Good evening everyone.>> Hello. Good evening. I would like to call the Minnetonka public schools.Did you see the picture? >> Board meeting. August 6, 2026,Minnetonka Public Schools board meeting to order.May we all stand for the pledge to the flag, please? May I please have a motion to adopt theagenda? >> So moved.>> Dan, may I please have a second? >> Second.>> All any discussion? All those in favor say I.>> I. >> Any opposed? We have an agenda.First up, we have community comments, and we do not have any communitycomments this evening. Next up, we have approval of new and updated curricularresources. Superintendent Law. >> Madam Chair, members of the board, atour June study session, you had a chance to preview some new curricular materialsthat will be used during the upcoming school year. Tonight's your chance toapprove them. Uh we have director of >> academic programs.>> Academic programs. Titles have changed. We have the director of academicprograms, Elida Kaine, here tonight to review those courses and seek yourapproval. Elena. >> Thank you, Superintendent Law. Goodevening, Chair Foss, members of the board and community. Every spring, webring forward and share any new curricular resources to the school boardand community for their review. On June 18th, in my absence, Dr. Leoo did bringforward a detailed first look of the curricular resources that will berecommended for the 2026 27 school year. Each year there are new and updatedresources throughout our K12 system that are aligned to state or nationalstandards or other specialized programming that we have as shared inmidJune. This year's updated resource include several revised or updatedadditions for our grades 6 through 12 social studies materials, our annualadvanced placement and inter international bachor resources. And wehave Adilante, a new K5 Spanish immersion language arts resource that isgrounded in structured literacy and the science of reading to be aligned withour parallel English program. All materials were available for publicreview over the summer. One parent did come and review our Adilante resource,but no comments were provided. So tonight, we ask for you to approve theupdated and revised version of Northern Lights, which is our sixth grade socialstudies resource. the updated and revised version of history alive forgrade seven social studies. The updated and revised version of contemporaryhuman geography for our high school human geography course for APAfrican-American history after attending the AP summer institute and from thelist of the four provided by the college board. teachers have selected to usefreedom on my mind a history of African-Americansand that we ask that you approve the list of required resources and text forthe international balorette history course.May I please have a motion for the approval of new and updated curricularresources? >> So moved.>> Sally, may I have a second, please? >> Second.>> Tanya, is there any discussion on these resources?Okay, no discussion. All those in Oh, Tanya,>> can I just ask you to repeat one part? How many um community me communitymembers came to view the one? >> Okay, thank you.>> Okay, any discussion? We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, pleasesay I. >> I. Any opposed?We have approval. >> Thank you.>> Thank you, Alida. >> Next up, we have the update on ourparent survey. Superintendent Law. Madame Chair, members of the board, onan annual basis, the Minnitanka Public Schools gives a parent survey to over10,000 parents in our community. I believe the number is closer to 13,000.All parents are invited to give feedback on their children in elementary school,middle school, and high school. If [clears throat] the parent has multiplechildren, they can take the survey multiple times, one for each child. Aspart of our board goals, the board asked that these results get presentedpublicly, and that is annually at the first meeting in August. Tonight,executive director of communications, Dr. Jackie Getty is going to give you areview of that parent survey and how it guides our work. And as a reminder tothe community, this is the start of the goal setting process for our board as welook at what we're going to be working on on over the next 18 months to 24months. Dr. Getty, >> Superintendent Law, Madam Chair, membersof the board, thanks for the opportunity to present these results. AsSuperintendent Law said, we do this survey annually. We designed this surveywith the Morris Leatherman firm several years ago and then we've updated it eachtime that we've reviewed questions or added questions or thought about thatand that is a firm that has 30 years of experience in developing surveys withschool districts. We distributed this one from late May to early June. It wentto all open enroll all all enrolled families and 1600 families responded. Uhas superintendent law said several families have students at various levelsand so they can take those sections repeatedly. So this reflects theexperience of 2,20 students from those 1600. The demographic breakdown of 60%resident families responding and 40% open enrolled responding is consistentwith the makeup of our school district and 99% in person. Just a highle lookbefore we dig into the details. It was good to see that satisfaction remainshigh across a lot of important areas. academics, leadership, students,connections, teachers, and communications. And recommendations forthose who would recommend their students school to a friend or neighbor are attheir highest levels for elementary, middle, and high school with middleschool raising a percentage in a year when we had new programming at themiddle school level. So, that was really great to see. We did see a lot oftechnology concerns rising and that has been a national conversation and wecertainly have heard some comments here as well. And so that was not surprisingbut certainly something that we'll dig into in this survey. And we did add afew additional technology questions for parents so we could really learn moreabout how parents were feeling. So we'll cover that as well. The quality ofeducation parents 96% said they strongly agree or somewhat agree um that it'sexcellent or good. 63% rate it excellent. 33% good. That's prettyconsistent with what we've seen usually in the high 90s. Last year was 97. Yearbefore that, 96. Uh quality of education year-over-year.This has stayed pretty consistent. Preschool. So, Minnetonka CommunityEducation uh does a survey with their preschool students. They had about 45people respond. So, you'll see the answers and every single one is a biggermarker than we'll see for elementary, middle school, and high school when youhave hundreds of people answering these surveys. But still really strong resultsin the high 80s 90s and four answers in the 100% that they strongly agree oragree with that question or with that statement. In elementary education, wefirst asked about teaching and learning questions and I looked at last year andthis year as a comparison and you can see from curriculum to do teachersinspire children's high performance teachers care about my child. Thosenumbers are really strong in the 90s in the high 90s when you get down toteachers treat my child with respect teachers care about my child. inbuilding relationships. Uh we also saw really strong n numbers where we saw aslight drop was in the use of Seesaw and Schooly. Um and again in a year whentechnology is on people's minds, I think that we could see those shifts. We giveall of these survey results to every principal for their for their particularschool so they can see this as well and work with their teachers um on usingthose tools even better. Uh for the student use of technology, weadded this top question. I believe that staff in Minnitonka schools integratestechnology to accelerate my child's learning. At the elementary level, 61%of parents strongly agree or somewhat agree with that statement.Learning technology in a healthy and balanced way. My child is learningtechnology in a healthy and balanced way. 57% said they agree or somewhatagree with that statement. Technology is important to to my child's learning. 55%said that they strongly agree or somewhat agree with that. And that's alittle lower than we've seen in years past. and iPads work well for my child'slearning style down at the bottom there, 49%. That also is lower than we've seenin years past. And again, I think that was expectedwith the conversations we've seen. Amount of homework. Um, this isconsistent, pretty consistent year-over-year. 2% more said this yearthat we got it just right. 8% said too little homework, 12% too much. Bullyingprevention is something we will continuously track. 