001in reciting the pledge of allegiance followed by the silence. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right. So, nobody asked to speak tonight. So we will begin with approval of the April 21st meeting uh minutes meeting. Make a motion we approve. Second. Have a motion a second. Any discussion or uh comments on the minutes? All in favor please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Payment of the bills. Mr. Mr. Chairman, I've reviewed the bills and I recommend I make a motion to approve. A motion. Second and a second. Any questions on the bills? All in favor of that motion, please indicate by saying I. I.
002Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. Donations. I guess Dr. Stanley's filling in. Correct. Tonight, you've got a list of donations for approval. Unless you have any questions, I ask that you approve the donations. Motion. Second. Have a motion and a second. Definitely turn that down. Yeah. Another another um really nice set of donations to our school system. So, uh all in favor of approving that motion indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. non-resident tuition. Yeah, you have a list tonight. I think of two additional students for approval of that county tuition students. Unless you have any questions, I would ask that you approve that list. Any questions? Motion to approve. Have a motion. Second. A second. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Supplemental appropriations. Tonight we've
003got two supplemental appro appropriations for approval. One related to BSBA and I think the other one is a donation from the education foundation. If you don't have any questions I would ask that you approve those. Any questions? Ask for a motion. Motion second. Motion a second. All in favor please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Mrs. Hunley, personnel report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the board, as you can see, we're continuing to chip away at our openings for next year. We are in really good shape. Our principles are doing a great job with that. So, unless you have any questions, I'd ask that you approve it as written. Any questions on the personnel report? Let's see. Update on the bus driver situation. Dr. Enella is out of town, but it it
004is about the same. Yes. Yeah. We haven't made any new strides since our last meeting. Motion approved. Second. Motion and second. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any oppose? Thank you, Miss If I could have one more second. I'm really excited to announce that tonight we have since you've just approved, Heather Boils is in the audience. She's going to be the new principal at Leville Road. So, she joined us tonight. Well, welcome to Campbell County. Thanks. Yeah. Come on up. Come on up. Tell us a little bit about yourself. All right. So, when I met Dr. Stanley, I said, "Well, I'm from Breton." And he said, "Well, I used to be the principal at Elvis. Sorry for you." And I said, "I'm sorry." Um, I would have told him that. So, I
005am a product of Pennsylvania County Schools and I've worked um almost 20 years in education in various counties around the state. I started out in Augusta County around Stanton. Um came back home to Lynchburg and worked there for about a decade and I've most recently been at Thomas Jefferson Elementary as the principal there. Um so I am very excited to be moving to Campbell County and to serve um the PR as the principal at Leville Road and I thank you so much for trusting me to lead and serve that community. Thank you. We're going to take her to the staff on Wednesday to introduce, but I'm sure they're watching tonight to see us and I think you'll be very happy here. So, thank you. Well, I'm trying to work myself. Good. Well, that's exciting. All
006right, Dr. Hail. Good evening, chairman, members of the board. Tonight you do have several policies that are up for a second reading. Um it will be an action item tonight. So I'm happy to to answer any questions that you might have. Majority of these again are um small updates that reflect changes in language and also making sure that our our policies are all up to date. Any questions for Dr. Hail? On the fees, the parking decals, where does that money go? um that helps this the school. It goes to the school that the parking is. So that way they have those funds if there are needs that they need to address that are related um for students. But it goes back typically this is going back towards being able to support students at the school
007and the marching band. Did they well that stayed the same? That one did not change. it was only the the parking fee um in addition um to the um student pass um that is used for athletics. And then we also wanted to make it clear for our um we had textbooks listed. You guys know that most of what you're seeing is is on a laptop. So we need to make sure that we are up to date with our policy as far as laptops and potential costs for damage. Um that has become a very current event if you've been paying attention to the news. they may not be aware of this latest Tik Tok. There are two Tik Tok challenges. Um but one actually it's it is a challenge where students are challenged to destroy see
008how see how hard they can throw their laptop um and the destruction that can be done. Um and that that's quite costly and yes it does damage um the laptop. The other one has to do with sticking a pencil paper clip into the power charge and setting your laptop smoking. So um have we had any incidences? We have had some some concerns. Yes. Okay. Principles are aware um of that and then um we have planned an additional communication that will be sent out for tomorrow um that we are discussing with our principles for them to send to their staff. I mean send to their students. So it's in our policy now. But are the parents going to be informed? Absolutely. And correct. And what about um if there's a financial hardship? We always work with
009families with that. Um a lot of times if there is a concern of um they can't pay, you know, we can set up payments. Additionally, remember we do have an online service now that allows parents and families to be able to pay by card. That makes a huge difference because someone may not be able to write that check. Um but we do work with them. Yes. As long as they're still held responsible. Correct. There are consequences for your actions. Yes. Okay, back another question. The student ID and the parking, it says they're optional, correct? Meaning they don't have to get it. Um, unless you are required to drive. Um, because parking technically is considered a privilege at our schools. Um, it does require the Virginia application that has been standardized. And then the athletic pass
010is only if you want to be able to attend. So, we don't require our students to buy an ID themselves. Um, we don't do that. We use that as their entry point into athletics. Okay. These are the maximum fees. That means you cannot go beyond. Correct. Well, I mean, Alivus' parking fee is 10 bucks. So, we can stay at 10 bucks. You can. Yes, this is the max that you can charge. Correct. Great question. All right. Thank you. So, do we have any schools increasing the fees? They cannot increase without approval. And so this if they're already at this. So what this allows for them to do is to start preparing for back to school if they are going to increase that. For athletics, the big concern has been expressed by our principles. Many of
011you know that officials are quite expensive. It's quite costly and they anticipate that fee going up. Um so that's to to help supplement some of that cost. And honestly, we want our students to come to games, you know, so we want to keep that cost affordable. Um but that that is a cost when you come to athletics um for that. But why would they go up when the school system helps pay for the officials? The that has to do with the contracts that they have with their districts. You have we pay. Am I wrong? No. We we help pay for the officials. Correct. Correct. Correct. So you're talking about passes. No, I'm talking about going up on the gate ticket. That is not Yeah. The ticket price would be determined by the district. The district,
012not by us. But do we have to go up? Whatever is set by the district, you have to follow the the laws, the bylaws of that district. So, it' either be Dogwood or Seminal. But they're saying they're going up because they anticipate that cost. I'm not sure of the final vote of their district. I think that ought to be optional, too. I mean, they're saying they're going up because the officials are more, but yet we're helping pay for the officials, so it's not costing the schools anything. See what I'm saying? Well, and we've been able to do that. We've had the luxury of Yeah, that's right. No, you not. But and and there and to be honest, you know, you never know what the future may hold with the budget. You know what I mean?
