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From YouTube: School Board Meeting - February 28, 2017
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Fargo Public Schools - Board of Education Meeting - Live Broadcast - February 28, 2017
A
Order,
the
fargo
school
board
welcome
to
our
guests.
I
would
entertain
a
motion
to
approve
the
order
of
agenda
with
the
hr
addendum,
so
moved.
Second,
all
in
favor
say
aye
aye
opposed
same.
Thank
you.
No
han,
no
one
has
signed
up
in
the
audience
to
speak.
Is
there
anyone
who
did
not
sign
up?
Who
wishes
to
speak?
B
Blue
light
means
I'm
on
okay.
There
we
go.
I
am
filling
in
for
dave
marcourt
tonight
he's
at
elementary,
where
he's
at
conferences
elementaries
are
currently
in
parent-teacher.
Conferences
will
be
done
by
the
middle
of
next
week.
High
schools
and
middle
schools
are
done
with
spring
conferences.
It's
not
really
spring
anymore.
I
guess
it
was.
Last
week
the
calendar
committee
agreed
on
the
proposed
2018-2019
calendar.
I'm
expecting
dr
gross
will
talk
about
his
journey
on
his
way
to
the
board.
B
B
Please
bring
yourself
your
children,
your
grandchildren,
we're
using
also
we're
asking
fargo
ea
members
to
bring
a
gently
used
book
and
we'll
use
those
to
give
to
next
year's
new
teachers
to
start
building,
classroom
libraries
and
anyone
who
wants
more
information.
I
got
something
fancy
that
is
all
I
have.
Thank
you.
A
D
E
Hi,
my
name
is
susan
peterson,
as
dr
agree
said,
and
I'm
the
reading
recovery
teacher
leader,
which
basically
means
that
half
of
the
day
I
work
with
students
in
reading
recovery
and
the
other
half
of
the
day.
I
work
with
teachers
doing
some
ongoing
professional
development
for
them
and
training
new
reading
recovery
teachers,
as
well
as
working
with
a
variety
of
teachers
throughout
the
district
and
a
variety
of
schools
providing
professional
development
around
literacy.
E
Children
who
fail
to
learn
to
read
adequately
are
those
that
will
become
underemployed
as
adults
and
may
not
likely
reach
their
fullest
potential,
and
there
are
many
studies
out
there
that
show
a
correlation
between
reading
inadequacy
at
third
and
fourth
grade
and
graduation
rates
and
incarceration
rates.
So
reading
and
early
literacy
is
particularly
important
for
not
only
us
as
educators,
but
also
as
our
whole.
E
Reading
recovery
has
been
studied
very
much
so
over
the
last
30
years
in
the
in
the
united
states,
and
it's
also
been
reviewed
by
the
what
works.
Clearinghouse.
That's
a
government
organization
that
looks
at
literacy
interventions
and
has
found
that,
through
all
of
the
research
that
reading
recovery
is
effective
with
the
lowest
achieving
first
grade.
Literacy,
learners.
E
Now
on
the
next
slide,
I'm
going
to
show
you
the
rest
of
the
graph,
but
before
I
do
that
I'll
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
it.
So,
in
the
middle
of
the
graph,
the
purple
line,
students,
the
ones
who
got
reading
recovery,
finished
their
reading
recovery
and
then
you'll
see
that
they
continue
to
make
growth
even
after
reading
recovery
and
the
students
in
the
green
line
then
get
reading
recovery
as
an
intervention
and
you'll
see
how
they
do
so.
E
E
E
E
So
developing
teacher
expertise
is
an
important
part
of
reading
recovery
and
that
is
the
role
of
the
teacher
leader.
The
position
that
I'm
in
so
I
provide
ongoing
professional
development
for
the
trained
reading
recovery
teachers
and
provide
instructional
coaching
for
reading
recovery
teachers
as
well
as
training
new
reading
recovery
teachers.
E
Because
reading
recovery
teachers
are
committed
to
also
improving
instruction,
so
they
work
closely
with
classroom
teachers
and
with
other
stakeholders
so
that
their
knowledge
that
they
have
gained
through
their
initial
training
and
then
their
ongoing
sessions
seeps
into
classroom
instruction.
We
have
reading
recovery
teachers,
who
are
literacy,
coaches,
well,
they're
strategists,
but
they
often
act
somewhat.
Like
a
literacy
coach
and
our
reading
recovery
teachers
serve
on
task
forces.
Mtss
teams,
they're
part
of
plc
teams
all
to
work
together
with
classroom
teachers
to
improve
instruction.
E
Reading
recovery
teachers
see
four
students
each
day
and
that's
half
of
their
day,
so
in
the
other
half
of
their
day,
they're
working
with
small
groups
or
they're
working
as
strategists
and
working
in
classrooms.
