I'd like to call to order the Shaky Public Schools regular business meeting for August 24th. Tiffany, could you please do the vote? >> Yes. Smith >> here. >> Johnson >> here. >> Aldridge >> here. >> Peterson >> here. >> Roofy >> here. >> Valdez >> here. >> Zitic >> here. >> Clara >> here. >> And Brian was noted as >> Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Before we move into our meeting tonight, we wanted to recognize and have a moment of silence. As we continue preparing for a new school year, we received information from a family member as well as through a public obituary regarding the passing of White Scott Carney following an accident on September 8th, 2026. Wyatt was a former preschool student at Pearson Early Learning Center who was scheduled to enter kindergarten at Sweeney Elementary this fall. The Sweeney Elementary team had the honor of getting to know and serve Wyatt during kinder camp in early August. During his shared his obituary. Wyatt was remembered for his big bright smile and his ability to bring joy to those around him. And he had a special love for animals and cherished time spent with his cousins and family. As a school community, we are deeply saddened by W's passing. We recognize that this news may bring a range of emotions for members of our school community as we continue preparing for a new school year. Any additional communication regarding the family's wishes will come directly from the family. We Ask everyone joining us tonight to join the board in a moment of silence to honor W and remember the joy of item four on our agenda this evening is our Pride and tonight we are having the shock alumni association announce the 26 Hall of Fame and design distinguished alumni and I'm going to turn this over to >> Thank you Peterson. I have the real guest of honor here. and I'll let her do a lot of the talking. But if you may have seen uh late last week, uh the 2026 uh honores were announced and I've had the pleasure and so has Amber and our communications department to support Pat and the SAA and connecting with all of these amazing individuals which Pat will tell you about. You can see there's two distinguished hall of fame on there and at the athletic hall of fame. There's a lot of stories that we don't want to spill the beans on because we obviously have a big event before homecoming and some great videos, but what I can say is every single one of these individuals who we've had the honor of talking to, one uh Dr. Kent uh Tin is in Florida and he is leading mail over there. Pat will share a little bit more. um between talking with his team and Brandon and his daughter came to West and we were joking around about the great Von Stadium and then he was pointing to the soccer field that used to be track that used to be where he played football. Um and Tess is absolutely outstanding and has a wonderful pizza shop in Carver that we're hope Pat and I are hoping to get to. But we just we won't do the full presentation here. We wanted to honor these individuals that have been shared on social media. Pat has some additional great info and we forward to after Pat shares, you know, giving them a formal recognition during our annual homecoming highlight as well. First of all, thank you for letting us come and share um our excitement about our 20126 Hall of Fame inductees. Um, no, just a little side note. I've lived in Shaki all my life and it's amazing the people that you live with and you shop with and you go to church with that live right so close to and the amazing things they do that you have no idea. Um, it just it's so refreshing every year to do this and learn more about our community and the amazing people out there. Our new inductees this year um um And Brandon Bear is the first picture is the first picture up there. And Brandon's a 1993 graduate of Shakabe. He's retired from the army after 25 years. He did two years of duty in Iraq. And he's his current career as a senior program manager for special access program oversight and governments at modern technology solutions. I hope you understand what that is better than I, but he's quite an amazing. Um, our other inductee in the distinguished is Dr. Ken Tin and he's been a doctor at the Mayo Clinic Systems for 36 years. He is currently the chief executive officer of the Jacksonville, Florida Mayo Clinic as well as the vice president of the Mayo Clinic board of trustees. He also serves as a professor of radiology in the department of radiology. And um our athletic hall of fame inductee is Tess Miskin who uh graduated in 17 class. Uh Tess still holds six shock beat track and field records. She excelled in both cross country and track. Um she was on all state cross country runner five times and track and field she as an all state representative six times um for individual and two times for relay. So we hope you can join us in celebrating these new inductees. Our celebration is Friday September 18th. We do it during homecoming week. Uh the Shaki Sabers will take on Still Water that night and um the inductees we have a formal lunchon induction lunch in front of them [clears throat] and then they have the unveiling in the afternoon. We go to the pepfest and share the excitement and the enthusiasm for the sabers and then they're introduced during the halftime of the game. So please feel free to join us in celebrating them on September 18th. Thank you. Let's give the inductees a round of applause. [applause] >> And thank you Pat for all you do for the alumni association. >> Oh, you're welcome. >> Item five on the agenda is a consideration of the agenda as presented. >> So move second. >> Motion by and a second by Aldridge. