001[Music] Good evening. Good evening. All right. So, All right. So, we um participated in some webinars, professional learning and development since the last time we were um together. Some of those include the Virginia Science Leaders book talk. There were also sessions from BDOE on implementing the new math standards that our math instructional staff participated in. We also spent we had three meetings three meetings since the last time we were together for and you've already heard about summer learning but power scholars training for our GES and Wyatt staff took place and that was new for our Wyatt staff. It was retraining for our GES staff. The VDOE is looking at a textbook adoption for mathematics and we have been participating with CIP mainly Miss Stallings participating with CIP to determine what textbook the CIP group is
002going to recommend to VDOE. We are working on our power scholar summer extravaganza. We've had several planning sessions. We have people from all of the schools, internal and external partners who are participating in the planning sessions. We jump down to celebrations. We are extremely excited that under uh Miss Coker's leadership, 106 of our GCPS staff have completed the K8 the VDOE required Canvas modules this year. So, we are very excited about that. We did kick off summer learning on June 2nd. It is going well. We have surpassed the numbers that we expected to have and did have to hire a few additional staff members. So, we're extremely excited about that. The Department of Pupil Personnel Services, they serve 398 students with IEPs and 504 through our and 504 plans throughout Greensville County Public Schools this
003year. And you can see the respective numbers in parenthesis. We had 124 students who received contractual services for the 2425 school year. 40 from AIS and 84 from Tiny Eyes. Oh, Dr. Scott, I think I'm reading your section. Will we call Dr. Scott for We have it. Yeah, because we have it together. You have it together. Um, and I'm gonna let Dr. Scott get up and do that. Thank you. Oh, he has it on paper. I'm sorry. Sorry. Thank you, Dr. No problem. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Okay. Uh, update for special education, end of the 2425 school year and the summer 2025 updates. Pupil Personnel Services identify candidates for the um director of pupil service pupil personnel and and school social worker positions and have made recommendations to the superintendent. We have a
004signed agreement with the contractual services for allied instructional services AIS for the 25 24 of 26 school year for the following positions for K um students in um K12 uh as for speech u therapist, occupational therapist, hearing teacher, visual impairment teacher and sign language interpreter. We have 120 students receiving contractual services through AIS. Um um 40 40 of them with AIS and 84 with Tiny Eye. We have contractual services um for the 25 26 school year have been signed with Presence Learning. We're expecting two speech therapists to provide speech services for our secondary students. We're servicing uh 398 students and with individualized IEPs and 504 plans throughout the Greensburg County Public Schools. In 2024 25, we will servicing 357 students and um going into this uh year we're going to be servicing 398 students. That
005is an increase of about 41 students. Um we are continuing to offer um extended extended school school year services for our students um and providing services for our students in the community um for our two and three year olds in the community. Um that concludes my pres presentation. Thank you Dr. Scott and Dr. Farerson. under leadership and governance where the division will establish a clear mission and vision statement with corresponding goals to implement policy and procedures to provide the direction of the school division which relates to the superintendent and the board of education. Um we have weekly conference calls with our OSQ leaison Dr. Johnson. They were conducted on May 7th, April the um the 14th and May 20th. Have senior executive leadership meetings um conducted May 5th, May 12th, May 19th and 26. We
006have our directors working on the work sessions inducted on May 5th. We just completed our Greensville County Public Schools retreat which we had three days of retreat where we had a good retreat presented by personnel from Greensville County Public Schools and we also had um our catapult um Dr. Jones who who presented as well. The superintendent board members and directors participated again in our last work session which was on April the 22nd along with human resources presented in policy committee worked with Dr. Scott Baker under the Berkeley group attended the region 8 superintendence meeting um Dr. Scott also attended. Um the board chair participated in the VSBA workshop on leadership. The superintendent internal order met on the bud with the budget committee on May the 19th. Met with the adult educational regional meeting and just
007had a graduation. And we'd like to thank Dr. Jordan and um Kathy Anderson for us renewing that partnership and participating in webinar on Vivos under operations and support services. I'd like to call Dr. carry forward to present. Good evening everyone. Under operations and support services, the goal is to establish practices and controls to create environments that promote student and staff success. And so we have a few um bulleted items I want to just address. Overhead walkway at GES is now complete. Um, elevator upgrades are nearing completion at all schools and grant review with the federal pro programs coordinator is ongoing just to make sure that we are securing all the grants and the money um that we can and bringing it to the the students and staff. And lastly, the SRO's and SSOs participated in
