No, not yet. Not yet. Okay. All right. Good evening everybody. I call the meeting today uh for the Rose area school board school area school district school board meeting on May 27, 2025. Um acting Clark Mandix Clark, would you do the roll call, please? Absolutely. Um director Dr. Frank Shaw here. Director Gogggins here. Director Bogachesky here. The clerk acting clerk clerk is here and acting chair Dr. Oshu here. Thank you. So now let's see. Do we have any adjustment today? We do have an administrative recommendation to uh table our closed session for labor negotiations this evening. Okay, great. Well, I entertain a motion to do that. So moved. Second. Okay. So, um any discussion and then we'll vote. Any Yeah. Any discussion on that? Okay. All right. Would you read the motion? Is that is that the one that we've written? You you can read the motion or director Gogggins just made the motion based on my recommendation. So, either way. All right. I move that we uh table the discussion um the close session discussion around our contracts until June. Thank you. I second. Okay. Thank you. Um all in any discussion any discussion? I'm sorry. I I said that incorrectly. I tabled it till June. I would just like to table it indefinitely until the appropriate time. So I'd like to amend my amend that. I second your amended motion. Okay, I'll get this right. Um, any discussion? Okay, call the question. Um, all in favor, all in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Thank you. Okay, I will get this right. Um, so next we have some special guests today. Very special. So excited. I think for folks in the audience too, we have some shifts and leadership roles on the board. So, it's just like a classroom, right, in terms of how we work together. So, thank you all for being here. First, I'd like to ask uh our Edertton Elementary savers to come up to the board table and I'd like to ask Dr. Chang and Miss Collins if you'd like to speak about your team and the experience. Please, everyone come forward. We can share. Just make sure you speak into the microphone. you can share them. And thank you family members and supporters for being here as well. Well, the sixth graders have a presentation to talk about where they came up with the idea and just our progression through this competition, but we did uh become national finalists. So, out of thousands of schools and a lot of them were high school schools, uh we were the top 10. And when we went to Washington DC, we were the youngest. So that was pretty amazing. Should we just start with a round of applause? [Applause] And when we became finalists, we won $50,000 worth of Samsung technology and materials. And then we were against all the high schoolers and people in the community voted and we got the most votes. So we won the community choice award which gave us another $10,000. Wow. So the sixth graders wanted to share a little bit about their idea and how everything progressed. Yeah. Yes. Walking. Um, so to like start off, we brainstormed ideas and we like made a list and we took a vote and we came up with a problem. And the problem we came up with was people falling through ice on lakes. It's a problem in Minnesota and it can be dangerous. So we created a device to sense the thickness of lakes based off of that problem. So, the reason why we decided Oh, wait a second. This is too far away. The reason why we decided on this is because if you look at Minnesota, we're known for having 10,000 lakes. It's probably more than that by now, but we're known for having 10,000 licks. And also, if we look at the statistics, it's more than 200. It's around 250 people dying each year just in America. And imagine how many more people die in the rest of the world. So, looking at that, we've seen that there's been a lot of recent deaths and that's something that we really wanted to look at. So that's the main reason why we took this and sorry and after that um we have created a device that has um it uses a micro:bit to read the data from a sensor that will detect how far like the nearest surface is. So we will use that for how far the ice is and the micro:bit will then read that and um that data will then be sent through to an app that we've coded. We created the app on MIT app inventor as well as micro:bit. We had to create three sections of code. one to transfer the data from micro:bit to a spreadsheet and then from the spreadsheet to the app and then to refresh the data on the app. Um, so that's pretty much how we did it. It's a bit simplified. So, yeah. Yeah, a lot simplified. Took a lot longer than we made it sound. But then those two went to DC, did a bunch of fun stuff. It was fun. It was presented. Um, sounds fun. We uh wrote a song. So, if that's okay with y'all, could we sing it? Absolutely. All right. Don't fall through ice. I know you're looking at that lake and you're feeling kind of brave. Check the app. You'll be all right. Don't fall through ice. Thank you for your time. Use ice. Wow. [Applause] Incredibly impressive. Incredible. So impressive. Any comments from board members? So So does the app sing the song to you? Uh yes. We actually coded in the song for like a playalong video. So it does. I mean I think it's hours of fun. Yeah. All right. So So you you've you've made this app and it works. You've you've tested it. Yes. We just don't have internet right now and we don't have any of our devices in an app. We don't have any. So So but but I but I want to ask what is the minimum amount of thickness of ice that that it will detect? Um, it's about 4 in is what you should be on it, like when you should be on it. We can probably put it even deeper and have it be like signified for like trucks and cars and ice fishing tanks. We're really just working on like if it's thick enough for people to be on. Mhm. So, that's the main thing we're looking at right now. We probably will even advance it more to be able to make it so that we can actually have more um like depness. And Walking is actually planning on trying to like device and he can talk more about that in a sec, but that's our plan. So, go ahead, walk. Um, also to answer to further more answer the question, it does have a limit on how much it can read because instead of having two sensors on the device, we don't have it with us. Um, it has it sends out a a soundwave and then it comes back so it has to flip over because it's only one module. So, there is a limit. I don't know how how much that is. Uhhuh. Well, you So, have you have you tested it on real ice? Have you gone out to No, but we've tested it on walls and in inside water. Uhhuh. So, it works in both of those. You sort of had like test lakes because we don't we didn't have time. We And we didn't have much ice. Okay. Okay. Okay. Good. Good. A little bit of a problem. Yeah. And and have you thought about putting your app onto Google Play or uh Yeah, we're considering it, but the main thing is we want to perfect the the device before we get an app out because it'd be kind of pointless to be like, "Oh, yeah, be self-reliant on this app." And then have it just fail. Thank you. That could be very dangerous. Yeah. So, yeah. Any