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I carries. Item six on our agenda this evening is our public comment. This is a time where members of the public can participate in the meeting without being part of the meeting agenda. A member of the public may address the board on an agenda topic or on another topic pertaining to school board business. We allocate a total of 15 minutes for public comment at this meeting. Each individual speaker may speak for up to two and a half minutes. Tonight we do have um people signed up for public comment. Requests are not processed on an overall first come first serve basis. There is an element of first come first serve representing a specific viewpoint on a particular topic. If more than six speakers sign up for public comment, topics and speakers will be prioritized. Topics on this evening's agenda will take priority over the topics not agenda. Speakers living within the school district take priority over those from outside the district. When speakers plan to share differing perspectives on the same topic, an effort is made to balance the quantity of speakers on each side of the topic. Public comment is conducted in accordance with schoolboard policy 206, which can be found [clears throat] on the district website. Persons who wish to address the school board during public comment must sign up prior to the start of a school board meeting and should provide their name and the subject to which comments pertain. Only those persons who have been recognized by the board chair will be allowed to speak during public comment or at any time during the school board meeting for that matter. No personal attacks will be allowed on any district employee, including the school board members. As a reminder, school board members will typically only listen and not inter act in any way with a public comment speaker. The board may at its discretion ask questions for clarification of an issue. Tonight, our first speaker on our list is Terra Wagner. So you know, it'll be when complete, but I'll make it so it's not too loud. >> Once you introduce yourself, I will make sure I start. >> My name is Tara Wagner and I'm a teacher at West Middle School. >> Hi, my name is Tara Wagner and I've been an eighth grade teacher at West Middle School for the past 17 years. What you're about to hear is offensive and contains profanity. These are direct quotes coming out of West Middle School the past two years. I'm going to kick you in your stomach and kill your baby. Who wants to rape a teacher? I'm going to punch you in your fat [ __ ] face. You can't do anything. You are just a teacher. The following are direct actions and behaviors coming out of West Middle School the past two years. A group of students bursting into a classroom, grabbing a student, and physically assaulting him in front of the entire class. groups of students skipping class, running unsupervised throughout the building for hours of the school day. Kids climbing the bathroom stall dividers during the school day and going up into the ceiling of the bathroom to do god knows what. This is just a sample of the hundreds of obscene and dangerous things that are known to be tolerated by administrators at West Middle School. And to all of you sitting in front of me, I would like to personally attest to the fact that these are not exaggerated behaviors or stories. If there are any administrators that feel that these behaviors are being exaggerated by staff, I would have encouraged them to ask the upwards of 30% of West staff who are not coming back this fall. Or I would have encouraged them to spend even one full day in our building. I truly respect the work the board does and I truly believe that you have made a decision to terminate a beloved teacher without all the important information. That is not your fault. What happens going forward, however, does reflect on the board because now you have people who are bringing this new information to light. I truly believe the current school board's legacy will be determined by how you rise to the moment at hand. Even though my outlook on people and fairness has been forever altered by the situation my family has been put through, I still have to believe that there are good people out there who will do what's right, even if it's hard. I still believe that there are people out there that respect teachers enough to listen to them and take action to support them. I still believe that the truth matters. I urge you to be on the right side of this and reinstate the terminated employee immediately. Immediate action is not waiting until the arbitration is done and letting someone else do your job. Immediate action is not saying you will show up to schools more this year. Immediate action is not putting people on improvement plans. Immediate action is having one of the best teachers in the district start school with his students on Tuesday. Immediate action is removing people now who have failed an entire building for the past two years. Immediate action is done now. [cheering] OUR next speaker is Marine Can. >> Hi, my [clears throat] name is Marine Cannon. I'm a retired English language teacher and taught at West Middle School for 20 years. I loved my time at West, including the 10 plus years I co-taught with the terminated employee. It was a place where students felt safe, teachers felt supported, and rules and consequences existed. When I retired, I was excited to go back to West as a substitute teacher. The sad reality is that I will no longer serve at West. My experience came to an abrupt end last March. What I experienced was like anything I experienced in my 20 previous years at West. In addition, I have witnessed multiple examples of complete disregard and disrespect by students when teachers tried to impose consequences. Students would run the halls with no regard for the safety of anyone. The amount of blatant insolence and verbal abuse that staff endured every single day was truly appalling. with countless examples of threatening comments being made to staff. I witnessed students engaging in these types of behaviors and then being brought back to the class within minutes. I