In accordance with Board rule, there is no discussion of Consent Agenda items, unless a Board Member requests an item be removed for discussion and action.

Executive Director of Human Resources and Operations, Dr. Tim Anderson will take time to reflect on the school district's achievements, events and stories of staff on the operational side of transportation and nutrition services.

For the past few months, District and Union leadership have met collaboratively with qualified neutrals to ensure the implementation of Effective Instruction is done in partnership. Both the union and administration are thankful for the collaborative spirit and truly believe that together, our district can provide excellent instruction for our students.  Dr. Tim Anderson will provide the board with an update on the collaborative process.  

The School Board Onboarding Taskforce worked throughout the 2024-25 school year to merge the MSBA Handbook with the SANB Handbook.  The board has had the opportunity to review drafts of the handbook at previous Board Professional Development meetings.  This will serve as the final reading before approval in August.  

As the entity legally charged with governing a school district, each school board is responsible to its community for governing efficiently and leading effectively to provide for equitable education, resulting in high student achievement. Effective school boards engage in a continuing process of self-assessment and use the results to identify opportunities for improvement. Using the MSBA five standards of school board leadership (conduct & ethics, vision, structure, accountability, advocacy & communication), an evaluation tool was developed for the St. Anthony-New Brighton school board to identify effectiveness and opportunities for improvement.  The school board evaluation tool will be shared with board members, with discussion of results at the August 19th board meeting.  

Each year, the school board develops a legislative platform that guides their advocacy with legislators and at the Capitol.  Attached is the 2025 Legislative Platform for review.  We did accomplish one of our items last year: Eliminate state statute requiring three day notice for remote school board meeting access. The board will have the opportunity to share ideas for the 2026 Legislative Platform.

In addition, the board will discuss legislative resolution ideas for the MSBA Delegate Assembly.  Last year our resolution "Allow school boards to publish school board meeting minutes on the official district website to reduce expenses" was passed by the delegate assembly.  Here is more information from MSBA:

MSBA is accepting legislative resolutions from member school boards now through September 24.

Your resolutions are the first step to developing MSBA’s official positions on important educational issues. Each resolution is researched and voted on by Delegates of the membership at the Delegate Assembly. Once adopted, these positions guide the MSBA Government Relations team as they represent you at the Legislature. Resolutions should cover any education topic of significant statewide concern and address desired legislative outcomes. Resolutions are not legislation.

Note: All resolutions must be approved and submitted by your school board and must include the date of approval. Submissions from individual school board members will not be accepted.

 

Each school board meeting, time is taken to reflect on the school district's achievements, events and stories of students and staff. The idea of these notes is to keep the board both informed and inspired about all the amazing work our school community has done over the past two weeks. 

Each school board meeting, the School Board members will take time to share information from the meetings, professional learning and events they have attended. 

Upcoming Meetings:

Policy Committee Meeting
July 15, 2025, 8:00 am
District Office Conference Room

Policy Committee Meeting
August 12, 2025, 8:00 am
District Office Conference Room

School Board Work Session
Tuesday, August 19, 2025, 6:00 pm
High School/Middle School Media Center