Hearing none, all those in favor? I. Any opposed? The motion [clears throat] will carry. And then I will issue that notice to proceed in the morning. Very good. Thank you. Thank you for all the hard work on that, too. And it's uh refreshing to hear that we're able to do that with little to no cost. I know you you really kind of you had a lot of irritable calls and and discussions with people we're going to have, so thank you for going that extra mile to get that done. I'll be sure to get with the uh youth board secretary to make sure we put that out uh that so just know if you could make sure we annotate that. >> And when does that season officially It'll be in beginning of July. It's a good thing she's dual headed for that role. Yeah, so I have to work together on that.
Brimberry, our our building level administrators, the staff and students of this community, um and can't wait to to get started. So, Thank you and welcome, Mr. Hanson. I want to welcome you on behalf to Huntington. We'll take some pictures, but welcome to Huntington. >> [applause] >> All right, our next person we'd like to address the board and our community is our new director of teaching and learning and and again Lan, I was pretty kind on but I will tell you I'm grateful what you've given to this school system. There's no person I'm more excited to work with in your new position. So welcome. Thank you and you didn't make me cry. I appreciate that very much. I'd like to thank Chuck. He did a wonderful job making this comfortable. Cindy was outstanding in her professionalism as we went through this. Jay Peters, thank you for all you've taught me and all you're going to teach me in the next couple of months.
So, through this process this year, we were able to again, as with the K-3 group, go ahead and look at several different resources. Uh over 50 members joined us. Uh students, high school students, uh parents, teachers, um and administrators all took part in this process, so it was outstanding. Um, but as you can see there, uh again, as Ms. Schneider brought up, the Department of Education has a recommendation for resources grades K through eight. So, for us, we needed to look at also what would be available 9 through 12 that aligned. And so, that was really a word that that stuck with us was alignment um with groups. So, in that, we went ahead and recognized the differences with it while the teams met. So, in 6th through 8th teams, we heard from Savvas, Lavinia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. And then in 9th through 12, we took a look at Carnegie Learning, McGraw Hill who has now since moved into SpringBoard, and then the HMH Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
There's Maggie McInness open. Over to looks like Early over there. Yep. All right, Elena early. >> See if Elena can capitalize over here. Nope. So, definitely not. D shot outside the circle. Looks for a cutter. Actually, good shot. Good save by the Westwood goalie. Ball's loose. Thought I heard a whistle, but maybe not. Good defense by Julia. >> Slows him down. Westwood has a player roping. Good help defense by Ashland. Good switch over there by that number 11. have. I think that's one of our call-ups for today. Great defense by Ashland. Lana getting pressured over there. Look at Alana go. Lana looking for one of her teammates. Sees Julia open behind the net. Slight turnover. >> Wow, what a save by Alana. Oh, I'm You definitely want to rewatch that save over there by Alana Duffy. Ashlin gets the ball. Great job over there. Great defensive play.
Baker trying to get in. Weitzman all over. What a swim move that was. Baker shaking and baking. Fake there. Baker coming in. Spin move. Baker still has it. All right, who is this Baker? >> Uh Baker is indeed doing some stuff. >> Baker. That was like the most exciting play that we've seen so far. Bellingham. >> Quick shot by number 16 and ball goes right to Ebbs. This is >> Yeah, so Baker's a junior captain, so I guess he does that. He's got that dog in him. >> Yeah, he sure does. As we saw in that play. This is Atwood. Atwood fires a pass over to Olson. Now just two and 1/2 minutes. Good pick by Hart. Olson coming in. Fires. Nice goal. Quick shooting, Bobby. Getting another one. >> That's his hat trick? >> One, two. >> No, he just has two. >> Oh, okay.
Whiten once again goes to her spot. M Whit slides over to it. Ball's thrown away. in there temporarily to pick it up. Comes out with the ball. >> With the ball [crying] with one-on-one with Mckne there, good job by get that help. >> Now she's getting double team trying to go in and out. Turns around, takes a shot. No soup [applause and cheering] for you. I'll take that with yet another save. Julie Gray really helped out the Spartans. Second, third, and fourth quarter. Good job by fire that up to Kylie Marino. Just keep going with that, Kylie. Keep going with it, kid. >> Marino over to Peler. Pelier around the crease. Turns around takes a shot. And I think Yep. Jane Pelier getting her selfie. I think that's Jane's first yellow card of the season for dangerous shot. It's worked three times tonight. So just keep doing that.
