001ruary 9th school board meeting for Campbell County School Board to order. And we'll all rise for pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. So, first on our agenda is our public hearing to discuss the 2627 operating budget. So, I'm going to open the public hearing regarding the 2627 school operating budget. And it's a time of 6:31. And there's >> Mr. Chair, no one signed up to speak tonight. >> Okay. With no one signed up to speak, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing regarding the 2627 school operating budget at 6:31. Thank you. All right. Next up, Jillian Jerku. We have a
002student from Russ High School presentation on SB22. our students with diabetes in Virginia schools. So, Jillian, you have the mic. Welcome. Thank you so much for coming tonight. >> Thank you for having me. First and foremost, I want to thank you all for granting me time to speak today on my recent experiences in Richmond advocating for students with type 1 diabetes. My name is Jillian Jerkow. I'm a senior at Rusber High School as well as the Central Virginia Governor's School for Science and Technology. There we go. Okay. So, first of all, how did I get involved in this opportunity? So, every year at the Governor's School, the juniors um conduct a research project. And as I've been a type 1 diabetic for 15 years, I automatically knew that I wanted my research to focus on
003type 1 diabetes. Um so, my research project was titled um impacts of type 1 diabetes on caretakers well-being. Um and I did a survey. So, I posted this survey in a lot of Facebook groups um with type 1 diabetic parents and caretakers online to collect um participants and there's me at science fair. And this woman here with the arrow, her name is Carrie Murphy. She is the founder of Follow T1Ds, which is a nonprofit that advocates for K through2 students living with type 1 diabetes. she reached out to me uh via Facebook Messenger because she found my survey online and she thought I would be a good candidate to represent um the nonprofit in Richmond. So now just a little bit about the bill. So here's a very short summary. I have also provided a
004paper that's goes a little bit more in depth if you'd like to look at that. Um, but essentially, Senate Bill 122 modernizes the language in the Code of Virginia to more accurately reflect how diabetes is managed with current technology and uh, medical advancements. Um, this code has not been updated since 1997. Can you imagine if you were using the same computer from 1997 or the same Nokia cell phone? Life would be a lot harder if you weren't able to evolve and adapt to the technical advances. This bill also allows with parent and provider permission trained and willing school staff to assist students with the administration of their insulin, including the replacement of an insulin pump site. The bill also addresses the unhindered use of a student's smartphone for um managing their diabetes [snorts] um even
005though generally Virginia students are restricted from cell phone use in schools. >> [snorts] >> So I think it's very important um to understand what the bill does but also just to clarify what the bill does not do. So the FDA has approved insulin pump insertion and reinsertion for non-medical licensed users like myself. Um and pump insertion is not limited to or routinely performed by licensed providers in a clinical setting. [snorts] So, um I mean I don't even have a high school degree yet and I perform an insulin pump insertion every three days at home. Um and it also does it's the bill is intentionable intentional about not creating a disruptive framework um where school employees would be abandon abandoning assigned duties to um assist students with diabetes care. This man here is Senator Jeremy McPike.
006He is the patron of this bill. And now I will talk a little bit about my first experience in Richmond on January 29th. So my mom and I traveled to Richmond on January 29th. We arrived at the general assembly roughly around noon. The Senate was having a meeting prior to our subcommittee meeting. So we sat and waited in um Jeremy McPike's office, the center I just showed you, until we were ready to go down. Unfortunately, this meeting the Senate was in was quite long as they were discussing redistricting. So, we ended up waiting three hours before we were called back to the subcommittee room. Around 4 p.m., the meeting began and Senator McPike introduced the bill before calling myself and others up for our testimonies. I gave my testimony following um T follow T1D's founder,
007Carrie Murphy, and I spoke about how much type 1 diabetes care has evolved since I was diagnosed. Um, and following our testimonies, the subcommittee passed the bill forward to the full committee, which I will now talk about my full committee experience. This [snorts] was last Thursday, February 5th. The full committee was 15 state senators total um in the education and health committee. This day, we arrived around 8:15 a.m. and by 8:30 a.m. we were sitting in that Senate room right there, and we were testifying in front of this committee. Our bill was the first to be presented and shortly thereafter I shared another testimony pertaining to experience I had while taking a final test last year where my blood sugar levels became dangerously high. My insulin pump battery had died during an AP exam and
008caused my blood sugar to skyrocket. However, since I didn't have my smartphone readily available, I had no way of checking my blood sugar. My testimony was not the only impactful one this day. Numerous type 1 diabetic parents, other students, family members, school nurses, and licensed pediatric endocrinologists also spoke in support of this bill. So, where's the bill now? As you can see here, the bill passed through the Senate subcommittee as well as the Senate full committee. This the bill passed through the Senate full committee unanimously and is now being sent to be heard by the Senate to vote on whether they will pass the bill. If the Senate passes the bill, it will go to the House subcommittee, House full committee, and then to a House vote. Um, and there's a complimentary House bill HB1303
009um that will reconcile with SB122 um if it passes. And this image here has a link to the website where you can keep up with it if you're interested. So, why is this important? So, it's important because insulin is the only treatment for high blood sugars. And if a child is without their insulin pump for extended periods of time, there can be life-threatening consequences. Again, technology has developed so much since I was first diagnosed 15 years ago. And it is important that the standards of care we use in our schools accurately reflect these developments. And finally, in elementary school, I was picked up early by my mom roughly once a week due to insulin pump related issues. Had there been an adult in the school who could have helped me, I wouldn't have missed nearly
010as much time um due to my complications. And then finally, I included some additional photos. So this first photo is me standing outside of the committee room, room 305. This next photo is myself along with um follow T1D's executives, Carrie Murphy. Um the woman in the middle, her name's Kelly, and then the woman on my right, her name is Jennifer. And then finally, this is a photo of me with state senator for Campbell County, Senator Mark Peak, following my testimony in the subcommittee meeting. I've also included a few resources on this slide if you would like to learn more about the bill. And now I will do my best to answer any questions you may have. >> So Jillian, I've got a question for you. I know it was you couldn't have your phone during
