A. Read and write cursive letters, uppercase and lowercase. B. Transcribe ideas legibly in cursive in manuscript with appropriate spacing and indentation. This is taught daily as noted in the HMH pacing guide. HMH is our reading curriculum for third grade and it outlines it. So, this is what the HMH pacing guide looks like. Uh, teachers get this. It tells them here's what you're teaching in week one. And if you look over in the second column, it talks about uh handwriting. So in week one of second grade they are learning their lowercase I and lowercase T. If you look below that they are learning in week two lowercase U and lowercase W. As these are explicitly taught teachers give little lined papers. We all remember the lined papers. Here's how you make an eye. The teacher models. Then you practice your eyes and so forth. Uh from there students practice at centers.
So, that'll be the the next big group meeting in that process. That was a lot. Any questions about any of that? Thanks. Anything? Okay. Question on the mobile. Yes. They're all self-sufficient. Correct. Correct. When students go from the mobile back to go into the school, how do they get in and out? So, there's a set of doors that has a key fob that's right there on the sidewalk right off the corner of Country Trails. And actually, at all the buildings, they have a key fob and they're within, you know, 100 ft of the door where they come out of the mobile to get into the school building. If a kid gets called to the principal office, they walk out with a key fob that gets them back in or out. So there there was a lot of discussion about about how that happened. It happens differently at every building.
Billy Park, Richard's kindergarten teacher for 17 years. Brenda Taylor, Columbus North custodian for 15 years. Betty Wishman, Central Middle Kitchen Assistant for 15 years. And Kimberly Wolford, operations bus driver for 16 years. At this time, I ask that you please join me in thanking our BCSC retirees. [Applause] Thanks, sir. No worries about that one. Thank you. Congratulations. You'll have fun. Congratulations. Whatever. Whatever you want. Congratulations again to each of our retirees and their families. Go out there and have some fun for the rest of us. school board member reports. Next item on our agenda this evening is school board member reports. Uh Mr. Major, any reports this evening? Yeah, there was no redevelopment committee uh redevelopment commission or health trust in the last two three weeks. So no update. Understood. Miss Lloyd, any meetings to report on tonight? Um, Council for Youth Development um will be announcing their new student co cohort in the next two weeks.
Any questions or comments from this? Mr. Do you have any idea where you want to start um with the with these books or plan to sell them, donate them? What we typically will do is right now given that these um do contain versions that are from several years ago, we will ask students and staff if they are interested in any of these materials as our first step and then after that once we've made that available then we will look to dispose of them. There's lots of copies. There are copies. It just kind of varies between the building moves, what was kind of what made it through moves, what didn't make it through moves. So, um, this will universally kind of cover all of the things that were approved originally by the board that we will work to dispose of and or give away as of course we'd love to support mathematics and would love kids to want to uh use these college preparatory mathematics booklets and uh, curricula all summer long.
The next item on the agenda is for the board to hold a preliminary hearing on the proposed project. If you are interested in speaking at the hearing, please make sure you sign the signage sheet, which should include your name and address. After a presentation by the administration and its adviserss, there will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the project.
Uh and that is it for focus area three, a lot shorter, so I'm going to turn it back over to Mr. Hill. Okay. So, budget and capital improvements. I'm essentially just going to I'm going to read you the action steps, and that is to collaborate with district leaders and school stakeholders to develop a comprehensive plan that outlines the building's needs, their impact on student achievement and operations, and recommend solutions. Action step number two is to explore all potential funding sources including district funds, grants, and community partnerships to ensure necessary resources are available to support uh student and learning success. Questions? Thank you very much. Yes, questions. I will say if no one's jumping right in there that I love that you want to expand educational nights for families on things that affect their kids deeply and um I hope that when you make the videos for them to watch that they will also be available for the whole community to watch.
Her classroom is a true reflection of the world filled with students from Ukraine, Poland, South America, Turkey, Albania, and Macedonia. Teaching English as a second language is not an easy task. It requires incredible patience, compassion, and creativity. Miss Whitney not only teaches her students new language, but she also builds their confidence, helps them helps them with their voice, and creates a new space wherever these students need. She's valued and supported in the school and in the ESL classroom, no matter what what comes from it. Her work goes beyond grammar and vocabulary. She bridges the gap between culture and help students adjust to a new country, a new school, and a new life. Thank you, Mrs. Whitney. Congratulations. [Applause] All right, and last but certainly not least, my home away from home for the last 20 years, Garfield High School. We are the power professional of the year is Dawn [Applause] Pada.
