We have the Pledge of Allegiance uh led by the kindergarten students from Mountain View Elementary School. So, we can't wait. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice. for all. [applause] >> Very nicely done. Great job. Thank you, Mountain View. Let's give him a round of applause again. [applause] >> [applause] >> Next up, we have the adoption of the agenda. I motion to adopt the agenda as presented. >> Second. Yes. Sorry. >> Should I sign out? >> Motion pass. >> Yeah. Dr. Croto, I hand it over to you for recognitions. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Tonight we have some very special guests from Valley Vista High School and Mr. Musei will introduce our guest. >> Thank you, Dr. Croto, Mr. President, President, members of the board, and our audience here tonight.
>> Having a quorum, let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, Hank, I'm going to turn it over to you for some student recognition. All right, we have some student recognitions and North High is up first. >> All right.
Her leadership as a fifth grade teacher is admired and appreciated by all. One nominator stated, "What makes her work stand out is not just what she does, but why she does it. She truly believes in building connections, creating a sense of belonging, and helping every student and staff member feel seen and valued." Congratulations, Mora. Our second lion for the night is Britney Stall. Britney exemplifies persistence, dependability, and empathy in all she does. She strives to make sure all students reach their full potential. Consistently showing a high level of respect for her kindergarten students, families, and colleague while she fosters an environment where everyone feels seen and valued. A nominator shared, "Brittany was truly born to educate and mold young minds, and both current and past students are fortunate to have her guiding their growth." Congratulations, Britney. And finally, we need Jacqueline Garcia. When her class size unexpectedly grew this year, Jacqueline rose to the challenge.
I made this graphic to kind of show you what um extracurriculars uh contribute to school. It's not just a place for kids to go after school. It does promote academic growth in addition to some social emotional growth and also some life skills that uh like leadership, communication, teamwork. Um and so it's really important in addition to what we're doing in our classroom with content um that we provide students a place after school where they can connect um and have some great peer relationships and have more engagement with school. So what I'd like to do is to introduce our clubs and their sponsors um a little one at a time. Mr. Shepard. So the first one is academic club and that's run by um Mr. Rosenbomb, Matt Rosenbomb and Eden Cinitine. He's going to talk just a little bit about academic club. So uh academic club is a club where we offer kids the opportunity to compete against other schools.
Hearing none. Next up is community input. Doesn't look like we have anybody signed up today. So we'll skip to the approval of the previous meeting minutes. The approval of the minutes from the January 20th 20 26 meeting. Does any committee member does any board member have any changes to the minutes?
Um but uh appreciate uh we've uh drafted some questions and topics based off of feedback that the board has asked. Uh if anybody did not get any one of the yellow papers, there are extras up here, but we will structure this very similarly to how we have the last few years. We'll have about 15 minutes at each rotation. Um and so I've put up on the slide, we'll start uh with Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Woodward with the elementary table which is right here. Um Mrs. Parent will be with the middle school table which is over there and Mr. Langford will be with the high school table. We'll take about 15 minutes for you to have uh small group conversations and then we will rotate um and go from there. But uh always look forward to this meeting. We had originally scheduled this at the end of January and that was when we got that snowstorm.
So, I want to know who's monitoring these systems. I want to know who is making sure that these systems are effective because I spent an hour and a half with a mom who cried to me that her child has been in a tier system has not grown, has stayed consistent or gone down below because of the mind play program. So, I did a little bit of research and I guess mind play is like Lake Street does mind play. Not all the other schools do it, but like who's in charge of that? Who is monitoring that? Who is showing the effectiveness and stuff? Because if you do a tier system correctly, then you will catch those gaps, those learning gaps and bring those children up and then they can go on to the classroom and be with everybody else. But that is not happening, I suspect, systemically.
As is a custom, would you all please stand and join us in the pledge of allegiance? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Uh, next we have good news. Jason, good evening. >> Good evening. Thank you very much, President Duck, Lieutenant Hoover, members of the board. For good news this evening, want to just share these with you. I know, Reverend Gamblin, these may be near and dear to your heart. We uh were able to recently post on social media uh the progress being made at the rights bowl. As you know, you approved uh enhancements uh and investing in this great historic structure. So work was is coming along so well that we wanted to just highlight this this evening. Of course, as you all know, work is also going uh very well at Enllo Stadium at Bossy High School.
