you know, at first it's like which um word they don't have the word cat, you know, which of these four words ends with the same sound, you know, so parents could actually walk through and see. Uh and then there is a reading one and there's questions about it, but so that we're all again familiar with the format that they're going to be using as they are assessing. All juniors take the SAT March 4th. And um so then I did add some information here about uh research shows that if you practice and I gave the addresses for practicing and I'm just um not that you want to go there but I'm just making sure Gail has that so she could publish it in case. So we're and we're also sending it out in par parent square. So hopefully um not everyone practices um some kids some of our juniors have already taken it but everyone has to take it on school day um because of the ide because of compliance.
So, basically, they gave us the opportunity to have that e-learning day back. So, we have two e-learning days banked still. So, Monday is actually a flex day. We will not be in school. So, we've tried to get that out to all the families and um through social media and every and emails. So, that was good news. Um hopefully we won't have to use the other two in e-learning days, but not >> but we have them if we need to. >> All right. Any board comments? >> Nothing. >> All right. Upcoming meeting, our next school board meeting. I didn't look this up. I apologize. uh for March. >> It's the 9th, isn't it? >> Is it the 9th? Yeah, same same date as this March the same date as February. So, it'll be March March the 9th will be our next scheduled uh regular session meeting.
And then our final thing that we do is our famous rock museum and the kids dress up. They research somebody from Indiana. Um so we've got some artists and things. This lady didn't even know who she was until last year. We're doing some research and she actually is from Lafayette and she was a woman suffragist and really love for women and became very well known in Indiana. Didn't even know that. And I'm a senior. I don't I'm my friend because she's a senior. [laughter] I was going through my picture. So that was I was really to see who my board students but I didn't have feedback but K was in my class in the third or the fourth grade. So that was her as my class. So anyway that's kind of in a nutshell. We start in August Sunday go all the way to this is the very last week of school.
If you've not replaced that, those are very expensive as well in addition to just the price of the AED. So, it's 1080 per month. We can drop this at any time. It's not a three-year contract or anything like that. If we ever get to that point, we say, you know, we want to stop this, we can stop this. Um, but for me, for the peace of mind of it coming, I know we've had one of our teachers that we actually save their her life using our AEDs. Um, this is something that I think that that's good for the corporation. So, we're keeping what we've got a few. >> No, well, we're replacing the ones we all gone. They're all going to all be gone. They're going to be replaced with this ZO AED3, which is pretty well a common one nowadays. The ones that we have are Phillips.
A confive interest exists when a member's personal, professional, financial, or family interests could reasonably be perceived to influence or appear to influence the member's judgment. Decision, making, or actions in their official capacity. Conflicts of interest may be actual, potential, or perceived. I motion that this conflict of interest be adopted in its entirety. >> We have a motion on the floor in regards to the conflict of interest policy. Is there a second? Once again, consideration of conflict of interest policy proposed by Mr. Hollingsworth. Is there a second? Hearing no second. Uh motion dies without a second so we can move forward. 6.02 consideration to award the contract for Harper Elementary School playground project 2026. Mr. Sheller, good evening. >> Good evening, President Deworth, members of the board, and Dr. Hoover. The Harper Elementary School playground project 2026. Notice the bid was advertised on December 5th and December 12th, 2025.
We have to make sure that they have the right transportation, that they have the right accommodations at the theater. They've even had to figure out how to fix parts of students wheelchairs just to keep them at school and keep them safe. They're not They don't are not educated in that when they go to school. By the way, in addition to all of that and considering the varying academic levels of their students, they frequently have to develop customized materials. They have to adapt their curriculum. They have to source specialized resources and they have to design alternate tasks just to facilitate individual student success in their classroom. And when behaviors get tough, and let me tell you, they get tough, these staff members have to transcend mere compliance and concentrate on cultivating trustbased relationships with these kids to get them to do what they need to do just to be safe and to learn.
Uh looking ahead, our literacy team is working on developing uh family reading workshops using this model. We'll report back to you on that at next year's spotlight, we hope. And finally, we would love to spotlight work we are doing under the focus area of teaching and learning. As you know, last fall we began the roll out of our new literacy resource, CKLA, across all KTO 5 classrooms at the elementary level. And while it has been a sizable undertaking, I will say without hesitation, our teachers have done an excellent job in bringing this program to their students. So, you will remember that back in October, Mrs. Paveo presented an overview of this program uh to the school committee. Uh, CKLA uses complex grade level texts and daily readalouds to immerse students in fascinating units covering everything from literature and art to history and science. The units and lessons are designed to spark rich classroom discussions and expose students to robust vocabulary while teaching them comprehension and critical thinking skills.
Um and there was one more. After school programming was big, safety and security and I have to go back to the other one, but it was um mostly Oh, I think it was like security security class sizes was up there. >> Thank you. Class sizes, Mike, thank you for jumping in. Yeah, and class sizes making sure that those are are down. And with the enrollment, you know, if we're holding on to staff right now and as the enrollment dips down a little bit, there's a tiny bit of relief across the system. not not you know massive but just enough I think uh to make a difference. Thanks Mike. >> I don't see any other questions Cara. So >> okay and these did that one and Antonio doesn't know it but he's the star of one of the stars of my my PowerPoint here. I'll have to let him know.
So that would add another grade level. So, I mean, you're not going to staff it with less people. I mean, >> okay. >> And even though like wouldn't have to pay for the conferences and whatever, but then those discretionary funds of field trips and food for the cooking class and like all those things. I just >> But you're also going to have to do something to incentivize to help help with it. That's been a huge thing. >> Yeah. >> I don't even know if the like offer part times on like Monday, Tuesday, Sunday. >> Yeah. I literally work on like you want to work Monday, Tuesday, great. You I mean I mean seriously we've actually even like this year we got permission to try to hire a high school kid. I mean that's not written into the grant like you're not supposed like we have to list like what we think the qualifications of our worker is and that's just another thing like food for thought.
