e calling the meeting to order at 6:01 p.m. the this is the board of directors regular school board meeting for Monday October 28th 2024 uh welcome to all of our visitors and all of our guests as well as the media uh we're going to start tonight with the board and administrative roll calls Mr felt here Mr Burns here miss Schultz here miss Geto here miss naton here Mr onell here Mr Schuler here Mr hennon here Mr girton here miss oconnell here miss Payton here miss simler here Mr VI here Mr samansky here please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all next up on the agenda is public comments but we' have received none prior to this start of the meeting so is there a motion to approve the agenda and addendums so moved I'll second motion made by Miss naton second by Miss Geto any further discussion all those in favor say I I I'll oppose nay motion carries on to item three which is the consent agenda which includes the school board minutes from the regular school board meeting on September 23rd 2024 the Personnel consent agenda and the business consent agenda Mo approval second motion made by Mr burn second by Miss Schultz any further discussion on the consent agenda hearing none all those in favor say I I all oppose nay motion carries next up is the recognitions presentations and showcases which is why we have a full house tonight uh we're going to start tonight out with the uh German American partnership program fral Hendrick yes floor is yours come on up you're the next contestant I was not sure that I had the floor or not well we are very happy to be here I'm here with um three German teachers from the Black Forest Town of L and several of our students we did not all make it today come on up don't be shy here um there are 30 German students visiting um this past summer I took 25 of our students there and now it's the reciprocal part um when we were there this summer all of our students stayed with a partner student family there and then those kids come here now so awesome we are nearing the end they fly home on Wednesday their whole journey was four nights in New York City and then they flew to Watertown for two weeks with us in families and going to school just a little bit different little bit different I know I I love that compar us to New York City and Watertown so and they've done it that way for years and I think it's a nice contrast and yeah we love their city and I think I hope they also like coming here um they've done various things um they've done presentations in our school they toured Watertown they had a nice reception here earlier last week um they spent a day with the elementary students they today we went to the sculpture garden and Mall of America so we are a little bit tired we kind of just got off the bus a little bit ago in a in a good way we took a before picture and an after picture with their bags which was fun tomorrow is take a German to workday most of them are going with a host parent to see what it's like a day working and then they leave already on Wednesday yeah until until the next one in 2026 and every other year kind of thing so so you said there's 30 students we have yes oh wow is that typical or is that you know is that is that larger than normal or last year or two years ago it was about which was actually last year it was kind of the end of covid so it was like postponed and that was a bit of a smaller group it was actually half the size it was 15 but typically it is around 30 and and I typically bring about almost that many kids too so it's also a lot of kids and families wow so what was your and obviously there's 20 some of you here uh you don't all need an answer from all but what was some of the biggest things that you've noticed from a culture difference from from Germany to Watertown don't all speak at once you've been asked this before you can some examples yeah go ahead I'd say that people are more open to communicate at all so they just would come up randomly to you and speak to you and ask you even when they notice that you kind of have for accent just ask yeah where you from and I think in Germany more like everyone stay their own other people around so this is not typical notal but I like it do you guys all agree I think yeah okay go ahead the biggest difference I saw was the patriotism here so the people here like their country really and you came right around that's cool yes and starting with the pled of Allegiance oh very NE H we start every meeting with that any anybody else have anything that they've found fun boring different that you didn't like maybe I don't know I mean how was the shopping today really of course did you do any of the rides no no okay just stores okay that's all right very good anybody want to talk about the bread German bread there a story there I think I haven't eaten any bread in two weeks my my whole family is very nice they bought some German bread for me but I got to eat it because they made so much more food for me bread was like boring because I eat it at home all the time so you get out of food I think food is also a big difference more beef more meat America it was very tasty though so I've had two weeks of very good food good nice and not all fast food not all McDonald's or anything no okay good good all right our Our Guest teachers also uh went on quite a traveling trip I don't know if you want to explain a little bit about your trip that you explained the day that uh we were introduced uh you went to Northern Minnesota but not just Northern Minnesota like International Falls oh yeah oh yeah this was amazing we actually went to Voyer National Park and did some hikes there and also the drive up was amazing so we um noticed a lot of uh the Lea Fage so that was great we took a lot of pictures and an amazing time up [Applause] there did you cross over into Canada then too no we didn't about to Wisconsin yeah which is almost like a different country we did a cruise for the Apostle Islands now they have to return for the winter to do the Lake of the Woods fishing trip ice fing a little different they were camping with my family mea weekend um and that was youth deer hunting and then my nephew went hunting for the very first time and they brought much luck because we like never see deer up there and he got a deer after only 8 minutes of hunting so they got to watch the gutting of the deer and the the grilling of the heart for breakfast yeah and then later that day um we saw a bear and we were watching a bear for like a half hour and also we said cuz we you know we said we're in Bear Country but we actually never see them and they were there and then we saw a bear for a long time all the heights my family's done that the one thing my wife wants to see is a bear and we've never saw you guys come from I know I said you guys are so lucky that's cool yeah all right Pop Quiz does anybody know where the town of getco is in Germany it's spelled without the did you know that's a town called anybody no it sounds like pania it's near po nice so let not be that big okay as I have family in Germany and they said it's it's a it's a hip nice and we have a board member who speaks some German you want to try tonight um [Music] and in case no one got it here here um for the German kids um this is either our fourth year for some and then third year for others but when we went on the trip it was second and third had just got in done so three and four for most of us three and four semesters and then this year is the four all four quarters uh college class that some of our olds are and people from Germany been learning English for I think six years so since fifth grade when we enter the German high school we get to known English and then they start another language in seventh or eighth grade and then you get the choice between French or Latin and in eth grade you can even choose between science or another language which may be Italian or Spanish [Music] most of us have fun speaking with English yeah it's pretty cool complicated very good well thank you for being here awesome enjoy the last couple days that you have hopefully our weather stays nice I know they're also brought that with them it's not usually so nice yeah good job guys I know yeah stay are there any trick-or treating events they can go to Prior to them leaving I know they're leaving a day before I know last night we had a Halloween farewell party so there was costume contest and all the food and scary movies and nice all all of the fun so no trick-or-treating but they got treat bags all right perfect right well thank you guys for coming tonight and thank you for coming to our school and hopefully see you back later right other vacations yes thank you thanks for thank [Applause] you you want to ask if he if you were going to school with or and uh next on the agenda is the Watertown mayor High School unified team Miss PR come on up by the time your your whole crew gets up they can they'll be gone yes you can come here if you want come here so we're here tonight with some exciting news we have watert mayor high school has received the high highest honor that is possible from Special Olympics and we have been recognized as a national Banner school we are only one of four schools in Minnesota to receive this honor um this is awarded to only the schools that they believe demonstrate the strongest commitment to the unified um inclusion if that