Student Data Privacy Act was passed in 2022 unanimously signed into the law by the governor. There were a lot of considerations about why it was passed. It was, you know, obviously bipartisan pushed by the ACLU in Minnesota. A lot of it was concerns about how much instruction had gone online during COVID. Um, and all these new tech providers and software providers, um, then having the ability to really vacuum up a lot of private student data, um, and exploit it commercially, at least, you know, that, that was a danger and a concern.

I'm curious on how often it's happening I hear about it. I've heard about it enough and have watched kiddos do it. Um, so it does feel like if we are going to continue to have iPads particularly open during class, it feels like a good space to invest

And maybe the follow-up question I had is, do other platforms have the same limitations, um, that, or is Apple unique in this, in this sense because they really are strong on, on the data privacy portion of it, and they understand that.

It's the, there's no onus on the companies to really do anything to provide metrics on what their products educational outcomes are, and, and it, it seems interesting that they're providing an educational tool, um, and we're so intent on measuring and improving our, our our, um, Uh, how do you call it, our Our classroom delivery, you know, what students are learning and how they're learning and understanding, you know, neurology and, and, and continuously training our teachers. Yet here we have a tool that we, we utilize, but the metrics are kind of like our, our hands are tied behind our backs to be able to get anything meaningful.

I'm a little leery about, you know, going Back in restrictive ways before we start to really push into education about how this tool could be useful, right And, and so I'm, I'm a little, you know, I'm I'm an anti-AI person cause I like water. I keep saying that I like water. Um, but I do, you know, for my own personal use, I'm OK with getting left behind. But I do have concerns about um my personal decisions around water and um and and technology and making sure that our entire district doesn't get left behind.

I think like, like the, the realm of options are everything from like what you were saying this is actually a really beneficial technology and we do need to expand the use in some places too. We're going to, to zero minutes of screen time for elementary and we're, we're bringing back paper. Textbooks and if we don't do either of those things I wanna be able to explain why we're not doing that and why whatever decision that we that we end up making is the one that the data says is best for kids

But basically what you would see is that at any given year other than Last year, school year 2020202025, um, we're consistently higher than that 8% national average for licensed educator turnover.

Compared to the reference point, the actual number of departures is consistently below, which tells us that white staff generally... are consistently, um, underrepresented when it comes to staff departures.

How are you incorporating their voices into spaces where decisions are being made about the students? Cause I know that's one of the biggest things that makes a black educator go if I'm not able to teach my children here, I'm going to leave this place, right?

The data paints a story of us not being a good employer for, for our black staff. And that is like embarrassing, uh, for us as an organization or should be, um, and it is uh, harmful to the students that we're trying to serve

This group is not in charge of closing the schools or deciding which schools are gonna close move, be repurposed, merged. They are designing the actual criteria.

I was very pleased um, we had some homework. We do homework in this, so um, yes, we do, um, we do homework and part of, uh the homework that we did was helping kind of identify where the, um, The criteria that we have drafted already was either in alignment or not in alignment with our core values. And um I was very pleased to see our group, and this was just last night, but really pleased to see our group. Um, be in alignment that we were being hypercritical and hyper-focused on the cultural relevancy and making sure that we're being respectful to, um, minority groups and community.