##VIDEO ID:CcgSnceBQlA## I'm going to call this meeting to order. Thank you. Roll call please, Mrs. Konz, here. Mrs. Shandy, here. Mr. Wilburn. Here, Mrs. Yanez, here. Mr. Salt, Here. The Pledge of Allegiance this evening will be led by Colonel Stallworth. Please stand. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you. Tonight we have Edith Wolford Elementary School and Village High School here for our board spotlight. If you all l could stay after you're done and until after the Superintendent spotlight, we'd love to take some pictures, and we've got a little gift for you we We will start with Edith Wolford. Mrs. Yanez. Edith Wolford is a small community centered school located in the heart of Black Forest. Wolford's origin began as the Black Forest School in A1 room log schoolhouse that still sits on the corner of Black Forest and Shoop. We take pride in the number of multi generational families that continue to attend Wolford and are especially proud to Don the mascot of the Albert Squirrel. Please welcome principal Robin Lowery. Excited to be here and to have you witness an incredible video that was put together by one of our stupendous kindergarten teachers Reyna Siba. I have to give her credit because she had shared that she had a personal goal to work on videos this year and I asked her for hey, are you up for a challenge? I I hope you will find it as extraordinary as we have found it. And then after the video, we have four of our student council officers that. You will get to hear from and hear about their learning experiences outdoors. Thank you. So our outdoor learning spaces, really came back to life. We lost our outdoor learning space across Elementary Drive after the black Forest fire and with COVID we were presented opportunity to get students outside more. And so we really leaned into that opportunity and partnered with our PTO and as a result over the the last five years, we've been able to grow our outdoor r spaces. To include tree stump circles spaces, we have now a shade structure with containers for storage and Eagle Scout just completed a pollinator garden and brought that back to life for us and it's just an amazing g environment for students to get outdoors, continue their learning and d be with nature. I love doing my outdoor learning here at Edith Wolford, one of the things that I like the best about this is that not only is it just easily accessible for the students. But one of the ways that we can incorporate more of a tactile learning environment, we get to bring them in if he lives s outside, we get to look and learn from nature itself rather than just point at the learning in the book or make him watch a video it t really does help the students realize we are surrounded by nature and to learn from them. My favorite thing about the outdoor classroom is the garden because there's in the summer and spring, plants sprout and it's and. Like seeing the flower so my y favorite thing about the outdoor about being outdoors is when we at least out released our trolley police. My thing about being outside is also was also releasing our Roly police But I also like something King say my favorite thing outside wasn't really saying that y police and I released mine by the trees. So it could have a big shelter area I also released my body trees. It was like the same trees over there. And that's why I put mine. I put mine in a giant pot. We put ours because as a cable e, we killed the giant pile of dirt because Roly Poly and it was wet because rolly poll is really really like. Wet, moist dirt. So we can put our rollies hoist there and then I also like e planting trees in first grade. Yeah, can we have team three's? Was super fun Yeah, I did it with our 4th grade buddies. Yeah, we were in first grade. So important to you our kids, 'cause I got a great connection to nature and being outdoors and enjoying fresh air. And I know it's just a lot of cool new ways of learning that's different from being in the classroom with a pen and paper. They get to actually manipulate things and put their hands on things and so regulating for them emotionally and. It's physically, yes. Everything is really cool. My favorite thing whenever I come outside is. My favorite thing outside is making fajitas pine cone bad feeders. I think the outdoor learning classroom is really ly important because I think it allows students to get in touch with nature. We offer mindfulness walks on different trails We have lots of outdoor opportunities. More students can engage in outdoor activities along with academic activities in several places where the students have stumps that they can read on or engaging in Group activity. It's just been a really great way for us to incorporate different styles of learning and getting kids outdoors. I feel so lucky to be at Edith Wolford because we have 5 acres plus the space of our playground where we can take our learning outside. One of my favorite memories and something that we actually do every year in first grade is we do a camp learned d a lot where we come outside, we have solar ovens to make our lunch or some e more we will do hammocks and tents to do o reading and writing in. It's just a really great way to build community and also to show the kids how important it t is that we're responsible for our planet and taking care of our outdoors. And so there's just a better connection there. Hi, my name is Cody Royal and I am the student council President at Ada Fulford. Couple of activities that I've enjoyed at the outdoor classroom is I remember in kindergarten with our fifth grade buddies we we planted trees and it's kind of cool to see them grow through the years and. In first and 3rd grade. In first and 3rd grade we got to raise butterflies from m larvae to kind of like the final stage and then release some and this year with our. In the running buddies we got to kind of like e the video said, we got to make bird feeder pine cone like pine cone bird feeders and we got to o hang those pretty much wherever we wanted and I was pretty y special. And the outdoor classroom is just an amazing learning space for everyone. Hi, I'm Rosalyn Kirk. I'm a fifth grader and student council officer at Edith Wolford A A couple of things that I have enjoyed in the outdoor classroom are the solar ovens that I did with my class year last year. And we made s'mores and I think that outdoor learning is really nice and it helps me refresh my brain and the air is like super clean. Hello, I am Eleanor Lukaska. I am a fifth grade officer. The a few things I like about our outdoor learning space is the field day host by our PE teacher we every y you donate money and every lap you do, the more oney donated to the school and. When we did bird feeders with our kindergarten buddies. Hi, my name is Dominic Rawlings I am a fifth grade office. I'm the 5th grade Wellness officer I think k our learning spaces are cool because we get to learn about some animals and some plants. And we get a study the details of them and the plants in our nature All right. Thank you so much. That was great. Next up is Village High School, the blended nature of Village High School allows for more experiences out of the building for student learning, including field trips, job shadows, internships etcetera. The school houses a white bus and most staff members of the village hold a white bus license allowing them to take students out of the building and into the community all day y every day. Please welcome Principal Lindsay Keller. Thank you. A core belief at Village High School is that often our most powerful learning happens outside the walls of our school. This has never been more evident than through the work of our civics and law team this past semester, who facilitated and attended alongside students in powerful learning experiences in the past few months. It is my belief that perhaps never there's never been a more critical time for our young people to understand the processes systems s, and people in their democratic governments. And I couldn't be more proud of this instructional team for building learning experiences for these students and doing the hard work that it takes to make them happen And for these, I'm also proud of these students who delve deeply into their learning, ask the hard questions and participate fully. So I'm going to surrender the rest of my time for a handful of them to share with you a little bit about some of those experiences throughout the past several months Thank you, Izzy. Hi, I'm Izzy Zarovski and I'm part of the villages civics class. My most memorable moment was when we went to the Governor's mansion we learned all about t the history and that was really cool I learned that it's not the he first governor whose furniture's in the house, it's the second governor's all of his furniture e is still in the house, which is really cool. I also ate lunch at the Capitol that day. You can just kind of walk in there and they have a little convenience store, which is super awesome. And then we went to the Supreme Courthouse. We e got to talk to a judge all about his experience and things like that. We also got to sit in the Supreme Courtroom and learn all about the like 7 Supreme Court justices. And that was just really awesome. I also got a job offer from the LED minor operative. So we kind of like my friend Claire will talk more about that, but yeah, OK, I'm Claire and an opportunity that I got from Civics s class was Izzy and I went and volunteered at the hot air balloon lift off for Labor Day. So we did that. It was like 4:30 in the morning to 10 in the morning and we worked at the Olympic City USA booth. And there we really promoted this thing called A 000 neighborhood gatherings, which is something that our mayor developed. And so we were having people pledge to host a neighborhood gathering to really build community and help just. Socialize and bring our community close together. Also for civics, we had two people who work for the state come in and talk about this minor operative job where you can apply and then they'll drive you out to to these places. And you try and get overage stuff and if they ID you, they're good, but if you don't ID you then you u bust them. And so that was really cool and really exciting and Izzy and d I are both in the process of getting hired right now and that wouldn't have been possible without ut civics. So it's completely safe. So. Hi, my name is Megan, so my most memorable moment from civics this year was attending a naturalization ceremony in Denver as well as a tour of the Capitol building. So at the naturalization ceremony we got to hand the new citizens little American flag as well as their families. We got to watch the ceremony and they each said a little e something about their native country and then afterwards we lined the bottom of the stairs they were coming down and we got to cheer for them and clap p for them. And there were a lot of happy tears that day. It was a very good day is very very memorable. And then afterwards, at the tour of the Capitol, we got to talk with two state representatives and ask them questions about how they got there and just how like their day-to-day y lives. And none of that would have been possible without civics. So it's s very cool. Hello. My name is Wyatt. I wasn't xactly sure what to expect when I was going into civics this year. I heard a lot of things, but as I went into these field trip opportunities, I really got to engage with a lot of local communities. And my favorite moment that I got was when I got to to volunteer for the 9/11 ceremony that the mayor did at Memorial Park It was really. Thing just to see everyone there, all of the local government officials and I even got a chance to speak with the mayor himself, which was really awesome to just be able to talk with him and see how amazing of a person he. It was just a great experience to kind of get to the actual community and see what local government looks like because e it's often overshadowed by the larger news government that nd of always has shown in the media. Hello, my name is Ron Holes and I'm going to be talking about one of our field trips that we went on. So we decided to take a closer look at Colorado Springs. So we decided to go to the city administration building where we got to see their inner workings of Colorado Springs. We met with Mayor Yummies, one of one of his close personal advisors and we talked about Mary Emmy's term and when he's trying to bring to Colorado Springs. And then in the afternoon, we went to the traffic center where we. Got to look at no streets We saw a different look at it. So there's cameras on stoplights since we got to take a look at those and it was just it was really cool seeing more everyday y things that from a different perspective. Hello everyone, my name is Sophia Budge. I have the chance to speak about working at the voting polls during the last presidential election this s experience really allowed me to see. How determined and excited people are to participate in the democratic system. A moment that stood out to me the most was seeing first time voters proudly drop their ballot in the box. And really feel like the second hand excitement from them. It made me realize how important it is to have a voice in your community and the sense of empowerment that voting brings as a high school student being part of this. Large civic system. Made me value how important it is to be active in my community and at the voting polls. Not just helping people, but it made me realize how much of an impact we have in our future and. Thanks to this experience and others from this class I have been inspired to really engage in civic activities and encourage other people to do the same. Thank you. All right. Thank you. That was great to hear about that experience. All right, Mrs. Mattsson-Bonett, are there any updates