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From YouTube: School Board Meeting - December 8, 2015
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Fargo Public Schools - Board of Education Meeting - Live Broadcast - December 8, 2015
A
A
C
And
how
do
we
implement
the
21st
century
skills
across
the
district
and,
at
the
same
time,
embed
very
engaging
opportunities
for
our
students,
and
we
have
a
group
of
people
here
tonight
to
share
with
you
I'm
going
to
introduce
jodel
tyken,
who
is
our
director
of
standards
based
education
and
then
she's,
going
to
share
some
information
with
you
and
introduce
the
rest
of
the
team.
So
thank
you
very
much.
D
D
Anymore,
because
I'm
all
right
so
project-based
learnings
bob
said
pbl,
we
call
it
in
the
district
is,
is
really
just
a
way
to
frame
instruction
and
so
really
we've
been
making
kind
of
a
concerted
effort,
the
last
three
years
to
train
our
teachers
in
in
really
thinking
about
their
lesson,
plans
and
units.
In
a
way
that's
really
getting
at
that
big
picture
of.
Why
are
we
learning
this
and
making
those
connections,
those
authentic
connections?
D
And
so
in
the
last
three
years
we
have
been
working
hard
at
offering
some
training
every
summer
for
our
staff
and
and
actually
the
last
two
years
done,
that
collaboratively
with
morehead
and
west
fargo
districts
through
our
metro
partnership.
So
we
have
214
teachers,
who've
been
trained
in
project-based
learning,
they've
actually
gone
through
the
three-day
training
in
the
summer,
and
many
more
who've
done
pieces
of
that
as
part
of
training
within
their
own
buildings
or
working
with
their
peers.
D
And
then
we
also
have
a
metro,
pbl
website,
so
fargo
moorhead
and
west
fargo
teachers
who
participate
in
that
three-day
training,
put
their
projects
on
a
central
website
and
there's
95
projects
on
there
now
and
that's
actually
continuing
to
grow
as
we
speak,
because
there's
teachers
are
engaging
that
over
the
school
year
as
well,
so
a
place
where
they
can
really
get
ideas
from
each
other.
And
tonight
you're
going
to
learn
a
little
bit
about
a
couple
of
those
projects
that
have
been
happening
across
the
district.
E
I'm
amy
soman,
I'm
the
library
coordinator
for
the
district,
and
I
guess
about
a
month
ago
I
had
the
fun
joy
of
being
out
at
ed
clap
to
work
with
this
third
grade
class
and
the
first
day
that
they
started
their
publishing
phase
and
getting
on
the
computer
for
a
magazine
project.
So
when
jodell
asked
me,
if
I
knew
of
anybody
that
might
be
a
good
fit
for
presenting
to
the
board,
I
said
these
kids
are
awesome.
So
I
want
to
introduce
matt
evenson,
who
is
the
librarian
at
edclap
and
stephanie
schuster?
E
F
F
F
So
then,
when
I
thought
about
all
of
the
things
that
they
love
to,
do
I
thought:
how
can
we
think
of
a
problem
that
we're
having
in
our
school
so
that
this
is
real
life
to
them?
And
so
that's
how
the
magazine
project
began,
and
so
the
students
got
something
that
looked
like
this
with
we're
a
brand
new
school
and
so
we're
missing
what
magazines
yeah,
and
so
mr
evenson
helped
us
by
talking
about.
F
H
I'm
a
new
school,
not
many
magazines
and
not
enough
budget
to
buy
magazines
quickly,
and
so
it
was
a
very,
very
real
problem
to
me
and
to
the
entire
school
on
the
left
side
of
the
slide,
you
can
see
some
of
the
technology
skills
that
apply
directly
to
third
grade
and
you
can
kind
of
read
through
those.
I
also
want
to
address
these
21st
century
skills
and
also
specifically,
what
we
did
in
each
of
those
sub
skills
between
those
four
headings.
We
have
critical
thinking,
collaboration,
communication
and
creativity
that
top
left
blue
box.
