 Okay, so we will get started. And like I said, if we end ahead of time. That's fine. You know, if you guys have to, you know, if you're like, okay, we're done my 10 and 30. That's fine. So, okay, so the first thing on our agenda. We're talking ACT was kind of a big one. So I just put it here discussing testing time procedures. What will this look like suggestions. If there's something else all all kind of keep notes you guys feel free to type in there to if I'm missing something so I'm all kind of open it up. Hmm. I got one question. When we tested these seniors this fall. Have any of you gotten the labels For me, because you know I tried But it's a certain type of label thing you have to have I tried all my different labels so We haven't received we haven't received any reports or anything. No, we don't. Okay, I'm just checking because I haven't either and We've been able to go online and look at the scores, but that's it. We can't even do that. Oh, really. Wow. No. I have no idea what they scored other than what they've told me a couple of them. Okay. Because they went on that what success dot I didn't know about that until one counselor from another area. I guess you're very out of touch. I do call Iris a lot because Trying to get my online ACT online prep. I only have 15 seats for juniors and I have 32 juniors. So it's just kind of like and, you know, half the time I have to leave a message and she still hasn't gotten back to me. It's been a week and a half. It's probably because she's working on our issues. I feel so bad for her. Yeah, we still are not recognized as a district. And so it wasn't until yesterday that I didn't I couldn't When I go on that success. I don't even have buttons. Yeah. And so finally yesterday I got accommodation. So I know she's been trying to figure out our stuff because we can't access anything. So, I'll tell you Kendra that she had tried to access it like 20 times and every time I deny her because she kept coming through our account and not yours. You've been denied. You've been denied. It's such a nightmare. And I have to apologize for my appearance. I've been having an allergic reaction on my eyes. And so I kind of look like death. But the kids keep telling me like you are tired. Yeah, I know. Mascaroma Well, I'm just going to tell you something, Kendra. I'm just going to tell you something because I just have I've done this, you know, since Boyd County's been consolidated for three years. You know, seniors are sending me their unofficial transcripts or whatever for scholarships. I have called Wayne State College every single year because we're still West Boyd. Yeah. And it's so hard. It's like I've talked to registrar. They had me talk to a computer person and it's like It doesn't matter. No, it doesn't. We're still OC and we're still Clearwater High School and we're Yeah, so I mean, that's an issue that, you know, it's just And it shouldn't be that hard because schools all over the state are consolidating. So they should figure out some way that we could streamline this process because it's a disaster. I agree. Sorry that I just wanted to know if anybody else didn't. I thought I was the only one missing ACT stuff. Nope. Was there anything else about ACT? Well, Yeah, I think they're just in a whirl right now, too, right? Yeah, remember a loop. Yeah, it has. Okay, so if we go down to remote learning, do most of your schools have a plan for that? Somewhat, yeah. Have teachers been practicing that in case it goes, I mean, it can be a way to do business, but We've been doing it when we have kids quarantined. We've been using Microsoft Teams to reach out. I mean, that way there's really no disruption in instruction. Okay, I'm going to add that to the I Put Live connection. I put Zoom, Google Me, I'll put Microsoft Teams. I kind of forgot about that. We were just having the conversation. We just had a student come back from their second quarantine and for the second time they didn't do anything when they were out. And so their first day back was yesterday and they came late at nine and got out at noon because they're a wrestler and they went to the wrestling meet. And so we're wondering if maybe we could put something in where if they're out on quarantine and they're not doing their work, then they get zeros in there and they're not allowed to do extracurriculars until they're caught up or something because she's way behind. And maybe that would be a little incentive for the ones that are out to maybe do something so that they can play their sport or their, you know, band or whatever when they get back. Especially they may do that doesn't do it. I mean, it seems like maybe that's an issue. So Do you have a down list Kendra or like an activity down list because that's Friday mornings. And so yesterday it hadn't been submitted yet. Yeah, that would be So yeah, it just and I have two seniors that are failing require classes and Oh, I guess Disaster Yeah. Yeah. Registered like so if I fail. I'm not paying the money to do apex. So what's the point in coming back next semester. And I'm like How do you answer that question. Yeah. And do you think it do you see it because it's the time that we're in or would they normally be problematic or Might They've made their own bed but being in quarantine hasn't helped either. So And do you guys all have like a learning management system like either a canvas or Google classroom or Yeah, so you saw. Okay. Okay. That's good to know. Okay, like it's just like with those what Kendra is saying, you know, we we've as a school we've covered our our behinds by Talking to the parents and everything like that. But the parents also tell us so we can't make them do anything and it's like, well And I told my administration and I said when I get done with semester grades probably the way it's looking maybe February That we need to send registered letters out to those parents to let them know that Because I got I've got three seniors. They don't pass the required courses for semester. They're not rocking through graduation. Yep, you know, so registered letters or something because I said that they're not going to come back and and say, well, whatever, but I don't know. But they were failing before quarantine. So COVID hit in March. So I'm just I think this is just going to be the excuse that gets them off the hook. I don't think so because we've already talked to them. Well, that's good then. That's good. But I just hope everything can go back to normal soon. Yeah, because a lot of my students, I think a lot of parents are using this as an excuse for their kids not to show up to school. Okay, I can't type. Okay, so then there was on their scheduling. So I just put I didn't know if it was issues with credits rethinking what is offered creative ways to offer courses. Sharing between schools. I didn't know Like I said, we can kind of get that conversation started You know, we're using apex for credit recovery and I really love the system guide. I mean, we've worked with you, Tammy on that and I think setting that up but At the same time, it seems like if the kid isn't motivated to do the work in the classroom doing it through apex isn't any greater of an accomplishment. I mean, it's not I feel like all we do is pull teeth. Especially on their own. I'm I use apex right now. I got two kids are working because they can't take physics because My science teacher is so we had to split a lot of my a lot of our something eighth grade classes for science and our high school because We just we are a moment increase so much over the summer. We got a lot of South Dakota kids and I use it for those higher learning, you know, honors and stuff like that. But I know exactly what you're saying, Gina. I got one senior that You know apex was an option and I he has done absolutely nothing and You know, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink sort of thing, but I agree. It would but I love I I do like apex and the parents can't control them at home. So But they expect us to But I don't know scheduling. I don't know about your guys's schools. You know, we've been having a hard time. Finding subs just because our subs are older and during COVID. They don't want to come because they don't want to take the risk. So, I mean, we've been Our teachers are pretty stressed. And you know, like I like Patty was or whoever was saying, Don, you go and you sub in these classes. You know, because they think the counselor can go through go and be a be a sub and I don't know. I'm I'm just kind of holding my breath to make sure some of my teachers for scheduling. Don't decide to retire early. That's a fear because of COVID and because, you know, I'm not I'm surprised I got the video to show of me because I'm not real techie and with with this remote learning. I've got some teachers that really struggle with the remote learning because they're older. And they just don't want to deal with it. So I'm hoping they're not going to retire and then they do like schedule is going to be harder. Because would you Depend on what they are. Would you. I mean, hopefully you would replace them or Yeah, but teachers to find that to get the position there. That's right. You've been on Nebraska teaching jobs lately. Holy cow. Yes, I was shocked. But I wondered I wondered about retiring early because I just thought to if they're close and they're like, you know what I Because again, you know, I love the the opportunity for remote learning. But like when I even when I'm doing here with canvas or some of my things I'm doing trainings. To keep up. And like I said, I don't have the daily schedule that teachers have And you know, yeah, they have it all. But then it's it's that process to get it up and then to make it digital and then make sure that it works. And when your technology is down. So it doesn't always At all. I do. I do so many activities that you can't do remote. That's right. I started this year and I had my Ziploc bags of material and binders and I thought I'll have to shove these home with these junior high kids and then try to figure out how to show them how to make a mousetrap car or the solar car or the house. And then the kids are like, what do you mean you didn't think would be in session. I thought we didn't. I didn't think we'd make it to Labor Day. And then every event gives you a two week hold your breath. State fair, hold your breath. Thanksgiving, hold your breath. And now, you know, you just don't have any control over anything. And at any time, You've got to figure out how to get things sent home and keep rolling. Last spring, how did you check on the well being of some of those kids. It was hard. And the teachers academics were