Landrigan just passes it off to Todd. Eric Todd, that is. Oh, all the way down. Eddie Eddie >> getting hassled. And just an excellent play from uh the Raiders defense. And what a nice pass by Absis. Finds Abrams in full stride past the Fowler. Fowler, what a save from Landrigan. >> All right, picking up speed Landrigan. >> Landrigan, yeah. Wow. >> And ball just got away from number 14 who's not on the >> on the roster. >> Sometimes it's good when it's a >> [laughter] >> Yeah, I know when it's a mistake. >> Well, he missed that one. Well, who's he? We don't know. >> It's pretty funny. Hardenet now with it near side. Get the net more a little. Also. I'm getting the grimacing getting a grimacing face from the camera lady here. >> you the death stare. >> Oh, yeah. Oops. Well, they call you camera cam for a reason, right?
She throws the ball up just over S's head all the way down the pellet. Peler looking to scoop it away. Good job by S to come out with that. S with the ball gets checked away by Fedinkz. Still stays with the ball. Sand with the ball. Gets the ball over to Mckne. With the ball goes one, two, turns around, takes shot up [applause] there. Put the Spartans up 13-6. Spartans now with >> seven goal scorers in this game. Whitmer with five with one. >> Jane Pelier with three up 136 with 223. Matt Whitler free clinic how to win a draw. Gets the ball over to Crims. >> Crim behind the net to Pelier. Peler over to >> Illingsworth. Pelier finds Illingsworth and Billingsworth playing a little twoman ball gets knocked away. Knees up with it. Goes to one, two, up and down. Third goal of the game now 14.
So we are trying to concentrate those teachers to have a partnership just with one math teacher, one English teacher. It's not always perfect, but we're trying to do that. So moving forward, our ninth and tth students will be working with the same teacher, special ed teacher. 11 and 12 will be working with the same teacher. And we're really breaking that down to executive functioning skills and transition skills. So we're developing, we're in the process of developing a scope and sequence for both of those that will be taught in their instructional support classes. You're welcome. Yes, that's the goal. That's what we hope, right? Like that really is the goal. Where it's challenging is we have students from so many different places that have received different services. So I think right now we work with 20 different middle schools and even if you're coming from Lawrence or Mthuan, even the middle schools run differently in the services they provide.
>> Okay. Oh. >> That's >> I vote I mean I move to approve the calendar as presented by the superintendent and the calendar committee. >> I'll second. Any other discussion on that? Okay all those in favor of approving the calendar as recommended by the calendar committee please indicate by saying I. >> I. >> Any nays? Okay, 6-1. 5-1, excuse me, passes. I apologize. In my head I said five, but I said six. It's so weird. Yeah, there's something wrong with my head. All right, thank you. Okay. Moving on to the Board of Education adopted budget and a possible motion. >> You can't set it up. >> Hm? >> Are you stepping up for >> I was going to. >> I think he did set it up. >> I thought I did. >> Oh, yeah? >> Do I just >> I think it's >> Jody, did I set it up or am I not the one that set it up?
Within our school community, she serves on several critical committees. Whether she is serving on our Code Blue team, our SID team, or academic programming committees, her insight and reflections are always well thought out very and very much appreciated. Ms. Trevna has built strong trusting relationships that have earned her the respect and admiration of the entire school community. Students know they can confide in her support and guidance, and her peers know her as a colleague who is always going to be there for them and lend a hand. Ms. Trevna Trevniak exemplifies the leadership, compassion, and innovation that defines an outstanding educator, and we are proud to call her our GHS Teacher of the Year. Congratulations. >> [cheering] [applause] >> Let's give another round of applause for all these incredible teachers and power professional of the year. Congratulations. >> [applause] [cheering] [applause] >> Once again, thank you.
Um you know, not so long in front of others, but um I think it gave everybody a really good opportunity and a really good exposure to a lot of different schools that they might not otherwise have have seen or considered. So, again, uh congrats to everyone who participated in that. And that's all I have. All right. Um I think the Gear It Forward team is heading down to worlds. Nice. So, safe travels through the storms and good luck at worlds. And last weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Prairie State Middle School Concert Band Festival. Um where I saw Thompson 7th Grade Band. Uh so, thank you to Mr. Daniel and Ms. Kleinmeier. They sounded great. And I know the Traughber Wind Ensemble also performed and did a great job. And um I know Dr. Maxwell and Mr. Peno from Traughber were some of the coordinators for the festival.