008safety meetings. We are actually having um discussions center around um another active shooter drill. So, we've had one in January of this p of this year and we're looking forward to having another one um next year um just bringing in more um support support personnel I would call it from um even more law enforcement and then some outside agencies just to make sure that if in the event that does occur in our um district and we are fully prepared. Thank you Dr. Kerry. And under human resources, I'd like to call Miss Riddic Ford to give the HR update, please. Good evening. The goal under human resource leadership to recruit, retain, and support caring and innovative staff members who are instrumental in the success of all students. Under human resources, we had the continuation of implementation
009meetings for frontline integration for HRMS with human resources and finance. attended the Southside Regional Job Fair on May 13, began configuration for front lines time and attendance for the upcoming school year. Continuously conducted lensure meetings with teachers. Title two planning meeting with Dr. Robinson. participated in weekly senior and division leadership meetings, participated in data and staffing meetings with principles, participated in drug screening orientation with vendors in collaboration with Greensville County Human Resources, completed staffing plans for the 2526 school year, conducted interviews, attended the VSBA policy meeting, participated in the title 2 monitor visit, provided frontline training for Wyatt and school nutrition and recruit and hire and participating in a division leadership retreat. Thank you, Mr. Ric. And like to call Dr. Kerry back for the community relations and communications update. [Music] Under community relations and
010communication, the goal is to create partnerships and develop relationships with families and community members to design an authentic pathway to student success. Under this bullet, we attended the the senior night, attended Rotary Club meetings, continuously updating the website, uh school events, postings on social media, attended end of year school events, attended Greensville County High School graduation, and lastly, we participated in a change enablement work session. All right. Thank you um Dr. Carrie and to the team for presenting the the CAP update. All right. Next up is um item B, cell phone free education, executive order 33. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um so in 2020 um four, Governor Ynan signed an executive order, executive order number 33 establishing cell phone free education to promote the health and safety of Virginia students great uh grades K
011through 12. Further this year on May the 30th on in May 30th 2025, House Bill 1961 and Senate Bill 738 was signed into law, which further goes into promoting and establishing a cell phone free education to promote student health and safety for Virginia students. In this law, bailto bail cell phone free education will benefit students, parents, teachers, and administrators across the Commonwealth. This has been ongoing since last summer. By signing these bills, the statewide policy will be law. Will be law. School should be a place of learning and human interaction free from the distractions and classroom disruptions of cell phone and social media use. Our students will learn more and be healthier. in Richmond, Virginia. This was signed into law on May 30th and it was a bipartisan le leg legislation which codifies that bailto
012bail cell phone free education policies established by the executive order 33 and school divisions are required and must adopt a bailto bail cell phone free policy during school year which Greensville County Public Schools has done so. Any questions or comments for them? All right. Um, and we kind of went through B, C, and D all at the same time. Did you agree? Yes, sir. Okay. So, moving along. Um, item E, our literacy plan update. Excuse me. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let call Miss Coker to give us our liters plan update. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening, school board chairman Jesse, Vice Chair, Miss Roberts, board members, Dr. Edwards, and other attendees. I'd like to present tonight the GCPS by annual division literacy plan. And we're going to start with a reminder about the Virginia Literacy
013Act. All right. So, the Virginia Literacy Act. With the passage of the Virginia Literacy Act, known as VLA, in the 20202 General Assembly, Virginia took a proactive stance to improve literacy outcomes for Virginia's youngest learners. Through the VA, the Virginia Department of Education will support school divisions through a multi-year effort with tools, resources, technical assistance, and funding. The original plan was presented last year in 2024 and submitted to VDOE. Then, uh, but tonight, I'd like to just look at the division literacy plan and give you a quick review. Um, I guess it's coming. We have it as well. You have it. Okay, good. Yes. All right. So, in January 2024, VDOE released their template and instructions for developing your division literacy plan. In the March 2024 Virginia literacy update, the VDOE released version two of
014the division literacy plan. The focus for this plan was K8, but it was narrowed to focus only on K5 for the 2024 2025 school year. That initial plan was presented to you last year. The 2025 to 2027 bienial plan which I'm going to share tonight uh includes grades six through eight. The initial plan and this plan uh both include our division literacy vision statement. Uh and GCPS was really ahead of the game because we adopted core instructional materials K8 in the fall of 2022. Um sub subsequently they were approved by VDOE. So that made us ahead of the game. Our division's literacy vision statement. Greensville County Public Schools supported by parents and the community are dedicated to creating a culturally sensitive and literacy enhanced environment where every student excels in reading, writing, critical thinking, and