011your AP exam, but are you able to have your phone in the classroom? >> Yes, ma'am. >> To be able to use what I was thinking >> with my 504 plan. Yeah, I am able to have it. >> But you're not allowed to have it for the AP exam. [sighs] >> Um, >> you're not? >> I think I would have to have an accommodation, I think, to do that. Yes, ma'am. And I heard you had some exciting news that you just signed for your next year plans. >> Yes. Um I put my deposit down to go to Virginia Tech next year to study biochemistry just yesterday. So [applause] >> thank you. >> Congratulations. That's so much. >> You did a great job tonight. It's very impressive to go to Richmond and have the experience that
012you've had. >> Thank you for sharing that with us. >> Of course. I'm honored to share it with you guys. Appreciate your support. What would what are the reservations about a bill like this just sailing through? >> Um some people had reservations about like for example um the chair of the subcommittee Senator um Van Falconberg he is he is a teacher and he had concerns about um teachers leaving duties like IEP meetings to help students with type 1 diabetes. So, there were a couple substitutions in the bill that ensured stuff like that wouldn't happen. So, it was mostly um that was the main one was they were concerned that teachers would abandon other duties to help a student if they needed to, but there have been things put in place to prevent that. >> Thank
013you. And I think House Bill 624 that was just like that's kind of going alongside on the House one for 1301 that is kind of putting in a lot of those reservations that people have had with the other one that it seems like it's going to go through with those >> amendments to that because I looked into it this weekend to see kind of where it was. But there was that side one that I think took care of all that >> concerns. So hopefully it'll go through. >> I'm hopeful. Well, I think it's very important that you got out and you advocated for something that you feel strongly about that affects you personally. I think uh as you grow older, you'll realize that uh that's very intricral in us being functional adults in society. So,
014you've already got a great head start. Uh and good luck on your uh new adventures coming up soon at Virginia Tech. >> Thank you so much. >> Yes, you're welcome. >> Anything else? >> Awesome. Well, thank you guys so much. I'm so honored to have this opportunity. What are you going to present at the governor's school at the the night y'all present your projects? What do you what do you what do I get to hear from you? >> So, um I my research project I completed that last year. >> What was it? What was it on? >> Um my research project was on the impact of type 1 diabetes on caretakers well-being. So, it it it was trying to see if having a child with type 1 diabetes negatively impacted the mental health of a
015parent or caretaker. >> Okay. Jillian is also one of our student advisory group members. So, we really appreciate her and her leadership. >> Thank you so much. >> And we'll be meeting with her on Wednesday >> and she will be sharing with them as well. >> Yeah. >> Awesome. >> Thank you so much. [applause] [applause] >> Right. Our next item on the agenda is matters from the floor and I think we have nobody that has signed up for that as well. So, we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is the approval of the minutes from January 12th meeting. Do I have a motion for approval? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Okay. Motion by Mr. Jones and second by Mr. Maddox. >> All in favor? >> I posted. All right.
016Move on to our next item. Payment of the bills. Madam Chairman. Oh, Madam Chairman, I re reviewed the bills and everything looks in order. Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Okay. I have a motion to approve by Mr. Jones, second by Mr. Pierman. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? We'll move on to the next item. >> Okay. Mrs. the plan of hand. >> Tonight you have uh 16 donations for approval and I would ask that you approve it as presented. >> Motion >> second. Thank you. Have a motion by Mr. Maddox, seconded by Miss Fawn. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. All right, moving on. Consideration of non-resident tuition >> tonight. You have one applicant for approval. Unless you have any questions on ask, I would ask that you approve that. >>
017Motion to approve. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Okay. Motion to approve by Mr. Jones. Second by Mrs. Vaughn. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Moving on to the next one. Consideration of religious exemptions. >> Oh, I missed one. I'm sorry. Consideration request for supplemental appropriations. >> Tonight, you have five appropriations for approval. Unless you have any questions on those, I would ask that you approve them as presented. Motion to approve. >> Motion. >> Second. >> So I have a motion to approve by Mr. Maddox, second by Mr. Pierman. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? All right, moving on. Now it's Dr. Wilson. Thank you. Consideration of religious exemptions. >> Yes, Dr. Stanley. Board members, tonight we have one request for consideration of a religious exemption. um ask that you pass or
018grant religious exemption as presented. She have any questions. >> Motion to approve. >> All right. Motion to approve. >> I was asking for questions first. I'm sorry. Do you have a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> Second. Okay. Motion to approve by Mr. Maddox. Second by Miss Vaughn. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Moving on. Thank you, Dr. Bolson. Personnel report. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, other members of the board. Um, tonight is our lengthy personnel report, our annual one. It's based on the survey that went out in January of our to our staff members letting us know if they know that they're retiring or resigning for the end of the year. So, it's our um one that's usually longer than others. And then also, there's a number of
019classified hires on here. our principles made good use of snow days and they were able to hire some classified staff that have been open for a while. Um, so that's another reason why the personnel report is a little bit lengthier than usual. So unless you have any other questions, I'd ask that you approve it as written. >> Any questions? >> It is long. >> Okay. And if I could take a minute to update you about the career fair. Thank you to those of you that were able to come on Saturday. It was a great turnout. I was a little afraid the weather was going to keep some folks away, but what else are you going to do on a cold and windy day, so we had about 92 people that came to the career fair
020on Saturday. Um, and Dr. Boils wins the prize. Um, she was smart and I knew there was one applicant that we were going to get a lot of interest in and she scheduled an interview for must have been eight something this morning and we hired our first applicant from the career fair. So, winner well done Dr. Bo. I anticipate um many of our other principles getting in touch with me this week as they have follow-up interviews as well. That's great. Thank you. >> I went to that and I was first off, I couldn't find a parking place. >> That's a good thing, >> which was a great thing. [laughter] >> And second, I I really appreciate the kids and came out and and helped with that. >> Yes, we had student helpers from each school.
