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And number five, I'm losing track of my numbers here. I use my fingers. Um, doctor degree is not math, but but it's uh uh there's just so many issues. But if everybody's there, there's also we're seeing displaced risk. So while there I had an assistant superintendent in one school district out not in the state call and say I need you to come in and do some training with our staff because we've had a dramatic increase in fights. I said why is that? We started talking. What are you doing in your school? We talked for about 45 minutes and she said, "Well, we we a neighboring district went to weapons detection system and they had a we had a task force and even though we didn't have weapons incidents or she said we did somebody decided we should do it and we did it and she said I said well who's running them?" Well, we pulled staff who teachers and pair professionals and our administrators up front and our school police officers and monitoring from back and I said and where are your fights occurring?
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>> Both those boys are good >> fun to watch. >> Thank you. >> Everybody's already taking my >> just a lot of as you can see kind of as there is throughout the year a lot of wellrounded opportunities. across the board at Green Castle. I just have a a couple of a couple of things. Um I wanted to on the personnel report tonight two gentlemen done a lot for our school both during the day outside of the day and we'll actually honor them with the rest of our retirees summer. But I did want to mention Mr. Hudson for that. We just hosted a girls basketball semi state. Um I think the gate was like $30,000 or something. Granted that goes to IHSA but um you know when you had the so this was a 2A semi-state but the previous week we had number one Pike who lost to Lawrence Central.
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That is a corrective action uh on a pay change and that one's six on there. Number seven, request for my donations. Um $9,959.58. I am just overwhelmed. Uh I'm going to say it till I I'm uh till I can't say any on the generosity of the Huntington community for our school system. It's just unmatched. uh any place I've been of the four corporations. But uh draw attention to a couple things there. I see that um there were $2,400 awarded from the Huntington County Community Foundation for the purchase of handbells for the Husky ringers bell choir. Um I see several other items on there. One of them um ironclad excavating large plotter printer uh for scanning ability being donated to our school corporation. uh numerous uh schools with donations, Riverview, um Crest View, Salomony, Lincoln, Horseman, Flint Springs, and others, and the maintenance department. So, uh for your action item tonight, uh the consent agenda, which includes uh several of the items I've missed, included, including the adjunct teacher agreement and donations that we discussed.
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Uh, blue ribbon phase one was paid for with operating part part of it was paid for with operating or with the capital referendum that levied >> um as well as the two high schools. Um, could you very quickly and you might not know the answer, but I know you >> how old were our high schools when we renovated. >> So, just as a point of clarification, the high schools were not a part of blue ribbon part one because we pulled those out and did those student referendum. Both high schools, uh, the last time Lawrence Central was renovated was in the early 2000s. LN officially really had never been renovated. When was it built? It was built in 1978 to be exact. I believe is when we moved in the building or 77 correct. >> Yeah, 76 is when it opened. 78 was first graduating class.
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So, I'd like to turn it in over to Mr. Golki. So, at Sonorin Heights, it's all about data. Uh, one of the data points we look at that we're most proud of is our blind assessments. Our blind assessments are new this year, and we've seen great success with them. Our leadership team makes standard specific assessments that our students complete when we have finished teaching that essential standard. The test being blind means that we as teachers do not get to see it ahead of time, just like we do on benchmarks and our AASA assessments. We then look at that data to ensure we have taught the full standard and determine the number of students who have and have not mastered that essential standard. You're all likely familiar with classroom and benchmark assessments, but one more layer that we like to add our celebrations. Being a middle school of only fifth to eighth graders, we know that motivation is oftentimes a feat to overcome, but celebrating our Hawks is a high priority of ours.
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We do low dose restaurant and we do all the salsa and preparation for them to open. Um, but I would love to continue to work here and I'm hoping that we can make something work out this year as well. I appreciate all of you and taking all the time that you guys do every month, every day, all of that. So, thank you guys. >> Thank you. Hello, good evening to everybody. Hello. >> Um, my name is Mariel Tolayo and I work as a EL pearl professional at Donald uh Grove North. Um, that being said, I actually have many roles I guess I can say. um because I am the only EL parah professional at Downer Scroll North and I go above and beyond every day that I come in to work and I am very um grateful for everybody giving me the opportunity to speak.
