good evening everyone I'd like to call to order of the Roseville area school board meeting for Tuesday October 8th clerk will please take the role thank you good evening director Johnson here director gaggin here chair Anderson here chair clar here director Bachi here and clar Chu is here okay announcements comments or agenda adjustments excuse me any adjusta adjustments for this evening There Are No Agenda adjustments thank you announcements comments uh recognitions of the land acknowledgement will be read this evening by uh clerk Chu thank you thank you I have to put on my classes correctly it's my honor to do this Roseville area school acknowledges that we reside on traditional ancestral contemporary and unseeded territory of the Dakota people from bot a Confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers a place the Dakota people poetically claim as a center of the earth directly beneath the center of Heaven to Indian mountains Park a sacred place of burial built by ancestors of living people and home to the only known remaining barrial mounts within the Minneapolis St Paul Urban core indigenous people have cared for this land through Warfare genocide relocation and removal perpetuated by colonizers the state of Minnesota and the federal government in justices that reduce over 150 million indigenous people to around 300,000 indigenous people have given their blood tears heart resilience and love to this land uring boarding schools that were in operation from 1879 through the 1930s where assimilation through humiliation was the curriculum and unicable atrocities occur daily to the foster care system where more kids were removed from indigenous homes than any other group in Minnesota indigenous people have not lost their culture or identity and still reside on this land Roseville area schools is committed to ensuring the culture of our indigenous relatives the original and rightful caretakers of this land is studied preserved and celebrated we are committed to understanding and honoring the sovereignty that has denied to near nearly 600 indigenous Nations including 11 federally recognized tribes in Minnesota through the breaking of over 400 treaties and we are committed to the truth of the history of our indigenous relatives the success of our indigenous students and to the healing we hope to create through this commitment thank you thank you you CL true okay moving on to any summary of community input received for this evening's action items that I'm aware of all right okay moving on to this evening's consent agenda um I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda minus we do have a retirement so moved second okay it's it's been moved and seconded any further discussion on this evening's consent agenda all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed motion carries thank you clerk Chu for the retirement we have one retirement today uh we want to honor belette leska who uh is the counts payable specialist at the district Center and she has worked for the district for 26 years so we are very grateful for her service to our district and so now I move for her retirement thank you it's been moved is there a second second okay mov into cons seconded all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed motion carries thank you uh gifts this evening will be read by director Johnson always a pleasure um we have a financial gift um from Wendy Thompson to Brimhall Elementary um for use in the media center um a financial gift um including school supplies and snacks from anchored minist trees to Edon uh Edon uh for students in need uh meet the teacher open house and class parties um path of Grace school supplies and snacks um students in need and meet the teacher open house ederton uh school supplies uh Galilee Lutheran Church um also for you students in need um ederton the intera family clinics um gifted School supplies for students in need uh Kristen um Haymaker and Nathan ker I am so sorry if I I think I'm butchering your names made a financial gift for the girls tennis program at rosev High School uh Mary Watson and James Donaldson made a financial gift to the same girls tennis program Rose vo high school and Joan ringstar made a financial gift um to Rose Bo High School for the family and consumer services Department Carrie Lee made a financial gift um family and consumer services department Roseville area high school Nicholas and Samantha Mel made a financial gift to the boys cross country program at Roseville area high school um Katherine and Paul Mohler gave a financial gift to the boys cross country program rosev high school and your cause NPO connect um on behalf of uh Aaron uh masteran uh made a final gift for the district's discretion Rose wer schs it goes without saying that um you know we don't we're not able to do this work without um the general support um of our community thank you thank you director Johnson all right that moves us to reports and non-action items for the evening um we have some guests here uh director Sher Thompson come on up for sustainable practices uh update we have a wonderful presentation in store for us come on up good evening I would actually also um I'm going to do some introductions this is our green uh School steering committee uh with the five uh five of us here um uh Al you already know who I am of course know Todd laser from buildings and grounds uh we have our student Kiera kgen you probably recall her speaking to the board back in June of 2023 when you passed the resolution to join greenstep uh we also have uh Jon Bram who's here from greenstep schools and then Sean courts who has very generously donated so much time uh to this project and helping us write our story uh he's a um a parent in the district um so he has also been part of the steering committee and then we have a the larger group and I would like the larger group to join us because I think what's really important is um don't be shy um this is uh the students for climate change group wonderful Center every Wednesday climate action okay um so they meet at the district Center every Wednesday for an hour so when they have a late start they're actually an early um uh meeting um weekly and they are also part of our larger committee that meets um four times uh four times a year so we spent this last year um writing kind of our our project statement our story and I'm happy to say that uh Roseville area schools um and the Roseville uh Area High School are the we are being awarded the first green step schools