other question? Yeah, please. I was wondering how you prepared and learned how to what the code would be able to do and what was required. So um well we kind what we did is we did a lot of research and other people can say more about that but we did a lot of research on how thick the ice has to be and just kind of learned more about where it should be and how thick the ice is and more of like the problem. So does anybody else want to comment on that too? Short answer to that question is probably YouTube. [Laughter] Lots of YouTube videos. Yeah. Yeah. And our teacher, Dr. Chang. Yeah. Dr. Chang big contribute a lot. A lot. So, speaking of Dr. Chen, do you have anything to add or Sue? Do you have anything to add? I just want to say I'm so proud of these kids and what they're capable of um and just their ability to not only um work together because it was a a larger group than this working and collaborating with one another, but just the ideas that they brought into it and the creativity. It was went beyond STEM, right? They added that art piece with the songwriting and all that and everybody had their own strengths and they played up to it and so I was really proud of them to for them to utilize the strengths that they had in order to bring this whole group together. Thank you. I think we have like 12 or 13 members of ours. Yeah, we have 12. We have 12 members. Wow. So, so I had a question. So, what is next? Like, um well, in our presentation, we are planning on maybe partnering with the Department of Natural Resources. And I'm not the big expert on that, so somebody else can take that. Um Oh, okay. Um, so basically we're trying to save lives obviously and we as an elementary school in a decently smalls size district we don't have money to do all this cuz like plain and simple. So like if we do like a partner with the DNC or something, we can like say product take it, save people like basically and then like it helps save lives and we can do it decently low of cost besides everything that it costs to make that. Yeah. And also talking about that like we decided to work with the department of natural resources like try to instead of just like trying to sell it so that it can be available to more people than just like the people who can't afford it or like have property of the lakes. Plus if we had it only available to buy, I don't think a lot of people would want to buy it because they'd be like why am I buying it? Everybody else is on this lake. So yeah. Well done. Thank you. Well done. Thank you so much. We are all very proud of you. Thank you. [Applause] We're going to get a group photo with you out in the hall. Thank you so much for being here. Wow. Well done. Wow. So great. And we have more. Yes. Is that right? Oh. Next up, it's my privilege to introduce coach Jodie Kellinin and our state speech qualifiers. Come on up. We'll give you a round of applause. Thanks for being here. Yeah, thank you for having us. So yes, as you said, Jodie Kellinin, I am the our head speech director at RAZ and very excited that we had a very successful season and we had four students that advanced to the state tournament um in April and two of the students were in one category together. So it ended up being three entries but four students and I will let them introduce themselves and they can tell you the category that they advanced in and then if you just want to do like a quick snippet about what your category is. Yes. Um, my name is Summer and I advanced to state in the category of discussion. And basically what discussion is is pretty much like this. You mimic um a table setting. So like a city council or a schoolboard meeting and you discuss a proposition and have to create your own agenda to it. It's a pretty multi-step process, but it's a fun activity. Wow. Uh my name is Logan Dom and uh I'm actually uh in a category where my I have a partner. Um so we were part of the one entry, two people. My partner couldn't be here today, but um we basically take a script and we basically act it out for 10 minutes. Um our piece this year was about a girl being who gets diagnosed with breast cancer and how her and her friend cope through it. Wow. So Maya Hamilton was Logan's duo partner. And then Liam Secon also advanced to the state tournament in a category called storytelling, which is exactly what it sounds like. You have um a chance to prepare a story. You have 30 minutes to prepare that story. So it's a little bit extempiraneous, but you also have a little bit of prep time and they're just kind of fairy tales type stories. Yeah. Interesting. Wow. Yeah. So with storytelling are you given a character or how do you So the way that category works is there have there's 15 stories that the students prepare during the season and then before the round when they are speaking they choose from like a computer program. One of those 15 stories they've been preparing and then they have time to prepare that. So it is a full story and so they're doing a narrator, they're doing characters within that story. Like I mean really imagine like a children's story or a fairy tale that you would tell to someone and making it come alive. You can put your own spin on it a little bit, but they're they're pretty picky about trying to keep it really close. But it's it's a story that they have they have seven minutes to tell it. And the story might if you were to just read it straight on, it might take 12 minutes to tell and you have to figure out how to what do you cut? What do you modify so that you have get it in that seven minute time frame. And then there's Yeah, there's you know if there's I'll take a moment to advertise for anyone watching this today. Um their c the speech really has it has 13 different categories from the storytelling and humor to discussion to the duo where you get to be with another partner and there's dramatic and there's um current events and there's poetry and there's persuasive speaking. So really we try to talk about like using your student voice to get your voice heard in an effective way. And it's really all there's all types. So it's get um how do you use effective communication to get your voice heard and tell your story? Um, and that's just a theme we always want to empower our students and the the stories they have to tell. Wow. So, with discussion, do you get a proposal or do you create your own and use it all year or what do you do? We get a proposal and the competitive aspect of it that makes it different from like debate where everything's basically arranged prior to the meet itself. um is that you get it the day of basically um the actual task whatever it's about this year it was about changes in the workforce so that could range between AI usage to just labor shortages in certain industries those things are generated day of so it requires different judging and you have to actually be on as a leader and an improvisational person in a group whether or not you have any research on it yet or whether or not you had coaching prior to the experience. It's like competitive discussion. It's competitive. Imagine you were being judged at this meeting of who was the most effective at moving