##VIDEO ID:L1kFndUphdM## stand for the pledge 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 out there um okay so 3.0 is to approve the meeting agenda a motion I will make a motion to approve second okay any discussion all those in favor I I those opposed agenda is approved uh 4.0 our acknowledgements and recognitions um which we don't have any for this evening uh so move on to 5.0 our recognition of visitors and Community comments uh welcome to the visitors in the room hello thanks for being here with us tonight and welcome to everybody streaming online live and everybody who watches in the future glad to have you here uh our community comment section is an opportunity for the public to address the school board on an item included in the agenda in accordance with guidelines printed at the end of the agenda um there's nothing up there no Community comments at this point okay so we'll move on to 6.0 which are reports and 6.1 is the principal's report Mr bonie good evening everybody good evening good evening um so uh we are and a half into of the school year um in our s Elementary we have been able to recognize 23 students for demonstrating the junior Vikings Valu of being resp respectful responsible and being their best we'll have our next Vikings assembly on Friday next week which we will be introducing the theme of gratitude for the month of November and then we are excited next week we will be having Jeff Harper and Michelle Maran come and visit us from Leech Lake for our indigenous people's Day activities um we had to postpone them on the 14th because of the fire bands um because they are going to be coming in right up here um doing wild racing demonstrations with fire and and everything so we're going to have a a morning day with our uh elementary students going out there and partaking in those activities with um Jeff and Michelle which would be great and so we're really happy for the rain that we've been receiving so we can feel comfortable having fire out there um and then in our middle and high school we have our National Honor Society um induction ceremony coming up on the 4th um it's a week and a half two weeks and then in the afternoon next week on Tuesday Jeff and Michelle are going to uh be in the gymnasium with all of our middle school and high school students to give more of a um kind of a teaching demonstration of wild racing they'll have tools there they'll have some videos and um pictures and stuff for the kids and then they'll be able to come down and kind of check out the tools and see some of the finished product from the morning work with the elementary students so a cool way to kind of have a all school um activity um uh next week on Tuesday and then recently we had our PD day on Monday our satu staff spent uh a good two hours in redact training um and so we're making progress on that and then a great session um talking together about the newj language and culture classes that are happening in Southmont Elementary so um a lot of enthusiasm there a lot of great ideas um for growth if anything it was um reminding people that this is year one of doing this in our entire elementary school so let's make sure we're creating sustainable expectations and making good progress but it was a really great um session and our secondary folks uh spent time talking about Avid strategies focused note taking um and working on aligning uh what our teachers put in the syllabus um through middle school and high school so some common like four things that all of our teachers will be communicating to families um just to create that consistency and alignment and then just some dates coming up uh Friday next week November 1 is the end of first quarter already uh we will not have any school for students on Monday the 4th uh we will be in Grand Portage on the 4th from 1:00 to 3 for conferences and then our evening conferences at school here are on the 7th and 12th from 3 3:30 to 6:30 all I have for that do you have any questions thank you thanks so much okay 6.2 is a superintendent report Mr lindol thank you Mr chair um I'm not sure you mentioned maybe you did Josh on the 11th we have a Veterans Day program at two two o'clock in the main gym that's a annual tradition here in Cook County we'll have Bann with some Community instrumentalists Helping and couple grade level singing that's always cute um so several songs and uh I'm still trying to recruit a guest speaker for or a keynote for that event and I'm working hard on it I reached out to a whole bunch of folks um for the board um we've tentatively scheduled a board retreat with Teamworks for January 30th um so please check your calendars and let me know ASAP if that will not work uh that we've done it in the past has been a 5:00 pm Retreat we usually go offsite have dinner um but the Teamworks consultant then helps educate uh the board and myself and our admin team on governance and alignment and um of progress monitor our own work and those kinds of things so please mark your calendars for January 30th for that and then last but not least long that leite last couple hours couple hours oh yeah yep is there food yes we'll have dinner oh excellent yep can it be good dinner last time we did it was I be picky um 2022 I think in the lesny soup in the community center yeah yeah that's get soup yeah we like at least equally good you can help pick what we have for Sher whatever we can line up um and then last but not least just just reminders to start um pushing out the message as we ramp up two weeks from uh Al day and making sure we're pushing the message hard to get people out to vote what' you say though it's only gr marray right that votes in person anybody can go into the yeah Courthouse if so if you didn't if you didn't send in your mail and ballot you can go into the courthouse I didn't know that yeah so if you're like sh I didn't send it in fast enough it's not over for you then you just fill out the mail ballot give it to them you fill out the one on site you can do it right now at the county office you walk up to the window you could do it right now early um or mail in your ballot um but yes the two districts in gr those are the two that are not mailing not mail um but everybody else kind of VO right now Poss pretty much so get out V vote push we're two weeks out and a reminder to staff and board members when you're not in here at the board table or on the clock at school you do you are allowed to advocate so I have at it that's all I've got unless there's questions from members of the board questions um no sounds good yeah thanks all right 6.3 is our student board report from Miss Lexi Sera hello Lexi hi everybody hello welcome thank you so we are in month into the school year and early in the month at the beginning of the week on the 4th we had homecoming the homecoming dance and football game which was disco theme and it was held at the school football game was disco themed I wish disco themed shs that was fun and for volleyball highlights this month they had a win against mus slate in formula with one of their scores being 25 to one they also played their first playoff game in Cromwell and sadly lost but played impressively our seniors had a Bittersweet end to their season but are happy to have played with such a great team for their High School career football had some great wins this season and had their most recent game at home against yeah don't know I was like what does that say k her North yeah um which was the first round of play playoffs um I don't know if any of you guys went but it was zero to zero until the fourth quarter which was crazy um and students got in the stands and cheered even though it was kind of rainy and we put trash bags on they were black because un matched the theme um cross country had their conference meet earlier this month at pincushion and had some very impressive times the JB boys and girls won the first with help from Leaf Lindstrom and Sophia shoot oh my gosh where's Kevin just Lo it no my computer's been like it just like shuts my tabs down every once in a while for fun um okay Le lrom and Sophia shoot who both set course records um it was really impressive and I believe leave time for his 3K was 839 which I don't know if you guys are familiar with 3K that's so that's really freaking fast and yes P for one and especially with hills and all like those little divots in the ground oh my gosh very impressive and um this was awesome to see those kids so happy with their medals on and that the Varsity Boys took second and will advance the sections today with the norb city team um students have also been busy applying to National Honor Society this much with Monch this month which will induct 10 new members on the 4th they would love if you could come and support and watch the ceremony we'll have cake and coffee afterwards um where where is that and at what time yeah at the um in the AC you know what time it is it 7.m I believe I think so that sounds great we just had an NHS meet we talk about um along with that today actually um the I don't know like we were inducted last year with the four senior members but we're inducting senior members this year so Grace and me n and Jordan we're going to make um bowls for the empty bowls charity event