um board workshop um the first in 2026for the Hopkins School Board for January 13, 2026. Um we have a rather fullagenda for this workshop and I am eager to get started in having um somediscussions on our agenda items. So thank you all for being here umincluding one of our student board reps. Really appreciate you coming and meetingwith us. The um first order of business for the um workshop is board officersand committee assignments. And just some context for our soontobe very new boardmembers. Um we have everyone has seen this document but in the past um Hopkinsoperates in that our workshop before the first organizational meeting of the yearis to talk about board officers um who wants to serve in what role and then whois going to nominate them. So we have that conversation and then we also havea pretty robust conversation about our committees. The school board in Hopkinshas a number of committees that board members and community can serve ontogether. Um, and one of the things that I think is unique um, in the state isthat we um, have our student board reps also um, be assigned to a committee. So,they get to tell us what committees they want to be on. I know that I have hadreally great um experiences working alongside student board reps on ourpolicy and monitoring committee as well as our LACE. They bring an incrediblypowerful voice when we go talk to our state legislators. So, I am eager to getstarted. If you pull up the attached document in the agenda, you will see umthe order of business. And what we do every year is we look atwhat happened last year so that we have something to reference. Um when we getto the committee assignments, um I do ask the current um board representativeto give just a little brief outline on what that work is like so that our newboard members can get a feel for where they might fit in and where they mightfeel comfortable. So the first order of business um forthis um workshop agenda is to talk about ourofficer selection and the first one on the list is chair. Um last year, um Iwas nominated by Jen West Morland and so I would look for a conversation aroundanyone who would like to throw in their um hat for chair. Um I am willing toserve again um because we are going through a superintendent search. I wasum able to do a successful superintendent search at district 287and uh feel like I bring that experience to the table and I will open it up fordiscussion. [clears throat] >> Chair Andre.>> Yes. Um I this is an important role and umone thing that is important to acknowledge when talking about any ofthese roles is that there is no absolute power that any of these has. Infact like of all the absolute powers that are given to one of these roles theclerk is has like the most clear direct single powers. And so there undoubtedlyare responsibilities and um a certain amount of empowerment that comes witheach of these roles. And that never detracts from the fact that the voice ofall of the board members for our major decisionsis considered. And with regard to the superintendent search that youmentioned, um that for example, I trust your leadership there and amkeenly aware of how important that search and that task will be to thisboard ahead of us and appreciate your your leadership there and know that thatwill be a collaboration not just amongst the board but amongst the board andteachers and our students and our community members and that we will worktogether to make the choice that's best for Hopkins. And so I I did considerbefore this meeting whether I would be interested in performing the chairduties and due to um some other goals that I have feel like now is not thetime for me and would support your support your continued serving in thatrole. >> Thank you for the work that you havealready done. It is not easy. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Any other>> uh chair reason? >> Yes.>> Well, we're really starting with the big one, aren't we? Yeah, jump right in. UmI think a a couple things come to mind as as I'm thinking about this. You know,we had seen um you know, we had just had an election where um you know, some newpeople were voted on. Um we're we were emailed some information.people had signed a petition asking for a change in leadership. Um, I think thismight be a good time to bring fresh ideas, fresh perspective into the chairseat. Um, so I I would be open to some sort of a change as well. Certainlyappreciate all your leadership and being willing to do it again. Um, I think, youknow, one of the things we're talking about is the search firm. I think that'sgoing to help us a lot uh with the superintendent search. Um and so, youknow, I I've haveve, you know, thought about, you know, who who else would I beinterested in maybe having the the chair's leadership role. Um had, youknow, Treasure Hartland has been here, has the experience, you know, I Iappreciate a lot of what you've done as the treasurer. Um, so is there any waywe can get you to reconsider your passing on it due to other stuff?Certainly understand. [clears throat]>> You know, it it means a lot to me that that you thought of that. It reallydoes. Um, I am very interested in the future of this board and in workingtogether and am completely dedicated to that. um andincluding working with whoever is the chair um to get a good superintendent toaddress the issues both new and old that are ahead of us. And I it does not feellike the right time and I would hate because of a couple other things that Ido need to focus on. I would hate to have that role, the chair role suffer orfor me to to not give it everything that I think that it would take to learn andon board. Um, and I would consider it in the future, butI don't feel equipped right now. >> Any furtherdiscussion? >> Chair Andre.>> Yes. Um, just to echo what Kai or DirectorThompson said, um, I just wanted toagain, um, thank you for your leadership and everything you've done and um, yourwillingness to serve again. I would maybe ask Kai if or directorThompson if he would be interested in the chair roleum as I believe he has the experience and expertise from the operations andgovernance side that may be useful in that role. Uh, thank you soon to be directorHeyman. Um, yeah, I mean I think, you know, lastJanuary when we sat here and did this, you know, there was only one person whostepped forward as, you know, willing to take on the chair. And so, you know,I've I've talked to a number of you trying to gauge interest. Um, you know,certainly thought about director Harland. I talked to Director Xiao. Um,talked to Director Rover briefly. Um, you know, I I I I certainly would bewilling to do it. I think it would take on,you know, maybe sort of a different style coming from, you know, sort ofthis business background that I have as far as, you know, how I'm used tomeetings going. um I I would try to add sort of more efficiency at times umwould be something that I would think about, but um yeah, so I'm I'm flatteredyou would suggest me um and I certainly would consider it um if nobody else iswilling to as well. >> So we havetwo people interested. So, I'm reading that correctly. Kai, you're willing toserve as chair. [clears throat] >> Any further discussion?>> Chair Anderson. >> Yes, director.>> Um, thank you all again. Happy new year to everyone. Um, it's our first boardmeeting of the year. Um, Kai Johanna, I really appreciate what you all have likeshared with the board and you know, just like your insights about it and I knowyou and I talked about it as well. Um, and I mean from a from a capacityperspective, I don't have the capacity to serve as chair, but I do think thatthe chair is a very critical voice of the board and relationships incommunity, relationships with our um our elected officials, like it really reallymatters. And I think that someone who shows up consistently, someone who is umin the community, someone who is not afraid to share um and to um you know bebe uh to to show divisive lead, excuse me, not divisive leadership, but to showleadership during very challenging times is going to be very very critical inthese moments. Um we do not need any divisive leadership. We need people towork together to be collaborative and to uh do the best that we can for thisdistrict together. And so I think that um the chair is going to have to be aperson who's collaborative mindset who is going to be um working with everyoneand not selective and who is going to make sure that this um district isadvancing forward. [clears throat] And so I would um just like to put thatonto the table that that's something that I'm looking for in the chair. So,if you're collaborative, if you're going to pass policies that are going toimpact everyone, if you're going to champion diversity, equity, andinclusion, if you're going to champion um community, that's the person whoneeds to sit in the seat of the chair. >> Thank you, Director Roer. >> Chandalso want to say thank you to you both. It's brave>> and I appreciate you speaking up. Um do I chair Andre? Yes. Okay. Um so II wanted to name too just from this space as like a brand new person uh onthe board. A it's a lovely problem to have multiple people who are are willingto say yes to leading. Um and and I also just want to acknowledge I yesterday wasforwarded as I believe others on the board were a petition that had come fromsome members of our community. And and I think to me the thing that I want toaffirm in that a is like I'm always so grateful for people who care about ourdistrict and care about our schools. And so, um, to just like all the parents andobviously throughout the fall with the election and everything, getting to hearfrom so many folks who care about our district and and also I think, um, whatI read in that was, uh, a desire to say, hey, how do we continue to lean intotransparency, communication, that that cultivating of trust within ourcommunity. And I think absolutely, like that's work I'm committed to as a newperson on the board. I I'm hopeful that we all will be able to do that together.I think the thing um also that I've appreciated in this moment[clears throat] that is a concern of mine is as we're seeing increased ICEactivity and the impact of um what's going on at a federal level at as itimpacts our district. I think it's really important to be decisive inleadership in that way in this moment too. Um and so that just that's reallyimportant. So I just want to name that as well uh in this moment. So>> thank you. >> Yeah. Um, I do believe that this is, asyou mentioned, um, it's a good problem to have. It's one that we have never hadcoming out of our workshop [snorts] before the organizational meeting. Um,so I'm going to lean a little bit on Assistant Superintendent Lightfoot tokind of help me out. Um, I think it is just a matter of do we want to make thedecision of who's going to get nominated at the organizational meeting and votedupon here or do we want to have thatdiscussion at the board table knowing that it will go longer? Correct me ifI'm wrong. Do we have to make this decision now or can we do it at theorganizational meeting? And I'm sorry if you director J if youwanted to say anything. Okay. >> Good evening.>> Good evening. >> Um you have done it as a board inmultiple different sets of conditions. Um in part the decision does need to bemade at the board meeting itself. Um so specifically whether you bring a slateforward or you conduct the actual vote um that consideration has been typicallyheld within the agenda at the open board meeting.>> Thank you. So we can decide amongst ourselves then.Do we want to bring um a slate like two options to the organizational meetingfor a vote or do we want to go into that meeting knowing who's going to be up fora vote? Any thoughts, feelings? >> I don't see why we don't vote at theboard meeting. Okay. Um, >> I'm open of course, but don't see anyreason. >> I think it's fine either way. >> So then the question is, who would liketo nominate me? I can nominate myself, butJ Andre, I will. >> Thank you, Rachel. And then Johanna, do you want to nominate Kaisince you're >> Yes. Sorry.>> It's okay. [clears throat]>> Is it or an >> Okay, wonderful. All right. That thentakes us to vice chair. this role is vacant currently since um Jason Ross didnot run for reelection. Um so I would look for and this um positionalso serves as um chair of our policy and monitoring committee.So I would like to open it up for anyone who would like to throw their hat in thering for vice chair. Taran just snapped my head in.>> Wonderful. Thank you, Director Roer. >> Any further discussion?>> Chair Dre. >> Yes, Director Thompson.>> Um, having sat next to Director Roer for the last two years, um, I would bewilling to nominate her. I think she's been a great board member, um, and wouldadd a lot of value in that role. Thank you, Clerk Thompson.Chair Andre. >> Yes.>> Um, Director Roer, I just wanted to say that you are a tireless voice for yourcommunity. Um, and I am so happy that you are on the board and very happy tosit with you and to do this work with you and you will be a [clears throat]wonderful vice chair and thank you for being willing.>> Thank you. >> Yes, I'm very excited too. Anyoneelse? Then headed to treasurer. Um forreference um the treasurer is currently um director Hartland and she um thisposition also serves as the chair of the um SEFA committee which is communityfinancial advisory committee um and also sits on the audit committee.So that is the responsibilities of that role. And I will just say quickly thatTreasurer Hartland um took over this position from a beloved um member of ourboard and you have really taken it on and made it your own. And I value yourreports at every meeting. Um they're thorough, they're thoughtful, andthey're engaging. So thank you for all the work you've done in this position.Um, and I hope you're you're able to continue that good work.>> Um, I appreciate that and I uh do enjoy this work. It is a daunting and largejob. That's not to say if someone else is interested, you should not throw yourhat in, but I feel like I am like coming into it now. That like now is when Iactually uh understand a lot of the complexities and would be willing andexcited to continue in that role. Thank you,>> Tier. And Dre. >> Yes.>> I would like to also echo that I think um director treasurer Hartland shouldremain as the treasurer. Um, I learned so much from Treasure Heartland when itcomes to finances is always like top-notch when like she's presenting herreports and I think um, you know, even like the education that you provide tolike even like the LAC around like educational finance and our community isvery valuable and so I would [clears throat] love to see you continueto educate us especially as we're going into um, a new year of like policies andthings. Uh, you got the voice to really explain how things work um, especiallyfrom my brain. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Is that a nomination?>> Mhm. Oh, yes. That's a nomination for [laughter] me.>> It sounded like a nomination. I just want to make sure. [clears throat] >> All right. Well, that then takes us toclerk. This position is currently held um by Director Thompson. And I know umas uh director treasure Hartland mentioned, it does come with[clears throat] a lot of responsibilities and direct umuh tasks and um yeah. Well then, do you have anything toadd? >> Yeah, thank you uh um chair and just acouple things I would say. I I've done it for two years, so I I did it when Ifirst started, so it's certainly something you two could think about. UmI I I think one of the things I like about it is that um the amount of thingsthat I'm seeing that, you know, the treasur that the clerk has to sign umreally help get me up to speed on the operations um of the board. So umcertainly something really anybody at the table [clears throat] wouldconsider. Yeah, it is a great entry levelposition. >> Chair Andre.>> Yes. >> Um in the event, you know, we're votingfor chair at the meeting and um in the event uh director Thompson is not chosento be the chair, I would nominate him to continue in the position of the clerk. >> Did you say you are?>> Are you willing to accept that? Um, I'm I'm flattered, but I I think I'mwilling to pass the torch at this point, so I'll decline. Thank you. >> Anyone else willing to serve?>> I'll just I mean, um, Chair Andre. >> Yes.>> Yes. Um, I I'll just say I knew I knew which roles I wasn't going to hopefullynominate myself for. Um, which included anything like treasurer or office any ofthe officers like chair, vice chair, or treasurer. Um, so I'll just say that,you know, whatever folks think, but this I would be willing to serve in thisrole. Um, I appreciate you naming. It's a way to be able to especially come upto speed and understand, you know, being new in this space. Um, but I will alsodefer if someone else wants to do that. I'm totally open.>> Thank you. Appreciate that. And I just wanted to say quickly, um, normally ourworkshops are a lot less informal, so no need to to say chair. You can evensay Shannon or >> they are more informal. Usually>> they are. So feel free to just relax and be like, "Hey, I have something to say."And thank you again. Um [clears throat] I when I first came on the board, Iserved as clerk and I agree with Clerk Thompson. It is a great way to reallykind of understand board business and all the things that happen in thedistrict um operationally kind of beyond [clears throat] what we do um at theboard table. >> Um and it also there is a lot of workinvolved. So I do appreciate you um stepping forward for that and I would behappy to nominate you. Um, any other interest?Chair and Jason, I know you just said don't be so formal.[laughter] >> I don't know what else to say. I'm soused to saying Jar. >> You can't not.>> Um, I would definitely say um, you know, uh, Clerk Thompson, I'm definitely goingto miss you. um you know uh asked the clerk because I'm just very used to youlike your roll call and I think you did an incredible job being um a clerk andum I [clears throat] know that you declined the offer. I was going tonominate you but Sarah since you stepped up and I am so happy that you are cominginto the board like looking to do leadership. I am also going to put in mynomination for you to do that cuz Okay. >> I'm happy for you.>> Thanks. Mhm. And I suck at that. Thank you, ClerkThompson, for all your work. I know you did it longer than most, so it's verymuch appreciated. >> Mhm.>> Chair and Dre. >> Yes.>> I just want to say, Sarah, I appreciate you um throwing your hat in the ring andwilling to step up. I I too would be willing to just so you know. So if umyou don't necessarily if you have any hesitation if you haveany hesit as hesitation I just wanted you to know that>> um >> ifyou didn't feel comfortable or or maybe want that role>> um that I would be willing to do that as well.>> Yeah. No, I really appreciate that and I think I I just wanted to allow space,you know, if some if you wanted to or someone else wanted to throw their namein. So, I just I'm happy to do it, but I also just wanted to allow space. Um, sowhatever. But, um, no one asked me to be treasure and that was the importantthing. [laughter] >> Um, so are you comfortable if I supportthe nomination of >> fantastic. Um, so that takes us then toour committees [clears throat] and I am keeping an eye on the time u making surethat we have enough time to get to our our next item which is talking about ourproposals that we got for search firms. >> So I I'm hoping people had a chance toreview the the districts um the committees the outofd districtcommittees and we will start with that. Um I did go ahead and highlight the umassignments where there is you know a vacancy because of a departing boardmember. Um so our first out of district committee is the association ofmetropolitan school districts AMSD. It is um a working board and um it meetsthe first Friday of the month from 7:00 am to 9:00 am. They do provide a virtualoption I believe so you don't have to be out and about that early in the morning.Um so it is um we're looking for the um assignmentum director vice chair Ross served in thatcapacity for us. So we would look for a a first person and then also analternate and I know treasure hland you also were on there because of your rolein the LAC. um those two things are very connected.So often whoever is um chair co-chair of the LAC also serves um mainly to carryinformation back and forth. Um, so I would look for anyone I don't know,director Roer, if your interest umremains since you were an alternate last year>> for Sorry, I'm trying to pull up um for I'm sorry, which one we the Associationof Metropolitan School Districts? Um Rachel, are you still interested instaying >> on there?>> Um yes, I am. if there's a person who feels very excited about it. Um,>> we also do get recaps kind of as part of the LAC. So,>> yeah, >> I'm fine with staying.>> I would be willing to stay on as an alternate just because my work schedulewill not allow for me to um >> Yep.Anyone willing to take over Jason Ross's role as the primarymember of AMSD? I don't mind being the primary, but I'malso conscious that I like I'm on a few things.>> A lot of things. Yeah. >> Things. I don't mind being the primary.I would attend almost all of them anyway.>> Yeah. >> As the secondary. So,>> thank you. I appreciate that. They are an important part partner in our ourlegislative work. Um, I'll put you as an alternate, director Roer. >> And then, um, we have intermediatedistrict 287. I am the, um, appointed board member and, um, our terms thereare two years and I'm midway through, so I have one year left. Um, so I willcontinue that assignment. Um, Director Roer, did you want to continue being thealternate? >> Sure.Anyone else interested? All right. Then that takes us tothe um the Minnesota State High School League.Um Clerk Thompson is our current representative there. Wondering if youcould just give a brief overview and or >> Yep. [clears throat]>> talk about if you're willing to stay on. >> Same as last year. Not much has happenedwith this. Um, I enjoy sports, so I'm certainly willing to remain here unlesssomebody else wants it. >> Um, are you still having trouble likegetting any information about meetings? >> Uh, yeah.>> Yeah, I brought that up at the delegate assembly and they were like, "Oh, I getnotified." I'm like, "Well, we're not." >> Um,>> so I can bring that up to MSBA again and just be like, "What's up? Anyone else interested in thatcommittee that isn't happening? Okay. So then that takes us to our indistrict our internal um committees. The first one is the city's um slashboardsteering committee. This is to address common issues, pursue potentialpartnerships, and strengthen communications. They meet two to threetimes a year over lunch. Um, currently we have um Treasurer Hartland andDirector Roer serving and our student board repum was praise um and Iris. I'mgoing to assume that um Iris wants to stay, but we will be sure to send outthis information to our student board reps and they can confirm or sign up forthings if they didn't have a chance. And certainly, um if you hear of a committeethat you want to be a part of, jump in. Um we value highly value our studentboard rep participation in committees. So, I'm really glad that you're here.Um, if this is okay, I will keep this decision until I of course converse withmy classmates. >> Yes, absolutely.[clears throat] >> So, any I'm just going to kind of openit up. Um, Treasure Hartland, Director Roer, if you want to continue to serve,if anyone has any questions, they would be great people to ask. Um,Yeah, I'll continue. >> It's um important work. It's kind offun. You get to meet a lot of people. This is a place where I I feel like Ihave the relationships and if I like needed to could reach out to them andthis is a place where I'd be willing to step back. Um it's a fun one. It's a>> and I think up to three, just to clarify, I think up to three boardmembers on most of these committees are allowed. So once we go over that thenyou have a voting quorum and so then you soviolation of open [clears throat] meeting law>> but two more people could join is what I was saying >> any>> I'd be willing to serve on this committee with director Roer. >> Thank you.Um and I will put Iris and we will confirm with her that she wants tocontinue. Um the next one is our schools andcommunities in partnership um and community education advisory committee.Um, a board representative serves on Skip and the primary focus of thiscommitment is to share information and look for opportunities to improve mentalhealth and wellness outcomes by working together to solve issues that are beyondthe scope of any single organization. They meet five to six times throughoutthe school year. Currently, Director Roer and directors Roer and Xiao um uhare on that committee and um director West Merland was the alternate and ofcourse this no longer a board member. Wondering about interest in serving.You're just in time to get on to SEFAC. [laughter] Any interest by anyone?>> Uh, Chair Andre. >> Yes.>> Yes. Hi. Uh, I think I'd be willing to serve again on this committee.>> Wonderful. Thank you. >> They assigned me work though. They workme. >> Do they?>> Oh, yeah. >> Good. [laughter] Anyone else? [clears throat]>> I Chair Andrew Snow also remain on this board. I mean it's committee. >> I'd be interested in being thealternate. >> Great. [clears throat] >> Or she could just join right if shewants to. >> Yes.>> Yeah. Do you want Do you want to just come in?>> Just want to be a third. >> Sure.>> All right. >> Leveling up.that >> and then that takes us to the citizensfinancial advisory committee. Um I am assuming Sufan you want to continue inyour on this excellent committee for another year.>> Excellent. Thank you. Um,I will put you down, Rachel. [snorts] And then, um, there's openings for twoothers. Currently, Director Xiao, um, serves on that committee, and, uh, JasonRoss was the alternate. >> Jared Andre.>> Yes. >> Yes. Uh, I'd be willing to, uh, serveagain. >> Thank you.[clears throat] Anyone else have interest in this committee? >> Um, I'll step up there, too.>> And would you like to be as an alternate or as a member?>> Uh, let's go full-blown. >> All right.Also leveling [laughter] up. I like that description.Uh, first meeting is tomorrow [laughter] 7:30 in the morning.>> Oh, I I have an 8:00 call. I can't make it>> on. That's fine. I was joking about that, but um 7:30 [laughter] it actuallythe first meeting technically is tomorrow. Um the meetings are 7:30 to 9.>> Okay. >> Generally, I'll email you.>> And are they in person? >> Um it is a mix for the rest of January.They'll be virtual. >> Okay.Um so our next committee is the educational services advisory committee.Um, Clerk Thompson and Director Roer are um on that committee which providesadvice, guidance, and support to the district regarding the design,implementation, and evaluation of the Hopkins learning framework. Meetsquarterly between September and May from 5:30 to 7 p.m. >> And I would like to serve on thiscommittee. >> Great.Are you interested in >> Yeah, I'm happy to stay. I think it'sinteresting important work [clears throat] and SEA will need to be replaced. So,we'll go up to our board reps and see.And then we have the special education advisory committee. Um it is required tocreate special education parent advisory committees for the purpose of involvingparents in making recommendations regarding local spe special educationpolicy and program improvement. Um it says by monthly last Tuesday of themonth um I think we are down tothree times a year maybe. Um, so it's not it's not I don't think asheavy a lift as it used to be if people wanted to be on it. I'm currently on it.I'm willing to serve again um just because I think it pairs nicely with umdistrict 287 um and also the work I do. So,but we can certainly have another member.