It was voluntary. >> So when the Connell court finally ruled it was never a mandate, we thought great. Oh, until somehow in the Supreme Court, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, they overruled that and say, "Oh, oh, yeah, it was. It was it was mandated." Even though the language is crystal clear, it was not mandated language. So, we know there was no win. No win. So, we ultimately just went off the grid. We generate all of our own electricity. And that was that was the tail end of our story. with expensive filtering. Yeah, I I do have a a meeting I got to get to in like one minute.
So, different things, um, and then I also did, um, a survey the next slide, um, for the staff as well to get some feedback from the staff. So, this was a staff, um, planned event. So, they planned all the activities and that was the teaching staff. It was our special education, um, support staff, our, um, physical therapist, our OT, our speech and language, they all planned as well. Um, so all the staff really viewed it as a successful event. Um, they kind of watched the observations with us the parents and the students because it was a family event. They were able to kind of stand back and kind of take in how, um, students were interacting with their families. Um, they loved the variety of activities that we had. Um, they felt that our activities supported our diverse learners, but they also wanted us to still continue to advance and you can see in future, um, think of our students who maybe have some limited mobility, could we add in some more, um, adaptation to our events to support them as well so that we're always looking to improve and grow in our practice.
We hope that the elementary schools will be able to enjoy a performance on the morning of Friday, March 27th. Tickets can be reserved ahead of time or bought at the door. Library Club. The Library Club had its final book to movie event last Friday, collaborating with Mosaic, the students of color and allies club to separate separate celebrate celebrate Black History Month. We showed Hidden Figures, a film and book about three African-American mathematicians who work for NASA during the space race. Coming up, the group will have a movie and bonding event on March 18th after school. And finally, we have Spectrum. In March, we will be discussing nationwide news, organizing a fundraiser, and making plans for Pride Prom. Pride Prom is a favorite event for our LGBTQ plus students, and we try to team up with Franklin County Pride to help them with organization and setup.
Tickets can be reserved ahead of time or bought at the door. Library Club. The Library Club had its final book to movie event last Friday collaborating with Mosaic, the Students of Color and Allies Club to separate separate celebrate celebrate Black History Month. We showed Hidden Figures, a film and book about three African-American mathematicians who worked for NASA during the space race. Coming up, the group will have a movie and bonding event on March 18th after school. And finally, we have Spectrum. In March, we will be discussing nationwide news, organizing a fundraiser, and making plans for Pride Prom. Pride Prom is a favorite event for our LGBTQ+ students and we try to team up with Franklin County Pride to help them with organization and set up. That is all. Thank you so much. Do members have any comments, questions? Yep, member Goodwin. You did great. Thanks.
We have slowly been creeping down. We are in sixth through eighth now. Now we're going to head into um to fifth grade. So in this unit of study in fifth grade, there's the students are going to be exploring what happened at the Fukushima um nuclear power plant in Japan. And when that happened, how are we going to navigate the nuclear power plant that has waste on the ground because we can't send humans in there. So they're going to have to code their little robotic um devices to go through um various obstacles and avoid um red sludge on the ground because they will also have sensors on the bottom of their robots that if it goes over that sludge, the robot stops. And that means you lost. So, they're going to have to apply their their critical thinking skills to navigate this like literal minefield um to save um to save people and to deliver supplies.
They were trained in multitudes. That's our new California mandated reading risk screener. Um that is something that we are giving for the first time this year and then giving yearly uh moving forward. Um and then our TK third through 5th they were at school sites collaborating in data talks with their site principles and grade level teams. our sixth through 8th grade teachers uh and staff, they all attended grade specific and content specific depending um sessions that uh centered around collaboration with their peers and teammates. The offerings was very similar to our September uh PD day. Um we offered 25 total morning sessions. This is different from our September day if you remember. I think we offered 38 in September. Um but if you remember when I reported we had some sessions quite a few that had low numbers due to the big amount of offerings.
And that's a and that's an interesting question. I think it's a phenomenal question that they ask and my answer is always that the greatest teachers I've been around and I had had two characteristics. They were all warm and intelligent. Right? So, they were people that were accessible like they've never met a stranger cuz they're really accessible to everybody. They are smart meaning that and they're intelligent. They know what to say and when to say those things. And recently after moving to Chico Junior High, when I have these conversations, I'm able to say, "If you want to see what this looks like, I have a lady that really embodies that every single day when she comes to work. You should come to my school and see what that's like." Um she is one of the best educators I've ever been around. Um this is my 23rd year in education and she is phenomenal.