to the agenda? There were updates to the agenda and the board was notified of these members of the board, are there any items you wish to move from the consent agenda are e there any discussion items to be added to the agenda? May we have a motion to approve the agenda? Moved. Second roll call, please. Mrs. Konz Aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt aye. Thank you. Tonight's board quote is from Colonel Stallworth. Thank you tonight's board quote that we had selected “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” by Lao Tzu, and I felt like this was a pretty pretty appropriate quote, particularly this time of f year as we look to end the year and start with a new year and it really lly doesn't matter necessarily how large your goals are. How overwhelming your task may be it's s really about just starting and really and truly I can remember being a senior in high school. Back in 19 the and just really kind of lost in what I was gonna do with life necessarily and talking to you all senior, you seniors here and it really was about finding what your passion is and just getting started really and truly and I'm here 24 years later in the Air Force as a a living witness and thankful to those people who pushed me to to just get started, even if I didn't know what the next steps we're gonna look like so So thank you. Thank you. And that's a great message. Next our board comments. This is also going to be our time to debrief from our CASB conference. So Colorado Association of School Boards, the state school board association. All of us attended at least part of the conference. It was Thursday, Friday, Saturday of this past week, so this is our debrief portion. And then any other comments you have. Mrs. Shandy. As far as the CASB business items that we went over, we had 4 resolutions. One, let's see here. Yeah, three were passed and one was tabled because we didn't have the full information yet and so it was pushed off again until what will be now September and that had to do with the GED. Accounting thing. Official word there thing and then. As far as the CASB conference one of my favorite sessions that. Jinger and Nicole got to go to was the introducing forward from polarization to progress, really breaking down how you come from how you can get to different size to kind of come together on a topic and it was really, really great to work through that and learn the steps and things like that. So I really enjoyed that. So thank you for letting me go. It was wonderful to be together with our Superintendent and board at the conference and get to see old and new friends from other school boards across the state. I'm probably going to cry right now because I'm going to talk about the keynote speaker on Saturday and his s name is Alex Boye. BOYE, I'm spelling it for you, so you check it out OK. He, I think he was at America's Got Talent winner. He's his family originates from Nigeria, so just real cool kind of African flavored music, but he's got a heart for mental health and Wellness for young people and. I admire him so much for using this fame that he's coming into to just get out with especially young people, but all ages to empower us to know our worth. And he did a he has a book called I Am a Ten, which I bought for both of my daughters. Don't tell them for Christmas but. Basically, he asked for the best thing was there were hundreds of students from around the state, leaders, students in leadership that t were in the speech with him. It wasn't just all older people, all the board people. So they got the benefit t of that, but there was not a dry eye in the house. And he asked for a volunteer who had a $10 00 bill. So a young high school woman came up with a $10.00 bill and he said I promise I'll give it back. But he started mangling crunching up the $10.00 bill, threw it on the ground, stomping on it, yelling at it. I hate you know all ll this stuff. And he asked he got it, you know, brought it back up in front of the young woman and said. OK. What do you think about this $10.00 bill now And she said it still holds value. And so that was the message to everybody that no matter what anyone says to you, no matter how you trash talk to yourself, which I think we're all guilty of way too much, no matter what happens in your life, you still are A ten, every one of you. And so that was the most moving part about the. The conference for several 100 of us to get to be a part of. I didn't have a board comment until I heard Cody from Edith Wolford speak tonight. So, Cody I think you're still out there, OK? Over Thanksgiving break, I got to go back to Chicago and the suburb that I grew up in, and I went on my little memory walk. So I used I walked the same path for my mom's s house to school and there's still a lot of the same e cracks in the sidewalk and there's this weird like spot t on one of the blocks of concrete that I swear to you u looks like a mouse fell into wet concrete. Swear that's what happened. I have to write a children's s book about it someday, but. When I was in fifth grade, I had a first grade buddy and we planted trees and I got to plant an Alberta spruce and it was in this little path that became a nature path for the very first time this s groundbreaking ceremony. And believe it or not even though it's 40 years later, Oh my goodness, Albertina Lillian, that's what I named her, is still growing strong. On one side of this path and my friend Kate planted another tree but I don't remember the name. I should text her and ask her, but I just want you to know that those are the things you hold on to. I just visited my tree 40 years later. Mr. Wilburn, did you have any comments this evening? I do and my comments don't so much surround CASB as I was only able to attend 1/2 of one day this year unfortunately, but I've got several other things and first of all I just want to thank everyone in the room and people watching online, people all around the community as some of of some of with the specific details, some of you, but I recently had a very. Significant A very serious medical condition. Very traumatic. Came up real fast and could have been much worse than it was, but the outpouring of support from this board, the community members, the administration, everybody I've gotten so many messages, phone calls, texts, flowers My house has never smelled any better because of all the flowers around here, people dropping off meals. It's just good to be loved, and I want you all to know that I've heard you I appreciate you. I am on the way back. I'm on the mend. I'm getting better. Would have been a lot worse, but by the grace of God it wasn't and I'll be back in the room and back doing what we all do here fairly very soon. But just thank you all. Thank you for being just such amazing people. This is my first meeting since the election I I of course wasn't able to be on in December, so I want to circle back to the November elections and just throw a couple shouts out real quick. We won a tremendous victory with bond measure with bond issue 4B. The community spoke very loudly, 58 to 42 percent is extremely decisive, and that doesn't happen without a team effort. All the people in the administration, Mr. Belcher and so on and so forth, but the community came together A lot of volunteers in District 20. Andrea Slattery who Co chaired the yes on 4B committee, Kris and Don Garofalo drove all over the place putting signs in the ground. Mrs. Czukas, of course. Who's perpetually a West Side advocate. The community we these sorts of things This is a true team effort to deliver to our district a tremendous facility and I'm very, very grateful to everybody that just did what they had to do, picked up a shovel grabbed an oar, helped roll the boat the same direction and d lastly, Mr. Salt, I want to thank you personally what you and President Thompson and Malpackham did from District 49 and 11, respectively, was very courageous, the right thing to do. Didn't get the entire outcome that you were looking for, but the fact that you stood up to do the right thing, to do everything in your power to help keep drugs away from our children, away from our schools, that's leadership. You knew there'd be push back. You knew there'd be blowback There always is. That's just how life works. But you stood up and said I'm doing everything in my power to why anybody would be be against keeping drugs away from our schools is a mystery, but. You stood up, knowing that there was going to be fire even if you did and that's something that I appreciate about your personality. Very well done my friend. That's it for me. Thank you, Mr. Wilburn, glad you're feeling better We look forward to having you back with us in the room soon. As for CASB, I had an enormous time. I always enjoy getting to go and network with friends from across the state. Had a wonderful time Actually went to a session with St Vrain where they were talking about their community partnerships and how they've been able to build out career pathways and CTE centers with some very big name companies es that are dumping a lot of money into their. Into their program, they've got two things that I think were just phenomenal they're buses and one of them was a STEM bus the other was a cyber security bus their cyber security bus was on site so we we can go in and tour it and you walk in it's a little mini bus and you walk in they've got chairs and counters and laptops and servers and it's basically a er security escape room that the kids are put in and they nd they have to start, you know, network scanning and doing all of the cyber stuff to figure it out. They take 10 or 15 at a time and so it was a really cool l kind of application of the skills that they're learning and some of those programs like we have at Pine Creek and just there, it's mobile so you can drive around the different schools. Same me with their STEM, their stimulus focus. I believe it was more on the elementary level, but it's the same where it's a mobile like STEM lab that they y can drive around to the different schools. And I thought it was a really interesting idea. And execution. So really enjoyed that and went to another session that I really enjoyed it was actually. The next session that was talking about. Board's role and planning. And so there are a couple things that I wanted to bring back. I'll probably work with Mark on a couple communication pieces as far as it's just internal stuff, just visuals and way that they're processing and how we visualize what those plans are just a heads up kind of told you that when I talk to you 20 minutes before the he meeting but talking to you now but ow, but some really interesting ideas in the way that they had executed that it was from. Down South S logo I can't remember so I I don't they're not S Salida. That's where they were the ones who were hosting that event and it was it was a great job so those are all of my comments last call on board comments. do you have anything? Yeah, that's fine. Go ahead. So I just wanted to really quickly to the parents and caretakers with kids and Air Academy and Douglass Valley, just wanted to clear up the weather reporting and how that goes. I know there's been some confusion here over the last couple of snow instances that we've had when USAFA makes a call to close the installation, it does not mean that you that the gates are closed themselves. You will still have access to your to your loved ones. And be able to get onto the installation if you need to. Just wanted to make sure that everyone understood that it doesn't it typically involves those folks who are working on USAFA and her mission essential personnel only. And so medical services may be be impacted. A child and Youth Services, but it does not impact the school district or the schools that are on the installation. OK, thanks Thank you. That's a great reminder. Appreciate that. All right I've been informed we have a new admin. Sort of OK, so tonight I'm going to introduce Kris Garnhart, who's being recommended as the Executive Director for Building Fund. Now let me explain. You may think, well, he already does that, right? He's already in that role. So the reason we have to do this again is because that was based on the 2016 bond, which was those positions were temporary nature just till the projects were finished and those projects are scheduled to be completed by the end of this school year, June 2025 S we have a new. That was passed and so because of that starts the process over and we have to rehire those positions and because they are related to that bond, not the current bond that we're under. So that's why it's a little bit different So yes, let me just tell you a little bit about Khris's background. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Construction technology from Indiana Indiana State University. He also began his career at Fred Fleetmire General Contractors is a field engineer and a Superintendent. And Norwest Banks is a constructor construction manager then worked in n D11. As a roject manager, maintenance manager and director of facilities. Not all at the same time and d then it has. He's served six years as the board of director for Colorado Association of School Business Officials, or CASBO and he e currently serves on the board as a board of directors for the Colorado School Plant Managers Association and he is currently serving as an executive director for the building fund for the 2016 bond. Also, when you do construction you got to be flexible, right He's the man for the job 'cause I don't know if you knew he used to be a gymnast matter r of fact, he told me he could do a backflip right here tonight if we wanted him to. But he also said I may not be able to come to work tomorrow if I do that. So we're not going to ask him to do that. Chris, is there anything you'd like to say? First of all, I'm not going to do a handstand, a cartwheel or a backflip tonight. I might injure myself and my body took a pretty good beating during my gymnastics career, so probably not the best idea for me to do that. But you never know I think what may happen n is my current staff that I work with is probably going to prod at me a little bit and convince me to do that at some point in time, so. And foremost, I'd like to thank my wife who's here e, Andrea and my son Andrew and my daughter r Kristen. That's my family. They have always been supportive of anything that I do and without them hem, you don't go very far in life. Second of all, I'd like to thank the Board of Education for the opportunity to proceed into this next bond program. Hopefully I'll do o you proud. I'm pretty sure that I will. And then I would also like to thank the Consistent of Cameron Smart, Becky Allen, Jared Hoekenstein, Kathy Watts and Pete Ristic d then. You can't execute or manage a bond program or any construction program anywhere without a fantastic team. It's not a one person show, that's for sure. And tonight there are two of my current team members that have joined in support of me. I got elder kill there and then I got Connie Yen and then the other team mate they could not attend tonight is Kate Harrison. They have been extremely important in the success of the two Bonds. So I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you. Glad to have you still slash back on board All right. Next is the Superintendent update Superintendent Board I want to start out again with a huge, huge thank you to our community. I am so grateful that we have a community that supports our schools demonstrated in the passing of four BR Bond initiative and so we have a little e slice of appreciation for our amazing g community. We are just so grateful to live here. In our community. Academy District 20 team one I want t to extend my heartfelt gratitude for your overwhelming support of the 2024 bond this is incredible milestone is a testament to our shared commitment to the future of our students and schools Your vote will transform schools across district 20. Ensure our facilities meet the needs of every student. And build a new Air Academy high school that will inspire students for a generation to come. I want to say thank you from everybody here at Air Academy for passing the bond that is going to help us rebuild Air Academy and also create a center of excellence that is going to be accessible to all Academy School District 20 students. It's a fabulous time to be AK dad. So thank you from the bottom of our hearts and go cadets, I just would like to say thank you to everyone who voted yes on it. Thank you that now because of you guys, we have the chance to start new and have. Building we will continue with the love and care of our Academy that we've always done, and we'll just be able to do it in a new facility, which really means a lot to us. We are going to be able to improve a lot of the infrastructure that needs to be done and allow our schools to focus on the education of our students and put our budgets towards the education of our students. Thank you. Thank you for supporting Challenger Middle School. I am so excited that the community supported D 20 and passed the bond we are looking forward to o transforming this particular space into an amazing space for our CTE programs and for bringing in E sports Thank you your support of the 2024 4 bond is paving the way for exciting progress across Academy District 20. We'll keep you updated on these plans through regular communication posted on our website at AASD 0.org. Thank you for believing in our students staff and schools. So again, thank you community for your support. I. Choose to the community. So also prior to the November election Educational Information Board was available regarding the tax impact of the $83.14 million bond And if you recall, it was shared that even if the bond were to pass, the bond levy would decrease from last year. We estimated the decrease to be 1.019 mills if the bond passed and at the end of November, we e received D 20S final assessed evaluation from El Paso County Assessor s Office. So now we know the exact decrease and I am pleased to share that the bond levy decreased even more than 1.019 mils with the actual decrease being 1.281 mils. So it's more good news, which is awesome so o next I am just thrilled to announce and d to congratulate Liz Walhoff, Assistant Principal for AIR Academy High School. She was just named high school Assistant Principal for of the year for Colorado do Association of School. Executives for the State of Colorado, Liz has worked for D20 since 2018 and d as an assistant principal at Air Academy High School, she overseas the English and World language departments and she was also in charge of developing Air Academy High School's Career academies and the school's assessment coordinator and has been instrumental in building high quality professional learning communities throughout the campus. Her leadership also extends beyond D20, as she has served on many statewide committees as well. People are the heart of our success in D20 as s you know, and Liz really exemplifies this mark of excellence in our district, she goes above and beyond to ensure that every student feels valued and affirmed, and she always has a warm embrace of kindness for both students and staff and inspires all to create a culture of care at Air Academy High School. So Liz Wahlhoff, come forth, please and be recognized. And I believe that Dan Olson is also here. Yes, Liz, please share with us. I didn't know that was going to be a thing. Well thank you. And I'm super excited and I know none of us especially the volunteers here, do this because we are really looking for all of the attention or the accolades but man, it feels good to get them every now and again So my hope is that you all, whoever is here at t this meeting, go home and as you're out and about, recognize somebody who's doing a really awesome job and make sure you tell them that. Because boy, it feels nice. And so all, really, all the kudos go to my teams. I have some of them here who I love so very much. And the parents and the kids and the staff here at our Academy who are just fabulous. Isn't it about me? It's about them and our district t. So thank you so much, Liz. Let's give that for her. The huge honour so here are some of my school visits since our last board meeting and as we're talking about t schools and I'm going to follow up a little bit on n weather since Colonel Stallworth also brought that up. So as you know, Academy District 20 has been evaluating the snow day policy for some time now and we are balancing the concept of those traditional snow days with the use of E learning to maintain a predictable le school calendar. And recently multiple groups including the he Academy Education Association students, approached our team to advocate for adding more traditional snow days for students and staff as s a matter of fact, when I was at the Sources of Strength celebration that we had here, a middle school student came up to me and said that they had the petition and I said I would love to meet with you. So I know Mary's been going back and forth. With that student to see if we can have some students come and meet with me and. Propose what they would like to do So as a district committed to continuous improvement, Yeah, we are so proud to be able to have launched a survey today to gather broad community input on this important t topic. The voice of our stakeholders really do matter and we really look forward to understanding the multiple perspectives that are e represented within our community on this topic. So parents and staff across all levels and our students, our secondary students, I believe were asked about to fill out the survey and we'll close our survey on December 23rd. And really, we encourage staff and students and families to engage in the survey and then n we'll be excited to bring the results back to you in January And also, a special thank you to Pine Creek High School for inviting us to attend an AP government t event with one of the US Supreme Court justices. And a huge shout out to AP Government teacher Ty Allen, who brought who arranged this event. And we were given, so I had a chance to go. And director Cons. And both we both attended and we had a chance to watch students interact with a Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch. And I know, I think I can speak for you Nicole. We are both in awe of just the thoughtful questions that our students proposed and just the gracious and wise. Shared thoughts that he had with the students. And one student asked if he had ever if it was ever hard for him, wherever it did he ever have to make a hard d decision that did not align with his personal values? And he said yes, but he said his primary responsibility was to uphold the Constitution. So o I know that really was something that stuck with me that I really appreciated about this Supreme Court Justice And again, just a huge thank you to Principal Karina Biermann for viting us and encouraging us to attend. Director cons, do you have anything else you want to share? You pretty much said it all it t captured. You captured a funny little note that I just told our security director Payne but I was under the assumption that he was there in person. So I showed up to Pine Creek and scared the living daylights out of their security staff 'cause I said where Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch gonna be. And they were like, what? Why isn't there more security here ity here? Where's all the Secret Service people or whatever? So I got in and then 4 minutes later I see the big screen and it's via zoom. But it was kind of funny but I am thrilled d that I went Yes, the students asked brilliant questions that I I never would have even thought of. Gave so much insight. He was so gracious and down to earth. And something else aside from what Superintendent Haber said that stuck with me is someone asked a question along the lines of. What is the biggest issue facing young people today? And he came out of left field with something not a lot of people expected And he basically said something to the effect of a lot of our young folks don't have enough gratitude for the country we live in and the Constitution we live under. And I've said that to people in my realm before that. My generation included, we haven't had to face a lot of. World Wars and Great Depressions and famines and stuff like that. We are blessed in this country and. We for the most part, as a country, we have it pretty easy in this day and age and for him to point that out just to be to counter blessings for all the good that we do have in this country and to work hard hard to honor, honor the Constitution we have in this. This wonderful country we live in was really enlightening to hear. Thank you, Director Kahns. So and then Director Shandy and I had a wonderful opportunity to get a behind the scenes tour with CT Automotive Technology program at Liberty High School with RJ Savage our automotive e technology instructor. During our visit, we checked out a senior project by Javier Jackson of Pine Creek. Javier is completely rebuilding a Honda Civic to eventually race on paved road courses. This project included a complete engine rebuild with modifications to support a turbocharger as well as improve suspension and brakes. Mr Savage shared multiple examples of how students graduated and got real high paying jobs right out of high school and his program is one of the only, I think the only one in the e state. That teaches students how to evaluate the functioning of those computers that are in our car. I hear there's multiple computers in our car that keep our cars running and he e basically used grant money to buy a very expensive kit that's giving students our training and he's already getting calls from m automotive companies saying, tell us when your students graduate and pass the certification for that because e we're ready to hire them right now. So that was super exciting and a huge shout out to Mr Savage and just the commitment he has to our students. It was really I found that really inspirational. Director Shandy, and is there anything you ou would add to that? Yeah, I second just what Mr Savage is doing at that program and the level that he is taking our students with their readiness skills coming out and then the auto industry is just swallowing them up so you can the e Snap On Certification Diagnostic Center right there you see in the picture is one of one in not just Colorado, but most of America I think is is what he said. So it's incredible that his. His vision and his drive and inspiration for that program, what it's doing for our students and for D 20, it's really amazing. So glad I got to see it. I'm a little jealous it wasn't around when I was in school. Yes, absolutely. We had a great visit at Academy Endeavour Elementary School, where they're really focusing on learning literacy and how to do presentations. So they she shared. Principal Hanson shared this really fun video o is short of our students, so I wanted to share that with you as well. So read with expression and not like a robot that was s the take away on that. So that was really fun and we're so glad that the principal Hanson shared that with us went to Discovery Canyon and it was really exciting to talk with Principal Scott. He is his teachers are really getting excited about the use of AI to take what they're learning in one subject and combine it with another so. This class was learning about gross jobs and 1:00 of them was a plumber. No offense to plumbers, but sometimes know there's some ff that most of us probably wouldn't want to deal with and so o she took all of the vocabulary from the gross jobs unit and put it