A diamond. I'm a diamond. What about a sphere? I'm a sphere. I mean a cylinder. You can do square. Okay. Thank you. Wait, no square. That's a square shape. And these are the what makes them. So you can hear even um some of the things they're learning is just how to correct each other politely, talk to each other nicely, and uh work together as a team. Um, there we go. Okay, this is my Trevor. Um, he is, uh, he has a shape, a threedimensional shape in a bag, and he's gonna, uh, describe it for us. Um, the one on the left. Thank you. [Music] A few tooth. What do you feel? I said, "I feel two flat faces and no points and no sides." Okay. What shape are the faces? Circles. Cylinder. She's so cute. Um, and then the next one um is Haley's students doing the same activity um working in in partners.
And I feel like when you actually listen to people like it makes a difference. Listen to people, right? Don't just half listen to them. Put the phone down. Listen to them. Provide that shoulder to cry. You're actually like trying to understand what they're like going through. Yeah. Yeah. It's called empathizing. Exactly. Yeah. Of course. Next up, one of my favorite awards obviously is most school spirit. That goes to Jake Voit. Here he is. He's got his most school spirit. He's got his we go pants on, his we go shirt on, took off the track jacket. He came prepared every day. Jake, why do you love this school so much? Man, I just The people here are incredible. You know, I love going out to the stands at any of the games. You know, I'm there yelling, everybody else there's yelling. They match my energy. It's just always a great time.
Her strong work ethic, problem solving ability, and willingness to take initiative have made her an invaluable asset to our team. Congratulations, Nicole. And next up from our technology department, technology specialist Ty Jones. Tai is known for his eagerness to help in all situations. He is a 308 alum. Even before becoming an employee of the district, he offered solutions to his teachers and peers tech questions. Tai is always prepared and constantly impresses staff with his knowledge and skill. His expertise is essential in making sure that our technology runs smoothly, ensuring our students have access to the materials and supports that they need for success. Congratulations, Ty. Next up, Kim O'Hara. Kim is our student information manager and so much more. Her valuable knowledge and willingness to support makes Kim O'Hara stand out. Over the years, she has seen changes in programs, but remains consistent in her care.
Um we need a motion and a second to approve our consent. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I will second. I have a motion, a second. I will just say before we vote on that like um out of district transfers a lot of those kids are already attending here this each year we have to we got to put in that they're out of district so they're not they're not necessarily new coming in for next year they just got to reapply uh for the for the next school year. So um so I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I opposed. I will say that uh our new program should be online next month where you guys will be able to get on and see all these uh documents, claims and donations and everything except for the personnel report will be available to the public.
I am with the Deli Boy Scouts and for our Eagle Scout project and are all familiar with Eagle Scout Boy Scout. Um I have a couple photos here. very much. So my proposed project well I should start off with this I'm also a part of the health band really great community there and part of the arts department wonderful program of that too my one concern is outside during marching band season with the band usually marching but we sometimes also go out and march into the dark and outside it's a wonderful place I would be outside 10 time 10 out of 10 compared to inside but if you walk outside the bars department it's just old no seating areas and there is there are some benches there they're just old and war I mean which I'm sure when those were new that was a very good that was planned but I propose to revamp that area for the arts department and I also have heard that the special needs department, sorry, special education department.
So thank you. Yep. Absolutely. not knowing exactly where it it turned on. I'll just read it in its entirety. It's not super long. So, uh, this evening, I have the privilege of recommending for schoolboard consideration the next head coach to lead our proud and storied Lady Viking basketball program. Members of the board, I ask that you please consider the recommendation of coach Gary Andrews for this head coaching position, as well as his service as a teacher at Huntington North. This recommendation is a result of a thorough and extensive process including application submission, vetting of credentials, interview with a committee composed of Huntington North administrators, district district administrators, community member representation, and parent representation. Coach Andrews rose to the top throughout this process, and his references were impeccable. Coach Andrews comes to the Vikings after spending seven seasons as the head coach at Fort Wayne Northside High School as the boys program coach in which he won sectional titles in 2023 and 2024.
[Applause] And I get to introduce uh Indian Creek's first district winner, Sam Holsy. Sam created a robotic leg that he um coded and programmed to work via remote control and he's currently working on applying it to two of our students at school, one in a wheelchair and one in a walker so that they will be able to play soccer uh in our school. So thank you Sam. [Music] [Applause] You can come up. You can come up. looking good right here. And then I'm going to get out of the way. One, two, three. And then don't move. [Laughter] Let's give these young men another big round of applause. [Applause] Good job, guys. [Applause] Now to bring you our next set of award winners, Mr. Dan Kousnik, Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education. Thank you. Good evening, Madam President. Dr. Smith, members of the board, one per school.
