looking at for next year um and those are approved at our site um but in terms of international [1:29:32] we did have a music group that has decided to want a national experience instead of an international experience [1:29:38] um but right now this is just the one trip from the high school that's international thank you [1:29:47] there wasn't a group that thought with coven and all the um restrictions that they couldn't apply [1:29:54] right they couldn't so that makes sense the group would switch to national that completely makes sense and [1:29:59] i'm just thrilled that this is actually on the table but this is going to be back as an opportunity for our kids and what this means so [1:30:06] thank you [1:30:12] so randy just curious is there a list of trips that happen [1:30:18] over a school year summer for grades five through 12. [1:30:24] i'm curious about trips that vary in cost so that we have [1:30:31] lower cost trips available i'm particularly interested in just [1:30:36] seeing sort of a spreadsheet that says the period three dinosaurs over the course of the [1:30:42] 12 month time period and usually what the cost is in terms of opportunity [1:30:48] for kids to know that there's fundraisers but if board members are interested i would [1:30:55] like to see a spreadsheet at some point i know at one point we had a spreadsheet [1:31:02] i think when susan tennyson was here and was maintaining some of this work i know she had had a [1:31:07] spreadsheet similar to that so i will look for that lenny and see if we can [1:31:13] revitalize that and make sure that that's accurate and bring that back to the board [1:31:18] bart and dr smuzzle i do maintain a list for nine through 12 um that could be shared [1:31:26] thanks john trying to make sure that we're offering portable trips as well as somebody's [1:31:36] reason for the question i think that would be valuable and i think it would be good also to just brainstorm [1:31:44] and i know we've talked about when i was on teaching and learning decades ago about um [1:31:51] are there for example if we're going and having a science experience internationally are there [1:31:57] ways we can replicate that regionally um for students at a much more cost so [1:32:03] they can get that [Music] but not necessarily it doesn't have to [1:32:09] cost that much you get the boundary [1:32:23] what requirements are so i know there's some travel that's connected to like that um economics team travels a [1:32:29] lot of times right to boston that would be a trip but you have to be you have to make the team to be able to [1:32:35] be eligible so that eligibility piece might be included in that so that you can see where [1:32:43] is that what you like when you are doing comparison is that important way in your question [1:32:52] we had this discussion several years ago we're going to have a trip where it's 3 500 and there's this great [1:32:59] science aspect to it that wrote about before 750 where's the symbol of great [1:33:06] science opportunity which is different [1:33:14] right so i guess i just so for to give correction in terms of the list that we [1:33:20] would want so then if it's specific and you have to qualify for it then it wouldn't be [1:33:25] or i guess i guess i'm just like okay then like you have to be in [1:33:31] band to go on a band trip but i would think the fan would be included in that yes [1:33:36] i'm probably getting way too many weeds but so are you thinking about those trips versus like the dc trip well i think anybody can go right [1:33:43] right that's kind of uh exactly like so that's because if we're if we're trying to look at we're doing a comparison [1:33:49] right and saying okay what are the things you can go to i think it'd be it would it would benefit us to look at [1:33:55] it from how many kids have the opportunity to go and what do you have to do to get there because i think also can create [1:34:01] incentives for students to want to go to things too so if you're going to create the list i would add that to add that opportunity [1:34:08] piece like the qualifications are just right because then you know like you can't you know you can't just [1:34:14] skip off to boston or whatever because of whatever it's a combination does that make sense [1:34:21] what the thinking is and is that beneficial or [1:34:26] thanks any other questions [1:34:32] thank you randy okay thank you [1:34:38] uh owen it's your turn or do we want to do literacy oh my gosh [1:34:46] i preemptively put a check mark by literacy i'm sorry i wanted to talk about policy [1:34:52] sorry sorry about that maybe i was remembering the work session [1:34:58] sessions i thought i'd already talked about it we're now going to talk about our phase [1:35:05] one pre-k comprehensive literacy plan and preliminary 612 intervention and we have directoration learning [1:35:13] were here and dr bonnie hulk instruction [1:35:20] thank you chair ellenberg dr schultz members of the board community members and colleagues i'm dr [1:35:26] bonnie how can i here tonight to give you a brief presentation that highlights the comprehensive [1:35:32] literacy plan draft that you have in front of you as a board report our pla our presentation highlights [1:35:39] what is new in terms of the proposals as we enter into the plan phase for next [1:35:46] year so i'm going to take a minute to present and turn it over to dr bonnie hogg okay [1:35:53] good evening and thank you for allowing us this time we will try to be as concise and [1:36:01] quick as possible while still being comprehensive as it's a comprehensive literacy plan [1:36:07] um tonight's focus is phase one so the 2020 2021 focus for this year [1:36:13] was to develop a pre-k five early childhood through elementary focused comprehensive [1:36:19] literacy plan and also look at interventions k-8 [1:36:25] k-12 next year we'll be focusing on secondary and we will be adding that to [1:36:30] our plan while we implement the initial elements of the pre-k5 plan [1:36:36] and then by year three will be implementing all the professional development resources and metrics for data [1:36:43] collection our mission and vision of course is to [1:36:49] nurture and enhance the literacy development of our students and we're doing this through [1:36:55] a number of things professional excellence creating a caring and inclusive literacy culture [1:37:00] in our classroom schools and across the district aligning our instruction to current and [1:37:06] enduring research and proven best practices increasing the classroom strategies that we do [1:37:12] during core instruction to support struggling readers and to address literacy deficits early [1:37:19] while we're promoting continuous learning and promoting collective ownership through all stakeholders in the [1:37:25] educational organization so that we all have a unified vision that all students