001I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for [Music] all that to approve the agenda All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion passes. [Music] Five. Um we had our minutes of the regular and work session. Motion to approve those second discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Passes 5. Um, is there any comments? Reports, construction in your packet is the affidavit 25, 26, and 27. Just so you can see those at the primary buildings. Demo is ongoing and working in the kindergarten classrooms now. Uh also working in the gymnasium at the asbesus removed gymnasium progress is being made at the intermediate building walls are walls are up making great progress there at
002the high school demo continues. All lockers are removed from the junior high school locker rooms office has been demoed for their remodel and the shop is getting their work done too. So fast and furious at all three buildings right now. So we're still on on timeline as as we speak today. So that's good stuff. All right. That's our that's our reports. um since our last meeting assisted and helped coordinate last minute pickup drop off at TCI with Miss Pearson and Mr. Cult due to last minute grinding of the roads and paving. Uh I know it was kind of frantic for a couple minutes, but I think it ended well and we didn't have any major hiccups or anything. Couldn't ask for better result. On top of that, I did attend state mandate law enforcement training.
003Every year we're required to do at least a minimum of 24 hours of training. Um, which includes so many hours of firearms, emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics, as well as other topics that we have to hit on every year like domestic violence, sudden infinite sudden infant death syndrome, hazardous materials, deescalation, dementia, um, addiction, mental illness, human trafficking, autism. Those are just some of them. Um, since school's been out, um, I've been able to get almost 100% of all my my training hours done. Um, they will be done, which I know that was kind of a big thing for all of us because the last thing we wanted to do, the last thing I want to do is take time away when students are actually at school to go do training if I could help it.
004So, we're on the right path there. Almost got that completed. I also did my vehicle emergency vehicle driving last week with the sheriff's office over the White County airport. They did a great job of setting up different driving courses. So, got that completed. Also worked with Mr. Culp with res revising some of the SRO related policies for the upcoming years. Um worked with Mr. McCracken monitoring some storms. We had that bad storm roll through here a few weeks ago since we had activities going out to school. you know, kind of coming up with a a last minute plan just in case we lost power or got some kind of tornado or natural disaster. Um, we've also been working on the emergency response protocols for students and staff training. We're actually have a safety meeting tomorrow
005morning, myself, Mr. C, Mr. McCracken, Miss Pearson, and Miss Hall to kind of finalize all that so we get that implemented as soon as we come back to school in the fall. been working alongside the White County Sheriff's Office with an ongoing investigation and also designing and order new uniform patches for our uniforms once we switch over. Uh the first part of June, I'm sorry, the first part of July, I will be going down the playing field for a week to the Law Enforcement Academy to assist with teaching of new basic students that are just becoming police officers. My specialty is in firearms. So that week I'll be down there teaching brand new officers that just got hired by departments in firearm safety and um how to shoot and how to hold it and the
006whole nine whole nine yards involved in that. That also helps me with my reertifications and my instructor um and teaching since I do both and have those certifications through the state. Um did meet with a couple different employees concerning some safety concerns with parking areas with drop off pickup some different things we're looking at hopefully trying to streamline those make them safer for everyone and that's about it went to the bachelor baloria as well as graduation very well put together very impressive don't remember ever going to anything like that especially in a high school and glad to see all the hard work paid off and I thought it was a beautiful presentation so make sure I gave props what they were Well put together. So I'm just curious. Yes. Driving instruction stuff and over at
007the airport. Yes. Is that where they set up cones and all that kind of stuff and you do all kinds of things? Yes. Um basically you you drive at high speeds doing a serpentine through cones. Then you do them in reverse. They do a thing. It's called a box drill where you have to come in kind of dump the brakes and turn. then you have to back to another course. They do evasive driving to where you get reach a certain speed in the last you have a barricade in the middle of the last minute. The instructor says left or right. So you have to be able to do basic maneuvers simulated somebody ran out in front of you or a child on a bicycle type thing. And then they have an actual course set up
008that's set for pursuits. So they'll have an instructor in a car and you have to chase them through just different patterns and different shoots and courses set up and basically try to keep up with them and not leave them, you know, leave you under dust. That would be kind of fun. It It is very It is very fun. I'm not going to lie. It's It's stressful, but it's also kind of stressful. All right. Thanks. You're welcome. You have questions? Well, in your packet last month, we looked at the take-h home car policy. There was a request to clarify the language for take home. So, in your packet is updated language. There are two paragraphs. Specifically under procedures, the Tri County Police Chief will always have a take-home patrol will always have a take-home patrol vehicle
009at his or her disposal. The chief is also authorized to take home patrol vehicles for business or personal use provided that such use does not extend beyond counting surrounding white jas and the chief utilizes patrol vehicle for personal use beyond the surrounding counties. Prior approval from the superintendent is required. Travel outside the surrounding counties is conducted for school related business purposes i.e. training picking up equipment. The cost of refueling shall be shall not be the responsibility of the chief. However, if the control vehicle is taken outside the surrounding counties for reasons unrelated to the business, the chief shall be responsible for refueling the vehicle at their own expense to a full tank upon. So, for we talked about last month and just because of the 500, the 500 if he's asked to work that the
010policy is saying he would take the vehicle, but it's not business related for us. he would be responsible for full filling the tank back up at his office. So I that was his feedback we got the first reading. So I wanted to make sure we we mentioned that he mentioned as a report we worked on that together. So nothing but I kind of consider this first reading. So because there was a request for modification so probably bring it to you one more time in July approval. I I do want to get it for approved, but I also wanted to give the opportunity to say this added to the other two documents, the job description and the expectation for that move through July. So, um we're just now starting into summer, so I don't have a
011whole bunch whole bunch. Um, I just got an email this last week and we were selected to be part of the CRDC ROB check just to verify those small districts. Sometimes our numbers are really small. They just want to be like, are you really sure these numbers are right? Um, so we just go in abbreviated to that. Um, all of the traditional fax lines in the district have been turned over to the electronic vaccine round. Um, so that we just completed the high school here at the end of May. Um, our category one rate, I know I talk about rate a lot. Our category one project this year basically still won our bid. Um, but we were able to get for our interest. So that just was completed last Thursday or Friday, which is scheduled.
