i knew of firms that worked with districts to help provide business staff on a quick notice and met with them and brian laura at that time laura was the member of that firm and she worked with us until uh we hired a halftime business manager to actually in the district uh mr kim's circle and so laura is no longer that firm she did a good job for us had we had good eyes with her work and uh tomorrow night that would bring her back yes the individuals below have expressed an interest in coaching for the 2020 spring sports season jose ariane is head baseball coach lonnie alvarez as co-head softball coach kayla leona as co-head softball coach and angelino as assistant we're still looking for assistant coach for jose and baseball we thought we had one and the person that was going to do it had some personal reasons if anybody wants to coach baseball is a good role model christmas items approval of the 2023 school calendar the yahoo 2223 school offers schools educational calendar has been proposed and reviewed this calendar meets the maryland instructional days 180 including all states certified media conference and we look at it and um we have one change over the past years the first day back after christmas break is an in-service day for teachers teachers like that yeah one of the things that teachers want to talk to when we requested uh when i first came to beautiful downtown oppo we had three days off for thanksgiving wednesday thursday friday because when we located some people travel distances to celebrate the holiday we got away from that for a few years two years ago and working on the calendar staff that i spoke with expressed an interest in that so we've continued that so we had wednesday thursday friday for thanksgiving i'm finding some school districts take the whole week off we could do that just run a couple days later in april with the staff that's comfortable with that also if you take a look at we showed january the 2nd it's a staff development day the first day and i'm back from winter break what we did was substitute we had a day off in april just to have a day off and we did we took that away and put it in january um so the april holiday uh i'm not doing that this year but if there's not time what we've been doing volunteering for holidays we probably have we've always had them under we said extra days just kind of took care of that now if the board the teachers already proved this and we confirmed that i could always go back to them we had the last day of school may 23 being my high school graduations 24th which is a wednesday that's the last day department that's the last day for students and the staff come back the following day the 25th the teacher certified staff that's the end of their year so if i kind of i kind of like the idea of having thank you things get stressful and second semester with testing with unfortunately code but budget was looking for teachers for the subsequent year it's gorge made a motion i could easily uh find a friday or a monday in april we just say we're going to go to the 25th the high school graduation 24th at the elementary or 8th eight-page promotion and twenty-six last eight i said too right so either way we have 180 days that's what's critical if we had if we had a day here these two days would be exactly yeah but stuff i've already seen this certified [Music] well there's always wednesdays yeah we can bring it up on wednesday by the time this we picked those days our next wednesday that we had um half the teachers were either out because we had other prior arrangements engagements i should say and so we did it so we didn't do it on that wednesday to look at that day we had talked about it earlier um the day and it was very favorable to have that first day that we come back after the winter holiday to have that as a prep day as a pd day through pd and then have some prep time as well um some vertical articulation just to be expanded ready go and take a breath after that and to see where we are and kind of gathered so that was real positive but um they're losing that day in april that that that was kind of new and so we weren't able to talk about that but we sure could on wednesday i could bring back some it's important to have that day off on in april let me find that out pretty quick that'd be great okay there's nothing else on there next item is approval of out-of-state student field trip to the stem club the stem club is asking permission to travel out of state or a may 2022 field trip to disneyland california the students will use tax credit donations from the standard aerospace club for this trip mr chizzy will give a report on the monday study session oh thank you um i'll i'll make this quick long chat and talk uh chad approached me two or three weeks ago and um he's pretty excited about the aerospace stuff and to me if i was a kid i'd be excited about it um and it sounds like going to disneyland oh boy joy was going to have fun and right there's a lot of stem aspects to disneyland to make it function so i asked him so he'd be here at night to ask questions and respond to questions and kind of talk about what he envisioned for that so thank you for being here we appreciate it i did not do a formal presentation so i'm just going to do this verbally um this idea kind of came up early in the year when we first started kind of revitalized the stem club which has been in existence for a while um i had a pretty significant number of students who were interested and they have participated all year we did a movie night uh out there on the lawn we've done a lot of activities um they show up every week and they've been very active in the aerospace science program okay so everything from the presentation i gave you at the beginning of the year has gone exactly as planned um we haven't spent very much money at all everything's gone really well so i wanted to kill two birds with one stone first of all because it covered a lot of students especially our seniors really didn't get an opportunity to do anything that was team building cohesive as a group and also i wanted to do something stem related so the initial plan was to go to the california science center and then do an overnighter and stay and also go to disneyland kind of make this all work together because of cobin restrictions the california science center is a little difficult and it also didn't want to do an overnight trip that was just with all things considered just seemed a little bit overwhelming and expensive so we trimmed it down to putting together a stem program that was pate offered to help me as well as uh april um okay so she's and she's the middle school stem teacher so we put together a checklist of things that we would have the students do so they would be a enjoying themselves i'm not going to you know hide behind that but at the same time make it an educational productive thing we have 15 students they're all very good students they're all behaved they've all participated all year and um we've got the funding to do it we just need your permission to make the trip it'll be a one-day trip we leave very early in the morning at the a.m and we're trying late that night but um we have that's three teachers and two parents who volunteered to go as well so uh how was the driving being split up i was worried about it's one person doing all the driving but okay so getting a whole bait there so here's the yeah i understand um we don't we wanted to take the larger bus but we don't have a driver so the smaller bus i can drive i will drive there the reason i asked for two additional teachers as well so that i could take time out during the day leave the group go catch some sleep and be able to make drive by good evening i'm a really good driver and i've driven lots and lots of miles millions literally in my life so i'm very comfortable with the best idea okay um but but if i get tired for whatever reason this cote is a licensed driver as well and she could back up and support me actually okay i like more to that i'm sorry i look forward to seeing this good take drive the bus one of the reasons that bring this to the board is any overnight events for students or out of state events for students has to have work from yeah so that's why i bring it to you folks i think it sounds like a good event the new activity button was that all that tv bus was like a miniature bus this is more like the truck but the big thing on the back yeah um so what is the expected cost and how many speeds okay we have 15 students and um i call disneyland they have a student group rate as of right now it's 133 per student one of the chaperones for every 10 students you get a free chaperone um you have to go to 20 to get the second one it's not like you get one and a half that would be great but they don't do it that way it's disneyland so um so one free and then we have enough to cover the two and the parents are covering themselves actually to get into disneyland um the exact number was a little over two thousand dollars i'm sorry i didn't bring that with me but we do have the funds in our account to cover i checked eventually we went through the numbers i think it sounds super fun uh i think my only concern is that it really feast them related because if it says here that the tax credit donations are going to be used and those are specific to so so let me go into a little more detail on that let's be fair um there are all types of activities that would involve for example we'd say you need to find an activity that involves steam locomotion or steam activity or literally steam that exists let them find it what type of hydraulics input how is that utilized uh electromagnetism things like that and especially now disneyland's upgraded itself considerably so this is an opportunity to not only find those but also interview and ask some of the people who work there how does this work and thanks i learned from them so this was going to ask if they were going to have a chance to talk to the people about things like that yes and we're so what we're going to do to make it you know a little bit more and fun for the kids but still learning is we'll give them the checklist and they can go around through that process rather than us walking around as a group and doing an interview behind the scenes first of all disneyland is not going to do that they all work there and they don't have time for that but also it lets the kids do the exploration on their own yeah are you going to do some publicity about this you're using tax tax credit donation yes and it sounds like if you say we're going to disneyland that specifics have to be in the paper that what the fund is being used for and and the different things so that they understand that this isn't just writing the roller coaster i understand so obviously we could publish whatever the results of what the kids come back with and take the correct type of uh you know pictures things here's going to happen within the council i think some of the people who give tax credit if they thought it was being used for a trip and whatnot they wouldn't do it another year but they have to be you know showing that this is very valuable okay and we can certainly document that if it might be possible after the trip to have a couple of the students come in and tell the board what they've learned violation thank you very much national society of the ohio scope and sequence to what we was improved five years ago um we've updated at some point this is a part of year five and title one approval the gift program also gives zero funds with approval scope and sequence we may qualify for a few months it's extremely small and probably a decade 12 years ago the state uh cut funding on to the point that it's we have to do the schedule sequence that's fine because but um it's kind of hardly worth the work to do the uh grant for the money we don't have the money to have a pull-out program as a principal i had i'm sure i called him again as a principal the district which i served had a pull-up program where the students were gifted they left their campus for a day every two weeks and went to a central location the older the children became the more it became a social variety for them because they stood out and the adults around it was positive but for socially it wasn't always thinking smarter than they are to the point that my children attended school the district i wouldn't allow them to test this thing create too many problems in the scope one of the things that we're asking for and good teachers do this all the time we're asking for um instruction to be developed so that meets all kids needs and that doesn't mean that you can individualize for 45 kids in the classroom or 30 kids in the classroom but you follow students interests and needs chad's class is an example of kids that can do some things with space with science with technology with astronomy and that gets a lot of people's interest also when we have a header genius next to students there's conversations among kids that all kids learn from the teacher is not the only teacher in the classroom in my opinion a colleague not kids giving kids job is not to be the teacher but when they're involved in a conversation group with someone that may be struggling sometimes their language may be understandable differentiate instruction in this program when we wrote this plan a first adopted government 90 scored 90 97 i'm sorry on the code yet which is a against the test or the state test at that time it was ames and uh we left the 97 percent in when we re-road those are updated depending on what state what testing students are taking that time i hope they stay with this act what we say with that about we don't know in high school for example but we want students the worst thing i could hear as a principal was a parent talking saying my kid is getting in trouble in class because they're bored that doesn't justify being troubled in some cases that was accurate so we work with the family we work with the teacher we work on things to do integrate reading and writing and math and so on and so forth we talked about a couple my one math program here came out wisconsin and their way math is a program that program is not about pages of algorithms it's about solving problems mathematical problems multiple ways if we were all to start building the case the five of us would have five different ways to measure and cut and decide what that thing's gonna look like there's not one answer so there's not one there's one answer there's not one way to get there and too often we just put a bunch of problems on a page and students have the basic function skills but they don't know what to do i had a parent in the valley last principle that was a math professor for a private university and he was teaching a calculus class and the problem that he gave for final exam he gave the solution most of the students were used to doing for 12 years in public school and then my time in college he gave a solution and he asked them what does this mean and they were furious because they knew how to do the basic math functions but they didn't know what and when i got done with that type of advanced math he said his point for that they were going to be engineers or space scientists he said they even know what that math has and that's something i hope so that's very very appreciated you've got a copy of the spoken sequence with you and so i hope you approve this maybe get some money what kind of funding i don't know i know my way down we haven't any funding for the last five years funding wasn't improved that they had through the last time it's a couple years where i don't believe i don't don't i think i'm right i'm talking probably a decade ago the state basically cut funding but then when they brought it back they reduced i would say the funding that we would qualify for now may be half of what it was when i came down in 2002 airbag values everybody values gifted students what they can do for our culture and our country but in arizona and i'll talk about this and assuming tennis report wednesday night right now the legislature's sensation and schools aren't safe as long as they're stationed because they've talked about how to reduce funding and expand vouchers that takes money away from what our kids are using and it makes me it frustrates the heck out of me because art didn't deserve it um and any kid any kid but it's an urban school or a real school kind of deserves that i think in 2015 it was less than a thousand dollars for the district oh since the 1990s approval of certified working conditions agreement the teacher committee of dr donald connelly ms john obama mr beltran has worked with the superintendent to review the previous certified working conditions agreement update the proposed certified working conditions agreement to start friday start february 2022 to june 2023.
so but it's just setting those targets so that we know how to get to the 85. and you know i i'm almost i almost feel like our best bet would have been to play one of those saturday morning movies you know the one where the teacher goes into the inner city school and everybody throws stuff at him and then he teaches them how to sing or something like that and they become an a school and get national bank you know let's look at what they did how do they do that what are the strategies that they use well okay that's a great thing there's nothing in here that talks about music and athletics and you know what some of your kids are gonna do and well a great way to keep bad kids off the street our students going to weldon are at this advantage what we don't have um we can't use our hurdles for traffic because they are older than i am and to give them all tightness that's science teachers but we had the walden girls soccer team that went to nationals had like six or seven that went to state had six or seven of our continental kids on the team so that goes back to responsive organizations we are we have a whole list of all these athletics and clubs we bought new vans we did all this other stuff but we can't run hurdles because our kids will get hurt and get splinters well that's the first i've heard of that so i that was years ago i don't know if we still have that but yeah when elia was on traffic we're like oh and that's something where we're you know with our sports and our clubs promoting we look at the percentage of kids that are participating do we have more girls than boys what's that we never talk about that well we do we do but when mr nathan presents sports data you know he does and when you look at achieve excellence in academics character and skills i mean it's it's the whole comprehensive goal but we never talk about that's the mission but it's not in here it's not in our goals or our strategies there's so many goals and strategies that we have no way responsibility for that because you know here we are blindsiding we would have oh we're concerned like oh i've never heard that before but that that's kind of on us and i think a lot of these complaints instead of just saying this way roxanna i see that you want um a gifted and talented class what can we do to make that happen by next year keep this informed this is the due date we won on that and we as a board we need to take that leadership and so these are great goals let's see how long they're implementing and i think that goes over to what board goals are and it's not my job to tell you if you don't have hurdles that's your gym teacher's job and your athletic director and if they didn't do that that's the conversation you need to have with them if they tell you it was because they didn't have any money that's who you have the conversation with next that's the management piece of that we don't do that right right well for sure we have tons of tax credit many for extracurricular activities so there's no reason why we don't have what we need so there could be more to that as well like are the other schools in our uh whatever group of schools we compete against that's called um maybe they don't have hurdles either and that's why we never replaced them well our basketball girls are undefeated and the game is tomorrow two games left and they're undefeated so so much fun to watch yes so we will be there tomorrow so going back to this high performing students district goals we are measuring and looking at the growth through interviewing map which helps us then determine where our students are projected to end the school year by doing that we have plans in place that we want to enact which is this school here what we're planning to do is at the end of next school year we want to be giving during these are our plans during pre-service days we will give teachers this is pre-service like in the summer time when we're coming in to start a new school year we're going to be giving the teachers the 20 21 22 post test results and they'll be getting the state results of the students in their classes that they're getting that way they have a snapshot of the rosters of the students that they're meeting and where they are ability wise and where they are academically so then that way we will be able to prepare they can plan and prepare as they plan for that first month first month is when they take their first benchmark which is considered our baseline benchmark so then we know where we need to plan from there but to start the school year when they're here a week before the students start they will already have a snapshot of where their students are on their roster so that they can start planning interventions with them from the get-go at the end of each benchmark we're going to be having them go over what their students are they'll be producing a online calendar to us breaking up their students in benchmarks um daily by weekly by month as to what they're going to be doing intervention-wise into intervention groups and what standards they need to be taught so when we talk about what is our plans for our high performing there's so many things to do but it's just keeping it as simple as we need to use the blueprints that the state has provided to us which we now have the blueprints that have been refreshed for the new arizona academic standards assessment which is it's not getting married anymore i don't want to say it we're comparing different places to change you know it's like so um those blueprints are going to be huge for us because when we before we head into next school year they're going to be able to help have us strategically map out what we need to teach our students what's our thing for our buck as far as power standards that need to be taught up front and inspired throughout the school year i'm feeling more confident especially with this school year because it's been a lot more normal than the past two school years that we're able to start strategizing and getting this stuff ready for next year and we've already started implementing it with our teachers we already began to go over the blueprints and when you look at the blueprints for the state test it will tell you exactly what percentage is in mathematics if it's measurement it's only going to be 35 yes 10 is gonna be on measurement so you know what right now we're not going to be teaching measurement as much as we need to be teaching fractions in fifth grade so that they need to make sure that they're really hitting on fractions but since we've got these blueprints well into the start of the school year we're having to kind of plan with what we got recently whereas next school year we're going to already have all of this stuff ready and lined up for our teachers so along that same line you said they'll get that data the teachers will get the data roughly a week or two before they start is there any way that seems like that yeah they could get it sooner but it's just with registering and the rosters we won't know sure right when they come through free service we have more idea of their roster so we'll be able to get that info to them yeah because then we have to balance classrooms boy girl we try to balance by ability so that not all the so the teacher has a non-balanced class so we're constantly looking at data to make it fair for them to and let's say you're talking fourth to fifth do you go back to the fourth grade teachers and say yo here's what your fifth now fifth graders this is how they perform yes here's like we've talked you can get as granular as you want on these that's what we talk about cohort yeah so when we say your fifth grade the fifth grade teachers that's fourth readers this group of kids this is how they did in third and fourth grade so what's but i mean these fourth graders they all know they've lost their kids already but they need to know where they were good and where they were so they know all this group of kids i don't want to make the same mistakes over again right i mean hopefully they're doing that throughout the year but if we don't have that compromise until the end right with our like our kinder teachers they're you know our our parents tell us that we give the kids so much and we only have them do three things a week and then um we talked about they're like they're behind they're not gonna be ready for first grade okay so what's our plan guys we need to plan a make it take it because we know all the kids that need to come are not going to come to southern school so do we plan a workshop for the parents and say these are the three activities you need to do for reading and these are three format that you must do and how are we gonna hold them accountable even in the summer to make sure that they do that and then we usually do kinder jumpstart okay but do we need to add first graders who are so low at the kindred that want to come in for kindred jumpstart to be little role models a little self-esteem booster but these are the conversations we have you know with our teachers like just trying to figure it out constantly on what are we going to do for these cohorts of kids that are struggling so those are all operational things and and i i appreciate them from the teacher point of view and the administrative reporter dude but in preparation for this meeting what i did is i went and pulled the top 10 k-8 schools in the country and i laid it out and i identified their commonalities and what did you come up with the commonality is a teacher-student ratio of 14-1 so that is a board goal how do we get if we want to be the best all the data indicates that smaller classrooms yeah when we analyze data for the state in our state of arizona in our top 20 schools do you remember what we said the commonality you i was it was funding it was less uh they all taught a grade level up first graders were receiving second grade standards second graders were receiving third grade standards that's what basis and those charter schools do so when we talk about when we have our kids where do we start to teach them up like we talked about do we get our first graders that are ahead of the game and start migrating them to second grade with the second grade teacher to receive those standards or how did we get there right because you got to start but that's an operational or a tactical issue right and as a board we can there's nothing we can do but there is something we can do to create a classroom environment for teamwork not with our budget and not with work that's our sizes i mean that's our problem we need a new school because that's our problem our problems our facilities our problems are money that's it that's what we deal with curriculum [Music] how we make it happen in the classroom we don't do that look i don't know financially how we would ever be able to have 14 kids in the classroom with our budget auditor's report it says that we went from 14 back in 2017 and 18 15 to now 18 or 19.