015communications communication skills through tailored evidence-based teaching and interventions. GCPS will deliver a comprehensive preK12 literacy approach that fosters a love for reading and enriches our students independent reading path. So the division literacy plan um I'm going to highlight the key changes in se section one which is planning for comprehensive communication we added the dates for the 2025 2026 school year under section two which is selecting highquality instructional materials we added HMH for grades 6 through 8 again we've been using both that program even at Wyatt um prior to this section three ensuring V Virginia literacy act evidence-based reading research training. We added the VDOE UVA modules for K8 that Dr. Farcus mentioned a few minutes ago. Uh we also added the vows dates for grades four through eight. That would be the literacy screener that
016we've used um preK3 will now be used four through eight. Um we added PD dates for HMH, which would be uh in six through eight only for new staff in those grades. In section four, monitoring student assessment and progress, there were no changes. In section five, assessing division level progress, there were no changes. And then in section six, engaging parents, caregivers, and community. Uh that did not change. And then the new plan um which we have you all have a copy of um is due to VDOE by June the 30th, 2025 um after you all as a board adopt it. Um and it's certified by Dr. Edwards. Did you have any questions? No, ma'am. Thank you. Okay. Thank you all. All right. Next up is item F, the House Bill 1600. Yes. Thank you, Mr.
017Jesse. So, we've been following House Bill 1600 um very carefully as House Bill 1600 um signed by our legislators pro provides a bonus for instructional staff and support staff. The amount of the um bonus for instructional staff and support staff is of $1,000. And so looking and how we've deciphered through the House Bill 1600, uh we would like to offer the bonus um as a retention bonus for all faculty and staff returning to Greensville County Public Schools and offer that um stipen when everyone comes back um that bonus um that signed a contract to come back to Greensville County Public Schools in the amounts of $1,000 for full-time and the amount of $500 for part-time. And this funding will be dropped into the EDI and it will be a part of our budget. Um but
018it would quickly be um siphoned right out question. So this is money that just was awarded to us recently, correct? Yes, sir. Pearson, this money was awarded um between May 31st and and this week and it's the amount that we receive uh or 234,000 um from the um from the money that Governor Yncan put in House Bill 1600, which is a bonus for staff. Yes, sir. Just for clarity, this was not before we asked the city and county. Correct. That is correct, M. It was not before. It was not included in our budget of 38 million. You are correct. Yes, sir. And then am I correct in assuming that this was just for the SOQ's positions and then we match that locally? 100% correct, Mr. Jesse. um all money sent through um the funds that
019and house bills are only um for the SOQ positions and we look and we um take our and we're thankful for our board of supervisors and our city council um that we're able to provide um the funding to u support our support staff. I see that Mr. Kane is here. We thank you again. Yes. All right, hearing other comments or questions for that. We'll move on to item G, special recognitions. Yes. U Mr. Jesse, under special recognitions, I I do want to Miss Coker just did the literary plan and we thank you um Miss Coker just received some exciting news. Um so the James Solomon Russell um which is St. Paul's College Museum and Archives. um they've been on an initiative of expanding reading initiatives along with our real men read program at um Greensburg
020Elementary School. And so for the past two years as part of our community engagement and continuing the educational legacy of James Solomon Russell, the the museum has had the honor of hosting Malcolm Mitchell who is a New England Patriot Super Bowl champion. Nuke. He's an author and founder of the Share the Magic Foundation Read with Malcolm programs in our local Brunswick public schools. However, this initiative is going to be expanded to Greensville County Public Schools and also Sussex through the growing partnership with Malcolm and continued support from Dominion Energy. They are proud to announce that the partnership will also include Greensville County Public Schools and Sussex County Public Schools by expanding Malcolm's reading programs into these elementary schools in the fall. This program is set to hit in October of 2025. Malcolm will bring his
021program to Brunswick, Greensville, and Sussex. and in hope that this project continues and be able to expand into more surrounding counties to help improve reading across the region because according to Malcolm and his statistics, children who struggle to read often drop out of school, live in part poverty, and ultimately sometimes end up in jail. So, we're welcome to see the receive this news about the Malcolm reading program and look forward to the initiative coming down in October. And on that note, we'll start with our special recognitions. I'd like to call Miss Riddick to the podium to start our special recognition. Chairman Jesse, Vice Chairperson Roberts, board members, Dr. Edwards, colleagues, and guests. Good evening. Good evening. I'm so excited to announce that our high school track team participated in the state tournament this weekend at
