after everybody made it in town okay you've got you've got quite a coming home yes well I had to think about it a little bit I thought CL going to be did you pick up sh so sweet thank you actually I didn't pick it up I have whatever but thank you for thinking is it do you guys want to send yep y perfect perfect Beth's out of town with her mom next week so I got babysitters in my my week got get the schedule lined up she is her favorite teacher but just to be clear be is amazing like The Whisper I don't even know how she get she go about business I take it I'm reading this tonight yep okay thanks Kitty no problem checking 630 okay Wayne we're ready good evening I'd like to call to order the Rosary School board meeting for Tuesday March 18th to order acting clerk will please take the role director Shaw here director gogins here director bogeski here chair Anderson here an acting Clerk and treasure Clark is here thank you any agenda adjustments for the evening There Are No Agenda adjustments okay I'm moving on to announcements comments recognitions our land acknowledgement will be read by director gogins Roseville a schools acknowledges that we reside on traditional ancestral contemporary and unseated territory of the Dakota people from bote a Confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers a place that Dakota people poetically claim as the center of the earth directly beneath the center of Heaven to Indian mounds park a sacred place of burial built by ancestors of living people and home to the know only known remaining burial mound 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 injustices that reduce over 150 million indigenous people to around 3 300,000 indigenous people have given their blood tears heart resilience and love to this land enduring boarding schools that were in operation from 1879 through the 1930s where s simulation through humiliation was the curriculum and unspeakable atrocities occurred daily to the foster care system where more children 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 Rosell Area School schs 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 been denied to nearly 600 indigenous Nations including 11 federally recognized tribes in Minnesota through the breaking of over 400 treaties and we have committed to the truth of our 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 director gin all right we have some fantastic athletes here this evening uh come on up uh Andre schi yes so excited welcome welcome come on up yeah and our activities director Andy Andrew Schmidt is going to provide introductions before we get to our student athletes yes absolutely they don't want to hear Too Much from me they want to hear mostly from you um but I am super proud today to introduce you if you've not already met anuka Bo and Elizabeth hler they are wrestlers for the Roseville wrestling team um they both competed at State Elizabeth for her third consecutive year placed third and anuka with her first year placing third as well in their weight classes so super proud of them and it's also incredibly special because we have done this a lot this year bringing students here to recognize them for being exceptional student athletes who made it to state but I do want to say that you are absolutely Paving the way for girls in wrestling and I'm not only proud of you for doing that but um your coach told me when I said you know how do they do it sections update me he said it was easy it was like watching kids trying to wrestle them out there um but the the thing that he said that was really special is he said it's so great to have these young girls seeing them do what they're doing um but I also think it's really important that your boys on your team are also seeing you do this and little boys are seeing you do this it becomes mainstream to them right and they respect you as teammates and they see you as Role Models as well so I am super grateful to be here next to you today W welcome who is older she is I'm older please introduce yourself and tell us about your experience okay um my name's Elizabeth hler I'm a junior at RZ um this year was my seventh year in wrestling but my fifth year wrestling for the Roseville High School team um it's it's been a long journey um getting more girls on our team and um you know improving as a wrestler it's it's a hard thing to balance um doing what's best for your team doing what's best for yourself um I'd say me and Bo more so prioritize our team um but yeah it's it's it's been a good journey lot of ups and downs but it's been a good one right thank you um my name is anuka Bo bars I've been wrestling with Roseville area high school for three years now since freshman year um and I also agree with Elizabeth like wrestling is a hard Sport and you have to figure out you know um how to balance not only wrestling but school and friends and if you have work too like it can be a lot wrestling is really one of those Sports you have to like mentally switch your mind in order to be able to push through it in my opinion it's definitely physically demanding as well um yeah I don't know I love the sport I love the amount of girls we have when we first started freshman year it was just me and Elizabeth this year we had um 14 I believe yeah so growth is is like phenomenal I don't know um really excited for next season and yeah I don't know thank you both for being such exceptional Role Models right the team has grown I'm sure you are a key piece to that and why there's more uh teammates on your team I had the pleasure of going to a wrestling invitation this past winter and I was blown away by every aspect of the meet and I was so proud that our wrestling program more than any other event I have been to and I've been here a long time right completely represented Roseville area schools I was so very very proud so thank you both so much and congratulations congratulations maybe question goad so you're both Juniors so you're going