013But we obviously want to support our schools as much as we can. But for my part, it's just for fees that we are allowed to charge and for our part for this. But I do appreciate the questions. I do understand the strain that it can place too with with large the cost of attending events. I'm going to beat the dead horse a few more times. My apologies. So the parking fee, what is driving that to be increased? Are we seeing more cost with our parking lots? It has to do with more cost to support other things for some of our students. Um and so for that um that cost and being able to to do that for them. Um in particular, you do have um some schools that parkin's very tight, you know, and it's
014it's difficult um at the schools. Um but that has been coming from a recommendation from the principal to be able to provide other things for students. And if if they choose, again, this is the max, so they can't go beyond that cost. Do you know if we have any at 20 that would go up to 25? Do we have some schools at that current max right now or they're all not beyond that. So, if it was approved, then I anticipate that those schools would um there are a couple schools who would go up. There's some that will not. Okay. Because they know the hardship like they they know that they don't that they they can't pass that cost off quite yet. All right, any other questions? Okay, there's no other questions. Um, I'll make a
015motion to approve the policies as presented. Second. Motion and a second. Thank you. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Thank you. Looks like you have the next I do. So, I'll invite Dr. Wilkerson and Miss Stanberry. Um, this is a big evening for us and so we're excited to be able to share with you all um our secondary math curriculum and textbook adoption presentation and review. Can I ask years ago we used to adopt new textbooks pretty regular now this is the first one I can recall for quite a while now. What what's happened? What's changed? Um, so there actually was a House bill that was signed into law last week and that will require all divisions to adopt across the state what are considered high quality instructional materials in
016all four content areas by the start of not this coming school year but the following. And so there has been um this push um to really help incur like work on our instruction um across the state. And you also see this in law with different resources that are required. So last year, you do remember we did the Virginia Literacy Act. We were required to do updates there. The positive is we did not we already had an approved resource that we were using in secondary. That didn't require any action. So that was a positive for us. This year it's the flip for math. So for math this year, elementary has already been approved and we have that. It's called Bridges. it's on the state list, it's approved. And so now we need to work on the
017math part, but the the bigger picture beyond state compliance is that we need to make sure that our teachers have the resources that they need and have asked for. Um, so there is more of that push for us to to do that. We wanted this to be a formal process because of that need. Okay, great question. I have so in this day and age when are we talking about textbooks we're also talking a lot about software correct so are they aligned or so we'll get through all this and so if you want we'll we'll go through this because yes you typically buy the digital version um and so then that allows you to to print from there they also will send you certain copies of that but yes um the majority of our text it's
018not a necessarily traditional textbook um it would be It's online. It's a digital component. Okay. Great. All right. So, here we're we want to talk to you tonight about to tonight about our guiding principles. What we want for all of our students, the process, and you do have copies of this presentation in the white folder if you'd like to follow along. In addition, the alignment. That's a great question, u Mr. Jones, and I'm glad that you brought that up because we really wanted to make sure that we had a resource that's aligned to the new standards that are in effect now. Um and then exploration really the the ability for students to explore and apply math. Um so in Campbell County we believe that every learner can think, talk and do math with purpose. Um
019this has been part of the work that we have been doing for quite some time um in Campbell and the philosophy that everyone can be a math student. No one is bad at math. Over the past year, we've also really been working on making sure that our math instruction allows students to explore the ideas, the procedures, but also learn to think about their own sense of agency with regard to math. We also want to make sure that students are talking about math, problem solving, and have rich experiences within the classroom and that all students can learn math at different levels. So by going through this process, I'm very proud of the curriculum team and the work that they have done to really come together. This is hard work. So these these teachers have worked all
020throughout the year to review the resources along with the direction of Dr. Wilkerson and Miss Stanberry to then say this is what's best for our students. And so we really do appreciate that time. All Campbell County mathematics courses promote deeper learning through the integration of the five mathematical process goals for students. And those are becoming mathematical problem solvers, communicating mathematically, reasoning mathematically, making mathematical connections and using mathematical representations. These are not just academic expectations. They are essential life skills that prepare students for both the workplace and the complexities of of everyday life. By embedding these goals in math instruction, we are not just teaching content. We are cultivating thinkers, problem solvers, and effective communicators who are ready to thrive in an everchanging world. Our decision to adopt a new math curriculum is grounded in our
021commitment to developing a coherent relevant mathematical journey for every student. Kimmel County math curriculum is designed on the premise that we are creating experiences that build a connected and relevant math story. Here we strive to empower our students to build quantitative literacy and mathematical reasoning skills that will enable them to apply their learning beyond the academic context. Additionally, we have selected a curriculum that is aligned to the 2023 so standards, enhances tier 1 instruction, which is the core instruction that all students receive, and it qualifies as a high quality instructional material. HQIM. The high quality instructional materials provide opportunities for reasoning and problem solving in the way that students experience it. The materials support teachers by providing purposeful questions, anticipated responses, and not just answer getting. The goal is to have students experience a situation,
022talk about it with their peers, and then begin to formalize their thoughts using appropriate math language, thus building math literacy. Susan Stanberry, our amazing math specialist, participated in both phase one and phase 2 of the VDOE textbook and instructional materials training in 2024-25. Through this process, she was able to determine which publishers were most aligned with our standards and which publishers provided the most support materials for both new and veteran teachers. This particular document that we're showing you this evening was released after we began the process, but helped reaffirm our selection of review materials. Math Space you will see is the only publisher who was celebrated as being 100% aligned with the 2023 standards. In January of 2025, teachers completed a survey where they identified the top five features they are looking for in regards
023to curricular materials. From their responses along with the criteria from the Virginia Department of Education, a review forum was created to review alignment and support features for the chosen publishers. From February to April of 2025, the curriculum team reviewed each publisher and met via Zoom to form a consensus on alignment and support. At the end of this process, they were given another survey to rank the resources. Our goal was to narrow down the resources to two publishers. Susan Susan and I had the opportunity to meet with each secondary math department and discussed the criteria and made sure that those teachers had digit digital and/or physical access to each publisher. We answered questions about the process and encouraged them to collaborate on the review. A review form was created for Campbell teachers and the public that
024contained the same six criterion as shown here. Each criterion had a short set of look fors to provide focus for our teachers and community review. The goal was to have stakeholders look into the support features of each publisher with the confidence that alignment to our standards was present. Sure. What happened there? I'm gonna I'm gonna zoom us back real quick. Your friends. Oh, there we go. Thank you. Uh good evening. Uh it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you. Um so thank you Dr. Hail, Dr. Wilkerson. Uh they've been very supportive throughout this process. It has not been an easy process because phase one of the textbook review was very fast with the state. It did not return a lot of approved uh resources. So they started phase two, expanded the resource list, and uh
025so we uh dove into that. Meanwhile, we're trying to also start a curriculum review here in Campbell County so we could stay ahead of the process and not feel like we were behind because there were a lot of changes that were happening within the state uh this year. So, um I am both pleased and impressed by the amount of attention that our teachers have shown uh this project. They did not want to take the word of the state. They said we want to align it ourselves and they did. So, um, and they were much more critical, and I appreciate that because it gives us a heads up and gives us a nice place to start when it's time to, uh, revise pacing and unit guides. So, to add on to what the criterion were, we
026expel, uh, we expanded on each of the criterion. How is the textbook organized? Does it tell a good math story? Are the units structured so they are building upon each other? We want to create math doers, not just memorizers, not just mimickers. I've heard um several of your conversations throughout the year and the last time I presented uh that we were here with textbooks, you were thrilled at the problem solving because we didn't want our language to be all about the so test, the so test. We want students graduating, coming back to the county, being able to read the rulers, measure with the rulers, do all the things that the problem solvers do through our language and through our practice. So, we have been trying to live that model with resources that were not aligned