89% of elementaryparents said they've spoken with their child about bullying prevention and 79%say they're aware of our prevention efforts. That's a slight dip from lastyear, a couple percentage points. So something we're always asking principlesto reshare with families right at the start of the year and something that wekind of keep on throughout the year to make sure that that awareness is known.I helped my child to report a bullying incident. 31% said that they did. That'sdown 2% from last year. We don't know if that's because of awareness or becausethere were fewer incidents. So it's a marker but it's not defined as to whymiddle school education. So these are the uh questions that weasked about teaching and learning. Uh teachers um my student is treated bywith respect by adults consistent with last year at 96% teachers care about mychild 94% my child's successful at school 90%. Um and you can see the othershifts right there at the end. I'm satisfied with my child's overallexperience at the middle school and in a year when we had some really significantshifts to the programming there. This is one we'll watch. You know, that was thatwas the first year of it and we did surveys with parents, with students, andwith teachers throughout the year and then made some shifts within that andmore for the fall. So, we'll be looking at this number again for next year.On school climate, you can see those those numbers are strong. Um, the schoolsupports my child's sense of well-being when up a percentage point, supports mychild's sense of belonging, down a percentage point, but still high.Curriculum requires my child's best efforts, 87%, the principles accessible,87%. And the curriculum is rigorous and challenging, 88%.Building relationships, um, safe learning environment, that wasgreat to see at 93%. There's an adult available if a problem arises. This isalways one that we look at. It was nice to see that that grew by 4%.I was aware of the behavioral expectations of my child, consistent.And then when we look at communications from teachers on what their child'slearning or parent teacher conferences, those numbers have dropped and that iscertainly something that we'll point out to the middle school principal. So thatthat's something they can take a look at.Student use of technology. So we added, as I said, the question that secondquestion was the one we added. Minnotonka school district staffintegrates technology to accelerate my child's learning. At the middle schoollevel, 59% of parents strongly agree or somewhat agree with that statement.Technology is very important to my child's learning. 70% said they agreewith this. My child's learning technology in a healthy, balanced way,50%, that's lower than normal. Normal being an average year. iPads work wellfor my child's learning style, 56%. I'm comfortable with the average screentime for my child, 45%. Has your child experienced bullying? 69%said no. Last year, 70% said no. High school. Looking at teaching andlearning numbers fairly consistent with last year, some growth, some drops. Um,in terms of satisfied overall, 90%, great to see. Teachers care about mychild, 93%. Um, my child's academically prepared toadvance to the next grade, 94%. Building relationships, you can seeyear-over-year fairly consistent. Uh, my the school supports my child's sense ofbelonging. So, we saw a little bit of a drop there. And we also saw a little bitof a drop in in the middle there where it says the school supports my child'ssense of well-being. And what's interesting is that that doesn't reallyline up with what students have told us. And so we're looking at at just thatdifferential of the parents sentiments about what they think their child'sexperiencing and then their children saying that they're actuallyexperiencing higher levels of that. So it's a metric we'll take a look into andsee where the disconnect is. Student use of technology at the high school. Weadded a couple of questions here. My uh student can apply learning in new wayswith technology. 85% of parents agreed with that statement. Technology isreally important to my child's learning. 77%.The district is preparing my child to navigate technology, 78%.This additional new one, staff integrates technology to accelerate mychild's learning, 71%. iPads work well for my child's learningstyle, 67%. So, you can see as we go up in the learning levels, there is morecomfort there. And the use of technology.As your child experienced bullying, 78%, that was the same number as last year.There were small shifts in the numbers below.school works to prevent student and drug and alcohol use. 83% strongly orsomewhat agree with that and that's consistent with past year.These are um parents that would recommend their child school. 95% at theelementary level, 93% at the middle school level. That's a notch up fromlast year, which is pretty impressive in a year when we shifted programming. And92% at the high school also tracked up one. School and district leadership. Weadded a question here just wanting to make sure that the goals that are setand achieved are meaningful and relevant that parents feel they're meaningful andrelevant to the school community. 81% of students said they strongly agree orsomewhat agree with that statement. So that's why there's only one markerthere. It's the first time we've asked that. So we'll be watching that questionand um certainly you look at the results of the survey and that helps toinfluence your goal setting. Board members are accessible when I havequestions, ideas or suggestions. That's typically in the high 70s. So it's at77. That's pretty typical. Uh, administrators are accessible if I haveideas, suggestions, or um concerns, 78%. That's slightly lower than it typicallyis, but it's usually low 80s to high 70s. I trust the board andadministration to do what's right for children, 80%.And the the community gets a good value from its investment in public school uheducation, 90%, and that's usually in the low 90s.These are the ways that parents said they prefer to engage with the schoolboard. They were told to check all that apply. So the schoolboard news emailthat goes out the day after schoolboard meeting. So there'll be one tomorrow.87% prefer that. 34% say schoolboard web pages. 29% prefer personal calls,emails, and meetings with you. 26% attend and view schoolboard meetings andstudy sessions. 25% like the quarterly school news postcard. and 22%uh like listening sessions with the board. Most helpful communicationsacross the district. Again, check all that apply. Emails. As much as peoplesay, "I get an overload of emails," they love their emails. So, 94% prefer theprincipal emails. Uh 81% like teacher emails, too. 68% superintendent emails.Um and then you can see the other communications they find valuable. Theannual report, that's a mailed publication in October. 42% our districtwebsite peachar effliers that talk about all the things going on in the communitytheir family can engage with social media channels and we like to see thataoy minnotanka podcast climbing up so the first couple years we did it it waslike 2% now 17% so yay um we asked three open-ended questions uthe first was about innovation so parents shared with us their ideas orsuggestions for additional things or fewer things we should be doing withinnovation and unsurprisingly uh the highest uh the highest theme thatwe saw was on pulling back on screen time and iPad use. We've certainly hadconversations around that. And so 153 comments were about that. 72 commentswere about teaching more about AI, teaching AI literacy, uh staff trainingson AI or student training on AI. 43 were on offering more hands-on oroutdoor learning opportunities. 34 comments said nothing or stay thecourse. We like what you're doing. 22 said, "Please provide more studentmental health supports." 16 were about coding or STEM or computer scienceinstruction. And 13 comments were to add more real world practical life skills.The second open-ended comment was, "What would you advise the district on?" 251comments were about reducing iPad use and screen time. 59 were on reducinghomework or busy work. 59 were on improving proactive communication. 57 onstrengthening mental health supports. 49 were somewhat calendarreated. Some wereabout start times. There was kind of a pocket of them about start times, butothers were just about other ideas about the calendar. 29 asked to keep classsizes manageable and that when you do add to a class size, adding support inthat class. 20 were addressing a particular concern about various staffmembers. We always get just a handful. And uh 20 said nothing or keep up thegood work. And then what would you commend the school district on? 170 saiddistrict level and principal leadership. 