Thank you. Big one. So anyway, we have the fitness director from, you know, the center, so anyway, all of these experts in this area are going to be really vital in making sure we have a great assessment and I'm really happy that Mike initiative and we're committed to making sure we get this assessment in front of us by April so we get to hear all the great work that is already happening but we don't get to hear about it enough especially if we haven't done an assessment recently in a timely way so I'm excited for us to get to hear about that work by the end of the year. SSD governing counsel was very basic. It was basically an introduction for all the new council members which I'm not so it was a, you know, here's what SSD governing counsel is, here's why we have it, here's how it's different than SSD Board of Education, etc. So not a lot of meat there but just a general first meeting of the year. Dr. Macklin and Shakita Moore were there as usual and they're doing an amazing... I want to give a give them again more props for continuing to fight the good fight and what they have to do in order to right the ship. They continue. The numbers they show at every single meeting are continuing to improve and faster than they even thought so I'm pleased to be able to report that. They're doing a great job.

The numbers they show at every single meeting are continuing to improve and faster than they even thought so I'm pleased to be able to report that. They're doing a great job. Before we move on to the next committee reports I apologize. I skipped over. I didn't see that. I wanted to announce some donations that we received in the consent agenda items. I wanted to thank Jay Douglas and Gail Workman for their donation of $2,000 to the globe. The Jewish Federation of St. Louis for their donation of $250 to the CHS debate team. DAF giving 360 for their donation of $500 to CHS soccer and also thank Big River Running Company for their donation of $700 to CHS track. So we thank all of them for their generous donations to the district. Gail Workman was my 10th grade English teacher. Oh, that's great. Ben, I think you had a couple of meetings. I had just one meeting so I joined the tech study committee which was awesome. Luke and Milena led that effort at Glenridge in the library. Very engaged group. It was really awesome. You would not believe how much tech is being used in the classroom. I mean the number of platforms and titles and electronic devices in the classrooms that assist and what the teachers do and it was really kind of structured around the empowered learning framework and sort of this is a tech study that's happened before so it's kind of a cyclical thing.

You would not believe how much tech is being used in the classroom. I mean the number of platforms and titles and electronic devices in the classrooms that assist and what the teachers do and it was really kind of structured around the empowered learning framework and sort of this is a tech study that's happened before so it's kind of a cyclical thing. Some of the key elements and we'll hear about this more like for example in the spring there will be a recommendation around devices but I think the work of this will also branch out into some different subcommittees so AI is going to be a huge topic. Obviously it's front and center for everyone these days and kind of looking at AI how it's used today, what are some best practices. There's also looking at some of the governing bodies around this kind of work like ISTE and others. I think the AI is a really important thing and I think there's a lot of good guidelines for this kind of thing and yeah there will be other things like infrastructure but really I think AI and the devices are the big goals for this year so it's been great. I'm excited to be part of it and it was really a lot of fun. Yeah. Great. Pam, you had some meetings. I'll start with the equity committee.

Pam, you had some meetings. I'll start with the equity committee. So the equity committee was formed five years ago and so Cameron, we, Cameron has just completed the first five years and so he reviewed what has happened in these five years and set up goals for the next one to five and so just for all of us to hear that in the last five years there has been an expansion of affinity spaces at K-12 for our district, expansion of cultural celebrations, they have done the equity walk-throughs which led to building improvement plans for each of the principles, building principles, using the implementation of data driven platforms like Educlimber and the MTSS system so that was very exciting. He discussed kind of the new district initiatives now and there are four of them, two of them I think. Yes. One is the Clayton cares community series. They will be focusing on issues of anti-Semitism, LGBTQ plus, African-American and Asian cultures I believe. Okay.

They will be focusing on issues of anti-Semitism, LGBTQ plus, African-American and Asian cultures I believe. Okay. Then he also spoke about the no place for hate curriculum that is coming to or has come to our district and they really gave some time to these intercultural dialogue groups that we're now having at Wyedown and the high school that include students from the community that are from many or all cultural, I'll say many cultural backgrounds and the intention of this work is to maybe transition our focus of teacher to student to also add student to student and help students learn how to communicate with each other about their differences and I thought that that was really, there was a lot of emotion in the room when we talked about that so that's the equity committee. The second one for me was the Clayton education foundation which Nisha had updated us about but they basically made some bylaws, changes, they voted in two I think new members, discussed homecoming and the rack and roll bingo that is coming up November 1st as a fundraiser or soccer. That's it. Great. Any other committee meetings anybody had? Pam mentioned this but I was going to mention and thank Dr.