March 14, 2022 at 5:30 PM - GIPS BOE Regular Meeting

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It is 5:____PM and I now call to order the Grand Island Public Schools Board of Education Meeting.  This is the March 14, 2022 meeting.  Notice of this meeting has been advertised in the Grand Island Independent, which is the District's designated method of giving notice of these meetings.

We want those in attendance to know that copies of the Open Meetings Act are available at the entrance to the Board Room.  If anyone in attendance is interested in addressing our Board, you are welcome to do so.  We simply request that you complete the appropriate form and turn it in to us so that you may be recognized during the Requests to Address the Board part of our meeting.  If you have not already completed the form, please see the staff person outside the entrance to this room.  Public comment is welcome. We do ask that no signs be brought into the boardroom.

Mrs. Simmons, will you please call the roll?

Rationale:  Roll Call.

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The Mission  

Every Student, Every Day, a Success!  In educating students, we teach hearts as well as minds. 

Student Commitments  

Within the school district of Grand Island:

• Every student has access to high-quality, culturally responsive, and engaging learning environments.  
• Every student will develop literacy skills across disciplines.  
• Every student is socially and emotionally equipped to thrive in school and in life. 
• Every student will graduate as a college, career, and community-ready citizen.  

 

 

 

Rationale:  The first item on the agenda tonight is the Consent Agenda.  The Consent Agenda to be approved is as follows:

(items read.)

This is the Consent Agenda as published.  Would anyone like to remove any items or add any items to the Consent Agenda? (pause)

Does anyone have a potential conflict of interest on agenda item 4.4? If so, please state the check number that you will be abstaining from voting on.

Rationale:  Standing Committees
 A monthly agenda presented to the board and community on the major items discussed and under consideration in the standing committees.  
 

• Finance and Facilities Committee
• Leading for Learning Committee
• Personnel Committee
• Policy Committee
• Public Relations and Partnership Development Committee
• Governance Committee
• GNSA/Legislative Committee

Rationale:  Having a strong Tier I positive support implementation has allowed the school to really know which students are in need of intentional Tier 2 support.  

Rationale:  Increased student ownership behaviorally and academically is a schoolwide goal for Seedling Mile. 

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• Each person addressing the board will be allowed 5 minutes. The Board of Education has the prerogative to limit speaking to 3 minutes when there are three or more patrons to allow speakers an opportunity to address the Board in a timely manner.
• We allocate up to 30 minutes for addressing the board at each regular board meeting.
• Please face the Board,  not the audience when you speak
• We want to hear what is being said so we ask the audience to refrain from making comments or sounds that make it hard to hear the speaker. 
• No signs are allowed in the boardroom.
• We will not engage in dialogue with patrons presenting to the Board, the purpose of the requests to address the board is to listen to patrons.
• The Board president and superintendent will identify staff to follow-up on information requested from patrons when necessary.
• At regular business meetings any school district-related matter can be presented to the Board, but only agenda items can be acted upon during a given meeting. At special meetings, comments will be limited to the subject of action items of the meeting's agenda. 
• Speakers will not be permitted to make defamatory comments, or use abusive or vulgar language. 
• Expressions of personal complaints about staff or students are discouraged at public meetings. Concerns about individuals should be brought to the attention of the appropriate administrative authority. Specific building or program concerns should be brought to the attention of the building principal or program supervisor.

Rationale:  Short recess to transition into the information portion of the current agenda.  Members of the public are welcome to stay for the remainder of the board meeting.  

Rationale:  Reconvene from short recess before transitioning into the information items of the current agenda. 

Rationale:  Mrs. Skalberg will give an update on the activities of the GIPS Foundation and will introduce the annual Add it Up Opportunity Staff and Board Campaign.  
 

Rationale:  With the enhancement and use of Q-interactive, School Psychologists and SLPs are able to create personalized batteries at both the instrument and subtest levels that are proven to: (1) better serve students, families and staff; (2) minimize time spent on administering tests; (3) streamline workflow and reduce manual data entry.  Purchase hardware and software to make the Childfind process more effective and efficient with updated technology that allows for administration of web-based assessments as well as scoring and reporting capabilities. Tool offers a complete set of options for scoring, interpreting and reporting assessment results, which condenses the report writing process.

