It's like a master puzzle. um we just know that we don't really have to worry about that and that takes a huge stress off of us. She's very organized um and she's proud of the work that she does and when people come into our office, you know, whether substitutes, um students or parents who are asking questions, she's always positive and our staff just loves her. Always has a smile on her face. So, Lorray, thank you. And now and then you can get to your body. Yeah. top. That's what I thought. [Music] Good luck. [Laughter] Good luck. Good luck tonight. Thank you. Always good to hear the spotlights from the different schools. Next on the agenda, we have a presentation with respect to a Nobel Prize teacher summit. We're going to hear from Dr. Harp. I'm looking forward to hearing this one. Sure. Let me just introduce you.
But again, this is your day. Um, and I just can't congratulate you enough. You folks are killing it. It's unbelievable. This place is alive constantly. I mean, I came in here on a dark, dreary Sunday afternoon thinking nobody was going to be here and it's packed. So, you know, you're killing it. Congratulations. You know, I know what it's like when you have a vision and you you're like hoping it all turns out the way that you envision. And it's so satisfying when it does. And anytime we we start talking about a new business opening in downtown, I have to talk about the story that's downtown Ashland. It's an amazing transformation that's happened in 10 years. Folks, remember what this was like 10 years ago. made it what it is today collectively as a community. It wasn't staff. It wasn't boards. It wasn't wasn't just the private sector.
Congratulations to Eva. And last but not least, our eighth grade student of the month is Zachary Bright. The eighth grade team selected Zachary Bright. Zachary is is respectful, thoughtful, and understanding. He applies his leader and me practices to his classwork and is reflective during leader and me discussions. Zachary is able to prioritize and balance both his academic work and extracurricular activities as demonstrated by both his outstanding grades and participation in National Junior Honor Society. Zachary is an exemplary role model for all of our students. Congratulations to Zachary. All right, students. Congratulations. Have an amazing spring break. enjoy the time off. Parents, thank you for raising amazing kids. And um you guys certainly are welcome to stay for the meeting, but you don't have to. Have a have a great night. Congratulations. See you boys. Bye. [Music] I don't know why they wanted to stay. Somebody tell them it's not that much fun, but you're not missing anything.
So um why we have moved it to you. So every year we're required to do an integrated action plan and the in integrated action plan is actually part of the title one. So we do get title one funds. Um title one funds are determined by the percentage of students who qualify for free career reduced lunch. Even though we our C which means all of our students receive free breakfast and free lunch. Um we still have to fill have all of our families fill out a form for our official percentages. Okay. And then the funding is determined based on each school's percentage. So within um within title one, it's used to improve the academics of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch that are at risk. Okay. So things we can purchase are like uh supplemental materials to help the teachers in the students in the classroom, family engagement activities, um meetings, um and then salaries, benefits thing, a lot of resources.
We first need to appoint a president proterm. We have any nominations. Who wants to be a president proterm? I would nominate you. Thank you. Second. I'll second that. Thank you. All in favor? I. All right. And we need to appoint a secretary proterm prom, excuse me. Any nominations for that Tyson. Tyson has nomination. Second. Second. All in favor? Perfect. Congratulations, Tyson. All right. Next item is to elect a board president. Any nominations? I'll nominate Greg Meyer. Thank you. Any other nominations? Hearing? None. Nominations is closed. All in favor? I.
That's all right. Dr. Harp, of course, is our principal at Middle School North. He was awarded the Indiana Association of School Principal Scholarship to rep represent Indiana and the United States at the Nobel Prize Education Summit in Stockholm, Sweden over spring break. The scholarship was highly soughta. It was a sight highly soughtafter opportunity that more than 50 school districts competed to receive and Dr. Harp uh was awarded that and he's here tonight to share his experience. Thank you, Dr. Long. I'm uh still enjoying seeing Alex up here. I was his principal in elementary school and his sixth grade principal. So um but as Dr. Long said, thank you. Um had a great opportunity to go to Sweden for the Nobel Prize teacher summit um fully funded by uh education um education first tours and um he had to apply for it and interview for it.
