Noblesville Schools - May 20, 2025 Board Meeting

001Good evening. I would like to call our meeting to order and starting with the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty, justice for all. And now a moment of silence. Thank you. Uh, next up we have recognitions and I'm going to turn that over to Dr. Hy. All right. Good evening board and good evening all of our friends and guests in the audience. Thanks for being here tonight. So, we actually have a long list of uh recognitions this evening. So, we're going to get started, but actually something different is going to be our first recognition tonight because actually we have a special guest with us, Mr. Steve Horton. I'm going to invite up to the podium. um he works with the

002Indiana School Board Association and he actually has a special recognition um that he's going to talk to us about tonight first. I do. Thank you, Dr. Hy. Uh it's such a pleasure to be here tonight and to be here with with this board. Um I'm I'm so proud of the work that the Noblesville School Board has done this year. Uh they have done work that only four other boards in the state of Indiana can claim. Uh the Indiana School Boards Association is devoted to working with school boards and school administrators and supporting the work of our public school uh corporations across the state. Core to my job as the uh director of board services is to work directly with boards of education. I've had the pleasure of working with your board u more than once

003and and it and it is indeed a pleasure. Uh one of the things that we do uh in our work with boards is continual professional development. Um most people don't understand the amount of work and sacrifice that it takes to truly become uh a strong effective leadership team uh for the school corporation. And that's important to us and it should be important to all of you because that goes directly to uh the kind of outcomes that your students here experience in these schools. And so the work that they do together uh is is so important. And with that, one of the things that we do is uh as we provide professional development, we honor those individual board members and boards that go above and beyond and really uh work to uh grow their professional work

004that they do as board members. And so we we honor school boards, but within our program, there are four levels. And as I mentioned, there are only four other boards in the state of Indiana that have achieved the highest level. Uh our fourth level, which we refer to as exemplary. Uh so it's with great pride that uh I'm able to uh present the exemplary board award to the Noblesville uh board of school trustees. And uh I say that because there is quite a bit of work that goes into achieving this award on the part of the board. It's a commitment that they have to make and maintain through the year. Uh and it is by the way something that I hope you will continue to strive for in the future. So you can keep adding

005to that. We have two other boards in the state um that have made it an annual thing to be at this level. So I hope that we can add Noblesville to that list as well. But congratulations to all of you. So, um, again, I am so proud of the work that you have done together and so proud to be able to present this to you. [Applause] Thank you, Mr. Horton. And again, I I'll just say um as your superintendent, I I'm also very proud of this board. They truly have committed to the work um of being the best board that they can be. Um I think you've hopefully seen that through the strategic plan work that we just went through. um all the improved communication and and the time commitment this board puts in. So

006again, I I couldn't be more proud and I'm excited for the years ahead. So with that, let's get to some other recognitions. Um the next recognitions we're going to we're going to talk about tonight are our 20 25 teachers of the year. So these teachers were nominated by the principles and then selected by a committee of administrators. So first up, I am going to invite up I have this out of order. Dean Mueller. Is Dean here? Right everybody. So there you go. The goal is to make this as awkward as possible. So here we go. So Dean is a math teacher at Noblesville East and he is our middle school teacher of the year. I want to share a few words from his nomination. A highly respected leader. When Dean speaks, everyone listens. He masterfully

007blends math expertise with genuine care and connections to his students resulting in powerful learning outcomes. Dean is full of energy, focuses on solving problems, and is quick to try new professional learning in his classroom and throughout the math department that he chairs. When not in the classroom, you can find him greeting students throughout the school or coaching athletic teams, always with a smile on his face. So again, congratulations to Dean Mueller, middle school teacher of the year. [Applause] Absolutely. All right. Next, I'm going to invite up Trisha Shrek. While she's walking up here, I'll start sharing some information about Trisha. She is a fifth grade teacher at Stony Creek Elementary, and she is one of our elementary uh winners for teacher of the year. Passionate about improvement, Trish consistently challenges herself and her students to

008grow in all ways. A collaborative learner and lifelong learner inside and outside of her classroom. She is the go-to colleague at her school for advice, support, friendship, and innovative ideas. Relationships matter to Trish. And when she's not in her classroom building them, she can be found leading 4, cheering on students in their extracurricular activities and being recognized by former students as one of their favorite teachers. Congratulations again, Dress Shrek. Congratulations. Next we have Sam our Sam is one of our special education teachers and she is our Noblesville High School high school winner of the year. In Sam's classroom, every student feels valued, respected, and supported. She creates an environment where students can thrive regardless of background or ability. Sam uses hands-on activities, innovative technology, and creative problem solving to push her students to grow both

009academically and personally. Whether coaching unified sports, providing extra support, implementing new teaching strategies, or collaborating with colleagues, Sam approaches every situation with determination and creativity. Congratulations again to Sam. And our final winner this evening is our other elementary winner and also our Noblesville schools district teacher of the year, Miss Taran [Applause] Hassler. Taran is our teacher librarian at Noble Crossing Elementary. Taran is known for creating magical, transformative learning experiences that impact every student and family in her school. Taran extends learning far beyond the classroom. Her powerful creativity, boundless energy, and passion for interactive learning shine. Whether she's creating an archaeology dig, leading journeys around the world, planting gardens, transforming her space into a museum, hosting an opera performance, or even giving a cooking demonstration, Taran has reimagined the power of the library to excite students,

010inspire curiosity, and make connections with the community. And before I say the last thing to get you to clap again, I want to share it personally. Taran knows that anytime I visit Noble Crossing, I cannot leave until I go through the library because there is always, and I mean always, something new and exciting going on in that library and I feel like I'm going to miss out if I don't go in there and see it. Um, she has transformed that program and it is it is unbelievable and the students I know cannot wait to see what happens next. So again, one big uh one big additional congratulations to Taran Hessler, our teacher of the year. [Applause] So if you happen to stop by Noble Crossing, you now know where to make sure you check out

011before you leave the building. You won't regret it. Last week we were there and I didn't know what I was going to see, but I got to go down memory lane because she had a whole display of all the old 80s video game systems and those kids, you should have seen their faces. What do you do with this? Like, well, you actually had to put a cartridge in. Yeah, it was really something. So, outstanding. Okay, next I'm going to invite Dr. Craig Craig McAffrey up to the microphone um as he recognizes another important achievement um as we have another administrator in the room that we're going to honor tonight. Thank you, Dr. Hy. Dr. Hyle, members of the board, I'm happy to um invite Dr. Jana Mobly up front, who is the Indiana Association of

012School Principles, District 5 Assistant Principal of the Year. [Applause] The IASP or Indiana Association of School Principles is the professional organization that represents all building level administrators in um Indiana. That's over 3,000 administrators. Uh the the state is split into 12 districts. Um our district is Hamilton, Boone, Madison, Miami, Typton, and Howard counties. And so that's a lot of assistant principles. Uh she's nominated and then selected by an executive committee. It does put her up to be a finalist for Indiana assistant principal of the year which we'll find she'll find out in November I think when the conference comes up. Yes, you're gonna get invited to a big dinner and they're going to do an announcement there. Um Dr. Mobly has been a phenomenal leader. Um she finished her doctorate this year from University of

013Kentucky. Um and so we're very proud of her. She's grown a lot in her time here at Noblesville from being a dean to an assistant principal has become one of those dependable um folks you go to is really focused on kids and making our school a great place. So, we definitely want to congratulate Dr. Mley on [Applause] her. All right. And Dr. McAffrey is going to stay at the microphone because next we're going to honor um several students. So, uh if we could have our National Merit finalists that are here, I I know a couple are. Emma Duel, Alexander Marshall, Eleanor McGinness, May Bob Patel, and Megan Rowley come to the front. You guys come right up front here. It is a busy season at the high school with there's concerts tonight, rescheduled athletics. So,

014we appreciate two two of our um students be able to come. This is Eleanor and Emma. So, let me talk to you about National Merit finalists. So, uh, these students took the PSAT, uh, 25% of the way through their junior year to qualify to be a finalist. And in the United States, over 1.5 million students take this test, and only 1% are recognized as finalists. The PSAT is like the SAT. It's a gauge of college readiness. What's the most amazing with with these young men and women is they were college ready, high level college ready by October of their junior year, which is very amazing. Um that there's a lot there to be said about the students um and about their drive and how they push themselves. If you um I imagine most of the

015parents out there would agree that our high performing students push themselves a lot harder than sometimes even mom and dad want them to. Sometimes they wish they would back off a little bit, but these students are highly motivated and highly accomplished. And so we're very very excited to see what they'll um do in the future. They've qualified for a lot of different possible scholarships at different colleges and they're they're going to do very well. But to be in the top 1% of the whole United States of America is pretty awesome. So congratulations to everyone. [Applause] Right. Congratulations again. This time I'd like to invite Eric Thornberry up who's going to talk to us about some accomplishments for Wind Ensemble. Thank you. I'm going to call up members of the Noblesville High School Wind Ensemble. I

016think we have some seniors that are here, so haven't you all come on up? Um, and Noblesville has uh six concert bands that are all ability based. Um the wind ensemble is our top concert band and um there are over uh what do we say about 290 students involved in our band program. So uh these are the best of the best and um every year since I've been teaching this is now 33 years we take um groups to our state music association uh contest and um the music is leveled just our as our bands are. So the easier the music, the lower the group, the more advanced um the higher the group. So group one is the highest and then they also have what's called a state qualification event. So just having a band that

017can play group one literature is a challenge. Uh we have two bands that go to state qualifications and you have to play two pieces off of the group one list uh to go to state qualifications. Um there are I believe this year there were 64 bands that went to state qualifications. This is not by class. So that's not 1 A, 2 A or or um it is all bands in the state. And they take the top 16 scoring bands from state qualifications that then go again to the concert band state finals. This is a very hard thing to do. Indiana is a an amazing state for concert band for music. And um I've been teaching 33 years. This is the second time that I've ever had a group that plays as well as these students

018played and qualified for the state finals. Uh both of those have been at Noblesville. And so u we just want to recognize uh the outstanding work that these students have done. These are our seniors. Many of them you can see are heading back to the high school to play the orchestra with the orchestra tonight. Um we want to wish them the best. Their leadership is a huge part of what has uh gotten us there. And so congratulations on being the second band ever in the history of Noblesville to make Indiana State School Music Association state concert finals. [Applause] All right. Next, I would like to invite up Mr. Joe Acres, who's going to talk to us about journalism. Okay, good evening everyone. Um, I'm Joe Acres. I'm the newspaper and broadcast advisor at the high

