##VIDEO ID:mN7LE7d4nI4## [Music] hello and welcome to the school board meeting on September 9th um before we move forward I'd like to call the meeting to order and uh have folks join us in the Pledge of Allegiance uh stand up and then remain please remain standing for a uh moment of silence that I'll announce in a second 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 I'd request you to keep standing to share a moment of silence for school bus driver Heidi Carson and former American Indian Education Program Coordinator Claren Pano both of whom passed away recently thank you we are working from a unamended agenda so the agenda is as state stands in front of you may I please ask for a motion to approve the agenda and a second so moved second motion by Jackie second byen all those in favor of uh passing the motion please say I hi those oppose say no motion passes on a 5 vote as you can see uh we're we're missing Corey today Corey is advocating on behalf of public schools in Washington DC so we wish him the best and thank him for his time and contributions towards this wonderful cause thank you moving to the next recognition by the school board I'd like to welcome director of Elementary education Jeremy senson to the podium to introduce Christine Evans principal of Southview Elementary which received a Minnesota School of Excellence award for 20124 2025 all right uh good evening Vice chair Isaacs superintendent Balon and board members we're excited to be here tonight I have the pleasure of introducing Christine Evans and acknowledging the School of Excellence award they received um mespa is an organ organization in Minnesota it's the Minnesota Elementary School principal Association a number of our principles in 196 are involved with that organization and actually are in leadership role so we're very proud of that but they're also the organization that uh provides these Awards um there's a very rigorous process to even be considered for this um and what I have with me is the social media post that mesba put out about the award is what I was going to read to introduce Christine and her her team I'm proud to announce South View Elementary as a Minnesota School of Excellence they excel in engaging parents as equal Partners in student learning with inclusive decision making and staff leg classes like building strong family series um so that's what an outside organization acknowledges and recognizes about South View I want to say with all the initiatives we've been doing in the last few years PBIS our transition to structured literacy our assessment framework souw has been a leader in that as well um so this a well-deserved award and I'm excited to acknowledge that and spread the word about southvw thank you good evening uh vice vice chairperson Isaac Schoolboard members and superintendent balson I'm incredibly proud to be here to represent South you they we're thrilled that they've been we've been recognized as a Minesota School of Excellence last year we embarked on a very rigorous Pro process of reflection Gathering input from our staff from our students and from our families and then we use this feedback to celebrate our strengths and create plans for areas of growth our entire School Community works so hard to go through this review process and it's a tremendous honor to be one of six schools in the state of Minnesota to receive this award this year we will be celebrated at The mespa Institute in February followed by a schoolwide celebration in the spring there is so much for us to be proud of as a Southie Community thank you for your continued support of Southview and for all of the schools and students in our district thank you [Applause] another congratulations to principal Evans and the entire South View Community that's a wonderful wonderful honor one in six that's outstanding uh next uh we'll move to superintendence recognitions of students and staff and I'll turn it over to superintendent B Sony thank you very much I want to start by recognizing our outstanding district 196 employees for getting us off to a great start to the 20 2425 school year our students are excited to be back at school building relationships with friends and teachers who provide the foundation for Success every school year each of the school leaders I've talked to have commented on how well the school year has started it seems that student staff and families are already back into the swing of school at a future meeting we will provide a full report on enrollment welcoming activities and new curriculum being implemented this year it's been a busy and rewarding couple of months preparing for the return of students next I'd like to acknowledge School Board appreciation month in past years this has been celebrated in February however we doing it now in September as locally elected officials school board members provide a crucial bridge between the local community and the school district your tireless dedication vision for educational Excellence for all and responsible stewardship of public resources are instrumental in helping all of us fulfill our mission of educating developing and inspiring our students for lifelong success on behalf of all of our students staff families and Community thank you for your willingness to serve in this capacity next and finally I would like to invite Janet Sakowski to the podium to be introduced as our new director of communications Janet just started uh on the job on August 30th she replaced Tony tashu who retired after a 27-year career in the district Janet also has more than 25 years of experience in school Communications most recently is the vice president of C marketing PR design which provides Communications and marketing services to schools and districts across the state during her five years at Cal Jenna provided public senior public relations