makes sense to you guys sorry and that we've met those national standards which there's 10 of them which we'll have some of our leaders speak on in a minute um this was determined uh first we had to go through a panel in Minnesota with Special Olympics and then with their approval they sent us on to the National Committee which is um members of Special Olympics as well as Educators Across the Nation so we're super excited for this award um the things that we um incorporate and would have gotten us to this point are obviously our Special Olympics Unified sports which we are doing five or six a year 10 of the 12 months we're pretty busy and then um we do also youth leadership opportunities H School engagement different things like that um I'm going to have a couple of the leaders come up if you guys want to speak on 10 of the standards that we needed to meet or do you want to stay there okay okay yeah so the first pillar Sean mentioned was Special Olympics Unified sports like you mentioned this year we'll offer five Unified sports across three different seasons I believe um and all the coaches for our teams uh receive training for Special Olympics Unified sports so they're certified and they're good to go they know what all the boundaries and all the little details that go in to our practices and competition and lastly Unified sports is officially recognized by the school in a similar style as other Athletics and activities an example of this may be that allow us out a school um provide transportation to us all our other events that take place during the school day and sometimes on weekends just want to clarify you don't provide transportation we pay for that sorry that's why we raise money sorry so our second pillar is inclusive youth leadership um a unified club or student group offers leadership opportunities training for students um we're ran by Shan PR and also a leadership team there's different positions such as president co-presidents treasurers Sports managers and like I think a social media team so yeah and then second one is the inclusive group or inclusive Club SLG group meets at least one time a month throughout the school year we meet every other weekend on or every other week Wednesday during leap and we have a meeting usually last arounds 10 to 15 minutes and then the inclusive group has an adult leader and is officially recognized by the school which is Sean pre uh the last one is whole school engagement so at least two uh whole school engagement activities a year so we have our soccer day in the spring uh we have a lot of middle school and high school students come out and watch that and then we have things like Unity day and we play at halftime one of the varsity basketball games and then students with and without disabilities are involved so through all of our sports that one is show and the last one is sustainability that we believe we have raise funds and we'll continue to be able to raise funds to continue to offer these programs so one thing I do want to make you aware of is that um in the past we've had students that are on the board for Special Olympics Minnesota the student board the last two years Deacon and Zach Miller right here have been there and this year they are co-vice presidents of that board so they've gone above and beyond as well which is nice super lucky to have fantastic leaders all the way around others that are definitely looking to be leaders in the future right yep Kendall seen some really great things knowing that he wants to be a leader that's wonderful um just wanted to let you know we did submit our application last April and we were notified September 18th that we've receive this Banner we'll get the banner in a couple months they haven't given us a day I've tried to reach out again to ask I know Mr samany would sure like to know when we're going to get it to so we can hang our banners back up and know where we're going to be able to display this and be super proud of it um we'll talk did we mention the the sports that we're currently doing are all Unified sports so that students with and without intellectual disabilities playing together building friendships learning from each other their flake football which we just finished um we brought two teams to and right now is a really big year they're qualifying the USA games will be in Minnesota in 2026 so if right now they say if you get a gold medal come in first in your division then you're able to have your name submitted into maybe getting an interview to be one of the teams chosen for that so uh some members here quite a few of them were on that team raise your hand if you were on that team or raise it even if you were part of flag football yeah so they uh had first and we had Deacon was coaching that team and Tristan coached our B Squad was one of the coaches as well they're both football players and then we do we're currently still in Bowling which we have two more practices then basketball will start up in snowshoeing in the winter and we end with soccer and then we also had an opportunity just this weekend where we brought one small little team for soccer and came in first again so they love it they try hard and they do a great job so I have um for the members here I've added a little thing just with some of our why some of the things we've done and a little sticker for you guys to have but thank you for your support we're super excited to be able to bring that to the school thank you for your leers thank you ni job work boy we'll give another minute kend brings his book it's very all right moving on with our action items the first action item was the acknowledgement of donation contributions and fundraising Mr Schuler Mr chair we have a number of donations uh tonight that we'd like to recognize uh I'll start with the select Driving School donation to the National Honor Society for $100 again this was for the Randy shaver tackle cancer there's two more uh towards that donation again the cookie store also to the National Honor Society for $50 and and Watertown Pharmacy also to NHS for $100 uh Marketplace Foods to the uh High School band for $100 for the homecoming tail gaing supplies an anonymous donor the boy socer for $25 for supplies American Legion Post 121 to robotics for $1,000 for robotic Parts uh Bert and Katrina gusterson um robotics for $250 Nan Brothers erosion robotics for $250 for parts Scott Wakefield robotics $250 for robotic Parts as well Watertown vet clinic for robotics $250 uh robotic parts and Ovation Orthodontics uh for a th000 EXC me $100 robotics Parts professional sprinkler systems robotics 250 for parts Trinity owls is the Royals room donation for $170 for Royal Room supplies those are snack um Watertown area Historical Society um to community ed for $250 to their General Community Fund May baseball $5,000 to the um summer youth theater program and Eagle aluminum to robotics for with an aluminum bar stock um and and parts so thank you to all those donors quite a few this month so very appreciative for approval second motion made by Mr onell seconded by Mr Burns any further discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I I'll oppose nay motion carries and thank you again for all the donations um Mr Schuler maybe at some point down the road whether it's end of school year end of year you know would it be possible to kind of get a listing of M you know kind kind of who all donated and and how much cuz you know we see a lot of the same donors and you know we've had a lot of folks that have donated to the school over the year so we should probably recognize them somehow as well well clearly we need to have robotics teach us the other groups how to fundraise they're good get those kids involved in something else yes good all righty Item B the 2425 District teaching and learning goals Mr view floor is yours thank you Mr chair and thank you board for allowing me to be here this evening and talk about uh our plans and our goals for uh the department of teaching and learning um I just wanted to review um our strategic plan and kind of say you know focus in on what we want to do and make sure that we're all in alignment with our strategic plan so I highlighted um on the next slide uh the four areas that I think cover uh what we'll be talking about uh so we'll focus in on our learning outcomes um as the department of teaching and learning uh again focusing in on all means all we want to provide that safe environment for for everyone all of our Learners uh we want uh all employees to report satisfaction in their workplace from that professional development uh perspective and that every grade achieving at or above grade level in math and reading so those would be kind of our four Focus areas as I kind of go through the um the planning and and the goals for teaching and learning uh the professional development goal is to provide our staff with opportunities that's going to enhance their instruction and improve the learning experience for all students um one thing I would like to mention is that um about halfway through last year I I think it was about halfway through um rather than having all the professional development fall solely in in one or two or the the leadership we created a districtwide professional development committee so we're kind of making sure that there's involvement from all of our teacher Learners in this as well so they have