019school and uh we're here to recognize some of our uh journalism students tonight uh along with my colleague Sam Dean over there. She's going to talk about her awesome yearbook staff. Um, we've got a couple of awards to celebrate here. Um, at the Ball State's uh, JDAY uh, student journalism conference this year. They have a contest and we have um, not sure how many are in the crowd here tonight, but we want to recognize um, some of their accomplishments in in the JD contest. First of all, uh, JD doesn't do first, second, or third. They do uh categories of uh honorable mention, excellent, and superior with superior as the highest. So, I'm just going to call out names, and if you're here, uh head on up. Uh in the and we got a lot, so

020you might want to buckle up. Um in the feature story category, um Morgan Trobridge and Mean Event earned an honorable mention recognition. Uh in the sports story category, uh Aiden Cadell, Azy Evans, Jude Neville, and Mean Event earned an excellent. Uh Evelyn Summers and Max Hobble uh earned a superior and Max Arnold and Becca Garber earned a superior. Uh in the news story category, uh Drake Lockwood, Liv Parmley, Mean Event, and Bodines earned an honorable mention in the multimedia multimedia story category. Uh our mil um Max Arnold, Aiden Cadell, Aiden Colart, and Jack Rush earned a superior. And our Milstream and NHS news staffs both earned, I'm sorry, earned a uh an excellent rating. Uh in the staff editorial category, Anna Aglesen picked up an excellent ranking. Uh in the front page design, Kyla McDonald

021picked up a couple. She picked up a superior and an excellent both. In the news photo category, uh Lily Farzi picked up a superior ca uh ranking. Uh, and uh, in the feature story package, uh, Jacob Tracy and Lily Farazzi earned a superior ranking and Llaya Cross and Adrien Degarte picked up an excellent. In the sports story category, uh, Luke Conrad, Matt Hughesman, Jacob Tracy picked up an excellent. And in the overall news program, the broadcast news program, our NHS news around the county program picked up a superior ranking. and we picked up um an excellent ranking for our NHS news staff and our Milstream staff in the Cardinal Awards. And then we also want to shout out a couple of national contests uh that we did well in. Uh the Quill and Scroll contest.

022Quill and Scroll is a national contest. It's really really competitive. Um and um the video sports story, if you haven't seen it yet, it's a really good one. It's called the hidden gym about the bowling team. Um Luke Conrad, Matt Husman, and Jacob Tracy picked up an honorable mention. And that contest or I'm sorry, that story also picked up an honorable mention in the uh National Federation of Press Women um national contest. They uh that story won first place at the uh state level and all of the first place winners go on to um a best in show um ranking and they also go on to the national level and um Addie McMillan and Lucas Zimmer, a couple of our graduates from last year. Uh they won best in show this year um for their

023video feature story and our NHS newscast picked up an honorable mention um for uh the broadcast news category and a couple of our other graduates Andy Harmon and Addie Busussell picked up second place in the feature story category. So there we go. That was a lot. But we do a lot of really amazing work and um Sam's going to come up next and tell you about all the stuff that her journalism students are doing. Um, just to brag a little bit, I think we have the best journalism program in the state. We've got three Hooser stars. Um, our broadcast staff won a Hooser Star this year. Our newspaper staff and our yearbook staff, only one in the state if I'm correct. Um, that's kind of like our state championship, Olympic gold medal, however you want

024to, whatever analogy you want to use. So, uh, we're really super proud of these guys. They're doing amazing work. Thank you. [Applause] And as Mr. Acres just said, next up is Sam Dean to continue sharing some highlights with us. I'm going to just invite them all up now so that they can just stand here in the awkwardness. So, I'm Sam Dean, the yearbook and sports media adviser at the high school. This year, the shadow yearbook staff had many successes. Among those have been receiving awards from the Indian High School Press Association, Ball State University, the National Scholastic Press Association. Most yearbook awards are given for the preceding year. So, you'll hear me refer to the 2024 staff and the 2025 staff. Um, so receiving awards from the Indiana High School Press Association are uh 2024

025graduates Cara Bennett and Emma Pierce. They received second place in multi-page design. Uh, sophomore Gracio single page design second place. And third place yearbook album was the 2024 staff, which was led by editor-inchiefs Cara Bennett and Emma Pierce. Members of the 2024 staff include 2024 graduates Cara Bennett, Emma Pierce, Landon Dennison, Danica Carlson, and Harmony Cappuccino. Seniors Addie Emerson, Jaylen Snell, Perry Harris, Kayen Bright, Alex Webster, Avery Hooki, Lily Poozer, and Natalie Childs. Juniors Grant Alexander, Emobs, and Sarah Duplaga. And sophomores, Moors, Drew Richmond, Gracios, Lily Pierce, and Nick Jary. The 2024 shadow yearbook staff was also awarded a who's your star from the Indiana Press Association. Who's your stars are given to programs that demonstrate superior journalistic work and represent the top yearbook programs in the state. 2024 staff was one of only one

026of only 12 schools in the state to receive this honor. In April, members of the 2025 staff competed in the BSU JDA um contest. Individual awards went to the following students. So, I'm going to say the kid's name and then all the awards that kid won. That's just easier. Um, so sophomore Gracio, honorable mention, photo of the year, superior personality profile, excellent personality profile, honorable mention natural or nature photo, superior nature photo, superior sports spread. Junior Emma Hobbs, excellent feature photo. Junior Grant Alexander, honorable mention sports bread. Senior Avery Hookie, uh, superior academic spread. Senior Kaden Bright, excellent sports bread, excellent academics red, honorable mention academics red, excellent personality portrait, two honorable mentions in photo of the year, and an excellent photo of the year. Senior Addie Emerson, excellent sports photo, senior Alex Webster, superior

027student life spread, honor spread, honorable mention sports photo. Senior Natalie Child's superior child's superior sports spread, honorable mention sports spread. We're not done. as a staff. The 2025 staff um received an honorable mention in the yearbook theme contest which is part of the Cardinal award. 2025 staff includes junior Grant Alexander, senior Kaden Bright, senior Natalie Child, senior Avery Hooki, junior Sarah Duplaga, senior Addie Emerson, senior Perry Harris, junior Emma Hobbs, senior Lily Poozer, senior Alex Webster, and sophomore Grace Yoast. Finally, students from the Noblesville Media Programs attended JA NSPA National Convention in Seattle. Thanks to the Ed Foundation for helping to make that happen. Um, during the convention, students competed in on-site contest, certification testing, and attended many val valuable sessions to learn from the best in the industry. In the on-site contest, over 800

028students from around the nation competed. Of those, 75 received superiors, 141 received excellence, 222 received honorable mentions. The following students received national recognition. Honorable mention sophomore Gracios in infographics, honorable mention in portrait photography, junior Grant Alexander, and honorable mention yearbook copy and caption writing student life Perry Harris. Additionally, senior Alex Webster became certified in Adobe Inesign. Alex is the first Noblesville Media student to become certified in this industry standard certification. Thanks, [Applause] Congratulations. How are you? All right. At this time, I'm going to invite uh Mrs. Marty Cook, who our executive director of marketing communications, come up and uh talk about some special recognitions for some students u for some student art. Right. Thank you, board. I am very excited. We um as you know we do frequent student recognitions here every month. We often

029talk about all the fabulous academics, athletics, performing arts stuff uh that we have going on, but we don't always get to talk about our student artists. And so I'm um very excited. Once a year we go through a process. We invite um all of our art teachers in the school district to send us some of their best student pieces and uh that are chosen for display in our building. um we get to have that displayed. It's actually in the hallway um right outside this room. So, I'd encourage folks if you didn't see it when you came in to make sure you stop on your way out and see it. It's particularly special to us in this building because even though we um try to get out as frequently as we can to the schools, um

030this is also a good reminder when we're working here in this building of, you know, what our purpose is. We're here to serve our students and seeing their artwork really brightens our day and kind of keeps that top of mind. So, I know we have several art teachers with us here today. So, I want to invite them up first. Um, they're obviously the the visionaries in their school for this work. So, any art teachers in the room, if you want to come up and and join. Thank you. So again, these teachers chose um at really at all of our elementary schools and middle schools, they chose two pieces of artwork um representing two different students at their school. So that's, you know, out of 10,000 plus students, you know, each school chose two. The high

031school actually chose six pieces just because uh you know, they have a lot more students there. Um but thank you guys for being here. I'm going to call up our students now that are here. So I'm going to read off the names and if you if you're here in the audience, please please come up and if your teacher's here, you're welcome to stand by your teacher. Um, Hadley Rogers, first grade, Hingle Creek Elementary. Aninssley Hail, fifth grade, Hingle Creek Elementary. Naomi Figgins, fourth grade, White River Elementary. Vivian Avery, second grade, White River Elementary. Zeta Jones, first grade, Stony Creek. Kora Bristo, fourth grade, Stony Creek. Dylan Faustst, first grade, Noble Crossing. Ben Verva, fourth grade, Noble Crossing. Libby Charles, first grade, Hazel. Lucky Petty John, second grade, Hazel. Madison Magan, fifth grade, Promise Road. Charlotte

032Dale, second grade, Promise Road. Charlotte Snider, kindergarten, North Elementary. Emmy Thson, fifth grade, North Elementary. Joselyn Ergo, 8th grade, West Middle School. Penny Strauss, sixth grade, West Middle School. Spacely Finster, sixth grade, East Middle School. Muhammad Aad, seventh grade, East Middle School. Arya Stevens, 9th grade, Noblesville High School. Alexis Moore, 10th grade at the high school. Lily Pierce, 10th grade at the high school. Andrew Rivera, 11th grade at the high school. Stormheld, ninth grade at the high school, and Sam Codell, nth grade at the high school. So, congratulations to all of our wonderful art teachers and fabulous student artists. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. And I know Mrs. Cook already said it and I'm guessing you already did it, but if you didn't, if you go out of the

033boardroom and turn left, all the art is on display. So, make sure you grab a picture um students with your art before you head out tonight. Thanks for being here. All right. And our final recognition this evening um is our monthly hair teacher spotlight. So at this time um I would like to invite uh Mrs. Tanya Moody, principal of Promise Elementary School. And while she's making her way up, big hand for Miss Moody. And while she's making the way up here, I want to share with the audience the hairy hair Chevrolet teacher spotlight program highlights three teachers every month and provides $1,000 to their school for student academic and extra curricular achievement. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Mrs. smoothie. All right, thank you so much. And may I invite the