>> Chair Grie, >> yes,>> I would like to uh at least attend. I don't know as much as I should aboutspecial ed and I'd love to learn. >> Fantastic. Thank you. I appreciate that.>> So maybe alternate. I don't know what you want to call it.>> Yeah. >> I think that umDo you want to just be assigned? >> Sure.>> Thanks. [snorts] [clears throat] And then um we have uh that takes us tothe monitoring committee. It is um the vice chair is the chair of thatcommittee and then we need two more members um because both umuh Jason Ross and uh Director West Morlandare no longer on the board. So this um committee reviews relevantinformation to ensure that decisions are aligned with board policies andstrategic priorities. I will put you down, DirectorRoer, as the chair and I am certainly willing to serveagain on that this committee because I like it so much. Um,and then I hope Iris will probably remain. Um, Vanuel as well. Um, butwe'll see who what student board reps want to serve. Do you want to?>> Oh, no. Oh, >> I just want to say Claire wants to jointhe monitoring committee. >> Okay. Anyone else?>> Chair Andre, question. Uh, when does this committee meet? Like what's that isset up by the committee members. It's usually virtual>> um and we meet with the um assistant superintendent lightfoot and the chairand then um yeah, it's decided by when it works for okay the members.>> Um I'd be willing to serve on that. Great. And I will put Irisand Claire. >> Was she on it last? No.>> What's Claire's last name? >> Fisher>> with an S ch. >> Yeah.>> Thank you. And then we have the board auditcommittee. Um the purpose of this committee is tofacilitate board fiscal oversight. Committee members will meet exclusivelywith the auditors before and after the audit and report their findings to theboard. Um Treasure Hartland will be on that and currently um uh Jaing Xiao alsoserves on that board. Would you be willing to continue?And then we need a third member, >> Chair Andre.>> Yes. >> Yes, I would uh be willing to or happyto. Um there's a learning curve and I just feel like we're just starting toround some corners. So like to see it through. So thank [clears throat] you. >> It's super exciting.controls improvement >> says you>> um we can certainly go forward with two um I'll serve on that committee.>> Okay, great. Great. Thank you. [clears throat]>> And then our favorite or my favorite I should say maybe not everyone's favoriteis a legislative action coalition. Um this uh is our um comprised ofvolunteers and it assists the board in education related legislation. Um theybe we meet weekly on Fridays. Um and I'm just going to say right now I'm going tobe on it. I have been for [clears throat] 15 years. Um and it's wehave co-chairs. Uh one is a board member and the other is from the community. Um,and I'm wondering, Treasure Hartland, if youwould be willing to serve again in that capacity.Um, I would love to. Of all the of all the committees, this is the one that Ifeel most moved by and fits the one of thewise for being on the board for me. >> And I will actually I will sayIf somebody else would like to serve on it, I will bow out because I can't go asoften as I'd like anymore. So, we have two openings.>> Chair and Jason, I would definitely love to stay on the LAC. It is I concur withTreasure Harland. It is one of my absolute favorite um committees to serveon. No. All right, I'll put myself back on.[laughter] >> Since you speak so highly of it, I wouldlove to attend to get a little taste [laughter] if if it's possible to dothat. Just >> um it wouldn't be at all because threeof us are there, >> right? Um>> maybe an alternate. >> Awesome. Great.>> Um we could plan. So, we have a breakfastcoming up. The legislative um >> yes,>> action coalition has a breakfast, so you will get a little glimpse. Everyone willget an invitation. So, that's January 30th. Um and it's a Friday and it'sbefore school. And then after, so this is a little bit crunch time, but afterthat, one or the other board members could plan to not be there and you guyscould join. That would be fun. >> Yeah.>> Okay. Absolutely. And often times I can't make it because I'm working. So,um I'll let you know, text you. Okay, jump on.>> Um, >> chair recon.>> Yes, >> I would like to join LIC, please.>> Wonderful. >> Do our students automatically join orno? >> Almost all of our students are on itbecause it is the best. >> Yep. [laughter]>> Um, >> where's the LACE breakfast this year?>> Important question. >> It is it at the high school again thisyear? >> It is at the high school. I forget whichspace >> like the cafeteria>> I believe it is. >> That's where it's been in the>> cafeteria. You'll get an invitation very shortly. [snorts]>> Are [clears throat] you thinking about the breakfast?>> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's really good.>> It's 7:30, right? >> Correct. 7:30 to 9 on January 30th.>> I'm going to put down all student reps and then um we'll get information. Well,Katherine's really good about sending out information to everyone, all thestudents. So, visioning and strategic planning isnext. Um, the purpose of this board committee is to develop a shared visionand to review and modify the district's strategic planning. Um, we have onevacancy. Um, unless, um, Clerk Thompson and Treasure Hartlandare wanting to shift a little bit. um who would be interested.>> You know, this is a place where I would be happy to step back. I know that likekind of ironically this might be the year where the most people will be, youknow, required to do this. I I will serve if there is no third person, butum I have a lot of roles and a lot of faith in all of these board members todo a wonderful job on that committee. Chair Andre, I feel very strongly aboutthis work and I would love to serve in this role.>> Wonderful. Thank you. >> And I also would>> great service. >> Anyone else?>> And I I can go either way if somebody else wants it or I'd stay. Whatever.[clears throat] >> Doesn't look like anyone else wants it.>> Mark me down. [clears throat] Thank you.And then um we come to our student board representative liaison and director WestMorland was doing that work last year. Um and uh director Xiao was thealternate. So I have asked if he'd be willing to serve this year as theliaison and he said that is good. >> Yep. I'd be happy to. Um, and do we havean alternate who's interested in doing this work? Um, historically, we've hadthe alternate step up to be the liaison the following year just because everyonewants to work with our amazing students. So, um, whoever volunteers for that,that would be kind of the assumption that you would then be, um, running theshow next year. And honestly, and correctly, correct me if I'm wrong, butI feel like the students do most of it. They'repretty independent. I'll serve as awesome. [clears throat] And then we have the human resourcesboard committee. Um and we have two vacancies on that. Um I am willing tocontinue. I think um it has historically had the the ch the chair represent thatand I feel like to have some continuity in there would be good. Um,so yeah, two more. And this is just every once in a whilewe're called in. It's not >> by any means a regular meeting oroccurrence. Um, you'll just get an email from Assistant Superintendent Lightfootand jump on a virtually virtual meeting. Sometimes they happen in person. Nick is great.>> Y'all want to be in a meeting with him? >> I would just say ifif not everyone is raising their hand for this, I would I would raise my handto join. >> Thank you. Do we have to have three members?No. Okay, great. And then if someone decides at some point that you want tojump in, you have the capacity, let us know and we can make an announcement ata board meeting that you're joining the committee. Um, and then our lastcommittee is safety and security. The [clears throat] purpose of thiscommittee is to assist district leadership in the long range planning ofimplementing systematized safety and security measures and processes. Sothere's one member and an alternate. Currently, Director Roer is serving asthe member and director Xiao is the alternate.Is there any interest in doing this work?>> How often do you all meet? uh chair and dreason uh quarterly >> and chair and dreason I'd be happy toserve again. >> Wonderful.Anyone interested in being an alternate [clears throat]chair and I'd have some interest in being the alternate.>> Great. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you everybody andagain I will be sure to send this out to the student board reps so they can replyand get on this list and start receiving communications.Um I really appreciate everybody's um willingness to step up and to serve inthese additional capacities. It truly is how we um provide the services that thedistrict needs and represent our community in a meaningful way. So, thankyou so much for doing this work. It is it is really important and um not agiven that uh people will step up to do it. So, thank you.And now we get to go to our reviewing of the proposals for superintendent.Um we sent out not for the hiring firm, not for the superintendent. Um and um Iwould I sent out we sent out a um a request for proposals to four of the topand most well-known um search superintendent executive search firms inthe state. And we got three back. Um one declined to submit a proposal. Um, andso I sent out those to all of the current board members and our twoincoming board members so we had a chance to review it before coming heretonight. Um, and I wanted to make sure that we could have some time to discussit. the um the search firms are prepared to then come to a special beaning thatwas called for next Tuesday where we will conduct the interview of that umsearch firm and talk specifically about their proposals. My um vision for theconversation tonight is to land on who we want to hear more from. And it couldvery well be that we only want to hear more from one of them. That doesn't meanwe've selected them, but it does mean that they're our top person. We reallythink we're going to go with them. Um so I would just encourage us to to thinkalong those lines. we could want to hear from all of them and then all threewould come and we would conduct th that interview process with all three ofthem. So, it's really open as to where we landhere tonight and um hoping we have a great discussion about who we want tosee >> um help us through this really bigimportant um task we have before us this year. So,um I'm just hoping to get feedback and input >> and opening it up to anyone.>> Uh Chair Andre. >> Yes. Um well, one thing as you know, you and Iwere talking about was the costs for each of them and just interesting thatone came out, you know, substantially higher than the other two that wereum about the same. Um so I thought that was interesting. Um I might have missedin the others, but I I really like the one that had a tenative schedule. Ithought that was really professionally done and you know helped me kind ofvisualize where we're going here. So those are my initial comments.>> And and by that did you were you thinking MSBA that had the schedule?>> Yeah. >> Yeah. [clears throat]Um instead of I I feel like the other two had phases and like a flow but notlike a concrete. Although HYA had dates as well,I think. >> But yes, I noticed that too.>> Chair Andre. >> Yes.>> Just a couple observations um throwing out there for considerationum that I noted in reviewing the proposals.Um, with respect to MSBA on the one hand andRy and Hya on the other, um, it appeared to me and perhaps I don't know enoughabout the three firms um, to fully appreciate um, their background, butMSBA seemed more experienced and focused in Minnesota>> and more familiar with Minnesota [snorts]legal issues and process and hiring and they would be more familiar with howour board operates and I feel easy likely morea little bit easier to work with as a board um just because of theirfamiliarity. Um, on the other hand, Rey and Hya I uhnoticed have more of a national platform and a national reach. Mhm.>> And something to consider is that there are several other schooldistricts um in the metropolitan area also lookingfor superintendent. AndI wonder if a search firm with a more national reachmay be helpful, although they may not fully appreciateall the nuances of Minnesota school boards, if it may be helpful to have aum larger pool or a broader um broader search capabilities andreach. Not to say that MSBA doesn't have anational reach, but I just that was the impression I I got from from the umproposals. >> Thank you. I think that is um wheretheir their background lies. I think they started off as very much aMinnesota based search and have in recent years expanded, but I think thatyou caught >> very astutelywhat the word on the street is about the different search terms. Um,>> so yeah, that is the reputation and it is kind of a trade-off, right? Do youwant that Minnesota specific feel and supportand maybe you don't get as broad a national reach?>> My other concern too with MSBA, um I I' would love to inter interviewthem and speak with them regardless. I think that they're we at least um Iwould like to hear more from them on how they would um treat our search uh whilethey are also conducting simultaneous searches for other school districts.>> Um that's a good question. It raises for me questions of conflicts and whothey pro would propose to which districts and why andI would like more information about that.>> Yeah, that is a good question to ask. >> Any other thoughts? with you arereviewing um Chair Andre.>> Yes, Treasure Harland. Um, Johanna named a primary concern of mine too or ornoticing because there is a part of me that like really already does we have anexisting trusting relationship with MSBA and and had that worry and if they aresort of an automatic default does are we third or fourth in their list ofpriorities. And so I would I completely agree um that that is a question that weneed to answer. And then I also want to say is that I began um like pulling outsome similarities and differences between these and feel somewhat guiltyabout my homework not being done. I I didn't get to do that. AndI feel like that would be really useful honestly because these multi-pageproposals and like remembering one to the next and assuming you have severalhours to work through 75 pages on your iPadand coherently comparing one to the other was a very daunting taskpersonally. Um, and based on that, my inclination wouldbe to speak to all three of them and also to contribute my own work to tryingto kind of make a spreadsheet, a comparison of themahead of meeting with them. >> Um, that is one of the reasons I alsogravitated toward um an SBA. They had a little summary sheet that I found reallyhelpful. I like I wish everyone else had that sheet so I could just put them nextto each other. >> I know.>> Um >> so yes, I I also felt that way too thatit was um a little bit difficult to compareum them to each other. Um, I do think, um,I noticed the same thing Clerk Thompson noticed in that I felt like one of themthe cost was significantly more because a lot of what was included in HYA andMSBA's search services were add-on with Ry and they were already more expensivewith their baseline. So, I feel like if we were going to get the same level ofservice, we would be paying significantly more. Plus, they were theonly ones that had travel baked in. Like, we would be paying for all oftheir travel and they are not local. Um, so I think that could get reallyexpensive the as we're finding ourselves in the mix with them. So, for thatreason, I didn't look at their proposal asclosely >> um because I felt like MSBA and HYA weresimilar in what they would provide and the cost and also I felt like just kindof their commitment to um superintendent>> like they they felt much more education >> focused than Ry And I could be readingthat wrong, but that was just the feeling I got. >> Anyone else? >> Uh, Chair Andre, um, a thank you forsending these out and I'm grateful for the opportunity to at least do someinitial review and I, uh, resonate and second the I think having,um, a little bit more of the details [clears throat] next to each other, um,that we're all noting. And I I really resonate too with the desire actually tohave um I was interested in having hy and MSBA present um where we could asksome more uh questions and have some more conversation. And I thinkparticularly I I'm curious to hear both from them more in person around thecommunity engagement and you know how how they do that what that looks likefor them in this process. And then um also just curious about, you know, we'rewe're in the middle of of 2031. We're at, you know, this moment in our ournation and in our state. Um just I I want to hear their thoughtfulness aboutreally not just like, oh, we have random candidates and we'll slot them, but howare they thoughtful about really listening to what's the mission, vision,and values of our district and the work that we've done. Um and and reallypairing uh candidates that are resonant um from a value perspective to reallysteward and lead us well into the next season. So I would I would be veryinterested in hearing from both of them. >> Great.>> Chair and Dre. >> Yeah.>> Yeah. I I think I definitely agree with that. Um MSBA and uh HYA definitelywere, you know, they they seemed like commodities and that they are sayingvery similar things. Um, so I think we can get them in the same room or knowask [clears throat] them similar questions and uh try to discern you knowwhat what is the difference right and and why why is one better than the otherbecause because they seem very comparable outside of I will say MSBAobviously has a very much longer uh success story list um and it's veryMinnesota which you know is a plus and a minus but it's just from the length ofit and the size of the districts and the motaness of the districts, youknow, I I feel like they they will provide a superintendent that we wouldexpect versus somebody that would have a huge culture clash. I think that's>> a plus. >> Chair and Jason, can I add something?>> Yeah. [clears throat] Uh I just wanted to note that um I did I am familiar withone of the schools um school districts that HYAum conducted a search for and um what's one of the best school districts in thestate of Illinois. very large school district pretty comparable toum one of a you know western metropolitanschool district and so uh hearing from them I'd be interested to hear from themum about their work on comparable school districts and if and when we want toum check references I'd be happy to make contact with um this particularinstitution and district. >> Oh, great.>> I mean that they do provide contact info.>> They do. >> Um and so I would say>> can we just do >> any board member should feel if you likeyou have that personal >> um you knowall I can think of is attachment and I don't think it's attachment um butrelationship with that district. [clears throat] I would say reach outand yeah anyone feel I mean they provided it to all of us so>> you know call check in >> um you [clears throat] know I think thatthat's part of what would be a value ad for all of us to do and bring back tothe rest of us and say this is what I found out when I made those calls. Um,and you know, I I have I would be actually just interested inhearing um from a superintendent who has gone through the search process.>> Um, what that >> um what your thoughts were,>> Dr. for Mary Perry Reed around these different proposals because I know othersuperintendents I've talked to. Um I want candidates who are applying toHopkins to feel well cared for. >> Yes.>> During the process and I know that that's not always the case,>> right? Yeah. [clears throat] >> Um, so I don't know if any of them havea reputation or if you have some thoughts around because you came um youwere not living in Minnesota at the time you came to Hopkins. So,>> right. >> Yeah. I think briefly, so even thoughI'm motan and had um previous experience working in Minnesota districts, I was inCalifornia at the time that I was applying for Hopkins um through the firmthat didn't um that that we're not reviewing today, right? Um so I think acouple things, one um just always be aware of the lensure and lack ofreciprocity between the states. So yes, of course, we want to attract theattention of highquality superintendent candidates even from other states, butum they're going to need to be or seek lensure in Minnesota and even um beingfrom Minnesota, I had to go through an alternative pathway to gain my lensureso that I could serve immediately upon hire. Um so that was a bit of alogistical challenge. Um, what superintendent candidates really lookfor in a firm is, um, like you said, a firm that is paying attention to theculture of the district and really what membersof the community are saying and sometimes not saying, right? So, likereally leaning in and being able to um know the get to know the audience. Umand also being willing to tell potential candidates actually you're not a goodmatch for this district and here's why. rather than leading candidates on justto have a larger slate which then you know there's just that integrity orhonesty factor which I think um highquality superintendent candidatesare looking for a firm that is going to be very honest with them. Umand I think that includes giving feedback throughout the process, right?Um it is it can be very um intimidating to be interviewed inpublic in this very officious board setting with, you know, hundreds ofcommunity members looking on and listening on. And so um sometimes whatyou see may not be truly representative of how a candidate would show up on thejob. And so to really coach candidates along the way and give and be a sourcefor um for feedback and improvement along the way I think is um reallyimportant because you want to have the conditions where you're seeing the realleader and how they will actually show up to see if there's that match.Um yeah, those are a few things that Ithink about. And then um one of our board members mentioned the importanceof finding out, okay, well, what other districts are you currently supportingbecause you don't want to hire a firm that's stretched too thin. Um so I thinkthat's another important feature. So hopefully that's helpful.>> Yeah, thank you. That is helpful. And that made me think um I remember inMSBA's proposal they talked about um uh hosting those kind of more informaltours of buildings with each candidate. >> Um and soyou're not just getting feedback on them sitting at the board table and beinginterviewed. They they do provide those informalthings. And then um >> at maybe at the finalist stage becausealso there's a there's a portion of the initial selection process where sittingsuperintendent um would like to know that theircandidacy for this particular job is confidential until and then you know theboard and the firm decide together until the semi-finalist stage or the finaliststage and then >> they can be touring the schools.>> Yes. Um, thank you for that distinction,>> Chair Anderson. >> Oh, yeah.>> Just just to jump. I just want to say thank you for raising this and thesuperintendent experience part of the process, you know, so it's likeholistically wanting to know like how are you engaging community? How are youengaging, you know, and all our different parts of our community? Andthen also I want to know if you know if we're a a school district that's aboutsafety and belonging and the wellness of all of our students and staff andcommunity members. I want to know that for the superintendent as they're inthat process and I'll just echo that as a person who has been in some processesrecently and not all search firms are are equal in the experience that I had.And so I want them to be treated with uh dignity and and it to be something thatsets them up [clears throat] well as they're hopefully transitioning. So justthanks for naming that and talking about it some.>> Yeah, you're welcome. >> Cheer.>> Yes, >> I would like to um echo um directorgarbers um because I do think that it's truly important to get the candidatesperspective of their experience um with the search firm. I do believe in takingcare of our candidates and also giving them you know like real feedback if theyare a good candidate. And I like what you also said too Dr. Mary P uh my MaryPer, but not like leading people on either because that could just feelsvery inconsiderate um inconsistent to our values as a district. And so I wouldlike to um you know do some calling on my own to some of these references justto see what their experiences have been with these um search firms and also justunderstanding um you know what like how they like their vetting process forsuperintendent and and also what do they like what gaps do they see in ourdistrict that they believe that this candidate will fill. So I I want to seesome very intentional selection um from these um you know from these two firmsand not just to fill something fast just because you know they're trying to meeta deadline like this has to be super intentional um this has to be somethingthat is uh done very diligently and with precision um in the decision- making. Soum that's kind of where I am with both of the uh with the search firms.>> Thank you for saying that. Um, I did also want to mention I reviewed theseproposals um with our values um in Hopkins in the forefront um andreally feeling like both MSBA and HYA had alignmentum maybe with a little bit more leaning toward HYA around being very intentionalintentional to call out and in a real way representing um our values. aroundum equity and inclusion and being very mindful that um we have an incrediblydiverse district that um we will be welcoming to the table. And I feel likeboth have experience in hosting those kinds of conversations. And they bothtalked about how they um bring community in and the you know the VIP people inthe district. And I liked that both of those proposals mentionedum students as their first group that they prioritize. And I know that thatfor um Hopkins and also for this board, we are um student centered in all ourwork. So that made me feel really good about both of those um which because I Iwant students to be centered in this selection process and in thesuperintendent search. So that made me feel really good. Um anyone else? I'mfeeling like we are leaning toward maybe those two, inviting them to aninterview. Does that feel >> unanimous to talk to both?>> Great. I will go I will let them both know um they knew to reserve the time umof our special board meeting. So um and I believe I sent all of you theinformation on that. So that's reserved as well in your calendars. Um, and thenI will also send out a list of um, really detailed questions. You don'thave to use them. Um, but um, hopefully they can be a jumping off point for youum, as you're um, as we're coming into these interview process. Um,so that is our organ our um, workshop agenda completed. Thank you all forbeing here. And we have something super exciting happening in 10 minutes. Um wewill swear in our newly elected board members um before our organizationalmeeting. So um we've got a 10-minute break and then we will come back here todo the swearing in. Thank you. Thank you all. Thanks all. It's on.