obviously be at the team again to you through high school any thoughts you yet on would it even continue in college or is it too early even think about that yeah um I'll definitely wrestle in college um I'm unsure yet as to where I'll go because um our senior year will be the first year there's a NCAA um women's Collegiate tournament wow um so our freshman year of college will be the second year of that tournament existing um which means like NCAA schools and um ni schools are dividing um into who gets to wrestle each other um so there's going to be a lot more programs popping up in college and it's uh it's you you can't can't really tell yet right go get that scholarship that's right yeah that's that's what I'm trying to do yeah I I was a wrestler in high school and then for one year in college until I realized a good high school wrestler you know maybe not so much in college good but um I applaud you too because as much as it's a team sport right you do it a team but at the same time when you're on the mat you're on your own and I think you mentioned mental and I think there's no I honestly believe that there's no better sport than wrestling just teach you about yourself yep and what you can do and how you can challenge your yourself and justify your own expectations of yourself so congratulations and also on carrying this extra load you know that you are blazing a trail and let's be honest that's that's an extra burden for for folks and so applaud you for that and and encourage you to to be proud of that too in addition to just the accomplishments on the that so thank you I was wondering if as you're talking to younger students or any younger students who might be listening what do you feel really uh is brought by the wrestling what what you enjoy most why would you what would you s tell younger um girls that they may gain from being participating in wrestling um I know specifically with the Roseville team it's super diverse there's so many different kinds of people you can meet so I think just the environment itself is really like a positive place it could help you make new friends it could help you get like with new support groups as well um and I think wrestling itself to try to encourage people to join just a challenge like challenging yourself being able to push through the practices and meets and matches and stuff like you feel really good after that like you feel accomplished I don't yeah like yeah well done great answer wonderful anything to add to that uh you know wrestling it's it's not all about winning and losing um and and you would think that after losing a tough match you know it like you said you're you're all on your own out there um but at the at Roseville you know um it's it's such a tight-knit community your teammates are always there to lift you up um they they're always there to um teach you things you don't know um when I first came in in seventh grade I I was so scared um I I was terrified of of being on a team with like high school boys and and it was it was just not it was scary but as I got to know my teammates and as I got to um improveing wrestling I realized that at Roseville it's it's not scary to ask your teammates for help it's not scary to um to lose in front of your teammates because they're always there to lift you up I'm looking through at your parents so proud right thank you for being here and I'm hearing these stories carry around around this is a story to carry forward to our community yeah thank you guys thank you and we have one extended announcement if we may yeah yeah I thank you uh Dr for allowing me to to to chime in um but first of all I want to say really really proud of y'all um you know I ANUK you know I was there to see you m uh to see you wrestle but I also saw you wrestle I don't you know you probably know I was there but I did see you wrestle I was like maybe Matt 7 or something like that was off in the corner but um it was really really I was really inspired by what I saw um and I can tell you like wrestling matches are kind of wild I got beat up by a grandma uh cuz she was so excited about what she was watching um but yeah so kudos to both of you uh I'm I'm looking forward to seeing y'all um wrestle and bring home a championship next year I know that that's on your mind so really excited about that um but I did want to uh just sure everyone knew that um anuka is more than a wrestler and a student you know she's um also very instrumental in an annual occurrence that's happening in Rosary School now called black girl magic um with her her mom Alicia and her sister Alise um started this at Lil Canada uh years ago and it's now something that we um celebrate annually and our our black girl magic will happen this next Friday March 28th so thank you for that as well and I look forward to following both of you uh as you continue your wrestling careers thank [Applause] congratulations thank you for having us well done all right moving on to another fantastic announcement we have a special guest here uh National Art Education Association the 2025 Elementary Choice art educator of the Year Dr Leake yeah Miss Lee come on up thank you all for being here I I truly could go on and on and on about Miss Lee um she's been to the board before because she's been a teacher of the year nominee in the state of Minnesota and now she's a national teacher of the year winner as chair Anderson has just indicated so I think I'll just immediately turn it over to you be I have so much respect for you and really appreciate you being here thank you um thank you for inviting me here um I am so excited um for this award and also just for um recognizing the subject that I teach um and it's uh it's important in the education of all students to have opportunities and arts um I've been with Roseville for 14 years now seven years over over at emtd um I spent two years over at Rams that was tough and then uh I was I started at Central Park with Florence odard