001mov supported do we have discussion hear and see none please call the RO mron this W yes Mr I vote Yes all right those are added on and start with Communications and president's remarks I will apologize to everybody for my raspy voice I caught a little something in Florida last late last week so um with that being said I'd like to welcome everybody here this evening and watching online um start out with congratulating to our uh choir and um bands as they uh represented Harper Creek very nicely at recent Festival events um great job to our high school robotics teams they were the quality award um from the judges at the recent competition they attended and um spring Sports start today with that I will turn it over to Mr Ridgeway all right so big
002congratulations we had a state of Michigan Regional teacher of the year she's actually in running State teacher of so congratulations to her March's read month is happening right now lots of activities happen through the try to keep the upd as things that you potentially attend any of our buildings the High School Musical is coming up on have March 14 15 and 16 is that right yeah it would be F so be the 21st 22nd 23 building committee meeting uh March 19 we will be talking a little bit about a potential Bond project in 2026 uh beake Elementary showcas is coming up on the 20th countdown to kindergarten that's our first event for kindergarteners is on March 20th um the jazz band is going to play a festival in at East Kentwood March 26 and then
003spring break starts on March 28th through April 6 and then the board wanted to be updated today we have 13 teachers that are to retire seven of which are Elementary teachers and six High School teachers we talked about person seven Elementary and six High School teachers to reti all right thank you for that Madam Secretary you have any Communications we do we have several donations toled thank you to Rea and David for their to the har theater to usro Partners LLC for500 schols seava j50 to the Creek community schoolsa program W it's phenomenal a lot of great donations thank you to all move on to student board member Mr get questions answer were all questions answered okay any questions all right thank you move on to state of the district presentation Mr R I think
004you're gonna leave that out yes all right so we have quite a few of our administrators here today and they're going to give what we're calling the state of the district oh and coaches and student sports specialist sorry uh but we are going to U hear um and they're going to do it in an informal manner so we have the chairs in front so it's not a what I would call a presentation from the podium so more of a conversation and I'm pretty excited you know I think we're going to hear a lot of great things that are happening we're also going to hear you know some things that we can improve and then we're going to hear you know what initiatives that is happening in the district to keep you informed so if we
005could get kind of everybody into their spots and then we'll we'll go ahead and start the presentation enough chairs we'll be close four all right so it's like everybody's getting in position I will start the can you see everything up there okay so we have the the slideshow but you know it's more of a conversation than reading off a slideshow but it'll be up there to keep our our folks um continuing on the pathway so that they can keep track of where they're at but generally this presentation follows our new strategic plan our updated strategic plan and here is you know what the updated poster this is our final draft um of what this is will look like and we will distribute this to classrooms and things like that but they are going to look
006at our pillars our strategic priorities and um kind of talk through that driving student achievement is our first thing so I know a lot of the presentation is about that and I will be the one that will sort of head up each of the different priorities as the group goes into so the first thing is driving student achievement um and so the the things that we we want to look at uh we have a student Focus curriculum we want to ensure educator training and celebrating Student Success or things that that that are occurring and now we're going to have individuals that will go through and kind of talk a little bit about where we're at and where we're going so just go kind of help understand um first you'll see that we are in one
007the grounded exarch science compon of a we have learning year and impl it with the best Fidelity um I'm going to tell you a little bit about our journey we have subal support fromi we've beens weeses and walk us through all the parts and pieces of the curriculum we've actually had two onsite visits days toal m and our representative will observe our teachers teaching model lessons and then meet teams so that all our questions are answered we get to know their because there's a lot of resources know they were and so um we and we were lucky we've been working with the same representative both times so it's really nice we to know and she let us reach out when we she came last week and um really we've been doing a lot of unit
008planning um she helped walk us through how do we and our PRI stands what asss do they to driveu we've been pluging right along and enjoying it we've seen LS of Interest with our students love the content so you know six through grade they have educ I just to AV 24 us but they come instru into the and then they sit down and and this is my first year also in a coaching position so I learned so much from them just watching them run instructional rounds and have coaching conversations with the teachers so I hope we can continue to do that next year um so we've also taken a look at all of our priority standards that we identified in the past and how often are they beinged what' taking a look at how they're