taking up time. So you Yeah, I felt so guilty like what can I be doing to check on my families without being passed because some families with Multiple kids and then teachers with multiple kids. They were saying, well, we're on that screen so much already. And I thought I, I go to lunch. I go to recess. I walk by classrooms. I watch my kids in action outside of just one on one. I just couldn't do that. And you just felt helpless sometimes. What did you do I just, I checked in. I was here, you know, during COVID. I was always at school. I just checked in with the teachers that were doing the remote. I said, Who are you concerned about Okay, you know, that's what I did because it's like, you know, for my careers class. I scaled back. I mean, I did everything on Google meet and I skate. I scaled it back to I think we had three projects to do. Yeah. But again, it was, I'd rather have him Do their math. Do their English because I want them to pass, you know, So But yeah, that's, I know what you're saying. I know you're muted. Sorry. Our situation was a little bit different because we had a death of a staff member. And so during our shutdown. And so I started out calling every family, but they don't answer calls from an unknown cell phone. So then I was texting every family and I had a lot better response. Text me that Uh huh. I texted every family at least At least twice, probably. And then I also started, we made a calendar of all the zoom time. So I had the All K through PK through 12 what time they were zooming each week and then I hopped on every zoom just to pop in and say hi to the kids and see I kind of watch for a few minutes To see who was engaged. I didn't I didn't do a lesson. I didn't I just was there basically so That's a great idea. Thank you. So that was a calendar of zoom times. Yeah, and actually it ended up working out pretty well because we had a family that was using a hot spot. And so it allowed us to kind of reschedule some of our meetings because their poor Second grader couldn't get on if his brother had a history zoom. And so it let our teachers like spread out their zoom so that they weren't overlapping because some of our parents, our families didn't have the internet to support that. We kind of did the same here to that stewart. We had a schedule. Yeah, certain periods of the day would be zooming at these times and you know And the teachers just put their zoom links in there so that I could just click on them and join and Yeah, and I like I said to you know I just I'm on that superintendent meeting every Monday. Um, like I said, there's no time. I mean, like, I think most of the schools are starting like their schedule time after Christmas. I mean, barring. There's no big Upset to the Apple basket, but it sounds like nobody's taken extra time off then I know that there are some schools that are Breaking a little bit earlier for Christmas, like maybe given a day off for the teachers. They don't have to come back, which I think is a great idea. Anything to help a little bit of morale. Because what do you do, like you said, you're in it. You can't change the situation and You just do the very best that you can Tammy, our school is going to present to the school board the idea of starting school on the 11th of January, January, a week later. Okay, thinking because we have some hot cases right now. We're thinking that families might have Christmas get togethers and we'd like to have two weeks after that. To get in the clear. I like I just can't. I keep telling the teachers to take care of their physical and mental health and get a lot of sleep exercise relax In those if we get a three week vacation if we do and then we'll extend in May, but the roller coaster may resume on January 11 right be strong and ready to face that. The other thing I know Madison, they right now are giving that they go to school Monday, Tuesday, they have Wednesday for teachers. So they have no students and then Thursday, Friday. Nor for last Monday, I believe they did not have school and this Monday they will not have school for their teachers. So, you know, I don't know if schools will think about doing something that second semester to if If things would change. I think that would would help teacher just because like to expect them when they go home to live sleepy. Like you said, it gives them a break, but I don't know. I just thought with Madison. I need to touch base and see how that's going for them. So You know, we were gifted this next Friday off, which is amazing and everybody's very thankful. But at the same time, there have been talk about doing some professional development on that days. And so some of the teachers are actually saying, you know, they, they don't want to not be thankful for the day off because they are thankful, but they were also looking forward to having some time professional development work time to get things done. To have some work days built in kind of like what Norfolk's doing to give those teachers a chance to catch their breath. I think would be helpful. Yeah, well, that's, you know, from our end, like I, like, I guess just because it's not been that long ago that it wasn't in in in there. You know, when they was, oh, what can we do? I said, sometimes I've asked teacher, they say, leave us alone and they don't mean that in the bad way. No, I don't take it. I'm like, we are here to help you, but I'm not going to shove down your throat that we need to come into training and do that. I, you know, and I if you guys help me get the word out, like if a teacher one on one wants me to come in there and help do one thing or stay the whole day to help make some things. But I will absolutely do that. I just don't want to schedule big trainings for people. I, I, there's no way there is no way that they need more different things. They need somebody, maybe to me to be all extra set of hands to help them do a iPad activity, something, but we're trying and we keep, I keep trying to push that here like we don't need to come up with new something that teachers don't want to. I think the state is being unrealistic. Like I feel like NDE, we still have to do a quest and follow all the same guidelines. We still have to follow all of the rule 10 guidelines. We still have to do the tip goal. Like I just feel like the state is out of touch, like what they're requiring and then they're wondering why teachers are burned out because you know you have to have that professional development in order to meet you know those tenants and it just seems like the requirements haven't changed other than the testing with the NCAS last year. But it's like the requirements haven't changed and expectations haven't changed, but they're saying, Oh, we're giving you less time to do it. And sorry if you're stressed out, but you still have to to follow all the rules that have been you know that were expected before COVID. Yeah, I just wish they come out and spend a half an a or day in the school. Really. I really think that has been, I mean, even when I went out that helps me. I mean, like I said, I just that's why I said I keep pushing on this and like we are not, I mean, we can do what's asked of us, but for me to push something out. I'm not doing it. You know, and there was talking right and you're like, Well, do because we're looking to see if we need to hire somebody out. You know, we when we lost Katie and Molly move. We don't have one extra person and they go, Well, schools are asking. I said schools aren't asking because this is a totally different year. You know, it's it's not that they're not. I mean, like I said, we might do little things, but it's that we can't base that on on this year. I don't feel So Well, and I think our teachers would rather have like a, you know, an hour in service and then six hour to work on it, explore it, figure it out, set it up, get it ready, you know, yeah. Yeah. So it doesn't just get shoved in a file folder in a drawer. Right. Or like I said to I need to find out if like say I would go out like say maybe you know a third grade teacher at Colorado wants me to come out there for an hour, like We can start counseling that I mean as professional development where it's not given to the whole staff. But or, you know, spend a day out there and I'll go in your classroom and half hour or whatever. I think professional development needs to look a little different. And then, like I said, give them actually time to work on that. I know I went to Stuart on It was the, let's see, it was back in November and and Travis had made time like we had two hours with three different teachers and we just he rotated a sub for that. And we had really good response for that. We stayed the whole day and just let them come. We show we did and then we let them work and we were right there. So that I felt that was really beneficial. And we got through all the teachers and they had time to practice what we were doing. And we're going to go out there on the 18th here and do some things with our kids. So, You know, it's those little bits of things I think are powerful. So, and I just think sometimes teachers forget that they can just, they can contact us without having to go through a superintendent or principal. By far, you know, we can come out there. We're not a secret and it's not that we're doing anything we're not supposed to, but just helping helping them. So, thanks that that kind of got off of the subject, but Well, no, I'm not I told teachers, you know, because we have so many kids that have been out quarantined. I haven't seen some kids for a whole month. And I finally just told the teachers, you know, I'll have your grades done by January 4. I mean, it's good. Put me in a bind that I'm probably going to do some late nights and getting report cards done and at least senior transcripts. By giving the teachers Christmas break to get caught up on their grading because some of these kids are still turning things in that were due back in November. So I don't know yet. It's been really hard Getting, I mean, it's just, I mean, I don't know. I made a joke that I'm not going to have some transcripts done by February. And it's probably going to be the ender classmen because I got to concentrate on the seniors because they need those transcripts with their first semester grades. You know, so I don't know. If anybody else has that problem, or if it's just me. No. Well, then I think I'm going to dual credit. I went, I know we're in the Northern tier meeting and, you know, just because their semester now, I mean, it's going to is looking different, you know, in the spring, it's going to go to what Gina, we talked about, but May 18 or something like that. Oh, you're