And quite a few of our ag classes are also dual credit. Okay. >> They just took out the blanket any CTE course Okay. >> as a success indicator, and they indicated basically only the ones with dual credit. I thought we were like losing a whole lot of students that were already planning to go for that, right? Correct. I'm sorry, Jeremy, what did you say? I'm just I'm just saying the same thing. Our ag classes are dual credit. >> [snorts] >> Any other questions? Thank you. Now, we can move on to consent items. There are several things here, so bear with me. Approval of minutes from the April 20th regular session board meeting, April 27th public work session, and April 27th special session board meeting. Approval of the April 10th and April 24th payroll and claims from April 21st through May 18th. Personnel, acceptance of resignation of Jason Brown, custodian, Mariah O'Brien, third grade teacher, Brad Taggart, CN Primary Principal, Nathan Spellman, band director recommendation to hire and bear with me on the names here.
Any discussion? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. >> Motion passes. 6. Sorry, I'm sketched. That's all right. >> I think that's everything. >> Yep. Just a few things. Just want to thank everybody for a great school year. Um wrapping up here very quickly. It's hard to believe. Uh four days to go. Um, and uh, we have a lot of awards program, celebrations, graduations, all those things going on. My my seventh grader is at his awards program tonight. So, uh, I don't know what he's getting. I guess we'll find out when I get home. But, uh, but certainly want to, um, everybody's welcome. You know, parents and family members and grandparents and, um, so I know it's a busy week at the elementary school and high school be getting graduation practice, but awards programs going on, too. So, um, certainly come join us and recognize our kiddos.
I think you can see their presentation. It's really amazing um what they've created and I wish we had more time if we didn't have so many accommodations. Um but please if you have time check it out. They are truly fantastic. So on to our next amazing group of students. These are our CPHs Business Professionals of America Club. So I will read um actually these are probably all different, aren't they? For each of our kiddos. All right. I think we're all the same. So, I'll go ahead and read our commendation award and then we'll let Mrs. Backnack say a few words. Is that good? Okay. Resolution of commendation. The Crown Point Board of School Trustees is honored to commend the 2025 2026 Business Professionals of America America team for meritorious achievement. Be it hereby resolve that the board of school trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere congratulations to the 2025 2026 Business Professionals of America team for winning first place award and two sixth place awards at the 2026 National Leadership Conference.
I'd be happy to attempt and answer to any questions you might have. >> Well, this is probably going to be a fun one, I would think, because we've got students that are, you know, used to having those available, and we've got parents, I'm sure, that like the security of having those students to have those. I'm just wondering about the logistics of of how that's going to work in regards to um Are they still going to be able to bring them in the school? They keep them in their locker. Can they use them during lunch period? That that kind of thing. >> Yeah, they won't be able to use them during lunch period because that falls within that bell to bell. But, so the the law kind of established that school corporations needed to establish the policy that did one of two things, either kept them from coming on property at all or established a if they come on property, that they would have these requirements.
Any questions? I need a motion. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Any discussions? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> I opposed carries. Next up, overnight ghs boys basketball team Wesley University June 12th through 14, 2026. >> Yep. So, uh, coach submitted all necessary paperwork. Um, it's not out of state, but it's overnight. So, that's why it requires board approval would be my recommendation board approve this opportunity as presented. All right. Same always.
The boosters do everything from the maintenance and repairs to to, you know, uniform repairs and and um specifications of the trailers and um so, I just, you know, those uniforms have have lasted 20 years and [clears throat] I know it seems like a large number, but over the course of a 20-year period, it's it really does probably break down to to be reasonable. So, I don't know when we plan on discussing further, but I would really appreciate everyone trying to make that happen for them. Also, the 8th grade field trip to the Indiana Beach went really well, I've heard. So, that was a good experience. I think they had to cut short those bus That's a shame. It went well. That's all. Uh welcome aboard. Glad to have you. I can't believe the the year. I feel like Sam, we just approved you like the year's already gone by.
Your skin's your filter, right? So, yeah. It makes it possible to get in. I think in the bloodstream. Yeah. Yeah, I would just say, you know, it is overwhelming to try to reduce your exposure and advice by changing out things that are plastic with, you know, with alternatives. Um, I put together on our Green Needham website, uh, a page that, you know, kind of goes through each room in your house to offer alternatives that I'm happy to send the link to to Rob if he wants to pass that out. Um but there there are some things online too that you can sort of see. So, you can do it methodically and slowly cuz I I when I first started I was like, "Oh my gosh, I'm not going to be able to do this." But, you know, just as something is kind of running out, I just look for a better option.