award in the state of Minnesota so I'll hand it over to awesome all right if um yeah I would love to say some things first of all on behalf of Minnesota Green step schools and all its partners and all the schools in the state and youth that are looking to you as Leaders first in line it's not easy to be first thank you so much for your leadership and congratulations on this award it represents um not only your ongoing work and sustainability which you're only beginning to share those stories with greenstep I know there's many more stories to come but it's so fabulous for our very first um district and school in the program to have been initiated by a youth initiative that climate walk out that led to hey let's join green step schools let's be the first and then the conversations that ensued and thank you for including me in those conversations we're in a pilot phase and so we're really indebted to Roseville area schools and rosev area high school for you know all the conversations about I'm not sure what that means and could you make that more clear and so it's really been a contribution to the program as well as um just a pleasure to work with you all so congrat congratulations and I'm looking forward to all the stories to come and thank you all you youth leaders as well just quick question so the two Awards one is for the district as a whole and one is specific for the high school yes without writing a book verbally share some of the criteria or factors that go into that and why the high school in particular look even separate from the district as a whole yes the structure of green step schools is to award both districts and schools we recognize so many Green School decisions happen at the district level and policies and so forth but it really depends on the participation of schools and um while facilities improvements are great we want those stories to filter out to and be involved with schools and students and so that's why we recognize both schools and the district and um so uh in order to achieve green step level one the criteria is to pass the school board resolution which you did a year ago in June and uh saying that you'll participate and have at least three uh Green Team meetings a year so part of the last year was figuring out the structure of the Green Team the steering and the advisory and that at least one school would sign on and that was rosille a high school and um in addition to forming a Green Team and uh uh committing to meet one of the things about green step schools is to share the story not just we did this on this date but to really talk about what were the issues that came came up because it's not just to document your achievement it's to teach other schools because nothing inspires and informs like peer-to-peer learning and so that story is for the other schools to say okay I see how they did it we're a little bit different but you know we can learn from that so that is what step one is about wowk you thank you thank you one other excuse me one other thing I'd like to add and I apologize for not including this um is to also recognize Laura Jansen who is our science teacher who has been amazing and a huge Mentor for all of the students um and she's been there since the beginning and continues to be and sometimes because I'm so used to her being surrounded by kids I don't see her as not being so I want to apologize for that Laura's been fabulous okay yeah thank you thank you la thank you all of our students thank you is it possible to get a picture with everyone receiving the award or is that going to disrupt we have time go ahead picture then we can do the report following the picture Okay than so who wants to hold the high school we want to do that Todd Sher do you want to hold the district one car we should all be everybody whoever as large a group photo is some okay work Magic Car okay um we're gonna have to layer up a little because you guys are in a long line Sher thinks she's tall thank you Sher everybody turn sideways and squish in a little bit snug big round of applause for the students director Thompson part all right right now we look forward to the the sustainability we're just going to give you an update on where we're at on our sustainability initiatives um we've presented on these before but yes just a um a quick update and in addition to todni um we have Megan Ronnie who is a science teacher um at F okay and she's going to touch a little bit on the curriculum and of course um director executive director vond del Lindy is with us as well and if if I may think this may be a good time to interject right our Roseville area schools host two high schools so when we say High School referenced earlier it was Roseville area high school earning the word and Fairview Alternative High School has been equally as connected into environmental practices and education so just recognizing your leadership and work at thoughts as well that's thank you um so first of all of course um these initiatives these s sustainability initiatives do um tie into our goals and key key strategies in the in the district as far as our strategic planning goes um in preparing our students um and then also our students contributing to an equitable and curing Society um we are culturally responsive uh inclusive and an anti-racist District uh the community is United behind meeting the student needs and we're financially secure and these initiatives tie into a lot of different areas across our strategic plan um as far as um our operational effort s uh we are partnering with different agencies including uh the Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools uh harambe received that award back in 2015 I believe uh we have uh funding init initiatives through various Grant programs including our solar programs uh and then also some programs that we've participated in uh through Ramsey County some of the grants there uh and we're looking to um explore additional initiatives as we move forward so the three areas I'm going to talk about are solid waste uh management storm water management and solar uh starting with uh starting with Solid Waste Management we partnered with uh Ramsey County and you could see by the photos one of the first steps was to standardize our containers and with hopes that this would really help with the contamination uh one of the things we often hear is the custodian put the recycling in the garbage they are trained to do that if it's contaminated so it it's a training on our end and our goal they know when they