027to our Virginia standards. Um, how does the content progress? How does it connect to previous content to future content? Is there instructional support? Does it support the veteran who might need to be reminded of instructional practice? Does it support the new teacher who's coming to us who might need to learn classroom management while they're learning how to teach math? Does it provide opportunities for student engagement? Are the activities and tasks and the questions embedded uh designed to have our students thinking and talking and making mistakes and learning from those mistakes and helping our teachers support students through those mistakes. And is the instructional uh design sound? We believe uh that we like uh we want the CRA model, the concrete and then have students represent it and then move toward the abstract and as they
028get older build upon their experience to create a really solid math uh background for them. Does the textbook or curriculum resource provide assessment and feedback? And by assessment are purposeful questions embedded in each lesson that really hone in on what the learning objective is. Not just a quiz, not just a test, but what is it we want students to really know and be able to do when they um leave this unit and leave this course. So after our review um high school ranked, we asked all the teachers to rank. High school um chose math space savas and reveal. They were the um highest ranked. Number one is our first choice. Number two is our second. Number three is um our third math space outranked the other two. I left the other two because it was
029prom season for some. Um we had some snow so we got behind a little bit so they wanted a little extra time to compare SAS and reveal and make sure they were making a sound decision. So we left all three. Uh middle school narrowed it down to two and it was math space and Savas. Uh grade six and grade seven preferred math space. Um all of high school prever preferred math space. I talked to the math eight and they said you know what we like them both. We will use either one. So it was with that that we agreed that math space would be our chosen resource to adopt. We took that same criterion put it out to the public. We had 29 other teachers who did not serve on the curriculum team. Uh they
030also reviewed and through their feedback um I didn't put the numbers up and made little bar graphs. Through their feedback of the criteria, um math space seemed to be more clear-cut regarding the criteria that we wanted. The feedback from most of the teachers is the other two are just traditional textbooks. They're trying to map back to Virginia. Mathspace wrote their book for Virginia. Um they are 100% aligned to the Virginia standard. So that was a that was probably their number one selling feature um of the textbook realm. So some of the comments that were made is uh teachers really liked the interactive components. I'm going to show you one in just a second. We want our children to see and experience math and to be able to look for patterns and make conjectures. And sometimes
031if we spend our time in class cutting and pasting, we get busy with the cutting and pasting and we lose um the ability to like do a math lab that might be digital or easier easier to implement digitally. Uh mathspace have has built-in visuals and they can be manipulated by the students. We have the CRA model, the concrete to the representational to the abstract. It does include um students uh with disabilities. It uh includes scaffolds and supports for students who are English language learners and students with disabilities. Uh the process goals are embedded and outlined in each unit and in each lesson and it can be translated in real time and uh we had a teacher pilot it early on and she continued to talk about how inspiring it was for the students because it
032it felt gamelike. It did not feel punitive. Sometimes we have programs that when they get it wrong, it feels punitive. This one felt more encouraging and gamelike. We have adaptive practice options and we have some that we can assign for specific uh um practice checks. And then we have the ability to have the questions get um a little harder. That's the DK, the depth of knowledge as we um as we design our practices for students. And then uh here's an example of a math six, our one of our new math six standards. Notice I only pulled the ones that had the really rich verbs. They want to investigate and describe the relationship of a circle between its parts. Develop an approximation for pi. Not just learn pi is 3.14 or old school is 22 over7.
033Where does pi come from? Did I? Sorry. Uh um where does pi come from? Why is it always 3.14? And I don't believe it. Show me how it works. Um and then develop the formula for circumference. So don't just memorize where do these formulas come from. I want to see it. So inside of this, I don't know if it's will it let me um mark will let me. Yes, here it comes. Let me see if it'll let me log in. Of course, I have to have my Virginia login. Would you mind if I just explain this to you? I'm sorry. Um, the students will slide the slider. That circle will turn into uh triangles. It will unfold and fit on top of each other to make a parallelogram. And they're building on what they know
034that a parallelogram is base times height. So, the base will actually be the circumference. And they are developing the formula for the area of a circle here. And they can do it as many times as they need. And then it has guiding questions for the teacher to ask. It has scaffolding supports for for students who get stuck. And it's all designed in the lesson for them. So teachers aren't having to go hunt for this. Do a cut and paste. Like I said, the students can do it on repeat if they want. For example, um for our next slide for algebra one, the visual is not very good. Half of this plane is shaded. And when students learn how to graph linear inequalities to determine true or not true, they simply just substitute a point to
035determine if it's true or not. But instead of learning that first, they are encouraged to move the blue point around. It'll say false when it's not in the shaded region. It'll say true when it's in the shaded region. And then it asks questions for students to consider. What do you notice about the label of the point? And why do you think that happens? So, it's having students investigate and dive in first before learning the procedures. So, it's it's developing an intellectual need for why we're learning the math that we're learning and not just learning it for the sake of learning. There's a need for that. Here's an example of the teacher support that was behind the um area of a circle. It it suggests to put kids in pairs. It gives you questions to ask.
036We have math language routines like think, pair, share. Spend 30 seconds talking to your partner about this. Kids need to enter the problem the way they see the problem and the way they can explain the problem. It is our job in the classroom to help formalize their math language with appropriate math vocabulary. Just like children when they learn and grow, how do you know a lollipop's a lollipop? Um, you talk about it the way you know it. And um and then as parents and as adults, we help them formalize their language as they grow. And that's what we're doing. We're growing math students. And so these uh these lessons, these teacher supports provide suggestions for grouping students. They give teachers anticipated student responses. So um we can't always anticipate how they're going to respond, but
037it gives some good s good suggestions and even gives some potential misconceptions. What happens if students say this? How can we help address? And that helps us build our confidence in the classroom and helps it make it more conversational. And we are all learning as we go. So we all make mistakes and we're going to learn from those mistakes. And so that's how these high quality instructional materials are built. So students can grow in their math identity and then see themselves as doers of mathematics. And so from here um our next steps we will train on June 5th at the TLA. We have a curriculum kickoff session in the morning and then we will meet with the middle school teachers. In the afternoon we'll meet with the high school teachers. Um June 6th uh starts
038our revision of the scope and sequence and the pacing which we are looking forward to. And then in August when everybody's together, we will meet uh for divisionwide implementation and then meet as PLC's so we can support each other all year long. I want to give a huge shout out to these 18 teachers who spent their second semester um really diving into these resources, asking good questions. um for every every time we had uh sufficient as a rating, we had to write an example of why we deemed it sufficient. So they went above and beyond um what we asked to make sure that what we chose was going to be a solid choice and then what they ranked was they were sure to rank. But I really want to I have thanked them in person,
039but I just can't say thank you enough. And also thank you all and thank you too for all the support. And um if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them as best I can. I have a question. Our our elementary curriculum is it already setting the students up to be thinking like what this one like what this one will be doing. So in other words, will they interface and merge? Yes, sir. Pretty seamlessly. Yes, sir. Um the bridges um curriculum is very similar to the one we used back in 2018 2019 open up resources. It provides the same level of support for teachers. It is designed to also have students articulating their mathematical thinking as well even as early in the elementary grades. So, what else from the And I just think of
040middle school. I know they've got that assessment that's all those questions they do online the kids are responsible for that they're taking home and I cannot think of the name of it to to save my soul right this moment. There's like a a is it? It might be the one. Is that still going to be in there to assess or is something going to replace that for math space? um math space has its own adaptive practice and its own practice that we can um you know assign. I think the teachers appreciated the fact that it didn't feel punitive because with you get a question right it gives you points. If you get a question wrong I don't love that about their math component. Um what I do appreciate about is teachers can create uh short
041quizzes using those same questions. So the kids and we developed it so or we asked that students only have to get to a 70 for mastery 80 if they wanted to go to a next level. You will always have the students who really want to achieve for that 100 or strive for that 100 and and they will but um so I think math space will probably replace that probably. Okay. Yeah. I just I have seen it and my husband was tutoring a middle school student and he was frustrated as a mechanical engineer because when you found a question wrong and like it was just there's no explanation and so you can't go on any further. It was more frustration I think until I explain exactly what they were asking for. Um that it was frustrating.
