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Paul Saunders. I'm principal for the ASDB Tucson campus. We are here this morning for our high school honors assembly to recognize the outstanding achievements of our students here. So, I would like to introduce Sherry Brown to the stage. This is Sherry Brown making her way from the seating in the auditorium. She's now behind the podium. Can you hear me? Okay, great. Good morning, everyone. It's going to be an exciting day. It's just the beginning, and I'm very excited to kick off the award ceremony with my favorite scholarship, the Sunrise Lions Club scholarship. And the Sunrise Lions Club has been providing scholarship for ASDB students for over 30 years. And due to the declining number of members, the club closed, but because they had such a fond place in their hearts for ASDB students, they gave their funds for us to continue giving the scholarship. And when someone from the Lions Club came, they always wore their Lions Club vests with all their pins and everything.

e e e have your attention thank you for coming and parents thank you for being here parents and families we appreciate your support always we have a great event that's about to take place right now and we thank all of our third and fourth grade teachers and and we thank Miss Sherry from fun house movement for preparing this beautiful dance show that's going to take place right now it's an art dance is an art and it's a beautiful beautiful thing for our students to be able to learn and engage in and to celebrate together we also thank our Continental foundation for supporting this Brant that makes events like this and opportunities possible for our students so on that not we thank you all for coming please make sure to take recordings and pictures and more pictures and recordings and students let's make sure that we're respectful because they've been working really hard on all of this and that we cheer them on and webr and we also have a live stream Continental on our CSD 39 YouTube Chann Channel I don't know if youw we have that we do have a c39 YouTube channel so many of our events are live streamed so if we have family members who can make it today you can have them check out the live that will be there for them to see [Music] [Applause] later afternoon everyone as Miss said for quite a show I'm just going to talk to you for a couple of minutes and then we'll get on to the real the real show the fun um I have my notepad because I you know I'm nervous up here uh talking instead of dancing so I don't want to forget anyone um so as was mentioned my name is Sherry and I'm with funh house Movement Theater which is a dance company that's been in Tucson since 1998 and I think we've been here in Continental doing dance residencies pretty soon after we started in Tucson I myself have been here for 15 plus is years and it is a highlight of my year to be able to come here so okay I'm not going to get te moving right on um I want to get some thank yous so I'm up here at the microphone but this is such a team effort in order to pull this off and make this happen so we have thank yous to the third and fourth grade teachers who were fantastic group of teachers and to Miss Flowers especially for all of her coordination making this happen there's a lot of moving pieces [Applause] thank you to Mr pman and M for sharing their space their gym space the classrooms it was so helpful to be able to have access to those spaces um to miss Steve and the crew that helps move the chairs and charts in and out and in and out we put them through so much work uh in these last few days is so um to Mr F to Mrs bti thank you all so much for your support of the residen as M mentioned the Continental Foundation is one of the organizations that helps make this possible there are also a few other uh we have Country Fair white elephant the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Arts foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona those are also big supporters of the dance residenc okay so now a quick explanation about what has been happening with these third and fourth graders for the last nine days we've just had nine days together about 45 minutes a day for each class and during that time they've learned a lot about movement about dancing across the floor about dancing in one spot low levels medium levels high levels slow tempo fast tempo they've learned about core qualities or ways in which we Mo our bodies sustained pendular abrupt vibratory they've learn to Mo move at the same time they learned to move one right after another in Canon those are just the highlights of the many things in regards to dance they've learned what they've also learned is how to come together to create choreography so what you're going to see today is six classes and they chose songs Under the theme of different genres or types of music each teacher and class chose a genre and the class themselves listened to a few different selections under that type of music and voted on which piece of music they wanted and then they went through this improvisation process where they just kind of throw out whatever movement they would like I furiously take notes and then we come together as a class and we start to put those movements and maybe some other movements into sequences of choreography they do all of this as I said over the course of nine days they work on watching each other on honoring one another's ideas even if it's something they don't want to do they get to figure out how to deal with that and be kind and supportive in the process so this is what's been going on what you see to today is their creativity it is not my creativity so their choreography their ideas about props costumes they were the final decision makers on all of these aspects okay so now on with the show our first dance is going to be a Miss Lane's class and Miss Lane's class they decided they wanted to do to the pop genre of music and after listening to several songs they chose a song called feel it still and they decided to use chairs as part of their dance so can I have Miss Lan's class if you would stand up and you're going to walk to your beginning spots [Music] he Happ [Music] keep my hands on you [Music] my [Music] my en [Music] another [Music] [Applause] water [Music] our next class um is Miss W's class and the song that they chose is a song called shop and it's a song that we use within the context of the dance residency I teach about cannons um and in the dance residency we have music from all over the world and all all different genres of music Shan has always been a kid favorite it is written by an artist named Anna tiu she's from the country of Chile and she wrote the song as a protest song she wanted free education for everyone in her country the kids liked this song so much that they really wanted to use it as their performance song so the song is shock and the dance is about unity and supporting everyone within a group Culture country so miss W class would you please walk on to stage and set yourself in your handh holding [Applause] go [Music] spe [Music] for fore [Music] spe fore spee [Music] spe for [Music] J [Music] water he never gets old for me our next class is Miss Hof's class and they chose the music style of Hip Hop they listened to a few different songs and unanimously chose MC hammers can't touch this so um you will get to see quite the M here in Miss class so miss class go ahead and stand up for me and you can walk on stage into your [Music] groups for [Music] all right so in this H dance as you see in most of the dances there are times where they dance together in unison where they do the same movement at the same time there are times where you see one kid or one group go and then another and another and another we call Cannon then there are times where there's freestyle time where they get to do whatever moves they want to do for a certain period of time you saw that in the previous dances you'll see some of that in this dance and the other dances as well all right Can't Touch This tou touch [Music] this touch this [Music] at [Music] oh yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] break down [Applause] and [Music] [Applause] spe [Music] so we're going to have Mrs Flowers room in just a moment there's going to take the stage back here and both groups are going to teach all of you a dance so I'm going to get them on stage and then we'll talk about that part you guys could stand up for me great you're just GNA follow Dylan right here Dylan come right down through the center half of you will go on one not too [Music] okay so this is what Happ [Music] we're going to teach you a dance called the funy Penguin and we invite you to stand up for this dance if that works for your body if it works for your body to stay in a seat you can still do all of the moves with us so get yourself ready either staying seated or standing come back to silence for me water fall this is how the funy penguin goes you tip your ear to your shoulder and your head moves around One Direction and then back shoulders go up and down up and down you stay Qui I'm going to set the microphone down and use my teacher elbows out and down out and down hips go one way then another you're going to circle them around and say hula ho here we go one knee up and then the other reach up one knee up and then the other we do that we do that twice then we're going to do some body parts moving and the kids already help me figure that out you're going to do your head first you can move your head any way that you want then we're going to do hands that's right hands for next hands with arms yes Liberty says hands with arms then we're going to do hips and then want you feet and you can move your feet any way that you like then the last part we do this SE again and the very last bubble it always goes as Jack is pointing higher than the rest and so you grab that one have to reach for it you can later okay here we go everyone we're ready to [Music] should [Music] hear it [Music] love [Music] three [Music] it I can't touch this [Music] great Christian [Applause] all right Mrs class is Mrs CH rock music and there were so many songs that they wanted to choreograph to and they had so many ideas we could have just done three hours of Mrs Flowers class so it was a lot to keep up with them it was so exciting the two songs that we landed on are both by Cold Play the first one is yellow and the second one Isa and as you can see they chose to use parachutes for one of the dances so here we go starting with yellow and then moving into VI [Music] you [Music] everything all [Music] to [Music] [Applause] I [Applause] [Music] l [Music] [Applause] that was fantastic so [Music] wish must way back to [Music] so this is some of the behind the scenes that happens um during performance and during The Residency itself you know kids are absent sometimes um and sometimes like they're absent for a whole week and the first day they make it back is the day of our performance right and so then we just get to jump in and work together as a team and make it happen and we've had that happen quite a bit this time then we also unfortunately just had a student who had to go to the nurse and may have to go home so we had to do a little problem solving and saying hey who can take this part because he had kind of a very relevant important part and so another kid I was like okay I can step right on in so this is the problem solving that they do the flexibility that they show is absolutely amazing the next group that you're going to see has had many of those things that I just mentioned it's Miss House's class and Miss House's class they chose r as the style of music and we had a great time talking about Ray day as a musical form and unity and peace and love connection to the Earth and groom so we we've had a lot of fun they chose two songs as well um because they're so creative they chose Bob Mar these three little birds and we know that many of you out there kids and adults alike know the words just three little birs because it's r classic so we invite you to sing along with it if you would like to their second song is called B by Sister Nancy it's a form of re called Dance Hall re and so they'll be doing both songs so here we go this house class three little birds you see a lot of bird movement and B come on out [Music] w [Applause] [Music] yes my [Music] we all world [Music] [Applause] [Music] mess [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all [Music] B [Music] lady and my [Music] [Applause] [Music] time [Music] [Applause] te [Applause] spread out spread out turn around face kn M House's class is seeing up here and they're going to be joined by M monto's class we give class out here and then I'll tell you what's gonna happen all right [Music] all right so here is a song that we do during the dance residency and we do this song to talk about movement in unison different positions with our body uh connecting to Rhythm This song is called sodio and it is a favorite of the the dancers in the dance residency and so we have two classes up here to show you I know that some of the fifth sixth seventh and eighth graders who are here have done the dance residency with me you've done this song sodio if you remember it you can stand up right where you are and join us and do it with us also my third and fourth graders stand up and you can do it right here in your spot as well Mrs Mon's class is just as good at singing so you as they are at dancing so please feel free everyone to sing and dance to here we go [Music] [Applause] [Music] B [Music] [Applause] [Music] St [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] W from this house is you may [Music] e for CL is going to close the show the style of music that they chose to my great surprise and my great excitement was electronic music they chose the song around the world by D PR fabulous song So in this dance as in many other dances small groups of dancers got together and they created choreography each member of the small group contributed choreography and they decided in what order they would put it in what level they would do it on what movement quality whether they would stay in one spot or loc so lots of decisions about choreography went into this and from what you can see they're ready to get started so I'm going to start the music here we go I love you oh Clara [Music] d [Music] w [Music] w one more [Music] let's try one more time one more water water family members thank you all for supporting your kiddos through this process teachers classmates thank you all for coming out today to support the third and fourth graders we appreciate it so very much one round of applause for all of you one more announcement thank you to all of our teachers as we know it's going a very very very very easy year but if you guys could pause when you're at please we have an important announcement we want to celebrate our third graders for passing the third grade reading test and all proficiency was 61% of our C students were proficient in mathematics so much your all am am thank you everybody sh flowers

e e e e good evening parents community members and Friends welcome to Moon Valley High School's 2024 commencement ceremony thank you for being here as we celebrate the achievement of our graduating seniors at this time please rise as the Moon Valley High School Color Guard presents our state and nation's colors and please remain standing for an National Anthem sung by Moon Valley's concert choir and vocal Ensemble please parade the colors colors Ready Cut facings Hut forward March colors [Music] light was so proud at the Twilight last and bright St theight for the r parts we were so G streaming and the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] rocket the night our flag still there the [Music] starsled yet for the of the and the of [Applause] the retire the colors thank you and please be seated to enable all our guests to view our incoming graduates we ask that you please remain seated during the processional ladies and gentlemen I proudly present to you the graduating class class of 2024 [Applause] [Music] 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 [Music] all [Music] pick up the patience pick up the patience [Music] w [Music] he [Music] hey [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] Happ [Music] go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] com oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] [Applause] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] seniors please be [Music] seated and now our student body president Excuse me yes our student body president Daphne Valenzuela [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening faculty parents and my fellow graduates of the class of 2024 today as We Gather to celebrate the end of our high school journey I am overwhelmed with gratitude and Nostalgia first and foremost I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our teachers your dedication patience and guidance have shaped us into the individuals we are today from the early morning lectures to the late night grading sessions your commitment to our education has not gone unnoticed to my parents whose unwavering love and support have been my rock throughout this journey thank you your sacrifices and encouragement have fueled my determination and inspired me to reach for the stars to my friends who have been my second become my second family thank you for the laughter the late night study sessions and the countless memories we've shared from navigating the H as freshman to Conquering the challenges of virtual learning your friendship has been a constant source of strength and joy reflecting on the past four years I can't help but look at how far we've come High School much like life itself wasn't always smooth sailing there were moments of Doubt moments of fear but through it all we persevered we discovered our passions embraced our differences and forged lifelong friendships along the way as we stand on the threshold of a new chapter poised to embark on our individual Journeys I I urge you to embrace the unknown with courage and curiosity whether you're pursuing higher education entering the workforce or charting your own path remember that the Lessons Learned Within These Walls will serve as your compass in navigating the road ahead to my fellow graduates I leave you with this cherish the memories celebrate the milestones and never forget the values that have guided us thus far as we we bid farewell to high school and step into the vast unknown let us do so with heads Held High hearts full of gratitude and a sense of optimism for the future con congratulations class of 2024 we did it thank you and now I'd like to introduce Court Miner thank you Daphney we are most fortunate to be supported by our caring District administration and governing board governing board president Pam reice is with us this evening Pam reice was elected November of 2008 earned her Bachelor's of Science degree in elementary education and Masters in Education leadership from Northern Arizona University she's a teacher in the Washington Elementary School District and is a proud parent of a Moon Valley High School graduate Miss Reich has been an education Advocate and a volunteer in the community for over 20 years thank you for joining us this evening also with us this evening is Miss Kim msk Miss msk is executive director of Comm relations for the glendell Union High School District thank you for being here miss mosquita Moon Valley High School confers its highest academic honors by designating the top 1% of the graduating class I'm pleased to present the three students who hold the highest academic ranking in this class of 264 members these students will graduate tonight with the highest distinction wearing a gold medallion I ask them to please please stand as I call their names ad Rodriguez Vargas Gloria Mal and Adalie WN these students have combined GP at 4.96 and are in the top 1% of their senior class please join me again and congratulating them for their hard work and academic achievements can sit we're also joined by Moon Valley High School student body president you saw her speak already miss Daphne Valen wha and also by our 2024 senior class president miss Ari lascano both of these young ladies should be commended on their leadership and passion for Moon Valley their commitment to Moon Valley is a true reflection of the many great things we have seen from the class of 2024 thank you I would also like to acknowledge those students who are ranked academically in the top 10% of their class they are wearing red cords this evening while I will not present them to you individually let me draw your attention please to their names that are marked in your commencement program and ask you to please applaud their accomplishments as honor [Applause] graduates lastly please also note those stud students wearing red white and blue honor cords this evening these students will be entering the military upon graduation would you please show your appreciation for these graduates as well at this time we will hear from our three members of the top 1% we will kick things off with Miss ad Rodriguez [Applause] VZ good evening Moon Valley teachers staff friends families and the class of 2024 it is such an honor to be here it is such a Bittersweet and surreal moment for me as this is my fourth Moon Valley graduation I have attended I've watched my older siblings receive their diplomas in 201 2013 and 2017 every time I sat on a stance as a little girl wondering when it finally be my turn to walk the stage let alone write a speech for most of us we have looked forward to this moment and now we are here however the phrase I am looking forward to andeve the truth we often find ourselves yearning for what lies ahead rather than bracing the present moment during the summer if someone were to ask us what are we looking forward to we were most likely to respond with graduation in all of those moments we have thought about this exact moment now if someone were to ask us we would either give a Blank Stare since we don't even know ourselves let's be honest most of us are not really looking forward to adulthood now it gives us a chance to embrace the last time most of us will see each other without thinking about what lies next it is a time to celebrate our achievements and say goodbye to lifelong friends yet I want someone to realize that the future is not something we walk into it is something we create each person has their own idea of success and we all have the power to work towards our own goals who knows many of you guys will be successful in life high school is only the foundation of our lives so we should not lay our high school grades friendship or hardships to find or to tear us from our future career to end it off thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way I'm excited to see what the future holds for every one of us once again congratulations now I would like toce corya Mari greetings guests and fellow graduates um I'm glor Mal and if there's one thing we can all agree on is that graduating isn't a oneperson job so today I'd like to acknowledge the people that help us get to where we are today firstly I'd like to say a huge thank you to the friends that always had the the homework completed and the answers prepared may you find happiness success and nothing less these friends are the unang heroes of high school they didn't just help us study but practically carried us across the Finish Line it was through these friendships that I learned that there was strengthen numbers especially if those numbers are the answers to your math worksheet lastly thank you very much to our incredible families teachers mentors you've guided us challenged us and believed in us even when we didn't this wouldn't be possible without your contribution love and support thank you very very much for everything you've done to help us become the people that we are today and as for the future since I'm not qualified to be giving anyone life advice as a 17-year-old I'll leave you all with this prediction our future is filled with Endless Possibilities countless adventures and a mountain of college debt congratulations class of 2024 have a great one and now I'll introduce to you Miss Adalie WN hello class of 2024 family and faculty my name is Adalie W and it is an honor to be speaking in front of you here today back in mid-march my fellow top 1% and I were tasked with a spee with writing a speech for graduation problem is when you spent the last four years of your life with your nose stuck in a textbook crafting a riveting speech from nothing becomes an insurmountable Challenge and well I wouldn't be standing here in front of you today if I was someone who shied away from challenge Challenges ever since I was little I have never been good with words so I did what I do best in start researching I scoured the Internet for ways on how to write the perfect graduation speech my conclusion there is only one way to write a speech and that is to simply just start after all you can't go anywhere if you don't take the first step and while I personally plan to go to ASU and study biochemistry I know each one of us are pursuing a path unique to ourselves even so I'm proud to be taking this first step with all of you today of course I wouldn't be standing here today without the support from the people around me so I'd like to thank my wonderful friends old and new for making each mundane moment Shimmer in a way I never thought they could my most cherished memories are those spent tucked away in welcoming classrooms idly passing the time with all of you as we wait for the first Bell of the day to ring I would also like to thank my mom and dad d da ba um and the rest of my family for taking care of me and loving me even on my worst days gong lastly I would like to thank my teachers for nurturing my love for learning at the end of every school year I am always reminded of the book oh the Places You'll Go by Dr Seuss my elementary school teachers always insisted on reading it to us on the very last day of school and although we are no longer young kids I believe this story is the embodiment of the idea of taking the first step the second page of the story opens with the lines you have brains in your head you have feet in your shoes you can steer yourself in any direction you choose your on your own and you know what you know and you are the guy who'll decide where to go congratulations class of 2024 we did it and now our incredible vocal ensemble [Applause] [Music] time you can spend it when you spend it then you're running out of time you can save it but to save it is to take a little time in a minute when you're in it can you feel the passing time an illusion confusion when they tell you now it's time to get older time to work and time to waste there's no time to hold tell feel still 11 a.m.

e e e [Applause] BL lawyer good afternoon ladies and gentlemen as principal of Thunderbird High School I welcome you to the commencement ceremony for the class of 2024 joining me on stage for this ceremony are Natalie vmark Glendale Union High School District's governing board Clerk and miss maddingley associat superintendent of the Glendale Union High School District the class of 2024 is Thunderbird High School's 50th graduating class today is a special one for families and friends however these graduates are now the young men and women of the hour they have richly added to the traditions and the greatness of Thunderbird High School each graduate has made a distinct investment in their future we will commence with the honor of receiving a high school diploma at this time I ask that you silence all personal devices to preserve the Dignity of the ceremony tradition dictates that the audience remains standing during the processional ladies and gentlemen I now present to you the class of 2024 let the processional begin [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] our [Music] [Applause] M where right there oh no I [Music] [Applause] [Music] just [Music] [Applause] [Music] TR [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh yeah near body [Music] [Applause] [Music] he told me no I out he told me no my brother has an air [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wooo [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] than [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] insanee [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] down [Music] [Applause] [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right should I get started now [Applause] okay good afternoon I'm kadette Lieutenant Commander wima Williams the company commanding officer of Thunderbird High School's Navy Junior Roc please remain standing for the presentation of colors national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance counter March March by the dawn's light what so proudly we at the twilight's last ging who stripes and bright stars through the the hearts we were so gly streaming and the rockets R the bombs bursting in a gave prove through the night that our flag was still there oh say do that star spangled for the of Thee the prise [Music] please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all you may be seated now now please direct your attention to Thunderbirds vocal Ensemble who will Now sing for you Unwritten by Natasha [Music] bingfield window that you cannot find reaching or something in the distance so close you almost tasted release your [Music] inition I am un my I'm I just the in my hand ending on Staring at the blank page before you open up the dirty window let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find reaching for something in a distance so close you can almost taste it release your in feel the rain on your skin no one else can feel it for you only you can let it in no one else no one else can speak the words on your lip in unoken your life open today is way your Begins the rest is still [Music] un I break traditions sometimes R are outside the L we been condition not make mistakes I live my way staring at the blank page before you open up the dirty window let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find reaching for something in the distance so close you can almost face it release your inhibitions feel the rain on your skin no one else can feel it for you only you can let it in no else no else speak the words on your lips yourself in unoken your life open today is the on yourin no one else can feel it for you only you can let it in no one else no no one else can speak the words on your lips yourself in words unspoken Live Your Life With Arms Wide Open is where your begin the [Music] still staring at the blank page before you open up the dirty window let the sun of room door that you cannot find reaching for something in the distance so close you can almost tast it [Music] in feel the rain on your skin no else feel it for you only you can let it in no else no else can speak the words on your lip yourself in words unspoken Live Your Life With Arms Wide Open is again feel the rain on your skin no one else can feel it for you only you can let it in no else no else can speak the words on your lips yourself in words spoken with wi open today is where your book begins is still [Music] un the rest is still great [Music] the rest is still un welcome welcome esteemed teachers faculty families and of course hello to my class of 2024 for those of you who don't know me my name is Jasmine santhan and I have had the great privilege of being this year's senior class president as I reflect on the past four years of high school it is easy to say that there is great difficulty in expressing all of its obstacles challenges and unique experiences our backgrounds have made us each beautifully different from one another and have cultivated us and to the people we are today and while at times it hasn't been easy it does not take away from the fact that you are here you have done it and you will continue to move forward in a direction filled with so many unexplored wonders and opportunities so as we all sit here in our caps and gowns today probably questioning how time could have blown by so fast I ask you all to take this moment in admire it and experience it vividly with life and vividness in mind I want to call attention to the senior gift this year the seniors will be donating gym projectors to really bring back the life into presentations events and school assemblies as we embark on our individual Journeys I encourage you to adequately adequately hold on to life and the light that you find in it find the reason for your motivation your drive what will get you out of bed in the morning for me my light will always be found within my familia mommy Papi I urge you all to remember to hold on to your light in the moments where you are uncertain and find joy in the little things never give up hope in a future that is completely in your hands someone once told me don't worry about being 100% it is possible to do everything right and still stumble and so instead I urge you to take take each day as it comes and know that every moment is temporary do not fret at the idea of failure but instead smile upon the risks you take and remember how important it is to pick yourself up and continue pushing forward your life will only be so much richer and Fuller because of it you are not defined by your shortcomings but rather you are defined by your growth in character ultimately the goodness in you will always Prevail so so as we go on about life I encourage you to dearly hold on to the memories but also learn to let go when you must or just hold on when you need to I want you all to smile in the moments that call for laughter or or cry when you need a feel because as I look out into this amazing crowd of people filled with so many loved ones I realize that we each deserve to experience life fully and vividly I take peace in knowing that each of your individual Journeys are only just beginning and that you will each make the most of it congratulations class of 2024 the world awaits you all glory to God and I can't wait to see what you do next thank you at this time I have the pleasure of presenting those students who have earned the highest academic honor to be received by a graduate that honor is graduates with the highest dis distinction these students have achieved academic Excellence which ranks them in the top 1% of their graduating class Natalie vmark glendell Union High School District governing board clerk will present these honored graduates with a medallion of Distinction for their exceptional academic achievements students as I call your name please come forward Ethan quinnn [Applause] fat [Music] wi and Taylor [Applause] Stanley ladies and gentlemen I would like to present the top 1% of students for the graduating class of 2024 [Applause] hello fellow graduates School faculty and family and friends I want to reflect on a value that has helped us greatly these past four years that is the power of believing in yourself and others only through this action can we grow and carry out our goals in life at times it may be hard to picture ourselves overcoming the OB stacles and tribulations presented in the future but know that by your side are loved ones and friends who will be there to say you got this I would not be the person I am today if not for my parents grandparents Nino and Nina cousins and friends let us thank those who have continued to Believe in Us throughout our lives now moving forward we must get rid of the bad habit of saying I cannot do this and instead say I believe throughout our lives congratulations to the graduating class of 2024 I believe that all of you can accomplish your dreams thank you for your [Applause] time good afternoon my esteemed teachers faculty administrator families and fellow graduates I wouldn't have this opportunity to be here today without my mother father grandma my great friends and that especially that one friend who like to call me a nerd every day I guess that's how I make it to top one I may not know you all but I'm 99% confident that interval from one to 301 students captur the true me number of senior graduating from the class of 2024 here today there's no doubt that many of us here are either afraid or excited of what lies ahead but my advice is that don't take life too serious because we might not make it our life but that's what make life valuable as it doesn't last forever time is precious so make your life life count a famous modern Street poet once says oh well I guess you lose some and win some long as the outcome is income while the idea of material success does influence our life heavily I ask that you follow your dream and do what makes you happy some of our parents might remember the song D stop by the band Flintwood Mac the two life that stood out to me don't stop thinking about tomorrow and yesterday is gone yesterday is gone the past is in the past but your future is lying ahead whether you want to make it a phenomenal or make it forgettable it's up to you from now congratulations class of 2024 therb High [Applause] School good afternoon family friends faculty and most importantly the graduating class of 2024 when I found out I would be in the top 1% of my graduating class I was overwhelmed with so much joy and a strong sense of accomplishment then when I found out I had to write a minute long speech these feelings began to fade not because I get to speak in front of all of you guys but because I have no idea how I'm supposed to fit four years into one minute the truth is not all of us have experienced the same four years no matter what you felt throughout these years of High School I hope that you're feeling happy to be sitting in these chairs today one thing I've learned is that hard work and success would mean nothing without happiness and as it turns out happiness isn't based on having a big job loads of money being in the top 1% or as Mr Casper might think spending time away from your wife it is actually much easier than that happiness is found in taking care of your body spending time with loved ones practicing gratitude and ra random acts of of kindness we can all start practicing happiness today if there's one thing I learned from Mrs boyin it's that positive affirmations can really get you through a hard time so look around you turn to your friends and tell them something you appreciate about them remind them that you are proud of them for all of their hard work now we can't all be as motivational as Miss Miller on a random Monday but take note share kind words with someone else later today it feels amazing to receive re these words of affirmation but it feels even better to give them class of 2024 I know we will be able to accomplish great things I mean look at how far we've already come you are well on your way to finding great success but let's not forget to stay happy as it is the most important feeling thank you congratulations to the graduating class of 2020 before today is the culmination of years of preparation the realization of a job well done and the anticipation of what lies ahead today you can allow yourself a moment of satisfaction and take time to honor and thank the family and friends who have supported you along the way many of those people are here to celebrate this achievement with you your high school career has been interesting to say the least you are among a group of students who learned how to be more flexible and resilient in fact the first day of classes at Thunderbird High wasn't at THS it was at home you developed grit you had to you made it through a global pandemic that brought about unprecedented change in how you learned it is not something that we would wish for again but in the end it has made you stronger your lives and your careers will present many unexpected obstacles in the future I trust that what you have learned from your teachers your coaches your peers and of course your parents and Guardians has helped to equip you with the skills and tools NE necessary to overcome those inevitable challenges in life looking back over this school year there are numerous accolades for us to celebrate here are a few highlights this year's student achievement above all recipient was Allison Miller in addition to receiving this recognition she is a scholar athlete enrolled in AP Lit and AP stats this semester and finishing with a perfect 4.0 GPA our achievement above all student group was the outdoors Club our Outdoors Club is one of the most active clubs on Camp campus they boast a membership of just south of 70 students they have amassed hundreds of hours of community service just like the outdoors clubs other clubs and sports teams have made a huge impact on our community in total our students logged 20565 hours of community service our athletic teams had an outstanding year the following team sports made it to postseason play Bad Mitten girls volleyball girls and boys basketball girls and boys soccer and girls tennis girls tennis individual athletes qualified for state competition in golf swim badminton girls tennis wrestling and track additionally I want to congratulate the njrc students the Performing artists the the photographers and Visual Arts students as well as our CTE students your talents are a huge part of what makes Thunderbird high school so successful I submit to you ladies and gentlemen that the class of 2024 brought their top game as students when I look out over this group of young men and women it is no wonder that Thunderbird High School continues to be an institution of Excellence I would now like to take a moment to recognize students for outstanding achievement on State Testing seniors if you earned a gold silver or bronze medal for your achievement in State Testing please stand up congratulations you may be seated their performance reflects their hard work as well as their teachers hard work in the classroom thank you finally I would like to report that the class of 24 has earned over $ 11.5 million in scholarships class of 2024 Thunderbird High School is proud of you we wish you all the best as you work toward your future successes it's been our pleasure working with you over these past four years we will miss you I would now like to introduce to you Mrs Natalie vmark Natalie vmark is a lifelong member of the Glendale Union High School District Community as a graduate of Thunderbird high school she and her husband chose to send their four children to Thunderbird as well aside from graduating from Westmont College in California Natalie has been an active member in the north Phoenix Community serving the North Mountain business Alliance National charity League of Moon Valley North Valley chapter of boys team charity Trinity Bible Church's children Ministry young life and the parent organizations at her neighborhood schools she and her husband are part of their family-owned underground construction business please welcome Miss Ved mark thank you good afternoon this is exciting and a little surreal so good to be here with you uh I A lot has been talked about what has happened in the last four years but I would like to have you expand that time frame a little bit because a great deal can happen in six years you now are all around 18 years old and six years is about a third of your life so today as I get to speak to you I want to speak about the very formative past six years and look forward and encourage you in what happens in the next six years as well there is a vast difference between the sixth grade version of you and the 12th grade version of you thankfully right that's good your taste in music has changed your hairstyles have probably changed your hobbies and your interests are likely different and you've probably improved on the things that you've enjoyed and what you know now academically and relationally has grown exponentially sometimes you need to take a big step back in order to to look at how far you've come and what you've accomplished during the four years of high school graduates in the May in May of 2018 you were just finishing up your time as sixth graders for most of you that meant there was a big transition ahead some of you were going to a middle school or you may have been changing um the way you moved from class to class you were likely in a class with students that you had known from for the last six or seven years and that was going to be shaken up and the fact that you would be leaving what was known in your Elementary School was both slightly terrifying and could have felt about four or five months too long looking back to see how you maneuvered through these changes can prepare you now for what lies ahead you are about to leave the comfort of what you've known and it's likely that it's slightly terrifying and it could be a few months too long since you have earned your high school diploma at Thunderbird you are prepared to take on the choices and the challenges of the 21st century your work and the support of the teachers and administrators has Prov provided a foundation of all that lies ahead so here are some challenges to lean into in the next six years keep taking on things that seem hard and don't let yourself become too comfortable embrace these new relationships and expand your circle of friends in higher education and in the workforce these relationships will have an even bigger impact on your ability to succeed than you've even experienced previously finally when you're discouraged remember that things can look different in a matter of 24 hours in as little as 24 hours but they can be drastically different when you look at the trajectory of what six years looks like so keep that in mind as you set your goals and follow your dreams now I want to talk as a parent of a graduate I want to talk to the parents of families and friends that are here and I want to talk a little bit about what this Milestone looks like for us this is significant and it comes with a range of emotions six years ago I was an arena like this when my oldest graduated from high school and it was a day full of joy and smiles and not a tear was shed on my part maybe others but I just had such a great time however the following day and some of you may have been with me I went to an elementary school celebration a culmination of sixth grade and I completely melted down as I watched the students walk through the halls with the teachers coming out and applauding I was an embarrassing puddle of tears and I know I embarrass those people around me some of you might have been there I tell you this because you just don't know how these moments will hit you and what it will be like um but the beauty of embracing the stages and the very very big and many emotions is that we have so many new things to celebrate in the years to come graduates be kind to your family if they have embarrassing tears just know they love you and they aren't trying to embarrass you in this moment and now I get to do the very fun part as a member of the G Glendale Union High School District governing board it is my honor to congratulate the class of 2024 from Thunderbird High School I and the entire glendel Union High School District governing board have the brightest hope for your next six years as a member of the governing board of the glendel Union High School District and by the authority vested in Me by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Arizona I accept and confirm that the Thunderbird High School class of 20124 has met the requirements for graduation Mr laam please present the graduates to receive their diplomas ladies and gentlemen we ask that you moderate your applause until the completion of the ceremony as a courtesy which will permit the families and friends of graduates to hear the names as they are announced will the first row of the class of 2024 please rise and prepare to receive your diplomas [Music] his on Wilma Angelina Vicky Williams Joshua James ruelas Jasmine araseli santian Edward Andres Paredes Ortega Ethan Michael Quinn Alex an Weston f tan NN summer an Tilly Taylor Ray Stanley Kira Marie Tilly Grace marleene ktic Trevon Anthony Rockwood Lily Jade Emery Bailey Heaven Smith Marley Rose Sanchez Ryan James Spears Micah Juan fona Xavier Angel Romero Michaela Lunsford Marco Antonio marinez Serenity Elizabeth Davis jayen Jeffrey Valentine [Music] Tyler Ethan George Roman Edward Tes Michael I'm sorry Richie Michael Smalls Jr Briana Guadalupe cadenas Kai Roger vanic tap Jasmine Suzanne dure [Music] [Applause] Stone Glenn Meadows EST Stephanie Alama Lopez jafan sing rathor SAR eser 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we just graduated it is such an honor to have served as your student body president and I feel Beyond blessed to be given the opportunity to speak today at graduation according to my friend Sarah Chandler our voice is the most valuable gift you have been given I have learned this over the years through listening to others our teachers have used their voices to speak valuable lessons into our lives I mean I would not be where I am today without the voice of miss pavick our family has used us used their voice to shape us into the young adults we are today a major thank you to my mom dad and especially my little sister Parker I don't know what I would do without you guys our friends use their voices to make us laugh and bring us Comfort we have learned so much through each other's words that being said I really had no idea how I wanted to use my voice for this closing speech as I was reflecting on our high school years hoping that inspiration would suddenly wash over me I came to the realization that every single one of us have walked a path of our own get here you all are my inspiration no one else has seen the world as you can or can explain it as you do I want to take this moment to offer some advice to all of our graduates today as medine would say do not let one bad thing affect the rest of your life we all know that obstacles will be there for us in the future but as Kaye Hammond says never let anyone or anything tear you down bana would add that you should never listen to rejection rejection and I know that if Williams Wilma Williams were up here she would say to keep going and never give up throughout life Haley would remind us to have fun because as Isabella terera likes to say it's really not that deep Elio's advice would be to love freely and live your life full of love Lizzie kak and Grace costic would remind you to enjoy it well last because you only live once as you face new experiences Billy Bob Walker reminds us to have an open mind and to Never Say Never and perhaps some of the best advice I've ever heard comes from Ry who wants to remind you all to not die I want you all to take a moment to reflect on these words and notice how they make you feel you may be listening to my voice but you're hearing the words of wisdom from the peers who surround you today don't make the mistake of going through life believing that your voice doesn't matter I want each of you to realize that you have left an impact on someone in some way use your voice to lift other people up and make a difference as we step into the world as high school graduates I want to congratulate each of you for how far you've already come although challenges are inevitable I'd like to think we have been adequately prepared to face these challenges headon as Kira Tilly reminded me every one of us is capable of doing something worth witnessing remember what you have learned from the voices of others and always keep in mind that your words impact and influence the people around you congratulations Thunderbird class of 2024 and all glory to God thank you during the recessional we ask that all guests remain in their seats at the conclusion of the recessional guests should exit the facility using the doors located on the north end of the building all graduates must be met outside of the building teachers we are ready to begin the recessional graduates please [Music] rise graduates please move your tassel from right to left signifying a high school graduate parents and guests I present to you the class of 2024 [Applause] [Music] J [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] for