i got to know her as a teacher as a principal as an administrator and even more importantly as a colleague and friend i think anyone who worked with linda could testify to her ultimate professionalism if you were a student in her building or a parent or even a teacher or a fellow principal you knew how hard she worked and you knew the commitment that she brought to improving life for her her students every single day i also had the privilege of working with her as a colleague when we worked together there wasn't a thing that i needed assistance with that linda wasn't already there before i had to ask for help she was willing to take on any task at any time and was truly the definition of a professional colleague along with that linda's great friend i was not a native of columbus and when i came here and she was here she welcomed me not only to her friends her circle of friends but to her family and if you know how large the jaclyn family is you know that that was a very welcoming experience for me she has a twinkle in her eye and a lot of fun she loved planning magical mystery experiences for the administrative team and unbeknownst to many she was the original founder of the unbook club which i believe got us written up in the onions one time for causing way too much noise in a local restaurant i don't think you could have found a better recipient for the hall of fame award linda is committed to the bartholomew consolidated school corporation and always will be and i know she's also committed to the community of columbus and always will be congratulations dr clue uh first of all congratulations i'm extremely happy for you uh this award is um [Music] very appropriate again [Music] young administrators always make mistakes i was no different and i always appreciated your patience and your guidance i also always enjoyed your sense of humor if you don't know dr de clue she has a wonderful sense of humor [Music] i'm glad to see you get it when dr de clue was a principal at clifty creek i was a parent i was a volunteer coordinator and i said for chapter one so i had a lot of interaction with her i was very impressed with how she was in charge but she was always kind firm and fair with everyone she was always very approachable with her staff students and parents i felt like she was a great leader and she made a made it a very good atmosphere to be in and i really enjoyed my time working with her when she was at clifty later when when when i was little just a few years back we get up early in the morning put some aluminum foil on the tv antenna and then turn it to coffee cup theater or the loretta young show now we cry a lot of those shows too but there's no crying today no crying in in a lot of things we do but especially when we're here to honor you the um i would share a loretta young quote loretta young once said that there's no personal achievement in being born beautiful that's just simple genetics and you got that but there is great personal achievement in the kindness and love you've shown for others our community's a better place our kids are better off because of you and you made teachers better but most of all you're the best friend ever and to have you come into our lives and and to be a part of it and to share so much of your time and talents what a blessing you've been and we thank you for it [Music] all right at this time we're gonna bring up dr john quick thank you let's get that we go there get the teacher voice going it's the same kind of reception i got when i walked in the teacher's lounge through that same sound you know linda would say that the best thing about retiring she retired a year before i did was uh sunday nights and uh you know except for last night i would agree with her you know so i was feeling a little ptsd i think coming to a board meeting after five and a half years coming back but if you know dr linda jo the clue you know she's all about family and uh while she is somewhere in the middle she is the glue that binds the duck clues i believe linda's mother martha has seven children and six live here she's 94 years young and is watching from home on youtube so uh if you are a part of the clue clan kind of wave that folks so that they'll see yeah wow they they are a close-knit group they are the coleons of columbus and i will say this this marks the first time that all five sisters have been together since monday wednesday and friday of last week they've given a lot of bio stuff so i'll skip some of that but i met linda in 92 i came here as a principal in 91 she had a commitment to lebanon and as she has told me many times the only reason i got that job principal's job at taylorsville she turned it down now i don't think there's anything against statos though it was just a commitment to lebanon so uh she had many office titles um she had she was a dr the only i think director of community outreach or some sort of title one year for that and she was associate suit for curriculum when i started working with her but i think really she met her kind of match and and found her best calling when she was appointed the associate superintendent for hr we had lunch together almost every day because you know you're all about people with 2 000 employees and 12 000 students you know someone was making a bad choice right then we just didn't know about it yet so so one time we linda a lot of times linda would drive and she always had that jeep and we drive and we so we went to arnie's and usually linda was the one talking me off the ledge because you know i'm a little more emotional and she was the even killed reasonable person and i was usually pretty fiery you know and so uh so we we pull into arnie's and the parking lots just jam-packed and i thought no that's not going to work and it's hard to park at arnie's anyway man it's hard to park there but right in front of the door there was a parking spot and i don't know whether someone had already run over the disability sign or the take out sign or something but right in front of the door it was just oh man it's like you know like a halo coming down it was open so linda was still railing and telling me about an employee that we needed to talk about and probably part ways with but so we went in had lunch in probably 45 minutes to an hour got ready to check out linda started couldn't find her keys following around keys no keys anywhere i said well go back to the table not to the table and say well maybe you dropped them outside the car we went out not only was the car the keys in the car the car was still running so i i wonder how many people saw that car running right in front of the door and stood there and waited for that parking spot and how many uh people wrote now so anyway i'll tell you one thing linda had a gift and she she she learned this from rosemary rehax sometimes you know we would have to part ways with people because people make you know bad decisions and nothing she wouldn't be she'd be non-judgmental she would be and a lot of times though by the end of the hour they'd be walking out and i was trying to avoid you know the people walking out you know but they a lot of times they would be consoling linda you know and she certainly learned that from that she was always cool and level-headed in negotiations and she when the student expulsions she was non-judgmental she de-escalated tense situations sometimes even in cabinet meetings she would de-escalate the situation and so i see a couple nods over there because one like most of those guys back there one thursday we'd meet all thursday afternoon because i had a lot on my mind you know and we'd meet almost all thursday afternoon i'd fill up the board with all this stuff and we saw problems but i got worked up and nobody i don't think did anything wrong but i just kicked everybody out i think everybody in that back row got kicked out and i don't know that kicked out and so i don't know why i did it but i did and linda linda she she was the voice of reason and calmed everything down one thing that i'm proud of and along with linda is we never rift an employee for budgetary reasons we always try to stay ahead of the curve in that one year when district our size got 100 teachers 120 teachers we didn't now we came up with ways to to do that so it's been my great honor that she was my right arm for more than a decade so at this time i'd like to welcome one of the nicest of the clue kathy shubal thank you john nobody likes to follow john quick in a meeting or otherwise but i just had one or two things to say um because i think john shared most of it what always always impressed me about linda and as an educator myself she always put the needs of students first and that's what it really was all about for her it's what was best for students and in working with teachers it was always what was best for students so that was one of the things that always impressed me about her was her caring for students and what was best for them and how do you help them get better in the right ways and helping teachers help them get better in right ways she was a great mentor to a lot of people me included and she was always willing to give and she's given so much to our community over and above the educational component but one thing i would leave you with and something that she always says and maybe you have heard her say this is that no matter the situation she always says but the good news is always and you've probably heard her say it so the good news is tonight that she's being honored for um so many wonderful things that she did for our corporation and i'm very proud of her congratulations linda [Laughter] well thank you dr quick and kathy before we bring up dr de clue i do want to talk about the plaques that we have for her so with our education hall of fame award we do have two plaques uh we give one to the recipient so in this case dr de clue and then we have her decide on a building that she would like to place the second plaque on so we can keep it here in our school corporation and commemorate her forever so it'll be up to dr declaw as to whether we where we place the second plaque we're going to give her the other one here in just a second but before i have linda come up and say a few words to us i will read from the plaque and then linda when you're finished with your comments i'll come up and present this to you okay so the 2022 education hall of fame award is presented to dr linda the clue and then what we typically do is take all of the comments the nomination letters and so forth and i think this is kathy we were talking about mr perkinson helping us support smith this we could get onto still pretty big plaque linda so the the items or descriptors that are included on this plaque for dr linda de clue empathetic and fair problem solver led with grace and dignity great communicator and mediator tremendous colleague fiercely loyal united way luminary unwavering community commitment instrumental in support and implementation of udl and pbis and then a quote her mission in life was not only to promote and develop the potential in every student but to bring out the best in everyone ladies and gentlemen dr linda the clue and dr dukel you can come to the podium [Laughter] oh thank you thank you so much i can honestly say dr roberts that when you called and told me that i was this year's recipient i was so surprised and so honored you know over the years i've written lots of letters of support for individuals who i thought were so deserving of this award so to now be a part of that illustrious group it really is a humbling experience for me and i really want to thank everybody who's here tonight um even if she didn't necessarily come i certainly want to to thank all of those who wrote letters of support for me um kathy your leadership at the selection committee um i i am so grateful to them and i obviously want to thank kathy and john who saw me worthy of nominating me for this award you know my sister kathy who actually served on the selection committee for a number of years and who served as principal at saint bartholomew catholic school kathy and i always leaned on each other for advice during that time she was a good counsel for me and hopefully i was for her too if saint bartholomew had a educational hall of fame award cathy would certainly be a recipient for them and that's something that we might suggest to them because i'm head of the school commission so maybe i've got some help and john dr quick i will be forever grateful that i had the chance for 20-plus years to work with and to work for you i am very proud of the what we accomplished during your leadership and it makes me feel always feel so good to know that that you think of me as a valuable partner in that work and as you can see john made me laugh almost every day working in education is hard work and public education i think is even a little harder so hopefully what i can say is i hope all of you have somebody in your life that is a colleague like john quick now as he indicated we had lunch together in a lot of days and that was that was useful time he if you know john well you know he has lots of stories and some of those stories i'm still still kind of skeptical about how and there was one story in particular that i said i don't believe you and insisted that we call his mother to try and confirm it and it was a story about i think one of your aunts he was telling me that she was born with human size adult-sized totes i was just skeptical and i said john i want to hear that from your mom well wouldn't you know his mom happened to be shopping so we never got to talk to her i am still skeptical of that um getting this recognition from my colleagues makes it so special to me as many of you know and if you didn't know you now do i was born and raised here in columbus i'm a proud graduate of columbus high school that ages me a bit because there was only one high school at the time but i had never worked for bcsc so in the spring of 1992 when i accepted the position as principal at clifty creek elementary school and i had the chance to move home and to be near this large family and to work for what i considered still considered to be one of the best school districts in the state of indiana i've always considered that to be such a wonderful gift that i was giving you know one of my products of this since i retired a few years ago one of the byproducts of knowing i was receiving this award led me to do lots of reminiscing about my 23-year career here in bcsc and the positions i held i can honestly tell you i loved being the principal at clifton creek elementary school i was only there for two years and then then they said we've got central office work that we need you to do but i really enjoyed those two years i i enjoyed leading correct the work in curriculum and instruction and i certainly love being the head of human resources there are lots of highlights that i could talk about and as i started thinking about my remarks for this evening you know i kind of started getting into those and the list was so long i would have just been you know talking and talking so i kind of came back to the fact that those highlights for me really mostly revolved around the relationship i had with the people that i worked with i was so lucky to work with people who were passionate and talented and thoughtful and creative and inspiring and tenacious in wanting to do what was best for kids and i've always hoped that that's part of the legacy that i left behind here in in bcsc that i'm remembered for my part in working on behalf of students and teachers and administrators because i had through my position the opportunity to do that but more importantly i hope i am remembered for how i treated those people you know i i learned early in my career and perhaps you have to that people don't always remember what you do or what you did but they almost i can tell you they almost always will remember how you treat them and i also believed and i still do that you hire talented people and then you have a big responsibility to them to nurture and support and mentor and develop them and then hopefully you can stand back and kind of let them show you what they got and it makes you look good too when you surround yourself i learned that until you surround yourself with talented people and i took that responsibility very seriously in the work i did here whether it was through working with new teachers or working with administrators that i had helped hired um i know that i benefited greatly from that kind of support and encouragement from those who mentored me and believed in me and i just have wanted to provide that for others dr albertus i think i only have to look at your administrative cabinet as a possible measure of how successful i was but not only me because i always wasn't working as part of a team i had a part in the hiring of all of them and from the beginning their passion and talent was evident and i only hope i played a small part in helping to develop them for the work they're now doing for you you know and and there's principals and administrators in the in the audience too and and i include them in that group i look at all of you and i know bcsc is in good hands and before i close there's another group that i want to recognize for their love and support and that's as you've seen this rather large group sitting up front here and that's my family they are my rock and they've always kept me grounded for example you know john always has already indicated i have four sisters three of those sisters after they offered me congratulations said you know goddess was well deserved you know all of those kind things said what are you gonna wear i'm not kidding you they said it independently of each other so it's so caring hey man i hope this meets with five i'm one of seven kids and as john indicated five of my siblings are here and that means the world to me um my older brother curt our older brother curt lives in seattle so uh i i know if he were in town he would be here too and as a matter of fact if he was here he probably would want to speak some of you know kurt you know that's a true statement and my brother kim texted me just before the meeting saying yeah words prepared if i need it um as john has said we and kathy said too we're all very invested in bcsc and its success our mom was a graduate of columbus high school i think in 1945 if my math is correct my siblings and ira graduates of bcsc 11 of my nieces and nephews are graduates of bcsc several of them are here i'm a knee samantha who teaches at taylorsville and i'm a niece who is currently a freshman at columbus north high school and next year begins the progression of of my great nieces and nephews into the high schools so for the next 12 years there will be a clue in bcsc because i think max will graduate in 2035.
remember again that dr mckibba does forecasting not just um not just um what's the word i want to use bill anyway they're not just using projections based on uh you know simple fractions and ratios and moving averages they take other key uh factors into account um we do know from just driving around since we live here that the number the amount of green space or farmland is running out in our township the interesting part about dr mckibben's study and he's done it for us twice now is both times they'll tell you that it is turnover of empty nest households that will lead to increased student enrollment more so than new construction and especially given the price point of our new construction it is important to to hear again from me that after we get our census data and get settled here we probably will want to re-engage with dr mckibben to have him do an update with the 2020 census data but it's also really important in bold for me to say again the expansion is based on the actual need today not on what we think we're going to need later we have talked about other options in the past we talked about a seventh elementary school we don't believe we need 35 or 40 classrooms we looked at doing a culling expansion in between the current building and the bus bar and move bus bar and parking to to the south side on the empty space there but at the time that we had that conversation the then school board did not like the idea of a 900 or a thousand student elementary school the other piece that's key to know is you know a 12 room addition is much less expensive than a brand new school and then the other piece is okay well you have two schools that are between 400 and 450 students why did you pick bivich over peifer and it does come down to the the reorganization of that school uh is less costly than to do it at pifer but i will again say that should we need to expand again in a few years piffer is still a good candidate for that the complications at pifer really stem around that cafeteria which would require a lot more extensive renovation work than what we have to do at bibich so the timing of this expansion is important too we like to keep score you'll notice in all of rob's budget presentations we like to see where we stack up against our peers in lake and porter county especially we do keep score of where our school tax rate is again we're forever grateful to the taxpayers for stepping up and allowing us to rebuild the high school and to fix protzman we've certainly gotten our money's worth and the people in those buildings certainly appreciate both students and staff the new digs um but at this point we just think it's time to do it before we run out of all of all of our classrooms and then we have a crisis having said that though since we do believe and bill's going to get into this in a in a moment that it's you know likely at least a two-year project there there could be some class-sized creep especially at colling until uh we get this renovation and classroom edition done so i'll turn it over to mr ledger thank you dr morocco um as we presented last time um this was the slide from last time i have had a couple meetings with the architects we had some site visits and we're kind of on the initial design so rob you go the next slide we can see we have moved the teacher parking lot as i spoke about the possibility of at the last meeting it's between the uh ten room addition and the existing fourth grade weight so that that's moved there it's better access for the teachers and it it lays out better for us logistically too as i stated the last meeting the dark blue toward mr marshall that's going to be a 10 room classroom addition all those tent rooms will have a bathroom in them so they could be used for kindergarten or first grade above that is a four room classroom addition on the existing fourth grade wing and then to the right of the screen is the existing cafeteria where we are going to be adding about a 2 500 square foot addition to the cafeteria to accommodate the new students also on the very far east side we'll be adding some additional parking as well so we're somewhere between right now 90 and 100 added parking spaces which will also let have a separate bus drop off and pick off in front of school as i talked about last time what mrs logan and dr malfoy were very excited about it so is the whole staff when doc brock when i actually met them last week is there's going to be about a 900 foot staging parent drop off pickup road along with the turnaround right there so that's also going to be added bill bill yes sir before you can revert back there i oh i see that's uh retention or detention areas yeah off that uh close to 81st avenue right we're not sure right now without meeting with the town of dyer but we're we're anticipating we're going to have to add some detention there and that's kind of where from the parking lot yes that's okay we're kind of temporarily locating those right now until we meet with the top uh this is just the floor plan what i talked about last time i talked about we have a net delta of 12 classrooms after a meeting and a site visit last week and some some design work if rob the next slide we're going to have a net gain of 13.
he is six foot and lived happily with his baseboard heat and since then various people have stayed there for rent or not usually family or friends of family now and it was 2018 or 2019 my son and i came up with the idea that we would use the room on the third floor for airbnb to help pay for our mortgage which at the time my son was paying all of it we've enlarged that to three rental units and have been very popular with no small sacrifice of time or money the first inspection that we had resulted in a whole book of non-compliance in september we spent over ten thousand dollars to getting compliance and i saw that the addition to the triangle room as we call it would be 35 000 for the ceiling modification um this is certainly beyond our means the way that we came to your attention was through a guest in in my house who is a long-term guest at the beginning of the pandemic she became psycho she barricaded herself in the room came down and screamed at me if i had anybody in the house and you couldn't go within any space of her or she would just flip out so i'm not surprised that it was she who complained we hadn't registered before because we didn't realize we were supposed to i know innocence is no excuse for the law but that's the truth now if i didn't have that room and the third floor wasn't available i'd lose my most popular and very unique rental and those rentals continue to pay my mortgage the alternative is to move the bedroom into the big room which would ruin the flow of the rooms but moreover knock out a 90 year old window to meet egress standards so i just want to finish my brief comments with the idea that we are a family not a corporation and i feel like we've been judged harshly in all respects of inspection questions thank you other questions from the board for the large room and i realize the city is not evaluating my current condition but is the egress window if you understand it the size of the window a major issue yeah it would have to be knocked out i don't know i have a question follow-up question similar to jerry's um the context of opening the entire floor so it's like a studio space and adding a window and removing the the header issue over the door the height so you'd knock out that wall yes huh and making it a single large yeah but it would still have the sloped wall the sloped ceiling right when i was wondering some did you explore that as an option as potential no okay no i hadn't money is an object yes um but that that sounds feasible too and changing out the window was a question yeah as well because you know the health and safety of somebody up there is paramount well all they have to do is turn around and 10 feet down there is a aggressible window with no door in between them it's like the one big room extends with an aggressible window at one end and one that doesn't egress properly on the other end did that answer your question yes i got a question i don't see where the stairs are do you have interior stairs yes where are they i don't see them in the picture or the map here the blueprints yeah i think this is the attic stairs yeah but you're right i didn't outside of the house i hope not looks like it is i don't think the drawings are to scale well sure but well what the the drawing tries to show and doesn't very well you go down the stairs and make a right angle turn and then go down another short flight of stairs okay so they i guess they sort of wrap around the wall going down we did a um a short modification that dropped the stairs so that there was more headroom [Applause] so you're taking this photo from the stairs yes gotcha thank you ready no question for the inspector sure mike we have a question when you get a chance that's mike what's this height from from here down to the floor the ceiling down to the floor um i don't know that i have an exact measurement on that um but less than seven feet yeah i think that the door is five foot seven six what is it five point six oh so the door is five feet six inches so that's another six so they're probably at six feet so if you're six feet tall you're hitting your head on the ceiling okay well i'm six feet tall you'd like my room you think yeah i've had some tall people stay in there and they enjoy the kind of grotto like atmosphere of the a-frame it's very good for sleeping i hear do you have other questions all right and at this time i don't have any questions either from staff or uh from our applicant i am um i will let you know where i'm at just in my own thoughts before we take a vote because i think it's helpful to talk through some of these things it sounds like there are some alternatives that might be less expensive including changing the flow or addressing the 90 year old window which i know are not maybe preferable but it does meet your overall interest in having that room be a rental room there may be alternatives to explore as well making it more of a studio space and again that would be something the city could evaluate and maybe work with you i don't i don't have the ability to say whether that would meet code right now or not and i don't know if those are alternatives that would be acceptable but for some of those reasons i am not going to i'm not in favor of granting the variance today but i'm certainly happy to entertain emotion or i'm happy to make a motion discussion so our three criteria are practical doesn't violate the perception of the code which is done doesn't jeopardize public health and the code is now in the codes at the time are in order to reflect the minimum required for public safety yeah i don't think there's enough data there may be other options that are less of a hardship and i certainly appreciate your concerns so that space would be okay as non-habitable space i believe that was what the city included in their report for storage or other something not considered non-habitable space as as it is now i mean does that mean that people can't use it at all going to defer to the city on further discussions of how the space can be used okay um it could be used as you would an attic space you can store things up there the the intent of that would be that there's not somebody up there long term there's somebody up there you know putting something in taking something out and that ultimately the space is just used to store um you know whatever household items might not happen right now would further modifications allow that space to be used differently so if they change that space from storage to habitable they have to meet the current code requirements and i believe that there would also be stair issues um that would come into play with that i believe that the variances that that were requested here excluded some of the other issues which were stair head room clearance and things like that okay i only addressed the the two items that were asked for variants on there's plenty of headroom in the staircase what you need is handrails according to my report and and so if if you choose to go forward with changing this to habitable space you'll have to provide us you know a building permit application with a plan we'll do a code evaluation at that point to make sure that all of the elements meet the requirements for habitable space that's the modification of the small room the entire space because the stairway would need to be addressed for the entire space airway would have to be addressed but the ceiling wouldn't have to be so if you're if you're changing it from storage which is acceptable now to habitable it would need to meet all of the requirements of the current code so i don't i i don't know off of the top of my head what that ex what that means exactly for this space but it's something that um would need to be evaluated to make sure that it meets meets the current requirements and that's going through the rehabilitation code which gives once you change uh change the the use of a space then you have to meet the current code requirements okay i guess what what i'm confused about is if i hang a curtain over that 5.6 door does that mean that the large room is going to be habitable with the modification on the window you know because i believe um i believe that you still have the square foot issue and headroom issue in that room as well don't that room is fine again um if you if you choose to change it to habitable space we would need to see a plan to do a full evaluation on it to make sure that it was meeting the codes can i get an assessment before the work is done that would be the plan review process when you apply for the permit okay all right so it looks like i better start planning for change unfortunately okay am i done all right well yeah if unless you have any questions we do need to make a motion an official determination so i'm going to go ahead and i'll make that motion that the case hba21-004 the appeal of the building officials decision that the rental unit 906 is denied and the housing board of appeals affirms the building officials decision for the reasons stated below which include the variants would jeopardize public health and safety can i have a second thank you all in favor aye aye opposed all right motion carries so i guess i'm done here yes thank you thank you all right i don't have anything else on our agenda for today under new business so the next item is adjournment someone like to make a motion to adjourn it's always the most popular motion to make in a meeting all in favor aye opposed thank you meeting is adjourned