So, if that happens to gain support and that gets pushed through, we'll be back to square one with this uh moving forward going through and counting hours and counting in surface days and maybe having to push the end of school back further or add some more time to the day to not do that. So, when we talked in our calendar committees, we brought that up too, just to let them know that while we're hopeful to pick one option, we still might have to go back to the drawing board and start over. I don't I don't foresee should also >> I don't foresee that being a problem. Um sorry I don't foresee that being an issue. I just don't think that's going to gain a lot of traction. You know forcing everybody to start after Labor Day and taking some of that local control away on that side.
>> So yes, that was amazing. >> Looking forward, we have another highlight which is planning with um ASU. We're planning career affairs along with um our other schools being part of that as well. And the great finale is Yasa Ortiz. She's our January graduate which you'll also see on the on the board. Uh, one more highlight before I uh for the uh credit courses completed just for January, we had 15 more courses completed by our students just for the month of January. And there's a few more coming up for February as well. There you are.
>> Any questions? >> All right. Thank you so much. >> All right, Miss Bryce. >> Okay, we're gonna we're doing something a little different this year, ladies. Um so, we're showing you a video. Um in our narrators of the videos, Leah Bedro and Narita Chavez Lopez. >> Hello. Good morning and welcome to Cougar News Campus Connections edition where we bring you the stories happening right here at CBHS. >> So I show you what >> we're going to try. Hopefully it works. >> You're lost in some grace back there. He's doing great. Second meeting. Hello, good morning and welcome to Cougar News Campus Connections edition where we bring you the stories happening right here at CPHS. My name is Nita Travis Lopez, your senior class president. And today we're stepping out of the studio and into classroom to show you what learning really looks like. We're >> starting in Miss Ryman's classroom where students aren't just reading, they're analyzing, debating, and making real world connections.
It it's a great opportunity for them to be able to have access to other time frames to minimize those conflicts. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Good evening. >> Uh Rachel Sapojnikov of Buffalo Grove. I kind of want to talk briefly about two topics. One is about Club America. Um I have a student here currently that is an athlete. Uh she is unable to do anything after school because she is going to be a year-round athlete plus she does year-round club travel and she loves Club America. Unfortunately, she's ill right now, so she couldn't come and speak to the board about how much she does love the group and affords to it. And she wants to be able to have her voice be heard and her friend's voice be heard. And if other clubs are allowed to meet, why not give an equal opportunity?
So I was not like high. [clears throat] Awesome. Awesome. >> Alan was one of our football players, so he missed about a month. [laughter] [snorts] >> That's awesome. Yeah, keep up the great work. That's exciting. Yeah, I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. Yeah, that's >> all right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Congratulations. [applause] >> All right, student board members, who's who's up first this month? >> I'm going first. >> All right.
It's a part of our history. It's a moment to look at them and I'm so grateful for the students who spoke tonight. I want to reaffirm our district's unwavering commitment to every student. Everything we do begins and ends with them. The structures we are working to build, these are not things that are just like the mason does. It's not something that's just fixed immediately. It takes time. Brick by brick, we have to commit to systems of equity and justice. Amid a busy year, it's important for us to pause and celebrate the things that are happening in our schools and the diverse community that we have and make SC 308 so special. And it truly is a collective effort. Our school serves as bridges and for those reasons I just invite everyone to really think about with every recognition every time we have an opportunity how can we make more bridges in our work with each other.
Is there any discussion? All those in favor? That motion passes 5-0. Congratulations. Thank you for all this is good. >> Thank you so much. Thank you for all. I'm grateful for you. >> You ready? Three, two, one. Gotcha. Congrats. >> Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all. Thank you for all you do. Appreciate you. >> Thank you so much. Thank you. comments from the board. >> So, in our house, we have three very different kiddos. um one of ours, uh our oldest has gone through the orchestra program and has just found um a home there just as anywhere else in Avon. But um the the dedication to the students to ensuring um the students have success, but also enjoy the process along the way to learn those skills of working through something difficult and all of the amazing things that music education does.
So, some kids are like, "Oh, I'm fine with what I have." But, um, and some kids will take it and they don't want to practice a lot because they're busy right now, but they think they'll try to practice more maybe before they take it to senior, you know. So, um, for professional development, we did have our bitten teacher collaboration day today at Ottoman and Prairie Crossing. There were staff meetings, grade level teams, crossgrade level team meetings, and um, Hunter Hickman was at Benton Central for He presented at the Purdue AI conference and so he was helping us at the high school to learn a little more about um getting in front of and understanding AI. Um Purdue now requires their students to take four or five AI classes before they can graduate. And so um how will we at Benton Central um start to use AI and understand AI because our students are going to be using it.
Um all I need is a motion and a second to adjurnn. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion, a second to adjurnn. All in favor? >> I oppose.
Hopefully the kids um take away some things and they have memories of those things. So just like we ended our sacred day with our pie. >> So our steak [laughter] >> something had to be right back.
Um, and I know when I was talking to CentOS, they actually um they don't hold their charge well. They've had some warranty issues with it. So, it was something that I was concerned about that we needed to replace. >> This will be probably done maybe this week or early next week once we have approval. >> So, the the ones we have will still be in place and Until >> until Yes. Until they're replaced. >> One is replaced. >> Yes. >> They're obsolete. >> We had somebody donate. [clears throat] >> Did we? Yeah. But they're all obsolete now. They're overrated. >> Is there a buyout option on these? Let's say a year we decide to >> I'm not sure on that. Um I'm sure there would be I kind of priced it out. It would take us three years if we were actually buying them ourselves to pay for it.