e e e [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] please please stand for the national anthem performed by Cadet jakai Fagan and the posting and retiring of the Colors by the Cortez njrc [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh say can you see by the dawn early light was so proudly weh at the Twilight last gleaming who's brought stripes and bright stars through the peral fire oh the ramp parts we wased were so gly streaming and the rocket red glare the bumbs bursting in air gave prove through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that star spangle B yet wave Oh Land of the Free and the home of the bra [Applause] [Music] you may now be seated greetings graduating class cherished families and dedicated staff I am Angela Solorio your student body president over the past last four years I have come to understand the true power of connectivity as I stand before you today I wish to impart a humble piece of advice be the change you wish to see in the world be the good you know exists in humanity amidst adversity and Global tensions the virtues of love and solidarity shine brighter than ever it falls upon us to shape the future we envision it is our time to step forward as leaders and as Catalyst for positive change there is much left to learn much left to experience and much love for you all to share with the world keep an open mind an open heart and approach the future with empathy and determination that being said congratulations to the class of 2024 I am eager to witness I am eager to witness what you guys will do [Applause] next the most important responsibility of a school is to promote academic Excellence Cortez High School confers its highest Distinction on students in the top 1% of the graduating class I am pleased to present two students who hold the highest academic ranking for this graduating class please stand as I call your name mert Chan ishik ail narez Loya [Applause] May students students who ranked academically in the top 3% please stand when I call your name and be recognized for achieving the status of high distinction Rael gabra [Applause] HT Leslie Munos Asia Lee [Applause] Wilson finally I wish to acknowledge those students who are ranked academically in the top 10% of this class and have earned honor status while I will not present them to you individually let me draw your attention to their names which are marked in the commencement program and ask you to applaud their accomplishments now you will hear from our students who are graduating with highest distinction following their remarks Freddy Hernandez senior class president will make a presentation on behalf of the senior class I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the importance of choosing the right friends and influences in one's life if there's any one thing that I accredit My Success to it's the fact that I've always surrounded myself with people whose qualities I admire when I wanted to become more disciplined I joined wrestling and learned how to rebound from failure after failure both on and off the map when I wanted to learn more about business to eventually start my own I found like-minded people who motivated me to continue my education the list goes on but the point is that whenever there was a characteristic a goal or anything I wanted to achieve in school or life I sought out people who I knew with would push me towards my goals the people who you spend time with are a reflection of who you are as a person you become who you surround yourself with and as you move forward in life to wherever you may choose whether it's work college or trades be mindful of who it is you you are around sooner or later you'll adopt those same characteristics whether good or bad thank you and once again congratulations I would like to begin by asking the class of 20124 to reflect on their four years of High School freshman year sophomore year junior year and finally senior year almost every day this year was spent thinking about today and what's after today but this isn't the year of last this is where we decide the beginning of our tomorrow I would like to share a piece of advice from my dad my dad encouraged me to have pride in myself to carry who I am and my differences With Honor we will encounter situations where we may look or talk differently than others but we must have pride in ourselves it is this individuality that makes us unique this strength that has got us here today and where we plan to be tomorrow I know like me there's a lot of graduates here today who have loving parents or family members that have made great sacrifices for them to be able to stand here today I stand on this stage today proud to call myself a graduate for my parents who are unable to I'm blessed to have a loving family and group of friends that support me relentlessly and to them I am truly thankful it has been a wonderful four years thank you class of [Applause] 2024 as your senior class president it is both a privilege and an honor to stand before you all today graduating together is not just about crossing a Finish Line rather the journey we've shared and the remarkable impacts we've made on one another no matter where our paths may lead it is important to carry the lessons we've learned and the friendships forged into the next chapter of our lives with that I hope to maintain unity and spirit on campus by announcing our senior class gift as a new mascot costume to be a beacon of school spirit and celebration this new mascot will leave a lasting Legacy inspiring future generations to uphold what community means to Cortez High School commemorate tradition and provide entertainment for all although we might be leaving our impact will forever be embedded in the community we chose to share I know Bright Futures await you all so I'd like to say one final time congratulations to the graduating class of 2024 Freddy on behalf of the students and faculty of Cortez High School I want to thank you and the senior class for the thoughtful and generous gift thank you thank you the concert band will now perform a selection titled salvation is created [Music] la h [Music] l ah [Music] [Applause] at this time I would like to introduce two special guests Mrs Allison maddingley associate superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the glendell Union High School District and Mrs Natalie vimar Clerk of the governing board Mrs vimark is a lifelong member of the Glendale Union High School District community as a graduate of Thunderbird high school she and her husband chose to send their four children to Thunderbird as well aside from graduating from West Mount College in California Natalie has been an active member in the north Phoenix Community serving in the North Mountain business Alliance National charity League of Moon Valley North Valley chapter of boys team charity Trinity Bible Church children's ministry Young Life life and the parent organizations at her neighborhood schools she and her husband are part of their family-owned underground construction business please join me in welcoming our governing board member clerk Natalie vimark to the [Applause] podium hello this is an exciting day and I want you to think back um on how much has happened in six years now I know we're at a high school graduation and you're wondering why I'm saying six years but when you are 18 years old six years is a third of your life so as I speak to you today I'm speaking of these very formative past six years and then I'm going to look ahead and encourage you in the next six years there's a vast difference between the sixth grade version of yourself and the 12th grade version of you your taste in music has changed your hairstyle has probably changed a few times you've probably have different hobbies and your interests are either improving or they're different and become more advanced and what you now know academically relationally has grown exponentially sometimes you need to take a big step back and look at how far you've come to appreciate app all that you have ha all that has happened in high school graduates in May of 2018 you were just finishing up your time in sixth grade for most of you that meant there was a big transition ahead most of you were leaving elementary school or moving into harder classes at the same Elementary School and and having different privileges you likely were in a class with fellow classmates that you'd been around for six to seven years and the fact that you would be living leaving what you had known in elementary school was both terrifying and probably about 12 months overdue looking back to see how you maneuvered through these changes can help you prepare now for what lies ahead you're about to leave the comfort of what you've known it's likely that this is again slightly terrifying and also about 12 months overdue since you've earn your high school diploma at Cortez you are prepared to take on the choices and the challenges of the 21st century your work and the support of your teachers and administrators has provided the foundation of all that lies ahead so here are some challenges to lean into As you move forward to the next six years keep taking on hard things and don't let yourself become too comfortable you will be exposed to new people as you go into new settings Embrace these relationships and expand your circle of friends in higher education or the workforce these relationships will have an even greater impact on your success than they have previously finally when you're discouraged remember that the things that things can look different in as little as 24 hours but they can be drastically improved in six years keep your goals ahead of you with the next six years in mind and now to all the friends and family that are here of these graduates this Milestone of high school graduation is significant and it comes full with a very full range of emotions six years ago I was in a an arena like this and I watched my oldest graduate from high school and I just had the biggest smile on my face the entire time it was simply a joyous day however the following day I attended the celebration of my sixth grader who um had an event where they walked through the halls and the teachers came out and clapped and after watching that I cried uncontrollably at a sixth grade celebration to the point where it was very ugly cry and it was quite embarrassing you just don't know how these emotions are going to affect you but the beauty of embracing the many stages of the journey is that you know there are new and exciting things to celebrate just ahead graduates be kind to your family members who just might have some of these big emotions today or in the next few days they don't really intend to embarrass you they might not mind it but they don't intend to embarrass you with them as a member of the glendle Union High School District governing board it is my honor to congratulate you for graduating from Cortez High School I and the entire GSD governing board have the brightest hope for your next six years and Beyond Mrs Parsons please join me it is my pleasure as principal of court TZ High School to certify that these students have met the requirements for graduation as set forth by the Glendale Union High School District accordingly I present this class and I respectfully request that you accept these graduates and that you and Mrs madingley confer diplomas upon them this is the fun part as a member of the governing board of the glendel Union High School District and by the authority vested in Me by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Arizona I accept and confirm that the Cortez High School class of 2024 has met the requirements for graduation misss Parsons please present the graduates to receive their [Applause] [Music] diplomas seniors will those of you seated in the front row please rise and prepare to receive your diplomas [Applause] Angela Carolina salario MH thefa Mt isek Dominic 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dig in those Hooves and chase your dreams seniors please rise [Music] [Applause] all right seniors you may now move your tassels from right to left parents and guests I present you the graduated class of 2024 congratulations [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right you may leave house music please [Applause] w [Music] a a [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] n [Music]

my remember e e e good morning as the proud principal of Glendale High School and behalf of the entire staff and administration welcome as Glendale celebrates the 113th class to graduate the graduating class of 2024 these [Applause] graduates these these young men and women are now the young men and women of the hour tradition dictates that the audience stands during the procession before the graduates enter please rise and turn your attention to the center of the Arena as I want to present to you the faculty that has diligently worked with your students over the last four years [Music] of [Music] for [Music] and now I present to you the graduating class of 2024 [Applause] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] l [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] y [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] seniors please remain standing for the presentation of colors and the national anthem [Music] St the [Music] the [Music] [Applause] please be seated good morning fellow graduates faculty family and friends welcome to the Glendo High School graduation ceremony for the class of 2024 my name is AOL shabber the 2324 student body president at glendell high school it is an honor to speak to you this morning and before I go any further I would like to start by saying how proud I am that despite the adversities we've faced over the last four years we're all here today today is a day filled with mixed emotions knowing the season of our life has come to pass how often have you heard the phrase you've changed from people who' have appreciated your differences to those who haven't and we have changed even reading an old journal entry from the previous year doesn't sound like what I say today through these seasons of my life good and bad I've learned from them because we cannot change what has happen but to accept the lessons and opportunities given through them change just happen to be a part of life so regardless if these were the best or the most difficult four years be open for what's to come and it's okay if you're unsure of what that is because I'm right there with you standing here today would it be possible without the ones who have supported us to Mrs Morris this class was fortunate to have such a dedicated teacher who wished for nothing but to see a student succeed to my older siblings thank you for supporting me in every possible way and to my parents fleeing from their home for a brighter future not only for themselves but for their children my parents have molded me into the person I am today and for that I'm forever grateful most importantly I am eternally thankful for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ here's to entering a new season of life with the Spirit of Courage congratulations to the class of 2024 the future awaits [Applause] [Music] I you in my heart sing sec [Music] to only in my arms [Music] again [Music] foreign fore spee [Music] close your eyes and let [Music] I will soon be we only untils again [Music] [Applause] good morning faculty family and more importantly the class of 2024 my name is josa madak your 2024 senior class president and it's an honor to deliver this speech I can almost remember the one week break we got in eth grade that turned into a year and then began our high school experience online we had to deal with numerous trials and tribulations Co wacky wife and wild assignments but it was all worth it because here we are many of these achievements were made with the love of our family I want to thank my family for always pushing me and for teachers who never gave up on me even on my lazy days to Mr Brooks you always push us further than we thought we could go even if it meant taking a finals and when we didn't think we were smart enough it took teachers like Mr Parsons whose motivation and classroom style made us believe we could be as successful as we wanted to be at senior class we wanted to give back so our senior class gift we installed permanent wraps on the front office windows for staff we hope this gift reminds you of the class of 2024 for students as you walk past this beautiful rrap May remind you of the class and glendel carnal spirit and how far you've come congratulations class of 20124 and may God bless [Music] [Applause] our most important responsibility as a school is to promote academic excellence and to help form a foundation for that next phase of Life what's next Glendale High School confers its highest academic honors by designating the top 1% of the graduating class it is a privilege to present the three students who hold the title of highest distinction I've asked board member arita to assist me as I ask these students to come to the podium when I call their names to receive their academic medallions Stephanie [Applause] Martinez say Gonzalez Juan Lopez students we as a community acknowledge and respect your remarkable achievements thank you good morning my name is Juan Lopez and I extremely honored to be speaking to the class of 2024 We Gather here today as graduates parents and staff to celebrate celebrate our education and the steps we have taken to get to this very moment there are not enough words to express the Gratitude to all those who deserve it but I will leave it at this the effort of those who have helped us get here will not go unnoticed we promise you that we are extremely thankful for your support even though we may not show it at times [Music] and to you my fellow graduates take this time to cherish The Memories We have made but don't do it for too long we are not showing we are not finished showing the world we what we can accomplish whether you will continue education in Massachusetts Pennsylvania Somewhere in Arizona or if you're going straight to work we cannot forget the importance of the community around us sometimes we can get caught up in our own lives and forget those who have helped us determine who we are those around you are the reason you are the person you are today but you are the one to choose what to do with your own life be someone others can depend on someone you would want in your own life don't sit on that friendship bench waiting for something good to fall into your lap if you ever stuck with who you want to become just remember remember you want to be the top half of the wheel as it moves twice as fast when the bottom half doesn't [Applause] thank good morning and welcome to glendal High School's class of 2024 graduation my name is s Gonzalez and it is an honor to be speaking with you all here today first I'd like to thank the staff and faculty at Glendo high school if it wasn't for teachers like Dr Schmidt miss kette doc Mr barboa coach Trudeau and Mrs hernandes many of us wouldn't be here today you truly work conducive to all of our success and to my fellow classmates I want to talk about the very things that drive us our dreams on the stormiest of seas our dreams will act as The Guiding Light on the hottest of days our dreams will act as the Oasis for it is for it is these dreams that shake the very foundations of our beings our Essence our expression dreams are the rap cities of our souls and even so we lay uncertain we take murky glimpses of our futures and we believe that there may be little hope hope that we won't meet our expectations but I was given some advice by someone very dear to me who told me that with tenacity and perseverance doors will open to have tenacity means to have the power to face any challenge that faces you to persevere means to have the ability to overcome for only when you are tenacious and persevere will you find the answers to your uncertainty I pass this advice to you all to become tenacious to be guided by your dreams to persevere where it is at that moment you will find your own simple truth and to end this speech I'd like to thank my mom who has worked harder than anybody I've ever seen without you I wouldn't be speaking with you all here [Applause] today thank you so much for attending glendle High School's class of 2024's graduation it's been an honor to have grown in dreams with you all here thank you [Applause] good morning esteemed guest and the graduating class of 2024 my name is Stephanie Martinez and it's an honor to be before you all we couldn't wait for this moment the last day we're here in the same room at the same time waiting for the ceremony to be over anticipating the future we anticipated the future so much we may have sacrificed the present but it's because of the ambition running through your veins using your struggles as incentives to embark on your dreams of achievement I hope you continue to persevere through adverse times strive Envision always be tenacious never be complacent never let the fear of making mistakes halt your pursuit of success but I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't those who guided my life in ways I didn't realize then thank you to Mr Hopson for being the first person to believe in me before I believed in myself thank you to miss Colette Mr Brooks and Dr Schmidt for encouraging me to acknowledge the beauty of a commencement thank you to miss Hernandez and Mr Parsons for always giving me something to look forward to and most importantly thank you to my [Applause] parents but as our time here comes to an end I hope you guys realize the beauty of living in the present all the moments we can't wait for will be here soon enough Embrace this moment and every moment because the present moment is the only time you're truly living like Ferris ber once said life moves pretty fast if you don't stop and look around once in a while you might miss it now is our time to live and embark on our endeavors congratulations class of 2024 [Applause] the following students hold the title of high distinction they are graduating in the top 3% of their class I will ask them to stand as I call their names please hold your applause until all are standing Valeria Alvarez Jesus Lopez Verdugo Seth Hernandez Castillo Janet kandado nataniel Estrada Navaro Alyssa Kenny congratulations to the top 3% of [Applause] finally I wish to acknowledge those students who are ranked academically in the top 10% of their class while I'll not present them to you individually let me draw your attention to their names which are marked in your commencement program honored graduates would you please stand as we applaud your accomplishments please be seated we have 113 students who have taken and successfully passed at least one advanced placement course these courses are the most challenging courses that we offer I ask that each group stand as I announce the levels of achievement the 51 students who successfully passed three or more advanced placement courses are wearing a gold medal please stand [Applause] those students who successfully passed two advanced placement courses are wearing a silver medal please [Applause] stand and the 39 students who successfully passed one AP course are wearing a bronze medal please stand congratulations for going beyond the minimal and challenging yourselves you may be seated we have four students who have made the commitment to join our Armed Forces will you please stand and be [Applause] recognized you may seated and now would you please Focus your attention on the talents of the Glendale High School band on the direction of Miss Julie Trent for h [Music] for [Music] [Applause] I am now honored to introduce two important guests first our governing board member Miss laa AR La arita began serving the Glendale Union High School District as a governing board member in January of 2021 she is a first generation Glend Dell High School and Phoenix college graduate who earned an associat degree in global business Miss arita and her husband are proud parents of two Elementary age children and a Glendale High School graduate she's an employee for the Glendale Elementary School District and has served as an active volunteer for the Glendale and Phoenix communities since the mid 1990s our second guest is our assistant superintendent Mr Justin Tarver who has been positively impacting lives as an educator since 1999 thank you both for being here board member arita assistant superintendent Tarver parents and honored guests we have before us a graduating class that has not only overcame obstacles in an UNC uncommon to classes in the past but did so while also being recognized for amazing accomplishments they have earned top 100 schools in the Arizona in Arizona according to US News and World Report had Gates scholarship award winners questbridge scholarship award winners dorren scholarship award winners as well as receiving numerous athletic scholarships this class has continued to move glendell forward by striving for excellence in the classroom and collectively have earned over $15 million in scholarships and grants towards our future plans one of the highest totals in Glendale [Applause] history seniors I congratulate you congratulate you all on your accomplishments and once again you have carried on the great tradition of Pride and honor to Glendale High School congratulations now please welcome board member laa arita to say a few words before conferring the diplomas graduates my name is laa arita and as a proud member of the Glendo Union High School governing board it is my distinct honor to address you on this meaningful event I join glendale's esteemed faculty proud parents close family and friends to celebrate your remarkable achievements and to extend our farewells as you prepare to welcome the next chapter in your life before you take your final steps across this age allow me to emphasize that graduation is not just about a academic accomplishments it is also about personal growth and strength of character however it is essential to acknowledge the no High School journey is easy without a doubt you have face countless challenges overcome obstacles and learn valuable lessons that have shaped you in the individuals that you are today as you step out into this world carry the lessons that you have learned about the import importance of self-care resilience and compassion aim to create a supportive and inclusive community where emotional Wellness is valued and not overlooked I urge you set your priorities to your inner well-being above all else take the time to check in with yourself be aware of your feelings and seek support when needed always remember it is okay to not be okay asking for help is a sign of strength and courage not weakness seniors today marks the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one the future is right and I have every confidence that you will go on to achieve great things never forget true success lies not only in what you accomplish but also in how you take care of yourself and those around you may you travel a road filled with open doors and endless opportunities on behalf of the retired Glendo Union High School District governing board congratulations class of [Applause] 2024 it is my pleasure as principal of glendell high school to certify that these students have met the requirements for graduation as set forth by the glendell high school governing board accordingly I present this class to govern governing board member adita Mrs arita I respectfully request that you accept these graduates and that you and assistant superintendent Tarver confir diplomas upon them as a member of the governing board of the Glendo Union High School District and by the authority vested in Me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona I accept and confirm that the Glendo Union High School class of 2024 has met the requirements for graduation Mr lincom please present the graduates to receive their [Applause] diplomas in Order for this ceremony to belong to each graduate it must belong to them all therefore we request that guests act act with restraint when names are announced so that each graduate's name can be clearly heard by everyone please remain in your seats until all graduates have been 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journey I would like to recount our experience of high school okay so during our freshman year Google became our best friend as we studied through a screen and coming back to school our sophomore year we refrained from using the blue masks and adopted the more convenient black masks our junior year exposed us to the rigor of high school test followed one another until by the end our brains were fried then on May 20th 2024 we blinked and realized that our high school days were over no matter the ambivalence you feel towards the last four years A New Beginning lies before us our upbringing doesn't and isn't strong enough to Define our future leave the past where it belongs and look ahead of course we will experience pressure but remember diamonds are also made under extreme pressure class of 2024 I urge us to dream big and love deeply we are fortunate to live in a land full of opportunities seize them and be sure to thank the ones who have brought you this far like your parents Mom God bless me with an angel thank you your family Dan you are the best twin brother ever Sarah Sarah thank you for Paving the way and Christina may my ceiling be your floor as you enter this new stage of your life your teacher Miss Colette and Mr Hopson there are no words to express the impact you've had in my life and to my God I couldn't ask for a better father and I would like to give you guys a blessing my blessing is that may the road rise to meet you and the wind be always at your back may the sun shine on you and the rains and wind fall soft upon your fields and class of 2024 let's go and set the world on fire thank you [Applause] as a senior's exit we ask that all guests and parents meet your senior out in front of the Arena seniors would you all please rise [Music] [Applause] you may now move your tassel from the right to the left side parents and guests may I present to you the graduated class of 2024 what a great day to be a cardinal [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he TR 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e e e Julie can you call the role please K Casten here hen Dawson here Chelle Fuller here Don Runner here thank you very much okay having a quum Let's uh stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right Hank I'm going to turn this over to you for student recognitions all right we have a few people joining us tonight thank you everybody for being here uh I'm going to invite principal lip up uh to start with South High [Music] recognition good evening I'm so happy um to be back with more celebrations from Downers Grove South we've had a really really good year and um our celebrations just continue um we are recognizing tonight students from skills USA which is one of our academic um competitions where students get to show off what they learn in the class class room and be recognized for that um I'm going to introduce Mark Molinari um who's going to talk about what our students achieved how they achieved it and then we have a student um who's going to speak as well um and Mark is speaking on behalf of Brandy palon and Ryan altenberg they are three advisers from South High skills USA te uh thank you uh Ryan is uh coaching volleyball tonight and Brandy's uh son is uh graduating from middle school tonight so she is attending there so I am speaking on behalf of all of us first of all thank you to the board and for all the support we were able to take around um 70 kids to skills USA State um it's held in Springfield all the students have to qualify and uh we compete um a bunch of different competitions from engineering to 3D design and animation to architecture technical spelling you can see and we even had um somebody Place uh fifth place in speech this year so skills USA is okay so skills USA just is our group um it is they they compete in different competitions it could be from Nail Care to cosmetology I think we're going to celebrate somebody a little bit later on to diesel tech when we just kind of focus in on the engineering and some of the ones that we have here um we feel very blessed that we have the opportunity to take the kids down there we leave on a Thursday and then we come back on Saturday so it's a long three days with a lot of hotel rooms and a lot of prayers that everything goes well for all of us uh but I would like to invite I'm GNA invite um Ben buck up here for a second come on up Ben and Ben just kind of talk about just the experience down there and how it went for you this is oh yeah it was all really cool um it was right after our senior Awards night so um after getting recognized for that it was really cool to go down and um just compete after a training for two years I was in architecture um so I got the opportunity to give it a second shot and um it's a really cool competition um um there's a whole bunch of um whole bunch of different categories but for architecture um we had to like they gave us a floor plan and we had to just basically copy it to the best of our ability and just uh I don't know who could just do it the best in the amount of time that we have it's just a huge time crunch all right thanks Ben so just real quick we did P first place in 3D design animation so that's Troy gravine and some sha you guys just want to St in really quick wh they the state [Applause] champion this was their second year going down and it was a tough competition it's Lockport and Downer South are always going at it and they were able to pull it off so it was really good and before you move on y so for our any of our first and second place finishers uh the village of Downer's Grove and the village of Woodridge has recognized uh them with proclamations um so for we have a variety of them here for Troy and Summit uh recognizing uh their work in let's see 3D visualization and animation so uh in the end uh they recognize all of the work and then uh mayor Barnett has declared uh Thursday May 23rd as Troy and Summit day [Applause] con and the village of Woodridge also joined in on the fun and uh let's see uh congratulates them both on their accomplishment proclaims today as Troy and Summit [Applause] uh keep going I'm just jumping in as we get past each SP uh came back and he took second place in architectural Drafting and lost to the girl who took second in the nation last year a very tough comption so they did really really well we came in second place so congratulations Alex well done Alex Alex uh Village of doners Grove and mayor Barnett has declared Friday May 24th as an Alex Burk [Applause] day and uh I believe the village of wridge is celebrating all of our skills USA students today so today is also named in your honor in the village of wridge [Applause] Alex arer uh Nathan benma Zack hotner and Donnie is not with us tonight took second place in engineering technology design oh Donnie is back there right so congratulations to them Miss palon is their their adviser and they work on a project for during the semester and go down and present it down there in so tough competition as well and as uh Second Place finishers uh the village of Downers Grove has declared Monday May 27th in Donnie Nathan Zack and Alex's honor and the village of Woodridge today is also winner and then Audrey took second place in technical spelling she competed in two things and then came back and uh did really well in bad as well called Byer state in bad as well so she went down she had senior Awards night came down competed on Friday then hustled back to State B wow [Applause] awesome uh the village of Downer's Grove has uh declared Thursday May 30th in Audrey's honor is her day and uh mayor Cunningham in Woodridge has named today also in her honor [Applause] all right congratulations to everybody involved in skills USA itself before we move on could could you give a quick explanation of what technical spelling I've never taken the test we should ask a yeah where's Audrey come on up come on up we'll put you on the spot question is what is technical stu um I don't really know what you want second place I just kind of signed up for it but it was basically it was 100 Words and it's just multiple choice like which one is correct basically I know the words technical kind of there were a lot of like sort of some of them were architecture related and some of them were like culinary related I think there were some foods on there I don't know it's a bunch of random words do you remember one word any of them um broccoli was on there interesting thank you thank [Applause] you any other questions from board members or comments on South High skills USA for the engineering one what was the time limit that you guys had to work with engineering kids are in the back so Donnie do you want to just explain come on up and explain to your guys competition he asked what was the time limit on the engineering in terms of structuring everything or yeah or just tell us about how it worked well um the way our school structure we have a class on it it's called engineering design and development so we spend basically the entire both semesters actually working on this project in preparation for skills USA so I'd say for I don't know how other schools different but for us it was the entire school semester and we took it down there we made a presentation board project of course and then we had to present it to various judges and what was your topic or that you presented on actual project our goal was to solve the discomfort that comes with lawnmowing like at home lawn mowing so we actually designed was an fpv lawn mower so basically remote control lawn mower with a camera on it um which should allow you to mow your lawn from the comfort of your own home and when is that going to be available you get some funding once I graduate college we'll see but it was a great time there my teammates are here Zack Cotner Nathan B couldn't have done it without the two of them Alex isn't with us here today I don't see him but it was a team effort so to [Applause] them I just want to take a moment I know the village does such a nice job of rep of recognizing our first and second place finishers but in District 99 you can see we invite all of our sixth place and higher finishers to be here so I just really wanted to congratulate all of our students who are here having your name publicly recognized and give you a chance a stand up um and just be recognized for sixth place and higher and we'll take a picture in a little [Applause] bit everyone could join for a picture come on up let's get a picture of all of our award winners together yeah you got skills all right parents if you want to hop in and get a photo go ahead you want to get all right congratulations everybody well done know all right so this is similar but different um we have two students who competed also in skills USA the same spot and do compete for South High but also represent our Technology Center of dup page when they're there so it's considered kind of two distinctions um so we have two students tonight second place and a third place um who are also skills USA we're going to take their pictures separate even though it also goes together um so they're kind of representing the tcd team but of course there are South High students um so we celebrate them too so vatas and Allison are you here Allison come on up yeah vatas is not here but he's sucking so Alison come join me I didn't prep her that this was going to happen um but Allison do you want to just talk just a little bit about what you did when you were there no even if you don't want to okay so when I was there I did a men's haircut and it was just like kind of like a regular basic haircut and then I had to do an up to and then what did I do I had to do a regular haircut but it was like a well it was a butterfly cut so it was like a special kind of haircut so I did two haircuts and up to that was it I think awesome and an interview they like interviewed interviewed you randomly but there was that too y that was it third in state so it's amazing yes we take a picture with just so you know or maybe we could have nor CD she not here here yeah she make it tonight congratulations all right so board sure come on my hair all congratulations conrat picture all right got it all right for North High good evening everyone um I'm really excited to talk about a couple of our students tonight and unfortunately Desi could not be here um she had to work tonight but I still want to recognize her she also um competed for tcd but for North High so as Arwin was explaining kind of both of those entities um but she placed first place in the category of Aesthetics and I'm going to read a little bit about what they do because obviously this is a kind of a new thing for a lot of people and so they don't really know what the competition is like and so um it's again a dayong competition where they have interviews um pretty in-depth um interviews with people but Desi um had to do things like um prove sanitation and hygiene um she also had to provide a facial and makeup to models while judges observed and critiqued their abilities to do that and so she again got first place in Aesthetics so congratulations to Desi and again I know she couldn't be here um but I'm so excited to and happy to be able to recognize her she graduated yesterday too and she actually plans to go to the uh gkin and Beauty Institute in Oakbrook um to continue the career in aesthetic so congratulations to Desi [Applause] so next up Switching gears just a little bit we have a very special award that uh we wanted to talk about and recognize tonight and I'm actually going to call up um both of these women um Crystal Zaragoza our Color Guard coach and Angelina Antonio who is who received this award so come on up um this was a very prestigious award in the in the World of Color Guard and Winter Guard and so I'm going to actually turn it over to Crystal to talk about the award that Angelina received okay so um we compete in What's called the Midwest Color Guard circuit um that is what we compete in for wintergard and it encompasses a lot of teams within the Midwest as its name implies um there is only one of these Commander Medallion awards given every single year to one student of the 80 there's like 85 units that are in in this unit so not students like units from different schools that are in this circuit so for her to have received this in such a big circuit is a really big deal um she received this she's got her shiny metal here you want show it off oh yeah um for her outstanding leadership which I can very much so attest to she's been an absolutely exceptional leader really just like the best of the best um and we have been so lucky to have her on our team and really that's what the what the um award is signifying her outstanding leadership not only for um her teammates also her community and also staff just all of those aspects it it takes a lot to be a leader and you can be a leader for one group or the other but to be able to Encompass being a leader and um having those aspects come in with all of those different communities is really great and exceptional so yes [Applause] you would like to say a few words please yeah could share a little bit about highlight from the season like what would you like to share with um oh man um I've been a captain for the wintergard team for two years and then um this past fall season for marching band I was um DG's first color guard originated drum major so that's not a very like typical thing just in the marching manand World in general um and that was a really great experience to have probably one of my favorites but um from this season I loved my team so much um just out of all the years I've I've been on the team and it's it's been such like a connecting moment I feel like um this team has got really close this year we had a lot of freshman on the team at least like 10 out of like 24 so a good majority of um new people joining in and realizing that they also share a love of uh Winter Guard and color guard and Performing and spinning and things like that so that was really awesome to see Angelina did you did you just graduate or you a senior yeah I just graduated and are you planning on continuing to do this in college or maybe um my I'm going to St Louis University and they don't have a marching band or a guard um but I heard that there's a winter guard somewhere in St Louis so I'll try to look into that um just so I can keep up um maybe a little bit it's good it's good exercise so that kind of like pushes me to be a little um active so I'll hopefully try to get into that somewhere but cool awesome all right let's grab a picture of sure I can go that way I'll I'll go this way you go ahead you you don't have to move again I'm just going to slide over here wa all right and then I have one um staff recognition and if I could please have Anthony Calderone come up here please thank you so um I do want to say a few words about Anthony um so Anthony was inducted into the badminton coaches hall of fame um which is really incredible so I have a couple of things to read and actually even before I came to North I heard about the badminton team it's legendary at North and so um Anthony has actually this is his 30th year of being the head coach of our Our Girls badminton team um so the award his Hall of Fame recognizes his years of Excellence as a badminton coach and the countless student athletes um that he has impacted um so he has had many many women qualify for State over the years um and including including this year um and then he has had at least six top four finishes at State um and he has been the coach of three state badminton championship teams so 0203 0304 and 056 and so um again Anthony inducted into the Hall of Fame for the badminton coaches so if you would like to say a few words you didn't tell me that no I obviously it was an honor for me to get it and and I was telling some of the other coaches the the thing that honored me the most probably is if any of you guys are familiar with new ters badmon program it's kind of a Niche crew they asked us to do like a bio for uh you know kind of awkward writing about yourself you know and these things it was really kind of a weird experience but I was reading through some of the previous honores and uh I read hers because she was a big mentor of mine and uh she had put me down as one of the people most influential to her and to me I honestly felt more about that than this to be honest you know but if you know the Batman world you kind of understand that but you know the school and the district has been really supportive over the years so I I couldn't have asked for a better situation you know so they it's been great so I'm really honored by it though thank you uh I coached badminton for 10 years um before I I moved into Administration and I lost to coach Calderone aot and to his girls but uh you know he is he is well known uh in circles he is well respected uh he's been a great leader uh in you know in the sport for a very long time uh and it's great to see you recognized in this way for all your years of experience so thank you for all you've done thanks thank [Applause] you if you don't want us up there with good you might want a solo where you going I I got to go that way okay get us out of our seats we don't have any family pictures any though my mom's not here all right one two say birie we find some chair all right that includes the recognition part of our program it is a public meeting so everybody is more than welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting however if you would like to go this would be the time to to head on out so thank you all for being here and congratulations everybody thank you guys [Applause] okay let's just wait one more second yeah ready than for [Music] coming okay uh i' like to move to uh uh approval of minutes can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the minutes of the April 15 2024 business meeting the May 6th 2 2024 Workshop meeting and the May 13th 2024 parent teacher advisory committee meeting so moved second car moves Ken seconds thank you here Caston I Ken Dawson hi sherro ferain and Don Renner yeah it's okay because we have a quorum uh yep yep uh I thank you motion motion carries all right uh item five reception of visitors do we have any uh no no slips okay turn over to you Hank for item six my way there all right introduction of new student board members I'll invite our principles up uh to do recognitions here not we need to flip a coin please okay hello everybody um it is my pleasure to announce uh rayan Hashim as our student board member for North High School um I'm so excited that he is a part of this board now um he really stuck out in our interview process and we were just really excited to have his experiences um here at the board level and I know that he will offer um so much wisdom and perspective of our student body um he is traveling to Berlin this summer to the world leadership conference with our group that's traveling to Europe so he will be visiting a lot of different places this summer um along with a family trip but we were just really really excited to have rayan as a part of our board so welcome rayan if you'd like to come [Applause] up well uh hello everyone U my name is rahan as you know I'm a rising senior so um thank you to Dr D for you know um seeing my potential and you know helping me become a part of this board and I'm excited to work with all of you guys in the future to you know better uh District 99 thank you guys welcome welcome thank you can flip up his name tag and then he can go be seated oh tonight toet you from um South I get to recognize Jason Trio and introduce him as our new student board representative Jason's been a member of our principal student advisory Council for the last two years where we just problem solve a variety of student issues and I just love um Jason's approach to problem solving he sometimes quieter reflective takes a moment and then comes up with something just so profound that students who are more like me who just talk talk talk talk talk um to process how we get there um we need um people like Jason in our space and I'm just so happy he's here so Jason is a big leader in our building too student council class Board model un Change makers other things I'm forgetting but I'll let Jason introduce [Applause] himself thank you Miss lip yeah so I'm Jason tro and I'm super excited to have a great year with you guys and all I have to say is that promise to do nothing short of my best and I'm super excited thank you [Applause] over Jason welcome welcome well uh to our new board members um you know what I'd like to say is uh you know I I'd like to challenge the two of you um that as we proceed uh over the next year to speak up and voice your opinions um you're here not just to be going through a perfunctory role to put something on a resume um we want to hear from you and we value your opinions and so if you have concerns from a student's perspective you know that's exactly why we why we want you to participate on this board because hearing from students directly is something that this board takes very seriously so uh keep keep your eyes peel and your ears to the ground and let us know of issues that arise okay and welcome very much really happy to have you here and on behalf of the administration welcome and always if you have questions comments concerns of anything that's happening at the board meeting or across the district uh make sure that you reach out to me or to principal lip or principal DeMent with those questions or concerns and we're happy to address them just like we do for any of our board members so welcome thank you all right okay so I think we're on we are moving on to I missed a couple of slides here we'll invite uh Julia Beckman I know she's new to board meetings but right I know I just don't know how you guys do things anymore Julia is here representing the District 99 Education Foundation for kind of a year in the in review here for us a little bit of a review and Donna Dawson who is known to all of you as well will be joining me and we are also joined by Pam Califa one of our board members who came for moral support it is really a joy to be back here I must say uh we want to bring greetings to all of you on the board of education to the superintendent and our staff members we also wish to thank you for your continued support of the foundation I actually left the