the agenda forward and accomplishing a task. That's basically what discussion is. I was just thinking I need to take that class so I can do better. We do have an amazing coach. She wasn't able to be here tonight, but our our discussion coach, she could come and give you pointers. There you go. Uh, but there is an outline presented by the Minnesota State High School League at the beginning of the year that has different bullet points, kind of some ideas so that the coaches kind of know what they might be seeing in the day of so to help the students prepare for it. But that's what's prepared at the beginning by the Minnesota State High School League. And speaking of coaches, my coach works in politics. So for a lot of students who aren't familiar with like the workings of that, who aren't familiar with what board meetings look like and don't have that upward social mobility, for a lot of people to get involved in discussion, it's actually really really freeing because then they can get those jobs and those postcol opportunities that they might not have been able to. Yeah. Wonderful. Question for how long have you been doing it? Why did you get involved in um I started my freshman year. I'm only a sophomore now. and I got involved um because my friends Elnor and Chrissa were on the team and they said I talked too much. I just give too many opinions and it's been they were right. It's been a really great way to give more opinions in a more constructive environment. I love that. Wow. Uh this is my third year on the team. I'm a junior. Um, I joined my freshman year because I'm going be honest, they said it looked good on a college resume. Um, and uh, I didn't do too well my first year, but then um, my second year I kind of got my footing and I realized um, that like it's much more than just a thing on a college application. It's like a way that I can use my voice and a way that I'm uh, able to express myself and to create bonds with people. Thank you. How did you decide on your on what you were going to perform? Um, so my coach picks it out from year to year. Um, last year uh my piece was about um queer mental health and suicide and it was um something that both me and my partner were very passionate about. And then this year uh my coach picked it out um about breast cancer because it was something that impacted both me and my dual partner. Wow. Wow. So proud of the two of you. Yeah. So, um, in Illinois, 600 miles away and like 600 years ago when I was in high school, I I did it there. That it was humor and extemporaneous speaking. Very similar. People told me different skills that I was it it was easy to just make crap up and that it was funny. So, there you go. So, yeah. Excellent. Well, and I think as you alluded to in you too, it's it's it's it's not even it's not even the presentation part. It's the thinking and the prep and the planning and having the almost in panic mode think about what am I going to say? How am I going to structure it that you know and I think you recognize it's going to it's going to serve you well in life. I hope you stick with it because uh it should be in addition to the resume it gives yourself confidence you know. So yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much for your support. We really appreciate it. Thank you for congratulations. Thank you. I just realized that I don't think I ever taken public uh uh speaking or speech in high school or college. Yeah, I never did. So that's why it explains a lot. No, I was actually in original oratory and represented Ramsay High School at the national. All right. Um, let's get back to our agenda here. Um, oh, that was just heartwarming. Yeah. Um, do we have any summary of community input that require action? Anyone? Nope. Okay, great. So, now I um entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda minus the retirement. So move. I'll move. Oh, you got it. Moved it. You got it. Okay. Second. Second. Okay. Great. Um any discussion on that? Otherwise, we'll um go for uh go for a vote here. Um all in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Okay. So, um, acting Manx Clark, would you please, uh, do the retirement? Absolutely. Um, it's my pleasure to We have two retirees like to recognize tonight. Um, Timothy O'Brien, who's the community education manager, um, who retired at the end of June. Um, Mr. O'Brien has worked for our district for 16 years. And then we also have Kirsten Peterson um a Spanish teacher at Roseville Area High School will retire um on June 11th. Um and Miss Peterson has worked for our district for nine years. So we appreciate all the time that they've spent in our district and all the things they've done for together their combined 25 years of service to our district. So yeah, thank you. And I would open them and I would motion that we accept their retirements. Okay. Second. I'd like to second with great appreciation. I've had opportunity to work um with them and have just they've added so much to our district and really appreciate their service. Okay, any discussion? Okay, so let's go for a vote here. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Okay, thank you. So, uh we got gifts. We always like to kind of highlight that. and director B. I was getting your name right. Beski will read the list today. Thank you. And I I will probably do it in a little different order than they're printed. So nobody panic when you sense that I'm doing that. So uh for uh school needs at Roseville Area High School, we received a monetary gift from Cyber Grants US Bank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. um for the Edie Williams Elementary School for student needs, we received a gift, a monetary gift from Lutheran Church of the Resurrection. Um from Samsung Electronics America, uh related to the group we just saw, we received a monetary gift for technology and classroom supplies for Eden Elementary School. Uh thanks to the Eden students that won the uh the contest. Uh we received two monetary gifts for Harambe for the Osprey Wilds field trip. One from Montgomery Lodge 258 AF and AM and the second from the Minnesota Masonic Charities. We received a monetary gift for the speech and girls track program at Roseville Area High School from Smash Park Minneapolis over on County Road C. We received a monetary gift from the Roseville High School boys lacrosse team boosters uh for scrimmage officials uh for Roseberry High School. We received a monetary gift from the Roseville Powerlifting booster club uh for additional coaching staff for the powerliffters at the Roseberry High School. We received a monetary gift for general district needs uh from Aaron Mastrian uh via your cause blackout uh again just to be used at discretion of district. And then we received a number of gifts uh for the boys golf program at Rose High School. All monetary gifts received monetary gifts for the boys golf uh golf program from Gwen Benham, from Elizabeth Schultz Smith and Timothy Smith, from Ryan and Katherine Westby, from Kevin and Kimberly Elm, from Rebecca and Christopher Murphy, from the Timothy and Lawrence Engel Foundation, from Chris and Marcy Heights, from Jeffrey Trosa, from David Heck, man from Chad Funfinger and Carla Spagnik from Susan Campion Bloomquist from HMS Holdings PLLC doing business as Wildwood Chiropractic Center from the Craft Hair Collective from Tipsy Steer the Restaurant in Roseville from Viking Demolition and Specialty Services from Cox Insurance Associates and finally again all of those for the boys golf program at the high school or Roseville schools, David and Kelsey Scitec. So again, a very generous uh very generous from our supporters, individuals, businesses who really uh obviously love our kids and are willing to show it through their donations. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. So now we will go um into the next item reports and non-action item. Um, let's have associate superintendent Melissa Sonic. Thank you, Dr. Ch. Uh, so tonight we'll review policy 520, which is our student discipline policy. Uh, we review this policy on a yearly basis. Uh, we also reviewed policy 520 earlier this spring with a team that was made up of students, staff, administrators, families, and community members. The purpose is to review the policy and to to determine if it's working as intended. Uh tonight is the first reading. As you may remember from last year, there were some pretty significant legislative changes um that were added and our policy increased by about five pages in our last annual review. So I thought I would start by just highlighting some of those changes that are in the policy. This is one of our longer policies. I think it's 21 pages. Um in section 5.2 there is language around um not withholding recess. So that was a new addition that we made last year. In section 5.4, you'll also notice a definition of non-exclusionary discipline and language around dismissals. Just so we're all working with the same understanding, non-exclusionary discipline policies and practices means policies and practices that are alternatives to dismissing a student from school. In section 5.4.4, there's language around um providing access to student work and assignments during suspensions. In section 5.11, there's language around K3 suspensions that align to the 2023 legislation. And in section 9.0, there is language and a process for outlining um discipline, our discipline complaint process. So, those are just some highlights that we added to the policy in our last review that are a little bit newer. Uh next, I'll share some of the themes that came out of our policy review. We'll start with the parts of the policy that are working as intended. feedback that we got from the group is there is an evident belief that we want all students to feel included and safe at school. Uh Roseville area schools overall are using many proactive behavioral strategies such as um things like restorative practices um positive behavior intervention systems PBIS um and conferring both with students and partnering with families. Uh the policy is being used consistently and there's follow through. Our policy also has options and alternatives to disciplinary disciplinary action that's listed in section 5.0. So there's a range of responses that we have to draw from and we're following procedures for students who have IEPs or specialized services. So that was some of the feedback or the themes that came from the group when we did the policy review. An element of the policy that could be better includes ensuring all staff are aware of the policy and maybe breaking it up into chunks and sharing it with staff. So, we actually have one P principal that's going to um process that a little bit um with their site team and think about like what that could look like and maybe be a pilot or an early adopter so we can think about how we can ripple that out throughout the district. So, um that's kind of our review, but at this time there's no recommended changes to the policy, but we welcome any feedback that you have or questions that you might have about the policy. Good. Um a couple years ago we were uh we were having a discussion about edible cannabis and adjusted some of the wording to reflect that. I was wondering um has that worked well? Um are we having any concerns about that in our schools? That's a good question. I I would want to go back to our secondary sites and get more feedback. I know that there's things that have that have um certainly occurred that we've been responsive to. I think the policy the way it's written um allows us to be responsive and address it. But if you wanted specific feedback around how often it occurs or what happens when it occurs, I can check into that too. It was more from a from a policy standpoint ensuring that we were providing um the necessary guidance and direction that allowed um that handling that in our school sites. I think that part there's clarity around. Yes, good question any other comments. I have to say I really appreciate the idea of the chunking, right? because it is a big it is big document with many pages and what does it mean to really like understand it demystify it so that we could actually um implement it right as intended. So I really appreciate that. Yeah. I think where it's broken up into like more digestible chunks that's in a little bit more user friendly language is in our student handbooks that can be found online um that are digital for each um school as well. So that's where I think um families go to a little bit more quickly um and maybe students um versus the actual policy. But that's kind of one way that we were going to explore it a little bit more. I do wonder if there are ways to maybe visualize the framework of it just just a thought, right? Kind of. Yeah. Go ahead. Well, my question was just around um circles. I know that um restorative circles was something that appe last time we had this discussion as a board there were some schools that were a little farther advanced than other schools and it sounds like from your update that um is that correct to say that we're being able to do that in all our buildings at this point? I think we could safely say that circles take place at all of our schools. I think to which degree and how often and how many circleke keepers we have. There's a more of a range of variability, but one of the things that we did last year was we asked um each school to provide staff names um who would be interested in circle um training and then we provided a training in June and we had I want to say it was like 60 staff from all over the district. So I do think like circles are rippling out throughout the district in really positive ways. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. So will the chunkification um occur before the second reading or is it more the desire that the second reading is to approve the recommendation for no changes and then it might be incorporated next year in the annual review. I think it's the latter. I think it's around um the actual policy verbiage won't necessarily change um between now and the second reading. Um, and at the same time, I think it's more around how do we then take the policy and make it more digestible. So, I'm excited to kind of pilot it at one school and see what works and replicate it at other schools. Thank you. Good question. Yeah, thank you for your work. Yeah, of course. So, I think you're staying on question. Quick, would you take advantage of your time and just share about the opportunity Rams has in hosting the MDE? Oh, yes. Um, RAMS is hosting an MDE conference in June and it's a three-day conference. Um, it's offered all over the state. Um, but because we're hosting and partnering with MDE, we get some additional spots. Um, and there's some really good energy at RAMS around restorative practices and really strong circle keepers, not only internally in Roseville, but I would say in partnering with MDE um, across the state as well. So, some really exciting opportunities there. Thank you for coordinating that. Yeah, it was a real team effort. So, um also thanks with to Cindy with community education and Sherry with um buildings and crowns. Like it it impacts more than just a a school building, especially about with summer programming and um cleaning that has to happen over the summer. So, it was really a team effort to make it possible. And we're also like we'll try it and see how it goes. And it could be wonderful and totally live to our values and create great opportunities for staff learning around restorative practices. Um, and it could be tricky in some ways too that we just haven't anticipated. So, we're going to try it and if it works, we'll keep doing it. It's great. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. And I think you are staying on for the next policy. Still me. Yes. Uh, tonight is the first reading of policy 504 around attendance. The policy was reviewed by our district attendance team recently and we have no recommended changes to the policy. Any any comments from what members? Okay, great. Well, thank you for your efforts. Yeah, appreciate it. Thanks, Melissa. Next, we'll hear from um Executive Director of Human Resources, Kinya McCarti. Welcome. Good evening. Good evening. All right. This evening, I am reviewing policy 104 first reading. So, as part of ongoing policy review, I'm bringing forth our policy 104, which is equal educational and employment non-discrimination for the first reading of the policy revisions. This policy was last reviewed in April of 2018. There are some significant changes to this policy to include alignment to the Minnesota Human Rights Act, Title 9 requirements, and notice requirements of section 504. The changes are also recommended based on MSBA model policy and consultation with our legal counsel. It's advised that the district that we adopt policy and regulations for both Title 9 and section 504 to address express notice of responsible parties grievance and complaint procedures. And these policies will be brought forth in future board meetings. So they're referenced, but they're not here tonight. So the changes are as follows. In 2.1 of this new policy revision, there are proposed revisions that align with provision with recent amendments to the Minnesota Human Rights Act. So you'll see that notified or identified in red. In 2.2, these revisions align with language in title 9. In section 2.3, there is a complete revision of this language and it's based on recommendations from our legal council. This direct statement of non-discrimination aligns better with the notice requirements of section 504. And again, this will this section 504 requires express notice of a responsible employee and also requires the adoption of grievance procedures. Um, it's further recommended that these procedures be provided in policy to be readily available for families and employees. So, that's what you'll see in that change. Our we have a new provision in 2.4, 4, which is Title 9 requiring school district to adopt a policy containing a notice of non-discrimination, identification of the Title 9 coordinator, and reference to the school district's grievance procedures and information regarding the complaint process to make a complaint of sex discrimination. And that will also be added at a later date. Um, new provisions are 2.5 and 2.6. Those are also reference to the Title 9 policy that will be created. And then um given the new additions of the policy, this entitle um policy 104 has been renumbered. So that is just a summary brief summary of the changes that have been provided tonight. And so I open it up for any questions that you may have. And can are you the district's title N coordinator? Yes, I am. Yes. Okay. Any comments. And you said I'm sorry this you said this was all the changes were approved by our legal adviserss. They were they were recommended. Yes. This is an incredibly important policy for us in Roseville schools as it also shares our values and I really appreciate the you know complexity in which and sensitivity in which you addressed it. Yeah. And there's so much change. I mean, it's an area of a lot of attention in the last year or so. Appreciate you being on top of finding the different sources and getting that incorporated. So, I'm looking at the history. So, the last time this was in 2018, correct? And is there what is the schedule for this particular policy? I will I will clarify that for you. But um I know that there were some changes in 2020 and then um then again in 2024 then went back to the 2020 changes especially with Title N. And so um I'll I will double check that and when I come back with the second reading I will for you as well. So is it possible we've missed some revision dates? Is that what you're suggesting? There may be and I will confirm that. Okay. That'll be great. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you so much for your efforts. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Now, on to action items. Oh, I guess you're staying on for this part. Yes. I was hoping I would get my 10,000 steps into stay here. All right. This evening, um, thank you again. I am bringing forth our list of licensed probationary employees who are recommended for contract non-renewal. Each year the school district makes determination to non-renew probationary license staff at the close of the school year based on one or more of the following reasons. They can be discontinuence of position, decrease in enrollment, the financial condition of the school district and district performance standards just to name a few. The list of staff recommended for non-renewal are included in your packet this evening and there will be a resolution that will be read shortly. Named educators that are on this resolution will receive written notice regarding their termination and non-renewal of their contract as provided by law. The resolution will be read in full, ensuring that all of the individuals are clearly stated this evening. Upon reading the resolution, it is recommended that the board adopt the resolution terminating the continuing contracts of the probationary educators as listed at the close of the 20, excuse me, 2024 2025 school year. And at this time, I'll ask that the resolution be read. Yes. Um, and I ask uh acting club manics to do that. All right. I introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption. Resolution relating to the termination and non-renewal of the teaching