042I'm looking at it going, "Oh, yeah." If it's the same, ixl provides a a video often for an explanation in written and and no one loves to read math. Access it. One of the beauties of math space is they have a little um like a little Martian puppy dog AI tutor. And if if a child gets stuck, they get to ask a question, but it doesn't give them the answer. It's not about answer getting, it's about the process. So it helps and uh then they have a choice to watch a quick video or get a written instruction. That's good. So it's helping guide them without saying no the answers five. Perfect. So if I'm a math teacher, come on. Come on. What am I what what's going to be expected of me to be able
043to teach this new curriculum? I mean, is it a different way to ride a horse or is what what are they what are our new teachers going to be facing? What are our teach what are our teachers going to be facing teaching this new curriculum? That's a great question. Um I I love that question actually. So our teachers know that reasoning is important. We know that uh we talk often about the top 10 skills of of students who go out in the workforce and never is it test taking or never is it I have to memorize these five things. It is who can communicate their thoughts. who can problem solve, who can reason their way through a problem using the tools they're given. So, it has helped us shift our tier one instruction from um
044note takingaking more of the sitting to finding reasoning tasks. We have done a great job over the past few years in six through eight finding some really good quality math talks, reasoning tasks, how many and how did you count, making math fun, making math meaningful. We have run into some roadblocks with high school because you end up getting more of the pure math and it's very it's very difficult to bring in a large math problem to uh reason through one small thing. So they've openly articulated they are welcoming um tasks that help them with the reasoning. They are well-versed in their mathematics and the math that part's not changing. How do we help students reason without memorizing so that they can transfer their knowledge and understanding to the next math class or to any other
045endeavor they choose? And the benefit of this is for a new teacher, this is a great resource because it spells it out. So, especially for our teachers who may not have gone to school per se to teach math who are coming in, um this is a great resource for them and helps us all work together with common language and common resources. Okay. Great question. It was all right. Other questions for us? Well, my email is in the packet. You are welcome to call me or email me because I can talk about this all day, but I won't. Um, and this is an action item. Um, so because this is a a textbook adoption. Um, again, it's um math space and we are looking at grades six through algebra 2. Um, so secondary only. So I
046have to ask another question. Cost comparisons from across the board. Are they fairly comparable? They are. We did some comparison between the top three that teachers had been reviewing. We're finalizing the last minute numbers um because we want to make sure you know you sometimes you have new students and they move in and out because you pay by student. So they are very similar as far as the cost from the top three. Okay. Correct. But I'll tell you, it's not it's not huge. It's not. No. And we we have al this has been a priority for us. Um so we have allocated this money all year for this because we knew how important it was. And we had a conversation today. A law just recently passed general assembly saying that we've got to have these
047highquality instructional materials in all four content areas by July 26. So we've still got science and history. Um, we budgeted for social studies, but science will be one. Now, the good news though is we do have resources that all of our teachers receive. So, I don't want you to think we don't have that. Um, but this is something bigger um than just a resource that's provided and all of our laptops will all be supported. Correct. You may have mentioned this. Are there updates that come with this? Like if there was a textbook, you would get like a new revision of it or whatever, but are there software updates you get every year for so many years or that right now they actually update it like on the fly, you know? So, let's say you run
048into an issue, then the benefit of digital versus print is that it will automatically update it. We will receive some printed copies as a part. Most of them do include that, but what's most valuable is the digital access. um especially because you see our timeline June 5th is is less than a month away. So we need to get that digital um ready to go again for them. The good news too is the teachers on the curriculum team have already been in it. Um they've been in all of them. So there is that familiarity as well. And how about software support from the company is that and that would be negotiated when we actually move forward with the purchasing. Um Mark's um Mr. Hudson and his team will be involved in that. Um because typically that
049involves rostering, getting people in there that need to be and ensuring that we're able to move forward. Correct. Is is this a contract where I mean we're telling them we'll use this for five years or we the the way you can break it up as far as many years. We are looking at this initial payment for one year. Um because um you know it's just different budget times. We want to want to be cautious. But the the the commitment we wouldn't want to just do this obviously for one year but typically as far as our payment we are allowed um to if we consider beyond the one year to break that up the cost we're considering is for one year correct so I think Dr. H in your initial presentation you mentioned tape measures and
050reading fractions and so forth. So this rationale behind this should help in our developing soft skills for our students that want to on meeting the needs of employees around here is that we as want kids that have good soft you know learning skills. So that it should benefit that. Correct. Absolutely. But it should also benefit our engineers in the making that are going to be taking calculus. correct or differential equations their freshman year. Are they going to be prepared for that? One of the the biggest we didn't include this just for time purposes but one of the other features that we appreciate of math space is statistics is in there. Data science data science is very important um because we may need calculus if we are doing highle math but everybody needs statistics you know
051um and understanding data. So that's a major positive as well. Correct. Um, we also appreciate the supports for all students. Um, because all students can do math. So, you mentioned this goes through algebra. Is that right? Algebra 2. Algebra 2 and statistics. I'll tell you why later. So, whatever we're using for calculus, how does that calculus is a is a different piece. Typically, we're going to be supported for depending on what level of calculus. Um, there's college board resources with college board classroom um that they have. Additionally, there are some textbooks that you that were in use a long time ago that have been updated. I promise they're they're newer than that that are for our upper levels as well. We purchased some additional resources for our AP calculus teachers, both calculus AB and BC
052just last year. Correct. And and for example, some of the resources that we purchased that don't have to come to you include for um for AMSCO, right? So the AMSCO resource that supports our AP classes as well um in different subject areas. That would be an example of a resource that doesn't require board action for an adoption. Okay. So, you guys really want this, right? The teachers really want this. Um, and we want to support them as well. Um, and and as well as our principles, they have been asking, you know, um, they know the need is there um, and want to help support them get the the resources that they need. Mr. Chairman, I move that we uh, adopt the math space u curriculum and and as well as extend our appreciation to you
053and and the people you had listed up there that you know contributed to it and I did see one of the percentages of the returns of you know who participated in the school board was 0% so I don't feel so bad you just felt like you trusted us correct we we see that as respectful time exactly right we do have he probably noticed some that he could Oh, Chip, I forgot all that. I just millimeters. Um, I second the motion. I think you made a motion, right, Barry? Correct. Correct. All right. So, we have a motion and a second. Any last comments or questions? All in favor of approving Math Space as our new math resource, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Great. Thank you so much for that presentation. Thank you. Thank
054you guys so much the indepth review explanation. That was awesome. All right, so our next item is our proposed legislative priorities with amendments to VSBA legislative positions and one proposed new position. I'm going to suggest that we on the proposed amendments we vote on each we vote on each proposal but then pass a motion pending the results of those votes. Is that acceptable? Yep. Okay. With that being said, our first vote uh is on 411 minority recruitment and replacement. So all in favor of the proposed uh amendments to this policy, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay. So passes. volunteers ask for a vote on the proposed changes on the volunteer polic. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? That one also passes. Uh 423 um eliminating that