So
again
it's
individualized.
It's
not
a
program
and
the
teaching
framework
was
founded
in
new
zealand
by
dr
marie
clay.
E
E
We
track
our
data
very
closely
in
reading
recovery
and
we
have
students
who
come
to
us
significantly
below
grade
level,
so
their
average
text
level
at
the
beginning
of
first
grade
is
a
text
level,
one
which
is
really
not
reading
yet
and
at
the
end
of
the
year
the
average
text
level
of
the
students
who
enter
reading
recovery
is
17.3
and
the
benchmark
for
the
end
of
first
grade
is
18..
So
many
of
our
students
do
meet
that
grade
level,
expectation
or
above
I
brought
a
couple
examples
of
text
level,
1
and
text
level.
E
At
the
end
of
our
reading
recovery
series,
we
ask
parents
what
they
think
of
reading
recovery
through
a
survey,
and
I
just
put
some
of
the
words
up
that
were
the
most
common
words
in
the
parent
surveys.
The
first
one
being
and
most
important
one
I
saw
pretty
much
on
every
survey
that
came
through
was
that
it
builds
confidence
in
their
children
that
they
see
that
their
children
now
enjoy
reading.
E
E
So
I
have
with
me
a
special
guest,
her
name
is
alicia
and
her
brother
elias
is
here
too,
and
her
mother
and
alicia
began
reading
recovery
at
lincoln
this
fall,
and
so
I
have
a
little
video
clip
of
her
reading
at
the
fall
and
then
just
a
little
bit
later.
So
this
was
one
of
the
first
books
that
alicia
read
and
you
can
see
the
text
up
there.
I
can
read
to
mom,
I
can
read
to
dad
and
as
you
notice
it's
a
pattern
text.
E
So
it
has
that
phrase
I
can
read
too
and
then
then
you
would
look
at
the
picture
to
see
that
who
the
child
is
reading
to
in
the
book,
and
here
she
is
reading.
But
I
also
want
to
introduce
her
reading
recovery
teacher,
who
is
here
as
well
bonnie
hoy
thompson
who
you're
going
to
also
see
in
the
video
so.
G
E
Now,
we'll
take
a
look
at
12
weeks
later,
so
after
12
weeks
of
reading
recovery,
you
can
see
the
text
looks
a
little
different,
there's
a
lot
more
words
on
the
page.
There's
no
pattern
to
it
and
you
can't
get
the
information
as
much
from
the
pictures
of
what
the
text
is
going
to
say.
So
here
she
is.
This
was
in
november.
F
F
A
I
A
few
things
I
have
twin
girls,
they're
13
now
and
I
don't
think
they
were
both
in
reading
recovery,
but
one
was
at
hawthorne
and
I
remember
we
had
books
similar
to
this
and
I
saw
a
big
change
so
a
question.
So
congratulations,
good,
good
work,
kids,
yeah,
you're
welcome,
so
my
questions
would
be
remind
me
how
this
is
funded.
I
D
Or
yeah
I'll
take
a
stab
at
it,
and
susan
can
correct
me
how
it
looks
right
now.
It
was
a
look-alike
program.
It's
funded
through
title
one
in
our
title,
1
buildings.
So
each
year
that
dollar
amount
changes.
So
sometimes
teachers
are
transitioned
between
buildings
due
to
the
budget.
That's
given
from
the
federal
government
with
title
1
and
then
when
dr
gross
was
doing
my
role
as
well
as
his
he
worked
to
do
a
look-alike
grant
where
we
could
support
reading
recovery
in
our
non-title
schools.
D
So
we
do
have
it
in
all
of
our
elementaries.
However,
as
you
know,
as
budgets
change
and
our
demographics
change,
susan
has
worked
with
stephen
duro.
Our
data
software
analyst
director
and
we've
talked
about
meeting
our
neediest
kids.
So
with
his
magic
wand,
he's
been
able
to
do
some
assessments
with
our
students
to
rank
all
of
our
kids
in
first
grade
in
the
spring,
and
then
we
look
again
in
the
fall
and
we
are
moving
teachers,
as
our
student
needs
are.
We
still
have
them
in
every
school,
but
we
are
meeting
kids
where
they
are.
D
E
D
I
would
just
add
in
that
susan
has
been
just
a
great
asset
to
our
district
and
her
vision.
We
know
things
don't
happen
as
fast
as
we
want
them
to,
but
she
took.
I
don't
know
how
many
credits
last
year
and
traveled
back
and
forth
to
south
dakota
and
has
two
little
munchkins
at
home
and
her
husband's
a
principal
in
west
fargo,
and
she
just
forges
ahead
with
a
great
vision
and
when
she
talks
about
it
really
being
an
investment
in
our
teachers.
