She sent me this this text and she said I hope I made you proud Miss Bon and it was this this amazing line of products that is now and kept at all Targets Nationwide.

I think I'm pretty lucky to have parents who kind of supported me in my interest since I know bu like equipment materal materials yeah and then took me to like class tutoring I learn how to do like life drawing grade

this is immigrant kit out of nowhere now have my name everywhere across the country and all the packages it's pretty cool

we won the gold plaque for GPA so we had a team average at 3.5 or higher and I believe there's only 16 triaa teams in Minnesota that were able to do that

prior to last couple of days although it's literally the best season we've ever had in program history played the longest achieved the most utterly disappointed because we truly believed and thought we were going to you know win it all and and be the state champion at the end of the year

I'm with I'm at the state tournament with my brothers like this a dream I've dreamed about since I was in fourth grade with them

It's always exciting interviewing these candidates just like sh here they're all they're all amazing and just really uh inspiring speaking speaking to respective school board members

Last year was the first year of the sea contract and we settled that the board settled that contract it was brought to school board approval in June of 2024 and so when we're looking at actual expenditures February of 2025 and comparing that to actual expenditures February 2024 the February 2024 number would not include the retro pay for the first year of the contract because it wasn't settled as of this month so that's the main driver for the 2% variance there

I think from a large picture and and you know you're part of this too so you know where people are just trying to pay attention to what's happening I I think a lot of this where things kind of get announced in some other cases there was funding shut off then there was funding turned back on there have been a number of lawsuits and things so for us it's it's more our focus is more we're already committed to serving those students I we're going to continue to do that we're contractually obligated to most of the employees that provide that and I think the worst case scenario is if something like that happened and you had it shorted we would probably be looking at through that lens of yeah that's the type of financial whatever you want to call it uh you know I don't know uh usually think of it as a natural disaster or whatever but something similar to that but you would cover with the one time money if you on a sign fund kind crisis report type situation and then obviously you know sort that out what what would happen for the following fiscal year

we've always boted the fact that the federal government is Ty picking up about 14% of our special education expenditures when they initiated idea the plan was for them to pick up 40 not 14

first goal with the new implementation is just cracking those those seals open and actually getting in and that was our first quarter implementation goal and we had 100% of our teachers Implement and that is really in my opinion something to celebrate

so one of our hopes from this Illustrative Math with the math tasks students are being engaged to do increase so instead of just that rote memorization or quick algorithms really getting them to understand the concept but also that pedagogy being used to engage students in critical thinking problem solving and exploration of knowledge

our teachers are very excited about this one they loved Whitten wisdom and they loved the results they got with students but it was very challenging on the teacher side of things so we are hoping that we see the same results with our hirers and also a better uh experience for the future

we had some coaches intentionally and they worked with it teams and student student problem solving teams to kind of create this process that now our teams are leaning into without coach support and they're kind of working through this the dean of students and and the building PLC needs to put this process in place how do we respond to our data how do we intervene how do we monitor progress

I heard more than once that we have foundational skills our secondary we have students support foundational skills of our high school and once we've ran our data through this process we have at least a dozen students at the high school that need founds

our kindergarten and our first grade teachers um they felt like the scope and sequence with uly was a better match for our students in Shak and they have seen much faster results with youly with 95 BS but they they like the 95 bonds just not for the because it looks like there's a there's a difference in offerings like the the flash cards and things that those those start at a later grade so it's almost like a set of products they offer

I listen to a presentation on Saturday afternoon by principal from water mayor that she started talking about their implementation of youly and there a K and and how fast they were seeing improvements with their fast Bridge uh the proficiency and the different grades for me was I was like wow I just read about this so I mean it was it really sparked my interest to hear what they had to say and it was a Minnesota district and this was at a national school conference that I was at so that gave me a lot of confidence knowing that this was the recommendation that was coming forward tonight

the core training the letters training the science of reading training is substantial I think it is a reasonable expectation for us as a school district that our teachers moving forward have the knowledge have the skills or the willingness to learn that Knowledge and Skills because that is a really really crucial piece in addition to knowing how to use the OT 95 phonics whatever other comprehension curriculum is

522 is a big homework assignment title n Court decision they're vacating the 2024 ruing on Title 9 and going back to the 2020 Rule and they are completely different documents so you will not get a line summary of the changes

another one that I think is maybe seems small but I think is significant is the first one on the top 102a equal education and all opportunity policy and it just adds some language kind of to the I guess maybe the Preamble of that policy that aligns it to our mission statement as a district

the Governor came out on Friday with the supplemental budget which included another1 million education cuts schools which total about almost 350 million in his budget now that's not necessar what's going to be approved but um there are some significant concerns in regards to some of those cuts and the impact that they might have

it was great for Tracy air health services supervisor and I to testify and just share shaky story from a heart safe schools Community perspective and and really the only reason that we were able to share that story is all the work that was done by the community Janny Hennis and many others that made it that in basically three four months um we could have the full plan that was actually part of that Senate file so that was a great opportunity

it sounds like they're now bringing us in as the howto example what are you doing and how does that work and that's a really really cool place to be in a credit to a lot of folks along the way