H
Under
there
information
discovery
was
a
huge
common
theme.
As
far
as
what
will
your
magazine
look
like
what
we
have
to
do
is
get
that
information,
and
then
how
will
you
create
that
problem?
Solving?
We
came
across
a
lot
of
different
times
in
the
lab
where
things
just
didn't
work
or
if
they
didn't
work
right
away
or
they
didn't
work,
how
we
thought
they
would,
and
I
thought
it
was
good
for
the
students
to
see
mrs
schuster
and
I
some
things
didn't
work.
H
They
just
didn't
it's
good
for
students
to
see
adults
working
together
to
problem
solve
collaboration
on
that
top
right
corner.
We
have
flexibility
going
with
the
flow,
also
responsibility,
productivity
and
collaborate
using
digital
media.
This
project
is
almost
completely
based
on
google
drive,
google
classroom
and
google
mail,
which
is
when
you
think
of
preston
being
in
third
grade
and
the
other
third
graders.
That's
pretty
impressive,
especially
early
in
the
third
grade
year.
H
The
bottom
left
communication
delivering
oral
presentations,
which
is
kind
of
we're
doing
also
what
preston
is
going
to
share
with
us
as
well.
I'm
communicating
using
digital
media
those.
I
think
you
have
samples
in
front
of
you.
Those
were
collaboratively
made
through
google
drive
and
that's
how
we
got
their
final,
the
final
project
and
then
creativity,
idea
generation.
H
All
we
did
is
provide
templates.
That's
it
idea,
design
and
refinement,
making
it
look,
how
it
should
openness
and
courage
to
explore
starting
over
realizing.
Your
original
idea
may
not
have
worked
the
right
way
and
created
production
and
innovation,
so
all
these
things
were
very
relevant
if
you
look
at
the
very
bottom
left
of
that
21st
century
skills,
I'm
writing
is
layered
in
with
all
these
skills
and
writing
to
inform
these
are
non-fiction
magazines
written
to
inform
choice
based
articles.
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F
F
F
F
F
A
That's
fantastic,
and
I
just
so
thank
you,
mrs
schuster,
mr
evanson,
but
preston.
I
want
to
congratulate
you
and
your
classmates
because
that's
part
of
what
I
do
in
my
day,
job
and
I'm
here
to
tell
you
you
guys,
are
doing
really
good
work.
So
that's
very
impressive.
So
thank
you
very
good,
very
well
done.
I
All
right,
so,
in
addition
I'm
andrea
harman,
I
am
this
secondary
science
curriculum
facilitator
and,
in
addition
to
talking
about
the
project
at
the
elementary
level,
we
wanted
to
share
a
little
bit
with
some
of
the
other
projects
that
have
been
going
on
a
little
bit
this
year.
Most
of
them
are
actually
current,
there's
a
couple
from
last
year
as
well.
I
These
are
project
cards
that
we
have
been
asking
our
teachers
to
create
going
through
the
pbl
process,
because
it's
a
really
great
place
to
be
able
to
showcase
their
work
rather
than
having
people
go
on
and
look
at
that
website.
We
can
have
these
out,
for
you
guys
to
be
able
to
take
a
look
at
some
of
the
projects
and
the
experiences
the
kids
are
having.
So
we
have
a
wide
range
in
here.
We've
got
some
that
are
elementary.
I
We've
got
all
the
way
through
high
school,
so
this
is
a
great
place
for
our
kids,
our
teachers
to
be
able
to
show
off
a
little
bit
of
their
work,
and
so
one
of
the
processes
we're
doing
is
in
addition
to
that
website
that
they're
creating
that
actually
have
projects.
People
to
use-
we
also
are
asking
them
to
create
these
project
cards
throughout
that
their
time
during
training
and
then
also
through
our
pbl
checkpoints
that
we're
doing
to
give
you
an
opportunity
for
teachers
to
be
able
to
continue
developing
projects
throughout
the
year.