um so I am just um you know I choose Roseville I stay here because um it's an environment and um place where I feel seen I feel recognized I feel um supported I feel trusted here and um the program that I've built um I really put my Blood Sweat and Tears into it and um the best feedback that I get is from my students and their families and I feel that I I'm really proud of myself and I'm proud of the program that I run over at MD Williams and um thank you for having me here and maybe B if you would just a little bit about your award and questions from the board so um the award that I am being given um will be taking place this Friday um in Louisville Kentucky um that's where the National Art educator Association um conferences um being presented this year and um the award is for Choice uh based art teacher of the year and that is because the program that I run is under the philosophy of teaching for artistic Behavior so what that means is that I've designed the classroom into a studio where um we get many lessons and I have them categorized this is a long explanation she just tell me be going okay so like uh each time students come to my class we have a lesson either um a demonstration on material use or an artist inspiration is what I call it but we learn about different artists um in the world I stick with contemporary artists of color and artists that represent um our population and their families um and then we do art exercises and that's when we get into the nitty-gritty of skill building and um color theory and all those things but a big chunk of time is dedicated to our students using the studio to explore their um creative interests and I always say they are the driver of their um art projects and artwork so they're not copying my artwork they're the ones who are being creative not me um when I started teaching I spent a lot of time like one uping myself on um things that would capture my students attention but the feedback that I was getting was like I want to make art my way I want to make art my way so so that's how we've designed our classroom so in our room we have centered a drawing Center we have a painting Center we have sculpture Center we have a fiber Center um we have artists that are are painters are drawers we have fashion designers we have artists that are Builders and so we create that space for them and that freedom for them to navigate the the studio themselves um and like I said the the best feedback feedback I get is from my students and it's always excitement to be in my space excitement to share um the materials to um get to make what they are interested in and I get to see their passions um and that's just a little bit of what we do in our choice base art room so it's working very well because um I always say it's a Well oiled machine because they come in and they're excited to tell me what they're working on um they have so many ideas and it blows my mind every time because it's just I get to see their cultures their um dreams their stories all through their Art thank you what do you find most uh inspiring you kind of already answered it but what do you find most inspiring about teaching Choice art I think the most inspiring thing is that um I think it's everything I think it's just a a program that speaks for itself and I if I think the most inspiring thing is hearing my my students talk about their work and talk about the space and talk about the artists that we're studying and I just feel like um I always say like I think I'm doing my job right I think I'm doing the right thing it feels so good it took a long uh it was a long journey to get there but I was I was telling my my partner I was just like I know what I'm doing I I'm really proud of of my program m fantas i a couple of questions I I when you were talking about the communication there I was reminded that at Hamlin where I used to teach we had um um all of the studio classes yes were called Speech or oral intensive because of it was about communication so so I can imagine that that communication is uh that's that's going on from day one children can talk about yes but I want to ask you so my my narrow view of art um comes to um or or is dominated by the notion of talent and you you have you know I remember growing up I'm sure we all do um being a at a particular child that we know a friend of ours who who can draw and have it look like what it looks like yeah and um it seems like an innate Talent how do you fight that notion that I'm not talented I can't do this yes and um I feel like in the years that I've done this program I have less and less kids saying that like I can't draw I can't do it um we look at artists that explore and make art in all different ways so we like right now we're talking about abstract art and how it doesn't look like real life and that doesn't mean that it's not good art I feel like a there's a flip that's switched switches in middle school where they get very self-conscious about what everybody else thinks about their skills and so I think at the elementary level we don't see that so much because they're still very interested in exploring the possibilities of Art and they haven't been put put put into any particular box and so I don't get a lot of kids that say that I can't do it or I I don't want to do it and one of our lessons that we do one of the many lessons that we put on repeat is that art is not about being perfect art is about making these mistakes and we learn from it every time and we don't give up as artists and I every time I speak to the whole class I don't call them students I don't call them anything else other than artists artists you know so I make my announcements like that so when they come in um they have been put into that um notion that I am the artist and I have posters science everywhere that reminds them of that so I I don't run into that problem yet I feel like if I taught at the middle school or high school I might get more