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But if you come forward, we're going to take a picture. So starting off uh with Asante Preparatory and then Ashton Ranch, Canyon Ridge, Simmeron Springs Middle School, Countryside Elementary School, Daart High School, Elmarrage Elementary School, Freedom Traditional Academy, Kingswood Elementary School, Luke Elementary School, Marley Park Elementary School, Mountain View, Rancho Gabriella Elementary School, Shadow Ridge High School, Sunset Hills Elementary, school, Surprise Elementary School, Valley Vista High School, Western Peaks Elementary School, and Willow Canyon High School. Congratulations to all these recipients and our governing board um on this outstanding accomplishment. We're going to take a picture real quick um with everybody with their A's, including our governing board um and then we'll be right back with you. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Next up, we have item address the governing board audience with individuals. This is the time for the public to comment. Members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda.
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Andre Chang, who is a 10th grader on violin, all state orchestra. Ryan Perry, trombone, he is an 11th grader for all state orchestra. Paxton Raman, tener one for the all-state choir. And Bryley Steface for all state composition in the singer songwriter category for her song US9. These students had the opportunity to travel to Peoria in January and spend three days rehearsing with top conductors, exploring a college fair made up of schools very interested in recruiting them to their music programs and performing a culminating concert on the ice, as we say, because it is on a hockey rink that they cover and turn into a stage uh at the Poria Civic Center. We are extremely proud of these students who have represented their school and community very well. Thank you. No stop right now. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you.
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Now we have Julie Kleinmeer. A passion and advocate for music at Thompson, Julie places student growth, engagement, and well-being at the center of all she does. She goes beyond expectations to provide meaningful experiences for her choir and band students. She also helps organize after school activities for students, contributing to a greater sense of belonging for all. A nominator shared, "Thompson Junior High is fortunate to have an educator who invests so much time, energy, and heart into ensuring students receive the support, enrichment, and encouragement they need." Congratulations, Julie. Bandra Ingresol. Sandy's work behind the scenes helps make everything run smoothly at Thompson. As an administrative specialist, she supports her building's administration through multiple tasks and is a sounding board for other staff members, providing thoughtful feedback to all challenges. She also shares encouragement with students who come through the office. As shared by a fellow employee, she encourages everyone she comes in contact with.
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And again, it's totally optional. So, it's really great opportunity for students to kind of be leaders in the band. Yeah, that's about it. And then we have the broadcast club, which is also run by Mr. Rosenbomb. You're going to find that these same people sitting here are running multiple clubs. >> So, the broadcast club was uh a piloted club that uh Mr. surely approved while Dr. Qualls was actually um out uh at the beginning of the year. We had seven kids uh come to me about uh starting that and so they got to broadcast uh basketball games on uh Google or sorry on um on the iPad and then we load into Google for them to review. We had a couple of the high schoolers uh who are doing the broadcasting for Kerry Grove High School come and they ended up uh helping to teach them and train them on how to do that.
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>> Yeah. >> So that's every visit. So if it continuously snows over the weekend, so every time the guys have to come out would be another $700. So the proposed 250 for a an event um would offset that and some of the custodian fees because they get paid as well. Uh I split the um the snow salting and snow removal uh into two parts. The custodians take care of everything close to the buildings and the entrances. And then the parking lots, paths, main sidewalks by Crystal Lake Road. That's part of the uh services provided by Arctic Snow and Salt Removal. And um that's just Kerry Jr. And then Deer Path is another one that gets used over the weekend. Yeah. >> So, that one is uh every time they come out for salting, I believe it's just under $500. So, it's it's it's merely just a little extra to help to make sure it it really wouldn't offset much.
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Yeah, you too. All right. Well, we're going to continue on to our next most favorite part of any board meeting, which is celebrating academ academic excellence. Dr. Wenda. >> Thank you, Mrs. Parent. We are so excited to have uh some incredible students from Evergreen Elementary and some staff members here from Evergreen. We start every school board meeting by recognizing students and the great things that are happening. So, we're really excited to get to hear from Evergreen today. So, Miss Bordalon, if you want to uh introduce your guests. >> Good evening. Thank you so much for having us. We have some fourth grade friends and some first grade friends here tonight to talk with you. Um, last year when we came as our last time as east, we talked with you all about EXL and how we were using that and leveraging that and we were thrilled when we found out was going to be brought down into the elementary level.