I
And
speaking
of
showing
off
them,
we
kind
of
put
together
a
little
bit
of
a
montage
of
about
kids
talking
about
the
projects
that
they've
done
this
year.
So
now
this
is
just
during
this
year,
there's
a
range
from
again
all
the
way,
elementary,
all
the
way
through
high
school,
where
we
have
a
variety
of
different
schools,
represented
talking
about
some
of
the
projects
that
they've
actually
done
throughout
the
year.
J
And
about
a
couple
weeks
ago
we
did
a
project
called
the
shark
tank
and
it
was
where
we
were
given
an
explorer
and
we
were
supposed
to
do
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
research.
And
then
we
were
supposed
to
argue
our
case
and
about
how
why
the
sharks
were
supposed
to
give
us
money
to
further
our
exploration,
and
we
had
to
explain
them
why
we
wanted
to
travel
across
the
world
like
for
what
purpose
we
wanted
to
go,
and
they
would
give
us
money
depending
on
how
well
we
presented
our
cases.
One.
K
Of
the
projects
that
we
worked
on
was
a
debate
on
the
rainforest
in
this
project.
We
were
given
a
certain
group
and
we
cited
all
of
the
groups,
but
we
were
given
a
certain
group
and
we
studied
how
they
wanted
to
use
the
rainforest,
and
then
we
ended
up
debating
from
that
group.
What
we
should
use
the
rainforest
for
we
had
a
period
long
debate
and
talked
about
what
would
be
the
best
use
and
came
up
with
a
plan
to
best
use
the
rainforest
here
in
the
next
few.
L
M
G
O
K
This
was
different
than
just
sitting
down
listening
to
a
teacher,
talk
or
reading
a
book,
and
it
was
fun
because
you
got
to
do
the
research
yourself
and
you
were
given
a
point
and
you
could
do
some
more
with
it
than
just
reading
off
a
book.
You
can
study
the
other
sites
and
debating
with
other
people
and
talking
and
just
building
a
plan,
and
you
feel
like
you're,
actually
doing
something
to
help
this
problem.
Q
M
It
was
a
lot
different
because
we
were
more
on
our
own
than
we
were
in
other
classes
and
we
were
able
to
problem
solve
on
our
own
and
be
allowed
to
actually
come
up
with
our
own
material
to
teach.
So
we
can
put
the
way
that
we
learn
into
the
materials
that
the
kids
that
learn
the
same
way.
We
do
would
learn.
G
L
D
G
D
D
What
communication
is
no
you're,
really
communicating
you're
creating
a
magazine,
or
you
are
doing
an
event
for
kids
at
lindenwood
park,
or
so
those
are
the
kinds
of
things
that
we're
working
on.
But
again
there
are
some
challenges
with
that,
too,
in
terms
of
trying
to
make
sure
that
we
can
support
that
for
teachers
who
are
trying
to
take
those
risks.
D
A
B
A
I
think
the
one
thing
that
really
struck
me
is
there
was
more
than
once
I
heard
students
use
the
word
fun
and
research
in
the
same
sentence,
but
that
was
the
fun
part,
which
is
incredible.
I
mean
I
remember.
When
I
went
through
school,
my
kids
went
through
school.
A
group
project
was
usually
kind
of
a
doom.
You
know
one
person's
going
to
do
all
the
work
and
so
just
to
see
the
kids
so
genuinely
engaged.
It's
really
really
exciting.
So,
thanks
for
all
the
good
work
and
creativity
you're
doing
this
was
great.
Thank
you.
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U
F
B
Thank
you.
I
think
everybody's
aware
of
the
fact
we
reported
out
in
earlier
meetings
that
we
did
receive
at
least
a
partial
payment
on
the
state
school
construction
loan
bond
program
of
approximately
six
million
dollars,
and
those
funds
will
then
be
used
to
defeat
bonds,
we'd
already
issued
in
conjunction
with
the
hvac
projects
that
we
had
going
on
throughout
the
district
at
our
elementary
buildings
and
the
edclap
construction
project
of
our
newest
elementary
that's
online.