113 inclusive caring school cultures. 88on strong consistent communications. And that was across the board from teachers,from principles and from the district and superintendent. 67 on teacherdedication and care, 33 on academic breadth and rigor, 21 on safety effortsand crisis response, and nine on the high school's new cell phone policy. So,we gave each principal their particular results for these so that they couldshare it with their leadership staff, they could share highlights with theirstaff and think about how they want to integrate that into their building goalsfor the year ahead. And then we shared it, of course, with all of you so thatyou could read all of the comments. And there were probably about between 800and a thousand comments on each of those open-ended questions. So there's lotsand I know and I thank you for reading all of them and then also shared withcabinet so that we can think about it that way. And then this high levelpresentation will be shared on the district website and tomorrow inschoolboard news. So with that I'm happy to answer any questions.>> Thank you Dr. Getty. That was a great um kind of summary from what we've beenkind of reading as well. I have a quick question before we open it up to theboard. Were there multiple emails that went out to our community solicitingpeople to respond to this survey? >> We usually send three. So, we'll sendthree and if we're really low on numbers coming back, we'll send in additionalpush, but we were pretty consistent with last year, so we sent the standard threereminders. >> People had the the opportunity tocontinue to respond and give us feedback so that we're listening. Okay.>> Absolutely. >> Great. Awesome. Um, feedback questionsfrom the board. Karen, >> thank you, Dr. Getty. It was veryinteresting and I appreciate you crunching all the comments. Um, and thatwe got the comments. They we help from AI.>> Yes, we do read through those comments. Um, I just am wondering how does thiscompare to years past? You said there were that it was 1,600 or so parents whoresponded representing 2020 students. How would that compare to years, youknow, years? So last year I didn't look at how many student I didn't count thatup but last year we had 1680 I think respondents. Um and so it's like a halfof 1% difference. So it's pretty negligible. Um but in years before whereyou had to take the survey the whole way through for every single child that youhad in the district and for those of you who've been in the district for a while,thank you for all the time you spent on those surveys. Um it was about 2600. Sowe're we're still tracking pretty high in the 2000s. We like to see that.That's good engagement for we send it out to about 13,000 email addresses umbecause some have their both parent email addresses listed in that. So,>> okay, thanks for the question. >> Any other comments or questions from theboard? Thank you for all your work you did onthis, Dr. Getty. >> Thank you.>> Appreciate it. >> Thanks.>> Okay, >> next up we have Educational TechnologyUpdate Superintendent Law. Madam Chair, members of the board, as you're aware,we sent a letter to the community, our parents, excuse me, a letter to ourparents in May and promised that before school starts, we would do an update onwhat was changing in technology. Now, um to be completely transparent, we've beenmeeting with teachers all summer, but we will be presenting to all teachers whenthey return. So, this is what we intend to be sharing with teachers ahead of thestart of the school year. There's another vetting process because we ourteachers aren't working in July and early August. So this is what we haveshared with all of our administrators multiple times including today but thisis what we plan to be continuing to reinforce with our teaching staff asthey come back. So uh if someone says I talked to a teacher and they're notaware of the changes they're you know if they haven't been reading their emailthere's a chance that's the truth. This is going to be training or involved instaff training over the next few weeks with tonight we have associatesuperintendent Dr. Amy Leoo kicking this off. Dr. Leoo.>> Thank you superintendent law. Madame Chair, members of the board, uh asSuperintendent Law mentioned, uh tonight we're appreciative of the opportunity toprovide you with an educational technology update. The information we'llbe sharing has been a collaborative effort between the teaching and learningdepartment, the technology department, principles, and teacher leaders.Additionally, district data and stakeholder feedback has informed thisupdate. With me this evening is Amanda Fay Vasik, executive director oftechnology, and Elida Kaine, director of academic programs. The 2627schoolboard goals include action plans for educational technology. As you know,in the area of well-being, our goal is focused on monitoring technologiesimpact on student mental health and really weighing in and reviewing andstaying current on the research and promising practice as we're seeing anevolution in that area. Additionally, there are board goals related to ourgoal around excellence and innovation in student learning and support. And thisis focused on ensuring instructional use is intentional and enhances instructionand learning. And just our commitment to keep this in the forefront this year aswe examine, assess, the adjustments that we need to make.tonight will share some of that with you, but we know that this will be anongoing process. And then finally, looking at uh the district use uh toeducate students and family around the essential skills for responsible healthyuse of technology uh in the classroom and of course beyond the classroom.Our Minnotonka educational technologybeliefs were first developed pre- pandemic and have really been throughseveral iterations um over you know nearly the last 7 to 10years. Um we continue to look to be sure that these statements reflect thecurrent context knowing technology as well as the best practice in this area.um as it relates to educational use continues to evolve. That looks like that did not transfer toPowerPoint very well. Those symbols now tell us what they are instead of showus. [laughter] Um so but the important part of the slide did transfer.[laughter] Every educational technology decision ismade through the integration and alignment with district establishedframeworks. Uh this includes our district goals of course that we justreviewed, research and continuous improvement particularly relating to uhbest practices that are evolving. our MTSS framework that focuses on four corecomponents as well as our multi-ter instruction making sure that we'recontinuously leveraging um it to make decisions for individual student needsand our educational technology beliefs. uh recognizing that ultimateeffectiveness of classroom technology really is directly tied to theinstructional design happening in the classroom.Next, Amanda's going to be sharing uh family and staff feedback, which is alsoan important part of our decision makingaking uh frameworks. So, I'll turnit over to her. So I just want to note that we will begoing over two years of data here. So that's why we see 2025 on this slidefirst. So we will jump into 2026. And the reason why we um included two yearsof data here is because we do have the Morris Leatherman statewide survey for2025 that we can use to really level set along with our data. Um and we don'thave that yet for 2026 because that does typically take place in August, whichit's early August right now. So, um, if you can look at this, this is our our2025, um, annual survey data. So, Jackie Getty went over this last year, right?This is our our data from last year. So, you can see segmented out here, we haveelementary school, middle school, and high school. And the blue shows us umwhere our parents said technology is very important to my child's learning.And the orange shows us that I am at least somewhat uncomfortable with mychild's daily screen time. So, we wanted these numbers kind of side by side tosee technology being important to learning and also level ofuncomfortability with um the child's screen time. And so, I think it's reallyimportant we want these two numbers side by side to recognize that these thesedon't exist in silos and in isolation. These two things can exist at the sametime, right? To recognize that technology is a very important part ofour world and that we value it as part of our student experience. and at thesame time that we have work to do around screen time as we see emerging researchand shifts in that uh level as well. So this is our 2025 data and then you cansee on the right the Morris Leatherman data statewide showing that 99% ofparents viewed