board walked down the hall and became a board member and then became president so I've been there for a few years now and uh we give special thanks to Cara and Terry pavisic who attend as Le aans from the board we wanted to give you a brief summary of our activities this year since we haven't really appeared for many months since Co and we hope to change that we'll give you a look at our financial condition which is pretty strong and Miss Dawson who is our grants coordinator will present a summary of Grants over the past several months and I just have to say it's a joy to be on the foundation because it's wonderful to be able to help the teachers and our families out because as you know the foundation has we paused our large fundraisers since covid so I'm not asking you to get out your checkbooks tonight but you might want to think about it but for later but well Pizza Wars was always a huge success some of you will recall we do need more people power to Stage it and so we've taken a little break on the fundraisers but we've also found that targeted fundraising by mail and email for specific goals are very effective some examples are the Family Support f fund which we started during Co which generated approximately $20,000 in donations for our families who were in need and a lot of them were in need and also we had the very special covid face face shield program which generated some $15,000 and I think about 5,000 face shields were sent to various places all over the country because people needed them at the beginning of Co so in 2024 so far we have given 11,000 $150 for the students and staff of District 99 in 2023 we gave quite a bit more we gave $46,400 because we were closing out one of our restricted grants the papis fund which uh went to I believe people in kids in theater and they were wanting to close that out that was about $20,000 but our we're very proud of this number total grants since our first year which was $957,000 f 55758 I don't want to leave out the $2 that's almost a million dollars that we've given out to teachers our current balance is approximately $130,000 in our bank accounts and we are very proud that our administrative costs are right about 7% it's basically for our we we have only volunteers for our website and sometimes Jill helps us too with with pictures additionally we have personally presented award checks to honores at Downers Gro South and North for Avid which done we've done that for the last several years $1,000 check goes to one Honore at each campus and we love that event and also and although we no longer fund the incubator programs at both schools we did serve as judges in the early and final competitions this year and three of us were the only judges from our board so we were we felt very responsible but all these programs are really an inspiration I just have always been so proud of what district 99 does for its students and the incubator programs they come up with some great ideas but then they graduate and they go away so we hope that they don't let those programs die with them um so we look forward next year to co-sponsoring the speaker for the teacher Institute that's something new for us in August I believe and in continuing to fund Innovative grants created by teachers we also will of course continue to fund our family our family fund and and the angel fund at both high schools which helps again students and Families in Need with your board's consent we will again present the large checks to grantees at our at meetings beginning in the fall because we always thought that was fun and we'll continue to provide gift cards to families as I said so without further Ado let me present Donna Dawson who's right behind me she'll give you a summary of the grants we've donated in 2023 324 thanks thank you Julie thanks Julie Julia okay so good evening everyone just to give you an overall view of how do you get a learning Grant right what is the criteria the first criteria is that it needs to be something that's Innovative an Innovative classroom project such as a 3D printer right also what's important to us is that we like to fund or seed new programs new projects so for example this year we funded the tree plenish program that was in collaboration with the Earth dat celebration so as Julia said this year and we've given out almost a million dollars this year during the school year 2324 our funding cross down south north and t99 excuse me was over $15,000 with a $2,000 maximum per fund so what I like to do is share with you some of the funding across the different uh schools the different departments kind of highlight what we've done okay I think a lot of is pretty cool so 34% was awarded to special services and that allowed them to purchase a craft printer for their micro business at d uh at North downers North 177% went to the science department and just like I mentioned the tree plenish program that's where a portion of that went to that program 13 % went to the library and that was to find an author and an illustrator they brought them in and that's that was to cover the speaker phase uh 133% went to Fine Art funding was used to purchase music directly from the composer with the goal to en enable each member of the diverse student body to see themsel reflected in their band experience uh this one was a cool one 133% went to engineering they purchased a drone so that students can learn about aerodynamics electronics and programming 6% went to World Language to purchase diverse text for the English language program and then 4% went to csss and that was in support of the next for college knowledge program and the funding was used for transportation to allow students to visit public and private colleges so as we prepare for the next school year we are refreshing the learning Grant policy because we want to make sure that we continue to align ourself with the evolving educational needs and the objectives of d99 so we as a board can continue to support the uh the various initiatives any questions so this is for both of you guys when you're talking when we're talking about being philanthropic we never want to miss an opportunity for two two things one how do you get how do you volunteer I know you mentioned you need volunteers so just we could say it on camera and then two how do you give money where do we go to do that oh of course we should always mention that we should always mention that I talk about that really quick if you would like to volunteer you can go to our website the d99 Education Foundation website and on the website you will find all the information you need about uh volunteering there's a place for you to uh enter your information and it will go to our lovely president and she will reach out to you and you can punch the Donate button to all right it's all there and you can actually select a couple of funds to exactly they're all listed if you want a special donion thank you for bringing that up easy peasy that website is d99 EFG that's right thank you.org yeah any other questions great thank you you very much thank you for all your doing we look forward to seeing you back in the fall with big checks again one thing I'd like to say uh it's really fantastic the work you guys are doing and that you've done almost a million dollars is just mindboggling it really is and it's one step one year at a time the dedic ation and commitment is amazing so definitely look forward to a new school year new Innovative Grants New volunteers new people donating and moving forward thank you guys for all you do thank you thank you all right uh next item uh this is just a quick overview of the work that uh we've been uh we've been working through uh pretty much since I I guess through the second half of the school year uh one of uh one of the goals of the board was for us to take our strategic plan which is about two years old now and start tying to it uh indicators and measures of success so what are some actual measurables that indicate that we are making progress on that strategic goal uh it's also part of my goals uh in uh with the board so and it was also an expectation that we did this in a collaborative matter and brought in a lot of voice into the process so uh what this really focuses on within the Strategic plan we have our four strategic directions the indicators and measures that we've been putting together is two to three things for each of these uh uh strategic directions the other thing that we heard this year in our our staff morale feedback was uh trying to narrow down the scope of our work so that everybody knows really what is at the most important level and this has been an exercise in figuring that out this year as well so as we went into this work we know that there's a lot in the Strategic plan that we are just naturally doing um but we want to make sure that for uh areas of the Strategic plan where we have areas to grow that we're setting goals of reaching everybody so you'll see when the indicators and measures come to you over the next a few board meetings uh as we move past these final draft stage that we're going to have information in there both measuring how much we're meeting the the intended piece but also coming up with strategies for closing the Gap where we are not meeting uh so that uh it's not just well you know we're at this percent of the metric we hope we get better right uh that it's actually we have a plan for that and any student that isn't meeting that we identify them by name and need and start to close the gap on an individual student by student basis uh so this is kind of just to give you an idea of what the the format looks like there's really two pieces to each of this there's the public public facing side which is on the left which is really those measures and indicators the benchmarks where we're starting how often we'll report out where we were at the last time we reported and then the supportive measures where are we working to close the gaps and then we'll inform the board and the public of when we're going to report out next we know that these types of things usually have a lot of jargon and Ed you speak in them so we're making sure that our public facing document also contains key terms and what do we mean by what we've put there uh so one of these will be presented for each of the four uh each of the four strategic directions and then internally for the administrative team and all of our staff uh we will have a an action document that really looks at what is that what are we actually doing in that supportive piece to close those gaps and who's responsible for it who's reporting out on it who's meas measuring those metrics and then ultimately who is the core team that's leading that work uh in the district so uh we're getting close to having these and moving these forward uh in public with the board uh we just wanted to update you kind of on the progress that we're moving through this we have shared with the board all of this preliminary draft work leading to the actual public documents and through this we've involved the administrative team team the district leadership team which includes all of the department chairs and the administrators and we've also invited Union leadership in uh to those meetings uh to provide their perspective in the work as well then there's some back and forth between administrative and Leadership teams ultimately leading to the third draft where it was sent out to the entire staff and the entire staff could provide uh comments suggestions and ask questions uh Jill and I also went over last week to each of the buildings during lunch hours and staff could drop by and ask questions uh or make suggestions at that point so uh it's kind of where we're at in in the progress what we eventually want to have is this onepage public document Jill's done a lot of fine work in trying to narrow down this so that it's presentable and understandable uh so there'll be this onepage kind of cover page of our indicators and measures and then underneath each of the Strategic directions will be a more indepth look at the work that we're doing around that and then we'll report out uh on each of those measures periodically throughout the year depending on what makes sense for each of the the metrics that we're looking at so more on this coming ultimately leading to hopefully board approval of these at the beginning of August August in advance of the next school year so that's our work to this point uh questions uh from any board members on just kind of how we've laid this out and where we're going we'll get into I love it I love the one pager I love the I think just having some key things we can all be talking about out in the community is great so I I love it I appreciate all it sounds like a lot of work has gone into this so thank you for that looking forward to discussing it more but I think it's going to be very well received thank you sometime the pro sometimes the process of just going through this evaluation is almost as important as the the measurements yeah uh do you can you comment on that and and and how that's improved upon your team and the impact of going through that process well it's been interesting as we look at you know the the committee that put together the Strategic plan and once again Jill led a lot of that work uh with that committee uh Cara you were part of that committee as well uh is a lot of it was a lot of uh Community student and staff input on that and a lot of the overarching goals are all things we aspire to do however some of the things in here are things we're already doing at a very high level so I I'll just pick one of these the the recruitment retention and support of high quality teachers and staff once we started digging into that metric you'll see we have this kind of overall uh the expectation statement that's under there so expectation is 100% of our staff members will experience and contribute and will be supported in creating a collaborative and supportive culture of growth right it's really looking at that uh high quality and the supportive piece but there's not a lot in that statement around Recruitment and Retention because across the board we really don't have a lot of gaps in Recruitment and Retention so really digging into the Strategic directions and finding the areas where we have clear areas where we can improve is what our Focus was so you I think people would look at that statement and say okay where's the recruitment metric we we don't need one because we don't have a lot of positions that are being left open right and retention we don't have a lot of people leaving and we don't know what the circumstances are that led to that right so there's not big mysteries on those two or spots where we see major gaps that we have to change it's more of maintaining our practices but we did hear in our feedback this year from our staff in our staff survey is that we do have some gaps in professional learning and professional development and they were high areas in the staff morale survey for our non-certified staff so our custodial our CMG group our security group our support staff Association really sees uh staff morale being closely tied to our ability to help grow skills in those areas so you know the the data we've been gathering over the point over the whole course of the Year points to that's where we need to focus in this strategic Direction so each of these have some like if we listed everything we're doing great at that's not the point of this exercise the point of this is where do we have room to grow to better meet our strategic plan so I think you're going to see that in these two or three areas which the board has talked about like what is the core areas of focus that we need to drill in on and I think you're going to see this as we present this over the next few board meetings that we've really narrowed our Focus which is also in line when you look at the feedback from the certified staff M was we need to really narrow in and not have so many things we're all working on all at the same time but what are the core things that we can focus on that will give us our biggest bang for our buck and we'll tie directly into the expectations that the board is outlined for us so I think we're going to give you that over the next few board meetings you'll have the opportunity to provide feedback and tweak any of the verbage here and uh we'll kind of dive deeper uh as we go through the summer because we'll have two more board meetings before I actually bring it to you request uh for your approval and what those are I also think it's a really good idea to designate who's responsible for these um metrics um so that there's clear understanding from everyone in the district as to who's leading that aspect of the Strategic plan so yeah when we look at indicators and measures sometimes it it seems simple to pull a number like let's say we were talking about failures well are you talking about the number of FS or the number of students with FS are you talking about over the course of the Year by semester every six weeks right so there it seems simple on the front end to pick a data point and measure it but then clearly defining it and determining who's going to own that and track it there there's a lot of minutia there that you need to work out and really identifying who's going to be the person that carries that forward was really important as we did this work and also determining is it trackable right cuz that's that's sometime a challenge too you have a goal like that sounds great if you don't put this other part on it the measure of success you won't get the end result you're looking for so that's a great Point Charelle and for some of these we don't yet have a perfect way to track and that's kind of some of our work in the first half of the Year you'll see in some of these as I bring them to you in the next couple of board meetings that The Benchmark is to be determined like by the middle of next year or the end of next year as we work on defining that data point and a way to collect and measure that data point uh over the course of the next school year yeah I appreciate the thought going into what to measure right we're not just measuring measuring sake and that teacher example is a great one right and we all know from things we see in surrounding districts right retention is like we don't want to be getting to that point once you get to that point it takes a long time to come back from that so I appreciate it's that was I appreciate that I was part of that committee and there were teachers representing but you're right it's a lot of things underlying that that lead to you know teachers leaving so we also didn't want to replicate the data that you're already getting through other sources right so what is the the core you know you're getting a lot of things already uh some some are old cross over but uh and we also wanted things that were truly actionable that we could see that the work we were doing was having an impact on those numbers I I think it really says a lot about d99 that we're in such a strong position when it comes to recruitment or retention and that really shows the level of Excellence that we are providing under your leadership and uh that's something that we should all be very thankful for No Doubt remind me how frequently do we do strategic plans let's just curious you said it's been well it's probably been a weird there's no real okay cycle the the last one before this was 2013 but I would say that that was broken into two pieces there was the instructional vision and then there was the facility vision was part two of that strategic plan so uh I would say that that was a 10year strategic plan in two fiveyear parts got it right and now that we we knew we would be starting this up when the facilities were coming to an end obviously the pandemic slowed down this work a little bit um but I think we're in a we're poised in a really good spot to have I I would imagine that um you know you've committed to me for the next five years and we really are getting rolling into this core part of the Strategic plan I would think that the board would either consider strategic planning in advance of the next superintendent or would make that part of kind of their first 100 days in the district or first year in the district because that is a great opportunity to kind of like learn the community and learn the district and play a part in shaping the vision of what comes next so um I would think that that's when it's around that time that you would look at doing this thanks that makes perfect sense yeah plus for these indicators and met metrics you're picking you're going to want enough time to see are we actually making growth in those areas you know okay all right thank you uh next couple next three board meetings this will be a a topic we will revisit okay uh proposed amended school calendar uh this really looks at collaboration time if you remember uh last couple of surveys and then the survey that Ryan came and presented on a few weeks ago we had uh groups that were going to work on uh pieces to respond to that uh Ryan Gina and I were tasked with uh Department collaborations on and when we say Department collaboration time this is looking at all departments across the district so it includes our support staff our security our CMG and that group and as I mentioned in my last part of the evening what came through the staff morale survey was in those groups a real need for time where they can get together and learn together we also have a new student information system coming in the next year and there's going to need to be in those groups some of those groups groups a lot of training right so we need a little bit of time when students aren't here because a lot of those folks in that first top piece we can't free up time while students are here for them to be free to engage in professional learning uh because they are supervising things like the commons or security at the front door taking care of students with one-on-one needs and those kinds of things we also heard uh from our teachers uh and from the DGA was that our especially with some of the grading changes that we've been working on our course teams need time where they are all free at the same time and our professional learning model has a third of them free at a time so we need to carve out a couple of times each year uh this is a one-year ask to do it this way uh to provide us some time over the next year to figure out how we want to go about this longterm so it's really four days with a 1:30 release on a Friday uh we surveyed staff for when the best time would be for that um so it' be four Fridays one kind of each quarter uh students would be dismissed at 1:30 all staff would stay on site and work on those things kind of we were talking about uh once we now that we figured out those AIDS we'll start figuring out what we have with after school activ activities if we have after school activities and students need to stick around we might have to bring in like some subs for supervision or that those kinds of things uh to bridge that Gap but we'll figure that out here over the summer um we picked Fridays because it's the end of the week it doesn't have that ripple effect if you put it at the start of the week 1:30 we already have a 130 release that works with busing and cooperation with the other partner elementary schools um so that you know kind of fit into what we already had in place there those are the proposed dismissal days I also don't want to misrepresent there are staff that do not like this as an idea right don't want to lose any instructional time with students so I don't want to misrepresent that everybody loves this and thinks it's a great idea but we think it's the best idea for now in the short window of time we have heading into next year gets us the ask that many people have asked for and gives us a school year to figure out a longterm plan for how we're we're going to do this but we also want to be responsive to that feedback that we're hearing uh through those surveys um I have a question so is this for everybody or just support support staff at all staff okay good okay all staff at 1:30 will be released because that that 1:30 schedule has a lunch period built into that school day we can go directly from student dismissal right into work for a 2hour uh chunk of time at the end of the day so what has to be built behind this is the programming of it all because I assume we're going to have programming that that supports each role right correct because every stodio would need or perhaps could need the same thing that you know their teaching staff could need okay right so uh this year as we work through all of our job responsibilities on the admin administrative team we identified who owned all of that and then it' be their work through the summer uh for our certified uh staff are teachers uh the principles would be working closely with their building leadership team and Department chairs to determine what each individual Department really needed to work on and then with the other groups that would be really a combination of Administrators but in the building uh Ken and Omar uh really would be focusing on most of those groups group and planning for that and that's kind of Summer work leading into the next school year no I I like it and I'm will be curious to see after the staff gets into it what they how they feel about it because there times where I feel like oh I don't need to do that because I want to continue to dig into my work and then I find which this has happened in a lot of major corporations I find that I'm like I needed to do that didn't want to do it but I I did need to do it after we you know start and and um start building through you know the importance of it for us and the curriculum or whatever they've develop for us and one of the metrics in our indicators and measures is getting that staff feedback after each of those professional development opportunities to get in real time uh what our staff thought of that and then closing that Gap right between expectations and how we actually performed in that so that that experience gets better over time so that's that's eight hours of time does that mean we have to add an extra day of school no our day is actually long enough that a 1:30 dismissal meets the state requirement of hours in a school day the minimum hours uh so those will count as official school days okay and how are these days different than Institute days Institute days tend to be a full day MH and staff are moving between a variety of experiences and many of those are more building focused what we're trying to do is get down to the actual course team so that like biology course team can be looking at grading practices or assessment practices on that team specifically so this would be a lot more focused time at that level or like exactly what does the security team need around an emergency plan or uh practices or those like getting into that small level where in Services days tend to be more meta more like building wide or districtwide uh focused tasks do you guys J have a curriculum or um programming around you already know what you're going to do for those type of days right yes whereas we're working on those like we're working on the in service days when teachers come back we've been working on that since like November and these could be a little bit more I would assume done a little bit more not free flowing but you have more autonomy over correct what the need is and addressing that need is what I would assume cor and it could be more in real time too like it you know let's say in November uh the english team just had a bunch of Assessments go out and they came back and now they want to dig into specific questions or I mean there's all kinds of things or grades at that point of time or students that aren't successful at that like there's a variety of things that they can do to respond to realtime needs as well as the overarching things they're working on across the year in the building as well I know you address the like early release and supervising kids and all that do you expect any Community kind of like does the community typically not love when we have extra days of early release or what's your expectation of the reaction to that I I think yeah there's going to be people that don't like this as an idea or a plan or don't like anytime when students aren't actively learning in their classroom the counter to that is if we make a better classroom learning experience we make up for that you know lost time with students so there's a like a balance there that's why we're like four times throughout the year to check in and then I'd like to work with the DGA we bargain next year and with our whole leadership team to kind of look at especially for those other groups right that are generally supervising students during the day and don't have a release time during the school day how do we maybe work creatively to make this work within the larger schedule of the year but it's a lot of moving parts and it's a slow move where we clearly heard from all of our employees that we needed to respond in some way to these things um this is a way I don't know if it's necessarily long-term the best way but it is the quickest way that we can respond to that heading into the next school so the board actually approves this tonight by approving the calendar okay so it is when you take action on the calendar today you're by default also approving this plan any other questions all right uh parent teacher advisory committee I'm going to invite Scott forward here uh he led this committee let him take it from here yeah good evening everyone so uh we met last uh Monday at Downers north um and our our group was a little bit smaller this time but I always say that we're small and mighty uh we get a lot of good feedback so what I thought I would do is just kind of quickly just go over kind of our topics um that we went through and thanked uh Ken and Chris who attended as board members and then our staff obviously um we had some staff present so I thank them so um the first topic that we went over is um our path coordinators uh Patrick and Nicole uh talked about the in school intervention and we looked at some data uh surrounding that and then some of the feedback that we got from that is that um the group uh really looked at you know we're not doing out of school suspension so we're keeping students in school and uh even a family member uh comment on that that that was excellent support for their students so um and then we moved to talk about um our sap coordinators which is our student assistant program prog coordinators which is adania and uh Keith uh worked on or showed us some data on prevention and and um looking at Trend data and I will say from one of the pieces that we looked at from their data is that I think it was from like 2016 to current we have seen a decline in a lot of the uh substance abuse um so that's good work from them on prevention um and so we appreciate the support that you guys give to have those positions um we moved into chronic absenteeism um we didn't do a lot of data on that but we wanted to share with the team about pretty much every absence from school counts towards chronic being chronically absent so I think sometimes uh you know parents might think oh I have a mental health day that my student can use yes they absolutely can use that um but that does count towards that chronic absenteeism so we wanted to share a little bit about that one of the feedbacks that we got from one of the parents from the survey that we sent out to get uh feedback after the meeting um they they actually said you know it's really hard to navigate Home Access Center and to really understand you know the attendance and things like that so obviously we'll be looking I'll be working with Travis on that one because we are moving to a new system in a few years but we'll also look at it for next year and see what we can do uh based on that comment um we did bring forward some uh cell phone uh data in terms of if you recall last year we also brought it to the parent teacher advisory and we were looking at just Chang our practice uh with that to support teachers um we anticipated and we saw a spike in our discipline code violation for cell phones uh for this current school year we kind of thought based on our changes that that would happen um and and we had a good discussion on that uh as a group and then uh Gina presented I asked did any parents have feedback on that topic in the group yeah I mean we had um we had feedback and Ken can jump in too but we had feedback on uh Evon is trying a new pilot for next year in terms of like locking up cell phones or something like that um and then there was definitely feedback on you know would we ever consider even going you know further with our supports uh for you know trying to limit cell phones uh in further than we've already yeah so and we you know what we always look at that so we're we're obviously processing the uptick in our data to see that um and then you know we'll see how Evanson does m you know with that um but yeah no there was definitely not a not a lot of discussion on it it was a little smaller piece this year um last year there was a lot of discussion on it um but something that we're going to keep looking at in that so okay I think uh you know like Scott mentioning that one I think most high schools in the area are trying different things to respond to that I would imagine within the next couple of years you're going to see kind of a industry standard response to how schools should be addressing this in a way that balances all the competing interests and then the final topic was the Consolidated District plan that uh Gina presented on and one of the feedbacks that one of the parents had after the meeting was um talking about that they would love to see uh data surrounding our El population of students you know from just from performance from behaviors things like that um so we appreciate that comment um um and Ken I don't know if you have any things that you you want to comment on the meeting well I the meeting was excellent I thought it was very well attended it was an excellent meeting as far as the cell phone policy and talking to the teachers that were present they all appreciated the revisions and improvements we have made to the cell phone policy and it does help them um it's not a magic wand it's definitely a moving thing but it was very much appreciated and they have noticed a difference in the classroom which which is what we hope to see interestingly enough a lot of times when the students are on their cell phone guess who they're talking to their parents and both the parents teachers and us had a a chuckle about that but that is the case as Scott can attest to when he was uh dialoguing with his with his son while he was in class so so that was interesting and then with regard to the path program path if you don't know stands for pause ask think and heal and the great thing about this is yes the the student has a violation has some sort of behavior issue that needs to be corrected but they're not being put out of the school out just to sit and muding it uh they are still within the the student population they're still within the building and they're still being educated it's a different type of education because they're pausing they're a being asked to think about it what you did and how it affected other people including yourself and then they're reintegrating back into the classro and the teachers which were there were very receptive to the fact that they can reach out to that student even while they're in that 3-day suspension make sure they're still getting their assignments still trying to stay on top of what they need to so I just think it's a phenomenal program that we have as opposed to just sending the child home and expecting them to come back a better person so that was really really inspiring really encouraging and very Innovative on our part yeah when we put that program into place I'll call back to former principal Ed Schwarz who said that uh discipline was one of the few areas in which we W didn't have a learning mindset in how we were responding to it right everything else here is about teaching and learning but discipline that wasn't the Focus right it was more punitive right punishing right I think the programming that we've looked at you know under the leadership of our principles and our Deans and and our associate principles Scott has really driven us more in this direction of how can we make this a learning supportive uh experience for our students rather than punitive yeah definitely definitely I want to definitely uh compliment Dr Karen Taylor and the work that she's put in with regards to that program it's fantastic yeah and Dr Kelly zerner as well both of them so I was to say is it where the students are all all the students that have in school suspension they're in a room at a control yeah so we do have an in school intervention room at both buildings and then the path program is really looking at our bcode violations with which is the more significant violations and then working on a restorative practice and just really just kind of wrap around support uh you know for that student and the family to then try to then see hope that that behavior doesn't continue and I will say the data that we you know um that we collect and look at um we do look at that and our recidivism rate is definitely going down um and it's showing the success of the program I mean we're not perfect but you know we're we're striving for that um and like I said one of the parents sent a feedback and said that uh their um student um unfortunately had a bcode violation uh was um in the path program and just couldn't speak highly enough of you know not just having the student at home that they had the wraparound support um they even actually did a restorative practice with the student that they were having um an issue with and figured out a way to deal with it um so I think that's really what we want to do so I also like to highlight the uh teachers and the staff which are in those rooms awesome because they really have to have a lot of patience a lot of empathy to really connect with those students and as they mentioned that night it's really interesting a lot of times that is a pivot point for those students in their High School career and a year year or two later they still remember that person in that room that helped them through that time and that is one of their goto people within the school when they you know run into other challenging situations so they definitely need to be uh thanked and appreciated for all their patience dedication and hard work I agree any other questions just one other comment your thing about the Home Access Center as a parent I do struggle with that calendar as well and I was thinking just connecting some dots when Jill it's on my list of things to do well when Jill talked about from parents the facelift for the website and understanding there's a lot of systems underneath that you can't connect totally get that but like kind of summary as you log in because it's once I became aware of that issue I tried for my own child to go in and I you know that's so if we want people to parents to be part of that process and be watching it's just so I was just thinking that I'm sure that's on Jill's radar but as you think about the website one of the communication tools so anyway appreciate you raising that yeah it's just that system is one that isn't being upgraded anymore and that's why we're leaving it so part of this is just transitioning to another system that won't happen for next year it'll be for the year after that because that is that's a pretty heavy lift but you know looking for tools that are better communicating with families yeah all right thank you thanks Scott all right uh English Department novels it's an action item later this evening uh we started going out to bid for these several years ago uh this is the same practice we've done for for a while uh it's up for a recommendation tonight that we accept the lowest responsible bid uh that was submitted uh for those 181 titles around 15,000 books the total cost of 121 1,890 84091 any questions on that process just one question I noticed like there was one that did not bid and so there bid doesn't count are they aware that they should be bidding on all of them yes if yep yep they're just not considered a responsible bidder because they didn't respond for for all of the pieces all right uh ISB Consolidated District plan here is Gina to present on the Consolidated District plan that encompasses many of our major grants good evening so every year I bring the Consolidated District plan to the board either in May or June the Consolidated District plan is required to be submitted annually it covers all of the grants that are listed on this screen and it's actually a series of questions and it is multiple pages of questions that Focus on several different areas and I've divided them in the document that's listed in board docs into those different areas the items in red are new to the plan it doesn't mean they're necessarily new to the district or new to our schools but they were added to the plan so for example under student achievement And Timely graduation we now have more dual credit classes that we did a year ago so we updated that information um we also the board approved in December a course called modern rhetoric which is a transition English course so we now not only have a transition Math course which is pql preparation for quantitative literacy but we also now have a transition English course the first year it will only count towards College of DuPage but after that we plan to go for portability which means that it would count at any Community College in the state which is the case with our transition math course so those are a couple of additions to one section of the plan the other part of that section that's been updated is as you may know the state just declared last week that we are moving away from the SAT and the college board's Suite of Assessments the state is now moving to the ACT and their leading test the preac So the plan has been updated to reflect that there is another section in the plan that talks essentially about how to meet the needs of our as atrisk Learners and one of the things that Scott said that I think is really important is that at the meeting we had a couple of weeks ago was a week ago couple of weeks ago um we received input and that input focused on eel and that was sort of interesting to me because the first year that we did the Consolidated District plan and I held several meetings one of the recommendations that came out was that we need more Spanish support and we need it specifically at North High School so in other words we didn't have an interpreter or a translator at North High at that time and what's interesting to me is that every year that has become a focus area and an area that we have expanded in the Consolidated District plan through meetings like the one we just had um so it's very interesting to think about that has evolved to a full-time position and that person supports both buildings both North and South another area that came out of it was expanding El summer enrichment program so we have a summer enrichment during the summer school time uh El program we have seen enrollment in that more than double in the last couple of years we've also adopted a reading program an English program Lexia it's a software program that we are using now at at both schools with our El Learners specifically our El level one Learners so those that are newcomer level one lower level uh English Learners and then also as we talked a little bit about attendance um we are working and partnering with the Roe on AIM an attendance intervention monitoring system which really focuses not just on a curriculum but also kind of incentives for students as we work on chronic absenteeism and certainly trying to get our students to be in attendance couple of other areas involve professional development which we heard earlier about our Institute day and our speaker focus on some of the common experience work that we've been doing the last couple of years there's been a few changes in the plan asking specifics about how we provide a safe learning environment for our students we've been doing bystander training and will continue to do that uh into next year in terms of College and Career Readiness we are in the process of uh moving to school links we have been using navian for next year we'll be just using School links to basically substitute for what Naviance we've been doing with Naviance for the last few years but our plan is to expand that over the course of uh the next year or two that's also reflected in the indicators and measures you'll be thank you in addition the bilingual service plan which was a completely separate plan was incorporated a few years ago into the Consolidated District plan um you can certainly see that we are providing a lot of professional development I wanted to point that out we have now the past uh year or two provided professional development Focus specifically on working with El English Learners and bilingual students um that we will continue in to next year and we also adopted last year elevation which is a computer dashboard program that enables us to do many things one tracking student achievement and scores relative to our English learners but it also has translation built into it so for example we are now in the process of informing families of what their access score was English Learners are required every year to take a test called the access test we're able to do that in multiple langu languages through that program there's also instructional aspects of the program that we're looking to expand in future years so that is a very brief summary of the plan which hasn't changed a lot there's just been slight changes it's a very comprehensive plan it includes a lot of what um you've heard in terms of interventions and will continue to evolve questions for Gina thank you thank you Gina uh the proposed Board of Education meeting calendar uh Julie has put this together uh and has followed the format of previous years Workshop meetings first Monday of the month business the 3D no Workshop in July and some meetings get adjusted due to holidays the actual calendar is in your board packet uh any questions on that so in September um we've got back-to-back meetings on you know the 9th and 16th and I'm assuming that we're following that because of the holiday on the 2 being Labor Day and we're trying to stick with the uh business meeting being on the third Monday of the month is there any thought of potentially trying to break those up and move the business meeting to the 23rd as opposed to keeping it at the third week so that we're not backto back I have no concerns with it I don't know if I just didn't know if there were any other bills does that make a difference going from that's a month with like five weeks in it so going from the 16th to the 23rd we're good I'm I'd much rather not have backtack weeks with board me too me too does anyone have any objection to that board members no I just didn't know if there was any like you know school activities on the 23rd that would prevent a board meeting or something there might be but we we're up against school activities all of the time so um we tend to plan our business and then the rest kind of happens around us so we're we're going to vote on this tonight uh can we vote on it with an amendment MH MH amended as okay uh reflecting that the board meeting in September would be on the 23rd instead of the 16th sure okay no why we discuss it before we get to action no objection to that nope all right that was my only comment any others all right hearing none that'll be up action we'll make sure that we do it as the amended okay with that change Julia will help me with that I'm sure I'm sure she will uh don surveyed the board with Julie's help about board committee liaison appointments uh these are the recommended ones uh for next year Don this is kind of your item not mine yeah I think it speaks for itself I think everybody got what they asked for so any comments or questions um I noticed it'll take effect tonight so there is assess at meeting do they take effect immediately is that or do we wait until the end of the fiscal year of the school district I think it's the yeah the FC like jgo plan commission is the this fiscal year of the school okay so July 1 July cuz I read that and I'm like I I know I have something coming up next week so just a okay okay we'd still go next week and then okay we we have to communicate with those organizations and let them know those changes I'm okay with that I just read it and it it felt like it said okay sorry for the confusion yeah yeah July 1 is when it would all go into effect so that's an action item evening as well District depositories uh this comes up every year at this time uh formally the Board needs to approve those that we're authorized to use and it's the authorized signers for the building and uh those for the district so it's kind of just a yearly thing that we need to formally act on okay uh Freedom of Information requests we have received them we have responded to them and they are available on our website if you search for Foya okay we'll move to the consent agenda um Hank as I was reviewing the consent agenda before the meeting there there's a memo from you about finalizing this year's school calendar and I just I think um there were some typos about the dates because I think you're asking May did you I'm sorry it so I apologize oh that's okay um in the memo it's referencing um May 28 through 31st of 2023 and June 3rd of 2023 is not being school days should be the 24th yes sir so other than that um I didn't have any comments on the consent agenda so uh before the board votes on the consent agenda is there any agenda item a board member would like to pull out of the consent agenda for further discussion going pull out the um the board meeting calendar so you vote for that separately as amended or we could or we could just put it in or I could read it when I read it and I'll say as amended and I'll do the same thing for the item G okay okay uh so I need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes a Personnel report appointment Administration appointment certified leave of absence certified leave of absence classified appointment classified transfer position classified B Personnel report resignation certified resignation classified C April treasurers report and April Financial Pages d student trips e sassad governing board board of directors alternate appointment resolution F resolution of nomination for membership on Downers Grove plan commission G the 2023 2024 final school calendar as amended to reflect the 2024 dates is being removed item H 24 2024 2025 proposed Board of Education meeting calendar as amended to reflect the September meeting date as of September 23rd and item I 2024 2025 proposed amended school calendar so a second Cara and then Ken thank you Eric haston i k Dawson hi hi and Don Runner I motion carries uh before we move on I'd like to recognize that uh Mr Phil Howard is in the audience just wave here Phil and if you'd like to shake his hand at the end that's who you just approved as our next chief technology officer congratulations I'm very excited about this implementation you're the one all right then item eight recommendations for Action um Julie uh do you want a separate motion for each of these yes please so item a can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the lowest responsible bid of $121,800 191 cents from book pal to provide novels for the 2024 2025 school year so moved second Karen Ken again thank you cara Caston hi Ken Dawson hi Char f i joh r i motion carries um Item B can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the resolution authorizing depositories and to authorize The District administration to complete and sign all appropriate documents required to maintain District Accounts at the depositories as listed so moved Charelle moved second Ken seconds thank you Charelle Fuller I Ken Dawson hi Cara cast hi and Don rder I motion carries and then item C motion for can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the Illinois State Board of Education Consolidated District plan as presented so moved second Ken moves and Cara seconds thank you Ken Dawson hi car Caston hi charell Fuller hi and Don Runner hi motion carries Hank any old business no and uh any new business yes policy committee uh the list of uh the first reading of policies is in there for you to review uh there is a key one that we spent a good time amount of time talking about which was advertising related to board policy Travis will be coming at the next board meeting to talk about that uh with specifics so I don't feel like we need to dig into that at this meeting um this is for your kind of month preview to give it a read give it a look if you have questions you can reach out to myself or Don or Chris who serve on that committee uh and they'll be back in June for final approval Don anything I missed there no just it's 8.25 and I would recommend each of you to read it thoroughly and be familiar familiarize yourself with it before our next meeting and Travis will present on it with specifics on June 3 all right Julie any other receptions of visitors for tonight no sir okay um Cara I think you attended the last Len meeting is that correct I did um are you prepared to report on Len since Jenny's not here I can report on it thank you so um it was last week and uh we met in person the one or two person meetings a year they kind of hit on the sort of legislation of interest um some of this is moving some of it's not but I'll just sort of list it out it was related to deep fake photos use of multiuse buses for special education financial literacy um dual credit newcomer funding discipline um retirement Savings Plan special ed funding those were kind of the ones they talked through and kind of gave quick updates um I think the session had a few more days left they would keep the group apprised um I thought this was cool they mentioned that the Illinois teacher of the year was from DuPage I that was very cool a fifth grade4 fifth grade te teacher so that's a big honor for dup page talked briefly about the dues increasing slightly 5% because a larger District left lend and a smaller District joined um but that passed um and I thought it was interesting they talked about a new subcommittee for Len this year on federal legislation which they typically have not had but they had sort of some federal funding that schools rely on had been at risk and they sort of got in there and got a lot of support at the Federal level and actually increase some of that funding and so that will continue to be a focus um for the organization to stay on that funding that Federal funding um they introduced um a new board member who's replacing Don um someone I think who has a lot of experience on lens so she seemed very happy to be joining um and they also honored um retiring I don't know if as was a mix of board members and superintendent um got a couple of business managers and one superintendent yeah they highlighted um Melissa Kow Kowski who's superintendent of 41 in Glenn Ellen right so she was there and um obviously a long history with the organization and well respected um and then they um basically just went over the calendar dates for next year um and I think that was it very productive meeting yeah we're waiting to see this week how the biggest thing is the state budget that they're keeping a close eye on and uh few pieces of legislation they're supposed to be done by I think the end of the week but we'll see how that actually plays out I'm doubtful I love I loved her comments so she was like you know things are moving things are not moving but she was like but nothing truly dies in Springfield nothing ever dies nothing ever dies so that was it thanks for the update Cara um at the very least maybe they should look at at you being recording secretary um okay from sassad um we have meeting I I meet on uh Wednesday and then I think Charelle you're next week right so we'll have more to report next month it's you know really looking at scheduling for next year and facilities and those kinds of and uh there's a new kind of budgeting formula that sasset is using looking to use for next year so that's all the stuff that Charelle and I will be looking at over the next couple of weeks and then we got a report from the Education Foundation and Terry's not here tonight so I think we can skip the foundation um Ken anything to report from iasb nothing spectacular obviously uh moving forward towards the annual convention in November which will be exciting uh they're also putting out they have a new document which they've put together on recruiting new potential board members so obviously having a seccession plan for our board is very important so I will be reviewing that and uh we'll report back to the board on it next time and uh it's a step in the right direction for all of us yeah next year is one of those school years where we'll go through our typical process of we don't recruit board members as the administration but we inform those that are interested in becoming board members of what the job is and usually the board president helps me along with that just so that people know the process and kind of know what they're signing up for and I think I think that's the most important that so the most important thing is people have a true understanding of what it takes to be on the board and what the expectations are it's a job unlike no other very a very rewarding job like no other I would say so okay um and I think our upcoming board meetings are uh next Monday um or actually not next Monday two Monday two Mondays June 3rd 2024 is a workshop meeting at 6:30 here at the ASC and Then followed in uh June 17th will be our business meeting for the month at 6:30 here also at the ASC uh before we close I'd just like to thank board members for attending and supporting graduations yesterday uh we had great days and thank you to the buildings for all of the work that they did uh for those uh you know the only thing I'm responsible for was I picked a beautiful day so it worked out great and it's always fun to have everybody out there celebrating at home in their stadium and uh they look forward to next year with video scoreboards going in the background during those times so uh thank you board members for being there I'm not looking forward to next year's graduation to be honest yes you are why you'll be a little weepy you are definitely looking forward to that all right can I get a motion to adjourn so moved second car moves 10 seconds all in favor I I I we are adjourned thank you thank you for