For what? Um the the Getting there. Um [snorts] the number 50 sample exceeds for 1, 4-dichlorobenzene. Um Do you want me to read off the numbers or do you just want to know what exceeds the standard? We can get into that detail if you want or I don't know if you just need to know that. >> going to have to talk about what what's there. What what it what these exceedances are. So you could say it now or you could say it later. Well, the point is they exceed standards so that just requires specified treatment of the soil to ensure it doesn't contaminate. And that's what our soil management plan does. It's a plan to treat these contaminated soils. Um if you So the 50 sample, the 1,4-dichlorobenzene is uh 2.2 What is that? It's 2.2 parts per billion. The threshold is 0.5. Uh the other one is um TCE was identified at 2.7 parts per billion and the threshold is 0.4.
Grandandy. So, as you can see, there's lots of literacy instruction happening at Potter. So, now we're going to move on to continuing to highlight Potter's work around our strategic plan and our school improvement plan, but now we're going to focus on safe and supportive schools and family and community engagement. So, under safe and supportive schools, we had an action step, which is something I've always wanted to do, which was to establish a fifth grade leadership program to empower students with the skills, the knowledge, and confidence to take on leadership roles within the school while also promoting responsibility, teamwork, and a positive school culture. So within that, we had students at the beginning of the year write essays for why they felt like they could be a leader in the school and what they could offer to the school. And I think we all expected maybe a handful of them.
Correct. Good. >> And and doing some of that again, too. One of our superintendents made a great point about how about giving some incentives to close buildings, etc. And that says because people see regionalization as like end all, be all. Well, it's not really because people a lot of time people don't want to regionalize because they move to a particular place because they like that place. Or that town and if they wanted their kids to go to school in the other town, you know, I I say other but we all know what I mean. They would have moved to that. I mean, so I just know that there's more snow days when you regionalize when you combine And when I don't say not necessarily, yeah, I can agree with you not necessarily, but some people who do have the means, moving is school choice for them, right?
If they're responsive then you know, we don't get to a point where we're identifying kids at the same rate. But certainly our rate is gotten higher over time like the state has. So have you been involved with I'm sorry. We No, I just said thank you. That's all. on MTSS plan? And so, what does yours look like and Sure. I've been involved in a myriad of ways. I've been involved directly as a school psychologist, um there to talk about a child's behavioral or social emotional needs or executive functioning needs and troubleshooting with the team about strategies and what's working and what isn't working and what we can leverage in the classroom. I've also been involved as PPT chair, you know, having conversations about rate of progress as we're looking to determine whether or not a child is making sufficient progress in intervention or whether we should be making referrals to special education.
>> So we um we do work with we um we have guest speakers come in, not a a like a specific partnership. There used to be a little bit stronger um many years ago when we had the school to business partnership um Prior to COVID, it was really robust. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So um but we have guest speakers come in. Actually Matt Colehour, he came in um late fall and he spoke with our business classes and shared his experience um with this uh the company Gruen's that he um that was just recently sold. Have you heard about that? >> Yes. So that was serious. And now he's working with a new um an another young startup company. So we're hoping he'll come back in and um share that experience. But just he took our students from, you know, his high school experience um all the way through um college, military experience, his career experience.
Grayson Kirchner >> [applause] >> Grayson is most proud of becoming more social. Grayson Lawson >> [applause] >> Grayson is most proud of his academic achievement. Chaz Logan >> [applause] >> Chaz is most proud of his friends that he has made along the way. ELISE MATNEY >> [screaming] >> ELISE HAD ALL A'S AND WILL RECEIVE AN academic letter. Was top 5% in social studies, computer applications, language arts, pre-algebra, science, and career and life planning, and was also above the 90th percentile in reading. Elise is most proud of being chosen as one of the officers officers for the new middle school art club. Zoe McIntyre >> [applause] >> ZOE WAS ON THE HONOR ROLL and will receive an academic letter. Zoe is most proud of having all A's and being able to play sports at the same time. Brody Melton >> [applause] >> Brody was on the honor roll and will receive an academic letter.