can take stuff out and sort it so Solid Waste Management uh the we go with single sort Recycling and all the trucks Republic trucks run on compressed natural gas uh so the recycling single Source recycling all goes to a murf it's very hand hands on process and this is why it's so important to get that contamination out of it and we're still going to do a field trip there yes yes ask and then the other part of it we have the recycling but now we have the waste and the waste is uh all sent to the r& center down in Newport and this is where they burn it for electricity the numbers on the next slide I actually looked uh today and the numbers are almost identical for the current one instead of 14 ton it was like 13,541 by volume or by weight of waste that's produced in our buildings comes from the kitchen so that's where our injuries come from and that's why it's so important to try to capture capture it in the kitchen and not in the waist Stream So or kitchen and the cafeteria so if you look at the food recover hierarchy are I mean we're Source reduction you'll see we're doing all that stuff feeding humans first and then animals we looked at composting and but obviously the food to hugs was a better option so that's where you'll the next program all all elementary schools the roll out at the secondary schools isn't there yet and it has a lot to do with Staffing we're really struggling to it takes support to make this work and we I I don't believe we have the Staffing to be successful yet uh I'm sorry good um could you expand on that just a little bit about like what what Staffing you would need for yeah so a lot of ours is like actually monitoring the barrel like working with students to help them separate and make sure and somebody has to be there with a tongs to pull contamination out of it so it's trying to find those types of workers okay thank you uh and then milk and what this does is it eliminates a lot of the heavy lifting required by our custodial staff to get it up into a dumpster and that and you can see the storage sheds that we store them in once they're full um so through n nutrition services uh we are in the process um we continue to uh replace our dish machines so that we can transition to totally uh reusable trays in flatware we've been um doing that over uh a number of years some of the timing on this um also aligns with the Deferred maintenance work that we're doing the long-term facility maintenance for instance this summer uh we replaced it was phase two of Falcon Heights Elementary so the kitchen has totally been redone um and that is also uh more environmentally friendly and they have a new dishwasher which edw will be uh receiving uh this next summer so um all of these initiatives uh decrease the single-use Plastics um uh with a with reusable quick question in doing that is that does it cost us something in terms of investment to move to that process or are we saving money or does it break even or we about break even on that when we've looked at it um because of course you know we have the dish machines and there's more labor involved also with a reusable um but when we look at um and I mean there are compostable containers and whatnot but when we look at the cost um uh the cost is is about a break even on that and we're in a place now that we're able to employ staff that a little bit more challenging of course with Co and sure well i' I'd rather if we had money to spend to break even I'd rather spend it on a job for somebody than on plastic wear absolutely yeah absolutely thank you um so also a nutritious in nutrition services um we have offer versus serve at all levels so that means that students can self- select but we have all the options there for students to select from so this also decreases our food waste uh uh they have worked very hard to increase uh vegetarian options uh at all of our schools and uh as you've heard before um we can't say enough about um our nutrition services and they're purchasing local in their Minnesota uh local uh on Thursdays um they've done an excellent job uh and also increasing our our participation but decreasing um the waste uh storm water management uh so there's three different uh types of storm water management uh first you have the above ground and that would just be the holding Retention Ponds and then you have below underneath some parking lots we have retention essentially Retention Ponds that just seep into the soil and they hold the first inch of rain on site before before it uh goes off site and then the third one is the filtration system the BMP the best practice or BMP best management practice that was installed at Parkview and this actually requires filters so you can see it diverts the storm water coming down B and it sends it through there and this doesn't put it into the ground it actually sends it through a filter and then annually these filters are so this was all done in cooperation with Ramsey County City of Roseville and uh capital region Watershed and working with them we're maintaining it definitely needed a partnership because we don't have the capacity to maintain this so uh the other type this is an example of the above ground these are the ones you can see I believe pretty much every site has a variation of this and then solar so looking at the solar on top of this building obviously they'll get into the solar a little bit more in the curriculum uh but we're still looking for opportunities to take advantage of it uh Falcon Heights we just finished construction that roof is so full we aren't going to get solar on it unfortunately but so now we're working on edw that will wrap up next summer with hopes of then coming behind construction with solar if we can get put together a feasible plan so um again we received um the Minnesota uh green step um schools award this evening um there are different outcome areas that are defined by by the program uh organizational excuse me leadership uh reduced environmental impact and costs improved health and wellness and effective environmental and sustainability education so so those are the things that we're looking uh as we look forward um and we we are looking to um get some results um I touched on this a little bit earlier as far as the present during uh the presentation of the ward uh we did start meeting with students um uh during the 2223 school year uh the board uh passed the resolution uh to join uh the green step schools program in June of 2023 and we began meeting last year um we drafted our story and submitted