We have Morgan Contas and Kelli Mendes who will be sharing a few words. First Good evening board members, parents, teachers, and staff. My name is Morgan Conturus and I am a senior here at Aaho High School and I'm our student body president. I'm grateful for the opportunity of being able to share my experience with the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management today. On February 6, we made a high school history. We visited Ellert with the largest group of students and I'd like you to please take a second to look around at our Eller attendees to see if you notice anything. Our Eller visitors were all girls. It is truly historic to represent AO as one of the biggest southern Arizona participants, especially with a group consisting of young women who continue to astound us with their growth. At Eller, we learned the importance of ethics.
And that's gone now. So, we don't know how that changes. What's happening there? I think it's probably safe to say if you don't reinforce and go, you will you will have more, >> right? >> Yeah. I mean I I just I think from what we've seen and what's been noted from Phil and the study that yeah it'll probably happen again but to what extent their original report as well if we are seeing work with them for years great job as always reminder we were to the point where things were starting to fall. So that southeast corner, that column, once you guys got up there, they were almost pulling things out because it was that loose. So how often does somebody go that high to check that out? Not very often. >> Well, never before. There was a ceiling there. >> You could eventually have stuff up there just hanging that we don't know that one of these days falls.
Um it could be that we have other laws that govern how we need to handle the student. So for example, we have both federal and state laws in Indiana that if we have students who are part of our special education programming and have their own individualized education plan pursuant to that programming, we're not allowed to just immediately change a placement of a student without going through a certain process that the law dictates to be able to do that. So, I know that that's not something that's commonly known, but that's just one example of when there could be reasons why the school can't do something immediately to be able to address a particular student behavior. That's not the the only example, but it's the one that um we typically will will see the most frequently. So, just know that there is typically a reason why. And again, because the federal privacy laws, it's not something that we can just openly go out there and talk about.
So, if the co-main dies, the main one can keep fighting on, but if the main one dies, then the co-main can uh then the co-main can't keep fighting. So since uh Deacon's co-main was able to was killed, the main can keep on fighting, you know. Um Oh, >> looks like he forwarded him. That is that is a stock in Deacon's favor. He tied it up. Yep. So now our stocks are six to six. >> Okay. >> Mhm. >> Alrighty. That is pretty good. >> It was. >> Yep. And before we move on to our next match, why don't why don't we shout out one of our amazing sponsors. Do you want to do the honors? >> Absolutely. Adams Wells, huge shout out to our local internet provider, Adams Wells Internet Telecom. They're directly responsible for our esports players to be able to compete because of their incredibly fast and reliable fiber network or internet service.
Um, we won first in the Christmas parade. We were really very excited about that. Um, we do a lot with fire prevention, field trips, spell bowl. This was our first year for our robotics club, so we're really excited about that. Also, um our archery team, uh got to go to Worlds last year and they have state next weekend, so hopefully they'll do nationals and and um make it up to um Worlds again. Um we were for the second year in a row the state of Indiana familyfriendly school. So, we are excited about that also. >> Okay. So, hold this. >> Yes. Thank you. Um so I'll talk a little bit about um a couple things that are near and dear to my heart. Um one of them is our student leadership team. Um feel very um passionately about student leadership um and having the opportunity for our students to have that accountability and student voice and ownership within their school.
>> Well, Larry, thank you so much for joining us and for everything you've done to protect your wife and your family and your home. Uh it's very inspirational because we're all pioneers in this and we don't have a playbook to say this is how you win. It comes through family by family, experience by experience to teach our legislators and our local uh representatives what this issue is. So, I think your story is very compelling and we're very grateful, Larry, that you took the time out of your busy day to join your wife. Um, and we'll continue talking with Lexi, but thank you so much. >> Okay. Thank you. Yeah. >> All right. So, Lexi, I was at our local farmers market a couple of weekends ago and there was a table with our select board. These are the, you know, like our city council. It's called a select board here.
Um, so that's just a brief overview. Um, you know, I invite the committee here. Our next event is our Pittway Open House which will be April 15th, um, starting at 4:30. It's a drop-in. Um, our theme this year is going to be out of this world. So, the students starting next week will start to work on that theme and they will do different activities in the classroom that they'll showcase and then they'll have some live activities that they can participate in their families with. But we'd love it for you guys to drop by and see what's happening at Pitt away in person.