in edina public [1:37:31] schools from early childhood through high school will become lifelong learners with rich literacy language and [1:37:37] comprehension skills necessary to be engaged motivated critical thinkers and communicators [1:37:43] so we want to celebrate some of the things that are already in place and growing [1:37:50] we have some celebrations across core classrooms and we now have [1:37:56] sunday essentials training being implemented and integrated into daily tier 1 [1:38:02] classroom instruction to support phonological awareness and phonics so we're building those foundational skills [1:38:09] and we're also aligning these new resources which are organ gillingham based into the daily practice of using our [1:38:16] other curriculum resources for reading an ela writing is being consistently taught in [1:38:22] classrooms using our being a writer resource and we're also integrating resources for [1:38:28] comprehension fluency and vocabulary development so these were observed by our literacy coaches as they worked with our k5 teachers this [1:38:36] spring our intervention celebrations these are celebrations to support [1:38:41] the work of all of our different intervention specialists and especially our learning specialists [1:38:47] who are finding ways to integrate hill rap and sunday [1:38:53] one and two resources while they're doing those in addition to [1:38:58] tier two and tier three supported targeted intervention for students who need more [1:39:04] literacy instruction and support than they get in the core classroom [1:39:10] our learning specialists have worked really hard to learn the hill wrap and sunday one and [1:39:16] two intervention programs and hill wrap many of our learning specialists are in [1:39:22] going into their second or third year of this training and so we have these wonderful resources [1:39:28] and also selective supports hill rep is more technology based using an ipad sunday one and two offers more hands-on [1:39:35] multi-sensory pieces we're also celebrating that we're digging deeper into our use of fast and [1:39:43] other diagnostic data to identify needs and to progress monitor the students and to see if [1:39:49] interventions are working and having discussions on whether or not they need to shift [1:39:54] we also want to celebrate that our schools are able to invite guests and share these wonderful [1:40:01] literacy celebrations so at highlands elementary we had we heard some [1:40:07] wonderful feedback about board members and superintendent applicants visiting the school [1:40:13] and hearing about the classroom and intervention celebrations that are going on in our schools [1:40:22] we've also been doing some work around the urgent needs for literacy growth and development for [1:40:28] our students and the one thing that um we're all really proud of but jody and i are [1:40:34] really proud of is the literacy coach model and so we we have two literacy coaches but [1:40:41] we're also developing our model and so we're using research and we're using data [1:40:46] to support the integration and implementation of the coaches in the school and so they're [1:40:51] collecting data while they're there uh both by visiting classrooms and also from the conversations that they're [1:40:57] having with teachers and the one-on-one coaching and observations that they're doing um we're excited to expand that model to [1:41:05] provide more support in classrooms uh down the road classroom awareness is growing the idea [1:41:12] of classroom based core instruction interventions we're supporting our teachers in this [1:41:19] process through a number of things including the sunday essentials training [1:41:24] every k2 teacher has had it they have the resources they're using them next year we'll be [1:41:29] implementing it full force with the scope and sequence guided by the literacy coaches [1:41:35] we're currently updating our dyslexia guidebook as you may know legislation gets updated [1:41:41] every year and so we're updating our dyslexia guidebook in partnership with [1:41:47] minnesota state statutes that grow around dyslexia and our expectations around that work [1:41:53] but also to provide resources and training for our educators and our community [1:41:59] we're teaming with the multilingual and el team so that we can [1:42:06] infuse literacy interventions in the classroom that also support language [1:42:11] learners and we've also been piloting this year an alternative pathway for talent [1:42:16] development for students that have text-based barriers to say that very carefully text-based [1:42:23] barriers we have students who are very capable of extending themselves in a [1:42:29] highly academic and also creative classroom environment but [1:42:36] have some struggles with text and so we've created a pathway for those students to access our advanced academic [1:42:42] reading program in the future our wonderful talent development coordinator deb [1:42:47] richards has worked with many of us to create a phased structure to [1:42:53] create these opportunities in talent development for multilingual students and [1:42:59] marginalized students who often don't have access because of the opportunity gap so we're very excited [1:43:05] about these developing pieces that are happening already this spring [1:43:11] these are our proposed critical resources and we're going to say critical because we really need them [1:43:16] in order to be successful in all of our amazing goals for the comprehensive [1:43:22] literacy plan literacy coaching is really important from the aspect of [1:43:27] we provide professional development and that's where we have shared knowledge and we can explicitly [1:43:33] teach and share new research and best practices but then teachers need to try that out in their classroom collect student work [1:43:40] and lesson ideas and come back as a team and talk about it in doing this having a literacy coach [1:43:46] support that learning can solidify the implementation much sooner [1:43:52] than is typical so if typical professional development according to research [1:43:57] takes about 50 hours of teacher time in order for it to have a direct effect on student achievement [1:44:03] literacy coaches can help accelerate that time and so we found a great benefit this spring [1:44:09] and we're determined to extend that we also realize that our secondary structures and personalized [1:44:17] learning requires a different way of thinking about tier two and tier three intervention support for literacy [1:44:23] and so we're proposing two secondary literacy coaches who are also reading licensed interventionists who [1:44:31] can provide mtss supports within the current culture of our secondary schools [1:44:36] while they're helping us to design the 6 through 12 part of the comprehensive literacy plan we [1:44:44] also found that