012So everybody's gone immediately doing weather speed without this. So, um, otherwise, um, we had to tear down a lot of the rooms with the construction projects that's going on. And I know we initially in technology thought, oh, it's going to take us a whole week to, you know, get through a lot of this. And actually, we were done with everything, three days. So, basically took a day or half a day for each things. We did find a few senior cars, so I thought that was kind of cool. Um, but yeah, so that's really kind of it. The high school office is a little the girls are a little cramped in their area, but I think TCP is more cramped in their area. So I tell them all the time that be glad they have space
013to breathe. So yeah, that's kind of where we're at next year already. So I think she's selling herself a little short from the standpoint of when we talk about getting this stuff out that technology took care of boards, the computers, the phones, projectors. We made a request that we touch that stuff. This past experience sometimes when people are doing demo, they just scroll that stuff away. But some of that stuff we we actually want back. So we talked to golf at the elementary building. we'll we'll take care of the technology which put burden on our staff to make sure that they got all that stuff out of there. So I appreciate you working on getting that out. We need to get it out quick. So they didn't have much kind of glossed over that make
014sure we say there was more to it than just getting rid of technology. It came together a lot easier than we thought it mentally going through making our checklist of everything. We thought, "Oh, this is gonna take a really long time." But like really fast and guess it's props to my team on how well everybody works together. That's great. We need board committee reports. Um, I was able to pretend my first fax advisor meeting and kind of brought me up to speak um on Miss Department and she did an update from what they talked about in the fall before I was on and then for superintendent review. We will complete that process tonight. So I have a question. This is the car from what treats did they fix that? It was a um pa stuffed
015with the chicken Caesar salad and then a berry crumble. She had berries left over from there's a definite perk and she gives you the recipes. That's great. Okay. So we we and Bob and I my first business me and one thing I really like is how they're mindful of how to use AI and they got a plan or trying to create a better plan here to stay how to use it properly. Um, that was a a big thing I like to do. Three of us were in the conference room and that worked pretty good. Conference call and stuff that Mr. Park was good. So, one year under his belt and that's a real success. I think I think that just how well they did that national 7 one one national winner one second coming [Music]
016second report I do want to thank a great year so that's all due to them they made it a fun year a great year um for students and staff for everybody here. I want to thank them for being flexible in construction. They very understanding, very flexible. I give a huge thanks to technology maintenance the last staff work day. Everybody was in pretty hard getting things out of secured safely. It was it was a lot to get done in that one day. I truly appreciate Mr. I I don't have anything to say. Um finished up the semester on Friday May 23rd. Mr. Kid is not present after school. Teachers are only there halfway. So we get that finalized finals if they're not there and so we have everything finished up on Friday the 23rd courts this
017guy take care of cards went out for us a little late today um for you or anyone that wasn't able to come to senior celebration night which was Friday after graduation we had 21 seniors finished with academic honors. We had 24 seniors finish technical honors obviously technical academics based on classes that were taking credit. 45 or 56 graduates received some type of industry certification which currently see that many kids earn some type of certification that I said that might contest this never know when that's going to help a kid out find a summer job put on a resume for possible future employment summer employment. So having that many kids actually focused that's a big credit to our counselors our staff for directing kids kids and guiding that also to from a lot of that support
018comes from the Tri County Education Foundation that funds those certifications. So that's not a lot of that's not done free. So again congratulations to those seniors. Um, and this, you know, this is this is big and it is somewhat inflated because we had a Lily scholarship award winner, but we had one as well last year, but you know, it just seems like this year we had um our kids were honored by a lot of um organizations that we haven't had a chance funding for before through scholarship. So again, this is an approximation, but pretty close to we gave away $400,000 senior help. That's a number for school our size. So we had we did very well with our kids from Jasmine Foundation since I've been here. We've never had anybody for our kids from county
019foundation. So we just again we had a lot of kids do really well. It's from hard work, commitment throughout the whole year to applying for scholarships, getting some guidance from our counselors. Moran Conson, former Tri County student, Tri County alum was very instrumental with helping some of our young people that were going to go into education. a grant that's next generation given away by Indiana for kids that want to do an education five years. But there was just some opportunities for our kids not had in the past. Like I said, that's that's for school our size. That's a number that just goes to show the the generous community we have that we're fortunate to be part of. And so congratulations to all those kids that receive funding on senior night celebration night. Big thanks to
020Mrs. Redstone, Mrs. Mrs. Hler, our counselors, Miss Con for making that event happen. If you ever come in our office that week between last day of school and graduation, it gets pretty tasky because we're all trying to get things done. We're all working things a certain way. Want that night to be special for our kids. So, it it takes effort by that whole staff and they did a really really nice job of getting everything set up. I thought it was very it's a long night and I don't know how else we can shorten that down. I don't know if that's really important short. Everybody knows it's going to be a couple hours and you know we're there night we're there that night to celebrate kids. So that's just part of it. Um we had a
021great day for graduation. Beautiful day for graduation. Graduate 56 kids. One of those graduates was um because of some illness and some health issues and co was a year later graduating but still walked across the stage. So congratulations to the students graduates and I think for the first time um again since I've been here we really had a group of kids that were focused on we've had great we've had great classes every year but it just seemed like from for the most part top to bottom kids are really kind of focused on what they want to do. you know, I never thought we'd have a kid say to the barber street, for example. That's just something that, you know, you're, you know, five years ago, kid, not really told anybody that's what he really wanted