022James Madison University. Um, they came back with some honors. Jaylen Easley um 2-way state champion in the long jump. He also broke the school record with this. Um is it Naja Parker placed fourth in the high jump. Cashmir Bkins placed eighth in the discus and our 4x4 boys placed seventh and that was Cameron Picket, Tommy Boyce, Mantel Jones, Carlton um Picket and the alternative was Javian Jones. So, let's give them a round of applause. Great job by coach James Patina for some congratulator um congratulatory shoutouts for tonight. Um Mindia Garner, our school nutrition supervisor, and I'll get pictures after we finish so we can get through it. Um, Miss Garner was elected at the School Nutrition Association conference as Virginia's region 5 director. She also passed the school nutrition specialist credentialing exam. So, congratulations. Congratulations.
023Great job. Also, Katherine Slaggel. She's been selected to serve on the reading EOC so standard setting committee. this summer and Dr. Janelle Robinson for being selected to serve on the math 6 so standard setting committee. And now for our division competition. All right. So, the best student attendance goes to Wyatt Middle School. [Applause] Wyatt could have left it at the house. 96.8%. That's That's pretty good. And it's increased since the last month. Best staff attendance. [Applause] Why? And that increases from 96.6 to 98%. Clean school award goes to Greensville Elementary. [Applause] Thank you. Um Junth became a federal holiday on June 17, 2021 when President Joe Biden signed it into law. This is just a reminder that GCPS will be closed on June 19th in observance of Junth. And lastly, to all the amazing fathers
024and father father figures on our team, thank you for your guidance and support to your families and to our school communities. Wishing you all a happy father's day this weekend. And that's all I have. Thank Thank you. Next up is item H, our VSBA policy updates for May. In your packets are the red lines for May's updates for VSBA. Here I've compiled a summary that just gives you the changes right off that were made. Thank you. You're welcome. And then you will have these for 30 days. They will be given to the department chairs for whichever department for these. Any questions? Thank you. All right. Um item I, our unit of justice presentation. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to call forth Miss uh Marva Dunn in the unit of justice um team as they
025come forward to give us an update on unit of justice here at Greenswood County High School. Good evening. Good evening, Chairman, Vice Chairman, and other board members and Dr. Ed. You will see that I don't have anything on technology. I'm old school. When technology goes, you fall off the right. As long as I got my paper, I'm good. So, you will have a folder in front of you that has detailed information regarding what we have done for the entire school year. You will have the report that we gave in February. That's in the black in regard to the um work plan that had been initiated originally. What's in the red is what we have done since March. And you will find that behind the cover sheet that says Greensby County High School unit of Justice
026and Aid Progress reports school year 2024 2025 for the plan originated by Dr. James. Before you get to that, during my last report, you witnessed your first lesson in unitive justice when Miss Warren so nicely displayed what an iate parent could be like. You won't get that today, but I hope do you do remember how effective that was. I'm going to summarize what I have been doing with the help of my elite unitive justice team. Would the rest of you please stand? Miss Turner, Miss Glenbury, and Miss Warren. Yes. From March 1st through May 19th, I implemented 45 students with 45 circles with 45 students. Three of them were with group sessions, but the majority of them were um two students who had had some conflict, behavior conflict, or either they were referred to me
027because the the teachers suspected that something was brewing and we were trying to cut it off before we got there. Most of them went really well. The students were able to recognize their behavior. Not initially. Most of the time they would come in and say, "I don't know why I'm here, Miss Dunn." And I just stare at them and just stare at them. And finally, I say, "Why are you here?" So eventually we really have been able to get students to acknowledge and that's the beginning that they do acknowledge that they have misbehaved. Some of it sticks, some come back again. But I have still seen a change in their behavior, their overall behavior because even when they come back to me for maybe doing the same thing a second time or something else instead
028of u coming in with that I haven't done anything attitude. It's okay I screwed up again Miss Dunn and I really know what I ought to do. So then we go into okay well it's on you. you know, you have admitted, you see, you know what you've done. So, it's on you. And that is a big big step for our kids that they are willing to admit it. That's the first step. It's just like an alcoholic. The first step is saying I am an alcoholic. So I can see a lot of progress and um some of the students that we some of them you know a little reluctant but there's still progress because they come you know they will come when they were referred. So that's that's a step I'm not going down my um