addressed my grave concerns with administrators over the last two years and was met with apathy and at flat out times disdain. In fact, one administrator was documented as saying they are just a sub. They know what they signed up for. I might have been just a sub and the custodial staff might just be custodians and the office staff might just be office staff and teachers might just be teachers. But every single person in that building deserves to feel safe and valued. The fact that we now have a 20-year veteran union rep teacher loved by thousands that has been is mindblowing. This is a teacher that the rest of the staff went to hundreds of times when they were not feeling safe or valued. He worked very hard to bring stability, safety, rules, and accountability to the building. When I first met the terminated employee, he told me that he knew that he wanted to be teacher since he was in eth grade. How many of us can say that we knew our passion at that age? He has an amazing way of relating to kids using humor and connecting real life meaning to their studies. He is an incredible role model for so many. For so many. I'm afraid that you have made a decision without all the facts. You now have the facts. Please, please make it right. Thank you for your time. Our [applause] [applause] next speaker is Bellamy Ron. Hi, my name is Ron. I'm a freshman and a former student. During my time there, I've seen the hard work the teachers put in to create an equable environment for all students. School is everyone's favorite place to be. That's why teachers are so incredibly important. One great example is the well teacher that we all know. He meets kids where they're at. And I saw that his teaching approach is meeting his individual is is matching the needs of each individual student. During our speech debate, his comical competitive helped students relief in the public speaking. His encouragement to kids help experiences confidence. One of my highlighted experiences that person to everyone's different personality is just one of the things that makes him so appreciated. have seen the difficulties he and other teachers have under like talking back and fights are destined. However many is it be unusual for you not to be interrupted by a group of students from room to room or by student cousers try to separate but some kids simply don't respect their authority mistakes are made by everyone but intentional disrespect is equivalent to encouraging behavior a common place of disruption middle school is a long hallway with manyities into a special education class in my years going to school with my peers I've learned how import remains as quiet as possible to allow people to focus on school work. But there isn't always someone available to handle the situation. Teachers are busy managing class because they're not available while they're breaking it up throughout the cafeteria. And you can't get a teacher that's on lunch break because they're helping out in the classroom that couldn't find an available substitute. On top of the well-known issue that we don't have nearly enough, middle schoolers don't care if you're an adult. They're going to do whatever they want if they don't see a possible punishment. I'm grateful that there was a teacher who could step in when student continued to sprint down the hallway even after disrespectfully reminders. When he stepped out of his classroom in disruption, the kid happened to run into him and fall. It is darn. One of the students sent a great message to students. They showed them that they can speak to authority figures however they want and however they want and somehow come out on top. And for the staff that sent the message that if you try to intervene and stop that behavior, you can lose your job. [applause] OUR next speaker is Christy Swansy. >> I'm a little upset that we're not live today. [laughter] >> Looks great. >> Thank you, >> Christie. Chair Peterson. We have posted on social media what we've shared in person here. So folks, >> so I did do my hair. >> No, you did not. >> Um, good evening school board members and guests. Uh, thank you for the opportunity to address the board. My name is Christy Swenz. My children have been attending Chi schools for the last 10 years. My children have my youngest son is entering high school next week. I'm sharing his middle school experience of disrupted learning due to poor student behavior and lack of meaningful consequences. According to my son, since kids know there will be no consequences, they will do the following things. Skip class or leave during class. Play with random noises on their iPad to be funny. Yell at or as he says rage the teacher. He shared that a few times the vice principal came to remove the offending child, but that most times the teacher just had to deal with it the best they could. He had not witnessed it personally, but knew of teachers who were physically hit and cursed out by kids. The classes where there was the most disruption were also the classes where my son felt his performance was the worst. He gave an example of a class where his classmates were especially disruptive. He struggled to learn in that setting and had to work extremely hard to get through class. He felt his learning and his grades were impacted. This ongoing pattern of behavior was highlighted in the incident occurring last spring where Mr. Wer was involved in incident with a disregulated student while trying to keep the student and other people in the immediate area safe. It was deemed that he acted inappropriately. It's a shame that we are allowing this accumulation of student behavior to fall on the shoulders of one amazing teacher. Mr. Winkler will result in teachers and administrators being even more lenient with students. This incident clearly demonstrated how quickly one can vote from teacher of the year nominee to fire. I faith that we can work together to firstly escape Mr. and come up with solutions to maintain appropriate classroom behavior. Our students and teachers need the support of administration, the school board and parents to provide a structured learning environment where all students and all teachers can do their best. [applause] And our last speaker is Molly Russell. Hi. >> Good evening. My name is Molly Russell. I'm a Shaka resident and taxpayer and the parent of a child who recently completed three years at West Middle School and a former special education teacher here in Shaki. I worked for the district for 15 years. 