There was an exposure of sensitive material where a student gained access to sensitive material um written by administration within the district, shared with uh faculty and staff. Um this student then took that that information and shared it with a few other students. Um once we were made aware of this uh we immediately address the situation. We locked down the pathway that was taken from when this original um institution of this communication was put in place. Um, we locked down that back door pathway. Um, which locked out all students from and pretty much it, I'm sorry, it locked down everyone from gaining access to it that wasn't supposed to have access to it. Not just students, but faculty and staff as well. Um, we closed all additional pathways that could potentially lead towards people gaining access to sensitive material. Um, please let it be known that this material wasn't available to people outside of the school district.
So, it's uh it begins with, you know, I'm going to talk about myself, even though we're talking here about me and Candy. I mean, I just to introduce you, I I grew up in Vermont on a farm. Um that's me. It's a picture. I show this picture because I think I'm cute. Uh this is me in the sixth grade. Um and I have here I didn't really get super good grades, you know, in math and that so forth. Um, but I also like to show this because this was my dad's signature. You sign I don't know if you guys get report cards now. They still do. The parents have to sign it. Yeah. Oh. Oh, I see. Yeah. Okay. This is the day you had to sign it. That's my dad's signature. He he he wrote everything like that. Everything. So, letters, sign checks. This is me.
So that's kind of the highle overview and I will answer any specific questions about the policy. Oneita, did you want to jump in? Thank you. Good evening everyone. Um, so here's my concern. We have another state mandate that is not funded. That's number one. Number two, restorative practices require um extensive time to work through the process our um so number one is it the duty of the ad if an issue comes up that meets the requirements of restorative practices is the expectation that the um the administrator is our safe school climate coordinator. Is it someone else assigned? Is there an assignment in each of our buildings of someone who is the safe school climate coordinator that runs this restorative practice um process? If it's done has as we have used resources in the past, the resources have been um most of the time our school counselors and yet um we're piling even additional responsibilities beyond the restorative practices to our counselors.
Not only a great volleyball coach, but an even better role model. As a coach, she pushed us. She taught us to overcome failure and work together as a team. She helped us learn from our mistakes and taught us how to become better teams. Not only did we become better athletes and teammates, but better younger. During volleyball last year, I had a season end ankle injury co. However, you don't have to take my word for it. I'm going to read you that she sent me. And I quote, "Hey, my girl, I saw your dad tonight and you told me about I know these things, but when you're ready for rehab, I'll be there if you need. We can go to the gym or shoot or play volleyball. You got this. Stay positive and such a long head surgery. Months after my volleyball training was over, I had surgery on the ankle.
So any questions? Thank you for everything. We had a lot of activities at the high school and junior high. Jansen, who wrote the surviving Hitler, came to see with the students. All the students were able to either read her book or watch the documentary before she was um before she came and spoke. Um the kids came up afterwards and were really moved. I was it was kind of cool to see them interact with her. So, that was really cool. Our KISSA check-in was May 1st. Um, we had sixth graders come and visit for orientation last week. This last week was teacher appreciation week. Um, we had lots of things for this the teachers um and are grateful to the Rucknik reinforcers for helping us get those um things for the teachers. Obviously, we had graduation yesterday and all students that began the year with us graduated with us.
I have a couple of quotes from these that I would really like to read to you guys. One of them was by William Patton and he wrote that even kids who have been in trouble at the school have a good relationship with officer. As a student at CBHS, I would like to see him back on campus next year. Another one of our students, Ava wrote, "This decision is not just harming, but it is also harming everyone that walks the ground at Chino Valley High School." Timothy Shelton wrote, "Officer Nodden serves as a mentor and an approachable figure whom students can turn to for guidance, support, and safety." Isabella Karns wrote, "When my friend is not at lunch, he will accompany me for a few minutes so I am not alone." Alexander Aasher wrote, "In a time of school safety is more important than ever. Removing someone as dedicated and effective to this campus as officer not would be a major step backwards for our school and community." One of our teachers, Mr.