we need the support of kindergarten paraprofessionals which really help our early literacy growth [1:44:51] and promise for our students we also will be doing an early childhood [1:44:58] literacy curriculum review and that will also partner with their current [1:45:04] pyramid-based sel curriculum so that we have a seamless opportunity for students to become [1:45:11] literate while their executive functioning and social emotional growth is happening and through this [1:45:17] we have a pre-k 2 alignment team which is representatives from the early [1:45:22] childhood and primary grades who are coming together to look at the bridging of the [1:45:27] standards between those two educational entities and also to consider kindergarten [1:45:33] readiness and how we can ensure a partnership across that early childhood to [1:45:38] kindergarten space so that we're all learning and our growth is maximized [1:45:46] we also need to implement and we have these wonderful systems and we're looking to [1:45:51] create responsive interactions between them we want to take a look at our assessment [1:45:56] system with the target of literacy and make sure that we have all the literacy assessments we need in our system [1:46:03] that our teachers and leaders have the training that they need and that that data is easily accessible to all stakeholders so [1:46:10] that we can use data collection and analysis not only to inform our instruction [1:46:15] but to evaluate our programs and implement into the development of the comprehensive literacy plan we also [1:46:22] have many groups of leaders and educators currently working on updating our multi-tiered systems of [1:46:29] support in our mts framework our professional learning communities we're calling it the plc playbook and [1:46:36] professional development opportunities for teachers these can align with the comprehensive literacy plan to strengthen it [1:46:43] and also to help teachers understand the seamlessness of how these important systems align and [1:46:49] support each other and we are designing literacy leadership [1:46:54] school teams which will be our infrastructure for collective ownership coaching data collection feedback [1:47:00] communication and implementing the goals and the professional development of this comprehensive literacy plan [1:47:06] and in all the documents you got it's broken down into the layers of leadership that we need [1:47:12] at the school level all the way up to the district level to create these partnerships [1:47:17] to really ensure that our plan is able to take root and make a change in a difference for children [1:47:25] focus professional development and learning is at the heart of this because it's the teacher and the quality [1:47:31] of the teacher and the knowledge and pedagogy of the teacher that makes the greatest difference for student growth and achievement [1:47:36] so we want to make sure that we have consistent time for professional development to [1:47:42] enhance our teachers and leaders knowledge and practice in these important elements and we just [1:47:48] outlined the big ideas of our professional learning plan effective instruction [1:47:54] the current and endear enduring research that talks about what is good instruction and what's required to truly shift the [1:48:00] ownership of learning from the teaching adult to the student learner so that's their knowledge and they're growing and they [1:48:07] own it foundational literacy knowledge we've outlined some of these important areas of research and best [1:48:14] practice that teachers need to know in order to recognize the reading needs of their students and to be able to [1:48:20] support deficits as soon as they appear so we've included the components of reading the stages of development in [1:48:26] different literacy areas structured literacy and classroom [1:48:31] interventions um we also have some letters cohorts letters is [1:48:37] um a instructional knowledge base that builds a [1:48:43] a teacher or a leader's capacity to understand the foundational literacy skills oral language development phonological [1:48:49] awareness phonemic words and phonics that culminate in a child's ability to decode [1:48:56] and be able to decode with fluency and accuracy so that while they're reading their brain is free to think and make [1:49:02] meaning so we have these opportunities for the original ten i will say one person actually [1:49:09] compete pleaded letters during the covid situation we have our original nine an [1:49:14] opportunity for an additional 21 literacy coaches classroom teacher specialists [1:49:20] to participate in a letters cohort and also to um [1:49:25] create an opportunity for our leaders to participate in this training as well [1:49:30] we continue to build our literacy coaching model as an opportunity for job embedded [1:49:36] professional development and support and of course our dyslexia guidebook for all [1:49:41] pre-k 12 students and staff so come to a close with underscoring our [1:49:48] commitment to literacy for all edina students and we're doing this through [1:49:55] that has a focus collective ownership among all the stakeholders in the community [1:50:00] intentional action providing opportunities for feedback from various stakeholders and we've [1:50:06] listed here we've had i think over a hundred voices contribute to where we are right now [1:50:13] and this plan will continue to evolve based on continued collaboration and [1:50:19] data to enhance the literacy growth and readiness and development of our students [1:50:24] and we're in the process of creating our data collection and metric system to support this whole literacy plan [1:50:32] so thank you thank you bonnie i'll turn it over to [1:50:38] the board for questions and input okay um [1:50:55] um so i won't go through all the things that i brought up but i like this the superstructure behind [1:51:02] what i'm seeing here and we're getting a lot of real critical topics um talking about the big five you're [1:51:10] talking about big five plus one um sunday in tier one hill rap [1:51:15] intervention tier two and tier three there's all sorts of good things um [1:51:20] my concern that i brought up was i'm real interested in getting some results back that we [1:51:28] could see at some sort of tight feedback intervals we could do course correction that you all and um the literacy coaches [1:51:36] and the sites would know specifically how the classrooms are doing um i've got a follow-up question for [1:51:43] that specifically something didn't hit me uh was the initial plan to have do [1:51:48] metrics in year three or year two or um [1:51:53] if that was the case i'm just looking through it i couldn't find it um [1:52:01] we actually will be doing them as soon as we begin so we'll collect some benchmark data and [1:52:08] we we will collect data around