029written summary word by word because you know you all can read that. Um, but I did want to point out that something that was very significant to me. One of the teachers who did not take the class at all came to me one Monday and said after that staff meeting that that unit of justice staff meeting and information that you all have been sending out, you know, I use that at home with a family event and it worked. So that that's amazing. That is really amazing and I'm really really happy to report that. In addition to my summary, you will find in your folder statements from students and their own words regarding their experiences participating in unit justice circles. You will find a report from Reocus. you will find Greensville County Unitive Justice Team reports
030and narratives. Right now, I believe um Miss Turner is going to add to my report. Once she has finished, if you have questions, we will be more than happy to answer them. But before she comes forth, we do have a strategic planning retreat planned for June 30th through July the 3. So we are very busy. All right. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Um, I wanted to uh give a report on staff engagement as we um are planning to implement uh unit of justice throughout Greensburg County High School. Um we have had um three full staff meetings. Um we have provided information and resources. Um we delivered that on March the 11th. Um we have been giving our unit of justice corner in the week at a glance every week since um March 11th. We
031send that to Dr. PJ um once a week so that we can get information out to the staff. Um this ensures that all staff receive consistent rel relevant restorative practice information. Um there has been at least 18 meetings between I the coordinator and the administrator of unit of justice um on a basis to help plan for further implementation um to check schedules as we pull students who need um unitive and restorative circles. We um check schedules to make sure that we're not imposing and interrupting so instruction. Um we have created Google forms for staff to um request circles and also for students. So we have conducted uh 14 restorative circles and we've had three requests through emails, three verbal requests and eight Google form requests for circles. And um there has been a total of
03215 circles for student participation. And within your packet um I included a snapshot of one of the Google form data points of how students reacted to the circles that they received. So there's a bar chart that states that the students responses had a positive impact based off of the circles. Most frequently selected was it helped me talk about how I feel and f followed by it helped me solve problems better. Um it helped me get along better with classmates. Other responses was there was an improvement in self-control, understanding of others. And so you can look through that chart and see how students reacted to the circles that they um participated in within the classroom itself. So this is just a data point for the progress that we're we're making so far. and we're excited to
033have an opportunity to continue working with students so we can um get more students exposed understanding what the process is and how it can benefit them. Thank you. Thank you. And I'd like to add that one of the things you will see in your report that we feel is needed in order to make this um unit of justice more effective here at the school is we need to um get parents involved. So hopefully we can work on that in the upcoming year. We also need to come up with a numerical data uh tool. We haven't done that yet. what we're giving you is not numerical, but we know that we need that. So, we hopefully we'll be working on trying to get that together during our strategic planning workshop. And remember, you might say, well,
034I don't really see that much happening because the kids are still misbehaving. You're still getting write ups. you still having these um close session meetings where you're having students come before you, but we have just began to make a dent and hopefully that dent will grow and you will be able to see a significant amount of progress. I know that I have seen, you know, and you'll see some of the when you read some of the kids statements and that came straight from them. You see where I marked out their names for confidentiality, but those statements came straight from them and those I think you may have about 10. So if you got 10 students giving that type of response and I met with 45 in addition to the ones that they met with, we
035have to believe that some of the others are reacting and feeling the same way that those uh statements that you have in your folder are. So, uh, we believe that that it's going to make a a significant difference. It has already made a difference, I believe. Um, Miss Warren and Miss Blindberry, do you have anything you'd like to add? If not, do you have questions? Do you have suggestions? We're open to any suggestions that you might have for us. If you don't have today, you don't have time, shoot us an email, something that you want us to work on when we have our retreat that you think um may help us improve and implement the process. We're open and we're very open to have any and all staff join us in learning the process. just
036the basic skill. You'll see a big difference in how you communicate with your students, even how how you relate to yourself really, you begin to see that some of the things that you used to do, you need to do differently. And when you do it differently and you able to own and you might see in some of my comments there that when we're able to recognize and own our own stuff, then we can help our kids recognize and own their own stuff. and change their behavior a whole lot more effectively. Thank you so much. If there are no questions, I have um just piggybacking on that a little bit. Within the circles, within the circles that that are taking place, um is that specifically just with the students and then your staff or is there