tonight so that's another fall ering thing we're doing started early and we're excited to have more opportunities as next goes on so if you he anything please don't be shy to S now or Grace she president and is new president yes she's the president good for me to know and um we changed it so that not just seniors will hold like office positions so that like incoming Juniors and the seniors who have been elected will also be able to so yes and then middle school students have been starting have done a few fa exploratory day trips at the gun for trail and in The Boundary Waters into Grand Portage which is really cute and they learn new skills and spent time with friends before it got a little bit too chilly and that's all I have awesome thanks so much how many people are what's the ballpark numbered in NHS after the induction 14 14 yeah so last year we had 12 okay we only inducted four people last year and now we're inducted 10 and what is the criteria for getting an induction there's you have to like fill out an application and from when I did it you just kind of had to write like an essay about like your experience in volunteering or in your community and how that has like kind of shaped you as a person and why you would like to be in NHS and why you should be in NHS and then they also like I'm get your transcript or your GPA yeah yeah yep yeah so exciting well thanks for all your hard work that thank you thank you then go make some bowls all right you're making them yes all right have fun see you later okay um 6.4 we have a yeah uh we somebody who came that was hoping to be here in time for Community comment um possibly give them the opportunity to go back to that um it just one person um is just me yeah yeah we can do that thank you we'll make an exception we get to that right at five so but that's okay we'll go back because this I believe this group 6.4 School Improvement plan report is a little longer um we'll come back to 6.4 and revisit 5.0 and you may have the the floor if you wouldn't mind just introducing yourself and the topic that you're speaking on that seat right there you're welcome the hot seat it's not too hot you want to sit with me my name is jayen Betson I work at Great Expectations school and I also work or well I also work at the one one of the restaurants in town in this my daughter soraa she goes to school at Great Expectations and I came to talk about the I know you're having a discussion about 4 day school week and I have some opinions about that that I would like to say and I also brought copy thanks um these are just quick notes that I up I didn't have a lot of time but wearing my single mom mom hat I would prefer to keep five day week because if I basically I do not want to work in a child care setting I want to work in education and if I were to go down to a 4- day work week in education I would need to get another like fifth day job but I don't want it to be Child Care like that's not where I'm if I wanted to that I would have already done it basically that's what I'm saying um and so that's why I work one of the reasons I work at the school I also prefer to have my hours more spread out because it's the single mother when my daughter is sick or when I am sick I have to miss a day of work and I it turns out that I don't have enough sick days to cover all those days that I end up missing for her being sick and myself so even though I do get paid my sick days it's just that it ends up being a lot when they're when you have a little kid which I'm sure a lot of you know um she so basically if we went talk a 4 day school week it would end up being that I if she were to miss a day of school then I would miss a day of work it feels like it would be even bigger to time that I would be missing which I don't want to do um let's see I know that in this County it's very difficult to find Child Care um I have experienced that myself and I've been lucky when I've been able to get my daughter in child care she's been lucky to be in it um there's not a lot to go around and if I were to try to work on like if we went down to a 4- day week and then I tried to work on a 5 day I would have to find child care and that would be extremely hard especially when all the other kids that would be asy so potentially not not that they would all be looking for child care but a lot of them would be um she doesn't have older siblings so I don't have somebody to babysit her but even if I did honestly I would not want and this is something that a friend of mine said but I would not want to leave her home for an entire work day alone with another babysitter kid it would it would need to be like an adult for me to feels safe doing that um because most of the jobs that I work are not jobs where I can just leave during the day if I need to um let's see uh I'm not covering everything that I wrote down I just kind of trying to skim over it but oh well the other part of it is that like it depending you know it really would depend on the day of the week but right now with my parenting schedule for me personally Fridays would be the day that I would be responsible for child care not her father so I and I don't really have help with that um in that sense un unless it's going to be like a Wednesday and I don't think that's gonna work very well for anybody um and I don't want to put that burden on him either the let's see oh and then also still wearing my parent parenting and hat and mom had um I my experience working more than one job in the county has been that you don't get paid over time when you work more than 40 hours a week so I prefer during the school year to only work at the school because that's my you know it's a lot of time and it's exhausting and if I work more than that then I get even more burnt out and can't show up the way I need to that's um so I try to I try to limit my second job to some uh speaking with my educator hat on um I do work at another school in the county and I have subed at IST when I first started working at education I was subing at ISD 166 and I just think that in general kids in the county really um unfortunately suffer from lack of sleep the especially like the little ones and especially those kids that have those incredibly long bus rides in the morning and at night um so when if the thought of like extending the school day so that even if it's only a little bit of time in the morning and a little bit of time in the evening for me our evenings look like we get home like I get off work at 3:45 if she has any extra percs it's at least a half an hour probably closer to an hour I don't get home until 5:30 or 6 and then we try to cram everything in before 7:00 bedtime and she doesn't even really have real homework yet so it's just she does sleep like good 11 hours every night um and I think that she needs that and it's really hard to think that I would have to somehow squish that in um squishing my sleep I guess let's see um personally I work primarily in the younger grades at GBS like kindergarten through fourth grade mostly and my experience with those kids is that they are at least at this point in the year they're burned out by 2:30 in the afternoon so they can't make it any later than that really for like I mean they can they're there and they participate but the best learning has already happened for the day so uh I just don't think that adding more to the end of their day would work I think I do think it would be fine for high school students but not for the younger kids because they're they're too tired at that point um in the day okay and then I'll leave you with I found another copy of this if you'd like it and thank youate thank you for letting me speak we're gonna out so that're you're welcome to S I gotta go thanks for coming s and we got thank you so much for your time alrighty um so we're gonna jump back down to 6.4 which is our report on the school Improvement plans and oh yeah for sure I always love it when I get community comments the first time we have in a year or so Circ no com right welcome thank you okay I'll do a quick intro um thank you all for being here uh Julie and and signey and Natalie uh what began a few years ago was when we restructured with leadership was the expectation that the leadership team develop an annual School Improvement plan based upon the high reliability schools framework so board members that have been on the board the whole time be like the third time you've been through this process um this is a state thing no this is a um in my opinion schools that are oh the school best practice Yeah okay I get you this is what are we working on what are our goals how are we doing continuous Improvement and the leadership team I would say from my perspective has gotten better and better and better at that as as things have evolved and they just gotten used to the protocol and the process so um I asked them to come every fall and Report basically on hey what were your goals last year and what did you accomplish and then now what are your goals for the current year so that we can you know watch all the great things that that they do we do it in the fall um because it takes us all the way through June to wrap up that year the the data and all of that we do a retreat in June when they