This gives students just a little bit more time in each field, give them a little bit more preparation for them, and it also gives students a little bit of a chance to see that to see what these fields look like a little bit more authentically while they're a little bit younger.

I learned a lot that you're not going to learn in your regular classes. Um, you know, you're you're not going to learn how to frame and put not going to put you up on 12T roofs, you know, 24T roofs and stuff. They're going to be filling out paperwork. So, um, last year we had a challenge with a construction uh project. It involved uh raising a uh shed 6 in and uh so we kind of took over that.

My biggest win I think here is that 96% of our activities were there on the first day of school. You can see the data here from the past three years somewhere in the kind of 50 to 58% of our students were coming to that orientation prior to this year. This year we had almost everybody enter that first day of school.

I didn't go to that freshman orientation in between I guess open house and this the first day of school. So I think if I actually I was too scared, but um if I had this I would definitely my parents would me go. But um I think it would really acclimate me to the high school as well because the first day, not to put myself on blast, but I didn't eat lunch either cuz I didn't know how to work the like the lunch line.

So we rolled out our comprehensive literacy framework I believe in the 22 23 school year. Um and I think it's it's brought us to this point now where we are really um thinking about the time, the talents, the treasures of our teachers and our resources and um think maximizing that tier one instruction for all students.

When we did this data dive um then we met with the PLC's um and we we we divvied up the students. And so in the past, I'd have my class of 25 students and I knew that this many students would go with special education providers and then maybe my interventionists would take a couple students here and then I'd have the rest of them and I'd have to decide how I was going to differentiate for the remaining students in my class.

We really took feedback from our secondary our 612 PLTW teachers and our academy themmy's uh teachers on what if if we could do something in elementary that would set kids up for success 612th what would that be and we heard over and over iterative design process iterative design process.

And I I appreciate you asking that. I think we can ask, you know, our our band teachers and we can ask our students and we can ask our parents for feedback on this to see and teachers, right, to see what what the impact of the change has been.

Shaki Community Ed is exploring um the idea of bringing school age care inhouse. Currently, the YMCA provides this service and while the program's been successful over the years, um we believe it's in the best interest of our families and students and the school district to transition it to be under Shaki public schools.

Aligning program with district values and our and academic goals to provide enrichment opportunities and academic support for students. strengthen partnerships with family, schools, and community education. Staff will be Shaki public school staff, which will align with district expectations of employees and provide job opportunities and to strengthen our programs through the reinvestment.

A lot of times it's not necessarily catching or doing anything for you in the moment per se, but after the fact it's an important tool to kind of see, hey, what happened? What was going on here? What can this tell us?

Although the system has a potential to do sort of a follow me kind of concept where it says hey um you identify like um person wearing a red shirt in the spring and the system tries to like follow across cameras map that do that. So it's not exactly what you're saying. It's more of a a tool the system has that we eventually could leverage but um the hardware just isn't spec. It's just more you know there's a lot of questions even whether that capability should be used in a broader scale but it's all in the name of safety and security.

New this year, this is a Secretary of State component. uh nothing to do with Scott County specifically. Uh but you can submit an application for your absentee ballot online. And again, that is new this year. That helps expedite the process.

I just want to thank all the election judges that are say volunteering for the campaign. as somebody who has on several occasions worked that early in the morning till late at night, you know, you start and you get done. It's a long day, but it's it's worth it because it's just it's what America is.

These are the proposed uh pieces of the uh solutions to really that 11 million, if you will, uh future financial budget deficit challenges. Uh we've got the 3 million uh in in permanent budget cuts to be made prior to next school year and that is irrespective of the operating levy question results. So no matter what, then we've got kind of the either or nature of question one of the operating levy, which would generate a hair over five million in annual revenue or the need to make 5 million in budget cuts if question one were not approved by the voters for the 2728 school year.

If you're cutting proportionally, teachers make up 60% of the operating budget. 60 to make 60% of the total cuts. Uh, in that budget, uh, is a range between 70 and 80 full-time teaching positions.

I don't think it's proven to necessarily name these things until we have to, right? like come post Christmas if this ley fails names are going to be listed in programs will be named you know it'll definitely become real at that time but I think this serves the goal of understanding literally obvious major changes will have to come by doing this.

We're really as a school district and as a system, our leadership team, our building principles, and especially our teachers and support staff, we're we're expending our energy on doing right for students and really working to be better tomorrow than we are today when it comes to learning and teaching.