So, phase two is when we get to the end of coming up with our gap analysis of current state to ideal state and recognizing we may need to make some shifts with materials. And so, we are at that point and right away I'm putting on the first slide that the middle school team is requesting an adoption of Imagine I Am curriculum for grades 6 through 8.

Yeah, I mean my my question is have we done an assessment of the grade school implementation and if we haven't, which I don't think we fully have because it's only been around for a year or so um why not wait to see how it goes um before changing K8 It's a good question. or 8 6 12

I that's a really good question and I think what's really hard is how slow implementation goes and I want so badly to be digging into all of our student data right now um but we know from implementation science that this will take us 3 to 5 years to fully see the impact of this decision. So, where we stand today, I can't look at student data and say that's a wonderful assessment of how we did or did not succeed because we are like I was showing with the standards, those are wildly different from an educator standpoint than when I started teaching 20 years ago, which was here's your checklist of skills to go through.

One of the really nice things that IM has already done for us is already laid it all out with the new standards and put into each section of IM um recently of what's going to happen and that's in their paid version of like what's going on. And our team at the middle schools have been doing that ourselves for the free version. And so that's one of the things that's a benefit of this group of people who are putting out this um paid version if we adopt it. They have really looked at Minnesota and said, 'We're going to um, tailor it to you.'

So, coherence in your programming is extremely important because what we find is that if students um the data that they just shared in March was that if students are receiving tier two and tier three supports from a different program, a misaligned program, it actually results in um lesser student outcomes than a student who got no supports and still needed it. So, it's actually better to have nothing than to have something disjointed.

Today I am here because my son was racially targeted by a group of white scholars at Hopkins High School. My son did not know these students. He was not in conflict with them. He did nothing to him. And yet, he was in a photo that they used of black scholars titled in one image slaves for sale. They used the N-word. They used racist, sexually degrading, and dehumanizing language. And they created an image with a white student's knee on a black student's neck to mock the murder of George Floyd. This is no accident. This is not a joke. Nobody accidentally turns black classmates into content for racial humiliation.

I'm asking the district not only to respond to this incident, but to demonstrate that it has the willingness, the structure, and the courage to confront the broader culture that allows it to happen. To that end, I'm also formally requesting that the board commit to a clear and public timeline for reviewing policies 413 and 514, and for creating and sharing a district-wide protocol for responding to racial harassment. Some of the examples for this model can be found in Eastern Carver County schools.

I'm curious as to what are the consequences. I'm going to say the word because certain actions deserve and require consequences that are part of the education process that teach that dangerous behavior, images, the dehumanization of black people, the disrespect of the black community, the African-American community is intolerable. Um to know that our our friends young person was targeted in this way in 2026 when we hear so much talk when we know what the national um temperature of this country is, what is happening right now. There is a attack on the African-American community as well as other communities.

Um Uh first of all to um Mr. and Mrs. Leonard and families here, I as your superintendent, I want to apologize to you for this um completely unacceptable, racist, dehumanizing behavior. I did respond to you in writing. However, I want to verbally acknowledge that this did occur and that we have a beautiful and intelligent young people who were targeted in a way that no parent wants their child to be targeted. So, completely unacceptable.