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Mrs. RmIrez. >> Thank you, Mr. President and board members. I'm here tonight regarding course additions for the 2627 school year for Crown Point High School. The courses that are listed here, which are scientific research, independent study, digital design capstone, and education professions capstone, are requested to be offered for our students participating next school year in 2627. These three course additions are based on student enrollment and there are no additional staffing requirements or resources that are needed to support these three courses being offered to our students and they do all support um both the current diploma as well as then the new Indiana diploma requirements. So I am here tonight asking that the administration um approve the course additions at Crown Point High School for the 26 27th school year. >> Thank you Mrs. Ramirez. Board members, you've heard a recommendation in administration to approve the course additions to Crown Point High School for the 2026 and 2027 school year.
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So, our food nutrition office under the leadership of Norah Burgess uh really does a phenomenal job and from time to time now they are bringing those out not every day but from time to time. So, they also do social media post. We shared their post because as you know we have so many followers on EDSC. Obviously this hit home with a lot of people because once we looked at the reach data when we shared this same picture of pink iced cookies it reached when I checked earlier this morning uh it was 349,000 times. So this is one of the best posts we've had in terms of breach data for a while. I think it speaks to the fact people love these pink iced cookies. They have fond memories of them. So, in honor of that and that uh great reach on social media, you get to enjoy one this evening and thanks to Nora and in the food and nutrition department.
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He's always willing to help out, lend a hand. Um, and he doesn't have to be asked to help out. Um, I've watched him stay late, um, work with underassmen, um, help them out in any way possible. He's always the last one in the locker room after a road trip getting off the bus, uh, helping unload the bus. Um, as Mrs. Goodpastor said, he's a really great athlete. you watch him perform on the field and he's a great athlete, but deep down he's an even better person and that shows a lot about his personal convictions and um his character in general. I see you. >> All right. Well, I have Miss Clementine here and she was our student of the month from January. Um, which we focused on empathy. And so, Clementine shows empathy to her friends in many ways. She's the first to ask if someone is okay.
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Um, it is absolutely a career for someone. Anything further? Now, let's vote on the motion. That motion passes 6. Moving on to C3, clinical instructor independent contractor agreements. >> Mr. Allen and board, on behalf of Principal Drummond, uh, director of career and technology education, uh, these are four action items for the clinical instructor independent contractor agreements. These are also um annual based on the number of people she needs. Virginia Beakman, Steven Kaye, um Llaya Lane, Whitney Smoltzreed, and Michaela Small. And these are I know you've had a chance to review those, but these are Tiffany's recommendations for those agreements. >> Thank you, Mr. Brimberry. I'll entertain a motion reference this item. >> Motion to approve the clinical instructor independent contractor agreements as presented. Thank you, Mr. Meltchure. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller.
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There was also a a piece of legislation in there that was vague that um made it the school's responsibility to safely lock a cell phone up. And that has been taken away. Uh so the student parent would be responsible which is in our handbook currently. And then Senate Bill 199 um is supposed to help with social media uh dealing making sure the child is 16 years or older uh before they get on social media. And as we all know that is social media is a an area that causes a lot of conflicts for a lot of schools after hours that it's brought into the school day with that. As Chris talked about the HVAC systems, uh we do as we as you approve tonight, we do have a lot of projects going on. high school roof, Deont Elementary roof, uh this water project, uh and then that HVAC system that will take one year at the high school, then the middle school air will be off at the high school for four to six weeks and it's going to be off at the middle school as well as Chris reported.
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>> And now I need you to take step to your >> There we go. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Right here. One, two, three. Get in there. Get back behind you. Take the picture. >> Got it. CONGRATULATIONS. >> And to continue with student recognitions tonight, our chief of secondary education, Dr. Crystal Thorp. Good evening, board president, Mrs. Amy Norman, Superintendent Dr. Smith, and members of the board. MSy of Lawrence Township has a long-standing excellence, a long-standing tradition in excellence in the arts. Tonight, we celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our secondary schools in the performing arts. The criterion for individual recognition includes excelling in competitions such as all state ensembles, all regional ensembles, um the Indianapolis Symphonic Orchestra side by side, just to name a few. So, we are going to take pictures after the names are read. So, tonight we do uh have Bzer Middle School will be represented by Miss Lano, orchestra teacher.
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>> Good evening everyone. Um, I'm excited tonight to introduce uh Joy Belt Resib and Shane Nelson who are going to introduce our ILMA state musicians from South. And I'm going to start with Mr. Shane Nelson. Uh, hello everybody. Uh, my name is Shane Nelson and I am the assistant band director between both uh, South and North. Uh, and this is my first year here. Um, and I've already gotten to witness, as we can see, the amazing musicians that we've have uh across the district. And uh I'll be talking a little bit about the South students. So, can we have our South uh instrumentalist students come up? I don't think everybody's here, but we have a few of them. Yeah, come on up. Uh so, we have Giovani Cruz Romero on Euphonium. Uh and then we also have uh Eli Deoles uh playing viola. Uh one of Miss West students in the orchestra.