kind of build some of these slides about last year and uh rough so I think the flow of this so folks when you when you need me to flip a slide just say next slide please um we're going to kick off here with accomplishments on the front end and we'll start with sawu and Natalie and Julie are from Sawtooth sign's representing the high school and middle school uh David licky was supposed to be here but he was on the bus that lost the wheel okay I think if I come back to that slide it'll it'll actually work I'm having Google issues here there we go back one yep and there it worked okay okay so I'm going to talk about uh the accomplishments saw tooth's accomplishments uh this past year and um level one in HRS is safe supportive and collaborative culture and so our goals were to improve um in that area and we did that in several ways um we started Vikings way assemblies um which are a monthly assemblies and you can see the character themes that were the uh for last year they're also the same ones that we're doing this year as well um each month um Mr balang would introduce a theme we teach the kids about that theme and that would be our our Focus uh for a Vikings way and we would also um honor several students from each grade level each month with the Sawtooth student Spotlight you can see the picture of kids holding their their certificates and and that's a really special time for kids for all of us to celebrate the great things kids are doing they get a chance to walk up to the stage receive their certificate they stand and wait and Mr Balan you reads specific words about each of those students and how they're exhibiting the Vikings way so those are those are pretty special um we've also been working on having common expectations throughout sat tooth Mountain Elementary with our expectations for kids and that wheel that you can see up there on the left um talks about the different common expectations for showing the Vikings way and the different parts of school and last year's Focus was very strong on our playground expectations and our common hallway expectations um we wanted to focus on collaboration with families and communication and we did that by a Weekly Newsletter that would go home in the folders and each classroom had a newsletter that was it was sent out digitally and I think many teachers also sent it out in folders so parents were getting getting it two different ways um we also began something new where each specialist in the Elementary did a monthly newsletter highlighting what they were doing with students in class next slide level two is um effective teaching in every classroom and we had two main things that we accomplished last year with that um we did instructional rounds and the instructional rounds last year were supported by Lacy Smith and I believe we did two separate instructional rounds um and those are an opportunity for teachers to go into other teachers classrooms to observe and just glean ideas um discuss with other folks that observed um you know thinking about new ideas that they can put into practice in their own classroom but then also one of the really neat things was that the teachers that observed would also write comments and notes to the teacher they observed about highlights and things that they notice so we had the opportunity to celebrate each other and the Innovative things that that we doing that we don't often get to see because we're in our own rooms so this was that was a really neat experience and then we also started building something called the instructional Playbook again this goes along with comic having common expectations for each other and holding each other account accountable to those and so we built um some must do uh may do might do so to speak with the different curriculum um we had one of those for math for reading for social studies and so on so that we could tighten our teaching and then we also um had a day where we spent time learning Lear in about social studies and Science and did a lot of uh sharing of resources and those things next slide oh sorry there was a little progression there okay already might you must that's interesting okay okay level three is a guaranteed and viable curriculum and this past year at Sawtooth we input imped a new math curriculum as you might remember we implemented I ready so we spent a lot of our curriculum time on that implementation setting up pacing for our lessons we did a lot of work with data we started the beginning of the year with our initial data points we did more data testing in January and then at the end of the year we had some really great data that showed growth from the kids that we were able to share with families at the end of the year next slide for all right so for middle school for level one we um this last year one of the biggest things we did was the quarterly we as a team decided that we wanted to be more in a ability to communicate with families and the community about what is happening within our middle school and so every quarter each teacher has been contributing um essentially I you could call it a little newsletter portion and we've been added it in and we have been sending home a newsletter from that has compiled from this and what's kind of cool is the way that we go about doing the newsletter is it's not just the teachers are making it putting together but we're not the ones putting it in the mail and sending it home we actually as part of the avoc class students are then getting the newsletters they have to address the envelopes themselves put the newsletters in and so that they take some ownership and it's then sent home to their parents and so that's really kind of cool interactive piece and then the kids get a chance to look through the quarterly see what's being talked about and it's being communicated and then the kids get the parents get a letter home that's actually addressed by the kids to then have a chance look it so we were very excited and proud of that we got some really good feedback from families about that all right next slide um one of the other big pieces that we did last year was working on revamping the use of the plan planners and to make it more than just this is the homework that I have to do we wanted it to make it a reflective component where kids had to reflect upon their learning to better um install what they're learning and so we had the academics planners to prepare for future assignments and due dates as well as the reflection within the class so teachers were asked to make more of a reflective component either at the beginning of their class or at the end that then was installed within the plers we this was an initiative that we started now two years ago I believe um where we wanted to provide more of a structure and organization to our advisory and so what we started doing is each teacher has a column within this Google spreadsheet and then we can request students to come to our classrooms to either get make up Miss missing work work on some tests or get some additional support in areas that they may need students can also then request to come see us and one of the big benefits of this is that you notice there's only six slots that means that these teachers are only going to be seeing these six kids because they also still have their kids in their own advisories at that time and it helps um maintain some order and focus it also then allows teachers to purposefully request students so that we can make sure that if students miss a day we can then catch up with them on the next day and it's done in an orderly way where if I wanted to see a student and bety needed to see a student I can look on the chart see bie has already requested them so that I can put my name down for the next day and so it allows for a lot of a give and take in that type of situation so that was our second year with this um advisory planning it's been going really well we are we have it going again for this third year and it's really helped with the organization and the structure of advisory time for Middle School um last year we continued doing a lot of work on Avid imp implementation one of the big key pieces was we wanted to make sure that a schoolwide uses of the MLA headings and documents so that all documents going to the Google Drive are structured the same way headed the same way and also so that they can then find them within the Google Doc Google cloud in a more efficient way so we've been using the MLA headings and document style of including in addition to working on annotation of texts and we are now moving more on to FOC just note taking high school so for level one for high school they had their goal was to engage teachers families and students for feedback and input at least quarterly as needed and when decisions necessitate input according to decision-making Matrix so then their goal two was structure makes sense for to teachers and then CT time is satisfied and fulfilling for CTS sorry that's blocking that one word doing hrct work so so this is some of the data that they have of the responses from from believe from one to five yeah and if you go to the next two slides this is some of the leading indicator data 1.5 of teachers and staff having formal ways to provide input regarding the