Um we didn't have a lot of matches on our schedule, but thankfully to an amazing coach, uh he was able to reach out to almost every school and try and get some few more matches. He ended up getting >> I don't know what the total was, 16 head-to-head matches and two invitationals. Uh so it was it was really a good experience and we really appreciate him. Uh sadly we do have five seniors who are now leaving but they they did enjoy their times. I think I can speak for most of them. Uh and I I think the practices between Mondays through Thursdays were solid. Uh the good like break between Friday and the weekend was good because you could just go in visually. Uh and then we had most of our invitationals on Saturday which it would be nice to break and then go to invitationals.
And then for the ESY program, I noticed in being a parent of a neurodyiverse child, the ESY program is not necessarily as fluid when it comes to curriculum. So has that been benchmarked and kind of studied to figure out how we can better service our children during the summer. >> So the curriculum models, what we do for the school year, I think across the system, we're constantly finding ways to improve the curriculums, the interventions, the resource related to curriculums. So right now it currently the students that will be participating in ESY will be for that curriculum or that regression that may have occurred during the school year. Now the curricular resource may vary depending on the program. So for example um a stars will use utilize an alternative or replacement curriculum whereas skills will use general education curriculum. Now, the curriculum improvement that needs to occur, that's still very much in the cycle and we're still very much working with that to improve that.
And it also leads you into very adultlike activities. And writing books and and having a school store, that's a great step towards adulthood. I can't wait to see the good things that come out of Genius Hour and then for each of you. And then for the Junior National Honor Society, you know that it's a great stepping stone for leadership and before you know it, you'll all be in high school and then before you know it, you'll be in college and your role as leaders now. you. These are building blocks for you. And not only are you doing wonderful things for the school and leading um spirit week um and and really building upon a school environment like you are, you're also doing nice things for yourself as well. And the last thing I want to say, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Sham, thank you uh for taking on the role of the extracurriculars.
Um I mean, if you talk to teachers, they're keeping their heads above water. learning the material and passing it on. And so, um, you know, we may have for people who are looking for, oh, you have a new program, everything should be just off the chart immediately. It may not be happening, but we are still continuing to um reach out to CKLA and to get support. Uh, Jodie Cammer, their rep, came, Abby, um, reached out and posted her and so I have some of her posit observations, things that she was noting. And then in April, we will have a trainer return and pray crossing teachers will come over to Otterban for our two-hour delay in April. And we've set some goals. Um so they're ready now that they've been doing it to start talking about, you know, how do we really make this work? um looking even to next year with our scope and sequence if I saw things that um as I'm putting the lessons and units together, how I'm going to make it work for my next year as I'm thinking about planning.
So um hopefully things will look a whole lot better around here that uh and it's not been a it's been an issue that we we've seen ourselves. People have have talked to talked to us about it. So >> we're not cutting you short, Ross. >> Yeah. No, without doing I have to start paying Matt over there cuz he was always up here mowing. So, >> not always. >> That gives it gives Ross and his guys chance to handle maintenance stuff and and work on that and and not have to worry about mowing the grass, especially when in the spring and the fall when it's growing like crazy. And >> the main thing is it'll give us more time to be at the complex on the fields out there and stuff. We got so far behind on those last year it was kind of embarrassing. So, >> right, hopefully this will free us up.
And it's cool because I have kids that say, "Oh, we just did our Christmas tree last weekend. [cough] My sister has the same ornament." So they're excited about putting up or getting their own. And then we do an Indiana flag and a cardinal and our state insect which is a firefly. They get to make that. And then in Mr. Walker's room they did some things with government and things. Um we always end with sugar cream pie because that has our excuse. That's our state pie. So all the kids get to experience that. Who makes the pie sh? >> Sure. Yeah. And so we also get to visit the Indiana State House and Museum and they do a very um nice job there. As you can see, students are actually sitting in the >> You might notice we have a parent up here. >> There's that.
It's like if you went in and made a report, then whoever we have set up in the system would receive an email that that anonymous little boy went in and made a report. >> Yeah, it alerts your email. >> I think you can also get text messages as well. Does the student make the report on an app on a device? >> They it can have an app. Yes. >> What's the primary mode of them making the report? >> What the primary motive making? >> They can actually use their phone. There is an app. They can also go on the website. We have a link on there as well. So, but I think the app is some that bothers me. So, maybe have at the school where they go >> and they can also use their iPads as >> well. Yeah, we the the link that we have right now is a Google form.