So, we are um moving towards getting our science and social studies teachers helping our language arts and math teachers so that we now have double the number of students getting more one on not one on one, but small group intervention time with students and teachers together and not relying so much on that computer helper. The computer helper is good, but we believe strongly that the the teacher is going to be even better when we can we can do that. And so, those are the enhancements that we're tweaking. We're not completely there yet. We don't have the every detail worked out, but that's where we're headed next year, which will allow us to push these scores even better. Thank you. Well, we appreciate having this time to come and share an update with you. And I would echo what Mr. Chapin said. I mean, I was thinking they're not a they used to be a dynamic duo, but now they're a tremendous trio of leaders.
Um, I get to come to work every day and I get to laugh and I get to have fun and I get to play and I get to to see them grow. Yes. And with that, I am honored to announce the 202526 classified employee of the year for each school building and department. Nominations were accepted from students, staff, families, and community members. Voting then occurred to determine the classified employees of the year. As I call each employee of the year up to the front, I do ask that the audience hold their applause in order to hear each person's name and kind words from their building or department administrator. We will start with Katie Conrad from the administration building who is a federal grant specialist. Katie is a true team player at the administration building. She ensures that our federal grants are compliant and effective and is always willing to lend her wisdom to a project.
Still love education. I see it all over the country, but like here specifically teachers aren't taken care of. And it it it just takes me off. I'm just so frustrated with the outcome of the referendum. And even in the public board session that we had, there wasn't a lot of support. There wasn't a lot of support for it. So, for us to go spend the money to want to do it, try to get it done in the fall and to spend 40, 50 grand in lawyer fees and all these things to try it again for us just to fail. >> [laughter] >> I'm being honest, I don't know why some of y'all stay. That's just the truth. You'll make 10, 20 grand somewhere else doing the same thing. No, why do that? Just I don't I don't I don't want that to be the case, but like the people [laughter] in the community need to hear that because that's the truth.
Are there any questions or comments? If there be no questions or comments, we'll move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Nays? And the vote carries 4-0. Thank you, Dr. Terrell. >> Thank you. >> Move on to item 5.02 textbook and resource adoption uh Dr. Kuchina. >> Thank you, Mr. President and board members. For your consideration this evening, we've got a textbook and resource adoption for use beginning next school year in 2026 2027. Uh the resource listed with which uh I prefer to not name because we do some special reveals with that if that's okay with the board, but you could see it on the agenda there. Uh that resource uh will support our elementary school's one district one book uh approach for next school year where we reinforce reading instruction, family engagement, and building a community of readers. Um this year a portion of that purchase will be paid for from the Crown Point Community Foundation grant, and uh the remainder will come from the education fund.
Um and uh the nice thing with this um is uh kind of the at the end of the by the end of the day today, pretty much negotiated a settlement with a roofing manufacturer and insurance carrier that will completely cover the replacement cost of this roof and help us um complete some minor repairs uh to the interior for the minor interior damage that was a result of the leak. So, really excited about that. So, being able to make that improvement once and for all at no cost to the district. It would be my recommendation to move forward. Okay. And you said that July is when it approximately when it would start? >> Mid-July, yes. And it'll it'll work in it'll work into the fall. They'll start early morning the way I understand it. They'll try to get their noisy work done first thing in the morning.
And her passion came through not only in her life's work in Huntington, but also in her interview with our committee. So, I'm honored to recommend Lan in the uh director of teaching and learning, which also known as is following Mr. Peters and his academic leadership. Big shoes to fill, and I know she'll do a wonderful job. Um I'm pleased to tell you and our community and our board that our interim technology director, Russ Klausing, was unanimous within his committee and has done a wonderful job. And again, a very talented uh applicant pool, very difficult decision, but Russ has not only stabilized, has moved us forward in a very short period of time as the interim. I've been extremely impressed with his professionalism, his responsiveness, and his ability to take situations and quickly make them a positive for Huntington schools. I have heard more from the community on hoping we consider him than I have on most positions in my career.
So we'll first go through just a little bit of history cuz it's a little messy with the history with K-5. In 2019-2020, we did a K-3 ELA review and you can see that we adopted in K1 in third grade we adopted Benchmark. That was for a six-year adoption. Second grade adopted Ready Gen. That was a six-year adoption. And then we began in that year to roll out phonics resources in grades K through K through two. In 21-22, we did another review for four through six. That year we adopted for four and five Amplify CKLA second edition. That was for a four-year adoption. And sixth grade adopted SpringBoard. That was also a four-year adoption. But that was also the year that the K-3 high-quality curriculum materials list was released by the Department of Education, which required schools that were below 70% on the IREAD assessment to adopt a IDOE-approved science of reading-aligned resource.