055from the policy. All in favor of that elimination, please indicate by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? That one passes and 10.5 is asking the general assembly to pay for what they want us to do. I don't think that'll be hard to pass. Any all in favor of passing 10.5, please indicate by saying I. Any opposed passes? And then um what was the number on this last one? Where did the number went? Didn't really have one, but about the mandatory reporting of misdemeanors and status offenses. Um eliminating that. All in favor of eliminating that, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Okay. All right. Well, that's excellent. We um all of those pass. So, now I ask for a motion that we submit these amendments to the SBA. Motion second. Can do you mind
056just making the motion? Make it more formal. Make it more formal so Tracy can Yes, absolutely. Uh yes. Um, chair, I respectfully make a motion to approve all of the BSBA legislative position proposals as were all approved by unanimous vote here tonight. Second, thank you. Okay. All right. So proposed new position um title restricting explicit and adult designated educational resources in public libraries and public school libraries public school libraries. Um I ask for a motion on this one to submit this to the BSBA. So all in favor of submitted this please indicate by saying I I. Any opposed? All right, that one also passes. So I asked for Well, so that was the motion. Same motion. Was the motion? Yep. I think that's just a pass motion. All right. All right. So, all right. Well,
057that takes care of all of our action items. So, we are at report of the superintendent. Dr. Stanley, please. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, first, I'd like to congratulate and welcome Dr. Boils to our county. Uh, we think that you'll love it and we're certainly excited about having you as part of our staff. Um, we wish that uh the end of your school year goes well and uh we can't wait to get you over and get you caught up to speed. And uh David, it was nice to meet you tonight. Welcome uh to the Campbell family. Um having said that, I want to just get right to kind of our big news and that's that we have a budget. Okay. Um I think on the second the governor signed the budget and we are very
058fortunate that it includes the additional money that have been appropriated by the general assembly. So, if you remember when we passed our budget at our second meeting back in March, we told you that we kind of split the difference between what the governor had uh recommended and what the general assembly passed. So, with this budget, we're going to have some additional money um than what we originally planned in our in our past budget. So, next month when Michelle is back, we'll bring you an an amended budget that's got some extra dollars in it and and we look to to pass that. remember our biggest priorities, I kind of go over them again, is a 3% raise for all all employees. Um, we added two and a half positions to our gifted program in an attempt
059to kind of bolster that program um at the elementary level. And then the third thing was to do a pay increase for our bus drivers. Um, so some of our bus drivers will get as much will be getting as much as a 6% raise. So hopefully in the next few months when we start talking about our positions in transportation, that number is going to start tick up a little bit more when people find out that we're paying uh additional money. So we're excited about those three things. And uh you remember in the budget that we passed, we did a 1% cut to all nine personnel items in every department. So we're going to be able to take this money that we get back and put that back into our budget. um which will give us
060a little bit of cushion, but still we still don't plan on adding anything new um on top of what we've already got. So anyway, we're very thankful that that's happened. And also part of the budget is the bonus. So um for all employees that are still with us as of June 6th, we will be giving a $1,000 bonus to all full-time employees and a $500 bonus to all part-time employees in their June 30 paycheck. We're excited to do that. It's a good end of the year. Great end of the year. That's right. Take that with any additional dollars they might get from doing teacher learning academy and have a great time at the beach. Any questions about our budget? Again, we'll bring back a a an amended budget next month in June and ask that
061you pass that as we make the decisions. So all of the 1% projected cuts that you may all of those can be restored. All of those can be all of them. Correct. Correct. Second thing I've got for you is each one of you have a packet in front of you and inside that packet includes superintendent evaluation forms. It's that time of year again. Um so I'd ask that you fill those out and you've also got a envelope inside with Dr. Miller's address. So please after you fill it out send those to him and then Dr. Miller will handle it from there. Will you get will you contact Thank you. And then what we will do is uh next month in close session for the evaluation feel free to call me also. Yeah. So you need
062them fairly quickly then. Yeah. Um well, next thing is just kind of anformational item that I'm very excited about. Uh Campbell County has just completed, I believe they've completed doing an RFP to hire a company to do some marketing and rebranding for the county. Um when Dr. H and I were having conversations with Nina Rosai who does economic development. She told us about that and we thought might be a great opportunity for us to kind of piggyback on that RFP um and get this company to help create us a a fresh logo, okay, for Campbell County Schools. So, we're going to put together a stakeholders committee that's going to include Dr. Miller. It's also going to include Gary Maddox. and we're going to include one person from each of our um schools and uh this
063company should start having these meetings. There'll be virtual meetings at first um to just talk about what do we love about Campbell County and from that they'll take what they come up with with the county, take what we say and give us some options on a new logo. Um if we don't like them and we want to keep what we got, we can always do that. But I think it's exciting and probably time that we do something Uh, yeah. The child reading the book needs to go. You can do a version of the child reading the book picture alistister fieldhouse. Also, if you do that, give us some projection what it costs to change everything from that logo to what you know, anything new they proposed. Correct. Certainly. Um, so, um, I had a meeting
064this past week with Box Modular. If you'll recall, we are going to do modular units. Going to do one modular unit at Brookale Elementary School that's going to contain two classrooms um, and two bathrooms. Okay? And we're planning on putting fifth grade students in that modular. Um, the modular is being built as we speak. It should be completed by the end of the month and we're looking at the middle of June for installation. I'm sorry to say if you're familiar with Brookdale Elementary School, we got a great playground around back and want to thank Foster Fuels. I think they just donated some money um to get some new playground equipment, but we're going to have to take down the fence and we're going to have to take down a couple trees that are that are
065really pretty right there. So, hate to have to do that, but this is going to be a big unit going into that playground area. Um but we're certainly excited about getting the space. Um we're hoping that it is installed and ready to go by the end of June. So then we can do our part in terms of um securing that building and making sure that we've got intercom, making sure that we've got a fire alarm, all of the things that we need to make sure that kids, you know, are safe and uh and protected while they're out there. So Clay, the infrastructures there for the sewer line and water pretty close to it's right by the road. Yeah. Right. Right. right there on both sides of the road. So, Dr. Wilson, thank you for sending
066out this kind of secondary um awards um schedule. Um that's all coming to a head and it starts I think this week with the tech center awards on Friday. Yeah. So, that's Friday at Tree of Life and that's going to start at 9:15. Um and then we start getting into our balor services. as we get into our awards ceremonies and then of course they all um culminate with our graduation ceremonies on May 30th. Brookville High School will be at 7 o'clock and the other three schools will be the following Saturday. Um so you know it's that time that's kind of the best time of the year and uh that doesn't include all of the elementary programs, middle school programs, everything that's going on. So it's an exciting time. Um, of course, as we get through
067graduation and we come back on June 4th and 5th to Rushburg Elementary and do our teacher learning academy. And you know what a big deal that is for our teachers. Great opportunity for them to get some professional development, learning from each other, having some choice in what they learn and uh and earning a few extra dollars for the summer. It's going to be at the elementary school. It's going to be Rusburg Middle. Yep. Rushburg Middle School. And the last thing that I've got, you said both. You said elevator. I'm sorry. It's a Rushburg Middle School. Rushburg Middle. Okay. Rusburg Middle School. Um and then we've got our first student our first school board advisory committee meeting. It's going to be this Thursday right here at the tech center at 8:15. And Miss Parker and Dr.