022to do. So, I just think again our counselors, our staff, getting kids out to different locations out in our community, Lafayette, just letting them see the different options and opportunities they have once they graduate, whether they decide to go to college, they decide to go to four year, two-year, the cycle of the workforce. I think our our staff have done a really nice job of exposing kids to what's out there. So, we had three great speeches by the Val Victorian, two saludiatorans. Um, big thanks to Commissioner Stur and Miss Underwood for the band choir that we performed that day to be service that day for our kids. Um, spring sports have officially now wrapped up our track boys and girls got done that last week of school. Lea Brelo, congratulations to her. She was able
023to advance high jump reach sectional. should be able to advance the regional level. Harrison, our softball girls had a great season. They made it the championship game against North Got beat two two nothing and that was probably going to win the state finals in single A. So congratulations to our softball team. Had a great year. Good group of seniors. Baseball team won section 50 at Casten the same week the week after Memorial Day. They advanced to regional were defeated by a very very good couch team that would surprise they don't finals baseball but we were beat they went to the court Saturday got beat three to nothing golf finished up uh this past Friday sectional sport congratulations to that that group they had a fine season as well summer school is now in full session
024we have about 17 kids that are uh taking their classes in person or virtually online. We got some credit recovery going on. We got some kids just want to get maybe health out of the way. So, we're coming in and get some of those things done. They finish on Thursday 6:26. So, we have four weeks, four days a week. So, 16 days total. This merger is doing a really nice job of getting kids to get things done earn those credits or cover those credits to take. Um, big congratulations to our two Crystal Apple recipients, Michelle Buswell that's got that uh, award for our support staff and for Mr. St who is our certified staff member. So, congratulations to both of them. Um, the last thing, Mrs. Shamck should be here in a moment. I talked
025to Mr. Cole. We're going to have to delay our presentation. We have some SAT data. We like to just show you more kind of where our kids kind of the junior class where they're at as far as compared to statewise and national wise we're making charts. So when she gets here questions right personnel reports yeah under personnel reports we actually have three employment recommendations. The first is for Miss Molly Was for third grade teacher. Second is for officer Paige to become chief of police for the Trek County Police Department. And third is for McKenna Schneider for the sixth grade instructional aid. In your board packet, the information for Miss is all in there including your cover letter, resume, teaching philosophy, your application recommendation for officer page, Mr. Schneider also will make you aware of two
026transfers. One Mr. Carter recommendation is transferring into social studies at the high school from junior high math. Mr. Garner is going to be replacing Mr. Salvo who is transferring to Spanish starting the 2526 school year. So that's what I have for personnel reports. We can approve those employment recommendations. I make that recommendation. I have a motion to approve the personnel report. [Music] All those in favor in favor say I. I opposed passes by. Next is our student handbooks. Uh the Tri County Primary and Tri County Intermediate have the same handbook. Miss Hall, any comments or thoughts on the primary intermediate issue here? Mine several times as you see as you go through a lot of edits were done. So we stroke through anything that is going to be taken out and we tried to highlight
027everything that would be added. I did make one change to the dress code section. It's very minor. um that the wearing shorts and skirts before fall break and after spring break was a recommendation but we understand that weather fluctuates too. So that's more of a kind of a guideline but something to have any questions. So in your packet the verbiage as you just referred to may not be exactly as but it's something that we talked about after this was submitted to you but so is under the dress code page four I believe is trying to allow for opportunities use professionally I guess keep in mind that like I said the changes that are on there she's already posted. So if we can act on these two separately. So for student handbook for the primary intermediate
028make a recommendation to approve that we'll do a second motion to approve the primary books second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Opposed. Next we have a Tri County Junior Senior High School Mr. We took some things out of dress code. We decided to put the kind of a honor council together based made up of heads for any type of plagiarism or a past polic. staff talk about working down road so that there wasn't a lot of changes but we just had a probably going to openers will not be for math school. How's the honors council selected? Okay. Are the students? Okay. There used to be took that off. person because we thought if a student does there's a violation that student needs to hear from all the department that's not just instruction
029um I have a question it's kind of a minor detail under school dances um it says students good standing What does in good standing mean? Typically, if a student gets suspended for whatever reason, has an OSS, maybe has or worse, um those would be considered as maybe not in good standing. And generally, we look at that by semester. A student has not in good standing first semester, they probably get a restart second semester. I mean, those are just things that that would be the biggest thing that would come in. I just didn't know if it was clear to someone reading the handbook whether they would fall into good standing or not good standing. I shed the middle school dance. I got complaints and I I didn't know how to answer the questions. There were some
030that were I I don't know. Yeah. Um and this is where and I talk for example if a kid's on the decision we're going to let kids go make sure that's not maybe some staff members don't agree with that don't like that and sometimes if we we okay may disagree our decision but sometimes I feel like it's so important for this to be I was more on that side of the like it's one one it's not a repeated thing that's taking but I I just I looked it up because they were asking me and I was just curious what in good standing the other big factor in that sometimes could be attendance related whether that be parties or excuse absences What about dress code? there was already consequence for that unless it's a but but
031that's kind of the interpretation I think in the past but you might agree on grass code versus what I might agree that's happened already in this room and there in lies the big problem I was referring more to football teams maybe not Okay. So, I have a Can I have a motion to Sure. Does that answer your question? Yes. Thank you. Sorry. A motion to accept the junior senior high school presented. So, Mr. Gber second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. I. opposed. The motion passes 500. I think at this point we end up thank you for joining us. Appreciate it. So I did tell you 7:30 that I need to be a few minutes early. Okay. So I just like to start my Mr. has done a really nice