021And I've said before, if you if you eaves drop on their conversations as they're walking the candidates from the registration table, we did that on purpose because it's a little bit of an awkwardly long walk, but those conversations are great. We give them little prompts of things that they can say to introduce themselves or ask the candidates, "Where are you coming from?" or "What kind of a position are you interested in?" And it's neat to listen to our students talk to those folks. So, >> yeah, I attended as well and it was wonderful. They miss a lot of a lot of anxious people as they walked in the door, but a lot of very welcome smiles from our staff and administrators. >> Oh, our I mean this is a group effort event for sure and
022all of our staff that was there. We had volunteers, teachers that volunteered to come. They did not have to be there. Our principles and senior staff kind of have to be there, but again, I mean, it's a great group effort. So, I appreciate it. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel report as presented? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Jones, second by Mr. Pierman. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Thank you. All right. Dr. Hail, consideration of the multi-year school support plan and targeted support and improvement application. >> Um, good evening, Mr. Chairman, members of the board, Dr. Stanley. Uh, my presentation will not be quite as exciting as Jillian's. I appreciate her time today. Um, but I am excited to give you our next steps with
023our TSI application as well as our multi-year school support plans. Just a reminder, TSI stands for targeted support and improvement. This is a result of our federal identification, which is a part of our new school support framework. Um, I'm going to give you a data review and needs assessment first and then move into the requirements that are a part of the multi-school year support plan as well as the application that have to be considered evidence-based according to federal guidelines as well as goal statements and a t our actual TSI application. You do have a folder that contains our multi-year school support plans in full from our three schools which we will talk about them individually in addition to their summary report which is posted online as well. So those are those documents that are included.
024Before I get started because I do not want to forget I do want to say a big thank you. Um a thank you to our senior staff Miss Walsh, Dr. Wilkerson, Dr. McCormack as well as Miss Robertson who have been a part of this process along with our principles and their leadership team. So Miss Anderson, Miss Thomas Bennett as well as Dr. Boils, they have worked hard. We received the requirements of this January 13th and we are here before you with our first due date of February 6th is when we had to turn in items and then this all has to be wrapped up by February 26. It has been a quick turnaround. So, um, your principles have been working hard throughout the snow, not just shoveling and getting their schools ready and hiring, but
025also making sure that we're headed in the right direction direction. Um, and we are we are pleased with the progress we've made. Um, first I want to talk about talk to you about the data review for Alta Vista Combined School. You will notice again their overall score was high enough for them to be on track, but they were identified for targeted support and improvement for students with disabilities only in grades 6 through 8 in u middle school reading and math. So we are specifically talking about that student group and once you are identified it does technically move you off track though all of our schools are accredited. Alta Vista combines school first engaged in a needs assessment which we've already done because it is February and we usually do the school improvement process starting for
026the next school year right around now is when we start to have those conversations and then in the summer we know that our students are underperforming in these two subject areas and in particular we're seeing that they're growing. So you're going to notice some themes. Our students are growing but they may not quite be meeting that proficiency mark of 400. Um, and so that is something that we're continuing to work on. We know that the need is to provide high quality instruction, but also give targeted support to our students in particular with scaffolds to help them to be able to make progress. Um, and you will also see the term visual representation within regard to math. Part of the application requires that you identify um evidence-based interventions, meaning they have strong research to support the
027strategy. For Alta Vista Combined School, they are focusing specifically on building comprehension to help students with their reading. This is a tier one intervention, meaning it's it's the top. It has the strongest research from the What Works Clearing House, which is a database. And then you can see the steps from there. Again, this is work that we're already focused on um in our middle school with our reading program and continuing to do so. For math, for grades six through eight, this they are focused on teaching students how to use visual representations. Visual representations are good for all learners. Um they help them make sense of their math as well as problem solving. And this is something that we're continuing to do in particular with our implementation of the math space curriculum. As a reminder, that
028is what we use in our secondary um schools, grades 6 through 12. So, part of this process involves a threeyear plan. Typically, when we plan, we usually look at yearbyear because we're responding to the data more quickly. For reading, Alta Vista Combined School is going to increase the reading so proficiency to that minimum of 80 points. That's that threshold level that everyone needs to be about for their students and students with disabilities. And this is going to be done through highquality instruction. That's that aligned tier one instruction everyone receives as well as the interventions and then progress monitoring for math. You'll notice this is very similar that minimum of 80 points again focusing on our students with disabilities. similar strategies, but also adding the visual representations to ensure our students are making progress within math.
