good evening everyone I'd like to call the meeting of the regular um school board meeting of the Roseville area schools to order for Tuesday February 20th clerk will please call the role thank you chair Anderson cherer clar here chair Anderson here director G here director Johnson here clu here right thank you any agenda adjustments for this evening There Are No Agenda adjustments okay um that moves us to announcements um comments or recognitions and we do have a recognition uh this evening uh raw's activities director Andrea Schmidt is here to present us yeah come come on to the podium I was hoping the students wouldn't be here hold them 6:30 hold them in this building but I don't see them here so I i' maybe suggest you could keep it fairly brief Trina will do a double check because I'd love to invite them back if there's another time that they could attend into the future mhm absolutely oh no let hang on I saw her I think I saw a motion [Music] yeah it's worth everyone's wait yes yeah yes wait thank you thank you Andrea yeah absolutely yeah thanks Trina all right thanks for being here thank you please come up to the table so this is at a Jed Mena and at is roseville's recipient of the AAA award um and the tripa award stands for academics arts and Athletics wow and so each uh each year we can nominate one male one female and from our school and then it goes to the region level and then to the state level and so atah was our Roseville male AAA Award nominee and then he actually made it as our region for dou a all right congratulations so if you would like to ask aah about all of his his Triple A stuff that he does and then when he's done I will introduce our next K and tell us your activities why don't you start please um so sportswise I do basketball track and football this year I played football and then uh music I'm in a lot of music stuff I'm in the Band and then I do jazz band and uh some Wind Ensemble and percussion ensemble and then there's like a combo with the jazz band and then uh technically in choir and then or not Choir in Orchestra and then like here and there I'll help with the choir um yeah and then schoolwise normal school stuff I'm in the I'm a part of the AVID program and then yeah athletic Leadership Council if that counts okay so that's go ahead thank you okay so first wow um second so you're you're you're in a so I'm I'm I'm really impressed that you're in in Avid and you're able to do um the band stuff the music stuff because that that has been from from stuff that's been brought to me that that's been kind of a clash um a difficulty for students yeah so how do you do that yeah I mean it kind of it depends on like what the student wants and like their position on stuff cuz at least for me from an academic level like from a workload level like having Avid and band it makes stuff easier cuz like don't like the course load in terms of like workload like Avid isn't going to be the most difficult class but like it is going to help you like for college readiness and stuff like that oh yeah and then band is like band is Ban there's going to be work that you have to do but like it's also like not going to be the same workload as like a AP class like but you're still going to have to put time in it so like in terms of in that sense it can be helpful but like on the other sense they're both like three trimester classes and so that's probably the biggest thing is some kids want to do a lot of electives and stuff like that and so if you are an avid and band you're not going to have a lot of a lot of room for your schedule like last year as a junior I only took six I only took six courses which is like not as much because of like 15 credits and stuff like that because I was in Avid in band and then I took some APS and so like because of that it's a lot of three Tri courses so if you are an avid in band it takes a lot away from your schedule and so some kids probably don't want that well as as a as a former band kid um I hats off to you um and you're you're a percussionist you PL you um you PL other instruments too um I play I play the drum set and then I do like piano stuff on my own like I write I write music so like a lot of the like when I write it's usually on the piano MH and then um do like a lot of African instruments because my dad um does African music and so I've like grew up in that and play a lot of African instruments and stuff like that um but yeah okay awes just just just just outstanding thank you um for your for your time and your commitment um my my um as where my my my kid was a graduate and also composes music and so so I I I I get it um I any ideas any plans for you you were you're a senior now I corre any any any plans for what's next not I'll I'll go to college I don't know where yet I've done like a bunch of applications and stuff like that but I have like have to figure out like especially like where I've gotten into there's been like because of like how this year's been with like FAA and like different turning and stuff like that so uh still getting informed and stuff like that and then see where I've gotten into and then after the season after the basketball season has ended and I know like all the colleges for Sure I'll like take some time and figure out for sure where I'll go you have sorry last one um any idea what um subject you'd like to pursue um and there's plenty of time and you can change your mind um I'm undecided I've like I've thought a little bit about computer science business or engineering but um I don't I don't know what I'll okay you got a computer scientist over there you got an engineer over there so feel free to contact either of us and we'll be more than happy to convince you and then add music in that right music technology yeah it's kind of amazing too and then you can also be a teacher down yes yes that that's fantastic I you have a special visitor here right do you want to introduce who you have here with you or uh my mom that is awesome yeah congratulations wow yeah who else yeah who else do we have y we also have Elise barza and Lis is a Jor and she is the Roseville female XL Award nominee and similar to aah when her uh application was out there this stops at theel level um and she was chosen as uh the Region 4 Excel Award winner in the state congratulations thank [Applause] you all about you oh hi my name is Elise bars I'm a junior um I'm in Avid I started that in seventh grade and I'm also in the DLI program and we're learning Spanish um I started in kindergarten my mom got me into it I didn't really know about it I didn't know if I wanted to do it but she forced me but it is paying off right now I'm in AP Spanish hopefully I can get the AP credits for college um I also take college algebra too it's kind of kicking my butt but but um it is going pretty good I'm pretty happy to take it hopefully I can get the college credits from that as well um right now I'm in cheer I'm the cheer captain um we do competition and sideline we cheer at the games like the basketball and football games and we have a competition coming up this Saturday super excited the last one of the season um and I did dance too I'm still really passionate about Dance I'm just not in dance lessons anymore I started that when I was four started with ballet and then the Jazz lyrical and Hip-Hop is my favorite a um what else do I do um I'm an NHS um I'm an NHS um started that this year and another big thing is black girl magic yep um I helped out my sister when she started it back in 2020 um and then this year it's districtwide all the Roseville schools are doing it super excited about that yeah wow who do you have here with you oh I have my mother Alicia and my sister anuka she's a sophomore wow I I just I want to say something first hold on it's chair's perogative um it's it's just incredible how busy you guys are and how active just when you I just need to know when you have any downtime do you have any downtime what do you what do you guys like to do just my downtime isn't downtime it's downtime that I kind of made like I always have something to do like I should be doing my math homework but instead I'm scrolling on Tik Tok how about you at talk any down time what do you like to do um yeah yeah I mean there's there's there's downtime it's kind of like the weekends the weekends it the weekends are usually like the downtime like the weeks are going to get pretty filled up but uh the weekends are time usually Sundays especially because like they'll be stuff on Saturdays but then Sundays usually because of like sports and stuff like they don't usually do that much stuff on Sundays so there's usually time on Sundays but you can just use that time for whatever I guess rest rest okay in addition wow okay um yeah I would be remiss to say I actually will be at U uh the cheer competition this weekend just um because my my kid is your coach so um so kind of kind of had to do those things but because I did was at those competitions all all through the years where my my my kid was was uh actually doing them and now now um now you get to watchh your coat yes so it's it's crazy um really really really impressive um resume and I I know what I I going to ask the same question um what what what's what's next for you as as as you you broadcast forward what uh what are you thinking um I'm also pretty undecided right now my dad and that's okay my dad is in business so I've been considering business but I do feel like if I found something else that I'm really passionate about I'll get into that as well hopefully I can get into nice four-year College um get some scholarships save some money um I would like to stay in Minnesota unless I get a scholarship to somewhere else and then that might change my mind yes mallister college is just down the street just you're both going to have colleges competing for oh my goodness I I don't I don't doubt that yeah and again computer science or or engineering just just put that in the back um no I I I don't have anything else I'm going to be good um but um congratulations thank you for thank you both forred thanks for being here well congratulations and Andrea thank you for your leadership and pushing the nominations forward and so forth so thank you I always say with these there are so many kids out there who are know multiport athletes and they're really good students it's that thing that sets them apart and it was very obvious great thank you again so great how did they sleep okay um moving on in the agenda um summary of community input received for Action items I wasn't aware of anything received