Council to school and District leaders consulted on four successful referendum campaigns and led the company's strategy and crisis response support for schools Janet started her Communications career working for a school district in Suburban Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1999 she took a job as the communications coordinator for the Yetta public schools and 3 years later was hired as executive director for communications for the minetonka public schools she led the department in minetonka for the next 15 years in 2017 she accepted a position as associate vice president for public relations at the University of St Thomas and worked there for two years before moving to Cal in 2019 we're very fortunate uh and lucky to have Janet and Janet we'd like to welcome you tonight thank you Vice chair Isaac school board members and superintendent balami it is my honor to be here and it's my honor to serve the district 196 Community students families and staff I have dedicated my career to public education I believe there's no higher calling in the world um so I'm thrilled to be here my first week on the job has been one of full Joy I had the the great opportunity to welcome families and students back on the first day spent some time at some football games uh last weekend and had a great welcoming reception from colleagues across the district so I'm just thrilled thank you all right thank you so much and that concludes our comments thank you thank you welcome again Janet we're fortunate to have you and and uh lucky to have your talents join us so thank you very much next on the agenda is the consent agenda and we have 22 items so please bear with me as I wrap my way through the list number one uh we have the minutes of the August 5th 2024 regular school board meeting we have minutes of the August 5th 2024 special school board meeting we have gifts summary of Investments for July 2024 summary of claims for July 2024 Treasures report June 2024 Permanent Fund transfer for fiscal year 2024 revenues and expenditures report for July 2024 pay rates for substitute temporary and part-time employees agreement for student teaching with Northwestern University of St Paul agreement for clinical experience SLP with Lewis University Personnel n9th grade social studies curriculum Intermediate School District 917 tu agreement for Dakota County area learning school appointments to the legislative advisory Council appointments to the Community Education advisory Council appointments for the curriculum and instruction advisory Council personal injury settlement agreement employment agreement request for msba legislative platform resolution policy 503 student right rights and responsibilities and school board work group for board handbook since this is a consent agenda item I'd request a motion and a second motion second thank you s Calin second by Leah uh does anyone have any questions comments uh actually before that are there any questions and comments from the audience hearing none questions comments or anything the board would like to discuss hearing none do we have a motion uh for do we have a vote for this motion all those in favor please say I I I those oppos please say no passes on a 5 vote next are reports uh I'd like to uh welcome Jeremy Sorenson Eric Hansen Ka Bruce and Janet finman to give an update on the summer programs all right well good evening again good evening Vice chairperson Isaacs superintendent bson and and and board members um we're here tonight to provide some highlights and information regarding our summer programming [Applause] all right we're starting off with information about our summer meals program and the subheadings of this slide we're highlighting the Strategic priorities that most closely align to our summer meals program well-being and Equity um we believe our summer programs connect with all of our priorities and wanted to point out that we are connecting areas with the priority it most closely aligns with so you'll see this throughout the presentation tonight um coming off our our first school year with free meals for all and understanding that food insecurity is a persistent concern for many families we wanted to start by sharing about our summer meals program having access to consistent and nutritious meals allow students to enter the learning environment as their best selves our 196 Food Service program provided meals throughout the summer in the months of June July and August through our summer meals program we've Des we have designated sites where students and families can come to access free breakfast and lunch this year we partnered with Open Door who was a nonprofit to help take meals off campus to Neighborhood sites and helped to serve around 3,000 total meals to families who couldn't travel to our summer program sites the month of June is highlighted in the top portion of this chart so the gray and white top portion of this chart highlights the month of June um because we were serving meals at all of our sites that had W that were welcoming students for summer programming in June combining breakfast and lunch a total of 4253 meals were served so it's broken down on there by uh levels so ele Elementary Middle School High School the open door deliveries those are our totals for June if you include meals served throughout the entire summer which is what the bottom line of the chart indicates so that line that's kind of pink colored up there the totals for June July and August are 5433 meals served this summer which is about five 5,500 more or 10% increase in the number of meals served last summer we want to say congratulations and thank you to our isd1 six food service department now that we're going to get into some of our summer programming uh I want to say even though we're discussing separate areas of Summer programming