029for Alta Vista Elementary. Again, they would have been identified as on track, but with this one student group that was in need of improvement for targeted support and improvement, and this was reading and math um for out I mean for Alta Vista Elementary School. Based on their needs assessment, you will notice some trends. Our students are growing, but not quite enough to the proficiency that is needed um for that minimum of a 400. And so again, we are seeing lots of progress with our MAP assessment, which is given to students three times a year in elementary, but pushing to encourage them to keep going. This will be done through scaffolded grade level standards align instruction is a need. And then also ensuring our students are getting the services that they need in reading. And then
030you'll also see the need for that tier one instruction in math and explicit instruction. One term that you'll hear um a lot with math that's back backed up in the research has to do with mathematical proficiency. So again performing um not only growing but performing in those five strands for Altista Elementary. You'll also see this for Leville Road. We know that K2 um and this kind of extends into three versus four five is a little bit different about the needs that students have within reading. And so the first reading strategy they are focusing on is teaching students to decode words, analyze word parts, and write and recognize words. This is a critical foundation skill. And then you can see how does that actually take place from being able to blend, then understanding spelling and sounds,
031recognizing common word parts, moving into decoding, and then also knowing those terms, those words that we see all the time versus those that may be less familiar. um and making sure that they understand the text as a whole. Again, tier one means it has the strongest level of research to back back it up. For grades f four through five, you notice that we're progressing um with reading skills and this is going to mean move into decoding skills for those complex multi-elabic words. So again, extending the difficulty level for grades four through five. I won't read you each of the descriptions of that, but you can see again the progression of teaching those vow and consonant letter sounds and then also getting to the point where students are able to do it automatically. Um, so those
032give you those strategies that are associated with that. And then finally for math, they are focusing on making sure that there's systematic instruction during intervention to develop those understanding of mathematical ideas. This ensures that content is review looking at new concepts and procedures but making sure it's numbers that the students can work with and understand. Sequencing instruction. Another theme you will see is visual and verbal supports. And then finally, feedback is critical for students as they are making progress in math as well as any other content area for their three-year goal statement. Again, by the end of 2728, Alta Vista Elementary School will increase that reading so proficiency for students with disabilities to at least 75%. And again, that overall framework score at least 80%. So, you're going to see those two numbers. And again,
033this is through aligned instruction, targeted interventions, and again that progress monitoring to ensure that we are making progress on the so assessed skills. And very similar for math. um students will increase that for students with disabilities to at least 70% and again that indicator score of 80%. Focusing on conceptual understanding, being able to work with numbers fluidly and then also progress monitoring. And then our last school that was identified for targeted support and improvement is Leulful Road. Um they actually had one of our highest overall framework scores out of all of our elementary schools, but were moved to offtrack. Um and this had to do with the performance of student group student with disabilities in reading, math and science. And again that breaks that down for each subject area. Just to give you an idea
034of that our schools were very close as we shared previously in December. So again challenges we see that there are some gaps that our students have but those gaps have been narrowed. We want Lisville Rhoden is working to continue to look at student needs, make sure those interventions match those needs and really starting to work on that mathematical understanding, the math proficiency standards and then also ensuring new science standards are implemented um and that they're able to continue to increase in prior knowledge. You will notice the exact two same strategies that I just shared with you um for K3. um that has to again really focusing on that foundational um level that students need and then also 445. Okay, so that's progression understanding more complex words and teaching that routinely. For math, Leville Road is
035focusing on concrete and semiconcrete representations, meaning again multiple representations to help support students with understanding concepts and procedures. And it starts with providing them with that, teaching them, connecting it, having students work with them so that they have that opportunity to practice and then continue to revisit throughout the school year. And for science, academic vocabulary is is very important for all of our content areas, especially in science. And so teaching students that set of academic vocabulary terms helps them and helps them to make connections between different activities that again has a SAT evidence of one the strongest that there is meaning that they're going to look at text make sure there's that root of the vocabulary that is needed. choosing that small set to dive more deeply into and teaching them how to interact with
036the vocabulary, written, speaking, listening, all in those forms and then also teaching them word learning strategies. And so for this Leville Road, they we're putting it all together for the three-year goal statement that 100% of their students will demonstrate academic achievement in those three areas, reading, math, and science. Now, for the logistics piece of the targeted support improvement application, unfortunately, one major roadblock with this is that it cannot be used for personnel. We were hopeful when this came out in December that you could use this for personnel, and you cannot. And it has a very quick turnaround of getting the application in and spending all of the money practically by the start of next school year. Unfortunately, that's a tall ask um when we're already doing a lot within our school divisions and are making
037a lot of progress and growth. Additionally, we are finishing up our last year of all in Virginia funds. So, those funds have already been set aside and we are already using those in that way. So, unfortunately, this was not going to meet the needs that we have. Um and that is why you'll still continue to see us um paying attention and being mindful of that need with our three schools. So, the TSI application, we're not applying for any money. We still have to do it and it was due Friday um as an initial due date, but it does require that I ask, which I will after answering questions, approval from the school board to submit the application, but not actually apply for any money for that. And our principles have done a phenomenal job of