contract of a probationary teacher. Whereas the following probationary teachers in Independent School District number 623 be it resolved by the school board of independent district number 623 that pursuant to the Minnesota statutes 122A.40 40 subdivision 5. That the teaching contract of the following probationary teachers independent school district 623 is hereby terminated at the close of the current 2024 2025 school year for one or more of the following reasons. Discontinuence of position, decrease in enrollment, the financial condition of the school district, district performance standards. Rachel Anderson, Olivia Benson, Lynn Dub, Megan Hansen, Kyle Kaiser, Dean Lindström, Heidi Schwarz. Be it resolved that the written notice be sent to say teacher regarding termination and non-renewal of his or her contract as provided by law. Thank you. Um, I will second. Thank you. Any discussion about this? call to question. I think you need to do a roll call. Do we need to do a roll call? Yes. So, you'll need to Sure. Okay. Let's do a roll call on this one then. Director Shaw I. Director Gogggins I. Director Boachesky I. Chair Shu I. And acting clerk Clark I. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Kenya. Yeah. The next item um I will have um Executive Director of Business Services, Sher Thompson. Good evening again. Yeah. [Music] So this is um what you have before you is one of the steps in the annual EV levy process. Uh this is actually the first step that you typically see 916 uh Northeast Metro 916 does not have independent levy authority on their own. Their levy authority has to flow through the member districts. Um and we are presenting you tonight with our proposed long-term facility maintenance um and health and safety levy for the 25 pay 26 um uh taxes. So, and you can see there is also a resolution attached to this. Um, they are proposing and they have reviewed that with the business managers and I'm also assuming um the 916 uh board. Uh we will incre they are proposing an increase of $8,700 into the annual levy. So the levy will increase to $46,460 for again this is fiscal year 2627. Great. So now I entertain a motion to adopt the resolution approving Northeast Metro 916 Independent School District's long-term facilities maintenance program budget. So moved. Okay. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? Right. Pretty straightforward. Um call to question. Uh, all in favor say I. I. I. Oppos. As a resolution, do we not have to vote individually? The board has and they haven't. I don't remember a roll call vote on this one. I just saw that it was a resolution, so I was wondering if that was needed. So, it's not. I think we done it both way. Done it both ways, but whatever board's more comfort like a roll call vote. I thought resolutions had to be roll call votes. So, I'll do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. It hurt. You'll hurt. Let's do it. Yeah. Hi, Dr. Gagan. I Dr. Boeski. I acting chair chief I. Acting clerk clerk. I motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Now we are we just completed the action items and we have a report by about the study session we had by our acting clerk manis clerk. All right we move through that a little faster. Um our study session we had three topics. Um we had the K to6 social studies evaluation report. um executive director of teaching and learning Jake Vander Lindy and some members from the committee shared the program's evaluation report. Um we were provided a kind of a flip presentation ahead of time that we were able to watch. Um the presenting group was Ellis Richardson who's a teacher on special assignment, Stephanie Shura, who's a kindergarten teacher at Central Park Elementary, and Augustina Boret, a third grade dual language immersion teacher at Leto Canada. Um they provide us an overview of the curriculum cycle. Let me look at some of my notes here with me that had multiple um options of that, but I'll just review a couple kind of hit the top ones. Um we wanted to adopt a curriculum that does not doesn't require teachers to develop their additional materials um to represent absent narratives and diverse perspectives. Um we were looking a lot at or has talked about the Asian and LGBTQ community just to make of some of those. Um provide plenty of training for teachers to learn the new curriculum and pedagogy um to implementation. Um the recommended having a common rubric of student outcomes for each grade to cons ensure more consistency. And then finally although there was a number of things it was a very good presentation um the CER framework is our future of the social studies education. So building the capacity um to develop the questions for students to really explore where the teachers teach but the students also participate in a lot of the conversation was discussed a lot and then we also um had some new course proposals that will start for the 2627 school year. um because registration's already started for this school year. So it can't be this school year. So in the registration handbook for January 20 26 um there would be three PO proposals discussed for the following school year. All the proposals got unanimous support from the DCAC. Um one was the AP art and design. Um it's really already a course that exists but we're offering the third trimester option which we have with our other AP courses. Um the key thing is it allows some of the students the portfolio to finish that portfolio because the two trimesters wasn't enough time. And then the multi-learner peer tutoring um would target 11th and 12th graders um could be focused on um students who have interest in education or want to assist others. Um it was piloted this year um so we're it will be more formally approved as moved forward. Um it was piloted in some of the MLL classrooms, shelter content classrooms and co-t talk classrooms. And then the last was we had a nice discussion about online physical education too. Um have um currently we have the course in person um at at Raz. Um currently we're losing students to other online providers. So our hope was that we would get some of those students to stay with us um and be able to offer the course online. Um we currently do a similar type of course in the summer for AVID students. Um other districts are doing it and our PE um physical education staff is looking how to track and make sure that it's rigorous enough and it meets our other standards. Um yeah and then we also the last thing we discussed was the security and technology levy. Um executive director of business services Sherry Thompson shared with the board the potential of considering a security and technology level levy. Um she informed us that research is still ongoing. So nothing's been decided because the district finance committee will review that and then if they decide to move forward they will make a recommendation to the board in June. Um but the technology in Roseville has five key impact areas. Student learning, cyber security, safety and security, infrastructure and communication. Um a few of the highlight highlights are are our internal and external video cameras. Um IT director Tina