034three teachers to come up. All right, come on up. I I know how excited they were, so I want to get them up here. Um, obviously, I am um so proud and I cannot wait to speak on these three teachers who are just incredible educators at Promise Road. So I will start with um Brienne Gardan right here. Brienne encompasses a teacher who possesses two qualities, high love and high expectations. She knows her students can achieve greatness and ensures that they know it too. Her colleagues look to her for steadiness in all situations and she always is willing to go the extra mile. Tori Hamilton. Tori is a natural leader. Her curriculum knowledge has been an asset to Promise Road. Her classroom instruction is so incredibly engaging for her students. She is currently getting her masters

035in curriculum and instruction. I am so proud of her and cannot wait to see where her career takes her. And finally, Miss Emily Ziggler. Emily serves Promise Road in so many ways. She goes above and beyond for our highability students. As our highability lead teacher, she has so many strategies for students who need behavior supports and her teammates truly depend on her for all things planning and curriculum. She is truly amazing. Congratulations to all three. All right. And our building spotlight this month is of course Promise Road. So, Mrs. Moody, take it away. Okay. Um, I can do it right here, I bet. All right. Well, thank you so much for having us. Um, last year we came to you and stood before you and really shared um all about us and our core beliefs

036and our theme of growing together. And so, we're excited to take that a little bit further in front of you this year. Um, this year our theme was growing together rooted in our beliefs. And we really wanted to take and make sure that every time you walked into Promise Road, you could see us living out those core beliefs. I'm very proud that yesterday um we we welcomed um I believe over 60 kindergarten students and their families. And when I shared the core beliefs, that was something that I said, "Every time you walk in these doors, my goal is that you see us living these out. and I can't wait to welcome new families next year. When I asked our leadership team um last month, what should we present on? What do you feel strongly that

037we did really well this year? and I presented a few ideas and we had some great discussion around it and in the end the leadership team felt so strongly that they really wanted to give you an idea of the whole picture that it wasn't just one thing that made us this year um grow and get stronger for our students and as a as a school and our culture, but it was a combination of these four things. increasing our teacher leadership, ensuring that we had schoolwide behavior support, um, all means all was put into place, which you'll learn about, and then continuing our strong culture. So, our schoolwide behavior support was definitely a team effort, and as a team, we um took a more proactive approach to behavior by focusing on skill building rather than just

038responding to challenges as they come. We've been working to ensure that students are explicitly taught our promise road behavior standards that they need to be successful. And we consistently reinforce those skills throughout the building. Those standards are pride, attitude, wise choices, and safety. A big part of that um of our behavior support is developing, instituting, and refining systems that support behavior schoolwide. We are constantly refining, but one of the key tools that we've put in place that we're really proud of this year is a behavior flowchart. And our behavior flowchart outlines some clear steps staff should take when addressing behavior concerns. So for example, if a student is off task, you know, that behavior flowchart will indicate, you know, a teacher is redirecting two times. And then if a student is still off task and

039not doing their work, then that looks like privately reteing our behavior expectations, pride, attitude, wise choices, safety. And so with these clearly defined steps, we hope this institutes some consistency over all of our school and how behavior is addressed in the classroom by the teacher and with administrators as well. We've also made great strides when it comes to tracking behavior data. We're using edge a climber which is a platform that consolidates and uh visualizes student behavior data so that we can create a more efficient and transparent system that helps us identify patterns uh spot areas for growth and celebrate what's going well. That way we can get a clearer picture of students data and it helps us respond in a more meaningful way. So this means ultimately is we're using data to drive our decision-

040making. As a team, we come together about once a month and review the data to see what's going well and where we need to adjust. Um, that might mean looking at what days of the week are, you know, we have the most behavior logs or what time of day or what area of the building so that we can respond proactively. Um, and we can be consistent and also be there to support not only our staff but our students, of course. All means all. Um, I'm going to kind of set the scene for you here when it comes to all means all. So, if you imagine we have students leaving the classroom of their home room teacher, they're moving through the halls confidently, hopefully, quietly, and walking and they're off to join another teacher or staff

041member in another classroom or another learning space. But that educa that educator has prepared a really intentional goal. They've prepared a well planned learning experience that's going to best meet the needs of those students that are coming to them. Um these needs can vary from an academic intervention to a grade level practice or even enrichment. So all means all is exactly what it sounds like. It's all students within a grade level receiving support at all their different levels from all staff available at that given time. This has allowed um our stu uh teachers and students to work together, teachers to collaborate not only within their teams but their entire PLC to support students and see um growth throughout the grade level. So we really excited to see this shift um from our administration and really

042help us support all students in all ways. So teacher lead or teacher leads and lead PD throughout the whole school. Um Promise Road has really taken the initiative to use our professional development days to really use the teacher voice to guide that prof professional development. Um so on those professional development days they spend about 30 minutes depending on a teacher that has a really strong instructional strategy and they lead professional development on that. Um, teacher leads also create agendas for our professional learning communities or our PLC's every single week depending on what need the team needs. Um, and the teacher leaders facilitate those conversations um, and guide our teams through the four questions to problem solve together based on data results um, that we are seeing within the classroom. Um, teacher leaders are invited to

043also join a variety of different teams that collaborate to guide um, our school decision- making. Um, the teacher voice has been provided to discuss instructional practices for our multilingual learners. Um, providing schoolwide behavior procedures and implementation. Um, we've also been brainstorming different behavior and attendance incentives and um, creating procedure must haves that are essential schoolwide. Um it's just very apparent that our teacher voice is valued in every single decision that is made at Promise Road. Um it's not just coming from the top down. It's the teachers that lead our decision- making. Have you ever seen so many people so excited to talk about their school? Um I am um thrilled to share with you a little bit more about our culture. This is um something that I hope is evident just in hearing everyone speak.

044Um but we really try to focus in on three big facets when it comes to culture. Um the most important is really building that community. So every single person at Promise Road holds tightly to the belief that um relationships are at the heart of all that we do. Um and you can see that uh relationships between teachers and students, but also the relationships that we work really hard to build with each other. Um so we're really intentional in building those connections with everybody. If you were to come to Promise Road through our car rider line or get off the bus, you would be greeted with lively music and dancing. Um, if you were to enter through the front doors, you would see our music teacher with puppets greeting children every single day and adults. Um,

045so I really think it's also important to note that our building leaders have the deepest belief that together we can achieve anything and um, they lead with that all the time. So at Promise Road, we believe that we are so much more than a school. We are a community and we are a family and we really live that out. Um, we also have a really thoughtful lens with intentional leadership. Tori was able to share all of the ways that our teachers lead, but you should know that our building leaders pour so much love into us and they really take care of all of us so that we can take care of kids well. Um, it's an honor to have them as our building leaders. You're welcome. Um, and I I think that um if you

046were to ask anybody at our school, they would tell you that they feel valued and honored and loved every single day. Um, finally, we believe in continuous learning. So, every educator at Promise Road is ever growing. Um, we really believe that we can keep getting better all the time and so we're growing our knowledge in everything in each other, in our students, in curriculum. Um, we just want to keep getting better and we're supported in that. I'm a little thrown. She added some of that. I'm going to close this out with a little quote uh that I wanted to share with you all. Uh great school culture is not an accident. It happens when we recognize we all depend on each other. Uh we work together to create supportive, caring conditions for everyone, students, teachers,

047support staff, yes, everyone. Um, we are so proud of our really intentional efforts that we've done at Promise Road to u maintain our culture and build this culture that we have there. I know everyone shared a lot about it. I want to share a little story as well. Uh, last summer we were hiring for a few positions. We had different teams, different days uh, coming in and it's a really popular question for candidates to always turn around and ask what's special about Promise Road? Why should I come to Promise Road? What's a word you would use to describe? And Nikki already hinted at it, but every day different people mention family. Um it's a special feel at Promise Road and um we hope you got to see some of that and feel some of that

048today. So, thank you for your time. Oh my goodness. Got to do that. Yes, of course. Um this is Tanya Moody, our principal. Katie Caesar and Peyton Moore are counselors. Kim Shrank and Sarah Jones are our learning specialists. I need Tori Hamilton is one of our first grade teachers and Nikki Bole is our instructional coach and I'm Billy Fley the assistant principal. So thank you all for your time. [Applause] Okay, moving right along. Next up on reports, we have Michelle Smith from the Noblesville Youth Assistance Program to share with the board. Good evening. Thank you all so much for having us here tonight. We are really excited to share some of our programming, the things that we're doing that really reflect what we who we are and the work that we do outside of our

049casework. So this year we had a really big year with our tutoring program. This has been something that we've been doing for years, but this year we launched tutoring program at the third grade level at all elementary schools. Um, we also continued with our programs at East and West Middle School. Uh, we had gosh 247 students in our program. We had 199 tutoring sessions. That means 199 hours of afterchool tutoring time for those 200 plus students. Um, and we did this because we had a strong partnership with the schools building admin and then we had 89 school staff members who served as our tutors. New this year, we launched our parent linkup group. This was a really cool initiative that we decided to um bring parents together. Um, it's open completely to the community. Um,

050we host it out of the gathering house, which is a house on Cherry Street. So, it really feels like parents are walking into a home. Um, we always feed them a meal. We usually do it on a Wednesday evening once a month. Um, it's meant to be a small community environment, so parents who are walking the same journey can share and connect with each other. Um this year we had almost 180 participants through um through that group and that only we only did 10 sessions. So that tells you kind of the impact. Um next year we are working to launch an additional time that will be during the day for those parents who maybe have sports activities or are busy working in the evenings. And so we'll be able to have guest speakers then as

051well, but we'll be able to focus on more parent related topics. So it was it was really really cool. Our last one that we had, I could tell the families were really bonding and really starting to share that connection and that's what we want. We realize in the work that we do, we have so many families walking a very similar journey. And so it's nice to create a safe and comfortable space where they can connect. I'm a parent myself and I know I value that. So, it's nice to give that space to others. Another initiative that we've had, this has been something we've had for a long time, is um we believe in mental health supports is really important to the youth in our community. And so, some of the things that that we do