It
really
is
it's
well
beyond
the
one-on-one.
D
At
the
reading
recovery
table,
our
teachers
are
collaborating
they're,
sharing
those
strategies,
it's
it's
alive
and
well
in
our
first
grade
classrooms
in
the
small
group
reading
she's
a
resource
as
well
as
the
reading
recovery
teachers,
because
they're
really
reading
experts.
So
it
is
something
that
we
value
and
we
have
data
to
show
that
it's
working.
So
thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
A
A
K
K
One
was
the
hearing
schedule,
as
crossover
will
wrap
up
today
and
the
legislature
will
be
back
in
session
bright
and
early
tomorrow,
so
they'll
be
ready
to
roll,
and
so
there
is.
There
are
some
bills
being
heard
in
committee,
starting
tomorrow
and
through
friday.
I
also
then,
at
the
request
of
the
gac
committee,
went
through
our
tracking
list,
which
had
103
bills.
I
think
on
it,
took
out
all
those
bills
that
were
defeated
on
one
side
of
the
aisle
or
the
other,
either
the
house
or
senate
and
then
reduce
that
down.
K
We
currently
have
66
bills
that
we're
following
some
of
which
we
have
definite
positions
on
and
others
that
we
don't.
So
I
did
provide
that
for
you
with
their
status
as
well
and
really
there's
a
lot
of
pieces
that
we
work
on
with
our
legislature
with
teaching
and
learning
on
the
curricular
side
with
hr
on
the
evaluation
side.
K
But
in
my
world
there
are
three
things
that
we're
following
closer
than
most
and
those
are
1361,
which
is
the
bill
that
passed
the
house
and
will
be
in
the
senate,
which
is
the
3
percent
limitation
on
property
tax
bill,
and
so
we'll
be
continuing
to
monitor
that
1357,
which
is
a
bill.
That's
the
study
on
the
deduction
for
the
local
deduct
for
public
schools
and
the
impact
that
has
on
us
with
our
frozen
mill
levy
that
passed
the
study
and
is
in
the
senate.
K
A
A
Motion
a
second
to
approve
the
items
on
the
consent
agenda,
including
the
hr
addendum,
all
in
favor,
say
aye
aye
all
opposed
same.
Thank
you.
Business
policy,
monitoring,
our
board,
superintendent
relationship
monitoring.
Thank
you
for
all
your
comments
and
for
responding.
Anybody
have
any
comments
that
are
not
included
in
the
document.
A
H
L
A
A
C
L
C
L
L
A
N
I
really
don't
have
a
lot
on
my
board
report.
I
did
meet
with
the
fargo
youth
initiative
and
met
with
a
few
of
the
principals
on
some
plans.
They
have,
and
I
guess
we're
just
basically
going
forward
with
that.
So
until
we
meet
with
all
of
them.
I
really
don't
have
anything.
Thank
you.
Okay
sounds
good
christy.
A
J
L
L
I
I
Did
you
get
a
call
during
your
pick?
Yes,
I
it
is
important
that
we're
out
there
we've
heard
that,
more
than
once
that
the
legislators
like
to
see
us
out
there,
they
probably
like
us
out
there
more
when
we're
in
agreement
than
not
but
any
rate,
it's
a
good
chance
to
build
relationships
which
is
important,
and
our
next
meeting
is
march
21st
at
7
30
a.m,
but,
depending
upon
how
the
vote
goes
on
march
7th,
we
might
end
up
changing
that.
I
So
we
will
see
because
that
might
help
us
determine
what
we
need
to
do
in
terms
of
some
other
bills,
to
take
some
further
action
on
communications
committee
meeting.
I
attended
that
last
week
governance
this
morning
and
I
am
planning
to
attend
the
forum
tomorrow
evening,
the
public
forum
as
an
observer,
and
I
voted
today.
If
people
haven't
voted,
they
are
still
able
to
vote
early
through
tomorrow.
Thank
you.
G
Okay,
so
communications
met
and
we
continued
our
discussion
of
the
community
focus
group
report,
our
next
meeting.
We
had
to
modify
that
date,
so
it's
going
to
be
the
31st
over
the
noon
hour
and
our
goal
is
to
go
through
the
big
ideas
that
that
came
through
the
this
focus
group
and
narrow
that
down
and
hopefully
incorporate
a
few
moving
forward
into
the
strategic
plan.
G
Our
operational
plan
and
then
health
insurance
committee
met
this
afternoon.
The
consultant
from
gallagher
was
there
funny
and
just
began
to.
He
presented
some
options,
things
that
the
committee
will
begin
to
talk
about
for
the
next
plan
year
and
then
telehealth
will
be
on
the
next
agenda
for
next
month.
That's
it.
H
H
So
saturday
I
was
invited
as
a
member
of
the
board
to
speak
at
the
rally
for
trans
transgender
youth
at
the
pride
center.