e e e a Hulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes pepis here vote Yes Gorman here read the motion and second to approve tonight's agenda second Fulk yes hemp yes Nolan yes pepis yes vote Yes Gorman yes motion is carried please join us as we recite the Pledge of Allegiance keep United States of America stands na indivisible and justice for all thanks everyone who came out tonight and those at home viewing Dr manga y thank you to everybody coming out looks like we have some good repres ation from CA some students here to be awarded so thank you for coming out as well as Administration some community members so thank you guys all right principal pgori will recognize our students who completed the or competed at the skills USA state competition so this is our second year with skills USA at the high school and I'm proud to announce that we had about the same amount of students um go to state competition in place and had another National qualifier so skills USA is an organization that serves career in technical areas and has over 400,000 students Nationwide here tonight with us we have Grace uh bante who took first this year for nurse assisting and will travel to Nationals in Atlanta the last week of June which will be on your agenda a little later on tonight so Grace want to stand up meanwhile in other categories we have canav kapor S Gadi sh Shaw and soan Shaw here if you guys want to stand up they Place second in the entrepr entrepreneurship category nice Mia Ortiz is here and Maddie Haron could not be here but they placed third in digital cinema and also Riker Cho and Daniel schal took third place in welding fabrication through Hampshire High School one of our pathway Partners but they're both our students as well so very proud of all of them um as well as Mr billan Mr Mr Lumis and Mrs Green for all their hard work and we're looking forward to seeing what Grace will do Mrs tallberry is planning on bringing her down to Atlanta and spend the week down there and seeing all the amazing things a very uh amazing experience to see all those kids and everything from you know baking to nursing to uh diesel mechanic Machinery events that they have at the I think it's the Illinois State Farm Arena down there as well as some other areas in the hotels and just you know hundreds of kids from all over the country so congratulations to all you all right we're going to do public comment now uh first up Steve [Music] jurer good evening uh Steve jurer resident uh just like to make some comments regarding the school budget and expenditures for the current first school year last August a budget was put forth allocating $6.8 million for the high school addition and 4 million for the new high school building I understand having something budgeted for a new high school building makes sense in anticipation of a referendum passing however at the end of April more was spent on the new high school design than on the building of the high school addition 3.3 million versus 2.8 75% of the new high school budget was spent before the referend referendum was even passed Larson Darby received the bulk of the funding 2 point uh 3 million over seven months for architectural Concepts and drawings it seems the district was overconfident in the referendum passing uh spending 3.3 million without voter approval is not fiscally responsible nor is it the best use of taxpayers dollars uh I would be interested in hearing the administration and boards on what they have to say regarding this issue thank you all right next we have Dave Chapman good evening uh to get started I do want to be transparent let you know that Esther is aware I'm giving a public comment tonight so you know she's not blindsided by the by the topic or anything um I did want to start off with uh there is a sheet of paper coming around but I did want to start off with some statistics that have been you can find uh readily available on ISB but also have been mentioned at Schoolboard meetings um the first one being you know by far we spend the least per student in the area um our average class size is the largest in the area meaning that our uh teacher the student ratio is the worse um however we have one of the best admin to student ratios in the area um additionally if you look at uh ISB you'll notice that over the past three recorded years year 21 two and three we've added around uh We've increased around three full-time teachers across the entire District meanwhile at the same time we've increased by six administrators um additionally if you look at the state retention level it is much higher than than us um our retention of staff is actually going down year after year meanwhile our state retention is actually going up so we're actually going in the opposite end I know this is something CA has brought up for years you know the struggle and and the issue with with retaining staff and then uh if you guys look at the sheet of paper that I gave you um these are FTE that were requesting to increase in the areas ESP special at an elll and I do encourage you to read that first statement there you know this isn't just ca advocating for this this is the Professionals in the classroom who are so our building reps actually talked with the individuals in these positions to see what they need for their students to be successful next school year and for them to be able to manage their increasing workload which we're seeing going up year after year so if you look at CHS you know we're asking for an additional uh full-time special ed teacher an additional ell teacher um so that we have two next year at CMS we're asking for an additional special ed teacher and to increase the current 05 elll posted position to 1.0 at PK we're looking for an additional special education teacher at CT kind of similar to CMS to change the 0.5 elll posted position to full-time and then uh the district has decided to decrease the amount of special education teachers by 0.5 at both C T and PV and we're asking for that not to happen um you know we're talking about the most you know vulnerable students um in our district here so you know our Professionals in the classroom see that these are vital for next school year and I did want to point out CMS specifically just to kind of you know start to make my point here um for the past seven years we've had two full-time teachers um and I did just see before I before I give a public comment today that we did post a half uh CHS half CMS bed position which I'm very grateful that we were able to you know come to some sort of compromise on that um but I guess there's two takeaways here one is I don't understand why it has to be so difficult for us to get these positions um you know our staff are saying that they need these things and we're constantly having to Advocate through through committee work whether it's a workload committee student services um whether it's in our meeting that we had last week um but it always seems like it's very challenging for us to be able to get the things that the staff need and so I think we do need to do a better job of listening to our staff and what they need in the classroom additionally when it comes to growth is the other point you know I come to almost every single board meeting if not you know I'm listening online and I always hear that we are the fastest growing District in King County um our enrollment is growing but we're not seeing that growth be accommodated with with an increase in Staffing and just look at the data it's pretty obvious you know our class sizes are the worst in the area we aren't spending on kids um our retention is going down and there's a big reason for that and that's because our workloads are increasing and I do encourage the school board because these these were denied um to please reflect on these and please look to add these because this is going to help our staff it's going to help retain staff I encourage you to go talk to those individuals I'm sure they're going to tell you this is what they need you know we didn't just pull this out of a hat um but most of all we need these positions for our students especially these populations which are our most vulnerable so please I I do ask that you guys take a a close look at this and post these positions thank thank you thanks D all right C grabit hello I just want to preface that the meetings that um Dave Chapman just talked about that he said happened last week are with um Esther and Matt hog and myself and Dave so that's the meeting he was talking about where we always advocate for what the people in our buildings are talking about and what they need and on that um I'm K grait and I'm an early childhood special education teacher at priew grade school and I've been an early childhood teacher in the district for 18 years and I'm speaking to you this evening to express a deep concern regarding the district's decision to reduce two two full-time Early Childhood special education teaching positions at priew down to 1.5 now all of you know that I'm a passionate advocate for the needs of our youngest Learners I firmly believe that maintaining two positions at full-time capacity is essential currently there are two afternoon sessions for which we have 11 children from within the community on a waight list the district is removing one of the sessions denying these 11 possible students access to our program every year students initially classified as typically developing tuition students are later discovered to have delays making them eligible for special education services the decision to exclude these children from our program is depriving them of the opportunity to receive the specialized Services interventions they may need to thrive academically and socially so for me personally as a teacher for the last six years these tuition students come in and at least two of them end up being IEP and by not letting them in the program we're denying that that's data I can show you that data I am the longest Early Childhood specialed teacher in this District I am the data Trend I can tell you what the trends are in this District you just have to ask me teachers and administration have two different viewpoints on things Administration looks at paperwork and what's provided we are the teachers in these buildings every day working with the students we know what we need in order to best serve them and by lessening sped which Mr Chapman just talked about that is such a disservice to these students to the staff to the community we need these teachers we've been asking of this for years and yet instead of increasing we keep decreasing I'm not understanding where the disconnect is happening if you need to know something please come ask the teachers in the room please because we can tell you show you the data we've been providing this CT PV CMS CHS we have been providing this over and over again and yet it keeps getting denied and we're not understanding why and how this is happening so we ask you the board please go into these buildings and talk to the staff and find out why they feel that we need the numbers in these buildings so that we can meet the needs of these students teachers have left this district and emailed you and told you why they've left and they've told you it's because they're not supported and they're overwhelmed they can't do their job they have too much on their case load too much on their workload we need to support them we need to provide the special ed staff and every building that's necessary so please take the time to go into these buildings and have conversations with those who are working with these students so that the right decision is made so we can meet the the needs of all these kids especially these 11 on a wait list 11 kids out there it's a great program we're denying them the ability to come in and be part of this district and get the education they deserve and possibly an IEP that they won't get till they go to kindergarten and it takes a long time so maybe not even till first grade the younger we get them the better please we ask you go in talk to these buildings find out the Staffing that's needed and then make sure the proper Staffing is put into place thank you thanks K all right Tim Mets good evening everybody this is Tim Mets I'd like to thank you for letting me speak here um I regarding the last meeting you guys had is about the budget on the 3.3 million expansion and the existing building that's already in progress and I understand that you kind of like muddled over it and feel as though you have to think on when you're going to approve it which I understand timing is of the essence and because the proposed uh anex building that you were going to build on the new property it kind of got put on hold and obviously the kids still coming into the school system kind of get a move on this 3.3 um I'd like to make a motion that you approve like 2.5 and get somebody to do a little bit better job on the numbers there to kind of bring it down because I'm sure the people here need to have some justification on why it's 3.3 and not a little bit lower because it's still not totally finished yet um but it's something that you guys obviously need to discuss and get it get it handled because it's it's something that's in in the making so me from the public stance I'd like to make a motion that you get discuss it and get that approved tonight uh the other thing is you got the cash Farm lease up should have been handled in the 20th of or back in April uh most of the farm Fields right now are already planted and up and growing and to put a minimum bid on there U by going by the books or wherever you see from the ACT news or whatever to put that number on there was kind of uh little bit hard to put that number on when here we're already planted and up and growing and when it comes to me being a producer and a farmer I know the early bird gets the worm and when it comes to growing corn to get a good test weate you got to have it planted early and the studies are showing that earlier planted soybeans are also a plus factor and when you look at a minimum bid on what you guys want from your aspect as school you have to understand that you're already 30 days behind the behind the the growth period um I also want to point out that I think it's very good that the public is coming out here and you guys are allowing to hear their input because that shows that there's a lot of Community out there showing their interest and guiding you guys into the right direction so you don't get misconstrued so thank you thanks move on to action reports motion and second or needed to approve the consent agenda so move second um included in your board package is the revenue and expenditure reports revenues are at 52.6% compared to 4821 a year ago expenditures are at 71.8 compared to 6439 a year ago this month we also received impact fees for the month of April for 123,00 55 96 for 19 home starts um we did receive transition fees for the time in a long time um those total $ 39,6 and then the bills payable for both Northern cane and Central are are normal for the month of May any questions for Fulk yes pil yes Nolan yes papis yes vot yes Gman yes motion is carried need a motion in second to discuss and approve the trip to skills USA national Convention in Atlanta Georgia June 24th to the 29th of 2024 so moved second good evening I guess I could just keep this simple and say what Pat said you kind of got the background but uh again like Mr podgorski said our skills us team went down had a great showing and grateful for the opportunity to provide those to those students any questions about the trip you have more information on the trip for them 299 basally Che yeah and I apologize it was we before we had our last meeting we just approve the Poria trip and then we're working out the details for the the skills USA skills USA but the national so H yes Nolan yes papis yes vote Yes Fulk yes Gorman yes motion is carried next Motion in second to discuss and approve the a trip to State FFA convention in Springfield Illinois scheduled for June 11th to 13 2024 yeah and in your packet there there's a memo second continue yeah sorry there's information in your packet outlining that trip that uh Mr Robinson and Mr Dal will be taking some of our FFA kids excuse me down to that uh down to the convention in Springfield Nolan yes papis yes V yes Fulk yes Anil yes Gman yes motion is carried all right we need motion second to discuss and approve the Middle School track and field overnight trip to the state competition in East P Illinois occur May 17 to 18th 2024 soov second It's Already Done May pus yes vot yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes Gorman yes motion is carried all right new motion and second to discuss and approve the best buddies trip to the leadership conference at Indiana University July 19th 22nd 2024 so moved second so yeah youit wait till you get the right working with h director poik and uh Sarah Nolan we have an opport Unity best buddies is non non for-profit organization we have the opportunity of sending two individuals down to the conference at the University of Indiana to uh learn all there is about best buddies and hopes to bring that back and now hopefully help out our current high school program that we have at our high school working with that group of individuals with special needs and what is best buddies um best buddies pairs our students which I would say most at risk in our I would say Mid Valley classroom step classroom things like that that then work with high school students throughout the year each month they usually do something from a from a cookout or you know they I think they actually parlay that into some special Olympic type stuff through track with Mid Valley this year and things of that nature but it's an opportunity to kind of blend those programs and give those kids an opportunity and it's in Bloomington Indian not Indianapolis yeah yes ful yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes Gorman yes motion is carried motion second a requir to discuss and approve the contract with the Q Center to host prom in April second all right I know it's uh 2026 is a ways away but it seems like it'll be here before you know it uh with our growing enrollment and the limit the size limitations of some places that we have uh the Q Center we're trying to secure that at least two years out so we can plan and prep as this service industry continues to grow uh when you look at comparable schools to our area St Charles bavia the Q Center offers that space that we need and unfortunately we're kind of at the will of these venues when it comes to prom so looking forward to get approval on this to to uh solidify for 2026 so we can kind of get a two-year cycle for planning and and prepping and letting people know ahead of time what to expect are we at the Q Center for 2025 20125 we're back at Pinstripes um so when I took over they were doing once a year and you know with all the changes and everything trying to find those venues year to year when they're usually booked out two years in advance made it extremely difficult we're thankful for Pinstripes uh but I also know as we grow we had 500 plus kids and um for those who were there it was a great time but it's getting kind of close to capacity there so uh the Q Center offers a little more room for our for for our size as we continue growth what's the cost of difference per student from say pin stripes to the Q Center so right now this year we were around about $120 a kid per ticket um if we look at the pricing let alone right there that'd be $96 per student but that's without transportation DJ and other things so um if you put in in context I know I reached out to like matavia matavia paid I think right around 57,000 for 700 kids um so again we probably looking right around that same price range you know obviously it depends on what the DJ contract looks like and and things like that but we'd probably be right around that 120 Mark again for our students to make sure we e North I think we're closer to 150 this year too and one was at the Q Center and one was in Oak Brook I know that's where there twoes were um bav again they they were right around 120 and then as they get closer they bump it up to 130 uh we did some other comparables like weat and warville not this is the model because it cause a lot of stress but they sell their tickets for like two weeks at 95 bucks and if you don't buy them in two weeks then you're kind of out of luck and I know that's not fair to every family that can can't afford that but um in terms of the Fox Valley Conference we're kind of in that mode as well but outside of Huntley we're there's really nobody else that's our size when you look at some of these other schools within our conference so last three or four years actually should DJ next one yeah doesn't work out de can grab her iPhone and Ox do it save you some money that's crazy wow I can spin records yes Hil yes Nolan yes pepis yes vote Yes Gorman yes motion is cured all thank thank you thank you motion second to discuss and approve the contract oh sorry um the adoption of textbooks for math one two and three so moved second okay sorry so these textbooks have been on display uh you can remember we had to wait one additional meeting because of the days between the original date that this was put on and now so this wasn't last month but the previous meeting is when we put them on public display they've been on display since that time so this is our math one math 2 math three to support our integrated math this will complete the series of textbooks needed for technically all of our math courses with the exception of transitional math which doesn't have a textbook because it is uh regulated by ECC and that is the accepted process for for transitional math but on these three textbooks um the information been provided on our finances for the student materials for six years that will be the digital copies and a textbook set within each of those classrooms it will cover both CMS and CHS because CMS remember we start our math one course so there will be classroom set there as well so that's uh something to take a notation on for integrated math one uh and then you've got your bundles for integrated math 2 and three and this is all on a six-year agreement I forget the people we talked about this before when was the last time we changed this curriculum like this we had to redone textbook set digital or otherwise there has been a long time because and was here we couldn't find one they liked algebra so it's been a while since we've up pivoting poll one two three basically they developed their own curriculum okay questions for St right I'm sorry do we get a motion in a second move second Fulk yes mfil yes Nolan yes papis yes vot yes Gorman yes motion is carried thank you thank you um next we motion second to discuss approve the bids leas the 47 property for the purpose of farming so move second um included in your board packet is the um memo for the approval of the cash Farm leas um four bids were received one came in under our minimum bid um three of the other ones were were came in more than either at or above our our set price um the highest bid came in at $451 an acre um from the in um you have the prices of what the other four people had um bid on their sheets and so we're basically questions off Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes V yes vulk yes Gorman yes motion is carried next your motion second to discuss and approve um gosh can't see approve the FFA rental of Route 47 property so Mo second so if you recall we brought forward that FFA alumni has always uh utilized some property along kind of in conjunction with the Meer property when we sold the Meer property that was gone uh FFA uses this especially the Alumni Association as part of their organization to help fund scholarships do some great things for kids uh so we are recomending that we take it's 26 to 28 Acres of the current property that we have um in the new MOS property on about 47 uh for the purpose of FFA so that we can give them additional um agan to be able to get some additional dollars to be able to pay for some of those things that our students are are doing as well as it'll give us some opportunity to do other things for FFA on that property um we will work on putting together an agreement uh with our legal team and the FFA Alumni Association to kind of delineate some of the elements that they should be taking care of expectations we'll work with that organization to come up with the plan um as we work through this process with Mr Robinson to figure out what's best in terms of the district and for them like pre-approving the further discussion you're you're approving the 28 Acres so I can move forward the agreement okay yeah so 26 to 28 acres is the approval and then I'll move forward an agreement the board does say 15 to 20 by the way yeah you 26 to 28 Nolan yes papus yes vot yes vul yes Hil yes Gorman yes motion is carried any motion second to uh to discuss and approve the paper bid for the 2024 to 2025 school year second also included in board packet is um copy paper bid and the recap we had people fire submit um or no we sent out 12 we got six of them back we've got some new people on here that would have never been so that was exciting um some of our original or the ones that always bid didn't so that was kind of interesting but um contract paper group came in with the lowest responsible bid um for $62,900 so we're recommending that we accept that there have we used them before yes okay and they can get all the product and they yes to get all the product all right papus yes vot yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes Gorman yes motion is carried next motion and second are needed to discuss and approve the joint agreement with the Northern Illinois independent purchasing Cooperative so moved second so included in board packet is um contract for the Northern Illinois independent purchasing Co-op um it's our food service one we've used for my whole lifetime here so it's probably about 10 years 85 years they only started in 1995 so that can't be true um so we're just basically recommending that we continue to to be a member of this Co-op um they assist with all of the bidding which is a huge huge job um and then we can pull our um resources together to be able to get better bids for costs all right vote Yes hul Yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes Gorman yes motion is carried we need a motion in second to discuss and approve uh Grant director Engel as the board certified delegated authority so moved second this an annual agreement or an annual renewal to um basically appoint Grady to be able to be the board certified delegate Authority um on the grant says he's writing them there's a little check box that either the superintendent can do it or this board certified so Grady Angel would be the one to do all of these ones for Central Paul yes Hil yes Nolan yes peus yes vote Yes Forman yes motion is carried now need a motion and second to discuss and improved business manager flute and EF Director stro as the board certified delegated authorities for the northern cane Regional Vocational system so moved second same memo as centrals just Northern um I usually do the or risk assessment and right yes Tempo yes Nolan yes papis yes V yes Gorman yes yes motion is carried I motion second to discuss and approve the authorization to execute a one-time adjustment to the Natural Gas procument rate if favorable second greetings something different this time nice that was nice um so uh we've worked we've talked about this in the past we've uh kind of came up with and working with Dana this opportunity to bid out our um utilities so Gas and Electric we found out the last time we did this that it was a a great option it offered us some opportunities to save money and get us the POS best possible long-term cost locked in cost um so as you could see in the board memo we were had very low per THM rates on our gas service three years ago when we signed this original agreement and we cost avoided over $400,000 in that period perod of time which could have been even substantially more than that based on um our some of the opportunities our vendor said with the the Peaks we had during those cold snaps and stuff there was districts that were who was cos them tens of thousands of dollars a month in gas service um we're slightly higher at this time in that 40 cents to 45 cents if we go with the longer term contract which is what we're recommending um locking in those rates for a longer period of time just gives us some consistency being able to to monitor budgets and manage those those things better those rates are still very competitive but we're also asking for the opportunity with gas service when we're bidding these our vendor is bidding those out the day of so we want to have the flexibility that at this current rate which shows here is what our current bid is so we wouldn't be any more than that but there is an opportunity that when we do actually sign on the dotted line when our service is up that it could be cheaper so it's kind of a two-fold conversation that we want the approval to go with this bid as the as um shown but also the opportunity if somebody did come in less that we could authorize that that agreement current contract expires ju correct our fiscal year correct so we go out four years from that if you want three or four years I we talked about three yeah three or four years we would at that longterm option do we have the same terms on the existing it would it would be the same terms for the new agreement correct y but we had it currently correct okay we did not execute a one time adjustment last time right it was the recommendation of the agency that were're working with to go out one more time to do with the mortgage and watch the rates we can get a r it at that point in time so the one time allows us to do that last time we did not do that but it was a recommendation that came through them to do that just in case just in case good smart Hil yes Nolan yes papus yes vot yes Fulk yes bman yes motion is carried we move on information items start okay Sor start with the facilities upd all right now I'm back um so I'll start my update with our current permitted our current projects that we're working on um the high school addition project that's kind of the the big one that's out there right now um things are moving along there a critical piece of that project that we're looking to wrap up in the next week or so is the roof getting that roof on is going to kind of get us watertight to be able to start some of those interior things so that that's moving right along um aluminum frames and glazing are going in currently along with the masonry kind of getting along that North elevation kind of coming around the west and starting on the south so things are moving along with those um we are encountering some issues that could possibly delay the opening till after the start of school um some of our vendors are we're having some issues with Supply chains again some of our electrical components hpac components um the our mill work Furniture things like that could possibly put a delay on that um so we're keeping an eye on that and communicating that and and keeping on top of it um the um generator projects our other project that's out there now our other permanent project um we're looking at uh for the maintenance Transportation building in Lily Lake doing the startup on those generators in the next couple weeks um then prair R viw and hbt the electrician currently working on wrapping those up hopes to have those wrapped up in the next couple weeks and then we'll look at getting those um started up and once those startups are done we should have you know everything rolling for the start of school so that should be that should be a good deal uh kind of going to summer um we're work currently working on um some bid package for parking lot improvements looking at parking lot improvements at Prairie noes and then looking at asphalt improvements on the playgrounds at three of the elementary schools we did Country Trails when we did that renovation so we'd be looking at Prairie View hbt in Lily Lake um so that that those projects are going to be going out to bids so we'll bringing those to the board hopefully next month if everything goes well um ly Lake we're looking at a lot of Tuck pointing and caul work um obviously our oldest building tuck pointing and CA and things like that are just an ongoing maintenance thing so we try to keep up with those so we commit dollars to that you know every year um fencing in generators looking at painting projects things like that we're working we've been working with Dana and Dr mongan on putting those plans together to kind of get some facelifts to the the front entryways of our buildings and try to make sure we're keeping up with those things so that's going to kind of be the the summer of paint we're looking at and things like like that how much of a delay are you thinking as far as the high school and opening I I would I don't know right now um we're hoping in the next every every month we kind of get better updates um it could possibly be all the way till um Christmas break yeah we're anticipating and what we've told High School to depend on not to depend on opening that way for the first semester we might be a open up in second semester okay so they're planning for no of that at this point in time and then for PK as the the roadway there when are we when are you looking to do the asph falling because I swear I almost lost a tire coming out of there so I that that would be probably late summer we're kind of going out to bed a little late on that so that probably would be something we would be pushing right to the end of end of July into August probably at this point right before the start of school yep awesome the plan would be to have it for the start of school yes it's going to say driver error I'm surprised I don't think so I swear I was like was that I mean jeez you said fencing in generators yeah so all the all the generators the other generators we have in the district we try to fence those in just for Safety and Security and to keep kid kids away so that would be that would be a project that we'd be doing to fence those in Lily Lakes um we were talking to Erica about trying to make that fence look nice out there so we kind of decorate it and then put some ballards out there just to protect that whole area but when we looked at it with our contractor we'll still have plenty of room for buses and egress out of that parking lot putting that fence fencing and CT's fencing we're still looking at too right yeah so yeah that's the other fencing we're looking at so with the development of Country Trails if you've been out that way the houses are they're coming and they're right on our right on our border so we're going to be working with the homeowners association to see what options there are for us to put a fence along that playground area and along our property line just to kind of protect the kids from balls and stuff during recess and all that entering into those those home sites makes sense what's the like span of a playground I mean I know asphalt's an ongoing thing I've driven plenty of parking aspht yeah you think the playgrounds should be a higher priority than parking we can dodge potholes with kids you don't want them so so the the issues that we've run into in the past is most of our our playgrounds are not designed for vehicle traffic so and in the past because of constraints and parking issues we've had to use them for parking so those kind of degraded them a lot quicker we try to do crack filling seal coating doing things that we could do to kind of get the longevity on those but when you when you run a car on something that has you know just three inches of binder and surface it's just not designed for that traffic dig it all up and go Lake we are looking to do that because of the limited parking so he is going out for a a bit Yeah so we know Lily Lake there there's really not a lot of options there so that one will continue to be used for parking so we'll look at doing something with more Stone and adding an extra lift or two on that to make sure we could still Park on that one but we're not going to be parking on hbt and Prairie views playgrounds any longer and we shouldn't have to with the with the parking lot space we've put on right than you anything else thank you all right next we have a recommendation for adoption of biology textbook just the first one please this is next uh so not this year but the previous year we started a review process of our science textbooks some of them based off the fact of uh one major missing component and that is ngss our next Generation science standards uh on our current Tech book just to give you some age on those they are not included in it so that right away gave us a little uh indicator that we needed to start the review process and we had uh several teachers come together to review biology uh chemistry uh and some of the other areas and so the top first two books that today I'm going to talk about is biology and chemistry so the first one biology uh this book is to service both our biology and honors biology courses so that it is not a two separate situation textbook scenario the influx from biology to honors uh would create a a financial burden where we would not be able to predict it so our teachers were able to find a textbook that not only aligns across both curricular areas but is up to-date uh has the Online requirements and then it has additional uh videos and demonstrations that uh provide not only safety but kind of a more informative approach to break down some of the what they described uh lab activities that could occur and kind of a slower paced video format to be able to up uh increase our our understanding for our students some of those uh science labs might be more of a quicker scenario where a student doesn't have the capacity to visually see some things that occur so that was one of the highlights uh within that the other one uh that they uh really liked was the questioning that was built into these textbooks so uh the depth of knowledge uh that we use and the ability for teachers to adapt these uh for biology specifically was seen as a great benefit trying to think what else that um and then they just highlighted that the interactive uh digital portal that comes along with this Biology book uh was better than the other choices that were selected and just for reference we review three textbooks minimally sometimes we do more but minimally we do three so uh our last textbook uh was a savis product I believe it was Pearson at the time that's now savis but uh this book is an hmh product uh we use hmh in other areas of our K2 system so if they're a a reput vendor and it is a really good book that the teachers are excited about if we buy I mean this is copyright 20 18 M this is an old textbook s that's the most current well I don't doubt that it is but that's still an old textbook for science so if there are updates to the digital textbook I'm assuming we get that included in our six years yeah the digital happens on the the yearly basis so like a six-year contract for that um we'll start with the original and it's based off the 2018 original paper textbook but that does not stop the digital side from being updated on a regular basis and this would go into practice for 2024 this fall yep so this will have to go on display these you know this one and the next one I'm going to talk about for 30 days and I will come back for approval later for the purchase but the anticipated goal is for us to purchase this book to put in practice for the next school year 2425 academic calendar got it so's a quick way to explain the ngss standards how they Chang uh say that one more time is there a quick way to explain the new standards I guess well they I don't want to call them new because they've been around for quite a while um so I don't actually know the date they came in 201 14 somewhere so um it it was an Al a massive alignment that occurred kind of Across the Nation on NextGen science standards that or Incorporated more what I would call tactile Hands-On engaged labs to better enhance the Practical knowledge in a tactile sense and it really engage the learner differently than maybe traditional past practice of a sit and get lecture-based absorption but also while embedding some of the other stem principles and uh larger Global sense that had to come into it for the full explanation and of it being very specific to science only it brings in more when it's when those were adopted in the year that it was we've been teaching them we've been teaching we've been teaching them and and that's the fact of like how old our previous textbooks are they're actually from the early 2000s and so this update is uh merited and we do need to keep reviewing our other curriculums as well to make sure we update those in the future okay questions about biology no so the next book coming around is our chemistry uh textbook again this is textbook has been selected on the same premise of it has the capacity to uh serve its purpose for both honors and regular chemistry it is a different product this is McGraw Hill uh it was selected as the Top Choice it's Inspire science chemistry uh the uh alignment with the scope and sequence of our current curriculum was seen as a benefit uh got to give credit to uh Jennifer Santiago and Terry Angel who took a lot of time to review this textbook uh and some of the other ones and finding this one as what they consider the most student friendly online practice uh online animation and interactive activities uh to help with visuals as well uh and then the expanded curricular resources that teachers will have access to on the digital side to be able to enhance what we are doing in our classroom uh again this one does include the nextg uh standards um and we'll be able to apply a little bit more performance-based expectations uh in line with what we are currently doing so very similar to biology differences were now a chemistry side and again lab wise a chemistry reaction if you can think about it goes very quickly so that enhanced digital side that is students are going to have access to and again all students will have the digital side we will be recommending a purchase of textbooks still in the classroom itself uh for the chemistry Department did mcra Hill have a Biology book because I noticed at Eric's point this one's 2020 for the chemistry do they have a they they do and they it was part of the revieww process but but the alignment to the book that was selected by the teachers uh was seen as a better product than what the mcra hill product was for biology for biology to answer the question why it's mcra Hill for this one versus hmh for the other one great the biology one does I'd have to double check one of them and I don't want to misquote which one has the capacity and I don't know if that's McGraw Hill or hmh and that has the online just like the other biology any other questions NOP thank you than the next item is the recommendation for school lunch fees for 24 to 25 oh Jess is here see good evening you didn't talk with the last one I missed you somewhere back yeah hiding um in the board packet we have the recommendation to increase the schol lunch prices by 20 cents for each level however we are going to leave the MK prices at 40 cents um we haven't increased the prices since 2020 and 2021 school year you want talk a little bit about what you find out from state was the state person or who you guys speak with the uh ISB recommends that we increase 10 cents every year so we're a little bit behind on that with not increasing for three years um this will help balance it out the they have a calculation which is the paid lunch Equity it's called a PL um calculator that you have to fill out there is um like four different steps involved in that and we came to the middle of the road to make it more affordable for our families our our costs on par of the other districts and what they charge for where kind of balanced out yeah okay it's hard to compare 100% stles some people contract out oh we don't contct is all in house okay so recommendation obviously we didn't need to go with because we weren't losing I guess the past three years we I think we chose not to because of Co um and transitioning from I mean I was filling in P for half a year um the pl calculator is something there's different there's a weighted average in a couple other areas um and you can apply for a waiver if you were making money and the reason that we had a positive fund balance was because of our supply chain assistant grant that they gave us so they gave us for the fresh fruit um we applied for all three of those every year we've been bringing those to the board um there might be a fourth round coming but we're not confident in it um so that is the only reason we had the positive fund balance because we were using those funds up in across the year so at the end of the year you might had a positive but it really TR wasn't a true correct yes so we chose not to and then come to find out when we were talking to the state nutrition Mr gogerty um he basically said that 10 cents is the minimum every year and we haven't and we you know maybe it should be close to 385 and we're like not going that far so we kind of did some analysis and met at the7 any other questions regarding lunch no than thank you thank you move on to uh approving the addendum to deposit account um including your board packet is an addendum for the deposit account so we currently we have a deposit account agreement of disclosure with Old Second Bank um and just in reviewing some of the language in there um in our annual reviews kind of as a formality we um we've been following the collateralization and the Illinois public fund deposit act stuff but we didn't really have it 100% in writing so we just wanted to put the clarifying language in there that this is what they're following anyway but at least then we have it in writing to confirm that they are truly going to provide by that good right thanks D any questions on the enrollment report no right next up our foyes so we've been very busy with uh foyes this this month um Miss Tesa received a request for records meaning emails text messages voicemail messages phone laws and post session minutes uh related to the purchase of the last property were able to comply with that portional request denied a part due to it being unduly burdensome some of the stuff like emails texts all those things that you just could find and have access to miss Walch received the request for tle one District plan incling details of any parental advisory committee uh we were able to comply with that request uh Mr Powers we received request for information about construction and our maintenance work planned for this year including names of contracts that have already been awarded uh we were able to comply with that request Mr dogen we received a request for construction drawings for the current Central High School addition construction schedule and change Edition uh we were able to comply with this request but we did require that would have to come inside the school system to se the printouts because it was architectural and we did not want to provide that um access so I think he chose not to to come to school uh Miss H we received a request for information about District employees and transportation positions any contracts between district and a private company providing Staffing for District transportation we able to comply with that request and Mr J we receive a request for information regarding the 2324 District budget act forend chairs and total reserves would comply to that request those are the bo that we have for this month any questions on the bo no all right concludes tonight's meeting motion second to adjourn Open Session and move to close session with the following exceptions 2c1 2c2 2 C10 and 2 c21 so move second Nolan yes yes papus yes V yes Fulk yes Hil yes Gman yes motion is carried thank you again for coming up