muted. Yeah, May 18. Yeah. And our board, we graduate the seniors graduate May 8 and the board will not change that. Yeah. And that's what, I mean, how many conversations have we had with Northeast about this, Tammy, of, you know, trying to find out what are we going to do. What are you doing? What did Dorothy say? That they're aware of the situation. Yeah. I mean, I Before they even came, I think, Tammy, you might have been there. It was like in September or October, one of the Time when they were talking about this, I said, that's not going to work for high school dual credit. And they said, Oh, we'll look into it. Well, And they're still looking into it. Nothing's going to change. Well, on that note, too, I'm really struggling with these dual credit classes. They took them all off and Tammy's already heard my spiel at the Northern tier, but They took them off of the shell on canvas. So for kids to get their grade or to even access the instructor and all of my kids have built out the release of records. So I contacted the professors and they said, Yeah, sorry, we can't get that for you. We don't have We can't release that information to them. Like my kids have those forms on file. And they said, We don't know how to access those. I'm like, We are on a percentage system. I need the percentage grade, not the letter grade that you have on the, you know, the final grading system and but for the kids even to email the instructor. That's gone. All of that so quick like that. Gina, I was shocked. Yeah, I don't know, because that was another question we asked at Northern tier. And what was that answer, Tammy. Um, they're aware of that. And I think she was going to get she was going to try to contact their Some of the instructors, but like my thing is, why don't they just like even just put up the grade and then convert it to a percentage and be right there. You know, because I know like even Wayne State like I've taken class like I could still go my Wayne State college and I can look and see whatever grade I had from there. So I don't Look at the their grades and their permanent records and Northeast. They can, but how they go on the one. It's just it's like you got a C plus. Well, what's a C plus in that What was the percentage because we're in the same boat. Thank God, most of my kids, but I still have instructors that having given my kids a final grade. Yep, we have and I'm sitting here going listen people, you know, well, I'm just going to tell you, I think Michaela has deleted me every time. Oh, you know, I have to find different phone call phone numbers to call her on social answer. You know, she's they're going to get a shock is because I have a lot of kids that aren't taking college classes next semester. You know, see I'm teaching a dual credit class and they told me to go off our school calendar. So my final grades aren't do until next week. I mean, my final assignments for my kids aren't do until next week. Now are you doing that distance or you're just doing that in your building. I have one from Ewing and I have two from here, but it's not in person. It's online. Is I just wanted like with that we have in school that we run off the calendar. It's the ones that they're doing, you know, through Northeast instructors or their right ones that are on their calendar. Yeah, I was even wondering and I was going to maybe reach out to me. Okay, I thought of this afterwards like Why can the instructor like say if if you need grades by May 3, let's say If at that point in time, why can't they give them their given their percentage grade and then that way satisfies it for the high school, but then they have to complete that for the college and that way then they'll get their credit a little bit later, but at least that way for your grades for that. So I might reach out to her and ask about that. Because I want grades may we graduate May 8 I would like to have them by May 6 Right. You know, we had an interesting situation too. So when the kids in the past, I've just had them get them off of canvas, take a screenshot of them and send them to me of what their percentage was Well, when I reached out to the instructors to get the grades, a couple of situations they had higher grades as finals than they did that they gave them bonus points. And I never would have known about that if they wouldn't have written them down for me. What's that intro to Ed Yeah, and, you know, with my first year. So they recommended that I take one of their successful teachers canvas and they just copied it into mine and they recommended that I do it exactly the same as that teacher the first time. And then I could change it however I wanted and it's kind of a nightmare. So It's basically it's 100 point class. Yeah, they just copied that teacher's entire canvas into mine and I just changed the dates is what they told me to do, but it's 100 point class and so like everything's worth two points, pretty much. And the like to me, the rubric in the directions aren't specific enough. And so I had to give them full credit, even though I didn't want to because technically they followed the directions, you know, and so I've kind of gone through and had to email, you know, on the first couple of assignments, they had it in crap and I'm like, Oh, I don't want to give you full points on that. But at the same time, they did exactly what they were told to do. So yeah, it's I wouldn't teach it like that again. Okay, so go up here course offerings are like to with the DL. Are there any suggestions you have like for Molly or has she sent out an email for that at all yet for next semester. Okay, so she probably I just didn't know if there's anything that that you need like sharing of teachers or classes or Because Ewing, I believe gets their Spanish from O'Neill or do they get it from Lina now. Okay. And so we're just not yet do with Linda with Spanish, we don't have a Spanish to if anyone knows of another avenue for that. And we don't we don't have that. Yeah, Linda only since Spanish one. Okay, I think that's a good one. Deb, do you who's does your Spanish up there. We have Spanish, but right now we have kids from Niagara taking the Spanish one and Spanish to so You know, if we don't do Niagara next year we may be but you know she's very limited in certain times and that's just difficult. She can't be flexible because she's also the elementary PE. So she has to go every day up to but also Is it Donna Benson. Yeah. Okay, that's okay. So, you know, yeah. And then we have Mr heart that does the histories and we have Cindy curse who that can do math. She does a lot of our math for the Northeast. She's instructed there so But yeah, I don't know, you know, I'm getting into some kids, just, I don't know about you guys, but I've been very fortunate in to have always a class some classes that are very motivated to take the higher math and so to college credit, but It's going to come to a screeching halt probably in the next year or so because some of my classes to who are struggling students are in can vary. You just hope will pass to go into the next year. I don't know for see any of my down the road of a lot of kids taking a lot of college classes. I don't know about you guys. I mean, I'm definitely coming into a different breed of cat. Well, and I have a parent that she wants her son to go do something agate North East and she wants him to start taking all these credits. Well, there's really not a whole lot For him to take I know, you know, You know, I had a lot of kids, you know, with they're going into this year. I said, look into the colleges you're going to and the programs and they don't need English 1020. So I have a lot of seniors that aren't going to be taken they took English 1010 because they needed that, but they don't have to take 1020 And I even found out that a lot of their colleges aren't even going to need to have them take that public speaking 1110 For their degrees. So I mean, that's just it. I don't know if I don't know if the other colleges that are making it so that you would have to take their courses. Yes, I think they're building cohorts that you have to take their courses and then they're not accepting it from anywhere else. That's right. And I think that's what they're trying to do, you know, to make up their costs from shut down with COVID. I was just going to say that I think that's probably a cost issue thing I would say. But I do have a lot of kids, you know, my senior class here that, you know, they're not going to go into college. I mean, and they're doing work study right now in areas that I mean, they could use a two-year degree, but if the parents don't support them wanting to go to college, it's like, how in the world am I going to convince them? You know, and the only way they would ever took an ACT test is because they had to. Yeah, right. And their scores are very much reflect the fact that, because when I gave it to them, the seniors this fall, I even wrote down who got done with the English part in 10 minutes. And their score reflected it. It's like, why did we waste that? Now, see, we made it optional for our seniors this fall. Partially for that reason, if they didn't take the ACT, they had to take the English and language and math math test instead. Yeah, I think that I would like to, well, I don't know, it's not. But I mean, just because they're going to become a behavior and a distraction for everybody else. I did. I put them separate, you know, in the room so that, but you know, my other students did really, really well on this. So, but it's just the ones that wanted to will, but yeah. So, I don't know. I don't think I'm going to have as many dual credit kids taking dual credit in the future. That's just basically what I'm saying. So, I don't know. And I did put down for NC, or in northeast, maybe more A classes, because I know like to that that has been, they've just kind of started that depending on the need, I think, in the teachers available. And I've also talked to them multiple times. They did that training where English teachers without a master's can teach workplace communication. And they said that years ago, they did that for math teachers so that they could teach technical math. And they keep saying that they're going to put together. That training for our math teachers to go get trained so they could do technical math and house, but that's been a year and a half of asking. And I know COVID complicates that, but that's what I would like to see happen so that we could offer that in-house because a lot of the ones at northeast is workplace communication and technical math or your two main classes that they could get knocked out in high school. I haven't