032job this year. We are continually trying to use data to improve to learn and so and I spoke here a while back and I talked to Mr. Tal just to see the board just see some datar. So this back a great job not only working from math perspective but also from arts and you know we could have you know she volunteered to include I learn and I think I just want you guys to see because so important for our kids so many back so that's why we chose kind I think it was 2023 that was the first group that took this SAT as like a school. It became the Indiana schoolwide benchmark test for high schoolers. Um and so I have a little bit of that history later. This um this data is for the
033class um that is going to be senior. So class 2026. So they took this in March of 2025. Um and the college board gives us these um charts. Um and I feel like they're a fairly decent way to view the data. um if you're not familiar so SAT is scored um between 400 and 1600 and it goes in increments of 10 and then 800 of each score 800 comes from reading and writing 800 comes from math um and so then they give you a total so this mean total score is are all of our scores average in Tri County were over a thousand which was a nice um number to hit. So we were 2011 and then it shows you there the state and the difference between the the state Indiana Department of Education that
034would be your public schools and then your state all schools would include like um credited or charter school and any other school that's giving even homeschool students taking um the SAT. So that's the difference there between the 939 and the 947. And then you have your overall US and your global testers at 964 and 965. Um so obviously we were happy to get our mean over the state and um US average and then it breaks it down um math and or I'm sorry reading and writing. This is the mean score. So, Tri County score was 506. Um, to make a little So, I have two slides here that kind of go together. The state or the college board have a has a benchmark that they say um we're if students hit this number, they would
035be considered um college career ready. They're that's the number the state of Indiana is looking for. And so that number in um reading and writing is 480 I believe. I'm sorry pop ahead here. Yes, it's 480 in reading and writing. And so um reading and writing Tri County did very well at 506, state 483, um US 494. Our math mean score was 505 which right there within the reading writing um they have a higher benchmark for us mathematicians and so the benchmark score for math is 530 rather than 480 um which is quite a difference but you can see this day in US numbers there as well. So there again, happy to be above, still work to do. We acknowledge that. Um, and this would be then the same data represented as far as what
036percentage of students hit the benchmark. So, um if you look at the bars, the darker the dark portion of the bar represents um the students that act the percentage of students that met the benchmark. The brighter portion um of the bar represents the students who were approaching the benchmark. And so they only give you a 20 point window. So that's just it's maybe two questions. Okay? So because it it's but goes in increments of 10. And so the students who are in the the um the bright portion of the bar, those students are approaching the benchmark, they were within 10 or 20 points um of meeting. So the reading writing um nice number there at 61%. And math at um 37 we have that bright portion of the bar um gives me a lot of
037hope actually because if we can you know those kids are really only a problem or two away. Um and I felt like um while we want to be higher than that, we were happy with some progress there and seeing scores moving in the right direction. So there again the benchmark number to hit for math was 530 um reading writing 480. So then this shows the same group of kids. So this is the when these students were in 10th grade, they took the PSAT. That's the pink box. When they were in 11th grade, they took the PSAT in October. And then when they were in 11th grade, the blue box is that SAT data we were just looking at. They took that in March. So, the benchmark score builds in growth with it. So, you can
038see the state benchmarks when they're in 10th grade, they're hoping the students can hit 430 and 480. Um, when they're get to 11th grade and they take the PSAT, they're hoping they can hit 460 and 510. When they get to the SAT, they're hoping they can hit 480 and 530. And then you see our scores um as they progressed through there pretty well bumped up according to that same amount of growth. Um a little variation here. [Music] And then this last slide that I have um this was kind of this is my curio curiosity. Um I took the so here you actually see the 2023 2024 and 2025 off on the left. So that was our mean when juniors took the SAT those three years, our reading and writing score, our math score each of
039those. So we saw a dip in 2024 but then thankfully um higher again in 2025. Another piece of data that they give us is what number of kids were in these different scoring bands. Okay, so the 400 to 590, 600 to 790, 800 to 990. Each of those bands, those numbers beside it were how many students Tri County had within that scoring band. And I guess the exciting thing for me with um the 2024 to 2025 is we were able to get movement Here we had quite a few sitting in this 800 to990 band. We had 25 students and 16 here in this to 1190 band. In 2025 we were able to kind of reverse those numbers and get kids moving um up a band if you will. I am also seeing so I have
040some numbers in bold over here. Um, I'm seeing a larger percentage of kids using the opportunity to retake and um wanting to better either their math or reading, writing or both. And then students can super score when they report those numbers to their college. They can take their best reading and writing score and they can take their best math score and put them together as one solid score. Um, and we had a lot of students. So, we had a few students who took it prior to the school window. We have we had about five students or three students, I think, signed up, but they took it in May and we have several more signed up to take it in June. So, I think they're using the opportunity to see where they were at with that
041school day SAT and then they kind of have some goals of improving and using some of the resources that were in the College Board to do that. Um and so these numbers over here retaking or um super scoring allowed like one student to move out of the 1200 to 1390 band and it be added into the 1400 to600 band. So we actually total have two students scoring down there in that 1400 to600 band which is 10. I don't know if you have questions or want me to go back to a slide. I mean, show the 51 students that tested, is that all of the students in that grade? Everybody has to take the test or are EL students? Yes. Special education, they receive their accommodations. Um, they have to be inputed into the College Board