that to uh green step schools uh last May and um now we are um fortunate to be um awarded the first uh green step schools uh in Minnesota so we're going to continue to meet we meet like four times a year and now we'll be um starting on on step two and looking at what are where we at and what are our next steps so how many steps are there eight so if you look at that level one and then it'll just keep going up okay that's what we are yes so yes where you can see the green those yeah we'll continue to fill in question so um backtracking so field trip is that going to be to the same facility that we were invited to go to by commissioner who's no longer commissioner represent sorry commissioner for yeah yeah yeah yeah that was Fant my wife and I went you did go we did go oh my God aming you walk up and down some stairs but just the breath and scope of it I highly encourage you to definitely make that something that we can offer to the kids just to learn and just it was overwhelming new knowledge to me in terms of of how massive of an undertaking it is and you know how it affects our entire it's not just the school it's the entire region it's really cool secondly I'll just SC this up now before we get into the curriculum stuff about the overall effort I once again as we have in the past just want to call out Sherry for your leadership and helping us do all this in a way that's very cost effective if not even cost beneficial because think that's very important for us as a school board to maintain our fiscal accountability role while we are trying to be models on green and to Todd and your team because none of this is automatic and this is not like you start a ball roll and it rolls this is like active management every single day decision- making even little things like you talked about how oh you first had to decide how to you know uh uh decide on the U the single style of the of the waste containers where I work we'd have 500 people that want to be part of that command it's like even decision making you know it's like the old um bump them cars right in the carnivals where if you if you take your foot off the gas it just stops you got to keep going on this so pass on to your team just all the work they do it's so great and I think again I know you've left the table just shout out to the students yes because you know at the board we were able to get it to bullet point two pass that if you guys and the teachers didn't exist to push this forward none of this would have happened yeah so you just if you feel any pride in any of this right now I hope you do because you you were an active part of making this all happen and your colleagues on on the committee at at the high school and through the school so thank you very much for pushing this forward so now I'll shut up let's thank you before we move into constru orul curriculum let's hold some questions and they're done is that all right well it was a different concept why I felt okay didn't want to be disruptive but I guess I might have been so there you go thank you welcome Megan yeah thank you so much for having me um yeah I'd love to speak through some of the curriculum here so the solar panels cover the roof of this building um and we got that from a grant the solar panel installation um and part of that Grant agreement was that we do provide education on the solar panels the energy they're providing to our building um and they've been really useful as an education tool for students to be able to have that real world application that's right in their Community where they go to school um so yeah one of the things that we have done we had a lesson in February last year um where all students and all staff at F got the opportunity to learn about our solar panels and actually interact with a lot of the data we have access to a really cool website that has the live data that our solar panels are generating like how much electricity every day every month and so students were able to um analyze interpret a bunch of different types of data and graphs and then put that into perspective for how sustainable this is for our building um how much electricity are we actually gaining from this how many houses could we power with this um and that sort of thing so that was a really good lesson opportunity for all students and staff at F and then beyond that I'm teaching a couple courses on climate change currently in this whole school year so we do a lot of conversations about renewable energy climate change and then our solar panels as well um I wanted to show some examples of that data I was mentioning so uh this these are screenshots I took from the website uh these were taken a week ago today and this is just some examples of the types of data students are able to interact with and then um further analyze into how this is used uh in our reduction of fuel consumption so one thing students really love looking at is this environmental benefits box it tells us um the approximate number of of carbon dioxide pounds saved from emissions so if we had never installed our solar panels about 1.7 million extra pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere and then they take that data and put it into a a number that's a little easier to understand which is it's about equivalent to having planted almost 13,000 trees so students love that uh data fact Alone um and then with the bar graph there on the right we're seeing um the actual electricity output per month for the year 2024 we have a lot of graphs similar to that on the the website but students are then able to take the actual raw data the amount of energy in kilowatt hours and then um convert that to how many homes are we powering each month or how much of our building are we able to power um and then the very bottom there is actually telling us the exact amount of electricity we're gaining from our solar panels um in each day each week and over its lifetime there so these are just a couple examples students are really um able to learn from these graphs and then like I said understand how much fossil fuel emissions were saving from the environment there that's wonderful yeah um so when we do these lessons the first thing students always say is they're so surprised to hear we have solar panels because they're not visible from the ground um and so when I show them this picture here they're always shocked to see it um and then that surprise is almost always followed by just a sense of like happiness and pride that we've been learning about climate change