They practice in their daily work. Uh this is a sample. As you can see, we have a ways to go with this sample. Um, although it was in math, we still need capital letters and punctuation. Uh, but I had just asked principles, hey, can you tell me that kids are using their cursive? And these were pictures that were sent from a principal of students using their cursive to write to take notes in math and explain in math, which gives us evidence that we know it's it is being taught. Um, we need to obviously refine that a little, but it's there. I will stand for questions. Anything about cursive? Yes, sorry. I'm gonna go um the 3.3. If you go back to the slide um with the Yes, thank you. demonstrate and apply handwriting skills, read and write cursive letters, upper and lower case. But when I go to the next page, week one, I'm learning lowerase.
So some buildings they utilize walkie-talkies and then they'll have staff members communicating that and somebody will escort them or receive them. Some buildings have we have given fobs so the kids could have access to the building using a fob. Correct. Thank you. I've been asked about canopies covering the walkway. Has that been something discussed? That's something we looked at that when we originally did the mobile. There's a lot of things with those are temporary structures that have to be a certain distance away from the building by code by fire code and with the ROE. So connecting those structures to the building, there's really not a good fire rated assembly that we could do that based on conversations we had with the ROE and looking at fire code. So that's why we didn't go that route. I would concur. I knew the answer, but I thought the public should hear it.
They will also be celebrating their graduating cohort with a ceremony at youth camp next week. Um, both teams will participate in team building activities um in the next month. Just a thanks to the students who have given a lot of their time and talent over the last year. Um, the school foundation is set to meet this Thursday and preparing for an annual campaign solicitation. That sounds like fun. Thank you, Mr. Non. Um the the high ability broad-based planning committee met on May 13th and I wanted to share a couple of challenges and how they're meeting them. Um, one challenge is that in the for the past I'm not sure how many years, we've used the NWEA as one of our identification tools for identifying students as high ability and the state is transitioning that to um I learn quarterly checkpoints and so that so so the committee um along with Amy Ellisberry's leadership is looking at how to change the identification to incorporate those um Another challenge is fitting in professional development and um and Amy Ellbury and her team have done an excellent job of encouraging all teachers to take courses towards the high ability license.
So, have at it if they are interested. So, hopefully somebody will take us up on that. Maybe you put it on the shelf and let it sit there for 100 years and it becomes very valuable. There you go. Maybe with AI and everything else. Maybe Mr. Harden will find some copies of it and then you know kind of go down go down in the books down the road. Yes. All right. Any other questions or comments? All right. Move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Nays. And the vote carries 5. Moving on to action item 6.04. Um the childcare fees increase. Mr. G. confirming. Thank you, Mr. President. Board members, as you are aware, uh Crown Point schools provides before and after school uh child care. Child care is a self-funding program, meaning all the fees that we collect are what funds all the workers and snacks that we have there for the kids.
After the hearing, we will ask that each person limit their comments to three minutes. Topic be limited to the proposed project under consideration. The notice of this preliminary determination hearing was published as legally required. At this time, I will ask that superintendent Jeff Gibney explain the purpose of this hearing. Yeah. So, pursuant to Indiana code, uh, school corporation must hold public hearings and adopt a resolution to preliminarily determine to issue bonds or enter a lease per project which has a total project cost in excess of certain thresholds. These public hearings and the future consideration of resolutions are the very beginning of the legal process. We note that no board action is legally required this hearing. Rather, this hearing is solely to hear public comment regarding the project. All right. We'll now hear from Mr. Given about the process of determining and communicating the project to the community and the need for the project.
Yeah. Anybody? Yeah. No, I'll just say great presentation. I appreciate once again the alignment with the the district strategic plan and certainly see that through all the schools that have presented. Um and no, I I'm excited to see uh what next year brings to DLO and your SL team and everything that you've you've put together here. So, job well done. I mean, a great uh I might go down the the road now. Uh great work. I I agree with uh my colleague like nice alignment to the district strategic plan. Um I really appreciate your um outside of the box thinking around engaging families in in a unique way. Uh and I also really um uh appreciate the work that you're doing uh with the neurodeiversity and you know I always I believe you know having having a a having uh three children all very unique um in preparing for the most difficult the most challenging in a proactive way.