optimal functioning of the school and so they had the outgoing input with the specific input they did temperature checks staff meetings weekly check-ins and instructional coaches principal search and interviews than grounds and then for 1.6 students and parents and Communications have firal ways to provide Import in input regarding the optimal functioning of the schools and those are the additional ways that they were putting the outgoing and specific input um so they had some questions to consider that they were thinking about last year which were what are the best practices for an organization to seek input on how can we make sure that the responses are representative are entire student body and Community what are some formal ways to provide input that exits exists that stakeholders are aware of if people have complaints they have a way to have them heard and what proactive approaches can be taken to your ongoing positive input um which questions they were discussing I think yeah I believe leadership team yeah yeah so apolog I don't know additional information about this specific slide so if you want to go forward we can Skip One there we go yeah I think so level two so level two is um they also began to work on um aan and so they established a schoolwide model of instruction through the BLT to disseminated to the whole staff and then they began establishing common languages so part of what we did in CTS last year was we would have both the middle school and high school meet together to talk about Avid and began to bring forth some of specifically like the common language that we have in Middle School beginning to implement it now in the high school such as things as using compare analyze describe evaluate explain justify make a claim support a claim because what we found in a lot of ways is a lot of teachers ask the students to annotate we just never used the word annotate and so now what as we bring that one common word in kids are seeing over and over again that this is what annotate is and that they're being asked to engage in that type of activity so just making common language level three all HS courses have alignment among applicable standards instructions and assessment so they've been working on um these charts that you see before you and there's second goal there establish a data team to analyze the date the data and to staff on application data and goal number three was to get buying for appropriate school goals to improve achievements they didn't work on that goal yeah okay they didn't get yeah was not that that's what I was saying next slide y all right now we move into this current year right so this um every year we're required for a q comp plan a goal for each school and last year was our first year and our focus is always on math because that's our area of the most need right um for growth and so um last year was our first time using I ready and it was our first time using star to set those goals and so last year felt like a sh a shot in the dark we were kind of just guessing um so we feel a little more confident in these goals uh for the current year but U what you see there is sock too has a goal of increasing fall the spring basically by three the percentage of kids who are meeting uh standards at uh 3% and then Middle School is a goal of about 5% and high school is a goal of about 3% based upon the different metrics that is tied to help me Miss Shaw $1 I think in the in the Q comp dollars yeah the way our plan is set up is the incentive is really not on the schoolwide goal the incentive is on doing the personal goal and the observations and the process and um the stuff that we know pay dividends so now we move into Sawtooth right this year y this year so we did we are keeping with we had success last year we saw good growth with that common language so a lot of this is kind of staying the same we're just going to keep on moving forward with it so for the action plan for a we're going to keep that Vikings way pis positive behavior intervention strategies going um by reteaching those expectations all using that same language still we're still using the Vikings wheel um and then doing the classroom celebrations and the Vikings way presentation still so not much is changing on that we're just continuing and adding on to that the collaboration or collaborative teams that's where we are making a little bit of a difference this year is um we are all talking about instructional practice so all teachers got the Art and Science of teaching by Robert Marano and we are all using the components and elements and design areas from here to bring into all of our classrooms so it's this is different for us this year because we have not had at where CTS are all doing kind of the same thing and it feels kind of united in the neat way that it's prek through 12 can all work out of this and get some good professional development time during those CT times so we are continuing with our CTS using this um the Art and Science of teaching one of the things that we've talked about in the past is that consistent attendance in those collaborative teams that's always tricky to see how that works so we've got a new form that Administration is doing where we're just taking attendance a little bit more and tracking that a little bit more this year than um we have in the past and then of course doing the Norms each team member we have three satth CTS and three middle school high school yes so I think there's six Al together so and the other yes so that's those CTS the part C the family engagement We are continuing with our weekly um newsletter and Sawtooth so that goes home every Friday one of the things that we've added this year is if you go down the satu hallway we had kind of a bulletin board that was empty and so now we're posting everybody's um newsletter each week which is kind of fun because then I can live in oh in preschool they were kind of doing the same thing and so it's not only going home to just the parents in first grade but the first grade newsletter is also public to anyone walking through the Sawtooth hallway so that's a new thing that we have been doing um this year and the Specialists and interventionalists are also still doing a report but they're just putting them in the Viking voice now they're not going to be doing a monthly report and then we will still be doing some surveys to parents for feedback and that'll happen during conference time again next SL you can shut the door if it's the staff communication so this goal we were um going to work together to there's a lot of things that happen and just this week for example we had parent lunches special lunches we have stone soup we were G to have the indigenous people day we were have I mean all these things in the last couple weeks so um we were going to put together the BLT and administration work together we just kind of put together a yearly calendar of like the major events that happen when is read Across America when is all these things that sneak up on us and all of a sudden we're scrambling to do um that is a work in process it says that it was going to be done in the first quarter which is the end of next week it'll be done in the first semester still in the first so but that is a work in progress I do believe that that'll be very helpful once we get it done emergency planning protocols we have been doing all the trainings we've had two evacuations with a relocation and one lockdown that we have been going through with our kids so still training on all those things um this is going back to that Marzano the instructional effective teaching in every classroom that's where our C2 work is coming from this year and everybody did the self audit which kind of gave you what area or what component you would like to work in or showed you your high strengths and weaknesses kind of in those areas and then people will be able to pick from that what element they want to kind of focus on that will what will happen is we will go into our classrooms we will do these things and then we're going to bring them back to our collaborative team and with artifacts from the students so we'll have student work and we'll be able to talk about what went well what did not go well um this is similar to The Graduate classes that were done by jens's two years ago and Jens and Lacy last year that we did with Alaska so we're following off of that same thing so this was graduate level work that we are now doing in our CTS which feels really professional also so um it feels like it's going in the right direction that way um bringing those artifacts back and we just found out those of us that have to do carel module the module that we're on right now directly is affected to engagement which fits right into the Marzano element that many of us were choosing for our first one so those overlap also which feels like we're going in the right direction um the peer learning experience we have two instructional coaches now we have both Jens and Lace both part-time and they have been doing a lot of they've been in a lot of classrooms I've had Jens in mine it's really awesome to have them to come in and have those post conversations are really heartfelt and encouraging and the feedback that we get really gets