we're going to get guidance we're going to get something from from the department of education or the department of health saying hey this is going away this is what we think you know the guidelines should be going forward because quite frankly we're already getting questions on you know what does that mean for contact tracing right because contact trains if you're not wearing a mask that changes all the contact tracing information that we've been doing and what's been going on so there has to be some sort of guidance coming with this um you know obviously this is early i just made the announcement today you know obviously we kind of anticipated this so we wanted to get you know dr frank's recommendation on this but i would have to say that there has to be more coming in the next 30 days to kind of give us a little bit more guidance on what the state's anticipating us to do the mandate it wasn't just for schools it was just a blanket removal for businesses or just not schools schools schools and child care centers specifically but what about but businesses haven't had businesses i don't think have had that specific mandate i think it's been up to up to individuals so you know i'm not going to panic over that or i'm not going to say we need to jump and make x amount of decisions at the moment i think you know patience is on our side we have 30 days let's let's see what other information comes out in the next week two weeks yeah we've got another meeting on the 21st so maybe we'll have more by then okay but i think maybe the important thing to realize at this point is we've got an informal recommendation from you know our expert on call that if we do nothing the mandate will expire and if we choose to act between now and march 7th that would be something that we would have to do all right okay got it thank you so i just want to ask as far as i know mr minhaus is here um as far as the opening what is the date for the close of that of accepting applications and then what is the process going forward that that's happened twice now are they two different dates for the two different positions we propose they were because when we advertised we after we were getting ready to advertise the one the second one can we advertise both at the same time so we had one closing application deadline and then we extended it to this past drive all right so we're done so then well again as as you know i'll go through everything that i went through with the board leadership you know you still have time um i don't want to say that listen you you're you can't accept any more letters of of interest or anything like that i think the problem that you have though is technically you're supposed to have an interview but then you're supposed to appoint right so i think what what's going to happen is you know normally what happens is you interview that was our interview or meeting you will be the next so i think in this case we have any more letters that we might be doing that all in one night um you know so would that look like an interview and then maybe a quick executive and then come back out can we consider yeah if there's more if there's more than our positions yeah okay so all right can we consider what mr minhas did yes that's his interview right yeah that was his interview yeah all right step one again our next step is we'll go into the second session you guys will we'll talk some of yourselves and if you say we're appointing him i'm going to call him tomorrow he's going to be appointed because again you have to remember before he could take before he can get sworn in he's got to get his fingerprints done he has to get things done that's why you know you really want to do one board meeting and then the next board meeting hopefully do an appointment because you gotta give him time to go do the fingerprints and everything else and all the background checks you can always make an emotion to accept him pending depending on pending yeah right and the county is gonna be you know he's going to have um any concerns about is if you don't have somebody should buy a certain date then it's going to fall to him and he is going to exercise his his people but like where is he i don't know does he have like a fishbowl of like all right we don't have somebody this is i've been here a long time we've never had the problem we always had somebody right so this is the first time we're really coming down to the wire where we don't have somebody so i have to wait and see all right i just thought i'd clarify for everybody yeah and maybe for anybody watching at home if you're really interested please submit a letter using the information on the district website um so at this point um i believe we we just handled those two things under new business would that be fair yeah i have one more sure sorry sorry it's okay um rich as far as getting went in to give i guess we're gonna wait until we get at least one more then we should look to do the training as to that she does yearly for yeah what is what we're supposed to be doing what yeah yeah mr baldwin actually asked that specific question and she recommended that we wait till we're back full capacity yeah usually what will happen if you guys will tell me and i'll set that up with when you give her coordinates and you also mentioned the possible retreat then as well to generate yes so i think one of the things that i would like to catch up on are at minimum some goals uh because you know for whatever reason we are where we are we don't have goals yet for this year but we can look at whatever we can accomplish over the next five to six months maybe a little bit remember orientation since we have some new members already on and we'll be acquiring hopefully a few more um and then we can do things like evaluate where we know relative to strategic plan and other stuff like that so i think a retreat would make a lot of sense if people are up for interested in yeah because i know that it was a while ago uh we had done a retreat over at raritan valley and we had also had administrators there as well yeah so and again i think at this point in time my recommendation would be to wait until you finish your shooting process you know when you've decided and all that is kind of settled and taken care of they can take part they can take part in it so i think that would be important to have a a retreat to go over goals forward strategic plan over those things without that person in place would be a mistake in my opinion right you don't want to undermine the next part correct right sure is that something that they would be able to participate in between when they're named and when they actually sure because as long as it's not interfering with their current job and again we've done our retreats at night so as long as he's free that night he would be more important it would be possible for him yes i think that's fair yeah [Music] anything all right so then at this point we will be into item number 13 which is open to the public for general discussion good evening um if you recall a couple of board meetings ago um we recognized lee casperson as so who's going to be representing the state of new jersey um in the national conversation so we'll be uh attending a dinner um april 16th in tom's river at the clarion hotel which will be recognized and then hopefully he'll he'll win the nationals and we're super impressed with him hello lauren paxton president of the brownbrook education association since the district has the ability to continue the mass mandate or take it away um i would like to ask you to [Music] get the feedback from the stakeholders of the people in the classroom before you come to that decision to see if that's something that they're comfortable with moving forward i will say that this has been a hot topic uh amongst the presidents and uh some districts are phasing in um starting with the they're continuing the mass mandate for the younger ones the ones that are not backs yet and then as that proceeds they will make that decisions going forward so there are a lot of districts are doing a lot of different things based upon uh the vaccination levels and the comfort levels of the stakeholders in the classroom that's great thank you for sure thank you yeah i do not have any comments online thank you sir so unless there are any other comments from the room i believe we are now going to move into executive session we are moving in executive session under item one two seven and nine great motion thank you michelle mr bell we consider you a second so we are adjourned to the executives [Music] all right you're good to go you're live thank you [Music] all right we're ready so item 15 result of the boundary board of education uh presents for the approval of resolutions as outlined in approval of hiv cases under high school this is 15.1 through 15.3 can i have a motion motion mr fazio second second yes thank you mr powell mr bell yes mr fazio yes mrs casino yes mr januzzi yes miss lima [Music] board of education presents for approval of resolutions as outlined in approval of hiv cases under middle and elementary schools one through 16.3 have a motion motion mr fazio a second second thank you mr powell mr bale yes mr fazzio yes miss casino yes mr januzzi yes miss lima everything mr samantha mr zipper yes resolve that we are at the end of the agenda motion thanks motion second second all in favor all right have a good night
the teachers made it real clear they don't want to do this again at the end of this year they want to have the only approved now work for one point of view folks approve it hopefully you prove it wednesday night until the end of 2023 so i appreciate that they did ask for a couple changes in the front of the book they want to have the calendar um the classroom the certified solar schedule and extra paid positions uh in the front book now my assumption is that that's because those are questions the teachers ask the most about our descriptive reference and those things we usually have in the back of independence but [Music] uh who chooses the members of the review committee this was a group that started last spring i think we wanted to change not last spring sorry um i'd it probably six months ago for volunteers there was no long line waiting in the door and this group you got some questions about being conferred last year they've done that except for one person one person was different because they were familiar with the changes between and plus those two teachers kind of covered if we had a fourth i would have tried to get someone from lower elementary okay and then from what we were talking about earlier the calendar might shift a little bit and based on the input and so we need that to make that change because we already have it on the agenda for wednesday night to vote on yes has a long history of this document yes um i i i honestly have a lot of questions um see there are still sections that are unclear um that we've been working on and a lot of them are a lot better [Music] that's still unclear or sometimes incorrect sometimes still contrary to sickly blah for example um so i'm not really sure at this point we can go through it i i'm not really sure how how to get this document if there's wording in here that isn't legal if you want to take a look at that and send me a copy of what you're concerned about uh i wouldn't have it done by wednesday night no way i haven't had a chance to go through at all i got this friday evening and it's a lot okay so so i've only gotten part way through and i'm finding things so i i don't know how useful it is i mean should we just start going through some of it no i just want to sure if you've already seen a couple of specific things yeah i mean there are some things like something that should have been fixed before that didn't just to grab up something something that should have been fixed professional days should be submitted at least a week prior to the weekday and then another page that does professional days should be submitted four weeks and then the policy says 20 days so that that's just one example if there's a lot yeah um and i don't know when i remember that one before because that was when i realized that the 20 days was for work [Music] there's so many variables using that as an example um i don't have an exact number but a high percentage of professional days are going to be at the request of school transport or superintendent because we're asking the teacher to go to a meeting for good school or go to the meeting for some training um something that effects so depending on when the conference or the training came became available uh that would depend on sometimes we don't have to work sometimes we just find it out on mondays the following tuesday or something like that so it's it's the policy almost sets um staff up for failure so we also uh rule thumb if it's something that if like this year we don't need cells right now first we have some very very very few and so that might be a reason to say you know i proved to approve this part lastly but we're gonna we've got and then we consider sorts we're not going to be able to follow through so sometimes those things need to change more quickly than the policy allows from or even more quickly than that handbook allows so would you recommend sure so i wasn't bringing up to to change policy i was just saying oh on one it's confusing on one page it says one week on another page it says are you suggesting the change policy to one week because four weeks is not reasonable i think i think there's speaking universally i think there's a danger in changing policy every time we don't like it because a lot of people have spent not here in beautiful downtown ohio but with asba and their legal staff and their administrative staff have spent a lot of time working on policy to make sure it meets the letter of the law in their opinion and to meet what traditions are we did change two policies uh a year ago based on this document we changed uh our buyback for sick leave uh is four years if a person is here four years and retires the department of policy asked for 10 years and we thought it was better for force we changed the policy the other thing was bereavement leave bereavement leave was for the policy said for five days per year period we changed it to five days per first degree of constant annuity which would be sibling parent child so on so forth close family um because um some of us had that experience we would not have been able to have uh free relief for both deaths and so the board changed those policies i thought that was very reasonable and both of the changes that the board approved uh were more favorable to the benefits for the staff which i appreciate thanks openstack but in this case from what you say there may be reason to change the policy i don't i don't think there's a reason to keep policy out of tradition if it's not working that's our job it is not the one the important policy uh our job is to enforce making changes but they have specialists that are designed to look at policy look at the ramifications of change and so on and so forth is the board's job promotion it's one of our main reasons for being here it is not asp based on espa we've hired to help us make sure that our policies are legal true but they don't all all the policy recommendations every time we change policy we send it to them yes depending on the change how dramatically changes they may not copyright yeah um typically they don't if it's a very my new change they may they may i guess i have not seen that i think if we were to change that to basically include a line saying that that deadline can those dates can be taken inside of that window if it's something that comes up before you finish you know it and you say you find out a valuable training thing is coming out that this stalker might benefit from that's coming up in two days is it to me it would be a small change to give you administrators the ability to say yeah we can do this we don't need that four-week notice right now we assume we have that ability because we've been doing it for that way for 20 years i did it for 20 years as a school principal um you just you use your judgments that's why you hire principals and superintendents being in the science of it you would have to do the request for payment for the registration for whatever workshop you're doing put in cars four weeks in advance the registration some workshops is it going out for a month so it's very rarely that that ever happens so that four week window is it's optimal tonight to somebody who's taking workshops before they usually got four week windows in place like it's rarely that we ever say somebody calls up and saying you have to go to this and it's next week or somebody says oh i didn't find this email so it was my junk email and now i have to go to this workshop in thinking those happen they are rare but we still ask the teachers to do the four weeks out and though i'll nod their heads would be like please do this four weeks out because it saves us the deal is coming back but the checks and the cars and the is there a bus driver on that day or is the car removable there's a lot of paperwork and running around to do so as far as we're concerned it's probably good to keep that thing those for the professional days really if that makes sense it it does so to me there are two issues there's the board the agreement needs to be consistent it can't have three different things okay you can point out those inconsistencies i'm going to touch it so and and then i i'm not i'm not saying that i know i know you're somebody i'm but that's all to say this is one thing there's one thing we're already talking about possible policy changes there are a lot of things like that in here still um and like i said i don't know what to do about it it needs to be clear it's not it's this is what the staff uses to know what their benefits are it needs to be clear i'm not going to make a suggestion yes the board goes wednesday night if it fails they're not titles i'm not saying that but they're that simple people just make that change that you're referring to and you take part actually make those kind of changes so we've got a lot of teachers here would you be unhappy if we took more time to try and sort out the inconsistencies they're all saying no but we also aren't sorry i'm speaking out of terms right we aren't the ones that are on the committee either okay okay but this is what they are working on behalf of all of the teachers and i understand you're not all the teachers here on some of the smaller ones those could be changed by wednesday that wouldn't wouldn't be i don't think so because i don't have time i don't believe it there may be something i don't know i don't know if there's it may be good to just take a little bit more time the committee for the way it stands and the changes have they've gone back to the teachers and asked them i don't know they found things that were and they they haven't brought me attention no so i thought i might be misremembering but i thought in the past this would be um a draft and it would be given to all of the teachers to review before it was approved but not the case what we've done in the past we've had it's open session and people can walk within this um i don't pack out the book until it's approved no i don't have time correct the committee it's an agreement between the committee and the superintendent the representative of the board if they're not on the commit the committee is the representative for the teachers we have some volunteers and then that comes through those volunteers it just seems like if three teachers are representing the entire body or teachers but there's there should be some sort of review process or uh wage for the rest of the staff to wait way in which was approved what you're describing has happened that's what if we were hardcore reunion shop which we're not as a teacher president there were five of us representing 700 teachers when i came to ohio negotiations was much more formal there were four teachers the rooms that represented the whole staff it was that committee's job to talk to their members not not the principal or not the business manager not superintendent it was the person the spokesperson for the board was that person has always been me what here in ottawa um it was that person's job to come up with the best agreement for the staff and the students in the district the changes you're saying a matter of one or two days that's not a big deal it's business you can handle that like a type of change but i would be hesitant i'll be cautious let's put it that way of excuse me of going in and disemboweling something that's strong uh explanation disemboweling something that a committee worked on and thought they were making a decision for it's kind of like saying your decision doesn't count anymore we don't agree with it and they do that in strong union shop what we've called jane's name is this from meat and conference which kind of has professional organization strong professional organization our language to working conditions which we want to make the working conditions as good as possible again for our employees with the money we have there's a latitude we have and i felt that we've done a pretty decent job we don't get i have yet to find a person i'd say since 2005 at least to come and complain about a stone employee and complain about the agreement that they received no i mean this all started several years ago when many teachers came in and they did not come to me they came to the board i know that accusation that's on the boards for explain that at that time they should have come to the principle of superintendent that way we can fix it but it's still not fixed years later we just talked about two policies were totally amended because of this process and my first thing i said mr robertson was the teachers retired a meeting they want their the whatever they want i don't mean to speak for them they want what they they want their work approved and the board respected by the board they don't want to do this specifically they said we're not going to do this and we don't want to do this again so if you don't want to do it the law does not require that we have this arizona is a right-to-work state paragraph 14 viewed at that party we don't have binding arbitration but i think it's a good thing i am not suggesting renegotiating it and i'm not talking about typos i'm talking about if there are things in here that are either unclear so those so the employees don't know what their benefits are or if it's not legal either way those things need to be there's nothing in here that i'm aware of we've had we haven't done it this year we've got our training look at this and we've done anything has been illegal i think you can unless the law's changing last year and if you wanna if you want to give me an edited copy tomorrow i can't get it done by wednesday folks uh but your table tomorrow wednesday night if you still as i said before you can vote on it and see where the vote falls and we fall from there yeah i mean as it is i i would not be comfortable um unfortunately the teachers were i would be willing to point out areas that include problematic one question about that if we we follow that procedure when he's able to find some places that need some more understanding that we can't be done by wednesday is there a consequence to tabling until march yeah can do that okay because that one to me that would give enough time to give a more thorough review of it and i also you know also respect the teacher's time if they're volunteering to be on the committee i'm certainly not expecting them to now throw that many more hours are there's just a lot of things to do between now and june but yes and we want to get things that we can out of the way yeah just keep moving on with the successful completion of the year okay now i just wanted to make sure it was clear that if it was wednesday that there's not a negative consequences from doing that we have something in fact right now yeah yeah okay any more questions or discussions no we have two reports perfect i i put the wrong report on the agenda i should say report 2022 staff survey results and um we did this a very similar survey last winter but maybe one different question dealing with i'm not sure we had that last year and the question was uh can we do that again to see if we were consistent in other words and i can't but i haven't had the time you have to do a full item by item comparison with last year's not necessarily right now but a copy of last year's and this year's um the first item for the audience you can't read i can't believe i've got a cheater here the school is supportive of an inviting place for students to learn and to remind the board where this came from there was criticism about how elementary this survey was the survey came from other schools the school districts and the asa so it's not something that that particularly a school is supportive and inviting place for students what i'm looking at are the positives uh of the staff and staff we had 25 people take the survey uh 25 certified staff and 15 classified five of those people didn't respond so we had 35 responses [Music] so 86 percent agreed or highly agreed or somewhat agree they agreed at least that the school's inviting place for students around number two i feel so safe working in the iowa schools i agree with that and i don't know there's not a magic number where all you're doing good you got 72 percent not a magic number it's just something to be aware of uh number three staff promotes education success for students for all students 90 agree with that now someone could easily say well the staffs evaluate themselves well a lot of staff members here have children in school i did the numbers all back i think 30 to 37 people 37 of our staff had children on campus and so they have loyalty to their children's education as well as providing education or supporting the school to provide education for other people for the people's children so i think that's pretty good administration respects students 92 percent agreed in some fashion which i appreciate that that's uh lance is new to us this year i've seen that from him when he and i talk about kids our students and i would say to the day i die the reason this school exists is not to get me in offices to give these kids an education to be treated differently it's very important number five students who treat with equity for all 73 percent all right that's lower than i like i don't know why but uh that's where that is um bullying is a problem in school 77 bowling is i had a professor that called certain words vessel words because they held different meanings for different people bullying is one of those some people see bullying as a physical act i think more devastating than physical life is an emotional action or an embarrassment by a peer those are hard for teachers to see we run the playground with 25 or 30 kids and one watched by another and says something extremely unkind i believe that bullying it's people 10 15 or 10 yards the way they are going to hear that unless the student was a recipient of that message unless they know they don't want to do that because they don't want to be a snitch so that's the challenge physical and i think i'll remember you could mark out at school bullying was a big problem period listen though news was political and then we add on we add on to this are online fully yeah that we do or don't see and um and sometimes it's brought to us sometimes we're not made aware of it we said a lot of our teachers are parents as well they probably see that at home their own children more than we would just wasn't brought to us by parents but um that's just a big topic that's always going to be is always going to be large as long as social media and they have access to it because they can hide behind that phone or that computer they have so many role models to watch do that constantly so it'd be tough to tackle unfortunately some i said this politely some families or some cultures endorse fully because my son's tough enough to stand up and do this you know for my daughter typically sons because people do it sometimes sexist um that's unfortunate i i can say with a lot of appreciation the two principles have been part of the survey mr headline and dr travolta when i have conversations about these topics for that topic specifically i appreciate the response i appreciate the fact that it bothers them they don't want to see it they address it with their own growth so it's not regardless if it was 62 percent of the setting 89 percent they they address it and they know what it's like because now that's how they've been defined but really going to you as problem to me that's not switching if somebody's broken the rules somebody's fully did you turn them in that's not quite as engine that's looking out for yourself in the way that you're supposed to happen as opposed i think the first thing you said was important to think about because let's pretend you and i are eighth graders and i'm the bully um if i convince you if you join this is done in your future i'm going to get you worse tonight and that's black now and that's worse and i've had i've dealt with that in the administrator that made that particular clear and i don't know if that's worked or not but something i feel strongly about moving on number seven the administrator's administration is knowledgeable with instructional processes uh i have been very critical of administration in my career because i think a lot of people present company excluded lance a lot of school principals when i was a young administrator they got there because they were a good football coach because they got organized they didn't understand the reading and writing process they would understand mathematics i think that's critical and i was pleased that 89 people surveyed thought administration had a good understanding of the instruction process number eight staff seek parental input on major decisions uh 70 that's not as good the explanation perhaps there could be time when the building's on fire you don't call it committee meeting um and some of them they may not feel comfortable getting parent input when it's not their child because of her and so that could be i don't know just things i thought about when i was going through this today there are opportunities number nine there are opportunities for staff to communicate issues concerns administration 77 degree i think that's i tried to be for example to be out at the bus stop after school and the morning if i can get an office before fighting late i can make it and i'd be surprised it's interesting sometimes in five minutes i can solve the concern ahead or any concern one morning i remember in five minutes i talked to two teachers and a parent about some and they weren't pricey but there were concerns and they appeared to leave the conversation uh content uh number ten staff had access to materials and equipment's protected from the cove at 89 agree with that number 11 board members understand the daily operation of the school of 51 i think the board members have understanding the 12th administration provides information to staff regarding the operations will 72 agree 2013 administration communicates well with staff 59 and uh that kind of confounds me because a lot of devices to do that plus me construct face-to-face meetings and i think one of the things that um i've heard teachers and not just teachers i'm sorry teachers they're present employees say if if i go to my supervisor with a problem if it's not resolved the way i think it should be then i wasn't listening to i hear that i've heard that not here at all as much as i heard at least in valley but that's that's the position um administration communicates well with parents 63 the board works well the administration the administration values staff ideas and input 70 so all in all uh survey results i thought it would look pretty good and i'd look at a copy of this report um and then kind of break some of these down like what does that look like how can i help be better at where the numbers are low but i need to know what would that look like yeah um because is it you know do we need smaller group more of those kind of mediums or less speeds and give us more time here but give us more descriptive emails with the information until i know that it's going to be hard for me to do that but i promise them that i've done this for years and years you know the schools and districts have to have this feedback with surveys but until until i really know what they're looking for it's hard to it's hard to give that improvement so we are going to be doing that as well i'd also be interested if you or teachers have suggestions of way basically improve the survey and make it more useful ask the right questions um is the alignment of board policy the alignment of topics this task if we handle this thoroughly it will take a week at least because when we have a board policy revision from sba if we have any of those one night after the legislature adjournment and so on and so forth that you've all seen the time that it takes certain support and serious discussion i went through the politics i started i started doing this by going through the policy management and try to look at everything i can see against my opinion um that in the policy manual related to student director of student behavior students grades enrollment all those things and so then i took the table of contents from the policy manual and basically tried to align those with our handbook um again please know that the handbook is like a v the white opening on top of b is the u.s constitution followed by the supreme court followed by congress goes down to state legislature and board policy the last thing when i as a principal write a handbook it's my handbook everything else trump says i'm talking about the former president but it has more power for the years i've been doing this this is the first time i've had a board member ask about student and parents occasionally ask for clarification typically though when their child has received consequence and is from the handbook as part of our table of contents so guidelines for our student contact and it usually talks about a range because i remember the principle i had a student one time typically i involved parents a lot if i was in the discipline situation i remember one family at my last school i wouldn't call the parents unless it was an extremely severe thing it was drugs alcohol or using extreme profane language against the teacher those things there was any wiggle room but i think it's important that chief principals and teachers have flexibility uh and they're playing a consequence because we don't know how the times come back in this case had i called the family that would be child abuse and a child knew that and i knew that i found out somehow and the child and i was working out and child was never became perfect but improves again so the first policy um on guidelines student conduct is a line closely that i can tell with and these are not all exact wordings but they are at least in my opinion aligned with the intent and the handbook as i said before the board is a book put together by a committee of principles uh when i came here best of my recollection there was no student handbook and so one of the first things i did was work with the existing principal and came up with something and it has grown and changed with every principle we've had typically not in the first year because they're too busy i mean principals come to work july 1 kids are there in five weeks they've got a lot of things to do and so um but by second year typically they start making changes and so on and so forth so the handbook um i was involved deeply in the initial development of it perhaps but it's changed substantially so this is the work we've done with the work of the i'm german great about well and marilyn fairless lauren carrier brian mckenzie um and chad's on here a little uh lana was only here one year so he didn't have much time to work with it because we've done an online work and lands i don't know how much i thought he'd give it to it so the first one the policy jic deals with student context so it talks about acceptable content not only i should listen to statute by doing this not just in policy but statute says that students will follow the direction of the staff and the administration's school for establishing rules under the discipline offenses again student contact policy jic talks about that also jica talks about student address specifically talks about outfits that advertise drugs alcohol things of that nature typically if they if shirts or things like that have a racial slur i've been successful as administrators saying don't worry that school turned inside out i would give them a shirt to wear and so they didn't come back and not all parents have been happy about that but that's the way it is i fall asleep jicv care of school property by student students cannot abuse property technically they have to take care of the property now the law has taken away a lot of school administration's tools as to what we can do we can't say when they withdraw you can't have your student records unless you pay this fine for breaking out door in the bathroom uh it's an expensive family sometimes can't door anyway but they still we can we can hold students accountable if we had to severe enough we could we did this one time we involved on the olive shells policy jicc talks about student conduct on school buses this is an area i don't see an issue i had more bus reference in one week in the valley than i have here in five years put together at least uh which is the way it is um ji policy j-i-c-e is student publications student publications there's a law case which i can't remember which basically gives the school principal the right to strike things from from articles the articles have to be approved but if there's a school paper or if it's going to go in the uh cover news unless it's the letter of the editor that the principal has the right to say no that's not the one where we need to change this part and that policy talks about that paul's at jicg talks about tobacco use there's also a sign on the campus every campus entrance uh jich talks about direct and alcohol use by students and uh as we all know is considered drug toxic 36 are 36 798.