052with connecting families with resources and different mental health supports. We also um work with a lot of different community partners and Agape is one of those. So that relationship really solidified this year where we are able to have um eight-week sessions for 12 students um throughout the year for them to be able to participate with courses and work on um skills together. Um we've realized this has really helped with some of our students who are maybe struggling with attendance or different things and the talk therapy is not necessarily a right fit. Um and the age range can vary so that's also really really neat. Um the sessions are usually about an hour and a half where they do some group work together. And what's also cool is the parents are able to have space too

053to connect while their kids are um enjoying the horses. So very cool. I'm going to turn this over to Brandy, but I just wanted to say thank you so much for all you do and for allowing us to be here and serve alongside you to support our students. I'm Brandy, the other advocate at Noblesville Youth Assistance Program, and um I wanted to share about one of our really cool events that we host each year, Noblesville Shining Star Awards. Um, this event was created about 10 years ago because we realized that there were students out there that were overcoming challenges, showing significant growth, and demonstrating resilience that deserve to be recognized outside of like the normal school categories that you get recognized for. Um, this award is open to any student within the Noblesville School District,

054not just Noblesville Youth Assistance Program um, participants. And we wanted to do this event as a way to say thank you to the schools for the partnership that we have. Um, so each year we ask every school to nominate one shining star from their um, school and they're recognized at this event school. um staff and schoolboard members, community members, all of the students, families, they're all invited to come and attend and they enjoy a nice meal and we get to share and celebrate and honor these students as they so deserve. The other partners or the other thing that we do is holiday assistance. And while through this effort we do um serve our Noblesville youth assistance case kiddos, we also open it up to the schools um if they receive requests for seasonal support that

055maybe they can't find a sponsor for, we are more than happy to step up um and take care of those kids for them. And last year we provided holiday assistance to 74 youth. We do that using funds. Um it's a com combination of using funding that we raise at our um stuff your stocking event and then also through partnerships with community organizations, businesses and then private sponsors. um the stuff your stocking event from last year, we were able to get a sponsor um last year that allowed us to provide free stockings to all NYP families. Uh we raised almost $4,000 last year, which was a record for us. And our career exploration camp last year was our um inaugural year for that. We decid we wanted to fill a gap for some of our kiddos

056maybe that you know are heading into like ninth 10th grade that aren't getting a lot of exposure maybe yet in in their school day to what's out there as far as trades college or direct career path. And so it was trying to find a way to engage them in something over the summer that would expose them and give them those experiences. Um, so hopefully then it kind of ignites that thing inside them and that passion for the school year. Um, and and wanting to, you know, keep working hard. So we visit different local community businesses, um, IvyTech, different community partners, and they get to hear all about the different career opportunities available at those places. So this slide was really exciting for me because of course I got to dig into all of our numbers

057and figure out what what is our impact when you look at dollars. So if you see that you can see that we're putting over $100,000 back into our community. And what's really really cool when you look at that impact is when we look at our casework side which is mostly what people know us for. We're social workers. We support our families in lots of different avenues. Um but only about $30,000 is actually our casework. The rest of that number is going directly into our community. And I just I want to also highlight and say thank you to all of our supporters. Like we could not do this without the support of our community and those of you on the list. Um it means so much to us that we are able to do this and

058I'm very proud of these numbers. This is uh I'll introduce our board president Jeff Arin Shong to see if he wants to add anything that we may have missed. Hey, good evening everybody. Um all I want to say is thank you. Um there's been incredible kids come up here tonight, teachers and administrators. Um the schools are amazing. Occasionally a child will need a little extra help and that's where we come in. We're honored that you guys let us do that. It's a blessing and we we treat each one of these kids like you do. Um we love on them. We do everything we can to help them and help their families. And thank you all so much for letting us do that. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Oh. Uhhuh. Right. All right. Moving on through

059reports. Um the department of learning will will share details about the ELA program review. Good afternoon or afternoon evening. It's been a long day. I am better at curriculum than microphones. Okay, I'm sorry. So, um we are so excited to share the thinking and process behind our English language arts um K- through2 um program review um selection of curriculum materials. And this process really has been a collective effort of um educators, administrators, instructional coaches, and district staff um from beginning to end. And um what we'll share tonight really represents that collective work. Um, I think one of the things that really has been highlighted throughout the board presentation this evening is that as the last presentation shared, we have amazing schools. We have amazing schools. We have amazing students and we have amazing teachers. And

060what we're sharing tonight represents that collective effort in a very thorough review process. So the the process that we went through for curriculum material review really wasn't just picking materials in isolation. It was also about building upon the capacity and the um the shared instructional vision K through2 that we established in semester 1. Um so this didn't start in January. This really has been a collective effort of um looking as you'll see on the slide those recommendations for action, our core belief statements and lots and lots and lots of feedback from our educators and our other stakeholders. So just a kind of broadstroke overview of that material review process. Um we wanted to make sure that we had some initial vetting throughout the year. um that we had lots of meetings for um prioritization of

061then that core list of materials for K through five and then six through 12. We had vendor presentations for all of the materials that we reviewed in more detail and we also used our professional learning days throughout this year to build capacity within the staff. So, um, professional learning conversations, looking deeply at standards, and all of those made the deeper work of curriculum review much more discerning, I guess. Um, when you have that shared vision of instructional excellence, you're able to analyze at a much deeper level units and, um, lessons. So, I will let Lauren talk about the K through five process in more detail and then we'll look at secondary as well. So, as Jen mentioned, our whole um goal throughout this entire semester was to keep aligned to our program review recommendations from

062semester 1 that we shared with you. While we did differentiate our processes between elementary and secondary slightly, those were really our foundational pieces that kept us grounded along the way. So from a K5 perspective, I'm going to talk through talk you through some of our pieces that we did this semester. So on the right hand side of the gold, you'll see some of our program review recommendations. Those should seem familiar. Um so again, we were trying to align our recommendations throughout our entire review process. So that started with even toward the end of first semester when we brought in our elementary program review members, our instructional coaches, and our elementary administrators for uh lesson walk experiences, which means we brought in each of our vendors from the high quality curricular materials list offered through the

063state to learn more about the materials strictly just ask questions, gather information. And then early in the semester, we were able to narrow that scope of options by using a rubric that had 13 different categories. And that rubric was derived from the knowledge and practice standards for teachers of reading, the evaluation tool provided from the state and our program review recommendations for action as well as our belief statements. So we compiled all of those into a rubric and then used that data from that team from our program review members to narrow our scope of options to our final two options which were CKLA the third edition from Amplify and Wonders from McGra Hill. From there we gave access to both physical and digital materials to our elementary staff. They had materials at their building and

064then they had um we call it our one-stop access document where they could have digital credentials. they could actually ask questions in a Google doc that we had ongoing conversations with both vendors and then we were also able to provide them with crossbuilding collaboration conversations during our professional learning days as well as additional presentations from both vendors. Um, also finally, we provided virtual office hours for our elementary staff throughout our entire semester. So staff could hop on and ask questions either as a team or as an individual about the process along the studying of materials this semester with our elementary staff. They were provided the same rubric that we used with our elementary program review members when narrowing our scope of options. And that rubric also had additional guiding questions. So really the idea was

065that throughout the entire learning setting growing alongside these materials they were using that rubric from the very beginning. So they were able to ask questions. They were able to go look deeply within each of those materials to pinpoint those areas within our progression. A new part within our uh material review process this year that was a little more explicit, which I'll talk a little bit more in just a second, were lesson experiences. So, we were able to provide an opportunity for elementary staff to engage with both materials with lessons. Um, and we worked very closely with our instructional coach team. We worked with our ML Collaborative teachers. They also supported teachers to have lessons that were aligned with where we were within our instructional pacing currently and aligned to our standards. And so, um, teams

066had opportunities to try lessons from both materials and provide feedback. And so that was that was a very big highlight through this semester for us. And then lastly, we submitted those rubrics uh for submission. We gave teams a two-week window for this round of our process because we wanted teams to have um ample amounts of time to study each of the materials and also wanted to provide equitable um opportunities across our building. Meaning we didn't want a first grade team from one building to submit their rubric in early March and then another team doesn't submit theirs till later March. We want everyone to have the same amount of time to really make sure they're making a sound decision with their rubric submissions. And at the bottom, you can see some different things that we were

067really looking for within both materials. those relevant real world literacy experiences, strong foundational skill support in grades K through three, critical thinking, vocabulary development, ongoing support and differentiation for all learners, and then having that close connection with reading and writing. So again, this is again one of these one moments I want to highlight from our elementary staff because this took off more than what I think any of us could have anticipated in in terms of teacher ownership, buyin, participation. We had strong participation across all seven of our elementary buildings. Some buildings had every single team participate and it wasn't just trying the one that they thought they liked the best. They tried both and they were able to really get in alongside students, try things in that authentic context and we were even able to

068get out and see, you know, teachers teaching, kids experiencing these materials. Um, we saw administrators jumping in and co-eing. We saw instructional coaches co-eing. We saw everyone really making this collect collective effort for the betterment of our kids with literacy. And that was really exciting. And I had to highlight this quote from, this is from one of our ELA program review members that said, "Giving teachers the option to teach lessons from the final two options was important and that it helped teachers understand each choice and appreciate the benefits of both." And we heard that feedback throughout the semester that they may have had one idea based on the rubric about a material and they said, "You know what? I actually was able to find positives within both. my kids were able to experience positive things

069within both options. So, the data in front of you, we're going to dive into some of the nitty-gritty. Um, we had a total of 110 rubric submissions across all seven elementary buildings. And again, we are really looking at this from the standpoint that we are an elementary collective. We are making a commitment to our students and to our staff together. And I think the results of these rubrics show that this truly was a collective effort from all of our elementary staff. You're going to see four columns. The first two columns are going to show the CKLA through Amplify next to Wonders, which was through McGra Hill. The average rating for each of the rubric categories is shown. Um the one that is gray and bold had the higher average rating. Our rubric was on a

070four-point scale. and had a a progression through each. Going into these final two options, we recognized that there's a reason why we were putting both of these options in front of our students and staff because they both offered strong alignment to our program review recommendations and the specific needs of our elementary students. So, as you can see within those first two columns, it was very close um very close. And the second two columns is um all staff submissions. And we actually took out administrator feedback just to show where that teacher voice is still very important. So I'm going to leave that up there and just talk to you about a couple of um data statements from there. So across all elementary staff submissions, CK CKLA, excuse me, averaged higher in seven out of the 13