us motivated to move forward and try hard things to be honest with you so that's been great um and the option as Julie said the option to participate in those instructional rounds we've got one set of rounds already and I think we had 12 teachers to it this time so that's really you don't have to do both sets of it you can either have somebody come in and observe you or you can go and be go and observe and I did both of them and I had one day I had three I did it three times people came into my classroom but what was really fun was they went to Stephanie's classroom who was the other first grade teacher and saw the first half of the lesson and then they came over on my class and we teach together and at the end of the lesson so it was fun for them to be able to see beginning of the lesson end of the lesson with two different teachers but still using the same vocabulary still still see using the same curriculum type stuff so that was neat to be able to do and show our colleagues how that works too and then there's the react so this is a heavy lift not gonna lie um it's good stuff but it's a lot and um I think that a lot of teachers are feeling it this week especially because we have a really fast turnaround so what happens with this is there's live trainings and we have so every professional development day there's a two-hour training um that is live and then in between that there's um work that we have to do in our classrooms and assignments that we do in between that so um it is good work it's best practice which is good to be working with um and it does correlate with barzano so it it feels like it's a fit but this is State mandate now so this is what we're doing and the last thing is that we did this year we used to do kind of a mentor program and that we still do a mentor program but we used to have where they would be able to come and this year we kind of brought that back a little bit stronger we had a lot of new staff this year and which is super exciting and fun so they had got three days to come in and look at the curriculum and go through stuff with Teresa and go through um Gradebook and just be so that day one of Workshop when we're all sitting in the ACA and everyone's kind of like all I want to do is get into my classroom and figure out where my teaching stuff is they had that relaxing start into the school year so I from my mentees that I've talked to they were super grateful for that and it was a really positive experience and then as Julie said we're still reviewing those might do must do um don't do anymore for both reading and math especially with the reading we're finding there are some things that don't fit anymore and that's going to be challenge for some people you know so as you're looking at those pillars of literacy where we what ones do we have to move so or shift and then um working hard on developing those common expectations for the social studies and science curriculum we have the I will statements done for them but we don't have as many of the must do might do done so lots of work still working all right so this is the first year that middle school high school has a combined sip we have previously in other years had our sips separated um but two reasons this year that led us to combine was one we noticed that our sips were fairly similar to each other we had a lot of similar Concepts and ideas that we wanted to do and two with the fact that we were going to pursue um r c or design our CTS around the new Arts and Science we wanted to give um the secondary folks a chance to move beyond the middle school and high school and interact and mingle with each other in a different way to kind of promote um a more of a diversity of colleagues that we work with and so our goal one which is for 1 point4 involves um is an opportunity to collaborate between Gra regularly and that includes um the CT is now being a different structure so that like right now I'm overseeing a CT that has I'm a primary primarily a middle school teacher but I'm overseeing a CT where I think everyone on the CT is high school except for one person and so that's kind of mixing that around um and then CT structures like I said back that and also give chances to teachers to then talk and collaborate with each other to do more of uh lesson plans or projects that cross the grades um for our second goal the school acknowledges the success of the whole school one of the big things that we're working on this year is um orderly celebrations to honor our students either be grades attendance caught you doing a good essentially in the form of postcards we want to essentially send postcards home to every single student in our middle school high school so every quarter every student is going to get a PO card that would be handwritten by a teacher and then mailed home and the idea is that to make sure that that happens is we're kind of keeping track of it and then it's going to be sent home um a third goal is that we really want to work on is the standardizing of subn notes right now everyone has their own way of how they handle the subn notes and we want to make this standard so that it's same across the board and so that it makes it easier for our subs to come into this building and know EX exactly this is how it's laid out this is the expectations this is the way it is and so to minimize issues and confusion with that position thank you very much for that on that was something at the end of the year that we were just discussing about it so much years so that's something that we really that's a huge one for us so for level two um I do want to chime in we don't have this on our sip but we also are participating instructional rounds um the middle school and high school were part of that too um we're as we mentioned before the um CTS are geared around the new arts and science of teaching middle school and high school just finished our first complete round of the cycle so what happens is the first CT we Deep dive into an element so all everyone's in a group in the same design we get to pick an element the one I'm in has is elements 15 to 22 we got to pick any of the element work on it talk with each other come up with a plan we brought it into our classrooms and then we had a vertical one where we could vertical meeting meet with our um vertical teams and we came back and we had the first round of um teachers bring artifacts so I brought back an artifact from element 15 where I did previewing knowledges with my students and did a deep dive into kwl charts with my kids and pulled off a different similar thing for each group of my students cross sixth seventh and eighth grade and brought it back and showed it to the um teachers and it was really intriguing and interesting to reflect on that activity at a different level and it was really eye opening how much this one little um not not little but this one specific type of activity really opened my kids eyes I saw more engagement with it and more buying into the reading and a deeper comprehens and understanding and that whole process of what we did really brought in that activity and so other teachers have been doing similar things and so at this time with this week CT every teacher now has had that opportunity to do that pick an element bring it in into their classroom and bring back the artifact in the middle school high school so we finished our first round of that um the second continuing goal is AVID this year we're continuing to work on Wicker um right now as we mentioned Focus not taking is the um the primary one that we're doing right now but we're continuing what what does wicker stand for what is writing inquiry what what collaborative organization organization and read yeah umon what there too many acronyms in my head that's just one I haven't worked with a lot um but we're continuing with the common languages practices and procedures to really make sure that kids aren't moving between classrooms being asked to do the same activity but just being it called differently we're just trying to get all of that tightened up all right level three um is guaranteed viable curriculum We are continuing to work on our digital curriculum at least once a month that's when we go to our vertical teams people have either a chance to work on putting um and putting work into the curriculum folders or work with their curriculum teams to develop and map um standards a second goal that we have that is in discussions is an after school program there's been a lot of discussion at the secondary level about um having ability in a place for kids to do homework seek help that's outside of the school day um and so there's been a lot of discussion on how that could look and what could that be and so that's kind of that's why we don't have a benchmark artifact is we're not too sure what that would look like be like but it is something that the secondary is feeling pretty passionate about of having something to help support our kids outside of the school hours because we see that in advisory how utilized it is by our students to seek help and it's only a 25 minute chunk of time and so to give an ability to seek other help and other time with be wonderful I think that's the last slide that's your last slide it should be questions yeah