technology as essential um very or somewhat important to theirchild's learning. And then you can see in the orange too that 54% aroundparents expressing some concern around screen time.This next slide is our 2026 data. So this is the data that uh Jackie Gettyjust went over with us. And this shows those same two numbers um side by side.So you can see elementary school, middle school, and then high school. The blueonce again is technology is very important to my child's learning. Andthen in orange you can see that I am at least somewhat uncomfortable with mychild's uh daily use of screen time. So it's no surprise that we do see um ashift in these numbers. That's that is expected u because we know what we'reseeing right now in research that's coming out and in the news and media. So, I also just want to draw back to uhlast November um Elida Kaine and I presented to the school board and one ofthe things that we really talked about and highlighted was the 2025 KosenBlashki report as we were starting to see um increased uh discussions ofscreen time in the news, in the media, and in research. um Cosen published areport really explaining that uh we need to really be cognizant as we haveconversations around screen time knowing that um screen time is a very large termthat encompasses many different things. So the Kosen Blaski report breaks screentime into three main categories and these are educational technology,smartphones and social media and screenbased entertainment. So these allmake up that one uh word of screen time. So obviously as a school district ourfocus is really around educational technology. However, we still do touchon and want to work with our community to support smartphones and social mediaand screenbased entertainment. We do have school practices and policiesaround cell phone use, right? To set our students up for success in in um ourschool environment. We also did a teacher survey uh right atthe end of the school year and had some really um great numbers of teachers thatgave us feedback which tells us that they were interested and had a lot tosay. Um we asked teachers a variety of questions and we really wanted to know alittle bit more about their role so we could garner the feedback based on thelevel that they taught, program that they taught in. Um and we wanted to knowmore about their main purposes for using the district um issued iPads in classwith students, the applications that they primarily utilize for activelearning with their student population, their preference around devicetake-home. Um, and then we also had some questions for open-ended um, informationfor staff to really give them an opportunity to use their own voice ifthere was anything they wanted to tell us around uh, what they would recommend,what they're seeing um, and things in that regard. We used this teacher surveyfeedback to really build out these six guiding principles which Elida is goingto share with you in a minute. And all of that along with the four groundinglevels that Dr. Leoo shared really are helping us build out our professionallearning, our guidance, and our parent communication and partnership for movingforward. So with that, I'm going to pass it over to Eli Kaine.You so as we move into this upcoming schoolyear, we have developed six guiding principles that will guide the everydayuse of educational technology within our classrooms and across our buildings.These principles are derived from our board goals, the stakeholder data thatwas just shared earlier. They are aligned with our MTSS framework and aregrounded in research. The first three protect what we want to be suretechnology does not crowd out purpose before we open a screen. Sustain focusedand face-to-face connection and print and hands-on learning first, especiallyfor our youngest learners. The next three keep us grounded. The use isrightsized by grade. Every decision is rooted in evidence and our teachersexperience and families are partners in it. So this is the concrete answer to thequestion that we hear most. What does this actually look like in theclassroom? It's not the same at every grade level, nor should it be.At our youngest grade levels in kindergarten through 2 grade, use isminimal. Print and hands-on is first. devices are stored until a lessonexplicitly calls for them. And the devices stay at school, which has beenthe case since the 2022 2023 school year. We have curated home screens thatstudents cannot edit, and we have tight web filtering systems in place.In grades third through fifth grade, there might be modest increased use ofdevices, but again, print and hands-on are the focus. And if a device is used,it is clearly communicated why. Again, the curated screen and web filtering isin place and iPads stay at school unless a very specific purposeful task dictatesthe need for that device to go home. And in this case, there will becommunication about the learning task and why. And as you know, YouTube hasnot been available to elementary students for the past two school years.As students move up to the middle level, use will gradually increase again andalways with a clear instructional purpose. And while not in specific use,devices are closed or stored. YouTube will not be available for students toaccess on a district designated device. And again, we have strong web filteringin place and the use of Apple classroom during instruction so that teachers areable to monitor the use of the student devices.By high school, there might be times when there is more consistent usebecause we are deliberately mirroring the college and career environments thatwe our students are heading towards. We want to help them build thatself-regulation that's needed to go along with it.Um, of course there will be exceptions at every grade level or at ev at atevery level, excuse me, for programs like immersion where in some cases ourstudents um, as we've mentioned previously, we do plan to send um,another parent survey towards probably the end of first quarter to reallygather feedback on the updates and what we're doing and make sure that we're um,we're really meeting our parents needs and that we're responsive um, to thatand have that data to uh, proceed forward.So, as you can see, you know, really we have a clear path forward for 2627. Um,and there's also a reason why we call this an update because we recognize thatthis is where we are today, right? We work in education when we talk abouttechnology and screen time, it's ever changing. And so, if something crazyhappens tomorrow, well, then we need to adjust and change our plan. Um, so justkind of walking through where we've been to date over the summer, we've reallybeen working with our stakeholders. Um, looking through that parent uh, feedbacksurvey data, our teacher survey data, working with our principles and our, um,teacher leaders to work on and define this plan. Then um, over workshop weekis when we will be launching and going live with this. Um we have some moretime with our principles next week where we will be talking deeper um and reallyworking through a lot of our guidance and uh talking with our principles andour instructional coaches around here are the expectations, how do we support,what does that look like, what do teachers need, what resources do we needto build out to make sure that when workshop week comes, we can trulylaunch. Um then in the fall, obviously we have our roll out which comes veryquickly after workshop week when our students are in our buildings. We liketo call that the fall in schools even though technically it's sort of stillsummer. Um and then recognize that ongoing we will be monitoring andadjusting. Um this is a school district, right? All of us are learners first andso we will never be done. This is not something that we will ever be completewith. Um we will monitor and adjust as we go. I'm going to turn it back over to Dr.Leoo. So, as we started with our board goals,uh we want to wrap up with those as well and we want to highlight some of the keyupdates and how they closely align with the board goals that you've set for thisyear. So, in the area of the well-being goal, really focusing on that uh focusand connection for our students, um that print first that you heard Elidaand Amanda talk about, making sure the use is right size, that we're reallythinking about the developmental stages of our students and that our familiesare in partnership with us um to monitor the impact that technology is having onstudents mental health well-being and that we continue to be informed by theresearch in that process. Um, as it relates to our student learning goal,again, purpose before screening, really looking at how is the use enhancinglearning, that it's intentional um, as we're using it to uh, helpstudents go deeper in their learning. That it's evidence and educator informedas we're making uh, decisions or informed decisions. and that we'reproviding teachers with the professional development, the guidance, and thesupport from principles to ensure that instructional use is intentional and isin fact enhancing our students learning. So with that, we would welcome anyquestions that you might have. >> Thank you. This is we know this is notan just an overnight lift and an easy lift. And I think speaking for myself,we appreciate the evidence educator informed intentionality that's gone intothis as well as working with our community and our parents and families.I think this is not just something that we come up with overnight because it is,you know, an informed community-based process. So, um I know this has beengoing on with your team for several years and it's um just very muchappreciated that we're partnering with our parents and our families and usingwhat's out there and the research and the evidence and we just thank you thatit's all being presented to us right now. So, I would like to hear anycomments and questions from the board, Sally.