038ensuring that the application is completed with the requirements that you see. So, the application doesn't include anything anything different other than what is shared and then the multi-year school support plans go along with that as well. Um, I will do my very best to answer any questions that you might have. I know that this is very heavy education language. Um, but I'll be happy to to answer any questions that you might have. >> So, what will the personnel needs be for this? >> The ones we've been sharing with you about the need for a special education assistant. Um, we see the need for that. So, we are keeping that in our budget conversations and also monitoring to see what else might be there um and be available. So, unfortunately, I know we were hopeful um
039that that could be a position like a part-time position we could get for the rest of the school year with some of these funds, but they very clearly stated you cannot use it for personnel, >> but we do have it in our budget. >> We we have Yes. >> our proposal. >> In our proposal. Yes. >> Yes, sir. >> Correct. >> Thank [clears throat] you. >> You're welcome. Any other questions? >> Did you tell us when you presented this to us a couple months ago, how many students make up these subgroup? >> It changed to 15. It used to be 30. So we are talking about minimum of 15 would be in that group. >> So there's at least 15. >> Correct. >> And the thing that's a little challenging with it is that number
040changes year to year. Um so keep that in mind that some years you might have different grade levels have different numbers um with that and then the other piece that is a little more complicated is the benchmarks the state set will change every year. So we are doing our best to kind of aim high you know for that knowing that every year they will recalculate those benchmarks. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So this um >> can I just say thank you for for your efforts. I know that you've been working extremely hard in a tight >> time frame and thank our principles for your work, you know, and we bring to you a lot every month and try to show you all the great things that we go got have going on. Sometimes this is
041a little more in the weeds. Um but yet this is the most important thing that we do instruction. >> So thank you. U >> Yeah. Well, thank you. It's a team effort um for that. So um for this the action item that I will be requesting um is that you approve the submission of our TSI application not requesting funds as well as our school multi-year support plans with the um leeway if there are minor changes from the state that are required that you you are okay with that and of course I would communicate that with you all. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve Dr. Hail's request as submitted? Motion >> second. >> Okay, I have a motion by Mr. Maddox and a second by Mr. Jones. >> All in favor? >> I
042>> opposed. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you all. >> All right, Mr. Hudson. Magic school bus or magic school, not school bus. [laughter] Back to the child. Does that age me right now? Magic school bus. So, Magic School and AI update. I know, [laughter] man. You know how many episodes of Magic School must I watch as a >> first round parent? >> A lot. [laughter] >> Miss Tanner, Dr. Stanley Ford. Thank you. All right. So, I'm going to go ahead and give you guys an update and kind of the state of where we are with AI. Um, if you're like me, I didn't really care about either team in the football game, but I was I do excited about the commercials, but there was a lot of commercials about AI. I was kind of
043shocked about that. It had Claude AI in there. It had uh Co-Pilot. It had Gemini, and it just kind of shows where we are and how much stuff has changed um going forward, especially when you have it in your Super Bowl ads. Um, with this, I'm going to kind of give you an an overview of where we are, where we've been with this. It still is only available for teachers currently. We do not have anything turned on for students yet. Um, with the training, we have given all of our teachers their software with vector solution training, artificial intelligence for educators, they have all gone through that. Also, digital citizenship for educators, which includes a little bit of AI as well sprinkled in that. There is two courses that are with that. There's one that is
044for elementary teachers and there's one for secondary teachers. So it's blend it based on the the age appropriateness of it with that. This has sent we have sent out this year. The ITRT the instructional technology resource teacher team um has done several things to help support AI with the with the teachers. Um during the summer we had TLA, we had an artificial intelligent class. um two of those that were offered. They have also helped to create a AI guidelines um to shore up what this will look like for students when we have this. So it addresses ethics. It addresses what it should look like in education, what it should look like addressing [snorts] the big topics like plagiarism and those things as well. But that will continue to be built out as we as we
045do more with it as well. But we have developed that and put that in place. digital citizenship program. We do have a monthly that runs basically from October to right before SOS go out. There is a theme for every month. We have developed that. We started sprinkling a little bit of AI into as well. February is a new month that starts off the cyber bullying. Um it follows the um common sense media kind of a lot of what they have. So they have some really good stuff in that. Um the ITRTs have also helped with giving PD to the teachers for magic school. The one that we're definitely supporting that has um a states we piggybacked off of the D the data privacy agreement for that one so that it won't share error information with
046large language models [clears throat] and we've also given some training on Adobe as well. We have turned off the generative AI part of Adobe. Um that is available but we don't have that for students but there is the ability to do you could create some pictures so that a lot of times career posters and and pictures we do allow that with that but the generative part has been turned off um for students as of now. Magic school has continued to be one of the most widely used apps that we have introduced this year. [clears throat] Um with this it gets kind of confusing looking at this chart but this is the tools and the generations that were done by tool. Um it continues to be planning and chat and when I say chat it would
047be the chatbot would be Raina which is which their is their their chat if you will um that has generated by far the most um generations of the products that we have and this kind of breaks it down the same things the tools as you can see Raina is the one that has the most generations by far um it continues to be lesson plans tend to be high on there and we've noticed now that custom chat bots are slowly climbing that as well. So teachers are starting to now that they've learned this a little bit more and we've helped um support this, they are starting to create some custom agents to help them with some tasks that they're that they need in the classroom as well. All right. So going forward, we would we're going
048to do a a pilot with a small group of K uh kids and teachers. So teacher for tomorrow teachers, it's three teachers, four teachers total, but one teacher doesn't have it this year. Um it'll be a total of 15 students in this small control group and the idea is to truly get an idea of what this will look like through the students use perspective and also gain idea of what it looks like to walk alongside the teachers and to help them truly understand this. So this is to help them enhance their current lessons that they have and it's not to create a new AI course. Um the idea is to continue to support ethical understanding. So the ITRTs will come alongside and train the teachers and be in the classroom to do some some cold
