and Mackenzie Krueger fifth place and is a representative in Agra business and she placed third place at state. And then we do have one more male, Matthew Deck, come on down. Um, place third place in financial math. So, with these kiddos, they're going to head on out to Anaheim, um, California here at the end of June, and they'll be competing and doing a little sightseeing, but mostly competing and, um, uh, meeting with up with their fellow Kansas. So, be staying in the same hotel as everybody else. Um, so it's going to be a really good time. And, um, then, uh, we get back and then Alana steps, I don't even know if she has time to wash her clothes. she actually gets to ride on a plane and one day one day one day when they're finished she'll head off to Florida. So these are great opportunities and our community has been wonderful in supporting them um and helping us raise the money so that these guys can represent Burlington High School.
Any questions, comments? Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to approve the treasures report as presented. So moved. Motion by Allison. Second. Second by Josh. All those in favor say I. I.
Thank you, Annie. And a second, please have a second. Thank you, Marcia. All in favor? I. Thank you. Next, we have call to the public. And I'm going to guess that y'all want to talk about something. So, um, we're going to, according to board policy, we do allow a time limit or we can allow a time limit. Since there's so many of you, what I'm going to ask is if you guys are talking about the exact same thing, maybe get together a spokesperson or two or three. We're going to allow 15 minutes for a call to the public. And each person gets a three minute time frame. So if what the person in front of you has spoken or has already said and said that you want to say again, just come up and say ditto or say I'm good. I don't need to talk any longer.
And I don't know if we decide that or if you who who decides that I mean helps if you turn the mic on. Um I think the committee can certainly make a recommendation and that would be welcome because there really I mean there's sort of a standard but as you can see that standard isn't always viable because the standard recommended JB which is already an existing policy. So, um, so if there's a place that the team feels like it lives in and amongst the other policies, it would make sense. Like it's I think it's helpful and healthy if they're sort of clustered together in a way where the things that you would kind of go to together or live together if that makes sense. Just to make it easier when you're trying to do something to find what you're looking for. Got it. Okay. So then I think the team needs to decide on a recommendation and the first thought was we put it under student rights and responsibilities.
The students are given directions but are then asked to solve and explore with their peers. They lead the discussions amongst themselves. They reason together and then share their discoveries with the class. The teacher is able to walk around to facilitate discussions and ask questions. We then come back together as a whole group to close out the lesson with a synthesis in which we confirm our findings or correct any misconceptions. The curriculum also includes many hands-on centers for students to choose from to give them additional practice with the skills we've been working on together. This slide just shows a few creative ways that the teachers are able to quickly pair up our group students for their collaborative work since it's something we do every day. Sometimes we pair up the students randomly. Um, we can use different, you know, bit various digital programs like you see there on the left.
I believe it's back in the Olympics in 2028. Maybe we'll see you there. Yeah, probably. I think so. Our next one, future president, it's going to go to Natan Travolco. Next president, Natan. Congratulations. Can we My name is Natan. Natan. Thank you for the correction. I don't want to mispronounce someone. Thank you for correcting me. If you're going to be president, people have to know how to say your name. How old do you have to be to run for president? 35. 35. He said that not confidently, but he is correct. It's only 17 short years away. So, what are the first steps? What are you going to do to become that president? Uh, I'm not going to. So, if president isn't in your future, even though your classmates feel like you'd make a great one, what is in your future, Natan? Well, I'm going to school for physics, so I'd like to be a physicist.
And finally, Jack Walcott got first place in cabinet making. Our last student, Aiden Hoffman, is from Asiggo East. Aiden is unable to be with us tonight, but he is being recognized for having placed third in assembly modeling at the Illinois Design Educators Association state competition. We will now have a photo with these great students. Any administrator or adviserss who are here? Dr. Kgatti and our board please come up for a picture if you are here as [Laughter] administrators. Congratulations student. Okay, next board I want to invite. We have our monthly Pride Award winners and Mr. Francis, take it away. All right, these are the May 2025 Pride winners. Tonight, the board of education acknowledges pride winners from operations, transportation, finance, finance, technology, and district administration center staff for the month of May. Pride stands for proudly recognizing individuals demonstrating excellence. The board of education began the program nine years ago to recognize, promote, and celebrate the many contributions made by teachers and employees across our district.
