Most school including us will begin the adoption process before the state gives the final stamp of approval because we know once the standards are commissioner approved, there tend to be minimal changes that happen to the standards.

There's an overarching theme through the standards that's new definitely to Minnesota. Our teachers have been doing a little bit of work on it prior to the standards as well is the focus on mathematical rigor, which is essentially the deep deep learning for our students that has three main focuses, an equal pursuit of conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application, real-world application.

We often hear, 'Ah, I wish I had done statistics earlier.'

MDE standards are are what provides our our baseline. Um, we are all obligated across the state to ensure that our students are not only learning the MDE, the benchmarks and the standards for content area, but they're also proficient in them. So, that's our baseline. We start with ensuring that we're teaching every single one of those benchmarks in all of our courses. Given the fact that we are a local control state, we have freedom in how we organize those benchmarks, in what courses we offer them, what our local graduation requirements are.

Artificial intelligence is the new frontier for all of us and especially in education as well. Um it's not solely a math-related issue. It's It impacts every content area um in how students have access. Um we believe it is our responsibility to teach ethical use of every technology including AI.

The discussion in policy was that why is that it is a very large district and we have a govern you know, we have adopted a a more governance um format for our school board. In our later on in policy 201 it talks about delegating authority for management.

I am concerned. I voiced that because I feel like we for some reason cannot even um how to better word it don't want to have a word management. Um well, in policy 200 it also says uh our which was since 1978 it says Minnesota state law provides that the care, management and control of independent district is vested in a board of directors.

I am not comfortable removing language that comes directly from statute 123B.09. Okay. I think the better approach is to keep it keep that language and clarify how we interpret that. Specifically that our role is governance and oversight while day-to-day management is delegated to the superintendent.