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It's Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 6 p.m. We are at the District Service Center in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the land of the Midawakadan Dakota people. Midawakan means dwellers of the Spirit Lake. Our first item on the agenda is roll call. Dana Luis Hines here. Ryan Clark, hello. Sharon, here. Eric Chesmer is absent. Melinda Doss here. Katie Schwarz is absent. Sammy Pnik here. Uh, item 2.0, pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Next is 3.0 approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion to approve an amended agenda moving 4.2 activities update to be the last item on the agenda? Second. Moved by Sharon, seconded by Ryan. You're on my right side, so you won tonight. Um, all those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 4.0 workshop items. First up tonight is 4.1, the alternative teacher professional pay system update. Introduced tonight by Kelly Jansen, assistant superintendent. Well, it is an honor to introduce the ATPPS annual report by Tim Bunnel, our ATPPS specialist. Um, Tim has been instrumental in leading our program for how many years, Tim? Maybe 17. 17. I know as long as I've been here. Um, as long as I've worked with Tim, he has an unwavering focus on students. Um, he is so dedicated to our teachers and our kids. He's able to na navigate complex challenges with direct, honest and truly kind approach. Um, you are deeply valued in our system and I'm saying all this because I believe it and Tim has announced that he is retiring. So this will be Tim's last ATPs report. Um, so congratulations on your retirement but you will be missed and you will be Bill. So congratulations Tim. Thank you and thank you board members and appreciate I said I can I can use my computer to guide me. You'll just keep me on track again. Tim, do we have to amend again? All right. Well, we had the report in there. So, report in there. Report is all in there. So, all right. So, anyways, um tonight what I'll do is I'll just go over some of the basic components of ATPS. I do that as a quick review every year and then highlight any changes or high successes for the past year, changes for next year. So, kind of keep you up to date where we are. Um so the four basic components of Q comp or ATPPS are site determined professional development, student achievement goals, formative peer observations and career advancement opportunities for teachers. Um addressing the first the site determined professional development, ATPPS really provides two types of professional development opportunities. We provide two days on the calendar that are for sightbased uh sight determined professional development and a flex plan for teachers. So I'll I'll briefly review both of those. For our site days this year, they were dedicated to the read. So we kind of sacrificed our normal process and procedures to …