037circles where staff members that might be tied to the reason of the circle for that one group? Are they involved in that currently? Okay. What are the are the circles with the students and the unit of justice staff? Is it just the unit of justice staff or is I can speak to that. Yes. Um I had a teacher that came to me and had a problem with a student and so I said, "Would you like to have a circle? Let's have a talking circle and let's find out what the problem is because there's a reason that you hadn't had problems before but you're having them now." And so at first both were reluctant but they came together and as a result the student spent maybe two weeks out of that teacher's class but going to
038another teacher's class during her session. The teacher knew where the student was. However, within that twoe frame they were able after our circle to come back together. The student was reunited with the teacher and they had a successful end of year. Yes. So yes sir. Okay. So far the ones that I have conducted are just with the students because I mean I've been overwhelmed with the students but it is open for staff to staff you know because we we all work together. We all know that all the time we don't necessarily get along. Um and sometimes it's simply because you don't understand what's happening. So that the unit of justice process is open. We would love to have staff come to us and say, "Look, um, we need circle." Miss Glenberry pissed me off the
039other day. So, can you do a circle with me and Miss Lindberry cuz she really pissed me off. We would love to do that instead of letting Miss Lberry piss you off and you walk around stuffing it and stuffing it and stuffing it and maybe not even doing what you're supposed to do because Miss Lindberry asked you to do it. You pissed off. We would much rather you come to us and say, "Let's do a circle." And we're hoping that that will happen as we continue to implement units of justice here at community. So we're in the mix between unitive and restorative. That's the key right there. Unitive, we're trying to stop it before it happens. But with restorative, sometimes the things have already happened. And our job is to make sure that it does
040not happen again. And I think that for the students and in fact I know for the students that we have seen that it has definitely helped we have definitely repaired some relationship especially with female students and so that's what we were aiming for they are challeng They really are challenged. We are working on it. We're working on it. Even if it gets to the point that it gets to the point that they will say, "Okay, I just won't talk to her anymore." So, if that's what they have to do, we don't encourage that. We encourage them trying to figure out a way to exist peacefully together. And I have seen them to say, "Well, I'm not going to talk to anymore." But they come back and eventually they'll report to me. Oh yeah, we are
041talking. We are talking. So once again the key to it is taking the kids where they are where they are. If they said to me, I don't want to talk to them no more. I don't push it. I just said, "Okay, we're going talk to and and it wasn't it works accepting the kids where they are." And we use our intake form to guide our discussion. So we do an intake form first. So we're not just talking and writing notes. we actually have come up with an intake form where we're actually writing down and documenting what is happening and the questions that we're asking so that we can get to the root cause of the problem. Thank you. I just I just wanted to to to um piggy back off of what Mr. Jess said
042about the communication piece. Um, and I think you hit on that a little bit, Miss Dun about the parents getting involved. So, you know, I would just say that the more that we can get them involved, the better off we can increase that communication piece, you know, as far as parents, kids, and the school system as well. Well, I have had an opportunity to communicate with I think three parents and three students and they've been fairly open to learning more about the process and having their children be involved in it because they recognize the fact that the kids have behavior to change. But I'm hoping we can do something in the upcoming school year um some open form to get the parents here so we can explain to the parents what's happening and that there
043is an option for their kids to justice instead of justice. Exactly. And that's what I was going to lead up to is that the the data the outcome that you all have as far as the kids communication explaining how they feel and how it's helped them if that could be expanded to the parents as well then that could really what increase the outcome as far as the the program is concerned. Well, I'm hoping that Dr. able to somehow put on his calendar in the upcoming year an event for the parents where we can bring them here to just talk about justice. I hadn't had a chance to talk to him oneon one about it yet, but since he mentioned it, I'm just throwing it out here now so that everybody know I ask him, you
044know, so you know, we can throw him under the bus. I'm going to say on that note, we gonna create a little circle with us. Okay. Okay. And there are many facets to this. Um we cannot work this in silos. So we have to attach it to our VTSS plan. We have to attach it to the discipline plan. So there are many plans, communities and schools that we have to attach all of this to. And so we're hoping to do that in our retreat so that way we can come back to you all with a solid plan of how we're going to do units of justice with all of our um wraparound services within the building and in the community and thank you all again for supporting us and thank you. Thank you. All right,