12 of those were at West for three years. I trusted West with my child. I trusted the teachers and the staff members who built relationships, managed difficult situations, and worked to keep students safe and learning. After 12 years at West, I understand the reality inside a school is often much more complicated than it can be captured in like a report or a recommendation or a brief summary presented at a board meeting. Shaki public schools describes our board as being entrusted with oversight of the district. You have both the authority and the responsibility to ask questions, request additional information, examine the original evidence, and seek perspectives beyond the district office. Seek perspectives from the people who are closest to the situation. When a recommendation could significantly affect an employes's career, it is your responsibility to ask, "Do we have the complete context? What are we not being shown? Is there additional evidence we should request and review? Who else should we hear from? Are there perspectives not included? What information might contradict this recommendation? These questions do not undermine district leadership. They are essential parts of your responsibility and governance. Your responsibility is to independently determine whether those recommend recommendations are fair, justified, and supported by complete information. You were elected to represent the community, its students, its families, its teachers, its staff members, and taxpayers. Active oversight is not interference. Asking difficult questions is not disrespectful. Seeking another perspective is not disloyalty. I am asking you to use the authority you have to revisit the recent personnel decision through the appropriate confidential process. Obtain all information. Hear from the people closest to the situation and determine for yourselves whether you were given the complete picture. The community is trusting you to do more than accept what you were told and we are trusting you to ask questions. [applause and cheering] >> Come on board, do your job. >> Ask questions. Stand up, pack some balls. >> We're moving to item seven on the agenda, which is our consent agenda. We have personnel items. Approval of schoolboard meeting minutes, the consideration of bills and authorization contain the same. Approval of wires reports, authorization for sale equipment, and a field trip approval for the high school baseball. >> I'll make a motion to approve as presented. >> Second. We have a motion by Roie and a second by to approve the consent agenda. Any items for discussion? >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Item eight on our agenda this evening is our list of donations into the district. And you will see them listed in board book. Um, and I want to particularly call out one uh from Emerson that was a $15,000 in time for the shop high school and that was for 100 robot kits and battery packs to go with it as well as some game controllers. >> Any further discussion on the donations? I would entertain a motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Roi and a second by Aldridge to accept the donations as presented. Any further discussion? >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> Sorry. Peterson. Smith. >> Yes. >> Johnson. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Peterson. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Moving to item nine on our agenda, which would be ourformational items. First on our list is our safe routes to school update. And here to present is Canon Christensen, our district crisis and safety coordinator. Thank you. >> Well, thank you for having me. Um, I'm going to talk about our safe safe routes to school stuff. This started back gosh, it was 2022 or 23 when I was in SRO. Somebody came in and said, "Hey, safe routes to school wants to meet with you to talk about how kids get to school." I'm like, "All right, cool." They came back a year later with a ton of recommendations um and kind of left it at that and disappeared. Brings us to last year. I got a call from the city that said, "Hey, we just got a grant from the state to go ahead with some of these projects and they were looking to move forward." So then the city really really worked hard to get the grant and get the projects going and make it happen. Um they came up with the the full grant, $270,000 to go ahead with three projects in [clears throat] the Sh school district. The first was a sidewalk outside of Sunpath. The big issue there was when parents were waiting to pick up, they're parked on the side of the street with no sidewalk there. The kids had to basically walk on the outside of the cars to get to the school. So, we were able to put a sidewalk in along where those cars parked on the entrance to the school to give them a safe place to walk. The next one was at the high school on the west side. They determined that that due to the speed of the cars there coming down the hill that it was quite dangerous for kids to cross the cross the street. So, they were able to put in a center island refuge to give them a safe place if they needed it. Cars are still supposed to stop. If somebody's in the refuge, you still need to stop, but that at least gave them a a safe place that they could uh hang out, make sure those cars stop when you're in crossing. And then