It was all of us together making this town what we want it to be. And that's special. You're a part of something special. You're a part of a transformation. And you know what? Not everybody can say that. Not everybody can say that. Not every town can say that. So give yourselves a big round of applause as [Applause] well. And John and Jamie, we wish you all the success, but most of all, thank you for making your story part of our story. And um we we love having community partners like you as businesses here in town. And um again, we wish you all the success in the world. Thank you. Thank you. This is amazing. On behalf of the Ashlin Business Association, allow us to welcome you to this vibrant and robust community that you are spearheading with this fabulous renovation. Uh on behalf of the Ashlin Business Association, please make sure you pay attention.
Go home and have some fun. Um, all right. We don't need to review the submission statement or the goals at this point. Um, at this point, we'll uh open the meeting to the public for the discussion of agenda items only. Can I have a motion and a second, please? Motion second. See, all those in favor or abstain? Seeing no one and hearing nothing, can I have a motion second to close the public portion of the meeting? Motion. Second. All those in favor? Opposed or abstain? All right. Uh Mr. Lane. All right. Uh welcome back everyone. The first two uh items per per the euge are our safety and security drills at JFK and DDE. Uh item C is the monthly reports that were uploaded to the portal for your review. Item D is two new HI reports in this reporting period. Both of them were unfounded.
we buy a lot of resources for our classrooms through. So, as part of the action plan, this is what we start in February. So, all of our teachers get together um and they form committees to look at specific rubrics and things um that AD requires us to do. One piece is to look at these specific eight questions. And so, they determine based on their school individual school data, student achievement, um they can look at discipline um attendance uh where we fall um based on these eight questions. That's a very thick rubric that they do go through. I did not you guys um keep your eye on this 0123 because I think the next slide it took me a while to figure that out too last night. Okay. All right. So after every school completes that rubric, they also develop goals and they develop action steps.
Any opposed? Thank you. Just checking. You now need to take over for the prom. All right, I'm going to take over for the prom. So, [Laughter] we're good. All right. Now, we need to elect the vice president. Any nominations for vice president? I'll nominate Lisa Schumacher. Thank you. There a second. I'm sorry. Any other nominations? Excuse me. How about it? All right.
was happy to uh represent the United States and went with 12 other uh principles from the United States and eight Canadians. And then there were u principles from 35 different countries uh that we were able to collaborate with. Uh we saw lectures from Nobel Prize winners and we were able to go in and out of a lot of Swedish schools. Um so why Sweden? Uh well Sweden is known for um reducing achievement gaps. And even though um they in spite of uh reducing those achievement gaps, they still they still have shorter days, they have less homework um they give their uh students uh a lot of autonomy. And I can't wait to show some examples of that. Um, and they have a they're known for reduced stress and improved u mental and physical well-being. Um, the other thing is they do a really good job of making sure that affordable high quality preschool is available to everyone.
We have some awesome events on deck. We have town forums with Michael Herbert coming up. It's really important. Stay focused, stay involved. And the Ashlin business community can help you with that. They you can help us with that. We're here to advocate advocate, collaborate, and cheer you forward. You don't just bring brewery and great beer to the town of Ashland. You're bringing a great place for to build community and to foster really great stories. And perhaps you'll be here when the fire department comes while we're all enjoying the space. That was awesome. Um, thank you very much. On behalf of the ABA, welcome to Ashland. Great. It's not every day and cut a ribbon. So, this is amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you to the town. Thank you to everyone who's been so supportive. Thank you for our staff. Thank you to our family.