045our next um section is our action items for the evening. The first one being federal grants. Yes, Mr. J. So, we have um Dr. Robinson um on on Zoom and um I present before you the federal grants um as an action item. Dr. Robinson. We have a little technical difficulty. Are we going to be able to get her up? Yes. Hold on. Mr. Remo, could we bring the microphone back there? Would that help? A lot of feedback. Okay. Yes, sir. Thank you so much for working. [Music] Okay. Good evening, Mr. Jesse, board chair. Mrs. Roberts, vice chair, esteemed board members, Superintendent Dr. Edwards, fellow attendees, and those joining us virtually. Thank you for the opportunity to present an overview of the federal programs that support our strategic plan and academic goals for the upcoming 2526
046school year. Each of these grants play a vital role in helping us remove barriers to student achievement, strengthen quality, and ensure equitable access to resources and opportunities across our schools. Title One Part 8 focuses on improving academic outcomes at GES. It supports staffing, instructional resources, parent engagement, and extended learning opportunities such as Saturday School. Title One funds are only for GES and a because we implement a schoolwide model is allowing every child at GES to benefit from the funding. Title One Part D supports at risk students across GES, Wyatt, and Greensville County High School through the communities and school program and school safety initiatives. Additionally, this grant supports students that participate in the AVID program. Title two, part A focuses on professional development and recruitment retention initiatives. It funds professional development, our new teacher mentoring
047program, tuition reimbursement and re recruitment incentives. Title three provides resources and training to support our English learners, including technology and professional development. Title four, part A, student support and enrichment. These funds enhance enrichment and safety programs such as the implementation of YADA pouches at our secondary schools and the DARE program at GES. Title five part B supports family engagement and early learning in rural and lowincome areas through personnel and prek resources. I do thank you for your time and attention this evening. I respectfully seek the board's approval of the outlined federal program plans for the 2025 2026 school year to ensure continued support for our students, staff, and families. Thank you, Dr. [Music] Any questions or or feedback from the presentation? All right. If none, uh, we're seeking a motion to approve, um, the federal
048grants presentation as, as presented. I make a motion that we accept the federal grants presentation as presented. Second the motion. It's been moved and properly second. Any more conversation? All those in favor making by saying I. I. Opposed? The eyes have it. The motion carries. The next is item B, ourou uh with the endowment project. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um administration is um seeking approval of the memorandum of understanding with the endowment project. No. And I'd like to bring forth Dr. because we are super excited um that we have the endowment project um once again going as it has been avoided since um co Dr. Parker All right. Good afternoon again. Good afternoon. So, at one of our earlier schoolboard updates, Miss Franklin actually shared with the board the um resources and the projects
049that she had been working on. This is a project that was shared with me about a year ago. And um so I started the ball rolling and Miss Franklin has actually jumped in to uh complete the the grant funding part of it and work with the company to develop theou. So I am very excited. She could not be here tonight but I am very excited to present to you theou for um your signature with the endowment project. This partnership is unique because oftent times opportunities like this are reserved for private institutions. So the opportunity to have sustainable donordriven funding at our high school is going to be amazing and provide so many opportunities for us to do things in the high school that we are not asking the board to support. We're not asking the
050local government to support. So, I come to you asking you to be as excited as we are to potentially get new bleachers to um pay for PLC opportunities um for for staff. And there are many school divisions across Virginia, and she may not have shared all of this, I don't think, initially, but there are many school divisions across Virginia that are benefiting from this partnership already from new tutoring centers, revived art programs, direct scholarships to first generation students. So, we know that with Dr. Posie James and Miss Franklin working together with the Endowment Project Foundation that we're going to see some tremendous benefits from from this partnership. So we we're excited for this opportunity. So I'm asking for your approval of ourou. Is there any um restrictions on the allocation of the funding? There is
051not. We send to them what we are asking for and then they send us back the funds in order to purchase or do whatever it is that we want to do. I noticed that you mentioned a few things um on as far as a list. Do have we compiled a list or do we have a list? We don't have a complete list. Dr. Posie James when we met with them when we had not our initial meeting but probably halfway through the year the representative asked if Dr. Posie James had any ideas for the high school immediately. you want to. So, what I asked for is like staff incentives. Also, a we've been trying to get a BTSS store for our students who do good behavior-wise so they can get like ego gear, shirts, um jackets.