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e e School trust or Board of Trustees meeting for the Crown Point School Corporation today's date is May 20th I'd like to call this meeting to order at 6 PM if you could all please rise and I'll lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance in a moment of silence immediately after aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all right the first item on the agenda tonight is the board of school of Trustees resolution of accommodation award 2.01 Taff Middle School academic Super Bowl team for being named state champions in the social studies category in class one at the Indiana academic Super Bowl competition item 2.02 Colonel wheeler and Taff Middle School dance team for being named state champions in the junior high triaa Jazz and Junior High triaa Palm at the state competition item 2.03 Crownpoint High School Science Olympiad team for winning first place overall at the regional Science Olympiad tournament item 2.04 the 2023 and 2024 business Professionals of America team for earning first second and third place in students various individual words at the 2024 business Professionals of America State leadership conference in second fifth and sixth place for students individual Awards at the national leadership conference item 2.05 2023 and 2024 Crownpoint High School academic Super Bowl team for winning first place in the English Math Science and interdisciplinary categories in class one at the Indiana Regional academic Super Bowl competition item 2.06 2023 2024 Crownpoint High School Latin club for winning first place in the Helen wimler Spirit contest the digital scrapbook contest the Dennis M bartlo publicity contest and the local Publications contest and placing first place in the cerin advanced and intermediate divisions and third in the cerin novice division at the Indiana a junior classical League State Convention and finally item 2.07 F I'm sorry 2.07 2024 2025 teacher of the year employee of the year and administrator of the Year award board presentations and all others um who were up for those as finalists in those positions today so may I have a motion so move show a motion by Miss Basin and second to my Mr uh second by Mr bastter uh all those in favor say I I and I excuse me and nay the motion will carry three nothing Mr Vasser will present uh the items for the half Middle School academic super B team if we could have them come in and stand in front this will be a small group tonight compared to the other groups I can see goe Mr vasor this is our Taff Middle School academic Super Bowl team who were state champions in the social studies category in class won at the Indiana academic Super Bowl competition so first we have our coaches Jamie [Applause] Le and second coach is Karen snady before we uh give the certificates to the students coaches do you have anything to like to say about your team quite an accomplishment um I mean I've been doing this only two years but I go back the we've never made it this high so I'm really proud of these three gentlemen they did an amazing job I they really guided themselves give them the tools and the ones that stud I know they just have for social studies congratulations coaches so we have if I mispronounce your name don't don't hold it against me is it dejan josephi so I was I had the vows [Applause] right Mason jusco [Applause] and sha Morris congratulations parents grandparents want to take any photos now's your opportunity you guys [Applause] next we have the middle school dance teams this is our combined Colonel wheeler and Taff Middle School dance team who were state champions in junior high class triaa both Jazz and AAA pal quite an accomplishment um let's introduce our coaches first and receive their certificates we have Tamar [Applause] bets and Kelly McCarthy and my favor dancer of all time Annie [Applause] basser coaches before we uh present to our athletes here do you have anything you want to say about your team I just want to say thank you it was my additionally just scho history the that you guys were able to get state champions in both routines um that's never been done at the middle school level before so that's a really you all should be incredibly proud of the work that you put in this season [Applause] awesome okay let's get to the individual wordss this is Briley [Applause] Bowman Julia basil [Applause] Lily [Applause] Baja Hadley [Applause] mccre Hayden Babcock [Applause] Sabrina [Applause] white Jessica Walden Ellen [Applause] RoR Lily Petty [Applause] Claire [Applause] Peterson Kenley [Applause] Morado and Isley Kik once again congratulations uh moms and dads anybody else want to take pictures now as your big opportunity can we make little front you guys know how to do it yeah [Applause] congratulations all right next we have the Crown Point High School Science Olympiad team come all the way down good all right next combination is for the crown High School uh Science Olympiad team for winning first place overall at the regional Science Olympiad tournament uh what a what a great honor that is I'd like to read the resol resolution of commodation the Crown Point Board of school of Trustees is honored to commend the 2023 and 2024 Crownpoint High School Science Olympiad team for meritorious achievement be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2023 24 Prim Point High School Science Olympiad team for winning first place overall at the regional competition the board of school of Trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity on this 20th day of May 2024 um I'd like to First recognize coach Tim clo Tim congratulations uh would you like to speak about your team a little bit so concert here you know all of us were able to make it here so you know for those wble of course you also part of for those students who here able to achieve wonderful first place here at comp and set here sucess support our midle scho teams a and able to have here for future success both both Regal tournaments and state tournament coach how does this performance compar to years in the past so this is actually our first first place at this is actually numerous fantastic I'll call the names if you want come for if you're here I we'll have toide Tyson Abraham Xander Abraham mateline Bronson along Nick Collier jce Edwards Ashley Johnson simra KH [Applause] Annabelle kson Maya lisma I'm just hearing coach concert concert concert concert Sarah lightel Ariel Moore uh Bernardino Pere right [Applause] Max [Applause] P Ben spaser Gabby Stabler Alie sces all right well I think that come to the end of the line there but congratulations again coach team well done thank you for representing thank you for all your [Applause] go [Applause] give okay bring the business profal look Shar kind of people there well uh next we're going to recognize the 2023 2024 business Professionals of America team for earning first second and third place in students various individual awards at the 2024 business Professionals of America State leadership conference in second fifth and sixth place for students individual wordss at the national leadership conference I'd like to read the uh the team solution accommodation first Crownpoint Board of school of Trustees is honored to commend the Crownpoint high school team for 2023 2024 business Professionals of America team for mandatory situ be it hereby resolved that the board of school of Trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2324 business Professionals of American team for earning first second and third place and students various individual awards at the 2024 business professionals ofer leadership cere I'm sorry conference and second fifth and sixth place for students individual awards at the national leadership conference the Board of scho Trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public Prosperity this congratulations coach you want to come over and join me for a minute had pleasure my children well great job do with business your team can you uh explain the process how we got here and how these Awards and this process works to to win the uh the leadership conference and just the whole ceremony how this all goes down [Music] Gent invol so students typically pick those events based on what kind ofs they gain in theom ORS of [Music] theom [Music] te individual here of our group and we start theal level and compete with schools within our region there's 10 different schools in our region and then once we qualify comption in March where 1300 other students from the state are competing for DPA and then qualif to go to Nationals we just got backing days in Chicago 6500 students from all over the country China Puerto Rico and Canada and these are all highly skilled highly professional individuals and they could walk into any boardroom and represent Crown Point Community School Corporation Ian look how great they look um they're highly professional and I'm so proud of them they work so hard when you get involved in BPA as in any other academic team when you're competing with students from all over State the country you know it's like taking an extra class or an extra two classes so it takes a great deal of commitment and confidence in yourself and you learn so much more about yourself and so I could be more proud of these guys they are just so good and so they're going to be our are our leaders our Business Leaders of the future so let's just give them a [Applause] hand you have a little bit of passion don't you you like it it's awesome fantastic one question how long have you been doing this well I brought BP to the high school years ago they call mear because my last is and BL tan and red like I'm all abouta if you my pict so my passion I lovea and so my job is to recruit these guys and let their job and just have a great time I know one thing I'm not wear three ever again all right let's get to the accommodations and individuals Jake Balman TR [Applause] tillage Mason [Applause] Rini Ari barar Aiden uh Cor thank you penot [Applause] mle Parker [Applause] Nicks [Applause] deanon Cesar [Applause] quit and Miss Mary back you know I'll hold if you take the pictures okay all right take some pictures we [Applause] congratulations all right next can we please bring in the academic Super Bowl team for all right welcome so I'll first read our resolution of commendation the Crownpoint School Board of Trustees is honored to commend the 2023 2024 Crownpoint High School academic Super Bowl team for meritorious achievement be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trust for the cmpo Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2023 2024 cromo High School academic Super Bowl team for winning first place in the English Math Science and interdisciplinary categories in class one at the Indiana Regional academic Super Bowl competition the board of school public trustees the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity so coach can I have you come on up and I'm gonna give you the podium here um these are just the hardest working and most intelligent kids in the school it's not like an a athletic event where they get to run around for a little bit after school it's just constant brain power they they're in the hardest classes in the school they're in a lot of AP classes and then they do more studying for academic Super Bowl and it's just I'm so proud of like how much work that they actually put in they learn a lot of college level material in high school independently like the coaches help them out a little bit but this is most of it is just on them to just learn that college level material all by themselves there and to do that at such a high level to represent Crown Point is is it's an amazing student they got amazing parent support amazing just yeah amazing work ethics and the brains is amazing so we start sometimes a little before Christmas break um and then we continue it all throughout the spring we do we do like a little fine tune competition and then we have like our DAC competition that they they also won that for like four years in a row um and then and then we had the area competition it was the first team we had to have like five state qualifiers for each each of the sub okay Isaac Foster Bella lamparski Maya LMA Sarah lito Eva opatas Vanessa oolina Santino Pape Max [Music] P he was just up here for BPA but Caesar kit orderer brother miles kit Billy Roman Kaylin [Applause] Ward Miss Missing Gabriella staer [Applause] works for [Applause] our next award will be for the Crownpoint High School Latin Club come on in Latin club all right so our resolution of commendation the Crownpoint Board of school trustees is honored to commend the 2023 2024 Crownpoint High School Latin club for meritorious achievement be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for the Crownpoint Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2023 2024 Crownpoint High School Latin club for winning first place in the Helen Wampler Spirit contest the digital scrapbook contest the Dennis M bartlo publicity contest and the local Publications contest and for placing first in the ceran advanced and intermediate divisions and third in the ceran novice division at the Indiana junior classical League State Convention the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to it its minutes to be preserved for public posterity so we have coaches Ryan ker Angie more time ter scavage and Mr Jeremy Walker coaches do you want to come on up and say aou yeah this was our this was our first three-day convention it's always been a two-day convention so that was an adventure and I have to give props to Hayden Smith who was the state first vice president who planned all of that 3day in this brand new format so great job Hayden that that was a big Kudos all the way up we had 21 students go and of those 21 uh they brought home 134 top five placing things in either academic testing graphic arts or creative arts where they do things like Latin oratory English oratory acting out a passage in Latin some really cool stuff if you ever get a chance to come with us we'd love to have you and I think you'd really enjoy the experience they are fantastic kids to work with they work really hard and with my whole team here there are three of us who teach Latin at the high school they do a great job you'll notice there's not a lot of us here tonight it's the City band concert and if you don't know this about Latin students they're very musical band choir orchestra so we don't have a lot here getting their rewards but there are a lot of us and uh we're just happy to be here and to do a great job year after year with these young people wow I think I just got called out for being old uh you've been in years of work like uh this is my 29th year teaching at Crown Point High School and bringing teams to the state [Applause] competition hello I'm Angela teras scavage and uh I've been teaching at Crownpoint high school for five years and have only had the pleasure and the honor of being involved with the Latin program for the last three um this is a tremendous group of kids they work really hard I just want to shout out our caman teams a little bit because when everyone else is busy you know working in the weight room and practicing their Sports uh these folks show up every single Friday night for an hour and a half and study topics in uh language ancient history and mythology and culture and uh it shows in performance so thank you for sharing your wonderful spuds [Applause] so like I said a lot of them are at the All City band concert today so zophia barck is not here Gabriel Blake Nick CER Ashley grindy Sean AMA Sammy EPA but then we have here tonight Analise [Applause] jaob not present Kaye Maynard Asher M mcvi and here in the room Gibson [Applause] merly also not present Colton Neil cambri and nimir but here in the room with us Logan poly also in the room Hayden [Applause] Smith would like to point out that K not only earned a state scholarship but we recently found out she's also getting a national scholarship and she'll be studying in Italy next year at Sapien University with hopes that someday she'll be teaching Latin and Classics either at the high school or the Collegiate level Joe Stewart isn't here also absent as Lincoln Vickers but here at the end of the line last but not least Jackson [Applause] rck and our final people who weren't present Gabrielle Wagner Luke Wald Schmid Jack Watson and Emy [Applause] Wilson for thank [Applause] you all right and last but not least we have all of our um teacher of the year for elementary secondary and our employee of the year and I'd like to First Call up all of our finalist so if our finalist could join us up front please all right so resolution of commendation the Crownpoint Board of school trustees is honored to commend each of these individuals as exemplary teachers and employees of the Crownpoint school corporation be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for the cromo Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to each of these individuals for the 2023 and 2024 finalists the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public poster this 20th day of May 2024 so our I'll call um these folks up first I see some of them may not be here Mary Lux Amy [Applause] Merl Grace [Applause] kellet Jessica Markle Tara [Applause] ble Carolyn [Applause] winland Stacy stanfor Abby Rous [Applause] Bob [Applause] Burks Scott Kesler so these were all of our finalists we have a um I'll start first with our secondary education so if I could have our director of secondary education come on up and I'll let Miss Sabrina Ramirez it is quite an honor to get to present this award to Ryan jzac who is our secondary teacher of the year and I really want to congratulate all of our nominees and of course our selected teachers of the Year employees of the year and um administrators of the Year during the interviews which we have the pleasure of getting to be part of the passion the commitment the care for students and the collegiality that all of our educators and our staff have really is beyond um what anybody could ever want they are truly passionate about the work that they do and about seeing students be successful and working with other teachers to do what is best for kids and that commitment really shines in all of their responses and in their presence here today Ryan has had a tremendous impact on the culture and the experiences both at Wheeler middle school and at TA middle school and is a true advocate for inclusion to see the opportunities that he has helped create for our students for parents and for our staff to really learn um how we can not only meet the needs of students but see our students for all that they are the assets that they bring and for the weaknesses that they each um possess so I really want to thank Ryan for all of the contributions he has made and will continue to make so that our students are afforded numerous opportunities both within our schools as well as in the community so I thank you Ryan congrat and I all of our Educators and all of our staff who are here with us tonight I'm going to also see a Tracy cyber who is the principal over at um T Middle School would like to say some words and she's making her way over so thank you Tracy I think you know Sabrina said it very well everything that Ryan has done um if you've ever changed jobs or changed locations you know it's hard to do at the end of the year we asked Ryan to do that in the middle of the year to not only change classrooms but change schools groups of kids and he thrived in that he Dove right in um we've never had applied skills at Taff before and he started all kinds of new initiatives this year um and is just been an amazing part of our Taff family and we are so excited to have him there [Applause] all right and for our elementary teacher of the year I would like to call up our director of Elementary education Mr Nick chck thank you first off congratulations to all of our finalists and nominees uh sitting in these interviews was uh such an enjoyable thing to do it was a great way to start a couple couple mornings that week when we did these interviews um but Mrs Ramirez said it really well about everything that all of our finalists bring to the table um I'm excited to congratulate Mrs Teresa Zant who is our elementary teacher of the year for Crownpoint Community Schools um Mrs Zar really blew the panel away in her interview all the finalist did but um just some things that really kind of stuck out about Mrs zart um from reading through her responses and then listening to her interview and also her her recommendation from her principal was just the the import of the creating an environment where all students can thrive in her classroom um she serves on the inclusion leadership team for MacArthur um she talked about and Miss bucko kind of talked about in her recommendation how Mrs Z contributes in so many ways around the school um an impact in her classroom but also outside the four walls of her classroom um and just really a model of the talent and dedication that we have uh in crowno Community Schools I'm going to kick it to miss buck real quick U I'm sure she would love to add a few things about Mrs Z first of all congratulations to all of our candidates um Teresa um there are no words Nick did a great job of um sharing everything about you and I don't know that anybody can fully share everything about Teresa she is so deserving of this award she has five and it's very evident because I've never seen a more calm person um no matter what's going on in her classroom what you throw at her she just remains calm and she's so positive and she's like I've got this no problem Maran we we'll do whatever it takes and that truly is her attitude is whatever it takes to help our kids succeed but I think truly the the biggest attribute or trait of Teresa in my opinion is her love and for our students and it's just amazing The Compassion she shows she invites former students back if she knows their struggling just to she gives her her own time her prep period to have lunch if it's their lunch period She has lunch with her own students uh it's their birthday and she brings them a balloon for every student and it's just truly amazing the love that she has for students and she's just a great example for all the rest of us so congratulations Teresa [Applause] okay good evening thank you um for giving me the honor of introducing the employee of the year but before I do that raise your hand if you are an exceptional education teacher or employee up here so I just want to say five or six years ago I'm not sure we would have seen half of the nominees um from the exceptional education department so kudos to everyone and I'm extra proud of those of you in exceptional Ed so it's an honor to be here with you all tonight uh I want to express my gratitude to Jennifer Eaton our employee of the year um Jen I hope you don't mind I will call you Jen because I feel like we're on that kind of first name basis now um Jen has been working with our most intense students at Crownpoint high school for the last five years um her compassion patience and commitment to create an environment where every student is valued is unmatched um she jumps in She's Not Afraid she helps um the most challenging students um she has stepped up to the plate when we needed her most and took a position as a longterm sub when a teacher had to away and I don't know what we would have done without you um this year we're incredibly fortunate to have you as part of the exceptional Education team and at Crow Point High School so thank you so [Applause] much and I will turn it over to Dr Terell for our next one if the rest of you can just have a seat for just a minute while we finish up with the other employees of the year think thank you and hang on if you would until we get done with the last two a words that we have for this evening at this time it is my uh privilege to be able to recognize our administrator of the year we started this a few years ago uh and it's been a highlight of um the year for us as we look at our administrators and all the great things that are happening in our bu across our district to be able to recognize this person tonight I would like to introduce all of you to our director of Transportation Marty Freeman and ask Marty if you would come forward [Applause] please at this time I'm gonna ask Mr AWA if he would come and say a few words about Marty but Marty with this recognition goes and Center uh words really can't uh fully Describe the impact that Marty has had on on our school corporation um if you can imagine redistricting growing School Corporation um this guy has done so much to just do the job that you know is his job description what sets Marty apart is it is very very common not uncommon it is very common for me between 4 and 5:30 in the morning to get a text from Marty telling me it's a great day to be a bulog uh he'll text me and say thank you so much for bringing me on board I love my job um you know you you would think job means work you know job means oh I got to get up i' got to get into the office I got to drive to school like the roads at 3:00 a.m.

e mege flag of United States stands Nation indivisible [Music] well good evening and welcome to the regular May meeting of the gr cast School Board first item on the agenda well first of all gu back up just a little bit I would imagine there are some people going to speak at the board meeting um prior to public comments we'll be picking the sheet up that you need to sign in if you want to speak in tonight's meeting and once we pick that sheet up right before comments I will call the names of the people who wanted to speak if your name's not on out list you will not speak so if you plan on speaking tonight you need to sign in here in the next couple minutes grab a copy of the Public Public participation board meeting policy and um review that prior to speaking because those are rules that be followed tonight foring public comments so first item on the agenda is adjustments to the agenda Mr yep there are no adjustments to the agenda this month okay good thanks next item is recognitions Mr giy yep Mr Roberts good evening here I have Rowan Dorman who is our student of the month he was nominated by his first grade teacher Mrs Clark Rowan is very a very sweet and caring boy he is considerate to others and is a good helper he also goes out of his way to show kindness to others he comes to to school excited and ready to learn each day and he gives his best effort even when the work is hard and he never gives up he's such a joy to have him class so congratulations to Rowan [Applause] Dorman yeah we do have the backdrop set up in the other room for pictures of our students of the month Mr M just I'd like to introduce you to Presley Phillips Presley is at kindergarten and Mrs Stockton's class and I was proud to announce that Presley is our April student of the month Mrs stocken writes that Presley is a great example for her peers she consistently does what's expected and is kind to everyone I can always count on Presley to be following school and class rules as well as helping out friends she is always willing to help out any student Presley follows all aspects of being a star student here Meadow and I'm proud to say that she is certainly a star student presy was also received votes from many of our staff members who are not kindergarten teachers in addition to the kindergarten team so as she goes through ART music PE Library many votes and was overwhelmingly our student of the month we're very proud of Pres [Applause] this Al so our T the April student of the month representative for our school is Lindy C and I'm GNA turn it over to her teacher I chose Lindy for her hard and dedication to be successful and never have to worry if Lindy is rushing through her work or not giving her best effort on a task Lindy also demonstrates responsibility responsibility consistently by taking Projects Home on her own initiative and completing them I also appreciate Lindy's positive attitude no matter what task is given to her as well as her ability to problem solve unique Solutions Lindy enjoys learning has been a pleasure to have in classo here [Applause] this CL this is Anna Martinez she is one of our students that we are very proud of she um Works diligently every day she is very kind to her peers she's respectful at all times and she was nominated by her entire higher uh sixth grade um teachers she's also uh the first person to help another classmate out she also helps around the building she is a tremendous student as well and we're very proud that she's at our school so [Applause] Anna this is good past first student of the month for um March she was uh not able to attend is Brook Tyson um she was nominated by Mr Hanky and uh Mr Hanky said that she exemplifies the virtue of perseverance even through the most challenging lessons Brooke never quits never gives up never complains when faced with an obstacle Brooke always seeks to help to get help for the answers um when she struggles and she's always successful it is with Resolute spirits that ures that Brooke will overcome many challenges when she faces in [Applause] life okay our other one's Kaden so we'll just present that to him at school y thank you thank you and then um also under recognitions uh this month we have uh Mrs Muni and Mr Hansen well thanks so much for having us tonight um me and Mrs M just finished up a a whole contest season for us at isma this past year for those you might not know isma stands for Indiana State School Music Association and it's like the premier um judging and uh contest for all music groups across the state of Indiana there's hundreds of schools that participate Public Schools private schools and we both took um our ensembles there we took our Middle School uh choirs and our uh bands and our high school choirs and bands and it was a really successful one I just want to say too um the Pacers have made it farther than they have before and we sang the national anthem there so I think that's a big reason why take a little credit there's a little bit before I hand it over to Mrs Min I want to talk a little about the Dream Castle Classics which are their Advanced choir how they performed at their Isa event this year they had to send uh three pieces of their isma state qualifier events two of them were selected from this list of U about 50 pieces that are high level music that a lot of colleges do um and then we got to choose I got to choose one these off the list for them they also had this site read a brand new piece of material that they were never given before and they scored really high they scored in the top like uh 10 at their site they scored really really high in the site reading which I was especially proud of them for their musicianship and everything for that so thanks for continued support of choir and I'll hang over to [Applause] good evening U my name is Anette manio this is my I think seventh year here at Green Castle um it's been such a bless blessing to um teach music every single day uh I brought some students with because I think that they need to be seen and I have one from each grade level I just want them to introduce themselves uh and then I will give a quick synopsis and then I have a senior who'd like to speak I am Gabrielino and I play the flute at the sixth grade [Applause] band I am Julian D and I play TR bone in the seventh grade [Applause] band I'm General morth and I play the saxophone in the eighth grade [Applause] I am Aubrey Campfield and I play the flu in the high school [Applause] band TR in the high [Applause] school I'm kimex I play Trombone in the high school band I'll give a quick synopsis of the Middle School this year year and then cam will talk very briefly about the high school uh the middle school band took two groups to contest sixth grade and a combined seventh and eighth grade band going group five for sixth grade and group three for seventh and eighth grade um they received straight Golds and had great success playing a variety of Music typically a March Overture and a lyrical piece super proud of them and their success um every student here I believe participated in Soul and Ensemble contest as well um and across the board both in choir had higher involvement and great success in that as well we just want to share with you that uh we're we're just very happy that the Arts are so supported here at Green Castle and I'm going to turn this over very quickly to cam Benedicts our B our band president who is graduating this [Applause] year okay so as biso said I am the band president and I just want to say that this has been uh honestly a pretty defining year for the high school band um she didn't mention this but the high school group went group one which is the highest level uh that you can compete at as a high school band and we received straight Golds and I was just informed that it is the first time in over two decades that we've even attempted to perform at the group one [Applause] level and uh the the process um has involved just so much highlevel work and it's really been pretty amazing to see how much this band how far this band has come even in just the last two years so yes as we are very happy to have programs like this SEC [Applause] counil yeah and why we have while you're up there I also noticed a couple of kids that are on our active Super Bowl teams who are also setting State records we had our 36th state championship in the academic Super Bowl largest for any school of any size in any class and then we also had some that didn't finish as state champions um still performed well as well so congratulations thank you [Music] told okay thank you okay um so um so we have a long list but only a couple people have register to speak um so we will start with the public comment section um I ask everyone review the policy you'll have three minutes to address the board not a conversations not a question and answers um don't make your comments personal and polite um once that protocol is broken comments rooll um so first I um this zow you uh do you want to speak again you put okay all right yep okay first up would be Lori Mitchell yes yep pleas speaking to the mic so everyone can hear you back there um state your name and you've got three minute comment hi my name is Lauren Mitchell I am the momg grandma of a fourth grader at TZ um part-time or excuse me past in my past I have substitute taught for a long long time I love school she loves school um I want everybody to know here that all of us are in support of our Public School teachers we love you we know that you give a lot um there's there's nothing that I would do to go back in that field but we love you and we want to be supported to you um however what I'm hearing is that there have been a lot of problems with Administration um a lot of things that have not been um as far as people not been treated well um you know we want our childr to have their best interests met and that's just not what I'm hearing um it's not okay you know we want we want need professionals who are there for our kids and who will put our kids first we need professionals who are passionate about doing what's right for our kids and even if that means that you have a friend he needs a job and you know in another District you keep um the peace you do what's right for our kids we've lost a lot of people that we've loved and a lot of people that our kids have loved and you know like I said we're here to support you guys and we just want people who will stay here and dedicate themselves to teaching and guiding our kids and we just want it back desperately thank you thank [Applause] you next on the list Amber Mackey hello um our daughter has an i at T I received an email from school asking us to sign off on changes not based on our daughter's progress but based on the district's desire to reduce Services across the board we'd already had our child's case conference just weeks prior and our daughter's teachers had unanimously voiced concern that the services already in her ID might not be enough just weeks later I received an email asking to cut almost in half and repl full out with pushin Services I can't imagine that going well for a child whose IEP specifically relates to her susceptibility to distractions I immediately asked for the reasons behind this sun 1880 I asked if they had seen a drastic improvement in such a short time I was then informed that this had nothing to do with her individual assessment or her teachers level concern for for her but the principal and assistant to's desire to make changes to all I they've never been involved in our daughter's education or any of their evaluations and quite frankly it's called an IEP for a reason that stands for individual education plan are they recommending this new course of action because of data how are special education teachers going to be able to bounce between several classrooms during that instruction time donor special education population numbers weren't having a third fed teacher as was requested two years ago why don't we have our teachers with Ela qualifications going to be providing instructions for special interventions our teachers with Math training going to be providing interventions during wi time these kids and their teachers are special they deserve respect and support not just anyone can give these kids I or five or four support ADHD and other neur divergences may be considered a disability by minute because these kids need to be taught differently that's because the brain works differently but different doesn't mean worse honestly in a lot of ways it can be a superpower these neurod diverent people are the ones who have the greatest potential to be highly gifted Albert Einstein Steve Jobs Bill Gates Henry for Thomas Ed Thomas Jefferson Sir Isaac Newton Leonardo ninci John F Kennedy Elon Musk these are all neurod diverent people and the list goes on these kids are special they deserve a proper education these neurod divergences are not deficits they differences not every person is meant to be a cog and a sheep some are meant to inv the rocket there is nothing wrong with work for bees who follow directions and easily fit into predefined curriculum plans but there's also nothing wrong with those who don't without them you would never have revolutionary technology thought movements or art so why does it feel like these kids and their services are under attack all of our children and teachers deserve our support our teachers are leaving our system is failing them all and we need to fix it now thank you [Applause] next would be David Macky hello could you state your name real quick thank my daughter attends DZ and I'm not only concerned with your reduction in Services the kids with I 504 you get classes but the complete lack of professionalism when it comes to sharing testing information with parents I'm also deeply concerned while so many beloved staff members for Mor our child school and the sadest prair that our schools are in I shouldn't have to hear my 10-year-old come home talk about ceiling tiles scumbling falling on desks and FL and my experience from them getting wet does it mean like leaks alongside maybe leaks maybe due to systematic negle andt the grow of mold M leak Le Salon andish plasmosis into the classrooms after cross roof Bird and Animal pieces should I hear stories of snakes being able to get into the school hallways because the doors are supposed to keep our children safe rain leaking in the majority of Windows since when his Li and bed something wor and not trying to control man said to be a light Choice only children these parasites bring home these new address not only are they disted dur school day for children they also help concerns the administration should be embarrassed and a shamed for schools still look like this will cious amounts of money for the high school what about all the around building I thought that was budg forec is there a reason lead copper service survey for children's drinking water and the water that they to prepar with out of alongside survey building just 15 minutes of online research I was able to find Indiana Indiana in new construction 1989 was banned new construction [Music] 1987 all after of school being I ask all you do a little bit research and high school Renovations although admirable Trump yet people her children's other Bud M forec for school thanks for [Applause] your Ain Nance do are you just signed to speak your yep okay and we have one maybe Brianna Tyson would you state your name again please um my name is Brianna Tyson I have two children at CD and one at um the Middle School um I love our community I love living in a small town um as most people that live here and stay here um I went through Grand Castle school system my children are um I'm committed to our community as are all of you so I appreciate your time and the teachers that are in our buildings they love our kids we have some of the best teachers so really I want to speak out just to say thank you for your time your energy all that you give our kids um I also want to say it's okay that you know there are people living in other towns that come and work in our schools that's great um I love that they want to come here but I ask that you look at how many teachers are leaving or expressing um discontent and ask why um I hate to think of us losing more teachers that are committed to our children that love our children and I'd like to say that last year Mrs asell as the assistant principal after having my daughter for one year um not only knew her name uh how to say it correctly but when she sees us out in the community like at a basketball game in January or February she goes out of her her way to to greet my child to ask how she's doing and give her a big my one of my children who's at TZ was asked by an administrator last week if he was a new student so I just ask you to look into what is going on and please support our teachers thank [Applause] you so that is all on the list um is there anyone that did not get signed in that okay well were you here when I gave directions to sign in before you could speak sir okay all right come on up and state your name and you did hear that you have three minutes and you have three minutes okay my name is Ashley beon I have a student at the high school his name is Michael um and he used to love school absolutely loved going to school he hates it now he hates going because he doesn't feel like he's supportive at all he has like three teachers that he actually enjoys he could care less about the other students he wants to change schools because he says the people here don't care about and it's not the teachers because the teachers are trying the teachers are reaching out and engaging but they don't have the support they need to be able to actually help our students that's not fair to our kids that's not fair to our teachers my son is doing summer school this year because I asked three years in a row can we hold him back I think he's struggling and I was told nope we we were told that we just need to get them up so they can catch up next year I don't know who's in charge of that that's how education should work you guys have the ability to do better or bring better in it needs to be done thank you okay well that wraps up public comments thank you for everyone who made their comments next item on the agenda is approve approval of the consent agenda which consists of meeting minutes from the regular board meeting of April 22nd 20124 the allowance of claims the financial report and Personnel reports part one and two that are found on the door and on the website this this wrong for the month of april24 first payroll was dated April 12 a toal payroll 5, 5326 and as us we also have re total retirement taxes 14149 in April 26 foral of 491923 and along with that re taxes total was next April as you toal pre for april24 5,254 and then You' got listed umist excuse me a list claim today May 20th 2024 there really isn't anything unusual on this as I know theas pment for the teach laptops devic [Music] move on to the finance report F report balance education F ail 37413 a couple operations 11,99 if you go to the very last page of your fundort that's page total on all funds 78469 next is to be your statement that's to be our bank bance to and you'll notice that the toal all banks that we balance that means our banks are balancing discussed next your transfer report heref the education Ops transfer the total for all all transfers was 9834 Mon and then finally in your package you're going to have the expenditures for B totales as of the end of april24 and22 did not but our total today through april24 is 39505 [Music] okay hearing no questions or comments can I get a motion to approve the consent to I will make a motion have a motion in second all in favor I'd like just make a comment quick that's okay good um on that report it says that uh we're going to have a retire M of principal uh Mike uh M and we just want to give him a round of applause and thank him for all the work he's [Applause] done just so everyone's aware we do honor all of our retirees throughout District every June so we'll be honoring Mr Miku again he deserves it can agree more um so we still need to vote um so there no more comments or questions all in favor I all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is reports first one from the Green Castle Classroom Teachers Association Mr net I'm happy to speak to the board today to share some updates from the gcta specifically I would like to speak on tanicus in particular as we have recently completed a building staff feedback survey for our TZ teachers the feedback that we have received was summarized and provided to Mrs Eldridge Mr gibon and Mrs mcferson this last week and it is my belief that Mr gibon has shared that feedback with our school board we are working with our admins at TZ and at central office to address the feedback given we are hoping that the board and Mr Gibney will take and continue to take steps to address the concerns raised in the feed pad given one thing I would like to share from the survey is the fact that our teacher grade level teams and departmentalized teams in general feel that they are performing well together in t our Union looks forward to the future working with our admins on any issues that arise and finding ways to support our teachers students and Community as a whole thank [Applause] you next item is the assistant superintendent report yes I am excited to share that for the 2425 school year the high school is going to be able to offer the Indiana college core so this is a block of 30 credit hours of college level coursework that is guaranteed to transfer between all Indiana Public colleges and universities and counts toward their high school credits and diploma attainment and we're going to do that through a partnership with IU as well as ivtech um to accumulate those 30 credits um we have two additional teachers who are earning and have earned their dual credit certification and six other teachers who are interested in earning that over the next two to four years so that will increase our ability to offer dual credit classes um and I really want to thank the time that Mrs good pastor Mr hle and Mr mcml took to um kind of present to us a plan of how they're going to get there um and what it's going to look like for our students so I thank them for that and I'm excited to put give them this opportunity thank you and I'd like to sorry oh thank you next up will be the assistant or the super Mr y I'd like to jump back to Mrs Clemens for a moment thank you for fitting Us in this is lean Montgomery he's another H recipient of our student of the month he just had a really great starring role in our play um where he did two two different characters and he was outstanding in that as well he was nominated by his entire um team teachers uh for his kindness his hard work and his pure heart he is always caring and giving and um I was too quick on my way out so I missed them as they were standing here so I appreciate you guys giving us the time to recognize lean [Applause] yep so just a couple of other items uh here under superintendent recort we had uh Mr Hansen and uh M Muno in to share obviously about our band in choire programs um but I didn't want to get lost in the shuffle we actually hired an agriculture teacher for Green Castle middle school and Green Castle High School uh for next year so we're looking forward to bringing a back to Green Castle we think that's important I know that in many different conversations I've had since I've been here um that's been an interest and a need and just uh in hearing Mr Evans uh Mark Evans speak the other day from Purdue Extension at the high school award ceremony I think we had 10 high school students uh maybe even a little 12 12 high school students complete 10 years of 4 or more U which is shows that there there is an interest so we'll be starting that in the fall we'll be sharing that teacher between the high school and the middle school um we'll also be building up an FFA program um at the middle school and high school so we're really excited about that and the goal is that program takes off to expand and have a stand loone teacher in each building so with that being said any of our Farmers anybody that works in that typee of Industry um our new teacher is very eager to begin building her program which consists of Advisory Board and and other things as well so I wanted to mention that and then our Jag program our jobs for America's graduates um which I'm really excited about to help our help uh more of our students succeed especially um those that might not yet know their career pathway or just might need a little extra guidance or a little extra push along the way um we have Mrs Crosby and um and Mr Brown sorry his name escaped me for a minut they held uh Mr Brown held a Jag parent night at the middle school it was well attended by um parents but were looking forward to them uh building that program um again one of the neatest things about that is that one-year um post high school mentorship we you know that a lot of our students when they