>> Hello. Welcome everybody. Um, we are going to get started in one minute. Iwould invite my board colleagues to come up to the table. Um, it is an excitingnight here at um, Hopkins Schools. we get to swear in our newly elected boardmembers. Um, and we are going to do that first thing and our first order ofbusiness. Um, I would like to officially call this meeting to order for January13th, 2026. Um, we are going to be starting ourorganizational meeting which we do at the beginning of every year here inHopkins. So I would invite our new newest elected board members to meet medown at the end of the table um for your swearing in. We you can choose you cando it individually um or you can do it as a collectively.>> What is your choice? >> I I mean I can go either way. I wouldsay to do it individually. Just boom, boom, boom. But we can all say ittogether, too. It's either way is fine. >> It is your choice. Preference.>> Individuals. >> Individually.>> Yeah. All right. >> I prefer that, too.>> Ready? Ready? >> Come on down.>> The sinuses are killing me. >> And I know that you all have loved onesand [music] supporters here. So um if you would like to have anyone join youfor this amazing process um they are welcome to come up. Um we will startwith um our board member here um Sarah Wilhelm Garbers. Um I do have alittle speech um provided by MSBA. I'm only going to do that one once. Um[clears throat] >> great.>> So that but you each will be sworn in. um individually.So, it is an honor that you were elected to guide the education of ourcommunity's children. As you recite the oath of office, you assume a tremendousresponsibility as a director of our school district with the dutiesempowered by the Minnesota legislature. This power puts you and the othermembers of our school board in the position of being both morally andlegally responsible for equitable quality education of every student inthe district. In carrying out this responsibility, you will be asked tofulfill the roles of vision, structure, accountability, and advocacy. Inproviding vision, the board with extensive participation of thecommunity, envisions the community's educational future, and then formulatesthe goals, defines the outcomes, and sets the course for the public school.To achieve the vision, the board establishes a structure and creates Oh,sorry, I just read that. Um, it's designed to ensure all studentsthe opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizationalframework. Because as a board, we must be accountable to the community. We mustensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditionsaffecting the education of our children. As board members, we serve aseducation's key advocate on behalf of students and our community schools toadvance the vision for our schools. Furthermore, we must strive to worktogether with the superintendent and staff to lead the district towardfulfilling the vision we have created, fostering excellence for every studentin the areas of academic skills and knowledge, citizenship, and personaldevelopment. Thank you for taking on all of thoseroles for our community. It is incredibly appreciated.So now Sarah Wilhelm Garbers,please repeat after me. I swear affirm that I will support the Constitution ofthe United States and of this state. I swear and affirm that I will upholdand support and all the things the Constitution of the United States>> and of the state >> and of the state>> and that I will discharge faithfully >> and that I will discharge faithfully>> the duties of the office >> the duties of the office>> of school board member >> of school board member>> of Independent School District number 270>> of Independent School District 270. to the best of my judgment and ability.>> to the best of my judgment and ability. >> Thank you.>> Thank you. >> I feel like I'm going to cry. Yourheart. >> Please repeat after me. I swear affirmthat I will support the Constitution of the United States and this state. Iswear and a firm that I will uphold the Constitution of the United States andthis state >> and that I will discharge faithfully>> and that I will discharge faithfully >> the duties of the office>> the duties of the office >> of school board member of>> of school board member >> of independent school district number270 >> of independent school district number270 >> to the best of my judgment and ability>> to the best of my judgment and ability. >> Thank you.CONGRATULATIONS. I'll come down to you. Hi, sweetheart. It's JoannaHyman. Please repeat after me. I swear affirm that I will support>> I swear affirm that I will support >> the Constitution of the United Statesand of this state. >> the Constitution of the United Statesand this state >> and that I will discharge faithfully>> and that I will discharge faithfully >> of the duties of the office>> the duties of the office >> of school board member>> of school board member >> of independent district number 270>> of independent school district number 270. to the best of my judgment.>> to the best of my judgment >> and ability.>> and ability. >> Congratulations.>> Thank you. >> If there if there are any other photoops wanted, I don't know if the three of you want to>> be in a picture. >> We we have some time for that. >> [laughter] >> Okay, come over here. You can seeyourself better. [laughter] >> No, I can't even see myself.>> Okay, I'll go first. All right. Three, two, [cough and clears throat] >> I love how>> I love how her kids are following Here my kids do.>> Oh, [laughter]>> snacks in there. >> They do.>> Kids are like snacks. >> They do. They know it all.>> Well, I guess I could have taken [clears throat and snorts]an exploration session this Friday. >> I'd like to take this time >> [snorts]>> I don't know to do this after. >> Thank you all for being here.Appreciate it. So [clears throat] now um we willuh I would look for a motion to approve the agenda for the organizationalmeeting. >> So moved.>> I have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second.>> I have a second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion?Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I. I.>> Any opposed? [clears throat] >> The chair votes I and the agenda isapproved. Um I see here the first order of new business is administering theoath of office and we can check that off. It's done. Um so we will now go toour um second order of business and I am not sure we do not have openagenda um listed for our organizational meeting. We have one public comment cardand I just want to ensure umif this comment is on is for comment card is forthe organizational meeting or for the general meeting. You're willing to wait till the generalmeeting. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Um so that then takes us to um our secondagenda item which is the board officer and committee assignments. We did have adiscussion um as is our practice here in Hopkins to um just decide what we'redoing for um board officers before we come to the meeting. Um so we will gothrough our our chair, vice chair, treasurer and clerk um process. And howthis works um is we call for nominations.We then um do that three times. It feels a little clunky, but it is Robert'srules and we need to follow them. So we do that for each and then we hold a um avote on each uh nomination. So we will go through that and then we um did ourcommittee assignments in the workshop and um we also are going to if it isokay with the rest of the board make sure that we go through our umindistrict committees so that our student board reps have time to sign upfor the committees that they want to serve on. Um and but we already knowwhich board members are going to serve. So, if that's okay with everybody at thetable, fantastic. I'm super excited to see all you guys. I hope you had a greatbreak. Um, so the first order of business would be umwe have four appointments to do in our organizational process. Um and for ournewest board members, how it works is I will um call for nomination. I will thenum call for um a vote on the nomination and thenum there will be a vote. And as far as voting at the board table, there are ingeneral two options. You can vote yay or you can vote nay which is an oppositionof um the motion. And there is a third option which is to abstain that isnormally reserved for um if you have a conflict of interest.>> Um and the practice under Robert's rule of order is that you choose to abstainbefore the vote is called. So just so that you know the process. Robert'srules can be a bit clunky, but they are how boards operate.>> Chair. >> Oh, yes.>> May I ask a clarifying question? >> Yeah.>> Um, so I remember last year as we as we voted on these, it was, you know, anomination, a second, and then right into the vote. Will there be opportunityfor discussion? I don't know if Roberts is different for nominating officers oror >> Yeah. So, normally I don't we can wave asecond um for nominations. Um so I I believe and I could be wrong.Um I just checked with assistant superintendent lightoot and we can wedon't have to have a second for a nomination. Um in particular because wecalled we talked about it previously. Um, we can if people want a second.[clears throat] >> Well, I guess my>> a second a second and discussion. >> Yep.>> Um, we can certainly have discussion. Um, I think thatthat would be appropriate. >> Yeah.>> So, we'd have a nomination, a second, and then>> discussion and then call. So are just so I have clarity around how we'reproceeding. Will we be discussing each nomination independently of eachother or collectively and then calling the vote>> on the first nomination?>> Does that sound good to everyone? >> Okay. or do we want to discuss eachnomination as it happens? >> If uh I will just say if we're Robertruling, we should have a discussion and then vote um on that one unless someonemakes a secondary, you know, unless we wanted to put them stack them, Ibelieve. >> Okay,>> we'll get through it. Thank you. >> I never knew I'd be that person. Um sothe first umofficer that is up for um nomination is chair. So I would look for a nominationfor the office of chair. >> Chair Andre.>> Yes. Treasure hartland. >> Would you like me to save an additionalcomment for discussion and make a clean nomination right now? Sure.Um, I would nominate you, uh, Chair Shannon Andre for the role of chair.>> Thank you. Do I have a second? >> Second.>> There has been a nomination and a second for myself as chair. Um, I will askmyself, will you accept the nomination? And I [laughter]I do accept the nomination. Um, are there any othernominations or are we having a discussion>> discussion? Discussion. >> All right. Discussion of [clears throat]my nomination and the second an acceptance of the nomination for chair.>> Chair Andre. >> Yes. Um, you have led us fearlesslythrough district and community events that have been stressful, that have beenexciting, that have even been heart-wrenching.Um, and no organization and no person can be perfect, but time and time again,you've demonstrated a willingness to listen, to adapt, to explain, and toadvocate for our community members who need it the most. And with trying timesclearly ahead of us, I believe in your leadership and am honored to[clears throat] both nominate and to vote for you for the position of chair.>> Thank you, Treasure Harland. Any further discussion?>> Chair Andre. >> Yes.Um I think so you know I made it known during the workshop that you know I'd beinterested in a change of leadership um on the board and I I you know readthrough the petition that have been sent to us and um you know really kind ofthere's a few reasons why I feel like this would be an optimal time for that.Um the the first one would be sort of just how meetings are run. And you know,I I looked back in my notes here and you know, on October 21st, you know, wedidn't get into a substantive discussion for an hour and a half, youknow, after 7:00 p.m. And so a and then you know unfortunatelyafter one of the presentations you know directors were asking questionsand then you know understandably because it was so late you know the thedirection was given um the rest of the questions could we please just do theseover email. Um, you know, I I I think that that shortch changes the public, itshort changes the community when that has to happen because then thediscussion is not, you know, in the open live at the moment. Um, and so, youknow, one and and I think that, you know, some of that was alluded to in howthe petition was written. So, um, you know, th that type of communitydiscussion, fostering that type of atmosphere, um, I I think is important.Um, and so, while, you know, I might have hoped that somebody else would puttheir hat in the ring, you know, I I'm willing to say fine, if if nobody elsewill, I'm willing to do it. And and that's that's why I did that. So, um, soso that's kind of one thing. And then, you know, I guess just other just ingeneral, you know, we I certainly appreciate your leadership of the lasttwo years. Really really do. Um, you know, I think it is just important to tothink about kind of, you know, um, where has the district gone during thattwo-year um, tenure. Um and and I think that there are some challenges thatcontinue to crop up and and um you know we saw election results um you know asyou know I see it people calling for some change here and so I think that youknow changing the the chair leadership would be appropriate at this moment.>> Thank you. >> Yeah. Uh Chair Andre.>> Yes. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um, thank you to um, both ofyou for commenting so far and in the discussion. And I I do just want toencourage and and point our community to the conversation that we had that I[clears throat] it's online at 5:30, right? Starting when we had that meetingthat's online. >> Mhm.>> The workshop. >> The workshop is live streamed, right?It's online. Okay, great. I don't want to refer people to something that theycan't find. Um so I would just encourage folks uh to also uh revisit that youknow as we had some conversation coming into this meeting as well. And so a fewthings I just want to name is first of all, you know, as you're referencing uhwhich I appreciate. You know, there's um so many people in our throughout ourcommunity who care so much about our schools and I'm so grateful for that.And for those there was a petition that was um I was made aware of yesterday uhwas forwarded to me yesterday via email from some community members who aresaying, "Hey, here's some of the concerns that we have with this momentwith the board." And you know that came up throughout the campaign of folkssaying, "Hey, I want uh to encourage transparency and some u matters ofcommunication and those sorts of things." And and I just want to affirmlike absolutely like let's continue to lean in together as a community. Let'swork on that. Like as a board member, I'm committed to doing that work. And umyou know I think with that being said as you go back to our 5:30 right now wehave we'll we'll hear another um I'm anticipate another motion in a second umyou know for you and I appreciate you being willing to also say you would leadin this moment um you know but it really was the two of you and so I just I justwant to say that in this moment I think for um both the I I think being able towork with you on these things as our chair um is something that I'm committedto doing and with our community around um just building and in some casesrebuilding some trust and uh want to do that work. And that being said, I I willbe voting for you to continue in this work and I think especially umespecially in this moment with the transition for superintendent andholding that space. Um and then also in view of the challenges in our districtthat having ICE presence and things that we are clear and strong as a board ofremaining committed to every single student. So, just want to say that andagain, thank you to the community though for all the ways you've been engagingand want to work on continuing to build that.>> Thank you, >> Chair Andre.>> Yes, director. >> I would um like to say thank you um uhClerk Thompson for, you know, stepping up to the plate to to be chair, right?That takes a lot of courage. Um it takes a lot of thought to, you know, um to totake on such a critical role in our district. And I want to applaud you foralways speaking your mind so candidly um and not being afraid to be objective,right? Um I think perspective is very important as we are navigatingchallenges and also as we're trying to advance the district and um with thatthough I do look at the alignment of values of our entire community. um thepetition I was noted um so I don't know anything really about the petition butthat also speaks to who received this petition and what voices are you lookingfor in this petition process um I like the fact that you know um you know chairand you have done such an incredible job being inclusive of all voices um I workin Minneapolis public schools right now and I could tell you some of thestudents who are receiving free lunch absolutely need it right and you didthat work um so I'm looking for someone who's going to be able to think abouteveryone in the process. We're thinking about community voices, communityfeedback, um, and our student outcomes for everyone. And so, I want to continueto, uh, work collaboratively. Um, I don't want any of our work to be um, uh,what is it? Um, what am I trying to say here? I don't want any of our work to beum you know based on uh I don't want our work to be based ondissatisfaction with uh you know like I mean with governance right like we can'tchange like we're we're so heavily we're so heavily ruled by bureaucracyand legal limits for like board chairs and like board directors and like evenas you're coming on learning you will understand that if you want to getsomething changed it's not going to happen overnight and that's why I wantto just challenge community to understand that it takes a lot to get apolicy change. It takes a lot to get things advanced in a way that we want tosee it. It doesn't happen overnight. Um, and I would just really encourage ourcommunity to show up to our board meetings. Like at given time, we haveabout two or three people um, you know, in the audience. Like I would love tosee more people come to our meetings to actually engage with the board. Um, andalso for the board to create more opportunities. I'm always talking aboutlet's please have community conversations. Let's please bringcommunity into this. I'm not afraid of bipartisan alignment. I'm not afraid ofdifferent perspectives. I actually champion it. Um but again,[clears throat] like I said, the petition, we're basing your leadershipchange off of uh off of a petition. I didn't receive it and that just speaks alot of values of who you're targeting here. So, um, thank you for, you know,again, speaking up, but I would like to see, um, inclusive leadership, um,that's going to be leading the district forward. [clears throat]>> Thank you. Any otherdiscussion? All right. Then I um believewe would look for I have to call two more times for any other nominations.So any other nominations? >> Chair Andre.>> Yes. Director Heyman. I'd like to um nominate Director Thompson>> um to be chair um andum I will reserve comments for discussion.>> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. But that wasn't discussion time.I just said all that during like a time we weren't supposed to discuss.>> Oh, okay. [laughter] >> Yeah. No, you got it. We're now we'regoing to discuss um because you seconded, correct?>> Yes. >> So I have a nomination and a second ofthat nomination. Um >> Clerk Thompson, do you accept thenomination for chair? >> I do. Thank you.>> So now that we have a nomination, a second of the nomination and acceptancethereof, we can have a discussion about the nomination. Chair Andre,>> Director Heyman, >> I just want to speak briefly as to why Ibelieve Director Thompson is well qualified to serve as a board chair. Um,Director Thompson has served on this board for two years and currently servesas clerk. In that role, he has had a front row seat to our procedures,compliance obligations, and how decisions move or don't move through theboard. and that experience matters. Um, it means he understands both thesubstance of our work and the mechanics of how we govern.Uh, I believe director Thompson brings a uh a perspective grounded in efficiencyand good governance um and very much transparency which Ithink our community is asking very loudly for at this time. Um,in my discussions with Director Thompson, um, he's been thoughtful aboutprocess, clear about roles, board roles, [snorts] and attentive to how our boardpractices, norms, customs, and policies um, are experienced not just by ussitting at the board table, but by staff, community members, and otherstakeholders in the community. Um, and that balance I believe is especiallyimportant right now. Um, I would like to uh also add that Director Thompson'sleadership style uh is steady and I um respectfully woulduh add that um I believe Director Thompsonis a collaborative leader um and would just bring a different approachum and perhaps keep discussions moving um moreefficiently, more focused. um andaddress some of the community concerns overum the board's or what is at least perceived to be um the community'sconcerns over the board's um policies, customs, and procedures that are notgoverned by statute, that are not governed by the board policies, but arejust how things have always been done in the school district.Um, and I just think at this moment when our community is asking for some clarityand transparency, um, I believe Director Thompson'sexperience, temperament, and governance perspective would make him well suitedto lead this board. >> Thank you. Any further discussion?Oh. Um, uh, Chair Andre Garver,>> I'm now the director. Um, I just want to I want to affirm, um, both a thing thatyou said, Director Roer. Um, which is just, you know, thank you for a yourservice in these last two years and then also being willing to say yes. Um, andthough I've already um indicated how I'm intending to vote, I want to say also bevery clear that I think working collaboratively and and and being ableto say together, okay, hey, as we're hearing from our community and oneanother in this next season, what's working, what's not, what are things wewe want to shift, um, where are places of and we need to foster trust or orbuild things, you know, I I I really want to be a collaborative partner withyou in this work. And so, um, I do want to say that as well. Thank you. Any further discussion?>> Chair Andre. >> Yes. Director Roer,>> can I just clarify? I want to just make a note that I'm want to say that Ibelieve that everyone is collaborative on the board and I mentioned that prior.Um I always make sure to compliment each of our um um each of our each of mycolleagues with the utmost respect and want to make sure that I give them theirflowers because it's hard to serve as a board member. I want to just be veryclear that community engagement is across the board and um when we'retalking about conversations in community and community concerns, I haven't seen alot of my community a part of those conversations. And so when we say, youknow, that we're community is concerned about this or about that. Um it's hardfor me to say um or not not even believe, but it's hard for me tounderstand what those concerns are because I haven't personally beeninvited to any of those conversations. and neither have a lot of people of mycommunity. Um, and so when I say collaborative, I mean that when we'retalking about bringing up concerns, doing good, when we're talking aboutlike for like all-incclusive board um, discussions and engagement, that meansevery single person of our community and not a concentrated voice. And so that'swhat I mean when I say let's be more collaborative because that has not beenhappening. And I just have to be completely honest here. So, um, youknow, if we want to see our district advance to, um, you know, achieve vision2031, every voice have to be at the table. AndI'm very clear about that. I will continue to be clear about that. Everylaw, every policy, every protocol that we pass at this board table needs toinclude and um, think about everyone, every student. We're here for allstudents. We're not here just for a concentrated group of students, part ofthe community. So that's just what I mean by that. So I just want to clarifythat. Clerk Thompson, like again, I always talk to you about your leadershipand I think you are an incredible, incredible board colleague. I just wantto make sure I reaffirm that. >> Thank you. Appreciate thatclarification, Director Roer. Any further discussion? Seeing none, I will call for a vote onthe first nomination, which is the nomination for myself asboard chair. Um, all those in favor, please say I.>> I. >> I.>> Any opposed? >> Nay.>> Nay. >> The chair votes I. Um we havefive in favor, two opposing. Uh so thenomination stands as myself as board chair. Umdo we call a vote on the second nomination?>> Uh chair Andre. Well, because since it already was 52, it's it's all you. So,um, but let let me just say like this was as open and candid a conversation asI think we've had here in the two years that I've been here and I reallyappreciate it. Um, people chiming in and um it just it was a great conversation,a great process, you know, tip of the cap to you. I'm going to come and shakeyour hand here. So, uh, okay. Congrats going forward.>> Thank you. Thank you. All right, now we get to the really funstuff. Vice Chair, um I would look for a nominationum to serve as vice chair. >> Chair Andre.>> Yes, >> I nominate my seat neighbor for the lasttwo years who zuming zou the director moved over that way. [laughter]Director Brook Roer. >> Um, I have a nomination for DirectorBrook Roer to serve as vice chair. Um, is there a second?>> Second. >> I have a nomination and a second.Director Roer, do you accept the nomination as vice chair of the HopkinsSchool Board? >> Yes, I do. Thank you, Clerk Thompson.Um, I I have a nomination, a second, and anacceptance of um for Director Roer as vice chair. And I just want to say I'mthrilled. I can't wait. >> Thank you.>> Any further discussion? >> Chair Andre.>> Yes, Treasure Heartland. >> Um, Director Roer, I am extremelyexcited. I I mentioned this in the uh the workshop that uh director WG justreferred us to watch, but um you are a relentless and powerful voice for allcommunities. That has been by far and away one of your greatest strengths andI know that you will um fulfill all the duties of the vice chair very well andthank you so much for being willing to do it.>> Thank you. >> Any further discussion?Seeing none, I would look for a vote. Oh, wait. No. Um, are there any furthernominations? Any other nominations?Seeing none, I would look for um a vote for um the nomination of Brook Roofer toserve as vice chair, which the nomination has been accepted.All those in favor, please say I. >> I.