and all the issues it brings us but here we are in this building where we're using renewable energy and a lot of our electricity is actually coming from solar power and so those are the kind of responses I get from not only students but staff too staff have the same sort of reaction they're happy to hear it they didn't know we had our panels up there so it's been really fun to to hear those reactions um so moving forward things we want to do is continue this education so we want to continue um incorporating our solar panels and our data and our electricity generation into our curriculum when we're having discussions about climate change and renewable energy um that can take place in all sorts of science classes um and other classes as well um and then another thing we always do is encourage students toing bring home the these conversations too because we know that small actions alone don't do much but when we all do things together and then we go home and educate others and Inspire them to do the same that that kind of thing makes a larger movement together I want to take your class well I was just going to ask is there has there any thought of it maybe it exists already I don't even know to make it as part of like the community ed summer programs or you know as a class you know as an offering that would be a really cool I would imagine many of our community members would be would be interested that might even pay for it you know so yeah that'd be cool okay um first of all first of all this this is this is awesome um if it it feels like years ago um when it was the director FES and I learned about the possibility of of doing soral panels and uh uh we were able to work with with Sher to get that done one of the things that we re that we really wanted in addition to just just get yes we wanted the solar panels but we also wanted to incorporate um this into into learning and and to be able this this is what you know we were hoping um and to see and so it's so really cool um to to be able to see it um love to play with the dashboard sometime but that's we talk about that later but thank you um for for doing this incorporating this into um discussions about climate change and let making sure that our kids know that that we're part of the solution and that they can even even as important that they can be part of the solution so thank you thank you all for being here you might have mentioned this but um have you taken students up and actually showed them capacity yeah I went up for the first time like a week ago today with an um Laura and we got to see them and we talked about the potential of bringing students up there I think that they would really love that it is a little like you have to get up these near it's a ship but for anyone who wanted to like I I could see us taking a group of students who are interested for sure I think they would love that well even on the murf tour my wife and I you had you had to put on a hard hats you had to put on a safety buest m I'm sure we do what we had to do yeah yes we could get them safely up wonderful oh one more thing sorry um going back to the tour um it's absolutely absolutely incredible make sure you go during the day time because then you can see the robots that's the one thing that we weren't able to see um so so there are robots with the compost yes yep that's new that's it um that's um are able to to move things around so we we saw them we didn't see them in action so but it's the it's an incredible facility and that's only residential compos so far yes yes Kitty um a couple of questions but let me start with talking about the curriculum this this really exciting what you're doing in FA are we looking at using it other schools even if they don't have solar panels on their building because it's still our district they're still contributing to it and it would be a way to take something that's more um kind of a concept and make it real what they're doing in in the school district in terms of generating some of these this information are we is that on your radar at all to not yet but I had the same thoughts okay good um yeah I would love to connect with like Ra's um science teachers or Rams as well or I think you get to know each other yeah um but yeah I have like several really awesome lessons that would be ready to roll out to whomever wonderful and we've talked about it at at the elementary level too as some of those get installed at the elementaries um throughout the district as well well it just feels like a really way to make math interesting or you know and science real I mean it's always looking for examples like that um then I wanted to back up to some of the earlier initiatives you were talking about it it um when we got a report on some of the green initiatives I think it was maybe a year or two ago now and obviously significant progress is being made as you're looking forward um the various categories that you're working against um where do you see the most potential to really make some progress in the near term and are there any categories of work that you want to do that aren't yet begun but you have them on the radar for things to be looking at so we'll be talking a lot more about that this year that's really a big because we've just first year was really documenting and recording our journey so we'll be talking a lot about that um this year um next summer uh we are doing um in addition to phase two of um uh Ed Williams Elementary we'll be uh doing some Roofing projects some major Roofing projects so that will open up some opportunities for some um additional solar panels um also and we've talked touched on this before um I don't think it's it is certainly not a matter of if it's a matter of when would be the electric buses right um it's one of those things that that we need to explore I'm not confident that the technology is quite there right now um I know we have an interest in that in the long term we'll talk about that with with our committee I know the students have an interest in that um as well and again it's not um for many reasons also our our contractor there's just many reasons so we want to be very thought filed about how we proceed down that road and make sure the timing is correct so that's one big initiative that I I can think of and and again it's not a matter of if it's when and I guess I have one more question as you were as we got this award is it more for the planning that's gone into it or for is it the planning and the story of what's been done so far I mean