049co-eing and also do some training with the students when it comes on ethics um as well when this rolls out. And this is not to replace any form of learning. It's to enhance it and to take the the product that's there and and to help them out as well. Um and to help also help tier one see what we can get out of this pilot with tier one instruction and helping that as well. Again with teachers it's best practices ITRTs will be partnering with them um on this program and to truly look at some any type of obstacles that might come up. So now that we've got we have a small sampling group what will come up? What needs to change? What data can we get from this? What guard rails can we add to
050this or do we need to add from this? um once you start getting students in there doing it and teachers doing it, I'm sure there will be some things that will be that we'll learn from this that we will have to adjust with the guardrails or even the guidelines that we've kind of started to create as well. And then the idea is to grab data from this so that we want to do any more expansion in the fall. We can do that. We would not want to do this for elementary. We want to do it for uh middle school. I think the target could potentially be the high school level and also potentially the librarian. So we can look at those groups and and see what this data supports with that. So for a timeline
051to give you an idea. So February the 19th, we'll have our first training here at the tech center. We'll have the teacher for tomorrow teachers here, the ITRTS. We'll go through, show them basically the introduction into the system. Some of them have used the system a little bit, some not so much. um and truly try to find what tools fit and make sense the most for them and also to set a date for the first time that we can meet with the students and show them some of the safeguards and make sure that we've got that their their best interest in hand. That'll start off in in the 19th. Then the idea would be in February once we have we're also going to do a student consent form with this with parents to make sure
052that everybody that's in this program is is on board with it. Um the ITRTs would then start the program with the teachers helping with with instructional planning and also with students with getting the ethical part of as well. Later in March, as this kind of goes forward a little bit, we'd start to do some reflection, get some feedback on this, see what see what needs to be changed, what what the data starts to show, and then later towards the end of April before we get into testing period, we would look at this and see try to figure out what what it looks like to best move forward with this program. Um, what we learned, what we didn't learn as well. And then I've got any questions you have and be glad to answer them as
053best I can. >> Jillian, I look forward to picking your brain on Wednesday all about a uh [laughter] >> All right. All right. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. [clears throat] >> All right, Dr. Stanley. >> Thank you, Mr. chairman. Um, let me start by saying this month is school board appreciation month. So, thank you all for everything that you do. Um, I know that our administrators, our parents, and our students, you know, appreciate you and I want to encourage you um to get out to get into our buildings to see what's going on and be visible because I know that they really appreciate the fact that you you know what they're doing and the hard work that they're putting in. So, you know, thank you for
054what you do. Um, next week is school board clerk appreciation week. So, let me say in advance, thank you for what you do. And then February 15th is nationally recognized as school resource officer appreciation day. So, to all of our resource officers, you're a vital part of what we do and I want to thank you um very much. Um and I have a lot of thanks tonight because one I'm thankful that tomorrow it's going to be 6 [laughter] I think 60 degrees and uh we are very much uh thankful for that. Um obviously we have had a lot of um action in the operations world over the past two weeks. Um I can't thank enough our maintenance staff. I know all of them and their shoulders are you know they could hardly lift their arms
055from beating the ice and uh you know getting out there early getting our lots cleared off you know to Dr. Reella and our transportation staff there's no telling I would call Dr. Dr. Ellis, what are you doing? And he is digging buses out at at at our driver's homes by himself. I mean, it was just a total team effort. Our food services um department, I think we got out close to a thousand meals while we were doing remote instruction. Obviously, our administrators for their communication with our teachers and getting our buildings ready. our teachers who were doing the remote instruction and being available from 9 in the morning to three in the afternoon every day that were out to answer any questions our parents or students may have had. Then of course our parents and
056students, you did a great job. Everybody did. So hats off to you. Um and I also want to thank our finance department because behind all the scenes, our finance department is installing a new software system. Um that if you've ever done that, that is a major task. And I think on one of the worst days we had um in terms of weather, they were at central office on a Saturday morning at six o'clock because that's when the training was supposed to take place and they were there and they got it done. So, thank you to everybody. Um in terms of our our calendar, um President's Day is still right now a national holiday and we're going to stay closed. Um unless you all tell me to do something different today tonight. Um, obviously I think
057everyone's earned it. I will tell you that our instructional hours, we're getting very close to the the the point where we might have to make up some time. Hopefully we won't hit that. But I think we've got we we kind of estimated it today to be about 11 hours. Okay, that's what we have essentially two days and then uh and then we hit our 990 mark. We've also got three remote days that we can use. So there's some breathing room. Um, but what I've been telling everybody is to kind of put that March 20th PD day on your radar. If we do happen to have any weather, which you know, hopefully we won't, um, bad weather, then, uh, we might have to use that as a snow makeup. So, um, as you all know, the
058month of March is is budget season. So, we have two schoolboard meetings during that month. Um, the first one is on March the 9th, and I really don't have anything new to share with you tonight, um, other than what I shared at the joint committee meeting last month with our supervisors. Um, we've got the governor's budget and his recommendations, and that includes a 2% bonus at the end of this year. Um, 2% raise next year, 2% raise the following year. Um, there's some money there, but with changes in our in our local composite index, you know, there there's a somewhat of a deficit for us right now. So, we have to kind of work through that, but at the same time, we're still waiting for the budgets from the general assembly from we need the