009assessed and then how we those to go into power school so that system and we've been talking and talking about how things are taught especially going from amplifi to E from to and we see a lot of we arez early release time and we meeting District wievel team a every week um and so we just oh I do want to mention do team for a long time um but a number of the teachers who were previously trained and this is structur you can put in place because all teachers are teachers of reading and so they have a group of teachers from multiple contentas going to training the Su yeah one thing I'll mention board members inside of your packet there is data we decided not to just throw data at you so that there all
010the data that we have is within the packet so you can take a look at Ela then math and and kind of see where where we're at so I'm G to move on to the next [Music] slide content based learning is an approach to literacy that focuses on teaching content rather than comprehension skills that's we call user oh my God we are we are not going to watch the videos at this point but you these are in your board packet if you'd like to watch the videos so we we added we added this presentation to the board packet so I'm G to flip to the next slide question is there any any questions about Ela specifically a lot of it is our implementation of our freeing resource I just want to make a comment um
011I see a difference with amplify I have four uh boys which are usually not the the uh they don't see reading as a recreational sport um but we have seen mendous growth with the Amplified program our second grader and um my third grader one of my third graders this weekend chose a book over PS5 time so please take that as a victory um I even snapped a picture so thank you for your hard work anything else all right I'm gonna flip it out hopefully it goes to the next one yes we'll talk a little bit about math so for math of m for us likea have come us one of the other things that we've been doing is trying to do alignment across downs and like many that the level um that's been I think
012four times year teachers love it and we would love to have it some more and then again the early release if we're not focusing on the reading then we're FOC when you're talking will you say your name and toble a whole building so we have the opp to talk 5 with what we're doing and see how each of our pieces line up together and also because we have that time instead of just would be we have been able to do professional learning um articles anding our understanding how to be better Math teachers any specific questions for about math the only piece anecdotical I'll put up I went into some classrooms at the middle school recently and watched some some math lessons and I was I was pretty impressed and of how math teaching is happening
013and if you're looking at at the data and you're kind of wondering what the the charts and and all that the ones that have the diamonds kind of at the bottom of the page so you want to have your bar at at the diamond or above the diamond to meet the growth goal and I think in math we're we're doing pretty well not 100% meeting every goal but for the most part at grade level we're doing a pretty pretty good job of growth and bridges has been implemented for five years or so in mid school after three so I'm I'm really happy with how it's going any other potential questions oh one more anecdotal story I have a I have grandkids scattered all over the district uh but my I have a middle schooler who
014we were heading out to dinner in cazoo a couple weeks ago and he spent 10 minutes going into incredible detail as to how he had solved a math problem early in the day and and I'm kind of a math guy so I was driving and listening and I'm like I kept waiting for him to slip up and he never did I mean it was and it was really really a buttoned up explanation about how he'd solved a particular math problem so good job yeah so I have a question for you so for math I think you know looking at the data you can make assumptions based on you know are we are we progressing are we reaching goals what would you guys say are goals that you have as being leaders in the curriculum no
015just wondering from your perspective is it you know we're breaking through a lot easier are are the teachers uh feeling more fulfilled with uh some of the new um methodologies that you're using it it'd be really interesting to get your perview or your perspective as to what success look like because we can see some of the data points and they may not happen rapid but that doesn't mean we're successful st's given us yeah part of those answers on those tests are but a lot of that doesn't that Learning Journey have these at have journey of the teers soie talking about that horizontal first and then that vertical alignment all the way across then we're talking about the Journey of the the learner the student so what is beautiful and we have Janice and absolutely across
016the board she is amazing because she kind of like filters through there's so many things right there's so many things in the math but she kind of helps us filter through all the things to like help us be more intentional so when principal start seeing that inity AC level across the building like that's hug because our understandings as Learners adult Learners are becom consistent solid and I comfort I wasn't that kind learn that yeah that I see is that you know that if I go in it's a different especially you know the ELA different but math is significantly different and I see kids that for years now in cles that sit back and let that easier I see kids leading kids I know it doesn't come easy to that and other you know that before