>> I. >> Any opposed?The chair votes I. And Vice Chair Roer is now serving in thatcapacity. Thank you so much. >> Um, we will go next to the position oftreasurer. Um, I would look for a motion, a nomination for the office oftreasurer. Um, yes.So moved. So moved. >> No, [laughter]you have to nominate Rachel. >> Oh,>> yes. I nominate Rachel Hartland for treasurer.>> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second.>> I have a nomination and a second for Rachel Hartland to serve as treasure ofthe Hopkins School Board. Um, Treasure Hartland, do you accept the nomination?>> I do. Wonderful. Um, any further nominations?Any further nominations? Any, um, I have a nomination, a second,and acceptance of the nomination. Any discussion of Rachel Hartland servinganother year as treasurer for the Hopkins School Board?>> Chair Andre. >> Yes. Dr. or Wilhelm Garbers.>> Thank you. And I will take Wilhelm Garbers or WG either way, whatever you'dlike to call me. >> Um I just want to say thank you forbeing willing to serve in this capacity. You know, I think our diversity in everysingle way makes us richer as a community and um if anyone had suggestedthat I would be nominated for this, I would decline it. So I'm so gratefulthat you love this work, that you're committed to it, and it's vital work forus. So, thank you for working um endeavoring to ensure that our our ourwork that we do collectively is transparent and with our finances andgiving the community more access to that. So, just want to say thank you.>> Thank you. >> Any further discussion?>> Um Chair Andre. >> Yes. Director>> Vice Chair Vice Chair Roer. >> Oh,um uh uh Treasure Hartland. I I already said all the things I had to say, but Ithink you are incredible treasurer. Thank you for leading our finance ourdifficult and very complex finance discussions over the past two years thatI have been on the board. I thoroughly enjoy listening to you. Um and I um inanswering all of [laughter] uh Clerk Thompson's uh very critical questions ofour budget so profoundly. Um and so thank you so much. I'm looking forwardto more discussions and more questions and um just being able to learn from youin this position. So, >> thank you.>> Thank you. Any further discussion? Um, I mentioned my incredible gratitudefor all the work you've done, um, and taking on the legacy of Treasure Adams,um, and serving our amazing, um, school district. and um you've brought your ownway of doing it and it it's it's a it's a pleasure to get those reports and alsoto know that if I do have a question about something you will find the answerand if you don't know you will you will get to the bottom of it. So thank youfor that work. It's not easy. Um and just have been incredibly grateful foryour leadership. So now I would look for um a vote onTreasurer Hartland serving as um treasurer again for the Hopkins SchoolBoard. All those in favor, please say I. >> I.>> I. >> Any opposed?>> The chair votes I. And um Treasure Hartland is um appointed for anotheryear. Thank you. And that takes us to the position of clerk. Um, and I wouldlook for a nomination for um the position of clerk and we'll go ahead andum throw in the nomination for um Director Wilhelm Garbers to serve inthat role. Are there any other nominations? Oh, no,wait. I have Is there a second? >> Second. I have a mo a nomination and asecond. Um, Director Wilhelm Garbers, are youwilling to accept the nomination for clerk of the Hopkins School Board?>> Indeed. Yes. Wonderful. Um, I have a nomination. I have a second and um anacceptance of the nomination. Any discussion? >> Chair Anderson.>> Yes, Treasure Heartland. Um, thank you for being willing to step up and excitedto to learn. It's a lot to take on um, as a new member and I'm grateful to you. >> I would say from my time as clerk um,one of the things I really appreciated is you get to check off one item in yourboard packet prep because you've already reviewed the minutes. [laughter]>> Wonderful. >> Yes.Um, [clears throat] so are there any other nominations forboard clerk? Any other nominations?Then I would look for um a vote on the nomination and second and acceptance ofthe nomination for um director Wilhelm Garbers as clerk for the Hopkins SchoolBoard. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? the chair of Vzai and umdire well now clerk um Wilhelm Garvers is serving in that position. Thank youso much. >> Um thank you everybody. I agree. I thinkthis was a great conversation and hopefully we're um moving forward withsome really great representation and work being done. Um we did take time atour um our board workshop earlier this evening to discuss board members umbeing assigned to committees and we wanted to take some time um tonight tojust go over the committees so that our student board reps who are all herewhich it's so great to see you um have the opportunity to indicate which of ourinternal um committees they are willing um and able to serve on. And so I willstart with the city's um board steering committee. We currently have Iris Mooreas um our student board rep. Wondering if you're willing to continue in thatcapacity and if there's anyone else who wants to join.>> Yes, I'm willing to continue. >> Thank you. >> Yes, I'm also willing to continue.Fantastic. And then our second one is schools andcommunities in partnership. >> And we don't have a student board replisted. Has anyone been serving on that committee without us knowing? [snorts]>> No. Anyone have any interest? It's um you work with kind of the um communityorganizations. There is a uh they share information and look for opportunitiesto improve mental health and wellness outcomes by working together to solveissues that are beyond the scope of any single organization. And they meet fiveto six times throughout the year. >> They also frequently meet at the highschool if that helps. >> Yep.>> Sorry, was this skip? Yeah. Yeah, I'm on that one. Oh, okay. Thank you. Anyone else?Okay. And then we have Citizens Financial Advisory Committee, CFAC.I I just put Sufi on in because he's good with numbers.>> I'd like to join that one as well. >> Thank you, Manuel. Nice.As a very quick reminder, that is a before school. That meeting time isfairly locked in. Um, and so that's 7:30 to 8:30 or 7:30 to 9 on Wednesdaymornings. >> Tomorrow.>> Tomorrow. >> Uh, tomorrow.>> Yep. >> Tomorrow.>> Um, the next is ESAC, which is educational services advisory committee.Um, so Mia was the student rep last yearor Mia as we I see talking cross table talking.anyone want to and you also are free to like send us an email and we'll put youon there and make sure the information gets to you if you don't want to decidetonight. It's totally fine. Um and then we have the specialeducation advisory committee. If there's a student board rep that's interested inthat, it's a great it's mostly parents that meet and talk aboutum special education and the services that are provided and different things.Anyone again let me know.And then um we have the policy and monitoring committee. Um we have IrisMoore signed up from last year. if you're still interested in that.>> I don't think I have the time in my schedule to continue that one,unfortunately. >> That makes sense. And I believe Clairehad an interest in it. >> Yes, I would like to continue that.>> Fantastic. Anyone else who'd like to serve on that committee?>> I would like to serve. >> Thank you.>> I would like to serve also. >> That is awesome. Thank you so much.>> Um, is there a way that you can like put me on the email list? I want to receivethe emails and understand what's happening, but I don't know if I havethe time to commit to every single week. >> Um,Vice Chair Roer, um, would that be something you'd beable to do? Just include Eloise on theformational like when we're settingup the meetings and that kind of stuff. >> Uhhuh.>> Okay. >> If that's available, I would love to beincluded on that as well if possible. >> Yeah.>> Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Mhm. Natalya, are you taking notes so I canjust Thank you. Okay. Um, I see us both typing. Um, so then we're on the boardaudit committee. Don't know if anyone has a burninginterest. >> No. Okay. And then we have our favoriteone. I did just put all student board reps on it because we often find thateveryone seems to be interested in the LACE, the Legislative Action Coalition.You all are invited to our breakfast every year and provide great I know umManuel, you've been to the to the capital with us and have talked withlegislators, so we value all your input. Do you all still want to get informationand be invited to meetings and stuff? >> Yes, ma'am.>> Okay. Thank you. And then there's visioning and strategicplanning. Anyone have a burning desire?Um and then we have um director Xiao will be your student board rep liaisonthis year um taking over for director West Morland and um uh vice chair Roerwill be the alternate. So if you need stuff and director Jiao isn't gettingback to you, you can you can tap on Brooke.>> Um so then we have human resources. I don't think that's a student board repum committee. Um and then I don't know andum Dr. Mary Perry Reed, tell me if you think it would be appropriate for astudent to serve on the safety and community committee,safety and security committee. >> I do. What do you think?>> Yeah, I think that'd be great. >> Bring bring the student perspective onit. That'd be actually really good. So, please,>> is there anyone willing willing to serve on that committee to offer advice andinput? And >> I can serve on it.>> Wonderful. Thank you. [clears throat] Anyone else? All right, and we are done. Thank youfor being so quick and decisive with that. Um, [clears throat]also again, if you do think about it tonight or in the next couple days andyou're like, "Oh, I do want to be on skip or the LA or vision and strategicplanning." feel free to send either myself or director Jiao an email andwe'll make sure you get the info that you need to be a part of that.Um so let's seeum our next item is the school board calendar review. Um [clears throat]so every year we go through and make sure that um we have a posting of ourour calendar and um the meetings that are coming up for the year so that it isposted and everyone uh knows where to find it. We also have the um thedistrict calendar um is has a school board so it will feed into your calendarum and they are also posted on there but just so you know um we do have thisposted. It is a um uh something that we decide every yearand so that our community as well as board members know when the next boardmeeting is and throughout the year. So just wanted that's part of ourorganizational meeting. I do not believe that there is an action um on this itemum because it's already been set but we need to review it at the organizationalmeeting. Is there any questions or discussion about the calendar?>> Chair Andre. >> Yes.>> Um I note on the we're referring to the master agenda. Is that right? Okay. So, >> yeah. So, it's it's not necessarilyum what's linked is the master agenda, but this action item is the calendar.So, it's when we have meetings scheduled for the year.>> Understood. >> Which is part of this document.>> Understood. No question then. >> Okay. Thank you. Anything else?Okay, great. Thank you so much. That um then concludes our organizationalmeeting. Um so I would look for a motion to adjurnn. >> A motion to adjurnn.>> Yes. >> I say so.>> Oh, so moved. Um so so I have a motion. Is there a second?>> Second. >> Um I have a motion and a second. Anydiscussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I.>> I. >> Uh, any opposed, the chair votes I. Andthis meeting, organizational meeting of the Hopkins School Board is adjourned at7:55 p.m. Thank you everybody for all your work on that. And that moves us, wewill move directly into our [clears throat] regular meeting of theHopkins School Board, um, which I will call to order.at 7:55 p.m. um for um Tuesday, January 13, 2026.Um first order of business in our umsorry trying to pull up. First order of business is ourum open agenda and our public comment section. And I do have one comment card here.There are two ways to um address the board. One is to um come here and showup in person, fill out a comment card. Um and the other way is to leave avoicemail. Um there is a number on our um on ourschoolboard page. You can if you leave a message on the voicemail before 4 pm onthe day of the schoolboard meeting, it will be played um as part of this uhopen public comment section of open agenda. Natalya, do we have anyvoicemails? We have one voicemail. Um so we will umbe playing that. We also have one comment card. Um we host two publiccomment periods per meeting. The one at the beginning of the meeting is forthose comments that are um we prioritize comments for um discussions on theagenda. Um and we um then have another o open publiccomment section at the end of the meeting if we have more comments thanwe'll fit into a half hour designated at the beginning. Um, so we have twocomments and I will um go ahead and read ourguidelines for public comment um so that we areum ready for that. Um we um welcome you to the board meeting. Uh we believe thatit is essential to hear from our community in order to realize vision2031. So, thank you for taking the time to either show up or leave a voicemailfor public comment. Um if you wish to speak to the school board during our twopublic meeting comment times, um please observe the following guidelines.Um we you may speak for three minutes. Um Ithere will be a timer and um comments will be cut short after the threeminutes. Members of the school board will not respond directly to publiccomments that are made at this meeting. A district representative may follow upwith you after the meeting. If you have written comments, the board wouldappreciate having a copy which will improve both their understanding of yourconcern and their ability to investigate and respond to the issue you raise.Personal attacks by anyone addressing the school board will not be tolerated.Persistence in such remarks by an individual or otherwise disruptivebehavior shall terminate that privilege to address the school board. We also askthat no employees are mentioned by name. Um if you have a complaint about aparticular employee that you um take that complaint to the superintendent.And thank you for um listening to those guidelines. Um with that, I would goahead and ask that the voicemail be played and then we will invite ourcommunity member up. Do you need a few minutes? Okay, we can um invite our communitymember who's here in person up to the table. Um Tim Mlepski, welcome. Thankyou for being here this evening. Okay, thank you everyone. Um, all right.So, first I want to say congratulations to the board members who were sworn intonight. Um, the members sworn in tonight included anincumbent who received the highest number of votes for a school boardmember in the history of Hopkins public schools elections. Our top two votegetters were endorsed by our great teachers union. This is how it shouldbe. The community debate, engagement, and turnout in this election wasphenomenal. To our new board, you have some very bigtasks in front of you right now and on the road ahead. It is up to you and asyou've decided um to how to best align yourselves to meet these challenges. Youwon't always agree within the group. is important to have a strong leader who isable to objectively listen to fellow board members, parents, educators, andstudents. Someone who can help lead the board in continuing to come together andbuild consensus. During this last election, there waseverything was above the board, but there was one board member um our thecurrent chair uh who did neither publicly endorse or donate to anycandidate, the only board member there. I believe that strength and integrity isis very important to continue as the chair. So I congratulate you all on thatdecision. On to challenges. What is happening toour students, families, and community right now is not a coincidence. Wevalue, respect, and uplift everyone. And that is not just in rhetoric, but inthis amazing school district, it's by action. This district has one of thestrongest plans in place to protect our students and families. The federalgovernment does not really like that. Last week, we moved indoor recesses andhave had lockdowns from the federal government. This is not just on ourscreens, but on our streets and in our parking lots. They may have the power,but we have the numbers. In the past week, parents and community have steppedup to watch over our families and students at bus stops and as schoolboard or school pickup and drop off. The teachers have delivered food andsupplies to families scared to leave their homes. The sheer volume of love inthis community is what our government has been scared of. Parents, we needmore. Please reach out to your neighbors and teachers and schools to find outwhat else you can do. We all need to step up in this moment.They have the power, but we have the numbers. Thank you.>> Thank you. >> Thanks. Thank you.>> Thank you. Sorry, I couldn't.>> Yeah, it's okay. It's okay. [laughter] Natalya, do you know um is this commentum on something that's on the agenda? >> Umlisten to it. It's about transportation. Um,>> I think I figured it out. >> Okay, >> um, I would look to board members toagree if we want to play this at our second open agenda and give Natalyiatime to troubleshoot. Um, it will still be heard. Um but um we'll make sure thatour meeting maybe perhaps is a few minutes shorter thanwhile she problem solves. Is that okay with everyone?And my personal apologies to the person who left the voicemail. Um it will beheard. We will play it. We will all listen to it. It will be part of ourmeeting. It will just be at the second um the second um public comment section.Um so before um we go further in our meeting,next up is our reports um our student board representative reports and thenour report from um superintendent. I would like to take some time to umto read a statement um that um I've prepared in partnership with with umother board members. Um, I'll I'll just start. Um, so I wouldlike to begin uh this meeting by speaking to all who have been andcontinue to be living in a state of fear and or have been traumatized on accountof the presence, threats, and violence throughout our communities. As adistrict, we remain fiercely committed to defending schools where all feelsafe. I now ask that we observe a moment ofsilence for Renee Nicole Good and all the other victims of egregious violenceover the past weeks. Thank you for that.Our communities are reeling, hurting, and overwhelmed.We are horrified at what happened last week in Minneapolis, which included anattack on a high school by federal agents. I want everyone to remember thatit doesn't have to be this way, and it shouldn't be this way.Everyone who lives in Minnesota has a right to a public education.Everyone. By targeting bus stops and schools,agents are directly and intentionally interfering with that right.I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of this country and thisstate. I take that seriously. I will do everything in my power to protect therights of my neighbors. And while we collectively are afraid andheartbroken for ourselves, for our neighbors, andfor our future in a world where anyone can be disappeared, we will not live inthat fear. I am incredibly grateful to all of youwho are showing up in real and tangible ways. It is deeply appreciated by ourfamilies and our staff who are charged with protecting the children in ourcare. This community has come together yetagain when faced with significant challenges. And I want everyone in ourcommunity to know that the district is here for you. All of you. And we areworking alongside you. From members of the school board to the superintendentto the principles to support staff, we are here to ensure your access toeducation. And we have strong partners in local government from statelegislators to mayors to city councils and staff to first responders.Alongside all of this are our community organizations and agencies that areproviding support and services in creative and brave ways.And to our immigrant families, especially our Somali and Latinofamilies, you are loved. You are seen.You belong here. This is your home. And we've got your back. So, thank you allfor that. Um, and I would like to then turn to ourstudent board representative reports. Hi, my name is Eloise Bull and I'm ajunior board rep. Um, first we're going to talk about HOSA which is um likehealthcare. Um, so they are having an exploration of medical careers sessionthis Friday. Um, and students are going to visit a medical facility and they'regoing to uh get some insight on the various careers that are available.So, we have a tough one. I'd like to take this moment to acknowledge thecurrent state of our country and community. We are at a very scary pointin time. Many of our students are worried about ICE, not only [snorts]about themselves, but about their family members, friends, and neighbors, myselfincluded. I talked to a teacher this morning thatsaid she had many students that are not showing up to class because of thisfear. We feel a sense of cautious tension, not just at school, but ingeneral. We know that the Hopkins district will do anything and everythingin their power to keep their stu students and teachers safe, but I feltit was ne necessary to address how many of us are feeling at this point in time.I didn't have it written down, but I just wanted to acknowledge that lastweek I was at wrestling practice and we had welcomed one of the schools that wasshut downs wrestling team into our gym to practice with us because they didn'thave a gym. >> Um, so I can see that the Hopkins uhdistrict is not only trying to help their students but also other students.On a lighter note, I'd like to spotlight Profone. She is my CAS Spanish teacherand she is amazing. I love her. Um, but she teaches CIS, which means she uses aU of M curriculum, and she does a fantastic job of helping students fromall ability levels to get to that proficiency in Spanish. Right now ingroups, we're working on producing a children's show. Um, so we'll presentthem during the last week of the term, but my group is doing a scienceexperiment for kids in Spanish with all the or science experiment and all therelated calculations fully in Spanish. >> Oh, wow.>> Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you.>> Eloise, what was the teacher's name? >> Professon. Lisa Zone.>> Oh, yes. Thank you. >> Hello everyone. My name is Iris Moore.I'm a sophomore student board rep. This is my second year on the board. I wouldfirst just like to thank Chair Andre and Eloise for um speaking about the currentfear going on in our community right now. It's definitely something that weneed to be talking about because it is truly sickening and horrible.On a lighter note, I wanted to talk a lot or a little bit about um the musicalevents coming up. So, we have a band stepup night this Thursday where the umwind ensemble and elementary um schoolers will play for each other andwith each other to celebrate their learning in all of their bandinstruments. And then next Tuesday, [clears throat]um, so a week from now is the orchestra festival where fifth, sixth, seventh,eighth, and tth graders perform with their grade in an ensemble and chamberperforms last, which is 9th through 10th graders. Um, each ensemble plays onesong to show how much students learn um, throughout every grade in the Hopkins[snorts] Orchestra program. Also, um, current sophomores and juniorsin orchestra and band have the opportunity to go to Colombia, um, nextschool year as a musical tour. So, that's very exciting, um, for manystudents. And current freshmen have the opportunity to go to Nashville um, withorchestra and band also next year. Finally, I'd like like to talk about ainteresting opportunity that is not limited to Hopkins, but that uh at leastthree current students and one alum are going to, and that is a synchronizedswimming clinic at the U of M. Um we'll work on different skills there um andsome fun things like spins and lifts. This is for grades 7 through 12 who swimon a high school team or will swim on a high school team this year. So, it's areally cool opportunity for those who have done the sport before. Um, and likeI said, an alum is going to be one of the people actually teaching in thisclinic. So, that's really cool. Um, and then for my um, teacher spotlight, Iwould like to spotlight Miss Miller. She's one of the two ceramics teachers.I've spotlighted the other ceramics teacher before. They're both amazingteachers and an excellent team. Um, uh, they're super helpful with organizationand they both give such incredible advice on the projects. This is my firsttime having a class with Mrs. Miller. All of my other classes have been withMrs. Murray and I find that she just is very helpful and welcoming and alwayssuper kind and uplifting and it's really fun to be in a ceramics class with her.And that's all I have for today. Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is ClaireFischer. I am a senior board representative and this is my secondyear on the board. Um, first I would just like to congratulate the newmembers of the school board. I hope you guys are feeling welcome here at theboard table and are excited for your time here. Um, secondly, I would alsolike to stand behind Elo's message about the current state of our community andcountry. I truly do believe that our school district has the power to trulychange the status quo. [snorts] For my board report, I'd firstlike to spotlight Miss Brevik. U Miss Brevik is a science teacher at HHS, andalthough she's not my teacher, she is the student adviser for my women in STEMclub. She's helped us so much with getting our club vision off the groundand helping us secure a grant from the Hopkins Education Foundation for whichwe are very excited and grateful for. She is an amazing club adviser as wellas a very dedicated teacher. Next, Hopkins High School for Choice isa club at HHS that focuses on advocating for reproductive healthcare and justiceas well as provides a space for Hopkins for Hopkins students to learn about thepolitical events that are happening around us. They recently partnered withthe Sojourer Project, a local women's and children's shelter, to host adonation drive at the high school during the holiday season. They collected giftssuch as blankets, comfy clothing, games, and makeup products. They got manyamazing donations from club members, students, and staff.Finally, the 2026 local scholarship application for Hopkins seniors justopened up on our college and career planning website, Maya Learning. Thisapplication is open to all graduating seniors attending a 4-year university,trade school, or entering the workforce. It hosts scholarships ranging fromsports related rewards awards, academic awards, and community service awards.It's very easy to apply, simply requiring a list of extracurriculars anda short personal statement. This is an an amazing opportunity for our seniorsto earn money towards their future career plans or their college education.Thank you. >> Hi everyone. Um, my name is Manuel Wahu.Um, I'm a junior student board rep and this is my third year on the board. Andagain, I just want to um welcome I guess director Heyman and clerk WG to theboard. Sorry I didn't get to introduce myself before the meeting. But um I'mreally excited to work with you guys. And um again, I just want to acknowledgeEloise's message. I think she was also speaking on behalf of me in that. Um sofor my teacher spotlight, I'm in Mr. Johnson's AP Physics 1 class and we arecurrently in our final unit which is rotational kinematics and it's been veryconfusing but it's our final unit. We have our final next week and it's justbeen a lot of fun learning about physics and stuff like that. And um also at thehigh school next week for DECA we have our first competition of the year. DECAis basically like a business competition club. So we have our first competitionof the year next week um which is districts held at Weisetta High Schooland our over 70 Hopkins DECA members will compete in at least two of the over50 different events um including one prepared project which is like thebusiness plans integrated marketing campaigns um research projects thatwe've been working on since the beginning of the school year and thenalso one roleplay case study which will test kind of our um problem solvingskills in business situations. So um I guess com competitors that place highenough will move on to the state competition. So good luck to all of ourDECA members. And then also at high school, one change that we areconsidering is an implementation of a weighted grading system. Um so in thecurrent admissions landscape, many colleges consider the highest GPA listedon a student's transcript for initial screening and scholarships. In the past,colleges have recalculated GPA on transcripts in in order for like a faircomparison, but lately we've observed that this is no longer the case. Um, sowith many neighboring high schools um having weighted graded systems, our GPAmay seem lower in comparison even with the same um course rigor or grades. Umso currently myself and Dr. K, who is the college and career readinesscoordinator, are working on getting community feedback on this proposedpolicy. But yeah, >> thank you. >> Hi everyone. My name is Adena Togal andI'm the freshman representative and it's my first year on the board. Um, I wantto start off with my teacher spotlight. Today I'll be spotlighting Mr. Turner.Mr. Turner is the teacher of the PBL classes which stands for project-basedlearning where students can create their own projects that allow students to geta school credit. He's very caring and kind to all of his students. He alwaysensures that his students receive the necessary help they need and he providesthem with the appropriate support to complete their projects at the end ofthe term. Next, I want to talk about some upcoming dates. First, thisThursday, the the high school will be having a distance learning day, whichgives students a rest day while also completing their normal curriculumassignments. Um, all due by 3:25 for them to get in attendance for the day.Um, on January 23rd, we have grading day, which is when all teachers submitthe final grades for the classes of the term. Lastly, there was a talent showthat took place on January 6th and 7th. This is where kids from grades 9 through12 were able to audition with their talents to the student council members,and the members then chose a small group of the kids to perform in front of theschool. I just want to say quickly thank you or um welcome to the new boardmembers and I'm really excited to get to know you guys more and thank you so muchto Chair and Dre and Eloise for sharing the importance of what's going on rightnow and what Hopkins is doing to help um all of us.>> Hi, my name is Ha Vizawi. I am a freshman representative. Again, aseveryone else, I wanted to thank Eloise and Chair and Reese for talking aboutwhat's going on in our state so far. And I also wanted to congratulate the new umdirectors that were just is it elected? Elected.Um I'm looking forward to working with all of you. You both seem so nice. Ijust talked to you all. Um, today I wanted to start off my board report bytalking about the French 2 field trip that's happening on Friday, January 16thfrom 9 to 11:30 a.m. The field trip is going to read books to elementary schoolstudents. I'm assuming it's in French. Um, today I would also like to spotlightMr. P, my basic self-defense teacher, for always holding our class to highstandards. Today we talked about self-defense punches with boxing gloves.um how different punches are more or less effective depending on the areas ofour body with our final being next Wednesday the 21st. Thank you. >> Uh hi everyone. I'm a sophomore boardrep. My name is Sufian Osman and I just want to greet the new members of ourschool board. Uh clerk uh WG and Director Heyman.uh start off my report. Uh it's the end of the term and I'm really stressed cuzlike it's finals and but it's kind of bittersweet cuz next term I'll havebrand new classes. I've had like the same classes all year so it's reallyexciting. On February 4th it's family registrationnight for next year's classes and class registration and stuff like that. Uh Idon't have the full details. I think it starts at 6:00.And finally, for my teacher spotlight, I want to spotlight my Spanish teacher,uh, Pro Echo. She's a she's an amazing teacher. I've had her for since freshmanyear. She was my Spanish 3 teacher. So, and right now in class, we're working onverb books, a verb book. And we like create a book of all the like Spanishtenses we learned, like past, future, present. And we're like supposed to useit in Spanish for five or CSI Spanish. And umyeah, thank you. >> Keep that verb book. It's helpful.[laughter] >> Do you remember that?>> I made a verb book, too. We still use it in CIS, so>> I love it. >> Wow.>> I never got a verb book. >> Oh, no. [laughter] You'll have to makemake one. Just talk to Supan. He'll help you out. Um, thank you all so much. Iknow I I feel like I can't say it enough, but this really is truly myfavorite part of board meetings is hearing [clears throat] what's importantto you and what's happening in your lives and and what are the significantthings that our high school is doing for you. Um, it just makes me so excited.Um, and I did one. I am thrilled that there's a self-defense class and thatyou're in it. And I am I didn't even know we offered that. Ilove it. I love that we're doing that for students. And then I am wondering,Manuel, you mentioned um that we're going to be looking for community inputon the weighted grades. Do you have an idea of how um community can get intouch or will there be a survey or >> Yeah, there will be surveys coming outstuff like that, but if anyone has like specific questions, they can email oneof you and you guys can get that to me. But>> Okay. >> Yeah.>> Thank you. >> That's important work. Thanks for takingit on. And any other comments or questions from the board?>> Chair Andre. >> Yes, Director J.>> Yeah. Hi uh Eloise um your uh kids or the children's uh program in Spanishthat's uh really interesting. Have you talked with Huntos at all? If they coulduse that and maybe have a little competition, see who does the best.>> I haven't, but I can talk to them. So the reason that we're doing a kidsprogram is so I'm in CIS Spanish 5. So I've been taking Spanish since seventhgrade. Um, but this the class itself through the University of Minnesota isthe exact same class as the huntos for kids. The only difference being is thatwe can't speak Spanish. We just know how to like we can write. We can understandlike verb tenses like we've been learning how to like the formal Spanishwhere whereas they have learned how to speak. Um, so they're kind of learninglike how to write how how to like write specific things out. So our Spanishlevel is of a child. So [laughter] we're making a children's Spanish.>> Yeah. So speaking in Spanish, my Spanish level is of a like a first grader,kindergartener. So we're making it of that age group so that we can fully likeget every like uh convey the message that we're trying to put out.>> But I think that would be a great idea. So I will reach out to proone.>> Yeah. >> As a Hunto student in the same likelevel course. I'm in the same CIS course right now. I'm doing the same final kindof ours is a little bit different. Um the Hunto students are presenting a likelecture a class to either Spanish 2, three or four depending on whichclassroom is available during third block um on Friday. So, like forexample, my group um it's three of us and we have an 80-minute presentation onexotic animals and we have to have like different activities for these kids tokind of do and it's entirely in Spanish so that they can kind of learn aboutwhatever your group is presenting. Um so it's a little different. [laughter] Soour presentation is 15 minutes long. >> Um>> so obviously the Spanish level is different. Um>> well what I think that speaks to is it's differentiated. It's the same class butit's differentiated to where you're you're at which is remarkable.>> Yeah. >> Yeah.>> Yeah. >> Well, it's pretty different too becausein Hunto since it's immersion, we didn't have like a class to teach us Spanishuntil later on in school. Instead, we just hadall of our classes in Spanish. So, it's kind of like them talking at you untilyou talk back, not them actually teaching you the rules of the language.So, like this is the first time I'm learning grammar in Spanish class,>> whereas like all I know is grammar. I know I know every single that's the verbbook we have to make. So, there's 15 verb tenses in Spanish. There's 60conjugations of every single word. We have to learn how to do basicallyeverything. I could write you an essay, but I could barely I can barely speak.So, >> I wish I had it for a book.Very cool. Excuse me. >> Any other um questions or comments?Well, thank you all for being here again. So good to see you.>> Um [clears throat] and that takes us to the superintendent report.>> Thank you, Chair Andre. And good evening to all of our board reps and ourcommunity. Um, and I would like to welcome our community a happy new yearand also um offer a warm welcome to our two new board membersand also our incumbent. Um, I'm really looking forward to the next six monthsof partnering with another incredible Hopkins school board. I'm very gratefulfor this opportunity. Um so the very quickly the purpose of thesuperintendent report is just to provide um a few highlights of teaching andlearning from across our system and um I also rotate in each school leader anddepartment leader to provide some spotlightsum so that our board members and our community can gain a deeper knowledge ofour um nuanced contexts but also grown an appreciation for how we're consistentand coherent across the system and I really appreciated listening to ourstudents acknowledgement of the strain in our community on communities acrossMinnesota. Um I I know that we all wish we were living in better times as adistrict. We are currently working very urgently and creatively to supportspecifically identified families in each of our schools and also to supportstaff. Goodbye students. >> Thank you.>> Go study. >> Go study. Finals. Finals are coming up.And so there are a lot of partners in this work including our obviously ourschool leaders and staff, our teacher union, law enforcement, localorganizations, and parent and community organizers. Sowe're really grateful to everyone just partnering and working together so thatwe can not only identify specific students and community members needingsupport, but also identify what the needs are and then match helpers withthe need. And so very um appreciative and I know that together we'll be ableto mitigate the harmful conditions because um as a school district teachingand learning and student achievement is our very top priority. And so the morethat we can mitigate the harm harmful impact the more we can create conditionsfor students to feel safe, learn and achieve.So, um there are so many examples of engaging teaching and learning happeningin our schools. I I always feel like I um talk too long, but also don't haveenough time to share all of the incredible examples. Um, [clears throat]in this slide you see Gatewood special education classrooms taking an activerole in caring for the school's greenhouse plants with support fromtheir paras and on-site naturalist Mr. Ike. And are you involved in this, ChairAndre? >> Yes, that's um part of our LTL program,our kids. >> That's awesome. So, our students arenurturing young plants and delivering them to classrooms once they're ready togrow outside of the greenhouse. And students are building real world skillswith each delivery. They knock on classroom doors, greet teachers, andshare the plants that they've tended. And we know that these routinesstrengthen student confidence, nurture teamwork, and foster meaningfulconnections across the school community. Also at Gatewood, first grade students[clears throat] taught kindergarten students about elections and voting.They live streamed farmer and duck who were running for president of the farm.The classes listened to their speeches and decided who to vote for president.Kindergarteners then visited first grade polling locations and voted. [laughter]So, not [clears throat] only was this fun, but also an authentic experiencefor students to develop critical skills aligned to IB's realworld theme, how weorganize ourselves. And at every grade level in every unit in our primary yearsprogram, our middle years program, our IB schools, teachers have identifiedrigorous learning themes um which the 6 to 8 weeks of learning is then alignedand students are gaining critical uh thinking and other critical skillsduring those those unit plans. At Glen Lake, first and second gradersdesigned, built, and opened their own shops. They sketched, drafted, madelogos, and even made inventory. The school then hosted a Glen Lake WinterVillage walking tour for each class. And through this project, students practicecritical thinking, time management, and perspective taking skills as they listento each other's ideas. Great job, first and second graders. Our elementaryschools imagination fairs are always very popular events. You can see on thisslide that Eisenhower's imagination fair grew uh drew a large student audience.Young innovators inspired their peers and showcased their creativity. Studentstapped into their curiosity, their outside of the box thinking, and theirability to push themselves to make prototypes and also meet deadlines. Manyprojects were STEM related, most were hands-on, and many explored a brand newconcept. And we love seeing our young thinkers dream big.Like K5 math implementation, we are also monitoring the implementation ofliteracy resources and instructional practices. Throughout December and alsothroughout January, we are visiting all K5 classrooms to see how foundationalliteracy instruction is progressing. Our teachers are doing really incrediblework and seeing both teacher and student confidence grow in just a year is uhreassuring to those of us who have spent many hours uh creating structures andopportunities for teachers to be trained. [clears throat] and also theinstructional coaches facilitating those trainings. These learning walks arehelping us plan next step professional development and also target interventionand support as teachers take on new practices or need some reinforcedpractice. And remember, the greatest impact on student learning is made whenwe combine evidence-based reading training with the support that helps ussuccessfully implement our curriculum. The next two slides, I want to sharejust a few results from the Minnesota Student Survey, which is one of thelongestr running youth surveys in the state and has been conducted every threeyears since 1989. It's an anonymous statewide school-based survey designedto better understand students experiences. Students who are in grades5, 8, 9, and 11 participate. And these results are from spring 2025.And then the next survey will be administered in January 2028. Topics covered in the survey includestudents perspectives about school safety, discipline, bullying,participation in enrichment activities, and relationships with peers and adults.The graph here is an example of how students responded to the question, howmuch do you agree or disagree that teachers care about students at yourschool? As you can see, across all grade levels, more than 80% of students reportthat they strongly agree or that they strongly agree or agree with thisstatement. And here are some other overall strengths for Hopkins in thearea of student experience in school climate. Most students care about doingwell and they pay attention in class. Teachers and adults care about studentsand treat them fairly. Students feel safe at home, at school, and in theirneighborhoods. Most students attend school regularly, and their absences areusually due to being sick. And with a cav caveat, obviously rightnow, we do have students who are not attending school due to their fear of uhthe transition from home to school. And um in our school by school attendanceaudits, we are thinking about 150 students across our system arecurrently not attending school whereas they had strong attendance prior to theimmigration enforcement activity and we continue to monitor attendance.And then finally, for most students, bullying is low, including cyberbullying, and physical bullying decreases in higher grades. Someconcerns. As students get older, fewer feel thatschool is personally meaningful. This is also reflected in nationwide data. Someolder students want stronger connections with teachers and more mental healthsupport. And when bullying happens, it is often related to physical appearanceor weight. And then on that next slide, I thinkwe're already there then. Whoops. I that was a very long explanation forthe first of the two Minnesota's student survey slides. Okay. So on this next onethen, here are some additional strengths for our district in the areas ofactivities, afterchool, and future planning. Um, many students participatein sports clubs and community programs. After school time is mostly safe andsupervised. Most students plan for college or training after high school.Students report strong academic performance and support with careerplanning. And then a couple of concerns. One, some students don't know aboutavailable activities, so clearer communication could help. And two,emotional stress becomes more common in older grades. highlighting the need formental health support. [snorts] And then finally, I did want tosay that we've created a one-pager for our board members to provide some otherfindings from this survey and we'll also put the>> [clears throat] >> um those findings on our website.Okay, so to the next slide here. Um I do want to just reiterate our thank you toour Hopkins community. So, on behalf of our entire system, we're very gratefulfor the support that our community um showed back in November supporting ourbond referendum and capital projects levy renewal. The taxpayer resourcesthat were approved will ensure our schools have safety and securityupgrades as well as other important modernizations that will benefit ourcurrent and future students. And just a mention of where we are in this reallyfour to five year uh giant project. So our construction partners, ourconstruction partner is site logic and our architectural design partner isFielding. We meet with them on a bi-weekly basis to make sure that we'resequencing projects according to very intentional criteria including budgetefficiency and constructibility and a few other things.>> [snorts] >> We're currently in the design phase ofthe the referendum projects and I want to thank our assistant director offacilities Gino Mazali and our director of IT John Wed um for the work they'redoing to facilitate um an inclusive design process and thanks to Natalia andAndrew for um the scheduling help. Really appreciate that. We haveschool-based design teams for staff and students to give input on the finerfutures of features of the identified projects. And then there are threedistrict-wide teams. There's a safety and security district-wide team, adistrict-wide team on restroom renovations, and then also on playgroundimprovements. So um we are looking for our staff and even community members,parents, students to participate on these teams and stay tuned for a webpage that is being added to our website so we can provide our community withreal time updates about the referendum [clears throat]>> and we have included [snorts] our play for all students in the invitation forthat >> in the districtwideplayground design team. Yes. Thank you. >> Yes. Okay. So, umI would like to I don't know I don't see Jolene back there. I I did want tojust recognize and thank after 15 years of extraordinary service, we arecelebrating the leadership and the creativity and really what what we calla vibrant presence of our communications and marketing director Jolene Gold.She's really incredible and we're proud of all the work she's done over the past15 years. And she is moving to serve in a similar role for the Minneapolis Parkand Recre Board. And apparently she beat out a ton of candidates for that umimportant role. and Jolene, we just appreciate you for all of the service toHopkins Public Schools, for how you have told our story and really set a high barfor excellence in public education communities.Thank you, Jolene, and we don't want to see you go, but thank you for yourservice and um best wishes as you transition.And then um this is my last slide before I introduce our principal and specialassignment. So, I did want to close with a video about our students experiencesin a high school course called medical exploration. And as we exploreintroducing careermies and career aligned experiencesat our high school with the the help of Ford NGL, it's really important that weclosely understand what it means to offer courses that arealigned with career pathways and how our students feel about that kind oflearning. and also how we do this in a way where we're coupling theseexperiences with traditional college preparatory and AP courses with musicand arts and other electives so that our students are not only well-rounded butthey feel very prepared to um to make some decisions about how they want toalign their learning after graduating from high school. So, here is a greatvideo. It's also been posted on our socials online.>> I just want to give a heads up. We're having some technical audio issues, sowe're going to be playing the sound through the microphone here.>> Oh, I see. >> Yes. So, that's why both of us are uphere. So, apologies if the sound isn't great.>> Oh, no problem. >> I appreciate the creative problemsolving. Thank you, Natalia. It's a quick video. >> Medical careers is a class where youtalk to different speakers and go on different field trips to [music] figureout if there's a career in the medical field that you would be interested in.It's really nice [music] because sometimes people know that they want togo into a medical field, but they [music] just don't know what they wantto do specifically. >> One of the field trips we went on was toa U of M facility where they tested like medical [music] devices and did researchstudies on them. >> The first station my group went to wassort of looking at the lungs and the heart of a pig. I never knew that pigshave the same function as us. So that's one thing I really learned from that.[music] We learned how to look in withlaparoscopic equipment.>> It was hard to begin with, but then after we got used to looking at thecamera and not our hands, it was more doable.>> One of my favorite things that we did that day was we got to suture. It wasreally cool. This class helps me prepare for lifeafter high school cuz it gives me a better idea of like what I want to do inthe medical field. [music] It just really gives you a good base tounderstand what you want to do in the future. Thank you so much. And with that, I'llinvite uh Dr. Leanne Camvi to approach the board table. We're just doing um soum throughout last year we invited every school leader to come and spotlight eachof our schools and now we're going through our departments and some of ourprograms and then we'll rotate again to our schools. But um the principal onspecial assignment is a really important position because research shows that youwill not find a great school in um this country that that also doesn't have agreat school leader. And so we believe that building the capacity and theleadership skills of our our principles is very very important work. Leanneserved as a principal at West for were you there for six years?>> Six years. six years. So, she knows in and out what that role requires andwe're grateful for the support and leadership she provides to all of ourprinciples. Welcome. >> Thank you.>> Just hoping that my slides will be showing because otherwise>> I might have to come sit next. