Um, again, that we added like question four doesn't have the boxes. We're we'll doctor that so that it's a check mark box for on a Microsoft form for we can send out the link to people. So, don't worry so much about the format where you see some dots on some questions. We'll make it a check mark interact or an active type box there. So, I hope I'm making sense there. Take the draft. That's what we're working off of. And if there's anything you want to add from the questions that uh that uh were discussed, you know, that Nolan gave me as a document, let me know. So, just give me the numbers, if you will, the questions that you may want to ask. >> So, this is just homework to take home and get back to you. >> I'd like to do like to do it now.
Second. >> Motion by Alison and second by Josh. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Same sign. The motion passes 6. Uh item number 12, the board policy updates.
Um feel free to read it if you have the chance already to read read it. Um I'll take questions and additional recommendations. >> Any questions, comments from the board? I think we just need a little bit more time um on this to work together, have a better understanding of, you know, Um I I I know it is an issue. has always been an issue you know and I think to benefit our students and and most and that's why we are looking at this because we do want our students to get you know to to come back to school to get their education you know for for them to have a better life you know in regards to if they want to continue school if because they really can't nowadays it's really difficult to get a job without your high school diploma. And you know, we want them to be able to look forward to a brighter future.
Um, also I want to say thanks to Matt and to his team. Mike came to support him. I know there are probably others online heckling him um from his team. Um, but I would tell you that having our school safety officers is huge in a million ways. and you guys recounted some of those tonight, but even a a role model for our kids is really a big part of it. Um, we are our school safety grants are on a three-year cycle. This is the last year of the current grant cycle that we have. So, I attended a webinar last Tuesday morning to find out what we need to do to reapply for funds. So, um, I've already been working with the principles on that and we, it's first come, first serve on the grants. Rural schools have priority. So, we'll be submitting that. Again, as a reminder, we have um, we've had in the past school counselor at Territorial and at HMS paid from the grant.
So we narrowed it down to five different learning strategies that we asked students to try. Um they they chose one that they felt like they they wanted to give a go in this current unit. We gave brief descriptions for each one, trying not to make assumptions that students had experience or that they were ready to just jump in and try any of these. So, narrowed our list down, gave them some brief descriptions, and then asked each student to jump in and just try one. And so, this would be like a later example of a different iteration of Level Up that we did. And you can see like it's still pretty flushed out. there's still specific practice problems that we were giving students, specific like QR codes which had videos, practices as um this was still a pretty early version of it. And one of the things that we did this time was we used an AI tutor chatbot which was designed specifically to help them with ionic compounds.
Um, and I think that's what we're seeing. Roina, did you have anything to add? >> Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing. And I think the messaging combined with the actual application of doing those things in the classroom has truly helped people realize that again being in the classroom but being engaged is what you need to do in order to be successful. >> Yeah. And even when students do I I I've seen this and my teacher I specifically my English teacher she said I've seen a lot and I I asked her this question specifically. I said have you been seeing a lot of students taking um or like reaching out to you when they're missing days? is I I really asked that straight up and she said, "This year I've seen more students if they're going to miss a Monday, they're going to miss a Tuesday, they're going to be late to class, students are actually being proactive about what they're doing and they're emailing their teacher and saying, "What did I miss?
These numbers are significant. Black children are diagnosed at a rate of 1 in 27 compared to 1 in 36 for white children. In some regions, the rate is as high as one in 19. These are not statistics on a page. These are real children, our children sitting in classrooms, walking hallways, and trying to figure out where they belong. Illinois recognizes the first week of April as autism awareness and acceptance week and encourages schools and communities to participate in educational events. Current legislation also supports neurode divergence education in K through8 schools. But whether something is mandated or not should never be the question. The question should be is it right? And education and acceptance are not optional. They are essential. My own children survived junior high because of educators who truly saw them, who chose understanding over convenience and compassion over silence. When I first pushed for autism acceptance week at that level, someone asked me, "What do you want?" My answer was simple.