self-conscious just because developmentally that's where they're at but at the elementary level um I feel like the art program is there for an introduction to the possibilities of all the different spectrum of Art and so they when they're uh exposed to the different kinds of art they don't get that restriction of well I'm not good at this instead also because it's a studio um it's a studio designed classroom they're not comparing their art to mine and so they don't have that well it doesn't look like Miss Le's it doesn't look like the sample they're looking at other artists but I haven't restricted them to make an artwork that looks like that if they choose to do that during their studio time they can choose to do that but and if it doesn't look like the artist that are studying they still know well I can try again next time because we have built in that resilience and that um that idea that artists don't give up does that make sense okay thank you you're a deserving Award winner congratulations thank you yeah congratulations right thank you for being here thank you all right moving on in this evening's agenda on number four summary of community input see for this evening's action items I have not received anything all right all right that takes us to this evening's consent agenda um minus the retirement we do have well we do have a retirement uh but um I'll take entertain a motion to go through or to approve tonight's consent agenda so moved okay is there a second a second okay it's been moved and seconded any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those opposed motion carries uh we do have a retirement yeah this evening we have a retirement Angela McCoy um as a health assistant at Falcon Heights Elementary and she celebrated 17 years in our district um as a health assistant so we' like to honor her especially as we know that um we did have a thing called Co that probably work through that was challenging and appreciative of her and her service to our district so I would move that we approve the retirement wonderful for Angela cool it's been moved is there a second second with appreciation yes thank you all right it's been moved and seconded any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed all right thank you and gifts this evening will be read by director baseski thank you chair Anderson so once again we have some generosity to share with our uh with our audience um from Aaron mastrian uh via the EUR cause blackb uh don site a gift of funds uh for just General District needs to the to the school district also from Karen d uh via the EUR cause blackb donation site the gift of gift of funds for district needs at Roseville area schools uh from the brick family LLC doing business as bricks and mini figs in Roseville a gift for Rams robotics for the Middle School uh money gift from St Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church a monetary gift for the Food Shelf at the high school Roseville area high school from Linda M or Brian balant a monetary gift for the quiz bowl at the Roseville area high school from David Young a monetary gift for gear for the girls lacrosse coaches at the Rosell Area High School from Javon and Jansen bindman a gift of funds for school needs at Little Canada Elementary School from Andrew and Heidi Waltz uh gift of funds for the media center and also from Wendy Thompson a gift of funds for the media center at little C Elementary from Sally and Robert Cooper Schmidt a gift of funds for the ospry Wilds field trip that the harambe kids are going to go on this year for harambe elementary school from Kate Zerby a saxophone for the elementary instrumental music program at Ed Williams Elementary School that's kind of a fun donation thank you for that saxophone uh misseri from Thomas Spitz foden a gift of funds uh for the for books for the read around the park event at Central Park Elementary School the annual will read around the park uh today uh from Lonnie duberstein uh monetary gift for the media center and the bill Cuts Memorial at Brimhall Elementary School uh from Aaron and Ellen rolnitzky a gift of funds for the media center Bill Cuts Memorial at Brimhall and from k sorat a gift of funds uh for the media center Bill Cuts Memorial at brim Hall um from St Christopher's Episcopal Church in Roseville a gift of funds for the Meals on Wheels program um housed here at out of abuta and also from coma Park Lutheran Church a gift the funds for the meals and wheels program so once again whether monetary or musical uh a generous generous night again of folks who uh who open their their hearts and their wherewithal for our kids uh in our in our district so thank you all thank you thank you all right that moves us to we now have reports and non-action items uh policy 500 acceleration and retention uh the first reading uh director Jake vondel and welcome thank you thank you chair Anderson and um for our policy 500 acceleration and retention we actually do not have any recommended changes um and so we would entertain any that um that the board would notice or see that we should consider questions I I I just have a question I I read through this it makes perfect sense it reads very nicely I'm wondering how how common this is in in you know both in you know with acceleration I can imagine that that's happening all the time with in the way the honors are done in the middle school and so on but um uh acceleration um I would say uh whole grade acceleration is less common some subject acceleration especially in math is more common um retention is very um uncommon uh in in my tenure we've had maybe four okay um and four requests and very few that we really um would approve of um and because of the wealth of research that says that retention really is not a um a helpful appropriate uh educational practice so so in most of them what we see uh for retention is in kindergarten or first grade okay so then following on to that then if if if a need is