our last and uh the city's biggest project was at Sweeney. And when they looked at Sweeney, we had immense amount of cars parked on a very busy road waiting to pick up their kids. So they came up with a plan to divert the entrance to uh the main doors of Sweeney. So they went in where Sand Venture is, rounded around the log cabin, and headed up towards the school. And that gave us an a lot of additional space off the main road to stage those cars for parents waiting to pick up their kids. And they were able to do that while saving a giant humongous super old tree that was there, which was super cool. So, uh, the tree was saved and the project went forward and they're wrapping up. They're wrapping up right now. Again, this was all done by the the city, their hard work. They put a video together of what they what they accomplished so far. Welcome back to the day where we give you all the dirt on the latest developments happening in Shak. Today we're talking about our safe routes to school improvements which are helping kids all over the community get to school safer. Safe routes to school is all about making it safer, easier, and more convenient for students and families to walk or bike to school by improving crossings, sidewalks, and other infrastructure. Growing concerns about pedestrian and bike safety near our schools led the city to identify improvements that would better connect neighborhoods and help students travel more safely. The city was awarded more than $270,000 in safe routes to school infrastructure grants from Mindot. A portion of that will fund a safer crossing near Shaki High School and a new sidewalk connection to Sunpath Elementary. The remainder will support a safer crossing and roadway improvements on Adam Street, benefiting both Sweeney Elementary and Lions Park. These high priority projects are done in partnership with Shaki public schools and come directly from the city's safe routes to school plan. Construction will be completed in the coming weeks, just in time for students to return to school. And that's the day. For updates on this project, visit shakymn.gov/sr. SRTs. >> And I just got uh right before I came in here, I saw an email from the city that SunPath and the high school are completely done and will be cleaned up with all the street signs put away this week. And Sweeney is they need a sign some directional signage still put in. Supposed to happen was there Thursday. They did striping today. So that's all in in strip now. And that will be complete by the first day of school. It should be noted that there's still a lot of construction work going on there, but most of that is a separate project. That's the sand venture parking lot project. So, but the the part that affects Sweeney and the safe routes to school stuff will be completed before the first day of school. And that's not the end of safe routes to school. There's still a lot of proposals. There's still we're still sticking our nose in and saying here's what needs to be done. Um the city just announced uh looking for advice on what to do with 10th Avenue. That project is coming up in the next two to three years and we're working hard uh to get stuff that'll help the school out there. Some more center island refues, crosswalks, and stuff by West Middle School to help out that area. Stuff that was uh noted by Safe Ros School people that ribbon cutting. uh the first the 1st at 8:00 a.m. please come out for the ribbon cutting so you can see all the hard work that the city did to uh get that money and get the project done on time. It looks awesome over there. So super excited. September 1st, 8 a.m. >> Well, I just want to say thank you to all of those involved, including the city, um everyone in the school district. I live by one of those schools and I know that some of that was needed. Um I live by Sunpath and so that that curve right when the entrance to Sunath Trace is pretty dangerous. Um and I would say that the sidewalk doesn't extend far enough into the neighborhood the other way. Um it's it's just such a busy area. Obviously has grown and so it requires us to take a look at additional safety measures that are needed and appreciative of the collaboration that we have for the project. >> Any other discussion or comments just really good work and it's the things behind the scenes that few uh see until it's built right in place. serving the city. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We will move to item 9.2 on the agenda, which is a presentation on arts and letters. And here to present is summer, our assistant director of learning, teaching, and equity. Welcome everyone. [clears throat] Thank you. It's great to be here tonight. All right. So, I'm here tonight to talk about arts and letters. That is true. But I also want to give you a couple other updates because I know you follow the legislative work and so there were a few changes yet again for us this year. Um, but just to ground us um really when I come to talk about arts and letters, it's about that quality core instruction. So, I'm excited to share with you some things tonight. Here's our comprehensive literacy framework. You have seen this many times over the last five years, I believe. Um, and this is really the foundation of everything, every decision that we're making when it comes to the implementations, the resources, the trainings, and our assessment systems. Speaking of assessment systems, this is where we saw some of those legislative updates. Um, and we will continue to do all of the required assessments that we have before with fastbridge early reading, the uh, fluency screeners and a reading, the generalized reading test. Um, in addition, this year we're adding capy in replacement of auto reading um, for all students in grades four, five. Um, and then new is the oral repetition, which we will be giving to all of our kinder, first, and second graders this fall. Um, and