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Well, while we're transitioning, I justwant to say I feel lucky that you were my [snorts] kids principal. So, thankboth of them. >> Well, not all of the uh but >> Okay. Hello. Uh good evening everybody andthanks for having me here tonight. Welcome to our new board members. I willhopefully um be informative and brief [laughter] uh so that you don't have alater night than perhaps you want to you can go to the next slide. Um like Dr.Mary Perry Reed said my name is Leanne Campy and I am currently in this role ofprincipal on special assignment. Uh but prior to this role, uh I served inmultiple different educational roles. Um many most of my time here in Hopkins. SoI was a vocal music teacher for 17 years. Um, three of those years were inSouth Dakota teaching K through 12 and then the rest of them were here inHopkins and then I was an assistant principal at Roosevelt High School inMinneapolis for three years uh in between teaching here and returning tobe a principal at West for six years. So if you want Oh, you're good. Go back.Sorry. So the role that I am currently filling, I wanted to give you a littlebit of historical context. It was um originally the director of principalleadership um and then in the summer of 2023, spring and summer of 2023, severaldifferent positions resigned and it was decided at that time to combine thoseroles into one role which is my role. So, while I would say that um probablythe primary work of my role is aligned to the director of principal leadership,um there are portions of our district assessment coordinator and state andfederal programs lead role that were moved into my role as well as uhportions I guess duties that are aligned to being an assistant director of IDL.Next slide. As Dr. Mary Pier Reed said the role wasoriginally established to provide support to building principles. And sowhat that looks like is I am often their first call. I um help think throughthings that will support them in terms of professional development. I do a lotof facilitation of meetings with them. I have a meeting every Monday with all ofthe principles and then I also meet with all of them one- on-one monthly and thenit is just sort of on demand for the rest of the times that I might connectwith them and I am also their um evaluator and so as of last year wecollaboratively developed an evaluation and feedback model that's aligned to theMinnesota statute that was passed in 2023 that is pretty comprehensive and sothat's another big piece of my role. I also am probably the the first personthat many talk to when they have questions about how to engage theprinciples. Um I have maybe been called the principal whisperer a time or two. Idon't know if that's actually accurate, but I would say that um I noticed veryearly in this role three years ago when I started um that the the lens ofsomeone who had been a principal but also had been a principal here inHopkins was very valuable because I could often anticipate um these are thethings that are maybe going to be tougher if we want um to get help fromthe principles or these are the things that I just really wouldn't bring tothem because it's not reasonable. able given what we demand from them on adaily basis. Next slide. Creating this role six years ago, sowith the previous um person in the director of principal leadership rolereally was done so that we could allow Dr. Lightfoot to focus more closely onhuman resources and most more recently he has been very involved in businessservices. So if you imagine my role not being here, he used to do many of thethings I am doing and he would have been trying to do all of that plus all ofwhat he's doing right now. Um it has definitely created a higher level ofservice and support for our principles and I think that's allowed um I knowthat when I was in the role and we didn't have my predecessor that I Iprobably relied on my colleagues solely for adaptive type questions. I didn'tnecessarily look to district leadership to help for those kinds of things. Icalled district leadership when there was an emergency or when there was atechnical question, but when I was thinking through like how can I get mystaff to do this thing or here's a challenge that I've come across, I mostoften relied on my colleagues. I think that um our principles still do thatheavily, but I also think that it's helpful to them to have somebody who isum also meeting regularly with district leadership. So they might talk throughwith their colleagues and then they might come to me and say how do you sortof the same way that cabinet relies on me when we want to figure out how thingsare going to go with the principles. The principles come to me and say how's thisgoing to go with cabinet? Um and like I said I am on speed dial for all of them.So I would say I probably provide a a more level a higher level of support toprinciples who are in need of higher support whether that's because they'refacing challenges or because they're newer to the role. Um, and I provide apretty consistent level of support to all of our leaders through those monthlymeetings as well as just being available when they make a call. So, I wanted todivide what I do into some categories as I already mentioned. Uh, probably thebiggest one is school leadership and um that is takes place through these likescheduled opportunities, but it's also just um a thought partner wheneverpeople need something. It is thinking through I guess I'll they overlap[clears throat] a lot which is why I made the diagram that I made. It's alsothinking through when we're um planning our leadership meetings for the summerto prepare for the new school year. Thinking through what principles willneed to be successful in the next school year. So supporting in the backgroundbut also in front of them as well. Um and then as needed being in the buildingwhen they need support. It's um fairly common that when a leader is going to beabsent that they'll call and see if I'm available to come and be in theirbuilding for the day or if they're just having kind of a messy time of it um Imight be the person to come in and and hang out with them for a bit. Nextslide. Um so as I mentioned there's a lot ofoverlap. Um I with Dr. Erdle, our director of innovation and design andlearning, have been responsible for a redesign of the building goals umprocess. And so we meet with them quarterly. We meet with each leader andtheir chosen team, which is usually members of their building instructionalleadership team. And they set three goals for their building every year. Onein the area of learning and teaching, one in the area of culture, and one inthe area of operations, which mirrors the goals that we have as a district aspart of vision 2031. And so the work that we've done with that um I would sayto bring it to the point it is now is to ensure that we broke down vision 2031 isenormous. So we broke it down so that people could see if we were going tomake progress every single year. Here's about where we would be on all of thesedifferent categories. And then we had buildings do self- evaluations to figureout where they thought they were in each of those areas. Um and then we ask thatthey write goals that are aligned to making progress according to what we umhave called the milestone map which is that yearbyear here's where we shouldbe. Um this year we that that was really where we got them to by last year. Umthis year we have really dialed in on them being very very clear about howthey will know they got there and what will be different as a result of thegoal that they have set. So we have been um pushing them to be more narrow andnot so broad so that they can be very clear that this is the data I would needto collect to know if I made my goal and I can see clearly and so can my staffhow my goal connects to vision 2031. So in our last um set of meetings, one ofthe questions we asked was how would the people at the not sitting at the tablefor the goals meeting describe the work that you're doing? Where do you see yourstaff's familiarity with that? and where do you think your family's familiarityis? So, that has been a huge project of mine. Um, I would say the first coupleof years, um, looking at the schoolwide enrichment model and kind of trying toget it moving in the direction that had already been set was part of my role.And so that involved accessing professional development opportunitiesfor the schoolwide enrichment staff as well as the principles and having theprinciples think through what would that model look like at their site because itdoes allow for flexibility. And so similar to how we want them to make suretheir building goals are highly aligned to vision 2031, I wanted them to be ableto see how they've chosen to execute schoolwide enrichment aligns to theoriginal model or the parameters that are set. and it doesn't look the same inevery building. Um, it's very outdoor-based at Gatewood and it's veryfield tripbased at Glen Lake. Just to give you a couple of examples, our IBschools also have a different lens that they bring to that. Um, I also have donea lot with providing resources. Um, I've sat on uh multiple committees around thethe teacher evaluation process. So we have revised the profile that we use toprovide feedback to teachers so that it is also aligned to vision 2031 and so Ihave been part of the conversations with the principles to kind of help themthink through well what would the indicators of each parts of that rubricbe what would they look like and then we've done calibration around that andthen finally um I co-lead the innovation design and learning team and thatinvolves the planning of the summer leader retreats as well as the monthlyHopkins instructional leadership team meetings that we hold that bring all ofthose people in those goals meetings into this room. So once a month we arein here and there's 80ish I would suppose people um all working togetheron where are we at with um moving towards vision 2031 and um trying toprovide professional development experiences that they can then take andreplicate back at their sites. Next one, student support systems is another bigpiece of my role. Um, in the first couple of years, I helped facilitategetting everybody on the same page to having a progressive response tobehavior system, which means that we were clear about what are the kinds ofbehaviors that we would expect to be resolved in the classroom, what are thekinds of behaviors that we would expect to require some assistance, and tryingto get everyone to to agree on what that looks like. um that moved us to thecurrent year where we had had been working on this let's all be on the samepage about what we're going to call things, but that did not necessarilytranslate to what went into Infinite Campus and then produced the data thatwe could report back to you and everyone else. And so for the start of this year,we moved into let's all use the exact same referral form. And I would say thatthat has been a bigger challenge than uh getting on the same page about thelevels because um when it comes down to what I'm going to put on paper, havingto all agree what I am going to call that um is is complicated. Um I thinkwe've done really well so far on being on the same page about what we wouldcall behaviors. We are still working on monthly calibration at our principalmeeting around how we might respond to behaviors to try to make sure that whenwe put that data in the system using the same language that that languageactually means the same thing when we report it out to others. Um and thenlike I said I have um monthly uh one-to-one conversations with principlesand in those monthly one-to-one meetings I am bringing to them um buildingspecific data and we are talking about presence that they are seeing in theirbehavior data and what action they plan to take. And then I think one of thebest parts of my role is that whether it's this or something else I am almostalways able as I'm talking with a principal to say when they have aproblem well have you tried? And sometimes it's something that comes frommy own experience, but often it's something that I heard as I movedthrough the district talking to other principles. And so then I'll say, "Hey,you should give Melissa a call or you should give George a call because here'swhat he's doing." And I know that they really appreciate that. And yes, like Isaid earlier, um I always relied on colleagues and you can, but you don'talways think to ask them the little questions. You you call when you have abig question. And so the kinds of things that I'm able to help with are sort ofthe the maybe the slower, quieter I'm thinking about things. I I can providesome feedback and collaboration. Next slide.Um and then project management. Um so some of the things I've alreadymentioned I would say fall underneath project management. I would call theschoolwide enrichment model for example a project that I am managing and it hashad um higher levels of need at different times. Um, I also worked withall of our elementary school leaders to help them identify what would be thething that people would um point to as being part of their identity. And someof our leaders had already really thought through that clearly and othershad not. And so that was um a good process that we worked through I wouldsay towards well during my first year in the role and then um kind of wrapped itup as we headed into my second year. And then an enormous part of my job is themanagement of our title one ADS and ANI plans. Um so that includes writing theplans as they come due, helping to determine the sitebased allocations andensuring that those allocations are aligned to the parameters of how thatfunding can be used and then helping to monitor their implementation of thoseplans. Um it also includes me working with non-public schools that are locatedin the Hopkins School District. We have funding through title 1 2 3 and fourthat we are required to disperse to private schools if they are interestedin receiving that funding and most of them are. Um the bulk of the fundingthat goes to private schools is title two which is professional developmentfunding and title four which um can fall in the area of student enrichment umtechnology or social emotional support. Um we have one site that does receivetitle one funding because of the number of students um who qualify for that uhfunding that's based on income and then one student uh I think one or two thatcould um take title three which is aligned with our multilingual learnersbut do not. So, what I discovered in this part of my job is that the um theprivate schools don't love the level of reporting that public schools arebeholden to. And so, they don't always want the money when it comes with lotsof strings attached about how you can track what you're doing with it. So,that's why the title three doesn't typically get taken up. Next slide.And then I think this is my final one under responsibilities, second to lastone. Um operational leadership. um just thinking through how things work. I dothink that one of my strengths is being able to see systems and to think aboutum if we do this here then that's going to result in that over there. And Ialways tell people that I think that's because of my years as a choir teacherthat I was continually working with lots of people who were supposed to be tryingto get to the same goal but weren't always able or willing. and it was myjob to get them there and to do so in a way that would be producing a goodresult for everybody to enjoy. Um so we have a monthly strong school startmeeting uh that is a team that's cross district. Um we have clerical staff onthat tech staff um business staff everybody you could imagine from all thedepartments and that uh group meets monthly to think about how do we ensurethat we will kick the school year off strongly because there are so manycomponents to making sure that occurs. Um, and so I am the principalrepresentative for that team, but then I also have to bring some things back tothe principles, sometimes bring things from the principles. So I'm a liaison inthat moment as well. Um, I have assisted with the hiring of multiple new leadersand then of course I because of the title ADSIS and ANI work, I am in chargeof monitoring for compliance um with those programs. And then finally, I am adistrict leader. Um I sit on cabinet like I said I'm a cod uh lead of the IDLteam and a key person to help with the onboarding of new principles.Um so I think I've gone over most of thesethings. One thing I would point out is that um title adsis and ANI are veryinterrelated and also different in multiple ways which creates confusionoftentimes for our system. Um they don't all come due at the same time. theysometimes have the same reasons for the money being generated but sometimes theydo not. Um they have little idiosyncrasies on how they are to bereported. Um and so I do think um you know when I was in a building I onlyworked with ADS at that time title funding was not dispersed to the middleschools and I know that it would have been a lot for my brain to try towrestle with because of the differences in reporting between those just thosetwo funds let alone ANI. And so I think that has been something that's beenhelpful for leaders to have somebody that sort of is managing those detailsand can remind them, hey, nope, that's not for this, that goes over here inthis program, but for this one, this is what we have to do. And so reminders ofthose [clears throat] deadlines are almost always part of my monthlycheck-in with leaders. Next slide. I mentioned the building's goals process.Um, the principal development evaluation model. What I would highlight there isthat that includes me shadowing them for a day and providing feedback aligned toour leadership rubric. It includes them selecting a form of formative feedbackand that can range um sometimes they do a survey of their staff. Sometimes theyum have a process and ask me to provide feedback just on that process, but it'sit's designed to provide feedback that's outside of what it would look like tojust shadow them for the day. Um, and it also includes student data and themsetting a goal. So, there's multiple layers to it and we make that happenthroughout the course of the school year and then have a meeting at the um, likemidsummer point to talk about here's how [clears throat] things went for theprevious year. Where do you think you're headed for the next year? And I reallyencourage them to make sure that they are thinking about how those personalleadership goals can align to their building goals so that they're workingin tandem. >> Next slide.So, as a final summary, [sighs and gasps]um I think that I kind of have two big pieces to my role. I think lots and lotsof leadership opportunities. Um and then I would say the other thing that is abig piece of my role is facilitation and making connections. Um I probably couldpause there because I think everything on that slide and the next[clears throat] two are things that I have talked about. Um yeah, maybe if youwant to go Yeah, let's we can talk briefly aboutthe challenges. I think um I think one thing that would be important for theboard to be aware of is that um our building leaders work incredibly hard. II do think they have the hardest job in the system because they answer to everysingle person in the system and they really do want to make the things happenthat we know will be best for kids. We are in a situation in this state andcountry where we do not fund education to do that point blank.>> And so I do think that we have to be very very careful about what we ask ofthem because um it's like I said earlier we can make a goal but if we are notclear about all the structures that will have to be in place to get there and allthe resources it will take for those structures to be in place then we'resort of kidding ourselves that that it's going to happen. And so I just want usto be highly aware um that our ongoing financial strain does place a big limitum on what they can do. And then I I do think that another um dynamic that theyare dealing with and will likely have to expand their ability to deal with is theeffect of trauma on our kids because of what things have looked like since thepandemic and we are now in the midst of another season of that. Um, and thatwhat I observed happened because I was in the building during the pandemic twoyears after was not only did that have a a really big impact on kids, but itreally had a significant impact on staff. And that impact on staff resultedin a lot of turnover, people leaving education altogether or people going toteach somewhere where there were kids that hadn't experienced as manydifficult moments during the pandemic. Um, and so I just think that's anotherpiece that we have to be aware of that um, I would say that most certainly whatleaders are doing now is not what I was doing when I became a principal nineyears ago. It is a different job already in that amount of time. And so we justwe have to be mindful of what we ask of them. I think they are capable ofanything and everything. Um, and they are the type of people that would pushthemselves to do anything and everything if asked. And so we just have to be umcognizant of what our asks are. So um as I wrap up, I will be working ona new ANI plan. The board will need to approve those goals um probably lateFebruary and that plan is due mid March. So I have a a needs assessment for thatthis week that I'll be conducting. I am going to support the transition to thenew superintendent. I think that if my role was important before, it's evenmore important when you have a new person sitting in the seat who doesn'tknow any of the players. Um, and then I have supported our new leaders thisyear, Alice Smith and the high school leaders who are taking on a verydifferent level of responsibility and I anticipate supporting whoever is hiredfor the high school position for next year.>> I think that's it. >> Thank you.>> Questions? Any questions or comments? Director Xiao.>> Yeah. Hi. Uh, thank you Dr. Campy. You wear a lot of hats, big hats. Um, andand maybe this is actually a meaty topic or question that I'm going to ask andmaybe it'll could be a workshop, but could you like elaborate a little bitabout um, you know, how you evaluate a principle? I know you talked about itreally high level, but like you know like academic growth and outcomes andthings like that, you know, how is that weighted, right? And like if if there'sa principle that nails everything except for that, you know, how does that look?And um you know, >> just if I can get my internet to worklooking up so I don't misspeak. Um, so we have a I guess I would call it aworksheet and that um divides up what their um their total evaluation lookslike. And so that's what I think would be helpful for me to um kind of walk youthrough. Let me see if I can find that here.So um 40% of their summitative evaluation. So all of these experienceslead to a summitative evaluation. um and their summitive evaluation is made up40% of student data. And so what we did um last year because last year was thefirst time that the statute was in effect um we worked together with um wehad Dr. home at that time. And so she helped us create a way to look atstudent progress um predicting based upon the things that we know impactstudent learning, predicting where a group of students should be by the endof the year and we used MCA scores for that prediction last year. I know thatour leaders would like to have MCA scores and FastBridge um where it'sapplicable be something they look at this year. But the the goal there was tosay um I don't control who shows up at my building every day, but I do controlwhat goes on here every day. And so we need to mitigate for the things thatmight make it harder for some students and not expect um them to show upexactly the same way same way as students who don't have thosechallenging factors. But we also have to expect no matter who comes to your doorthat you're helping them make the progress we would predict they wouldmake based upon who they are and what they bring to the table. Um, so that was40%. Um, and those were really informative conversations to have withleaders. A big piece of it was just getting to help them understand how itwas even calculated. Um, so I think year two will be even more valuable. Anddefinitely I saw leaders take that um, information and and implement it orincorporate it into their goals in multiple cases. Um, 20% is the on thejob feedback that I provide. So, I have a rubric. Um, I just walk around behindthem all day with my laptop taking notes and then I come back and I look at oursix um leadership elements. So, learning leadership, empathy leadership,innovation leadership, culture leadership, equity leadership, uh, andoperational leadership. And I just go through all of my notes for the day andI figure out what fits where, much like I did with teachers, just with adifferent rubric. Um, I always ask that they bring me on a day where they'regoing to be uh formally leading something. So leading like a staffmeeting or a instructional leadership meeting, but some type of formalleadership and then of course it's whatever we see as we move throughoutthe day. So we don't always get to touch on every part of the rubric because noteverything happens, but most of it does every time. And then uh 20% on theirindividual goal. So they have to make a goal that's aligned to one of those sixleadership areas. And then we work throughout the year on what they'redoing to achieve it and reflect at the end of the year on where they got andwhat they think helped them get there or stood in their way. And then finally thelast 20% is that formative assessment option. Um so they can choose like Isaid from a variety of things. Some of them do a self assessment with thatrubric and um you know say here's where I think I am and here's why. Some ofthem ask for peer feedback. Uh so they sit with other principles and ask forthat feedback. We've had people do 360 evaluations where they got feedback fromdistrict leadership, their colleagues, parents, teachers, paras, students. Um,we've had people do just straight up surveys of staff. Um, and I've also hadpeople do um like reflective journaling. So they kind of throughout the year justare taking time to always journal on what's happening and then they talk withme about here's what's happening and here's how I'm managing it and here'swhat I think I'm learning from what I did or didn't do or how I reflected. Sothat is the evaluation. >> Thank you so much. Yeah, I'm I'mheartened to see such a large percentage on student outcomes and it is to yourpoint complicated, right? it's not necessarily fair to just be like, well,you know, your your score was at here, so you were successful or not. So, I'mglad there's a lot of thought that went into that and that it's actually thelargest bucket, right? So, that's very helpful for me. Thank you very much.>> That is it. It is a statute that 40% of it be student data. But what I wouldoffer is that when um you know I worked together with a small team of principlesto create a a proposal that we brought to the full group to vote on for theevaluation. And that small group had a really healthy debate about um should webe looking at predicted progress and whether you got there based upon thefactors that impact you but what about proficiency?>> Like that matters too. And so we decided to start with since this was sort of ourfirst foray into that being something they were being evaluated on with thepredictor. Um but I know that as I walked through and talked with all ofthem, they were equally as concerned about where their students were showingup in terms of proficiency. >> Thank you.>> Thank you. I really appreciate you being here with us this evening and for thedetailed um report. And I am just going to cut short questions because I I Itake seriously the feedback I heard from clerk Thompson earlier. We have notstarted our meeting yet and we're already an hour and 20 minutes into it.Um so just um saying if if board members dohave questions because I think there are just so many areas in which there couldbe questions to please forward them to Dr. Mary Perry Reed and she will getthem to Dr. Hampy if you're open to that.>> Absolutely. >> Wonderful. Thank you. [music] And we aregoing to see you back here. >> Sure. I think if it's okay, I'll juststay here because I believe >> you could totally just stay here.>> The only agenda. >> Yes, exactly. You are. You are theagenda. >> Okay.>> Um, so thank you all very much. Thank you for your report. Um, very verybriefly, does anyone have any questions for Dr. Mary Perry Reed and herpresentation? >> Um, yes. Uh, thank you. Um, thank youfor your report. Uh, Dr. Mary Pir Reid and was I supposed to say chair andDuca, may I speak? Do I speak? You're good.>> Okay. All right. Um, thank you. And I think, um,the two the two actually three questions. One's funny and the other twoare more serious. Um, the one is I wanted to know who's the principal ofthe or the president of the farm. >> Um, so just one I I just wanted to knowwho I'm [laughter] >> the farmer. the farmer. The farmer.>> Thank you. >> Tell I didn't believe her.>> And then and then um one is just more more a curiosity and the second is myactual question then. So the one is around the Minnesota student survey. I'mjust curious uh I'd love to you know see more of that data and also um what arewe seeing from other districts around us in terms of what students are sayingabout their experiences at other schools? Uh I would just I would becurious to to know more of that and to see that. Um, and I'll just go to thesecond and then you can >> I think we're able to compare to thestate. I don't know if we can compare to other districts, but we'll look into it.