identified then those resources just focuses on that specific area or subject or what the what the issue is that correct right yep so like if there's an acceleration like a whole grade acceleration it would be like you know student is in second grade then they go into a third grade or if it's um like a math acceleration um say again like a a second grader they would take their math class with the third grade class and all the other subjects would be in their their own home home the retention side then it's focused like through Credit Recovery depending on their year or whatever or well typically retention is only like we have only seen them for younger elementary students we haven't done any high school or middle school retention since since I've been here for 13 14 years yeah I'll add on to Jake and I partner when there is a request for a retention and usually we meet with a family and part of that process is um takes place at the school level before we meet with the family and it's a very robust um evaluation looking at testing and then we also when we meet with the family we s share some of the research and some of one of the research briefs that we share from the University of Minnesota there's a statement in there that it would be hard to find a more harmful practice and so it's making sure that families are really informed in terms of the um effects the research and the impact and I think we may be approved too and even then when we um do approve it we have a um like a joint letter that we all sign off on that we sign and we ask families to sign as well um to really make sure that families are making an educational decision with all of the information that's available to them does does this policy cover um a kindergartener who isn't of age yet that is that is bringing in someone who's two or three months yes off the date actually it does there we do have a policy or we do have like a a procedure for a student that would be um early entrance to K kindergarten okay yeah okay good questions anybody else all right first reading we will see you again okay than thanks than all right monthly financial report director Sher Thompson good evening good evening so for this month's uh financial report we thought we would take a little bit of time and provide an update as far as what we know on federal funding uh with some of the changes that that we've heard have recently um occurred uh the school uh District Roseville receives about um just close $9 million in federal funding the biggest portion of that is about $4.5 million that we received from the USDA to fund our our lunch program or our meal program I should say because that includes breakfast um lunch and then snacks um that's also funded through uh through some State funding but the majority of it is through um the USDA that money does flow not directly to us um it flows to the Department of Education and then they send those they forward those funds on to us so um you may have read recently that there were um some uh through the USDA they were suspending some grants um we do have some funding through those through similar grants that are through the USDA but they flow through the state department so we are protected in that uh for now um we receive about $25,000 a year in these grants to help offset the the cost of um some of our local um Partnerships is for when you hear about the Minnesota lunches um on Thursdays throughout the year it helps offset some of those costs so that does not impact us um those funds will um uh continue to flow uh as uh far as that goes and we're not sure about in the future if they'll continue those funds but for the grant that we have right now um it will continue I think probably one of the biggest concerns that we have uh related to nutrition services uh and federal funding is changes that are happening this also could impact some of our uh State compensatory Revenue changes that are happening as far as families qualif qualifying for uh Medicaid uh those families if they qualify for Medicaid or even any the snap programs those families are considered to be uh electronically or direct certified through the the state um and because of that you know that as far as keeps our counts um our some of our lunch counts up up uh so it could create a burden if number one for our nutrition program if less families are certified or um are approved under the elect uh tronic or direct certification uh what kind of Burden that may put on the state funding portion uh so I'll just kind of keep keeping an eye there as far as sustainability goes and then also effective this year and I believe we've T touched on it and our uh budget parameters um you know we have had a uh kind of hold harmless that's been in place for our state compensatory for the last few years and now they're shifting to um just using those direct uh certifications rather than paper applications to calculate our compensatory and there's talk at the legislature about that and how that will impact things but we want to be mindful of that because it's not just this year again it's going forward so if we have less if uh people no longer qualify for Medicaid that's going to going to also impact um our compensatory Revenue because um our our state compensator is calculated based on that but there again so the biggest um the biggest impact would be uh as far as nut services and we continue to monitor that uh we also receive about um $1.8 million in title funding uh which is also based on our free and reduced counts and that uh includes Title One um our title two uh which aligns with the world's best Workforce uh title three uh English language we do receive some federal funds there and then also title four which is uh student support and academic achievement again this totals um about uh 1,850,000 uh that also flows through the state of Minnesota we haven't heard it's federal funds we haven't heard of any changes there so we continue to provide our services