leave us um after graduating it's that first year to where they really need to experience success to uh to push through and continue on with their postsecondary education um or even in the workforce so having a friendly face a familiar face someone to help guide them along the way um is important uh as well so uh we already talked about academic Super Bowl we had four peak in the tennis sectional as you can see greencast students are very talented very amazing um and involved in multiple different activities so very excited um about that and then obviously our teaching staff and our schools uh we have one more day of school uh with children followed by um one work day with staff so I'd really like to uh give a collective thanks to um our school staff um and every uh employee throughout the district that has helped um make this school year a success thank you right thank you okay next item on the agenda is old business we have no old business which brings us to new business the first item is a preliminary determination hearing Mr GI yeah so uh I apologize but I have to read some things here um but pursuant to Indiana code uh 2026 737 uh before a school corporation may spend more than 1 million uh to build repair or alter School building they'll be financed by leas your bonds it must hold a public hearing at which explanations of potential value of the project the school corporation Community are given similarly pursuant to indana code 6-11-20 d3.1 the school corporation must hold two public hearings and adopt a resolution preliminarily determined to issue bonds or ENT lease for a project which has a total project cost of an excess of a nine controlled project these public hearings and the adoption of resolution resolutions are the very beginning of the legal process these resolutions establish the maximum financial terms for the proposed project now we will hear from Mr Gib about the process of determining and communicating the project to the community and the need for the project yeah so as you might recall back in Fall of 2020 um we actually conducted a feasibility study um throughout the district so a review of all school districts uh facilities and uh we held um some participation uh for stakeholders from the community to participate in those sessions and uh we worked with an architect to review uh building conditions um help assign values and then um at the end of that we compiled all that data into um essentially a facility master plan um because we know that there's so much work that needs to take place throughout the district but obviously there are not enough dollars all of the time to address all of those needs um so we rank sorted and prioritized um those items and that's what helped us um complete the first um two building projects um in in the past couple of years so you might recall that's the renovation in addition to Green Castle Middle School albeit not a full renovation and that's also the full renovation adct uh addition and connection or connecting Green Castle High School to macali Center um that also included renovation to um and improvements at each of our um elementary schools so our secure entrances and some miscellaneous repairs um specifically at TZ you might remember that we had the moisture issue um several years ago well we discovered um during that facility uh study that the essentially the building was open to outside air and we helped to uh help to close that up so what we've done is we've continued to try to chip away at that list while also reviewing uh you know addition additional things that uh just the general operations budget can't uh sustain U because there there are things that need to uh continue to be approved and um that is one of the reasons why we are um looking to uh to issue more debt is to tackle um some additional needs um so we'll just continue to kind of chip away at that at that list okay now we will hear from Chad Blacklock from style um about the proposed project how it will be financed as well as information about the typical effect or the effect on the typical property tax holder thank you is great for technology do that well good evening everybody appreciate you having us um this is your final preliminary determination for your bond issue go on to the next SL so this particular slide shows all of gr Castle Community Schools current outstanding annual debt payments um by uh by the six issues that are still outstanding uh this particular slide shows The Debt Service rates um that would be in place to pay the repay the Deb annual debt payments on the the bond issues in the previous slide um Green Castle schools has had a Debt Service tax rate of 6199 historically um that rate is expected currently to decrease this particular slide shows in the blue uh bringing on the 2024 GE bonds uh with a par value of 2.5 million um and you can see the the tax rate that would then be in place to fund uh this particular bond issue and this would keep the 2024 6199 tax rate in place for Budget years 25 and 26 and then leaving flexibility after that after 26 uh what we would call debt Cliffs uh past 26 where tax rate debt payments would beop off this slide goes through uh the parameters of the proposed uh bond issue outstanding car amount being 2.5 million uh estimated cost of all the issuance cost included 150,000 netting net proceeds after the project for project harof cost of 2, 350,000 uh the current estimated maximum interest rate of 6% uh estimated Interest being $22,200 and these bonds would mature have a final maturity January 15 from 2036 um the estimated maximum annual payment on this one bond issue would be $1 million and the estimated maximum tax rate impact being 19 cents however the incremental tax rate impact over the 204 tax uh being net at zero uh Theo operations maximum anual payments as a percent of their NAB is 7.1% their direct and over thank you question you guys have set through this a few times now so yeah so just just to point out when we uh took on the big debt um and conducted the Le lease Finance um we sold a larger amount of bonds over $30 million um but we it was important to us to leave capacity a couple of years down the road to take care of some needs that pop up and so the goal is to avoid big projects and instead do little projects more frequently and we've been working uh with steel to manage to our debt service tax rate so again our debt service tax rate we don't want to see any uh increase U matter of fact when our uh budget orders come back uh or came back last year we actually made cuts to it to bring it down to that amount so that way we do not raise our debt service tax rate thank you thank you okay now we open a public hearing for anyone wanting to make a comment on the project resolution yeah yeah come up state your name and chis bill got four kids in your schools um $2.5 million for what it just says the project this is just comments this is not a okay well how do I know where it's at Mr giby would you like to address that yeah I mean that's that's what we're looking at this is isn't meant to be a question and answer session I'd be happy to meet with you um but for instance the big parking lot at the high school needs to be milled um and repaved um we put some handrails on the at the stadium bleachers we're looking at lighting at Parker Auditorium okay we're looking at sidewalk replacement we're looking at we're looking at Roofing we're looking at additional additional liting those are some of the major I know it's not questions comments and you can figure out however you want to reply I guess is there somewhere where you have a list a task list of things that you guys want I mean I'm not saying we don't need anything but it would be nice to know what money is going to want put that out somewhere whatever thank you okay anyone else okay Mr giy could you summarize the project resolution sure yep the project resolution uh is required and the school is planning to spend more than $1 million per building uh it contains the estimated hard and soft construction cost and cost of issuance and establishes um the total project cost it also contains uh the estimated tax impact okay can I get a motion in a second to adopt the project resolution if any questions move I'll second okay all in favor I all opposed motion passes next Mr Gib could you summarize the preliminary determination resolution yep so the preliminary determination uh resolution is required when the school is planning to finance more than a certain amount for a given facility it contains the total project cost maximum annual payment and Lease term and other financial terms such as the estimated uh principal amount um and tax impact okay can I have a motion in a second to adep the adopt the preliminary determination resolution I'll second okay we have a motion in a second all in favor I all opposed motion passes that is the end of the hearing and moving on in the agenda next item on the agenda I think we missed the reimbursement resolution the reur yep would you mind summarize the reimbursement resolution yeah uh the next resolution is a reimbursement resolution relating to financing of the construction project this resolution permits the school corporation to reimburse itself from Bond proceeds for any cash which it might spend on the project prior to the closing of the bonds is required by federal tax law inorder order to preserve uh the school corporation's ability to reimburse itself so this this allows us to go ahead and use a rainy day fund to start the projects get them moving and then once the bond is issued then it can be repaid provided we make it through all the legal steps yes and then sell bonds um then we can reimburse ourselves so for instance like the big parking L high school we know that we have to pave that um and then there's some other miscellaneous things as well that we like take care of when students are not present um so that way they're complete when the school year starts okay anybody else have any questions or comments for the about reimbursement resolution I make a motion we pass the resolution second you have a motion and a second all in favor I all opposed motion passes that now closes the hearing next next item on the agenda is an approval request for asphalt paving at the Castle High School parking lot okay yep so we are working through um preliminary quotes and as you can imagine of the timing uh summer summer break up coming we'd like to complete that work once school's out once graduation um is complete um we expect to have some finalized uh quotes we're waiting on another as well uh through uh through an external um bitter um and uh we essentially would like to I would like permission to move forward with a not to exceed amount um of $450,000 I don't expect it to cost $450,000 expect it to come in under that um uh but in order to move forward with that and not require a special board meeting um certainly we'll report on that um at the the next board meeting once something um is is executed so right now we have three quotes through through W brothers and we're looking at it's actually a fourth just keeps the process moving [Music] FAS okay I get a motion and a second a second have a motion in a second to approve the asphalt paving at the parking lot all in favor I all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for um blades audio proposal yep so in your packet is a proposal to um update the audio at maali Center um with a system that is similar to what the new auxiliary gym at the high school has um it'll make hosting events um much better to where hopefully all of our patrons can hear um what is being said and we'd like to time that work up to be completed um this Summer that is ening have the money well spent I get a motion to approve all so move second okay the motion is second anybody have any further questions or comments hearing none all in favor I all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for special services for a 2024 2025 occupational therapist contract with solent health Jill scroll um another customary um this time of year um some of our Specialists um that we uh contract with to provide uh support for our students with some special needs um and this is a continuation contract recommended by uh Mrs Sullivan and it would be my recommendation that we continue the agreement with Miss Jill TR and S I make the motion be [Music] approved have a motion in a second all in favor I all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for the second reading of the 2024-25 building handbooks yep so uh last month um each of the building administrators supported or excuse me um uh provided their student handbooks um and the board had them for first reading and no action and this uh month is a second reading and Adoption of our student handbooks I make a motion that we adopt and obviously there have been no changes since last month no okay any further questions or comments okay all in favor I allose po passes next item on the agenda is is an approval request for 2024 2025 employee handbooks which consist of the hourly classified handbook salar classified handbook and the transportation handbook which I believe we can pass all together yeah they're all that's okay approve them all together there are no major changes I think we just changed dates correct Mr ranes dates and we added our uh the assistant Transportation director correct I make a motion that we pass the handbooks second okay do we have any further questions or comments all in favor all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request to approve payroll schedules for the 2025 26 year and 2026 27 yeah so you might kind of be asking yourself why are we approving a roll schedule for 26 27 um one of the things that we do is we're always working uh in the background on that because you don't want you don't want uh I don't know it's like every seventh year or every so many years just naturally the way the calendar Falls with the current payroll scheduled you end up with 27 uh pays and you only want 26 in year and so we have to um make adjustments to uh one of those pay periods over time I can't remember what year that was are correct so we'll have to work with the gcta um and other leaders on that to figure out how to kind of work within that and kind of to lay out a paper and get remember how we handled that exactly last time y [Music] that already on my radar I already have it done I have email so I just didn't want to have to of throw that so essentially want our staff to have plenty of time to plan for kind of that delay check make sense can I get a motion to payroll second Motion in a second um any further questions discussion I'm all for paying the teachers okay all in favor I all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for the 2024 summer meal program okay so uh Mrs Garder has been working with um Chartwells and us to publicize our 2024 summer meal program so it is an on-site program this year uh we since uh Summer School uh for elementary is being housed with TZ we will have TZ uh dedicated as our uh sole site for summer feeding and it would be my recommendation board approve that request we have the advertisement ready to to hit the paper so we can meet all the federal uh requirements and serve our kids again this summer and that's to anybody under 18 they don't even have to be green cast I'm glad we do that I'm assuming that this is still money that's coming from the state for federal LEL through reimbursement okay great I get a motion to approve second you have a motion in a second all in favor I all opposed motion passes next is approval request for the best part of the evening here usually some donations we have one donation from adrenaline fundraising to ghs track in the amount of $4,495 they have a donation from putam County Community Foundation the Greencastle Middle School just serve Club in the amount of $750 we have yet another thank them very much donation from Jack and Shirley Dalton their trust to the Green Castle High School athl athletics Champions together in the amount of $1,500 which by the way is a great program and a donation from Jeff and Denise sigworth to the Green Castle High School boys girls athletic or soccer teams in the amount of $2,000 I make a motion please be approved motion and second any comments say thank you yes thank you it just seems like Jack and Shirley do should a lot a donating to the school and that's greatly appreciated all in favor I all opposed motion passes last item on the on your new business is the first reading of a lot of Neola polies Mr giy yep so no action being taken this month this is just for uh your information we have the latest uh update out after the legislative session um you might see a lot of the ones beginning with 0164 and hearing um or 0165 in hearing number a lot of those policies deal specifically with board uh the board and um some of them are being rescinded or condensed um into singular policies um and then um the others are mostly due to uh updates and legis legislation um changes from from the legislature so just for your information um no action uh required um this okay next item on the agenda is other business does anyone have any other business I would like to give kudos to Yo a new maintenance worker Heidi Watson maybe the high school Waton okay um I got an email Snapshot from an email post to Saturday morning of the sign at near Meadow if the letters have been changed or something the probably we didn't to be there so I thought I'm close enough I'll just go take them down and I got there and there's a lady was there taking them off and she introduced herself as a new maintenance worker at the high school and said I just drove by and being a School employee I couldn't leave that there so she stopped and took those down so thank you to Heidi for doing that any else yeah um so for year I've been on the school board six years now and it seems like we keep working to find ways to help improve um TZ school um to make it better for everybody involved um and I think I think we're in the process now that maybe we need to bring in an outside company just to come in and do an assessment talk with the um administrators talk with the teachers talk with the Teachers Association talk with everybody and just get an outside perspective um to see um how you want to move forward and that way we can start building the a trust and uh more trust and um we can move forward um going down the road so Jee if we could move look into that I don't know if the other board members are that's something that we already shared with shared with staff and in gcta and I think there is a general willingness and a want to to work together because none of our none of our employees would be here if they didn't care about kids um but we need to uh figure out how to work more effectively with one another and that's something I think everyone's committed to doing okay well I don't think it certainly don't think it could hurt anyone to bring or hurt anything to bring anything in because obviously something's not working right over there there needs to be a change of some form or another probably probably by all involved you know so hopefully we can get something on the right track of y so anyway that is all anybody else have any other business I'm excited about graduation Friday Friday night Friday night okay that is all we have last on the agenda isour yeah I'm sorry you have go ahead make a motion we end hey Dale's had enough can I get Dale we have a motion to approve can I get a or adjourn can I get a second second all in favor all opposed we adjourned thank you for all all for coming and be careful ran

States of America to the stands indivisible Liberty justice for all and we can stay standing board because we have some superintendence awards just the board you guys can sit stay they ready a good evening Dr Smith and members of our school board we are proud to present our community members here this evening with some students who've reached success and first up is Dr Emily hos Brown our superintendent of Elementary education thank you Miss Johnson Dr Smith president must members of the board I'm so pleased to bring to you tonight our district elementary science fair winners and to introduce our winners I'm going to ask three of our principles to join me here at the podium um I'll ask from forest Glenn Miss Giles from Mary Castle Mr ble and also from Amy beverland Mr Pennington and we'll introduce the students each School individually and starting with Miss Gil she'll be introducing to you our third place winners yes we have two third place winners that did a project together rying sing see Dr Smith and our second one is Cameron Jones for [Applause] we' like to acknowledge Hattie Gro from Mary Castle who is the second place winner of the district science fair [Applause] good evening I'd like to congratulate the winner of the 2024 msdlt science fair Miss Vivian [Applause] popf e [Applause] thank you parents thank you for all your support good that's favorite part of my time as board president is honoring our students for their hard work um so we'll move on next our business meeting uh Mr Smith the Blue Ribbon update please Madame President Dr Smith members of the board you see here a site aerial view of the LC pool site work continues on as weather permits uh tile work has begun uh on the base of the pool interior work throughout the remainder of the building for the pool continues um the multi-purpose room floor has been ped now they will concentrate on the ceiling and work their way down and lay the new floor l in front edition again an aerial view uh looking forward to having that fully enclosed and working inside though continues next slide a lot of work happening new Len gym floor uh has been laid and next steps are finished Ln uh main per multi-purpose room uh the new flooring should be laid this week uh bells are Auditorium the floor is complete in there and again finished work throughout the remainder of the building continues site work layout has begun and this summer we will rip out the entire front parking lot and redo that this summer main locker rooms and gym uh work continues along with uh well shift to Fall Creek Valley the auditorium uh started renovation in there new lighting going in hallways and classrooms again four more classrooms and a lot more hallway you see here at LCC South lot uh full depth uh renovation replacement uh this week they'll start on the asphalt replacement of the tennis courts and the South Bridge Transportation we'll be doing a uh substantial completion of that of the upstairs second floor this week uh and also the the two Storage Barn one is up siding going on the second one will go up this week with siding to follow and next side has a little a little more finished work of the interior of the second floor new La a lot of work going on over there on the site uh again foundation work and site utilities will also start this week as well are there any questions for IT Mr Smith if you could remind members of the public about the Lawrence North gym flooor why why that is being redone um we had a uh a water issue up there that actually ran in got the floor wet and as a result of that was in need of replacement and was that covered by Insurance the replacement thank you and I have a question um we know that the Belzer middle school has a brand new Auditorium um so this work that we're doing on fall Valley I can only assume will be equivalent work to a brand new full renovation good to know do have a quick question so exciting to see all the wonderful work happening especially since I live so close to the new LACC and we see it working um overtime even on the weekends they are dedicated to get that completed for members of the public can you remind us when we will be um going through and doing some additional um renov to some of our schools that have not been part of our blue Riven plan actually finishing the the middle schools will complete our Blue Ribbon phase one which means all 23 sites would have been renovated this has been over a 10e process right so maybe I should rephrase it at the very first phases because I know that there are some concerns at some buildings because I know that you had shared an update with us that we have a a plan on that renovation the board approved the Blue Ribbon Phase 2 which will allow us to go back to those uh buildings in the beginning number one and which is now almost 12 years since Crest View has been renovated and we'll touch some of those with some priorities in place HVAC Roofing and also capacity needs at three other element and when did those begin again just as a reminder we're hoping here very soon 2526 we should be starting blue R in phase two perfect thank you so much yeah I just had a question and a comment uh Mr Smith to go along with the Lawrence North uh the floor on the gym will that be completed in time for the summer camps um yes okay we should be finishing that up the last part of May first part of June to have that fully complete and ready to use okay thank you and then my um comment was last month we were able to tour the transportation center and those of us that had been on the board um prior um had seen the upstairs before when it was just a huge large blank space and it was amazing how much uh change had happened in the time since then so it's really exciting to see all the office spaces come together Madame President Dr Smith members of the board uh we are in need of Elementary oven upgrades uh Food Service will Department request permission uh to bid out these oven upgrades for the Elementary uh one good news too Food Service will be um supplying the dollars for all of these oven upgrades uh with their own budget so I do just a point of clarification for members of the public that might be watching can you explain why um or where that funding is coming from I know that I mean obviously I know that we make money off of our food service and it's self- sustaining but if you could just explain that a bit yeah food service is a their own budget separate and uh they manage the year-to-year budget as well as state support uh through the purchase and the sell of our Foods we get a reimbursement but we also get dollars uh when we sell a lot of alicart line our secondaries have quite a bit of alicart and oh this has been over several years in the making where they do have a cash balance that allows us to to use those dollars to upgrade their kitchens and their area pertinent to Food Service question all right thank you madam president members of the board and Dr Smith what the team brings to you this evening an update on our Equitable student outcomes action plan and we're beginning with just a review of how we got to the plan um because that's taken place over the course of several years and we always begin with your board policy on eliminating racial disparities and achievement that's really the the bottom line for us and our our Equitable student outcomes work on the next slide you'll see the def defition of educational Equity this has been a really important definition for us to train the entire District in so that we're all talking about the same thing when we're talking about educational equity and this comes from Dr verita Mayfield and was included in the executive summary of our audit report just a quick review of the audit process it's hard to believe but the audit was completed back in the 2021 school year um and it included four different phases um lots of data lots of stakeholder input through focus groups and through surveys site visits to our high schools and then culminated in phase four a report with 25 different recommendations based on the audit findings from there we convened a districtwide equity committee um and this committee was well over a hundred folks who were in attendance and this was in the middle of the pandemic and so this really tells you the commitment of our commity Community to this work um three board presentations in the spring of 2022 and then your approval in April of 20122 and so the action plans that the committee developed and there's hundreds of action steps and it is a beefy topic as you say Madame President uh result came from the different themes that were identified through the equity audit and so this evening a member of the team will bring to you just an update of one or two action steps Within each of those topics so the first one um and a lot of times when we think about an audit we think about finding deficiencies and finding things that we're not good at and that's a piece of it but an audit is also celebrating your successes that you need to leverage to grow and that's what this first category is is our community has confidence in our principles um and that was clear throughout the the audit process and so how do we leverage that strong principal leadership to move Equitable student outc comes forward and so this topic focuses on the professional development and support for our building principles because it's in the building that the action happens in terms of where the rubber meets the road and so this year we have had a deep book study on ruthless Equity uh by Ken Williams and he will be our keynote speaker for our administrative Retreat as well as opening the Lawrence learning Summit on July 15th for all of our teachers as well in addition we've had quarterly coaching from Dr Mayfield So she continues to support us in a consultant role and so she's met with each of our principles as well as our district divisions at least each quarter if not more often and then ongoing support in terms of disaggregated data systems so that we're down to the subgroup level in each of our schools and the cni team the curriculum and instruction team has provided that support to our building leadership just have a quick question about the book study and how the principles are cascading that information to their teams including all members of the school Community yeah and we're not at that step in terms of this book study this has been for administration this year so then we'll have our administrative Retreat keynote and then uh kin Williams and his book will be introduced to the teachers on July 15th and then that information will then that begins the cascading process thank you so much you're welcome any further questions on category a okay let's move on thank you Mrs Johnson has category B good evening Madame President and members of the board and Dr Smith as we look at the area of hiring Recruitment and Retention of diverse staff the two areas that we wanted to highlight um and the source of Pride are areas in which we felt that have become institutionalized and the expansion of our dback program um this year the goal was to expand it to Beyond just the Lawrence Township um stakeholders that were aware of it but how to move into the community and the parents and making sure that we are creating pipelines for the various Community Partners and so that we're providing it not only for our employees but for those that move into the community and that's just become a systematic way of communicating out that information each year in different languages to provide that broader input into expansion of our dback program the next area that we wanted to highlight from Human Resources is monitoring our language needs and so when we first began the equity audit and began to look at that um we didn't really have our fingers on this at at all and so I'm really proud that in the last few years it's become something we look at the data each semester of our student enrollment and how is that student enrollment changing and then how do we staff to meet the needs of our diverse Learners and so really proud that you will see as we've increased our classified Creo haian population how that trickles into other areas of the plan wonderful um my my question is for the public can you explain deback to the public our deback program is um one which we have it's like our secret sauce with with IUPUI and where we are trying to help our employees who have a degree but may not be in education but they're working with our students and they've been trying to find a way to get back and so how we can combine their cour workor with the work on their job so that they're not missing work but they're um combining their work and their learning and then graduating and then hopefully becoming employees in our district so we're just really proud of that partnership with iupy and how it's expanded thank you it's it's an incredible program and I know that um sometimes we use a lot of initials and don't educational job yeah yeah so thank you we know what it is uh board any other further questions yes I just want to say first of all thank you for being so attentive to our Haitian Creo population and the needs that they have so that we are meeting their educational needs it's exciting to see how we're growing um that Pipeline and hopefully will continue to do so can you share how many staff members have taken advantage of the deback program over the years I'd have to this school year this particular school year we have a Cort that's in session and then one that's about to begin and so I can get you the exact numbers of great because I think that would be a wonderful thing for us to celebrate a community they can do that certainly will I I do have a question one more question and sorry some of these as we're kind of talking through just kind of pop up the the one that I was thinking of so is does the district support it's my understanding with the the tuition for them to attend or is it just in in supporting them with utilizing their coursework to be able to work in the district correct so there's no compensation do they have to commit to a certain number of uh period of time working with the district after graduation there's not that part yet okay thank you okay any further questions about that let's move on to category C if we can pleas thank you and Mrs Johnson already began to talk about category C which is our ESL Learners and shifting demographics and remember the equity audit was back in 2021 and so part of the work was making sure that we had systems in in process for what could come in the future and that's that's what uh we we've done through this Equitable student outcomes action plan and the first uh that we want to highlight is our law conversa program this is uh a dual program that's both in Spanish and in English where our staff members English-speaking staff members are learning Spanish our Spanish-speaking parents are learning English and they have met at Sunnyside Elementary every two weeks throughout the entire school year um and really really receive very positive feedback but what it's allowed is for for uh mainly our Spanish-speaking families to have voice in the process um and so we've used lck conversa as an opportunity to engage our Spanish speaking families in topics like our curricular resources so when we brought those recommendations to you they had been vetted through our Spanish speaking families who may not have felt comfortable serving on the committee but certainly felt comfortable in their element in Spanish uh being able to give feedback and so we're really really excited about this program have learned a lot through the year we'll be making some adjustments for uh next school year uh but certainly we'll become part of the system and become institutionalized in Lawrence Township the other piece that is becoming institutionalized as we've already discussed is our evaluation of ongoing growth in our demographics in terms of of English language Learners and so Haitian Creole is a a very fast growing population for us not as fast as Spanish but the second fastest growing and so we are committed to finding the resources to make sure that we have staff that is that are completely dedicated to uh serving the families who speak Asian Creo and to this point we did approve uh new dual language programs in the district this year as well absolutely which will include participation of our Haitian Creo absolutely students um any questions board um I do have a question about La um can you tell us how many families roughly took advantage of that program so we had 150 that started and then attendance was on and off throughout the year and that's part of the evaluation that the um parents the the parent leadership group along with staff have done of what would increase from the beginning to end because it is such a long commitment for families but about 150 and then at the end when you say how many people were at the towards the the end 40 to 50 that were every single meeting did you find that child care was an issue or what were some of the barriers we offered child care so I think it was the the every two week commitment versus if it had been weekly for a semester as opposed to every two weeks for an entire school year was the feedback that both parents and staff gave excellent thank you and then in terms of you said institutionalizing and knowing that we have the growing Nation Creo population is there um the intent that we would do something similar for our Haitian Creole families absolutely and that's been part of the the conversation that once we whatever we do for our Spanish speaking families we also have to do for our Haitian Creole speaking figured I just wanted to make sure for those that are watching thank you yes it'll be called something different any question more question thank you very much no he thank you for answering my question I had I had sent questions earlier previously and so thank you for answering my question in the midst of wel conversation so thank you um category D discipline Mrs Bush will lead us through category D yes category D is discipline and this year has been a foundational year for our training and restorative practice and we do have a discipline task force that is convening to review a document that we call our levels of Behavior Support which is a range of consequences that we are we are going to incorporate more restorative responses to behavior infractions the next point is training for our district advisor leads who were trained in restorative practices through peace Learning Center we've also had special uh groups student support Specialists family Liaisons and security supervisors who were trained by Dr Dominique Smith and in addition all of our high school and middle school teachers have been trained in restorative practice level one also through peace Learning Center the discipline task force will also be a function of that group is also to refine that process for monitoring common language related to the disciplinary consequences um which is included in that task force work questions Bo yes I have one uh submitted question earlier it is in reference to um item D1 I'll just read from it um new discipline data collection system needed or regular this is from the equity um I apologize let me clarify that the Equitable student outcomes it's item D1 um and the portion of that reads new disci data collection system needed or regular consistent distribution of disciplined data fee to schools with automation assistant principles need to review data weekly to make intervent interventive steps and decisions to to support teachers and students my question from that as I had um reviewed the discipline update was this action item shows that it was it was institutionalized um on the equable Equitable student outcome dashboard so therefore can this be kind of leaned into more um in this meeting because I'm interested to know what portion of the action plan was institutionalized and then what does that look like and how does it intersect with the restorative work that we're moving forward that was a lot so if I need to go back in okay so the piece of that that is institutionalized is that we do have functioning dashboards so we do have our our administrators and um teacher leader um administ discipline work leaders have access to discipline dashboards that are that they're able to monitor on a regular basis and how that intersects with the restorative work the the restorative work would happen before you enter anything onto the dashboard so we are trying to Institute more restorative consequences so the dashboards are telling us what Behavior has occurred and how the behavior was responded to so part of this training that we've been going through is to help us to to get to those more restorative restorative consequences and then that's what's recorded on the dashboards that's helpful that's a piece that I was I was really wanting to to know okay it's beforeand all right and who has access to the dash to those dashboards the the staff the staff of the school administrators well it it depends there's different levels of access we are principles and assistant principles that monitor look for Trends and things like that so teachers can input it's pulling data from Skyward in terms of after in occur in discipline so for instance if if a student all of a sudden has two or three discipline issues maybe they're even minor but they all of a sudden have two or three discipline issues teacher a b and c might not know that this is going on in another classroom how soon will the administration be able to put that together and see that there is an for instance an issue so we can address something has happened with that student and what's going on say through our processes that we have at each of our schools acronyms why it stands for Lawrence Township um we raise systems of support that allows us to monitor when one particular student in your example is maybe having more than one concern and repeated concern in the same classroom from the same teacher or if it's repated concern for multiple teachers across the district as well as that allows us to monitor is it behavioral is it attendance is it academic that whole process allows so we have we have quick access to that information it will pop up in red or okay thank you good to know I appreciate the overview that this is just touching on um a few of the recommendations but I know category D discipline is something that over the last several weeks I've gotten a number of different people um that have shared some concerns so I am wondering if there could be a a little bit of a just an understanding of where we are with recommendation D3 um as well as D4 um I in particular D3 is one especially since we've been working on this since 2020 that it is just getting started so I'm wondering what the next steps are in terms of getting that so that it is in an ongoing status could you read the D3 sure I'd be happy to it is Define terms behavioral concern and behavioral infraction make an infograph with examples of each Behavior train all incoming and current staff on term definitions and appropriate disciplinary steps for each including necessary intervention steps teacher should take prior to entering data in the system which I think goes back to what you are referring to as it pertains to having a more holistic understanding and I think those are more details of the p pie that I described before that the discipline taxk force will be working on to revise that document to include more details than just the range range of consequences so all of that will be a function of the disciplined task force and will that be something that is shared with families so that they have a comprehensive understanding of what those infractions are and the discipline that is appropriate for each I would say yes that remains to be seen um and the only reason I say that is because the document that we have now has an outward facing piece and an inward facing piece so it it depends on what the committee come lands on and then do we have the data that is inclusive of racial identification for students referred to LEAP yes okay and acon Sean the LEAP program is the Lawrence Elementary Alternative Program now are students referred throughout the entire school year to LEAP they are including throughout the end throughout this month of May the LA yes up until last Friday was the last day that students could participate so if students have an infraction let's say that um is um um I'm just I'm just wondering like the infraction in terms of an example of a behavior and the infraction what is the what is determined in terms of our students continue to allow to continue at their school or if a student let's say has an egregious Behavior are they sent home at these last two weeks I I'm trying to understand because I've been asked a question about this um by one of the constituents so leap is an alternative to out of school sysp ition so ideally if a student is if if the behavior has met the criteria for um that has been egregious enough that it would have been an out of school suspension rather than have that kid we don't really want to suspend anybody out of school so rather than have that student go home we recommend them for leap leap does require that the parent transport so sometimes parents are able to do that right but so if there's let's say that there's an infraction in these last couple of weeks of school what is the protocol if leap is not an option are they remaining in the school in an in school suspension environment or they sent home it's at the discretion of the principal okay thank you so option that decision the suspension is not but we give them option right I guess what I'm trying to understand is their District guidance in terms of what is like what is the proper protocol and if grades are frozen If the child is taking the final grades what is the guidance that we are giving from a district for those principles there's a myriad of options and ideas how do we success so if the principal gets in a situation or she is unsure would be myself problem solve how can we make sure that the student gets their academic um instruction for these last few weeks no matter if it is an out of school suspension or so there's not a process in the district where we freeze grades and don't have we like where we would freeze a grade if a student was sent home and where they are let's say they have a c on Friday May 17th and then they do not finish out they don't take finals there's not any sort of process where that can happens at the middle at the high school and middle school level sorry Mr answer that question because I've had I've had a numer of numerous constituents ask specifically about that so I'm just wondering what our our district policy is for awarding grades to somebody that has been suspended or been asked to stay at home home what is our policy as a district because I understand it's at the discretion of the principal to determine but what I'm wondering is what is our district policy and I apologize for not being clear enough what is our district policy for students who are not asked to continue to attend school over the last several weeks of high school what is our policy on grading so building Administration works with the families when possible there may be an alternative time where a family able to come in for a final exam for example um where they to take that final exam if that's not possible um freezing of is is sometimes used when that's needed but whenever possible we want to make sure students have full access to all their assments and assment learning and is there a policy that we have in writing for that I as it should I worry about the the message that we're sending to students I guess when we are not having them complete the full expectations to earn a credit including a final grade that is I think that's the so is is that something that we could get some numbers on how many students that we're talking about in each High School that are in that situation I it's just been brought to my attention by a number of people that's why I'm wondering what the board policy or the school the school district policy is TR okay um my I guess I have a question can you describe um in general the membership of the um the discipline task force teachers administrators the disp task force is made up administrators the entire District so the task forcef ad or we need to bring back the entire District to a committee look ATU policies and Dr Smith once that committee is established or created will there be board representation in the same way there's safety representation on safety any more questions for Miss Bush yes I do um I first want to say Mr Mr kusik thank you for answering my question earlier um so I appreciate that um the other question that I have I'll just read directly that was previously submitted discipline can be complex and behaviors can be indicators of a deeper need concerning the well-being of a child do we have a trauma trained informed staff that can respond if a behavior requires more than a punitive or restorative response example if a child is having a mental crisis or reacting to an unknown trauma how was this recognized and responded to and I know that schools can't diagnose a child but are we um permitted to advise the parent to seek professional evaluation and my brain goes to when you call the police you if if your loved one is having a mental crisis you will call MCAT you would um advise them to send out a mental health service so then I'm trying to parallel that on what that would look like within our school system so that's my train of thought as it pertains to this question most definitely and the the applied educational Neuroscience certification that we have we're actually finishing up registration for our third cohort um this is the first time Dr Lori has done a cohort with the district in this way and so we are very very lucky to have had this this opportunity to have cohorts of teachers throughout the district who are train who are being trained in this way of thinking this way of teaching and being and building relationships with our students for the exact purpose of what you just said um to be able to grow that mindset and to spread that work as as far and wide as we can we do have trauma trained individuals throughout the district outside of that that as well um our counselors have some training our family liaison have um training as a matter of fact this year we had um a Spire trained all of our family liaison in Colombia training now Columbia training is it's a specific to um rating the level of suicide risk so that is a very high level of of risk that they're looking for there but all family Liaisons have been there and if we don't have someone that's internal between the counselors and the family liaison um if there's not someone inhouse that can address the high level of need of a certain student absolutely we offer resources um we can't make a referral you know we can't make a mental health referral so to speak um other than to gahu which is our school based mental health and so so um while we may refer to gallahue if there's something else that needs to go beyond that then we can uh be a warm handoff to a trusted resource that we have um and we've called ahead plenty of times to community crisis to say hey I'm with this family they're on their way with their Student please expect them so yes that made my heart smile on so many levels because you know I tend to think also just Citywide also youth uh violence has increased substantially and so as a school thank you for letting me know or letting us know um what tools and resources that families and our students can utilize I'm excited that's thank you and before we move on to category e do you have any questions about category D your answered a lot before we move on you know I would like to just say to the public that I have been involved in this school district for over 24 years 12 years as a parent 12 years as a board member and I have full and complete faith that all of our Administration all of our staff all of our teachers work hard to get every single one of our students across the line um and to to graduation and that I trust we don't ignore the needs of any of our children regardless of when they may have an infraction and beyond that there might be individuals that have such a unique situation that they don't feel that their needs have been addressed and that may be the case but I trust that every administrator teacher and staff member Works their very hardest to make sure all of our students have what they need to graduate because that's our goal as a board and I think our our staff knows that thank you um can we move on to um e thank you madam president this category is about access to resources and that includes our high ability programming and so the action