some say in that decision- making process which has been a very very beneficial thing for us so the action plan to get us to that that goal for this year um the we're going to be completing the science of reading in phase one for staff the letters volume two will be um uh we had one on August 20th and uh we moved um a professional development day to for those U staff members that were involved with that uh to the beginning of the year and so they're going to not have um that professional development Day in June uh but then then also we'll be finishing that up for our K3 teachers special ed teachers and a couple of the a few others we'll be finishing that up in a week so they will be all completely certified uh shortly thereafter uh for our new staff members and for our phase two uh the other phase one uh members which include high school special education uh and then again our new hires we have about 15 members will be training those in uh was core learning uh that's online and Lang anguage Academy I think is what ola stands for it's not necessarily a Spanish translation um but uh we we started that last week um and uh we'll be meeting I've got us meeting about every other week on an informal basis and then we'll meet the required three meetings uh with that group and be finished up right around April so uh that's about an 18we program we're stretching that out since teachers are busy doing their teaching gig uh and so we'll you know hopefully about two two and a half hours a week um to get get everybody trained that we need to have trained by the end of this school year um we went into a mou with the association uh I think about a month ago you guys approved that so we're um right on track with keeping everybody um to satisfy all those those obligations as well and then beyond grit uh Dr Cinder coff uh is the author of a book she's down in Mano uh she's one of those uh you know high performance and positive mindsets uh if you able to show up at our uh time in August it was great to have her here um she was very motivational very positive mindset very you know you got to get over the things that are creating barriers for you and and be able to move along uh she's got 10 powerful practices so we're going to be meeting with her uh two more times to get through each of those 10 powerful practices and then hopefully help um our our staff members develop that grit and that positive mindset to to get through some of the barriers and uh to keep positive and high expectations for our students from curriculum and instruction we want to maintain an organized process and system for continuous review and revision of our curriculum assessment and instructional practices uh again to meet the needs of all students across the district so that goal necessarily hasn't changed uh the action plan associated with that is um that we're going to continue long-term curriculum we've I've got a um 10-year cycle to go through and revise our curriculum and update our standards in each of the areas so we'll continue that cycle this year on cycle uh is um our Ela teams it seems like we just went through Ela but I think it was about six or seven years ago uh the curriculum that we adopted I think was the 2018 wonders series um which was not very closely aligned with the science of reading and what that's prescribing for us now so uh as we've gone through over the last couple years if you remember we've um we've implement or we've trained our staff on science of reading we've got them some resources at particularly K1 and two uh some alternate resources at three and four um but that's what we're going to be taking a look at is at that K4 level for sure if funds um are available after that group gets through and wants to adopt a new curriculum um we'll see if we can stretch that out into the the up to the eighth grade uh because they're going to be needing to be part of that process as well particularly if uh let's say that we look at adopting a K8 curriculum but we only look at K4 that might affect some of the readings and some of the materials at the you know in that Middle School area so we're going to have to try to keep everything all those components aligned as we go through and consider those um what we're also going to look at uh doing a technology alignment with some of our problem solving and creativity units you know we've got that a lot of the creative things that Leah Peterson does down in the elementary school we've got some Project Lead the Way things going on in the middle school and we've got a whole bunch of career and Tech uh courses at the high school thought uh we've seen something uh from one of the other schools uh just to put everything on a spreadsheet and say hey this is how we're going to try to answer a lot of these questions all the way through our our program and kind of look at it and give it a systems look and I'll be talking with uh most of those faculty members um next Monday and going through that and then um as a uh director of teaching and learning um I if would like to just kind of get a a continued look at that systems look at how things are going across the district so my goal is is to get into 50% of the classrooms across the the district um by February March so that we can say maybe we see some things that are uh potential professional development opportunities moving forward or um just different things that we can kind of look at and talk with uh as an administrative team to say how are things looking at a as a whole system so and those are pretty much the action plans the things that uh we'll be taking a look at here you have any questions I do so for um the professional development that and is it do all teachers have the same amount of hours let's say you know I come from a from the personal or the professional side where I have 40 hours I need a year is it is it similar to that or how is professional development in the in the teaching world yeah it's it's pretty similar to that all of our professional development days and workshop days we kind of fit that's where we fit our professional development opportunities in there no set teacher says they have to go um let's say there's no hour requirement or quota that says you have to go to three um seminars a year or anything like that or you know but but there are licensing requirements that you have to get trained so in your fiveyear relicensing you've got to get um about eight or 10 hours and you've got to get another 120 hours in your random choices to get relicensed okay so and and we offer that inh housee a a lot of those yes and I think that's part of the advantage of having teachers now being on that committee because that's one of their focuses is to make sure that we include a couple of opportunities the year uh for the teachers at large to make sure that they can get what they need to for to to reup perfect anything else for Mr R viiew your classroom visits are you hoping to accomplish something specific or you just kind of is this something we've done before I I don't know the answer to that question I I've gone into a couple classrooms periodically I think um also going back to you know connections and for my job I see it as building relationships and connections with staff members so that um we can build rapport and trust and um you know continue to have that relationship to say hey have you ever thought about this and not make it a a threatening situation that's sure that's basically my goal are you hoping to maybe find some teachers that have things that they're doing that you can kind of spread across and and find ways for Best Practices those types of things yes and I I've actually found one or two teachers that I want to use as I don't want to use them as guinea pigs I'm not say that but I plan I plan on spreading their word around to say hey these are some of the things that teachers across our district are doing so y yeah okay good I think Jeff du provides us a really neat opportunity to see the prek all the way through 12 by Joe doing that when he brought that goal to me this year I thought well that's pretty ambitious but I like the the overall look at that you know from a a whole C prek through 12 scope and um kind of excited to see what he brings back to the group and having an opportunity to do that and yep he dedicating some time in his schedule to make sure that happens so um yeah and actually I am Anita arra doesn't mean anything to you she's got 16 practices of explicit instruction that I'm sort of taking notes on to say okay do I do I see any systemwide things that are really a whole that we should maybe be focusing on so there's a possibility there too okay good nice thanks good awesome well thank you oh we actually have to have a motion to approve Mr View's teaching and learning goals I'll second motion made by Mr buron seconded by miss getco any further discussion hearing none all those in favor say I I I'll oppose nay motion carries thank you next up item C the mshsl foundation application for grant for student participation Mr samansky thank you uh tonight we're just looking for board approval of the resolution of support for form a application with the Minnesota State High School league Foundation uh to give you an idea the Minnesota State High School league Foundation um anytime anyone goes to purchase a ticket for a state event it doesn't matter whatever the word it is or or