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School Board Meeting - Field Experience Rachael Waldman Grand Canyon University: POS 500 Instructor: E. Martinez October 18, 2023

School Board Meeting - Field Experience Every school district holds school board meetings. This is a time for important information to be discussed and the public to be heard about concerns within the district. I had the opportunity to attend the Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) school board meeting held on September 18 th . Throughout this paper I will discuss the school board meeting and what items were discussed, who was in attendance, how items were presented as well as what I have learned from the meeting and how I will use that information as a teacher. The first item on the agenda was a roll call of the board members. CPS has seven board members, only five were in attendance. Due to there being so many absent board members the president asked to vote to skip the second agenda item of the 3-month board priorities until all members are present. Everyone agreed to skip this agenda item until all board members are present. The third agenda item was superintendent updates. During this time CPS’s superintendent Iranetta Wright took the time to congratulate the national merit scholar of the 2024 semifinalists at each school within the district. The other update Ms. Wright had was from the community feedback sessions that were held in July. I personally found this second important because she was able to show the community with data points that the school board is listening to and trying to make the changes to the issue the community has brought to the attention of the school board. One of the most important agenda items was the fourth item is hearing from the public. This is a time for the public to step forward and bring attention to any concerns they have about the district whether it be about a specific school or the whole district. The CPS school board did a great job of allowing those in person time to speak as well as those viewing the meeting virtually. This allows for more community members to be able to be heard and voice their

options. Parents, students, and additional community members were able to speak and express their concerns about the district. There were nine people who came forward during this time. All nine people discussed climate change and how they would like CPS to make a change to use clean energy. Everyone who stepped forward to speak had two minutes to speak. During this time the board gave them their attention, with some members taking notes, the rest of the public sat silently listening to the speaker. During this time the board did not reply to any of the concerns and addressed that they will either add these concerns to the agenda for the next board meeting and/or a board member will personally reach out to them about their concern. The fifth agenda item was approval of minutes. This was a time for the board members to agree or disagree on the minutes of past meetings. Discussing this allows the board members to agree that what the minutes say is true and that was what was discussed. Therefore, in the future there can be no disagreement about what was discussed. The sixth item was resolutions. This was when they discussed past concerns that were brought forward to the board and what the resolutions were to the concerns. The final item was asking the board if they had any additional questions or concerns that need to be discussed. In attendance were parents, students, family of students, and community members. Most of the people were there in support of climate change and having CPS make cleaner choices of energy. This was something that surprised me but at the same time didn’t surprise me. Most of the people in attendance were people who were white and attended the “nicer” CPS schools. This did not surprise me because the schools in our district who need the most support are those who already feel they aren’t being seen or heard so they don’t always take the time to come to additional meeting like this or may have other obligations such as work that doesn’t allow them to attend to be able to be heard.

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The president, Ben Lindy, was the person who led the meeting. Throughout the whole meeting all members have chances to speak and voice their own comments or concerns about the topic at hand. The whole board meeting was civil, there was never a time that voices were raised, or inappropriate tones were used within the discussions. One thing I learned from attending the school board meeting was that not all the real problems are being discussed. Issues that are being discussed are issues that are outside the school or within the big picture, but the small issues in the small picture or the issues within the school buildings were not being discussed. In the future I will use this information to help myself and my team members to bring issues to the board and not just within the school but to the school board themselves. In conclusion, school board meetings are an important time for discussion. As a teacher I will be attending more school board meetings and will bring my concerns to the discussion as well. School board meetings are a time for everyone within the school district to be seen and heard.

References Board of Education / meeting broadcasts . / Meeting Broadcasts. (n.d.). https://www.cps- k12.org/Page/279

Waldman School Board Meeting

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