B
Obviously,
the
construction
loan
funds
that
we
receive
from
the
state
will
be
put
into
the
escrow
account
until
such
time
as
we
can
actually
do
the
partial
refund,
which
I
believe
comes
up
in
2019.
If
I'm
not
mistaken,
and
earlier
in
the
packets
that
came
out
over
the
weekend,
you
might
have
noticed
there
were
a
few
blank
numbers,
because
this
all
got
finished
up
today.
So
we
didn't
have
the
exact
pennies
until
today,
but
at
your
work
location,
you
should
have
found
updated
documents
to
go
with
memo
number
72.
B
In
a
nutshell,
what
this
is
going
to
do
to
our
bottom
line,
we're
obviously
paying
interest
on
the
school
construction
loan
from
the
state
at
one
percent,
we're
defusing
bonds
that
were
issued
out
at
a
much
higher
rate.
The
net
savings
to
the
district
based
upon
the
math
that
we
now
have
is
two
million
dollars,
or
two
million
one
hundred
and
sixty
two
thousand
three
hundred
and
twenty
eight
dollars
and
eighty
three
cents
just
a
side.
B
V
B
S
A
Yes,
motion
carries
thank
you
and
thank
you
for
your
work
on
this
monitoring
of
el-10
memo
number
73.
You
have
in
front
of
you.
Thank
you
for
completing
this,
and
those
of
you
who
made
comments
are
there?
Is
there
anyone
who'd
like
to
make
further
comment
or
elaborate
on
the
written
comments
at
this
time,
robin.
S
W
Z
A
X
X
I
know
of
one
thursday
that
is
forthcoming,
so
pay
attention
and
maybe
contact
those
that
are
in
your
district.
I
met
with
pam
anderson
who
ran
on
the
platform
of
early
childhood
education.
I
happen
to
live
in
her
district
now
and
she
shared
with
me
some
correspondence
between
our
board
president
and
herself
on
early
childhood
education.
So
I'll
show
that
further
at
the
gac
meeting
there
is
not
a
gac
meeting
in
december.
X
However,
we'll
be
meeting
in
january
and
one
of
the
gak
assignments
well,
one
of
the
governmental
affairs
committee's
conversation
was
what
happens
to
the
ndea
days
now
that
are
required
by
state
law
to
be
in
our
calendar
and
jeff
shots.
Maybe
I
can
impose
upon
you
to
to
respond
report
a
little
bit
upon
your
findings.
Excuse
me.
AA
X
AA
However,
she
is
not
going
to
do
that
for
next
year,
because
she's
had
a
request
from
the
north
dakota
council
of
educational
leaders
to
lead
the
days
in
the
calendar
because
of
the
annual
conference,
just
because
the
ndea
is
not
going
to
have
their
conference
doesn't
mean
that
they're
not
going
to
continue
to
have
their
conference,
and
so
I
asked
her.
Will
this
probably
be
a
legislative
item
and
she
suspects
that
it
probably
will
be,
and
so,
since
our
calendar
is
set
for
next
year
already
I've
talked
to
bob.
AA
It
would
be
pretty
difficult
for
us
to
do
something
so
quickly
to
make
a
change.
Next
year,
the
calendar
will
be
as
it
was
set
and
then
we'll
see
what
the
legislature
decides
to
do.
So
that's
kind
of
where
it's
at
right
now
kirsten
does
not
anticipate
making
any
kind
of
declaration
that
would
allow
districts
to
do
anything
different
than
what
the
century
code
already
states.
A
M
C
V
AB
Last
last
week
I
I
did
attend
the
fargo
cast
public
health,
open
house,
and
it
was
interesting
to
see
that
facility
and
everything
that
it
offers
the
community
and
then
ben
franklin
had
a
science
fair
last
week,
also
for
their
sixth
graders.
The
cafeteria
and
kind
of
the
lower
level
of
that
building
was
packed
full
of
all
kinds
of
all
kinds
of
exhibits,
so
very
some
very
creative
ones.