Clson has shared at the previous meeting how she gets requests almost weekly from building staff about adding cameras or doing things with cameras. So know there's a need there. Um our technology hardware for instance we have onetoone student iPads the secondary level um and laptops for all teacher staff um the examples shared that when we went out for COVID our K to6 teaching staff did not have laptops so we had to provide them um with laptops um and some of the money that we got from that was from what the federal government gave us and that money is no longer around um also it ensures our secure entry systems communications with family um I think it was shared that technology if we take out the technology ology staff or the people who support technology. We still spend more than $5 million on security and technology um enhancements. Um and comparable districts our size, many of them have the capital levy or security um levy. Um and so and also mentioned that um as director Thompson shared earlier that our board policy, our fund balance um the next couple of years we're going to go into that fund balance to help make us kind of whole. So our goal would be to look at other ways that we can um get some revenue there. So that's kind of what we discussed. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you so much. So um we are now at the agenda item for board reports. Um I'm going to just be random today. How about director Basheski? I actually have nothing to share tonight as a board. Okay. Great. How about at the local elected officials meeting to what? Weren't you at the local elected I wasn't able to make it. Okay. How about uh Director Shaw? Yeah, I was at the local meeting. So I figured you you might go ahead speak speak about that. Well, I was at two meetings concerning Harambe. Yeah. And so first of the first one was the um the sort of focus group that's coming out of the um with parents and steering committee. Yeah. Steering steering committee. Great. And uh so so both of those both of those meetings um were sort of important first steps in getting the whole planning uh underway and both of them I thought had there were a lot there was a lot of energy. Uh we also presented there was presented to the uh local government officials the idea of a potential levy for technology and that was that was received with you know I think with with robust discussion so that that was good. Yeah that's that's all I have to okay oh I went I did the uh American Indian parent meeting and uh there there were two things to mention. One of them is that they pretty much got to the end of their new set of goals for next year. Um it's a very wellrun meeting and uh and productive. Uh the other thing is that they identified new leadership for for next year's uh committees. I think you're right. Thank you. Dora Gaggins um have a number of them. Um attended the community advisory committee. uh chair um Anderson was also there um where it was a discussion around sustainability and what the district is doing. It's a presentation that we've had an opportunity to see in the past, but there was a lot of interest and excitement around the work of the district there. Um and uh then there was some discussion around um using that curriculum and how it's working with students which I think was particularly intriguing to the group when we had a tour of this building and all the different opportunities um and programs that are in this building that uh Cindy uh Arnison uh gave and did an excellent job. Um then we um let's see then there's the you mentioned the haram steering committee. Um we had a board handbook committee where we discussed or worked through a number of the topics on an early draft of what's in the book and we are on schedule um to produce a draft and get it to the full board at the end of June for it to be have a conversation around it in mid July. um attended a MSBA presentation um about uh kind of the current uh situation with laws and changes around that which is really really excellent. Um it's really very well done. Um it's an hour long. It's on um the MSBA website and I would highly recommend it if you have any interest because it goes into the difference of the executive orders, the dear colleague letters, the various Supreme Court cases that are occurring and have relevance to school of which there are four that could have some very significant impact on us. Um uh and uh kind of you know the supremacy of state law versus federal law and things like that which I've read about a lot of this stuff but it just pulled it together for me very nicely. So, if that's something of interest, it's it's very well done. Um, the LGBTQ plus Equity Council had their final meeting for the year um and um did some planning uh around next year and some potential initiatives and topics. Um the Ed Edertton cultural open house um had lots of really uh fun activities um including some that were very culturally based like um you could learn the Karin language which was really interesting because the letters are very different um and um some Korean weaving. There were haircuts and braidings. There were Native American games, Latino dancing. It was just really well done with great family attendance and it was a a lovely evening. Um AMSD um had their meeting on Friday. Um they gave uh basically a review of the bills that passed and those still under negotiation and the difference between the governor's uh house and senate spending targets. Um the one thing that is a couple things that are through is the unemployment insurance will be funded with hund00 million pulled from another source. Um so that will at least cover this year and hopefully into next year. And um then the um omnimous bill pension p plan was signed into law, but everything else there's still lots of and that uh allows teachers to retire um slightly more favorable conditions. Um and then there's a lot of things that are in the works and we'll see what happens with a special session. Then the last thing I wanted to mention was DCAC. Um the um main uh there were two topics that were covered. One was the social studies u materials for 7 to 12. A lot of what we heard for K6 was um kind of similar themes. It was fascinating to me to see how um for the general courses uh the textbooks just really aren't useful anymore, especially as you're trying to teach skills, not facts, but how to how to use those skills in different topics and different historical happenings. Um and so how much they use um articles um and um heard a lot about New Zeal um which is access to thousands of articles that the students and teachers will have available. It's very expensive, but they um used it at Faz this last year and saw some real reading gains because not only does it have all these articles, you can adjust to take the content, adjust it to reading levels, which um allows for just adjustments for students in the class and get uh the students can get immediate feedback about the students writing. And it just it was it was very exciting to see the advancements and uh the um innovative nature of what this uh the teachers are doing um and how they're using