any U activity the sales tax on that ticket goes into the foundation every school public and private in the state of Minnesota has a chance to um seek those funds to for different projects and and that sort of stuff they've got it divided into two different categories the form a most schools I want to say 99% of the schools in the state use that to cover the cost of fee waivers and and that's what we've done the last number of years there's also another component to the the Grant and that's that are Form B and that's for more specific of a project bigger projects and stuff like that's usually out of the budget in a normal uh school year for example anything to do with coaches education sportsmanship chemical health mental health of of our participants last year for example we applied for a Form B Grant and that's what we use to help um pay for the AED that we have outside at the stadium so that a big chunk of that money uh the cost was covered by the Minnesota State High School league Grant um last year we received $1,269 with the grant this year to date um just completing the fall season we are at uh a total of 20 or not 20 $2,935 as far as fees that we've weighed that could be a full fee or that could be a partial fee so those are are the numbers as of this fall and typically the numbers in the fall are the biggest and then as we move into the other sports uh we still have a few but it decreases and can you apply for form A and B at the same time or can you pick one or the other you can um most schools every year they do form a um when you have that project then you um Vue apply for the form b a lot of conferences for example the the right County conference applies for a formb grant to help cost cover some of the cost of speakers and that we use with students so but you can do both yes okay thank any other questions I'll make a motion to approve the mshsl foundation form a second motion made by Mr felt second by miss naton any further discussion all those in favor say I I all oppose nay motion carries thank you Mr samansky item D Affidavit of posting notice of election Mr Schuler Mr chair and board these next couple of resolutions are are fairly new to us at Watertown mayor um the more that Mrs huan has dove into the election process um there is recommended that you complete an Affidavit of posting um that's the first one you see here uh that basically says that Miss huan um has sworn upon oath that she has posted um an affidavit basically showing um that the election is occurring and Watertown May public schools that we have an election um going on so uh those are up in certain places within the district I think six locations uh no just the notice of election is in one district office thank you so we are looking for the board to um approve a motion to say that we did this approve second motion made by Mr onell seconded by Mr felt any further questions all those in favor say I I I'll oppose nay motion carries you did your good job well miss don't wor next up item e the Affidavit of posting the sample ballot Mr Shou Mr shair as I mentioned yes this is uh the second piece of um posting a sample ballot um as you can see there there are five locations within the district that you can find the ballot below there it is um in those five locations within the district um so that is the affidavit saying that we did do that we posted it in those locations uh in the district so and and Miss Huen for posting the ballot is it just the Watertown Ballot or is it the mayor see what you see there is exactly what was posted okay so we don't have to post individual communities for each of the different communities that's up to the polling places each polling place is supposed to do that that's what their administrator is supposed to do so each polling place should have an administrator that does that um I use the Carver County sample ballot just simply because that is my main Carver my main um even though we have three counties that I'm accountable to got one yep all right appr I'll second motion made by Mr Burns seconded by Miss Geto all those in favor say I I I I'll oppose May motion carries that ends the business of the night um on to the review and information items uh first up is construction updates Mr Schuler yeah we'll be real brief um construction is coming to a close here hopefully in the next couple of weeks um we are waiting for um some final um concrete work and some final Paving work that needs to be done uh we heard late this afternoon that um both should be coming in uh later this week although rain looks like it's in the forecast Wednesday afternoon and into Thursday morning but hopefully we can work around that but um it hasn't rained in what two months practically and now the rain comes as we're ready to to pave but you uh we should see the CLC getting that first we quot um put down this week as well as some of the sidewalks that are remaining um at the CLC area and just some additional curbing at the new uh Southeast uh lot there at the high school so um should be should be coming to a close uh again within the next couple of weeks and we hope to be able to start parking I know again the CLC staff is anxiously awaiting um probably that second week in November weather permitting so get back into that lot but final grades been done as you can see the um the grass has now been laid down so with some of this rain maybe we can get some early grass growth uh so that'll be ready to roll uh this spring um baseball field area is also um left with um some concrete work there um and some fencing uh but that'll be wrapping up to the next couple weeks as well so all hopefully all come together rather quickly so questions on that that uh moving on to Item B the Strategic Plan update Mr Scher yeah uh as we continue to highlight our plan one area I'd like to highlight tonight is Partnerships oops I just lost our uh there we go um at our last uh state of the schools address uh I was able to share with the mayor Community um mayor city council and our Watertown chamers some of the neat things that we have going on in our district one of which I thought was really neat we had some really good feedback on was our Partnerships and again uh that's a commitment uh to providing high quality interest based learning opportunities for our communities through our community ed program um but some really cool um data that uh Miss dimler put together and I thought was uh was was pretty neat and again a lot of the really good feedback from the groups that we met with but uh 83% increase in adult programs offered this last year uh 76% of participants rated the programming very good so Amy and her staff do a survey after every one of their courses and they get some really good feedback uh 86% increase in participation overall and then 98% of the participants identifi programming as meeting their expectations so the program that we're putting out there um is definitely Meeting those expectations um the second piece of this is just more of the of the program data in terms of enrollments and programs offered um you can see that we offer about 459 programs that was pretty staggering when I saw that um pretty amazing um and you can see how that's broken down by um age groups um again um Aquatics as you scroll across uh continues to see see one that's really growing um in our pool usage and are uh the the groups that are using that U facility between swing lessons um in private swim lessons and velocity and our own um girl swim program it's really U taking off and then again um uh the enrollments uh three 30,5 30 uh individuals have enrolled and some of those are duplicates obviously but um again A lot of people are accessing our programming which is great to see and then on the right side you can see some of the young Royals uh data there uh nine classes currently with 98 students participating and then again as we talked about the carrying hands and Kids Company program um you can see some of the numbers there about 294 students participating so um as we continue to look at the the numbers in in child care and how we can possibly expand that as we've talked about um is there's certainly a need so um but pretty neat data and thank you for Miss dimler for putting that together any questions no like you said Darren it was interesting to see how many different programs we offer for a community our size and how many people are utilizing those programs is kind of the really cool thing there so anything else for Mr Scher all right moving on to the admin reports uh Mr hennon and it appears we're going to be going over the building Improvement plans tonight yes uh Mr chair and board um each o October uh we put forth U our building principles and they get to uh deliver their kind of the state of the schools in terms of their school Improvement plans so these are the plans that they've worked on last year so they'll be reporting back to the board tonight kind of how those goals went um throughout this year and when they took at uh reviewed those at the end of last school year these are the results and then they'll also touch on a little bit uh of what's in store for the new strategic plan for this current year that we're working in so um Mr henon gets to start and I'll just kind of scroll through and you can go on well good evening uh we had five goals last year um try to connect them all the to the Strategic plan