anything from anybody any of my colleagues no right okay moving on to the consent this evening's consent agenda um I will entertain a motion to approve this evening's consent agenda with the exception of we do have one retirement so mooved okay second second all right so moved and second and any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I all those oppose all right set agenda has been removed and passed and we have one retirement this evening yes thank you so um I'm moving forward uh for your consideration Carol Zan who uh is a media technologist assistant at Little Canada Elementary and she has been with the district for nine years and we really appreciate her service for our district and so I end motion all right all right is there a second second okay the move it and seconded the retirement of Carol Zen any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying i i i al those supposed all right thank you very much uh cler CH and we thank Carol Zen for her time the district and uh we do have some gifts this evening uh director Clark sure happy to do that this evening um our first gift is from Leslie and Karen Su suzukamo um and they have a monetary gift to the music department at ederon elementary next up Rebecca sorene um a monetary gift for food for students for Fairview Alternative High School next we have blackball connect on behalf of Merl gaty a monetary gift for school needs at Little Canada Elementary next we have Jess Winkler a monetary gift for prom and family and consumer science department the Roseville area high school um and finally James and Nancy perkl a monetary gift for the music department excuse me at the Roseville area high school once again we' like to thank our community for their generous donations to our schools it's great apprciate it thank you thank you director Clark okay uh that moves us to reports and non-action items first up is the program participation report uh we have a wonderful team here this evening to go over this Jake Melissa N Andre Schmidt and TR the hero welcome thank you just Gathering from all over here so Jake and team Jake and team well thank you for having us this evening we are as you can see um going to provide our program participation report uh I'm Jake vindy the director of student achievement and I have a team with me that I'll just have them kind of go down the line here and introduce themselves and their role in the District as well so start with Trina hi Trina Hera I coordinate Advanced academics and talent development in the district and Andrea Schmitt activities director and Associate principal at Raz good evening I see to Thomas director of student services hello everyone Melissa Sonic I get to be the assistant superintendent for Roseville are schools you're welcome yeah thank you so we're going to start off with our first slide which is about the district goals and our key strategy so um we have five goal areas and and this report actually fits um in at least one of these areas um I found things that that would connect um and you can see in the kind of the teal color the those areas that really stood out um in each of those five um areas so delivering a challenge joyful and safe learning environment um amplifying student leadership and voice and decision-making as we're having activities Athletics uh different programs for our students um supporting learner res resiliency with um student social emotional learning and mental health as we all know um creating those um activities Athletics all those different ways of getting us connected to um to school are a benefit to our students building a culture of belonging uh where all feel welcome included and safe um and then there is also that building a culture of belonging for our community as well as we know our community comes together for a lot of our um different um events and then the last is cultivating and maintaining that Community Trust when we bring people in we know that they're building that that trust and relationship with our district we have three different um sections to this report we have um information about our Advanced academics and talent development program our activities and Athletics and then our special education um and so I'm going to turn it over to Trina hero and um she'll walk us through our Advanced academics and talent development section all right so as per the Minnesota statute um we have guidelines for identifying for assessing and then identifying students for participation in advanced academics and talent development um we choose assessments that are valid and reliable and fair to underserved um student groups although that uh as you'll see in the in the results in just a minute um is something that is trending to where it needs to be but historically has not been where it needs to be we universally screen all students using the Hope teacher rating scale in kindergarten first grade and we screen all students using the cognitive abilities test in second and fourth grade we consider other assessment data as well this data um represents students who have been formally ident identified as gifted in grades 2 through 12 we currently formally identify students um again in grades two and four so we use that screening data from kindergarten onward um starting last year um uh actually starting a few years ago we began identifying students in grades 2 and four and that's a change from the past when we would identify them in three and five but grades three and five are heavy testing years for our students and so that took some of the pressure off um in those years so looking at this slide a reminder that um in this data a proportionate amount for each student group is considered 1.0 indicated by that red line and arrow to be proportionate means that the group of students identified in our Advanced academics and talent um development program matches the overall population for that group over time American Indian and multi-racial students have increased in their proportionate rates of participation however we continue to see many of our bipo student groups remain underrepresented and underserved our white students continue to be over represented this graph shows more student groups represented in our Advanced academic talent development program and as you can see our multilingual Learners our students who receive educational benefits and students who have an IEP are still well under represented in our Advanced academics program the proportionate line is well above the lines even represented in this graph finally a little bit of good news so this slide um I think somebody uh on the board have requested this last year these are students um that were identified in a particular school year so for example um 2022 23 if you look at the end of the the chart those are only the second and fourth grade students that were identified that year okay so um as I talked about before we changed our identification processes we also have changed just our vision and our thoughts of how we're looking at gifted education as the state describes it and we're more looking for find student strengths and trying to um give students opportunities to develop those talents so this data is showing some promise as we've made these changes our white students are becoming um less overidentified over time we can see increases in our bipac and multilingual Learners um and just recently we completed our 2324 identification and our data is indicating continued Improvement for especially our multilingual Learners and our students who qualify for educational benefits so we're very pleased about that all right I'm passing it on to miss all right thanks Trina I will now shift to activities and Athletics which pertains to grades 7 through 12 uh activities are grouped into four categories that you see here academic groups Athletics clubs and Fine Arts uh you see on this next slide here is a visual example of what our secondary activities entail as you can see there's a wide range of opportunities um for students to engage in and with that I'll turn it over to athletic director Andrea Schmidt thank you okay so similar to slides previously this graph shows data for the past 5 years the trend of activities this one is broken down by race um as you can see we put an aster in the 1920 and 2021 school years um the Third trimester or mostly the spring season of 1920 we were not in school in person and there were no activities and then the 2020 21 school year was heavily impacted by students not being in person there were still activities offered that year but at a reduced uh schedule so now we're looking ahead to 2122 and 22 23 and part of that work was kind of trying to get back on track because once you lose students involved in activities now you're having to redo the work that was probably done in years prior but I do think we're at the point now where we can start looking back at 2122 22 23 and then hopefully next year really start to see these Trends and know whether or not we're kind of getting back on track to where we were and see numbers going up um the one uh race group that did not see an impact negatively in fact saw an increase is our uh White students so there is an over representation of our white student community in our activities and this is activities as a whole here we did also add multi-racial students as a category uh a few years ago so there is that data is a little irregular in the moment and that kind of changes some of those racial groups to when we're pulling students out of them and adding yet another group that we're looking at can I make a comment please yes I just want to note the growth with our American Indian participation and I want want to make a parallel to the American Indian Native American presentation program report that was given at the last board meeting and just want to thank donon and Gabriella and Savannah for your their leadership for that growth yeah absolutely thank you and those numbers will be a little more they'll look a little more volatile when they go up and down just because we have such a small student population that if we have a few who are involved and who aren't involved you'll see a big shift there too um so here we are looking at activities by student groups so we have our multi multilingual Learners our students with educational benefits and our students with IEPs um we are hoping to break this uh multilingual learner data down a little bit more and understand there was a huge drop not only during Co but prior to covid and so we've seen that dip back up again but certainly not to the number