059Senate version, the House version. I think February 17th is when they're supposed to cross over and we should get some some uh clarity in terms of what they're thinking and how it aligns with the governor's budget. So again, even on even on March the 9th, it's a it's an estimation, guesswork, and then we'll come back at that second meeting and get you to approve what we uh present on that day. And then the last thing that I've got for you is just a reminder that the VSBA regional spring forum is going to be at be held at GW Danville this year and that's on March 25th. And I saw that the guest speaker is the newly appointed Secretary of Public Education, Dr. Jeffrey Smith. So that ought to be uh interesting. >> And that's all
060I've got. >> That's all you got? >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. Thank you. All right. Matters from the board. We'll start down there with Mr. Maddox. >> Uh once again, I just like to thank everybody that helped with the career fair. I think that's a great thing that we do. And I would also like to thank our maintenance people and our custodians. And for me, Shane doubted. We had a tractor trailer coming in with basketball goals and we couldn't get in there and he cleared the path for us. And our bus drivers, I mean, I didn't get any complaints, so that's a good day. But, uh, I know they had a rough time driving in it and whatnot. So, thank you very much, >> Mr. Pierman. >> Good evening, everyone. Uh first of all,
061I would like to say I did uh spend the time during uh this beautiful snowstorm we had and I didn't have any phone calls about our parents. I think uh or any any problems I should say. Um I did have very good feedback about our decisions. So when we decided to close and when we started to uh you know come in late of course you know uh you won't ever be able to please everybody but uh I commend everybody in their efforts on trying to keep our kids engaged while they were out of school and that they're back. Uh things seem to be rolling along really well. Uh over the past uh month, I got to uh get into uh William Campbell combined and into Brookdale Elementary and had a great time with uh Principal
062Harrison and u uh Principal Cartwright. Uh got some highlights from them as well uh with Mr. Harrison. Uh Friday, I will see you Friday. I actually be part of the marketplace cuz Miss Tanner Conley invited me. So I'll be there on on Friday to see that. That's going to be a great real life experience for them. Uh we just had a girls uh leadership team meeting. I think Britney Teen uh Ton was our a special guest there and they have a field trip lined up to uh Liberty University on the 20th to tour the academic facilities and the athletic uh facilities. Uh it's a great opportunity for our students to start thinking about the future. Uh and coming up uh in Brookdale Elementary, we have a uh fourth and fifth grade musical that's coming out
063on March 3rd. Uh so that's what we have going on at uh Brook Neil uh at William Campbell. I actually got to uh spend some time there today with Miss Hail and Dakota Sage and um uh a group of young students uh that are um basically uh they're competing completing an assignment that has to help us get a grant hopefully. Uh we're under application for to help with our future center which I think is very important. Uh if you not heard of the future center already of course please do some research for it. It's up and running in Alta Vista. uh folks doing a great job there and we're bringing that back to Wim Campbell. So, I'm very uh pleased to hear about that. Um and um enjoyed that as well. Um I'll be with
064Mr. Stanley on Wednesday back here at the tech center uh as well for some interactions there. Um some other things about uh William Campbell is um the uh girls basketball team is a four seed uh right now in region one. Uh and the uh JV basketball team is now undefeated. They're 11-0. uh continuing on their winning streak. So, they're doing a great job there. Um but that's all I have for at this time. Thank you. >> All right, All right. Well, I also wanted to say thank you to our schoolwork clerks and our SRO's and all of our staff that helped uh clean off the uh snowcrete. If you did any um snow shoveling over the break, you'd re I did some and they would break off in like 50 pound pieces that I'd have
065to throw off of my driveway. So, that was I've never experienced anything like that before. Um I hope everyone was safe and got to enjoy the snow during our snow break. I know my family did. We had some great sledding and that layer of ice on top definitely made made things move a little faster than expected. Um, I wanted to thank everyone who works so hard to clear the snow and ice from our facilities. And I especially want to recognize our bus drivers and transportation staff. They truly show up every day and do an amazing job, often dealing with things completely out of their control. I also want to thank Dr. Reinella for going above and beyond, even shoveling uh drivers driveways himself so our kids could get to school. That did not go unnoticed.
066Um, while we're talking about transportation, I did have a little bit of time over the snowbreak to look into GPS bus tracking software. If we can track our Door Dash order down to the minute, I think we could probably find a reasonable way to track our buses and keep parents informed. As a busy mom of two bus riders, I've stood at the bus stop for half an hour only to realize the bus came early. Nobody did anything wrong, but in those moments, it can be really frustrating for parents. GPS bus tracking could help with communication around delays or cancellations and take some pressure off of our drivers and staff. And I do think it's worth us taking a serious look at. I've provided a few examples for the board to explore if they'd like. I
067got you right here. Aside from that, this is Virginia Kindness Week with fun spirit days happening across our schools and Valentine celebrations in many classrooms. Leville Road also has spring pictures coming up on February 18th, a spirit day on February 26th, and a career day on April 4th. Do you have anything to add? >> Yes. Yes. I think we can all agree on that. Um, finally, I wanted to recognize our incredible school counselors as last week was National School Counseling Week and all of our principles as I miss principal appreciation week in January. Uh, we do have a truly outstanding staff and I am grateful for all that they do. That's all I got. >> Great. Thank you, >> Mr. Jones. >> Um, Dr. Shields, I'm going to give you two minutes to prepare [laughter]
068something to say in David's absence, but Mr. Bennett, tell us about Concord. I saw you sneak in. Tell us about Concord. >> We had a couple things. Just getting back into routine is great. We have our Valentine dance coming up this Friday and then next Thursday we have a parent teacher conferences and then we have a musical the following Thursday. >> What about your scores when you >> We're very Yeah, the early scores in all of schools have really seen some improvement in our math scores and um val testing and things like that. We're seeing some movement that we had seen in years. So, it's really exciting. So, >> good. Good. >> That's probably the most positive thing of all. >> Good. >> Dr. Shields, I give you enough time to prepare our speech. [laughter]