whatever it is so how were we there and how do we get there and you know as a board those are the kinds of strategic issues we need to be talking about what what makes a successful k-8 school and you know that was the one thing i i looked for i pulled the top ten eighth grade schools in the country and that was one of the commonalities and they weren't in the best neighborhoods but if we want to have high performing students and a high quality staff i think we can serve ourselves well by having a span of control that's conducive to exceptional learning it would be great if we could find high quality teachers more of them because we were at the job fair you know and we're chasing teachers down and trying to attract them to come here but i think you know we'd have to have financially the only way we are going to be able to afford it is if we have more kids if our enrollment increases so that we have more purple well the more kids we have the less chance it is of having smaller classrooms so i think these are all it's a wonderful discussion absolutely yeah that's right but we're not really here for all that because come six o'clock i got a feeling we're supposed to be the same spot we are now so district goals and i think i heard you say we all agree that the goals are good no one's going to argue the goals i think except i think we need to have some specificity in what the goal is in each one of these areas so that we have some conception of what we're shooting at the goal should be something we're shooting at so it's highly performing students how much map growth do we want to see here how much improvement in in azmerit do we want to see if that's if that's the case yeah i think that we modify this and then there's a section that says measures so right now it says student achievement growth on track high quality students whatever number we think that's done high quality staff attract and retain quality teachers okay maybe a retention goal of every teacher that's graded proficient or highly proficient uh that we want 95 retention i i you know i don't know what the right number is but but that's something that we we need to work are all of our teachers certified i don't know are they no yeah so we've got a certain percentage of our teachers that are not certified so what steps do we need to take to make sure we've got 100 that should be the goal 100 certified teachers um and our teachers that are not certified are really good teachers because they're going through teachers but i don't want to say 100 certified teachers but it's again the quality of the teacher right and then the ones that aren't certified together and programs to become great so why don't we adjust that when we get there yeah i think we need to tweak the measures which are going to give dates and numbers and some of those are already in the saga right right so we can make sure we jive there so they will be and then if we have time we can come back and then well we can talk about the top ten i think that stuff's fascinating so we will go through and add the timelines and the measures to this document and then i can send it to you um and we obviously may or may not be ready for next week maybe we just present it at our board meeting as a draft we're going to review with the additional measures and then we can look at the march meeting approving it will that work do you want to since we've got another 50 minutes or so kind of just walk through it as a group now and then you can put it together and grow format or do you want to just handle that and send it out and we'll need to do this again well if you have some specifics in when you looked at some of the goals but some of what we what we add if we can hash it out right now i'm not sure that you will totally completely understand what we're analyzing and what we're doing and we need to figure out how to put it into words that will okay that will make sense to you guys work for you guys um yeah you know i went through i just didn't want to leave with us coming like what the heck were we doing right i went to the arizona department of education last week to get what the definitions of an a school of b-school and i mean i don't know how they assign these things necessarily but i saw the things that they look at what are the things that's in there is the percentage of certificated teachers that's one of the measurements as far as whether you get a b grade a d grade or an a grade i mean there's a whole bunch more than just that but that's one of them and i'm saying you know i want continental to be an a school i wanted to be in a school next year and then maybe the year after that or two years after that i wanted to be an a plus school because that's something that we can publicize and broadcast to the community and anybody that's working in our uh our school can say wow i want my kid to go there um and so you know i'm looking at those things and and so some of those are the steps that i think we should be taking to quantify the goals that we're trying to reach that's good okay so when we look at um kelly do you have any specific when you're looking at measures or anything that stuck out to you in terms of something that you would want us to be looking at so when you look and just one example on the high performing students the first annual measure was the student achievement right the second one was student behavior discipline referrals suspensions and attendance rate we do track that but i didn't put it in this one-pager draft form because we really don't have discipline problems per se that are affecting academic progress our attendance rates contrary to what teachers would say are it's the same students but some of them are still meeting standards do you know so i didn't put that here on this one but we can still have timelines and goals on what we expect because as we've grown our discipline problems have grown also but it still doesn't mean that it's high alert we need to you know develop a new school suspension class because we're not there high school readiness participation in advanced coursework and act so that is something that we're working towards and that we have discussions about but i didn't put it on here so am i hearing that i was just trying to do like a cheat sheet this is good this is good too so you down here you say we want 10 of 8th graders participating in act for example and have that started by semester 1 2023 whatever it might be here this is virtually needs to be untouched this is a supporting document for this specific example so in reality there are three to five measures for each other well i think this is designed to be kind of generic and really yeah did anyone look at any of the others from other districts yeah from other schools we've compiled when we did this work we looked at other districts and other schools and other superintendents plans and other work but i think we've got to be careful on you know talk about the proficient and not proficient and on the state level is what's the state level proficiency yep right that tells me a couple of things this is a test run you know is that something be a very the average in five million kids in the state is forty percent there's some wrong well if the test was good at measuring that they would change it every two years she had that right so something i mean it should almost be like i get some districts you know should be almost like the abc you know the majority are going to get average you know 75 percent every day and then you know just the way you expect scale a b and c to work in a school but that test doesn't work never has how come some districts do so well i believe i would say i think that some districts do well this is just my opinion i used to be at a school that was a failing school and they brought a principal in from that ended up creating a data room who made teachers accountable for really looking at their data and not just and understanding it which is what we're trying to do here and um flipped the school around they were at f school and within the course of two years we're all the way up to a b school and then um it's hard because the higher you get it's harder to show the growth but in a lot of the schools that i've looked at are charter schools and you can you can choose who is going to remain and who is not going to be there a big piece of that too is the kind of parents that send their kids to that school have to make an effort they're going to drive the kids there themselves and they have to drive them far away i mean we're talking about faces there are kids who are driven an hour each way by their parents to get there they're doing two hours of homework in the car so and also what kind of home life that's gonna facilitate a whole lot and basis doesn't have to take johnny that can't spell cat we do so it's not just the special ed students it's the mediocre kids that can have parents that can hire expensive tutors or can sit down with them because they're not fried from work in things at least one parent stays home or if mom just works a little bit or they normally don't so how many parents come and talk to you and say my kid's going into third grade do you know missy oh yeah we know well what teacher do you think would fit her best very few right i did it yeah uh for my kids you know i requested we usually afford them so i don't think anybody possible remember also if you recall they don't allow visitors in the school they don't have awards assemblies they don't have everything is done before school and after school and they just and and it's not a community it's not a community culture because it's by far just you're going to be doing homework and back to basics all day long so when we sit here and say we value music and pe and athletics and clubs and we're trying to you know build character life skills well-rounded children those are not your those are the academia only kids and if you have a child that excels in extracurricular in art or music or pe you're not going to put them in basis because that's they're not going to get what they need i agree we're never going to be on basis but i think yoda you still have to shoot for something higher than then i mean when i see this right here that meeting the standards that just that sounds awful to me because we all know what the standards are and in my opinion they're they're poor very very poor and yeah i agree i continental's never going to be a basis we have we have far too much other things i mean it's just it's a different school it's a different environment of course but you have to have something to shoot for and there's no harm in saying this is what they do right with their academic portion of it and we can take bits and pieces of it that would suit us as as a goal to shoot for i just i just think it's a mistake to i think it's a mistake to shoot for the standards i think we ought to be shooting for much higher standards and i think and if the kids struggle then at least but there's there's still going to be some growth there i think there's more success in a child struggling to shoot for here than than to just sort of skate along and make it to here i don't know that's could we as a board you know fighting the what we are up against as a public school um as a board can we request say you know we want to see more money available for more um uh late best friends and after school tutorials because my two older kids are were the i i was very absent i was a single mom i had to work constantly and when i got home like i could not even spell my name much less help them with their homework and after school tutorial got them through through school and if it wasn't for after school tutorial they probably i don't know it would be doing as well tax credit funds cover after school tutorials to pay teachers they pay athletics and they pay all our clubs so that's how much tax credit funding so that gets back to when you're away you come to us and say hey we do for us to do this just like you came to us and said we need a math specialist boom hey we need this that's a great idea but we can't afford it let's see what we can do for next year they can need homework clubs you know whatever homework we do we have them it's just very hard to get our kids our parents to commit to send their kids that's it on a regular basis you know we're we're pulling we're begging pleading sending letters they are behind they need to come to school we're filing the fact that they're not staying and you were well we're selling but they're not buying i think we're selling the wrong product we have been inviting kids to saturday school we have at least one or two sessions a month and i actually got a response from what the teachers refer to the kids for the kids who have caesar below in content and could benefit from that either the tutorial or the saturday school i actually got a letter back on the permission slip that the parent declined it my child does not want to come to saturday school we will work on it so if nothing else maybe if they really do that and take that option then maybe we're just making one more communication to let them know that if they thought they were addressing it before they really need to pay more attention to it as well because we're getting so good at online do we have an online option that parents could sit with a kid and do a 10 or micro learning is what we're using in industry now you know you want to learn how to create a pivot table you learn it in 10 minutes in a micro learning online session that's what youtube has done if you're lucky enough to find the parent that will take the time our kids are very involved in club sports after school they're in ballet they're in soccer they're in gymnastics off the charts yeah they pick them up early out of school because they have to drive across town to gymnastics and ballet and stuff and we're saying like today we had a little weird mom was here for doctor's appointment i'm like can you ask her to give us five minutes like we i we need her daughter for five minutes the second grader who is super below level that we're trying to figure out how we're gonna get her to read and you know we're begging parents to not take their kids out because we need their children so you just said we have that ability for somebody at your guys level to get that granular to one second great kid nobody else is doing that and good for us and you but it's how we implement that to get all this i mean obviously that's pushes it and we encourage that right but we just said that our parents are picking their kids up driving across town to get them in some swim club or tennis club or something like that so we must be selling something they don't want to buy how do we repackage what product is it that we need to sell that moves our kids are you sure it's not athletics i guess sorry i can assure you what i've seen from so many schools is continental it's top notch when it comes to the availability of sports i think continental is phenomenal for sports i mean there's issues with some some of the you know we have we have to do some work on facilities and things like that but i don't personally i really don't think we're we can always do better but i don't we're certainly doing but you cannot sit here and write a document that says thou must do that to these parents the parents people tell you hi they've got things to do they've got bills to pay they might have to be at work on saturday morning and i would love to have that you know to say hey let's let's get the kids here on a saturday morning to get caught up in whatever they're they're not doing so well but if their parents aren't behind them i don't know what to do what are we supposed to do i mean that's that's right and i feel like our kids are amazing well-rounded respectful kids when we had the mostly um kosher group come they were floored by the amazing behavior of our middle school kids the level of questions that they asked about music and the instruments and i mean they were saying this was amazing they they're they said they're willing to come back when our kids went to just talk at the high school our kids at continental stick out as good kids leaders they're not running around like the anza kids they're not and when we talk to high school teachers they can identify kids that came out of continental so i i and academically they can also their study skills their habits so we know we're doing things right um but we do have to have you know more of our kids show what they know on state assessments because our kids do know it when we had our presentation we met with the data analysts from nwa map every single grade level showed growth and she said that's not the norm right now in schools that she met with the national the bar graph was below zero she said you're you guys need to celebrate that every single grade level demonstrated growth that is not happening across the nation but are we satisfied with that no because we're still very worried about our kids who are not here yet and that achievement gap and what's happened in the last two years yeah you know i think probably brought up an excellent point she said her own experience as far as awfully busy when she came home from work and really couldn't help with homework and all that and the importance of after school tutoring or saturday tutoring or whatever to me if that would be an example of something that that continental could provide to attempt to address some of the parental issues which i personally think is the single most important to a child's education um then then to me we would charge the administration we would charge mr schubert okay let us know what it would cost to do two hours of after school tutoring every day and make that available and then two hours on saturday morning and if we have to have bands going on to pick up people to bring them to school on saturday morning what does that cost and then say you know what would we have to give up in other areas of the budget in order to fund that specific objective and and that to me is how you address some gaps and try to solve some of the problems with some of the kids that need some extra help that they may not be getting that kind of supervision or that kind of encouragement at home so it's just an example that to me is a board charge saying we want to know what it would take what would you have to do within the budget to fund this and if you say well we'd have to give up this and this this then the board can make a decision as to whether those are prudent decisions or not so i think it's a valid point that you've made that it's one thing to have a saturday school year but it's a very different thing to have a van that will go pick up susie to bring her here because that's probably i'm guessing that's potentially a big part of the no i can't i can't check that box because i have to work right things i have other things to do and i can't get much out there but i did have that conversation with a couple of parents who's stated that concerning and we've offered that we have the school dance and mr layton and i have offered that and did it changed much it didn't change at the time no both both sets said i can't commit to that we only have one vehicle i have to get to work i won't be home lots of i don't know i don't know exactly it didn't really answer it so i it's it's not that i disagree with everybody but it's the reality of getting the parents on board how do you do that that's a huge challenge maybe we have a town hall meeting with all our kids that are not meeting standards and you as the board sit here and say what do you need what because this is our goal and this is our plan but what do you need because we offer saturday school after school tutorials homework help we teach it enrich what else can we do i i have a little hairbrained idea i just emailed to myself my mom is like the biggest world of contact and that's their message to do like one two little one minute or two minute lessons on one little thing we should make our own and all the teachers they have to be required to make like one or two videos a week of like one little standard and teach the kids how to look it up on their little cell phones while they're sitting there at the dinner table crying over their homework and their mom's mad and making dinner um and dad hasn't gotten home from work yet they'd be like oh i'm you know like look up mrs johnson's khan academy figure out how to work this problem again on the chromebook that we issue them yeah so that's like our own online video resource database yeah or they can even say here's a link to a two-minute video on google or like i saved a hundred bucks because i did a youtube on how to fix my garage for real you know three seconds after i knew about it and our teachers and kids dark kids do use khan academy already but i think it would be something special and something different to see your teacher having like and having all the teachers collaborate on it like if i'm in third grade i can pull up all the third grade teachers teaching you know i have access to all that that grades well you know what they do in high school i think i told you so in my son's chemistry and geometry class when they introduce something new generally speaking the kids get to a team they do a tick tock or some type of video and then they like you should library the best ones there's a resource that appears just i know it's getting too cold together but what is a teacher and you tell them here's what your kid needs and here's what we're willing to do to help what do they say i mean i know it's probably all over the map and you probably get just some stuff sorry you know some of them are struggling with how to motivate their kids themselves dealing with behaviors or multiple kids in the house some require more attention than the other um they say we're doing homework we're you know we're trying we're working on it i don't think anybody says i don't care and i don't want to help some are struggling to pay the light bills i hate to say this but when you can't feed your kids and you've got a light bill to pay for and you might get kicked out of your rental or whatever right the last thing you care about is summers for some you know saturday school and these figures have a lesson in maslow's hierarchy of humans just go right back to that when you're worried about food clothing and shelter you're not too concerned about what's and the variables when you talk to parents i've never heard a parent say i'm sorry i just don't care but i have but the variables identified in those conversations are as unique and individualized as the family scenario or situation some kids um i mean anything from the change of custody happens on saturday and so they go to the other parent to the fact that they're in a sport and even though they're battling with eligibility they they will do certain things but can't commit a saturday because they're in that sport if they have re-obtained eligibility i mean the variables go on and on um one boy did tell us that he has a seven-year-old brother at home he can't be gone on saturday because dad has to work on saturday and you know there's a lot of variables it's really hard to i have never heard a parent and i've shut her to think about what i've never heard a parent say i'm sorry i just don't care yeah because i have had teachers say i don't even know how to help them i mean parents say i don't even know how to help them at home because i didn't learn the math that way what you're teaching me my wife was an engineer [Laughter] every school in arizona has some of these problems uh you know i was looking at the list the top 10 elementary schools in tucson only four of them are charter schools or private only four five are elementary district public schools and so i mean they've got underperforming kids they've got sped kids they don't get to choose their kids like a charter or private school can and so they all have some of these issues to address there's no question about it so you know what can we do with our kids to get in that group of top 10 because i wanted to continue on and say that we can be the a school and not in any school that's in the 40s just because we showed growth because that's not what i i want to be in a school but not in a school but because we showed big jumps in growth we're in the 40s and 50s i want to be in a school we're in the 80s and 90s and um one of the biggest things that's testament to your work as our board members and what you've done is helped with in years before i believe mushriko came and then as i came on there were where i think we're at the end here where a lot of our students are now gone to high school but there was a long time where there was curriculum everybody was kind of doing their own thing so that's one thing that's a big gap here that where i think in my past three years here and welcome to rico this is your sixth year fifth year this is it's gonna take us time to get everything aligned so having the math curriculum which you have approved this is really a big deal here a reading curriculum we're going to have alignment we're meeting on wednesday to have a common alignment across all great levels um for weekly testing for benchmarks uh so that way when i say testing i mean if they're teaching inferences for two weeks in one grade they're going to be giving the same type of online test that the kids will take that and it'll it'll look the same test that they'll be taking in kindergarten all the way like the format of it and that's one thing we're going to be working with linkit so that we have a common testing database so when the teachers give their weekly tests on the math standards that they're learning or the ela the reading or writing standards at the end of every week their kids are going to take a three to four question test and immediately once they turn it in they're gonna know this got it this group did it i have to pull this group and i need to teach them instead of what have been happening and what was going on is it's spray and prey kind of thing like you know we're going to teach it hope that they get it we're moving on to the next thing that's not working that's what we have to fix you're right we have we don't need to be a basis we don't need to be a charter school i see that that is a trend that helps too you know we've we've got we've had some students that we take in here with loving arms and open arms that have come from an academy from basis because of behavioral issues that they were dealing with so parents have come and brought them here that's okay we're going to love them we're going to teach them we're going to embrace them and they're going to be successful because that's the attitude we have about it we are going to be in a school we're going to be in a plus school we're going to move our kids but it starts with aligning curriculum across all grade levels so when our kids get into middle school we didn't have just you know certain grades that were teaching some writing stuff but then it wasn't taught in this grade but then it wasn't this great now over here and now they're not understanding stuff alignment is key outcomes of students and getting on that those outcomes whether they need enrichment and they need to continue to be challenged and moved so that they don't fall or because they need to be helped and there needs to be quick intervention they need to be in and having more communication with parents and saying hey you know what i'm working with your children this week i need the parent after school tutorials this is a must so it's changing our system being strategic with our system having things in place so it's not we have all these wonderful resources but how are we going to utilize them so that they're successful with their students so i feel like i'm super excited about where we're going because now we are getting alignment across all great levels what first kinders teaches guess what now they're gonna be able to collaborate because they have a common curriculum they're not just pulling stuff off the internet they're not buying stuff off of teachers and teachers they're not trying to come up with their own things and we're moving into a one door's closing another door is opening and we're getting there so i don't i those letter grades what bothers me about them is i remember years ago i sat in an assembly and i heard and it was not here but i heard clapping in this world turned into an a school and i remember sitting there just thinking how can they be celebrating that when they're in the 30 percentiles and parents don't know that when they see my friends they'll call me sometimes and say hey this is an a school but this is a b school and i'm going to tell my kids that do you have advice and i always say well go also and look at you know what are the percentages because people will think i'm this is my kid to disage school but they might still also be you know we don't want to be that peaceful right now but that was given to us before i think i've been here because we haven't had a letter grade since before i came so that b letter that we have was from 2018 2019 school year since they haven't been giving letter grades since then but there was a lot there was a lot going on that led to that i think before that was a b it was an aim right am i correct in that yeah was because in the formula the percentage of average kids did not we didn't move any average kids in particular exceeding into meetings so that was and it was we were like a point off from the eighth but that was that number in the formula that every school can grow up to 70 of students meeting and exceeding the state standards in ele and mathematics we will get there we will get this i don't unless you guys fire me i don't plan on going anywhere for a very long time this is i have big dreams and goals for this place this is where my part is this is what i'm passionate about and it is it's tricky it's like shelley you talk a lot about through numbers looking at things and the way you think is is what we have to see how we have to think about things we have to tweet things we have to see okay you know albert and i and mr layton were looking at the cohort trends the other day and thinking okay how are we gonna how how are these trends changing it's pretty crazy because uh over the course of five six years we already have aims and we had easy merit now we have easy sty now we have aasa yes so there's just different things but in the end all that matters is we have to have keep it simple we have to have a simple system in place to monitor where our kids are we say that with our five different levels yeah because if it was that simple but it can be that yeah it can be that simple when you get out of the weeds and just start looking at what's really important kids have to be in school so attendance is important kids have to be able to interact with their teacher so small class sizes are important kids need books that aren't older than their teacher so curriculum is important discipline is important in the uniformity from kindergarten all the way through we've never had it but we're going to yep and right there the curriculum is going to include the tier three that's in alignment with whatever you're going to now be in line with you all with our el students they'll be in alignment with our special education and we asked about gifted education the components that go with these curriculums it's exciting because one of the biggest things that we talk about with our teachers is what do we need here and one of the things i heard was alignment we need to all we need to when they jump from one grade it needs to be that we're not all over the place in the next grade there needs to so that's what we've been working on throughout these past two and a half years but i'm excited i'm excited that you have been supportive of what we needed to do especially with this curriculum this is huge well everybody knows that mrs smith used to cry when she got mrs johnson's kids from second to third grade because she knew they weren't going to be able to read and all the challenges that she was going to face and if you're fixing that that's a huge chance so i i think you know just the i think the five goals that you've identified are pretty standard for everything i've seen they're worded a little bit differently but they're all there um and the fact that there's only five is a good idea we usually say in a stream teach a plan to have three to five goals uh make sure they align the commission statement and i think that's there so we will go in and we will put in specifics on the measures and the timelines and then we'll send you a draft that we could review at the next board meeting just email anyone okay i won't make copies but can there is something that i would like to ask that we do need help with and i know you know kobe with copenhagen there is a lot of there has been a lot of absences but in looking at the trends over the course of the past three to four years there's a high level of absenteeism and i know when i came i had there was a group of some teachers that had been working on it in the past had concerns about absenteeism and you know we don't want to dictate what people do throughout the year we can't really police it either but if we could re-look at the policies that we have in place for attendance so that you know we don't have truancy officers anymore we could have an sro that we could go and do home visits and stuff but there's really nothing that that we can use to really get parents to understand that we need their kids here so you're talking about and beyond outside of code yeah moving forward we really i really would like us to you know get input from our teachers but also to come together and come up with look back at what what are our policies like certain districts create their own types of policies um perhaps so many times one of the things mr layton and i we when we came back from january asked jen in a pool who are those that are consistently tardy and absent so that my first year here and last year we started having meetings where we would give contracts to the parents and talk to them and they with the student and then that worked but we want to be able to go back and look and see what are our district policies if people are booking two week cruises in the middle of the school year are those um excused or unexcused kind of you know what i mean could you put together some data for us to say you know yes all the absences that we've had over the last year uh 35 were covet related either quarantines or isolation um this was because the parents took them on vacation uh yes and so on and so forth yes that may help but i think you need to have some substance behind it you can say all you want we want you at school but if you don't have any way to enforce it that's what well like like boards policies that they've instituted in districts and it's very you know this is what's going to happen you'll have you know these are the consequences these are the excuse these are unexcused you'll have to go kind of what the steps would be um kind of like requiring summer school or saturday school in order to be promoted yes does that work that's i think i think if you enforce it yeah moving forward with this because this is huge that's right because the parents are going to come to the board and if the board wavers and says you know what grandma was only available that month for us to go on the cruise it was really good it was at disney yeah they can make it up they gotta make it up somewhere we'll see but and but that's what they do do all of our parents who take their kids out for long extended vacations or whatever it's usually military if they're deployed and the husbands are in this state and the mom is going to take the kids and go there they're very responsible and say we'll get the work and we'll make it up and they do but end the school like in saturday school or summer school right so they do make it up and you know where we have to look at did that attendance really affect the grade well not if they made it up and not if they did it but it's still irritating to the teachers that kids are randomly not here like when i send you the reports on how many kids were out for covent there's usually 25 to 30 kids that are out for miscellaneous non-sickness related no excuses looking at the year before there was three thousand absences three thousand right now with colgate at january we're at four thousand and with the state now because remember funding with attendance so as long as the parent tells us where they are whether we agree that it's a good place to be or not it's an excused absence so parents they we our hands are tied because there aren't truancy officers there's nothing at the state level that says if you miss 10 absences you're going to be dropped i mean that's 10 absences you're dropped if you're a no-show completely but there's something excuse there would be the unexcused unexcused any absence that's defined as unexcused right 10 consecutive unexcused absences that is the mandatory so our kids don't do that you know they'll be gone maybe three additional days or tack on three or four days before a holiday or after a holiday but our hands are really tied in terms of make up the work or to fix your grade and that's pretty much all we can do um because before you had truancy officers we could report it to juvenile courts and then juvenile courts would find the parents for kids not being in school and juvenile courts that's they're doing bigger things they're not worried about truancy right now so it goes back to what can we do as a school to fix our own little problem per se well i think also relating it to the kids that are not making it up or not performing and you can really tie it to absenteeism there's going to be kids that were out for 15 days and they're still in the proficient or highly proficient areas so well good great conversation i appreciate your time and your feedback and that helps us and i really think we'll entertain maybe a town hall um to get these parents together but i think they need to see us you know as a unified front saying we're all in this and we're all owning the problem so let's come up with some solutions do we have anything planned before next week this is mr early can you send me those lists that you guys uh when you tick for the schools and the national rankings so we can have those to contract please what do we want to do as a study set study session this coming monday or at a different time to study the revised provision that you did or just do it by even i don't think that they're they're looking to see i think we're going to put it as a draft yeah that's what i mean for the board meeting but if you want to do it i will as the study says [Music] what was your intention on the draft to improve it now no we could do the draft like we mentioned and discuss it at the board meeting and then we could go for approval in march and whatever we discuss next week then we can still tweak and send another draft and then once you send an email we can come back and say what we were talking about right or whether that's wonderful or in between yeah or that's at this or let's take this on and if you want attendance to become important you have to make it yeah and i expect people at the basketball game tomorrow no excuses they're great four thirds they're so good they are so much fun you're missing out if you're not there well they start at 3 45 with c team but by the b team then plays and then a team usually starts at 4 30.