that we had before and so we do want to dig a little bit more into that and see if there was something that happened five years ago that then those numbers dropped and see if we can address what that is but we haven't been able to pinpoint that piece quite yet so moving on to secondary activities so this is the breakdown of the number of students who are in each category so we have our Athletics which 56% are involved in athletics 11% in clubs 27% in Fine Arts and 11% in academics so what that would look like is Athletics or your sports teams um mostly your mshsl programs that we have um clubs are student L clubs so that can be anything at any given time they come to me and they say we want to start a club and I say if you have 10 students or more and an adult who will take you on absolutely so those clubs are anything from the hack club or they're they're on computers um it's uh some of our Affinity groups it's kids who just want to get together and do Parkour in the gymnastics Center um and then fine artarts is going to include some of our mshsl music programs um Visual Arts programs and then the academic piece is going to be like your speech debate and those type of activities so moving on breaking these down now by uh the different categories so we're starting with academics here and so the uh the pie chart on the right side is the district so that is is the percentage of students that are represented by race in those categories and this will be a constant for the next few slides on the left side you will see the students who are participating so as you'll see here with our academic activities we have an over representation of our white students and then you'll see um a pretty significant drop in most of the other categories black Hispanic American Indian Native American and multi-racial um and not as significant of a drop with our Asian population but certainly the only over it is presentation is with our white students here we have the same thing and this is Athletics or sport specific here you'll see again a very large over representation even larger than the previous slide with our white student population um and then approximately the same percentage of students who are associating as black Asian American Indian Native American and multi-racial um Hispanic hasn't even higher drop in percentage here of our students who are involved in athletics our clubs so um these numbers are slightly different again this is where our Affinity groups come into place so we have um like if you'll see here this is where our Asian population is over represent over represented in a fantastic way they have Ken Club um which has a large number of students again it's a club but they are running stuff all the time and they run all year long um and I think it it's a huge Testament to feeling seen and feeling like something is for you that's where I'm seeing these club numbers increase for our diverse student population our bipac students and then we have the Fine Arts um again over representation with our white students um and then very similar percentages to the others where we have that um uh lack of students in our black Hispanic Asian American Indian Native American and multi-racial uh groups but in this one our multi-racial student group is actually a percent higher um so that's great but and I'm not quite sure with that piece what is driving that that could be an affinity group that maybe multi- students are associating themselves with um black student union is one that I'm thinking of that students could be you know associating themselves as black and being part of this club but then also falling in a category of multi-racial as opposed to black in this chart we'll continue on with our special education program information so this slide um initial referrals are students who have met initial criteria to be evaluated for special education students may or may not qualify for special education um based on this evaluations and they may or may not be evaluated based on a referral but based on the initial referral we may continue with interventions so the following data is monitored to determine over and under representation of student groups so this graph provides information about students who were referred to special education so um the students again may have qualified for special education services or may not have met criteria for special education and we look at this data by race to measure whether we have disparities in our data um we do see an increase and our Hispanic students who were referred last year all other groups um either stay the same or decreased a bit we do have an over representation for students who who identify themselves as multi ratio so the following data you're about to see will represent students who are currently receiving um special education services it differs from the previous slide as the students represented in this data are students who have been referred qualified for and are currently receiving services so this graph represents students that are receiving Services um during the 2223 school year broken down by race we continue to see a more representative proportions of students serviced in special education by race however some of our groups Contin continue to be outside of our proportionate range we continue to have over representation of our American Indian Native American students um service in special education as well as our students who identify as multi-racial and then this slide um is data represent by the our train groups of students um we just see just a slight over representation for our students um who are multilingual Learners and who receive educational benefits all right and that's the end of our presentation so we'll open up for questions and discussion can you just confirm that one student if they do multiple things is count at once like if they play a sport is it the no or that count each time no so they count so if I am playing soccer and I'm in a club I will be represented in each one yep so our students we recognize are represented 25 times they 25% of everything we do was just sit yeah oh Kitty what percent of students participate in some club or activity or any of the categories we have any students are how many students I guess do we have that are not in any good question that's a fantastic question I'm I'm that would be pretty easy data to pull but I don't have that right now but I can certainly get that information to pretty quickly yeah well and just maybe along with that just I would love to you know um maybe comparable districts or just like how you know we have very active students you know in this in this District just how how do we compare with percentages of Who's involved in what maybe just that's something to pull as well y again that would be pretty easy especially with our conference I'd be able to pull that data which some of those schools are like schools and some not so much when it comes to our diversity um so we might not see a lot of the same numbers but it would still be great information to have so I can thank you up go ahead no go ahead so thank you for this this was great and I always have this question like so what right so now that we got all this data I was thinking about some of those trends that either um going up or going down um what what are some things that you would like to do with this data in terms of you know to understand better in terms of Improvement in terms of understanding the student body better um just kind of love to hear more about that I'm thinking of suet data right kind of like why some things are the way it is right away I was thinking about why why is that why is it this way right why did it increase why did it decrease um so we love to hear more I think all of it brings up more questions for all of us and it's just good it's it's data that we use to Monitor and also to like look at how are we doing compared to the Strategic plan right and and they also help to for us to see those strategic plan areas to know like here are the things that we need to develop so a lot of our strategic plan is based on a lot of these reports and data that you see coming forward I think um like Trina and Andrea and N who are involved in the actual you know um discussions with students they they get to hear that more often um from the students directly to hear about those programs and hear about from those families as well too so they do are able to get some of that street data and hear from hear from families about that as well too it's especially when I think about like why over over representation in atics versus academics or clubs right what what are some of the underlying um cultural perspectives about that yes or right I mean there's some of it that it's not the number right it's about the mindset it's about how families think about that how the students think about that yeah I I think um our boys volleyball program is going to be a really interesting one to watch because right now it's set up as a club sport incredibly affordable there isn't really this like highlevel Club volleyball outside that usually drives tons of money and like high level full commitment now that the mshsl sted next year is going to have it as a sport it' be really interesting because it's one of our most diverse programs right now will that stay that way we can actually track if you stepped away why did you step away was it Financial was it access was it it suddenly became this thing that it wasn't anymore so I think I think that'll be a really interesting one that I'll have my eyes on um I'm a little nervous that it will take away access to some of our more diverse families I mean I I'll I'll just share I was working with another district and I remember hearing and I was working with some students um unfortunately it was because of some incident that happened and I remember some of the students I think this were Asian students they talk about how they feel this sense of like club culture in athletics right so they don't want to be part of it or if they are they often feel like they don't belong they feel like they are a little bit like people like why are you there right why you know you should be the one in the math club but I like I like sports right so there's some of that going on that would be interesting to see what is what are those mindsets are and what what are people thinking and feeling uh about about uh how how how being in a sports club mean right or not mean or you know they are just not interested because they didn't grow up that but doing that so it's it was very interesting