into Chat GPT Asked Chat DP chat chat GPT to also o put that vocabulary into some word problems that they were doing around 2 digit subtraction. So the students we were e in there and they were so excited. What they were learning about plumbers and other jobs was actually embedded in their math lesson and some of the math h questions were very much related to what people in those jobs would actually have to encounter. So that was just such a great way to see how we can use some of these technology tools to take the workload off of teachers and allow them to allow AI to be a thought partner and help put some of those amazing connections together. So that was really fun to see. Explorer Elementary. I know that we are excited to see how they were using virtual reality and principal l Driver we got to see Ireland and Alaska through the VR glasses and so glad that our students are having g these opportunities here in D20. At Encompass Heights, I had a chance to go to their holiday meal they served 1400 guests and students was on November 15th. They y collected a combined monetary and food donation of 4368. Cans of food and they were able to create 25 boxes of food for family at Mountridge Middle School and a big box of cake mixes and candles and frostings for the D20 Resource Center and the photo on the left is actually y principal circles mom and I thought that was important because her name is Pam Loggie Logley and nd she was a school nurse in Academy District 20 from 1980 6 to 2007. And she said when she started, she was just one of two nurses. The entire district and she comes every year still to help out with the fees, so I thought that was pretty cool. I did a lot of feasting before Thanksgiving and during Thanksgiving, so I had a chance to go to Edith Walther Wolford and that was really fun. They had 40 members and 179 adult guests and 20 non student child guests joined the students and it was just a great time. It's so fun to see how excited the students get t when their parents and grandparents are there with them at school. And it was just a wonderful celebration. And then we have sports celebrations, so this one is air Academy High School boys soccer. They won the they won state and Foray, and I know that Director Shandy was there and she caught this last moment. Soccer state champions this year's state champions can be survived as a friend with slave. No doubt there was some major excitement around that and. I really appreciate that I just handy. Then we had another wonderful sports celebration and it was congratulations to Village high School girls volleyball team for winning state and 3A and I believe that we have soccer team members and Village e High School volley team members here. Could you guys stand please and can we please give you a hand? And please stay after because we want to be sure to get your picture And then another sports team celebration Congratulations to the Classical Academy football team. They won state in 2A and I believe that TCA president doctor Thomason and some of his folks are here. Would you please stand up and be so we can celebrate your team? And again, we'd love to get your picture too. At the end here we just have so much talent. And there's the Classical Academy We have so much talent and so many great things happening here in D20 I had a chance to go to two fall plays, Rampart, just st an outstanding play. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I know A director. Yenes, you got to see that too. What was your highlight from that? So I got my tickets kind of late and sat in the front row. But note to self, do that all the time because I got the seat All the characters kept falling and sliding towards was really interactive and super fun. One of my favorite stories and just to see the kids take on it was fantastic. It was it ally an intelligent musical. It's very well done and d that bottom picture, it was so cute. There's actually kids under there that are acting as a horse e and they were carrying him around on the stage. I just thought that was brilliant. That was so fun. That was my favorite thing to watch. And then Pine Creek High School, they did a fabulous job with the community garden, very thoughtful and the students are up there. They were just such naturals on stage. So I know I really enjoyed that production as well. And then we had our sources of Strength celebration as Sources of Strength really supports our students with social, emotional well being. And I just see the evidence of. The wheel that they use, which just demonstrates. What are those different strengths that students need to lean into during difficult times such as family support, positive friends, healthy activities, generosity, spirituality y, medical access and mental health, and on ovember 21st, over 70 peer leaders and nd 20 adult advisors came together to really share what they were doing across the district. It was just a true time e to celebrate all of these efforts. So huge hout out to our sources of strength. Program. And more great celebrations ASD security team giving tree for the past several years Academy District 20 security team has provided their assistance to Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church with their annual Giving Tree exchange program m. This year on Wednesday, December 11th, our patrol team they're going to be collecting hundreds or did collect hundreds of gifts from the church and distributed the gifts to our community. And it especially provides gifts for disadvantaged families and students in our district that they may not have received gifts for Christmas. And I see Buck standing back there. So let's give it up for our security team. And we are rolling forward with our design, which has been so fun around the new PK8 for Douglas Valley so that a chance to go with several parents in D20. Staff members on a field trip with RTA Architectural Group and a huge thanks to Chris for him organizing this. Along with RTA we went to schools a school in Cherry Creek, Denver and Jefferson County just t to look at the different architectural designs. And I think what a take away for all of us is that we really liked the examples where there was plenty of natural lighting, outdoor classroom spaces and these collaboration areas outside of each of the grade levels So we look forward to future design meetings which h we already had one and I'll show you a picture of that here in a a minute, also at Casby. I literally ran into a colleague of mine. Her name's Doctor Tarla Pearson. She was one of my colleagues from Aurora and she was the principal at Aurora Frontier for several years. And then she supervised Kate Principles and I I was just standing there and I had been thinking about her. I thought, how do I get ahold d of her? And she literally came up and tapped me on the shoulder. I'm like, oh my gosh, Starla, I've been thinking about you. So we have someone now, too, that will be able to link Adrian up with to help support her with. What does a Kate look like What does the scheduling look like around that? And there's also some other r principles. We're working with, so we're really creating a network of support for our first PK 8. The Anxious Generation book study we had again about over 100 folks in the here at the EAC as well as several about 70 I think online and again just st a huge thank you to Doctor Field and Doctor Kosalek and their organization of this amazing community wide learning when en we all learn together, we're able to do better for our students. And I took a picture of this amazing group of parents ey just randomly sat together and it turns out they all. 4th graders. They're all in different schools and they're really excited about that idea of having non structured play so o they came up with the idea of Feral Fridays and they want to bring their students together on a regular basis to have unstructured play. And so it was really fun to see a group not only enjoying and talking about what we're learning, but also taking some action on what they're learning. I think another big take away that I heard as I was going around to different parent groups. Is just how can we help our students learn how to responsibly use social media if they're going to use social media and also the use of their cell phones, how can we teach them and support them in a productive way to engage with that technology So this is our first design group for the PKA. We just met last week and I just am really appreciative RTA, our new architectural group. We are planning on going out to APK 8IN Puebla. Next Thursday, so we're going to continue to look at some different designs and we're excited about that and then you guys have already shared out about CASB I I think you hit over on the right there is Alex Boye the our presenter that you u talked about, he was amazing and just really talked about the importance of mental health and how do we really take care of each other and always being out on the lookout for you know, maybe. Students who are sitting by themselves, do they feel connected or staff members for that matter, and just always having that awareness and trying to really create that culture of care so o thank you, board members. I'm so glad we had that chance to get together and d that was my best part was just spending time with you guys so. And to Ann, this was amazing. I spent Monday Tuesday and Wednesday at the place conference. And again, thank you to Doctor Field and Doctor Kosulek and that hole team for we just did a big push. Really encouraging our high school principals all l of our principals to be there with their teams So during the conference we organized on Thursday, a time for us all to meet. We had over I think went over about over 100 0 staff and between staff members and administrators he had over r 150 people. We had them meet in n small groups. They're at the top. I was able to sit in on Pine Creek High ool and the amazing conversation they were having. Down in the bottom the right hand corner learning services they and. Did a debrief. We really wanted to catch people. What are they thinking about right now? Right before you go back and you maybe get distracted and then as you can see on the lower left we had d a chance for each person in the group or people that wanted d to share, to share out with the whole group. What were they learning? So it's just really a fantastic time to connect with each other Solution Tree really brings in the very best speakers, I believe, in the nation. And one of the things that they really stressed again is why PLCS and again, a huge. Thank you to our community and board for supporting those late starts because John Hattie, who's a real well known educational researcher, he says, you know what does have the biggest effect on student achievement and allowing this time for teachers to meet together to share best practices to look at their what at they see their students learning. Who are the students that are learning? Who are the ones that are not learning? How can we work together as a whole team to support? High levels of learning for all students. And it has a 1.43 effect size which h in his scale is one of the top scores you can have as far as really increasing student achievement. So when I look at Academy district 20 and the fact that we have been accredited with distinction for so many years, I know it's also been the hard work of the professional learning community. So thank you for your support of that And that's the end of my soup update. All right, Thank you. Next meeting, a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted Moved Second roll call, please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy aye. Mr. Wilburn aye Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt, aye. All right, we are going to take a quick break so we can take all those pictures we promised earlier So if you were part of the spotlight or you were recognized by Superintendent Haberer if you could please make your way over to Mr. Belcher and Mrs. Story so so we can take. We'll be back in about 10:00-ish minutes. Next is item 9. There were no items pulled from the consent agenda, so we're moving on to item 10, annual monitoring report for executive limitations policy two point al Executive Constraint. Does anyone have any questions or comments regarding the report? OK, next is the MRE is the Superintendent's interpretation of the policy reasonable Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section Are there section, are all sections in compliance recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance? Would you like to see additional or different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next cycle? Do you see evidence which is extraneous to no longer necessary? OK. And B Annual monitoring report for executive limitations policy El 2.4 financial condition and activities. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Right is the superintendent's interpretation of the policy reasonable? Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Are all sections in compliance? I think there was one section that was not, but it was marked in there, right? Yeah. Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance would you like to see additional or different evidence, or should any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring report cycle? Do you see evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? Next is the Financial Monthly report through October 2024. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Item C 2025-2026. New course proposal from Discovery Canyon Campus High school and Learning Services I had a question around the DCC course offering. This may or may not be targeted because of your 10:00-ish comment earlier, but. So on the Policy or the course proposal with One of the sections was around tattoos. Are there going to be any? I just want to know what restraints are going to be in place to make sure that everything is appropriate. Gotta So we have a career in art course that's been proposed by DCC high high school and I think the unit you're talking about is tattoo art and I think you're rightly concerned ed about like, are we giving tattoo guns to kids and have them on each That is definitely not the case. Really what it is a lot of kids have interest in art and d tattoos in our society and our culture, and that is a legitimate career that some students may find interesting to explore. The intent behind this is not to create tattoo artists, but it's to give kids the opportunity to practice the skill of the art that would be translated into tattoos. So there will be no use of tattoo equipment. It will be designing the art that one day they could take to an artist and then translate into a tattoo. But we're not hoping to promote. That was the one thing Learning Services has some concerns about, like is this the appropriate thing? And that's something that Michael l and I just talked about. But no, nobody will be using our tattoos I think it's great. I think it's great to explore these options I just wanted to ask questions. I did see at the end they were talking about doing like with temporary ink or something like that, possibly having sort of a project at the end Is that that's a possibility and we're going g yes, Sir. Mr Wilburn, if you're if f you're finished. Yeah, I saw that too. And it kind of jumped off the page at me. On the one hand, I mean, I like it. It's getting outside e of the. Box It's looking at a potential career path that, frankly, probably didn't even exist 25 years ago, let alone in igh school. But if I'm reading this right, and I don't know if I am, there's a number of units and each one of the units is mandatory part of the class. So in other words, if a kid wants to pursue or r thinks they want to pursue a career in architecture they would also have to take the e unit on body art. Am I am I right or am I wrong g? You're correct, yes. And I would say that this is kind of like think about your middle school exploratory program where the kids are gonna go through and explore different things. Not every kids gonna wanna become a Baker or engage in home act stuff, but it's getting a window of opportunity to explore it for a little bit of time. If you look, there's 1010 unit or 9 units nd so you figure in an 18 week semester you're you're looking at, you know, two weeks. So it's. To your point, Mr Wilburn, absolutely kids would be engaged in that unit, but it's not a huge, heavy y component of the course. That makes sense. Thank you. I appreciate that. So I used to work back in my during my master's program I worked at t a place. It was a residential drug rehab, one of the kids there, that was his goal. He wanted to be a tattoo artist He had a gun that was like he was like 15 5 and he took a hiatus from our residential treatment center and came back with a really nasty infection And now he, Long story short, he has a really cool star shaped scar on his leg now. So the concern comes from past experience. I just wanted to make sure I appreciate you let t me know and I think we can talk with the DCC staff to make e sure that they're not encouraging students to practice this art form outside of a safe e, healthy standards. Is there any chance we can never mind? I was thinking if we could rope Matt into like being a Guinea pig on this, Mr. Mitchell, that would be. I think that'll be a homecoming, a challenge for him. Sounds good. We'll talk about that. We'll revisit that later in the year. Thanks. All right. Any other questions related to the course offerings? Right. Thank you. All right, thank you, guys. All right, next is annual monitoring report for ends 1.1 Knowledge and Skills Superintendent Haberer. And we are excited to share with you about our annual monitoring Port 1.1 and Dr. Field and Jolynn Patterson will be here to talk about it. Good evening. So we are pleased when I say we that's myself, Jolin, Jamin and Shelly to be presenting the annual E 1.1 monitoring report and for r those of you that are sitting in the audience behind me, that is our annual report to the board on our student achievement and growth that occurred last school year. So the report reflects the Board's charge of monitoring Global End's statement that all students will have the e knowledge, skills and character necessary. For successful transition to the next level and upon graduation will be fully prepared for success. Our teachers, principals and learning services continue to work extremely hard and focus on growth and achievement of all students and all content areas by meeting or r exceeding our Colorado academic standards, we are very proud that we are accredited with distinction for the 15th year in a row. Tonight we will share highlights and information from the E-11 report, including methodology and d interpretation of the indicators. As well as Doctor Field, Mrs Kooser and drive rasol will share a additional information as we walk through the report. We will provide the page number for each section so that you can easily follow along. Before we move to the report, I want to share information regarding the district performance Framework tonight at your places I provided each of you with th a yet another copy of the District Performance Framework as well as our historical overview of where re our schools. Have scored over time historically, the district in our schools receive a framework yearly from the Colorado Department of Education n. During the COVID pandemic, the DPF for the district performance ramework was frozen from 2019 to 2021 and ou'll see that referenced within our report tonight there's certain ain categories where you see that hold during our ur week. Tonight we will reference the district's performance on the district performance framework which is developed from our C Mass PSAT. At and ostsecondary workforce readiness Criteria 3 performance indicators are used to determine ratings, academic achievement, academic growth, and post secondary workforce readiness information regarding the comp points for scoring on the DPF reporting can be found in Appendix A of this s report. A couple of notes to keep in mind at the e elementary and middle school level, growth accounts for or 60% of the score on the frameworks. In achievement accounts for 40 At the high school level, achievement is worth 30 growth, 40% in post secondary workforce e Readiness or PWR, 30% you will notice in 2022 growth data was limited due to the every other year level testing in 20 the 2021 E one 11 report included map growth as s a local data source at the Board's request. We've continued to provide this data yearly however this data is provided for additional information and is not t used in the calculations for this monitoring report As we walk through the report, it's important to note what map growth in C mass are assessing the map growth h assessment is aligned to the Colorado academic standards this s assessment provides teachers with the students instructional level. So this is our district local benchmark assessment that's really looking at where kids are ready to be instructed. What is this is different from the C mass test, which is a summative assessment that happens one time a year. C mass provides us with performance levels identifying what grade level standards students have mastered. Map growth completed a linking study that provides us with predictive data for C mass performance including PSAT and SAT. We will now begin on page two of the report. Ends 1.1. Knowledge and skills Reasonable project reasonable progress for this indicator is accomplished by meeting at least eight of the 10 indicators. I will begin with the first indicator. This indicator is measured by an overall rating of the district performance framework, the standard or expectation for meeting this indicator is the same as the state expectation of accredited or accredited with Distinction Academy District 20 was s accredited with distinction, so the standard for indicator 1 was met. Indicator 2, academic achievement measures how students performed on the assessment in the given n year. The district met the Colorado expectations for academic achievement. Indicator 3. Academic growth measures how individual students erformed from 2020 to 2024, the district met the Colorado expectations for academic growth. We are now moving g to Page 3, Indicator 4 post t secondary workforce readiness measures SAT scores dropout rates, matriculation rates, and graduation rates for or high school students. The district met the Colorado expectations for post secondary workforce readiness. Indicator 5. Achievement in English language arts and math successful rogress toward academic achievement in grades three through 11 are indicated by C mass, psat and essay result SAT results in English language arts and math we're going to move along to page 5 it's a real page Turner at t this point Indicator 6 growth in n ELA and math successful progress toward annual growth at the e elementary, middle, and high school levels are indicated by. Mass Psat SAT Performance results in English language arts and math The district met the e standard for this indicator. Moving to page 6 and indicator 7. Successful preparation for high school graduation and college is indicated by the Colorado SAT Mean Scale core is determined by the district performance framework, the strict met the standard for this indicator. Indicator 8 successes indicated by y graduation rates measured by the district Performance Framework. Note that the most recent data available is for the previous school year, so thinking about our 20 graduates based on the standards below the result t meets the standard for the indicator Next, Doctor Parasol will be sharing information regarding college and career readiness and Indicators 9 and 10 with you beginning on page 6. Thank you, Jolene, and it's great to be here tonight Indicator 9, ICAP or the individual career and academic Plan is a multi year process that intentionally guides students and families in the exploration of career, academic and post secondary opportunities with th the support of adults, students develop the awareness, knowledge, attitude and d skills to create their own meaningful and powerful pathway toward post secondary y workforce readiness. The State of Colorado requires ICAP for grades nine through 12, but D20 offers a robust ICAP program that hat goes beyond required grade. Beginning in the 6th grade in compliance with h state requirements, students are given opportunities to participate in and track progress on the following through D 20s ICAP program interest surveys focusing on career and college expiration established written post secondary and workforce SMART goals which are specific, measurable, obtainable, relevant, and timely intermediate e benchmarks and data reflecting progress toward established goals Activities that establish connections between school based instruction in the world d of work. And intentional planning of student sequencing of courses and programs that reflect progress toward their post secondary goals. College applications, resume development and alternative work based applications and an understanding of financial literacy of life after high school district 20 primarily uses the naviance college and career readiness platform to both deliver and manage students ICAP work and so for r this report students were under that system this current school year we have moved to a new platform, the college and career navigator, which has s better data reporting. Structures as K12 college and career exploration curriculum and work based learning support. Indicators Indicator 9's goal is to have 90 or greater of students actively engage with the ICAP process The middle school grades six through 8 did meet their goal with 90 respectively. Participation for the 2000 three 24 school year. Regarding the high school grade levels, they did not meet the goal with the 87 participation rate across the grade levels 9 through 12 one of the main n reasons for this being slightly below the goal is s loss of data. When we had a. And career counselor lead mid year who had that data and so we're we're unable to count that. So if we had it, we'd probably would have met it. That's why we've changed. That's one of the many reasons why we've changed our platform from Naviance to a more robust platform system to rectify this situation nsure that won't happen again. So moving on to page 7, indicator 10 in n addition to key academic indicators as mentioned previously in this report and in alignment with the student ICAP process students ts are college and career ready upon graduation are those who have developed technical skills. 21st century employability and leadership skills and d I've had relevant real-world experiences in alignment with state and federal frameworks. This indicator consists of multiple pertinent measures which give a snapshot of graduating seniors who are college and career ready beyond meeting graduation requirements. This data represents the 2024 graduating senior class which ich consists of 1753 students The goal is that the district high schools will meet with a ± a five percentage points or exceed. Four out of the five baseline data sets established in 2000 for each of the College of Career Indicators that I'll talk about here. The first one is CT pathways, the percentage of graduating seniors who have completed a sequence at least two years are equivalent concentrator completion status of courses within a career and technical education pathway or program this past t year's graduating seniors was 30 point 2% an increase e from 29% but below the 60% baseline reasons ns for this are outlined in the report on page 8. Work based learning experience. The percentage of graduating seniors who have successfully completed a work based learning experience as defined by the Colorado Department Education's work based Learning continuum with such experiences as clinical experiences credit t for work experiences internship pre apprenticeships industry sponsored red projects, supervised entrepreneurial experiences, apprenticeships and on the job training this past year's graduating class at 15.4%, which was an increase over 12 r 12.1 and above the baseline of 7.9. So we're making good progress. Industry certification is the percentage of graduating seniors who have earned an industry or business recognized certification credential as listed on the Colorado Department of Higher Education list and the career development Incentive Program. 