Right? So, we really want to make sure that we are building on what we know works to help move that student outcome. One thing that we really like about the Be Good People curriculum is it allows us to be custom and consistent at the same time. So, for example, if we have a student who is showing inappropriate physical contact, they're reaching out and touching somebody too many times. This is a way that we can intervene and provide service. So, depending on the grade level, K345, this was um one example that I brought. um there are four core lessons that have to happen. Then based on the student or the group of students that you're with, you get to choose the next four lessons. So it's a semi-structured build your own adventure here. So for example, what we see in our data is when the weather is a little bit nicer, you guys may have seen the gaga ball pits out at the resource courts.
>> So, got to start somewhere. >> Yeah. I think it's important that they know, you know, what what was that money used for? Where did it go? Why why did we need it? >> Right. >> And he's going to want to hear from you on what do you want him to >> to promote? >> Yeah. >> Any other discussion? All in favor of approving the contract between BCSC and Jeff Del Relations LLC by saying I >> opposed same sign. Consider approval uh item E3 consider approval of memorandum of understanding between Career Plus Pathways by Skyac Incorporated and Benton Community School Corporation. I'll make a motion to consider the approval of the memorandum of understanding between career pathways by Skyac Incorporation and >> second motion and a second.
>> That's that's pretty much it. [laughter] >> I had to go get some last month to keep them going. So we kind of need it. >> How how long does this last? Is this like for so many months or >> I believe this is for six months. That is a total of $7,684.79 for a clear pool. [cough] You don't want pool. Anybody else? Okay. All in favor of AE Landmark Aquatic as presented say I. >> All right. Motion carries. Uh 8F I'd like to get a motion discuss safe visitor which is the visitor management system. >> So currently in each of our schoolings we have a manual signing process. So I'm asking for an electronic visitor checking system. And what happens with this system is it it allows us to print batches with visitor names on it. the purpose of my name there, timestamps it and it also checks against the national sex offender registry.
and I met with building blocks um today actually and um they're going to be coaching our preschool teachers and doing some important things and helping us kind of set some standardiz so that we can better align our preschool with what they're going to see in kindergarten. >> All right, thank you. Now, Mrs. H. I have. So, I'm going to start with I was bragging the last time we were here about being in Disney. So, I'll start with Disney. Um, first of all, the Disney Cops Connecting with Kids Disney trip is not a leisure trip. So, if you think you're going to go to Disney and not run around like crazy, you're wrong. Um, but we took two boys, two girls, um, eighth graders from Wood Memorial Middle School and, uh, we had a blast. They're going to be here at the next board meeting to share their experience.
Hoover. Uh, this is just a notice of a prehering that will be coming up at the next board meeting. It's that time of year uh to begin our uh annual issuance of a general obligation bond to support the work that goes on in the district. Just uh a new uh uh requirement this year is just to uh provide notice that we will be having a hearing that will be coming up at the next board meeting.
>> Any opposed? >> With none, it's approved. 5. Next up is uh our first wave of policies on second reading. Um the first batch has 13 policies. Uh I'll read those quickly. Not the policy, election and eligibility to serve is the first one. compensation, executive session, staff evaluations, teacher appreciation grants, outside activities of staff, drug and alcohol testing of CD holders, student suicide awareness and prevention, purchasing, accounting systems for capital assets, digital content and accessibility, automatic external defibrills, child abuse and neglect. Is there a motion to approve those 13 policies? >> So move. >> Motion by Milt. Is there a second? >> Second. Second by Mike. Any further questions or discussion? With none, all those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I.
We'll take any questions or comments on tonight's presentation. >> Anyone just >> Yeah. No, I I don't have any questions. I just uh I love how you you were so I'm always so impressed when we have students who are able to articulate the work that they're doing in the classroom. And tonight was just an amazing example of that. And I actually loved how when you were talking about like, you know, the trial and the error and I just reminded me of like a mantra in my house is that um I have a sophomore and uh she's AP classes or whatever and I said we don't lose, we learn. And it sounds like you have taken that lesson to heart. And I hope it it remains with you because as long as you do your best and you learn these skills and you work with others, uh you you're never going to lose.