I always remember that that conversation with the students because it was I don't know if we would have been able to find that data anywhere else except for the fact that I was with them right you about Street we would talking about it yes and they like oh yeah we don't feel like people want us there I'm like oh wow right and I think really the work that I do is very different than these two because we aren't able to raise these kids in sport and club culture necessarily in school the same way now this is data that usually these students are coming up in our school system I receive a lot of these students from this like highlevel intense sport culture that's created through like wreck and for-profit programming and then they end up at the high school and it has become this like Elite we are the ones you can't just join right now and try to become a basketball player that's not going to happen if you've never dribbled a ball before so that that's I think the Unique Piece to activities cuz I just don't have my hands on those kids you know we can't we can't really control all of that stuff until they get here and then we try to break that down and provide as much access and comfort and belonging feeling of belonging as we can but is it is a lot of work to do yeah K can I ask and follow up on what you were talking about you talked about the financial barriers maybe a potential issue what kind of resources can we offer families um if in fact they fill out the um educational benefits form what kind of discount do they get could you comment on that y so um there's the free and the reduced so the reduced those students pay 50% of all clubs and activities that I operate that my budget operates clubs run slightly differently because they simply pay much lower fee and that money essentially goes to pay for the person who's running the club but we still will wave students like there's no money going going in but we make it work um for the students who are free introduced and then the students who uh categorize as free they don't pay to register however that doesn't pay for all the equipment and you know all of the extras that come along with it all of that fundraising stuff that maybe kids don't have support with um you know they're not in a household of parents saying let's go knock on the doors together right so um the school itself is able to provide the registration fee but it's the stuff beyond that that really is kind of beyond what we provide that kind of sets them up like I can't afford those cleats um hopefully you know there's a lot of reaching out to Grants and scholarships and stuff like that so we do the best we can um there's just there's not a lot you can do when the team is saying let's go train at this particular facility in the off seon that costs money and and that's not something that my programming sure can offer financial help with thank you I was making the connection to our community advisory work around who is in the community that um if they were to know about this right that there are gaps in financial support how might our community step up if they knew about it I was I was just goingon to say I want to do a shout out to the the school districts I know we've got a lot of a plethora of booster clubs um that really I think help out and I know you're probably working with a lot of them through Sports and through other activities but we do have some great you know booster clubs in this District to help out groups where maybe where we're falling or some families or kids are falling short and a huge shout out actually to Dick Sporting Goods they um gave about I want to say it's like 30 pairs of cleats that they they were the ones that you put on the shelf and then they can't resell and so they reached out and said would you take these so was football cleats and baseball cleats and so you know there are some Community Partnerships like that that happen but then you know it's a random size 11 you know who knows if it'll work for the student who needs it but yeah there are some opportunities like that as well so just thinking like almost in accounting right like if you are in this particular Sports it it adds up right some of the things adds up and if that cost is upfront and our community support know that right people in the community know that might give say this much donation support activities for a kid over a year right on I'm just thinking out loud here yeah and that's something I think I again could easily put together and put on our website and you know I've been fundraising for this weight worm equipment for what feels like 400 years I think we've got it we're all set hopefully we have that new equipment this summer but then the money that is still coming in for that I'm hoping to put in scholarships for summer training because that is something that my budget can't cover for the free and reduced students so anyone who was free and reduced the year prior we can use that a scholarship for them um but I think we can expand on that as we're talking here and really give people the if they can see basketball that's $100 for shoes hockey it's exactly $2,000 for all hear right so that people can see up front right I really see that and say okay I just don't think I can have my kid do this yeah what can we do to support a family who really a kid who really want to try absolutely because we don't want this to be a barri it's it's really opportunities right go beyond academics yeah yes it's all in your head I know it's like it's all no it's just great for conversation too and it shouldn't just stay in my head should know no but it it brings up a great point of you know for larger maybe larger asks or where you need help we have a very also active and robust rosbury schools Foundation y who could help with a capital maybe a campaign or just some you know but it's you know using that group just it besides booster clubs but there's ways to help fill in the Gap when we look at that group and well absolutely IDE is 20 Kitty and N I was wondering if you could comment on the work you doing to try to um bring the various groups closer to 1.0 and the success for example that you've been having in the Hispanic group Etc how how is that being achieved what are your plans into the future so our plans are working with our um in in what is it multi tier systems of support that we're trying to put into place to make sure that every site has an in effective in working site team I set team which is Student Assistance team I have to stop with all the acronyms um and so if if we're if we're strengthening our tier one where everyone's getting what they're supposed to be getting at that tier one we're hoping to see that our other tiers are shrinking and then when I say our other tiers especially that top tier which is special education and the referrals that are going out that are going out to sa team to um request um evaluations for students so if they're getting what they need and and on the front end they won't need as much on the back end and so we're we've been you know with we're fortunate enough to have a coordinator that's been working closely with our schools to talk about what set looks like at at at each site and we're hoping that in the coming you know it may take us a couple years but we have cohesive set teams at each site and what would you say has contributed to um getting um some of the um increase in Hispanic students in terms of referrals I I think it's awareness of those that you know I I encourage my team as well as myself when we're going out to sites to to present the data and making um teams aware of their data and we break it down by race and just really talk through what what it says when we see these numbers for referrals at each site and so that's just a start and a lot of it I mean and we we give kudos to our teams for putting the work in to put the interven in place because I believe that if the interventions work then we we don't need to go any further than that and so they're we're giving all um just accolades to our teams to that they're putting those interventions in place for our students thank you I have a question about the special act Trends by race inity I I'm just curious the red line which is kind of getting uh I think that's the Asian students right is that correct oh my God I can't read all right those are the Asian students that um was 6 and it's getting closer to to proportionality of8 do you have comments about why that happened is it out is it you know again kind of a change in understanding what services are I think it's a change in understanding of what services are mhm um looking you know just looking at Services differently like I said it's an awareness piece and there are you know our students are you know at one point looking at just because when we look at our students of Asian students they also may fall into that multilingual piece and looking at um how we service those students and when we start servicing students so it's just awareness piece because I also know in many Asian cultures there's a stigma around I mean actually clinical right what what special at right um uh what what it means to be uh in special in special education yes yeah so overcoming that and know that these are services that actually will taking away the negative and huh I always take you know I always tell people you know and like we take away that negative aspect of what special education is and look at it in terms of there may be a point in a child's educational career where they need a little extra help and it's not you know I'm a I myself a parent of a child with an i and I had to overcome that too as even as a spec yeah director to to really see that the extra boost and help um that that it's making him more successful guess that was kind of pretty I could you know that that was very nice progress over the last few years thank you for the work it's great right do we have any data like what you know come they coming from a higher a perspective that students who participate in activities clubs organizations do better do they graduate at higher rates can we we tell if there is there anything that tell us that that's a way we can push some of our students to do better in certain grps I I would say that part of I mean a lot of these groups have that accountability piece attached to them so it's been incredibly helpful with some of our students who aren't as present in the classroom to get them into the classroom um I think it's both a motivator and then naturally with some of those activities you know they're they are education