Um, also with our instructors in supporting what um, Mr. Lavoy mentioned earlier about our co-eing model and then also our highquality curricular instructional materials from National Geographic which is approved by the state as a um a curriculum support resource to use for English learners. All right. So specifically in the area of the paraprofessionals who work in our department, we currently have eight paraprofessionals. Three of them specifically work with our freshmen in the um freshman one day, fiveday, and final placement for their shops. Each of those paraprofessionals is assigned to seven of our 21 shops. And so they rotate through with the students. One, building the capacity of our paraprofessionals to work in that shop and really have some hands-on knowledgeable understanding of what those students need to be able to do. One, to be safe, two, to access the content and material. Um and then they do that again for the five days and then for the final placement.
I mean >> working with the administration >> used, I should say. Yes, yes. Questions that were asked about each budget item. >> And I do want to thank the administrative team for working hard on on this process. >> These are great. These are really impactful on making sure each item is >> Tried to be very thoughtful. So, what you can see on the first page of the budget list that you have um is everything that um was considered uh by you all as reductions to get to the 4.86% that you all voted on and was approved. >> Well, let's be clear. Like, these are very specific. So, like, I didn't know about I'm just picking one. Like, senior caps and gowns. Like, I don't know anything about that because I paid for my daughter's cap and gown. So, I don't know why I That I don't understand that line item.
Fucarino. >> [applause] [applause] >> Oh, I just lost my place. Give me 1 second here. Uh I I think we're we may go out of order here for 1 second. I just wanted to Um there is something on the agenda that we we added late that I don't know if anyone um may have made it or not. Um Purple Star recognition. So, I'd like to Is Ms. Marks here? Yeah. And Mr. Miko, are you going to come here now as well? Okay. So, Ms. Marks, um so a few uh 2 year I guess it was 2 years ago with the middle school? Was that That wasn't last year, was it? The middle school? Or was that 2 years ago now? So, the middle school received this distinction when I first got here. >> Right. That was the middle school. >> And now this is for the high school.
I was just going to say it's helpful because often times it supports like your own schema, right? It's really about um foundational knowledge and that you're not asking a lot of questions like I'm really building some background and some understanding um before we're trying to make a decision and then also thinking about um questions that's relevant to um the community and what I mean about relevant like the community may already understand certain background like certain background things about the topic, but then as we think about, you know, how we're moving forward being intentional with our questions as well. So, you might not hear all of them, but some of them is really 20 questions is just background knowledge if that makes sense. I think the communication is also helpful cuz we all um have very like different schedules throughout the week and so some people are able to look at the agenda as soon as it's posted.
We've tried to talk with students about how they're growing as well, and putting it in a kid-friendly language. And I think the teachers have done a nice job of saying, "Hey, great job. You leveled up. You went up to the next level." You know, considering below, approaching, at, above, kind of level 1, 2, 3, and 4. And so, getting them to own their data has been a a bigger part of this as well. This is not just a an adult thing, but it's a kid thing, too. Do you have anything to add? Uh I want to compliment you for always being so collaborative, um and really seeing the value and the benefit to our students and to our families where that um unification of our three middle schools. There's not a have and a have-not middle school in Avon. They're all equally um challenging and equally uh friendly and rewarding and welcoming.
Beyond her daily responsibilities, she consistently goes above and beyond to foster a positive school culture, approaching every challenge with kindness and patience. Cynthia Dilling, Johnson Early Education Center Elementary Cafeteria Manager. Cynthia is a key part of our day-to-day operations at Johnson Early Education Center. She makes sure meals are prepared and served on time while keeping the kitchen and cafeteria clean, safe, and organized. Her reliability and teamwork help everything run smoothly. And she knows genuine care or she shows genuine care for our children and staff. We truly value the role she plays in supporting a positive and well functioning environment for our school. Kim Corbin Mcdal, administrative assistant to the principal. Kim does a great job of taking care of both our high school staff and adult education staff. She is always there to help them with any supplies they need for their students along with service with a smile.
So, it helps take our teachers to a level where they should be paid. Also allows us a little more cash flow to offset those things that Brian's talked about over the next 5 years. They'll offset some of those things like taxes and things like that. Ops fund is also how we pay our support staff. They're the people that are definitely underpaid. So, don't hear about a bus screaming deal with 80 kids all over the school every single day. We're cleaning up the puke in the hallways on a daily basis. The whole thing needs leveled up. And the thing that we have to do as a community, if you want this place to be at a level that it needs to be, you have to hire the finest and the best teachers possible. That means pay them well. You have to pay your administrators well so you get the best and the brightest when we have transitions and new things happen.