then nonsense words, which is one of those subtests. Um, and we'll continue to do that all year for second, and third graders. Our testing windows are set. We will start these next week when students come in for connect and assess. Um, and then our communication plan will follow these testing windows. So, scores are finalized and uploaded in infinite campus. Parents will get those communications that they can view the scores for their child there. So the the testing windows are all there for the year and the communication will follow. Um just a quick review. So we did adopt two different uh curriculums. the foundational skills which we did full implementation last year. If you remember, it's here for you for kindergarten through 2 grade and and then 95 phonics for grades three, four, and five. Both of those curriculums are in full swing, 30 minutes a day. Every student's getting that during their core foundational skills instruction. New this year will be our arts and letters, which I'm very, very excited about. This the core resource. All students um will be receiving this core instruction and you can see the times noted there. Uh based on the new contract this year, 70 minutes will go for K3 and 60 minutes for grades four, five. Um and we you're getting kind of a jump start here because we start this actually tomorrow will be our kickoff with all of our teachers. I think the biggest thing to note here are the instructional shifts that we will see in Shakape for that language comprehension instruction. So this kind of outlines um some of the adaptive changes that we'll be focusing on over the next three to five years. So the technical changes, right? We got the books, we've got the resources, we've got the time locked in, but the adaptive changes are those big shifts in mindset, habits, beliefs. Um and that's going to take us some time but we are ready to jump in with our support plan. So tomorrow kicks off our official launch. We have partnered with great minds. The consultants will be coming in and working with almost everybody. So um our all of our special education resource centerbased CBD our reading intervention gifted and enrichment English language development and all of our class teachers will all participate tomorrow in those launch sessions. We believe it's really important that everybody knows what's happening in that tier one instruction and then on Wednesday will be grade level specific teams and our department will guide them through their [clears throat] first module study. After this week, we have two more district PD days. We will be bringing consultants in on October 14th for the full day. Um and they will work teachers again through that lesson. So this is a this is just one of four books that teachers will be using this year. So you can see it's going to be overwhelming but wonderful. Um so we are going to spend some time going really deep. You can't get everything all at once. So we're kind of spreading it out. And October 14th will be a really deep dive in how the components fit together within a lesson. And then in February we will bring great minds in again and they'll do a very specific session on meet student needs. All of these have been done by our pilot uh articulation reps and these are the ones that they chose as most meaningful for their peers to participate. And I do want to thank you all for the support um and the state for the the the little bit of money that we have to go towards this because our teachers after we implemented math, they were very vocal about ensuring that everybody gets this training and not just a select few. So I'm I'm really grateful that we can provide this to all of our elementary teachers. Um in addition to that, we have some structured learning sessions and those will happen quarterly and we have worked it out principles, our human resources and again you all um to give teachers extended PLC time to dive back in before we teach module two. Let's go through this two-hour study. Same thing for quarter three. Same thing for quarter four. And then on top of that, we'll have some pop in PDS we're going to call them. And those are going to be Friday mornings. Totally optional for teachers, but just jump in um and hear about a specific topic that kind of came up through our pilot teams last year. So kind of frontloading what are some of those areas that were tricky? Instructional routines, responding to the students. [cough and clears throat] Um, so those are set tenatively through February and then we'll wait to see what else is popping up to plan out the rest of the year. Um, we'll also have coach support. So we will have a coach on site once a week at every building before school, during school, after school, whenever teachers want to pop in. If they need help, they stand ready to serve, go in and help those classrooms. We will do focus learning walks with our instructional leaders. So that's usually um LTE with a principal and or a consultant this year with great mind to really help us check in our check in on our implementation and then if teams or individuals want personal coaching we will do that too. So it's really kind of that everybody's getting and then a bunch of options for people uh as requested. In September, we will be doing guided observations with our principles. Um, and great minds will support us there. We will be doing implementation health checks. That's where we go in and hit as many classrooms that we can in one day with some very specific [cough] look fors uh to to kind of keep our finger on the pulse. And then great minds gives us kind of a summary of where we're at, where we go next. Uh, and then I'm really excited to share, and I've never had this happen in my 13 years at Jackie, so I think this is really cool. Julie Fred and her team had some connections in New Craig and in Prior Lake, and we are invited to participate with them and just be more efficient and