017I would see them sit back they're leading discussions because it's about the thinking it's not about whether you have the right answer first it's about the thinking and they might be really good leaders maybe math just not doesn't come as easy to them but they can Le the discussion it's really interesting to see the Dynamics and how they've kind of changed I think that's so critically important because those are lead measures they're going to deliver the numbers on the page eventually might you know and I think the the more we have great engagement the more we have Happy Teachers who are feeling fulfilled the quicker those numbers are going to jump up so I think it's we need to keep that in the Forefront of understanding you know your perceptions are we successful or not
018so I think that's really important all right we'll shift into the social emotional Learning Journey okay so I know that one most important Jour the things that a mentor teacher said to me a long long time ago she was actually talking about reading appes to everything she said you teach for the strategies that you expect to see right we don't make kids like we teach the strategies that allow those connections to happen but that's the way it happens in Behavior too and I think we're so used to as teachers like the academic part of that is a little bit easier right that behavior piece is a little bit harder but what we're doing on our journey is we're learning how to be intentional and teach those specific strategies so when we think about social emotional
019learning we're talking about developing self awareness self control interpersonal skills for work school and life because ultimately like we want to see it at school and then it goes to work and it's all about life so those are the things that we're trying to um develop in the students that we're working with and honestly as weing with our students I'll be fully transparent learning some things as we I'll just um so components of that so in terms of consistency and like building as we go like that progression we are um together doing Trails which is our social emotional curriculum we are doing warning circles dka um we are doing PBIS which is our positive behavior interventions and dka we have already um progressed from tier one which means are successful at tier one so we're
020putting some whole school things in place that work for 80% of the students once you get to that spot you start looking at tier two so you have a smaller group they need all of tier one they need a little bit of something different so dk8 we're all at tier two which is fabulous so we're currently working on that the high school once they get their their um adjusted schedule next year or they change their schedule be able to have more consistency so in some rooms they do mindfulness some of them are doing Trails um some of them are doing circles sometimes it's plan and sometimes it's organic but next year they'll be able to be more consistent but as we progress up again we want to work on self awareness self management social awareness
021relationship skills and just responsible decision making those are life skills questions not yet oh got more no questions yet yes so what we know is if our students are able to manage themselves communicate with others we know that it will definitely improve academic achievement right so that is like all those good things that come with academic achievement that's the produ of this social emotional learning work like it will happen um and our students will feel more confident and more confident as they're working through their their academics um and we know that it enh Rel ands being able work through relationship problems something work on all the time and redu stress and conf for students as they are progressing through school what that could look like in classrooms um dka in some high schools like mindfulness
022reflection um we're working with kids specifically and intentionally on how to have open communication or how to um have conflict resolution how to solve them we are all going to have problems it's just life but we want them to know how to do that in a way that is a productive way to solve problems um we also want them to be empathetic and work on a team and we want them to be able to work together Foster supp learning so ultimately what this really says about Harper Creek is um and this is really important work and everything that we do is by Design because when you think about it we did our backs design and we looked at the of graduate in citizenship right so we said we want to have awareness of's own emotional
023state man navigate emotions in the home and social set develop empathy respect and tolerance to encourage curiosity maintain respectful and meaningful relationships so really everything that we're doing within the area of social emotional learning is really all about that because ultimately it doesn't really matter how intelligent you are when you go into the Work World you cannot get along with other people so you know I went in I just kind of Googled like what do employers want to see right now and I can tell you all about the critical thinking and problem solving you know that part but they also want leadership skills they want people who can communicate they intelligence they want people who can collaborate and at end of day and so that's what the social emotional learning work is I I think
024it's a critical area um I guess the question how do we how do we talk about student performance and progress in that area how do we involve parents in that discussion how does how does that look it feels like maybe it's a little different than a a Core Curriculum class but sort of isn't is so one of the ways that we've been involving parents is that we do updates in our newsletters so we do it on a global scale this is how the building is doing um if we have for example for the sever years actually in all of our elementary buildg has been an area that has a high level of support um so we share strategies with parents that we're using for kindergarteners um we show success we talk we share the data