071rubric categories. Wonders averaged higher in six out of the 13 rubric categories. So again, very close. Um there were no tie average scores. Same when we took out the ele um elementary administrator submissions, those categories remained the same with CKLA averaging higher in seven wonders in six. I'm going to take that one step further and just share a couple other additional data statements. We ran the data many different ways. So again, the data you just saw was all 10 rubric submissions as an K5 collective. When we ran the data by individual building submissions across all seven of our buildings with all submissions, CKLA averaged higher in 10 out of the 13 rubric categories and Wonders averaged higher in two out of the 13 rubric categories and those two categories included fluency and differentiated instruction. um

072tie average scores were seen in one rubric category which was reading comprehension and then and across our building scores there were some ties. So again, it was a very very close differential. Um, and then across all 13 rubric of categories, I'm sure as you could see from the previous slide, there was neither material with a excuse me, a clean sweep across. Um, we also gathered qualitative feedback from our staff on our rubric as additional notes and we took that into consideration and group that into areas of strengths, concerns, and additional wonderings for both options. I'm gonna turn it over to Jen to talk a little bit about the secondary process. So the secondary process um is similar to what we have done in the past with science and with math in terms of piloting units,

073piloting lessons, analyzing lessons and unpacking those within the PLC process. um because it is a bit different in secondary in that the content area is the the teacher's core content area. Um we we do tend to to to be quite comprehensive in um in and piloting those resources, making sure that teachers feel comfortable in using them, asking questions, and voicing any concerns. Um but as you see here, it's very similar to the process that Lauren shared in that um we start with an initial wide list. We vet that against the common rubric with um our stakeholders, coaches, administrators, teachers, outside consultant, and then we prioritize those to the top three. Um we also made sure to look for alignment purposes at those that were also being considered um across K5. So we looked at those

074top resources during the January um professional learning day and had avenues for teacher feedback. After that, we also made sure that we had a rubric um across the categories that are critical for middle school and high school um language development, not only um reading and writing reciprocity, but all of those other content area considerations as well. Um we decided to do a temperature check with all of our teachers at the February um professional learning date. Where are we at? How are you all feeling? And the vote was um I think 98% wanted to u move forward with study sync as our core resource 6 through 12. So again 9 through 12 same process as middle school. Those groups got together throughout the year lesson experiences unit analysis and then a vote. And at the high

075school I will note that this was a unanimous decision across all of the committee members. I did not vote. So, um, but I would have I would have voted for study sync as well. So, um, I I won't read all the teacher feedback to you, but I did want to reflect some of those, um, themes of of noticings that teachers had about study sync. It's a McGra Hill product. Um, it's known for its curated units, um, that can be taught either thematically, so big core concepts of risk takingaking and friendship and things like that, or um, as a novelbased unit. So there's a lot of good skill instruction that can be taught in a variety of ways. Teachers have a lot of flexibility, but teachers also really liked that there are core common texts and

076that those are going to be our anchor texts um across East and West and then across all of our um our classrooms at the high school level. I don't want to speak to um so again secondary recommendation is study sync and the the nice thing about study sync is that it offers both again those those anchor texts curated texts assessments but also a lot of flexibility for teachers to work with their individual teams on how they are supplementing those units um and providing enrichment experiences and holding on to some of those legacy practices that we know to work best for students based on our current units of instruction. Oh, I just I will just talk about why. No. Okay. Well, at the elementary, we are recommending the um adoption of CKLA the third edition. And

077here's why. So, something to note is that our program review committee did look at um there are two additions that exist right now on the advisory list through the state. There is the second edition and the third edition. We are really excited to be able to pursue the third edition because we see things that meet the specific needs of our students such as the increased writing instruction, the more supports to reach all learners, the streamlined pacing, and more authentic literature. So, there have definitely been some enhancements and revisions made from the second to third edition that really aligned with our program review recommendations for action. Um when we looked across all of the data sets that we ran with our rubric submissions, our qualitative data when we looked at um feedback from our parents, we

078offered them an opportunity to provide feedback on materials through our school newsletters. We talked to surrounding districts who are using both materials. And again, um we have a neighboring county that's using CKLA the second edition, but it still gave us context to be able to think about our decision. And so when we think about the most comprehensive approach to our literacy instruction for K5, we feel CKLA will really enhance and lift the level of our literacy instruction across our elementary buildings. We think again about those strong foundational skills in grades K through three, vocabulary development, those rich real world relevant experiences. And then in addition to thinking about our students, CKLA provides a robust professional learning opportunity for our staff. It embeds it within the material as well as has ongoing support for our teachers

079and staff um as they continue on their learning journey. And so you can see the strong connection between Scar Bro's reading rope and the sciences of reading as well as you can see the unit projections on the top of the screen. And the way that they build background knowledge with students is that students will have nuances that weave in and out across their entire K5 schooling. Um we also have choice unit opportunities within the CKLA third edition. We gave collaborative teams an opportunity to provide feedback on the two choice units that come within the material for their grade level as well. So again, teacher voice, transparency with our data has been two main priorities along the way. Um, and we feel very confident that our third edition will be able to meet the needs of

080our students at elementary. I really appreciate the support. don't want to follow that. Okay. So, study sync is also great. And um when we when we look at the the the different comprehensive routines and experiences that students will have six um sixth grade all the way up through um any of the the 12th grade classes that they would take. We've really noticed that study sync is building upon some of our practices that we've been really learning together together over the past few years. Um, integrating fluency practice at the middle school level for um reading comprehension, for confidence, for um rate and you know just overall confidence in reading. Um close reading routines that would be the same across classrooms and across buildings. So we're not just reading a text once, we're reading it over multiple

081days for multiple reasons. Um and I think rereading is something that we have talked quite a bit um to our secondary teachers about the power of that not only as a strategy but as an endurance piece for students. We also know that along with core reading across the the grades, we want to integrate the um the root like derivative Greek, Latin um vocabulary study that study includes and we'll be doing some deep work with that as well as grammar instruction that is also aligned throughout the three buildings. Um the approach that study sync takes to grammar instruction is using actual sentences in context, studying them, looking at beautiful language, how it works instead of some of the um the practices around maybe correcting a sentence that is incorrect and showing that first to students. So

082um some really exciting shifts in practice, but also just enhancing some of the work that we're already doing. So, um, I think that this is a a really nice opportunity for student or for teachers to feel like they still have autonomy to do what's best for their students while also using a lot of core routines, common language, and common texts. So, as we conclude, um, as good as we are, we can always get better. And one of the areas we've recognized within our program review process that we could continue to strengthen is thinking through our implementation plan as well as our monitoring of our materials. And so as we think toward um our ELA program review adoption, we are working extensively to have a plan of action in terms of our deimplementation. We're working really

083closely with our buildings currently to talk about what that looks like and sounds like so that it's systematic and not chaotic. I don't know if that makes sense. Um, and then thinking about that implementation plan that includes the professional learning. Many of our teachers are eager, they're excited, they're ready to dive into those professional learning experiences. Many are continuing to fi familiarize theelves with materials. And so we will be working closely with our administrators, our instructional coaches, our ML collaborative teachers, our learning specialists, and at secondary continuing to work with department chairs and instructional coaches to really think about how we are making that collective effort because again we have tried to be very very intentional this semester with our process to make sure we are going back to those program reviews and then our

084implementation plan is not just a oneandone. it is. We are having those monitoring checks along the way. What does that look like and sound like? How are we getting into classrooms? How are we collecting student artifacts and bringing it to the table? How are we bringing teachers together for crossbuilding collaboration opportunities? So, we are excited about what the this opportunity provides us and more importantly what this opportunity provides our students. And so, with that, I'm going to leave it open for questions. Thank you. Thank you for all your hard work on this. Wow. Questions. I mean I it's not light work for sure. Um you guys are very good at what you do which is why you're doing it. Um so thank you for you know being the leaders for that. Um I'm I'm assuming

085which I mean I know I'm not even assuming I know you have but just to confirm the the programs from like the K5 to the 68 to the 912 they all work well together in increasing those abilities. It's a great question and especially when we have a different program K through five than we do six through 12 that it's something you want to think about. Um and Lauren and I have talked extensively about this when we look at program alignment. One of the things that we also want to probably put at the the top priority is how what is our expectation for mastery of the standards at each level because that shouldn't change by program and we have to make sure that we are aligned in that more than anything else. Does that does that

086make sense? Yes. Um so I think ongoing conversations with that that will never stop. Um to make sure that we are norming that we look at student exemplars from 5 to 6 to 8 through nine you know having those conversations. It doesn't matter what curriculum you pick you know as long as the standards a common understanding of the standards is our basis and even within so even within wonders being our other option at elementary and that was McGraill which also studies McGraill there is no correlation between the two materials so meaning you're not going to lose vertical alignment from fifth to sixth grade even if we would have pursued that other option so it kind of goes back to what Jen was saying okay Yeah. Um, with with the vote being so close, I mean,

087how did you ultimately decide which program with only two teachers, you know, had reservations, but the other 26 were all for it. So, reservations in terms of they wanted additional time with lesson experiences, which we gave them. Um, but I think continuing to have a pulse on how are we feeling, how are things going is going to be something that um, as we know with any adoption of any new program, you want to be listening in. you want to be asking questions and making sure that people feel comfortable. One thing that we're going to do next year, um we did it a bit this year for science and it was very successful just having regular virtual office hours um at the end and during every unit. Um how's it going? What are successes? What are

088you seeing from students? Making sure that we have lots of channels of communication. Any other questions um of the Sorry, of course I have another question. Um, for the K through five, there was 110 staff members. How many of those were administrators? Do you know? I mean, it's not that important. It's just curiosity more than anything. Um, I would have to look back. Um, it was we did not have um every single administrator team submit. I believe we had um four out of our seven buildings submit. So um it it did not like I said you saw in the data didn't change the the impact but again we've highlighted the importance of teacher voice in this process all along. So that's why but if you want to know I'm happy to follow up with you.