based um a lot of them are music based you know and so naturally some of those students who do well in those areas will gravitate toward those activities as well um so we certainly use like our Sports specifically we can use as a driver um it's much easier to track attendance and know that we have games tonight we have you know a lot of coaches and eyes on those students whereas our clubs are a little more Loosely run so attendance isn't necessarily the driver for them and we all know that attendance is really the biggest driver for our students being successful in the classroom so yes I have a lot of students right now in this winter session it's been a little tough so I have a lot of coaches who students actually have to show them their phone and their attendance and their grades every day to step onto the court step onto the ice so not only do our students tend to do well they're you know pushed by family members too like this is one of those things that we're going to be doing including doing well in the classroom you're also going to be doing this so um again I think that's pretty easy data to pull um to see who which Stu because we if we were pulling the students who weren't there we can simply pull credit checks on those students as well um and then jpa on those students too yeah I had the same question right how does this correlate to um and maybe it's not directly to GPA but they sense that they belong right and so they tend to want to come to school more because there's a club they're going to to go to so I so some of this may not be the actual quantitative data it might be just just just the sense that they they want to come right so I I think I think having that correlation or have some sense of what that is it would be very interesting to to see to understand yeah I'd suggest that you're all asking the same question right so what students are we missing what interventions can we put in place how can we ensure that sense of belonging and inclusion to elevate the performance of all students okay thank you so much thank you thank you so much thank you [Applause] Team all right uh the monthly financial report we have business director Sher Thompson good evening good evening so I have a couple of items that I'd like to um touch on in your package uh you will see there's an enrollment summary we have completed our preliminary enrollment projection so I will touch on that uh first I I want to draw your attention to um an item in the consent agenda uh that is uh the approval for the facility assessment um and I'm you know I'm sure you read those through those materials but we haven't really looked at our deferred maintenance in our facilities since we did our big study pre uh built Bond referendum in like 2016 so um we have now completed deferred maintenance at Little Canada we've done um a large portion at uh the high school but there's still more work to be done we have completed work at brim Hall uh this summer we will be completing Falcon Heights uh this is uh year two of Falcon Heights and then beginning the summer we'll do phase one of edw and phase two the completion will uh happen in 2025 so um car Anderson has been our project manager we've been partnering with them since um passage of the referendum and we have uh talked to them about uh completing a you know a third part a deep dive so we can figure out what that next phase is of course you have a 10-year plan and you adopt it every year but things change over the years we know we have um some uh large Roofing projects to do so we're just uh looking for them to complete this study we all also will have access to a database that we can use this is going to help with the ltfm plan every year uh and give us more information as you approve that as we come to to you every year and they're looking at probably a four to five month completion on this and that kind of aligns with about the time that we come to you to approve the ltfm plan so they will complete the study they'll go through it with the administration and uh they will come to the board and present their findings to you so I just wanted to kind of recap that um because that's at least in our world and operations we're pretty excited about that um I think it will be uh a great tool for us moving forward um secondly then uh the uh as I stated we had completed the enrollment projection for for next year uh we've talked about how enrollment has either been stagnant or slightly declining in the last couple years we're still trying to figure out that Trend um currently uh you have uh something in front of you that lays out the en our enrollment projections by grade um and by School uh so we are projecting for the elementary um uh for instance and that's highlighted there in that uh purple uh 3,820 students uh K through uh K through six uh that is comparable to where we on February 1st we're at 3,798 that's to the far right there um and that compares to the Staffing that we had done a year ago for the 23 24 school year of 3,887 um so we we while we think um you know we're we're down a little bit as far as um where we projected even a year ago uh we're we're projecting that will be slightly up from February 1st and we will continue to monitor this couple of the trends that we're seeing um overall I think um this year uh eder's enrollment has been down um this year and then also Falcon Heights had a large class moving through they had a bubble moving through uh the sixth grade so that that bubble moves out um so that's impacting their enrollment overall and then looking at the um the secondary uh we have seen an increase uh in the secondary um at our our Middle School level uh you can see there overall looking at the secondary we're at uh three we're projecting 3,49 students uh we had uh actually staffed for 3,368 students um we've seen most of that growth at the middle school this year uh which is great and um February 1st we are at 3,410 so so we're looking at pretty flat numbers um there uh so yeah so overall we're estimating that uh we'll be um 26 lower than what than our projection projection from a year ago but we will be in see a net increase of about 21 students from February 1st to next year and obviously we continue to monitor this and if we see any uh large changes or Vari um we will uh up update the board on that but yes we see a lot of up and down between now and October right yeah um so primarily yes how is the kindergarten classes doing um so the kindergarten class this year uh we saw a kindergarten CL we have a Kindergarten class of about 520 so this is the lowest kindergarten class that we've had in I would say over 10 years um we are hoping that those numbers will be up slightly next year for five at 544 just from what we're seeing in our prek um but yes that is something that we're watching we do know um you know that birth rates have been down um uh overall and um recognizing um some of the impact that charter schools are also having uh Charter Schools homeschooling um non-public but we also will see how um just you know looking at our experience uh how that impacts other schools even with the change in federal funding right right because we have all received Federal funding the last four years so um uh we'll see how that impacts enrollment for all of us going forward and one of the things that so so if I'm reading this right so we are um we're looking at an actual increase at harambe projections right now so that's that's good news we've actually seen enrollment um from the beginning of the year uh the last couple months we've seen enrollment ticking up at harambe that's good we'd like to see it higher but it's headed in the right it's headed in the right direction too bad I'd love to tell him about the year round school yes well Central enrollment has been really good about informing families of the yearr round opportunity yes they have good any other questions on enrollment okay the last item I have last but not least is the 2023 audit um so we are still finalizing the statements it's been slower than we had thought part of it has been even um getting information final information to the Auditors on on my part the department our department our finance department everyone is hard at it some of it's just even been my own schedule and now aligning the schedule with the Auditors as we get things done then them have freeing up time so right now we have worked um uh out of schedule and they should be they are working this week on producing ing um a final draft that does not mean review to um so a final draft um I will I am working with them on that as well uh our goal is and part of this is complicated with my schedule I will be out from February 29th through March 14th um I will be doing some work remote if needed to get the audit done our goal is to have the draft audit out to the board electronically by March 8th and and then at that time it will go through their review process and bring it to the board for review and final adoption on March 19th and I know this is delayed and we don't want it delayed and I know that um and I take responsibility on um on those delays just trying to get um uh keep everything keep everything moving um we are also um uh looking at adding uh a a staffing position in the business office which I think will help um going forward and um again and I know you've heard this before and it's really um not intended to be an excuse but the amount of reporting that we have continued to have to do with not only federal funds we've been fortunate enough to also secure grants from the state and federal level which is fabulous but it's creating it's putting a lot more burden on um the business office as well as far as reporting and even working with teams in getting their grants compiled and making sure they're in compliance so I apologize for that and knowing when I look at that strategic plan and number five not only being financially secure part of that is uh reporting on time as far as um um being fiscally solvent and strong um so um well I want to emphasize to it's a shared responsibility certainly and as I've gotten closer to this process to fully understand right it's Unique because many of us in all of our jobs we can work collaboratively together every single step of the way in fact I think most work happens that way for the audit when we have a internal Roseville area school as business department you do a chunk of the work then it's scheduled out with the auditing Fir and we can't move forward until we get their work back then we do a chunk of the work they do and so I've just learned so much