025around the voting about like you know we had these many referrals this month specifically we did this strategy and decrease by this amount so we're having the conversations in our meetings sometimes we have to have the conversations with parents individual meetings we are sharing that information and we do monitor our dat and we are proud of the grow that we're making now we're not where we want to be by any means um but we are definitely yeah and in your packets there is by school all the referral data for the this school year so you have a kind of a snapshot of how things are going by grade by gender well I applaud I applaud the effort because having spent nearly 40 years in corporate I mean it's spot on what what people are looking
026for are good leaders okay and Leadership encompasses so much and a lot of the things that you guys are focusing on so that's that's is universal that's another what I would caller one p that's being added so that can have conversations andies do do we see attendance improving at um with kids feeling more comfortable in the classroom not having anxiety to come to school and track we do a lot with and then is also the behavior so that we have that data available for us in ours inform so a lot of that is already so are we doing better or are we not doing better in the attendance so we have created an attendance tracker um and there was a month where we went the wrong way in attendance but generally this year we better
027year-over-year in attendance and that was our measurement at this point is how how are we doing as compared year over year over year um you may have noticed if you have kids the newsletters all have you know kind of a dig you know attendance thing in it um we've worked really hard on attendance it has improved slightly I'm not going to say it's some G big Improvement we really have are working on our chronically absent kids to get them back they really Drive our attendance out we did a lot of research as District was their strategy a lot of what we realiz is s sometimes work aone a lot more cthp CS every day we have a little B of so that kids are excited you know we want to be we get to do
028this today and our PBIS if they earn so many then they get to have you know a special game there last Friday and so anything to get here excited about school so we've seen our attend juston yeah we're worried about the chronic Le for sure and I will say what those students that areic you recognize kids don't dri tool and so your fa celebration kind of addresses that because it's hard when you're penalizing a kid when they there so those are just C if you're there that day we Cate you but we do work very well with oury officers and those meetings that we had this year like sometimes it can be a little want toar felt like were tough meetings this year but they work very well and then they help us you know
029they develop the for and then we try to ask what supports need if the supports are within our power um then we try like if you need an alarm clock or whatever we try to work with that like we can do that on our end so those have been very successful a lot of the kids offic all right so that's just the same just to finish off on what our conversation was different things that are happening okay back to me right you want to do it oh go ahead so invest in our people uh so this is about you know how we recruit rain retain and train our people and so a lot of great so uh one thing that one area that we talk about recruiting strategies for success and I put first thing
030up there grow your own uh because you don't think of grow your own as a recruiting strategy but I hire all of our child care people throughout the district and I've had two people this year that specifically and one of them was from you app about own and it is a recr strategy we've people to of that grow your own program you know some other things that we we do we use handshake University recruitment that's kind of like a a global thing that when you're part of that it puts our District's name out to many many different colleges and universities out there it's like one platform that most of the colleges and universities use to connect us with with recent grants um of course you know salary and benefits is not everything but if you're
031going to recruit people we got be we got be we got to be so we've done a great job you've done a great job as a board to make sure that that that way it's and then probably the most important part is the culture uh people won't come if your culture not and so recrui people har Creek I think is a lot easier because we have that family culture and a lot I talk to a lot of teachers around around things so the second part is the development uh development of our people um teachers uh they they're involved in professional learning communities and um research is pretty solid there is no grow your teaching staff then with professional Learning Community when they when you're taking the expertise of the people that you have here and
032getting them all togethering them time to learn from each other is research don't ever ask outside people certainly the to bring outside people provide us expertise but when we are learning from each other we are stronger so drawing upon those strengths that we have um grow your own obviously we have 47 of our staff currently pursuing certifications additional certificates what district has that 47 of our people are actively engaged at either becoming teachers adding additional ends and so that that is a on our I that that and that's the fruit of that is it's going to continue to grow in our district for years and years to come so and then quality evaluation so uh evaluation tools U I tell my my staff that that you know when I come in and observe them it's