And the teacher of the year is Chrissy D'Angelo. [Applause] Hello everyone. I'm Dora Demo, principal of the high school and certainly very proud to be here. Um, as Miss Ballinger said, this was the first year that the uh, nominees were made electronically. And as such, I will say at the high school, we had about 40 nominations for the teacher of the year and about seven for the uh power of the year. And it was nice to see these numbers because we usually don't get that many. And I'm privileged because I get to read all of them. um they speak to commitment, dedication, passion in and out of the classroom, care and connection with our students. And that is why I'm proud to be the principal of Garfield High School because I know we have so many of these teachers that reach our students. So specifically, congratulations Miss Pelota as being our power professional of the year.
So, I I took a clip out of the map. The whole map is about 30 pages. They do explicitly teach the uppercase as well. Okay. Because and why are we starting it in third grade and not second grade? I'm sorry in second grade. I misspoke. They start in second grade and then they reloop in third grade. The state defines it in third grade. So it's a reading it's a state standard in third grade. However, we start have it mapped in starting in second grade. And how do we carry it forward after they learn it? Do we have them do their paperwork in cursive for classrooms as they're moving forward in the grades or h how do we ensure that they continue using it after we after we teach it? We really don't require that they're doing anything in cursive. They can lots of assignments are done via computer.
Another question about, and I apologize to keep hitting on this topic, but with the mobiles and the kids going back and forth, have we addressed any concerns about kids being outside by themselves moving between a mobile and a and the actual building. So, I think a lot of that conversation was was based on them being fifth graders. So, I think that was where the original conversation came and having fifth grade students out there and being more comfortable with fifth graders being able to do that. It's again, it's a fairly close distance. They're going outside for recess. I mean, we have there's a bunch of different conversations about that. So, we've went a lot of different directions on on how to the best way to do that. But, that's kind of where we ended. where my question came from is heard you keep hearing about students walking going one by one or going by themselves into the school and they kind of get forgotten about they're standing at the doors for an extended amount of time.
Um currently through the high ability grant um teachers and teachers counselors can take courses, get reimbursed and also um get a stipend for taking the courses and the courses through Ball State are all online. It takes four courses to actually get the high ability license. Um two two of our teachers just completed it and several others are in the pipeline to do that. And finally, I want to add that this is Amy Ellbury's first year leading that committee um and that work and she has done a great job of transitioning from many years of Gail Kors filling that job. We're we're partway through the minutes. Uh minutes can note that Miss Wen has joined the meeting. Uh on this end of the table, we've done the board member reports and we're moving to Mr. Glick and Mr. Schulz next. So I uh we're going to vote on it later.
Attempt to have the the fees equal what the program cost. We're recommending a dollar increase per session for the 2025 and 26 school year. So the res the administration recommends uh increase the child care by $1, moving the total for each session to $9 per session starting 2526 school year. Thank you. Mr. Jean Ferman, you heard a recommendation of the administration to approve the increase the cost of point community childare by $1, moving to $9 per session starting in the 2025 and 2026. We have a motion. So move. So moved by Mr. and second by Mr. Angel.
Yeah. So, uh if you might recall, uh we had a work session uh last month uh in which we uh reviewed our long-term uh or long Yeah. long-term debt service plan. Um, and uh, you know, you might also remember going back to a couple of years ago when we entered into uh, the big lease rental project to renovate Green Castle High School and Middle School and complete work throughout the district. Um, that we wanted to move away from large issues and in the future move towards smaller issues. And one of the things in doing the larger issue um we also wanted to leave capacity to um while we pay that off over a longer period of time, we wanted to leave um what they call some debt cliffs um to where we can handle um some facility needs um that our operations fund um can't can't handle, right?
Um, having those tools in your toolbox as an educator can only help you for when any any child or a colleague comes into uh into work having had a bad evening or something you know go on that when you have those tools and that ability to kind of um think about what you know Lisa Gibson or someone else has imparted the wisdom that they've imparted to you and thinking um in ways to support students and your and your your fellow colleagues. I think it's it's a win. So, um it prepares us for the bigger picture. So, I just really appreciate your your focus, all of what you shared, but those two things in particular stood out to me. So, thank you. Oh, I agree with my colleagues and and thank you very much. uh you know it was the uh question that I have is your uh your BCBA is she the one that came up with explaining like the uh how the brain works and that type of deal or is that just a science is she the one that came up well I think it's a collaborative effort where I'm looking over here at at Dr.