what has resulted in the nomination I think it's the the story itself right may be able to best comment on that about demonstrating that you laid the foundations for Success you have support from the top you have a team ready to forward andle on your story others thank you thank you thank you and you know who's really going to keep us moving forward they're in the back of the room right there the ones that pushed us to begin with yeah so it's exciting yeah thank you for this work it's exciting um we were just talking about this earlier um so do we have any um interest uh given the the more we study about plastic on the environment to do more about plastic um so I started um started kind of service with a company called rickw Rick rickw is what it's called r i d w l l and they really teach you how to sort between certain kind of uh multi-layer plastic versus regular plastic you don't want to mix them right so it's almost like wow if you start doing that we use a lot of plastic because of all the wraps and all the storage and all that so that has been kind of like kind of my interest in thinking about how do we reduce plastic use right like you know that's the reason we carry this so I'm just wondering is is that something that we could really think about and I came May before there because they do do school programming yeah would you share that please yeah I will share that yeah yeah it's I'm very impressed with what they've done uh now that they're in Minnesota so it's it's really and then we'll be sure to invite you in um or invite you to our meetings when you're available to talk about your no waste events yes I have done that a few times yes a few more than a few I think and it is possible absolutely yeah anybody great anybody else thank you thank you for this fantastic presentation thank you you thank you right all right uh moving on to um item seven uh we do need to um uh move into a closed session to consider educational data and potential student exposion I'm going to quick question question of order oh okay is it anybody's interest to think about changing the agenda and moving the board reports and the superintendent report ahead of the Clos session because when we close no one's going to come back from viewing I don't know that would just be a disservice to the folks who are going to be here before the Clos session or not there are no guess no guess yeah or it doesn't matter I I just it just occurred to me I look at the agenda because no one's going to pay attention when we close point taken I think we'll get through this we'll just keep it as it is yeah thank you for um as chair I will make the initial motion to go into close session in order to consider educational data and the potential expulsion of a student pursuant to Minnesota statute St section 13d 05 subdivision 2 A3 and section 121 a47 subdivision 5 um it does need a second second okay it's been moved and seconded all those um in favor signify by saying I I I all those opposed thank you we will now be moving into a closed session they'll take a few seconds take about a minute to change the cameras okay all right um I would like to officially reopen the regular meeting of Tuesday October 8th uh we're moving on to our action item resolution expelling a student um clerk Shu yeah um I move that we um adopt the resolution as presented okay um it's been moved is there a second second okay um this will take a roll call vote vir you you say I as I call your name director Johnson I director gaggin I chair Anderson I clar wa Treasurer clar I and director bki I and clar is I thank you all right um the motion is adopted the roll call vote okay thank you everyone um that moves us on to this evening's uh board reports um let's see U director Johnson would you like to start us off with our board reports um sure um did a couple things and I'm going to leave a few for for other members but um had the opportunity to um attend the Minnesota robotics Invitational um a a a yearly um event that um uh our very own uh fire Bears put on and uh once again it was just a a a ton of fun um this it's uh usually you know the the the first big uh tournament um of the year and it's it's a so it's an imitational so everybody is able to kind of get the Kinks out of the robots and um insane amount of fun I'm I'm just going to say if you if you've never had the opportunity to um go to one of these these events you you really should um these these kids work hard um and we've got you know teams from all over State um that that come here um and personally I I think we have the uh the best tournament in the state so and I I'm I'm not completely not biased so we do um um also had um a chance to um attend our first uh District curriculum advisory committee meeting and that um as always um it's it's a lot of fun so we got you know some different folks um W with us now um so it was um a lot of just kind of uh introducing everybody to to how we plan to do things um uh some some some some great ice breakers to kind of get to know each other um looking forward to um um the next couple meetings where we get to you know dig in once again to some some really cool curriculum um and last but certainly not least we got a chance to attend um a homecoming football game um there are many homecoming activities but I'm I'm just going to concentrate on the the football game um and the uh the Raiders were quite resilient um I give you know I give a lot of credit it's easy when everything's going your way um but um they they got this one out 55 to 35 so my hats off um they are this is um a a really um fun team to watch and um they you know even when um the the other team Hopkins was uhu giving them some trouble uh um they they they pull themselves together and they just they they were they were working her all four quarters and you know one Los a draw that's that's all you can ask for so really really fun to see that um I had a chance to um go to MSD but I'm gonna leave that for Dr J talk about oh no you should I had an opportunity to attend the um Equity leadership advisory council with Dr Chu um and uh we reviewed uh the Strategic plan and there were some great questions and identified areas that the group wanted to learn more about or dig to a little more deeply this year we'll be doing that as well as going through chapter by chapter on the street data book study but it's it's a very deep level of a discussion around there and then applying it to what we're seeing in the district and what Insight we can take away so that