I
was
able
to
share
our
non-discrimination
policy.
There
we
had
students
from
the
district
who
talked
we
had
parents
of
students
from
our
district
who
talked,
and
one
of
those
parents
stopped
me
afterwards.
Let
me
know
that
she's
very
grateful
for
the
sensitivity
and
acceptance
and
discretion
that
our
district
has
shown
to
her
and
her
family.
H
So
I'm
glad
I
was
there
for
that.
Back
on
thursday,
the
23rd
I
attended
representative
cramer's
town
hall,
hoping
to
hear
more
about
federal
education
policy
and
it
turned
out
not
to
be
the
environment
for
nuanced
policy
discussion,
but
I
thank
him
for
having
that
town
hall
and
I
would
look
forward
to
similar
events
from
our
senators
height
camp
and
hoven.
H
O
As
we
move
forward
and
use
this
as
the
foundation,
we
are
actually
looking
at
creating
this
in
two
different
formats,
one
as
the
booklet
that
for
those
who
that
is,
the
best
format
for
may
work,
but
also
looking
at
making
it
electronic
so
that
students
as
they
want
to
dig
in
a
little
bit
deeper
into
one
of
the
career
pathways.
They
have
the
links
that
will
lead
them
to
those
next
pieces.
H
Yeah,
it's
really
cool,
I'm
really
excited
about
this.
I
was
in
bismarck.
That
was
fantastic.
I
appreciate
the
time
of
all
the
legislators
that
both
came
to
our
events,
and
that
gave
me
time
when
I
was
up
at
the
capitol
and
really
appreciate
the
support
of
the
ones
that
I
was
talking
to
and
I
think
that's
it
plan
to
be
at
those
open
forums
tomorrow,
5
30
at
south
thursday
6
30
at
north
and
looking
forward
to
see
our
public
out
there
and
vote.
A
Great,
thank
you
john.
I
had
I
have
a
handout
today
kind
of
some
interesting
stuff.
Last
week
the
city
of
fargo's
community
development
committee
met
and,
among
other
things,
they
are
responsible
for
helping
to
revitalize
some
of
our
core
older
neighborhoods,
and
we
had
a
presentation
from
a
new
group
which
is
many
neighborhoods
have
their
own
neighborhood
organization.
But
now
there's
a
new
group
forming.
A
So
what
you
see
before
you
were
some
documents
that
were
provided
by
city
staff,
that
kind
of
highlight
in
in
a
visual
way,
what's
going
on
in
those
neighborhoods,
and
two
of
these
are
specifically
in
the
roosevelt
neighborhood
in
the
area
around
ndsu
and
as
we've
known
for
a
long
time,
the
pressure
for
rental
units
versus
owner-occupied
is
intense
and
and
how?
How
do
you
manage
that
with
ndsu's
growth
goals
and
the
neighborhood
goals?
And
so
it's
an
interesting
conversation
not
easily
solved,
but
I
thought
these
are
just
interesting.
A
I
I
just
find
these
fascinating
to
look
at
so
if
you
have
any
questions
for
me
or
want
to
ever
sit
in
one
of
those
meetings,
just
let
me
know
yes
rebecca.
Do
you
know
the
name
of
that
group?
That's
being
formed?
I
believe
it's
called
the
coalition
of
neighborhood
organizations,
but
but
it's
the
person
who
spoke
was
don
don
morgan
spirit,
room,
john
morgan
and
jefferson,
okay,
and
so
that
she
there
were
a
few
members
of
that
group
who
were
there.
A
A
79
holy
moly,
okay
and
governance
met
this
morning
and
one
of
the
things
coming
up
on
the
next
meeting
is
that
I
will
be
asking
for
volunteers
for
the
three-person
superintendent
compensation
committee,
so
just
file
that
away
and
don't
be
surprised
next
week
when
that's
coming
up
and
just
a
final
thanks
to
especially
anne-marie
and
brock
and
dr
schatz
and
everybody
who
was
involved
in
putting
everything
together
together
for
the
crossover
breakfast
and
the
social
the
night
before,
and
I
think
I
was
pleased
with
the
turnout.
I
thought
we
had
a
good
conversation.
A
I
was
happy
to
see
the
legislators
who
were
who
were
there.
So
thanks
to
all
of
you-
and
I
just
have
a
final,
just
a
public,
formal
apology
for
my
unintended
tone
at
the
last
meeting
that
I
chaired
when
we
were
having
a
discussion
about
the
calendar
committee,
I
did
not
mean
that
in
any
way
disrespectful,
so
I'm
just
going
to
apologize
for
that.
So,
if
there's
any
other
business,
our
next
meeting
is
march
14th
we're
adjourned.
Thank
you.