052So, that was and also the bleachers for the football field as well. So, those were the top three things on my list that we asked for. I'll ask it. Um, is it is it specifically going to be just for the high school? Yes, it is just for the high school. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you. All right. Um, hear no more questions or comments. We're seeking a motion. Second. It's been moved and properly second. Any more conversation? Hear none. All those in favor make a note by saying I. I. Opposed? The eyes have it. The motion carries. Our last action item this evening is item C, the GCPS policy revision, GCI. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to bring Miss Ready forward um to give a a brief overview of GCPS policy revision GCI
053professional staff assignments and transfers. Good evening. Good evening. Um the policy revision that we are requesting or seeking approval for will change the transfer date from May 15th to April 15th because of the calendar change. Can I ask please what's the significance of the calendar change? school high school. Oh, I'm sorry. Any other questions or comments for Mic? All right. Thank you, Miss Re. In honor of Mr. Rook, I'm gonna say it one time for the fiscal year of 2425. What's the board's pleasure? Hearing no information, I will make the motion um that we approve the GCPS policy revision GCI as presented. Second motion. It's been moved and properly second. All those in favor make a known by saying I I opposed. The eyes have it. That motion carries. Next topic is our uh section
054seven, the public comment session. Um clerk, have we had anybody sign up? No one sign up. Okay. Um it's public participation in schoolboard meeting states that any citizen may address the board at our regular meeting. Uh persons wishing to appear before the school board should contact the superintendent or the schoolboard clerk, submit a request via public comments at gcps1.com. The chair is responsible for the orderly conduct of the meeting and shall rule on such matters as the appropriateness of the subject being presented and the length of time for such presentation. No one will be allowed to make personal attacks on any Greensville County Public Schools personnel when addressing the board. No one will be allowed to make additional presentations until everyone has had an opportunity to make an initial presentation. That allowed period of time
055with the board during public comments is three minutes. hearing all that wonderful information. Is there anybody uh here tonight that would like to address the board? All right, we'll move on to section 8, our announcements. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, just as stated previously, we have kicked off summer session and our students are definitely engaged in high quality learning and we thank for our partnerships with summer learning and we're just looking forward to having a good summer session as we make progress toward um, moving forward with the summer sessions here in Greenswood County Public Schools. Thank you. Anything else from the board? Also, we thank you guys again for coming on this really hot summer day. Uh, and I'm now seeking a motion to go back into close session um to discuss our personnel matters
056um where we're going to consider or interview prospective candidates for employment, assignment, appointment, promotion, performance, demotion, salaries, disciplining, or resignation of specific public officers. appointees or employees of the school board pursuant to code 2.2-3711 A1 second. It's been moved and properly second. All those in favor make a known by saying I. Opposed. The eyes have it. We now move back into close session. Uh good evening again to everybody like to come back out of our second close session on June 9th, 2025. Clerk, can you certify? Board Chair Jesse? Yes. Vice Chair Roberts? Yes. Mr. Pearson? Yes. Mrs. Reed Moore? Yes. Right. Um we are seeking a motion um for recommendation for the student matters that were discussed during closed session. Miss Jesse administration um moves for approval of student matters as presented in close session.
057So move second. It's been moved and properly second. All those in favor make a note by saying I. I opposed. Um, next is the recommendation for personnel matters from close session. Um, m Mr. Chairman, there are no recommendations at this time from close session on the personnel. Anybody got anything else from the board? Seeking a motion for adjournment. So move second. It's been moved and properly second. All those in favor make a note by saying I. I. Opposed. As have it. We're now journ.