042website. Um, so that then that is acknowledged by them. Then yes, all accommodations are met and those students are tested as well. Now there's a chance some of those kids tested as sophomores may have moved out some may not be the exact same kids but it's you know it's close but I think what both English language arts and math we looked at that is the growth we've got kids grow which is and what do you attribute that growth to the office conversations on Well, I I'll just personally say credit to I know I speak for math department stuff like adding integrated algebra 2 and getting getting kids seeing a different form of algebra 2 that is a little more real world applicable. I know that made a big difference some of our kids. I just
043really get and as opposed to sitting there being miserable that didn't. So credits to Mrs. Kaufman Sham back math part doing opening things like that. Um we're hoping that we we won't see this one yet but we're hoping with the ILR now having the checkpoints and we're we have some place things in place for spiral throughout year after checkpoint. I think this this will continue to help our kids grow and and Mal support obviously that's what our math department striving for you want to add anything to that you guys do um one of the things that we have is particularly in middle school we have almost like an additional rotational course um that is focused on those more writing skills um so students in a nine weeks will take an additional on top of like
044English 7 or English 8 um to really hit those skills and just reinforce those skills that will show up in every single class. And the same thing goes for a reading course that is a semester long because we have to read longer test. So it takes more time. And so that again is reinforcing all of those skills that they need to take on to more places with just it. It works out great because we can really hammer home some of those standards that just we need to have more students mastering them than we have time for. Just one book. I know one thing I I know you know for example during PLC time this year class you can teach your high science and met with the English language arts department and work on in writing
045and science field using some skills and some activities that language arts does with students she's incorporating that into her science so kids kind of see the correlation just crosscurriculum miss you want to add Yeah, I think Mrs. Baylor and I have I mean since the SAT became the school day assessment um have spent kind of increasingly more time kind of diving into the PSAT data because that's supposed to be helpful in telling us where kids are at and you know where we need to get um it it doesn't it breaks it down into at least into some categories for us. Um, so like it has an algebra section, it has a geometry and trigonometry section, like an advanced math section. Now, exactly what's tested in each of those sections can kind of vary from time
046to time, but we do at least get an idea of kind of where kids are at those categories on the PSAT. And then we've also been um so College Board has they're kind of continuously revamping like um kind of the not necessarily the overall makeup of the test which is like the tools. It's all online now. And so since that became all online they have integrated um it's an online graphing calculator called Desmos. And so we are finding like the more comfortable students are with those tools, the more apt they are to pull them up and use them to their full advantage on the SAT. um is a lot of times we we had practice tests that we printed off in our students um classroom binders for each of our classes and we would you
047know as the warm-up kind of in those months prior to the SAT and say all right you know go work on three problems out of the out of the practice test and have Desmos pulled up so that you're working smarter like a lot of times if they could know how to set the problem up, they could put it into Desmos to get it to solve it. And a lot of students gave me a lot of positive feedback on that. Like um they just said, "Thanks so much for making us realize that we didn't have to like once I knew what to do with the information, I didn't have to take the time to solve it all out by hand. I had the tool there within the SAT to solve it for me." And or a
048lot of students that I you know realizing I could graph something and look at numbers I could at least rule out two of the choices you know so um I think we are trying to utilize a lot more of incorporating them being comfortable with the technology so that they use it to their full advantage another thing we did about three about we've been this class we did about eth we met sense justeneral sense you know I think that's helps classroomation things like that that set up and I have really seen I feel like this year was one of the I feel like through co we lost a lot of problem solving perseverance students became really just kind of sloppy and lazy because they didn't they didn't want to persevere through it and I'm finally seeing
049kind of a rebound back and um we they have more of that that problem solving perseverance like okay yeah I have to read this whole paragraph to try and solve this math problem but they're not just like writing it off like we saw there for a few years so I think that's helping also and giving them problems like that in the classroom the more I can expose them to it, the more comfortable they will be. Mr. H, you mentioned I heard you right. I think um when we go back to the the three Rs from model school uh and while relationships is absolutely strong but the rigor and the relevance and especially I think I heard you say there's scene where somebody the relevance is there and trying to understand the relevance for cross it's
050using fractions you're using for fractions using writing reading is used in culinary public speaking is used. So just getting that what we're really working with is training that cross students understand all these things cross and they see where that's at where it applies. I'm a super example then because like middle school went in high school I was and fortunately my I did pretty good in my math stuff but I hated it and I didn't see where it applied and I thought math was just a stimulate the brain I mean that's how off the wall I was on that and had I saw the relevance a lot more and a lot earlier I know it would have helped me especially heading into college and stuff like that I just and and I'm just I think that's
051just awesome. Now you're seeing where this fits in whether it's in M or cross curriculum or whatever and it's it's not just math but all that I just and I think we're making great strides over that and our math program did a really really nice job you know from seven on up to 12 we're using guided notes if you ever come out kids have notebooks you know we're seeing kids with notebooks down lunchroom every day all levels They're we've done it with you know everybody's everybody 7 through 12 are using guide just that's made you going to show that yes kids have to do math they can't just see math like they have to be interacting with it and doing it because they can't just watch it and and some kids you know taking notes