068Miller um we'll see you here and we'll be in the media room. Correct. Okay. Okay. So, we're excited to see what those kids bring to the table and uh looking forward to them sharing their ideas with us. And then the last thing that I've got for you tonight is a certificate of commendation. The House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia hereby offer sincerest congratulations to Barry Jones in recognition of his faithful and exemplary service on the Camel County School Board since 1999. And this is offered by Delegate Eric Zir. So I'd like to present this to Stand up Mr. Embarrassing. Embarrassing. [Applause] Thank you very much. Well deserved. Welld deserved. We'll make you take a picture. Huh? Awesome. We can make you take a picture. Usually the wise sage on the school board lending
069us his expertise and wisdom. 99. Thank you. Yeah. Great. That's nice. All right. Um, matters from the board. I forget which end I started at last month. I think you started with me last month. Okay. Then we will start with Mr. Maddox. One thing I would just like to thank uh all the organizations and clubs and whatnot that supported the teachers during teacher appreciation week. We we fed some some teachers and I think they were very pleased with that. That's all I got. Mr. Phillips. So, uh, thanks to Dr. Wilkerson, Dr. Hail, and Miss, um, Stanberry for your presentation tonight on the textbook adop adoption. Um, got some information from Miss Brown at Yellow Branch. Um, just to hit the highlights, field day is the 28th of this month and then the May 30th fifth
070grade promotion ceremony and there's about a dozen other activities going on this month that I won't get into the details about, but busy month there. Um, and then I think do we have a Laura Dalton here tonight? Do you mind standing up real quick for us? Um, congratulations to you on winning the state impromptu speech championship at uh and our coach Aaron Ryerson. So, thank you for coming tonight as well. So, congratulations. [Applause] Oh, I was Can you share what your speech was on? I gave three speeches. One was on Okay. And these were all you had to speak spontaneously from those topics. Huh. So give her a time. Yeah. That's not easy to do. Okay. So Gal Galado onic at Marty Gro. So congratulations. Susan is a counselor for us at William Campus. Oh,
071okay. Great. Okay. All right. Yeah. Well, thank you all for coming tonight. Um, and I didn't mean to embarrass you, but I wanted to definitely recognize you. So, um, and, uh, Mr. Shields sent me a lot of great information. Uh, we had a prom after prom this past Saturday night that went, uh, great as usual. So, thanks. And thank you, Mr. Dr. Shields, for listing our sponsors. And I want to mention these, uh, businesses and individuals real quick. Crows Haven, RHS, Parent Teacher Organization, Corebridge Financial, Wool Branch Farm, Chick-fil-A, The Village Deli, Calvary Chapel, and Jack Dean. So, thank you for those individuals for their great sponsorship of that event. Um, we did have a play at Russ High School, The Play That Goes Wrong. Um, and you missed that, I'm sorry. It was uh
072May 1st through the 4th. Um but great job to the individuals that took play took part in that. We have a spring coral concert coming up um tomorrow at 7 pm and senior breakfast 8:15 and then the senior walk at 11 and underassman award follows that. So and he had about another dozen and a half things on here that I won't get into but a very busy month for you. So eat your waties every morning this this month. Um, I think that's all I had for tonight. So, thanks Tanner. Yes. So, I'm gonna forego my normal spiel about all of the wonderful things that are going on at Tomahawk and Leville and Brookkeville Middle and Burkeville High School. Although I recently walked back through the construction of Brookville High School and we'll leave that for
073another day. But, um, I want to celebrate our speech team. Typically been our forensics team. Um, I was in forensics. It's been 30 years. And it was called forensics then, um, for storytelling and and that was overwhelming and and an unnerving task to be on that team. We came nowhere close to taking any state titles. Um, but I do remember traveling and having some fun with that. But I want to take this time to recognize our speech team. So, Bobby Marky, if you will stand up and come to the podium, bring your students that you have with you. I see that Xavier is here and he is our third time state champion. So, this is his third year winning. Um, they brought some awards with them. I know it's not a large crowd. This was
074kind of a last minute like, oh my gosh, we should have done something more. Um, and so our next meeting we're going to call for a resolution and invite them all back in July. Um, because I won't be here in the June meeting and I'm selfish and I want to be here um to be able to see their present, you know, see what they do. And I'm asking because when I called these guys to let them know Laura Dalton was going to be here as well, thanks to Bobby inviting Laura, Barry asked what it was and he said, "Can we have a demo?" And I said, "Well, if we're going to do that, maybe in the July meeting you guys can give us a demo of um you know what what exactly you wanted." So
075something one of our Hey, I'm totally game. I am totally game. We can we can give you a time limit. Um, but if you guys are open to that, I think that would be really cool to see um to share one of your favorites or a couple of your favorites. Um, for us just to kind of have that exposure. Um, it's been 40 years. Is that right? It's in part and since 19 40 years that we could find or we could not find anything on the state record. We could not find a team state championship in the yearbooks anywhere that we could find. And we the Brookville High School started uh forensics back in 1947. Um, so we've had a lot of individual state champions, but this is the first team championship that we can
076uh find in the books. So, we're we're really proud of that. Um, these guys work really really hard. Um, in in fact, this is the first year that VHSL changed the name from forensics to speech. So, we can actually say we are the first ever class 3 speech champions because we're the only ones who have that trophy. Um but one of the one of the greatest things about this year especially is um we were the only state champion of the six divisions that was not the largest team there. Um we we were able to win this with only seven kids qualifying for the state championship but three we were in four categories and we won three of them. Um Xavier won his third state championship this year um in dramatic interpretation. Lucy uh was on
077is this is her second state runner up in serious duo. We'll get her her title next year. Um but we were able to win uh Jayla Wilder was able to win in pros interpretation and then um Taylor Green was able to win in poetry. Um and so those were our our winners. We also had Emily Emanuel second place in DI only because she had to face off against him. Um and then we had uh who else we got? We got Lucy Donahghue got fifth place in pros and that was everybody, right? That's everybody. Um so and Lucy's partner Sarah Beaker uh who wasn't here as well. But um these kids worked really really hard. Uh we won our first regional championship in a very long time. Um at super regionals we we've been fighting with
078Fluana High School back and forth like crazy throughout the years. Flana got us back at the super regional, but then we were able to get it back at states. Um so we're really proud of them and everything that they were able to accomplish. Uh so the rings are on order. They're they're coming. Um so hopefully at the July meeting we'll have those to show you as well of of the the great work that these kids um have put in. So um so for those who don't know anything about what we do as speech because it is a VHSL activity um imagine you know these are amazing theater performers as well but take a theater performance take away your stage take away your props take away your costumes and get down to what can the actor
079do and make you feel with just them and that's exactly what these guys do. Um, and so then you have Laura who does the impromptu, which is literally she shows up in a room with a card face down. She flips it over and has three topics and she has seven minutes to give an amazing speech on a random topic that she had no idea was coming seven minutes before she walked in that room. We could play that game. That's how we practice it when we have our impromptu as well. Um, and so yeah, that's how we practice that. Let's practice it. Um, and so um, they work on these pieces. We usually started in September um and keep working all the way to the regional tournament February and then states all the way in the
080end of March. Um and so we uh we participate in the Southwest Virginia Forensics League. We were able to get second place in that behind Salem High School who's a 19 time state champion. So to say that we're following them, we were like, "Okay, that means we're doing good. We're staying up with them." So um yeah, we're really excited and uh you know, we're definitely looking forward to coming back with the whole team, let you guys see see the big group. And are y'all good with that? We've said right now we said now now we got to start the streak that Salem is Salem having 19 in a row. We're like, "All right, well, we've got our first time to keep the streak going." That's right. So, love it. So, do you guys have any
081questions? Impromptu. Yeah. And and kind of sharing something of what y'all had won. Yeah. You know, Xavier like show us your stuff. Love to see it. So, good. Well, congratulations. Well, the funny thing about especially here at Brookville is that we most of the categories we end up winning are the serious categories. Um, we just had a recent storytelling champion two years ago, but otherwise it's always been in either dramatic interpretation, pros, poetry, um, serious duo that we've won our title. So, we always we always find that to be really funny that we're always winning the serious things with the funny things. We can't you can't get the winners yet, but they do so good of making that emotion come through. Um, Xavier's piece this year was on was about a school shooting. Um, and