089I probably have it on another data slide somewhere. I was just curious because you had differentiated between the two. So I was just curious as to how much and really the purpose behind that was just to show our teachers that even with administrator feedback that did not change the outcome of the decision which is great just to show that we but we also do value our administrators as part of our elementary collective. They're very much part of it. So just to show our teachers that it didn't change the outcome. And then which curriculum is next? That's the bigger question. I think we're taking a break. Yes, we'll come back and share how things are going. Well, thank you both. You you both are amazing. I know this is super hard work. Um Stephanie and I

090being involved in the beginning process. So, um great job. Yeah. So, I wanted to commend you on giving teachers the ability to actually practice with this stuff in the classroom because I know if I was a teacher, I'm not, but if I was being um introduced to a new curriculum, I would be like, "You've got to let me try a lesson because I can read all about it all day long. I can look at a rubric, but unless I'm in the classroom trying it out." So, I love that you did that. And it sounds like you got a lot of positive feedback. back. I mean, I know it's a lot of work for the teachers to have to do that, but man, that's a great way to know whether or not a curriculum is gonna

091if you really like it, if you can actually try it out. So, kudos to that. Like, are you going to be doing that with all of the reviews from here on out, like math? Because of the overwhelming, we've always provided opportunities and encouraged teachers to try different aspects of the curriculum in our past program review um recommend or recommendations. Yet, this particular way, the way it was structured worked very, very well. And again, probably better than we could have anticipated. So, yes, we would now like to include that as part of our process moving forward because that teacher feedback was overwhelming. I can't tell you the number of emails or texts or someone stopping me in the hallway and I was in building and said, "Hey, I just have to tell you, I am so

092glad that I tried both of these materials and my kids were really excited." And it just I think it also when you have two options that are both very strong, there's always the possibility of disappointment. And so this helped teachers recognize that you know what, within either one, there are positives and strengths that I can teach, too. And they're already ahead of the game because they've been studying them and using them and learning them. So definitely will be part of our process. And they're you're they're going to be implementing this in the fall, is that right? Yes. Okay. So they'll be working over the summer, I assume, to start learning. Yes. So, um, at the elementary level, I can't speak for secondary, Jen could speak to that, but at the elementary level, we already have,

093I would say, almost 215 staff members interested in professional learning this summer. So, they are they are eager and ready to get learning, which is exciting. Wonderful. And last question. So, you mentioned anchor texts. Are anchor texts like the novels that the kids and will every building, every classroom be doing the same anchor texts? Yes. Yes. And um the so anchored texts refer to to all of the above, right? So any text that is used um at that instructional level for that group of students across the district. So everyone in sixth grade, for example, next year will read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and all the other greatness that go with that and um Walk Two Moons by um Sharon Creech. So those are the two texts that we can say no matter what

094classroom you were in in sixth grade, no matter what building you were in, you had these core experiences with these core texts. And the goal is to get that to four novels. But we're being practical and also allowing for some teacher choice in year one. Um and I will say that we have also um gathered a smaller group of PLC representatives together to start the work of um okay, what novels are we picking for year one? what core text are we picking for, you know, speeches, plays, etc. So, we already have those outlined 6 through 12. That way, teachers know before the summer what text they might want to read, um, if they haven't already, and we're we're really excited about what we've picked. I really like that. I feel like that's going to give

095some consistency in all the buildings and all the teachers. And I think some teachers will love that. They'll be like, "Oh, that's great." Like, we've all kind of decided this is going to be the text. We all agree. And absolutely nice guy. So, I love that. And all the kids get the same experience like the same experience. There's one kid in another building that loves Percy Jackson and really wishes they could have read Percy Jackson. Well, and it's it's really powerful then for the next grade to say, "Okay, remember back when Yeah. you you did this. Let's pull that into our character." I love it. I love it. So great. Thank you, guys. It's awesome. All right. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. All right. The last report um on the agenda is strategic

096planning. Um in this year 2025 we started our strategic plan and each uh board meeting we rotate and this meeting we have Marne Cook. Hello again. Back up twice twice the same night. Um thank you for having me to present on this. And just a reminder, um, this was originally on the schedule for June and so I wanted to also thank you for, um, I had a conflict with our June board meeting and so I appreciate you being flexible and letting me switch this around so I could share it tonight. Um, Andy might This isn't for Yeah, I'm hitting the right arrow and the down arrow. All the things we practiced before the board meeting started that worked really perfectly back then. Um, ah, there was something That's the end of the presentation. Oh, I

097think this is is this the end of the presentation? Ah, okay. There we go. Thank you. Okay. So, just to set up um our strategic plan, we have these um six uh strategic goals. And tonight, we're going to be talking about engaging community relations um which is our commitment to strong uh relationships, partnerships, outreach, and transparent communications with the Noblesville community. Um there are a couple different measures of success that we identified when when you guys were building this plan. Um this is kind of, you know, put another way, this is sort of what good looks like in this area, right? We said that the Noblesville community is engaged and informed about what's happening in their schools. Um families and community members express a high level of trust and confidence in our schools. Uh Noblesville

098schools is educational provider of choice in Noblesville. uh we create and maintain strong community and business connections in support of our district objectives and we are a dynamic partner and education leader in supporting overall quality of life in Noblesville. So this is kind of you know when we're doing this area well this is what this looks like. So within that we developed a couple different strategies and I'm here to kind of talk about those strategies and then the tactics that we're working on underneath each of those. So the first strategy to kind of accomplish those objectives was to use a wide variety of communication outlets, tools, and events to inform local audiences and support district objectives. So just uh as a kind of a refresher reminder, I know you guys are aware of some of

099these things, but some of them may not uh you may not have made a direct connection that it falls under this area. These are things that we're doing currently in this area. Um obviously we have our website as a as an important communication tool. We utilize uh school newsletters, our in then district newsletter. Um we do an annual back- toschool communication newsletter. Uh we have an internal run-of-the-mill employee newsletter that shares news um from from our district uh leadership staff. We have an annual print mailer that we've started doing the last couple years that goes out to all residents in Noblesville. We have a large back- to-school bash event that attracts thousands of our families. We have active social media engagement. Um, from a traditional media standpoint, we have approximately 200 news stories a year,

100which is a lot, I think, which is good and and the overwhelming majority of it is certainly positive news coverage of exciting things that are happening. Um, we also obviously support when we have the need for crisis communication, issue responsive messaging, and by that I mean when something comes up that we need to clarify or address with our families, um, we're, you know, working to to be ahead of those things and make sure we're timely and sharing information with families. Um, direct messaging, obviously can, you know, direct emails and using our parent square software to to share direct messages with parents and staff. We have a large back- to-school employee event. We have um Dr. Hile superintendent videos that he does um about we do about five of those a year and they're really designed

101to be uh humorous and engaging and showcasing students and you know interest. So we've been um working on that uh issue specific in-person employee meetings. And so by this I mean um you know I know um our business office, our HR staff have been out having uh in-person meetings and as well as Dr. Hy inerson meetings, you know, out in the schools when there are things to share related to benefits changes or compensation questions. Um we we also use obviously in-person um meetings as well and just ongoing promotions of major district news and happenings. So those are kind of things that we've that we've historically done and are still continuing to do. And then in this area, some new things this year. Um Dr. Hyle and David Hordmiller and I have been working on a

102new um financial, you know, education site um called Dollars and Cents. I know you guys are um still kind of reviewing that and we hope to have that um shared out with the public um soon. But that's obviously something new in this area that we've been doing. your strategic plan is something that I think falls under this area of things that um we have put together and are sharing out um kind of our mission and vision with the community. We recently implemented some customer web channels. This was really Andy Swickheimer's suggestion. He and I kind of collaboratively share responsibility for the website and he had um raised the idea of creating some specific channels on our website that were spec, you know, targeted for staff, for families. And so um he has done some work

103with that to kind of realign things and make it more user friendly for our um stakeholders. And we've also released um this year newly a big recruitment video to kind of share and celebrate our um news as a kind of a Forbes being recognized as a as a top employer in the country. So I wanted to take just a second and kind of share that recruitment video again. And one of the things you'll notice when you're watching this is there aren't a lot of students in this video. It feels very different than maybe a lot of other pieces that we produce. Typically, we're putting our, you know, showcasing our students and all the amazing things they're doing. This piece is really designed to focus more on our culture that we offer as an employer. Um,

104you know, every school district has kids. Um, every everywhere that someone um could choose to work would be working with kids, right? Um, this is really designed to highlight kind of our unique culture at Noblesville Schools. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. So, that was I'm I'm proud of that. That obviously you can see that showcased really um you know a wide variety of footage representing lots of different types of employees, representing lots of different points in the year. It took us a long time to gather that footage. It wasn't something that we could just go out in a day and and catch, but I think it um gives a a good snapshot. Um and it's obviously, you know, we're using it for recruiting purposes, but also just as a really a point of point of pride

105piece for our employees and um and our community. So, um, one of the other, um, strategies that we talked about was providing opportunities for community outreach, engagement, and feedback. Um, we do this in a couple different ways on a regular basis. Um, social media monitoring. I I think of this as kind of social media listening. So, um, I'm out, you know, monitoring, um, different social media channels. When I see, um, things that we may need to respond to in the real world, we take action with that. So if I see, oh, a lot of parents have confusion about an issue, maybe this is something we need to um, you know, clarify for people or communicate about. Um, so we use that as a kind of a monitoring tool. Um, obviously our board meeting recognitions that

106we do here every month and had some great ones tonight um is a great way for us to engage with our community. We also have our Miller ambassadors program. I know um board all of you have been through this program um and this is a great you know community leadership opportunity for us to to build relationships. We have approximated folks that have been through that program now with our most recent class recent class graduating. So that's been a good outreach strategy for us. And then um Dr. Hile's annual state of the schools um address that he gives at his lunchon is another great um outreach and communication tool that we do with the community. Some new stuff in this area. Um Dr. Dr. H and I have been working on um some Miller Ambassadors extra

107credit sessions. We had our first session in that area. These are things these are um opportunities more topical opportunities that we will offer throughout the year in addition to the regular Miller Ambassadors curriculum where we will invite all of our ambassador graduates back to participate um in that. And we had a um great one that Dr. Hy hosted earlier this year. Um we also did for the first time a school board candidate forum um and Dr. How um brought that idea to the district. That was something he had done in his previous district and um recruited some high school students to kind of help develop and lead that for us and I think everyone agreed it was a great opportunity um both for student leaders and for the community to learn more about our candidates.