taken to Mitchell. Oh, up there. Yeah, MTI. Oh, MTI. I'm doing, I, you know what? Tell you the truth. I do a lot with Mitchell. But the only snafu that we ran into this year is NDE again, unless that Mitchell teacher has an Nebraska teaching license. So, yeah. I wonder what's going to happen. I mean, as I said, NDE has got to get with, I don't know, reality and see they're going to have to make it easier for people to get a credit or teaching endorsements and approve for teachers because I really feel that there's a lot of people who have, instead of having necessarily the degree, they're blessed teachers. They have the ability to teach. Don't make it so you have to, especially with agriculture. I mean, there's only one state in Nebraska, one school in Nebraska that you can get that with. I mean, they have to look at what is needed for jobs and make it easier to get people in the classroom. I mean, it doesn't, just because you have the endorsement doesn't mean that you're a qualified teacher and just because you don't have the endorsement doesn't mean that you can't teach. So NDE needs to be flexible and they're rigid. Hey, we'll probably be looking for a pre-calc teacher. I don't know how long Ed Johnson is going to keep going and we love Ed, but I know he mentions in the spring and it makes us panic and we'll be looking. So if you know a pre-calc teacher that's willing to do an LDL class, we'll be needing one soon. Yeah, I have a math teacher that is doing dual credit calculus in the Northeast and she might be able, but again, she's going to be overworked. I don't know. I just crossed my fingers with some of these teachers when they think about retiring and I'm like, oh, please don't. I don't know. I don't know. So Kind of moving on to student concerns. We kind of address, I mean, like, and then the elementary counseling sessions when Kendra talked about making that calendar for her Zoom links. Do you think that kind of helped with that, Dawn? I do. Kendra, how did you share what kind of a calendar were you using? What was your It was just a Google doc that I typed up. Partially for the reason why I started was selfish leaves. For me, it was a way for me to get the Zoom links from everybody so I could check in on the kids after Scott died. But then a lot of teachers and the administrators started using it also to randomly pop in on Zooms and see who was doing the Zooms. And so it was just a Google doc with a calendar and they would just put their grade level or subject, the teacher name and the time with the Zoom link. And that way anybody on staff could hop on any Zoom at any time and see who was there. That's just great. Thank you. I got to take a phone call. And do you see that with your students, I mean, are you doing anything different with social emotional learning or are you seeing any issues that they're having due to the pandemic or being in school? Here at Orchard, we're struggling with attendance and I know students aren't wanting to come back. They don't want to be here. They like to be in a home. And doing it. And so they try to find every excuse to be quarantined or, you know, learning from home, I guess. And we're struggling with that. Yeah, I have some that would rather be in quarantine and some that would rather be here just kind of varies on the kids. I had a niece and she's a very good student up in O'Neill. They were their mobile level team was quarantined and she missed the kids, whatever, but she loved doing her work online because she could work at her own pace. And that's, I was shocked because I just thought, you know, but she, she wanted to be in school with her kids because if I could just be in school, but do my work this other way and The social part. Yeah, that exactly. And I was like, wow. And I think some of our anti social kids are not anti social kids, but some of our more standoffish quiet kids. They, they would much rather do that and same with, I mean, I think there's adults in the work world that have come to love working from home and I think we're going to see after effects of that. An anxiety about being back to normal, you know, I'm glad that we're in person just so that they didn't get so used to that and not interacting with people because some of them really need that. I mean, he was the best remote learning was the best two months of Bo's life. I mean, he didn't want to come back to school because he's like this is great I can do my work and he got good grades because he just loved it. Yeah, I have a quite, I have a question about the, you know, When in the summers I work up in South Dakota at the park and I know the, I know, like the Wagner school and the Lake Andy school and I didn't know if any schools around here did it, but those schools, the students and the parents had to make the decision in the beginning for like, and I think it went by semester. Do you want to go to school or do you want remote so their teachers had to do both. Did any of you have that I mean we have remote in a sense those kids like Patty was saying or whatever that were quarantined or whatever, but do you give that choice to your students. We did when we mandated masks and it floored me because I heard so many kids in the halls outside my office that weren't going to wear a mouse and they were also thinking about the fun they could have outside of school hours during you know We only had one family, two students who are at home and they're doing their work at home and they're doing very well. And I don't know when or if they'll come back when this passes. I think that I think once masks are not required. I'm sure they'll be back. And they, they come in on zoom so if I go into a counseling lesson, there's usually an iPad on a stand, and then that this student is there participating just felt so strongly about wearing a mask that that was their choice. In our district. I know that the students who refuse to wear a mask the parents just automatically took them out and decided to home school. We force the administration force the issue. Instead of obviously came from South Dakota but force the issue then you will unenroll your student then. Okay, I heard that too. I'd heard of schools that said that ours was a in person or you're on your own type of thing. Okay, that's what I was kind of wondering because, you know, I think that's just putting a lot of stress on teachers. Yeah, if you're are required to do both and it's like, oh my God, but I mean, I think if the shutdown happens and everybody has to go remote, but I understand what Gina says. I have a lot of students that suffer from anxiety social and are bullying, you know, and they did very well in fact that's what they would like to do. All the time is just take everything classes from home but I don't think that's going to happen unless you know there's more of that trend. I didn't know if that was something that was talked about at superintendent meetings, Tammy or not. Well, nor for public starting the second semester they put out to their, their teachers school or families, if they wanted to be in person or go totally remote. And so I think they have about 300 students that are going to go totally remote. I will look into that more and get more like how they're doing, you know, like if they're what the requirements are if those kids get to participate in extracurricular. I'll look at all that and get that back to you, but I know that then also that they were looking at hiring some teachers that just do that because she felt like that would put a lot of stress on their teachers to try to do both. So I will also look at that because I know that she was talking about hiring like substitute to your retired teachers. So I'll touch base with with Jamie Joe Thompson, and I'll get all that information to you guys, because I got to ignore her does it and it gets I mean I just, I just wonder to what if more schools will do that or what. Well, I think it's coming down the pipe. I do too. I think it's so hard. Oh, I mean if you do both well. It's really hard. I couldn't. And that was probably my toughest thing here like in September when we had some cases and we had a lot of kids in quarantine and so I've got kids sitting in front of me I'm trying to teach them I've got kids on zoom. I'm trying to teach them but but that was pretty much how we had it I mean we're in person. And if you're in, if you were in quarantine or you're in quarantine you are expected to be on the zoom with the teacher as well so because we were taking attendance and so that that's kind of how we handled it and not easy on the teaching side. We manage, you know, it's not ideal, but you know, the teachers kind of have a light at the end of the tunnel now you know they can kind of take a break or whatever but if that, if they knew that going into second semester it was going to be like that the whole semester that would be pretty daunting I think. I got to ask of your teachers. Yeah. I mean I've, I've done it I mean I'm teaching three classes so and I had plenty of them in quarantine. We can be together. I have an elementary teacher in Butte that that's what she did because she's kind of like what Patty was saying she had half her class in quarantine half her class in person and she did do that but but she just like what Patty says it took a lot of time. And it's great if all the technology works but kids who they don't have the right the connection isn't good and so you're waiting on some and yeah I mean it just it disrupts the classroom there's no doubt about it. Right. I just, I had taken the thing with Catalan Tucker this whole she's very big into blended learning. Yesterday we had a follow up for an hour and she suggested because people had asked about, you know, there's a suggestion that we can give the teachers and she talked about booking bookends of the class I can have a welcome activity like when they join online this is what they do until you get the in person class started. And then you you just divide them up like then you do something with the on or in remote kids have their whatever then they start working then do the in line in person and then go back to doing like an exit ticket I mean she's kind of set up that way but again, that's fine but it takes the time to settle that up. And it doesn't work perfectly, you know, but she just talked about to putting having things for them to do online and then in person. So here in the same thing but then working on something a little bit different but I don't know just just a suggestion. Well, I put those things like I said I'll find out more I'll find out about how Norfolk's attainment that so that way that maybe we can learn from them a little bit. Um, so