was fun to see that group start up again I had an opportunity to attend the little uh can a coffee with the principal which occurs at 9:00 on a Thursday morning and it was really interesting to see because so many of the ptas I've gone to including when I've gotten to L Canada's PTA in the past tend to be a fairly traditional group of parents and not a very diverse group and what was really great to see was uh the the different um families that were there um and there were in fact 18 different um family members there and there was a lot of interest and some really good discussion and questions and I was really admiring how they were using an alternative approach to try to help um get different families engaged and knowledgeable about what's going on and um using the drop off time for the start of school as another time that may be a little more convenient for some for some families um Little Canada covered the title one their Title One presentation um they have uh 50.4% with educational benefits or what used to be free and reduced price lunch um and it needs to be over 40 to be a title one school so they laid out the various uh how they were using the funds and their goals around reading math and and the climate in the school um some good questions and some good discussion around some of the different things going on so that was really fun um and then um attended the um Rose failure schools Foundation but I will leave that to Todd or someone else to cover so because I know several of us were at that one um but then today I got to a kind of a last minute uh opportunity came up um to attend a session at the high school for that was offered to n9th and 10th grade students in the English class um it was difficult and challenging discussions in preparation for a book study that they'll be doing and it was a panel of Administrators and teachers uh who were uh of um background um not necessarily similar to the student but a bipo background to talk about some really interesting kind of experiences in their life and how I mean how do they have to navigate in their world because of the color of their skin um advice for student using the n-word um how to they're um with different worlds or different life experiences how they connect with different people and um how they had to change themselves to be successful in their roles and it was just a really rich conversation and there was some great questions by students and they seemed very engaged in the session I went to and I just thought it was a really super experience and we we do have uh two of our our our presenter or our panelists today who were just amazing um and um I was really um thrilled to have that opportunity and to see that opportunity for our students um to get exposure to um some great role models in our district um and them being willing to share their insight and their knowledge and wisdom so that was wonderful right sure I um attended the Community Education advisory Council where um executive director um shared the information we saw at the last board meeting as well as um we discussed some ideas from the community went through the calendar with programs and shared the some of the share the programs and then the calendar for upcoming events that's going to happen throughout the year so it was a very actually good and engaging meeting there um had two different 916 connections one was a traditional board meeting where we looked at some policies but we also had a retreat um where the 916 um staff shared with us that they have met with the member districts superintendent HR directors and director special education to discuss some of the Staffing challenges um and get I kind of the ideas and they shared some of those ideas with us as well as some recruitment efforts retention efforts um and the enrollment capacity and the needs because that's been a big thing to make sure that um when we have students that need to go to setting for that we have that ability so I'd be curious to talk with our team here and see what they learn and how I can support make sure we can have our voice on there thank you he Mike feel free to mention the foundation because I was actually going to talk about some other items oh okay sure I was going to refer to you but I'll go ahead yeah so feel free and that's all I have actually a number of us did attend the Ros R school foundation's annual fundraising event uh once again held at the cedar home golf course clubhouse and it was great for you know a very small nominal donation there was great little food stuffs and appetizers and you know a cash bar if you wanted to and you know lemonade if you didn't want to spend any money on booze uh and just a lot of good speakers some of our of your C cabinet uh spoke very movingly about good work that the foundation does and how they themselves have been able to take advantage of some of the grants and the funding that the foundation does and in case people don't know the foundation is a separate legal entity totally separate from the schools but whose mission is to raise money to support the schools and as as we've said as an example one of the big things they've done over the last year or two is spent multiple thousands tens of thousands of dollars in helping support U Avid uh being uh throughout our whole elementary school system because there's a cost associated with that so whether it's small gifts to individual teachers for programs that they've requested or you know put an application for whether it's something large like that the foundation is really uh an appreciated and valued partner to the school district and we really love them and what they do and what they do for us and uh it was a pretty good turnout I think the room was full and so uh it's the event is usually every fall so you know keep it in mind uh anybody's welcome um yes when you're there there's a pitch to give that's expected at such a thing but a lot of people I think did I haven't seen or heard what the final number was it was raised that night um but I'm sure it was it was worthwhile and uh hats off too to uh chair Anderson Todd I think after having done it now for two years in a row is officially recognized as the Rosary School foundation's wine polls are Manning wine pole table where you know you pay for a ticket and you pull a number and you get a bottle of wine which may or may not be worth what you donated uh but so thank you Cher time for doing it I noticed some bartering at the end of what did you get what did you get hey I don't like red