10% increased this past graduating class from 4.9 and above the baseline of 3.7 college credit t is the percentage of graduating seniors who have successfully taken at least one college course earning AC minus or higher 32% of our r graduating seniors this past year. Earned college credit. That's an increase from 21 9% the year before and above the baseline of 21 point AP and IB tests scores which also equate to o eventual college credit, is the percentage of graduating seniors who have scored at least a three or higher on at least one Advanced Placement test or those e graduating seniors who have scored at least four or higher on at least one International Baccalaureate test. Refer to Appendix C for assistance with interpretation on how that's broken down. But that was 40.9% of graduating seniors. Which is an increase from 38.7 and above the baseline of 38 9. So indicator 10 was met as outlined d above, the outcomes noted in this data are intertwined with students ICAP goals and as we continue refine our ICAP program and systems around these five measures, students and parents will full l were fully engaged and take advantage of these opportunities afforded to them So the statement of reasonable progress is that 9 out of 10 indicators met the e standards. So the end achieved as interpreted. Thank you. Now we will turn the time over to Miss Kooser, who will lead us through E1 111. Thank you. Thank you, Doctor Parasol and good evening, Board, please continue on to page 9 in your packet E 1.1.1 was updated in 2000 and lign students proficiency of tools techniques and technologies with the continued implementation of the digital district digital resource philosophy which h states digital resources should be used to enrich learning, promote student achievement and advance students towards deep authentic learning in a healthy balanced. Digital environment that is representative of the ever changing digitized modern world. For reference, a link for the complete digital resource philosophy and Belief statements is included in your electronic board packet as well. The first indicator of E one point measured by ensuring that all students have access to digital tools to support their learning. The two g. The 2000. The 2020. Gosh 2000. So 20/21/22 school year. Served as the baseline year for the district implementation of the one to one district provided device program for students in grades three through 12 and a three to one iPad ratio for students in kindergarten through the 2nd grade. Ongoing district investments in student devices are reflected in Graph 1, which illustrates that each student in grades three through 12 have access to a Windows laptop. Device inventory exceeds enrollment numbers to accommodate fluctuations in student enrollment and device repairs. Graph 2 on page 10 shows data for iPad to student ratios in kindergarten through 2nd grade during the 2019 replenishment program m evaluation, input from building administrators led to the adoption of a three to one iPad ratio. Our recommendation supported by the elementary principals some schools have further reduced their ratios to a 2 to one or a one to one. Through additional device purchases through the site based upon the data, the District meets the standard for this indicator, the bring Your Own Device program fluctuates each year's with this last year 219 parents opting g in for the District provided device waivers compared to a 75 last year. The increase is largely y attributed to the online students at the Village High School because they had been an OPT. Out or basically an opt in but because so many of f them were coming from schools and already had a device. We reversed that this last year and they had to basically opt out through a waiver access to o on demand devices has also increased instructional time by eliminating eliminating delays associated with sharing devices or transitioning to computer labs. Students can now fully engage in lessons and leverage digital tools to enhance learning outcomes. One example I'd like to share with you is the impact on teaching and learning is when every student has a device. As described in An eighth grade video production Class A a challenger, where students effectively utilize technology to enhance their learning after completing a preproduction step p including storyboard, storyboarding, and script writing groups, then pitch their story ideas to the class as if the other class members were a potential producers or studio executives using a a series of questions, the class provided peer feedback on the he quality of each pitch. The next day, students typed a synopsis of their pitches to clot into class companion. Which is an AI tool that provides immediate, comprehensive feedback. The AI feedback was notably more detailed and actionable compared to the peer feedback allowing g students to refine their pitches and story details effectively. This technology integration of AI tools facilitated faster targeted feedback, reducing the teacher's s workload and significantly enhancing the students writing and revision skills. The lesson. Not only deep in students understanding of storytelling and pitch development, but it also demonstrated a valuable role. Of AI in supporting writing the hope is that student video projects will reflect higher quality in terms of theme, character development and plot structure as opposed to o previous years when AI was not utilized Excuse me, the second indicator of E 1.1 1 ensures that all students have access to district unded tools and technology the district provides funding and and robust support. For two primary learning management systems, Seesaw is for the pre-K through 2nd grade. And Schoology is for all grade levels. Additionally, staff and students. Have access to Microsoft Office suite and Google Workspace for Education Professional l learning opportunities are detailed out in Appendix D on page 24 and they have been offered through for staff throughout the 2324 school year to support effective use of these platforms moving back k to page 10, Graph 3 represents the number r of unique Schoology users for staff, students and d parents. The trend remains consistent over the past five years at an. Reserve over 17,000 student logins per month and the login trend is indicative that Schoology is being utilized consistently. Graph 4 on page 10 and 11 illustrates usage trends for Seesaw and in the 2324 school year, there was a second year that the district paid for those e licenses and is for the pre K through 2nd grade classrooms and the goal is really to provide additional support and professional learning opportunities to o continue. Increase the usage and adoption for the younger learn youngest learners. The feedback indicates that families value the consistency and the streamline workflows that these platforms offer. Additionally, the menu of options has grown dramatically over the past few years due to the demand for integrated applications and curriculum highlighting the e importance of a single sign on for ease of access s. Everybody doesn't have to remember so many passwords. The use of anytime, anywhere digital access to the learning environment has become the cultural norm in the district. Graph 5 on page 11 highlights the utilization of Microsoft Teams, which varies based upon need but continues to support activities such as Virtual Parent teacher conferences, professional learning, and board meetings These tools have enhanced the learning environment in our ever changing digitized modern world. So the statement of reasonable progress for E1 point 1.12 2 of the two indicators met the standards in align with the district digital resource philosophies. Third belief. Which reads, we believe, safe, fair and equitable ccess to digital resources is paramount and that technology and digital resources should be supported by appropriate investment and equipment and infrastructure to ensure equitable access to current tools and resources for all and provide a robust suite of appropriate digital resources to support timely access to learning. As a result, the end is achieved as interpreted misses Patterson will continue with E1 point 1.2. We are going to be on page 12. Policy provision statement E 1.1.2 State students will be proficient and critical and innovative thinking Reasonable progress is accomplished by meeting the indicator Indicator 1 proficiency and critical thinking in grades three through 11 is indicated by applicable English language arts standards at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. The standard is applicable to critical thinking in English language arts Standard for focused on research and reasoning for C mass district students will meet or exceed the state expectation cut point as reported by the district performance frameworks and students will meet or exceed in English language arts, Please refer to Appendix E on page 29, which provides evidence of activities in clubs being offered at various s schools across the district. The statement of reasonable progress. The district met the indicator, therefore the end is interpreted as or is the end is achieved as interpreted. Dr Field will now share an illustration of a critical and innovative thinking from one of our schools So tonight I'm going to share a couple stories. The first one is going to be from a middle school, this is Chinook Trail Middle school so so students in D20 are learning how to sharpen critical king skills through guided inquiry and reflection. One way they accomplished this is by learning how to leverage artificial intelligence with the guidance of our D20 AI cohort. So we have a cohort of teachers. Miss Kooser, do you know how many are in the cohort? About 35 of our teachers that are our teacher leaders that are providing a lot of learning for additional teachers or teachers back at their schools with the use of AI. They're doing a lot of research and exploration. So this example comes from Chinook Trail Middle School. Many of Michael Steiner's 6th grade math students have chosen to allow a customized chat box but to lead them through reflections about their understanding of percentages by comparing percentages to the coins that add up to a dollar as students s grapple with concepts, the chatbot might offer the question what coins might be used to represent the equivalent of 70 Students made comments such as, oh, a dollar is the same as 100%. Rather than one student in class raising their hand while the others just listen, every student had the opportunity to receive feedback and reflect on their own learning at the same time, resulting in a classroom filled with active learning through customized feedback across s our schools, there are many stories like this using AI as a a thought partner is just one way D20 students are making learning go deeper. Jolinsk now going to walk us through E one point we are on page 14. Policy provision statement for E1 point 1.3 states that students will be proficient in problem solving. Reasonable progress is accomplished by meeting 1 ne of the one indicators below indicator r 1, proficiency and problem solving in grades three through 11 is indicated by applicable math standards at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. This result meets the standard for the e indicator. Dr Field will now share a story about problem solving at one of our schools. Yes, so this story is about. 