the professional learning as we go and i really liked um the input earlier [1:52:16] to come up with a a stronger system of getting some student data related to the [1:52:22] milestones that we've created so um we have something in draft form and i was working on it [1:52:29] in between the two meetings but we continue to invite feedback to really build that out [1:52:37] to be very intentional in those important increments that we can see [1:52:43] that things are in place and that they're working or to modify if they're not [1:52:49] um bonnie jody and erica maybe i didn't catch this but where are we what are you all coming back again when will we have a [1:52:56] discussion similar to this so for action for to approve the um [1:53:05] preliminary or this phase of it in june so that would come okay third week [1:53:12] i'm sorry july 2016 so it's true just so i guess what i mean is um so we're gonna prove it [1:53:20] in three years yes and so and the next phase is not scheduled yet like when we would see [1:53:26] like updates that's i think a discussion that teaching learning needs to have is when would we see like routine [1:53:32] updates june 21st if not six weeks this is may [1:53:37] oh yeah um yeah farther out than that but um is your question more like the next [1:53:44] phase yeah when's our next significant encounter with you all bonnie and jody yeah uh could we do it in october [1:53:50] i you know just sort of because i'd like some kind of tight feedback [1:53:57] with how things are going so like suggestions that we had earlier around um like metrics to gauge success [1:54:10] so by october we would have some baseline benchmark data of where we're starting so it would be a [1:54:17] combination of student data that we would collect in the fall but also um a combination of data from [1:54:24] the literacy leaders going into classrooms looking for the very specific things for which we're [1:54:30] going to provide professional development and see where the baseline data is for that also to do some [1:54:36] teacher data collection through a survey uh which would compare the knowledge that they have around this [1:54:43] professional development action that we're doing but also how they implement it and then we can compare [1:54:50] um that perception data of the knowledge and implementation from the end of the teacher [1:54:55] and what we see when we visit classrooms and then use that knowledge to refine and differentiate the [1:55:03] professional development the student data we would only really have baseline data by [1:55:10] october um because of course there wouldn't have been enough time for the effects of the plan to take root in [1:55:17] the actual student work does that make sense i appreciate chair ellenberg's idea of teaching and [1:55:23] learning looking at like um cycles right and and timelines of when we can be [1:55:28] coming back to the board with reports um and updates in different fashions as the plan evolves so we can [1:55:34] certainly talk through that at the teaching and learning committee and [1:55:39] share some drafts of metrics with the implementation as well as student progress [1:55:44] that we draft here and and work around that so that at the next june meeting we would have some more [1:55:50] concrete information on that yeah that would be great i would just [1:55:55] give them the prominence of this and pray yes [1:56:10] in terms of us a check-in in the fall i think that'd be great just where you're at with the liftoff [1:56:17] you know the school years just lift it off just where we're at perfect [1:56:27] i was just going to add i just i appreciate we had a really robust conversation um with feedback so um thank you again [1:56:33] for all your work and um i look forward to seeing some of the tweaks to this plan in june [1:56:39] so thank you for all your work thank you one thing that i didn't mention during [1:56:45] the work session earlier um and it's like my great concern about students [1:56:53] that that have learning reading challenges and i see that we are [1:57:01] updating our dyslexia guidebook but i'm wondering exactly what kind of [1:57:08] programming we have of how those students what will impact oh what will [1:57:14] change with that and have you ever considered partnering with groves i know groves has literacy partnerships [1:57:22] with schools and have you ever considered doing that [1:57:35] so ellen some one of the major components of the plan um is the mtss structure and the [1:57:42] decision making model for how we support students who are struggling with tier one instruction [1:57:48] or who are actually learning tier one instruction very quickly and so that mtss structure and the [1:57:55] systems that we put in place there are really critical for supporting students who are struggling and then [1:58:02] as we go into next year we're going to continue to do resource review of what we're using [1:58:08] in order to respond when students are struggling and make sure that the resources are [1:58:14] aligning with instruction and what exactly our students need in response to [1:58:19] partnering with groves we have not talked about that um recently i i do think prior to bonnie [1:58:25] and i being here there may have been some conversations and so we can certainly circle back and learn more about those past [1:58:31] conversations and certainly talk about it in terms of what that would look like [1:58:37] into the future that would be very i would be very interested in looking into that [1:58:44] this is this impacts so many of our students [1:58:50] that it's it's really an important aspect of a comprehensive literacy plan okay yes and i think that's um you're [1:58:58] exactly right so we really appreciate the question and that's why we really wanted to highlight in the presentation [1:59:03] to the specific things that we're doing to support students with the foundational skills [1:59:08] and so some of that was highlighted with that purpose in mind so thank you for bringing it to the forefront ellen [1:59:14] yeah maybe um and maybe when you come back with the other stuff to teaching and learning [1:59:20] you can see if you've looked into that if you think that we could support that type of partnership [1:59:28] would you be interested i'd like to hear the minuses yes and and certainly looking at what we [1:59:35] have in place that would be similar to what groves grove offers so we we can explore that some more and [1:59:41] and see what the benefits would be and and what we currently have that would we'd be parallel or not okay that goes [1:59:49] back to our mts alignment with mtss alignment with the clp um and [1:59:54] really having deeper conversations with jeff's team and and seeing how things fit together [2:00:00] and where the gaps might be if any super thank you [2:00:06] anything else so um just a quick bomb i