She uses polite words. She includes others in activities and is always willing to lend a helping hand. She's a wonderful friend to her classmates and treats all staff members with respect. Her thoughtful actions help make our classroom a happier place. Amelia is a true champion star when it comes to showing kindness. So, congratulations to Amelia. I'm like the luckiest one in the room with these two little cuties. So, we are celebrating um January and February. And so, this is Madison aka Cookie. She uh told me for the first three weeks of school that her name was Cookie and so she has lovingly assumed that nickname. Okay, so we're gonna about Madison first. Um, so Madison was our winner in January and we were talking about empathy in January and her teacher said that Madison is a great example of empathy. She is a great friend to everyone and she tries to make everyone feel better about themselves.
Okay. Um my name is Jennifer Woods. I live right here in town and I understand on the agenda today you'll be uh discussing revisions to the student handbooks. And so I've come this evening to request that the student handbooks for all grade levels be revised to include language to inform parents that religious religious objections or medical exemptions may be submitted in lie of immunization records as is allowed by state law. So, I uh drafted some suggested language and I've included the state code and uh examples of the exemption forms. That's all I have to say. May I leave this with one of you, >> please? >> Thank you, Mrs. Woods. Thank you, Mrs. Woods. Anyone else wish to come forward and address the board tonight? Knowing have come forward, we're going to move on to C1OU for next career coaching grant. It's going to be Tiffany.
Katie, Bill, all in favor 70. >> And we'd like to congratulate KB Diver, Braden Huff on finishing fourth at the Hbert sectional. Braden advances to Tuesday's IHSAA regional in Mishawaka High School. We have no retirements or resignations, but we do have some lees. We recommend that you accept the leave request as listed. >> So move >> second >> and Katie. All in favor 70. >> Under extracurriculars, uh we recommend you approve the recommendations given to us by administrators for the ECA assignments. So second bill. All in favor? 70. >> Under certified, we'd ask that you approve the certified recommendation as listed. >> Second. >> Jill Katy. All in favor? 70. >> Okay. Moving to new business. Uh there's been a list given to you of donations and grants to support uh KB students and programs. We ask for your approval. So second >> Jeff Dan all in favor 70.
So I'm going to hand it over to them for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you, Indian Creek. Well done. >> At this time, we'll move on to our recognitions. 2.1 Superintendent and Above and Beyond awards, Miss Johnson. Good evening, Madame President, Dr. Smith, and members of the board. We are so proud to recognize two above and beyond staff members from Lawrence Township Schools. Tonight, we have with us Shantaa Honeyut. if she could come forward. >> Congratulations to Shantaa Honeyut, CIS family liaison at Mary Castle for being selected to receive the above and beyond award. Shantae is the heart of Mary Castle. Beyond her CIS family liaison role, she builds community, supports families, and brings Dr.
Uh we are very uh fortunate uh to have the Valley Vista High School choir here to perform and they are under the direction of Mr. Preston McDonald. So, Mr. McDonald. [applause] >> Thank you guys so much for having us. Uh, it's always such a great joy to be here and perform for you guys. Uh, this is my top show choir group, Hogal Thunder. And over the weekend, they competed for the first time this year and, uh, earned second place overall their competition. They worked really, really hard, lots of hours to prepare these shows. Um, and as you see them right now, they're in car shirt and jeans. But if you want to see the full version of this show with uh sweeping costumes and skirts and set pieces and all the things, uh we are performing at Festival of the Arts as well as hosting a show competition in two weeks uh the weekend leading into spring break at Valley Vesta.
Good evening everyone. It is nice to see all of you and as always it is really really wonderful to start out our evening with a number of recognitions tonight and I'm going to start out with our allstate theater recognitions. Um so if I could actually call up Tess Lorett and Rain Heler. Please come on up. Mr. Moses uh is the theater sponsor or one of the theater sponsors and he could not be here tonight so he sent a few words that I would like to share about um both of these wonderful students. So Tess is a junior at North and has been involved in production since her freshman year as well. Currently Tess is the assistant stage manager for our musical Joseph and just concluded a soldout run of The Giver as assistant producer. Besides uh for production for management duties, Tess is a regular at set construction days, often serving as the assistant technical director or a master carpenter on every production at North.