052they you know can't just sit and write notes notes are they have to fill in spots for some combination. We give them they can just they just focus on what we're doing what they're supposed to I think guided notes again is tell just basically notes you know just basically instead of kids sitting writing notes it's gain for some kids they just need for organization or like they may have to fill in a blank some combination they need to all get all the information so rather than just trying to scribble down have something to refer to. Some of our kids, all of our kids maybe struggling to take sometimes kids take those notebooks home at home. They've got outside work to do just referring to I have some. So here would be kind of an example
053from precal trick of you know a lot of the information is there but um the kids end up filling in anything that's in there in color. Um and so that's the type of thing that we're trying to develop um with our curriculums in each of our areas. Is that one piece of data that isn't out yet? They do eventually um post like a like we have that state number but you can't like see how you did compared to like the other like specifically you know Frontier or Northwite or whatever. We don't have that data yet. It comes out typically in July sometime. I think that we finally get that spreadsheet on SAT, which is always kind of curious to me. Take a look at that competitive side. Yeah, maybe a little bit. That's all right.
054That's good. Well, what could I go learn from somebody? I'm willing to do that, too. So, there's some places that are doing it right. and would love to go. Well, thank you for sharing that and thank you for sharing your passion for this. Is that evident as you're talking about your passion for this? Appreciate you guys working on it coming in. You guys have any other questions? We'll move on to breakfast. Uh in your packet, uh Mrs. France shared some information for her rationale for increasing breakfast and lunch prices. And you if you had an opportunity to look at it, I think there's a lot of effort that went into trying to figure out what it cost per meal per day for child. So I appreciate Mrs. Fred sharing that information with me that I
055didn't share with you. With all that being said, recommendation is to increase breakfast at lunch prices by 10 cents per school year. uh bring our breakfast prices to $155 for the students. That' be prek to 12. Adult breakfast prices would be$270. K to6 lunches would be $3.20 for our junior senior high school 330 and for adult prices 480. Um I did um inadvertently put the reduced prices in there as well which we can't the board cannot vote on that as set by the state. to reduce prices for breakfast. The recommendation for 10 cents for breakfast is still on the table to accept changes to the breakfast. in favor. We're still forced. I mean, so if our numbers come back and said, well, we could actually see the same or reduce. We don't have a choice,
056right? That's correct. That's we have that's I just want to clarify. Another further discussion hearing none. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Motion passes five. The public library has an appointment for Mark Bors to be serve his second term beginning July 105. They'll be on the board till 2029. So that is for our board to approve. Have a motion to get public library second. Mr. Zesman. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. U Tri County Classrooms teaching organization has asked for Kylie Hickner to serve as the Mace representative. So Mace is our health insurance trust and as a representative Mr. Sar would be representing staff. I go to meetings and then a teacher representative meetings. They would have voting powers at those base meetings. But in order to make that official for
057Mr. sick that you serve. The school board needs to approve that. Then I take the minutes of that approval. I send it to Mace. So then she can start attending the meetings and it's just a procedural step from MA's standpoint for the school board to approve Mrs. Hickler. So I'll make that recommendation to approve as present. Have a motion to have Mrs. Hickler present. Mr. Gerber second. is I do have a question about how many schools are in Mason I I should know but I I don't know off the top of my head so for me to venture I guess I mean more than 30s you think or more 60s 50 or 60 I think yeah it's mostly what north central Indiana yeah yes our meetings are either discussion hearing none. All those in favor
058say I. I oppos passes five. Next is our Tri County online learning program first reading. So for the last several months, we've been talking about a virtual option at Tri County. And so this is the first reading or the first draft, if you will, of this. Obviously, there are some things that are still highlighted on there. uh that we need to continue to discuss. Uh but the goal of offering a virtual program would be to provide some of our students with some flexibility. Uh maybe the traditional schooling isn't set up for them. Uh so we want to try to give an option for students to be successful. On the second page, I'd like to point out we do have some thoughts for helping students and parents understand would this be a good option for them.
059So, you know, if you are average to above average reader, this may be a good platform for you. self-motivated and self-disciplined as another criteria for consideration for Indiana online and future focused we're I guess trying to make sure that this is a productive option for our students. So we we try to outline some some specifics for parents and for students quite frankly if this is is a good fit for them. There is, as you continue to go down, page five, there is a an online agreement. The student has to agree to the following requirements. Um, and then the parent also has to agree to the following requirements. So, for example, we do ask that they spend five out of every seven days working a minimum of 30 hours per week on courses. Uh we do
060agree that the student and the parent agree if they 10 consecutive days without logging into a course that they would have a meeting with the tri county administration. We also require that they take all the standardized tests including the SAT PSAT weed the ads. Um if they don't do those standardized tests they may be removed from Indiana online. Uh we also ask that parents have some agreements as well making sure that students would come in to school for testing as an example. Um updated contact information and so forth. We also have an application process for admission. A student or parent may express interest in Indiana online. However, doesn't mean they automatically be granted admission to the program. So we do ask that they fill out an application first and that that application part of that
061if there's an intake meeting where the parent student would come in and talk to the administration about if this is the best fit or the best placement for a student in Indiana online. Um and then we also have some office information down as well. the individualized action plan trying to get the students to start giving us some information as far as what their future goals are so forth. Then we also have application information for their academics so we can make sure that the student doesn't miss a course or doesn't miss a test or education of each. So, um, Indiana online is a platform that students would be taking. We're going to push the synchronous classes, meaning that they're logging into classes as they're being given as opposed to asynchronous, which is just assign they want.