it's important to know that our programming is coordinated and planned and collaboration between District departments and are often happening concurrently as an example of this Camp Propel and extended school year or esy both happen in elementary schools at the same time our students are interacting and connecting with each other through throughout the day so although they're separate programs they have the appearance of being a single program if you're in the building for this example I'll be discussing Camp Propel and you'll hear more about esy from Janet fman later in the presentation so this year we made a few adjustments to our elementary programming the summer we didn't have access to Esser funds which are funds provided by federal government to support students for the purpose of covid relief and additionally there was new legislation that impacted unemployment laws and we had concerns about being able to staff our summer programming particular particularly some of our hourly positions like Transportation clerical and support staff without aligning our programming across levels this is one of the main reasons that the elementary summer programming was moved to earlier in the year and was held in June for the reasons mentioned above the elementary level we paired down and focused on our main summer program this year which is Camp Propel Camp Propel is a program for our elementary students grades 1 through 5 it provides both academic and social emotional support and students are invited to participate through a process of using assessment and classroom data to identify students who may benefit from some additional support this summer we served over 2,000 students from across the district we had 149 teachers and 145 classrooms engaged in learning across our elementary buildings despite the changes in offerings this offering despite the change of offering this in June these numbers are consistent with our student attendance and Staffing in previous years additionally we conduct a staff and family survey at the end of each Camp Propel session the results from the surveys were consistent with prior years in that 95% of families had a positive outlook on camp Camp Propel regarding if their students were excited to come and if Camp Propel met their students needs the staff survey was also consistent with past years generally positive feedback around the length of day and resources provided however the exception would be that both parents and staff would prefer holding it later in summer like we used to do this is something we'll continue to look at as we plan for the future future additionally at the elementary level Camp invention stem was held at Silverbell Learning Center and had a focus on creating collaborating and ging confidence through building prototypes and solving real world problems this Summer's program engaged Elementary age students from around the district including 29 students who participated with support from Achievement and integration Camp invention is a one we program and supports the achievement and integration plan good evening I'm excited to share with you uh the secondary summer programming at our middle schools and our high schools this past summer our middle schools hosted over 8006 7th and eighth grade students this summer at their home middle schools of the 800 students 60% of the students were incoming sixth graders who were brand new to their middle school our middle school students engaged in social emotional learning for the second year in a row with which allowed our counselors to meet with students separated into small groups to discuss subjects such as digital distraction social skills managing stress disagreeing respectfully and perspective taking our middle school program not only focus on math and reading but also in community building field trips forming relationships with their teachers opportunities to practice the skill of opening lockers which is a very important one and ultimately assisting with the transition for our Middle School student students to their next grade in addition 40 of our middle school students engaged in a University of Minnesota business Camp hosted by the Carlson School of Management this afforded our students to have a campus experience similar to college students and was a and was made available through our achievement and integration plan our High School summer programing was also well attended and hosted approximately 1,20 students our high school students in total earned 1,88 84 credits through Credit Recovery as well as subject acceleration in the area of math 15% of our High School summer students were incoming ninth graders receiving support to ensure their success as they transition from middle school to high school and have an early opportunity to learn about their new school our ninth graders during their Freshman Academy had the opportunity to engage in summer learning with elective and core classes meet High School staff members build community Through fun activities such as tie dyee shirt making ice cream socials scavenger hunts and various field trips making this experience engaging and purposeful thank you so much for letting me share about our secondary schools good evening Community Education was busy this summer educating developing and inspiring students for lifelong success department-wide we saw a 20 20% participation increase over last summer with our largest increases happening in Sports Camps and Adult Enrichment 182 families with children birthed through ag2 participated in 18 Early Childhood family education classes in July age specific classes along with family playtimes in top topic specific classes were offered 12,616 students participated in over 900 youth enrichment summer programs the most popular offerings included Sports and theater camps our Cahoots academic