>> Okay. Thanks. And then my um for naming and and the work that just all of you asuh administrative staff and and uh teachers are doing in supporting ourstudents. You name that you think there's probably about 150 studentsright now who are seeing um because of um ICE and just um immigration andfears. they're they have not been attending. And I'm wondering where theconversation is at regarding offering distance learning for um kids who are ina place where they're not able to show up but want to continue to learn. Oh,that's a great question. So um if you think about kind of what thislooks like in comparison to a larger district. So, I was talking with somesuperintendents yesterday and for example in Minneapolis,they are experiencing about 5,100 students whoare presently not coming to school um due to um the external environment. Andso they really needed to scale hybrid um instruction which is teachersteaching physically in the classroom to students who come in person and alsohaving >> [clears throat]>> um a synchronous uh virtual experience for students athome. Now, I I don't believe we're there yet. And I'm grateful for our teachingand learning team under the direction of Dr. Anne Erdle and also Dr. TiffanyNielsen Winklman and some others who have been um looking, you know, callingthe online learning department at MDE to clearly know what we're able to do andnot able to do. And then we are leveraging our hilt time tomorrowHopkins instructional leadership team. We gather together once a month withprinciples, data specialists, instructional coaches, teacher leaders,cabinet right here in this space. And normally we're focusing on literacy ormath. But tomorrow we are going to focus on what are the opportunities forcreating flexibility um in learning structures for ourstudents and what's developmentally appropriate, right? Primary years versusupper elementary versus middle school, high school, what's allowable? What dowe have resources for? and and how do we target the opportunities with the scopeof the need at each grade level and at each school. So, we'll be um spendingsome time tomorrow figuring that out and then once we feel solid in a plan or inwhat the opportunities would be, then we'll um follow with communications.>> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh any other questions?Then um we will move to um I would look for a motion to approve tonight'sagenda. >> So moved.>> I have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second.>> Have a motion and a second. Any discussion?Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I.>> I. >> Any opposed? The chair votes I. And theagenda is approved. That takes us to our consent calendar. These items um providethe board with information considered to be more routine in nature. If the boarddeems an item to be necessary for additional discussion, a motion will bemade to move the item to new business. I did want to mention to our communitythat a couple of board members did ask um we have three um trips that are onthis the consent calendar. This is um something that the board has to do. Weapprove all um large-scale travel for our um for our students and um we havetwo international trips on here and um a couple board members did ask aboutsafety given the current um global climate and um national climate. And umas a a parent who has had um children go on trips like this with the district umI didn't have this question because I've I've asked the question in the parentmeeting about safety. But um I think it's it's important that everyone knowsthat um Hopkins takes student safety very seriously with these trips. It isalways part of um um not just the planning conversation that they havewith the people who do these tours, but the um selection process of who thedistrict is going to work with. Um and that this safety assessment is doneongoing. It's not a oneanddone. Um, so wanted to to thank our board members whoasked these questions about safety so that we could highlight the ways inwhich Hopkins is ensuring that our students are safe here and um when theyengage in in travel um educationally. So with that I would look for a motionto approve the consent calendar. >> So moved.>> I have a motion. Is there a [clears throat] second?>> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. Anydiscussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, pleasesay I. I. >> I.>> Um, any opposed? The chair votes [clears throat] I. And the consentcalendar is approved. And that takes us to the treasures report. TreasureHartland. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Um, good eveningeveryone. Um, as treasurer, something I've had my eye on is the kind oflooming January 30th federal funding deadline. uh which matters to ourdistrict because Congress must act to keep federal discretionary funding inplace. So if our lawmakers don't pass a full budget or a continuing resolutionby that date, a partial government shutdown could occur. And many of oureducation related programs are funded through annual appropriations.even short-term disruptions in those can delay a whole bunch of reimbursements,grants, um, and even like program approvals that districts like ours relyon. And those services most often impact our most vulnerable students like ourspecial ed students or title one programs, even like school nutrition.And so that uncertainty, you know, creates cash flow problems, createsadditional burden on on staff and on families and increases our financialrisk. So a good outcome would be for Congress to pass appropriations thatprovide us with, you know, stable and predictable funding for these programs.Um, most of these appropriations are areannual and so they typically are in effect from October 1st of one yearthrough September 30th of the next. And so we're already like way into this nextterm without um a stable like predictable funding package passed. Uh,so we're currently operating under a continuing resolutionum that's authorized funding through January 30th while Congress negotiatesthe remaining appropriations bills. And so best scenario would be hashing thoseappropriations bills out. A more likely scenario is that they um pass anothercontinuing resolution. And a worst case scenario would be a partial governmentshutdown that again could affect our timely payment or reimbursementuh for programs where the federal government has [clears throat] promiseduh district's funds and upon which we've built this year's budget. As a reminder,about 4% of our budget comes directly from federal sources and another severalpercents indirectly, such as billing like Minnesota's Medicaid programs forsome specialty programs that we provide to students. Some of our state's moneyfor Medicaid comes from the federal government as well. So, the district iswatching that and and will adapt if it needs to.um to shift to district expenses because we've got a couple new members tonight.Um and therefore maybe some new people watching because of you guys. Um thistreasures report, the the check register that's on our agendas covers the roughly20% of our budget that's not payroll and not health insurance or like moretypical benefit type um expenses. So um these expenses listed on theagenda, they um come from multiple accounts within the building. Theaccounts have different sources of funds and they have [clears throat] differentrequirements for the use of those funds. And if you look at the posted checkregister on the far left, you can see that column gives a fund number for aparticular expense and that number corresponds [clears throat] with aspecific fund like one is a general fund or two is food services. And so I'mhappy to meet with any board member that wants a refresher or or you're hearingit for the first time. But before we started, I just wanted to give that veryminimal framing. Um, so some expenses of note are we paid$7,332 to Aqua Engineering for inspections andrepairs on various sprinkler and water supply systems in [clears throat] thedistrict. And I very often call out these like inspection and andmaintenance type expenses because the amount of square footage in ourbuildings and what it takes to maintain them is simply huge and um isa a piece of our uh financial picture that um kind of dominates. You you'llsee over and over again the types of things that we have to do to repairsystems and to inspect them for compliance and for safety.$7,532 went to backup batteries for ouremergency lighting at a couple different sites. Um, we finished paying some billsfor wiring projects that happened over the summer. Um, to commercialinfrastructure for $8,146. We paid $2,534.40to the college board for fall 2025 PSAT testing.um $12,943 to Flexcom Security for upgrades tosecurity systems in a variety of our buildings. You saw a whole bunch ofentries for Kelly Services on our on the check register and that's the parentcompany of Teachers on Call. We've paid them $72,379over several dozen invoices. And Teachers on Call is one of the primarysources of our district substitute teachers. And so it's not uncommon tosee every other month or so a big batch of those invoices come through.Uh for Lake Country bus service, uh we paid them, you saw multiple invoicesagain, $298,312 for the two weeks spanning 1027 through117. So that is uh you know a well discussed large expense for thedistrict. Um, we paid Clifton Larson Allen $119,028.There was an additional check on there cut for 10,000. Um, and that is areissue from a previous statement and I did verify that I saw a voided check andthat one was reissued. So, that $10,158 is not a new entryum to our fund. And so remember, we're paying Clifton Larson Allen to supportseveral business service functions. Um they just finished a huge lift inDecember to meet a state filing deadline so we can get a lot of um appropriatereimbursement from the state that we were due. Additionally, we have filledthe position of controller. They just started in December and so now we have adistrict employee filling that role. Additionally, CISO is increasingly up tospeed in taking over all the CFO tasks that they were brought on for. And so,the amount of support we we require from CLA should Wayne throughout the rest ofthe school year. Um, we paid Superior Vision Service$5,526 for the employee vision planand the bus depot required two different repairs totaling $17,590.50.50. And with that, I move that we approve total dispersements in theamount of 1,776, $399.38for the period of November 16th to November 30th, 2025.>> I have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second.>> I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> Chair Andre.>> Clerk Thompson. Uh, oh, I'm just a director now, by the way.>> Oh, sorry. >> It's it's a habit. It's>> get over it. Okay. Sorry. >> Um, Treasure Harland, thanks for thereport. Um, particularly appreciated the explanation around the charges toClifton Alen Larson and appreciated Dr. Mary Pier Reed having shared recently,you know, that we expect it to kind of bea fair amount in January and then tailing off thereafter as we kind of getthrough that period. So, appreciate hearing about this sort of seasonalityof that payment. Um, one question I was going to ask was there was like a 30,000plus charge to Tyler Technologies for this Tyler 3 drive support. Um, but Ihad actually seen in an email that that's regardingtracking the GPS on the buses um for for the system so we can seewhere they are live, which I just think is a very smart investment to help usknow where are the buses at any given moment. I think that really helps putparents minds at ease if they're able to see that better. So, um, yeah. Soappreciate the communication on that transportation update as well. >> Any other discussion?Seeing none, all those in favor, please say I.>> I. >> Any opposed? The chair votes I and thetreasures report is accepted. Thank you, Treasure Heartland. And that takes us toour only order of new business [clears throat] in tonight's evening.Thank you for staying with us, Dr. Campy. um to update us on the ANIreport. Yes, we hope slides will work. >> Okay, perfect.>> Okay, so um ANI stands for achievement and integration and I uh am here toprovide an annual report on the progress towards the goals for the currentreport. You can go to the next slide. I did want to make sure I gave an overviewsince I knew we had some new board members both of what the ANI funds arefor but also of the process. So, oh, we just lost it.Could could I just quickly ask [snorts] a question about the dates? Um, becauseI see that you've got the reporting year 2024to 25, correct? But on our agenda, it says um it lists 2426plan. So is that because you're reporting on our progress and alsoreporting on what we're working on this year?>> No. >> Okay. Um, I am here to pre report on theprogress of 2425 and it probably should say 2326 planbecause and I'm I'll get into that in a minute, but the plan spans three years.And so I'm reporting on last year, which was year two of a three-year plan. Weare currently in year three of a three-year plan and also having to writethe next plan that would then begin next year, if that makes sense.>> Great. I just wanted to clear that up because I was like,>> what are we talking about here? Okay. Compared to the other programs, um thisis actually the least confusing except for the dates. The dates rarely makesense, but um hopefully we can muddle along together. Um, so the purpose ofthe ANI dollars is to support student achievement and specifically to work tosupport student achievement uh in ways that will help students who are havebeen historically marginalized or unsupported by our system to do betterand create educational opportunities that are equitable. This is obviouslyintended to be done by reducing academic disparities that exist based on thesefactors which are the exact factors that I mentioned earlier are factored intothe principal evaluation. Next slide.So you are required to have multiple goals. I don't know Natalya you mightwant to just come up here because it just keeps popping in and out. Um[snorts] in three different areas. So uh one area is that you have to have a goalthat is designed to or aimed at reducing academic disparities like I mentionedearlier and that um needs to be for specific groups of students excludinggroups identified by gender disability and English learners. So it is notintended to look at disparities between boys and girls or students with specialneeds or reel students. It is specifically around um typically aroundrace and economic status because that's the other place where we tend to seethose disparities. There needs to be a goal that is focused on creating uhgreater racial and economic diversity and integration in the schools and thedistricts. Meaning um are you in are you moving towards all of your sites beingmore or less equally diverse versus some being significantly different thanothers? and are you moving towards a work staff that is reflective of thestudents that you are serving? Uh and then that ties into the final goalthere. There does need to be a goal specifically around um effective andmore diverse teachers in that second area um which I'll um talk about justfor a moment here. [clears throat] There's also a requirement that you areworking with another district who um also needs to experience a greater levelof diversity. So, one of the things we work on is a goal with Edina becausethey have a less diverse school district and they are um they what's the word?They abut us. They are connected [clears throat] to us. We are right nextto each other. So, that that's one of the things that um you have to do is youhave to identify if you are a less diverse district that receives the ANIfunds, you need to identify a diverse uh a district that's more diverse topartner with. And so we have a kindergarten program that we do withthem that happens in the summer where we bring the two districts together toprovide some pre kindergarten learning and skills building. Interesting.[snorts] >> Like I said a moment ago, it runs on athree-year cycle. So the current year we are in is year three of a plan that wassubmitted in the spring of 2023, started in the fall of 2023um by Sarah Cerna who actually works for MDE now. She was the person doing thatwork at the time. She's one of the three people that resigned and I inheritedpart of her job. Tonight's presentation is related to the outcomes for lastschool year 2425 as aligned to the goals that were written in that plan that wassubmitted in the spring of 2023. And then, as I mentioned earlier, we arecurrently in the process of getting ready to do a needs assessment toidentify goals for the new plan that will be submitted spring of 2026 andbegin fall of 2026 and run for three years starting from that point. Nextslide. So, I'm just going to walk through the goals and then after I walkthrough the goals and where we're at, um, I'll we can come back and doquestions if that's okay. Um, so if you want to take notes along the way becauseyou have questions about a specific goal area, go for it. Um so one of the goals,the one uh aimed at reducing academic disparities focused specifically on mathand students of color. The goal um the goals do have to be smart goals. So theyhave to be measurable, specific, attainable, relevant, and timely. So thegoal was written that by the end of the year this year, 70% of our students ofcolor in grades three through eight would be at meetat or low risk asmeasured by the FastBridge assessment for math.uh as of the first year of the goal, we had a benchmark of 61% and we werethere. As of the second year of the goal, which was last year, we had abenchmark of 63% and we were not. And so you can see that there. And I imagineyou might have questions and I'll be happy to answer some of those after wego through the other goals. We also have an academic disparity goal[clears throat] um related to increasing the graduationrate for our Latinx students from 40% to 60% by 2026 and we have met and exceededthat goal at this time. So you can see that um the first year of the plan wedidn't have a benchmark because that was a baseline year and that's where the 40%comes from. Um and then the second year of the plan was last year the benchmarkwas 50%. We were at 72.2 two as of that year. This is another place where thedates are wonky. So the um the state does not give us the graduation date uhdata until a year after it has occurred. So I'm talking about 2324 data that weused to decide if we made the 2425 goal. It's probably clear as mud. You can goto the next slide. The [clears throat] next goal we had wasaround increasing racial and economic diversity and integration. And the goalthat was submitted was to grow domains of [clears throat] the panorama surveywhich measures um elements of students social and emotional um learningcapabilities and uh it was to grow those domains that were below the 50thpercentile by 10 points by 2026. Um this has been very complex to try to measurebecause there were not um there was not it was not uniform which domains werebelow the 50th percentile. Um and in addition to that our elementary umleaders opted to revise the questions uh for last year's survey results and sothen that makes it difficult to compare from year to year. So you can see thatum we were hoping when the plan was submitted to be at the percentiles onthe left for the first year of the goal and we did not get there for two of thethree spaces did get there for emotional regulation. Then you can see for thesecond year of the goal um we were to be at the percentages on the left. Um, Ican't really measure the emotional regulation for grades three through fivebecause of them changing the questions, but they did have 91% positive responsesin that area. There just aren't percentiles because those have to bemeasured against national results. They're the results won't be normed atthis point. Um, and then the secondary results, you can see um we did not getthere that our um results actually dropped with emotional regulation for 6through 12 and slightly increased for sense of belonging. So another area thatI'll be happy to take some questions on in a moment if you have any. And thenour final goal was around increasing equitable access to effective anddiverse teachers and we have exceeded that at this time. So the goal was toget to 10% by end of this year. As of the end of last year we were at 16%. Weactually u met the goal in year one. Um, so two out of four we're doing reallywell on and two out of four not as much. Um, that is all I have on this report.What I would share is that as I mentioned, um, I'm in the process ofputting together all of the data for our comprehensive needs assessment to writethe next plan. That needs assessment will happen this week. After that needsassessment, um we will take some recommendations from that team based onthe data to formulate some goals and then those goals will go before variousgroups for feedback as far as whether those seem like the appropriate goalsbased upon where we are and what we know. And then I will be back to you inFebruary to seek your approval for those goals before we submit that plan to thestate. >> Questions?Thank you. Appreciate this presentation and also the historical context for ournew board members. Um >> yes, any questions or feedback?>> Chair Andre. >> Yes. Um, thank you so much for thethorough presentation and I have to say I spent a lot of time trying to discernthe difference between all of these different things because they are alloverlapping and different at the same time and serve different purposes butsimilar purposes and it is um very confusing. So thank you for being veryclear about what A and I is. Um my questionuh for you is um as we begin the needs assessmentum how will and and the the the developed goals will go before you saidvarious different groups um will the needs assessment informationand the proposed goals um come to the board for approval? So we have a clearunderstanding of the rationale behind how those goals wereum designed and set and what data they were based upon. So when it comes toapproval time, we have um familiarity with with the underlying informationthat supports those plans. >> Um the needs assessment group is um soto start with any of you would be welcome to join us. We're meeting onThursday all day and you could certainly be part of the needs assessment if youwould like to be. um that is a group of uh district leaders that represent umthe the diverse students that we serve that will look at all sorts of data umand then make these recommendations and then that will go um to and it doesinclude some principles as well that will then go to um ESAC which I thinkhas been mentioned at some point here tonight because we were talking aboutcommittees right um to provide some feedback on the recommended goals I'm onthat committee. So, >> yes. Yep. Um and then we also will getsome student feedback um as well as some additional staff feedback before we kindof finalize where we're at. Um so when I come back in February, that will be withthe proposed goals that we would like to submit. Um but yes, this is my firsttime going through this particular process because I came in on the startof a plan. So I can't say what happened before, but it is my intent that itshould be very clear how the data pointed to the goal that we selected.And it is also my intent to go back to what I said earlier about the structuresthat have to be in place. Um that we not set goals that we are not prepared toput structures in place to meet. >> And so um we are going to need to thinkcarefully like we may look at the data and say oh my goodness this is this hugething that we need to do. Do we have the capacity to do that in three years orare we stage setting in this three years? I think that's the other thing isthat we need to be mindful of student outcomes follow adult behavior and adultbehavior is highly supported by structures and guidance and professionaldevelopment and monitoring. And so all of those things have to be planned forif we want adult behavior to change and then student outcomes to change.>> Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions, feedback?>> Yeah. Uh, Chair Andre. >> Yes. Director. No. Clerk. Clerk. I gotthe clerk. [laughter] >> Yes. Yes. Thank you. Um, again, thankyou for uh all of your work in your job. That, um, you know, it's very simple anddoesn't involve much. That was sarcasm in case someone didn't track that. Um,the thank you was not sarcastic. That's real. Uh, I I really appreciate youbringing this in. Just a few. I think I had three questions. I'm going to justput them out and then you engage with them how you want. So, um, as youalready noted, we may have a question about that that first set where weactually saw, um, you know, with the the students of color as it related to themath fast bridge, we saw a drop from 61% to 42.5%.>> And so, you know, um, what's the sense of, um, you know, as that happened? Howdid that happen? you know what are what are you all thinking and seeing? Um mysecond question ties to how like the timing differential between thereporting that you're getting related to um this first data set versus the umgraduation rates, you know. So like >> say that again.>> Um so you have different like you have a different timeline for the data set thatyou're reporting on. Um, and just like, yeah, why is is that is that justbecause of the state? Is there I mean, it's just, you know, it's like you havethis three-year, you know, plan. >> That's a million dollar questionliterally because it's a million dollar. >> We'll take a million if anyone wants togive us >> I I I don't know why. It just is the wayit is. That's when they give us the data. I would imagine it has to do withthe complex process of certifying who has graduated because of the differentmoments in which students can complete, but also because of how you have tocount who is in your graduation rate and who is not based upon when they came toyour school or didn't. Um, and so I I would imagine that along with somelayers of bureaucracy, it lands it ends up being a year later that we get thatinformation. Um, >> okay. I I don't know that I mean I thinklike the thing that's important for us to be aware of is that the graduationrate is very important and it's also a lagging indicator. Yeah. Um we we cannotfocus our attention there. We actually need to focus our attention in grades Kthrough three because kids who can't read by third grade are going to be partof the ones that we're worried about down here. And the longer a child is inan experience of not feeling successful at school, the less they believe theyeven can be regardless of what we are doing. So, I think that it's animportant thing and I'm glad that we were able to make some increases. Um,I'm less worried about that data not being>> well aligned because I actually think our work lies>> in other places with with greater emphasis.