he's in kindergarten right now and in looking at all of those um a couple of them like great nieces and nephews right there but and look at them i think there's one here well they'll actually be six of them in the high schools at the same time so we are very invested in the success of bcsc it's closer close to our hearts so i just want to say thank you one more time for recognizing my work with this award i'm so grateful and so honored to receive it but i wouldn't feel right being here tonight if i didn't also thank you for the work that you're doing there were highlights and challenges to the during my tenure in pcsc but i don't think any of those challenges compare to the challenge that you all have had for the last two and a half years and and that challenge is not over i want you to know how much i personally appreciate it and certainly i know my family does too um mr center and i have known each other for a long time and actually i was one of the people who talked with rich early on about have you thought about running for the school board and so as i saw rich this evening i said aren't you glad i said it to you but um i i thank all of you for the work that you're doing and certainly thank you for this work you know i started you know when i was thinking about people when i was putting my remarks together um i thought about things i would want to say about bill and i thought about things i want to say about george and then i thought you know i'm going to kind of hold my dirt mind or concept some of my comments on a general nature but i will say to you that there were experiences that i um got in developing talent i always wanted to make sure it gave the right experiences to people to to help them grow and and maybe eventually be able to kind of do the work that they're doing chad you came to mind because there were experiences that i i offered to you and you always accepted that i don't think was ever on your radar um you know the day i brought him in and said have you ever thought about being an elementary principal you know you would train secondary you'd be good at it gina you're only here as some master and she popped her head in to say merry christmas and i said have you got time to sit down and talk because i said it took down healthy a long time to forgive me for this but we needed gina to move after just one semester because there was a school that needed her george george you taught me so much about students with special needs and um i i was and still i am forever grateful for that made me a much better person and a much better educator bill i often felt like i was just along for the ride with you you're mine i always so enjoyed how your mind worked and still do so um i i just leave you with that i might my sincere thanks and and my kind of hope for the continued success of bcsc so thank you thank you linda [Laughter] turn foreign oh okay oh could we ask all of the clues to come together you all deserve that picture as well i've tried to support inventor these guys they just tell me i'm being bossy [Laughter] and um [Music] doctor shed of the decl crew is making their way out the door we'll bring up maybe mr strong to get ready for the presentations for richard's elementary school there i think there should be a clicker up there and hopefully a hot microphone what you did all right you can go ahead there you go okay when i saw that dr declaw's recognition would be on the the calendar at the same time as richard's presenting i thought okay this is going to be a tough act to follow so i will say this anyone that's ever been in a meeting with dr de clue you do not want her to have to say bless your heart um over the years um you know you push it right to the limit in hr but then you stop right before the bless your heart so i'm hoping that uh uh that dr declaw would be proud of what we're doing but it is a nice segue because uh the conversation on uh relationships and trust uh and and building respect is uh what we want to talk to you about tonight so thank you to the school board thank you dr roberts and the cabinet for the opportunity to share with you some of the great things we're doing at richards elementary i have several folks with me here that will present and we have a few more in the audience as well because we have a really strong team that's pushing forward to make richards a better place for all so first of all the spoiler alert you do have a book in front of you there's circles all around us that book is not for you to keep i know a couple people already asked about that so i apologize for that you might see a teacher's name in the front you may even see a few lesson plans in a few of the books because there were some left behind but we wanted to put that in front of you so you kind of have the the theme around this school year at richards in the circles all around us i did give you a raider nation klingon if you can keep that as a consolation prize but we will collect the books back at the end the books were purchased um through a grant for every teacher at richards elementary this this year i will talk more a little bit uh later on about um what we're doing with that and the why but every child in our school has been read this book at least one time and we have multiple activities going on um through the school year um involving the book you may recognize the author kid president montague was the brad montague was the creator of kid president so it's a very kid-friendly book and you'll notice the dedication in the front of the book all kids making the world better right where they are so um the theme of the book is you know every child one child at a time making the world a little better so this has been a focus for us this year also as you read through the book it's a great it's a great book and it's kid friendly but it also says things can be slightly scary and uncomfortable as you learn and grow and we have found as a group our work around diversity and inclusion it can be scary and uncomfortable at times but it's the right thing to do so how are we building community one child at a time first of all what we try to do is live our motto every day and we say we are raider nation and that means that we all belong regardless of our background regardless of our developmental assets who we are we all belong as part of raider nation so we want to tell you a little bit about our story first of all our goal is a very difficult goal the goal to create a fully inclusive school where all students families and staff feel celebrated and have equitable access to education and services it's difficult to reach and we're working hard every day to make this goal a reality and in fact we created a goal action team this year tammy hebert is our leader of our goal action team around inclusion celebrating diversity with the goal of being inclusive for everyone and like i said this has been a a little scary at times as as we learn and grow but we're being intentional about what we're doing so a little bit about the why benefits throughout increasing student learning obviously the academic benefits to our work but also to provide skills for a lifetime so the why the work is many many factors more than just academics what you'll see today too is the um the core beliefs and uh next slide the strategic objectives that we will go discuss this evening this work ties directly to what we're trying to do as a district as well and as a matter of fact tammy as our leader of our goal action team is also a member of the district curriculum team so what we've tried to do is mirror some of the work from the district curriculum team with what we're doing at richards and the books that you see today are the ones that that that district bcsc curriculum team purchased for our school and our work so students need to feel safe they need to feel valued in order for deeper learning to occur so we're stronger and better community one child at a time so uh we're blessed to have many dedicated teachers many uh which are here tonight collaboratively working well together for raider nation to continue to meet these needs um so we will move on to the star of our show and that is our students so hopefully the video works but we're going to show you a little bit about our students and what they're doing this year so we are raider nation thanks to josh burnett and our team for creating [Music] [Applause] nation we are in our nation [Music] i have been honored to work with the team at richards as they take part in making this a wonderful diverse and dynamic school community lending my professional background in dei training and consulting to both training of faculty and staff and as part of the team thank you for the great opportunity hello i'm dan schmidt teacher multi-legal learners here at richards elementary at richards we value the many cultures in our building and here are a few examples of our celebrations spanish heritage month was highlighted in our hallway during the month of october in december japan's shiichiko sun was highlighted currently we are highlighting black history month our immigration outreach has also given the bandwidth books and other items items to every student in our building continuing with our community outreach and to celebrate our many cultures here at richards we invite you to our first multicultural fair that will take place may 7th from 1-4 hope to see you there one of the great things about having a student here at richards is that the program that's around the kids coming to this particular institution is awesome teachers interact with parents you don't feel like your child's up behind you feel like the teachers themselves are encouraging your kids to get involved one thing about the environment out here richards is so diverse and that's great for our children it's great for an opportunity for our kids to see so many other nationalities cultures and that way it gives us opportunity to discuss those things she sees and experiences and helps her grow long-term because i want her to be able to know more than just our culture but everyone's culture and i'm glad she's here good old richard greater nation okay so today for community circle our question is a little bit light-hearted and the question is if you were a color like represented by a color like if you think about a boxing prank if you were represented by a color in that box of crayons today what color would it be and why our special areas are music and pe help our students feel a sense of belonging we see our different cultures reflected in our lessons every day also there is artwork all around the school that shows that each one of us belongs to a larger circle and community richard [Music] hey we love the staff we love the raider nation and we really feel like the school is just a great family that includes everyone as the president of the pto i have formed a lot of relationships with the teachers and other parents and families i'm confident that they feel the same way as we do we love being a part of the richards family and greater nation [Music] hi my name is tiffany powell i'm the music teacher at richards elementary i hope that you are able to gain a sense of our school the community and the inclusion that we are building there every day so i just want to talk briefly about building community since that is the central focus of our presentation today we define community as a group of people who work with one another building a sense of trust care and support so that's very important that our students feel like they can trust their teachers and the staff at our school and that they also feel cared and cared for and supported so in this picture you'll see a sixth grade community circle where they are literally building community in their classroom and you actually saw that in the video as well that's a space where students can speak freely they ask questions they answer questions they can say what's on their mind it's just an open space for them to communicate and that's where they really learn to trust each other to trust their teacher and to hopefully feel cared for and supported so that's something they do regularly throughout the year and we will talk a little bit more about that later on so we identified six benefits of building community i'm just gonna highlight a few the first is that students have a sense of belonging so we have about 560 students at richards elementary as a music teacher i see all of them every week which seems like a lot um but students we want them to feel like they truly belong at richards they're not just another cog in the machine but that they have a place at the school and no one else can fill that place we want students to feel empowered to contribute in the classroom not to just receive from the teacher but to also give back and as a result we want them to take more academic risks we see that as a great thing if they're able to try new things ask hard questions and take those risks and lastly the ultimate benefit really is that students are able to take ownership of their own learning at a young age and we feel like that's really important that they learn to do that in elementary school that they're inquisitive and curious and they seek knowledge for themselves and they work collaboratively with their teachers and so we hope that if they take ownership at a young age that will carry them into middle school high school and well into adulthood now i'm going to pass the mic to tammy hebert so i am the udl facilitator at richards as well as taylorsville but i am also a parent of a child who went through richards elementary and i also live in the richards district i believe amy is also in that same boat so we are raider nation in more than one way i am sharing with you how our work with community building aligns with our instructional platform of udl when working with staff i typically have two different types of conversations most common conversations i have with them they want to know how to be intentional with their instruction and they want to be able to remove barriers in their learning environment so that all students can be successful this year with our work here it's been great to incorporate that sense of community into all of those conversations we have in those conversations and i have them daily i usually start with engagement and when we look at building community and how that aligns with our engagement principle you can look there at the providing options for sustaining effort and persistence and actually one of the check points is foster collaboration and community there but we can also then have conversations about how it aligns with the building the relevance value and authenticity for students distractions reducing distractions as much as we can we also then look into the self-regulation guideline where we talk about optimizing motivation where it usually starts and then helping students develop that self-assessment and self-reflection all right i'm going to now pass it on to amy mocus and she's going to talk about pbis thank you um just like tammy said i am a teacher at richards i am the pbis facilitator and i have kids at richard so i feel very closely connected to how our students are experiencing richards and that matters a lot to me as a teacher and as a parent um the let's see if i can figure out how to do this apparently not which one there you go all right so the principles of pbis ensure that we provide behavior supports and that we use the prevention approach instead of the punitive approach to behavior supports and modification some of the ways that we do this at richards is that we have consistent regular teaching modeling reviewing and affirmations when students are following our pbis expectations we also it is very important to us that we work with students to create classroom norms and expectations so that they feel a sense of ownership and so that they're engaged in those classroom norms we also just recently have added mediation scripts to our office referral matrix to provide opportunities for students to rebuild relationships when things go awry and they need to repair harm that has occurred in our work with school personnel to provide them with with supports for students so that they can enhance enhance academic and social behavior for all students some of the things that we do that are consistent building wide is that we all greet students in the morning so teachers are in the hallway saying good morning some teachers are super duper creative and have like fancy greetings that they do with all of their students and the kids can remember them they're much more intricate than i can remember but they're fun and the kids get really invested in it if kids don't want to participate in that they don't have to but they can say hello and know that their teachers are excited to see them in the morning we also do either morning meeting or community circle in all classrooms each day this just provides a time it can be five minutes but it provides a time for every student to be reminded that they're a part of that community that they can be heard that they can hear their classmates because that really matters too that they practice that skill of listening to others and then we also are doing a citizen of the week where we recognize all students at some point in the year for positive character traits to foster that sense of belonging so while we're so grateful for and proud of the community that we've built within the walls of richards we also know that the connections the community connections that we have are part of what have enabled us to have that strong sense of community at richards you saw pat mcclendon she has graciously given of her time and expertise we have been so happy to learn from her and our know that we have a lot more to learn our connection to iupuc we're able to work with instructors and students there other school districts learn about best practices and implement those at richards we also just recently were so excited to be able to have an author from the richards school district come in she shared a book that she's recently written about her husband's immigration journey from cuba as a child and talked to the kids about her writing process the publishing process what that all has been like for her so that was really exciting for the kids to get to be a part of so these are the members of our team that worked on this presentation tonight where it was exciting and fun to be a part of this team we're so grateful to get to share about richards with all of you tonight um we are raider nation and we're super proud to be writer nation if any of you have questions we'd love to hear your questions if you have any questions or go ahead all right well done that's most impressive so thank you very much are there particular questions colleagues have i'm overwhelmed but you've been very thorough and i love the video and seeing everyone in your community thank you so very much and of course your students were precious thank you thank you [Laughter] dr vaughn i'll just keep rolling here doctor into the next presentation we have a few of these for you because i think we even have some coming up in the cabinet reports a little bit later so with the cover 19 update uh we always give you the national information looks like i cut off the idea each part a little bit there with the state but still in red in the state although those are changing uh so even locally we try to start drilling down to our own numbers these numbers much less than they had been a few just a few weeks ago some new positive cases the most recent update we had was from february 2nd just the middle of last week but that was 97 positive cases with 32 hospitalizations but again those numbers coming down and then internally within our own school corporation we have indicated that number a few times that first semester had 960 cases since january 1st we've had 915 cases that is 738 students and 177 staff members you can see the previous numbers in terms of the weeks the week of january basically so after we got back to school after the week of that began with january 1st or january 3rd i guess was that monday 213 cases right after that 262 216 and down to 104 last week the week that ended on friday february the 4th so again trending in the right direction as those numbers come down and uh just wanted to to make sure and point this out because it's going to be critical with a couple of more pieces of information that i share both from a number standpoint and what we stand with masking and close contact so first of all with the new contact tracing process that we just recently implemented we are using something called parent square parent square is a software tool that we have that allows us to communicate more effectively with our parents and so with the ability to quarantine differently through the indiana department of health uh we changed our notification process because previously by identifying a closed contact we would then contact each uh person the families of that that individual and indicate the person had been identified as a closed contact and then they would have to quarantine for up to a period of time and if you think about our history of quarantine we started with 14 days that was decreased to 10 days the beginning of the school year that was decreased to five days at the beginning of the semester it is now down to zero and we have followed the indiana department of health with each of those changes and with each of those changes that is dependent upon being in a mask environment and so whether we like the mass piece or not from the governor's executive order to the indiana department of health's quarantine guidelines our ability to not have individuals have to stay home and quarantine if they are in close contact is contingent upon that so when they changed that most recently to allow us to do that it changed from us identifying each close contact and telling the individuals you're close contact you're going to stay home to us being required to send messages to anybody who may be affected with that and so that created the need for us to use a group messaging system that we weren't using previously that goes back to the parent square so my wife is a second grade teacher here if there's a positive case in mrs roberts's class then we're going to send an email or text to the parents of the students in mrs roberts's class indicating there has been a positive case identified there the parents need to pay attention to that watch and and and symptoms are are noticed then the child needs to stay home but otherwise asymptomatic kids can continue to stay in school vaccinated or unvaccinated and that's another debate we've had in this corporation before is between those two things it doesn't matter with this particular situation so as we use parent square the positive is that 93 of the families in our district have a working email or phone number currently in our system so that does help when we're having identified people and say hey there's a positive case in your classroom as i state that one more time positive case in your classroom do think about the evolution of everything that we've gone through with cobia 19 at the very beginning of all of this fall of 2020 many parents were wanting us to inform them if there was a positive case in their classroom and we were only identifying close contacts and informing them so we've went full circle maybe in that a little bit and that's what we are doing now just to indicate that's the case and then leaving it to the parents to monitor for those symptoms and keep their child at home i add that last bullet there about families should contact your child school to provide updated contact information if you don't think that there's good contact information available for your child you do need to contact your child's school make sure that we have that if you've been receiving parent square information from us because we have had positive cases 104 cases last week so we've certainly been notifying parents in our school corporation of those positive cases if you've received one of those notices you don't need to update your information it doesn't mean if you haven't received one you do because you may be in a classroom that simply hasn't had that situation but might be thinking about that parents making sure that you have working emails or phone numbers available to us and that information parent square pulls that information from powerschool so just a little bit of information quickly about the new contact tracing process and this is the flow chart for that so i took bits and pieces off of our flow chart but if there is a positive test then those individuals are still notifying the school and that positive case still does need to isolate at home for five days at least and until symptoms have improved and they are fever-free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medications so that's the positive test if the negative test is the case the individual has symptoms present they may return to school day six is less than it's really after those symptoms excuse me after those symptoms have dissipated they're asymptomatic again so symptoms were present stay at home until the symptoms are gone um then that bottom part is based upon we've had a positive test identified all parents or guardians of affected classroom notified no quarantine required unless individual becomes symptomatic so a very different situation from a quarantine standpoint than we have had in this and i'll show you a graph a bar chart here just a second that shows the importance of us being able to follow that particular red box if somebody is exposed to a positive case outside of school then if they are vaccinated they may report to school less symptomatic if they're unvaccinated they stay home for five days again this comes from the department of health is the requirements that we're following there outside of the school environment would be any time outside of when a student would typically step on the school bus go to school and then step off the school bus that's the school day we have the mask environment during that day during the evening activities at home out about in the community maybe at a ball game playing sports whatever the situation is if it's outside of that school day what we can define as a school day that's when that box kicks in so we may still have some kids need to be quarantined but predominantly the number of students the majority of students that are identified as closed contacts or around a positive case are not and that shows up for clarification just is it literally just classroom or does it include cafeteria teams all that thank you doctor so prior to the new or revised guidelines requirements from the department of health it was only in the classroom setting or on the school bus now it is during the school day with the school day being defined as i indicated a kid gets on the bus gets off the bus so recess lunch anything else that happens during that school day uh if that person was exposed or would have been considered a close contact or run a positive case they still can stay in school as long as they remain asymptomatic okay but the parents are going to get a something in parent's place yeah so yeah going back to the example if you're if your child as a parent was potentially around a child who was identified as a positive case or staff member you're going to get notice that that is the case uh that there was in the classroom and uh any potential exposure and you need to look for symptoms or watch for symptoms awesome all right thank you yeah so looking at this bar chart if we look at um uh just this year these these are every week this is each week of the school year going from august the 1st all the way to now or friday february the 4th and you can see our positive cases and the last four weeks have basically been the most positive cases we've had with the outliers being the week of november 27th coming right after thanksgiving and then a high number back right after um labor day or right around labor day weekend and so those are the you know six that stand out if we then go to the number of students out you see that you know in the month of august and september when we had the 10-day quarantines the number of students out versus the number of positive cases and then as we changed the quarantine protocols coming out of fall break we were able to make some adjustments because we started keeping some kids in school in a mask environment and we were still at 10 days and then as we came out of winter break the department of health changed the guidelines to five days which helps a little bit and then the zero days is where we are now at least again in that school setting so an important piece there if we look at the month of january basically we have positive cases very large numbers those four weeks before this last one and aligning very much with the students out but looking at that last one so we have the week that just ended on february the 4th that is basically the fourth or fifth highest week that we've had all school year but when we look at the number of students that are out of the building that aligns as one of the six smallest weeks of students that we've had out of the buildings so by moving to the close contact protocols that the department of health currently has in a mask environment we were able to keep many more kids in school than we were previously can we go from about 750 students we had out of school to less than 250 students out of school in one week with a change in in protocols um absolutely that would be i think all the specific information we have there but i'll just reiterate that point in terms of of the mass environment i know how contentious that is how controversial it is and understand all of that i'm ready to be without masks at any point in time here too but we are under an executive order from the governor of the state of indiana and that executive order was renewed again for the month of february and is set to expire i think on march 4th that executive order gives the department of health the authority to set the close contact requirements for the state of indiana and those close contact requirements we've been consistent in following those and it is very simple in terms of if you have a mask environment you're allowed to do this with quarantines if you do not have a mask environment you have to quarantine and the number is still five days now i will have people say to me well this school over here is not quarantining and they have mass optional i can't control what another school does and if they're choosing not to follow the governor's executive order or the department of health requirements that are part of the executive order that's not something that control we will not do that we will not do one thing if we're going to go mass optional we would follow what is also prescribed as per the guidelines requirements from the department of health so that that's where we are i think in particular i just wanted to make sure you understood that by making that move just recently because it actually started i think last wednesday and of course then we didn't have students in school thursday and friday and that will affect that number as well but uh we have the potential to get back to uh quarantine numbers that are like you know the end of october um with the positive cases we have versus what they look like in august september and all of january and make sure we have more students and staff members in the building and on the staff member piece we are turning the corner there as well i think i printed out the email from this morning but we take a look each day at our sub situation and this morning we were we had 46 total jobs that were open meaning 46 substitute teachers we needed that's been compared to 80 90 and 100 over the last few weeks and 13 or unfilled that's been compared to double that number on a routine basis so also starting to go in the right direction in terms of number of staff members out as we move forward into this this week well good news are there questions that individuals have just real quickly how are we handling extracurricular activities and masking so in terms of the quarantine and so forth and masking and quarantine yeah so i'll comment on all of it uh so so first of all in terms of if we have a positive case then and then there's there are close contacts at basketball practice or anywhere else that's outside the school day we would quarantine those individuals that would be considered close contact so then we would get to the description uh definition of what a closed contact is identify those individuals contact their parents quarantine so anything outside of school day in terms of the masking it it's we have not required our administrators to to go up into the stands and and serve as mass police during the um extracurricular activities we've asked for compliance you know and understand how challenging that can be i will i will certainly commend the elementary basketball league i was at the games on uh saturday and and um it certainly wasn't 100 but but you could tell there was an effort to be compliant with that mask environment that's not always the case as we try to try to work through that thank you welcome and then i have a question for students who change classrooms throughout the day middle school and high school how does how does that work in terms of notification so you might get a few notices i believe nick is that correct in terms of if if i have a i'm in eight classes at columbus east for example in my block schedule over two days based upon that exposure to a positive case hopefully it's really just one of those days right so four classes i might get four notices uh indicating the class where that positive exposure potentially occurred so with parent square really slick system for us and that i think our nurses and administrators are are uh liking it compared to