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March 11, 2026 — Meeting Transcript

This is a transcript of the Clayton School District Board of Education meeting held March 11, 2026. Excerpts cover updates on community engagement around Proposition O (including public events and facility tours), presentations on social studies curriculum goals and instructional practices (like inquiry skills, lateral reading, and CER), and discussion of district technology use (device policies, platforms, age-appropriate guidelines, and process improvements). The excerpts record logistical plans (coffee conversations, tours, parent‑teacher conferences) and a motion to adjourn the meeting; no numerical votes or budget figures appear in the provided excerpts.
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There could be an opportunity at some point to just for the sheer movement of as many devices as we're talking about looking into that but for the most part we're pretty confident that with some of the new processes going into place with identity management and with being able to provision the devices that we're going to have some good options. I think also from my lens what I've seen happen since Lucas come into this role and with his team because we have sort of a fleet of iPads already he's already been doing some work in streamlining some of the processes that the teachers will talk about how quickly now a child can get into a program so putting clever on the devices allows a kid to very quickly scan a QR code and get into what they need to get to whereas before we had children typing in long passwords and things like that, forgetting those passwords, that eats up instructional time so some of the things that Luke's team has been able to respond to from questions from staff and things like that they're wanting they have been able to make happen. We also have a pilot group right now that we call I am power and it's this sense of thinking about the iPads in this integration of empowered learning and they have been piloting different kinds of things with the devices as far as management is concerned as far as teachers being able to deploy something to students quickly so now we're sure everyone is on the same thing.

Emmett Barry who is part of our team has really dove in to making the student experience good and he's probably listening to this right now going what have you said about the student experience and he's really put a lot of thought into it so to that point we're really thinking through the experience of how it gets to a student and we'll be working with our team and working with the buildings to facilitate what that's going to look like going into next year and into the fall. We have some ideas and so we'll be flushing those out. There could be an opportunity at some point to just for the sheer movement of as many devices as we're talking about looking into that but for the most part we're pretty confident that with some of the new processes going into place with identity management and with being able to provision the devices that we're going to have some good options.

We have some ideas and so we'll be flushing those out. There could be an opportunity at some point to just for the sheer movement of as many devices as we're talking about looking into that but for the most part we're pretty confident that with some of the new processes going into place with identity management and with being able to provision the devices that we're going to have some good options. I think also from my lens what I've seen happen since Lucas come into this role and with his team because we have sort of a fleet of iPads already he's already been doing some work in streamlining some of the processes that the teachers will talk about how quickly now a child can get into a program so putting clever on the devices allows a kid to very quickly scan a QR code and get into what they need to get to whereas before we had children typing in long passwords and things like that, forgetting those passwords, that eats up instructional time so some of the things that Luke's team has been able to respond to from questions from staff and things like that they're wanting they have been able to make happen.

I think also from my lens what I've seen happen since Lucas come into this role and with his team because we have sort of a fleet of iPads already he's already been doing some work in streamlining some of the processes that the teachers will talk about how quickly now a child can get into a program so putting clever on the devices allows a kid to very quickly scan a QR code and get into what they need to get to whereas before we had children typing in long passwords and things like that, forgetting those passwords, that eats up instructional time so some of the things that Luke's team has been able to respond to from questions from staff and things like that they're wanting they have been able to make happen. We also have a pilot group right now that we call I am power and it's this sense of thinking about the iPads in this integration of empowered learning and they have been piloting different kinds of things with the devices as far as management is concerned as far as teachers being able to deploy something to students quickly so now we're sure everyone is on the same thing. They're not over here somewhere on the Internet when I need them here. The iPads have allowed us to do some of those things and Luke's team has helped us to be able to do that.

They're not over here somewhere on the Internet when I need them here. The iPads have allowed us to do some of those things and Luke's team has helped us to be able to do that. From my lens that's super important as far as maximizing time in the classroom and focusing on instruction versus spending time getting them into the device so I just want to say from my lens I think that's been really important work that his team has already been doing and so I see it that the fleet were to expand. And I think at one point too like Ben you and I talked about one of the things that we do see is that when somebody needs an application or something like that we very early on we realized that we were really inefficient. A teacher would need something, they would need an application, a software of some kind and it could be a month before that full process took place. We were able to take that process, reinvent it, redesign it, bring it digital and now we're seeing it in sometimes a matter of just 48 hours and being able to turn that around in just a magnificent fashion so we've been putting a lot of thought into this early on that to try and make this as efficient, efficiency is super important to me so trying to make it a good experience.