correspondence program and preventing brain drain which helps students retain and improve their learning in math and reading over 1300 participants ages 6 months through adult learn to swim or improve their skills this summer 49 were trained as lifeguards Andor swim instructors 86 got their Fitness on in water exercise classes and over 100 community members took advantage of our open swim hours on two Fridays in July and August the adult basic education program also continues to grow 366 students learned English and worked on receiving their GED or diploma 84 students under the age of 21 earned 168 high school credits this was the highest number of student contact hours for a summer session since July of 2013 and the highest number of credits earned in a summer session since July of 2016 as usual River Valley Project Explorer our adults with disabilities program was active with over 1,700 enrollments in 58 activities popular ones included mini golf day trips such as to the Spam Museum and baseball games swimming at Redwood Community Center and of course dances over 350 adults with disabilities attended this Summer's annual rock and roll summer dance Adult Enrichment saw a 110% increase in participation over last summer summer this was due to Fitness and sports activities as well as fused glass and Bob Ross oil painting classes and lastly our community was active in our district facilities with over 8600 hours of community rental time this is equivalent to 350 days within 77 actual days add to that our Community Education and District K12 programs we're sharing with you this evening and that equals nearly 60,000 hours or 2,4 50 days within Less Than 3 months as Jeremy noted we also offered extended school year summer learning opportunities extended school year is a specialized summer Pro opportunity with a focus on goals and objectives specif specific I'll say that right to students individual needs we know that the quality of our program depends heavily on the staff that teach we are excited to to share that the majority of our staff were internal this is important because when we have staff that know the students and the environment it leads to a better all overall experience for our students it is always our goal to have as many staff of our current teachers supporting students during extended school year and as you can see we had a total of um 64 licensed staff and the majority were our own we offer learning opportunities across K through 12 buildings we we had 336 students enrolled at the elementary and 333 students enrolled at the secondary level a to a totaling 669 students K through 12 that attended extended school year we also have extended school year at Early Childhood special education Dakota Ridge our transition plus program and you can see the enrollment number numbers listed on the slides um overall enrollment for extended school year was comparable to past years we were monitoring this close because it was a significant change so the change in timing did not significantly impact student enrollment and attendance the photo you see in this slide is of our students from transition plus exploring recre exploring Recreation and Leisure opportunities as adults via community-based instruction at caponi Art Park located in Egan other engaging I'm going to back up here other engaging offerings at transition plus happened through our partnership with blee happy food truck owner of a parent of a current student recently opened a food truck business and has a passion to support people with disabilities gain and competitive employment she partnered with transition plus over extended school year to help students prepare and sell lemonade from the transition plus parking lot over esy students were able to work on the food truck in shifts and sell to the public other fun offerings this summer highlights our AAA philosophy Dakota Hawks camps had about 70 students with special needs from across the district attend Camp athletes built skills in soccer and floor hockey while at the same time learning how to be a part of a team the athletes took time to celebrate the three state championships this past school year from across our district 196 athletic teams this Camp is a great way to promote and celebrate Dakota County Hawks Athletics in review some strengths that we noticed as um we uh offered our summer programs um we had a large variety as you heard tonight of Engagement OPP engaging opportunities for students we had a good turnout of our individual or internal staff teaching and supporting our programs attendance was good and is a district priority some opportunities we have that we're looking forward to as we have a responsibility of a continuous Improvement and we'll be looking more deeply at how the summer offer offer offerings impacted student learning through a variety of modes we also want to enhance opportunities for direct instruction explicit instruction on identified need areas for our students and ensure that the data we are collecting is giving us the information needed to Monitor and adjust as necessary next steps um we plan to review our current programming the timing of our programming the structure of our programming Etc um and consider necessary modifications will continue to monitor the impact of the new Unemployment requirements and how they impacted our programming um overall we had a successful summer of learning and fun for our students and thank you for your time and and hearing our report tonight and I'll open it up for any questions thank you so much uh are there any questions from the audience San uh any questions from the board any comments go ahead J oh go ahead okay oh I have a few questions um I'm glad to hear that you say you you did a family survey I'm thinking about the change in the in the date the start time from later in