COVID procedures the latest DHM step are your super intensive principles good about passing those along to you guys. Okay, alright. Any questions about about COVID procedures. Any of you so I know technically we're essential workers so after a close contact we could technically come to school. Our district has chosen to not do that if we've been in close contact we're out for two weeks is that pretty much the rule of thumb in northern here is that not the case. Just curious doesn't really matter but maybe we only had one example of that and or case of that and they were essential workers so they were here. It was just that like one was our principal and he didn't go around the building pretty much stayed in his office. Yeah. Yeah, we just had quite a few teachers out and so I don't disagree with them saying they stay home that after a close contact I just didn't know if that was what everybody was doing or not or because what they talked about to know those close contact like if you in five days and maybe that because in five days you could test and if you're negative you could come back but I wonder kind of if they would change that because according to the directed health measures. Well because technically they'd never have to go into quarantine. Right they were essential. And so I think our district's going to go with you can test out of it because Mr. Saini is back today. It's day 10 he wasn't supposed to come back until next week for close contact so. Yeah, I mean I don't disagree with them being home after a close contact especially if it's in their house to me that's that's kind of a no brainer. I just didn't know what other schools were doing because I know like I think Nealey is you know they're an essential worker they can come to school even with a close contact is like you know obviously wear a mask and because the kindergarten teacher her husband works here and he came down with it. And when I was talking to him after he met his wife stayed there she wore a mask and whatever but yeah so I was like, I was shocked because I didn't know. You would have been out to so and like I said I don't necessarily disagree with it just because we're seeing a rise I just didn't know what everybody else was doing. And we've had kind of an interesting actually interesting conversation with the health department on let's say Wednesday. Because now the quarantines they're just writing down like a list of anybody who might have been exposed. Like there's there've been so many people who have gotten it or had covid that they're not keeping track of whether or not those people have had it or not. And so we're happy you like and they don't want to do. They don't list and say oh this person had it already. So then it's up to the schools to say, okay this person had it so they don't have to be quarantined. And they're not sending a letter out that says that person doesn't have to be quarantined. And so they said the same thing with any negative tests or antibody tests. They said it's up to the school. Well and I think they're so far over over extended because I had it here a few weeks ago and when they called to ask me my close contacts. I said well I'll give you their names and numbers I said they're already aware that I'm positive and they're like oh no that's good then and didn't even ask for their names. Oh yeah so um I think they're they're way far. I don't know I don't know what county I can't because we have a whole county address but we're in the county so I don't know which case I'm I'm in or which county I'm in. And so I don't know like I know for a while they were really behind on recoveries also, you know. And that's why our, our dial was so far up is because they hadn't reported, you know, as many of the recoveries as there were yet so. Yeah I think they're just trying to water. Because that was another aspect of the job I wasn't aware of was COVID tracker for council. Well that's what I asked Mr. Sandy I'm like so would I not have to quarantine again if I've had it and how long does that last. I know that answer. Because I had it here at work I um to two of our workers came in and they listed me as a close contact. And they were going to make me quarantine here at work they're going to make me take my temperature I said wait a minute I just had this so I called the North Central Health Department and I just said explain the situation. They told me right now that and if this has changed but they consider you immune for 90 days. Now that my name, my 90 days is up. And I get exposed and I'll have to but I just like Glenn and I have been testing. I've been routinely for our antibodies. And just last week we tested again and we're still our antibodies from when we tested back in September till now have remained high and they did not change. So I feel pretty confident about that that my our bodies could fight that off now I don't know if that's everybody, but I'm going to test here again in two months I want to do it. And just kind of see I'm willing to give my plasma you know but nobody's ever you know I need to call my doctor and ask about plasma and given because I will do that. Is it 90 days from when from your when you first had symptoms. Yeah. So ours was like August 20 till November 20 I believe that's what it was. And you can get tested for antibodies two weeks after you come out of quarantine. So that's what we did just. I just wanted to because I wanted to see what the levels were. And he never did go get tested so I want to make sure that he had it so just something that you know it's just interesting I guess if nothing else so. Well so how did that work Tammy here's a question for you I've wondered this so you said Glenn didn't get tested, but you know he had it. So how does that work with the quarantining then. When you were under that 90 days is he does he still have to quarantine or. Well he had it when I got it. So like I said that was back early on when they had so when I got on the 20th. That's when my site else isolation came for 10 days he had to do 14 days from the 20th of August. Well then when he got it in that time. We just removed he had it then we kept him out he stayed home for 10 days. I mean my question where he wasn't on file with the health department is having it. So if he was on November 10. Oh, I see we're saying. Yeah, I wonder that. Yeah, I don't know. Well because we went and got tested to analyze they could maybe could say hey I'm just for the antibodies I don't have you know. Yeah, I don't know Gina because yeah that would be interesting because he never was a statistic, technically. Because you know they told a lot of people that if you're in the same household and you have you know not to worry about getting tested so that's what I wondered how that worked. Yeah, and I just wanted to know for sure just because so he agreed to go get tested so, or for the antibodies I should say he was a wimp about the other one I said really, really. Just because I came on said, wow, that was not pleasant. And he was like, I'm not getting tested. I'm like, jeez. You're a farmer. My gosh. But he didn't have symptoms near as bad either so I don't know but then he's, he'd heard somewhere like blood type so I don't know. I have no idea. They say it does. Yeah, so that's, yeah, it's all interesting. Okay, so with the end. The school counseling did how have did did some of you get on on November 12. How did you think that went I mean are there pros cons. I'd like to be in person but definitely. It was okay. I'm much more out of just visiting with other counselors. So that's the part I'm missing when you're not in person. That's probably one of the best reasons and the, you know, that I go because I get more out of, you know, stuff like this morning that I do just listening to people but it wasn't bad information I guess. Yeah. I don't know why they chose to spread over three days I don't, I don't know why that is and maybe shorter I mean, which I appreciate that like I said to and I'm sure you guys like you learn now like, like to I don't you know like I set aside two hours for us but we sure don't have to because when you're especially when you're doing learning I'm like oh it is torture. It is, I have. Oh, oh, I can't stand all day zooms or even half day zooms push it it's just. Nightmare sometimes. And then I'm just given that aliyah I'm like with you getting reimbursed, it'll probably be coming next month so that'll be coming I just sent that into her so. And then with our, the NCE conference that's in Carney in June. We just got word yesterday that that will be virtual. Charging or last year, you know it was nothing was was charged for you guys I just gave anybody wanted to go I give them a $200 stipend for going or non contract payment. They're going to try to do it different now they're going to charge so like is that I'll still cover the cost of registration, but there probably won't be a non contract payment because then they want to track how many, how many minutes you're hours you're on I'm like, that's nuts. I, I know. No, no, no, no, no. So. So but like I said, if you guys if there's things that you want to like say a national conference that you want to attend online virtually let me know because I'll have extra monies to do things like that, or other training that you have. So please let me know because with Perkins I can do that because of again you know there's we're not doing a lot of in person things. So I've set aside money for lodging, you know, all those kinds of things so please let me know if there's something that you want to do or any professional development that you want to do let me know and then we could talk about getting that covered. So, I've been asking online for the last two years I've gone in person to tell you it's fantastic you get so many handouts you get so much information and you can ask if a if a counselor in another state will say well this is what we do then you say, could I have a copy of that and it's more than wonderful to share so if you've never done the ask the national conference and I think it's in Las Vegas this year but if they do it virtually like they did last year. And I've done the last two years, sometimes they're in session and you get the option to do virtually. It's really quality material that they're covering it's good. Do you know the dates for that, Don. I have it on my calendar. Okay, you'll find Aska the now I'll look at that and then I can get that out to you guys that way is like safe if any of you want to take advantage of that and that cost. I sure will. And don't let me, you know, like I said to let me know because you guys don't have to pay for that on your own I can do