Do we have any questions from anybody? Any board members? >> I have a I have a question. I don't know. It's about transportation. >> Um, you know, I know it I thought I saw we need eight new buses and um it's funny all of a sudden I'm noticing that so many buses have hardly anybody on them. Like they're there's like half full. And I didn't know if there are ways to consolidate maybe roots or things like that. And of course without too much disturbance because I would imagine kids don't want to get up any earlier or parents don't want their kids waiting. But maybe there's just a little little tweaks. I have you know I don't know. That was my thought process. And I don't know Sherry's >> or how do you I'm sorry. Excuse me. And how do you measure like all these people that just drive their kids to school?
If you want to get it out sooner than sooner than sooner than later, if you if you want to if you want to email that, there's two different ways you can do it. If you want to give me the numbers now, that's fine. If you want to do it by the end of the week, Friday, that's fine. Um, >> you want to be careful with the survey that you don't get too lengthy or people will say >> I um I like read on like >> Okay. >> I don't know. >> I think it's on the other one too. >> It's 11 on the other >> 11. Okay. Thank you. >> That's what I was like trying to figure out which things are different. It's It's okay. That's probably Yeah, >> we we work through it carefully, too. >> For example, number four and number two.
>> Okay guys, I'm going to go through these and if you have any questions, please uh slow me down and ask. I'm going to go through each one separately. There's one of them that we are going to make the recommendation to um not accept yet. I'll go over that whenever we get there. So the first KSB policy update um is BCBK. That's executive session. Um, this policy makes it clear that recording is not allowed and violators of that may anticipate the board pressing criminal charges. Um, they've been having some problems with some secret recording devices in some executive sessions throughout the state of Kansas. So, um, that's kind of where that derived from. So, the BG membership removes the prerec of having to be a member of KASB uh, to be a member of NA NBA. So, it just removes that prerec from it. Um, the one that I would I would recommend us waiting on is IHF graduation requirements.
Um, so I think um I guess just kind of uh going through the steps and how we're going to accomplish this. >> Absolutely. Um you bring a good point um board member uh Hrix, it's a life skill. what that we're trying to teach here is not just coming to to learn, but it's it's a life skill. Um we have some students that have um 80 absences already in any job. That's not a good sign. So um we do need the support of the families. Uh this is a little reminder in the morning to get them up, get in the bus, and we'll take care of the rest. So take the time to read it, review it. Uh we'll be happy to bring it back.
We've had um Officer Hawk at the high school, Matt uh where he is, Mike isn't on our grant, and we have uh Hector who's kind of on permanent loan from Chino PD for us. So, that's kind of how we funded those positions. And uh like I said, I opened the grant and got started on that last week. So, we're ready to roll. Wanted to provide some updates about the new building for CBHS. Um, as a reminder, when we get ready to break ground, we will have a large sign out here, um, reminding folk that it's being paid for by the state school facilities board. Um, especially in an era when we have to really tighten our belts in a million areas. It's super bad optics to be building a building that you can see from the highway. So the truth is as a reminder to everyone and people who may be watching that the state school facilities board um condemned their term as end of useful life.
So if students were at home and they wanted to talk chemistry with someone and they didn't have, they could ask questions to the chatbot, they could like submit work, have it check work so that they could talk to someone about chemistry even if they were not as cool. And then um here's an even later version and you can say like it's there's less descriptions. It's less fleshed out as this is a second semester one and students have been doing this since October whenever we started. Um so there's still some guidance still like specific practice but a lot less fleshed out as students had been picking strategies at this point for a while now. And so some examples um we had a lot of different student work. Here's an example of a concept map. So you can see this one is specific to um identifying molecular shape.