maybe how they've had to try to make contact before is it they go to their building they go to their class i mentioned mrs roberts before they go to mrs robert's class click on it put the body of the text into that email or text message it's in it's going just by that those steps it's going to her her parents of her kids that quickly so the process has worked well from everything we've been able to gather with the pilot of that just again starting last week all right any other questions i should take this opportunity to thank the nurses and all the staff that have spent all that time making all those contacts so thank you for what you've done to take care of our students and our staff and we'll watch those numbers go down and we can thank technology for parent square so thank you for that i would just add before we get into public comments here dr said so that is we've been doing the covet 19 update i think i haven't counted the number of times but it's been since march of 2020 i guess basically or at least since the fall of 2020 when we actually started having positive cases in the school um we're going to start phasing out the number of slides that you've been seeing because we're reporting the numbers to the republic every week our numbers have been as public as anybody's in the state we have constantly given that information put it out make sure that people knew what we had by building by students by staff we'll continue to do that but maybe not quite as necessary to throw the numbers at you on a on a school board meeting time however i'll keep you up to date with that piece about the number of students out because i think that will be of interest and then the governor's executive order and where that is because that does certainly jumpstart the conversation about what are you going to do with mass if there is no governor's executive order if there is no if there are no uh requirements from the department of health it's tied to a mass requirement where does that put us uh with that conversation about mass optional so that's that would be the uh a piece to then turn and have that conversation if that if that does occur and again i believe i'm right with fighting may the march the fourth being the uh expiration of the current renewed executive order uh which would be just before our next four meetings so that might be an opportunity to have that conversation i don't mean to take this slightly it's just been disheartening how how this has consumed us for the amount of time that it has all right an opportunity for board commendations go ahead mr grimes yeah surprise i've got my typical handful here first one accommodation for the district's transition coordinator mary hamlin along with community partners and students recent contact that i've had with ms hamlin uh she says that the current economy has resulted in many community businesses reaching out to the transition program in bcsc and so as a consequence the pool of collaborating businesses with the transition program has grown they've added e-step and company which is all the local subways the haircuts among others and as a result more students with disabilities are now working for competitive pay in the community and then ms hamlin shared a success story of one young man who was very reluctant to work and be in school at the same time the idea of it was just too overwhelming to him however he started working last summer at a subway with with support with additional supports in place and happily he's still working and attending east high school and even though communication was not a strength for him he's now he's doing great and uh is now uh happy as a lark working the uh drive-through at subway and so just to conclude there for ms hamlin this is a this is her words we've found that when a student gets and maintains a part-time job while they're still in school they're more likely to become a contributing member to our community sooner than later once they graduate from school being part of a community increases one's sense of satisfaction and overall well-being i'm very excited with this new trend i hope it will continue so that one day our community will be accessible to all just like our schools so thanks to ms hamlin and the transition program um this might seem kind of weird but i would like to commend dr roberts on his uh january 25th testimony before the indiana senate in regards the importance of enforcing bus stop arm violations and then to dovetail off that to mention dr bozeman and offer officer quisenberry um again on all the leg work that they've done for that very important work and then the uh the positive pr that the corporation got um recently from channel channel 59 on that topic um third uh just to to commend the columbus educators association its leadership from dakota huddleson and amy london in collaboration with the school corporation who will host a third house session with representative lauer and senator walker to a virtual session that will be focused purely on education related questions it's slated for saturday february 19th at 10 30 and mr huddleston uh informed me that um he'll get information out soon regarding how to register and then submit questions to representative lauer and senator walker in advance to again saturday february 19th 10 30 education related third house fourth to commend dr laura hack and others throughout the corporation for chipping in [Music] when and where it was necessary in order to keep schools open and again we just saw that the trends hopefully continuing to get better so hopefully this becomes more of a non-issue as we continue on but whether it be bus drivers doubling up on their duties custodians taking on more flexible schedules teachers giving up their prep time to cover a colleague's classroom the list goes on and on you know all those people are i believe are to be commended for taking on extra during a time when just doing one's so-called normal or regular duties is arguably much tougher and more challenging now than in so-called regular times so thanks to all those doing extra and then lastly um this comes from parkside students uh which tva the i love to read challenge is a challenge that's been taking place oh gosh it's in its 31st year and it's a challenge designed to encourage a love of reading in in third graders and the challenge this year started with 74 schools i think we're approximately a month into the challenge and the the classroom of mrs rollins from parkside is is in the sweet 16 if you will and so um they have spent an average of five and a half hours reading per week per student in last week's challenge so mrs rollins says the kids are doing amazing with their reading the growth is showing in their reading comprehension abilities and it's parkside's goal to have all of the third grade classrooms at parkside to take part in this in this challenge so good luck to them as they advance to hopefully get to the final four and the final game yes i don't read awesome thank you very much are there others no no no all right we'll move now to public comments mr grow has signed in and referenced speaking about school bus cameras and given that that was a part of our public hearing it would be appropriate that you could comment on that that was just a little test for you guys after last week um yeah so i think um i mean i know we're trying to limit what can be said publicly um and that's an issue i've addressed over and over um i think communication is relevant to every board meeting so i'm going to start with communication and i'm going to roll into my support of the bus arm cameras so i've been pursuing what i believe to be a core issue here and that is communication i've even gotten so far as to have several of you agree with me that this is a serious problem i agree that something should be done about it but then proceed to do nothing about it unfortunately i've been using other issues such as inappropriate books in our school libraries to highlight this more important foundational issue beneath that demands to be addressed i'm going to continue on that pursuit tonight i've only received responses back from two of you regarding those books but more importantly not a single one of you has yet contended contended with the reasonings i've put forth and that is the real issue here not just with these books but with all of the issues parents and members of our community have been had had been i guess bringing to you since last school year and really before that i've heard tell of issues over bathroom policy that escalated for the same reason in the past but sure you have been willing to allows our three minutes and we can email you but you are not considering and addressing the arguments presented each of you individually the school board collectively and many members and boards across our state acting like you are responsible for the immense response we are beginning to see the results of as evidence to build this case i point you to sb 17 poor school enrollment and pursuit of legal action sb17 has passed the state senate and if it passes the house will result in removal of the school corporation's exemption from liability to the distribution of pornographic content this bill will also remove that protection from our local public library i understand mr hatton our library coordinator is very displeased with this to say the least well i am too this is not the best solution it's heavy-handed and short-sighted but it is an indefinitely better solution than continuing to allow you to let our students be exposed to inappropriate material while you continue to ignore us and this is the direct result of you your unwillingness to discuss and contend with arguments presented to you so no sympathy should be shown no glory given to the opponents of sp 17 until you are willing not just to listen not just to give your justification for your stance but to contend to take arguments presented and either break them down or incorporate them into your understanding and reassess for a solution i believe it was reported bcsc enrollment was just barely up year over year however the private schools are seeing unprecedented record enrollment numbers many students have been pulled from bcsc to be homeschooled or transferred because of your unwillingness to contend you have single-handedly pushed a group of people to make a very serious and valiant effort to start up another local private school to compete with because of your refusal to contend in the future if this continues i would expect to see legal actions pursuits have already begun questions are being asked about filing claims against security bonds and what levels that is a possibility if sp 17 passes i personally guarantee you will see a lawsuit if you continue to allow to allow our children to be exposed to inappropriate materials i really hope you take the time to reflect on the magnitude of these reactions if you haven't already laws being created underperforming enrollment very real potential of another competing school potential legal actions to name a few that stand out and all because of you and other boards like you who refused to contend none of this would have transpired if you wouldn't have simply if you would have just simply contended with your constituents arguments which is what i am still asking you to do to grow mr grill it is past your three minutes yeah i understand i just asked you allow me to finish uh my comments i i feel like it is important this one is really made you and then i'll let you uh decide on the on the school board are uh best cameras school bus cameras right you will not be you've gone past your time okay yeah i'll get those comments to you guys afterwards i understand i'm sorry to hear um that we can't allow the time for the public comment youtube but you you've you know our limits so please finish your sentence paragraph very unfortunate but i understand and i can't even uh get a response from most of you let alone for you to contend with me which is a testament to the reason why we find ourselves in this very serious position now start contending start incorporating what is left of an argument after you have contended with it into your understanding of truth and then reassess to decide if a solution is needed nobody should disagree with that it is more than reasonable and this reaction will continue to build if you don't start doing that so why aren't we contending thank you for your time and i will uh send my comments for support um for the bus cameras thank you thank you all right next on our agenda is school board member reports are there reports anyone has to share i'll go quick sure real quick from the school foundation just a reminder that uh the foundation's biggest fundraiser of the year is coming up sunday march 6th uh 2 o'clock at north the harlem wizards the last thing i saw there's still volunteers anybody willing volunteers for souvenir stands and ticket takers and perhaps the score table so again sunday march 6th uh 2 o'clock at north the harlem wizards and then lastly um just to mention a couple of the lightning grants alive and well through the foundation a couple of the you know they're all you know pretty cool stuff but a couple worth mentioning here i think there there's a busy bee bus driver that recently uh received a lightning grant and used it to purchase activities to keep students busy to and from school and then mrs steele biology teacher at csa new tech used a lightning grant to purchase a double digger incubator and a brooding pan to help her students study embryology and cell differentiation so cool stuff going on with lightning grants for sure thank you very much others i want a question for mr grimes if that's okay sure is that has that been advertised they need volunteers well no probably not to answer your question it hasn't been yeah i think so but they're volunteers that are needed yes absolutely and uh yeah volunteers yes um and uh nicole cunningham the new executive director or or angie emmett either one would be the good contact person and i'm sure they can find a spot for any any volunteer thanks great thank you anyone else all right we're down to cabinet reports and i'll turn to you dr roberts okay thank you uh we want to tonight give you an update on the corporation's strategic plan that many of you have had well all of you have had an opportunity to be involved with a couple of times and a few of you and maybe a few extra meetings in regards to its developments so i'll walk you through that we are not asking for the official approval or anything this evening but giving you a first read of it and then a reminder to you that our first all-day professional development day that this corporation has said many of you might remember the old half days that were part of the state's professional development plan those went away in about 2010-11 so it's been a decade or more since we've had that dedicated time during the regular contract day monday february 21st president's day we will have a day dedicated professional development and that day will be aligned with our strategic planning so real quick just to get into the overview uh we were informed by 19 different focus groups that we ran through to have this conversation about a strategic plan had 1789 surveys completed and submitted back to this and then we had six additional design workshops around that information so it was back in the spring that we began to seek community feedback on our strengths areas of growth and direction we developed the strategic direction based upon that mission vision beliefs and then we identified some specific initiatives programs and methods to drive that mission vision and beliefs forward signed additional stakeholder feedback on the heels of that and have been finalizing that strategic plan and then it says in the bottom right launch strategic plan beginning fall 2021 that's been delayed a little bit as we get to this professional development day here in the winter of 2022.
we don't have to lose the existing classroom number one right now um we thought we might have to but right where mr james is certainly in the red dot we can keep that so we're gonna have a net gain of 13. classroom two the existing classroom two would turn into uh restrooms to accommodate the other students and then you can see the four classrooms there the 10 there and then the expansion of the cafeteria as well we talked about schedule right now you know we're at our second meeting here february 7th we are looking to hire a construction manager this month um we right now i think we can have the site package done april of this year and then we bid the site package in may and then the building package we hope to be done by in the may and if everything goes well we break ground in june and then we also did the building package in june there uh phase one is everything we just talked about we hope to be complete december of uh 23.
um jic-k is student violence harassment intimidation i heard on the news last night that was coming into ohio uh a navy seal died 24 years old he passed all the stuff he did he began to be a seal some real rough stuff but basically um he died from uh supreme extreme hazing by uh his group and uh they were talking about what a great young man he was and how the good soldier he would have been and doesn't have the time to get the sun down or recover harassment and hazing with the next item jicfa used to be a real tradition at least i can take advantage but take grant for that but my predecessor and really impressed me he did away with hazing hazing was pretty widespread here freshman initiation oh my gosh it was tough it was embarrassing to kiss and um some sports teams can do that and it's against policies also i think against the law the year before i became a freshman it was awesome yeah um privileges and that's been about five years ago privileges there's no we have a section on privileges there's no close policies about that connects with consequences for this by offenses uh jk talks about options for student discipline jk reads out the detention of students after school or weekends jkd is the student suspension there is no recourse for family on student suspension as long as the administration doesn't suspend more than 10 days if dr jabals came to you folks and little bob dooley was so annoying or did something so bad that he wanted to suspend him for a semester there's a difference in expulsion he couldn't do it you folks have to do it because we we cannot suspend more than 10 days so my rule of thumb is i didn't miss out somewhere i never suspended more than nine elected kid back in school to deal with the issue um jkda i remove those students from school sponsored activities school activities we're not talking about sports i thought we were talking about sporting events here but we're not talking about clubs chad's chad's trip to california could be an example if one of his stem students stem club members started doing some crazy stuff that we didn't think was safe when he went to california without closer supervision they could be removed they'll have to be in writing the student student has an important rule that students have due process rights which means an education is a property right all it means and i remember when this happened school friends i was not a prisoner as a classroom teacher our principal at school where i was teaching how to hissy fit basically yeah so student i'm suspending you for this x y z did you do it no i didn't well i'm suspending it anyway you have to explain to the students charges against them you have to prove it but um you guys explain it there was an incident in 2013-14 from student council i think we could one of the student council members has been moved to good ideas to council impeachments very well um expulsion of students that's pretty severe i've never had to do that i hope i never do expulsion means the child is not no public school in the state has to accept them back that's the fear i was taking away properly i accepted a student in my school one time i think that turned out okay but i was scared to death um the young man was a fourth grader her parents had gone through a nasty separation both grandpas came to me and one of the grandpas that the kid was bouncing between two girlfriends he had a mother and one grandparents had a gun collection and uh he had a gun on his handgun on his bed brought the pieces to school this was long before columbine or any of those events and they when they swore we will supervise we will help them do anything and i took a risk and i put my second kid he was amazing and i was it worked out he was not a stellar kid but he was okay he was probably a b student and a skill would attend him being a slam dunk what a great kid he was he was lisa nate but by doing that we were able to keep him in the education system and he i didn't regret it it turned out but i was a little nervous about that school attendance jde talks about school attendance anybody that's the next one compulsory anybody from the age eight to sixteen has to be in an enrolled school now with with uh homeschooling that has made a portion of that virtually possible so a number of years ago here being a family who just would not send their child to school with us in the childhood schools i worked in principal we involved the sheriff's department because of violation of the law the day before they were going to court the parents declared the child home schools trust me he wasn't in school there was no education going on the child never returned to school requirements um we all know there's laws for interest to kindergarten and first grade not beyond that so it has to be five by september first either kindergarten six for september first year in the first grade after that the child goes to private school and starts kindergarten four uh they can start sixth grade fairly in the second grade first grade five or second grade six so that's going to be that or the secondary not first grades i'm sorry um medical information say the immunization of students what that's talking about not talking about polio tetanus whooping cough and so on and so forth which is the vaccinations that we typically see kids having to have before we enroll in public school on jlcc communicable infectious diseases typically what that means is if the county if a child and there's couple reasons and it's changed in the last few years that people can exclude their child from vaccinations and that's religious belief or health belief i had i had a child whose dad was a chiropractor he believes in no internal medicine and so his wife was a teacher at my school so they didn't have their child action but if there had been a measles outbreak in maricopa county to where the county health department was epidemic the child couldn't come back to school to declare the epidemic because he can get the disease and pass it on other people the child abuse disease um medicine's administering medicines to students um we can have those drugs on campus as long as they're in the nurse's office and they have to be in the bottle the pharmacist can't be a ziploc bag that's what that's talking about the next page academics extra critical activity eligible we've raised a bar on that i've done that twice since i've been in auto initially the law says no pass no play um we raised the bar when i first came here to saying c minus average instead of d minus um that worked i know the first couple of years we had no students for football and eligible for their father criticism about that from the ghost um this went away we had an athlete named mr english and he suddenly didn't play with that without telling anybody and so he put that back into place a couple years ago so still c average c minus counseling and career development it talks about things that we do with guidance counseling and school counselors and psychologists it doesn't say anything about the person shall be a certified counselor so with lance's demeanor he can work with the kids and every teacher in this room can because i kind of know their personalities they don't just chew a kid out they may do that once they want to but they also talk to them about alternatives how you're going to fix this so and so on especially if you go into the preschool you guys all the conversations you know it's very it's very positive it's very uplifting it's very uh therapeutic of the kids now we have it's important the board to have a counselor we have our counselor through southwest behavioral health services and because of some of the needs we had last year we had well the last year we opened we had one day a week we talked with southwest behavioral health services more than a year ago we had this thing because we had kids coming online work for three quarters of the year we've doubled it well we haven't had any help this year because our counselor had business and he recuperated was going to survive his back witness as a one last journey correct that's right so it's in today so hopefully and our kids need that and everything a lot of things read it talks about the stress not just for kids but for teachers the stress and they need to throw in principles and superintendents too by the way kova is a whole new ballgame for us i never took a class in my life i took 100 of them on cody we were not trained as young educators how do you deal with pandemic how you deal with people you know dying from so those are things we need to grow but we i'm relieved i'm sad that we have death counseling services here for kids um but we we have back uh school counselors and psychologists policy i was surprised doesn't say about even a psychologist being trained being licensed psychologists we use two psychologists one visits here or visit online another totally online and that's to evaluate psycho-educational evaluations not psychologists like therapy it's for evaluation for especially as you folks probably know the next one is athletics and extracurricular activities extracurricular activity kennedy great great average does not just apply to football basketball volleyball et cetera it also applies to student government therefore if a student's an officer in a stem club if they have an f average you know even if you're not eligible you've got to forego that until you've regraded the fact that so it's for any extracurricular activity um that carries homeless and migrant policy calls the jfab admission of homeless students uh this does not impact us as much as large urban districts larger and it's mckinney mentos federal law and it's a good law it's it could be frustrating for administration but it's good for children if we had a district that reached from here to evil then and the child lived and healed then the family became homeless and they lived they moved down here where they lived in a shelter here in iowa if the family wanted us to we had to bust that child back to the eleven school back to the original school because the thinking behind this law wasn't the child being homeless has gone through enough trauma we if we keep them in their school they're going to have their friends the teachers are going so and so forth so again eventually one of the things that it does and we've used it here in if iowa family require all these documents to get a child in person to their baptismal specific approved paper i was saying a few minutes ago vaccination schedule all those things if they can prove they're homeless and i'm the i'm the uh mccain mental liaison leader with ade so they've got to convince me that they're truly homeless i'm a soft touch to be honest folks because i want to get kids in school um if we feel that there are general homes we can lay that paperwork and so yeah so we just thought we went there google so um uh annual public notice of non-discrimination is something we have in our handbook policy doesn't address it uh basically we all say yeah we believe this but we've got we think we have it on our website i think we also have a handbook special education talks about student records policy jr and that's also a perfect issue family education rights privacy act and then one of the things this is so strict that lance and i can have access to all those records because of our rules but a peripheral who works one-on-one with a special needs child isn't violent he's violating further if they talk to another adult on campus about their student because that child has a right to privacy and so we try to import that and mrs beltran doesn't work with your paraphrase to do that we talked to the teachers a little bit about that probably not enough but we haven't had a big problem confidentially student educational records same policy jr uh student records for current involvement policy again we repeat the homeless action and uh which they have is a student admission we need very help to get demanded we want they need they can't send the kid to school on the bus and say enroll a person a parent or a guardian has to be their president to enroll that child otherwise we could be annoying a child who is been a victim of kidnapping or something um policy at jih his interrogation searches and arrests law enforcement sometimes has a concern about this policy because an officer they go to schools they if they think that some juveniles do something wrong the best place to find them in school so to make their life simple that officer is going to want to interrogate the child the answer is no not unless you've told the parent the parent doesn't have to be there but you have to advise the parents and i want that for my kids um now if if the officer arrives and doctor she closes options i'm here to arrest sophomore bob dooley he can't stop that but we assume the phantom's gone but we can't stop that we can do searches there was a supreme court case about the stafford unified school district about five years ago where an assistant transcript search a kid no the the ruling was so vague on what they said it was so vague it was even a same-sex person it was a junior high girl that was just searched by a female administrator and um i would never recover i support that but uh you can't ask students or take students into their pockets or their book bags um the last students that i was involved in here years ago that had a seismic possession marijuana had to shoot and i knew it i'm in the room and uh principal that was it that day and i asked him you've done politics in a book bag and everything you know that agreeable said take off your right shoe oh very agreeable the left shoe got real slow even though it's even though it's not against the law for adults anymore that time still was it'd be like it's it's illegal for adults to smoke tobacco or drink alcohol it's not illegal for a kid to do it because they're a minor or to have a mechanics um phasing we talked about that a few minutes ago jfc hazing basically there's no hazing a lot of truth and the last one is student surveys uh student surveys what that policy talks about is if we're going to do a survey of the students we need to let parents know first you know what kind of questions and i think part of that is because people are fearful that we may be asking questions may have every shoulder challenge so when we do certainly yeah that doesn't stop teacher reaction classroom saying how many of you want to read this book or this book and that's not that's not otherwise just getting into it that's it this i i started i always started writing the board agenda for the next month probably the day after well i've already started the fifth day of the march um i thought we're already doing this pretty well i thought we crashed in and we changed the policy a couple of things back and so i just wanted to make sure um if someone had angel angelina's recovery system resistant to those things that people want to want to talk about future agenda is um you have to be careful we don't have a four-hour meeting because people get a little sometimes frustrated about those but um i remember something that you folks are saying or missing i think maybe session okay you're right i think you're right i have one i i requested a an update on the superintendent's search and discussion um that was not granted we don't have a lot of meetings between the only team i thought i did that in an email but what i thought i did that in the email you want for an update and i replied back to you and i said this this should be done in an email i didn't have questions that you didn't answer but this is this is a request for an agenda item so i'm asking for it for wednesday i think it's important that we get the word out i don't know if the urls to uh the survey and the job posting are going to be new this week i also would like to talk about other ways to spread the word possibly distributing um the survey and the job is the job posting through community groups like giza there's some chamber cars uh thank you um that pretty much any of those requests were to go to him i was thinking about that i mean you've got to go to him financially yes but and i knew that was like specifically oh if i knew somebody would be a candidate because i was also taking it as in if i wanted it in the paper go through the same thing angelina could you talk to comments about putting it in the aquaculture news or the arizona daily sun to kind of remove us some from the search process so that correct sure so wait can i just clarify it that was not my understanding from the from the meeting that we had so we can't we can't have this we can't have this discussion really that's why i haven't asked for it um from asking for wednesday um and i would like to again put in and then i admit um i would like to see these add-ons be agreeable to the whole board not just one person and i think when the gal came from asda was talking to us i can't remember her name she said a lot of schools did that that before that went to angelina that we would decide whether it was worth taking our time and i would like to see that happen instead of just having a list like this that doesn't mean anything to any of us and we haven't really had a say in it i think that it should be voted on to go on into um to the agenda that that wouldn't agree with the policy that we have [Music] it would be very worthwhile we can do that possible executive pursuant to ars 38-431.03 a section one personnel discussion concerning the candidate for a business position and discussion about goals miss robinson hi mr hopkins miss duncan hi is eric with us no no he has water right so here correct it is [Music]