>> So, I have three but there are three distinct things. So if we want tosprinkle those amongst other people that [laughter] would be fine. So my firstone is what [clears throat] ability or capability does the district have to umtrack or monitor the actual usage like what apps, how much time, that sort ofthing. How do you characterize that? >> Yeah. Yeah, I can speak to that. So umwe use a uh product called Lightseed to filter all of our devices and that alsohas a built-in um insights portal which allows us to see active engagements. Um,it allows us to see specifically what applications are being used and they usethe term applications broadly because that can be anything from a website toan actual, you know, app on the iPad home screen. Um, so we can see theengagements data, we can see um sort of like if something is trending towardsthe top maybe, right? like if we see an application rising to the top that uhmaybe isn't something that we are aware of, we can quickly view that and takeaction and vet whether or not that is something that we want our students toaccess. Um we are also working along with Lightseed to build out thatoverarching list of the apps that are approved in our system. Anything thatsort of bubbles to the top that isn't already approved will um filter over tous and let us know, hey, this isn't this isn't currently approved. you need toevaluate this, right? So, if this isn't something you want students on, you needto actively block it or you need to go in and approve it, right?>> Okay. And that leads to my second question, which is also about Lightseed.So, you mentioned that there will be resources for parents and guardians. So,what might those be like? >> Yeah, absolutely. So, uh the Lightseedparent portal is very, very new. Uh they literally just uh made this a thing umas of about two months ago. So all school districts right now are kind ofall in the same boat in rolling this out with parents. So we are in the processright now of working with other local school districts that utilize the sameum portal and with the company in terms of developing those resources. So we weintend to send out communication to our families about how they can connect tothe resources. Um in addition, we'll include that on our website to make itum hopefully a nice resource to make it easy to find. um community education.Kim Carlson and Christine Breen will be talking about our reboot, a reboot ofparenting with purpose. There is technology embedded with that and ummyself and Molly Bonaman have been working very closely with the umpresenter to make sure that it's very focused for our district and what weneed. So, we'll also be sure to embed some of those resources right into thosepresentations, too, to make sure families know um what tools are at theirfingertips. >> Okay, good, good, good. So, I'm I'mfeeling like some great anticipation and maybe even excitement um from familiesand and educators alike around what these changes have to promise for us.But I would anticipate at the same time as we're having teachers return now andprep for the new year that there might be some impact in some classrooms maybemore than others in terms of how the shift will affect them. So, could youmaybe characterize that a little bit for us? What what might that be like forteachers? Is this a heavy lift? what could it look like?>> Yeah, I think that's a really great question. Um, I do truly think itdepends because um, we do see such a a broad range in use right now, especiallydepending on program. And so that is why we are actively working with our tierone instructional technology coaches who deeply work with our teachers andunderstand that day-to-day usage to make sure that we're building out thoseresources. We also have uh two at the elementary, two at the middle school,and two at the high school coaches that are available to sit down with ourteachers and help them rethink um what could this look like? Right? This iswhat I was doing and oh that's not an intentional use. So, how can I rethinkwhat that could look like in my classroom?>> Anything to add? As we work with our department chairs,too, with our curriculum review, we're always monitoring and supporting whatwe're doing. This has been elevated at those team meetings all throughout lastyear with our teachers. So, they are very aware and also wanting to figureout that better balance and ensure that students don't have that passive use.Um, you know, like anything, if you've been doing something for a long time, itmight take some time to readjust or what what might need to be redone or remadeor or represented to students. And so, we will work um alongside teachers asthey work through that and support them in what they need.>> Okay. Thank you. I just want to acknowledge that we recognize that thereis absolutely effort, emotion, all kinds of things tied up in that and recognizethat teachers have a very hard job >> with um teachers on teacher leaders onMonday to actually start this process after the presentation tonight.>> Thank No, thank you for those responses. Appreciate it. >> Dan,>> um no questions because and and no real comments here. I don't know that I couldum articulate anything better than all the messages we got from the community.I think there are a lot of specific ideas, a lot of specific concerns inthere. And I'm glad to hear that the cabinet's gotten those survey resultsand have those to digest and all over. And so I simply look forward to seeinghow implementation goes and how it's working and what the struggles are foradmin and for our educators and for our families and just keeping an eye on thisgoing forward. >> Thank you. Yeah,>> I just want to reate reiterate something I heard. Our parents love to hear fromtheir principles and teachers. We are the best people to talk about what'shappening in their classroom are teachers and the principles. The nextcommunication will likely come at the school and classroom level. Is that whatyou're saying? >> Yes.>> Yeah. We will we'll share and certainly we can reference tonight's presentation.We can share uh just that communication will be coming from that. And just as areminder, we have teachers who have developed habits over 10 years. They'regoing to be saying, "Okay, if I can't use this tech resource I've been usingfor 10 years, what what next?" Some of that could take months, could take sixmonths. We don't want it to be that, but we're going to have to find replacementsin some areas where we've had pockets across our system where there have beengrade levels that have used very minimal technology. So, there are people who areknowing how to do it, but this is going to be a work in progress. Is thatcorrect? >> That is correct.>> Thank you. Oh, Tanya,>> great questions, great comments. I just want to say uh highlight a few thingsthat I really appreciated um that you said, which was being lifelong learnersand you being learners first, which shows in your presentation and the wayyou've been really thoughtful about this. Um, I feel like based on what thecommunity has said, what you're hearing from teachers from the surveys, um, andthe families in the surveys, you're responding to those needs. And I justappreciate that flexible thinking because this is a big endeavor. And Ithink, you know, going to what you said, teachers um, who might be used to sometools that they've used for a long time. I can think of a few things myself whenI was in the classroom. It's it's going to be change can be hard. And so itsounds like there's a lot of positive movement and a lot of positive support.So I'm with Dan. I'm eager to see how this goes and just keep keep us informedand let us know what we you know how we can shift and what we can do to help andand the communication open. So thank you for that.