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Superintendent Dr. Duffin introduced student finalists: Corbin Landis (freshman), Anna Hulberg (senior), Brecken Sanchez (junior) and Kierra (grade not specified). Corbin described a biomedical project that used image analysis and 3-D printing to model transcatheter aortic valve replacement sizes; Brecken presented a biochemistry project testing the effect of the preservative sodium propionate on enzyme activity; and Karis Sillman (presenter name from the record) presented work on anthocyanin and zooxanthellae to combat coral bleaching. The board congratulated the students.

District counselors Annie Falk and Ashley Steglander summarized counseling services and community partnerships at elementary, middle and high school levels. Falk said counselors work with Northeastern Mental Health, Salvation Army, Department of Social Services, local clinicians and school resource officers and coordinate with Northern State University’s counseling education program.

At the elementary level counselors reported weekly classroom guidance covering bullying, personal safety and career awareness, family engagement events, a kindergarten literacy signing night and transition activities for fifth graders preparing for middle school. The district also piloted partnerships with Lutheran Social Services mentors, and staff highlighted a program in which graduating seniors visit elementary schools in caps and gowns to inspire younger students.

Middle-school counselors described a web-leader welcome program for incoming sixth graders, a peer-mentoring \"Golden Crew\" at Simmons Middle School, Dream Big Week for eighth-graders with college and career preparatory activities and mock job application exercises.

At the high school level, counselors continue to provide weekly food and hygiene bags distributed through the Salvation Army, lead the Eagle Squad peer leadership program that mentors freshmen, and hold junior and senior conferences to support postsecondary planning. Staff also reported dual-credit rate changes from the state and ongoing scholarship and course-registration work for 2025–26.

Board members noted the Aberdeen Area Chamber of Commerce selected ATEC Academy for a community impact award (Abby Awards) and thanked staff for district partnerships that provide boots, coats and other student needs through the Aberdeen Public School Foundation endowments. The board also discussed parent outreach on early literacy and praised kindergarten signing-night materials distributed to families.

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Board members voted by voice and roll-call votes across the consent and action items. The board amended the March 24 minutes to strike the approval of Hub City Roofing and replace it with Guarantee Roofing and Sheet Metal for the Central High School re-roofing project. The amendment was moved by Mister Brian Sharp and carried by voice vote.

The board approved a workers’ compensation agreement after staff reported the district’s premium rose 20.7 percent — $56,000 — compared with the prior year. A staff member described the increase as based on a three-year average of claims and noted the district represents about 14 percent of the pool, contributing to the added cost. The staff member said the actuary expects a flat or decreased rate next year. The workers’ compensation agreement was approved on a voice vote.

Board members also approved negotiated agreements reached with the district's bargaining groups. The packages the board approved included a 1 percent salary increase and a 6 percent insurance increase for the represented groups; the board recorded separate approvals for the hourly staff negotiated agreement, the AEA negotiated agreement and the administrator negotiated agreement.

The administrator negotiated agreement was approved by roll-call vote. The clerk recorded individual board responses during the roll call; the record in the meeting transcript includes multiple \"aye\" responses and at least one recorded abstention. The board also approved district administrator contracts in a separate motion.

Other items approved included the annual South Dakota High School Activities Association (SDHSAA) membership resolution. The board approved the resolution by voice vote.

All approved motions were presented as consensus or simple-majority actions and recorded as carried; specific dollar amounts for future contract-year obligations and implementation schedules were not provided in detail at the meeting and were described by staff as subject to the district's budgeting process.

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District leaders told the board the adoption is designed to align classroom materials and teacher training with the research known as the \"science of reading,\" add a full-time literacy coach role and establish a consistent K–5 reading block while also updating middle- and high-school materials.

Missus Call, the district staff member leading the adoption review, said the district moved to a single K–12 adoption because of the many interconnected pieces involved in literacy instruction. “We update our curriculum documents. We always use some sort of a rubric that reflects the current changes in, teaching. And you've probably heard the term science of reading,” Call said, describing training and rubric updates used by the review committee.

The elementary adoption will use two primary materials: UFLI Foundations for kindergarten through second grade to target foundational skills (phonemic awareness and phonics) and Savvas MyView Literacy for grades three through five to cover broader language and comprehension skills, staff said. The middle-school curriculum will use a Houghton Mifflin literature product selected for its writing supports; the high school will adopt the Savvas MyPerspectives program.

Bailey Moore, introduced by staff as the district's new elementary literacy coach, outlined her role supporting teachers, identifying interventions and helping the district use assessment data to guide instruction. “Providing literacy resources based on evidence-based practices, looking at data — individual student data, classroom data — and saying how are we going to take this data and help it drive instruction and student achievement,” Moore said.

Staff described a 90-minute daily reading block at elementary schools, additional training for teachers through AIM Pathways and UFLI coursework, and pilot work that included kindergarten teachers using UFLI Foundations. Moore and other staff emphasized ongoing professional development, support for special education and English-learner students, and plans to seek literacy grant funding to help implement the multi-year adoption.

Board discussion touched on the research base for the adoption and how word recognition instruction evolves beyond early grades. “The early phonics and phonemic awareness is really — you start at letter recognition, you get into the sounds. But then when you get into third, fourth, fifth grade when students are fluent with those decoding skills, then you're working on things like morphology and you're working on Greek and Latin roots,” a staff member explained when answering board questions about continuity across grades.

The board moved and seconded the first reading of the K–12 language arts adoption; the motion carried on a voice vote. The adoption will return to the board for a subsequent reading and final approval at a future meeting, when staff will provide implementation timelines, budget requests and further detail on training and assessments.

The district also said it will continue early-literacy outreach to families (kits distributed at kindergarten signing events were cited), maintain the new literacy coaching position, promote early reading activities and encourage staff attendance at the South Dakota literacy conference scheduled for the summer.

Any final adoption vote will determine materials purchasing and the district’s spending timeline for the multi-year plan; staff said they intend to request grant support and to phase in purchases and training.

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