That is all. >> Thank you so much. Do members have any comments, questions? >> Yep. Member Goodwin, >> you did great. Thanks. Thank you. appreciate it. All right. At this time, I'm very excited to uh welcome up three of our principles. Maybe we'll do it one at a time or all three of you. I'm not sure. Um we have Michael Browning, principal from our high school, Michelle Fenomore from the middle school, and David Potter from Four Corners. And they're going to be telling us a little bit about what's going on in their schools. Um hopefully this will be the first of many times. First of many. >> Yes. >> Yep. >> Yes. Um thank you for that introduction. want to welcome our three principles here and um as chair ston mentioned just a brief overview of some of the great things that are happening at the schools and we'll have the three other principles come the next month there and because I know that many times our business our meetings are done with business and a lot of things that are happening and I think it's nice to hear what's going on in the schools and how they're dealing with things and and kudos to all the teachers and everybody who's involved districtwide as well who helped this week with the unfortunate passing of one of our students the middle school did a great job and had assistance from other schools as well on that one.
Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. At this time, I'm very excited to welcome up three of our principals. Maybe we'll do it one at a time or all three of you, I'm not sure. Um we have Michael Browning, principal from our high school, Michelle Fenimore from the middle school, and David Potter from Four Corners. And they're going to be telling us a little bit about what's going on in their schools. Um hopefully this will be the first of many times. First of many. Yes. Yep. Yes, um thank you for that introduction. Want to welcome our three principals here and um as Chair Sexton mentioned, just a brief overview of some of the great things that are happening at the schools and we'll have the three other principals come the next month. There and cuz I know that many times our business our meetings are done with business and a lot of things that are happening and I think it's nice to hear what's going on in the schools and how they're dealing with things and and kudos to all the teachers and everybody who's involved district-wide as well who helped this week with the unfortunate uh passing of one of our students.
Um so, my goal and my hope when this is all ending in years from now is that um her school will be the model for what this looks like and all of you will be invited to our first fifth grade robotics challenge inter-district uh challenge between all of the schools because of the foundation that her teachers um are are doing right now. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'll tell you a little story. Uh one of my teachers came running to me, my read my ELA teacher in fifth grade and she's like, "Carmen, you're not going to believe this. We were reading an IAB, which is one of the test preps to get the kids ready for the smarter balance." And the little girl uh one of the little fifth graders said, "Oh my goodness, mass. I know exactly what that is. That means the weight of an object." And my teacher was so shocked um and she ran over to me to tell me.
And so what we did is we brought that down to 25 which was uh 12 less. Um it allowed for much more full and robust conversations of sessions. Most sessions had about 15 plus attendees and we had 12 sessions that reached capacity almost within the first two days of signing up. Every presenter presented all morning by either hosting an all morning session or they presented twice to cover that 8 to 11 time frame. All presenters also were presenters that presented in September. So we had a lot of return presenters giving some great work. All sessions were extensions or new connected topics or content from that September PD day. Our offering topics we offered um in instruction six sessions, self-care four sessions, special education two sessions, art four, planning and collaboration two, tech five sessions, and then STEM we had two sessions. I'd like to before we move on to what those days looked like even more is give a big shout out because uh our Beressa staff essentially presented almost every single one of those sessions.
She is able to connect with kids through her English class. Um she also runs an IRI class, which is an intervention for kids that are struggling, I guess, with their relationship with school and its importance and she does an amazing job of getting those kids to believe in school, believe in themselves, and have some confidence and show some success. Um she's a leader on our campus. She is somebody that always is like a voice of reason that can bring the team together. Uh Chico Junior High School is a great school because we have people like her working there. Um she's a tremendous educator and like I said, one of the best I've ever been around. And uh our school is amazing because she works there. And so I'd like to introduce Maya Price. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, at this time I'd like to ask Kelly to come on up.
Although Elder is a business school, what we learned on ethics is that it is a very important value to hold close regardless of wanting to pursue something business related or a different career. Ethics can be carried into any field and this experience helps us learn alongside other students from other schools. We worked on case studies together and we got the opportunity to hear what different CEOs thought about ethics. We will carry this other experience into our future careers to be with integrity. After returning from Eller, we got asked by fellow classmates about what we learned and did. And I'm very thankful we get to speak spark curiosity with our peers for trips like in a couple of years from now when someone asks where we are from rather than immediately thinking of a Spanish word for garlic. I hope they can immediately recognize a when we say we are a town close to the border because our town name has become so widespread.