over the time that it is so belabored and you're waiting on each other constantly so I just wanted to share that it's thank you shared responsibility I have a question so it totally get that oh my goodness and not it's not that we have a Grand's office right where we we only deal with all the Grands you know reporting suggested that well are you applying I I do Wonder though with if we are going to be working with more Grant is that something that we need to think about even seasonally right getting folks who could manage that or help us in your office so it's not a position but it's like knowing that we have more bigger GRS that are going to come come in to think about that just just a thought and that could be a part of your vision for the new position I know that you parcel it out a little bit right now with Grant that is part of part of the the vision for that new position yeah and and then another question is with the what they have named the fiscal cliff right because the fouryear yes pandemic funding will not be there anymore would that help a little bit with the the next audit after this next audit we'll have one more year of um Federal funding and we laugh in the business office because it's like okay now that we have this figured out because that piece went a lot better now that we have this figured out the money's going away um no but yes but again we can um we continue there's still a lot more reporting even at the state level than there um was previously yeah thank you Sher um thank you and your and your team in that office it's very fortunate to have the team that I have thank you very much thank you thank you for no action all right keep our guests waiting yeah moving on to action items we are pleased to have members of the American Indian parent advisory committee uh here along with uh director donon Smith uh we'll be discussing our education transmittal resolution of committee roster thank you thank you for your patience guys I really appreciate you being here tonight so thank you thank you thank you for having us tonight um just want to make sure you grab a mic speak into all right so greetings School Board uh members and uh for those who are watching online I'm dyon Smith director of equity and Innovation uh here in the office of educational Equity I'm pleased to be here with members of our American Indian parent advisory committee and I just want to take some time for them to introduce I'm Ursa penan um as Dyan said one of the parents on the committee um a descendant of the Leech Lake band of OJ um um equ IND maax and jabah magazi um indom Dame um my English name is Kelly Miller I am an enrolled member of the ma band of ojibway I am an apack member and my children attend um Central Park Elementary School thank you for having us you yourself sure I'm Gabriella Carol and I'm the American Indian Education Program Coordinator welcome back you're famous thank you yes so the American Indian parent advisory committee or APAC uh serves in an advisory role to the district and helps to ensure that American Indian students are receiving culturally relevant and Equitable educational opportunities the APAC is critical to the achievement and success of American Indian students in Roseville and their presence input and knowledge is key to strengthening district and parent Partnerships prior to March 1st of each year the Apex must meet to discuss whether or not they concur with the educational offerings that have been extended by the district to American Indian students if the APAC finds that the district and or School Board have been meeting the needs of American Indian students they issue a vote and resolution of concurrence if they find that the district or the school board have not been meeting the needs of American Indian students they issue a vote and resolution of non-c concurrence so this is what we're here to talk about today um so I'll uh turn over to Gabriela our Native American program coordinator and she'll share a little bit more so Hamed akabi hello my relatives it's good to see you all so soon again as Elon mentioned I will explain a little bit more about the vote of annual compliance our American Indian parent advisor committee or APAC met during their monthly meeting in January to assess if Roseville area schools is currently meeting the needs of our Native American students this year mde provided an American Indian education aid program plan review document to assist the APAC in determining if Roseville area schools made sufficient progress towards each of our goals submitted to mde in Fall of 2023 once the vote is taken it is reflected formally on documentation provided by the office of American Indian education the vote in resolution must be presented by the school board by one or more members of our APAC if the vote is one of non-c concurrence the APAC must also provide written recommendations for improvement to the school board at the time of presentation the school board does not approve the resolution they receive the information and it is reflected within the board minutes in the case of non-c concurrence the school board is then given 60 days in which to respond in writing to the APAC recommendation the board response must be signed by the school board and pro be provided to the APAC and submitted to the office of American Indian education mde I'll now turn it over to Ursula our American Indian parent advisory committee chair to share this year's vote of annual compliance okay um can we go to the next slide please thank you um so our parent committee has recommendations for the school board and I wanted to go over what our recommendations are and then explain why we are making those recommendations so our first recommendation increase professional development for all staff every year the American par Indian parent advisory committee or AAC works with District leadership in the office of educational Equity to create goals and strategies to support the needs of Native American students in our district we collaborate on educational goals that allow the district to apply for the American Indian educational Aid Grant or AA a grant that supports a large portion of American Indian Ed programming the goals for the aiaa grant focus on five areas postsecondary preparation for Native American students Native American academic achievement culturally relevant curriculum positive reinforcement of Native American self-image and Intercultural awareness for students families and staff the grant provides funding to support Native American educational programming and the goals are meant to be for the district not just for the American Indian staff during the last few years the district has met one of the five goals it is the goal area that focuses on positive self-image this is the goal where our American Indian Ed staff has the most impact the other goal areas require multiple staff across multiple buildings to collaborate in order to reach those goals to improve the outcomes for our children and make greater strides toward meeting our District's aiaa goals we make the following recommendations first we think that increased professional development for all staff around American Indian education can help move the district in the right direction we think that improved professional development around supporting American Indian students and having a better better understanding of American Indian Ed programming goals will help our staff members see their role in helping the district achieve the goals and helping our students succeed um do our staff members understand their role in achieving the aiaa grant each year do our staff members know the purpose for those goals without professional development our staff may not understand the importance of the goals and the strategies for our children and the students in this District our second request is for adequate Staffing for American Indian Ed programming a major concern of APAC during the last several years has been about staff retention for years it was the responsibility of a single liaison to support All American Indian students and families across 11 buildings all while building up an American indied program and supporting District staff as they work with our students and families in the 2020 school year there were several months where there was no American Indian education programming um or staff that winter the district supported hiring a coordinator to help build the program and a part-time liaison in um in this model more consistent programming began to occur for our children and if I remember correctly that following year was the first year that my daughter received any services for Native American students and she was a third grader in our district that year all three of my kids participate and programming has been great for our children my children love attending their Infinity groups last year we saw a need for increased Staffing as the 1.5 FTE model wasn't enough and during the third trimester of last year a part-time liaison position was supported by the district um as a committee we noticed an appreciated that increased support because American indanet programming supports students families and staff across 11 buildings Staffing is still a concern for APAC we believe that one coordinator and one liaison is not sufficient Staffing for an American Indian Ed program that spans 11 buildings in order for our students and families to make connections with our American Indian Ed staff they need to be able to see them more frequently um we are concerned that the job will spread our staff members too thin and we will again have problems with retention right now I believe we are down to one staff member um the American indied programming coordinator Gabriella our leaz is currently out on maternity leave and our parent committee was disappointed to learn that a a sub was not posted for her our students and families still need support and roles should not go unfilled during maternity leave or any other kind of leave finally we have seen Improvement in cooperation within the district around American Indian Ed programming past staff members reported having difficulty getting access to school students or classroom spaces to work with our kids fortunately that has improved and staff members have a much easier time meeting with our students and being welcomed at the 11 schools and those are great gains and there is still room for growth particularly when building staff are responsible for connecting with American Indian Ed staff to support students it is our understanding that the district