>> Thank you Karen. >> Yeah, lots of great great um informationhere. Just wanted to appreciate you bringing this to us. Just wanted toclarify there will be a survey that will go out to all families. Is that is thatwhat I heard that there'll be something that'll go out around the first quarter?So that will give us real time feedback as to what families are seeingat in their with their own students. Yes, we're planning to do a survey inthe fall, like Amanda said, probably shortly after the first quarter, to giveus some of that real-time feedback about how the shifts that we're making arebeing experienced and to help guide next steps as we move forward because asAmanda shared, this will be an evolving process. It's a work in progress and wewant to be really thoughtful and intentional not only about how kids areusing technology but how we're also shifting the guidance for our staff.>> Yeah, I really appreciate that. I think that that's that is is a good step thatthat way we have real time and we're not waiting till our next parent survey ayear from now. We're going to be monitoring this and um in real time. Soreally appreciate that. Thank you for that.>> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. We appreciate all thework you guys are doing. Oh. Oh, Mike. >> Um, one quick question. Is the data datathat we're collecting on student use going to be fed into our data warehouseso that we can use that to analyze how that's impacting other areas of ourstudents well-being? >> That's a great question. Um,I'm not sure if that's possible. Um, but it's definitely something that we canlook into. Um, we'll have to look at just based on howthe data comes into the light speeded insights. Um, I'm not sure if therewould be a way for us to extract it and put it in, but it's a great thought andit's something that I will definitely explore.>> It will depend if it's if the data that we're receiving is tied to individualstudents much like other survey data. If it is not or much like survey data if itis not then we don't have a practical way to import it and use it througheduc. >> Thank you.>> Thank you again. Appreciate all the work.>> All right. Next up we have update on parenting with purpose refresh.Supernate law. >> Madam chair, members of the board,Minnitankka has a long history of offering parenting um informationsessions throughout the year. Our community education program has done areally nice job with activities like getting outside or or uh the authors ofbooks about technology concerns or the anxious generation or or those types ofthings. After we've been ramping up our preschool parent education, we said whydon't we blend this with some of the biggest needs we've seen in our systemon our parent survey or we've heard from our parents. So tonight you're going tohear presentation from Dr. Breen, assistant superintendent of studentservices, student services, and Kim Carlson, executive director of communityed about what to expect this year. >> Thank you, Superintendent Law, MadamChair, members of the school board. Um Kim and I are extremely excited to behere tonight uh to share our update with parenting with purpose. And while it'sKim and I here presenting tonight, it really is a big group effort. I'mlooking at Dr. Getty um and the rest of cabinet are participating in thisparenting with purpose refresh. we're calling it um parenting with purpose hawas in the district um a number of years ago uh led by a parent a group of parentleaders and we're hoping to bring that energy back the information to ourfamilies um in a new and refreshed way. So it is a it is a collaborative effortbetween student services, teaching and learning. Um Paul and his team, Kim andher team really hearing from principles, from the community around what are theymissing? What information do they need? Our core mission is really to connectthe classroom learning with home life. We hear often from families or fromprinciples, I wish I knew that. We're hoping to close that I wish I knew thatgap with the information we're hoping to share with families. And so hope u we'rehoping some key takeaways and objectives that the community hears tonight is theintent is to empower families. We want to empower families with trustedobjective evidence-based insights and we want to bridge that gap. The homeschoolgap is is sometimes wider than we'd like it to be. So informing our parents in ina way that's digestible and meaningful. And Kim's going to talk about ourlayered approach to parenting with purpose will be helpful for families.And it's all evidence grounded. it's grounded in evidence and research-basedum information to hopefully cut through a lot of the misinformation and noisethat we're hearing as families. We um bring in the resources. We bring in theexperts. We by no means want to tell parents what to do. We want to givefamilies um objective information that they can take and then um implement itin their homes how it how they see fit in their own lives.So, the guiding principles, we're hoping to model model critical thinking. Um, asI said, using fact-based information to support success. It's a continuum ofcare from birth to our littles all the way up through students that we continueto educate at our sale transition program. The learning never stops forour families. Um, we want it to be actionable and accessible. We want toprovide tangible takeaways for families. We use a lot of jargon, a lot ofeducational lingo. Um, and so you'll hear tonight, how are we breaking thatdown into tangible takeaway things uh that our families can implement in theirhomes? Um, and that it's it's entirely rooted in peer-reviewed developmentalresearch and science. Okay. And as uh Christina said, it was agroup effort from all of us and putting our heads together. And a couple yearsago, um, when I came on board, I was meeting with Molly on parent education.and her and I are both parent educators, adult educator, licensed teachers and uhso we were really excited about um the collaboration of all of us together andwhat we can do as the dis as a district. So we developed this uh layeredengagement model. So it's four four tiered. We'll get into that later. Itjust really allows flexibility um to self- select whatever depth theirparents might be interested in and recognizing the varied times, energy,etc. that parents have. So here's uh just a look at thestructure itself showing the kind of a quick glance layer all the way down tolike a deep dive. So you'll see sort of the format what the parent or caregivercan experience and then um the resources and that staff will require.So taking a look at those first uh one and two layers kind of a quick glance ondemand learning. So you'll see it could be a one-page info sheet, someinfographics, and then we have our website that's refreshed. So we'reexcited about that as well. Molly worked with the team to develop some updatedinformation. So you can go there now and see what's on there. And then the secondlayer is more on demand. So microlearning, videos, just providesquick accessible support for parents. So that's the first couple layers. And thenas you get a little bit deeper in the engagement, we're talking aboutinteractive webinars, live events. So we might have forums where we have guestspeakers which we'll share a little bit later. We're excited to share that. Andthen a deep dive too. So we might have learning series um David mentioned uhECF where we have those multi-week classes uh dad and I or all you know allkinds of uh specialty classes that we offer. So something like that. um smallgroupoup workshops and also um we have uh licensed parent educators on staffthat can develop um classes or opportunities for parents as well asthings come up and parents show an interest in a certain uh topic orseries. So here's a little quick glance at whatyou'll see when you go to our parenting with purpose website. And it really wouldn't be a presentationif we didn't tie the learning to MTSS. Dr. Loo and her team talked about MTSS.I liken the layered approach model to an MTSS model. Tier one is that layer one.We're sending information out to all families. We're going to do that from adistrict lens, um, school messenger. We're utilizing principles to send theinformation out to families. We know families want to hear from theirbuilding principles. So, we're going to lean on our building principles at thattier one, layer one, give it to all families. Families who read that andthink, "Wow, I I might need more." that tier two, that