step that's called for in the action plan is a review of the elementary high ability program and that was brought to you last spring and you approved the recommendations this year Mrs Schneider our director of Elementary has led the actual work the expansion of our elementary hi ability program and we're proud to report that for the first time ever we have pre-algebra which is the advanced math curriculum for sixth graders in every one of our elementaries so all students are um all sixth graders in each Elementary have had access to pre-algebra in addition um we have complete High ability programming that will be available at all elementary schools um in this next school year in 2425 and so that really opened up lots uh many more choices for our parents when it came time to choose what type of programming that they wanted for their child in addition as Mrs Mustin has already uh pointed out you did pass very Rec recently um the approval of self-contained dual language High ability at oaklandon and at Mary castle and that has been hugely hugely received by our families and our numbers are quite high in those sections at those two schools um most importantly I think we've created a more inclusive identification process so this isn't about one test score and this is about a profile of a student this is about student achievement this is about surveys sometimes from teachers from parents and so really making um our options much more inclusive in terms of the identification process and then much better parent communication and so Mrs Schneider has led this work in creating a parent communication handbook that's been distributed to each of the parents when they received their invitation for high ability participation so that increased level of communication and so um we're really looking forward to this next school year which brings about the implementation of all that you've approved let me ask you this um a parent receives a handbook when they've received their invitation what about the parent whose child is sort of on the the line and that parent wants to push the child into high ability how do we communicate with those parents that would be at the building level based on student data in individual conversation I just have a comment EV because little Mavis Lawrence was invited to do the high ability program at oaklandon and I just wanted to say thank you for all of the communication and also for staying on top of her mother who doesn't respond in a timely manner to invitations I'm very appreciative of the followup conversations that have happened many times so thank you for having my back as well as my daughters thanks I had a a comment and a question about Point number two um I had the opportunity to serve on the committee which I thank you for and it was very informative um I think this is so valuable that children can now be a part of the high ability program because some kids right at currently it's offered in what four elementary schools right now um a lot of kids well not a lot I should say some children for went going into the high ability so that they could stay at their home school with their friends and so as I'm understanding this now they have the option to be at their home Elementary School um going into the 20 24 25 school year if a child had previously tested into the high ability program but chose to stay at their home school will they be given an offer um to retest or re or to join in the hi ability do they have to retest or how does that work there wouldn't be a need to retest it would come through the data points that Mrs M's question was referring to that the individual principal based on the students data would then engage in that conversation with the families okay thank you you're welcome Mr Noor one one other thing that I would just like to point out for members of the public um in in making those decisions um so our daughter is actually staying at Forest Glenn and is we're opting to not have her in one of the high ability programs could you explain for anybody who's curious what how we'll support those Learners who maybe have other needs even if they opt to stay in their home school as Mavis is or if if a family has opted for their student to stay in their home school and they've qualified for high ability they would still have access to the advanced math curriculum so this year that's only been offered in sixth grade as as we got started next year it'll be first grade through sixth grade so a year advanced in terms of math and a um Lexile level uh reading Lexile level that matches their reading ability for English language arts and that would be in every one of our schools just a few questions first of all um so exciting about the changes to hi ability can you explain for members of the public what the criteria is to um ensure that they understand how they can get into a high ability program sure I'm going to ask Mrs Schneider to come to the the podium and I'll start and then she can give a more detailed answer um but it's based on several different data points and so the data points include the Kat test which is the state approved uh gifted identification process that the state requires we also look at student achievement data um so we're looking at our I ready scores that um students take throughout the entire school year um we're looking at planned experiences and so these are experiences that students complete almost like an activity at school and then are scored according to a r that our teachers have been trained in also when when there's a question or a student might be um on the line in terms of those other data points then a teacher survey um might be part of the process as well and so it's really looking at the overall profile of a student Mr Schneider did I leave out any details the most part we use two of those identifying pieces so we want to see them meet criteria two different areas so the testing is done in kindergarten and then GR in fifth grade is that accurate it's done in kindergarten second grade and then in fifth grade we use I ready data to help us make decisions because by that point most kids have been tested twice they've been testing kindergarten in second grade but we also parents can request testing throughout the school year and we bring them in standing and is can we be provided with how the demographics have shifted based on this new criteria that has been implemented because I think it'd be exciting to see the equity work that has been happening so thank you absolutely that's a good point done I think that would be helpful and and I just would like to to comment that um even 12 years ago a long time ago when our children went through Elementary School um they opted to stay in their home school and um had every opportunity to um to read ahead had every opportunity to learn math ahead but I'm very glad that this is institutionalized across the district so thank you so much I have a comment slash question um this hits home to me in so many ways I have a child who when I often say that I've wored well with Lawrence this has been a point for me um and so it is Redemptive I I don't know if that's the right word to say that or I don't know um to see when your child should have have been in a certain program and they weren't but to see Lawrence actively work and make the changes that are needed and that child is a is a distinguished honor at this point but it just as a mother the heartache of knowing that certain behaviors a bored child is a busy child and so I think that this also um is a good way to help with discipline also sometimes children can be labeled a certain way when it's really they're they're just bored so hats off you like my heart Smiles because I've sent many emails I thank you this work is more personal to me than I can express and so I thank you for that um and I do want to ask if the public can be reminded of the boundaries concerning High ability and transportation options that that was a question that yes so the high ability program follows the same Transportation setup that the rest of the district does so an East and a West and that's why it was important when you approved the uh new programs for next year we had a East Side option and a West Side option so that everybody could take advantage of of transportation and if a parent decides to say that they're in the westward option and go to the Eastward option then they would have to transport their child to that school correct wanted to make sure that that that's correct clarified okay thank you Mr notor did we find in expanding to the um to the immersion hi ability program did the number of children who qualified exceed our ability to provide for them in those two schools or I'm just I'm I'm thinking about capacity questions here they they didn't exceed our ability but certainly challenged us to look at Logistics differently and so we have we had originally only plan for two sections of dual language High ability one at Oakland and one at Mary castle for next year we have a very very full Mary one section at Mary castle and we have two sections at oaklandon so we did have to work through some Logistics I know that that's something that we struggle with in high ability just in general across the board having had two other children go through that that program so I was just curious uh what the demand was like as we expanded to our dual language very high demand and the other thing that pleased about and this goes somewhat to Mrs Dunn's question um the percentage of uh language Learners that are in those sections matches what our district would would require for a two-way program so we have a significantly higher number of language Learners that will be in the high ability programming than we've had before outstanding outstanding um I guess now we'll move on to category F accountability category F really is focused on our data systems and in 2021 during the middle of the pandemic we had a lot of work to do on our data systems and so the work since then has been the development of a short cycle and midcycle data system at every school um and that's significant work um and quite a change from where we were four years ago um through that we've offered ongoing I ready training I ready is our formative assessment tool um that's really a midcycle data system that we use throughout the year we've offered sessions at our Lawrence learning Summit and Then followed through that cascading domain into uh teacher training throughout the entire school year we have continued exploration and Pilots of formative assessment tools the technology continues to improve and continues to grow and so that causes us to continue to explore and make sure that we have the the best technology to support our data systems and then we've provided continuing and ongoing coaching and professional development by national consultant to each of our Schools board questions I do have a question that was raised um regarding the I ready and knowing that we are going to be it's my understanding moving to the iearn checkpoints next school year is that correct that we will be having both I ready and iearn checkpoints we are part of the pilot for the I learn checkpoints uh my belief is anytime the state puts out pilot we want to be involved and on the front end of that but but we have um a commitment to I ready because we have a system built around it so we want to preview the iearn checkpoints um see what changes that the state makes in in that through the pilot before we would up uh create an upheaval in our system so we're keeping I ready for next school year so students will have I ready and I learn checkpoints as well as what other assessments just the class fortive assessments the regular assessments through the classroom but then year in summi of Assessments okay I just I the concern was brought that that is a lot of assessing for students to do in those grade level bands plus the third grade with the I ready or I'm sorry with I um especially since we do have such a large number of English Learners and how much data are we going to be able to get from all of those that are actually it's going to take away quite frankly from students ability to be in the classroom learning content as opposed to constant assessment that's why we need to see what the iearn pilot looks like so how much usable data will there be compared to what we're doing now I have a question um it's kind of forming as we're talking um I have a child that is in honors and there was an intersection of the um where the where the testing overlapped um let me get this in writing and I'll get it to you because it just made me think on a bit like the overlap in of some of the testing let me get it and I'll get it to you yes and the other point to that is we have worked through our assessment calendar for next year so that we make sure that those windows the I learn and the I ready windows don't overlap Mr notor what is your sense um that our short cycle formative assessment tools are what we need because we're always it seems like throwing spaghetti at the wall as test as the major state test change and we don't know what we're testing toward Etc how stable do we feel that the testing is at this point that we know that our formative assessments are what they need to be and will give us a better idea of where our kiddos are that's exactly the reason that we're keeping the I ready assessment for next year um is we are confident in the work that our teachers do um and the data points that were given through I ready um we're not confident yet in the state test just because there has been so much change um and so we're much more confident in IR however we do know that we need to add uh Technology support for short cycle Data Systems um and so that's a piece that uh Mr Harsha and Miss Schneider are working on right now with our building principles is selecting a tool for that short cycle data that will give us uh better results in a technological way great I do have one another question about that as it pertains to um the fiscal um standpoint of being able to administer I ready um the formative assessment Grant my understanding is is what usually covered NWA I ready and so forth will that be covering I ready for next school year and then it will be sunsetting once the I ready checkpoints come into play so will we be thinking potentially how we will be funding for I ready if we choose to keep it yes it is funded through the formative assessment grant for next year um and then we'll see where we're at with the iearn checkpoints if the iearn checkpoints are able to provide us comparable data and we trust the standards alignment um then yes we wouldn't need to look for additional funding if the answer is no that the checkpoints through the pilot um is not the fit that we need for timely decision making then we would be looking at alternative funding thank you very much you're welcome we are at category G social and emotional well-being all right Mrs Bush has that one and this item was specific to our high schools and we did have a curriculum review team who identified seven mindsets as oural curriculum for the high schools that was board approved in April of 2022 and implementation started last spring um my question is um you know I I I went back through our um April meeting um and I know we that's certainly when we approved our um Equity goals um can you remind us what these seven mindsets are well I don't have them in front of me but I can sure share those with you okay okay okay great back to you excellent thank you um and we'll we'll just you can send those to us and then we'll make sure to mention them again at our next meeting thank you I do have a question as to when those are being administered is that during an advisory period or when is when are students receiving that curriculum first period on Mondays so it's whatever the color is one and five is that what that would be accordance with school BL schedu either red or maroon any more questions there I do I feel like I need to give this a little bit of um back it up a little bit so so there's a understanding as to why I'm going to ask this um I feel like it's related to emotional well-being um because let me just ask it and then I'll go from there um I'll read it directly from what I submitted while I fully support our decision of utilizing metal detectors in our buildings metal detectors presence can be argued as a form of overp policing which can impact mental perceptions of one's environment and emotional well-being especially as it pertains to um urban areas where there you go into a bank and you have to be buzzed in you go to buy products and there their behind counters um or uh locked up I'm interested to know how our kids have been responding to the presence of the metal detectors and has this been a concern because we often talk about the positives but we need to see also the impact on overall yes it's great but there is there there's some stigmas and there's some things that can come with that so that's where my question comes from second level we Reed very positive feedack indect indect that's important so that's beeni indirect count okay good now thank you so there hasn't been any concerns or the kids seem pretty I wonder how that will let me just think on my own okay thank you um then we can move on I believe to um category H racialized language in informal settings yes thank you Madame President so racialized language in informal settings uh this was a a really weighty topic uh to begin to get a plan around and so the uh conversation really is about training for teachers and training for students around what expectations are within an academic setting and so so uh there's training to be offered this summer at the Lawrence learning Summit around bias incidents and how you deal with that as a classroom teacher and and out of the audit data really was that question from teachers of how do I handle it I'm not sure what to do when I hear a racial slur and so that's what this training is designed to support our teachers in also looking at curriculum development around anti-bias um and racial ized language and so we convened a curriculum uh group this year that met to review um not only seal but how we might integrate into our seal curriculum anti-bias training training around racialized language and what's appropriate what's not appropriate in an academic setting so that curriculum integration will occur over this summer um where our teachers will work to create that scope and sequence and the implementation of that curriculum will begin as part of our seal programming in 2425 Mr not um in this biased language training is there also um is it also inclusive of training around sexual orientation and or gender identity it is it's it's all biases absolutely thank you and um the training that we would offer for students when you say incorporated into theal those in that curricul that seven mindsets curriculum that they receive in the first block yeah so that'd be the example at the high school it looks different at the middle school and the elementary sure but that's that's that's where we're going to incorporate that yes we just need a little more conversation a little more teacher training to know how to approach this exactly um and do we know right now at the Lawrence learning Summit uh what experts we're looking to to help guide us in this yes and so uh Dr Dominique Smith um who's been a partner with us in our restorative work around creating that safe culture for students and then we have a couple other specific trainers that are coming in on this topic and I know Crystal has some um I don't know if you want to bring them up tonight I'm gonna put an ellipsis on it right now because I feel like it's still that's and I I had mentioned earlier in a in a question that I asked earlier it's something that it's the policing of some of the words that are my bigger concerned because I look okay well how would this impact discipline and so I'm just going to put in ellipses and just kind of watch so I thank you for that update no question as of now Mr notor you know we know that um um some of these words were talking about um whether it's um gender based or racial based we know that some of these words that we're talking about are are in common usage in um our pop culture yes and some of our students are very comfortable with the language uh many students are very uncomfortable with the language and what is our [Music] commitment to making sure that we don't vilify students who are using the language in a way that is comfortable in their own culture absolutely and and many times our students don't even realize what they're saying is offensive to someone else and so that's really the training that we're talking about and the teaching that we're talking about of defining the expectations within an academic setting and not in a policing disciplinary Type of Way in a teaching kind of way of these are the expectations in the classroom in the hallways in the restroom in Lawrence Township versus what you might say in your home and they might be two different things so we envision this as learning opportunities as opposed to punitive absolutely 100% okay thank you so much thank you for that clarification um uh let's go on to well gender bias we've already touched on that so let's move Johnson the highlights that we've shared this evening on gender biases is through a human resource lens as we think about seeking and recruiting a diverse Workforce um this year we launched a staff demographic survey which has allowed us to collect um information and create dashboards for each of our schools so that our leaders can just really easily at their fingertips look at their Staffing versus visually looking at them looking that data as to um just who composes our staff the diversity just in making better informed decisions and then furthermore um we have a process in Human Resources where our leaders submit a precondition um offer to HR when they're offering um jobs to candidates and we're having them think through just how many candidates you know what was the gender of the candidates what was the race of the candidates what is the team that interviewed them what was that made up racially so just that thinking about how do you bring multiple perspectives to the table in our hiring process Miss Johnson I have I have one follow-up question for that have we ever done a salary survey or a baseline of salaries to ensure that there's equitable distribution among both genders um I I'm asking this as someone who works at Salesforce we did this work and it cost the company quite a bit of money to to make sure that we were Equitable but it was uh a boon for in particular our female um and my female colleagues so I'm just curious if we've done to ensure that we have um Equitable salaries among our staff and our both classified and um and our Administration and our teacher staff I'd say that we have had a really comprehensive salary review of all of our positions as we compared it throughout marrying County and just the equitableness for all of our employees not to say regardless of their gender but just the equity and that it was for all it's yeah it's different yeah they are that's right that's one would argue that that's one would argue that that's maybe the way that we should think about salaries even in Corporate America I'm GNA be quiet ours ours are very public folks any more questions about that okay we'll move on to category J um parents and Community are ready to do the work thank you madam president and even though this is the last category in some ways it's the most important category it's a a question that was in every focus group and a question that was on every single survey is are we committed and ready to do this work and some communities are not um our data was overwhelmingly that our families our teachers our Administration is ready to do this work and so one of the action steps again is how are we engaged ing all of our families and so we highlight again the work that went into L conversa and the institutionalizing of that program um another action step that's within uh this particular category is staying engaged in the conversation um the work that we're doing um according to our national Consultants um really is groundbreaking um National work um and so we have been invited to present at conferences um over the years most recently Dr Smith served on the panel at the Midwest Regional Conference for the alliance of black school Educators so we continue to stay engaged in the conversation not only within Maran County and within Indiana but more broadly within the the nation because this is such an important topic questions I don't have any questions but I do have a couple of comments that I think it's important for our public to to see because um there are a couple things in Jay which I do is such an incredibly important item and one thing I just want to provide some time um to to celebrate is J 2.2 and that is provide dedicated time um the fact that we are investing in our instructional assistance as you did on January 8th 2024 is to be commended and so thank you for that as well as the differentiated PD for staff I think so many of us have sat in PD where it's a one- siiz fits all and our educators are across the Spectrum we have folks that are brand new to um to teaching and then we've got other folks who have been in this profession um and are veterans and so um that also is to be celebrated so I just I think that's important to call out some of the other things I hope you don't mind the work that we're doing that aren't on the slides that make me very proud to serve in this District I think the other um piece that I I think is also so incredibly creative um that I would love just we have to do it here but love to talk more about and that's action item j.

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4 a.m. to see if it's safe for our buses to this guy does it and he just feels like it's a gift that he's able to do this Marty we cannot thank you enough for this kind of commitment and probably something that you'll never truly fully feel and I can't either because I'm not part of the crew over there at the transportation department but he has developed a sense of belonging a sense of worth a sense of pride a sense of family a sense of healthy culture uh in our transportation department to a level that that we seen in many many years or possibly ever at all uh he's grown our staff thankfully right because we need them right Marty um anybody wants get please see Marty outside application if you'd like to drive a bus but anyway uh Mr Freeman uh I am so proud happy and thankful to work alongside of you at Crown Point Community School Corporation thank you for everything that you've brought to our school community and uh from my heart and many others congratulations I can tell you while Mr uh Aiwa is thrilled to get those early morning texts those four o'clock texts that come in my wife's like what does Marty want now so Marty congratulations I'd like to recognize Marty's family is here you guys good way thank you guys for being here Marty's wife Jen actually spent like at the beginning of school year Sundays walking neighborhoods and talking to people like hey how about this bus stop with this work here and so just so you know like so many of our administrators when it's when we go in it's it's a it's a whole family thing so before I present this award I'd like to read the uh resolution of accommodation the Crown Point Board of school trustees is honored to commend Marty Freeman as an exemplary administrator be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for the Crown Point Community SCH Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to Marty Freeman for being named the 2024 2324 administrator of the year the school board trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its minutes to be preserved for public posterity dated this 20th day of May 2024 [Applause] our last uh accomodation this evening is award that we do not give uh annually uh several years ago we started the Mike carahan Spirit of a bulldog award and this award is given annually possibly depending on the situations for that school year uh this Bulldog Spirit of a bulldog award is for exemplary display of Pride determination perseverance kindness reliability humility and selflessness and for those of you who know pamone you know that this is absolutely true of pam pam I'm G to ask you to come forward at this time she hates this she absolutely hates [Applause] this which makes me enjoy this even that much more and we were able to even sneak your husband here this evening to help you at this time I'm going to ask uh mat Reese our chief finance officer if he would come and say a few words regarding p uh Pam congratulations and thank you Pam is retiring after 23 years of service to the Crown Point Community School Corporation Pam epitomizes the last two phrases you heard in that humility and selflessness Pam will always be in the background this is absolute torture for her to be in front of the crowd tonight and and be on the telecast um so we want to thank you Pam one thing about Pam other than making sure that all of the students are fed who want lunches and get breakfast in our Corporation is that Pam um does a great job and what's more important to me financially having the balances available to us to reimburse us for the services that the school corporation provides to our food service department Bank payroll and benefits but also utilities uh for her F food service equipment um Pam has returned over do back to the School cor millions of dollars back to the school corporation in her 23 years which supports everything that we do here and you can't thank her enough for that and for being the spirit of the bulldog and as with Marty this is a family thing again and the story that I have for Pam was last summer we were doing we have an admin family activity at the end of our retreat in July with our administrators asked them to bring their families back have some burgers and food and just fellowship at time and this past year we got there and got it all set up and as I came found out that Pam's husband who was here with us this evening got there early and was using his yard blower to blow off all the tables get rid of the dust and we got all the tables set up and here comes the thunder and lightning and we had to call it and he came back again the next night and did it all again and again it's just an example of how our families are committed to being a part of this as well so Pam if you haven't spent enough time up here we're going to have just a little bit longer while I read the resolution of commodation the Crown Point Board of school trustees is honored to commend Pam Maloney for Meritus achievement be it hereby resolved that the board of school Trustees for Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to Pam Maloney food service director as the re of the Mike carahan Spirit of a bulldog award for exemplary display of Pride determination perseverance kindness reliability humility and selflessness the board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its Min to be preserved for public posterity dated this 20th day of May 2024 [Applause] easy thanks for com for okay we'll move on with the uh the agenda uh item 3.01 patrons registered to comment there are no patrons uh that have signed up to comment so we'll move on to uh the consent agenda Dr Terell thank you for your consideration this evening we have 4.01 the regular business meeting minutes have 422 and also uh the May 13th executive session minutes 4.02 the uniform conflict of interest disclosure statements 4.03 the Personnel agenda and 4.04 the voucher registered checks as listed you've heard of recommendations made by DR Terrell related to the consent agenda 4.01 regular business meeting minutes and May 13 2024 executive session minutes 4.02 uniform conflict of interest disclosure statements 4.03 the Personal Agenda and 4.04 voucher register check numbers 17277 to 172 393 checks number 10 14447 to1 04457 check numbers 91019 and vouchers number 29386 to 294 262 may I have a motion so move second show a motion moved by Miss Basin and seconded uh by Mr Vasser all those in favor signal by saying I I I and uh we'll carry the vote three Z we'll move along to action item 5.01 Mr Hardman evening the first one is theability Grant this is an annual non Grant from this year the amount is 76396 as you look at the threeyear trend of this the significant difference in this is that we are going to use these funds to hire a halim interventionist to supportability program which will help build our capacity to deliver services to our students uh with the grant you are required to allocate a specific amount towards testing materials that 222 that you see in that area uh is uh part of what we spend for high ability screening and testing to be able to identify the students and service them in C Comm schools uh this evening we're seeking your approval to apply for and receive these funds from the Indiana Department of Education you've heard of recommendations of Mr Hardman to approve and appli and reive Grant funds from the Indian Department of Education High ability Grant in the amount of $763 196 may have a motion I'll make a motion second show a motion uh made by Mr Vasser and hold on one second and seconded by Miss Basin are there any questions or comments yes Mr Harman uh on your breakdown of of the the funds are split up my assumption is based upon the wages for the employee that's going to be doing this so to be a first year teacher no what this is that those uh that allocation of 56,000 or almost 57,000 is for part of ail teacher that we have in the school corporation so this grant pays for that and then in addition to that we're hiring the half intervention actually two people that are part of this not a compens one thank you any other questions I do have one quick question Mr Harbin as far as um the student identification testing materials and scoring I see like an overall decrease in that expense is that just becoming a more affordable option or more streamlined as far as how that's from State st23 you had 6375 of the grant towards identification this year decrease as you can see by almost $4,000 which allows you to alloc perfect thank you anything further ready to vote all those in favor sign signal by saying I I I we'll show the vote carries three Z we'll move to uh action item 5.02 I think back to you Mr Hardman yeah thank you very much uh this uh Grant was a grant that was was submitted based on the initiative of one of our teachers Kelly chier a few years ago she also submitted a grant for leadership this is a followup to that and tonight we're seeking uh your approval to apply for and receive the funding from the idoe level of leadership Grant Kelly participated in that and she has just had a a desire to develop her leadership skills atown point point high school and we're really excited to uh be able to support her by having this grant these Grant funds for her so tonight we're seing your approval to apply for and rece fing $ 4,272 20 for the level of leadership cohort which he participated this year you've heard of recommendations of Mr Hardman to apply for and receive funding from the indn Department of Education level up leadership Grant on behalf of uh the Crownpoint High School teacher Kelly chavalier participation and level up leadership cohort one in the amount of $ 42722 may I have a motion so move second show motion made by Miss Basin and second by Mr Vasser are there any questions or comments is is the teacher here tonight okay any other questions all right let's put it to a vote all those in favor signal by saying I I I will show the vote carries three Z on to action thank you Mr Hardman on to action item 5.03 Mr cacino thank you Mr Smith and board members for your consideration this evening uh is a resource adoption for elementary stem uh the resources listed will support the stem and computer science standards in grades K through five at our elementary schools for our brand new Elementary stem specials opportunity uh the recommendation from Administration is that the school board approved the textbook of resource adoption for use beginning in 2024 2025 you've heard a recommendation of Mr Kina to approve the textbook resource adoption for use beginning in 2020 I'm sorry 2024 and 2025 for stem and computer science standards in grades K through five may I have a motion motion second show a motion made by Mr Vasser seconded by Miss bason are there any questions or comments I only have one Mr kacina this is all this is all new based upon the new program is that correct yes okay thank you let's uh if there's no other questions make a vote uh all those uh in favor signal by saying I I I and we'll show the vote carries three Z you move to action item 5.04 Mrs Ramirez thank you Mr President and board members I am here today to bring to light the recommendation for an outof country field trip to Greece by Crownpoint high school students that would take place in March through the beginning of April of 2026 this will allow students participating in media to learn storytelling techniques be able to use words images and graphic art to develop those skills through the leadership and sponsorship of this um trip which will be led by Lisa Kean who is here with us today and I am recommending on behalf of the administration that the school board approved the outof country field trip to Greece by Crownpoint high school students in March through beginning of April 2026 wonderful you heard the recommendations of Miss Mrs Ramirez to uh approve uh the out of country field trip to Greece by Crown Point High School students March 25th 26 to April 45th 2026 may I have a motion some I'll second in just a second may I ask a question um 2026 so a year and three quarters away is there a reason why we're approving this so early um so that they can start to um fund raise they can start to pay off the amount towards their trip so when we get these in we typically bring them as soon as we're able to oftentimes it's a year in advance sometimes a year and a half this one is the longest out which just shows the great planning and the um preparation that this team is going to or this teacher and students are um preparing for okay thank you let's second that then all right thank you Mr Vasser we'll show a motion made by Miss Bas and a second by Mr Vasser are there any other questions or comments no I just want to thank you for continuing to give these opportunities to our students it's really nice we've had a number of these on the agenda um in the last few months and that's really awesome for our students to have that opportunity so thank you for spearheading that and and leading our students um overseas yeah and I would just Echo that this is a fantastic opportunity so thank you for all you're doing how many how many students do we anticipate maybe going do we have any idea at this point exced asies what a wonderful opportunity so thank you again we appreciate it we ready to vote all right uh all those uh in favor signal by saying I I I uh we'll show the vote carries three Z we are back to you Mrs Ramirez for action item 5.05 thank you Mr President tonight I would like to bring forward the request for adoption of the textbook to support the healthcare specialist CNA course at Crown Point High School as well as the resource for schoolwide adoption at the middle school to support one school one book and these would be used starting in 2024 2025 so it is the administration's recommendation that the school board approve these resources for adoption to begin next school year in 2425 thank you you've heard a recommendation of the administration to approve the resources for adoption for use beginning of 20 24 and 2025 may I have a motion I'll second in just a second so uh Mrs Ramirez this you said this is uh one book one school is one school one book yes for the Middle School um how does that actually work then at the middle school um there is a team of teachers and Educators who are on the one school one book committee they reviewed 11 books in total they look for books that align with um different categories that we have identified in terms of um type of text that it is the type of characters and or story that is told engagement of students um making sure that it is appropriate for middle school students and then this novel will be read throughout the school year with accompanying activities that the students will participate in to really support a love of learning and a love of reading and it's six through eight six through eight okay thank you you're welcome second that thank you I'll show the motion it's moved to the floor by Miss Bas and second by Mr Vasser are there any other questions or comments um no just a quick comment for those who don't have students in middle school and they do the same thing in elementary school with the one um school one book it actually is a really great opportunity the elementary is wonderful for families to read the book all together which has been great and the middle school has been been really nice just to even watch my um seventh graders kind of go through that and have um the camaraderie that comes with doing that throughout the whole school so I appreciate you guys putting that together so that our our kids can have that cohesive um experience where they they're all reading and um discussing a little bit of the same thing thank you for your support wonderful um ready to vote all right uh all those in favor signal by saying I I I we'll show the vote carries three zero thank you uh action item 5.06 Mrs pascus good evening um tonight I ask for your approval of our contract with Milestone therapy l to provide Physical Therapy evaluations and physical therapy as a related Service as required by state and federal special education law for the 2024 25 school year thank you Mrs pascus will show the you heard the recommendations of the administration uh for the school board to approve the contract of Milestone Therapy LLC to provide IEP required Physical Therapy evaluations and services for the 20 24 and 2 school year may I have a motion I make a motion second shall a motion made by Mr Vasser and seconded by Miss bason are there any questions or comments Mrs pascus always just ask us is this uh Milestone therapy a company that we're familiar with yes this is our sixth year uh we currently have about 43 students with physical therapy on their IEPs and then we're always completing evaluations with them as the school year goes on thank than you any other questions or comments all right uh all those in favor signal by saying I I I show the vote carries three- Z thank you Mr M moving on to action item 5.07 Mr ke thank you Mr Smith board members uh tonight we bring to you for the second time uh four isba policies uh that would be isba uh 6100 which is internal controls isba a 8615 idling of school buses and other idling vehicles on school property isba 1310 electronic participation by board members in board meetings nisba 8500 visitors to school buildings uh as you know last month we had our first reading uh of these four policies tonight we are making the recommendation that we wave the second reading and approve these four policies thank you Mr Kea you heard the recommendations of the administrations to approve isba 6100 internal controls isba policy 8615 iding idling of school buses and other idling vehicles on school property isba policy number 1310 electronic participation by board members and board meetings isba 8500 visitors to school board I'm sorry to scho school buildings and we've uh received a recommendation to wave the second reading may I have a motion I move to V on those four policies and second thank you I'll second that motion are there any uh comments or questions from Mr yes uh Mr a on the idling of school buses and other idling vehicles on school property um so as a veteran of bus Duty I I understand that um so we have buses on one part of the building we have a parent line in another part of the building um how do we monitor this or how do we enforce this we've got signs posted and we just really hope that individuals are you know doing their best to realize that they need to to you know once they get in the spot where they're going to sit they go ahead and power down their vehicles to minimize any fumes that's that are coming in and out of the buildings yeah I I only ask that because you know signs are just for law-abiding citizens right um so I I understand that um the police would have no jurisdiction on this this is our local school board policy um it's we've had it this is just a it's been around for a long time updating language yeah for to to you know become current uh as we transition from theola to isba that is correct thank you I'll second that I think it's already on the floor motion myself so any other questions or comments all right all those in favor signal by saying I I the vote carries three Z thank you Mr ke we go on to action item 5.08 Mr Reese thank you Mr Smith members of the board tonight we bring before you the 2024 2025 School Meal prices recommendation you'll notice that there's no increase for elementary middle or high school lunches uh at our buildings however Trinity and St Mary's have a 10cent increase breakfast is staying also the same in our elementary middle and high schools we're able to do this even though uh the federal guidelines would like us to raise our prices uh we do we can keep our prices the same uh for our building simply because our balances are sufficient enough uh to still provide the guidelines for the food that the federal government would like us to require so with that we make a recommendation for the uh meal prices as presented thank you Mr ree you've heard the recommendations of the administration to approve the meal prices for the 202 24 and 2025 school year that are within the federal guidelines may I have a motion I'll make the motion second show a motion made by Mr basser and second by Miss bason there any questions or comments I I just think it's amazing yeah that throughout our whole school district the prices don't go up so Matt I don't know if you're the person to thank or Pam's the person to think on that but that that just amazes me in this in this economy that the price doesn't rise that's the real reason why Pam showed up that's a victory in of itself for sure no I was going to say the same thing just that with inflation as high as it is that's incredible so kudos to all those that uh have been able to make that happen for our absolutely I ask you just remember that when we need might to potentially in the future need to bring a price increase remember how good we've had it for so long we tend to have short memories Mr re all right any other questions or comments all right all those in favor signal by saying I I I show the vote carries three Z moving on to action item 5.09 Food Service urement plan approval for 2024 2025 back to you Mr Reese thank you those same federal guidelines that uh work with our pricing of our food also uh require us to have a procurement plan as described by the federal government the Indian Department of Education child and food nutrition is nice enough uh to provide us with a template which is what you have in front of you that template we then insert our board policy language into that template so you can be assured that the policy matches the template that the Indiana doe has as required of us so with that we're asking excuse me asking for your approval for the 2024 2025 Food Service procurement plan refer to recommendations of the administration to approve the 2024 and 2025 Food Service procurement plan may have a motion second second show a motion made by Miss Bas a second by Mr basser are there any questions or comments no questions or comments we'll vote all those in favor signal by saying I I show the vote carries three Z on to action item five uh 5.10 districtwide asphalt paving projects Mr ree thank you as we move towards the end of our construction projects now the next step is to go back in and fix some of the paving that's been done around to our parking lots uh so with that we received bids last week uh for paving at a number of buildings the total bids came in at 1,21 2017,2018 Services uh School Corporation and SC both have extensive experience with Site Services uh in the past so with that we're recommending approve of the contracts for districtwide asphalt paving projects uh for asphalt to Site Services thank you Mr ree uh you've heard a recommendation of the administration to approve the contracts for the districtwide asphalt paving projects as follows asphalt to Site Services in the amount of 1,271 127 may I have a motion your turn so second will show that uh motion made by Miss Bas and the seconded by Mr Vasser are there any questions or comments how long does the asphalt typically last in a school's parking lot I'm G to turn that one over to Mr just typically I mean oh really wow never would have guessed that that's great again I just want to reiterate reiterate this is the lowest bid process and um Site Services had the lowest bid correct thank you any other questions or comments okay uh uh with no other questions or comments we'll put to a vote all those in favor signal by saying I I I we'll show the vote carries three Z all right we moving on to the agenda item six uh 6.01 superintendent discussion groups Mr vaser will start with you out in Cedar Lake if you have anything uh Cedar Lake we did not meet uh this month because of was election day so we will be a meeting the first Tuesday in June wonderful so nothing to report okay I know Mr Angel's not present tonight he handles Winfield so we'll catch up with him next week and I have nothing to report for Crown Point so move on to uh item 6.02 director grants assessments Mr Hardman thank you very much I am I learn I read AP sat you don't know what those are those are the most recent assessments that we have administered in point schools uh I just wanted to just take you through think about it from the student standpoint for just as they engage in that testing uh preparation that goes into that taking place the the pressure the stress that might feel as they come into that testing those testing times um then you start thinking about the teachers and their administration of the testing and there's pressure on teachers to administer that well so that that students have the best opportunity to to do their best on that and then you look at uh the uh the support staff that are working with students groups or supporting them as as Proctors and then you have the administrators who are overseeing that at the building level so that we don't have irregularity reports and the training that goes into that then you come up to the level here with directors uh and secretaries that are working to to really make sure that this is a a solid uh Administration season uh report to you uh very little U kind of irregularities that were subed to that weren't a to be that weren't able to be uh to be worked out and so just from an Administration standpoint the number of people the students families that are engaged in this really uh just a big thank you to everybody that makes that occur um results for I learn will be coming out this Friday they will be coming home students for English language arts and math as well as social studies of grade five uh science Testing uh they're re uh they're resetting the cut so the science test at grades four six and for biology they're going to be coming out later on in the summer and we'll be giving those to parents probably in the fall we do have what's called a resore window that's coming up you'll be messaging if you have children in the elementary middle school messaging will be coming out Wednesday and it's a resore window that by by law we have to offer and the open-ended items that means those items that students actually write responses now those can be reviewed by parents and if we think that there's an error in the scoring be submitted to the state for a resore and it's seen that additional points should be given more points will be given and in the same way less points are needed the score could actually be lower so that twoo is coming up and we'll complete that by the end of next week uh for summer school we're getting geared up for that as soon as we have school year