082then Lucy's piece uh was about a house fire that was caused by and how it affected a family. Um, and so each each kid really puts their emotion into their pieces in terms of uh what they can do with it and really making the people in just 10 minutes is what they all is their limit of what they can perform the piece and what they can really make the kids feel and what the judges can feel in those 10 minutes um of the piece and tell an amazing story. So um yeah well thank you so much. Yeah, thank you guys and we look forward to July. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. So, is there drama involved in these speeches? I mean, is it more than you realize? So, there's 10 categories and so
083only uh two of them do. The students go to the competition not have anything ready. Impromptu speaking is one and then extemporaneating is speaking of the other, which is more of a political topic that they've done some previous research on and they have 30 minutes prepare a speech. Everything they're doing, you know, is a prepared piece that's been already published and then they've got to present it. Um, and so I it's it's the drama that they put into it. Now, you've got, you know, humorous and humorous duo as well that really aren't dramatic. Those are make you laugh as much as you can. Um, but a lot of the categories we do really well in are that drama that make you really feel it. But like I said, you have to imagine in situations like
084I said, they're they're trying to perform their pieces and um, you know, Lucy's piece, for example, is talking about a house fire. Well, she's having with her partner to make you feel a house fire, but you don't see a house. You don't see a fire, you don't see any of it, but you got to feel like you're there and seeing it occur. And that's what they do so well in really making that emotion come through. And same thing with like Xavier's with the school shooting. He puts you in that school with the kids and the families um in in that moment what it looks like as that school shooting is occurring. Um and so it's just a really powerful thing. And I I tell them all the time as the coach, I said, you know,
085I I see this piece 15 20 times all the time when you guys uh do these pieces, but if you can make our our arms tangle, you know, you're doing it right. And so, uh myself and then Kaden um joined our coaching staff this year and then Megan Emanuel, um the three of us, we work really hard with the kids to make sure, you know, if uh if they're going to keep moving forward, they they got to get past us. So, we're we're the toughest critics for sure. So, good good. And you get a ring out of this. Oh, yeah. So, not just the jocks, right? Isn't that great? So, Xavier actually made us have to design a special ring because we never had a three-time champ. So, we had to special design him a
086special ring. Um, so he's got a special one coming for for the fact that he's a three-time champion. Um, and so everybody else will have the the one time. Um, but this will be the first time as the coaches, we'll be getting him for the team title. So, the kids have gotten plenty over the years in terms of they're they're just that good. So, yeah, we're really excited. Well, thank you. Expect a full house in Jul. That's awesome. That's good. That's great. Laura, congratulations. Are these your parents? Can I ask Can I ask mother, how often do you lose an argument with her? I just lost one earlier today. I just asked for change for a 50th and now walked out having more I'm sorry change for what it was. It was a 50 and
087she somehow profited from I feel for you. I mean I really feel for you. Congratulations. That's quite a feat. Quite a feat. Uh Mr. Bennett, I'm going to let you share your words of wisdom. I'm going to share I'm going to share my time with you or give my time to you to tell us about Concord. don't have a lot to add because we're right in the middle of so testing and that's clearly our focus. We do have an attendance assembly not assembly incentive reward this Friday which is nice. We did have pretty good attendance this year. So we have pretty good rate compared to what I'm used to. So it was nice. Um then we have field day. We have that's the Friday after next and we have all the awards awards ceremonies for
088grade levels fifth grade promotion ceremony the last week of school. Okay. Thank you. Uh I did talk to Mr. Rey at Rusber Middle School about the plant sale and he told me that they've done around 18 and a half thousand from the plant sales and um had about 20 students help throughout the year filling the pots, growing and stocking the plants and the funds are used for FFA field trips as well as instructional supplies for the program uh program needs at all three grade levels and said this they're going to have a fall sale with pansies and moms and they're going to trial try out a poinsetta season where they're going to grow poinsettas for both retail and wholesale sales. So, uh quite a feat for them. Um on the 23rd of April, Dr. Hail
089and I participated in the Central Virginia Governor School um their symposium night where all their juniors presented their year yearly projects to a panel of two or three feedback providers I think was the uh name they gave us. It was at Lynburg College. Now the the students in my group, these were the these were the topics they uh wanted me to comment on. The effect of pH on the dissolution rate of different over-the-counter painkillers. The effect of household lights on the color fading of different organic pigments and paint. The biocatalytic capabilities of paroxidase on the degradation of acid orange. Number seven, vanilla and vanilla extract infused mouthwash in in inhibiting quorum sensing of some virus and making dental plaque bofilms and the effectiveness of uh sanit sanitary foam or uh I don't even know. But
090then the the effects of colored lighting on crisper effectiveness. I thought a crisper was what you put your vegetables in an ice box. But I was so wrong about changes to DNA sequencing that has a potential to treat and prevent genetic diseases. And that these students were gave about a five minute presentation and I was supposed to ask questions but there truly there are some smart smart kids over there. I mean I Dr. Hey, I haven't talked to you post, but but the group I had were very impressive, very very impressive students. So, uh to say our kids are over there, it it's it's quite a feat. Um just happy to be involved. Uh this is going to be the last meeting of the school year. So, I want to express, you know, my appreciation
091to all the Camel County personnel and students that have made this year successful. done a great job. Um, Miss Kirkman, your article on the welding wars. Hey, great. I mean, we we got we got a little connection to that, but it's really really well done. Uh, teacher appreciation week. I don't know why we just do a week. By golly, it ought to be every day. So, um, appreciation to all of our teachers. And that's all I got. Thank you, Barry. Mr. Parker. Uh, yes. I'm gonna echo Barry. didn't even think about it being the last one of the week I mean of the of the year where the teachers are in for the school year and appreciate everybody and the teachers appreciation. I didn't get a list of the sponsors, but that was a great
092idea, David, because there were a lot of folks who dedicated a lot of time, made brownies and cupcakes, and sent out invitations and businesses donated to appreciate our teachers. And I saw many of them were very thankful. A lot of people um there, you know, up up at Timberlake Road District, um a $5 gift card to Joe Beans is like, you know, uh winning the lottery. So, I I saw a lot of folks really appreciating um what they received during teacher appreciation week. Um thanks to the math folks. Oh my gosh, you know who I I can't even imagine. I remember struggling with algebra 2, almost quit and then one day the light bulb went off and then it was easy after that, right? So, that's what we're trying to do is help them find
093the light bulb on their own instead of just hand it to them. So, I appreciate everything there. I attended the teachers um teachers for tomorrow graduation here last week and I literally my clothing was wet from wiping tears from my eyes. It was absolutely just so inspirational. It was incredible. So super excited for all those young folks and uh everyone kept reminding Miss Hunley to get her business cards to everyone and we hope they go out get their education and come back and teach here at Campbell County. I'm super excited about the student advisory council inaugural meeting on Thursday morning. I cannot wait um since I've learned some of the names. I've seen a lot of them getting accolades in the news and winning this and winning that and um some really exciting young folks
094are going to be there and I can't wait to with Dr. Miller get to meet them and see how they would like to participate in what we're doing here. Um so we're going to kind of build it together. um so that students can have a more active role and bring things from their peers to us. So, I'm super excited about that. Um and I can't wait for teacher learning academy. Um I went all day both days two years ago last year. I was limited based on work and I so missed not being there all day. So, I'm going to do everything I can to be there. It's wonderful to see the teachers teaching the other teachers and everyone's having so much fun and uh Dr. Hail and I'll probably leave everybody out, Dr. Wilkerson and
095Amy Ael and all the people that will help put that together. Um it really is almost like going to a fair but also learning and meeting teachers from other schools. And I don't know if any other divisions I know in our area don't do that where they actually get to meet teachers from other schools across the the county. And I think it's awesome. I can't wait for that. And also thank you to the board for the uh approval of the proposals today. Really appreciate the support on that. And uh I think that's it. Looking forward to graduation. Thank you. Well, I too want to um thank the math group for all that work and and and an excellent presentation. So, really appreciate that and congratulations to the speech. That's so exciting when when Campbell County