So,
and
then
the
next
communications
meeting
is
noon
december,
14th
in
the
boardroom.
That's
it!
Thank
you.
A
A
V
Some
of
you
may
know
that
at
the
excuse
me
at
the
north
dakota
state
school
boards
association
meeting
this
year,
jim
asked
me
and
john
martinson
asked
me
to
apply
for
a
vacant
position
on
the
espb
board,
the
education
standards
and
practices
board.
It's
a
government
governor
appointed
position
and
there
are
two
school
board
reps
from
across
the
state
on
that
and
a
week
and
a
half
ago
they
sent
me
an
application
to
fill
out
and
literally
at
3
30.
V
A
A
S
Just
want
to
go
back
to
that,
because
I
was
trying
to
think
of
what
the
actual
consensus
was
at
that
governance
meeting,
and
I
I'm
not
exactly
sure
that
maybe
have
been
the
way
we
reported
it.
I
kind
of
thought
the
consensus
was
try
to
condense
things
and
keep
them
brief,
but
maybe
I'm
wrong.
I
don't
know
what
the
rest
of
the
people
thought
who
were
at
that
meeting
jennifer.
I
know
you
were
there
rebecca?
You
were
there.
Who
else
is
there?
Jim?
Was
there.
A
A
S
Kind
of
find
out
what
the
others
remember,
because
I
I
know
there
was
some
discussion
about
that
and
I'm
not
saying
we're
looking
at
a
radical
shift,
one
way
or
another,
I'm
only
saying
I
think
the
main
consensus
item
was,
and
I
could
be
wrong-
was
that
let's
just
try
to
keep
things
brief
refer
brief.
Thank.
AB
AB
If
we
would
maybe
attend
a
school
function,
that
wasn't
necessarily
our
liaison,
and
I
think
my
takeaway
on
that
is
it's
okay
to
still
report
on
some
of
those
activities,
especially
as
long
as
we
can
demonstrate
how
the
events
activities
are
essentially
tied
to
the
school
district,
and
can
you
know
tie
an
example
of
how
might
it
tie?
How
might
it
go
in
with
our
you
know,
our
our
our
plans,
our
strategic
plans
and
just
demonstrations,
and
so
I
think,
but
I
do
think
that
brevity
was
an
overlying
agreement
or
consensus.
Z
A
I
think
it
was
if
I,
if
I'm
recalling
correctly
a
board
member,
expressed
a
concern
about
this
particular
item,
that's
already
on
our
agenda
committee
liaison
correspondents
reports
and
wanted
to
discuss
it
at
governance
with
you're
right.
We
kind
of
talked
all
all
aspects
of
this.
Should
we
confine
it
only
to
those
items?
Should
we
just
ask
board
members
to
be
concise,
should
we
say
certainly
report
on
other
things
if
you
feel
there's
a
connection
and
so
forth,
so
this
is
basically
reporting
back
essentially
consensus
on
the
discussion.
A
B
S
Two
thoughts
number
one.
I
think
that
that
could
very
well
fit
under
other
reports
and
no
sense
making
it
into
a
big
deal,
except
that
I
know
linda
said
gee.
I
hate
to
keep
going
around
the
table
time
after
time
and
category
after
category,
so
I
got
the
impression
that
you
kind
of
like
the
idea
that
hey
when
it's
jim's
turn
to
speak.
If
he
wants
to
cover
another
report,
maybe
he
should
do
that
rather
than
go
around
again
or
am
I
misreading
what
you
said.
S
Now
I'm
not
suggesting
that.
We
then
turn
this
into
a
you
know
big
community
discussion,
but
I
I
don't.
I
don't
think
it's.
I
don't
think
it's
a
big
deal.
If
somebody
talks
about
that.
I
know
john.
I
think
you
feel
the
same
way.
I
believe,
because
I've
heard
your
comments
over
the
years
and
so
there
it
is.
A
A
Where
I
would
like
to
go
forward
on
this,
I
like
your
idea,
because
it's
clean
in
terms
of
the
agenda
we
already
have
so
let's
try
this
in
the
next
few
months
and
we'll
see
how
it
works
in
the
future
under
board
reports.