graduation happens and that following Monday we're in summer school so we have a number of students that have enrolled and for credits for uh support for interventions all of that will be taking place and we're thankful for the parents that helped support that as well as the staff that you approve tonight for our summer school program so thank you very much Mr Hardman how many students estimate I'm not going to hold you to uh attend summer school in our in our district I'm going to somewhere around couple thousand that many because the school has thank you and then the only other question I have is are you gonna be able to sleep this week with these test results coming out Friday it used to be they came out the day before Thanksgiving and are there any other questions or comments good all right thank you Mr Hardman all right moving on to uh item 6.03 director of Elementary education Mr cacina thank you Mr Smith and board members uh tonight I want to thank um there's too many people to name but I want to thank uh the 84 um Elementary School teachers two of them are right here and 14 exceptional education teachers who um over the course of the last month we've had 12 halfday meetings uh with our curriculum specialists uh for Math and Ela Joe bisc and Amy mallister to create our new uh District curriculum apps for grades K through five in math and Ela uh during those meetings like I said we had one teacher from each grade level from each building um attend those to work alongside administrators and curriculum Specialists to build uh those Curriculum maps it was a wonderful collaborative process um and lots of lots of input from teachers and input from every every school building ACR the district elementary wise so that was great uh we're really excited as this is going to help us align things to our new Indiana academic standards uh ahead of the I learn checkpoint change next year also uh we believe this is going to help strengthen our collaboration and consistency across the district and uh will help us really to make data driven decisions moving forward for both uh how we support students and how we um tweak our curriculum and develop our curriculum um this is my first month of May not being at the building level uh and it's really strange um but I want to just take a minute to thank our teachers and staff members and administrators um for all they're doing to really serve our kids and our community in really meaningful ways there's so many events happening every day um from kidy 500s to field days to DARE graduations and so much more and it's just so evident um how much our teachers care to make these lasting memories for our kids um and I just appreciate all the hard work that everyone's doing to get us get us to the end of the year so thank you thank you Mr K any questions all good all right move on to item 6.04 director of secondary education Mrs rire thank you Mr Smith and board members I don't think I can really paint the picture of all that is happening right now um throughout the secondary world but I will highlight a couple things and it really just goes to show the commitment that our administrator our teachers our staff have to providing opportunities that leave really lasting memories for our students and so i' would like to start by just congratulating our middle schools and Crownpoint high school for their excellence in Indiana State Music Association and their competitions that they have been part of they are truly talented we had the first career fair at Crownpoint high school and Lynn Aly and the cphs admin team and counseling team were um integral and making that a successful opportunity for our students to connect with future career opportunities we had the performance of Lion King on the third over at Taft and that was a great um really demonstration of passion and talent for our middle school students which was wonderful to get to see I was excited to get a text on the morning of the 11th of May Russ was out at the car show that Dan White and Pat Maggie help organize and so it's so cool that our students who are into um Automotive really get to Showcase some of their vehicles as well as the community so again I think it just really shows that we are an integral part of the community and that our community wants to be part of us so I think that that is always um an exciting event and they had a great day for that our middle schools last week had another parent welcome for our incoming sixth graders and I think that that really goes to show how invested we are in making sure that the transition from elementary to middle school is a success and their commitment to welcoming our families and our students and giving them kind of the lay of the land for what to expect we had a wonderful military celebration at Crownpoint High School which is always um not only heartfelt but I think just very moving to see the commitment that our students have developed through the leadership of their parents and through the support of the school system to um represent our country we also had several of our actually own staff who have students who are going into the military so I am just very grateful to um those fine students for serving our country we're of course looking forward to gradu ation coming up in June and to um celebrating all of our graduates this year and I just really want to take the opportunity to thank all of the Educators um our employees and our administrators who were here with us today being nominated and even those who were not able to be with us today um they are truly an inspiration as Nick mentioned you know when we sit in these interviews it's like a great time for us as administrators to just hear about the love and the passion that these Educators and staff continue to demonstrate and um I feel very blessed to be able to be part of the secondary team and part of the greater good of Crownpoint Community School Corporation so thank you mrz you could you could feel as the individuals were talking today you could the passion that they have and their voices and how excited they are we're we're very blessed um how many students are we anticipate graduating how many handshakes do we have to have this year as board members I think that we're doing some uh fist bumps this year so we're going to be kind of cool and Rocket in 2425 that right Dr ter not doing fist bumps handshake or fist bump we'll see about that I'm guessing handshake will win out um I would imagine I think that we have slightly over 650 is okay yeah EXC I know we're effective so it's gon to be great what a great day for them so thank you thank you uh we go to item 6.05 director of exceptional education Mr good evening board members um last Wednesday we held our third annual unified game day at the high school we had 375 athletes which was made up of students from our applied skills program with a peer body um and competed in various trk and field and um obstacle course events um I want to thank the high school for the use of the facilities um the high school pet Fan Food Service uh Rachel dlap our PT assistant and Kelly us my assistant who really spearheaded the planning of this year's event um I want to thank our central office staff that worked events Mr Jan fery Mr Hardman Mrs ramire Mr China Mrs mallister Mr bisc and Mrs Duval thank uh two of our School nurses Tiffany Bowman and Kelly McCarthy our Master of Ceremonies Mike molaski and our DJ Stephanie penley who's one of our speech pathologists um thanks to our buildings and ground staff who uh the night before and morning of moved some very vital student equipment in order for them to participate um several community volunteers um skilman sent some people we had one of the ground Point ambassadors from this year that volunteered and then thank you to Mr Smith for stopping those awesome day was awesome Mrs pascus I just want to say having an opportunity to go out there and I was out there last year too to watch it and every year it just improves and gets better and better if you haven't had a chance to go out there and watch the unified games I said this last year and I'll say it again I recommend you go watch a unified games if you want to see a community work together and come together that's the place to be it's really impressive so and just like we saw with the volunteers from the community I think you're going to see more and more of that just because it's such a great event so well done and thank you for putting that on thank you I have a vision like food CHS I have a vision how many how many students this year how many students this year 375 that's amazing thank you go to item 6.06 Chief human resource officer Mr Aiwa thank you Mr Smith and board members um first I would like to just thank uh our leadership team and and all of our schools the events that they're mentioning there is so much happening right now but beneath all of that um they are still taking care of business uh we have been interviewing um and screening applicants for the positions as we begin to staff for next year and I just cannot thank all of our leaders uh for getting so much done while uh tending to to all these you know great things happening in their buildings we've got some wonderful candidates teed up uh to join us next year uh so it's been a very successful uh to this point a hiring season here for the Crown Point Community School Corporation and finally um I'd like to thank this moment that happened tonight with the teacher of the year employee of the year administrator of the year um really cannot be done without the help and coordination of Diana green who's in the the back of the room over there so thank you Diana for all of your help um and you know our our entire you know cabinet and administrative staff I mean everybody's been been talking talking about it but it is absolutely truthful number one to read the commentary of the community members who are nominating our folks to become finalists it's it just blows you away to to hear all the great things and how much appre appreciation and love there is in our community and then to go sit in these interviews uh for those few minutes when they're in there being able to talk about what they do every day for children and all of our students and families um no kidding you need some kleenex in there uh you need tissue paper and and that's that is the absolute truth so um thank you to everybody who contribute to contributed to tonight's celebration all of our finalists and our winners um we are certainly fortunate here in Crown Point Community School Corporation thank you well said Mr Aila any questions follow all right we'll go move on to uh item 6.07 Chief Financial Officer Mr ree thank you I've got just a couple items one I'd like to thank uh there's 125 new users of our financial and accounting software and Personnel software in the district um to to tell you how important it is for those people to be flexible um we've been on the same system for over 40 years and uh we're moving into a webbased module which we're very excited about we bring we we believe it's going to bring about efficiencies as we get further into it but obviously as you get into a huge change like this we have a few Road bump speed bumps along the way uh so I want to thank everybody for being flexible but everybody's trained we've been through two payrolls now on the new system uh this docket tonight was uh for the most part prepared in the new system I think went went very well um I'm sure my staff will not completely agree with me right now but I think it'll be better as we get through it um we have had some hiccups which we're trying to address as quickly as possible uh and they've been great about trying to uh as Mr Aiwa says keep their knees bent and be flexible as we React to what we need to um I I can't remember what it was happened to me earlier tonight Mr New Frontier for me to give comments on in this section of the meeting you remember we can come back to I apologize but I'm done for the uh any questions from Mr all right move to item 08 director of communications Mrs Allen I'm sorry Brooke I just remembered thank you if you would please uh say a little prayer with Mr molaski so we can stop the rain and he can get some Lawns cut around the district I'm sure he'd be appreciative of that thank you or grab your Mower and we're all going to start meeting at different spots in the evening and that'll be our team building exercises absolutely this is Alan thank you good evening even um every year in the month of May I like take a few moments to just add up the numbers for our Communications Department um still the smallest Department in the district but we're doing okay so our social media reach this year was roughly 1.6 million individuals um we had more than 800,000 views of our newsletters online our earned media was roughly $200,000 we don't pay for this that's what we earn it's a dollar amount that's attributed to the positive news coverage that we receive took roughly 20,000 photos this year 20% of which have been in the month of May still more may to go and then um we captured roughly 3,000 minutes of video so lots of work but a big thank you goes out to rut Johnson our digital media specialist who's on my team and Mary hurt who has joined us here parttime part Communications secretary part HR secretary thank you to both of them thank you m any questions thank you move on to item 6.0 6.09 superintendent of schools Dr Terell so literally the first one on my list tonight was Diana green and her help with everything that happened and already uh rightly recognize that and we appreciate Diana and all the work she does behind the scene um I think if nothing else you can take away from this evening and the accommodations we had and brought forward to you is we're a well-rounded Corporation I know you hear a lot about Athletics or you hear a lot about different things um I saw something that was posted just recently it talked about our robotics program and how it's one of the largest in the nation and including uh the world even so we the things that we can offer our our students here and our community um is really second to none with that though and with all the activities that you're hearing about for the end of the year want to thank the volunteers our parents that come in community members who come in to our school corporation and our buildings uh throughout the month of May uh those numbers are staggering and and we couldn't do all of this and provide such great opportunities for our students without them and lastly just want to really take the opportunity to once again thank Nick China and his work for our stem program what an exciting opportunity for elementary students to be able to experience that as one of their regular weekly rotations now that every student will be involved in a stem class uh each and every week at the elementary level is just a great thing for our Corporation and for our students so thank thank you for that as well and for your board for your support in that area good abolutely all right move to item 7.01 other business of the board anybody have anything tonight yeah I had an opportunity to speak with Mr Angel Today U we we talked about Mr Smith you've requested information from board members about things that they would like to discuss on policies and um I'd like to get that set up soon it seems like we just keep kicking the can down the road I'm not a can kicker and um I'd like to get that set up where we can have an honest discussion about things that open an honest discussion about things so hopefully we can have that set up very very soon thank you Mr Vester are we able to have Retreats on something like that for discussion in general about policies or does anybody have any inclination on that we could not it would not qualify for an executive session so it would have to be a public meeting um if there was we could look into the possibility of a retreat where we had somebody come and train the board on the creation of policies possibly um some areas we need to look into with that okay oh could we also just have a work session which is open to the public that's you never Retreat work sessions done right in this room uh if we got with Mr Angel when he comes back is that something you'd discuss and figure out a solution and a way to get this moving forward he gave me his word I promise this will be done soon we uh I have is that it Mr basser that's it okay um I have a couple comments just I think are appropriate in this in this area you know I I I heard the U comments of the administration and a lot of the statements and I I think it's important for parents and students and teachers and all the people that that are employed here all the wonderful people that you know we really strive as a school corporation to excel you know we we started when Dr Terell came on a couple years ago about average is not good enough for Crown Point and we really try to hold a high bar we don't get it always right it's not always perfect but there's no reason we shouldn't be great at everything we do and so that's a I know I used to say that in open board meetings as as to the administration I still feel that way and we have seen huge Improvement and I think one of the biggest areas we've seen that Improvement as a board member since I've sat this is my seventh eighth year I guess it is but is in the culture and I think we sense that tonight between the administration the teachers down to the employees U to the different department heads down to the uh you know we we function as a body as a family and I I feel that now and it sure makes my job as a board member much easier and I think it makes the board members jobs easier so I want to say thank you we're coming to an end of the year thank you to everybody in our school corporation who has served and loves so well loves loves students and just gives her time goes above and beyond and I hope that you see that from the top down that's the goal the objective so um I just think it's important to say that and reiterate that I know Dr Terell you just talked about that a little bit and uh it's it is a good day to be a bulldog we heard that earlier today so just want to say thank you thank you to all those this year and for a wonderful school year so that was it for me anybody else yes we can that was my recognition appreciation on the other business of the board um so we'll move to item eight board statements of appreciation and recognition 8.01 Mr Vasser ladies first uh so a couple of things first and foremost tonight was great to recognize all of our finalists and our award winners for um teacher of the year employee of the year but I think um we'd be remiss if we didn't recognize that for all of the folks who are up here being recognized we have thou thousands right um of folks in the background who are doing wonderful things with our students who are doing wonderful things in our schools that make everything run smoothly across the board um there is no time like May to be a teacher um there besides the millions of things on the calendar um you know the kids focus and attention really goes down Hill um sharply as the weather gets nicer so um just a formal thank you and appreciation to all of our teachers who were not recognized this evening um we see you you're amazing and we're very grateful to have each and every one of you um especially my children's teachers for putting up with them because I'm about to get them back for the summer and um and realize just how much I appreciate having them so um I wanted to say thank you uh for that also for our board retreat that we had last week um for those of you who don't know our our cabinet members work all day and then they stay here until nine o'clock at night to make sure that we have a robust understanding of what we've done in the last year where they're going with um each of their individual sections um and it's it's eye opening and amazing and getting to be now um having attended that for a second year not only to see the passion that comes out of each of our cabinet members and to know that we have the right people in the right seats who care about Crown Point who care about our kids but to see what they've done and accomplished in that year you know last year we were just new coming in so you just kind of think okay this is your update this is where you're at on everything but to see each of those teammate team members be able to say hey here's where we've gotten and here's where we're trying to go and I couldn't be here without this person who paved the way for me um is really outstanding so kudos to um a the team for their hard work day in and day out be to the team and their families for staying until 9:00 at night to make sure that they could provide that update to us it's greatly appreciated um and to Dr Terrell for the culture that he's created here um with his team very much appreciated thank you Miss Mr vesser I had the opportunity a week and a half ago to attend a ceremony for their High School our high school students who are going into the military and uh it was a tremendous um program that was put on by Mr marconic I was happy to be part of that although a very small part of that uh military is very important uh to me on a personal level um my my dad taught me long ago you stop and say thank you to someone who served and I've never failed to do that uh in my life uh became very personal for us as my brother-in-law served six tours in um Afghanistan and Iraq and it's forever affected him in a very negative way and uh to see our boys from Crown Point now that are going forth to serve in different branches of the government I just uh ask God's blessing upon them as they go forth and I'm so appreciative of them for their service to our country in advance so blessings to them also Mr basor thank you I've already made my statements tonight so I'll pass um I have nothing el else to say but again just thank you and thank you all for being in attendance tonight with that I think we'll go to item number N9 look for a motion to adjourn all right we show that Miss Bas moves toj and Mr vasor second all in favor by saying I I I and we show vote carries three Z thank you

3.2 and that is utilize and compensate students as a resource providing translation services where possible and appropriate I think appropriate is that key word right like we want to make sure that we aren't pulling kids into IEP conferences exactly but that we are utilizing them for things like open houses and things where they can give a tour for the building and so I just think those are three things that this district is doing extraordinarily well um and think it's important to celebrate so you much m d thank you I wanted to share a highlight also I was able to um sit in and hear the panel from the alliance of black school Educators and one thing that I think that not I think I know that Lauren shines at is our Civic engagement with our state reps I was in awe of how that's not the norm for a lot of groups and so as people were talking and asking I'm like oh that's the norm with us you know we are thank you for making sure that the Civic engagement is there thank you for that Lawrence is ahead I I will simply say that so that was a a very Stark reminder of Lawrence Excellence So yeah thank you for a Civic engagement that was wild I have one question that may be selfish um but as our community Works to understand each other I know know it is crucial for our Spanish-speaking families of our students to speak English well enough to get by in in this world and and I commend you for La conversa um and I know that we're offering that to our teachers as well is there any thought that we might offer that to English-speaking members of the community in general so that those that live in Lawrence Township can learn Spanish because because that would Aid in all of our communication throughout the district yes and um that has been a request that's come from the community um not just you selfishly but other members of our community have also asked us that throughout the school year so that is something that we're looking at for next year in terms of the expansion for lack conv Versa the other request that we've had is from our parents who are English speakers but want to learn Spanish because their students are in dual language programming and so that would be another piece that we would look to add for next year One More Story um I was able I would read to the little girls you know when they were tiny as they got ready for bed and I would I got to the point where I could with my little classes I could read Clifford the Big Red Dog in Spanish um at which point my kindergartner said mommy do you want me to read that for you do you need me to read that for you so um it is very hard to keep up with those kids and very important um they would get rubrics um in for their work in Spanish and you know parents would call me and tell me about that rubric I can't you got to talk to the teacher I can't tell you so thank you for that we've been using a lot of dualingo in our house lately and it's actually been really fun because it is helping Mavis read in both English and Spanish and helping me with my Spanish so I look forward to a spot spot for me there as well Dr Al email list here um okay so thank you any further questions on this um Mr notor thank you and the rest of the staff who presented thank you for for sharing all the progress maybe not all the progress but most of the progress the highlight of the progress we've made um I know we were ready I know we we were doing the right thing but to see this progress come into fruition is um what do you say Miss Pucket my heart is smiling my heart is smiling thank you you and I don't know if you wanted to read the the last quote of Rita Mayfield yeah that last quote is just one that we always end with because it keeps Us grounded in terms of what this work is about this work is about changing history this work is about changing lives and so um really proud of the work that we're doing may I read it absolutely into the record there is nothing passive or dispassionate about being a culturally competent educator it has nothing to do with your race ethnicity culture class position School location or student population culturally competent educators recognize the power of their influence to change the course of history for the better and they work collaboratively with colleagues to strategically critique where we have failed in the past and where we'll Endeavor to navigate in the future Dr verita Mayfield in cultural competence now okay well I'm I'm ver clamped here for just a second so um we will be uh moving forward into Neola policy I believe Mr harburger and and Miss D like policy yeah let's move on to something a little more dry a little more Madame President Dr Smith the members of the board it is that time again and I bring to you for first readingsight the ol of revision package 36 number one this package there are 48 policies that were updated as always these revisions are recommended to comply with changes in the law of State happy to answer any questions recite all policy behind questions board I I do have a question Dr harbarger on policy 0164 the first one if I'm reading it correct that's just a consolidation or a streamlining of the policy on public meetings is that correct correct okay after pic we had a lot of diffic and that's gone away now now they're consolidating that back okay same thing for 016 okay so getting rid of some redund redundancies and okay yes I appreciate that thank you um I I just have a few questions um volume 36 number one language um see where was that it's all volume 36 number one language um so it would be in notice of regular meetings maybe okay well that's a good question what is the overall tile um I think it's it's the very first policy actually let me let me check this out um the very first policy I'm gonna have to look it up for you again I apologize um there was a typo um or I guess the the that's not where the typo was the question was I guess are we resending the digital board participation entirely um that we had a we had a policy for for the board to participate digitally um you know during covid sure um during that crisis are we resending that entirely no not entirely then we worked with that to make sure that that's still in place so up to two board members can be away not in person and I think it's not to exceed two times throughout the course of the school year okay good good or during a calendar year comp it's actually the same as it was in our policy previously that did not change we had that option again so we selected just we were consistent y yes and then 142 a 1422 I see a 1422 it wasn't that um School safety4 it's 8,400 yeah okay school safety um if I go there then um in paragraph one major paragraph one you look down to the second line it says a enforcement which should be law enforcement it's a typo it's a typo I don't know if that'll I just don't know if that'll get caught and the same typo existed like in paragraph one or two I believe anyway that that's a typo J okay and th those were my only those were my only questions or comments any others I just want to make one quick comment as while I know that this is very dry and not so fun Dr harshberger does a very nice job um and also I just I also want to extend so much gratitude for all of the individual teams that give the input which is so incredibly valuable and important and what's really exciting to see is that when we look at these Neola policies and what has been enacted by our state legislator legislators is that we are usually already two steps ahead of what is being asked for us one is um something that is new as our cell phone policy um and that is something that will be um and that is SB 185 it continues to be a focus area um we are going to continue to work with Neola um administrators and teachers to develop policy guidelines and handbook language for implementation of that um baring any unforeseen issues that policy will be completed and ready for the school year um and appreciate to um asking the community um constituents specifically not our students but our um our family members our parents and Guardians for their input of what should be done as of Monday there were over 2500 parent responses and guardian responses overwhelmingly these folks favored having cell phones stored by students out of sight and in silent mode during classroom instruction parents also responded favorably to their child having access to their cell phone in case of an emergency and as I stated Dr harburger and I hope to have that um so that all constituents all stakeholders will know the expectations um and that is why we have board policy is so that we can set those expectations um for our schools so thank you very much for your continued leadership I'm pretty sure if anybody can make policy a fun topic it would be Dr harbar so thank you so much thank you your heart I don't know I don't know if I'm going to go there but um Mr miles we move on to our finan update thank you thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board in front of you you have information items for um our month end April 30th 2024 uh Financial reports for for both the general fund and the transportation fund um once again both funds are in a favorable place at this time of the year uh which we're happy to report uh with both um uh again the general fund exceeding where we projected our cash balance at this time transportation fund just a little off but uh still in a good place uh my question is with our cash flow um work sheet and we have you know a almost an $800,000 deficit projected for the end of the year in our debt service and we have uh a little more than $1 million deficit projected end of year in our capital projects fund can you explain that for us uh I would love to go into bigger more detail on that one that is not a board report that we share with the public that's more of an internal report I don't have that in front of me right at the moment um those just in generally speaking though I can probably try to address that um you know we do project out what we forecast um really months in advance that are sometimes you know obviously those things are very fluid and change from time to time um so without digging into it a little bit more which I'd be happy to do and report back um I don't have that right in front of me at the moment but we can do so sure and so can it also be that um those funds could be in deficit in December but not at the end of the school year um we would at we would Target the end of the calendar year um to have all funds in a positive positive State okay um so yeah we look we do make transfers twice a year um June and December and so those funds are going back and forth at that time and and that's so for our board goals and state reporting um we do use that end of the the 1231 date for that is that part of the difference between education fund and general fund and some of that it's related to that okay all right I understand that better now thank you yes you're welcome any other questions at this point board we will go on to our board committee chair reports uh Miss dun you can already gave obviously I think You' got I think you've got that thank you again you got that under well no one wants to hear more about that okay all right um Miss Norman thank you madam president the foundation board's next event or the foundations next event is next week Thursday May 30th um it's for the kids golf tournament at Old Oakland golf golf club from 9: to 3:00 p.m.

The student attended Colorado Center for the Blind the foundation um for blind children and the Southern Arizona Southern Arizona Association for the Visually Impaired um SAVVI here in Tucson. And the student will be attending the college prep program up at ASU and which is perfect because this student will be attending ASU to study to become a TVI, teacher of the visually impaired. So, without further ado, I would like to announce this scholarship award of $2,000 to Jazmine Martinez Guzman. Come on down, Jazmine. All right, Jazmine. Although you'll be a Sun Devil, us wildcats will still cheer you on. Jasmine is making her way on stage from the seating in the auditorium. Waiting to greet her on stage again are principal Paul Saunders and Sherry Brown. And Sherry Brown presents her with her official certificate of scholarship. And with that, Jasmine's going to return back to her seat.

time not to kill I said I will and it f f fly fly fly on time m [Music] please give it up for the Moon Valley vocal [Applause] Ensemble at this time I would like to present board president reiches with special remarks for our senior [Applause] class principal minor esteemed faculty proud families honored guests and of course the graduating class of Moon Valley High School 2024 what an honor it is to stand before you on this momentous day these past four years have been a whirlwind of growth both inside and outside the walls of your classrooms each of you has poured your heart sweat and yeah maybe even a few tears into this investment that is your education remember the knowledge and experience you've gained are invaluable and can never be taken away as Malcolm X once said education is our passport to the Future and prepare you have today is not the end of your journey but the beginning of an exhilarating new chapter there will in undoubtedly be stumbles along the way challenges will arise mistakes will be made but take heart for you have already proven your adaptability and resilience keep in mind that your life is not your own your choices shape not only your future but also the community around you excuse me for example will you be a doer or a talker will you make excuses or will you make things happen I'm sorry High School graduation is a Monumental Milestone but it's only the starting line ahead lie endless possibilities and countless paths waiting to be explored embrace them own them seize every opportunity that comes your way on behalf of the Glendale Union High School District governing board I extend to you all our sincerest wishes for success and happiness congratulations Moon Valley High's class of 2024 your journey awaits be bold be brave and make your mark on the world and now I would like to introduce Miss Ari Lano hello everybody my name is arand lascano and I am the senior class president of this year's graduating class here at Moon Valley I so grateful for the opportunity to have been elected into this position and to have represented my outstanding resilient class first and foremost I want to congratulate each and every one of my fellow graduates this is a momentous occasion in our lives a milestone some might say that marks the beginning of a new chapter but before we eagerly Turn the Page let's take a moment to reflect on the journey that has brought us here today these past four years have definitely not been easy from starting High School app behind a screen to figuring out what our futures are going to look like this senior class has never stopped persevering being a part of stuco always kept me involved with my school and it has helped me grow my appreciation for this campus and with that I am proud to be able to announce the senior gift this spirited class will be leaving to Mark the class of 2024's history on moon Valley's campus we will be painting a mural on the Press Box facing our beautiful football field this mural will create more school spirit on our campus for many years to come and will be appreciated by Future generations of students and teachers to continue I would like to thank all my teachers who pushed me and helped me achieve my goals these past four years I would like to give a special shout out to my beautiful stuko advisers Miss Sussex and Miss Rik for making everyday in stuko a memorable one and I want to show some appreciation towards Miss serapini and missinger for being an Exemplar women throughout my high school career I also want to thank my best friends for making this year special I consider you all my second family I love you guys and on behalf of the senior class here at Moon Valley High School I want to thank all the parents who took the time to be here today arranged their busy schedules to go to all their children's games and shows and always helped with our homework even if it was late at night um sorry we all appreciate you because without you none of this would have been possible and most importantly I would like to thank the two people that stood by my side the last 17 years of my life and helped me get to where I am today my parents are the most important people in the world to me and the reason I worked as hard as I did these last four years and I wish nothing more than to continue to strive to be able to give them the world even though they deserve so much more so to my parents thank you for always listening to me talk about my day even though I talked a lot always giving me the best advice never missing a swim me and giving me so much unconditional love and attention words cannot explain my gratitude thank you everybody class of 2024 we did it and now here's our seni your class video [Music] [Applause] [Music] found a little Oasis off the map No Reservations got this chance might as well take it oh let's go anywhere no destination this whole world are for the taking brand new life out there just waai oh let's go don't need a rainbow for Clover Fields will open the sky make the clouds disappear for every day that the world makes us feel like giving up we'll make our own [Music] luck every day our own Advent Venture you and me one perfect picture I'm all good as long as I'm with you oh let's go we don't need a rainbow a fork CL fields we open the sky make the clouds disappear for every day that the world makes us feel like giving up we'll make our own luck anywhere no destination this whole world ask for the taking brand new life out there just waiting oh let's go let's go [Music] we'll make our own [Music] love we'll make our own [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] all [Music] please give it up for the Moon Valley High School symphonic band president reiches president reiches please join me at the podium it's my pleasure as principal Moon Valley High School to certify that these students have met the requirements for graduation and set forth by the state of Arizona and the glendell Union High School District accordingly I present this class to Pam Reich of the glendell Union High School District board Miss reiches I respect respectfully request that you accept these graduates and that you and Miss to confer diplomas upon them as a member of the governing board of the Glendale Union High School District and by the authority vested in Me by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Arizona I accept and confirm that the Moon Valley High School class of 2024 has met the graduation requirements established by the Glendale Union High School District governing board Mr Miner please present the graduates to receive their diploma in order for this ceremony to belong to each graduate it must belong to them all therefore our senior class and faculty request that all guests act with courtesy avoiding excessive cheering when names are called so that each graduate's names may be clearly heard by everyone with that being said will the first row of the class of 2024 prepare to come [Applause] forward 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CLE Emily Merkel Colin dim bidy Aaron V Solis Isaiah Leatherwood fry Aaron eer Kuran Karan rhods [Applause] tradition dictates that moving one's tassel from right to left symbolizes the transition from candidate to graduate quick announcement I'd like to give some brief instructions for exiting the arena all graduates will exit the arena in order to collect their diplomas they will then meet their guests and family members at gate 5 before you leave please make sure you have everything that you came with today and congratulations once again let's have a great evening with that said graduates would you please stand move your tassels from the right side of your caps to the left it is my pleasure to introduce the Moon Valley High School graduated class of 2024 ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] m [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good [Music] [Applause] man as always thank you guys [Applause] [Music] 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um I believe there is registration and sponsorship still available at msdlt f.org and the most recent event I believe you were at Dr Smith um do you want to give a little summary of the Prairie Dash I'm going to give credit to my wonderful Elementary team I just showed up and supported the kidss Dr Brown share with them we took over Hamilton County so tell them what happened Saturday yes sir each of the coaches administrators very large teams our largest team was 157 children who practicing their runs in the running clubs and we did take over Hamilton County we sure did and then our next run will be outstanding um Miss Pucket parks and R I have nothing now can I add something please do because I wasn't able to make it to the last meeting and thank you as parents of fellow young people um currently I know the parks is hiring for summer seasonal help um you can go on the cityof lawrence.org uh website for employment opportunities and I will say that Fiesta Lawrence was was quite lovely we chip and I attended briefly and that was a lovely and a nice place to see our our children performing it's really lovely okay um we'll move on to what may be a consent agenda oh I'm sorry I'm apologize yes um 4.1 the approval of permission to advertise RFP for oven upgrades at the elementaries Mr Smith Madame President Dr Smith members of the board I recommend the board approve the request to bid oven upgrades as presented so moved second properly moved and seconded if there are no questions all in favor I I I any opposed the eyes have it Madame President I move we action items 4.2 through 4.7 as consent agenda so moved second properly moved and seconded um all those in favor of those items being a consent agenda I I any opposed okay so we have our consent agenda I move approval or yes of this consent agenda so moved second yeah properly moved and seconded um all those in favor of approving the consent agenda I I any opposed we are on to board comments and who would like to begin our board comments today I see no hands I'll go to miss LS okay I get the lucky board comment right before the end of the school year which makes everybody really excited um I'm just want to express my gratitude not just to our teachers who are dealing with the frenetic uh end of school Pace that happens um and managing field days and all of those things but also um to our Administration and our classified staff um particularly classified staff who are having been clean up after all those field days and all those things um but I but I also want to say uh a big thank you to our community members and our parents who um are are attending you know activities I know I've done my fair share over the last few days and few weeks and um and volunteering at these events it really is a community effort and it's one of the most exciting times to be a board member although one of the busiest times to be a board member at the same time so thank you to to members of the community to our teachers and I just can't wait to have this school year done for our kiddos no one else in this room agrees with me though so that's it thank you it's done so I second all the things that Miss lawence says but said but I have to tell you that the school year is not over all of those that know about jump start and PD and all the things that our Educators do I think that there's a lot of times a misnomer that our educators are just at the pool lounging which I hope they do a lot of that but I also I'm so incredibly thankful that we have Educators that continue to keep our doors open particularly our food service that is something that um have so much gratitude for those individuals that are ensuring that our children are fed during the summer um and so please make sure that um you're checking out the website for that information about where the summer servings are being held um also want to say um that the summer reading program the Susan Jordan summer reading program is something um that is so incredibly unique and what an honor to such an incredible educator in this District um so get those books out read use those ndpl shared system cards um and you can do the summer reading program at the Indianapolis Public Library along and count those as your summer um reading points for the Susan Jordan program as well um but also cannot say thank you enough for another tremendous school year here in Lawrence Township it truly is um my pleasure to serve on this board thank you Miss dun Miss Norman yes um thank you I second that about the summer servings um and it's available to I believe everyone in the community 18 and under you don't even have to be an LT student or show proof well is it also available to pregnant mothers or am I inaccurate is it just 18 and younger okay and I believe I did see it on the website um this week yeah it's out on the website now yep yeah and so thank you for bringing attention to that I was wanting to share that with some families too it's so so valuable because it's in all so many of our communities um and then my other thing I was going to share this is a reminder to myself as well as all the other parents the RSVP process is is still going on on Skyward for next year um I believe this helps your team with planning correct and um preparing for the next school year so don't forget fellow parents and myself to get on the RSVP process for next school year um finally May is mental health awareness month and when I whenever I hear about something from multiple sources or um have someone close that experiences something um I think it's something that's important to bring awareness to um multiple sources will point that there is a huge uh percentage of students children teens and adults who suffer from mental health um problems and um that support is is so valuable and it also made me realize too in conversations we think about our kids and they need all of our thoughts and help but then I also thought about our staff too so I'm grateful that we have support services to help you know our staff as well so thank you for that um I just wanted to briefly share something um this is a year where we time where we celebrate success and I want to thank Lauren uh Lauren I want to thank Lawrence um it makes me think about success may look differently for a kid and I had a senior back in 2020 that graduated and so as a parent I was stuck on what success looked like you need to do this you need to do this to uh graduate that was altering to a point to where at that point the aspect of mental Wellness took on a whole another turn and so I just wanted to just briefly um read a little excerpt it's from ryland's paper has the art of learning been lost and she says here a students a student's motivation in school can improve by simply believing they can learn and seeing failure as a symptom of learning not a diagnosis it's damaging for student to believe they are not capable of learning it causes them to disengage in education ra rather than to push them towards school that's why I feel this essay needed to be addressed to the issues that it's not enough to tell a student to Simply learn better not all the time but some some of the time the students ability to learn isn't the issue it's the psychology of understanding what breeds learning and how to effectively do so that is the issue at hand especially with life altering situation situations such as Co I share that to say that was a tough year and it has helped me thank you for helping me to measure success differently for my family we continue to the measure of success for us this year was a higher emotional quoti and I can honestly say that Lawrence has helped me in parenting well helped my husband and I in parenting to push that forward and everything else came along with that I am grateful for all the other accolades but I thank you first and foremost I see growth in their emotional quoti and so I thank you for that so for all the other parents that success may look differently that emotional piece a child that got up that was anxious depressed made it into school thank you that's my peace well said y I'm sorry look I of Hadad look you I would like to say that among the end of the Year celebrations uh we were blessed with attending um the retirement dinner and celebration um those teachers that are retiring from the district this year were 36 educate age Educators representing 796 years of service to public education and um if Miss Johnson has anything to do with it they may come back and tutor a bit um but we are so proud of all of our Educators and when we think of of you know almost a thousand years of service we know the the heart and the and the soul that goes into educating our children here in Lawrence Dr Smith well since we're on cration thank you board for coming to that important event your presence and participation means a lot to staff and we're going to ask for you to join again Carla Johnson at attention something Friday is going to happen will you share with the public the big celebration we have in this District on Friday mark your calendars for Friday May 24th at 9:00 a.m.

Now back to Paul Saunders. Thank you so much, Sherry. Our next award I'm going to introduce Henry Saunders to present to our student. This Henry Sanders now behind the podium. Hello, good morning. My name is Henry Sanders. I have the honor of presenting the Seen Chan Chen Siao Chao scholarship. This scholarship is for a high school three high school students that have excellent academic achievement. The first award goes to Nicholas Cabral. The next award goes to Von Dewayne. Final award goes to Amari Chaney. First on stage is Nikki Cabral followed by Von Dewayne and now Amari Amari Chaney. It's worth noting that Nikki's wearing a t-shirt that reads "I'm in Gallaudet University." And Amari is wearing a Gallaudet University hoodie. These are three recipients that received the scholarship. Congratulations. Once again, congratulations to you three. Each of the three students has now received their official certificate of scholarship and college check.