062Asynchronous is an option. However, we're going to push the synchronous option so students can log in, work with an Indiana teacher through a virtual program. Um once again if a student doesn't make progress or a student has not been successful we would take them out of the program and bring them back to in person. Um if the student is enrolled in Indiana online they are a tri county student and so we will give them the opportunity to participate in certain things graduation for example. However, uh we are not going to allow them to participate in athletics. Um extracurriculars or co-curricular activities may be on the table depending on those activities and the requirements of those activities. For example, some organizations require that they be enrolled in a class that is pertaining to there. So for
063for example, FFA, you have to be enrolled in an ad class with FFA. So there may be those options that are available if we wanted to do this. Um not that we have to do what everybody else is doing, but it is worth noting that all four White County schools are adopting a virtual program or hoping to adopt a virtual program. All four schools um kind of on our own decided Indiana online was the best option. We had talked about it as a group and independently we decided Indiana online was the best option. So um just for sake of full transparency um what would happen if a student enrolls in Indiana online from a funding standpoint is because they are virtual the state funds at 85%. So Tri County would receive the funding for a
064student that's enrolled virtually and then Indiana online would send us a bill for the seats that are being used at that time. So other programs we've looked at, you would have to buy seats kind of in the pool and whether you use them or not, you had to buy those seats. I didn't feel like that was the best for at this time. So um I know it's a lot of information in a short amount of time, but are there any questions about the the first reading of the information that was presented at this? Did you say that all the white county schools are using Indiana online? All the schools are Indiana using Indiana online. However, they are going to maybe some have different requirements. For example, um what I am proposing is that a student
065can take a CTE course at Tri County that our inerson students um all the seats are full by our inerson seats first. So if there's space available, a virtual student could come in and take a CT course. Some of our white county schools are not going to let them do that. They're offering more than all pushing. Um to say ours is a hybrid maybe maybe the best description students take a CTE course. I think speaking for me and maybe the administration, we feel like the CTE courses still have a lot of value and could be helping them be teacher focused. You know we can give a student opportunity to get you know a credential in culinary or in health careers that may be something schools don't want to do that which is their prerogative and
066you know some schools going to say yeah you can be enrolled online and do athletics but I don't think that's the best for try this as Good question. So there's some areas that are highlighted yellow. I think that was just something that wanted to engage in further discussion on you know for example we did actually have dances on there that students weren't eligible but we decided to take that off. they're eligible to attend the dance if they're an online student, but there are, you know, school sponsored clubs and extracurricular activities plays a musical. I don't think on what the thoughts are the student is participating in any online feel comfortable with student participation in those two specific areas. So that's Yeah. Any other questions? Last uh action for new business is overnight out of state
067field trip. There are three field trips in the board packet. The one um well I'll just go through all three of them. First is a trip to Washington DC. Um dated for tomorrow. So students, it's the uh leadership conference, the FFA leadership conference out in Washington DC. Kids will be out there for a week. Mrs. Hickner is chaperoning. I think we have two Tri County students that we are taking. We're actually taking a student from West Central as well. So we're happy to help our neighboring school take an FA member. So she's going to be in charge of three students while she's out there. If you looked at the field trip request, she has taken her husband Cole out there. The rationale be pretty simple is two of our two students are are males. She
068felt like it probably better than male chaper as well. So even though there's only three students she wanted to take for that reason. And then the other two are also FFA trips. One is to St. Louis, Missouri later in the summer. That is a a rewards trip for top it 15 or 10 15 FMA students. So they acrew points throughout the year. So they have a reward trip to St. Louis for a couple days. And then the last one is the Pine Creek camp. Mr. Sheer and Mr. Ser have taken their FFA leadership team down there at the start of the school year to work on a plan for the school. the the entire school year to build some camaraderie. So, three field trips all related to motion to approve our field trips. Second discussion.