take it that we're [2:00:12] trying to do is to make sure that we can build a sufficient system of our own that would [2:00:18] provide support for those students that create a need to have an outside [2:00:24] resource so my actual question i did get some [2:00:30] information on the fiscal so what i'm hoping is by if you can give us some feedback on [2:00:38] what you're thinking of for future funding in other words there are ongoing costs here that we [2:00:43] look at we have covered for next year but those ongoing costs are going to continue into the future [2:00:49] so i'm not looking for how do you cover 100 of those because fiscal changes you should judge would [2:00:55] say every single year it changes but i think that it would be prudent to take a look and say [2:01:00] if we anticipate x number of dollars in not next year but the year after participate today coverage say half of [2:01:07] that so look at that for the june one just so that we don't approve something that we [2:01:13] can fund for one year yes i think that would be great for us to have the discussion in tnl committee [2:01:19] around some of the brainstorming and get some feedback in that group and and continue that progress forward [2:01:28] i just want to make sure that the feedback from the board is clear as far as timing and everything like [2:01:34] that that we're talking about maybe having some financial information [2:01:45] and then having some a more refined information about process [2:01:52] when we could anticipate having more metrics in the fall [2:01:58] yes those two pieces metrics in the fall and process around that and then budget [2:02:03] recognizing that we have some costs that are being funded by potentially funded by [2:02:08] one term or one-time monies right now and how we look into the future with those yes [2:02:16] the questions about what the metrics would actually look like and grows information some of those [2:02:22] other things would be processed through teaching and learning the board's understanding of everything we talked about yes okay i just wanted [2:02:29] to make sure we've had so many different discussions but i know it's on the same page so and i know it's [2:02:37] like owen said i'm looking at you but you're something outside of my face so i apologize i know it's okay and i'm leaning forward so i [2:02:43] can hear you better but it really doesn't make a difference so technology [2:02:49] we appreciate the input though and um and will continue to work thank you now oh when it is your turn [2:02:58] well i [2:03:05] so we have policy for rapid review 901 and 902 [2:03:10] these deal with community ed services and the use of school district facilities and [2:03:16] equipment respectively just language changes here so [2:03:22] and we have nikki tusher on tap if we have any questions but any thoughts or discussions about [2:03:29] these two hearing none then i will move on to [2:03:35] our two policies for review these are 625 and 20 625 and 626 [2:03:44] and these were somewhat initiated by our student activities and advisory [2:03:49] committee sack the first deals with the interests [2:03:55] athletic programs and the other is independent provider activity [2:04:01] programs we have language change language changes here for clarity and consistency [2:04:09] we also have language changes for alignment with state and federal statutes [2:04:16] and we have a few other things so i open it for discussion first on 6 25. [2:04:25] plenty so the only comment i have on 625 is the general statement of policy appears to have the statement of policy [2:04:31] followed by criteria and procedures all under policy [2:04:38] so if you can just take a look at two and perhaps a under two should not be a statement of [2:04:44] policy but it should be a process or criteria so just look at whether roman and world [2:04:52] 2 should be broken up into a statement of policy and then processing criteria [2:04:58] that's right that would be in an appendix no i'm just separating no just separate [2:05:04] generally [2:05:17] and then under roman numeral three process it would say a potential interscholastic athletic [2:05:24] program additions and deletions and then we bump implementation down to four [2:05:30] right yes four yeah yeah cause really that's talking about process not the general statement of policy [2:05:37] yeah okay do you okay good thank you okay thank you lenny [2:05:46] good catch other thoughts in 625 [2:05:51] um the only thing i would add in here did you um [2:05:58] wait a second never mind scratch that [2:06:09] right but we're still talking 625 right 625 years [2:06:16] um but it's not i didn't get it [2:06:23] doesn't matter okay so you're cool 6 25 okay uh 6 [2:06:30] 26 the only thing i was going to add on to what owen said sorry i got tripped up [2:06:35] on the 6 25 6 20 6 thing is um this did come from the [2:06:41] student advisory council um the most substantial change in here is that um to allow [2:06:47] students from grades seven to twelve to participate instead of nine to twelve and that came as a recommendation um through um [2:06:56] troy stein and his um his group and it's it makes sense to expand that [2:07:02] possibility for students to participate we have a lot of other programs that do go down to seventh grade if we're able [2:07:08] to do it so if the need and the desire is there the thought was why not offer to those students [2:07:14] and just to clarify for the community and the board with independent provider activity [2:07:19] programs we partner with um outside groups at times to offer [2:07:25] things to supplement what we have in the community so an example of that would be uh e-dyna rugby association it's not run [2:07:33] um by the school district it's run by a different entity but they can letter [2:07:39] um and so i just wanted to clarify what exactly this policy was referring to for um people in the community that might [2:07:46] not know just really and then that would so what would be [2:07:51] inserted in those two brackets 3. [2:07:59] director jones i i knew this question would come up and i did end up looking up the appendix um it is appendix [2:08:05] 4 to policy 628 and so that is and what that is is the um exemption [2:08:12] for seventh and eighth grade exceptional athlete um appendix appendix and so that's what [2:08:17] that bracket was saving um time for so thank you so much director jones for the question [2:08:31] so do we want to make a language change to accommodate that [2:08:43] so just a quick question having made the prior statement of policies [2:08:48] shorter i looked at this statement of policy and it doesn't seem to it kind of ends [2:08:53] prematurely so it says that we recognize there are situations where we can't provide [2:08:59] services and i think it should then say and therefore we would supplement [2:09:04] with independent