layer two. I'm going togo click on some websites. I'm going to click on some videos. I'm going to learna little bit more because this might be happening in my home environment. Layerthree then is what we're going to talk about next really is that um thatspeaker series might be a topic you're interested in or you don't know you needit yet. So, you're going to come to a speaker series and that will be umposted on the website. We'll start advertising and again send it outthrough building principles. We know that families are reading those emails.And then that layer four is that significant deep dive um leveragingcommunity and and their parent educators. So the areas of focus thisyear um really are grounded in what we're hearing from the community, whatwe're hearing from our parents, what we're hearing from our principles um andthose of us just being out in buildings. We're excited for the two areas of focusthis year. Um the first one is executive functioning and what does that mean?We're trying to tailor that and make it digestible to families. What does thatmean in the home environment? And so that's our focus area. One, growingindependence through executive functioning. There has been significantnew research in the area of executive functioning and the sustained attentionstudents have for learning when walking into our buildings. We as educators needto know and understand that research as do parents. So we can have level we canlevel set our expectations with who's walking through our door each and everyday. And then focus area two, managing technology in a connected world. AmandaFay and the team talked about that and um Kim will go into that a little bitmore as we keep going. The executive functioning speaker is uh KristenJacobson um from Cognitive Connections. She's a national speaker. We've actuallyhad her in our district several times over the last several years working withteachers. Um and so she will bridge the the age gap earliest learners all theway through our high school age students. as well. In early childhood,we're helping families focus on self-regulation, attendance, followingsimple routines at home, brushing teeth, cleaning up your room, putting thingsaway. Um, and then moving on to elementary school. How are weorganizing? What's that task management and following multi-step directions, butwhat does that mean in the home environment?And then in middle school, we shift to that autonomy. Students have to becomemore independent in managing their own executive functioning. So, we'refocusing on planning, prioritizing, self- advocating, helping parentsunderstand what that looks like both at school and at home. And really, how canthey set their home environment up for success? What is the um what does thekitchen table look like for work uh from, you know, from 6:00 to 8? Whatdoes their bedroom look like? Do they have a a a workable um environment to dotheir homework in distraction-free? And then in high school, really reallyfocusing on that auton autonomy um those advanced executive functioning skillsand then future readiness. Okay. And I'm going to be talking abouthealthy digital habits. And so this has been a great effort with Amanda Fay, umMolly Bonaman, and our speaker that's going to be here is Aaron Walsh. And wealso have had her in our district a couple years ago um as a speaker andalso working with our teachers. So she's u going to be fabulous. So again, earlychildhood, we're going to be focusing on building healthy uh foundations,predictable routines, prioritizing play. We know that's how children learn isthrough play. So that's our focus there. Um elementary schools, we're talkingabout developing digital habits, media literacy, and then balancing that onlineand offline experiences for them. And then as we progress middle schools,we're talking about connected guidance, navigating, identifying development,that online behavior, I'm sorry, identity development. And then in highschool, again, autonomy, um digital independence, critical thinking, andresponsible decision making. So those are going to be the focusescoming up. And as um Christine said, here's our speaker lineup. Yeah. So tothe schoolboard, to the community, we want to invite you to come to these,sign up for them. You can sign up on the parenting with purpose website. We diduh our community should have received the first um kind of email blast uhannouncing the 24th uh date with Kristen Jacobson. We already have a number ofpeople who have signed up. It's both an in-person and virtual event. So if youcan't make it in person because you're home with your your kids, but still wantto listen and learn, there will be a virtual option as well. She'll be in theVan Mo forum building on August 24th. And for families who don't yet know,does my child have an executive functioning need? Do I have an executivefunctioning need that I might need tips and tricks on? She's going to be back onJanuary 4th. Uh we're we're pairing her parent speaker series with um standingin front of our staff. So, she's going to be working with all elementary andmiddle school staff on August 24th and high school staff on on January 4th. Andthen we're pairing that that adult um parenting series in January as well.>> And I'll just quickly mention with Erin Walsh um she's going to be coming fortwo sessions November um 2026. I guess I neglected to put the date, but there'stwo sessions. Um one is going to be birth to grade three and then she'sgoing to switch to a fourth grade and above. So that'll be session one and twoand then coming back in March for sessions three and four. on the sameconcept, birth to grade three, fourth grade and above. So, we're lookingforward to having her here. And I think Amanda, you're meeting with her tomorrowto have further discussions around what that's going to look like.I think this is just um a highlight of the parenting with purpose flyer thatfamilies would have received. So, check your email inbox. It will also be comingagain from principles as principles begin sending their welcome backletters. Uh so we hope you can join us in the foundation forum at VantageMomentum building on August 24th. Then of course we measure impact sowe're excited to um look at uh postevent surveys, looking at direct observationsand then monitoring our digital engagement as we look through how areparents going through and looking at our sites. >> Yeah, that's a wrap. Did you have anyquestions? This is such great synergy with what wehave going on with instructional technology. It's just like the perfecttiming. So, what a great time for all this. Thank you.>> Yeah, I would share too that what's been great is Amanda's been able to share ouruh we're going to be sharing our staff survey. We're going to be sharing our umgoal board goals, the parents concerns that we've heard so we can really take alook at that um digital well-being with that and and see what we can come upwith for families and for staff. Yeah, it's just such great timing and a greatidea. So, thank you for partnering with with the partnering parenting for thepurpose. I love it. Questions from the board. Karen,>> not really a question, just a quick comment. I really appreciate that youare doing this very exciting and I love that there's inperson.Um I just have to say there is nothing better than in person>> getting to you know and yeah great opportunity for parents to meet otherparents and just yeah I'm just I'm on inerson person so appreciate that Sally>> uh just a quick comment I want to give flowers to the parents that originallynurtured and supported parenting with purpose. Um it is probably one of themost frequently asked things that I get from community members of is it comingback? Is anybody doing that anymore? And so, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.>> And I would just add if anyone has ideas from the community about topics, reachout to schoolboard members, reach out to any of us on the cabinet superintendentor your building principal. They will be bringing the ideas to our principalmeetings. We meet once a month. So, if they're hearing uh rumblings in thecommunity about a topic that they're wanting to learn more about, they'llbring it to us and we'll look at that um into, you know, adding that into nextyear's um series of speakers as well. >> Great. Thank you so much. I look forwardto it. >> Thank you.>> Thank you. All right. Next up, we have recognition of educators receivingcontinuing contract status. Superintendent Law.