thank you uh yeah questions from board members Reflections thoughts um there a lot here so yeah thank you for all bringing this to us and and keeping us up to speed and for all your hard work on it um it seems like I'm hearing in in your comments and your voices that this is something that is been enriching for um your work and not just a thing that you have to do so that that sounds great thank you for your time reporting that it's been wonderful watching the progression of moving towards High reliability schools and seeing the BLTs that used to be like plc's become more Learning Centers or something and now it's BLTs which make me hungry but it's same concept but but in the transition from one acronym to the next there's actually been a a more intentional uh practice and I love it thank you you're working worth it well I I would like to just in in front of the board commend our BLT leaders um being a teacher leader is not easy um they take a lot of grief from their colleagues and um you carry a lot of burden and weight when you're the one pulling your colleagues along trying to get them to do some things that they might we like resistance some yeah yeah and I was a teacher leader at one point and i' I've lived some of that it's it can be hard and um yeah there's a sliping that goes with the position but so what it's hard sometimes it's not that much um and it's kind of like having another prep right like you're you're prepping for another class of kids they're just bigger kids and um leading them through the process so our BLT leaders are are courageous and um they're just done an incredible job um of moving the ship so thank you to the three of you and to the rest of the BLT for putting together all the slides and all the celebrations and something we may want to found is um how the rest The Faculty can see that slideshow at some point um because strategic celebration is part of building Synergy around the things that we're doing um there something to ponder and I think the change is really palpable you can feel it you can see it with most staff numers at least thank you all thank you appreciate you okay we are so we're on to 7.0 which is is our consent agenda um if there's anything that needs to be pulled off no otherwise we need a motion to approve I'll make a motion to approve theenda I can it out okay um I in favor I I those oppose sent agenda is adopted where's the motion carries come on I look forward to that oh it's coming um all right 8.0 are discussion and action items 81 8.1 is to accept the September 2024 expenditure revenue report presented here in the packet and sber is here with us this evening as well hello hi feel like I haven't been here while yeah back the audit yes well I have some news to share I had my meeting with the Auditors this morning and they're just buttoning it up to present it to you on the 7th they can't wait sure it's going to be riveting if you like numbers riveting if you don't then hopefully by then we're all in a really positive mood about the positive changes happening because the six of the election oh yeah fifth there we go sorry I got the day wrong okay how do you get live updates on that thing sorry to completely what uh like you know everything else it's like NBC News by the second but how do you do this this for like the referendum well the Minnesota secretary of state state has all the data on thereit refresh you can go to like county level stuff and Precinct oh you could be an a election judge in count and be at the courth oh I'll pass on espe these times holy man anyways anyways back to uh this document sorry I no that's quite fine it's more probably way more interesting um the expense revenue report is um as is every month um there's actuals in the First Column those probably might need one more refresh um after all the audit things happened um and then that'll all get uploaded to mde and it'll be an audited version of all the um finances to mde um which then generates reports and whatnot that move forward um but as far as um highlights on our expense revenue report I don't have anything other than um just some some like things that are changing from last year so like Capital outlay we had our boiler project this year we have just a small project of the um shop that was um updated um so we'll see a kind of a dip in total expenses because of some of those bigger line items that aren't there anymore um so that would be kind of the only thing that would be notable um that will change in a significant way um but other than that I can't wait to you know knock your stocks off in two weeks to the audit awesome do you have any questions let me know maybe just sort of the standard everything seems on track for like for seven budget used and available and you feeling oh do I feel that way yeah yeah no I think I think everything is tracking I think um as far as um budgeting out I'm learning more as I go through this process a second time and um laying out you know how people are how staff is coded and then how that where that puts them in these you know categories and so just me learning my job better will create this to be more accurate as we move along and the 30,000 point view here is is is expensive their tracking as a percentage of budget bit slower than last year and revenue is tracking a bit faster so that's good on both fronts right cool great thank you uh we just need a a motion then I'll make a motion I'll second it okay any further discussion all those in favor I I CL Pa thanks motion carries all right 8.2 is uh Commissioners review comment on our proposal for construction for the county schools discussion on this yeah so we really don't need to take time on this we just were're required U by the state of Minnesota to have this on the public board agenda at about this timing in the process this review and uh comment letter and information is on the resources tab of the Vikings vision.org website it's there for uh the whole world to see and um when you get into the the real meat and potatoes of the review and comment submission document that's on the um website you can get into really into the nitty-gritty in the detail if you want to but here we are in a public meeting this is what the commissioner uh wrote back to us and uh it's all good news it was approved and we are green light to move forward with the referend which we knew a while ago cool next item great well thank you and thank you to our team at IC to help facilitate that process that was kind of like the last big hurdle for for the vote for the vote so okay and we don't need to take action all righty uh 8.3 is another discussion regarding the 4 day week option yeah so I'll tee this up with um I hope that you saw that I sent you an email another an additional email uh after doing a fair amount of my own digging after uh our meeting in Portage and um because a lot of what we heard was we need more data we need more information um so I went ahead and did a little bit of preliminary digging and uh I didn't like what I read frankly you said staff had the same response too right like more information yeah yeah yeah y so um I guess what I'm looking for from the board is Direction on personally don't want to pushing out anything public like a survey or anything prior to November 11 um I don't know that I'm ready to even do it after that so I just I'm looking for your feedback table it's terrible idea we heard from the public that it's a terrible idea we heard from one person heard from one board member that it's a terrible idea I will share reena's feedback I did have a one-onone with her today um and she said that she feels like now if there is a time it's not now um so let's get the referendum behind us and her comment was uh if it passes that's going to consume the board's time and my time in a big way for a couple of years um so just put it on hold and um focus on the goal of the referendum for now that was basically what she said to me so sorry I I just wanted to sh that don't apologize you apologize for did you have anything to say on the topic har um I've have gone back and forth in my head and made the pros and cons or challenges and opportunities whichever way you want to phrase them and um I think I I agree with basically what Reena just said it's not um not everything about it is horrible and not everything about it is wonderful and uh I think it's something that if we decide at some point we want to go that direction which I personally don't think is right now either um that we should do it slow and methodically and and really consider all aspects of it um I I agree with what the the person in our community comments said that it's very different at the high school level that it is at the elementary level is that I forget is it half hour 40 minutes that we discussed if we made the day longer is that really valuable instructional time or is that a bunch of really tired kids it's getting nothing I think it's two high schoolers too I think it's better at the high school level than the elementary level yeah I mean elementary they're just they're just not meant to sit there it sounds awful at the elementary level I and a lot of data says that your attention span is really about 15 minutes and then you need to transition to