wants our liaison to be invited to work with and support families during more challenging educational situations like IEP meetings and student disciplinary meetings um our Liaisons are not getting consistent invitations to those sorts of meetings we would like for our families to walk into those meetings with an advocate one that they know and their children know in order to make this happen we must have adequate Staffing and make sure building staff reach out to connect with our Liaisons with enough time to get the meetings on their calendars so our recommendations increase professional development for all staff adequate staff for American Indian education we are asking for an addition 1.0 FTE for Staffing and then um concrete plans for coverage when somebody is out we are also asking for increased support for American Indian Ed staff and programs particularly through improved collaboration thank you thank you the American parent advisory committee issues a vote and resolution of concurrence with the educational offerings that have been extended by Roseville area schools to the indigenous students we think that the district is making movement in the right direction we would like to see continued efforts in supporting the American Indian educational Aid rals and increased collaboration with American Indian Ed programming District 623 um is ahead of the game with some of the new state mandates regarding American Indian education the dress code changes smudging practices and hiring a coordinator were implemented in collaboration with APAC the last few years we have also made requests around indigenous language courses which is one of the new state mandates it is our strong belief that improving professional development about Native Americans increasing staff to support programming and improving collaboration across the district departments to support American Indian Ed will have a strong positive outcome for our children and for our district me go thank you thank you so we'll open up for any questions or or who process you can ask questions now you know before we vote members that oh or we just accept yeah just accept that's right go ahead okay sorry no no no no questions just to comment um first of all thank you for your patience um um tonight and your patience in general as you know as we as the district try to ramp up this program I personally um I am very excited about the things that have happened so far I'm excited about where it's going um and just really you know just really excited Gabriella you're amazing and uh in case hone hasn't told you that lately um this is um the program has grown so much in just the last three years um and you know we we will continue to work with APAC um to make it better can I make a follow-up comment um I agree I think Gabriel is amazing um I purposely bought a house within this school district just for this school district so um just and I'm am a first-time home buyer two years ago and I chose this I chose Roseville yes um knowing but also knowing that their American Indian programming was very min animal and that is a hard pill to swallow because um where I work our district our my job and programs I oversee work really closely with St Paul and know that how well their programmingsoftware unities for our students to connect with people and building those trusting relationships learning about their culture learning their language and just connecting with like-minded students that look like them because representation is huge for students especially students of color and when there is no other American Indian student in the room it it can it can feel lonely so being able to connect with those other students even for that half hour once or twice a month is really important I know to my children and me as a parent so not having a sub was is really disappointing and I'm not sure the process it takes but I would love if we could figure out how that could be an option so our students are not missing programming the rest of the school year because it's only the end of middle of February sure and I F first of all I hear you I understand and I completely with you okay um I I I I I'm not going to do the thing where I normally do and and try to say something that I can't do um but um you've been heard and um uh I'm I'm we're going to work with u uh Dr Smith um and others um to see what can be done so thank you we were I know that we were all impressed especially with Gabriella and Savannah um the their the participation report um yeah it has talk about more participation and improvements over the past few years but passion you bring and Savannah was bringing and just it's it it was just so key um it was wonderful to see that report but thank you thank you for being here and and giving us things to work on I mean we you know as director Johnson said we will very much keep working on things make things better but we this is such a great group and thank you for being here tonight in this you know this report so thank you your feedback is received yeah yeah yeah really thank you for the work and really um this relationship is very important for us in this District so the work that you all put in in the in the committee to look at what is going on and giving us a very constructive feedback and so really appreciate this kind of uh like the vote that you you did this year um really speaks to we are we are really working on it and we have still work to do right but we are definitely working on it and thanks to gella in Savannah so thank you thank you thank you could I just quickly add yeah um but I I I I just want to um at least try to ensure that the the board knows that um just how uh committed of a group we have front for our apack um you know when Gabrielle and I first started I think we had one or two people Ursa was one of them um and Ursa I want to thank you because you've hung in there to be the chair of this committee and I know it's tough doing that and we tried to find others to pick up the mantle um but you've hung in there so thank you for that Kelly you as well you're always there but our apack is growing um so that's really exciting that's great uh to see we've have um consistent membership uh this year has been really really great at our APAC meetings I think we've got some good things done in those meetings and so this is just a really uh powerful group and and I appreciate their advocacy um for our our students and I I I'm I'm totally with y'all in trying to make everything um happen that needs to happen for our students but um just want to make sure that we understand um the importance of our relationship with our with our Apex M and just to thank um at least these two and those who may be watching uh for your for your commitment appreciate yes thank you director thank you for that thank you abely and I'll just throw in there I'll extend an invite if you guys ever want to attend an AP meeting we have food we have great company there's child care you can feel free to bring your kids I think it's definitely important for you as well as board members to know parents and students I know Curtis you or director Johnson you've given you call me Curtis I know we'll get the invitation to the Celebration at the end of the year as well we used to have a board member come consistently and I appreciated that cuz sometimes there were questions that we had and like they either knew the answer or could get it to us also if somebody can let us know when the meetings are yeah that would be great do we have a current representative with me it it has I think he has do we have a backup for you do we have an alter actually you're going to have to look at we will check in yeah that I don't know actually thank you for your patience again foray thank you all thank you thank you do we need to do something if you know to make oh do we need it is I still need to accept yeah accept the to AC threw me off okay um all right we at that point where we um I'll entertain a motion to accept to accept the American Indian transmittal resolution committee roster has presented so moved okay is there a second second okay any further discussion okay all those in favor signify by saying I I I I all those opposed motion carries thank you thank you this look great all right moving on to the study session report director Katy goggin thank you um well we um we're scheduled left our last meeting to have both a closed session and a stud session uh the closed session was put first um and was a robust discussion uh around um the negotiations and where those were at and uh that discussion extended so long it was a decision to make to um delay the study session till a future date when we could do the topic Justice yeah so um the study session did not occur I may add so anti-racist leadership extended will happen after the March 6 meeting at the March 6 study session great thank you thank you great thank you director gogins okay moving on to board reports um I think I will is it okay uh Rose oh start with you is that all right sure um I think the the the meeting that I went to that I will report and I think Menace you were there I don't remember who else um it's the Ramsey County League of local government there was um monthly meeting on climate action in Ramsey County it was actually well attended the presentations were wonderful I learned so much about what is happening in Ramy County so we had somebody from Ramsey County um ABI Phillips really she she share a little bit of a uh report that will be coming out that provides a framework and description of what is happening in Ramsey County and how you know different entities can work together and so she couldn't like give us that download yet but it's going to come and I thought she did a great job kind of talking about all the ways that different agency can work together and how they do that and they did a lot of focus groups and a lot of community engagement to come up with this framework so was very appreciative of that and then uh John Don who is the sheview council member and he's also the RG Treasurer and he is part of leading um within RG uh a collective action effort around climate CH change so there is a committee that he calls claw uh climate action work group and again really they are really trying to think about how to include all the different so a lot of this is very the inter agency of how we can work together and so this group is actually going to maybe try to uh get some funding to move forward um so along with the Ramsey County framework along with some of the processes that need to get in place