>> Madame Chair, members of the board, um, one of the most exciting times for ateacher when they transition from being a probationary teacher to a continuingcontract teacher. This is actually statutory language and it varies if youcome from another district and have been tenured or if you're brand new to theprofession. But tonight, for your information only, this requires noaction, are the list of all of the employees who when they join us thisyear, they will be tenured teachers. Congratulations to those teachers. Uhwe're certainly proud of them that they've come through the process ofbeing here three years, have uh been deemed to be meeting the standards ofMinnetonka and will be here with us hopefully for a long time.>> Congratulations. Next up, we have the approval of sale of 2026b. Let's see. Certificates of precipitprecipitate precipitation bonds.>> Members of the board, uh you are used to this for members of the public who thisis their first board meeting. If there's a way to sell bonds in a manner that istaxpayer friendly, Mr. was on it monitoring interest rates looking intohow people are purchasing uh the timing of things who else is buying at thistime and with that background knowledge Mr. Rawis is going to tell you that hehas determined that this is the time to sell to maximize benefit for our localtaxpayers on two series of bonds I'll let him talk through what both of thosebonds are and the purpose of those bonds and the timing for right now. Mr. Bush.Thank you, Superintendent Law. Uh Madam Chair, members of the board, uh back onMay 28th, you authorized the sale of $1.99 million of certificates ofparticipation bonds for the purpose of constructing a parking lot uh additionto the East parking lot at Mitonka High School. And the bonds were put together,a deal was put together um to go go out to the market. They were sold on July8th. Uh we actually sold out very quickly. Uh the uh sale started at 8:30and was completed by 11:00 a.m. So uh many of the coupons also had multiplebiders. So that helped to keep the interest rate a little bit lower. And weend up selling the bonds at about 4.79% interest rate, which is a very good ratein this in this current uh interest rate environment. So it's recommended thatyou would approve the uh 20 26B certificates of participation saleresolution as prepared by Dorsy and Whitney. So, we are actually in workingdiligently to uh get this project going. We've abaded uh there's a house on thesite that will be demolished and so we've abaded all the um not a lot butabated any hazardous materials out of it. So, it's ready to go and we'regetting soil borings and those types of things. So, work is in process.>> Okay. May I please have a motion for the approval of sale of 2026b COP bonds?>> So moved. >> Karen, may I have a second, please?Second, >> Dan. Any discussions?All those in favor, please say, "I." >> I.>> Any opposed? All right. Approval of sale carries.>> All right. Uh, next up, we have the approval of sale of 2026 COP bonds.>> Mr. Baois, >> thank you, Superintendent Law, MadamChair, members of the board. Also on May 28th, you authorized the sale of 1.995million certificate of participation bonds for the purpose of constructing asecond student drop off and pickup driveway at Scenic Heights ElementarySchool around the south and west sides of the building. Uh the bonds were solduh three weeks later than the prior ones on July 27th, 2026. And uh the actuallyat that time there there was a lot of activity over overseas, let's just say.And uh so the interest rates are kind of a little bit sketchy, but uh we actuallygot a 5.04% interest rate, which is a very good rate. Uh and actually this onewas we had some coupons that actually had uh as many as five five uh banksbidding on trying to get our bonds. So it was really a a good bond sale in thatregard. Again, uh that one we start at 9:30 a.m. and we were sold out by 11:00a.m. So, uh we're recommending that you would approve this bond sale. Uh so thatwe um and and we are actually working, you know, on the design and doing someof the preliminary work and also soil warnings and all that stuff for this uhthis proposed second driveway at Senic Heights Elementary School.>> Okay. May I please have a motion for the approval of a sale of 2026 COP bonds?>> So moved. Mike, may I have a second, please?>> Second. >> Karen, any discussion? All those infavor, please say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you,Paul. Next up, we have the approval of sale of surplus technology equipment.Mr. Bourgeoa. >> Uh, thank you u Madam Chair and membersof the board. whenever we do a uh a uh lease purchase uh transaction to get newuh iPads and MacBooks and those types of things uh to up upgrade them and refreshthem so that they have the most uh powerful computing ability to run thelatest software programs because software bloat is a real thing that justcontinues on into infinity and beyond. Uh but uh we so we lease purchase ourour uh iPads and MacBooks for on on a three-year rotating basis and uh what wedo then is we're actually able to sell the old ones uh to other entities whorepurpose them. Uh we get some interesting names on some of the bidersu such as Mac of all trades. I remember one from the past was Second Life Mac,those types of things. So, um, but, uh, we we had a sale of of of 2,180 iPadsand 55 MacBooks, uh, that, uh, exe director, um, um,uh, BA, not Bosik, Fay Vasik, I got to get got to remember to get the nameright. Um, as uh, put together for us. And uh so we got 10 bids in and the thelow or the high bidder in this regard was a tech reboot at $276,940.So the proceeds of the sale will be put back into the um into the capitalprojects fund and used for capital projects more technology equipment.Thank you. >> Okay. May I please have a motion for theapproval of sale of surplus technology equipment?>> So so moved. >> Tanya, may I have a second, please?>> Second. >> Sally, any discussion?Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I.>> I. >> I.>> Any opposed? Motion carries. >> Thank you.>> Thank you, Mr. Bourgeoa. All right, next up we have the consent agenda. May Iplease have a motion to approve the consent agenda?>> So moved. >> Dan, may I have a second?>> Second, >> Mike. All those in favor, please say I.>> I. Any opposed? >> We motion carries for the consentagenda. All right. Do we have any board reports this evening?I guess not because we've had July pretty much off, butSuperintendent Law, do you have anything?>> Madam Chair, a handful of items. Uh, first of all, if you're driving aroundMinnatonka last Saturday and you got stopped by traffic, that's because wehad an incredibly successful tour to Tonka. I want to give a shout out to ourcommunity education department under executive director Kim Carlson. numberswell over 2,000. Um, we always throw a wrinkle into the high school parking lotat the day of that or it seems like during my time here. Uh, uh, Mr.Bourgeois worked to get it as clean as possible. There was aStanley Cup was in the parking lot in the afternoon. All that to say, it wasin my limited time in Minnitankka the most beautiful ride I can remember andincredibly wellrun. So, shout out to Community Yed for that and for all ofthe volunteers. I was a writer and every time I pass them and they're everywhereout there, I thank them. We couldn't do it without our community. Next, I'd liketo one remind the community earlier tonight at 4:30, we had a groundbreakingfor MMW's new facility upgrade that's starting now and will end up in justabout two years. So, board members were there along with city officials. Wethrew a shovel of dirt. On the 20th, we will be at MME for a groundbreaking. andwe'd love to have you there joining with us with the board as we break ground.We've been working on a variety of projects already at MME, but the bigwork is going to be starting coming up this school year. Um, I'd also like tonote I can't remind people enough this is a unique school year with a lateLabor Day. School starts on a Tuesday, the Tuesday before Labor Day. Uh, I Iwish I could remember that number right now. It's September 1st is the first dayof school. There's no school on Monday, August 31st, but September 1st is thefirst day of school. That's before Labor Day. I'm hoping no one skips the firstweek and comes the Tuesday after Labor Day. We've been reminding people uhteachers will be back, new teachers, some starting as soon as next week, andthen over the next few few weeks, gradually bringing employees back. We'reexcited for the new school year. Lots of new things coming. School starts onTuesday, September 1st. And with that, my reports are done. Thank you,Superintendent Law. Do we have any announcements from the board?>> With that, thank you for being here. May I have a motion to adjurnn?>> So moved. >> May I have a second?>> Second. >> All those in favor, please say I.>> I. >> I. Any opposed? We are journ. Thank youso much. Good evening, everybody.