Uh E uh one is our um affirmation of the uh report from last [Laughter] month. Uh under section F number one is a large list of new parent volunteers who have been advanced approved for the for the school year. Uh item F2 is uh to approve a donation that was made for one of our teachers at the middle school. Uh he reached out to an organization that makes donations to the classroom. Whenever we have that happen, I like to make sure that we get it on the agenda so that we're aware of the of the donation. Uh F3 is to approve fundraisers. F4 is to approve guest speakers for different events at our schools. Uh F5 is to approve the sidebar that I shared with the board uh in our newsletter and that is to train our aids um in I I'm going to say RBT Kirsten, but um to be to be behavior behavior specialists um in the classroom to provide more support uh and also to try and reduce our cost because we we currently use a vendor and the cost is very high.
So as a district, we take a look at all of the school plans to create a plan for the district that supports what the schools need. The numbers that are on this on the side are the average of our schools. So each school rated themselves in each of those eight categories and then that's the average of all five of our schools. Ky does not have to do this because they are not a title one school um because they're mostly preschool. You did so um those so the three areas that I highlighted are the lowest places you know that our schools rated themselves. Okay. an understand. So this is just what it looks like. This is how I organize it so that I know can kind of see. So the each school's goals I know it's very small is at the top in kind of a salmon color and that's their goal.
Hearing none, nominations are closed. All in favor, Lisa Schumacher. I Any opposed? Good job, Lisa. Congratulations. All right, we're going to elect a board secretary. Any nominations for board secretary? I'll nominate Tyson Search. Any other nominations? Nominations are closed. All in favor of Tyson Search for board secretary?
Um, they have a strong focus still in those primary grades of play and development, those social skills that are so important. Um, and then Something else is pretty neat is is sustainability and environmental education are a huge emphasis there. Um you don't see rappers and trash in their hallways and gum on their gym floors. So um I had four main takeaways I'm going to talk about with you guys. Um and I'll start with you know our global impact. Um if you go ahead to that next slide. Um, I was really surprised uh when I got there. Um, on the plane I was trying to study some uh Swedish words and uh expected to have to have my phone out translating for me. Um, when I got there, I was shocked. I was shocked to learn that English has now become the global language. Um and we were there and the first thing they did was about 80 of us in the room and um from 35 different countries and every single person stood up, introduced themselves uh said what they do and every single one of them spoke in English.
This has been quite the journey as many of you know. If you don't know, grab a beer. We'll tell you all about it. But yes, thank you. And the reason we're in this room is there are two big dreamers here, my husband and Beth. So without them none of this would have happened. So they the two of them had one phone call and some big dreams and so we are in forever debt and have been on this roller coaster. Um so cheers to my husband and um cheers to Beth and to the town of Ashland. An amazing community. We're so um happy to be a part of your story and have us be a part of your town and your main street, this beautiful street um and everyone involved. So, cheers. Grab a glass. Um we can't wait to hear more about you guys and be more involved in your community.
So we're we're looking to drop those costs always. Uh uh item G1 is to approve field trips. Uh under personnel number one is new hires. So we have uh two uh new preK teachers. One who will start um after the break. Yes. Um because one of our teachers resigned and is and is moving. Another one that will start at the beginning of next school year. And then the BCBA position was a part-time position that is now for next school year going to be a full-time position. Uh number two is to approve a student observer to come in and observe our school psychologist. Uh and item number three is all of our staff renewals for next school year. Item number four is to approve the contract of Megan Solder, school business administrator. That it uh it has to go to the county office of education for approval.
Um so this would be for math. So that's their goal. based on last year's um like state assessments and then where they want to be at the end of next year. And so you can see in the green how they rated themselves in each of those eight questions and then um the action steps that they chose for math. The state wants us to only do three to five action steps um per um subject area. So they want a goal and action steps for math and a goal and action steps for ELA or English language arts. Um our two schools, the Bullhead Middle and Fox Creek test for science. And so they have goals for science. And then we have one school, Fox Creek, that is under improvement for their special education um students because they're not progressing as as much as the state would like them to.
I I Any opposed? Congratulations. All right. Now, we need to appoint a recording secretary. Any nominations for recording secretary? I'll appoint Kim Johnson. Nomination for Kim Johnson. Any other nominations? Nominations are closed. All in favor of Kim Johnson as our recording secretary? I.