so much I'll turn you for a white it was a fun evening so yeah and by the way and I'll say this too you don't need to wait for that annual event if anyone out there um feels like giving even in addition to what we may have given generously to the schools directly the foundation is also a way to for the community to show support by just directly donating I I don't remember the website is exactly I think it's it might you have to spell it out rosev schools Foundation or something if you Google it it'll come up it'll be pretty obvious all kind of opportunities to give and it's a foundation you can join too it's a foundation you can join you're always asking for help for volunteers help organize things make calls just just do whatever so yeah it's kind of a it's a fun thing to do so thank you that's it for me thanks Mike so uh I'll speak about um the um PTA meeting that t and I attended for brim Hall and and I I feel really bad to year that that my schedule hasn't worked to attend more so that one was that oh I can do that and I have to say every time I do a an event like that just so grateful for the staff and the parents and family who put the event together a great you know it was I thought it was a very good turnout even though it's less than what they expected um uh there was food everybody was volunteering and then talking about what is coming up and the part that was really fun was that at the end of the presentation there was um little stations everybody went and so I sat next to uh the principal very well- loved principal principal uh verage and you know like come ask question of the principal and everybody who showed up it wasn't about asking question they just wanted to talk and just share how grateful they are to be part of that community so the sense of belonging was actually I can feel it so I'm really grateful to our families to our staff to our teachers who put so much work and you can tell the amount of work they put in to put this event together and I know at many school do that and so I just really just always just appreciative as a board member right to know we have the support of our families so yeah that's what I got and what think MSD oh yeah oh yeah yeah somebody else should be presenting new well I I had a chance to present at the MSD board meeting on the progress that has been made on Elevate teaching and so um it was great I it was a a case to be made in terms of why we need to elevate the profession and really bring res restore The Prestige back to the profession and the progress we have made that look out for a marketing campaign that is going to come in January um we've done a lot of work to bridge kind of like if the campaign is successful what where does somebody go and so we actually have a road map that we develop uh there will be a a a website that people can go and will'll connect people to the Navigator human Navigators so lots of way to be involved so I know Roseville is probably part one of the partners in our in our website and we'll continue to have conversation as to what does it mean to um kind of Leverage those communication assets and the six tenants of teaching there has been great conversation starters so really just a privilege to have um shared shared those that work what's the name of that website I know you're so good at doing that www Elevate teaching. us thank you um thank you for commenting on the Brimhall PTA meeting um I appreciate that you were able to um stay with principal vernes I I really wanted to but I Del leave but just as an FYI um director oh clerk Chu and I had an opportunity during their more formalized agenda of the meeting of the night we had an opportunity to speak on behalf of the board and um yeah it was great engagement and again I'm glad you were there to cover that last hour talking to uh talking to everybody I appreciate that um I had an opportunity I want to mention um really had a great time I was able to represent the board at the local government meeting uh that we held that we had it was held at Falcon Heights Elementary along with uh Dr Lake and most of the staff that was there um and a wonderful just a fantastic presentation by Kenyata and donon regarding bipo teaching retention and recruitment efforts um a lot of great questions that you guys I think had from some of the council member um the Ramsey County Commissioner was there Mary Joe Maguire but just absolutely loving that report and that data I think you guys did a fantastic job I'm really glad um you know what you presented in the data and the questions were awesome I mean just you know I think you guys did a really good job um you know we had communities what are great about those meetings that communities all get to share out um what's going on in the community you know there's a Synergy with the school districts and then um the last thing with that is that we had a tour of Falcon Heights by principal Beth beny which is great to see some of the improvements and some of the new spaces um you know at Falcon Heights you know so it was a really wonderful meeting that's all I had a superintendent's report thank you this evening I'd like to highlight and recognize the importance of including student voice and multiple perspectives in all the world's decision- making but in this context specifically education in Roseville area schools our students experiences continue to drive our strategic plan when we're working to ensure that all of our students are College and Career ready we look Way Beyond the easily accessible satellite data of standardized test scores we take this time to analyze dis desegregated student information such as college credit attainment in high school college entrance and admission rates we closely monitor elective course enrollment to ensure that we're meeting the needs of the students uh and their interests we also work to attract and promote a multitude of career experiences such as internships mentorships apprenticeships and career Cafe learning opportunities most importantly we invest in talking with our students in order to prioritize our student programming all this being said I'd like to make the connection and thank our raw students for climate change who are in attendance for this evening sustainable practices and green steps award presentation your advocacy continues to help shape our environment Al practices in Roseville area schools so thank you to all students your voice matters thank you right if there's uh no further business for our regular session we stand adjourned