providers i mean the statement of policy is that we're going to have independent [2:09:10] providers to supplement what we're not otherwise provided this just says we can't provide everybody i'm just saying you might want [2:09:16] to look at the statement of policy and incorporate what the policy is actually doing [2:09:22] into that general statement [2:09:28] okay we'll bring that up at our next policy meeting and may i [2:09:35] wouldn't use it will i'd say may yeah [2:09:58] we had long discussions about what insurance meant and sarah [2:10:03] okay i don't have to hear that yeah okay [2:10:11] well good catches yep and we will bring that back to the committee [2:10:16] make those amendments and then bring it back for action next month great thank you turn back to your chair all right [2:10:22] and we have three action items tonight um do i have a motion to approve the earth science curriculum [2:10:28] and resources did you get that sarah [2:10:36] i absolutely did not it was lenny and then jamie [2:10:48] what so you're good to go um sorry jody welcome back and then we [2:10:55] have gavin mcqueen from secondary science science league sorry i'm getting tired [2:11:02] um secondary professional development and course design support and deb richard talib [2:11:09] talent developer coordinator science thank you for coming [2:11:17] thank you chair ellenberg and members of the board again and dr schultz and community members [2:11:22] um we are simply here to look for action for our ninth grade [2:11:28] curriculum physical earth science curriculum and course design and the materials are in front of you [2:11:33] and have not changed from our presentation when we did discussion um so we're here if there are any [2:11:39] questions or any input that you need further from us [2:11:45] questions for board members so the cost for this are they for [2:11:53] ninth grade and eighth grade or is this just for eighth grade [2:12:00] so for next year it will be the eighth graders using the materials [2:12:06] right so will we be getting a different budget are we going to buy additional books is [2:12:12] this all the science books or it is is this will this cover when we [2:12:20] when we roll it out to ninth grade or are we gonna get another similar bill next year [2:12:26] what it goes to ninth grade yes we will get another similar bill when it [2:12:32] goes to ninth grade okay and um and will this come before [2:12:37] the board again or are we approving eighth graders that might want to be taking this next year [2:12:43] that are not in the accelerated that's a very important question ellen [2:12:49] and our middle school teams actually we were emailing about that this weekend [2:12:54] um we have science leads that are department leads at the middle school and they will be collaborating on that [2:13:01] and getting support from teaching and learning um for adding an assessment and ways to [2:13:08] look at on-ramps there was something in place for last year and so we just need to expand that [2:13:13] a little bit and look at that and did you look into [2:13:22] honors availability i think i sent you an idea for honors [2:13:29] it would probably play out more like an earned honors option [2:13:38] so we did not look at honors for the 8th graders that will be [2:13:44] taking this next year i think the last time we discussed this [2:13:49] we we discussed that this would be considered honors and that if the pacing [2:13:55] wasn't correct that we would get feedback from the teachers about that right we're approving ninth grade um just [2:14:03] tonight i'm just wondering if this is the ninth grade curriculum we're just approving the materials we're [2:14:11] not approving the actual classes for ninth grade they're going to come back to us with how this [2:14:18] will actually function within ninth grade they don't they don't have that yet it's just these [2:14:23] materials [2:14:32] it is confusing ellen um so i we we appreciate the questions because it is confusing and at this time we [2:14:39] currently have seventh graders that will be in eighth grade next year already ready for this class and so [2:14:45] we're approving this um content and this class design for the eighth graders for next year [2:14:52] and as chair allenberg just stated we'll we'll come back with those pathways for the ninth grade [2:14:59] super thank you i don't know if i'm making a question or [2:15:06] a statement i think we're making a statement here i have certain reservations about this and as i mentioned earlier [2:15:15] because of its uh big ties to dss which to me [2:15:22] watered down science and uh as i mentioned before um mix at times social [2:15:28] studies into what i think is science so um i i just have some reservations and [2:15:35] that it's not you all so much as the hand that's been dealt to you and there's been a lot of conscientious work put into this [2:15:45] anything else okay we'll vote by roll call to approve [2:15:52] the earth science curriculum and um resource tools mellenberg [2:16:00] what [Music] [2:16:16] hi science curriculum and resources are [2:16:23] approved uh thank you very much and thank you a whole team that put this together [2:16:29] really appreciate it [2:16:42] you get to come back again gavin [2:16:50] thank you okay do i have a motion to approve the 2021 job obligation facilities maintenance [2:17:00] so we have matt that um approved the motion and owen that [2:17:05] seconded it thank you and we have director tope here [2:17:13] to talk about the general basil obligation facilities maintenance fund [2:17:20] thank you chair ellenberg superintendent schultz members of the board good evening good evening every time we issue cons [2:17:29] we reaffirm our rating uh i just want to take a few minutes i [2:17:36] know it's late to go over some of the rating factors so that all board members are aware [2:17:41] of what we get rated on to maintain a triple a bond rate which we did with this [2:17:46] bond issue that we're going to see the results of tonight so on page [2:17:54] 224 of your pdf your big board pdf uh this shows edit compared to aaa [2:18:02] districts the median values of a number of different items [2:18:07] so you can take a look at that and then on page 227 there's also a scorecard that's specific [2:18:13] to edit so that's the area that i'd like you to focus on to begin with [2:18:19] i want to talk about five things and i'm going to take three of them and our financial consultant jody [2:18:26] zesbaugh will take the other two we've had extensive discussion on this as director [2:18:31] michaelson and director jones and director fox know in our finance committee meeting about [2:18:36] how this rating actually comes about so on page 227 [2:18:42] the first thing i wanted to note is that moody's has now moved enrollment trend [2:18:49] up to an above-the-line score