the summer to earlier in the summer there were several reasons for that I'm glad to see that you're doing a family survey which we always all do to see and you dressed you dressed it about three different times about what what are we going to do how does that work how do we use that data that we get from the families and our staff to to massage that around if that's going a way be the way we're going to do it state law indicates a lot of that um information also but thank you that's what was one of my questions the other one might be Jeremy or Eric's to answer did we end up seeing the same type of percentage of student or of teachers in our district our district teachers as was listed as you know in special ed there were you know 36 internal seven external did ours did Regular High school and middle school or and Elementary School run about the same for Camp Propel I don't have the exact percentage but it was we had very high of our own teachers in Camp Propel for the same reasons that Genet Express it's just a better student experience when we have teachers who know our system our environment our students um so we work hard to do that I can get those I can get that information to you but it's a really high percentage of our own because we've had troubles before not filling those and exactly that's what we want is to have our students have experience with our teachers in our curriculum in our Bild buildings so that they if they came to Rosemont Middle they got to see somebody that worked in Rosemont Middle and that made a bridge right or connection right for them day one yeah I think to your point Jackie it's that Balancing Act of ensuring it's meeting our student needs and we know our programming is better when we have our own teachers we know our community and know our kids so constantly balancing that so thank you anyway the report was wonderful it's fun it's always fun to hear what all has gone on and I did think about taking that painting class and I don't where the summer went anyway thank you you Jackie go ahead s then yeah I just wanted to say thank you I mean it's always good to have a report how we closed the summer just to kind of look it back the impact that we made especially with the meals program the summer meals program so that's a number that caught my eyes is that 54,000 that's a significant and just shows that we're making a notable impact so with given the increase of the participation or the need uh just wanted to know just curious how we compared this to the last year are we expanding if yes I mean it looks like we growing there's a need is there ways that are we looking expanding the program to ways that we could deliver so Jem can you answer that so I'm sorry if I understood your question is like kind of comparing last year and this year the grow was um I'd have to talk with with Spencer fer uh from from our food service department but I do know that the one big new thing was using open door to take some meals off site and he expressed that there was about 3,000 total meals uh there um and then I know our camp Propel numbers uh was the ratio of students who attended that was very similar to the ratio of of our compared to our overall enrollment um through through years so we had quite a few kids during Camp propel that month of June is a big month for us too so providing food during those programs and I'd have to check if we've always provided food at those same programs but um we were able to get a lot of meals to kids when they were in our buildings thank you um thank you thank you so much for um this summary the summary of The Summer programming um I found it really helpful and got gave me an idea of the numbers of attendance um I appreciate you uh putting some other information in there because I did have some questions around how does that compare to the last 1 to three years of Summer programming um I would love to see in the future uh specific uh demographic information especially if we're talking about Equity um it would help to identify that I think that our constituents would also be curious um and that's just specifically to uh closing the opportunity to G but for all um protected classes well racially protected classes but other identity groups as well what it terms in terms of rates um the second piece I would love to see is our goals what are our goals Beyond just attendance um and then even a definition for the public if they're seeing this for the first time if we can Define some of the terminology that we use I know that it's a lot it's like a different language when you become get into the education system but even a simple definition in the presentation if people want to go back what is social emotional development or well-being what does that mean how are we defining that um what are the intended outcomes I heard some intended outcomes for what students did learn I think that would be helpful in the presentation as well if we can capture it words are great but this is my you know thinking as a student visual is really helpful too so um this is a great great piece of information thank you so much for that and I'm looking forward to updates in the future yeah thanks for those suggestions we'll def definitely consider I think they're good good ideas thank you yeah again I will just add to the uh commentary that this takes a lot of time to compile and I really appreciate the collaboration that went into compiling this we always know there's a lot going on but this seeing it is incredible it is incredible to see the AAA philosophy continue over the summer because education doesn't take a break uh and it's wonderful to see the time effort and structure that each of you has put into the program as well uh and to What U uh director Hansen has said I can attest uh to the struggles of fighting with a locker I participated