that through through these funds. So, okay, good. Thank you. Absolutely. Yep. And we talked about NCE is going to be virtual. Okay, so that I kept the youth frontier retreat on here because I was going to do that. And so then when right when we, you guys let us go on March, Sonia Richard talked to me and she goes hey team each goes, we're going to do this and that all went awry and I said, you know, this probably won't be happening. So, um, do is it still something that you think you want to do if we can do something next fall and we do it here at issue on different a different scale so it doesn't cost so much. What are your thoughts on that. We're fifth and seventh graders, I believe. Yeah. Or do you go back to kindness reason do you want to do have them do it. Please. What, I'm sure it's going to be expensive because I'm sure they haven't been I'm, because I still get some emails you know about, you know, because I'm sure they're going to raise their costs because they haven't been doing any. Yeah, I would date that I'll face to face. Hey, Deb, why don't you could you give me that email or that contact so that I can contact them. If that's something that I could take off your body mean now I know that. I mean, you can take that is really something that I could do because that way it's it's more broad and we involve so many schools. So that's something that I can do. Okay, I'll get it's already. Yeah, I'll get the contact to you. Okay, do that. So then I can ask their cost and then maybe I think I'll try to come up some different things and so then maybe in the second semester here, I'll send out some options, and then we can take a look. You know, I just know that the times that youth frontiers wanted to do it is they wanted to do it in August right when school was starting. And we kind of got that last year that we did it because some schools were not starting yet someone had started, and there was always a busing issue, you know, when the buses have to get back. And, you know, they just basically told me that this is when we're going to be in the area. This is when you're going to do it and I'm like, Okay, I was not real. You know, right. But you know where we haven't done anything because we haven't been able to do anything, you know, it was good. I mean, my, even my older kids loved it that were the helpers, they just love the experience so but it is pretty costly. Is there a better time. Well, it would be but it's always and maybe now that they have been not out of commission but maybe they'll be a little bit more lenient on when they can get here to do it but at that time. That was what we've always done and they weren't willing to budge. You know, I just thinking if like to them or if we if we I do something here that we do at the issue that we do on our own more, you know, is there what what time of year. Well, I'd say away from winter because with winter you never know if things are going to get canceled. Right. I don't mind the beginning of the year. You know we had done it before, like in late August early September that wasn't so bad but like the third day of school was a bit much. They were not, they were not going to, they were not going to budge. I because I told them that I said that you know, it's early. So like I said if I when I contacted them or like I said we just maybe try to do it like you know maybe we'll like school get in session and maybe maybe that first part of September maybe yes or yeah okay. And again you all know the cold conference is not going to happen just because of with everything else trying to get subs and then with the school counseling going three days we thought we just postpone it till the next year so um anything else for the good of the cause. I have a strange question. I was having a conversation with Jan in Ewing, and I think Denise was there also. So all three of us, well, maybe still have I don't know. There's old northern tier counselor binders, some of you veterans may know what I'm talking about. Here, hold on let me grab one. I might have been before my time. I think there's several of them. Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys use these sometimes I use some activities. Because I went through them and I'm like the activities look really good, but I don't know that if I was looking for that activity, I would go pull this out of the bottom door of my filing cabinet. And we're trying to go through things as we're preparing to move and so I didn't know like, I don't know why we use or they just a few like go through and maybe pick out a few that you think you're going to use type of thing and and file 13 or I don't know. That's the Missouri guide. I don't. Yeah, I don't know if it's the Missouri guide. Yeah, we purchased that though as a northern. Yes, as a northern to purchase that I didn't know if you guys wrote. Okay. I'm going to pay these up. They were purchased with northern to your funds. Okay. I threw one copy away because I had, we had to here at Boyd County, but I did keep one. Okay. Because yeah, we could potentially have three. So I just didn't know. Yeah. I never did see that an orchard Denise so. I mean, they were purchased because we were trying to find some consistency. Right. Throughout the schools to be able to. I don't think that's a bad idea either. It kind of use some of the same curriculum. And so that is what was found and purchased them. Well, there's definitely not one here and orchard Kendra. So. What? Did you file 13 that that's what Mr. Saini always calls it. I'm kind of OCD, so there's not much left. Or maybe Becky had it and then she left at one school or the other. I don't ever, but I never know. I never, but I think they've been down there probably since Mr. Greer days, because there was quite a, they were buried. Do you have three of them? One for each level. There was a middle and high school. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I'll tell you what, that was my. In March. When we shut down for COVID. I was, I mean, I showed up to school almost about every day, except maybe Friday. And I went through this office and I finally threw things away from 1986. So I mean to tell you. I had a whole, yeah, it was amazing. I'm still looking for the, the career card. Don't ever forget me. Dad threw his away and he's like, he gifted me all the junk from his office, but the card sort. I spent a lot of time playing with that. No, I threw that away. Yeah. I drowned in notebooks because they do have quite a few, but I did go through and yeah, I don't know. I save everything, I guess, but. Well, I think we have to be out of our building by June 15th. So our teacher needed to start back in. Oh, is that what they've given you, Kendra? I think so. We might be able to, I think Mr. Saini said he maybe, I don't know that this is official. So don't say anything in your building, but he was maybe going to see if they were going to have like an empty room or something where if we needed to, we could store some stuff, but we'll also have, should have some room, at least in another, one of our facilities that we could ship them to, you know, just like even if we had a classroom where we could just stack boxes in, you know, that are labeled or something temporarily, you know, to get out by August one or whatever. But yeah, I think the goal is for us to be out by June 15th. Yeah, I wouldn't think that all, I mean, like I think that building is huge. I mean, I eventually think they'll be more used, but I would say there'd be at least one that they could use because, you know, bringing over both. I'm talking to Mike flood this Sunday. So he wants that Mike flood wants to use Norfolk monies. I listened to him speak last spring and invest it in the smaller communities. And at the time he said he would like to start early childcare centers. And he said I would love to work with the ESUs. But typically they don't have enough room. And he was saying this last March, and this was kind of happening here, but it was under wraps wasn't public knowledge. And so I just kind of bit my tongue. And then once it became public knowledge, Carol Teal and I both emailed him. And so he's asked us to speak. He's doing a town hall meeting as he's running for legislature. He's like, would like to roll something out. He's like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure we'll have something like that. You said there's a lot of young people that would have moved back. But housing and childcare are an issue. So he said Norfolk will die without these small towns. So he wants to take some of their government funding and invest it in the small towns around it. Well, and I think they should, because I think too, you know, with our, that's one of our bigger towns to go to to do, if we have to do shopping. I mean. You said we all funnel there. And if we die, they died. Well that's interesting. So well I just want to show on the bottom of our agenda you guys I put and you probably maybe already know how to access all this but the NDE resources like we I was in a Perkins meeting yesterday and they talked about two sometimes you maybe don't know so I just linked the school counseling page there the career development and the career technical education page because sometimes I think that NDE site is not easy to navigate no oh my goodness gracious so I just went those two that they could be right there so you could use those and again you know sometimes you know we can always explore that more but I just put those down there in case and you know like I said with Perkins funds this Perkins five came out that like now it dips down to grade five so there's things you know I purchased some iPads so that way you know like I said if ever I can come out and do more training with you know we can I can bring iPads out we can do some things with kids so that's available if you're wanting to take kids like said if and when you can never take them on field trips or career explorations we can go fifth sixth seventh and eighth now I have funds to do that so just to keep that in mind if you want them to have a goes you know like I said those things out there so right now there's not much happening because oh here's Sonia because it's all you know virtual or just cancel so hi Sonia hi hi everyone sorry I'm late I told him you had a class so you made kale chips they are good I like them and Randall Creek yes you do well yeah yeah yeah but they won't harm me around so no I I'm trying to survive don't let this go any farther guys just between you but you know what I am so tired of having to break in new administration that's what we get and never maybe I'll retire sooner I don't know but that was the conversation