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Um it a lot of the acts a lot of it is centered in Porerto Verta. Uh, a lot of it is sporadic and random. Um, but it's it's it's very violent. Uh, truly, when we left when we left on Saturday, um, we were talking about not being around for the fair that weekend and then all of a sudden it's gone to lighting trucks on fire and blacking blocking airports and that type of thing. So, um, my heart does go out to those people and and um hopefully things will things will settle down very quickly. That's all I have. I don't have anything either this evening. Uh I got to join the OS band at the band p wait the band cake uh celebration. Um I uh really enjoyed listening to the pep band. It brought back lots of memories of my own high school days >> um with Shake a Tail Feather, which I'm sure everyone knows.
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Amy Han uh is a she is a STEM teacher at Brierggate in Oaknull. She has actually received the award of excellence which is the most prestigious award that those who excel um honors which recognizes educators that have demonstrated a community to or commitment to equity and the success of all students as well as those who regularly collaborate with colleagues, students and families to create a positive school culture. So, Miss Han was recognized for her role specifically in the creation of the standards aligned curriculum maps for STEM, which is the first time that we have done curriculum maps for STEM, which was a big deal. Um, her collaboration with the classroom teachers and identifying common areas in the STEM curriculum and the science curriculum, uh, to ensure that mutually supportive instruction happens across the content areas for all of our students. Um, our students learn about the work of local scientists.
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Uh, but sometimes if you don't have the 32 or 33, if you said, okay, 24 is the absolute cutoff, that's all we're doing, then you have students who might not be able to take that level of math class because it's not enough to make another section. So, to make sure that students get the class they need, that's always the primary thing that we're looking at. So you may have one class that's a little bit above or another class that's a little bit below the range, but the average comes out. Okay. >> Um >> I know we had I know that when uh we were dealing with COVID in the schools and and the distancing that it was really important that we kept that class size low >> and I just I'm just wondering if if it's up to us to change that or what. That's so I'm curious about who's is it our guidance?
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Um, then the GMP, the Garmong's contract spent to date is about 39%. So, we're trending right along with construction. The total spent to date for the entire project, which includes the hard cost and the s soft cost, is 31% right now. and that's lagging behind because u some of those the furniture and signage that hasn't been purchased yet. Um so that's just another summary of the 11% for contingency spent. I know that was really quick uh and fast. That's kind of the high view of where we're at on the project.
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Just want to remind uh all of you as we get started into this conversation points of consideration. Um several years ago we moved to where we made sure that we were ending first semester by the beginning of Christmas break. And uh a big part of that has to do with things that are happening at the high school. Uh the number of dual credit courses our students take, the increased number of AP courses our students take, uh the number of students who are graduating early and leaving to go to college. that really drives the importance of making sure that we're on a similar schedule with our universities u as we go through this. Um another part of this is looking to make sure that we can try and keep the number of days very as as close to being equal uh first semester and second semester.
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Well, they're occurring over by the cafeteria in the back hallway by the restroom. And I said, "Now, who would normally be supervising those?" And she paused and she says, "Should I just send you the check because the people that they have moved there displaced the risk elsewhere throughout the building because you reduced your supervision there." And one of the number one tools that we find to reduce incidents and to address behaviors is super well, three things. Supervision. Anybody want to guess? >> Supervision >> of of children. So you dis you can displace your risk. U and there have been a couple incidents now where first of all on weapons detection systems they have not to get too far in the weeds, but they have multiple levels of settings. So you may have a weapons detection that has six different settings. You have to decide what you're going to do.
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I think Lawrence Central is going to the state title but to have two you know two teams from the large class and a lot of positive comments about our school community facilities and certainly an opportunity for um those guests to uh to visit restaurants and everything in between games. So, it was a great opportunity to showcase, but it was great. A lot of people put a lot of time and effort into that. Look forward to continue to do those things uh in the future. Um probably the single greatest thing I did to make everyone happy today is I put out a put out a post uh notifying families that don't have to make up first. Yes. Um so, granted a waiver day for that. We are out are out of asynchronous e-learning days. Um so provide it all is clear the calendar looks good without adding any additional days to it.
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>> Thank you, Mr. Brimberry. I'll entertain a motion reference the consent agenda. >> Motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Mr. Melture. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Miller.