first one was go on was just that our students feel valued and connected to staff and students we use three questions from our student survey um that we were going to use to base on how successful we were obviously our goal is to be on level fours you can see based on the three questions we had think one level three one one level two and one level four and again they were arranging just in you know one of the questions was again uh do they have at least one adult working that cares of them then the second question strong strongly you know heard value seen at school and then they basically had a classmate that cares about them so again I mean overall results there I would say you know we partially met we always want to be at that level four state you know but again I mean the scores were were pretty good but that's that's an area that the relationship and the connected piece was something that they wanted to to measure for our second one we Ed uh water T High School staff cultures positive and again we use two questions that we're going to use for that first one is I'm currently sa my job and the second one was my building culture is positive for that we had I think 21 out of 22 and then 22 out of 22 so both level fours there so again and staff in the high school has made a conscious effort I mean that's always been a big deal of them that our culture stays positive so a lot of the credit to them for for that our third one is all students are prepared for postsecondary plans again we looked at graduation rates the profile gra profile graduate postc Readiness and then our senior ex exit survey graduation we had 112 out 114 that started their senior year at Watertown M graduate on time so it's a 98.2% um then we asked questions uh excuse me the second one was the percent of kids who took a class with college creditor a career-based experience we had 96% of kids of that of our again of our students who graduated and the last one is we had asked a question in the senior exit exit survey about I feel prepared to take the next step and 94% indicated they felt prepared to take that next step so again I'm lot of level threes and level fours there fourth one was the increasing parent communication uh one of the things in it we really have a quantifiable way of measuring it but we did have a consistent news letter and credit to Crystal sunby for that I think was a a notable Improvement just with a a warehouse for information and just consistent information going out to our parents but then again we asked again two questions about of parents I'm proud to have a child in the school district and then the percent of parents who agreed with the statement of the teacher staff Administration demonstrated a genuine concern again we this is the District results were were those two so 91 and then 89 so again some work there to improve and the last one was effective implementation of tier one and tier two strategies to increase student learning and we did that by basically measuring the amount of students who passed all their classes and you can see you know we had 96% 94% 94.3 and then 94.7 that one's always a little bit hard for me cuz I really struggle with putting anything less than 100 like I don't really want to feel okay with saying let's have 95% I mean so I mean again we have work to do but it was pretty consistent every quarter um and and one of the things that we did with tracking this is of the students who failed there was about a 75% equivalency rate to attendance so at the end of the day I mean if you came to school consistently you passed y if you didn't I mean it seems pretty logical but that's what we're trying to consistently get message to kids and our parents that you need to come and if you come to school you know we're going to make sure that we'll do it we in tandem you'll pass so so again overall I mean obviously I can see numbers go up there but I mean there's certain factors are out of your control sometimes so so those are the five areas um based on the leadership team's feedback they wanted to keep most of that because they felt like it was important to keep tracking this not just the one year and then be done so they wanted to keep that and then we added two areas we added um we wanted to increase our MCA test scores kind of Follow The District model going up by 3% so that'll be on this year's and then we want to reduce our chronic absenteeism I think the high schools rate was like 24% last year we want to reduce that to 15% and chronic absenteeism a little bit it's hard to quantify because that could include you know excuse abses too it's not just all un excuse but still I mean we know again if that number comes down grades go up so those are the two areas that we added um what we currently have any questions I I have a question about that that um terreny so 24% but yet when we looked at how many people were passing by quarter it's in the mid90s right um so yeah I mean you know again thankfully some of the kids are abs and we still can find a way to work with them and and and again a lot of them are they're excuse me they're excuse abses so that doesn't always lead to a poor grade but of the ones who I mean again so on an average quarter if there was 28 kids who failed about 21 of them were chronically absent usually so it just tends to have that I mean especially again because more of them tend to be on excuse absences um they struggle initially anyway so if we can just get some of those numbers down we'll even see I mean we're hoping that this number goes up to all of a sudden 98 99% of kids are are passing and to give you an example like this quarter our ATT so far is that a little bit better of a track record you compared to last year our grades so far compared to last year there's about a 25% reduction in total FS already so we can again we try to make a conscious effort with with our students and our parents even like teachers admin office staff just to again try to get you know need to be here more and if you're not here how do you establish that regular communication and CU that's the other part too is when they miss they Sometimes they come back and said but you've got to get your work you have to communicate with you know the teachers and that's on them to do that as well so so even though that I think we did an overall pretty good job but I mean that's that was a pretty high number and just the overall experience of how much they miss even if they're passing are they passing with a d versus a B for example how does that percentage of tancy like if you look at the last I don't know five years or something is that pretty consistent um since Co probably yes preco it's I I mean I'm I think it's significantly higher I think every school I mean Dar you've seen the something too it's pretty consistent I mean almost Nationwide yeah but I would say preco again I'm ballparking but I bet between 10 to 15% probably of our kids and now we're looking at 20 to 25% and a lot of every High School I talk to in this area says they battle the same thing it's attendance and um anxiety uh School ref refusal is that pretty common or is it is it all across the board it's more common than what it used to be used to be for sure um and I think just in general though I mean there's you know when kids got that opportunity to work from home you know that Allure of online learning is there for some kids um so that's one part I mean I think the struggle to come to school for some kids after that is there's no doubt that's present that's the hard part is there's no one quick fix to this attendance issue every kid is kind of a different there's a different solution for every student and that's the challenge really is when you're looking at 110 kids chronically absent what's good for you might be different than gym for example you know so we can't just make a one siiz fits all and then be oh we're good so that's the challenge and that's really where all the time is going through this year trying to figure out why each student has gone to as much as they are so when you're saying 24% is 24% per grade level 24% of the high school students total high school so there was approximately 15 kids last year that would fit again not all were because of onx some are because of I mean to be honest if you're in Unified sports if you're in BPA and if you're in all these groups you probably are chronically absent it's excused but you are probably considered chronically absent those kids tend to not worry me as much right because I mean just being H you know but they all fit in that category so you kind of have to look at each kid and make your determination based on that child so that's where it gets a little tricky so the reason why I'm digging a little bit more is because this question actually came up in the um in the meet and greet on Thursday and um so I think when somebody just sees 24% truy and granted you know I'd love to be able to say that we can you know this percentage is unexcused and this is excused and although it goes under the same bucket I think from a how how are we performing or how are you know that's where I was like I don't know how to answer I would you know I think treny to me is more that's the unexcused absence and we are trying to break this down like based on those categories you know so that's part of why we're making a conscious effort to track it this year is because