069>> I did I did come and see your play last. It was It was great. You got Brookville doesn't hold all of the acting and came Russ's got some great ones. >> Yeah, they did a fantastic job representing all of Walmart's fantastic movies. Um, had a great time at the career fair last week. Big shout out to our SCA for showing up with that. Uh, we are celebrating National FBA week this week uh with some spirit days. Um, and then congrats. I'm not going to name all of them, but congrats to all of our stock market winners. >> What winners? >> Stock market game. >> Oh, okay. >> Who who was a winner? I need to meet or her. >> You're welcome. >> Come see Miss Boo's uh second block class. >> Okay. Okay. Thank
070you, sir. Uh I want to thank Dr. Hail and Mr. Husen for your presentations. It was really, really great. Uh Jillian, thank you again for coming. Uh and her parents, you know, y'all got a lot to be proud of. I mean, I know I know you're probably going to hesitate to see her go away for four years, but she'll really really do great up there. Trust me. just appreciate all y'all coming. Uh Rusber Middle School is having their play tomorrow night, Thursday night, and Friday night, and it's Alice Wonderland Jr. I think I got that right. Starts at 6:30. Um I think all every board member, I'm pretty sure, got an email from Mr. Naggie in January and he wants us as payers or individuals to come and speak to his class uh on a
071Monday or Wednesday from 11:20 to 12:35. So uh try to go over and help him. He's a great guy and he's got a great class. And again, thank everybody that did anything with ice or snow. Uh Dr. Manella, I mean, just everything y'all did to put up with all this mess. I know what you've been dealing with. is uh you should get some kind of award. Uh and again, appreciate all the donations and reading in minutes last from last meeting. Uh Mr. Pierman, it appeared I failed to welcome you to our board at the last meeting, but certainly we welcome you to our board. I'm sorry I didn't say it last month, but but we certainly look forward to working with you in the next years. >> That is not a problem at all. you
072were the first person to call and thank and welcome me >> well >> since we were on parks and wreck together. So I I appreciate that. Thank you. >> That's all I got. >> That's all you got. All right. Well, I'm not going to repeat everything that everybody said, but thank you to everybody that that had worked for that Snow Creek. Um and we're really excited. I'm I'm excited because I've got a son that's at tech as well. So I'm um I feel your pain. I'm heading to Blackburg tonight. Um but you'll have a wonderful time. I promise you. So my role in this vice chair as I was reminded although I think I I was aware of previously was the legislative kind of informant for the board. Um so I took it as those
073who know me well pretty seriously. And so you got a four-page review [laughter] of current um house bills and senate bills um in the Virginia General Assembly that might have an impact for us. So I did not go through actually I did I read all of them. I only pulled out a handful that are either likely to pass or if they were to pass could have some financial concerns, right, or some pretty significant operational concerns just so that we've got them on our radar just like I did with SB220. I'll send you emails. Um Kristen had sent that that one response as well. And so, you know, you've got them, some of them are coming into SPVA as far as or BSBA as far as updates and reminders. Um, but I will tag along with
074those if it's something that's going to have a significant impact for us in the county and for our school system. Um, but I've got that for you guys. Key highlights really. Um, I think one that we know is coming through and y'all have heard me say before our water safety instruction. I think that one's inevitable. That's going to pass. There's a House bill that's very similar. There's a Senate bill very similar and they're both passing through pretty quickly. Um it it's pretty much just including water instruction in our PE, water safety instruction, our PE. I'd love to move it a step further into actually doing what some um places across the state do and they actually have their second or third or fourth graders actually attend swim lessons for those that do not have them
075and they support that. Um we've got some W's close by that maybe we can look into making that partnership as this comes into place and we've got some connections for the Y that we might be able to make some things happen. Um, but that one I think there's that's high likelihood that's coming through. The other ones I mentioned the one with diabetes. I think that with the blend is going to come through. Um, physical activity. Um, that could have a little bit of an issue. I think we've talked about that one about increasing from 20 minutes to 30 minutes for mandatory um physical activity for elementary students. actually for all students, but the elementary student schedule that could have some operational impacts. Um although I think we can all agree that that's a wonderful thing.
076Finding an extra 10 minutes in a day schedule can be hard. Um and so we might have to get really creative with our teachers and and trying to support that that bill comes through. Um by all means, we've talked about the high school athletic eligibility one. um the AI chat bots. There's actually a bill saying prohibiting students to have to be forced to use the AI chat bots. And so that might affect us a little bit looking with our our magic school. Um I have a feeling that that one might get diminished before it gets too much farther. So there's a review. There's key components on the back side of that for you guys to have. Thank you. >> Yes. >> I'm just stretching my hand. >> Oh, you're like, do you have a question?
077>> So take one. So, y'all have them >> and that's >> I got one more thing to say. >> Oh, well, go right ahead. You >> did a great job tonight. >> Well, thank you. >> Yes, you did. >> Thank you very [clears throat] much. All right. Well, with >> and madam chairman, I have one thing that I admitted if I >> Oh, please. >> Good. >> Go right ahead. >> So, there's two people that I like to highlight out of um my area responsibility. I I actually asked Mr. uh Harrison and Mr. car right to talk to me about two people that they felt like each were going above and beyond in the school. So, I got some very good feedback from that. So, I'd like to recognize Miss Hannah Smith. Uh she was
078the school's uh general of the month last month. Uh and Miss Smith is not only a teacher, she's the assistant softball coach, a former William Campbell alumni as well. Uh she also teaches biology, chemistry, anatomy, and weightlifting. What a combination. Uh but she teaches all four of those and her biology students um 100% of them pass the biology so that is huge. So thank you very much to Hannah Smith. Uh I literally watched her grow up and she reminds me every time I see her of my age. Uh [laughter] the other highlight for Brook Neil uh would be uh Miss Jessica Cox. Uh she comes to work every day eager. She pushes her students to learn. uh she's student centered and she's a clear teacher uh clear picture of what it's like to love teaching.
079So, thank you Jessica Cox for everything that you're doing at Brookton Elementary. Thank you. >> Okay, great. Thank you. And with that, we come to the adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Motion by Miss Bond, second by Mr. Pierman. And all in favor, you can close your laptops. You did great. You did great. >> That's not my >> Thank you. >> Good job, Madam Chairman. >> You really did. >> All right. So, what they've done so far, they're writing all this stuff for me. Sorry, my son. Amy, did you get one? >> Oh, hey. All right. I got toothpaste. Did