share and plan together. So, we started that this summer, and we will continue to work with them. Um, again, efficiency, safe, we're smarter together. So, they're doing the same implementation that we are excited to work with them and support each other in that process. >> First, really great work. Great to see this kind of come to fruition. We talked about a lot and having served on the district council, seeing some of that behind the scenes. uh you mentioned uh the the new assessment categories and here's my you know to the question how do you know what good looks like how do you measure that you're wanting about you know longitudinal data do you have some you know some things you're looking for that says this is working >> yeah we are going to lean into great minds for some supports here so after we did our work last with them they did come out three times in the to do health checks kind of what I mentioned earlier and they did give us a great summary of things that we're doing really well and then things that we can continue to work on. So we will do that same thing with them this year. Off the top of my there's four categories. It's like student engagement um following you know the implementation use of the resources and there's two other I can't off the top of my head remember but we'll start to bring that data just like we did for math once we get going this year. um you know it is all new so it's a very small sample pool that we have just from our pilot teams um but we'll have that in mass next year and then just one follow question so you mentioned [clears throat] great minds and great coaching there um like it's that whole training trainer so we l that muscle so that >> yes >> we can sustain that >> yes my whole team has been a part of this since day one so They are working in collaboration. It's actually really fun. Now we've had the same person and I feel like it's not even where they're getting trained. We're like actually collaborating on what about this? What do you think about this? So uh Sarah and Steph are ready to go. >> I [clears throat] have a couple followups on the screen. Back to that follow. What is our exact plan with the results of the screeners. I know I'm sure we use some of that for wind time and things like that, but is there any school to school plan as far as what we do with the screen? >> So, that's a great question. Um, a lot of our sites used that data this summer when they did their leadership retreats and planning kind of their site improvement goals. um and thinking really strategically about what are we seeing, what do we need to do next, what are the teacher actions that we want to have that we think are going to make the most impact on these assessment scores. So I would say site planning and then like you mentioned wind time um those data dives that those teams do really getting into that data and kind of trying to figure out what do we do next? Do we need more information? What intervention should we try? Maybe they need a book club. So that's exactly where they do that. >> Is there a parental involvement at some point in time or is there a certain threshold that parents are notified of discourse? >> Yes, everybody should get the general notification and then if there's a concern um probably conferences will be the time when you get that direct interaction with the teacher. Here's what we're doing. What do you think about this? It should happen then if not before. Um, oh, the pop in PDS. I was gonna ask about that. So, is that something that's be recorded in case there's teachers that aren't able to catch up on that? >> Yep. We will record them this year. We'll put them in our newsletter so people have access to them. Yeah, they're going to be 30 minutes, so pretty quick, very focused. >> I just have one thing. Um, I really like the Friday open to I wonder is there an opportunity or do you ever like crosspollinate between the five elementary schools to say, you know, this is really working well over at Jackson and maybe Sweeney teachers could, you know, utilize some of that information or, you know, is there ever an opportunity for that collaboration amongst teachers? >> Great question. So, we have built in a little bit during our district PD like 30 minutes this this time because We have the consultants here and the lesson prep modules. Um, but there'll be a little bit of time built into those district PDs for that cross- site collaboration. And then we have those task force teams that come in. So, it's not everybody, but it is a rep from every single school. Um, and and actually a lot of win conversations happen at those task force meetings. What are you doing? What about this? And they get a time to share. So, I I'm really glad that we put those back in last year. That was the first time we've done it in a long time and I do think um teachers were very receptive and appreciative of having that opportunity to connect with each other. >> And are there um subject matter experts in each building that consultants won't be here every day? >> Yep. >> That they can go to as kind of this is the point person that >> Yes. the district articulation rep. So every site has one rep. Um and then their pilot teams will be a really good resource. doesn't matter the grade level. It's all laid out the same. The same content stages, the same instructional routines. That's kind of the beauty of this program. So, if you have a kindergarten teacher, that's great. They can help you with those routines in third grade. If you have a fifth grade teacher, that's great. So, I think really leaning in there. I know last year we had some principles arrange for people to go see their pilot classrooms even if you know they teach a different grade just to see what it looks like in action. So I'm sure they will do that. They've sent people across sites for math so I'm guessing they would do the same for arts and letters as well.