we had I think is he going do you know where he's going or is he just I don't know I don't know but no so I mean you know it's kind of all I know is I you know we grew so much in size I mean we have no lockers in this building for all the fifth through 12 kids that we have wow and we we import a lot from South Dakota and you know the elementary but is that almost that capacity and then I go to land and doing all I mean they're you know hindsight's always 2020 because I really lobbied to have two counselors here at least one part time so one could be elementary one could do high school and now they're trying to say well we probably should have done that well you know so but no I'm still here I would like to do five more years you know I mean I like what I do but you know let's let's face it people I need the insurance it's one benefit I I need the most so I'm glad you're still here I do have however there we have a new egg teacher and she would like to go into counseling and I told her to get on the horn and she's starting to take classes for grad schools so I'm hoping that when I do retire she can just step into my step into the job but she's very good so nice to have you know somebody yeah because I tell you but you know I loved working with Oana and we work closely and I really wanted Oana to stay and I could be the runner you know she likes this she likes loves power school I don't love it you know but yeah I don't know it's just one of those sometimes I'm wondering I think I feel like I am more of a mental health counselor sometimes you know but that's something that this year I can't I'm not doing because I'm never in my office because I'm watching other classes so I don't know I'm still here oh good then if you are gonna retire yeah oh good I wish after this year I know is what I want to do when I retire maybe not my husband because he is retired everything costs money everything I want to do costs money and it's like okay well guess I better work you can dance you can dance dance around the pole and get money you know there's some places in South Dakota that might take it yeah I know I know yeah yeah well I tell you what even here in a whole county they had for the hunters out at this one place they had the strippers hold it let me tell you I was driving to school when they told when I heard it on the radio and I back at a deer because I had quite a crowd then I heard and then the women could take dancing lessons lessons the whole new career lesson oh I know it's like Katniss and Raven were their names oh my so I went out to the Dollar General here in Spencer and I paid in all these ones and the principal's wife is managing Dollar General she was deaf did you get this pole dance you know a lot about the situation Deb what's a former student that you're going great little counselor right yeah like what are you talking about she goes well don't you have a lot of dollar bills and then do something on the side to get all those dollar bills and I'm like then then it was then if I made sense and break the pole I don't want to see that I don't want to see that I don't want anyone else relief Tammy thank you there we go you have to take care of yourselves too we have that to the agenda pole dancing I got a question I you know down here you had the edge annuity yes who uses that if you guys use it Dawn did you ask me to look into that no okay who was it I know on our counselor listserv I do know it was I knew so I know some counselors you know in the state of Nebraska use it but I didn't know if any of us did all right so I'm just gonna tell you what I've learned cuz this guy has been calling me a lot so finally I was like yeah I'll do a I'll do a zoom meeting with you and the program sounds really cool and he gave me a demo for it the whole nine yards and then so I asked him I said this is really great and because we use second step and I thought that it went along with second step because one of our school improvement goals for the for the next cycle is gonna be social murder social emotional learning in the classrooms and so I thought this is something the classroom teachers could really do so I asked him what a site license would be and K through 5 was four thousand three hundred and forty five dollars and six through 12 was the same thing and so when I shared that with my superintendent he's like yeah no but the I he did give me a demo and I've been using it in addition to the you know to our second step program and the videos are really cute and whatnot but it looks like something that it would be I think I'm looking at it right now actually there's 69 different lessons and the lessons are about ten minutes each so I don't know if that'd be something we could do a group by with for ESU but I mean I liked it it some of it seemed kind of juvenile for fifth grade but they have like bullying cyberbullying dress and groom for success impact and contribute to community I mean they have all sorts of different things in different grade levels so it's a neat program it's just super expensive and that's yearly that's not a that's not a one-time only that's yearly and I don't know about you guys but we don't really have the eight thousand dollars to spend on that plus like for how 60 kids or whatever right I'll bring it up to like some is with ESURCC like they sometimes they can purchase things for less and I'll bring that up and we'll see where it can go from there and I know it's it's more to than just the this was the SEL I know that our fifth grade teacher has been using I believe it's Path lasers with the free account and he loves it and he also was like we need to I'm gonna see make sure which one he has that he has been using and he gave everybody the trial account wasn't this something that schools were using if they had kids at home like online learning because it's content too right like that because you're talking about that that was for math right so I don't know what school was it O'Neill that was using it do you remember in the listserv I thought I saw that they were using that because Cole had put out that email about what are people doing with all their kids that didn't come back from COVID and I remember someone had commented that I don't remember but okay well and then mr. Jesse had made the comment he was at a district that had used it and they really liked it but they ended up going with apex just because of the price so you know it is it's super expensive that would be cool sometime to like have apex come in and and metton and ingenuity and like just have them wow us show us all that their their bells and whistles and and have people talk about what people that have used it you know and then it'd be kind of cool you know okay and if you want to free if you want to have access to it I'm kicking myself that I didn't do this zoom meeting with him in January so I would have gotten the whole second semester because my my account I had it maybe in October and it runs out January 17th but if his name is Rob look I can get his contact information he mean he'll give you free access so there's something that you want to you know check out you can let me get I'll put that in the chat that would be great and then we can't yeah and some any notes that I took I typed them in blue and then yes so if you need to all right thank you yep you bet and then I'll send this link I'll put it on our our issue page and then I'll send in the link out to everybody so okay so I put him as a contact in there in the notes so okay so anything else for the good of the cause so what are you guys doing for to take care of yourselves seriously like you margaritas count I'll bring the nachos and salsa my treadmill broke and that like throws me into a huge tizzy so I've been sneaking around whenever there's not basketball practice and using the old gym and praying no kid sees me in shorts I like privacy yeah I don't know just sleep try 4 o'clock in the morning things that you have to do and then you don't you don't go back to sleep so yes I don't know it's just you all need a pet cow or a goat and set you up my daughter would learn that she's obsessed Millie might be my project I need to grow the bow just because she's obsessed with cows oh my gosh she needs to come visit me I know she does she wanted a mini cow last Christmas finally got that offer list I'm serious I we we need to have a day with Gina because I have no I have no estrogen at all I'm outnumbered and I need I need a girl and but I don't want one for good oh I've just my youngest daughter is going to be get married so I've been spending time I tell you what you're very indecisive on red and dresses so I don't know I'm really looking to maybe but you know you can't go anywhere you can't get on a plane I'm like why don't you just like go alone and then you can't plan anything because really taking reservations and so I think it's going to be an outdoor wedding probably in a pasture somewhere I don't know when is it what has she said it eight September 25 that was hard to September 25th because she you know gotta work around that football schedule of Nebraska if they have games so it's like geez Louise I I tried to tell her why don't you just get married on the sandbar on the Missouri River you know that she goes I'd probably be one year where they let the water out in the floods it's been yeah oh yeah that's been kind of that's been kind of more stressful than school and no money to travel yeah you know and then I said so we you know we really can't do to save the dates or whatever because she's like well I've covered still on she said we're gonna I don't want to you know have to have it limited of course in these small towns where you could have the reception they're small anyway so I don't know I'm getting an education in that field it was stressful Brittany got married in October I bet it what well you know my kids did they had a Sunday wedding because they had to move it from May 16th and the only time they could get the church and the venue was October 11th on a Sunday and then that course in Lincoln COVID kind of hit strong and so I didn't go because you know our school was starting to see a lot of COVID cases so I didn't get to go and yeah warm and it cut the reception short because the power went out we had the snow on Brittany's wedding and that was the first snow here in Nebraska so yeah we got it all we had COVID we had snow oh my gosh yeah and luckily luckily we had kind of watched our guest list of that as far as numbers because then that week was when they went to 50% capacity so yeah it was interesting but I mean you need to have your notes because I tell you what she's freaking and I'm like this is