before it was a below the line score now it's above the line score so [2:18:55] enrollment becomes a little more important as we get rated and for editing you can [2:19:00] see on page 227 the enrollment trend which is a three-year uh comprehensive [2:19:06] annual growth rate is minus point zero minus point nine so a little less than one percent a year [2:19:13] we're declining in enrollment the median triple a district is a point three percent [2:19:19] increase uh what what can we do about that we can have more [2:19:25] enrollment obviously in the district that's the solution to that one the next one i want to talk about is [2:19:31] under financial performance available fund balance ratio which was the available fund balance divided by [2:19:37] the operating revenue for edina we have available fund balance [2:19:42] ratio of 13.2 percent the average aaa rated median is 26.8 [2:19:50] so two times the amount of fund balance the last one i want to talk about is [2:19:56] long-term liabilities ratio which is debt plus adjusted net pension liabilities plus adjusted net [2:20:03] other post-employment benefits divided by your operating revenue we're at 388.8 [2:20:10] versus the aaa median is 220.4 what can we do about that we can issue [2:20:17] less debt that's the primary factor that we can't we have control of [2:20:22] as it relates to that uh on page 228 just for further reference [2:20:29] there's a key indicators glossary defining all these different terms that we look at and then finally there [2:20:37] was some question the finance committee about one our institutional framework and two about our fixed cost ratio [2:20:45] and i'm going to let jodi zesbach from ellers talk about the institutional framework and the fixed cost ratio [2:20:51] jody thanks john and i should also mention that this is new methodology that was recently [2:20:57] issued by moody's just in january of this year so a lot of this will look different to you if you've [2:21:03] studied this in detail in the past but the institutional framework rating that you get at a single a [2:21:08] is the exact same rating that all school districts in the state of minnesota receive and if you look at the page right prior [2:21:15] to that the bottom of the um page gives a description of why [2:21:21] moody's considers all school districts in minnesota to have an institutional framework score of a and it's because the state controls the [2:21:27] bulk of the school district revenue and they give a little bit more information but basically because of the [2:21:34] state control over funding in the state of minnesota so that's the reason for that and then [2:21:40] the fixed cost ratio you'll notice in the glossary that there's a number of references to [2:21:46] calculations that moody's is doing independent so they're using some calculations from your comprehensive [2:21:51] annual financial report but they're also adjusting some of those calculations and doing some [2:21:57] separate calculations and really the reason that the long-term liabilities ratio is a [2:22:03] little higher as john just spoke about and the fixed cost ratio is due to our [2:22:10] statewide pension plans and tra and pera so with respect to the fixed cost ratio [2:22:17] that is scoring out at a double a and um not too far away from aaa [2:22:22] districts are less than or equal to 15 percent on their scorecard so that one is is getting pretty close [2:22:29] to the aaa category so in conclusion um if this district was [2:22:38] rated straight up would be an aa3 which is three notches below aaa so what that's telling the the [2:22:45] people here if you take a look at this is we've got to be very vigilant about what we're [2:22:50] doing we've got to look at increasing enrollment if we can and that doesn't mean [2:22:56] necessarily that it's resident enrollment or open enrollment no judgment call on that just increasing [2:23:02] enrollment would help and then also our fund balance ratio i believe if you look at page [2:23:10] 208 i provided you a fund balance graph of neighboring districts [2:23:15] two of those districts are aaa rated just like we are minnetonka and wyzeda you can see their fund [2:23:21] balances in total are about twice as much as what we are [2:23:26] so that's what we can do going forward so i'm happy that we had an affirmed aaa [2:23:33] bond rating i'm hoping to keep that in the future if we keep uh increasing our enrollment [2:23:41] and we look at potentially increasing our fund amounts and i know that's difficult with our fund balance policy [2:23:47] that we have at six percent we want to put all available resources to the kids for that particular year [2:23:54] um we'll go over this again in finance committee because finance committee is where they brought up these [2:24:00] questions but i just wanted all board members to have this information um before we look at the sale of the [2:24:05] bond results so maybe that's the bad news i think it's pretty good news we're [2:24:10] referring aaa and we'll uh look at the bond results now which were very good so i'll turn that [2:24:16] over to jody thanks john so um do you want me to project anything or will you be [2:24:21] projecting anything or can i just speak from the report because everybody has anything from [2:24:30] sounds great and yes just to um one uh last thing about the rating is that there are only three school districts in the [2:24:36] state of minnesota that have that triple-a rating for moody's so edina minnetonka and yzeta are the only [2:24:42] three districts with that rating we get asked that pretty regularly so just wanted to confirm that [2:24:47] so with respect to the bond sale we got excellent results we were very very happy with the results you'll see on the [2:24:53] summary page we got six bids and the low bid was from baird out of milwaukee wisconsin [2:24:59] at a one percent rate so we had estimated a 1.45 percent rate in the [2:25:05] pre-sale report the board had approved a parameters resolution allowing um the treasurer [2:25:13] and the and john to sign off on the proposal form should that rate be 2 2.5 or lower so obviously they [2:25:22] signed that report on your behalf and you'll see that the result of that um is that you will have 400 000 [2:25:30] less in payments as compared to the pre-sale estimates so i will just briefly touch on the [2:25:38] attachments that were included the as i mentioned treasurer fox [2:25:44] and john tope have already signed the proposal form so the resolution before you tonight is ratifying the word of [2:25:50] that sale the attachments included then are the bid tab so you can see the bid from [2:25:56] baird at one percent and then the five remaining bids were from piper out of minneapolis [2:26:02] hilltop out of dallas texas key bank out of cleveland ohio jp morgan from new york and morgan [2:26:08] stanley from