096wins, right? So, and I know you identify with your individual school, but we identify with the county. So, whatever you do at your individual school, it just reflects on everybody. And so, we really really appreciate that. Um, I had a good time last week. I went down to William Campbell and spent a little while there and I got a a better tour than I'd had in a while. And they under Mr. Cartwright's toutelage, they've done a lot of um they've painted the fieldhouse, put a new floor in, new lighting, um, and it really looks good. They've fixed up their weight room. It looks much than it did. And and the other exciting thing is they've retrofitted a a very large space for their new STEM lab. It's painted, it's clean, it's got new HVAC, it's
097get new wiring, and they've done this all inhouse, okay? Which is really great. And and he um he did acknowledge that you've helped along the way, but um but he's worked hard. He's worked hard. I think that's the the point I'm trying to make and and it and it shows um new logos on all the doors and so you can probably affirm what's been going on, right? So yeah, it is. And uh bushes got trimmed and trees, you know, just just a lot of stuff. It matters. Yeah. And so um and he's excited about all the new programs. Um FFA what was the other one? FBA. Yeah, FBLA. Scott, is it on your phone? Oh, that's wrong. So, but anyway, it was a great visit and um I think he's happy there and I think
098they're happy to have him down there. I also visited the elementary school. Good visit. And I am going to invite Mr. Harrison to the podium. I I got into fairly in-depth conversation with them about the bubble group, the group that we've been concerned about that were kindergarten, first and second grade. And I and I sort of put them on the spot. how are they doing uh academically and and he shared um that you know there's still some struggles and then we got into behavior and he identified that his fourth graders who's having the most trouble and and he shared with what he's doing and it was so inspiring that I wanted him to share this with the whole board and with that I'd like to just have you sort of give what what you told
099me about your bul about the bubble group and and how that's working, but then tell them what you're doing with them. So, yeah, absolutely. First and foremost, thank you for the opportunity. Uh, like Dr. Miller said, we did have the opportunity to catch up face to face last week, which is uh something I really appreciated. He and I are in conversation quite frequently, but it is very rare that we have the opportunity to sit down across from the table and just sort of talk about the reality of where things are. you know, what we're celebrating, what areas we still need to grow, you know, the gauntlet of what the end of the year looks like. Um, one of the things we spent a whole lot of time talking about was the high-risisk students that we've
100sort of identified and how we're being proactive as a school at making sure that we're giving those students the best opportunity to be successful. And one thing that I shared with him is we've created two clubs. Uh, one is specifically targeting young men, one is specifically targeting young women. And the um club for young men we've called the gentlemen of Brook Neil. And the goal of that club is for that's led by myself, me to spend time with that group of boys. There's 12 of them every Friday. And for us to just talk about character, you know, what does it look like to be a young man who's successful in the world? How do the decisions that you make today as a nine or 10 year oldffect affect the person that you become tomorrow when
101you're 18 or 25 or 35? Um we're trying to get these students to think big picture. It's not just fourth grade. Yes, you're reading so is extremely important. Yes, you uh participating in PE is extremely important, but one day I want you guys to be husbands and fathers and leaders in the community. So, we've been very fortunate to have a few people sort of come alongside of us and uh collaborate with this overall big picture movement that we're trying to get these students to be a part of. One of them is Mr. Hardy. I don't think he's here tonight, but I'd like to thank him. He and Mr. Pierman allowed two, fourth, and fifth grade students that attend Brookne Neil to come toward the tech center last year. The thought process was I'm sorry, last
102week the thought process was why wait until these students are in eighth or 10th grade for them to see the sort of opportunities that Campbell County has to offer to students who may be stronger hands-on than they are with some of the traditional academics. And for one of those students, that was pretty much a life-changing experience. He has probably talked every single day since that trip about how he wants to be a part of the auto mechanics program when he gets to the tech center. And if he hadn't had exposure to that, it may have been challenging for that student to stay motivated long enough to get there. You know, there's a lot of factors that can go against some students. And um we just want those students to know that the mission and vision
103that we have as school division, Kell County Schools, is truly to empower them to take on anything. You know, it's not just to to to do what we're asking you to do in the classroom. and that's extremely important, but it's also about what life, you know, can offer you outside of here. We also have had the opportunity to partner with Liberty University and they've allowed our students to attend some sporting events throughout the school year and that's fantastic. You all would be shocked at how some of our students have never left the Brook New Glattus area and just being able to step on the campus of of Liberty or just being able to go to Lynchburg. Some of the kids think they're in Hollywood. you know, it's just amazing for them to see maybe one
104day I can go to college and and it's not just about the opportunity to be exposed to sports, but just that there's more to the world. Uh, one of the things the assistant principal, Mrs. Balling, has started is similar for the females, and she calls that girl power in half an hour. And her daughter, who's a senior at William and Mary, has really sort of uh taken that and run with it. And it's the same concept. You know, we're just talking to these young ladies about the importance of self-worth, goal setting, and how the decisions they make today affect the the young women that they will be tomorrow. So, we've got a lot of progress to make, lots of areas to grow, but you know, we see some students that have tremendous potential, and we
105just believe that if we're intentional with how we spend time with them in the short period of time that we have them, we can make a difference. And uh I tell the teachers every day, sometimes it takes years for you to see the impact and the seed that you're planting. But if you continue to stick with it and you continue to show those students that they have potential, one day those kids will come back around and they'll say, you know, when I was in fourth grade, it was Dr. Miller or it was Miss Parker who told me that I could be something. And I really started to believe that. And for some of you, you know, that was that was sort of my story. It was education that really helped me understand that there was
106a lot more to life than what I was experiencing at home. and we just want to be able to give that to our students so that they can be empowered to come back and do that for the same students that are growing up in the community that they're growing up in. So, thank you. Thank you. You have any questions about any of it? Well, you said you had somebody from the police department come, the football coach from William. So, a lot of people have bought in and helped along the way. Yeah, believe it or not, they get tired of spending time with me. So, uh we have had a few people from the community come around and just sort of talk to them. One of them was the football coach and there's a gentleman who's
107pretty big um in youth sports in the Brook area who works for the town police who's come around. We also had a local business owner who does construction speak to those students. So again, not only are we teaching character, but we're also trying to teach those students that there are opportunities for them to use the things that they're naturally gifted at to be successful in the world. I think it's straight sterling and I really appreciate that dedication and thank you for sharing that with the board. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You remember last meeting or the meet you know the career Ammers had the bus going around introducing it to third graders you know that's took people from the tech their tech center to the elementary schools right that's what Ammerst does. Yeah. Yeah.
108Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I know we've talked about it just logistically and you know buses and how do we get all the elementary school kids you know is it a grade something that we should keep talking about you know how even if it is just a rotation at fourth grade or you know but fourth grade is a heavy year though you know SOS and all that stuff too. But yeah that's awesome. Well, with that, I'd just like to thank uh like I say, the end of the school year, all the teachers, all the staff, administration, and all the graduates. So, congratulations to all the graduates and all the kids that are moving up grades. So, I think it's been a good year. It's been a good year. So, so good. So, with that, I think
109we're done. And so, I'll ask for a motion for adjournment. Motion. Second motion and a second. All in favor, close your laptops.