supposed to be a happy time an exciting time and not be a but then she got COVID because she works as a nurse and she did have to stay home and I don't know it was something else yeah we were just fortunate that because we were really afraid either Robert or I or somebody would end up with it I mean we had a lot of it here in our building and yeah yeah it it was an interesting time I have more fun to look forward to I told my daughter though I said after you get married I said when you guys decide to have kids if you have kids before five years I said let me know because that might be my next job was oh I need it I forgot to put this out Wayne State contact to me they they are in search of people that are willing to like observe student teachers so I think I'm gonna be doing that some of this next semester but they're still wanting more people so if you know of any like retired people within I think they have to have their administrative degree or master's degree just let me know you know if there's anybody that you can think of I said I'd kind of put feelers out there too so you can add me to that Tammy I always enjoy doing that okay okay I will I've never done it before so I'll either love it or pull my hair out probably I don't know it depends on the quality of the students speaking of Wayne State did you guys see how they're extending their scholarship deadline yeah that just found out after everybody stressed over getting it in well I had a parent say so we busted our tail to get done and we probably could have done a better job have we been given more time are they gonna give you know first come first serve but still allow it that sure are we all going into one pool or I don't know she was a little frustrated and I don't know what to tell her last year because then it gives them more time to perfect at least like fix it you know or make it better yeah you know so yeah yeah I know I don't know I don't think I I got a lot of students that I mean I feel very sorry for my students who graduated last year went and this is their first year of college because they're not getting the college experience and I have some students this year that if COVID still happens and it's not normal college they're thinking of maybe delaying and my problem is here if they delay I don't foresee some of them going well that and then then what about scholarships for freshman level because I did ask on Susan Buffett and they said they would just have to wait and apply for it the next year I don't know how that's gonna look you know when you've got then that one class and then the other class is gonna be graduating in that pool I I don't know if I risk it I I don't know I just tell a total of my said you know in my experience if you you know go I mean you gotta be open to new experiences and everything like that but I don't know I've had quite a few college kids that have switched to try and find somewhere that's doing at least some portion of it in person exactly exactly but then even like you know they they said they were gonna do it on or that some of them were mixed or some of them were in class then what they what ended up happening is so and someone would come down with COVID well you'd still have to have a hybrid class and then the teacher would say well I'll be here and you can come here but I'm also gonna be online so my present you can come either way so it's all hybrid anyway yeah well and something I found out yesterday I don't know how many of you have kids that go to UNL but I had a conference call with one of my students and one of the advisors in the College of Agriculture Agriculture at ag leadership and because you're UNL site I don't know about you guys but for me is very confusing of finding anything that is useful so I told my students let's just go into my office let's do a conference call so we did and they found out in this call that they are changing catalog for next year for so the incoming freshman next year are going to be under a different catalog than what is on their site and the requirements are going to be different and I said so because this girl found out that some of the college classes she took she don't need so she can get a program so what is this new catalog going to be online so these seniors now can look at that he goes oh it's still in committee and I'm like really I said are you going to are you going to grandfather these students in he goes well hasn't been decided because she might be able to test out of a math while we just the guy sent an email to the math instructor and she found out the yesterday afternoon we found out that she they won't allow her to test out of a math so today she's like well I don't think I'm going to go then to you know it's like oh my gosh I don't know but you know it kind of upset me because when are you going to let these people know just like with Wayne yeah I didn't get the email about extending the deadline my students did well I had traveled two years ago um I we had looked up with Mike Steney's daughter everything was going to transfer to Wayne and she needed them and we were all set to go and she got to Wayne and they would not accept two of her classes absolutely wouldn't count them as electives nothing because they re-streamed line the education program to try and get those kids out in four years because they were losing students because people are going elsewhere to get done in four years and so then she they wouldn't accept her I think it was personal finance and history absolutely would not accept it I don't know and I think you know I'm just sitting here going you know I'm not going to really push a lot of kids unless they know exactly what they're going to go into to make sure that they take classes that's going to need and that's why I said I'm going to have a lot of students seniors that are not going to take English 10 20 because they don't need it well to me like even five years ago when I started most of the the dual credit were like a general for the most part you need this at most for your colleges and now they're getting really nitpicky and that's not the case anymore I just I've almost come to a full circle where I when I first started I was like how cool push dual credit push dual credit well then some of them start college and they're having to start their sophomore year and they're not then they're missing out on the introductory level classes with the kids that are their ages actually and so I I don't a couple are good for transitioning purposes but I think we need to change the culture in the mindset of our parents because too many college credits isn't really that great I don't that's my personal opinion like Gracie my my own daughter she walked in with a lot of them and and she missed out on like those introductory classes and meeting your classmates yeah right the ones the peers that you're going to always be with and so I full circle on that I maybe 15 hours between two junior and senior years and that's probably about the most if that's pretty that's a lot still in my mind so yep I agree the problem is is we have kids who with colleges such an expense and they can't it's hard for them not to take advantage of the 40 you know nine dollars a credit hour but if you get a financial scholarship anyway if you're probably going to be eligible a little bit on that anyway though then we wouldn't end up paying from because if you had a scholarship you not actually those bubble kids that are bubble kids and we've got a lot of bubble kids that on paper they have money and in reality they don't and they can get yeah I hear you but and you know okay you know talking about Wayne State too then you had the R hop they didn't extend their deadline I mean I had some kids really struggling to get you know because they wanted that ACT score you know finding places that we're going to number one have the ACT test so they could take it in time to get that score you know because the R how are your guys's scores the ones that took them I don't have a lot of yeah yeah that was bad what the heck are we ever going to get I lost track are we ever going to get those little stickers anymore do we have to order them or what I don't know because no one knows I said they're coming I talked to Iris the other day because I can't even access mine online Sonia and so Iris said they're coming she was told that they're coming and you cannot find regular stickers that you have because I've tried three different sizes to get that all the scores on the sticker that you can copy off they don't work so I don't know I'm waiting for my stickers so that and teammates is changing this year I it's like quick changing things right now just this is not the year to rock the boat or do anything out of normal next year maybe not this year is your amount changing or their deadline or the requirements what's changing with teammates oh they're just they're updating and changing to a different system oh they are and I don't want to I don't want to know it I'm just ignoring it it'll go away and I just that annoys me so are you talking about the teammate scholarship no I'm talking about um the system that we go in like because I'm the coordinator to like okay get everybody matched and make upload their paperwork and blah blah blah it's they they love paperwork and I think that's because they're all working from home and they have nothing better to do and so they're trying to figure out ways I was just questioning because I did find out that in order to get this teammate scholarship you have to continue having a teammate throughout college now you do or you won't oh I hadn't heard that I had never heard that either is that three seniors said no thanks yeah is that the one that's from the central office oh yeah well but other colleges award based on them being in teammates so there's that benefit still and then like but I've had kids get the central office one before and I don't think that was a that I think that must be new that's a new it's new this year yeah I've had a couple kids get really nice ones from central office so that's too bad so what if you want one and they can't find you a mentor then what would you have to stay with the mentor you have back home surely not surely I wouldn't you know what I'm asking okay I have to jump off because I have fifth grade coming in yep that's fun like we can wrap it up to you guys good to see you all yeah next semester and see if if we want to meet one more time you know and kind of go over some things but thank you thank you for your time and please reach out to me there's anything that I can do on my own I don't care well thanks dammy happy holidays guys yep you too bye bye thank you bye