069All those in favor say I. Oppos. Thank you. Yes, financial business. Uh under financial business, um you can see there your your basic transfer report. Once again, just reminder that we have to take funds from the education fund to support the operations fund and it cannot exceed 15%. So every month I provide this to the board as evidence of what we are transferring and also as evidence we're not exceeding that 15% as per state code and for board resolution. Also you have in your packet the end of month financials we present that to you every month as well. Um, next month, the July board meeting will be a good snapshot. That's six months into this year that we'll be able to some some budgetary information. Not that every month isn't beneficial, but that's a good
070just kind of clean part to say, where we at six months, looking at the appropriations, for example, and seeing where we're at left and so forth. Uh, the claims docket and the payroll, your claims are in there. Um, and I do I I've neglected to talk about this before, but now is probably a good time to to highlight a few things. Um, on page one of the claim report, you'll notice uh claims that are reoccurring. You know, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield or dental coverage, for example, base is another one they see, but they're pulled out of different funds. So if you're at page one, for example, the Blue Cross Blue Shield, you'll see it's taken out of the education fund, referendum fund, operations fund, school lunch fund. Um those have to be pulled
071out of the category that we pay the staff from. So education is teachers. So if we have teachers who have elected to take dental coverage, we pay for it. We pay for their dental out of the education fund which is the same fund that we pay them. Referendum we have staff members out of the referendum. Operations would be primarily your support staff, bus drivers, instructional aids. So if there are if their salary comes out of operations, we take their dental out of operation. School lunch fund. Um if they're working in the kitchen, if we pay them out of that fund, we also pay for their. So, um, if in case you're wondering, you know, why are these always showing up, you know, three or four lines at a time, it's the fund that they're being
072taken out of is where that how we decide that. So, Mrs. Sher goes through, the office staff goes through and they have to break that out every month. So, that helps us with our budget. Obviously, we budget that at the beginning or at starting next month, we'll start working on the budget again, but then that's how we how we fill out. So, that's why you see once again taken out of different funds. Um, you know, we we divide it out and that's how we figure out how that is. So, long-term disability, life insurance. So that's kind of a long explanation, but hopefully that provides some clarity as to why some of those things keep showing up on there. It's the fund that they're coming out of is the difference. If there are no other are
073there any other questions about the claims We have a motion to take a second. Any more discussion? None. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Yeah. Several things that I want to share. uh in your board packet. Uh the ISBA did a nice job of summarizing I think there's 44 new bills that were just signed into law that are pertaining to education. So there's a nice little summary u I think the bigger thing is is 44 bills u just in this last legislative session regarding education. So you have those in front of you. Uh some of them will start uh July 1st of this year, some will start July 1st all the way to 2027. So just something to keep an eye on in your in your packet. Also in your packet, we've been
074talking about the new diploma requirements for about two years now. know this was coming. But one of the things that we've been waiting for is the credentials and value that is part of the new diplomas. The idea we just released was last week. So we've got more information. Um as we move into implementing these new diplomas, uh school safety grant is open and accepting applications. Uh thanks for the hard work of officer Paige and Mrs. Kelly. Um, we are looking at replacing the cameras at TCP and TCI. So, in your packet are maps of the building and where they are looking at either reinstalling and updating cameras or adding new cameras, keeping in mind with construction where those areas are that don't get updated. So, anything that you see that's in blue, that's requiring a
075new cable, a new camera. A yellow designation is a direct swap. A green may be a if there's a camera or maybe two cameras that are already there and we're going to turn down to one camera just maybe doing two different directions. So before it may be able this way maybe one camera that go the opposite direction. Um, and then lastly, um, we do have some cameras, uh, that we will either get rid of, move, or just like I said, just be care with the new technology or more technology is be taken care of. So, there's a nice map of TCP and CCI in there. Uh, also are the quotes for the cameras. So, Vermillion Systems is the one that we've used for several years. Their customer service is great. Um, and that's who we've
076worked with before. We feel comfortable with them. They actually participated in the walk through with Officer Page and Mrs. Kelly. Um, they also talked to the principles when they got to the buildings of where their blind spots were and what their needs were. So, um, this is with the information that I will be using to make the school safety grant. Um, school safety grant funds will start September 1st at 25. So right now the grant application is open and we get awarded the grant and then we'll have the permission to spend the money starting the first officer page. This is Kelly school cameras. Keep in mind too this last year with the high school cameras. So we all came up high school and added cameras. So we wanted to stagger them for a couple reasons.
077one, if we need to replace cameras, we're not replacing the whole corporation at one time. We got staggered, but probably the bigger reason going on buildings that we we felt like it was probably to wait for the construction as opposed to installing new cameras. Couple other things I do have um in your board packet is just some information that I will ask for approval in July. First is the resolution to continue discussion between Tri County School Corporation and Classroom Teachers Organization. This would be the third year that this resolution that could be passed. It's a very similar resolution. In fact, I think it might be the same resolution what we pass with updated dates. And so three years ago, our legislators got rid of the requirement to do a discussions, but Tri County kept doing
078that. We like beneficial for both sides for the corporation and teachers. Lastly, there's the old policy 511, a policy on legal settlement. Um, I have not done a very good job with superintendent following through this policy. Next month, we need to set a number for the number of transfers that we will accept for grade level. So, I want to put that policy in front of you just as a heads up that we'll have to set a number. we have to submit that number to the department of education and that number can be know from zero all the way to whatever 200 but keeping in mind class sizes and those types of things. Um, looking down the road, um, part of the reason why we need to look at this policy is it's required, but two,
079um, if we ever want to deny students from coming in for various reasons to be attending behavior, we need to have this policy, we're following this policy to the law. So, you know, we may have transfer students that we want to deny that we need to follow this policy in case somebody says, well, why are you denying them? It's our policy better policy. So, just more of a heads up that that's coming next month. I wanted to get that policy in front of you before I ask. Other than that, that's all I got. Um, have you given any thought to um allowing virtual students to take inerson classes that are not speaking for instance dual credit um AP classes those types of things where they would still have to qualify based on grades or is
080that something where you're brought up? No, I think that's anything would be on the table if we got students who want to take, you know, maybe these math class I and I'm speaking for our admin team. I think it's that's the best way to be in person. So, question today. Motion tor second Mr. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Post passes by vote.