So the whole corporation benefits from it and um there's a sheet on how much we will have. is basically um covering prevention, well mental, we call it mental wellness rather than mental health. And I'm planning on doing kind of like a kickoff for the community at the street fair. Um buying little gadgets and stuff and presenting it that way. We have money set aside. So, um, probably within the next couple months, a letter will go out to the parents letting them know that we're involved in this grant. So, I didn't want them saying, "What is this grant?" to you all and you guys not knowing anything about it. Um, it's I'm not sure what it really looks like for us. We still have a lot of planning. Um, but it'll probably be staff training. and possibly a program for students. Um, but it's really it's not decided yet either.
Is it attendance? Is it concessions? All of them. Um, is it donations? Um, and the reason I ask is because there was a freshman this year that hit a home run uh over the fence when they went and retrieved the ball. I went to get it back. Uh, it wasn't my daughter, but I coached this girl and went to throw it back to blue. I was like, "Hold on, hold on. That's a good home run ball." Um, he's like, "Well, it goes to the rotation and uh she'll get it at the end of the game." Well, I don't know if you guys know much about Blue. they got more than one ball in their pocket. It can get mixed up. Simple, something small, but it's a core memory for those kids and for them to take those core memories away. Um, another topic, but I just want to know where the funding comes from.
Uh there those were just a few of the attributes that came through. And so I would ask uh at this time for coach Degas to come up talk a little bit about uh coach Andrews background and his accomplishments and then I'll turn it back to the board Ryan for the vote tonight. Coach Andrews was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022. Simply stated, Coach Andrews is a winner. He cares about his players, the school, and the community he represents. We're th thrilled at the prospect of having Coach Andrews lead our program and appreciate your consideration of his approval process this evening. So, I think at this time the board will take its vote and pending that, Coach Andrews will be invited to be able to share some comments this evening. Thank you, Dr. Doug. Uh, floor is open for a motion. Motion to approve Gary Andrews is the head varsity girls basketball coaches presented.
We're honored to present Sarah Cheeseman with the superintendent award. [Applause] [Music] Congratulations. Front and right. Okay. [Applause] And next for our last superintendent's award, do we have Mr. Royce Kugs here tonight? Mr. Royce Scrugs is a parent volunteer at Forest Glenn Elementary School. Congratulations for receiving the superintendence award. Royce Scrugs is committed to being a bridge to connect our students, staff, and the community as a whole. He's been passionate about learning more Spanish to better support our children's language development, but also to break down communication barriers and build stronger connections with fellow parents. He has attended every convers group this school year, showing unwavering dedication and persistence. Congratulations. Thank you. [Applause] Congratulations. I have a daughter. [Laughter] He brags about as tall. There you go. We got this. Yeah. One, two, three. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have two above and beyond staff awards.
Anybody have any questions? All right. All in favor of the consent agenda? I guess. Okay. That motion passes. Uh next up, so my report again, I don't really have much to report on, just a thank you to the community. Uh both town meetings uh passed and supported the school budget. So thank you to the voters and everyone who made that possible. Uh I especially want to thank Al and Aaron and the rest of your team. I mean, I don't know where we would have been uh after last year, but everyone seemed to to love having you guys here to sort of clean things up and get things going. We built a incredible team in the central office. So, everybody up there is doing a great job. Um, even the people who had some negative things to say, well, some of the people who had some negative things to say at the Berlin town meeting were singing your praises as well.
She said, "Oh, you know, just we're talking today." and she said, "I'm going to a conference up in New Hampshire." I said, "I'm going to be going up the same week." And I ended up driving her. And it got late because, of course, we were doing experiments in the morning in our respective laboratories. And um half the drive she talked about you two. And um I I got to tell you, this was really a little bit intimidating for me because I worked in the same field uh as Victor Candy as a graduate student. And um I don't want to you know lie. I really really looked up to them. And I'll tell you if there was a word cloud about these people. I think one of the biggest words would be kind. Another one would be humble. Embarrassed. um but also inquisitive, incredibly inquisitive um and uh thoughtprovoking and I'll tell you I felt they made me feel right at home and uh insisted to give me some candy was like you got to eat, you gota you know she it was just like you don't remember this, do you?