033it's 90% of improvement 10% of valuation you know 90% of my emphasis being there is to help them be better yeah I have to evaluate that as a principle that's requ but my goal is to make themp ADR our people and that evaluation process and then uh leadership pipeline we've been u u much more intentional at identifying those people that want to be leaders and sometimes it's just you know they want to be leaders within the classroom uh they don't have any desire to go beyond the class but we need leaders there people that will that will take up leadership within grade level teams within you know uh content areas and things and so we want to grow those people we also want to grow to maybe sometime take that step into ad Rec and
034then retaining the best talent um uh we we've had numerous recognition uh we just uh finished the true blue recognition uh where uh I love how how cre does it is the people inside the district nominate each other and so it's like you highlighting the good things that are happening with your colleagues good things they're doing and then they're recognized so Carla is a big part of that and so appreciate that um the family culture I know culture is one of our you know another area but but people stay because of the culture stay stay in our district because we have that culture and that family family and so not that we're perfect we're still always improv looking to improve part of that is we do morale surveys of our staff and again those are
035not always perfect and sometimes as an administrators you look at that boy I thought we were making progress and we're not you know type of thing but we pay attention to that and we try to be intentional and one thing that we've realized as a district and and I've heard my teachers say this and I know it's happened in other buildings too is is morale is not not one person's problem it's all of us all right and so if morale is not where we want it then we all have to do something people again retaining people competitive salaries that keeps people here being competitive with other districts thank you Mr collaboration so kind of suming everything is that we need time to do all this really great stuff um when you're in the classroom and
036you're in front of 203 32 students the day goes really quick you're really busy you're planning for that so when do we plan for what we're the strategies we're going to use moving forward whether they're for social emotional learning reading math um reading apprenti any of those things thinking know how we're going to kind ofuse that in the building so we really have been on a journey to create a culture of collaboration we've had many teams go to professional learning Institute and bring that back and I'm very proud that the middle school a lot of people toal and trying just to create that culture SOC is not a meaning it's a culture it's a way we do things we look at dat we get curious about the data whether the data is reflecting personally us
037well or not on that particular day we get curious about it what did you do your data is better than mine what did you do how did you teach that and then we learn from each other so having that early release time having um the the professional development times and um as administrators I know we do our best to have common planning time because those conversations happen just organically they don't necessarily happen on Wednesdays at the middle school from 145 to but they happen a lot we do our very best to get those people that that really need to talk a lot together as as they can it's not always do that the middle school has the advantage of having all the gr levels in the building which is really fantastic for that kind of
038work and want to increase our parents our collaboration with our parents that's sometimes tricky um but we do our very best um and then Community Partnerships we do a lot of collaborating Community Partners to streng what we're do so they come in and we have them we have speakers come in we have them come in and teach Co lessons with some of our counselors social we're really working hard to develop those Community Partnerships and that starts at the top does the you know does the breakfast and that's when Community people come in and we can we can talk and and something is said and we're like oh you know what you know could do that learning in second grade and we'd love to have somebody come in so um we're working really hard to create
039those Community Partnerships and I think we're pretty successful job but it's continuous work it doesn't just happen one time you know how that goes you create a community partner and somebody leaves that position that partnership goes away continually trying create yeah and one thing in the volunteerism and the Community Partnerships there you know there goals within our strategic plan we want to improve on and so how can we have a system set in place to somebody wants to volunteer so those are things we we will work on that we have not implemented fully obviously and then Community Partnerships really the next step in my mind is the corporate part so we do a lot of nonprofit stuff now can we leverage some of the corporate stuff for some of the finances because the finances aren't
040going to be great the next two years we're going to have to make sure we look in all directions to see how we can help ourselves out we're g turn over to Kevin and Chris there's a video we I'm going to turn it to them sh mersh team testament which is a lot of questions that we all answer and with once we receive the the results from that it has three main focus focused on leadership capy of organization but it talks about how what can we do as a leadership team and as a district to um build effective practices and and how we're going to implement those effective yeah I mean that's that's big cover so there's seven capacities leadership ability selection training coaching training and coaching Data Systems fa adist system at the next