5 o'clock for the learning walks tomorrow ms joshua you're going to be here in the afternoon you're going to learn you walk i don't know why morning you said it's what eight to noon i have a meeting in town at 12 15 or so can i yeah maybe by 11 or 11 sure yeah because you can you'll see that we go through three teachers that go through the process three times so that means you get the first and the second you don't have to go to the third so if you're at eight then okay and what is it [Music] so we're going to recess for a minute to science and vouchers for greg they're brand new starting at number one and they're not xerox whatever you call this kind of paper just do one at a time [Music] going to county and we just started a pre-number into 0-001 keep going forward there's 10 of them all right
so in regards to where we are we we have listed out as our vision so vision looking forward where are we going to be in five ten years as an organization that bcsc is the choice to learn work and play uh the working and uh the playing piece being uh getting into not only how students and adults interact but also trying to create our corporation and make sure that's integral to the development of this community and people choosing to learn work play live in the bartholomew county area and go to our school corporation our mission being to develop expert learners by partnering with our community to invest in people so very community driven approach with this work you can see the core beliefs i'll read them quickly and they will not be reading all the rest of these slides to you but we all can rise to the challenge of high expectations learning is most effective when we have choice flexibility and see relevance we thrive when our physical social and psychological needs are met our community and school district are stronger when we partner with one another we flourish because of the diversity and variability in our community and our democracy and democratic institutions are strengthened by civic minded citizens so in thinking of those core beliefs that can help us drive the work that we do we set three focus areas then from that information excellence and high expectations a healthy safe and welcoming environment and then pathways to success so looking then at each of those you'll notice the bridges at the top bridges are a big thing around the columbus area and obviously architecture is strong so bridges being connections and that very first one bcsc preparing expert learners through an equitable system of high quality curriculum resources and educators and the two programs that we have or two uh areas initiatives that we have here ensuring the equitable access and achievement and then attracting and retaining a diverse high quality staff and these things align very well with the work that's being done currently in the community through the equity works program that's attempting to make sure that our youth across the county whether it's the schools or any other situation have access to opportunity and we are obviously the school corporation trying to ensure that that's the case that all of our students regardless of their backgrounds have an opportunity to have to achieve success and have high achievement we then listed some objectives and programs and methods in there i'm not going to delve into those at this moment in time i think you have all this information in your package so you can get into that detail a little bit more um but the two areas again coming out of making sure that we're providing an equitable system high quality curriculum resources and educators ensure equitable access and achievement and attract and retain a diverse high quality staff if we look at the next one we have healthy safe and welcoming environments the bcsc provides safe and welcoming learning environments in which every learner has positive relationships and access to resources needed to thrive and our areas here our initiatives under this focus area meet physical social and psychological needs of students and staff who are unable to meet those needs we're going to have a hard time having them be successful and then invest in welcoming safe and inclusive facilities not too long ago dr bozeman gave you quite a bit of information about some renovations that we're looking to do and we've had quite a few school board meetings uh with a lot of information around those renovations and the costs getting the contracts settled and so forth that ties into this so for example the renovation to parkside elementary school is our opportunity to upgrade those buildings and make sure that they are the learning environments are meeting the needs of today and tomorrow's students and the learnings we'll get from the renovations of parks elementary can then be replicated in our other elementary schools over the next five to ten years as we have that rolling off we take advantage of that opportunity renovate building out of time the next building i believe that we chief electric park site is schmidt is that correct dr bozeman parkside followed by schmidt in terms of of the work there uh with renovations the last area that we have is that those pathways to success and bcsc provides equitable access to flexible student-centered options for success and in doing that we're trying to increase opportunities for participation in existing pathways they're also trying to utilize partnerships to establish additional pathways so this focus area very much focused on what we see as a strength in our organization we have a lot of unique pathways available to students but we need to evaluate those and make you make sure that they are are meeting the purpose for which they were first to introduce and then evaluate those in terms of are they truly available to all kids do we have equitable access to those different opportunities for the students for our students in our school system and then besides the ones that already exist what new opportunities can we create for students that meet the needs of this community it goes back to that community relationship community involvement partnering with individuals in our community entities in our community to make sure we understand those so that is a pretty quick yeah it is uh make sure that next page was wasn't like it was uh this was the last page uh but that's a quick overview of what we're looking at in terms of our strategic plan uh we have many initiatives that are that are aligned with that i mentioned one in terms of parkside elementary school another one that i would just highlight very quickly is the peer educator pathway program that we introduced this year it was a pilot to hire individuals make them tas put them in the classroom and give them that opportunity to to get a college education a teacher's license and he come back to work for us we had nine individuals in that program for those nine individuals were persons of color and we believe that that will be beneficial in time in our school corporation and we're looking forward to each of them at some point in time completing that uh their education getting that teacher's license and coming to work for us but an investment again a pilot but an investment that we are seeing dividends being reaped at this point and also getting a lot of interest from other school corporations the department of education others in the state of indiana as to how we how we did that and how we how maybe other corporations can move an initiative like that forward so um that's what we have i'll take any questions at this point and this will be something we'll bring back at the march 7th meeting for you to talk about again okay any questions at this time we're absorbing i'm going to get it the ccic just to just a reminder to you that the corporation has a corporation continuous improvement council we spent about three hours on this plan uh just a couple of weeks ago went through all the initiatives that we currently have active tying to different parts of that so we can bring those to you as well perhaps next time just to give some other concrete examples of what's happening but that's ccic that helps drive the plan throughout our corporation so it's helping with the development of that professional development day on february the 21st and then each building level we have cic so mr sprong has a continuous improvement council in his building his cic is working on what they're going to do with their half day because they will have a half day at each of their buildings morning is kind of corporation focused afternoon building focused and cic will work on what they can do to align back to the plan and make sure as a corporation we're growing growing together awesome we're going to have a long meeting on march 7th i can tell all right i didn't hear any more questions so we'll turn to our 2021 financial report let's thank you dr shed be uh relatively brief here just to summarize the results of calendar year 2021 financially on first on revenues education fund was up both compared to budget and compared to the prior year that's largely due to increases in both adm and per pupil support on the operations fund side revenues were up just a little bit compared to the prior year and that would be expected based on annual increases in assessed value but certainly falling short of the budget and that's entirely due to tax cap losses of about 1.7 plus million dollars each year and then on the operating referendum side we don't have a prior year to compare to but revenues were higher than budgeted uh primarily due to uh assessed value increasing more than what we expected and then also the dlgf made a small error in the amount of miscellaneous revenues that they calculated on excise taxes and so they were left out of the budgeted amount on the expenditure side salaries and benefits make up obviously the majority of all of our expenditures as a school corporation salaries are up about four and a half percent as we implemented that nine percent support staff increase starting july one and uh just around six percent uh increases in teacher salaries starting in the fall that would have hit us in uh the second payroll in august benefits i'm sorry one more thing on salaries there substitute teacher costs were up more than 100 compared to budget um about 700 000 higher than budget and that falls under the salary category probably an outlier that i wanted to point out to you there as demand for substitute teachers uh has exploded across the uh the state and the country the second benefits is exactly as expected just up slightly from the prior year and just about right on budget the other category there's some variation there mainly because um in 2020 we purchased technology all this the devices in 2020 on a geo bond those came back onto the regular education fund budget in 2021 and so that's the variation there in the uh the other category transfers to operations were uh down just a bit compared to the prior year on operations fund expenditures salaries were up about 14 and that's uh expected for two reasons obviously the nine percent increase most of the most of the salaries on operation side are support staff and so that nine percent increase hit the operations fund side heavier but also because 2021 we saw more normalized level of staffing compared to 2020 sorry 2020 as we were shut down uh for much of 2020 and just sometimes we paid folks during that time but sometimes we didn't fill a position if someone left during the course of 2020 so that's the two reasons for the increases in salaries there in 2021 benefits again about where you would expect them to be and then on the other category we spent more on fuel and utilities in 2021 than we would have in 2020 for obvious reasons again due to shutdowns but also in 2020 we moved bus purchases to a go bond in 2020 and they came back on to the operations fund in 2021 so that's a big variation from the prior year on the operation side operating referendum again we don't have a prior year to compare to their but teacher referendum increases were just below budget while support staff referendum pay was just over budget and this is our first year doing these and so those were estimates of course at the time we'll get more accurate as we go as we move along i do want to point out that the teacher retention salary increases any unspent dollars in that calendar year do carry forward and get allocated as part of the collective bargaining process next time around benefits and safety and security expenditures were just under budget again as we were we were making estimates as we built this budget for the first time um in this in this in 2021 just a summary again i've done this each of the last uh four quarters of the operating referendum expenditures i won't read that to you you have it in your packet but it does summarize well the impact of the operating referendum on our on our folks and the the services we've been able to provide to students during 2021.
the alternate for phase two would be um redoing the existing hvac of the donut basically as well as all the ceilings within there and that will be done before school starts in 24. as we talked about last time with the volatility of the worldwide market with the pandemic you know the supply chain issues you know it's it's really flexible right now but that that's kind of what we have on paper right now all right now i just want to talk a little bit about the estimated costs um what everything that bill's talked about has a currently an estimated cost of 17.4 million dollars of course we won't know the exact figure until the bids will come in how this would work was what the school district would enter into a lease agreement with the multi-school building corporation this is a controlled project by the definition of indiana code which is why we're going through all these uh steps and just noted is below the threshold requiring a public referendum for calendar year 2022 our debt service funds have a combined tax rate of 31.87 cents generating a tax levy of just over 17 million dollars the 17.4 million dollars of bonds would have a corresponding lease agreement for 20 years right now we're estimating interest rates at three and a half they're much lower than that now but by the time between now and the spring you never know what can happen so our estimates are based on a higher interest rate having a total interest cost of 6.978 million dollars this project would add about two and a half cents to the tax rate and about 1.27 million to the annual levy i just want to remind the board and the and the public that in 2020 uh we refunded slash refinance three of our bond issues series 2011 2012 b and 2013.
uh here's another slide that kind of wraps up the impact of operating referendum basically we paid almost nine percent more in salaries during 2021 because of the operating referendum and these are month end balances i know you can't see that very well but um there's a table at the end we'll come back to that actually summarizes generally all [Music] year end balances were up compared to the prior year the white line there is the tax anticipation warrants and so they start off in january um when we borrow those and then go down to zero at the end of the year we when we pay those back um so that's the reason for all of them dip in in december as we pay back the tax anticipation warrants at the end of the calendar year a debt service fund this is the only quarter at the end of the year i review all of the tax supported funds instead of just the operating operating referendum and education fund debt services fund expenditures were just as expected and the cast balance was up as we borrowed less in taxi anticipation warrants and the interest rate was incredibly incredibly low in 2021 uh what we paid on tax anticipation warrants and so cash balance was up at the end of the year a little bit in debt service of the other two debt service fund you'll be happy to know that top line there pitch in bond last payment was made in 2021 so that 312 038 that line goes away forever and then that leaves us just with the um the referendum debt fund on the high school projects and so the cash bounces down a little bit there and we'll stay at about that level um since we cycled off the pension bonds and paid those off this is that uh that table i mentioned that shows the january one balance revenues expenditures the surplus or deficit in that fund and then the december 31 cash balance um the cash balance is up in the education fund in or the operating fund i'm going to argue that those are increases that i would like to see stay there mainly because of the larger payrolls all of the folks around the state in my role measure their cash balance on how many payrolls you can make if you stop getting revenue today and so since we're paying larger payrolls every time i do like to see those larger cash balances and we'll point out that the education fund cash balance at 3.8 million dollars will not cover two payrolls and so that's why we have larger cash balances elsewhere and the rainy day fund which i apologize there's supposed to be a bottom a line below at the bottom that included the rainy day fund that started out the year right at that 4.9 million that it had been you all approved a 1.4 million dollar transfer from operations in the spring of 2021 so that brought it back to the six just under 6.3 million that had been for the almost the decade prior to that so that's the 2021 uh financial report dr shedd and happy to answer any questions you all might have so the rainy day fund would cover two payrolls three um about two and a half two and a half wow okay are there particular questions people have i guess i can't remember if it's calendar year or school year but could you talk a little bit in addition to the oversight that the board and the public can can provide for the funding and spending of the schools state board of accounts and what their role is and when they look at our financial statements in financial transactions is that at the end of a calendar year it's every two years is when the state board of accounts will do an audit um they are all caught up finally we did about three audits in a two-year period as they were catching up so the next one probably won't be until next year we do report every revenue and expenditure every six months to the department of education so anyone who wants to to see any of the dollars coming in are going out can go to the doe finance page and they can look at every report that goes line by line and that's why i don't do this until february because they have approved the last six months the july through december 21 they approved that accepted it and those reports should be available to the public probably this month sometime very good thank you you're welcome are there other questions yeah i don't know if it's dr phillips of doctor please but with the increase due to the referendum of teacher salaries where does that place us remind me in maybe our peer group are we median are we high are we low how do we compare to others in terms of what we pay our teachers it depends on where you look are you looking you're looking at starting pay or the median pay or average salary we do believe that we on an average salary standpoint with the referendum dollars included for teacher salaries that we will end up being in in the top 10 for sure in the state of indiana just depends on how everyone else's collective bargainings kind of shake out but we do think we know that we'll be somewhere in the neighborhood of the 60 000 average range which puts us where the state the the governor commissioned a teacher salary report uh two years ago and it was completed last year and their desire was to get to the 60 000 range and we'll be above that dr complete did you have anything else all right thank you i'm i'm just curious because we're doing this at the university and we're scratching our heads um you know the variety of data have these like crazy blips and so striving not to think of our trends with these funky blips in them so your sense of what year might be when you're gonna stop and like start thinking new trends am i making sense yes i think i understand what you're saying in regards to the the um the coveted years and right right disruptions that those made um yeah luckily for us we keep federal dollars separate so um the trends and expenditures really were just 2020.
interest rates are low and just like how many people have refinanced their homes we took advantage of that and so we were able to decrease our annual debt payments by over 1.4 million dollars and lowered the tax rate to our taxpayers by 2.63 starting this year that saves just over 17 million dollars to our taxpayers over the life of the bonds that we've refunded as dr vrocco mentioned we are very conscious of our lake central tax rate we uh try our best to keep that as low as we can and in 2020 through 22 you can see we've dropped our tax rate um quite a bit almost by 14 cents over the last two years um you know when someone gets their tax bill there's multiple things that you're paying for there's the school district there's a city or town that you live in there's the county the library the township and so many layers of government and all those different layers of government have their own debt and added together it's called overlapping debt because it affects everybody and so currently the total long-term debt for all the stacked units is 216 million 15 844 the current assessed value of just over five billion dollars computes to a desk ratio of 4.28 this chart shows all the debt that we currently have on our books um referendum bonds here um go in uh 10 more years as dr rocco said we're about halfway through with those this would be the added lease and you can see how the debt payments are significantly decreasing even with this project this is the same thing except we've also added a column here because when we've been fortunate to get common school loans from the state every six months this is what we use to provide the technology into our buildings and we've been doing them every six months since we've been here or since i've been here and there's no reason to think that we won't do that because we're going to have to re we continue to replace our technology before it gets bad so realistically we can see that continuing this is more just in a graph form of what our current debts are this in green is the section that would represent um this new additional debt as you can see the majority of our current debt are leased rental agreements from various building projects throughout the years and we do have a big cliff here coming in 32 and that's all we have so at this point that was our presentation so i would ascertain if anyone from the board or the public has any comments to make about what was just presented okay no one from the audience board members any how would that fit into that graph that you showed us with all the uh well if you notice that the the green amount for this project in the scheme of it it really wasn't that much added to the total we do have some more debt coming off in the next two or three years it's not the big cliff and 32 with the hopefully assessed values continue to increase so if we had to do a similar project as dr varko said probably be of more of a cost than this potentially or around the same because maybe the number of classrooms isn't the same because we haven't even really got down there i would say it would probably have a very similar impact of approximately two two and a half cents but that's just speculation but just comparing now to right right we don't know what will happen do we but um what debt will be falling off that you mentioned some debt will fall off i think the clark the original clark bonds um those were 2005.
2021 for the most part from our standpoint from an expenditure standpoint was a pretty normal year again with the exception of substitute teachers okay so that one pretty much goes into history now i do use two years of data when i build the budget for the future but i'm able to look back and kind of eliminate some of those unusual those unusual activities okay thanks other questions all right we're two requests for approval dr robert all right well i have a list for you and so we'll start into that we have the minute to the regular school board meeting from the last meeting january the 4th supplemental contracts those list of those were in your packet we have field trips and professional leaves as well and school fundraisers we have claims and payroll claims from february 7th today's date 747 957 and 21 cents the pre-run of january 1 to january 31 was a little over 4.1 million dollars additionally we have just one payroll on here the payroll from friday january the 28th that will cover the work dates of the 3rd through the 16th it was a normal payroll usually we have something in there that we've we've added or maybe even subtracted if there was a support staff week where they didn't have any more days or something like that that total was just over 3 million we are also asking for your approval of the 2022 additional appropriations for which you had the public hearing on tonight and then a resolution to approve a multi-multi-district litigation or kind of a joint litigation effort mdl against a jewel and that is getting quite a bit of publicity across the country i think as school corporations say you know what there's been a lot of effort to uh get our kids addicted to nicotine again only this way through these vaping devices and jewel has been the leader in that so across the country school corporations are signing on we have a resolution in your packet in terms of all the data that cites what's happened across the country and certainly those statistics are mirrored within our own school corporation and then and what happens with vaping keeps our administrators uh very busy and that's even down into the elementary school level in terms of what we see with with that activity um so it is something that we have considered we ran through uh all of our the cabinet members and had conversations with other key leaders in our school corporation about joining this multi-district litigation effort it is something that from a an attorney or legal standpoint we have no fees until the settlement is done and then in the settlement is by individual school corporations it's not just a an amount that will come across the states or countries or whatever this particular setup of the litigation is not indiana for example or the doe or all the school corporation indiana it would be bartholomew consolidated it would be carmel clay it would be south mend or fort wayne or whoever else has chosen to get involved attorneys will work on our behalf with this we'll go through a checklist of the things the impact that we have seen jewel have on our school corporation fill out that information and submit that that will help if things go the right way with us it would help determine then the settlement for bcsc then attorneys would get their share as they they should they're doing some work there's a percent gonna come out of that for for their efforts but otherwise uh there is no uh outward expenditure for our system to to participate in this litigation against jewel the number of school corporations in indiana uh is is approaching 40 i believe now and then we'll grow over the next couple of weeks as that effort to make sure corporations understand what is required of them and how they can participate grows but it does require a resolution for you to approve so that is in your packet and that is my list of things all right so i will entertain a motion for consideration of the items presented to us under 3 a through g so thank you mr bryant is there a second second thank you miss day hofdwyer are there particular questions any of my colleagues have these are pretty typical of us except for the lawsuits are there any questions individuals have about that all righty okay go ahead other than financially what else are we asking them to do it wouldn't be uh anything pat there would be a financial settlement back to the corporation then most corporations will likely use those dollars to to uh battle the the vaping situation it may be devices that detect vaping or or additional supports for our kids uh programs that that help uh individuals who get addicted to nicotine and then are using it so so most corporations are trying to understand what's happened in their corporation then if they had resources more resources available how could those they put those resources to stopping the vaping situation helping kids who become addicted okay thank you all right if there are no more questions those of you who approve items three a through g as they've been presented to us if you signify by saying i i any opposed all right dr roberts we've approved those unanimously thank you dr pleek human resources i request approval of the hr recommendations as presented this evening all right thank you very much may i have a motion for approval of the human resources recommendations as presented thank you miss dayhofdyer is there a second thank you dr bills any particular questions i'm not sure i was prepared for the one resignation that i retirement that i saw okay all right if there aren't any more questions those who are in favor of the human resources recommendations as presented to us if you'd signify by saying i i those opposed all right dr pleak unanimously approved okay board input and review i don't know why i'm this way but i'm a very clockwise person i guess so dr grimes or mr i'm sorry yeah thanks thanks dr um so yeah i neglected to mention i guess it's maybe more appropriate here than in accommodations but uh congratulations to the fodrea boys and parkside girls uh for being the elementary basketball league attorney champs on on saturday thank you to mr sprong and the other members of the richard staff for coming and sharing and again it's refreshing i i think our our last school presentation lincoln and between lincoln and richards here the real emphasis being on um you know interpersonal relationships and developing a sense of community and an emphasis on prevention rather than reaction and punitive is uh and you know the realization that those things have to come before real education and academics come into play that's very refreshing so thank you mr sprongs mr sprong and richards and then lastly congrats to dr de clue and her i believe 23 years of service to bcsc and uh induction into the bcsc hall of fame thank you all right thank you dr bills i just love this book so i'm gonna have to get a few just don't abscond with that one i can't like find this in my first room 20 bucks in here i just i just thought the presentation linda de clue was just wonderful and the support she had all the people here to support her and the words that were spoken about her it just moved me quite a bit tonight and he was such a valuable wonderful member of the community and of bcsc for a number of years i just wanted to express thanks to kathy and the committee and for um organizing that process and just for everybody who said some who's worked with miss uh the clue and who was also said some words in the video about it it was just a really nice presentation really really well done great thank you mr bryant nothing all right miss day half time i concur with mr grimes and dr bills's comments as well it was really nice to see dr the clue again and her whole family and i'm very appreciative that she did get dr van horn down here because he's done some great things too so and that's probably one thing i'm most um happy about with uh dr declude being here so awesome um the only thing i'll say maybe should have gone on commendations oh i i have a bus driver justin richardson so i'm gonna give him a shout out he he goes the extra mile um every day he is in constant communication with us when things go right he had to have a sub he wanted to make sure i was ready for it in case the bus was a little off on time he does with other families in our neighborhood and he doesn't have to you know so i know how i'm taxing all of these changes are on our support staff too and we talk a lot about teachers and we should but our support staff is pretty pretty remarkable too i've been really impressed impressed with him and appreciate that great thank you mr stenner thank you yeah the presentations were the highlights of the meeting for me as well uh the hall of fame award and the best practices of richards are really inspiring so thank you to everyone who's a part of the board meeting tonight awesome thank you the only well i have two one is so i heard community throughout everything i think dr decludes presentation and everything about her and how essential she and her entire family are as a part of this community that theme ran through the richard's presentation and then to see it again in our strategic plan and essential to our mission it just um really resonates for me as to how important and how very very special columbus is and that it and that as a community it is what is bcsc that there really can't be separated very much so i'm very proud of that and it's very interesting to hear it constantly and reinforced the second thing i wanted to comment was to thank you pat bryant for making us think i appreciate it very much our next board meeting is march 7th it's at 6 30.