108Uh we also have um Dr. House Superintendent Advisory Council, which is a new um program that he implemented this year that's giving him um an opportunity to connect with students in all different grade levels for us to hear feedback. We had one of our meetings this morning. I don't want to steal his thunder. Maybe he's going to talk about this later, but we had a meeting this morning and uh got some great feedback from some of our elementary students. um you guys board obviously hosted your community listening sessions this year and a community survey as opportunities for um input and feedback. We also launched our hall of fame um which is been a great connection with the community and um this is coming soon. We will have our uh grand opening event and a video

109of the new um STEM edition at the high school. Um, also we are developing and promoting the look, feel, and voice of Noblesville schools to support strong consistent connections within the community. This is maybe the less interesting side of some of the things I do. Maybe the meat and potatoes behind the scene, but we do um have uh specific brand and signage standards that have been developed for Noblesville schools that are managed and maintained on a regular basis. Um, work a lot of work put into having a consistent look and voice in our materials and messaging. um a photography library that we maintain um of district events and culture. Uh we put out a holiday card every year. There are ongoing um marketing collateral pieces that we offer that provide information about Noblesville schools that

110are, you know, on an ongoing basis being um updated and and shared out in the community. We also have a process that I manage around licensing and trademarking. I actually had the opportunity to present on this um recently at the Indiana State um school PR Association conference and share with colleagues um my colleagues throughout the state to kind of help them um learn about what we've done here at Noblesville schools in this area because this is something we have um put there's been a lot of thought put into this and we're pretty have a pretty developed process for that. Um so some new things in this area. We have developed some um top employer banners that you'll see at our schools you saw updated within the last couple months and um where we're you know

111advertising again our career career opportunities and reminding people that we're a great place to work. Uh we developed as part of your strategic plan roll out some iconography and some development of that plan that we shared out with the community. We have added um this year and are continuing to add some new Miller Mall promotional product vendors and and working through the process of continuing to make sure we're managing the vendor relationships we have. Well, we will be launching in August in the new school year. Well, actually in late July because it'll launch at the back to school bash. We are going to be launching 100red years of the Millers to kind of celebrate our 100redy year anniversary. Um you can see here, this is some examples of some flags that we're going to have

112uh hanging in downtown Noblesville to celebrate that. We also have um just in a couple short weeks here, our 150th graduating class from Noblesville High School that's graduating. And so we've done some um promotional work to provide a special mark for them that was in their yearbook that will be part of their um graduation efforts. Um we have um been involved in u recruiting and doing some auditions auditions coming soon for the a new Miller man for the high school. That's a um a unique opportunity because it's really more about just that more than just about the high school. It's really kind of our personification in the community representing Noblesville schools. So that's something that that I get involved in. And then um lots and lots of um throughout the district different types of signage

113and decor updates. We also of course are collaborating with local business and civic organizations in sport in support of our objectives. Um some things that we do on the reg on the regular basis in this area. We have a formal community promotions process that we manage and maintain that we have a lot of activity with. Um we have Noblesville magazine student spotlights that we're doing every month working with Noblesville magazine to put forward um some interesting students for them to feature. We have an annual Hamilton County Realtor event that where we promote um about our schools. It's actually this Thursday. Um and Dr. How's going to be presenting at that and we'll have kind of an exhibit booth to share information with all of our realtor friends about what's happening at Noblesville schools. Um board

114representation and by this I mean bo different community boards. We have a great um if you look across our cabinet leadership team and our um school leadership team, we have a great representation on many different boards um throughout the Noblesville community, which I think is a really nice tribute to the you know connection and engagement that we have um out in the community. Uh obviously we partner with um different businesses and organizations to support learning opportunities. we have people coming into our, you know, coming into our classrooms and and students going out doing things and having some of those great learning experiences. And then the high school in particular, um, does a great job through their workforce development initiatives and internship program of managing lots and lots of different community relationships. Some new things in

115this area, we have um continue to add new sponsorship um and advertising partnerships with local businesses. We um had a huge initiative recently where we passed out hundreds of thank you cards and special window partner window stickers that were handd delivered to community partners around Noblesville. I was really excited about this. You know, we have so many um great connections in the community, but we've and you know, obviously we thank them verbally, but we've never really like you know, officially sort of sent them a thank you and tell them how much we appreciate them. So, we did a big project um to roll that out and and let people know that um we value our partnership with them. We also hosted a Hamilton County legislative lunchon this year um which was um something that we

116do every typically every couple years, but it had been a while since we'd hosted one. And then of course we have ongoing partnerships with organizations like the city of Noblesville, the Chamber of Commerce, the Boys and Girls Club, Noblesville Main Street, SMC. Um we have done several things. We had student art on, you know, painted on wastewater tanks along pres Pleas Pleasant Street. We had, we were involved in Noblesville Main Street's um first Friday football promotion this year. We had a special um te women in technology collaboration with SMC where they came to us and really wanted to have an opportunity to speak to some of our um STEM students. Um so anyway, lot lots happening, you know, with all those types of partnerships. And that was my last slide. Do you have any questions?

117This was kind of just a good overview of sort of all the things going on in this area. Thank you. Thank you for all you do. I mean, you're amazing at this for sure. This is I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted. This is This is amazing. Yeah. And maybe it's getting late, but I do have a question. Okay. 100 years of the Millers, but there's 150 graduating classes. So, what was what were what happened to the other? So, we didn't become So, we were Noblesville schools a long time before we were the Millers. So what were we the the what the we were called the black and gold before we were the Millers. We were the black and gold. So in 1869 we became a school district um because the um community um formed a school board

118and hired a superintendent and they did that with the goal of building a high school. That was and so that's why we celebrated 150 years of Noblesville schools back in 2019. That was the 150th anniversary of that. took a couple years for that high school to be built, kids to come through it, and now we now we're at the 150th graduating class. And then in 1925, the Noblesville Milling Company in what I like to call the best sponsorship deal in history um gave us uniforms for our student athletes in exchange for us being the Millers. And we've been the Millers now for 100 years. I don't think they've ever, you know, the company's long out of business. They've never paid anything else for it. Like one time uniforms, and for a hundred years, we're the

119Millers. But um but yeah, we're looking forward. We have um a lot of um exciting things planned with the athletic department and with the Ed Foundation to really kind of build on that theme next year. Awesome. I I really like this inn. I really like your in like you know the in I love it. Thank you. So when my daughter got her graduation pictures I feel like we're like one of the only ones on the cap has the N. Is that I don't Yeah, the high school the high school did that um they chose to run with that and I love it. I think it's a lot of fun. And then the roundabout in I've seen so many seniors getting their pictures with so many like I drove by there one there were like 10

120like one on every side photographers getting it's really neat which is super cool. Thank you. Yeah, that makes me really happy that and roundabout was a a passion project of mine that took many years to bring to fruition. So I'm it makes me happy every time I see people enjoying it. Yeah. So more a statement than that. You know, you and I were sat back here five years ago at a at a work session and talking about the importance of what we're doing in regards to what you do in community engagement because of the competition for students. That was five years ago. And now with the voucher thing and and and other things that go on our our compet and and a decrease in number of kindergarters we see every year, it's so important to

121our business model what you do to to keep the numbers up. So, I tip my hat to all this work we're doing because we're a business in a way and appreciate what you do to keep driving that. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate that. I love the uh new wraps for the activity buses. Those Yes, I had that. Did I have that on the slide? I thought I did. Yeah, I must have forgot to mention that. But yeah, thank you. I'm really excited about that. We did um redesign that. That's like a traveling traveling billboard now for us, right? Kind of. Um and does anyone else have that? especially like any um I do know I do know another school in the area that has that. Yes. Okay. I don't think that wasn't that wasn't a unique

122idea, but I am excited. I'm excited to launch it and then um Yeah, ours is better. There we go. Um but as we as we replace the cycle to replace more of those activity buses, the goal obviously would be that they would eventually all have that. I always love seeing the fun things that you do. Not that I don't enjoy all your other updates and stuff too, but I mean Mary's is you know always front and center. It's in your face and that's you know that that's your logo. That's your theme. That's what you know draws the attention. Um more so I guess but you know I do have the best job at Noville schools is true. Thank you for agreeing with me. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you. Okay.

123Moving on. Public comment. Um, we did not have anyone sign up for public comment for an agenda item. So, we will move on to consent items. Um, by a single motion, the board approves and adopts the following items or actions which reflect application of board policy and Indiana code. Those are claims, donations, minutes from April or April meeting, overnight and out of state trips, personnel listing, and the personnel addendum. May I have a motion to approve the consent items? So move. Joe second, Misty. Um, any further discussion? Yes, Joe. I'd like to thank the people of Noblesville who donate to our schools. Triappa donated $900 for students in need and Forge's Garage donated $3,000 to the high school to purchase outdoor furniture and accessories for the collaborative space. We certainly help out. All right. Anything

124else? Okay. One more. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Um, I just wanted to put out there, um, there were lots of questions that were asked, um, via email behind the scenes before we just kind of blanket approve all this stuff. So, there were a lot this month. I promise I was probably most of of um, the 2025 2026 employee handbook. U, may I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 employee handbook? So, move Joe. Second. Second by Stephanie. Any further discussion? Just a question. I did not double check uh the one question that I had that was going to be fixed before um the error that was with the uh sports teams middle schools. That's in student. Oh, sorry. We're employee employee. All right. Anything else? All right. All right. Um all those in favor? I

125opposed. Motion carried. All right. Next up, we have the student handbooks. We have uh elementary, middle, and high school. So, there are three different um student handbooks. May I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 student handbooks? Motion, Stephanie. Okay. Second by Brett. Any further discussion? Now, you're check on that. Now you're Yes. Yes. I believe we did get that replaced right after we we caught that. Yep. Okay. So, it's been swapped out here on the website. Okay. So, there approve it. Perfect. Thanks for catching that. Thank you. All right. Any any other discussion? All right. All those in favor? I I opposed. Motion carried. Next up, we have um we have the presentation tonight of the ELA curriculum. Uh may I have a motion to approve this this selection and purchase of the

126following ELA curriculum materials effective for the 2526 school year. Um, we have the CKL, the third edition, Amplify for grades K through five, the study sync. It's McGra Hill, grades 6 through 12. May I have a motion? So move, Misty. Second by Joe. Any further discussion? All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um, next up we have uh meal prices for the 2526 school year. Um, the school breakfast and lunch prices will go up slightly. Uh, may I have a motion? Misty. Second. Second by Stephanie. Any further discussion? Right. I just wanted to point out that there was some concern just so you know for the public knowledge that maybe our increase wasn't quite enough um because you know that program is self-funded correct. So that was just our concern but we