Um if that does happen, and there's no relief, and there's a resolution tonight on this agenda uh for me for the board, hopefully the board accepts it for me to send to our um assembly and Senate and everyone we possibly can, we need some relief. Um we're still in the state state health benefits plan. We probably can't even get out into a private plan right now. We're one of the Now it's a smaller pack of districts in state health, and now we're pick taking on a bigger burden. Um but if you put yourself now again into another 40% increase, we're we're here again next year. We're here again next year. I mean, I don't know what else to say to everybody. Um so, we're going to do everything we can to prevent that. We're going to do everything we can not to hurt programs, and this is the first step of making sure that our students are taken care of, our families taken care of.
This is you. The wind. >> Good evening everyone. My name is Carter Ddepo and I'm so grateful to get to speak to you tonight for the very last time as your student body president. I would like to thank my parents, my brother and sister, my friends, and of course my teachers who have done nothing but support and believe in me. As we sit here tonight, we are celebrating all of our hard work, but all dedication, but also the world of change we are about to experience in three months. Instead of buying school supplies and comparing our schedules to see what teachers we have, we will be spread out across the state, country, and world beginning our next journey. I would like each of you to take a moment and reflect on your time here at CDO. Think about the people, moments, and things that shaped you, inspired you, motivated you, and gave you hope to keep going during your toughest times.
We have um like you can't discriminate based on gender and that you can you can't harass anyone based on their gender, but beyond that, we don't really have um policy that is specifically geared towards uh that community's um like rights and protections. So, I can give you an example of how we've done that in other ways. We do currently we did um incorporate a policy that's called uh it's protection of student origins or like student origin protections and it kind of was directly aligned to um some of the really big immigration things that were occurring last year. We don't really have anything um I don't want to say special but for lack of a better word special in terms of like identifying um like policy and protections for for that particular sub sub community in our group. So it would be taking that on um I don't necessarily know what that would look like but that was the request.
Okay. I turn the meeting back to you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks, Elizabeth. Um, now nominations are in order for the office of vice president. I nominate Stephanie Duckman for the position of vice president to the Board of Education. Stephanie Duckman is nominated. Are there any other nominations for the office of vice president? Thank you. The secretary of the board can please record a unanimous unanimous vote for that person and that person is hereby declared elected. Congratulations. Thank you, guys. >> Very good. Yeah. Thank you. I move that Mary Ellen Soyars be appointed to serve as the secretary to the Board of Education. Second. Thank you. Mary Ellen, I'm sorry. There's no move and second. I think we need a roll call, please. Garrett? I. Hearing? I. Massa? I. Maiman? I. Burton? I. Delgado? I. Duckman? I. We have a script, but we only do this once a year, which is why we're I am sorry.
As if you are not on free and reduced lunch status, our team took that as a really positive way of how integrated our students who are on free and reduced are just in our culture and that that particular disaggregated data point didn't make an impact at all in either building. So, again, the data informs our work first and foremost. We um like authentically and anonymously lean in with the students who are on the zero to one list, and our equity and inclusion council has provided teachers with some authentic strategies of how to make connections with students. We just kind of talked about here are some students in need of connection, and here are some ways in which that those connections can be fostered. CSS is also very aware of both the macro level trends and then what I would just say like the micro level data of having the actual list of students in front of them.
Um sometimes it takes into account effort, participation, homework completion all averaged together. Our third through fifth grade teachers explicitly advocated for this change because providing a letter grade and standard numbers was confusing for families, like I just said. Um parents will be able to see just exactly what standard their child needs help with, and then we'll be able to target that. You asked how this um better supports student learning and comparing comp- I'm sorry, parent communication. It focused the shift from earning points to those mastering concepts. Um in a traditional system, um if you got an early poor test grade, that can bring your grade down for a long time, maybe even permanently in that in that grade, whereas if you're comparing it to the standard, you know, you always have that opportunity to improve. So, say multiplication of whole numbers, you know, if you started out as a one in in maybe September, but right before you got the report card in your first trimester, you start mastering that, that can become a two or a three at that point.
At this table? My husband came to this retired in December. Oh, oh good, good. Awesome. Thank you. That's awesome. Okay. Oh. Thank you. That's awesome. Over at this table? 43 years, okay, you beat me. Okay. Thank you. Okay, I beat you. That's great. All right. Over here? Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, thank you. Great support, thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Well, you know, um, family, it's awesome that you're here to support, but just know that you did that every day. Um, I'm sure you've heard a lot of stories about uh, things that have happened at during the school day, uh, some good, some bad, but um, thank you for being the the people behind behind the scenes that really make our staff and um, our teachers and our bus drivers and custodians really be able to give to our students every day. So, in conclusion, thank you so much for being here, um, and thank you for all of those 391 years of service.