we we will have those numbers specifically then you got Midway report here's here's that but you know again we had a kid who had a surgery and they've been gone for 8 days I mean so they're on that track they're okay like we don't worry about them as much as right the others you saw those Unified sports kid I bet three four of them will be chronically absent by the end of the year sure not because they're bad kids just because they're involved in everything yeah absolutely the flip side is though just because Mom and Dad said it's okay it doesn't necessarily mean that it's not going to do tribute as well so just because it's excused right doesn't you take them off the list and that's the other part is you know one of the other challenges we have is like we understand y but you still have to do this so how do we get you on that plan to do it so again it's the hard part is you know with 115 kids it might be 115 different plans right so it's just find the the time and the to meet with people and have those plans I think too you've got you know the two social workers and Mr Barons you know that's almost one of their full-time jobs is to continue to monish and just find identify who those kids are that we need to Target a little bit harder and do a little deeper dive with the parents and get a little better understanding of what can we do to intervene and help if if necessary what what's what tools can we give them at home to be you know more successful getting the child to school so those are some of the things I know his staff is working really hard this year to to make sure uh we don't get some of those kids that are Beyond 30 days chronically absent I mean just that early intervention if you will yeah it's your absent those that are absent and still being able to perform and those absent that are failing right it's it's correlating the data yeah exactly absolutely thank you thank you thank you Mr girton good evening so I want to walk through uh goals for 2324 we had three goals in our building last year uh the first goal was a culture goal and this is really connected to the work we've done with PBIS and the mtss process around creating a positive culture really conditions kids can walk into and be successful with first school uh was schoolwide by the spring of 2024 we wanted 85% of our kids to walk in those doors and have what they need uh in the environment to really on their own be successful enough to be ready to learn we ended it we ended the year with 89% of those kids uh being in that spot so very happy and very appreciative of everything that was done there with with staff and students um the second goal for the Middle School uh was an 85% goal in terms of saying that uh our kids are reading they're meeting standards uh we looked at either the 65th percentile on a spring fast Bridge assessment and this is for reading and math or they were uh scoring at a proficient level in the MCA we have have not yet met that goal we're on our way so that's where we landed there and the last one was a little bit interesting we set off to develop a building-wide homework policy and as we started to look at things layer by layer we realized that what we needed to do was kind of go Inward and look at what we're doing as a staff in terms of instructional practices uh grading assessments all those kinds of things so what what ended up happening was we need to do more in terms of um on our end creating um opportunities for kids to get things done at school so we didn't put it into a policy per se we put it into what we call best practices for staff and sent out communication to families um so that was just how that ended up playing out so um the goal wasn't met but I think we realized that we had to go a different direction uh instead of getting so hyper fixed on some perfect homework policy was trying to get better at getting things done at school so that's where we're at there any questions on 2324 all right I'll just jump right into 2425 uh in 2425 some of what we talked about uh the previous year uh was a continuation um very happy that 85 Plus per of our kids are walking in the door and managing themselves and what we're providing is is meeting their needs still keeping that as a bill building goal not extremely uh fixated on spending a lot of time on that but I want to keep that at the Forefront if kids belong they behave they're ready to learn so I don't want to lose track of of I guess kind of the Bedrock of what we need to be doing over at the middle school to get kids and staff to keep them positive and working together um but we did look at a cultural goal that said all of our kids need to establish a connection with at least one staff member feel safe at school and feel treated kindly by peers so we um we did survey kids last year we did get some baseline information we just completed a survey this fall I'll be sharing that but we're really going to try to connect with um the handful of kids that are still not feeling connected to our building all our kids should feel safe in this building and everybody should feel treated kindly so that was when we're just stuck on the all with that one um so that's that's that's really that that big one about culture uh I'm still uh committed to the 85% reading and math when I look at our demographics um we just the leadership team just said let's set the goal we want so we're just staying the course with that one right now um and continue to work really on um the instructional practices um really getting extremely focused on what we're aiming for and trying to continue to lighten the load around that um it's been a very good process it's humbling there's a lot of work involved and we're we're learning a lot about um what we need to do through doing the work but it's a lot of on thefly pieces to that if that makes sense um last one uh this is connected to us wanting kids to get things done at school we want 85% of our kids um on a conventional grading system to demonstrate AC academic success when they leave the building so what that looks like is if you're an eighth grader I want to see you in all four core classes getting A's B's and C's D's and Fs are temporary failure but that can't be status quo that can't be the the strategy um so uh again we have some baseline from last spring we looked at fourth quarter use that to set the stage with staff we collected uh mid quarter Baseline and then we're going to be looking at a quarter 1 all of this stuff is kind of inclusive all works together bringing it all back to student support teams and just continuing to refine and figure out how to get every kid to move forward that's kind of where we're at so uh with that any questions from anybody or comments thank you thank you Miss ell good evening our goals from the past year focused on increasing our MCA scores in reading and in math our first goal was around increasing kids who met or exceeded on the MCAS in Reading in third grade moving from 51.5% to 52.1% we are just short of that ending with 54.5% for third grade and for fourth grade we were looking to move from 60.6% to 61.8% we ended at 63.6% um so we didn't hit the mark there we said that we were partially meeting our goals because the other half of the coin is looking at those fast brid fast brid fast Bridge measures and our goals are set at the 65th percentile there's strong correlation that shows that the scores at the 65th percentile um kids who reach that threshold should be at the grade level for meeting or exceeding MCA when they take them so four of our five grade levels met or exceeded the targets that we had set for them at those fast Bridge 65th percentile markers so you can see there um the grades that met are exceeded there then for math we were looking to have kids meet or exceed on MCAS in third grade we were looking to move from 69.3% to 70.8% we landed at 72.3% % so just short of that goal and in fourth grade we are looking to move from 75% to 77.2% um so we exceeded um the goal which was 75% um so we moved past that one and then again at our fast Bridge um we exceeded the goal in some of the grade levels of that 65th percent marker um it is a little harder in math because we are performing so well to move the needle higher than the goal that we're already reaching because we're already kind of there so to shoot it higher is trickier and then our third goal that we had for last school year was around connection um kind of like Mr gon and Mr hennen have hit on already so we use survey data we developed our own survey in which we asked kids to name at least one trusted adult at school and two friends who cared about them we were looking for 97% of students to be able to do that we had 98% of students who were able to name at least one trusted adult and 98.6% of students who were able to name two friends so with that in mind for the upcoming school year we are looking to increase our reading and our math goals again focusing on those MCA scores but also looking at fast Bridge measures by 4% for both of those and then since that strategic goal around commitment to um relationships was so strong at 98% it didn't really make sense to continue to focus on that so so we are shifting to the attendance goal similar to our district goal and looking at decreasing the chronically absent in our building our building was at 18.8% so we're looking to shift that down to 14.4% but we are