they were 20 years so we have a few more years left on those we've done some other refundings through the year and so when you do a refunding almost it doesn't start the clock over it you could have done it how many different ways in the past but yeah 32 the next in 10 years is where the bigger drop-off is and we'll have the board and administration will have things to talk about years down the road before we get to that and see what other building needs over time but we we worry about that now we don't worry about that now thank you okay um my second item is is what was added to the agenda and during this whole process kind of we talked about in an email to the board today i talked about how the multi-district building corporation works years ago and when i say years ago i mean back in the 70s 80s when building corporations started school districts often had a specific building corporation for a specific project so there was a polling building corporation then there was a separate ellen bibich elementary building corporation and there could have been a separate piper one for all i know um they were their own separate legal entities and it really just became a mess so in 1989 is when the multi-district building corporation was formed and that's what we've done everything through since then and then that way that building corporation can do anything for any any building so back in 1977 when bidwich was originally um constructed the lake central elementary school building corporation financed the project just as we described and those bonds were paid off in 1996 approximately 20 years later and at that point the ownership of that area or the parcels of that property should resorted back to us for somehow some way it wasn't on the title side it was before my time and i can't speak to anything on that but so we need to take some steps in order to get that title changed back into our name the elementary school building corporation none of those members are unfortunately alive anymore so speaking with our attorney we just have to take some legal steps to get that put into our name so at this point i'm just seeking the board's action or excuse me board's approval to move forward with those in order to correct the title we recommend that the board files a quiet title action and authorize the superintendent to take the actions necessary and appropriate for the same is that on this yes that was what was added i moved do we accept the recommendation of our director we have a motion by mr marshall second second by miss kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye aye motion passes okay thank you um so the next step is part of the bivich project we have three resolutions for tonight on the first one is the adoption of the 10 28 hearing and the 10 28 resolution discloses the project cost and the estimated uh impact of the tax levy as we said in the presentation those amounts were disclosed about uh 2.51 cents uh added to the current tax rate of 79 18 for the debt um so i seek your approval on the 1028 resolution that was provided in your board packet move to approve the 1028 resolution emotion by miss excuse me by dr medlin and i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you uh the second resolution is the adoption of the preliminary determination resolution and this resolution states that the school board intends to enter into a lease agreement with the lake central multi-district building school corporation for the bibbich elementary school project it outlines the maximum amount of the lease of the one million two hundred seventy thousand an estimated interest rate of three and a half percent at interest for the cost of the lease of six million nine hundred seventy eight thousand as well against stating the estimated tax impact of two point five one cents so i seek your approval on the preliminary determination resolution we have a motion by dr malcolm second second by ms kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor motion passes thank you and then the third resolution tonight is the adoption of the reimbursement resolution and this states that the school corporation can expect to incur costs prior to the issuance of the bonds in the summer we've already talked about maybe some architectural work and so forth and um this resolution just states that once the bonds are sold by the building corporation that the school district intends to reimburse those costs with a portion of those bond proceeds so we seek your approval for the reimbursement resolution so moved motion by mr marshall second second by ms kelly any discussion all in favor motion passes thank you and my final item is to seek your approval on the donations that were presented in your board packet motion to approve i have a motion by miss kelly second second by dr medlin any discussion all in favor aye aye aye motion passes thank you very much mr james if if i could ask him maybe mr ledger will i don't know maybe doctor barack where does this put the safety entrances that we were working on for on the other couple of schools i think kaler and clark i mean this project does not delay that because that's out of the building project that's how the cpf right okay i just want to make sure thank you any other discussion all right we'll move on to our public comments portion just would like to remind for those that will be addressing the board this evening we ask that you refrain from personal attacks or derogatory statements about any school employee fellow community member a student or anyone else whether in attendance or not the board will allow each person three minutes with a total of 30 minutes when you are down to the last 15 seconds we will announce to you that your time is nearing completion i do understand that we had one person walk in that did not was not able to sign up i will call you at the end so when you do come up if you please state your name and your address for the record i would appreciate it margaret jablonski please hello again hi margaret jablonski i live on matthew street in crown point i find it utterly disappointing though not surprising that we still find ourselves here today and during it another groundhog day i will however continue my quest to show my children then when a cause is important to them the fight for it might often times be an uncomfortable one i will continue to advocate for their freedom i will not be deterred in my attempts to showcase the importance of respecting every person and their choices i would also like to engage in a meaningful and productive discussion perhaps your reaction to all the materials i submitted over the past week could be a starting point i am particularly interested in your comments regarding the most recent meta-analyses published last week by johns hopkins university concerning the failure of and damage caused by lockdowns and mandates what about the review of over 150 studies that prove that masks don't work have any of you taken a good look at the return to normalcy toolkit i provided you with what about the very informative video by dr shiva of mit on masks and oral health we continue to do our homework we continue to do research we continue to search out new and old information that could add to the discussion what would be the best way to get your feedback preferably in a public forum it appears that the school board meetings are not regarded to be a discussion platform would you consider conducting a town hall meeting of sorts to discuss engage and exchange ideas you must know by now that we are in it for the long haul none of us parents are in this to cause our kids harm none of us really want to be at odds with the school board either if they need a rose we would rally behind the board that respected us and what we stand for i think that is the message we are sending with the laws that you currently find yourselves in we simply want you to recognize our rights our intentions our choices and our knowledge of what is best for our children constant regurgitation of the health and safety the need to follow department of health and the law or the fear of liability really become moved in light of the other districts implementing optional masking successfully have you reached out to them i think this might be the fourth or the fifth time i've asked that to see what they are doing differently at what their strategy is are they really breaking the law what are the potential consequences what are they doing different that we could learn from are they really throwing health and well-being of the students and staff out the window or could it be that they actually care more about the kids than the potential legal liability have they observed significant rise in cases not that we really should care about this at this point has there been a significant increase in deaths among their students or staff can you really tell me with a straight face that mandatory masking does not negatively impact anyone if so please provide supporting evidence you have had two years to collect plenty of it what experts other than the department of health have you consulted with when making a decision to remove options and freedoms from individuals as far as i know there have been no successful lawsuits against school districts with optional masking by the way how would one prove in court that they contracted covet in math class and not at walmart there have been other cases that people are winning especially in illinois i hope you guys are watching illinois is a mess right now don't let that happen here thank you jenna orgazovich good evening board members uh thanks for allowing us to speak tonight um i just did you say your name and address please i'm sorry your name and address jenna ogrezovich and i live in dyer indiana um i didn't prepare a lot tonight but i just kind of wanted to sort of express who i am why i've been in this fight with you uh on this mass mandate with you guys uh i've been intimately involved in this pandemic since the beginning of it from the very beginning of the pandemic i'm sure you all remember that some people had jobs that were essential some people were non-essential i run a family business that was determined to be non-essential so for the past two years my business has had no income due to this pandemic that goes to show the nature of this this pandemic throughout has not been about saving lives has not been about the science it's been a giant social engineering experiment that we're all involved in and as a school board you have the opportunity to take our kids out of that experiment what the parents want them to to be done but you guys are continuing to just push masking in the name of the state in the name of some law that doesn't exist you know masking normalizes dehumanization not being able to see your faces up there i don't know what any of you are thinking i you're like a wall to me when i look at you all out there i don't know i would love to see some sort of reaction to anything i say or what any of these other people are saying to you tonight i can't read you at all and as a substitute teacher in the district last year i went along with the masking it was the most heartbreaking experience of my life to stand in a classroom with kindergartners and first graders and want to see how they were doing and and have a wonderful day with them and i can't see their faces when they come in the classroom are they having a good day are they exhausted do they look like they've been crying what's going on i couldn't tell and i loved being a substitute teacher i actually have nine credit hours to go to have be able to get a regular teaching license i went back to school and i stopped that because now i'm homeschooling my child because i want to take her out of this religious secular religious cult that has been formed around this coronavirus um and it's it's my fundamental right to not belong to a secular religion and i just want to say that all of this empowers bullying a lot of people say that kids don't care but what teachers pride themselves on students who don't care um one last thing i have to do christina abel i am going to show we're done thank you christina abel you can leave it right there and i will get it christina abel you state your name and address please uh christina abel 90432 place in st john thank you hi again i feel like this is a once a month thing that i get to come talk to you and nobody talks back to me it's amazing um i would like to go over an article that just came out in the washington post on january 25th schools can safely make masks optional with the cdc's new guidelines i'd like to let you know that the washington post is not a right-wing outlet this is a left-wing outlet okay the doctors let me get to it dr sharon darone an infectious disease physician is a hospital epidemiologist at tufts medical center and an associate professor at tufts university school of medicine weston branch element is also an infectious disease physician and is an associate professor of medicine at harvard medical school alyssa perkins is an associate professor of emergency medicine and director of emergency medicine infectious disease management at boston medical university boston university school of medicine they are the ones that wrote this article the center of disease control and prevention updated its guidance on masks this past week stating that respirators such as n95s are more protective than surgical masks which in turn protect better than cloth masks i would like to thank you mr marshall because i can see that my speech last time made an effect and you heard me and listen to me because instead of the surgical mask you're wearing the n95 which shows me that you really are caring about wearing the masks the rest of you when i told you that the cdc said that the cloth masks do nothing and they came on on cnn and said that the cloth masks do nothing we still continue to come up here with our cloth masks today so obviously we're not that concerned about it we are just showing this is for show now so anyway um these updates are appropriate from scientific standpoint they also offer a pathway to compromise in a place where masking policies are mostly hotly debated which is schools respirators and other high quality masks such as the n95 are highly effective at protecting their wearers regardless of what people around them are doing this makes the old mantra my masks protect you and your mask protects me obsolete as a result schools can finally safely make mask optional for students and staff biden is also sending out 400 million respirator masks if you would like one you can order them and get them for free they will protect you they will not protect anybody else they will protect you so anybody that is in these schools anybody that's a teacher a student anybody that wants to wear them that is concerned can certainly get an n95 mask and they can wear them they will be protected if they do not want to wear them they don't have to because the cloth mask that 95 98 of the people in the schools are wearing don't work illinois new york virginia all over the place these judges are putting down these mass mandates they're ending them i encourage you if you would like to show your constitution that you listen to them to please end these mandates thank you sherry true [Applause] sheree true 164 per month drive and dire thank you hello again i feel really comfortable coming up here every two weeks to tell you my stories because i feel like we're really connecting um and so that was a good segue to mine i was going to say what do new jersey illinois connecticut and delaware have in common it's not a joke uh you would probably say they're all blue states but they're actually people that are not doing mass mandates for their kids anymore which is very interesting considering their politics there's also many school districts that are around here that are not doing mass mandates and so given that fact there is no law a mandate isn't a law i don't know if you guys have time to look that up but a mandate isn't a law it's a recommendation just like the health department make recommendations they're not elected officials they're bureaucrats that give opinions based on their political divisiveness they want to use to get their decisions and their points across please don't use our children as pawns in this game it's not fair to them it's not fair for them for to them to lose their childhood because bureaucrats don't want to do the right thing so please i'm asking you again and i will continue to ask you until this gets done or until we have an election and there'll be new people sitting up here that can make better decisions thank you thank you jeremy ogrozovich uh jeremy ogrisovich dyer um so i have a question to you guys uh is the cdc infallible yes or no anybody yes or no oh they won't all right um i think jennifer dr medlin had the the best quote of the day of the evening people coming out of high school don't know how to do arithmetic that was awesome i think mass are probably going to be a great help with that i think maths are going to definitely help with increasing our ability to communicate effectively you know algebra 2 and trigonometry to our high schools high schoolers who are trying to pass the sat you know if the cdc and the nih have a uh a conflict of interest or a uh a dispute between regulations who do you follow um and giving that back to harken back to what was said earlier uh now that everybody else is uh around uh all the surrounding communities are changing their their current standing how does it feel to be on the wrong side of history yeah um to end uh i pulled my children out of this school corporation um you've all fallen short of the standard and i can't wait to vote you out can't wait to vote you out you're all failures thank you amber vladta hello amber vladica ginger core dire indiana thank you so headache sore throat sinus congestion body aches headache what am i describing cold coven nobody knows right so when this pandemic first started was 14 day quarantine if you were in close contact you were isolated unless you were in health care then you were forced to work but that's different um so 14 days at the beginning now we're down to five days five days isolate put a mask on for the other five days vaccinated or unvaccinated it doesn't matter what is that telling you if you look at science science shows that as a virus replicates it decreases in its strength this virus it's not the ohm cran it's not the delta it's the og it is a cold we are putting masks on kids my son had a bloody nose twice last week during school because of a mask janice i've been watching you and observing for two hours you have been pulling your mask down it's not even up over your nose clearly you can't tolerate a mask for two hours how are we expecting our children for six hours stop projecting your fears on our children let the parents make the decisions if a parent now now they've made it six months and up can vaccinate if you have an irrational fear of a cold please take the vaccine put a mask on i'm not telling you not to wear a mask i'm just telling you not to make me wear one or force my children to wear one so please unmask our kids this is ridiculous let's at least put it on the books to discuss when what's the next step how long are we going to continue this for give us a date give us something to go off of give us a little bit of hope this has got to end it's got to end now give us something something that's it something don't just stare at us thank you can i um the person who came in that wanted to speak please approach name is jillian trans i live at 1004 richmond court in dyer indiana and i am the parent of two lc students and a passionate supporter of public education i'm here tonight to state clearly my opposition to hb 1134 not because i think the board or the district has direct influence over the legislature but because over the past months you've heard from folks who support underlying elements of the bill and i think it's important that you hear from multiple perspectives in the community excuse me community as a parent my priority is for my children to receive a high quality education that prepares them for college and career in a competitive global economy hp 1134 is not about improving the quality of education but rather limiting the concepts and perspectives that can be taught in schools to align with a conservative agenda most concerning is section 12b which creates a definition for good citizenship instruction this definition requires curriculum to position the economic and political institutions of the united states as quote better suited to contribute to human advancement prosperity and well-being end quote this is a slippery slope while of course i want my children to understand the economic system of capitalism i object to public schools requiring it be taught as superior to other economic systems schools should teach students how to think not what to think the united states is a country that has continued to evolve working to learn from the past and do better and that cannot continue if we define good citizenship as acquiescing to the idea that the economic and political systems of this country are inherently superior to those of nations around the world good citizens are informed citizens and this starts with public education as our indiana students move on to college how will they be prepared for courses on global economics political science anthropology and the law if the version of civics history and economics that are they're forced to learn in indiana schools is censored and sometimes incorrect the generation that my kids belong to have the internet in their pocket and this bill's attempt to criminalize the teachings of intersectionality the benefits of other socioeconomic structures and anything related to racism should frighten us my second objection to this bill is chapter 12.5 entitled entitled curriculum materials advisory committee which creates advisory committees that are simply unnecessary and put unpaid labor on indiana teachers who are already at the bottom of the compensation for teachers in the nation this bill does not provide additional funding for extra hours teachers and administrators will have to spend in our districts parents already have access to online textbooks study guides syllabi and lesson plans at their fingertips through canvas and skyward and just because some parents aren't utilizing the tools already available doesn't mean we need sweeping legislation that's going to be impossible to implement hb 1134 has a misnomer of a title education matters to that i say actually yes it does but the contents of this bill do not live up to that name i hope this perspective provides value to you guys as the legislative session unfolds and i thank you for all you're doing for our lc students thank you all right that is the end of our public comments section and we will move on to board comments and consideration of future agenda items mr marshall i have none thank you thank you miss kelly turn it off we have some athletic teams coming up with some important matches and competitions this next week so good luck to them okay dr medlin i'd like to again thank the teachers and staff for everything that they do for our students i'm looking forward to talking about goals for lake central school corporation and uh due to the pending litigation brought against us i will not be responding to any more emails regarding masks thank you dr mayoko yes um first of all thank you for your comments tonight always appreciate those similarly as ms kelly said the dac swimming awards that we brought back congratulations and i think all the wrestling team goes into the next a representative of every weight goes well that was uh for sectionals there was wrestling and then regionals were were nine nine okay no we're moving on to nine for semi-state sorry cool nine going on to semi-state so that's congratulations to coach luke yes and and um i i one of the minutes and you know i kind of rambling right now because there's several things i want to say i don't want our students to think that we don't care about them and all their hard work that's why i'm kind of talking about the wrestling that the dance teams that we have the cheerleaders um the boys basketball team was so much fun to watch the girls basketball team was fun to watch so we have so many great things going on around here not not to forget about uh science olympiad the academic competitions that we have it's just a great place with a lot of things going on um one thing that i wanted to express express for our minutes is because the minutes that we approved indicate that i made a comment that i didn't make so i would like for these minutes to state that during our last meeting i questioned the use of slate of officers for election but i did not state the name of any board me member relating to this so i did not mention a board member's name and i think the minutes kind of say that i did so i wanted to clarify that did you watch the tape again dr malcolm yes i did yes because that's how the person who makes the minutes gets the minutes yeah i know i did look at it again yeah we'll watch the tape again yeah no you know what it was the comments that were made by um mr marshall at the very end that's where it was stated so okay i received several communications about my comment last meeting and at the end of that meeting i talked about my recent trip to louisiana and mississippi in an effort to state my opinion that my opinion in that in general indiana has a much more stringent reaction to the covet situation than i found in mississippi in louisiana even though their death rates are much higher than in indiana in other words what i saw down there in mississippi and louis louisiana was normalcy everything is optional if you want to do a mask you do a mask i was not judging who was right or wrong but giving examples of the differences between the states let me repeat that i was talking about the differences between the states i'm not saying who's right or who's wrong similarly there are differences of opinion up here on this stage there's differences of opinions of those of you in our parent community and our students some are saying no mask some are saying optional mess some are saying yes we want mass some are saying vaccination you've got to have it others are saying no you have to have a vaccination and a mask you know everybody's got their personal opinions um and i think that as members of the community of lake central we have followed the rules of covet since 2019 we've learned a lot about covet over those years the the most recent data that i read and first of all i thank you for sending us the meta analysis done by johns hopkins university because we've been accused of not using solid data but the most recent data that i read about is that this is creating difficulties for young children with their speech and their language development and that one really that one really bothered me um so you asked for us to give you something you know what and this is not an experiment and i don't know who said that but but i find that to be kind of odd because this is not an experiment i mean none of us consider this an experiment we're trying to use children to control whatever we do legitimately have concerns we want to keep them safe but at the same time i can recognize and honor that each of you are in a different camp you don't all are not in the same camp i have a son who pulled his children from school because they are not required masks so you see it's just everywhere everybody's different everybody's different please my turn okay i didn't interrupt you um so i have turned to our legislators because because i understand why dr veraco is holding to the initiative of the governor and of course you know that was renewed again for another month until march so i reached out to our legislator and i asked are you guys talking about this dilemma that we are in and then he sent me some research and it shows that they are talking to the governor about this dilemma that we're in however at the same time i'm a realist and i know that legislators don't make a decision like that so in summary i guess what i am saying is as an individual on the board i would like to recommend that we become optional mask in the very near future now i've been saying that forever but i said it this time as a recommendation now i don't know if anybody up here would would agree to that but that is something certainly something we should talk about i i agree with so many of you about it's just time it's just time i go to these places i go to those places and i just please please i just i just think it's time and then we monitor the situation and if it's ugly then we mask up again i just think it's time that we start moving forward with this like for example mississippi and louisiana did yeah but that's my personal opinion all right is that it nope right and i just want to you know echo some of the sentiments up here about the the whole uh sports and you know good luck to those teams and with that we'll move on to our board calendar future activities doctor morocco [Music] dr veraco we're united yeah you can come up and chat afterwards um yeah we're we're back here in two weeks that's all i have to say 21st thank you do we have a motion for adjournment motion to adjourn we have a motion do we have a second second all in favor aye
it's in the levelless lovely terrace room so with all of that did you want to add anything dr roberts i did not well i will just add back to this sometimes we don't take enough time to enjoy the pictures we have and appreciate those on there but just work of our students um so we are we do have a building project happening over in the lincoln central neighborhood area as a part of their home buyer program and our kids are putting that together great great work from dr hack and and the team at c4 and putting that that together that's awesome thank you for sharing that and highlighting that all right you've got our date we've done all of our work we are ready to go home i will call this meeting in turn thank you
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