3rd graders at Pioneer Elementary School using problem solving skills to develop weather friendly building techniques after studying weather hazards guided by digital learning coach Olive McRae and teachers Jill Campanola, Jennifer Whaley and Kristen Smith, the students researched various weather hazards and even explored storm chasing through gh virtual reality headsets. They then designed and constructed miniature buildings with features aimed at protecting them from severe weather. To test their designs, the students simulated storms to see how well the buildings withstood the conditions Afterwards, they wrote building recommendations and recorded their reflections to present to a national building committee. The students were deeply engaged in their designs and learned to critically assess which features best. Resist Weather. Weather hazards. We're going to continue on page 16. Policy provision statement E 1.1 point 1.4 states that students will be proficient in appropriate, creative and Indicator 1. Proficiency and appropriate effect Appropriate creative and effective communication in grades three through 11 is indicated by C Mass English Language Arts standards at the elementary, middle, and high school levels the standards applicable to appropriate, creative and effective e communication include sea mass grade ELA standards 2 and 3. Based on the standards, the result meets for the meets the standard for the indicator. Page 17 Indicator 2 Proficiency is inappropriate, creative and effective communication in grades three through 11 is indicated by C mass math standards at the elementary middle e, and high school levels based on the standard. The result t meets the standard for the indicator Again, we have provided references for our Co curricular activities that are offered at a variety of schools in Appendix E on page 29. Statement of reasonable progress two out of the two indicators meet the standards, so the end is achieved as s interpretive. And now Doctor Field will share another story So this is my last story and this is the end of ur report, but this is a an example of f effective communication and this example that I'm sharing ng this evening is from Discovery Canyon High School. Back in November, the discovery Canyon campus, they celebrate Veterans Day in a big way y up there. If you've been up there, so I was at this assembly and the elementary school recognizes veterans in the morning with a breakfast and then around 10:00 or so all of the middle schoolers and high h schoolers pack into the gym to recognize veterans and there are hundreds of guests that t attend, which is really impressive. So throughout the assembly the many middle school and high school students share. Appreciation to their parents for serving in the armed forces and these are such heartfelt t messages there. There's never a dry eye that day. Discovery Canyon High School student Henry Kent shared his appreciation of his dad through the use of his assistive technology device and the e software program TD Snap along with special educator teacher Nicole Lewis Mcteeg g and speech language pathologist Gabby Mascaraz Henry was able to use his device. Speak to nearly 2000 staff, parents and students in the Discovery Canyon High School gymnasium and share his love and appreciation for his father's service and d I've got from his dad about a 25 second snap here. So take it away, Mark. This year I learned how to consume voice, and with it I want to tell you about my y dad. My dad is in the military, and he's my hero Military defense so his dad sent us that last night so the he TD Snap software is an augmentative and alternative communication mode which uses eye gaze, touch and switch enabled page sets o support to support people with communication so o Henry's teachers share that he has been learning to use his device to independently state his wants and needs but he really ally loves using it to share his favorite songs with others. This has greatly increased his interactions with other staff and students as he will use this his device to play songs and get everyone dancing Henry is still learning to navigate pages on his device, but he is using it more and more every day to enhance his communication The family couldn't be here this evening, there they had another event at a school but Doctor Lujan aunt nt Lindsey talked with the family last night. So that's the end of our formal report. We're ready to take any questions that you might have. Any questions? Yes, Sandy, I just want to shout out to Antelope Trails again and Challenger Middle School for the progress that they have made and we really, really need to be highlighting what they're e doing and duplicating that because they're killing it. Wisconsin. Just want to give an annual congratulations to our staff for makes us proud of our district for wonderful results and especially want to point out the college and career readiness. Just super exciting to see that growth I just am thrilled that high of a percentage of our seniors are getting those classes, those certifications. So it's exciting to see that program continue to grow. Any other comments? Thank you all for your report. Appreciate your time and job well done to all of our teachers and staff out there. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Hey Board, we have the MRE to complete is the e superintendent's interpretation of the policy reasonable? Oh, excuse e me, Mr Salt. Oh, yes, Mr Wilburn I apologize. I managed to fall asleep at the switch. There actually was an item in consent that I did want to to bring up real quickly. Can we go backwards in time? A couple of minutes? This. We've already voted and approved on that. Do you have a question that you'd like to ask about it I do, but that's OK. I can take it directly to Miss Allen. It wouldn't have changed my vote in any way. It's just more a point of curiosity that's s OK. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Item 2. Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Are all sections in compliance? Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance. Would you like to see additional or additional evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring report cycle? Thank you Mr. Belcher, how many people to speak during public comment this evening? 2 speakers. We're actually we don't have any decision items s tonight, so we're going to do everything together, just move from Section 1 to Section 2. So I'll read the preamble and then we'll move forward. The board welcomes the comments of our community members. We greatly value all comments from the public, but in order to adhere to board policy and accomplish the work already on the agenda, the Board and Superintendent will not respond at the meeting. Speakers may offer appreciation for criticism of school operations and programs as concerned them, but are encouraged to exercise their speech rights responsibly as they are personally responsible for any legal consequences attributable to their comments, including claims for defamation. Please keep in mind that students often attend board meetings Speakers remarks, therefore, should be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through 12th grade students, including no use of profanities or obscenities. Comments concerning personnel matters should be directed to the Superintendent or Board President in writing with your signature. Supplemental written materials can be given to the security guards and they will be delivered to the Board Secretary. The Board President will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP 4.4 comments will be curtailed if remarks or behavior become inappropriate e, the Board President may interrupt, warn, or terminate a speaker statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district inappropriate for K12 students, or disruptive to an orderly, civil and productive meeting. Thank you for your cooperation. One technical note is the microphone sometimes have a little bit of a hum to them. So if you're reading off of your phone and you start to get a hum in the overhead if you move your phone away from the mic that should help deter the humming So just FYI all right with that, Mr. Belcher, and given we're condensing the two sections s, I'm gonna amend my answer. We have 10 total speakers, so we will start with Emily Beckman, followed by Alizabeth Clay-Del Rio. Hi, my name is Emily Beckman and I'm 12 years old and a 6th grader at Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School I'm here to talk about bringing back traditional snow days for D20 students. First of all, everyone loves a good snow day. It's good for a child's mental health and their source of joy and d childhood isn't all about working, it's about enjoying the good parts of living in Colorado. Like snow days, they also help D20 students who have younger siblings take care of them when school is cancelled. This means they can't give their full attention to their siblings and. As a result, they can fall behind in school Snow days also help teachers because it helps them by not rescheduling the lesson for e-learning, especially when it just doesn't work for online such as science labs or some teachers have us keep our notebooks at school. E learning also makes it hard to pay attention during classes because it's very easy to get distracted in n your old house, you have lots of distractions like pets games, and daydreaming about playing outside in the snow. I started this petition to return D 20 to having traditional snow days. This petition asked the. Districts have all the six built-in snow days in the calendar to be traditionally snow days. This would not sit back to school year because they are built in. This helps parents know the end of the school year would likely be more than n if more than 6 snow days were called. Any additional would be E learning days. This petition also asks anytime the air Force Academy is closed that D20 is also closed because how can n it be safe for kids to go to school if it's not safe for Air Force Academy 2. So far this petition has received over 3. And signatures to support this I would ask D20 to switch their to switch converting all six built in snow days to traditional snow days and d every time the Air Force Academy is closed d, so is D20. I'm happy to schedule any meetings with anyone in D20 leadership to talk at my partition. Thank you. Next up is Alizabeth Clay-Del Rio, followed by Kristy Davis. Hello, members of the board. I'm Alizabeth. I'm 23 years old and I'm a college student today. I'm here to to talk about the mental health epidemic that's been ravaging our public schools, both students and faculty. And the best way that I know how, which is to pray with you all So Father God, thank you that you are who you say you are, and you do what you u say you do. Lord, I pray over everyone under the sound of my voice and all the students, staff and faculty of District 20. I pray that where they are lost, where they are. Hurting where they break and where they struggle when no one's watching. That you would reveal yourself to them in the midst of their tears. That they would know that there is a living and loving God. That cares about them regardless of whether or not they know or care about you. Lord, this nation and the children in particular are undergoing a mental health crisis. We are breaking under the weight of daily life and fearful of the expectations of the future, so much so that some are afraid to reach out for help. Seeing it at just another false hope that will dash their heart to pieces once. Breaks. This was me. This was my reality, this was my truth, and I knew no way out. Except for death, which almost took I knew no hope until you met with me God. So I pray that the same way you saved my life, that you would save the lives s of those broken in D20 and everyone who hears me me today because so many of us are too weak to stand, too tired to keep fighting and just hoping it will get better Help them to know that they are more than just a eulogy waiting to that they are loved by a God. That will fight for them to the death even while they hate him Thank you God I love you in Jesus name. I pray and give much thanks s Ann. Next up is Kristy Davis, followed by Jennifer Bergstrom and then Kat Gayle. Good evening D20 Board. My name is Kristy Davis and I am m the Chapter Chair of Moms for Liberty in El Paso County. Our main goal is to correct. Our main goal is to protect arental rights at all levels levels of government and I'm afraid to say that I at I am here in this room tonight because your administration has doubled down on violating parental rights in your district with the non legal name change policy ACAI spoke at this podium in October and explained how the he original version of this policy violated parental rights by allowing children nge their names to align with their gender without parental approval. Changes to this policy still withhold parental consent Now the administration has added that counselors, principles and district t personnel may confer about children on a case by case basis regarding our children's well being. I ask is is this being done before or after they work with parents Surely this district doesn't feel they know better than parents what's best for our children. Parents still have a fundamental right to direct the care, upbringing and education of our children. Not a government run institution. Both TCA and New Summit have chosen to adopt their own versions of this policy, with parental consent for a child to change their name because one they understand parents voices are vital l first and foremost, and two, because they disagree with the version this district put in place. I urge this board to pull policy ACA and revise it to add full parental consent before adopting a child's name change. I would implore you to review the versions we shared with you previously or review neighboring districts like D49 and D70 or even Charter Schools Monument Academy. Comment or TC as versions board members your parents demand full transparency for you to respect our parental rights and not hide things from us that affect our children we e deserve respect and I have the right and what names our children are being referred to by others in public in our absences. Thank you for your time. Next up is Jennifer Bergstrom, followed by Kat Gayle and then Brett Dayberry. Hello, my name is Jennifer Bergstrom. I'm a D 20 parent and a resident. We saw again last month that this board loves to invite their church family to make religiously fueled public comment. Interestingly enough, these individuals tend to not have kids attending D20 neighborhood schools. So in keeping with the religious theme, I'd like to ask the board, what do you think Jesus would do? Would he flood public comments of a school board meeting with bigotry aimed at school children? To clarify, the term gender confused which h was used by nearly all of the commenters last month, is derogatory gender. Non conforming students are not confused about their gender. They each know who they are while the board has repeatedly shown that it is perfectly comfortable permitting public c commenters to bully and demean 20D20 students, I I must ask Superintendent Haber, an executive staff, are you comfortable with this? Mr. Salt has stopped a board meeting. Amid comment before because people attend in attendance Clap for student who provided public comment. You shut down support for a student yet you allow bullying behavior directed at D20 students to go unchecked. This is not a parental rights issue It's anti trans. Last month it was about non legal name change policy. It's also been n about bathroom sports, plays, clubs, library books and pronouns. The thing is D20 leadership keeps taking the side of the bully in In light of this concerning behavior, I must ask how does es insulting trans students help to improve test scores? How does keeping queer student? How does this help queer students to feel a sense of belonging but we don't even call it belonging anymore we We call it a culture of connectedness. How is any of this helping to keep kids safe and how is it helping to build knowledge, skills, and character at the end of the day, this board and executive leadership can limit clubs remove ve books, ban flags, and all the other things you want to do to make life more difficult for queer kids, but it will not make e the kids any less queer. It will make them. Thank you. This time is up. Next up is Kat Gayle followed by Brett Dayberry and Larry Roa. Pardon me, we're not clapping this is your warning. If we do it again, we'll clear the room. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. One child, 1 teacher one book and one pen can change the world. Malala Yousafzai from 1988 to 1990, my husband and I were stationed in Islamabad, Pakistan from 2010 to 2012 he spent two years in Afghanistan, I received this burka from Maria Bashir who won an International Woman of Courage award, that is given by our Secretary of State in a program started by. Lisa Rice Education is neither Eastern or Western education is s education, and it's the right of every human being I'm Kat Gayle. I'm a D20, parent A resident, a former teacher, a lawyer, and a a human rights advocate. Today's brief lesson will be on the 1st amendment first is the right of of expression. It's come to my attention that Superintendent Haber forbade faculty and staff. From our district to speak out against the closure of Rock Women Library. While they cannot do what Aaron Salt has done and say, I'm Aaron Salt, president of Academy School District 20, and I want you to vote for 2D and against 300 because that's using his position to promote a 'cause that may or r may not be directly related to this district. A teacher can go. In their personal time and speak about a library. It would be inappropriate for the teacher to say I am a teacher at Air Academy High School. I'm a teacher at Rock Room, and I'm a teacher at TCA, although they wouldn't have been affected but you unconstitutionally limited their r freedom of speech. It's really funny that you spent the first part of this meeting praising the Constitution. Praising. Thank you. Your time is up. Next up is Brett Dayberry followed by Larry Roa and then Meagan Gaetke. The current D20 non legal name change policy states quote students do not need parental approval. I repeat students s do not need parental approval Understand this policy applies to kindergarten on up the rights and the powers of the school district t and its members do not supersede those of the parents To believe so is ludicrous, evil and a blatant affront to parental rights. Let me read some words of wisdom that I'd like for you to contemplate. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather r expose them. Ephesians 511. Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. Dietrich Bonhoeffer We now condone what we used to condemn Billy Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord. Who do their work in darkness and think who o sees me? Who will know Isaiah h 2915. There are those on this board who I can assume are perfectly comfortable with the way I'm speaking because they know in their heart of hearts that I'm not speaking to them. On the other hand, for those of you who do feel uncomfortable, I would suggest you look inward to consider if this applies to you Hear me, this is not meant as an attack. But as sincere recommendation I heard it said recently, whoever wants the next generation the most will get them lastly, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love, and of sound mind. Second Timothy 1 7, I ask that each board member not be fearful be it, but be of sound mind when considering ing what is best for the students. In their. Next up is Larry Roa, followed by Meagan Gaetke and then Julie Brown. Greetings as again I know come up to complain. Just want to go up there and get some feelings about Veterans Day that we had last month on the thing one suggestion that I would make is that since we're using a g a fire truck, is it possible to get hold of Peterson Air Force Base or Air Force Academy or Fort Carson and have a military fire truck used with military litary firefighters on it's veteran's day? It would make sense. Now the other thing I was wondering about is how the schools go up there and treat a student that says I want to be in the military, I want to have a military career. I know I went to school in the 60s and early 70s, junior high and high school and when I I told my counselor that's what I was going to do with my life crickets. What do we say to A student that wants to give military service to their country? Do we have a program for it? Military is quite a bit different from when I went in. I retired in 93, but you adays the Sky's the limit on technology and that if you have a student who wants to excel in anything, we've e got Space Command now. You can't get more cutting edge technology than you're going to get in those fields Unfortunately, we're going up there and we're not meeting recruiting goals and this is going to affect us. Last two years they haven't done well on it. So I'm just wondering, could you ask and ask and ask your counselors what are you telling students that say I want to the military? And hopefully they're not getting the crickets I got when I was in. They got one last thing, says everybody's wearing Christmas clothes here and that I just want to go up there can n I wish everybody Merry Christmas Just want to make sure. Merry Christmas Next up is Meagan Gaetke, followed by Julie Brown and then Ivy Liu. Hi, I'm Meagan Gaetke, mom of three encounter of a lot of change of money this week as our school participates in Penny Wars for care and share. All right now that Colorado has as a free lunch program for students, I wonder if we could allow staff to have meals at school if they also meet the requirements for EBT That's the electronic benefits transfer that includes programs like SNAP. There are paraprofessionals in our schools who would meet that line and are using the food bank to supplement their food Some are going without food during the day and are having a hard time To meet the food bank service hours in our area I feel allowing them to access free meals at school would boost morale increase job performance and also make them want to keep their r job there. It would not be a major cost to allow those meals. Side note since e it's me, we need to pay our teachers and staff more they y deserve a job that gives them the dignity of access to food. How much have I got OK with the need to fill staffing I feel we need to have more board meetings like we had last year Not having meetings to get staff approved creates a longer time frame for staff to be hired at our schools. We have half as many meetings as before I'd like to see e us get positions filled as quickly as possible looking over r the open career spots, we have many pair positions and speed staff positions open for a very long time. The site says 30 plus days now but when I read it a while back some of those positions have been there for over 120 days. What t is being done to ensure that those positions are filled I don't want nt to see someone not take a position in our district because the process takes kes too long. OK. In addition, I also like to keep up with what's happening in the district and to see what other schools are doing and the last thing you want to o bring up, it was brought to our attention that D20 does not require overhead fees for their charter schools. District 38, District 2, District 49, district 11, all charged over $239 per pupil. And I was ondering why D20 doesn't do that as it would add over $1,000,000 in venue for our district. Next up is Julie Brown, followed by Ivy Liu. Hi, my name is Julie Brown. This is my first time coming to a board meeting, so hi, nice to meet all of you. I went to D20 schools and I had the best experience. I truly loved it and even back then we felt like we were lucky to go to D20 and knew it was a pretty big deal So I knew that when I grew up and had kids, I would want them to go to D20 also. Fast forward to now, my husband is an educator and we chose for him to work in D20 so that we could send her kids here and d now my oldest kid is in kindergarten so it's my first year as a elementary school parent which is awesome. Everything I'm about to say also applies to the library district, so please keep that in mind. I am a grant writer and I think I have the best job in the world because I get to take money from government programs and foundations and bring them to nonprofits and organizations in my local community. I was curious to see what this district does in terms of grant funding and I want to see if I could help in some way. And I was actually shocked to find out that digit 20 doesn't have grant staff. It's common practice for school districts of this size and even smaller to have a team of staff district as 5 grant. Staff members and. The resulting revenue is significant. There's a lot of factors that go into it, but District 11 received $80 million more than District 20 last year. And I think that not having a team of staff for a district this size is a really big missed opportunity, I'm sure everyone here knows about the property tax formula. That leaves us as the lowest per pupil funded district and the lowest funded state is to no fault of our own and it's not fair. But we can't just go, Oh well, we need to get creative and find funding actively or do what other r districts do and have a team of people to do that because it's not an automatic process s. It takes people to do this work. I think I speak for most most constituents when I say that we don't accept being the lowest funded district. Suspended state Our students and staff deserve better They y deserve an administration that will do everything it can to bring in funds for our schools and d not just throw their hands up and accept being at the bottom or better than that I'm not here saying hire me or contract with my employer unless you want to, but I am saying that you really should consider. Thank you. Your time is up. Finally, Ivy Liu. Don't think she's in the audience. OK. Thank you all Superintendent Haberer, did you have any clarifications for that? I know I've heard the comment about stifling staff, do you have a response? Yes, I do. I have not and did not and have never directed staff to not attend public meetings and I as administrative team very much support our staff members to attend public meetings and if they want to speak, to speak as a private citizen. We very much support that process. With our staff and my understanding is with some of the recent public meetings, we did have several D20 staff members that went to that meeting and spoke. So I'm encouraged by that. I think it's important to engage in that process in our community. Thank you. All right. Board was our business this evening focused on activities that promote and on our mission statement, our belief statements and our global end statement that reminds us that all students will have the knowledge, skills and character necessary for successful transition to the next level and upon graduation, we'll be fully prepared for success. Did the board hear information tonight that would require the review or revision of a policy? Did the board hear information tonight that the board would like to include on a future agenda? All right. Just for the Board's awareness, the Superintendent evaluation will be done in executive session in January, so I will. Probably have Tina send out an email reminder in the next couple days. I will need you to send feedback to me. I'll compile it so that we'll have that to review during the evaluation Looking for strengths and stretches and. Superintendent Haberer has something that she'll send out that relates to her goals, kind of like what we looked at last year. So I want to give you a heads up about that also We have few birthdays. Happy birthday to Shelley Kooser on December 2. Mrs. Thompson on December 5th and Dr. Susan Field on December 11th These are all post, so apologies. Happy belated birthdays. With that, we need a motion that the Board of Education convene an executive session pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute  24-6-402 (4)(b) for the purposes of receiving legal advice on specific legal questions related to administrative e policy. JLCDC. Medically necessary treatment school settings. While an executive session, the board will not adopt any proposed policy resolution, regulation or take any formal action. Lastly, the Colorado Open Meeting Laws does not require the board to make record of the executive session in the in which the attorney is present and providing legal advice CRS 24-6-402(2)(d.5)(II)(B) moved second roll call please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt aye. The executive session will be held in Superintendent's Office and invited to this executive session are Ms. Allan, Dr. Field, Mrs.  Haberer, Mrs. Konz. Dr. Lujan-Lindsey Mr. Salt. Mrs. Shandy. Mr. Smart. Colonel Stallworth. Mr. John John Stanek, Mrs. Tonya Thompson, Mr. Wilburn, and Mrs.  Yanez. The business portion of our meeting is over. We'll take a 5 minute break to reconvene in the Superintendent's office for the executive session.