um and then we continue to sub submit for reimbursements another area uh Career and Technical education we that's one of the things we part partner with 916 on so a 916 um does the filing on that and they receive the funds um and then as we incur expenses 916 reimburses uh reimburses us for that um another area uh that we where we've received funding which is significant is uh our special education we' received $2 million a year uh to um uh supplement our um special education program uh we also receive um about $94,000 a year for adult basic education program uh that also flows through the state of Minnesota as the does the ideas funding so overall um and then we do have a a 21st century Grant um to that and that Grant is actually up for Renewal I believe this next year yeah this is the last year of uh of funding for that that's about $600,000 a year so again um uh nothing that we are being notified as far as that we're losing funding we continue to monitor it I think we're very fortunate um this is one of the reasons that we have wanted to build our our fund balance it doesn't uh impact us from a cash flow basis even if there's a delay in the funding and receiving the funding and there hasn't been any delays up to this point um but you know when you hear things as far as when uh the federal funding is is held you know with some of the smaller businesses um they they need the money to make their payroll we have those uh fund reserves to cover that so um so it doesn't impact our operations uh so that's what I have I don't know if there's any questions or if there was anything that I've missed as far as Federal funding else any questions it's reassuring and thank you for also sharing this information most recently at the district finance committee meeting as well so I appreciate that I do have just a just kind of a curious out of kind of a curiosity um has the business services office received any type of uptick in phone calls cons concerns around this just just wondering just um no we haven't really and we have been in contact with um the Department of Education has been good about communicating I think both um the superintendent level and we've talked um with um the finance office there uh at the department so they've been really good about just trying to be clear and um on their Communications as well Yad um one of the recommendations from our finance committee was that this may be a topic for one of our newsletters that goes out to our community because that's a it is an area of concern for our community yes and I can work with Carrie on that as a matter of fact it's probably timely thank you thank you Sher yeah wonderful thank you for the report okay thank you Sher thank you thank you thank you okay uh we're moving to we have one action item for the evening uh the 2025 2026 school board meeting calendar um so in your packets you'll find a draft schedule for next year your regular meeting schedule is the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month um with one meeting in December and one meeting in August typically you don't have any meetings in July unless a special like work session is scheduled which you will see one on this schedule for July um I just wanted to point out two little deviations from your regular schedule and you'll see them as footnotes on the draft so one is in November um and instead of A Tuesday meeting we're proposing a Wednesday meeting because really no one likes Monday meetings but we can't have any meetings on Veterans Day which is the Tuesday so that's one and then um you'll find one in March as well so our spring break next year is scheduled for the second week um and typically I don't think we like to meet on spring break because nobody's around so this year um we ended up one meeting because we really couldn't shift it back or forward it would butt up against each other two consecutive weeks but we can make the adjustment next year um so it's probably like the third week and the fifth week is how that plays out so um got a draft and it's up to you to approve if you so wish thank you for coming through the details you're welcome I just had a kind of a clarifying question um Tuesday where mentions Tuesday September 23rd and we probably do meet over rash hasana but I think that's I think it's rash hasana have we typically met over that just any concerns or sensitivities to that I'm just just throwing it out there right you know just just one we follow our planning calendar around activities on what what days we can host events in the evenings and so the board follows the same expectations as we would host other local events at the building y just wondering all right any questions all right uh this is an action item um I'll entertain a motion to approve the school board meeting dates for 2025 2026 has has been presented so moved second all right then moved and seconded any further discussion all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those opposed all right thank you Michelle you're welcome okay we are moving on to board reports for the evening um how about director Mike bogeski Start us off well um really the one thing I did with my colleagues uh director goggin and Dr Clark was uh along with uh associate superintendent Melissa Sonic lot of s's um went to the uh msba Masa which stands for the Minnesota Schoolboard Association and Minnesota Association of school administrators administrators um which is the annual date at the capital where we meet in person with the legislators both in the house and the state senate that represent the various districts that intertwin with our school district so had a chance to meet with four house members and with uh Senator Marty and just laid out our legislative priorities for this year uh you know around funding around bills that we would hope that they could support and Ling out our case it's kind of a whirlwind day you meet first and uh the uh House and Senate committees on education and