Rationale:  Dr. Lee will present the proposal to purchase instruments for the GISH Fine Arts program to ensure all students interested can participate regardless of ability to purchase an instrument. Dr. Lee will share the process for identifying needed items and the bid process along with purchase orders.
This will be an info/action item as, if approved, we need to submit orders in the hope we will have instruments by fall 2022.

Rationale:  Blocksi provides an online technology solution for classroom, classroom management, and web filtering on and off-site. Our existing technology was based on legacy solutions which have not made the transition to cloud platforms effectively. Moving forward will result in more granular control of web filtering and a classroom management solution which will reduce troubleshooting time in classrooms, and increase instructional time and effectiveness. GIPS IT proposes that we move forward with purchasing Blocksi Manager Education Everywhere for GSuite Chromebooks.

Rationale:  Per policy 7310: The Board of Education may vote to adopt the academic content standards recommended by the State Board of Education ("State Board").

Rationale:  GIPS is in need of high school math resources that provide curricular resources which closely align to our vision of instruction, GIPS mathematics commitments, and provide students "standards-based instruction where students collaborate, think critically, and persevere through rigorous, authentic tasks." 

Rationale:  GIPS supports high-quality instructional materials that are strongly aligned to content area standards and reflect the instructional shifts within the college and career-ready standards. High-quality instructional resources support equity by ensuring all students learn the same core content at a specific instructional level. Student survey data indicate that students who participated in the Social Studies pilot were engaged in learning.

Rationale:  GIPS current website was updated in 2018.  The industry standard is to update websites every four years.  In addition, this proposal gives GIPS the opportunity to improve the user experience and to aggregate products into a single source for more efficiency.  

Rationale:  ESSER III Project for Knickrehm Elementary 

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Mr. Petsch will present the construction update. 

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Ms. Isabela Prado Gomez will report the student representative report to the board. 

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Dr. Grover will present the superintendent report. 

Rationale:  Dr. Dexter will present draft changes to policy 8430 STUDENT APPEARANCE

Rationale:  With the enhancement and use of Q-interactive, School Psychologists and SLPs are able to create personalized batteries at both the instrument and subtest levels that are proven to: (1) better serve students, families and staff; (2) minimize time spent on administering tests; (3) streamline workflow and reduce manual data entry.  Purchase hardware and software to make the Childfind process more effective and efficient with updated technology that allows for administration of web-based assessments as well as scoring and reporting capabilities. Tool offers a complete set of options for scoring, interpreting and reporting assessment results, which condenses the report writing process.

Rationale:  Grand Island Public Schools enjoys a strong working relationship with the Grand Island Public Schools Foundation.  A memo of agreement has been created through a collaboration by board members and administrators from each entity.  The memo of agreement helps to clarify the working relationship between the two entities.  This memo of agreement is being provided for final approval by the Grand Island Public Schools Board of Education.  It has already been approved by the Grand Island Public Schools Foundation Board.  The agreement remains unchanged since it was provided as an information item at the February Board of Education Meeting.

Rationale:  Dr. Lee will present the proposal to purchase instruments for the GISH Fine Arts program to ensure all students interested can participate regardless of ability to purchase an instrument. Dr. Lee will share the process for identifying needed items and the bid process along with purchase orders.
This will be an info/action item as, if approved, we need to submit orders in the hope we will have instruments by fall 2022.

Rationale:  Syscloud will allow for file level backup and restore of users Google Drive files as well as Google Team Drive files, an identified gap in our current backup strategy.  This service will help us meet our regulatory and compliance requirements. 
 

Rationale:  ESSER III Project for Grand Island Senior High 

Rationale:  ESSER III Project for Gates Elementary 

Rationale:  A monthly report to the Board and community on the major items discussed and under consideration by the Grand Island Public Schools Foundation.

Rationale:  A monthly update from the Nebraska Association of School Boards.  

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The Board will convene into executive session for the purpose of discussing legal updates, superintendent evaluation and contract.

Rationale:  Board of Education Meeting: Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 5:30 PM