I guess they're they're very related. What if any trends do you see from um the medical field as far as like what they're the professions that they think that are going to need to be filled? And then on the flip side of that, do you see trends in students as far as like what they what they want to do? Uh I think that that definitely changes. I think one of the big trends that we're seeing is the ability to go beyond just the initial four-year degree. And so there's quite a few of our students that uh quite a few uh needs within the community for, you know, postgraduate, if you will, um uh positions like nurse practitioners and uh uh physicians assistants and things like that. And so that that expansion is needed. And I also think that um we've been able to cultivate relationships with those uh people to come in and talk with our students and show them and as you know Elllet said that's her goal right is to go beyond just the traditional four-year degree and get a uh you know a graduate degree in nurse practitioner.
They'll come into the room for built-in breaks throughout the day. um or they'll just come in there if they kind of need a refocus, reset time for their behavior. But to get these students to where they need to be, these ladies do a lot more than teach. They hold hands, they wipe noses, they tie shoes, they give hugs and high fives, they have patience and compassion as they help these students grow at their own pace. So, Miss Karee and her team bring out the friendship and action piece of our theme, which is making sure that our students never feel alone in their general education classroom, even when learning does feel difficult. Then, we have Mrs. Michelle Sylvia and Mrs. Jonan Hillman that teach our two practical skills classes respectively. These classrooms function as self-contained settings. So, that means that the students spend the majority of their time there in the special ed setting.
We'll make sure we show up and show out for the Bears. All right. Our next monthly board of education meeting will be here Monday, February 23rd. We will begin at 6:30 with student recognitions. A point of clarification, we will also be recognizing those who were to be recognized at our January monthly meeting. So, they will be there as well. So, double celebration. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. properly moved Miss Pucket and seconded Miss Lawrence. Thank you everyone. President.
I will now turn this over to Mr. Hill to take you into the work he is leading in supporting our students social and emotional needs and learning at dlo. >> All right. Good evening, school committee. Just going to talk briefly. I got this uh about you know our initiative this year uh was to continue the conversation of implementing neuroirming uh practices and strategies within the classroom um environment and I just wanted to provide everybody a brief update on what we've been doing. I I started with just a a a quick quote that came from one of our PDs this year. when when sitting still decides who belongs. Neurode divergent kids are often excluded. And you know, I put that there, you know, for a reason because it's our job as educators to uh know our students and really identify student needs and what we need to do to meet them where they're at.
Oh lord. Okay. Yeah. Request access. Well, oh, that might that might not even come to me. That might go to Carapon Pano. That's okay. Can you go back out to the other slide? We're just going to pivot. So, this is a document. I took good thing I took a screenshot of it. So, we have got an internal calendar that gets shared with our staff um here to keep us on track during the budget development process. And I apologize I can't show you the actual full full document. Um but basically um yes. So the answer is yes. So the principles did meet. So you can see that we have a kind of a kickoff in December where there's a lot of development. And then in the in early months in the early weeks in January the CFO meets um along with assistant superintendent, chief of schools um principles and program leaders depending on um who supervises which department.
They had actual inerson meetings and we get a superintendent interview. So, I one of those they had a zoom last week. Um the state just go over like all the requirements for request for proposal. Um we will not find out until like June 10th if we get granted. So our grades are like I want to say there isn't back here May 24th and we won't know until June if we would get awarded. So to me like you got a plan. I concern support what you want to do but what everybody else thinks. >> I mean as far as I'm concerned with what you have listed here. You're the director for this. So you think this is what we need to do. >> Well, yeah. But if we don't get the grant, we have to get the we don't get the grant then. >> Yeah. I mean, we would have to decide if there's going to be some supplemental funding, but like let's just Hypothetically, we charge $5 a day per kid.