using that connection piece as one of the um action measures for that knowing that the more connected kids are to school and to teachers and to other kids the more likely they are to come to school or to want to come to school so we're still continuing with that action we're just not using that as our actual goal for that piece any questions can you talk about what drives absence at the elementary school level well Elementary is a little trickier because they can't get themselves to school can't um so we've had some conversations around that on our climate culture and connectedness team and so um one thing that we're seeing with our absence we certainly do have some families who just straight up struggle with getting kids to school for various reasons um and those are the ones that our school counselor works with the families and we work with the county to do pre- diversion meetings they're called and help them realize the importance of school and help identify any barriers that they might be facing and then help to eliminate those barriers that they might have that are the stumbling blocks for them um and we have a number of different strategies that we've talked through that we can deploy if needed for a family so for example if it's that they maybe have a one parent household and that parent Works a night shift and it's just a matter of getting up like we're not above like being like an old school hotel and making a phone call to say time to get up for school and help wake the parent up you know like we'll do whatever we need to to help get your child to school we've also used the van in some instances to go pick up students if there's like a transportation issue where they have a car that's broken or disabled for a period of time and they can't get their child to school and maybe their child doesn't normally ride the bus um what we see that impacts are chronically absence mostly though is outside services that people have for their child so maybe they don't have speech services in our school because they didn't qualify for speech or for OT or dentist appointments orthodontist appointments things like that but they have those regularly occurring appointments so what we've asked classroom teachers to do is to work to help educate those parents on one the best time of day for those children to miss is cuz children don't want to miss launch and recess they don't want to miss fiad or art or innovation but those are the best times for them to miss because they're not going to get behind academically they'll still come up as chronically absent but they're not going to go from being at grade level to suddenly qualifying for intervention because they're not missing the core academics so it's kind of um multiple part things so um Abby at our school as our school counselor is working with Emma at Nick school um to kind of put together some presentations for parents so as we see families that are coming up sort of like is at risk for chronically absent they can pull them in and do some education with them around better times of day to miss that's great thank you other questions I'm not very good at math but some of those percentages are really impressive yeah our teachers and our kids have been working real hard that's why we're pursuing a school of excellence this year anything else all right thank you Miss dimler you're in a negotiations committee how are you not good at whatever all right so we're going to start off with um our first goal was based right off the Strategic commitment of providing high quality and interest based learning and that was really a focus as you saw from the data was really trying to improve the offerings that we were um offering through community at and kind of really coming out of Co we are seeing a surge in interest in uh the programming um so really focusing on marketing efforts um we've been trying to increase what we are offering you know we see in the winter an increase in the adult offerings in the summer an increase in the youth offerings um so as you saw through the data that was shown um we really have found our adult offerings are starting to increase um the pool thank you very much for all the updates the aquatics program is going so strong right now um so we are really excited about um all the increase um that we are doing um in the offerings that we have our second um goal was that all employees report satisfaction in the workplace um one of the things that we found was that a lot of our staff just really were focused on security in our building so um some of the things that we focused on were increased security um more um putting more strategic um strategies in place on how we locked our doors it's hard when you run a child care and you want parent parents want to be able to get access at all times so just being very intentional about when our doors um when we have access points how we have access points um making sure we're communicating that um and just being very intentional with that making sure we're really doing our drills um and everybody knows what safety plans are at our school um and communication and daily updates in addition to our weekly updates so staff are aware and know what is going on and through staff surveys we have found that their satisfaction has really increased and so we've been doing the same surveys um for two years now this will be our third year just to have that Baseline and to get a better idea of what their overall satisfaction is in our building our third third um goal was that all children are ready for kindergarten and so um with our preschool um really focusing on um our preschool team they uh established an rpt um they've been partic we've been participating in the mtss um having an mtss action plan goals um to help ensure that the uh preschoolers are ready for kindergarten and as you've seen um the results have shown that they are really doing well coming into kindergarten and then finally our fourth goal was um all parents report satisfaction with their children's educational experience at our building and again we are doing surveys um really ensuring again that that self and uh safe and welcoming environment um as families are coming in and again facing that challenge of with the child care you know having that accessibility in the building but again it maintain that safe and welcoming environment um with clear signage as well so that was our uh goals for um last year going into this upcoming year we are just looking at expanding on that um with Goal number one again really identifying what our community needs are and engaging in inclusive programming um looking to continue to provide skilled and supportive staff always always a challenge keeping up with the number of Staff we need we find we have a lot of transient staff so just making sure we have enough staff to support all the um students that we're serving um again making sure that in our preschool that they are um on track and this year they're really focusing on math as their goal and then again promoting family and Community engagement is our fourth goal so opportunities to build relationships Foster community and provide resources so those are the goals that we have going into this year again aligning with our strategic um commitments so any questions so I'm just going to ask on measurable so yes what what metrics are you are you using a certain percentage or when you say all staff are you saying you want 100% to feel that way using surveys as one of our metrics um and we're using the same survey so we have that Baseline so that we can determine where where we are and how the change you know what percentage of change um we also use surveys for um every one of our classes so that we're getting that dat data so that's been our primary metric okay and so you want to see your over your change yep y all right thanks thank you thank you Mr Schuler all right um just real briefly um we want to congratulate uh three teachers who uh recently named our Leo Award winners for uh 24 20 2024 um Emy Frank in the elementary school uh we had Ashley denami in the middle school and Amy mant in the high school so uh the principals and I will be going to St Cloud on uh Wednesday evening to celebrate that uh group and uh along with number Central Minnesota schools as part of the resource and training Lee Awards winners so congratulations to them we'll get them to a board meeting here hopefully next month or so to congratulate them personally U also uh coming up next week on November 4th is our next PD day so we're getting um moving on their next round of professional development um couple exciting things the ELA uh Group which is our English language arts I think we're doing uh as a k through eight I want say Joe um is moving forward with the uh 2020 standards alignment so they're doing a lot of work on that day and that area in our letters training uh is in its Final Phase uh the Elementary staff uh on Monday so that's a big step for them almost a round of applause for two years of training two years plus training um so that'll come to an end they have totally completed and again uh since we were early adopters of letters training I I don't think there's many districts in the state that can Tout The fact fact that you know we're already done with the second phase already and our teachers are well on the way and it's certainly fun to hear the data now coming