new york and the high bid from morgan stanley was at about a 1.24 [2:26:13] so still well below what we were expecting and that aaa rating of course definitely [2:26:20] weighs into the number of bids that you receive as well as that nice low interest rate that you received [2:26:26] so if you look at page three the board authorized thirteen million seven hundred fifty [2:26:31] five thousand last summer when you were preparing your 10-year plan that was submitted to minnesota department of education [2:26:38] we're actually issuing 10 million 585 now um so well low well well lower than that [2:26:44] authorized bond amount and you can see the remaining sale results the schedule is just an update as compared [2:26:52] to what was included in your pre-sale report a month ago and then the debt service schedule for [2:26:57] this issue is uh included as attachment page four is what we have labeled we've updated [2:27:04] now your long-term financing plan on pages five and six so page five [2:27:10] includes all of the details include the including the potential building bonds which the voters will be voting on tomorrow [2:27:18] and an increase to the capital project levy should that go through so we've got those included in the plan [2:27:25] so that we make sure that we're keeping that tax rate at the level that we were expecting and you can see that in the chart on [2:27:31] attachments page six and then next are the rating reports so [2:27:37] moody's issues two rating reports one is a press release and the second is the detailed credit opinion [2:27:42] so john was speaking to a couple of schedules that are included in that detailed credit opinion and i'm happy to answer any questions [2:27:48] that you might have related to the results or any of the pieces of information included in the report [2:27:58] questions i would just make one more comment um [2:28:04] for the board members um and that chart for long-term debt is on page 216 of 290. [2:28:10] yeah uh we only have one other facilities maintenance issue out there as a possibility for a small [2:28:17] amount of three million and five thousand on may first of 23. [2:28:23] so not much in additional debt scheduled to be issued in the near future i would just say that [2:28:30] uh jody you continued a pleasure to work with and i think the science department did a great job again the board proved up to a two and a half [2:28:37] percent came in at one so this is the fourth time we've refinanced bonds [2:28:42] it's it's part of consequence of the economy it's part of consequence of good planning by the finance department and our [2:28:48] partner is ours so i would highly recommend you approve a one percent [2:28:56] [Music] and also one other thing real quick [2:29:02] we've we've gone through literacy put a little exhaustion tonight we've gone through [2:29:08] some of these categories that are things that depending on which part of the board we sit on we kind of have [2:29:13] our lanes right i'm obviously much more focused on financing [2:29:18] director very proactive about trying to continue education for the board and [2:29:24] bring forward the points of what goes into a bond rating what goes into a financial proposal so when he went [2:29:31] through his five-minute discussion tonight it's something that's in addition to what the finance committee goes through [2:29:36] but i think it's a really great idea as you bring in dr stanley and others um to think about what educational [2:29:43] sessions the whole board kind of goes through on some sort of a calendarized basis right because if you just consider a [2:29:50] black and white this is a metric this is a number as dr tobe said we would not be exactly where [2:29:55] we are on our trip away bond rating so that means that there's some affirmation and partnership with movies and others to show where we [2:30:01] have strengths that are really important and i think it's a compliment to the team [2:30:07] but it's secondarily something that i think because people are interested this is one key area i know every year when we have the excel [2:30:13] sheet everybody rushes to be treasurer so it's something that i think if everybody's interested it really goes to backing what we can and can't do on [2:30:19] the lives it's complicated i don't understand you know as much as he does but it's been a pleasure to work with the [2:30:26] team because again this is the fourth refinance bond which is saving millions for districts and taxpayers so great work [2:30:33] and also tomorrow and everybody's been part of the team [2:30:38] okay we'll now vote by roll call to approve the 2021 uh general obligation facilities [2:30:44] maintenance spots allender hi [2:30:53] hi green [2:30:58] jones michelson hi [2:31:05] hello hi welland foodman [2:31:14] 2021 general obligation facilities maintenance bonds are approved dive and motion policies 218 and [2:31:22] 4 8 13. that was lenny and owen [2:31:31] thanks again all right owen these are two policies uh 218 and 413 that we [2:31:38] discussed last month and we move forward for action and if there's any discussion [2:31:46] we can have it otherwise we can take the vote chair however [2:31:54] all we will vote by rule two policies four or two eighteen and four [2:32:00] thirteen allender fox [2:32:08] green [2:32:22] hi oh the um policies 218 and 413 are [2:32:30] approved um the only update i have is that um monday at five o'clock um we [2:32:38] are going to have a special meeting to hopefully approve contract with dr stanley that will be posted shortly [2:32:44] um do you have anything another thing i would add is just for um parents to pay attention to uh grading [2:32:50] policy the grading grading policy that was approved last december um was approved for the [2:32:56] uh full year um so uh middle school and high school will be sending us some information related to that as we [2:33:02] end the school year and then also i just wanted to have uh uh parents be aware of the um of just the [2:33:10] the changing state mitigation um as we are loosening up on mitigation [2:33:15] to uh uh we appreciate your patience as we continue to adapt [2:33:21] to uh this new environment and then also um we have partnered with [2:33:28] um a uh clinic a odnam um clinic along with the physicians in our [2:33:35] are among our parents and um looking at um setting up a vaccination clinic for [2:33:42] middle school students this week so pay attention to that i just actually got text that the fda approved [2:33:50] pizzeria yeah so it has to go through one more step yet uh with the immunization [2:33:56] program so if that approval comes through we will have a clinic um just pay attention to the [2:34:04] schedule for that and we'll probably get something out hopefully by a wednesday morning uh [2:34:17] all right thank you everyone we'll enjoy the meeting good night [2:34:58] you