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And even on the craziest days in the office, you can count on her calmness and smile to support you. Congratulations. And finally, we have Kathleen Barnes. Kathleen holds her students to high standards and helps them achieve these goals. Always smiling, she provides encouragement to all of her language arts students, present and past. Her commitment to continued student success and supporting colleagues demonstrate her excellent character. One student shared, "Her class is the first class I've truly felt seen." Congratulations, Kathleen. And any administrators from Tons, keep looking around. Sorry, Mark. All right. Congratulations, Thompson, and everybody being recognized here tonight. Honores, please proceed out into the hall, gathering at the landing of the stairs for a large group photo. Thank you again to all the families and colleagues who are here tonight to support our wonderful winners. Our next Pride Awards will be open for nominations starting in just two weeks on March 12th.
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And then at the end of the year, a number of them were able to go and be part of the broadcast at the high school and get to be part of the halftime interviewing to just kind of highlight some of the things that they were learning and all the fun that they got to have. And the parents really enjoyed getting to hear the skill and the development of the kids from game one to the end of the season in terms of calling a game. So there we go. >> And then chess club, which is run by Carolyn Doug. Hi, we uh have about 30 to 35 students in chess club this year which is really awesome. All different levels. So we we always say just come and play with us. So um I guess our main thing we always say is we never lose. You only win or you learn.
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It's just uh something to help offset some of those charges. >> I get that. I was just curious. So, like it snows Saturday. We're playing basketball at the junior high at Deer Path. Deer Path is paying the fees. Junior high is paying the fee. There's 500. Snows again on Sunday, it's another 500. >> Correct. >> Okay. I just wanted to make sure that I understood cuz I feel like I'm going to get asked. >> Yeah. Cuz then um otherwise like uh right now for the other schools that there aren't any activities on the weekends and I verified that for all of February. So I told the snow company to wait uh if anything happens after Friday night at 10:00 so that the building should be totally empty by then. wait until Sunday night or early early early Monday morning before school starts that next week so that they come one time for like say one two inches of snow even if it comes at different times over the weekend versus just coming continuously when nobody's in the buildings >> right I totally get it I was just curious and then I was actually just curious of one more thing so I don't I'm not against raising the rates but I was curious what is um by bringing by raising it a little bit, are you making like an a significant amount more money by raising it that little bit?
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So, sorry, but for the second year in a row, you get to hear about. Um, but how we're leveraging it in a similar yet different way because we're elementary. So, how it works in fourth grade is a little different than how it works in first grade, but still kind of the same concept in supporting skills and supporting student growth on either the ILR checkpoints, which we just spent a good bit of time talking about, or on NWA because our first graders take NWA. So, I'm going to turn it over to Mrs. Ruiz and let her talk about how she uses it with her first graders. Hi, this is our first time with um this year. So, we figured out how to import our scores from NWA into this into once you put them in there, it gives an individualized skill plan for each student. And I've used those individual plans to make bingo boards for them.
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May I have a motion? So, moved by Miss Basin. Second by Mr. Warney. Are there any questions or comments? >> Yes, Mr. Mir's question on the uh science department science research independent study. >> Um, in a nutshell, how does that work? independent. >> It's actually going to be a concurrently taught course if you guys approve this course for us. So, it would be concurrently taught with the honors um principles of biomedical science. So, what the students do is they are in that course and then they are concurrently in this course so that they can benefit from both um areas of study. >> Okay. Yes, that makes more sense now. >> It does give the students a lot of um kind of application of classroom learning through some authentic projects that they can do. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? There being no further question or comment, we'll move to a vote.
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And that is good news. >> I tell you, I have not heard one complaint about having cookies. >> No, I haven't. Most people when they they started it when I passed them around said, "Uh, maybe not." And then they saw pink ice, they're like, "No, never mind." He's going to >> Well, thank you to them. Very nice. Uh we have our visitor from the south with us this evening. >> He is with us. >> Mr. Jers, uh could you go into public comment, please? >> Uh President Dougworth, I don't have a sheet in front of me from Amy. So I don't know if we have anyone signed up. >> That would be because we did not. >> I'm happy to report, President Duckworth, that we have no public comment this evening. Maybe just read from your scorecard cuz I know you've been on the course and I'm not sure you're not wearing short pants with that suit.
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