in that fight and I did not win so so well well good observation thank you again and I really appreciate it all right uh moving to Old business uh there aren't any items so we'll skip to section H new business and for that I'll welcome Jill Coyle to the podium to talk about policy 506 student welfare good evening Vice chairperson Isaac members of the board and superintendent Bon uh I am with you tonight with proposed changes to policy 506 student welfare this policy governs various topics related to Student Health and Welfare the proposed changes tonight are relatively minor and can be found in sections 2 5 and seven of your policy so let's go through each of those sections individually uh first with regard to the proposed changes to section two those are recommended by The District's health services coordinator intended to update language and processes in particular with regard to communicable diseases um you will see changes in the section now titled communicable diseases and those changes include a statement that some diseases are reported to the Department of Health the section also includes a more robust description of the factors that will be considered by the school district when deciding when a student should be excluded from school due to a communicable disease chickenpox measles that sort of thing um the Minnesota uh mba's model policy language was consulted as we develop the language for this section okay moving on to the changes to section five these changes primarily concern the location of nxone an opioid antagonist you'll see that the district is recommending removing the language secured from the description of where we keep n Zone and the idea here is to make it more available to staff members in the event that it's needed uh and then finally there are changes to section seven that are proposed to better reflect Minnesota's free School meals program and also to reflect the change name of the school district's nutrition services department and then in addition to those changes you'll see a few stat story changes in the references section uh so this is just a review item tonight it will be back to you as old business for action on September 23rd but I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have tonight thank you jel um are there any questions from the audience hearing and seeing none are there any questions from the school board members any points of clarification all right we'll see you on September 23rd thank you thank you uh there's no item in other action so we'll move to board member and superintendent updates before I give my update I'll see if there's any other board colleague who I'd like has an update to share go ahead Jackie I would just like to thank everyone for the successful first day Jennifer it's always like this at 196 it's always exciting it's always just run perfect and everybody gets to their place and everybody gets back and on time but really thank you it if you were a bus driver if you were a building Chief if you were a teacher if you were a clerical if wherever your role was you made an impact on somebody's life that first day and I can't help thinking about those little Litt that get on the bus for the first time and go off to school or thinking about the high school kids that sat on the football field waiting for the sun to come up on their very first day of their last year at school at high school and then they'll sit the the last day of school that they're in at the high schools they'll sit and watch the the sun go down encapsulating their year so thank you everyone who made those students days and weeks just remarkable thank you thank you Jackie anyone else all right so uh I'll actually also just Echo what Jackie said really well said Jackie uh we've gotten used to how well often times the first day goes but I want to acknowledge all the work that each of you and the staff has put together to make day one truly remarkable 29 some thousand students out of which about 27 or so get busted every day uh is no mean Feit to pull that off and it only happens because of the loving consideration and thoughtfulness of our staff so thank you to everyone for making day one success thank you Jackie um before I move it to uh principal superintendent Bon I just want to kind of take a quick moment and acknowledge uh that last uh at the end of August art Coulson resigned uh from his position on the board after serving a remarkable 16 years on the board art was a wonderful thoughtful partner to each of us and his presence and Council will be missed on the board as well the process for Arts replacement will be uh shared at a at a forthcoming school board meeting but I really wanted to just thank art for his dedication and his years of service with that I'll uh present it over to you super Bolson all right thank you Vice chair Isaac as we start the school year I would like to encourage all parents and Guardians to update their family information on record with the district by completing the online review through their Infinite Campus Parent Portal account this is the one time each year we ask parents to complete the review it is important for students to have current information in order to notify parents and Guardians in case of emergency changes in the school schedule or other important information please contact your school if you need any assistance with this process thank you and this concludes my report thank you with that uh we're at the end of the meeting so I'd like to uh request a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting motion to adjourn thank you sir then second thank you Jackie there's a motion and a second all those in favor of adjournment please say I I I those opposed please say no and would adjourn on a - vote thank you our next meeting will be on September 23rd thank you [Music] [Applause]