Let's
confine
that
to
committee
liaison
correspondence
reports
and
if
you
have
another
thing
you
would
like
to
report
on
I'll
simply
call
for
any
other
reports,
not
that
we
have
to
go
around
the
horn
one
more
time,
and
that
would
be
a
very
welcome
place
for
concise
reports
of
those
experiences.
A
You
know
if
you
think
it's
something
worth
following
up
on,
it
doesn't
say
who's
going
to
follow
up
or
if
it's
for
board
or
staff
or
whatnot,
just
a
simple
check
mark,
and
we
can
take
it
from
there
and
if
it
was
yeah,
mildly
interesting,
but
not
anything
to
really
necessarily
follow
up
on.
That's
there
too.
So
any
questions
on
those
those
will
be
available
for
whenever
we're
heading
out
to
anything
very
good,
and
I
apologize.
Z
I
absolutely
do
madam
chair.
Thank
you.
Our
dr
bob
gross's
birthday
is
december
18th
and
we're
almost
always
not
in
a
meeting
or
near
a
meeting
when,
when
your
birthday
is
going
on
bob,
I
think
I've
called
you
from
other
states
but
happy
birthday
to
you,
we're
good
and
we're
going
to
be
meeting
the
day
after
dinah's
birthday,
so
be
thinking
of
her
on
your
break
and
when
you're
coming
back,
and
I
wonder
if
she
had
cake
the
day
before
at
our
next
meeting.
And
lastly,
this
is
another
one
I'll
keep
it
brief.
A
Thank
you
very
much,
and
I
also
have
a
quick
thing
under
on
other.
We
have
the
kennedy
arts
students
to
thank
for
our
gift.
That
was
at
our
place
today.
So
our
public,
thanks
to
the
elementary
s,
art
students
at
kennedy
who
were
learning
how
to
incorporate
lights,
and
you
want
to
grab
yours
and
do
a
little
demonstration
for
for
the
world
push
the
button.
You
get
a
light
good
stuff.
U
Dr
argue,
if
I
could
just
give
you
a
little
bit
more
information
on
those,
it
was
actually
a
steam
project
that
was
done
out
at
kennedy
and
they
received
a
grant
through
the
north
dakota
council
of
the
arts,
for
the
batteries,
the
conductor,
tape
and
the
light
bulbs,
and
they
worked
with
the
kids
who
are
currently
in
the
gifted
service
program.
Right
now.
So
it
was
the
mary
daisel
who
is
the
art,
teacher
and
suzanne
uzuman?
U
AC
Madam
president,
members
of
the
board
I'll
give
you
a
quick
update
on
the
health
insurance
committee.
As
you
recall,
we
made
a
decision
as
a
district
to
offer
a
dual
option:
health
plan
effective
january
1st,
in
which
employees
had
the
opportunity
to
enroll
in
a
high
deductible
health
plan
with
a
health
savings
account
and
then
continue
with
the
fully
funded
plan
that
we
have
as
a
self-funded
model
that
enrollment
ended
november
30th.
AC
So
this
is
the
first
opportunity
you
would
have
had
to
hear
the
results
of
that
we
had
145
employees
choose
the
the
high
deductible
plan
with
the
health
savings
account.
As
you
recall,
we
made
a
commitment
as
a
district
that
there
was
a
differential
in
premium
of
the
two
plans,
and
then
there
was
a
contribution
at
each
of
the
various
levels.
Single
single
plus
dependent
and
family
to
the
health
savings
account
as
well.
AC
So
right
now,
that's
just
over
10
percent
of
our
population,
and
that
is
the
standard
that
our
benefit
consultant
told
us
to
expect.
We
thought
it
could
be
higher
than
that,
but
it
came
in
almost
exactly
where
they
saw
national
averages
when
you
roll
these
plans
out.
So
that
is
the
result
of
the
new
plan
that
will
be
in
effect
january
1st.