or at least the more um uh uh side conversation people are saying that wow I can see the difference in my group this year from last year even because I can tell they have some of those foundational skills especially in the elementary that we're seeing that you know you talk to a fifth grade teacher and they're saying wow these fourth graders definitely are above the kids that I had last year already because those skills are already inra so we're starting to see some really nice progress coming and hopefully that'll show the data um we do our benchmarking um winter and spring and then certainly in our MCA scores um also just want to note on November 8th uh Mr felt and Miss Danielson sit out sit on our safe schools uh committee and this year we have um our first scheduled meeting on Friday the 8th and again that's a group that we started a few years ago it's the couny uh couny folks and it's our uh District uh socier workers our admin team um it's our board members we have some City officials that sit in on that um but we try to get all the different County departments to attend um we've got a really good turnout at least in our calendar invite uh for those to attend from the county and um we've got some really good things on tap but the whole idea is just a really more collaborative agreements with the county and what things they can provide for us um I know they're really curious to hear more about our high school VAP uh the Halo project and what we've we've done there this year and see if they can replicate that um obviously a lot of those dollars gain from the county and and the collaborative um so uh it's a it's a neat opportunity to get together um and just talk openly and and um it's nice to have City officials in on that too so that is Friday um uh the 8th at 900 a.m. in our district office so that's all I have any questions from Mr Schuler all right any board member reports from the last meeting our marketing meeting was in between board meetings right wasn't it yes uh yeah so we had a marketing meeting um where we talked about a variety of things but mainly um Communications and just more planning to um think about where the um the basically quarterly newsletter where that goes out and if we should start doing it a little bit earlier for people that we might sway decisions on coming to our district you know so maybe that should yeah exactly maybe that should be in the May communication versus the August things like that so just a few adjustments to how we do things but ultimately we what was it almost doubled the the um distribution or the reach uh for not a lot of dollars actually for that one um particular uh Outreach so we're just looking at revamping that for Southwest we met Tuesday and Darren was our guest superintendent and I think he could tell that there's definitely a lot of changes with uh DR Horton coming on board um every meeting he pretty much recognizes uh the staff you know for this time we had a few people that completed their masters so uh it was really nice to see that which here was like oh gee they do a lot of recognition so that's been really nice to see um his PL since coming on board uh I will say that um just that I mean you can tell people uh the staff was involved I mean after the presentation they even stayed for the meeting which I can tell you I think some people state for our so feel a little bit badly here um and then uh the other thing that I'm looking for to hearing is our November 7th uh assessment meeting with all the superintendant and then uh all the directors kind of going over a plan to see where we can help each other out which I don't think we really have had that and it was really exciting to hear as well that um they're pretty much fully staffed with the international um teachers coming on board so we should hopefully have no waiting list which I don't think that's really happened since I've been on the board so that was super exciting and just a piggyback I think it's kind of a neat concept um superintendent Horton is bringing together all the 12 member schools superintendents curriculum directors and special ed directors to be a part of a a half day on Gathering where we're looking at some continuous Improvement models and we all can work together like Erica said to share uh resources um and also just where some holes in some of the work that self met what Metro is doing and um other supports that we can provide so much more collaborative approach that Dr Horton has which is is is good I think that'll be a nice day to to kind of meet and greet folks and get some good things down on paper so and he'll be at one of our meetings coming up right who's that Dr Horton yeah he scheduled I don't date yet but um I know he wants to come out to all the member districts and say hello yep anybody else all right well then I guess I'll go um so the other week I actually spent uh my morning in uh teaching seventh grade civics um with u Mr jetma at the middle school so thank you Mr girton for allowing me to come in um it's always very interesting because it kind of kind of starts out quiet and then you know you get the classes that really are really engaged one of the things that the last two years I've done is kind of class participation at the end of it where hey you know we're going to get x amount of money how should we spend it you know you guys need to come up as a group how are we going to spend it and it's interesting to hear from the seventh grade Minds where they want to spend it lunch yes that was a lot of it seriously always last year was McDonald's they all wanted McDonald's uh this year that it was totally different they they wanted more B bottle fillers in the middle school and they also wanted better PE equipment or athletic equipment for how do they think come up with this stuff it's great but one of the things that I always try to do is well you guys didn't mention anything about roofs you didn't mention anything about the elementary school what about the Community Learning Center so it was trying to get the the kids to think that you know teaching about the school board it's not just about the middle school you know they you have to think bigger you know is it paying the teachers more what should we do should we pay our pay Mr jetma more money you know and he's first time going yes um so it was it was kind of a good experience with with that and hopefully the kids got something you know that's that's something that every year I I would like to continue to doing no matter who's in you know the chair rooll and then last Friday I was I spent the recess time time out at the elementary school uh with Miss Connell staff learning about playworks uh since we are a blue t-shirt is that blue shirt blue shirt school um and and just kind of seeing how it's all interactive with the high schoolers that come over to help out the fourth graders that learn the games on Monday and try to get all the kids involved you know it's kind of just seeing all the different the different levels so again thank you Miss Connell for that and it was really cool to kind of spend some time out you know watching the kids play and seeing how they all gravitated toward the high schoolers or the fourth graders um and then from an msba side we had a board meeting uh beginning of October and we have another one this Sunday um we kind of went over all the resolutions we passed the resolution to for the legislative resolution ours past of the first the first group of the msba board they received about 70 some resolutions and they combined them down to 32 is or so next step is the delegate assembly where it'll be actually debated on in front of 130 different people to become a part of the msba legislative priorities so more to come on that uh couple things that I thought were interesting as well from the msba board was from the high school league they're putting out to vote now for allowing ninth graders part of their insurance policy um ninth graders hadn't previously hadn't been covered is that correct Mr sansy really they played up onity okay then they were covered but if they weren't up on the varsity or J they weren't cover te okay huh so that's out for all the districts and mshsl to kind of vote for including the ninth graders um and the other thing that I uh had notes on was they had record attendance in all their state tournaments to the point where they're actually going to be giving uh funds back to the member schools so at some point we should be getting some funds I don't know when that those dates are but uh I think they were going to give back was over $2 million wow to all their member of schools to us just us new scoreboard yeah no um but uh so so to me that that was something that was that was really good news and then I today in the mail just so you guys are aware the conference uh in January the leadership conference it's at the convention center uh due to my role I'll be there both days glad handing shaking hands kissing babies telling people where to go uh so please consider if you have the time to go to the conference um I've gone every year it's I always get something out of it and that is all I have anybody El else all right with that being said is there a motion to adjourn the meeting all second motion made by Mr bur second by Miss Geto all those in favor say I I all oppos nay motion carries meeting is adjourned at 7:27 p.m. e e e e