So, we're kind of working out some of those logistics. um as far as being able to honor that request moving into next year in the next two-year cycle. So, uh a couple concerns that I do have, you know, if for some unforeseen reason, um you know, we're not able to play a home game on Friday night for weather and they try to move it to the next Saturday, that could complicate the the situation. Um, one of those years we will be away on that Friday and then the next year we would be home or vice versa on that third Saturday. So, you know, one of the other main concerns is just wear and tear on the football field if it gets a lot of rain on it and it has a double football game Friday night and Saturday night. Um, when I visited with Tim about that, he didn't think that that would be an issue to be able to to use that.
In math, um, Miss Garcia appreciates Darren's consistent attendance and respectful attitude. Thank you, Darren. the board members and and family uh per the request of our accelerated school family it was postponed to next next month they want the family to be here but they asking uh respectfully that they would like to be added to the next port agenda because they would like to be present so at this point um thank you so much parents for being here thank you for your support and the love of your kids um you are the first teachers um and on the same token we are working on attendance our attendance has decreased drastically And as you can see why, let's take care of ourselves. I want to make sure that we hit our 90% attendance. March 24th through April 24th is going to be the state testing window. Make sure the kids are rested.
So some of our goals again working on the mapping which is an evolving constant thing. Um conducting a mock evacuation eventually we'd like to get to where we do a full mock evacuation at the high school level. and do the reunification so we can really feel what that feels like and where we might have some holes that we need to fill in patch. Until you do it for real, it's it's or at least as close as we can. You don't know what you don't know. Um, so working on that and then that continued integration of Share 911 and Mutual Link so that you know our first responder partners understand what we're going to need when if hopefully never, but if something were to really happen where we need them to respond in. Um, again, our focus obviously is safety, but really one of the most rewarding parts um is the relationships that we build.
More specifically, board policy 7330 states that student clubs are to receive substantially the same treatment and may meet during non-instructional time, including before school. When our club is restricted from meeting before school, while other clubs are permitted to do so, equal access exists in name, but not in practice. Stevenson staff conveyed to me via email that some clubs were grandfathered in and that newer clubs are restricted from morning meetings. Board policy 7330 does not distinguish between newer and older clubs, nor does it allow for clubs to be treated differently based on when a club was approved. Although this rule is said to be put in place to allow students more time to sleep, which we are in full support of, Stevenson does not does allow other extracurriculars such as school sponsored clubs, tutoring, and athletics to begin as early as 5:30 a.m. If before school time is considered appropriate for some student activities, it should be treated the same for all student activities.
So I mean that's all I got to say about that. >> Let me just say one other thing that wasn't up there. But we also did a crossover with our girls team. So Marian Catholic was nice enough to host us and we competed with the girls against both of their programs as well. We didn't kind of put that up there, but it was trying to get, you know, sort of a group positive energy type of thing for both programs and and hopefully that helps with each of them. >> We had a very good season over a record of 13 and three. We won a conference record of 17 seven and three. Also beating down Grove South, winning that Downer's Grove pin. Even though [clears throat] the guy bought a 300, I thought we were going to lose that, but somehow I beat him. In third, in third place, uh, some really great bowlers at the third place at the Roing Meadows invite, as you can see right there.
>> So, does that mean by the time summer hits, it'll still be kind of >> Yeah, we're currently in phase three of the curriculum renewal cycle for ELA K through five. >> Okay. Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> I asked this at our uh committee meeting as well because you saw a preview of this, but could you just talk a little bit about how um multilingual learners are supported through these programs? >> Yep. So, they get to participate in summer connection. So, summer connection is for general education students and it supports any student um that um is eligible or is highly recommended to participate in recouping academics. So, it's not just ML students but um students in our TBE program. So, they have dual language pieces as part of summer connections. >> That's where they would be pulled in would be through the summer connections.
We don't probably say this enough that teachers have a lot on their plate all the time. I know I live with one and yet and then say and you know what and then I'll do more on top of it. That's that's an extra special person who takes that on. Um and I it does not go um it does not go without notice. I'll tell you we don't always say it but it doesn't go without notice. So thank you for doing what you're doing. Stella and Lucy, I loved your idea where you're working with a functional sped group. I think the inclusion and just just bringing that, you know, some of that um real world practice not only for you but for those kids that need those extra skills. I I love that idea. So, and I love that you're forward thinking of how you can grow this and continue.