127have been reassured that is not an issue and we are the lowest right on most maybe not on exact every exact one but we're we're pretty we're very pretty low we'll say that. Yeah. And there was also a question about um the free and reduced lunch program and making sure that that program is out there and that parents and guardians are aware of that. Um I think that um we were assured that that's out there. This this change doesn't make anyone qualified that didn't before. Um but it's just good to make sure that everybody knows that that's that's a program. If I can speak to Misty's comment a minute, I actually appreciate that question because um for what it's worth when when you know Mrs. Bratton, our food service director, thinks about these pricing and

128whatnot. Obviously, there's always a balance between planning for the needs of the of the program, but wanting to keep costs as low as possible for all the families who pay those meal prices. And as a dad, I do appreciate that as the son who eats multiple meals a day at our schools. Um, but with that, you know, she obviously works closely with Mr. Hort Miller, um, who is the one who helped answer that question. And obviously, they are projecting out and making sure, yep, we're going to we're confident that will absolutely cover everything that we've budgeted for them. So, appreciate the question. All right. Anything else? All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um, next we have a um motion to approve the bids recommended for the food to school purchasing cooperative

129for the 2025 school year. Motion Stephanie. A sec. Second by Misty. Any further discussion? All right. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Um, we have an agreement between the Noblesville Youth Baseball, which is the NYB, and uh, Noblesville Schools to continue the use of the property at Hazel Elementary School. And we approved this um, agreement at our last board meeting. Um, but it has been revised to include afterour safety. So, may I have a motion to revi to approve the revised agreement between Noblesville Youth Baseball and Noblesville Schools? I'll move second Rat seconded by Joe. Any further discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Next up, we have public comment for non-aggenda items. We did not have anyone sign up. So, we're moving to committee reports. First up, Superintendent Dr. Hy.

130All right. Thank you, board. And thank you as always for the the few and mighty that stuck around to the end. Thanks for hanging with us tonight. Um well, it's no secret to anybody who works at the schools or visits our schools that it is definitely the end of the year. We're down to seven school days if my count is right. Yep. Um but I always tell people this is one of the most exhausting times of the year because of something going on. But boy, what a fun time of the year with all the end of year activities uh going on. Um want to point out just a few highlights really quick. We recently found out that once again we've been nationally recognized for STEM for the eighth year in a row as a district.

131So congratulations to our STEM um teams and also for music education for the 11th year in a row. Um, so we'll be honoring those educators at a future meeting coming up. Um, as Marne mentioned earlier, we just graduated the eighth class of Miller Ambassador Community Leaders. And believe it or not, it is almost time for applications to open for next year's class. Um, so board, as I think I shared in a recent update with you, if you have someone in mind or someone's asking about it, make sure they keep their eyes open because that application will be opening very, very soon. Um, also, as Marty mentioned, I did uh I did have my final elementary student advisory meeting this morning and high school or excuse me, secondaries later this week. um was a great time

132just to connect with them today and and with the secondary also was very much just some reflection on some things that they've learned. What are things you want to think about? How will you take our discussions and you know share them with other friends? It was really good. And today was actually kind of extra fun because we did a little activity to get them up but moving and we made them interact only with kids that weren't from their school and it was really neat. And it's funny the differences between the groups. The elementary kids actually have no fear doing this. The secondary kids on the other hand, see how it goes on Thursday. But but the elementary kids were great. They they jumped right in there and we're happy to share and it was it

133was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. So, we had a great time. And just as a reminder, board, I know you know this, but I want to share this. So, it's in the public record. Um we will be celebrating these students as part of our July board meeting. We're going to have invite them to show up a little early and have a little meal with us. Board, of course, you're going to be a part of that to come meet all these these kids and their families and then we're going to honor them that night. So really looking forward to that on July 22nd I think is the board meeting that night. And then um it is of course a huge myth that schools are quiet and we're all just on vacation

134all summer because that is hardly the truth. I would say from the district level I I always tell people summer is actually one of the busiest times for us because we're getting ready for what's coming um in July and August. Um so just a couple things to to note. We're looking forward to planning and prepping for the great start to the year and make sure everybody's saving the date for back to school bash that is already scheduled for July 25th. This year we're mixing it up. We're going to Federal Hill Commons this year just to to try some new things. So, we're excited and really really important every because we cannot wait to host and welcome our community for the grand for the grand opening of the new wing at the high school which will

135be on the afternoon evening of August 7th. So, we are so excited to open the doors and invite our community in to see that space, to take a tour, and just get to see um exactly what's been being built for the last couple years because it is looking great. I was in there today, actually. Um Mr. Hortmill and I were there um helping make some decisions on a few things, and it has taken another leap forward since I was there a few weeks ago. You can really see it. So, it's I can't wait. It's going to be exciting. So, other than that, have a great last seven days, Noville schools, and we're going to finish strong. Thank you. Next up, attendance review committee. Misty. Okay. Um, attendance review committee. We last met on April 30th.

136We spent a majority of our time discussing the various new bills that have an impact on our attendance policies and procedures. Um, the good news is like a few other of the education related bills is that Noblesville Schools already does nearly everything in this bill. So, there really isn't much of a change for us as there as much as there is for um other districts. Um and we do so our our deans and the social workers do meet regularly to brainstorm and collaborate on addressing attendance issues. Um because it takes a lot of creativity since this is student focused not necessarily school focused. Um and then Christina Standish who is our uh multilingual social worker. She was there and provided yet another perspective for attendance related matters. and a representative from DCS also gave updates

137to the educational neglect reporting since there is new leadership within their department. And at these meetings, we're always um including our fine folks from the Noblesville Youth Assistance Program, the prosecutor's office, various um admin levels from each of our school buildings like the deans or assistant principles or what have you. Um, and then just a little side note, um, in the last 10 years, chronic absenteeism, which is defined as missing 10% or more of the school year in Indiana, has doubled just in the last 10 years. So, in 2013, it was 8.1%. Now, this is throughout the state, not our district. Um, in 2013, it was 8.1% considered chronic. And then the in the 2324 school year it was up to 17.8. So that is obviously an issue that we are diligently working on and

138Julie is amazing at coming up with all these things working with everyone else in our building. So that is my update. Thank you. ISBA legislative committee Joe. Yes. Dr. Hy and the total school board participated in the region five uh ISBA meeting to review new state laws which I'm not going to really review. We've done this four or five times. We know that we're going to have some uh things we have to work as the as the state legislature passed 45 new laws. Now, they did do away with 30,000 words in their handbook, but the 45 new ones took that right out. Okay, so the book's still this thick. Anyway, the highlight of the meeting was your school board was honored as an exemplary board. So, we've been honored twice in the last two weeks.

139That's kind of fun to get to do that. Okay. Well, then Marie sent her communication out, too. There you go. Um, thank you, Joe. Noblesville Parks Board right back up again. Okay. Uh, the facilities are all parks are open. Uh, been running around through the parks. If you've been through if you jog through Forest Park this week, there's a whole bunch of great big trees lying on their side. So they might have work over there if anybody wants to get a job uh picking up sticks and picking up trees. Okay. Uh there's programs, camps, uh are all open for both adults and youth. Uh Dylan Park has uh summer concert series starting at 700 p.m. on Thursdays, both June and July. And there's movies and on select Fridays, and there's concerts at Federal Hill. So

140get on down here and support your parks department. Thank you. Noblesville Redevelopment Commission. Stephanie, uh, we had two RDC meetings since our last schoolboard meeting. The first was on Thursday, April 17th, and included a memorandum of understanding for the NSEF mental health fund support in the amount of $50,000. The city contributed $25,000 from the opioid settlement fund, which is money that was received by local government from settlements from litigation with opioid manufacturers, while RDC contributed $25,000 from the Noblesville Consolidated TIFF. We are very grateful to the city for their collaboration and generosity and helping fund such a critical need for our students and staff. Second matter of business was for a resolution approving the elect e economic development agreement with motorbank LLC Dennis parking located at 239 North 10th Street and the commission to allow

141for additional downtown parking. Dennis will manage the parking and will work with the city to establish parking rates. The May 15th meeting had only two matters. One was a resolution that tiff dollars collected in the year 2026 are needed to satisfy the obligations of the commission and that no excess assessed value may be allocated to the respected taxing units. The second was the contract approval and funding authorization for Rei Financial Group who provides services such as annual minimum taxpayer agreement review and annual tiff impact reports. Thank you. Noblesville Youth Sports Alliance Misty. All right. Um anyone know what the live golf program is? a lot of golfers in here. So, coming up at Cadam Hills, uh the weekend of August 17th, the Live Golf Individual Championship will be held. You can also watch it live

142on Fox Sports. Um round one is Friday the 15th with a tea time at 12:15. Round two is Saturday at 11:15 a.m. with the third and final on Sunday at 10:05 a.m. Um, fun fact, which I'm not really, you know, savvy with golf. I do putt putt now and then. Um, but did you know, you know what stands for? It refers to the Roman numerals for 54, which is the number of holes they play in their live events. So, now you know. Um, NYSA is also offering an opportunity for those who are interested in being involved in the youth sports such as coaching or volunteering on some level to be C CPR certified. Um, the individuals interested will be responsible for the cost of the online course which is pretty quick and easy. I did

143it. Um, and it is only $16.50 50s and then NYSA will cover the cost of the skills check which is the in-person testing for those uh wanting to be CPR AED certified that is here tomorrow. [Music] Um sorry just overreading stuff. Um the online portion does need to be completed prior to the in-person skills check and you will need to bring a completed copy of your certificate with you in order to do so. Um, and then we are NYSA is also working on partnering with the Noblesville Boom for the various needs and events um that we do for our youth sports. And did you know also another fun fact, there are only 26 GL throughout Canada, Mexico, and the United States. So, for us to have one right here in Noblesville is pretty special. Um,

144and that is pretty much all I have other than our next meeting is right here tomorrow right after the CPR. So, I'll see y'all there. All right. Thank you. Our next board meeting, June 17th, Tuesday, here, 6 pm. Um, and may I have a motion to adjurnn? Jo Joe's. Yeah, Misty. Okay. No further discussion, I guess. Okay. All those in favor? I I opposed. Motion carried. Thank you.