>> That's thank you. So, that's number that's the second one. So that onestruck one and then we'll come back to one and then the third one is um just>> can you say more about why the principles at the elementary level ummade the decision you know to move away from the national where we can look atthe percentile on a national level for comparison um like how was that decisionmade what are thoughts about [clears throat] that are we going tostay with that I'm curious about that so those are my three questions you've donewith two >> so one and three thank you>> um so I think if it's okay I'll start with mathUm I don't know that we can answer why the drop occurred. Um and it probablywould have been helpful for me to provide maybe the data of the yearbefore 23 24 so we could see if there's actually high variability or has beenhigh variability. When I was a principal I did notice that we um it did not feellike every metric that came to me had the same trajectory. And um sometimesthat's because standards change or curriculum changes or you know there'sall sorts of things that can contribute to that. Um I do feel that um the goalwas extremely ambitious to begin with to say that we were going to go um to 70%.Um, and I do believe that we I I feel maybe I don't know if I should say thisor not, but I feel like um that first year I don't know if we could point towhy we were at the benchmark the first year because we have not had until nowconsistent um instructional coherence. So this year is the first year of usimplementing a new math curriculum and being really really mindful about whatthat looks like. Um, we also haven't had a systematic intervention framework,which is hard to create if you don't have coherent curriculum. So, you can'treally say we're all going to do this when when a student isn't succeeding ifwe're all teaching something different. Um, and there has probably been um notenough math specific professional learning. Um, it has really kind ofvaried based upon if a specific building had money to put into coaching, thenmaybe there was more of that happening in that space than there might be inanother. Um, so I think what I said earlier around the idea that we need tohave structures in place, I think we could have made that goal and expectedto see better progress had we had a structure in place of consistent andcoherent curriculum. Had we had a structure in place to monitor theimplementation of that, which we do now, we have people that are going out anddoing learning walks and talking with each other about what they're seeing.And that's principles and our math specialists, other teachers. Um, andthen had we monitored that and looked [clears throat] at the data of whatstudents were doing so that we could make plans for students who weren'tmeeting the target. And what I would say in that realm is that we do have umseveral schools who are really bright spots when it comes to doing thatparticular work. And so the conversations that Dr. Earl and I havebeen having at those goals meetings related to data have been around whatare best practices. So, how are you bringing teachers in and talking withthem about we talked about those predictions. FastBridge gives youpredictions based upon the class you have. We would expect them to grow thismuch this year. And so, what we talked with leaders about at the first datameeting, which follows the goals meeting each time, was what would it look likefor you to bring your teachers in and have them see that and think through andand gave some examples of where that is happening. And we have some sites thatare already doing that. So I I do think um work that is ahead of us is I thinkto the next plan. We have put the curriculum in place. We need to continueto support the teachers being able to deliver it with coaching andprofessional development. But then we need to have a really clear process forhow we're going to be asking all of our sites, which includes the teachers. Theteachers in the classrooms are the ones who should be looking at their own databecause they know those students. How are they going to be looking at the dataregularly and making a plan to act on it? Because FastBridge is better thanthe MCA in terms of providing us data that's actionable, but if you don't geton it right away, you're already down the track to the next data point. We'reready to give the winter assessment this month. So, I think one of the thingsI'll be thinking about as I take that group through that needs assessment isum what what do we need to do to shift how we are taking the student data oncewe've got adults shifting their practices? How we're taking the studentdata and assessing whether or not it is is changing as a result of those changedat all practices. Um then the other question you asked wasabout the panorama survey and um I was not directly involved but I was um onthe the edges of it. Um and my understanding is that there was afeeling amongst both elementary teachers as well as elementary leaders that theway that that survey worked so we only can give it to grades three through fiveanyway. um that the way that it worked was notproducing valid data um because they didn't feel like the way the questionswere presented [clears throat] was in a way that students could graspwhat they were being asked and respond in in an authentic way. And so theprocess that occurred was there was a group of teachers and I believe umcounselor social workers were part of that as well. And then Dr. home thatlast year went through a process of looking at the questions and determiningwhich of the questions felt strong and they felt like were producing data thatmade sense with what they knew of the students they were seeing every day andwhich questions they felt were missing and that they wanted to add in. Um Iwould say the other and and Dr. Conurus could speak to this better than I could,but I would say the other consideration we might want to be looking at is um wecurrently have an SEAL curriculum uh purposeful people and character strongand that curriculum actually has its own survey of this sort is my understanding.And so they're all aligned to the rubric that that we use for social emotionallearning. But I wonder if we should maybe be so so I guess whether or not toaddress that change is kind of a TBD because if we're going to shift anywayto be to use a a measurement that is aligned to the curriculum we're using,then it might be a moot point. Um, that said, the elementary data historicallyhas always been way better than the secondary data anyway because we allknow as adults, the older we get, the harder life is, and you know, it justdoesn't seem as bright as it does when you're six. So,>> and if if I could add just quickly, um, the board did get a presentation on thisvery topic not so long ago. Um, and we had the the data specialists here andthey spoke directly as to why and the process that went into changing it. Um,I don't know if we could track down um >> probably notes from that meeting or>> right or even the video someone could find and we could find that part wherethe question where it was presented specifically as to why. Yeah, I think>> and even granular to the point of which questions were changed and how they werechanged. Yeah, >> but the the present questions stillalign to themes or still coher around themes that align with the n thenationally normed themes. >> Yeah, I don't think that the I don'tthink the questions are the change in questions is problematic. I think itjust makes it hard in this case. We we when the plan was submitted, this wasthe data point we used and it was based upon percentiles, not percents. And sothen we aren't able to compare because we made that shift. if if it would havebeen based upon students will be at this percent saying I feel good about this,we would still be able to do a little bit more comparison.>> Thank you. >> Um and I and I just want to make surethat other board members have a chance to ask questions. So if um if anyonedoes um if you just could keep your question like one question um so thateveryone has a chance to ask. >> Chair Dre, can I ask a quick question? Iwant to be very chair. >> Thank you for the interest of time. Um Ido have several questions but I'll just ask one. Um and if you already mentionedthis, please forgive me, but is there any assessment to test for socialemotional learning? Like do they have any um scenario-based questions to asksome of our students to understand where they are um socially so they can so someof this data and numbers can improve. Um, is there any like district ornational testing that we could maybe implement or test to see if we're ableto, you know, offer some targeted services to those students who may beshowing um a decline in the data based off of that social assessment.>> Yeah, I would say that the the assessment we're giving them doesexactly that. Um, and the curricul and it offers actually interventions. So itit allows [clears throat] you to say, "Okay, I've got this group of studentsand here's the social emotional need they are presenting and here are somestrategies that I could use." But our um curriculum that we're using withstudents on a daily basis does the same thing. So we have we have multipleresources when it comes to being able to look at where students are. And I um inmy first summer of being in this role, I actually did a crosswalk of that socialemotional curriculum and our restorative practices work and the castle rubric,which is the rubric that we use for social emotional learning. Um and it isvery strong. The curriculum is very strong and it does a really good job ofspiraling and moving like making sure what we're asking them in first grade isgoing to be something we they need to be able to do in seventh grade, but how weget there is going to look different at that point. So I think we have reallystrong resources. I just think it's a matter of us getting into the data andthen acting on it. >> Okay. Thank you. And I and for like Isaid for the interest of time I can email my additional questions.>> Thank [snorts] you. Anyone any other questions?>> Chair Andre >> Director Thompson.>> Um so thank you for the presentation. Really appreciate. So ANI is a fundingstream from the state. >> Yes. And we submit this plan every threeyears and and then the results of it which we're looking at here right and soon these four measures it look like we met two of them we didn't meet two ofthem >> correct>> does that impact the amount of ANI funding we get from the state or likewhat is the impact of making two missing two>> it does not impact the amount of funding but what it does do um so for instancethere were some areas last year um the panoramaI think measures where we hadn't met the benchmark for that previous year. So ifyou don't meet the benchmark for the previous year, then when you submit yourbudget for the following year, you're required to use 20% of your funding toaddress that area specifically. Um which often overlaps because the benchmarksshould be building upon each other anyway. It shouldn't be different work,but um they just ask that you're very targeted about if we didn't meet thispiece of it, what are we doing differently?>> Makes sense. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks,>> Chair Andre. >> Director Jiao.>> Yes. Hi. Real quick. Um, so one I did notice that uh a lot of the topics werearound racial gaps, which you know, 100% are important. Um, but what about theeconomic side of it? Right. And and I know that the two are interlin in lotsof different bad ways. Um, but you know, what about, you know, frankly, lowerincome white children? How are they doing?>> Yeah. Um, so I can't speak to the why of how we got to to these goals, right?Because I wasn't part of that. But what I can tell you is that um, in thepreliminary data analysis I've been doing, I had our data specialist pullquite a few things for me, but some of it I knew I could just pull myself. Andso I've been deep in the middle of the numbers. And I've actually been struckby um the the size of the disproportionality for different metricswith our students who qualify for free and reduced lunch as opposed to thosewho do not. Um and so I would anticipate that um we will see something related tothat coming in the next plan. Um it would be hard for me to believe that themetrics I'm pulling are going to be marketkedly different than the ones Ihad the data specialist pull. I would imagine that those disproportionalitiesare going to show up across the board. Um so in answer to your question I wouldsay that um our students who who receive educational benefits are struggling andum in multiple ways whether that's academically or behaviorally or socialemotionally and so we we need to attend to that regardless of race. I think wejust need to be mindful of where the overlap lives and there is a lot ofoverlap like within the the population that's receiving those benefits. If wewere to break that down and look at how much of that population is students ofcolor versus white students, we would see a prepoundonderance of students ofcolor in that group that receives the educational benefits.>> Thank you. Well, and I think to um um going further on what you are saying, wehave seen the data that shows that um even controlling for income disparities,we do know that our our racial um studentsexperience a predictable outcome >> um regardless of economic um status. So,as educators, we need to adhere um to the data and what we know is impactingoutcomes and also um commit to doing something about it.>> So, thank you for that. Any other questions? >> Thank you. I look forward to seeing youback here in February um so that we can talk more about um how we're going to beaddressing these really big um issues in our district and appreciate all yourtime with us this afternoon. >> Thank you. Um>> thanks for all the time, Lean. >> Yeah,>> thank you. >> Thank you.>> Um so that then takes us to our board member reports. It has been the practiceof this board um to go around introduce ourselves um to the community and thenif you do have something to share um with the community um oftent times if weare out and about um learning things at different um places and spaces in uhcommunity we will bring that back and share. Also, um if you're doing stuffwithin our district that, um you want everyone else to know about ishappening, this is a good time to do that as well. So, I will just go aroundthe table and I will um start with Vice Chair Roer. If you want to go ahead andand introduce yourself and if you do have a report, feel free. If not, we[clears throat] um we understand about the late hour.>> Um hello everyone. My name is Brooke Roer. Um [snorts] I am now serving mythird year on the board. Um [snorts] and uh I have two incredible children in thedistrict. And tonight I do not have a board a board report, but I do want toum you know agree with your sentiments about what's happening in our communityand denounce what's happening in our community. Um and I stand with ourfamilies and um our immigrant families and all of our families. And I'm justincredibly proud of the um community [snorts] members who have stepped up tohelp support to show up at our schools to deliver groceries to you know just beum you know a solid a solid partner [snorts] um to those who areexperiencing um hardships in the current moment. Sothank you everyone in the Hopkins community and just like around the stateof Minnesota and this nation who's just stepping up to show leadership to um youknow love thy neighbor. >> Thank you. Mhm.>> Hello. Uh, I am Jiming Jao. I, uh, use he, he pronouns. Um, this is my thirdyear on the board. I've got two kids in the Shing program at Eisenhower. Uh, andI, in the interest of time, I will not give a board report. Thank you.>> My name is Johanna Hyman. This is my first ever board meeting tonight.>> Um, it's late, but I do just want to mention that I feel very welcome andappreciated by everyone. And tonight was a wonderful first experience. I willalso add that um and uh Dr. Dr. Mary Perry Reed already shared this as partof her superintendence report, but I also shared on my social media theum course about medical the medical field and medical exploration andreceived a lot of positive feedback from from um those I'm connected with onsocial media and I um would love to see um more of those courses andopportunities we offer highlighted as um part of something that we're reallyproud of in Hopkins. >> Excellent.>> Thank you. Um hello everybody. My name is Shannon Andre. Um this is my sixthyear um on the Hopkins School Board. Um, and I also have the honor and privilegeto um be part of the Gatewood community as a special education pairprofessional. Um, and I have a senior who>> at the high school who just turned 18, so well I'm I'm navigating that. um anduh also a graduate from Hopkins High who is adulting like a pro. So, thank youHopkins. And I will not have a board report um this evening. You all heardfrom me at the beginning um and pass it to Dr. Perry, Dr. Mary Perry Reed.>> Good evening everyone. I'm Roa Marie Perry Reed, superintendent. This is myninth and also final year as superintendent for Hopkins PublicSchools. It has been a true journey and it's too late for a speech. So, I'lljust say that I already provided a board report. Itwas very long and I'm thinking maybe I need to shorten them up. So, feedbackfrom board members um would be appreciated. And then I do have twochildren. One of them is an eighth grader at West.>> Wonderful. Um I am Rachel Hartland. I use she her pronouns. I This is thefirst meeting of my second term and I'm very excited about that. So, it feelslate, but I'm still I'm still pretty perky and excited about it.[clears throat] Um, we just had a meeting of the board audit committee,the most exciting committee there is. Um, we're coming to the end of an auditcycle. So, uh, Director Joe and I had um some questions for [sighs and gasps] uh,the professionals on the call and we'll hear more about that before the board inthe next month or so. Um, we're on CFAC. They're in full swing as we wrap some ofthis audit and begin the budgeting process. The legislative actioncoalition is uh meeting weekly or more. Uh we were here at the board table inDecember to present the platform and since that time getting approval fromthe board, we've been working on expanding our working knowledge of allof those topics and and narrowing our asks for the legislators in advance ofthe legislative action coalition breakfast. On the 30th, all the boardmembers are invited. that isn't something um due to security and usuallyspace that's available to the larger uh community. Um but the board members areinvited. So please do plan to come. Um I've been to band and orchestraconcerts. Our music programs here are absolutely fantastic and the band andorchestra boosters are always looking for volunteers and donations. And so ifthat's an area that you're passionate about, there is always room to contact amusic leader at one of the schools and find out how you can help. Um, therobotics program here in Hopkins is doing very well, too. Um, the highschool team won their first exhibition match, which Hopkins hosted, and theythey've never done that before, I don't think. And so now they're turning to themain part. They always kind of solve two problems every year. And so they'returning to their their main one. Um, and the reason that that program is soexciting to me, um, you know, speaking of like real world opportunities, firstis the organization that runs robotics and they put out a game for the entireworld. Every student that's in robotics, the entire world works on this program.And the the game is always an analog to some real world problem. And um, insidethat curriculum, they give people jobs and their real working titles. So you dohave people who code, you have people who are engineers, you have people whoare in construction, you have people who are in marketing, you have fundraisers,you have project managers. And so they outline really clearly how to like getcommunity support, get professionals to come talk to students um about how tofulfill those roles. And it very directly pays off for in college grants.Colleges across the world are excited about students who've participated inthe first program. Um, the high school team is as big asit's ever been and it has the most girls that it has ever had, which is reallyexciting. >> Uh, and the middle school program isalso growing. There are now up to three teams and their competition was justthis past weekend and one of our teams qualified for state. So, in February13th and 14th, they'll be at the state competition. Uh and then uh our othertwo teams are younger than this team that went to state and um those twoteams climbed in their rankings and just performed really well. And I I think onefinal thing that I want to highlight about robotics and then I'll cut myselfoff is that at the middle school level um I'll say it this way at the highschool level we use the FRC program. So that's like the true 9th through 12thgraders. It costs somewhere between like 10 and $30,000 to operate thoseprograms. And we are very fortunate that we do have a boosters program and we dohave funding and we can spend that type of money. The middle school program,it's a middle school program for [clears throat] us, but it actually is a6th through 12th grade program. And the reason for that is because you need morelike 1 to $3,000 to do that program. And so there aremany high schools that continue to do an FTC or for us that's a middle schoollevel competition, but it means that our middle schoolersum when you go into the finals for a competition, every other team was highschool team. >> And so [laughter] there were all these17 year olds and then there was our sixth grade leader uh up there and thenyou know out of 12 uh they were the only middle school teamto make it to finals and the only middle school team to make it to state. So,it's it's pretty cool and it's a testament to the program's growth andstrength. >> Can I add something about first?>> Yes. um personal [clears throat] experience with first also starts inelementary. Um and so the project that that the elementary school kids get isalso real world, real life um and great opportunity for um our younger kiddos toget involved in STEM and problem solving um earlier and that is all parentvolunteer coaching. So, if um any community members are out there andinterested in robotics, STEM, um the elementary school program is umLegosbased, so maybe if you're a Lego fanatic, um look into volunteering as aparent coach. Um it it's really great to see um real little ones working andbuilding um and problem solving as a team as little as you know first andsecond grade. It's great. >> Absolutely. And actually, [snorts]except for one, the lead of our program, I think they get like a $10,000 stipenfor the whole year, and it's a super big job, but everyone else is an or is a isa volunteer, and they're dozens of them, and they're professionals. Like one ofthe coaches in our middle school program, he has a PhD in roboticist. So,he like goes out and he he designs autonomous vehicles and then he comesfor free to tell our students how to build robots. [laughter] Were you Wasthat your final item in your report? [laughter]>> That's great. >> Well, hi. I'm Sarah Wilhelm Garber.Sarah WG uh pronouns she she they and uh I am uh partnered with a lovely humannamed Andy and uh I'm very happy and grateful to be the parent of a recentlyturned four-year-old. Um and I'm just so grateful to be here.And you know, I made this clear as I made the decision and was communicatingabout running. Um, I'm a big believer in public education. I'm a product ofpublic education and have the life I do because of teachers and folks whoinvested in me and I'm so grateful um to be able to like pay that back forward.Wow. Would just, you know, be part of it. And I think secondarily, um, justknowing I felt like at this moment, given my own background, um, and givenmy commitment to the values of this district that I wanted to be part ofhelping to support all of our kids and families and educators. And so it feelslike a deep honor to be in solidarity. And I just want to affirm, you know,like some of you have said, all of just seeing the ways people are showing up inthis community for one another. And uh, just want to I'm grateful to be a partof it. And it feels like an incredible honor. And so just thank you to everyonein the district. >> Thank you.>> Kai Thompson. I am a director on the school board starting my third year. Umthree kids in the district, fifth grade, two at the high school. Um I will foregoum any more of a board report. Appreciate it. Thank you.>> Thank you. Um and thank you everyone for sticking with us.>> Oh, voicemail. >> Oh, that's right. Thank you for remembering that, Natalia.>> We will now hear our public comment in our [clears throat]second open agenda. Hi, my name is Kim Vanderwal. I'm aparent of a kindergartner at Metobrook. My comment is on the district'stransportation policy. As the new board considers theirpriorities in the coming months, I urge the board to re-examine transportationpolicies for the 2026 2027 school year. As this issue has real everyday impacton affected families, the new bus policy has made a no man's land for familiesthat live too far to walk make families in my neighborhood feel that they arenot part of their school's community. The roll out was also chaotic and leftfamilies in a state of uncertainty and strain for the first several months ofthis past school year. I worry that the same scenario will be true next year ifthe school board does nothing. The current no bus zones are especiallyfrustrating since my house and others on my streets are 1.1 to 1.2 miles drivedistance from Metobrook. According to the district website, a bus actuallypasses by my house, picking up students at stops both before and after our housealong its route. Both stops are only five houses away. Yet, my daughter isnot allowed on that bus, and instead we are assigned to a stop that is a halfmile away. At the same time, on the other side of Metobrook, there are 10streets that are less than one mile drive distance that are all receivedbusing, some as little as.7 miles drive distance from the school.This calls into question how these lines were drawn so inconsistently with thestated district's policy and to the fairness of its implementation.If the no bus zones cannot be reduced to a smaller radius, I first urge thedistrict to address zoning that results in families like mine 1.1 miles drivedistance from school being denied a busing, which is inconsistent with thestated policy. Second, consider a distance-basedlottery to increase access for families attending their assigned schools with noviable walking options and reconsider the policy that prioritizes bus accessto indistrict transfer students at the expense of those attending theirassigned schools. Finally, according to the MinnesotaDepartment of Education district report cards, our per student transportationcosts are higher than many neighboring districts and appear to be increasingrapidly, which I understand may have been a result of recent changes incontracts with bus companies that could be re-examined.I also have looked up the bus policies in all the districts within two citiesof Hopkins. Only three of 15 have a onem policy for elementary schools. twothirdshave a policy of less than.7 miles making Hopkins policy an outlier formetro area districts. Thank you. >> Natalia, are you able to share atranscript of that with I can share like the actual recording.>> That would be great. I just had difficulty. Some of>> it was a little bit garbled and I couldn't follow parts of it. That Iwould appreciate that. >> Yeah. I'm just gonna stay here when youdo the motions. >> Okay. [laughter]>> Um so [clears throat] with that I um wouldlook for a motion to adjurnn. >> So move.>> I have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second.>> I have a motion and a second. Any discussion?Seeing none. All those in favor please say I.>> I. >> I.>> Any opposed? The chair votes I. And this meeting of the Hopkins Public SchoolBoard is adjourned at 10:19 p.m. Thank you all.