I think it's going to be very exciting um in terms of who will be involved in this um and then finally um Peter Lindstrom from um uh the ma Council provided information around grants and timelines there's actually a lot of funding available for climate change and he gave us a whole resource list um and so it's interesting to see how uh he talked about how there are some organization that will be more ready to to to to kind of apply for those grants and hopefully those will keep coming and hope that Minnesota will be on the radar to receive some of those Federal funding to do some great work uh the one that he highlighted was um the epa's climate pollution reduction Grant so he talked about that and so it was it was a really interesting session to listen to how all this is happening and I've been thinking about all the ways that we are working on that and as some point how do we intersect right intersect with the other government agencies to make sure that we are on the same page too yeah so thank you that was great Manis you want to add anything you great yeah than Rose manx um I will say we had the seek meeting special education advisory council meeting do director gogin and I both attended that um Dr busman talked to the group about the science of reading and we had a couple new members um who had questions about seek and how they can become more involved so I think that was very good um also got to attend the community education advisory Council as well and Chris Rosal um shared with us about the Mills on Wheels program so I learned a a lot about that you know that we provide that for senior adults and adults with disabilities that this past year we had over 27,000 500 meals that we did um through that service and it's based on our um district there and the meals are made from scratch here at I to Teta so it was a very informative thing because I had not heard about that before um I know about mil well but not the detail about what we do at stret so I think that was good um and then I also got the pleasure um to spend some time U with Dr bah kadis at Little Canada Elementary he gave me a nice tour since I had been on the board I had not had a chance to actually tour Little Canada Elementary there um and to borrow something from superintendent Sonic I went in a couple classrooms with him and to watch the kids come up and give him a hug it really warms your heart that was I thought I thought said cuz very I mean he had such a great relationship with those kids and introduced me to a lot of the staff there and it was good to um be there um it was very it was bustling that day very good opportunity but yeah I know some of the other things other people been good thank you kitty um got a chance to attend with Todd um the um amsd knowledge uh work session that was really around student centered uh work and um they shared their analysis that really kind of covers three areas the culture of innovation support of teachers and leaders and a comprehensive assessment system and if we look at our platform we certainly have a a student centered uh component in there that actually touches on two of those three areas um but uh it seems like they're a resource in trying to organize Statewide effort to um support uh the student cented uh work and uh we're also looking for partners in that activity um Todd and I did share um our platform that we're working on and the element around student centered work um got to attend the LBGTQ plus uh Council um uh we've had Representatives at uh Minnesota Department of education's gender inclusive learning uh cohort that they've been offering for the first time and that's some good material that came out and it's really interesting how that group will they'll take some challenge that some staff member or teacher is having implementing uh the policies we have and say well how could we do this what kind of ideas do people have and have a really great discussion um with some new ways of trying to do things new approaches as we're trying to become even more welcoming for our students um along with almost all of our board members I got to attend the community conversation around safety um and would like to thank John Choy the Ramsey County attorney and the Roseville Police and the community members who attended as well as the board members there's some great material collected and I'm very excited to see that we'll continue the conversation with high school students on this incredibly important topic um attended the local elected officials meeting um and um where the district presented our platform and early childhood programming and there was some great conversation and discussion as well as talking about school safety um that's another opportunity like rose was talking about with really collaboration as people share their updates and we realize some of the connections um and um opportunities there um that's it okay well there's there's a reason I don't like to go after Kitty um but I do have two things um first a a um a shout out to the Roseville area high school powerlifting Club this is actually a a a fairly new group um but they have qualified for Nationals um so they will be going uh I believe it's going to they have U supposedly 10 to 12 kids who will be going to New Orleans um in a month or so so uh congratulations and good luck uh to them um just really um impressive work especially because again this is a very new group um something for the future um this Friday Saturday and Sunday um the mini play Fest at Roseville area high school um will feature five plays written and directed by students and obviously performed by students um it's something I've always enjoyed and um it's on Friday and Saturday you can see it um from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. and then on Sunday you have a matine from 2:00 to 3:30 so you know if you can make some time go and and see these because they these are really good things so that is all I have thank you I just want to briefly touch on that local government meeting um I appreciate superintendent Lake that we are continuing um this opportunity to network with all kinds of stakeholders something that superintendent CI started I thought it was a great idea quarterly to kind of keep those connections in the networking so thank you for keeping uh that going um just a reminder for the public and my own um board colleagues that our next board meeting it will not be on Tuesday March 5th that's because there's a Minnesota presidential primary our next meeting will be on Wednesday March 6th um I'm sure we're all aware of that but just a friendly reminder out there Wednesday March 6th and then um just kind of also um you know uh I don't know if the public knows this too much but um you know Association of metropolitan school districts has a day at the capital and um I just want to remind folks that you know to the public out there that you know you have Schoolboard members who are very active in this in this organization and several of us are going to be either that day or um Minnesota school boards Association also has one coming up further in March but the first one is Tuesday March 5th and it's our opportunity to meet with legislators to talk about our school district legislative priorities but we are very active with that group we'll have some folks at the capital that day to hear from legislators and to have their ear so it's um something important I think that the public does understand that we're we're we're doing a lot and we LOB on behalf of our you know our priorities our legislative priorities around education so you know it's a good it's a good day to go up there and talk to the legislators that's coming up that's all I had superintendent Jenny Lake thank you good evening throughout the month of February we celebrate Black History Month I'll emphasize that in Roseville area schools it's our mission to raise the voices of our black community and truly recognize and celebrate All bipo communities every day in our schools February is also Schoolboard recognition month collectively the Roseville area school board continues to thrive in representing our entire School community Through listening to students staff and community members discussing important issues and speaking with one voice as superintendent I'm incredibly grateful to serve such a dedicated invested wise and generous School Board one particular board member is deserving of special recognition this evening our very own Dr Rose Chu has been recently named a 2023 manip Ron McKinley all relations equity in action Award winner I'm now going to read part of the awards press release congratulations you Dr Ros has dedicated her her professional life to the tireless Pursuit Of Education equity and Excellence a first generation immigrant from Hong Kong and first generation college graduate her original engineering background and experience at Honeywell coupled with her most honored role as a classroom teacher at Plymouth youth center and Minneapolis Public School schs have continued to ground her life's work in educational reform and transformation I would read the whole entire press release but I would go on and on in closing in addition Rose is the Visionary and Project Lead for the Elevate teaching movement to transform how we talk about View and relate to the teaching profession to restore and honor and to restore the honor and Prestige the profession deserves in our society starting with Minnesota Rose has served as a Schoolboard director in Roseville area school since January 2020 and also is a 2022 Bush fellow so congratulations Dr to thank you for calling that I I don't usually like those things going on but I perfect month thank you yeah I have to say it's it's an honor that is very very heartfelt because I knew Ron McKinley he is he was was an amazing nonprofit philanthropic leader in the community and I had the uh privilege to uh be part of a leadership program I'm pretty sure it was a Shannon lead sh James Shannon leadership program that was at Wilder Foundation at the time but now it's kind of on its own and he I don't know he was a founder of Minnesota education Equity partnership used to be called it's a different name I can't um I can't remember the old name now now that we got the new name but he was the founder it was his vision of kind of uh having a um 30 something years ago a organization very grounded in race race Equity so it's it's an honor to kind of continue his legacy so thank you congratulations thank you all right if there's no further business before the board we stand a [Music] journ