She welcomed new students with open arms, creating a seamless transition for them. Her positivity has shown through this challenge. As shared by a colleague, she took an unexpected and big change that altered her entire classroom dynamic without batting an eye, without complaining, and with grace and enthusiasms. Congratulations. Now, Long Beach administrators All right, moving on. Now we are recognizing our pirates from Plank. First of all, we have Isabelle Garcia. Isabelle's kindness had made a has made a lasting impact on her students. She works to understand her students and support them along their Spanish acquisition journeys. Her dedication to ensuring students are successful and held accountable is evident. As stated by one student, she is a kind person and is always smiling. Congratulations. Next up, we have Jillian Broly. Jillian takes the time to connect with her students and aid them through challenging course content. As a language arts teacher, she helps students develop a genuine interest in reading.
We'll be competing against uh 12 schools this year. We have two online tournaments. One we already finished in the fall. We got third place out of 18 different schools. Uh and we have the next tournament actually on Friday, the online tournament. Um and then um we had 53 kids try out, but we were only able to keep 20 because we have to like rotate the kids in and out. So uh we kept 20 kids and it was awesome to have that amount of kids that really wanted to come out and partake and be part of answering trivia questions and going up against other schools. And so it's a lot of fun to get to do that. So that's kind of what we do for academic club. >> The next is anime club run by Gina Chzn and Margaret Abushama. >> Hello. Um so um before we begin we want to uh have an announcement then in this club we're going to use Japanese pronunciation and it's anime.
Hearing none. If we could put those on consent. Our topics for discussion tonight. First up are the review of bills. Are there any questions for Mr. Shepard? Hearing none. Uh, next up we have the construction bid approval for summer 2026. Mr. Shepard and Mr. Martin. >> Yes. Okay. So, we were hoping to have the uh bid documents for the upcoming construction season ready for the board to review. Um, we did hold the bid opening last week. We had uh three bids that were submitted. Uh, and the lowest bid uh was submitted by uh Tyler Lane Construction. Um, at this point in time, we are still uh vetting their their bid um and going through all of the different requirements that they were required to uh answer to. Um we um will be prepared to make a recommendation next week, but we want to make sure that uh we have all of the materials uh uh as the board has requested ready for you.
So appreciate everyone's flexibility in rescheduling this meeting. We do have um some public uh here, one of our loyal attendees at schoolboard meetings and I've already talked with her uh that she can go and sit with whatever group she would like to hear the conversation. So with that, I'll set an online timer and we'll keep track and we'll take 15 minutes and then I'll give you a a few minute warning to wrap up before we move to our next rotation. All right, board members, do we have any comments about our time with the administrators? Thank you for spending the time with us this evening. Appreciate all your input. excited to see where we're at and where we're going. So, thank you for all that you do. We appreciate each and every single one of you. >> I I will certainly echo that. Um I appreciate all of you indulging.
So I called eight people that I knew that in Crown Point that have their children in a tier system and they were like, "Oh, I never get reports. I have no idea what's going on." And if Crown Point is topheavy with admin and all these directors and all these people, why don't parents know? Like, okay, yes, we get the I reports. Yes, we get the NWA reports because that's what you have to give for K2. Okay. So, my comp concern with the big corporation that you guys are, who is monitoring this and making sure it's effective and successful for struggling learners? That's it. >> Thank you, Miss Anderson. We uh although we're not allowed to make comment and respond and have dialogue, we will we made note of the questions you asked and we'll make sure that somebody does respond. Okay. Sorry. Moving on to item four, consent agenda.
And in the coming weeks, we will also get uh pictures and drone video of Enlow. And we'll come back and show you that. But I did just want to highlight this. If you haven't seen this or didn't notice it on social media, the great thing about just uh watching this at the bowl on the left side of the bowl, you almost get a before and after look because they're working their way from right to left around uh the seating area. So when you see the left, you still see kind of that concrete structure that people sat on for decades. When you look all the way on the right, you see the new features, the undercoating, uh the carebacks, and so you really get a feel for what the entire bowl is going to look like. So, just wanted to lift that. That certainly was very popular when we put that out on social media.