Over to number 13, Miller Manville. Good defense over there by Ashlin. A good shot. Those Wolverines definitely one of the top offensive teams in the league. You know, Ashton did pretty well. They were defending and I think that was number 13. Might be wrong. Miller Manville just found a crease and uh shot the ball in the top left corner and had a nice goal over there. So, it's a gold piece for both Ashlin and Westwood. Beautiful night over here in April. >> Last Monday of April over here, April 27th. First of three games for the uh Clockers this week. >> Interesting. They go back to back with teams that have green jerseys. Got Grafton coming in on Wednesday. Over to number 19. That's number is that 13. So tough to see their jersey numbers. Good defense on the cut. Good defense. I didn't see who our action defender, but helped prevent that shot going up.
Oh, nice save from Landerkin. And what a goal. Who even scored that? Um, Cavallero? Atwood? Either Cavallero or Atwood, I believe. It was definitely one of the two. >> Did Did you see it? >> I didn't see it, but I know who it was. >> Cam, look at the replay. Go on replay. I'll be right back. All right, yeah. It was either Cavallero or Atwood. Cam's going to check that out. 8:48 left to go. 12 to nothing right now in the third. If it was the fourth, we'd have some running time, so we'll see. Ben Savarese dishing off to Fowler. Fowler on the 41. 42, I mean. Far side. Now the 40 going down. 35 30 25 20. Looking like he's going to Oh, goes all the way back behind the goal line past the Olsen. Olsen up to Savarese to Abrams. Savarese. Oh, that's hits off Bellingham player, I believe.
Hey goes up. Mac W comes away with it again. >> Check me with the ball. turning around. Nothing there. Kicks the ball out. Comes all the way back out. Set up Spartans offense. Gets the ball to Kylie Marino. >> Kylie. Yeah, Kylie Marino goes around. See Kylie with how quick she is to take that turn. Really go right in at the goal. Muscle in three times today. Tries to feather one in. Criminals trying to one time it. Misses just wide. Comes up with the ball. Criminals with the ball. Turns around tries to throw the ball here. >> Knocks it away. Comes up with the ball. >> Really having to work hard for their ride today as Little gets the ball up to Green. gets the ball over the restraining line. >> She finds Bet by Hannah Eddie. Good defense by Hannah Eddie. Fedinkz takes a shot just wide.
This year um we've we've had a lot of kids that have required reading services as freshmen that haven't previously had those services pending the districts that they're coming from. special. >> So, um, we use, that's a good question. So, we use, um, Dr. Orin's reading graphic organizer. So it looks at your cognitive skills that dictate your reading ability and then we plug in your reading scores based on that graphic organizer to see uh this is like a whole presentation but it's basically to see are we looking at a decoding weakness, are we looking at a fluency weakness, are we looking at a comprehension weakness and then we plug in what program we're using based on that graphic organ. organizer. So my reading specialist, I previously worked with her and we had a lot of training in this area. So that's what we've been using. I know some people have asberers close.
>> It was on before. >> [laughter] >> The touch screen gave me presentations. >> [laughter] >> Thank you. So, I I will share that um this part is just very similar to what I shared last time, but I did want to kind of re- focus us back to cuz the last time we met was a little while ago uh what I had shared last time. Uh so, that being said, I just want to remind everyone kind of where we started, right? So, I think the staff came in at 6%. Um the board had, you know, worked very hard and brought the budget down to 4.86% or 58 133 955. And then we were reduced 0.9% um by the Board of Finance uh and that is what's being recommended to go out uh for vote. So, that's kind of where we are. So, our charge is to look at the reduction of approximately a half a million dollars.
So, we still have a few presentations if we can just I'm sure the the board will take a few minutes at the end of the presentations. Um by design, I wanted to um honor our teachers and our power professionals, our entire staff and faculty is incredible, our administration really I've been I've been I've been in a few different places all over the country as well. Um the the dedication that they all give to our students and families is is remarkable. But I would like to um now go back to the agenda, please. Uh I'd like to call up uh now for Mr. Storms for student of the month. Okay. Mr. Amico for student of the month. >> Once again, hello everyone. Um if Joanna Tomaskovic is here, please come up to the podium. There you are. Okay. Joanna is our [applause] April student of the month.
So, um thank you for for doing that both for the for the arts and for the kids. And well done to all the teachers and the young musicians that participated. Um this past couple weeks I was I attended the play play A Night Under the Stars. It was sweet, smart, funny, um well acted. They were very talented. And what I will say is that they haven't put on a play for like 3 years and they came out, you know, roaring. Hopefully they could continue doing that. Um it College Career Fair was great. And you know what? Um I want I want to add to a little bit of the, you know, you brought up a great point and so did you that, you know, your impact was probably more than you probably know. Um Often times when we're having discussions, you know, we can't talk more than, you know, one one-on-one.