Yeah. to see what the parts are like that they can get on there. So, we're going to go with the Canva built one that mirrored unless we can make it where it works for synergy. Okay. Um yeah, so it'll be hopefully one less thing for everybody. And then Jez put um could it be the form hyperl in the policy to allow for easier access? Do we have hyperlinks in the policy currently like the ARS and stuff? We do. Yeah. Okay. and other like when where it references other policies, there's a link that takes you to those otheries. Okay. So then I think I'm just going to leave his or their comment here. Um so that way we know that eventually we're going to link it there. And then I talked So if you go down to the bottom of page two, um James, did you talk to people about the current site practices?
Your job. So that's why the shape shape inside this and I have to guess and you have to close your eyes and guess. Close my eyes. Okay. So you've got to guess which shape is in the bag. All right. So Relle's going to close his eyes and David's going to hide a shape. Just one shape in the bag. Right. [Music] Come on back. Okay, now [Music] let's just dip. Okay, that's obviously the green triangle. What do you feel? How do you know it's the triangle? Well, it feels like a 2D shape. And it feels like a green and a toy. You're right. Now, see, he could even feel that it was green. There we go. Thank you. Um, so here we have some students using um some shapes to create other shapes. Um, and then the one on the right, we've got Trevor again, um, and Reagan, and they are trying to build the same thing, um, by giving each other directions such as like put the cylinder on top of the cube, um, without seeing what the other person is doing and then lifting up their thing to see if they were able to uh, describe the shapes properly so that they could create the same structure.
Everyone here is amazing. I'm going to miss it so much. Good to hear. We're going to miss you as well. Oh, we have a surprise award coming in. You're a two-time winner. This This is rare. You also have won class MVP, most valuable player. I'm not exactly sure what that means. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you guys for voting for me. All right, Wildcats. It's an award that's been coming on strong the last few years with the rise of social media. It's our next influencer, and that goes to Leo Mendoza. Leo, congratulations on being our next influencer. You're looking good in your North Face Gap, your trendy jeans. Are you a big social media guy or how are you influencing them? Probably because of my Tik Toks that I post. Oh, you're a Tik Tocker. Interesting. That's like a job now. One of my posts went viral.
Kim works tirelessly to find solutions whenever staff have questions relating to her area of expertise. As one nominator shared, she goes above and beyond to either provide the answer we need or find out the answer if needed. Congratulations, Ken. Next up from our operations department executive assistant, Don Cino. As an organized, efficient, and knowledgeable member of the operations department, Don knows how to keep things running smoothly. She's incredibly helpful, and her cheerful demeanor brings joy to those around her. If you ever need anything done with regards to operations, Don is the only call you need to make. Congratulations, Don. Next up from our transportation department, bus driver Rich Sudter. Rich cultivates a caring and respectful environment while safely transporting students to and from school every day. He navigates challenging situations with calmness and has formed a relationship with the students he drives and beyond. As one nominator wrote, "Everyone that knows Mr.
Um so we're excited about getting that up and going. So uh moving on to old business, second reading and approval of policy updates. Um, I'm not going to read all those off. There's a bunch of them. So, uh, but it is second reading and approval. Um, so if I could have a motion and a second for approval of second reading for policies. I'll make a motion to approve the second reading of the policies. Second. Have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I. None opposed. There are no first reading uh policy updates this month. So might back that in uh in June. So yeah. Uh new business. Uh additional appropriation hearing.
Um, they walk around outside the school and this would be a perfect destination for them to just stop and have a little rest or not and library also use that space for education facility as well. So in those photos are the current outside area and the listed the items the new items are the proposed items that we put in there. Uh it would be about one to two perlets in the concreted or bridged areas. And we would try to get the well we would try to get the old Dairy Queen seaming arrangements from the storage facility near Deli here and that would be at no cost if we could get that arranged. So we would remove those benches and there's also have ideas of putting in some more foliage which would be maintained and just overall giving that area new life being able to go out there more educational opportunities and having a better overall environment for school.
Coach Andrews won three consecutive IHSAA state titles at Fort Wayne Bishop Lewes and his nine years at the helm there as head coach of their girls program. Coach Andrews won an NIA national championship as the head coach at the at the University of St. Francis as their women's coach in 2014. In addition, he took the St. Francis women's program to two Final Fours, six Elite Eights, and seven Sweet 16s. He was also named the National Coach of the Year in 2014 while at St. Francis. Coach Andrews also has experience coaching on the AAOU basketball circuit. As an AAOU coach, Andrews teams won three national championships and six state championships. Coach Andrews has accumulated an impressive 630 career wins over his 33 years as head basketball coach at both the high school and collegiate levels. Coach Andrews was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022.