education Finance come and talk with us about how they see the year Headed and then we fan out through the capital uh folks from all over the state from all different school districts to meet and button hole our reps and uh and make our case so uh I think that our representatives were very um sympathetic to the things we're saying I think they've supported schools not just in their District but generally in the state you know through their legislative careers um so I think it was a very positive day I think that we don't know yet the jury's still out on what's going to happen to the legislature in terms of funding and what might be available but we made our priorities known um and just as a precursor this next Monday coming suay 24th is kind of a a repeat where uh those districts that are part of amsd which is Association of metropolitan school districts so those that are in and around the Twin Cities core uh will go back to the capital and meet with legislators and we'll actually be meeting with three legislators who weren't available for the msba day well the chance to meet with them and Lobby our our causes uh this coming Monday I think who uh who's going I'm going you're uh Cherry Anderson uh treasure Clark uh where Chu is going so and then uh associate director or superintendent uh D Smith uh Melissa Sonic again and others too right I think are going Lake oh and and our superintendent this time we couldn't make it at the msba one so there you go and the folks who were able to join me uh last week if I missed anything please feel free to fill in some gaps but that's all I got thank you thank you acting clerk um yeah there I don't have much else to add but several of us um did the Central Park read around the park um Dr Lake almost everybody at the table here don't miss that associate superintendent Sonic asso superent Smith both were there as well as director Goin and director Shaw um it's always a great time to be able to read I love watching the students interact with each other and the teachers interact with them and our pairs interact with them it just was a good time we it was very enjoyable so I would encourage anybody who can participate in the future to definitely take advantage of that and do that all right thank you director gaggin um build on that I also had an opportunity in addition to Central Park to attend as a mystery reader in Little Canada and that was the first time I've involved in that the Central Park it's been a number of years but it was really fun and for anybody who's interested um in the future um I it's a very enjoyable one it's a little different in the sense that you can bring your own books or they'll have some books for you to read and but it's one classroom in you're kind of getting engaged with the students in a bit longer time um it was really both were very fun programs in in slightly different ways but very engaging for the students in both um had attend opportunity to attend the equity leadership advisory council meeting um and uh we talked about um the bipac State interviews process and then next month we'll actually have the results from those um interviews but just the whole process and thinking around that and how that works and then we spent time on chapter eight of the street Data Book around embracing vulnerability moving through Straight da Street data and um it's really was really a lot of comments about student informed curriculum is so powerful um and how we and changing how we look at teacher to be that in that kind of student relationship um and uh there were a number of different suggestions and thoughts um one of the challenges with the student based curriculum is as we've been learning new curriculum and going very deeply into the new um reading curriculum you know is how do we adopt a new curriculum but also be able to adapt it for our students in our classroom and being more culturally relevant than um some of the curriculum is originally written as um so that was uh very um very good discussion as always with that group um then I had an opportunity uh to attend with superintendent Lake and chair Anderson a um service based organization kind of a coordination meeting um pulled together by do good uh Roseville who is serving in Partnership and our community advisory committee they jointly lead with our superintendent and there were number of different service organizations uh represented um the Ros Community Foundation rotary the Optimus Club golden Kanan as friends of Rosell Park and R and the be Andale Club all had representation there um and it was impressive to hear all the different things um that they are involved with um in in the district with our students in terms of supporting them I think the one that kind of resonated across the group was um that having more coordination of volunteer opportunities uh from the district would be a huge asset um because right now it's kind of individual teacher dependent and how do you know about what the opportunities are Etc and so there was some discussion around well how could we um jointly fund something like that to have that kind of position in the district to further build the opportunity for the community involvement and really leveraging uh that wonderful contribution of our community that's it thank you director Shaw uh yeah so so after after um I had informed in various ways all of the students at Central Park how old I was because that was what they were really interested um anyway uh after that I um was I I had I had asked an advanced and been given permission to ride home in bus 10 so I went out and and uh mounted up onto the bus with the kids a bus 10 driven by bus driver named Tom who is a veteran he's been driving for 12 or 14 years or something and um we went around we dropped the kids off this is elementary and then uh we went to ederton and we picked up another load of kids and we drove around and we dropped them off and I was I mean I haven't ridden on a