something else and at some point you're just burnt out you know so I almost am a proponent for even a shorter school day but well that's what I was going to bring could they get a little started later we can start whenever we want but that's debate everywhere right like sports and how much do the kids miss school and because when I moved to Superior or when I was in Superior it was nine I think it's interesting that we always discuss uh like when we talked about snow days and whatnot over the years the struggle to meet the days yet we somehow always exceeded the hours so we do we have a long school day and a long bus ride that's what I mean 8:30 is early enough The more I've talked about uh so people have asked me questions about what's on what what section of the ballot and what are your thoughts and The more I've talked about with people about number three that we like should we include it should we not like some time ago I'm just like yes we need the space for kids to do their after school activities so that they're not going home at 900 p.m from their day those kids that that are geographically further it's just start really it's already a really long day then have another 40 minutes and have those kids that get home at 9 p.m get home at 10 p.m. you know start at 8:30 I make a motion I mean is that a discussion we can have at some point we can at some point I don't think it's for tonight oh all I'm not seeing tonight but I'd be comfortable having the discussion about our school day at some some point in the nearest Future even just discussing you know for our own why why yeah I mean this conversation if for nothing else is kind of like put some of these things on the table right some of the some of the for some of the like froze to having the four day week that were brought up were um you know especially in the arrowhead was just sort of this alignment of schedules and to help reduce absences and especially with us being on a block schedule if you miss a day of school or a a day of school it kind of you know it's sort of compounded because you have like two School in one day or or what have you um so one thought about that you know since everything is kind of getting thrown back on the table um is there not a way to mtig to mitigate some of that by relooking at the Block schedule right if you don't have a block schedule and you miss a day of school then now you're only missing one day of school instead of missing two days of school that would be a potential strategy to achieve that goal without going to a 4-day week um the other thing though on the topic of the block schedule and just sort of the data that's out there I read through a number of the reports and stuff that you shared um what is the Benchmark because um right now we're all basically all this data is telling me that the block schedule is a terrible idea because they're in they're only in school for two or three days a week and we're talking about going to four days which would actually be an increase in number of days you not the same number of time but the same number of like times that you sit in the seat with you know an overnight in between because it's like well you could go to one subject for eight hours in a day and is that going to be as meaningful as going you know one hour five days a week you know there's there's something about not just the time right I'm just like sort of the going and coming to it so you know and that's just really made me sort of ponder you know the wisdom around you know continuing with the block schedule in terms of like when we're comparing educational outcomes before and after a four a five- day week four- day week like are they comparing that against somebody going from a block schedule to a 4-day week or are they comparing that going from like a traditional five-day week with like an eight period Day to a 4day week um you know and what are the changes and so it's just something I think that I would like to have us sort of think about a little bit more on in terms of like the outcome educational outcome piece if like suddenly we're really honed in on our schedule and what's the impact on our educational outcomes like we should be thinking about what's the outcome of that but of course it's all there's pros and cons to both because I know the block schedule gives a lot of opportunities for us to do things that a traditional school day doesn't give us to do to do and that's like there's a lot of value in that and a four day to teach language though on a block depends on who you are right if you're the science teacher it's it's great it's great to have this time to really get into language you eat it every day one two then a school district is small only have an X number of blocks really limits yeah right and then and a four- day week offers some really unique opportunities as well but like there's a trade-off you know so there's always going to be some pro and con I don't know so that's that's kind of where I'm at it and I would just to kind of answer the question more specifically I agree with the sentiment that it's probably like too much right now um to pursue just now that we've kind of got our heads wrapped around what's going to happen with this referendum and just sort of the dynamic in the community the timing doesn't seem right I'm I'm I'm not saying it's a bad idea to to look at it because I I agree that there's some potential Pros to to the block or the for day the for day I think there's some potential interesting things about looking at that again about our sort of unique circumstances here in like our super rural community also sort of potential catastrophes but I but I it doesn't seem like the right time I agree with that um but we are going to talk about this 8:30 thing um I don't know what the process on sort of the construction of the school day looks like I think that's typically like an administrative function not a board let's stay focused on the agenda the agenda it was asking the board about whether or not we should forward on aorded so I'm hearing the answer is no but we can ask to talk about another well we can um however what you don't know is our faculty are working through a 6 through 12 conversation around this master schedule and um I'll be curious to see what comes of that and because there Josh is trying really hard to have the conversations not be about I like it or I don't like it which is a very shallow inappropriate conversation and instead saying what are the pros and the cons and and the costs and the benefits to this model what are the pros and the cons to this what do you mean with this for day or with others stuff no with the block schedule period day and all all of the things see I mean Schools running a six period day seven period day a period day block schedule block hybrid I mean there's a thousand ways to do a master schedule and there's the data on improving instruction is really a whole lot more about what you just heard from our teachers about highly effective teaching in classrooms not how you scheduled the day so there are there are schools out there that don't even have belts they run uh more of a personalized learning approach where students are in I individual learning plans and they're constantly independently working through standards so there's a thousand different ways to go through a school I think you know the the real question is what who are we as Cook County and and how do we want to do things and yes we can engage in that conversation um tonight what I what I wanted to hear was am I putting the breaks on this four day week thing and and I've heard that from all well four of you U live and clear so I we will put the breaks on that and just I'll get asked uh Monday in my wtip interview and I'll say we're simply tabling that we're not we don't feel this is the right time for that conversation a year from now we'll have the benefit of having Mountain Iron bule and St County schools and maybe elely stepping into it and doing it along with Lake Superior school district and our optic on it might be different um right now it's just Lake Superior that's currently doing those other three are going to join well that's why this conver I mean so everybody's clear why we're even having this conversation is because kind of a cons of the region was saying hey we're going to look at doing this and maybe we should all consider it and things changed at the state level that allowed allow us to have conversation yeah so we're we're talking about I mean we're considering it right well and we're going to see it like I think at least maybe three school districts will make the leap um so it'll be interesting to observe right like I think we're in a position we're sort of in a in a healthy position that we're not sitting here going oh my gosh a lot of people are focused on budget when they're talking about a 4day and I I had told Chris and Chris very generously gave me um some information and I kind of did a presentation at a staff meeting that hey this is what we're at at GES this is what we're um discussing at our Schoolboard meeting on Thursday do you have any feedback and got feedback across the board there's no you know no definitive like everyone says this right and um yeah one of the