And like I said, I'll open it up to any questions that anyone has. Give me one second to pull it up. Okay, I did see a question in the chat. Uh, Miss Kad, do you want me to start by answering [Music] that? It was the cost to the district on the policy implementation from Teresa. Sorry, I couldn't hear you, Kate. Sorry, I forgot I was on mute. Go ahead. No worries. Okay. Um so while there's not a direct cost that I could say um you know that this policy is going to cost x number of dollars um some of the things to be considered in this uh is that there will be training um in restorative practices uh that we will need to uh put into place for our administrators. So we have um started a collaboration with at advance our local risk and we'll start this work at the end of June with our administrative team um as they will need to develop a restorative practices um policy as part of their um school improvement plan or uh outline for their individual buildings.
So one more round of applause here. Thank you guys so much. And if we could get the students to come in here to take a picture, we would appreciate it. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Thank you. uh quite a crowd. We uh as a practice uh we ask for the same topic. Um it's the same groups. Say what? Groups. Groups. And groups with the same special interest may be as these are all individuals. They're not these are all individual patrons. Are you all part of the group? Are you all the public? This is who we are. They have appointed us. If they have a comment to speak to here to concern, I'm running on behalf of my coach Rice. She has been one of the best volleyball coaches I've had. This is not just because of the fact that she knows volleyball, which she does. She's taught me most everything I know about volleyball.
Any opposed? Same sign. Motion passes. 70. Approval of the invoices. Anything you would like to call out, Mr. Murphy? Nope. Everything on there is um pretty normal business that we have every month. We do have our split spent flow through on there and then our graduation alliance um monthly billable credits. Any other questions or comments?
That will help keep things moving and keep everything fresh for all of us. All right. Our first one more than that. Thank you. Let's see. Do we have anyone else anyone that has not filled out a form? Bring it on up. If you'll give it to Miss Massie, please. She'll record the Anyone else. Okay. Our first speaker this evening is Mr. Thomas Silva. All right. Okay. Um, so my name is Thomas Silva. I'm currently a senior at Chino Valley High School. And so far with Officer Noden, I've seen nothing but a positive impact on him from him at our school. Um, as a student, I interact with him every single day. And he treats every single student with kindness and respect, and he's made such a great impact on my life and many others lives. And I would not like to see Thank you for your time.
So it would be like I guess a secondary addendum to that. J I- A um there's no Oh, so we just R not a regist but you can have letter. So if there's not an existing you can make a JA. Okay. So that would be how you would you would add another letter and pursue like extend the listing. If you wanted it under JD because you don't if you wanted it under JD because it's related to JD then you would if there isn't an existing JDA you'd make it JDA. Okay. I don't know. Let me check then. Um or we like give it its own separate thing. So, do we want to tie it to their rights and responsibilities and find the most appropriate letter for that? How does the team feel? And then the con would be you'd have to remember if you're looking up student rights that it is like that students like with like national origin concerns, their information would be on that, right?
Some teachers use, um, physical cards that they pass out to pair up the kids. Um, sometimes we may want to be more intentional about the students we're pairing up um, or grouping for a specific lesson or unit. So, we assign these partners ahead of time. In this case, another strategy is to give the students maybe an assigned spot at the learning rug or using a chart where we can easily move the students names around so that we can regroup them easily. Okay. Um so we're going to be showcasing our two last math units um of our year. And our first one is measurement. Um so in first grade we really are building a foundation with measurement. So the students are not measuring with actual rulers. Um they're using a lot of non-standard measurement tools like string, paper clips, connecting cubes or small cubes. and then a lot of working collaboratively with peers.
Thank you. Thank you. Next up isn't necessarily a war that any parent wants their kid to win. It's a danger to Ker McGee. I think that's an implication that he's not a great driver. It's Gavin Dyer. All right, Gavin. Danger to Ker McGee. I think that they're implying that maybe you aren't the best driver over in the student parking lot. Do you agree with that assessment? Well, I can't like directly agree, but there is like proof that I was some sort of danger to the to the safety of curse sometimes. So, I my selection. Have you been a fender bender? I have not been an offender bender. Maybe a little worse. And I have had a few mishaps, but have you ever hit a pedestrian? No, not never directly hit a pedestrian. I got you beat there cuz I did when I was in high school.