school bus like that on just on a regular drop off Route since I was in sixth grade and uh it it was wonderful to see it it was wonderful to see how the bus driver and you we we drive around we have stops for 5,400 students in this District that's that's including that the uh the students um in Roseville area schools but also private schools that are in our in our district we provide transportation for and uh all of those kids are getting on the buses every morning and safely and happily and they are getting to school on time and then they are all getting back on the buses in the afternoon and they are being driven back they're being met by their parents it's wonderful to see the parents come out and meet the kids they it turns out the uh kindergarten I didn't know this kindergarten and first graders have to be met by their parents they they they can't be let to just walk off into you know into under the streets and that's particularly um important now because for efficiency's sake the bus stops have been adjusted so that um they're you know corners of streets and so on they're not being kids are not being dropped off at their at their houses except except for except for kindergarteners anyway um I watched the care and attention to detail that the bus driver was taking with each child at each delivery point and I just think it's just so highly commendable that this is going on so in in such big numbers every day at the district so you know I watched one one child um went off around the front of the bus and then walked down the side of the bus because there was too much snow this was after the big snow day and as he did he slapped the bus you know just a sort of an affectionate slap but he was called back and you know called back by name said this is something we never do you know he accepted it and went on and that's you know that's that's just that safety aspect of it that you know there's this big hulking bus and here are these little delicate kids and uh but day after day they're they're safe and you know I just I was I was really impressed with with how that worked out and uh secondly I wanted to talk about uh going to the Falcon Heights PTA meeting last night um as we all know that's a a very dedicated group of people they were talking about all the fundraising that's going to be going on uh for next year sort of uh getting things going for next year they are very active PTA but one other thing that came up was the notion of Parental and volunteer burnout and I think it's it's it's something that really needs to be paid attention to that um these these parents are really putting its you know it's it's a huge thing to have an elementary school kid in the first place and they all have the elementary school kids and then they're doing this on top of it so it was it was interesting to hear some of that talk about what was going on and uh you know to consider it and sort of really have it in the backs of our minds as we as we congratulate volunteers to hope that they don't they don't uh burn out and that's that's it for me thank you director if I may I just on behalf of Sher and our transportation department and Centerline busing thank you for taking the time to ride those routes and show your appreciation thank you so much oh I should say that I went and met with Kristen Donaldson about this to sort of get some facts uh and I walked to her office and there was Mary Zak Caris at the center of everything still still so so wonderful and she she sort of handles the phones and his uh is clearly absolutely essential to that whole operation thank you surprised thanks for bringing up that name that's fantastic uh just a couple things um director boseski um mentioned uh the March 10th uh visit I I do want to you know State at this time I'm so impressed and proud of the group uh that went there on March 10th uh I want to acknowledge associate superintendent Melissa Sonic and the group as a whole for the organization the planning um just topnotch and it really laid the groundwork for what we'll be continuing to do on Monday March 24th and some and I know some of my colleagues will be returning but I think it's been set um you and I want to thank Michelle for setting up our appointments on Monday so very much looking forward to that but thank you to the group that kind of trailblazed for us on March 10th thank you and I want to mention to um I know we've only had one meeting or one meeting March but March is women's History Month rosev Ray School celebrates the significant contributions of women to our nation's history and Society women's history is American history and Dr Lake great thank you so much I like to this evening I'd like to let the community know that we do not anticipate cancelling school tomorrow due to weather but being that we have uh this year I just want to acknowledge the burden that that places on families whether we do decide to cancel or whether we don't it's a really difficult decision that we take very seriously in Roseville area schools prioritizing the safety of all of our students and staff for that matter uh and just a reminder I'd like to let the community know that I'm always in close touch with Sherry Thompson and Carrie Ido and that communication begins uh 24 to 48 hours prior to any predicted weather event and sher's in contact with Ramsey County City of Roseville center line transportation I'm in contact with area superintendent uh and that significant deliberation begins at about 3 3:45 a.m. the day before so again we do not anticipate cancelling school tomorrow but just please know how serious we take that decision thank you I believe you have an honorary meteorology degree I I might give that to Sherry actually thank you you all right um and just before I uh GW the ending of the meeting um we do have a work study session maybe just quick a quick five minute after this right if there's no further business before the board regular meeting stands a turn for