questions asked was like well obviously this is about cutting right and I was like well no that's not really the primary driving factor for ISD 166 and they were like well it's always about the budget right in this particular case it's it's come up because of you know they couldn't our neighbor fathom that no we're actually a healthy Point financially at this moment right and we're lucky enough to be in the position to not have to do wait and not do it because we're stressed and we need to you know cut some Transportation cost so we can keep a teacher or whatever right you know we've been in some icky points along the way with our budget and we're not there no so I'm like slow methodical watch other people succeed or crash and burn but I think this whole thing about the start time that I keep coming back to it's really unrelated though to block scheduling and I mean it's somewhat related but it's well they're two separate things yeah they're two separate and two together things and you know I think that conversation too takes on there's different considerations that will come into play on that conversation if the referendum passes because we yeah like if we suddenly have three gyms that you know because part of that conversation is about like you know what does it do to the end of the day and how late of a night is it for people and if we suddenly have more facilities a conversation like you know May that becomes more reasonable yeah we go by hours right so if we so say theoretically we started at 8:30 and kept the day would that automatically have to make us add school days or would we be able to like it's a mathematical problem so I I think the answer your question you wouldn't necessarily have to add a half hour at the end of the day no what carry said before was accurate and that is we have we're towards the minimum number of days but we have a lot more hours and so in theory you could cut some I'm not sure how much Chris would have to crunch numbers of like is it 15 minutes half an hour what it would be a math problem and then and then it would also be a question I think you would want to vet through our faculty and staff and you know I I think we have teachers that would passionately sit here and say don't take away instructional minutes because our kids are struggling and you'll have some that'll say great you know be a shorter day but it would be a negotiation issue and something to talk about with the union and so there's a lot of variable just as the four day school week would be like all of these things have these trickle down effects y I also Dan made a really good point that I hadn't thought really thoroughly about that yeah we're saying that 4day school week would potentially mean less absences but each absence would have more impact because it's even more time that you're as a percentage of your time yes as a percentage of a time and and you know you're you're actually missing out on more yep yep it's good feedback I appreciate the Clarity um I think when we got the green light it was was a night when we had three board members it was different three so yeah and you know I think it is but I think that we've also as we've sort of navigated the conversation Fe yeah and we're just kind of responding to the situation because one of the tenants of that one of the papers that you sent to us the research was like you got to have Community buying that's like the first one you know like if your community is not really asking for this from you then that's not the path so oh I supp unless you have to well unless you have to but that's that's that's one of the you know markers of a successful roll out is having something that we ask for maybe that's a conversation we can have later when we're not having this other conversation about like well yes or whatever let's do these and that's something if you look at William Kelly High School you look at silar Bay a community that was based around a plant the plant designed the houses the plant designed the school and it was based on this and statistically in that school at least one parent in the household is connected to the plant and the plant is four days a week interesting you think of like oh it's the most like our community it's a very Silver Bay is a very unique Community well as far as being on the shore small community you know as you're trying to choose schools similar to ours you might look at Silver Bay but they're really different very different it's not not anything close to Apples to Apples if you're trying to think oh they're saying it looks really good I had someone in uh that meeting that I I had with the staff members that was the former Silver Bay staff member and they were like oh it works so well for this and this and this and many of the points they brought up were really specific to Silver Bay and not but it's all of Lake Superior School District including Harbor so but no I mean it's it's true um okay well let's I think that's a good on that one for now um so let's move on to 8.4 which is to accept donations for uh October 2024 we've got a resolution to accept donations here I'll make a motion I'll second it with thanks with great gratitude $223 discuss lots of thanks um okay all those in favor I I those oppos resolution is adopted uh let's see make sure 8.5 is a discussion regarding the msba conference and board s yeah so I'll just mention um if you think you're going to go to the msba conference and that is I think I wrot down once January 16 and 17 um K needs to be notified um soon so she can get folks registered and hotels ready to go so we should get the clock ticking on that uh and then I wonder I already mentioned the 30th January 30th for board retreat and then we typically have done a no work session in December and instead I've done a social event and in my board notes last Friday I mentioned Christ and I are gone that first weekend in um December so that leaves us with December 1314 um we could go early like November 22 23 or we can go late like January 10 11 or we could pick a week night like Thursday the 5th um any preferences to think about um I think not Thursday the 5th what's that I don't know if I like the November one it's really early from yeah it's actually before Thanksgiving which is a yeah I I would probably vote against that too um the 13th and 14th is is a we're home and it's open and it it's also getting closer to the holiday that would I mean just looking at my calendar that works fine for me I'm in the r training for the whole evening so I will on um my notes tomorrow I'll kick out 1314 um does anyone have a conflict because then we'll get Reena and Stephanie in the loop on that um and then we'll hopefully lock that down here in the next week or so okay and then that's all of E5 yeah um and then we're going to uh pick up a new board member here um and you know hopefully they could attend the conference I don't know if you've are I mean we don't know for sure who that's going to be but yeah once the election is over I'll reach out about the conference as well as invite them to the Social and yeah um that kind of stuff so okay hopefully that District gets a right in candidate otherwise we're stuck having to appoint someone so for sure it'd be good if that okay okay cool and if you can make it to the conference it would be worth your while the msba conference have you ever gone no I've gone almost every year except for those Co years where it didn't didn't happen happen it's really valuable well I know it's you got a little little little little one so it's something you got to negotiate at home but if you can work it out it's it's usually worth it so um all right let's move on to 9.0 our Personnel 9.1 to approve the new hires resignation resignations leave of absence late here in the packet and so we hired in your uh packet to hire is an OT um interviewed for the position for this year and then couldn't do the housing thing and all that and backed out and so he contracted with a traveling OT which has been great that she's been good uh but this would be our employee OT she's in incredibly well qualified um and wants to move here and wants to make the decision now so that we she has time to get housing line up okay and does that um so that doesn't interfere with our traveling OT traveling OT right that's that's a one-year contract it's up at the end of the year very transparent and they know that this is what we're doing and if this happens to not materialize again we can continue to yep okay great and it's in our budget it's in our budget and it would actually be a cost reduction oh to have someone that in person I'm surprised to hear that contracted service whether it's virtual or in person is very expensive so if they're our employee it's actually cheaper plus there may be some room in that schedule with a highly qualified person to contract them out a little bit uh to G and our bir gr orki so um yeah I feel very Lu retive to a human being oh exactly everyone would want their time so uh yeah big big deal hopefully that all comes to fruition right no motion yet I don't think no I'll make a motion to the new hire resignations as presented second further discussion no in favor I I motion carries motion do I'll make the motion at 628 thank you