All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Nay? Vote carries 4-0. Move on to item 5.04, uh donation Bulldog Wrestling Club, Mr. Reese. >> Thank you, Mr. President, members of the board. Tonight I bring before you a $5,000 donation from the Bulldog Wrestling Club. These resources will be used to purchase new wrestling mats for the Crown Point High School wrestling program. Administration recommends approval of the $5,000 donation to the high school. >> Board members, you heard the recommendation uh to accept the $5,000 contribution from the Bulldog Wrestling Club for the Crown Point High School wrestling program. May I have a motion? So moved by Ms. Basin. Seconded by Mr. Warning.
The interior looks good, but do you support that? I would have that during the summer. It is really minor. Excellent, excellent. All right, moving on. Do we have We have an approval request for Everwise rate agreement with Greencastle School Corporation. Yeah, so kind of as is customary this time of year time of year kind of shop some of our reserve accounts to see who can give us the best interest rate. I'll be honest the past few years interest rate has been very good to Greencastle and helped this helped us overcome just some of the shortfalls in revenue. Um and so um Everwise provided the strongest proposal once again. And uh so we had an agreement of 3.28% for 18 months. We'll lock us into that rate. We know that all good things must come to an end and we know that that rate is slowly continuing to drop and won't be as lucrative as it.
I appreciate it. Thank you for the board for your support in every position I've had. Every 3 years they change my job title and this one is so big that my family came. My mom and dad and my sister came. I think they thought I was fibbing and they wanted to make sure this was a real thing. About 30 years ago, sometimes it feels like 15 minutes but sometimes it does feel like 30 years especially Monday after prom and post prom. Van Bailey didn't really interview me. He just sat me across from his desk. He really loved to hire former Vikings and he said to me Lenny, if you get this job, you need to make sure that you remember everything you do doesn't just reflect on you but it reflects on the school and the community and if you mess up your mom's going to hear about it in the grocery store and your your dad's going to hear it about it at elevator.
Uh we also though had a tier three group which we had not had at the secondary level. So, we wanted to look at those supports that we could provide to students who needed tier three support knowing where we are at with reading and how the arrangements are made right now with grade three and the expectations for grade three. We are serving grades six through 12. Not all those students had that direct instruction with the science of reading when they were in third grade. So, we needed to take a look at interventions that we need right now 6th grade through 12th grade. Ms. Noter did a great job with that group. As you can see, our recommendations 6th grade shows that alignment mattered. And so, Amplify does science. They do ELA in grade six. So, we felt it would be great to have the same resource in our elementary schools.
Great defensive pressure. started with that incredible save by Alana. She went down. Again, you cannot pay me money to play a goalie like that. There's no protection on the goalie's leg. So, hands down one of the top defenders in TVL. That is I think that's going to be Ashlin's ball. Nope. West. Yep. Ashlin's ball. It is. Who's that? Number 12, Kendall Wester. Westerland. Look at that speed by uh Kendall. Just keep on going. So, you have the advantage. Keep on going. And Kendall's a sophomore. Started last year as well. Played a lot of varsity time. Just a very aggressive, quick defender. Turn over by Ashlin. Number 14 on Westwood. That's Aaron Ganon. Still Westwood's ball. >> Good defense over there. Someone popped down, so she's fine. Ball goes over to number 13 on Westwood. I think >> Ashlin doing their job over there keeping the Westwood team from cutting.
>> Not a whole lot of like misses. >> Yeah, a handful of saves. >> One grin. >> But, he's burying. >> No, yeah. It was a good shot right there. And the team is doing doing A-OK today. That's a lead of 13 to nothing now. >> Yep. >> And for uh all you Sherborn residents watching this, know there's a fun day tomorrow. It's actually Sherborn town meeting. >> Oh, joy, oh joy. >> So, you're not enjoying this game. I'm sure you could enjoy a nice meeting tomorrow. Or if if anything, maybe you'll enjoy both. >> Yeah. Great defense there from uh Cavaliero, Brendan. Cav- Brendan Cavaliero. Ball just got away from Weisman. Yeah, Daniel and Brendan. Um Brendan's a junior. And he's plays defense. That's him, number 14. And that one gets away from Kyle Conners. Bellingham, you know, you kind of I mean, you kind of want to see him score.
>> Northampton deep in their territory. Score still 14-7 with seven minutes left. really like that off of possession. That'd be good if it's football, but when you're down in lacrosse, sure, you probably want to get shots off, cut that deficit down quick. Northampton up a man now. Green with the ball behind X. Seems like they run a lot of their plays. Green turns around, feathers it in. Nice [cheering] nice pass by Green to get the ball to Little. Little turns around, comes away with another goal. >> I think that's Little Northampton cuts the lead down to six with 629 left in the fourth quarter. [laughter] draw and get the ball over the streaming line and they'll set up the Spartans offense this time. Northampton uh knowing that they're still up a player chasing after Mac. Unfortunately, it's the wrong person to be chasing after Max still with the drawstick.