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>> Okay, that is correct. That is correct. >> And uh we we did the fieldhouse edition in 96. That was the only addition we did to it or that hadn't rubed. >> It was all >> So somebody who was in 79, >> I feel aches and pains. I'm sure the foundations, all the things that happened at LN all still felt aches and pains and probably was through a beautiful little facelift that we provided through the generosity of our taxpayers. >> We were almost 50 years when that building was renovated. I do remind the taxpayers, you got your money's worth. You certainly did. >> One other quick question because this is the time of year. What is our what is our uh bond rating? So, our bond rating, uh, you may recall from last fall, it was increased. Um, we've always had a strong double A+, uh, bond rating.
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You can see here that we track our classroom data as well as our blind assessment data in the hallway for students to see. We want all of our students to do their best and give effort and we love recognizing that. They've been able to earn candy, chips, a 1-hour lunch or pajamas for the week. They even had the opportunity to pie Mrs. Luna, Mrs. Johnson, or Mrs. Bowers as a reward for their growth or proficiency on their last benchmark. Now, I'd like to introduce Miss Calwell, our eighth grade math teacher. [cough] To ensure all of our students master their essential standards, we are committed to the PLC process and collaboration is key for our team. We have our collaborative team time every Monday that we are so thankful for and you will often find us talking at our prep time as well. After this last benchmark, our principal, Mrs.
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Also, I've been very uh grateful having all my co-workers that I've worked with, including Maria, um Christine, they have also helped me help get what I need to help my students. Um, a lot of the things that I do is I do one-on-one um I go with the students um through the day in all seven periods. Meaning, uh right now, like for example, I go into their biology class. I sit with them. If they're struggling with translation or need any extra additional help, I sit there. Not only do I sit with them, but I personally look at the teachers um instructional um uh criteria to learn myself because if I don't learn with them, I cannot help them as well. Um I also translate some of their homework. I help the teachers. I answer phone calls when parents are um calling me about their academics or anything like that.
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Um they sounded way better than we did back in the day and um I think they raised quite a bit of money. I don't know the numbers, but yay to them. Um I am hoping to go to the OE pancake breakfast on Saturday. So that's all I have. >> School connections. Oh, and I did get to go to meet with the the ladies at um uh East View Academy. It was really eye opening experience. I personally didn't know much about what happens at East View and um I look forward to working to get the them the support they need to uh keep doing their jobs really well. >> Great. Um sadly, I did attend a couple funerals over the past couple weeks. Um, one thing I did notice is uh community the the school communities really [clears throat] come together you know and there's a lot of love in the schools so for their co-workers um also this is your last meeting's last meeting want to thank you for all your contributions >> and um you know Sycamore Sigour is lucky to have you and that'll be a man quite an endeavor.
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Also, this is a scientist of the month program that she started. local scientists who make connections between what uh the students are learning in class and how science shapes the world around them. So, please help me in congratulating Amy in achieving the ISBY award of excellence as a teacher. And finally, uh Mr. Black, Kyle Block. So, Mr. Black is a principal at uh Three Oaks Elementary and he also received the highest honor, the Isby Award of Excellence. Mr. Black was nominated for his work in strengthening community connections through numerous family events uh that bring parents, caregivers, and students together such as afterchool clubs and collaboration with the uh PTO to build playgrounds. He's also being recognized for his advocacy for bilingualism and biiteracy, particularly for his support of the students in our dual language program. Further, he's also recognized for his role as one of the team of Three Oak staff members who together provided life-saving measures last year when responding to a medical emergency of a community member.
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Did we come up with those numbers or >> based on my yes based on my experience within previous school district and other educators? It's a conversation that takes place at the district. The state doesn't give an explicit guidance of this is the class size that you should have because it's based off of your um it's based off of finances. It's based off of enrollment. It's based off of the nuances that exist in the district. And so it's a district decided decision is where that lands. Okay. Yeah. I'm not in no way am I suggesting this, but I I was in 30 kids in my classes, you know. I'm in no way suggesting that um that it was different then. Um but I would be interested in knowing if we could pull any of the information to find out maybe what it was prior to us saying We need to have these classes safer, distance them.
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