the wedding Wednesday morning meetings to keep everybody aligned and identify issues that need to work with so they can get that common form and assessment and skills development. um uh because as I said textbooks they don't help you with that analysis that critical thinking that they're trying to develop in skills. And so it was just it was really neat to hear. And then they also got to hear kind of the overview of all the different um uh subjects and the curriculum review process that we we got uh at a meeting earlier this spring. Thank you. Thank you. Um acting cluck. Sure. Um the we had our last seek meeting was special education advisory committee meeting of the year. We had a guest speaker from the Minnesota Disability Law Center um which they are um provide advocacy for people with disabilities in the state of Minnesota. So the person did did a very good job. We also had another presentation from Stephanie Warner who is a special education teacher EDW and it was on advocating for students with disabilities um around bullying and then executive director um Nita Thomas has provided the group with a nice overview of what's happening what the changes um that be happening um student services for next year. Um attended the EDW PTA um and they discussed the successful spring fling. I was not able to attend but I know Dr. Lake was there there. Um they voted on new PTA member and um principal Wade also provided them an update on the summer construction project and they're all very excited to see how that will look in the fall when they um return. And then got to attend some uh spring sporting events which I like to do. Uh track and field conference finals were last week and this week I think they have sectionals tomorrow on Friday. Um got to attend the baseball game yesterday. We tied it in the sixth or seventh but lost in extra innings but they have another game tomorrow and sectional. So exciting times around some of the things there. Thank you. Um so the only thing I will add is that um um for anybody here listening to the schoolboard meeting. We have an event this Saturday that um I'm very glad that Rose Area School is hosting is at the Rosey Area High School and it is an event celebrating teachers and educators at in the metro area with a satellite site that we will be live streaming in St. Cloud State and Fergus Falls. So I really app so this is kind of part of my work in elevate teaching and just been really grateful for the partnership in this project. We have overund something people signed up and so it's a great way for different districts coming together and really celebrate and it is not so somebody asked me is it can can I come if I'm not a teacher or educator I go absolutely that's what we are celebrating right as a community. So, so please come. Uh, it's this Saturday from 10 to 2. Uh, there will be food. It's a free event. Um, it will start in the in the performing arts center. Um, and we'll have also a keynote by our 2024 teacher of the year, Tracy Bird. And then we'll have a panel discussion in the afternoon. We have a couple of performances. And so a great day to celebrate and it's great way to highlight um and highlight the district that we are having having it happen here. So uh if anybody wants more information is www.elevateeing uset2025. Yeah. So thank you. Last thing for you to do an update. It struck me with pride. It's not a part of my formal superintendent report, but May is uh Asian-American month recognizing all the contributions and greatness of our our Asian-Americans. And I just caught me that acting chair Dr. Rose Chu is in a moment right now. Thank you for your leadership and also for the Edertton Ice Savers, the leadership of Dr. Yang Chang and Sue Collins and our student body in Edertton as well as a Asian-American identifying state speech competitor in Logan. So, it was quite the night to recognize all the contributions of all of our students and staff and families across the district. Thank you for pointing it out. Yeah, thank you. And as we enter the final stretch of the school year for most of our students, staff and families, I'd like to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for your unwavering commitment to our students. Your dedication, creativity, and hard work make a difference every single day, but especially now as we approach the finish line. Whether you are supporting students academically, socially, or emotionally, your efforts are what makes Roseville area schools a place where every student can thrive. A special shout out to our Harambe staff and students who are currently on their inter session break. Enjoy this well-deserved time and we look forward to wel welcoming you back next week. This is also a time for celebration together. You all have accomplished so much this year. relationships built, academic growth achieved, meaningful experiences shared, and bonds formed that will carry forward across the district. We're recognizing these milestones with celebrations big and small. Both from the sixth grade track meet and district-wide art show to Wednesday's first ever graduates from our dual language Spanish immersion program and also Friday night's Native American honoring ceremony. Next week, we look forward to honoring our eighth graders at Rams and Park View, as well as our graduates at Fairview Alternative High School, Roseville Area Learning Center, as well as Roseville Area High School. Congratulations, as you should be incredibly proud of all you've accomplished this year. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. So, this uh final section, I want to talk it through. This is um kind of thank you for the grace that you all extend to me being the first you know first time acting as chair on behalf of um our chair Todd Anderson. Um so we're going to have a closed section. So I'll be asking um for a motion and then when the motion get passed uh we will close this open meeting and then the meeting uh will be closed to the public. Um we'll take a a brief and we'll take yeah we'll take a little break in between so that it gets set up. Um Wayne is behind the scenes setting that up and then we'll come back for the close session. Uh when we finish we'll close the close session and then we open the um open meeting before we adjourn. Did I do that all correctly? Okay. I just had to talk that through. Great. So, I entertaining a motion for this close session and you all have the uh if whoever uh agrees to do that as um to to read the motion. I move to close the meeting to evaluate the performance of Superintendent Dr. Jenny Lake as permitted by Minnesota statute section 13D.15 or 05 subdivision 3A. Okay. I second that motion. Okay. Thank you. Any discussion? All right, call to question. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. All right. Motion carries. So the open meeting is closed. He did say that he has to things up. Okay. All right. We um we are back reopening the we are going to I'm going to reopen the open meeting. And is there any other business before the board? No. Yeah. Any business? No. Hearing none. All right. Hearing none, we're gonna we're gonna adjourn. Done. Done.