041this is our implementation drivers so as a team we took the uh survey and came up with shortterm medium and longterm goals that uh we decided to work on as a team so our thre month our shortterm goals are around um creating a board report tce a year this is an example of what that like an effective team meeting processes so having norms and talking about the the roles and responsibilities that meeting and then we went into more medum go which ising at the communication coaching and implementation of mtss have a lot of the processes um but we are going to work on creating that written process so that when say for inst that um I think it was our last CCC meeting we all came together so we would have the same mtss tool
042to use we looking at different things that we needed to address in different buildings so everybody would be um on the same page with that and it would be consistent throughout the and so with mtss I just kind of put it in a nutshell the ISD count School dist has hired some Consultants to help us with multi-tier systems of success and so we have systems in place to help and so what these goals are is how can we make sure we go through the process so that we do with Fidelity we do a good job with it and so there's some simple things there's there's many different components but over the next couple of years we're going to try to implement it so we get better at systems for academics and for behavior and so
043these this is kind of the first step in the process to get better we we had it had it implemented for many years now we're going to make it better you've heard about PB the positive behavior supports and the work that's been done this is very similar but now with multi-tier systems of success we want to this is a state system that we are using to get better at what we're doing all right and then I think the the last couple are are are me so another pillar we have is communication Improvement you know there's lots of things we want to do we want to make sure we can connect to parents Community uh we want to strengthen our brand and we also want to we have transparent tools for training a meeting with our
044communication director as well as our technology director on things that we can do to do both of those things um as parents the biggest thing you want to know is how do you use power school how do you use Bloom what training is can we provide uh f so they know how to use it and then we want to know what tools should we used to communicate with parents so I have call outs that go out the principles are doing newsletters we have blooms we have all different kinds of things let's organize it say what's the best to with the right type just generally so our communication plan will be updated um we'll use social media and website um I really like our website at this point I think it's a really nice website and
045using it to our our fullest will be very important and then finally you know the the last pillar and these are the things that kind of at the board level you know anticipate plan for growth you know we we have an idea of doing a another bond issue in 2026 that we are um going down the road with uh we want to make sure we're fiscally responsible we put Relentless because it's going to be extremely important these next couple of years for us to keep the district in in a good spot financially we can do all we want with culture all we want with the people but we have to have a financial stability here and so I know that that is going to be one of the pieces that's going to be really important
046for the board myself Mrs overmeer and then one that's a future goal that we have is expand Early Childhood programs we currently have three gsrp classrooms within the district how can we expand what outside resources could we use what other places in our community can we add more we'd like to have every child every 4-year-old in a preschool program one second can we have daycare programs for the kids that aren't in school yet there are some in the district they're hard to get into you know if you're young ones you know that how can we strengthen what we do here at Harper Creek School District so those are or that is a future future goal that we want to really tackle as we move forward and that really brings us to the end of the
047presentation uh any final questions that you might have about where we're at as a district work to a lot of work to do a lot of work that's been done how long's our Ela um curriculum been in place now uh just this year this is a year one implementation and we're three years and five years on the math yes and I think that reflects in the scores especially the growth scores yeah BR had to asked that question earlier I think I think for me the focus on uh I think we we're successful as we see the growth continue to improve to start with when the growth improves the proficiency will will follow I think most our folks would agree with that all right one more year on Ela let's get it there were all right
048any other okay just an observation I've been on the board a while this and I'm gratified by the fact that this is the most discussion we've had about leadership and culture in this type of in this type of update and I'm gratified because I I think we all know if you look at the greatest organization what did they have great leadership and a great culture and they didn't get the culture in a meeting they didn't have a meeting on culture and said let's build it they did it was the culture was all about uh the standards they set and how everyone holds each other accountable for overd delivering against those standards every day so uh great work being done and I uh I'm glad we're I'm glad we're spending a lot of time focused in
049that area thank you all we appreciate you thank you all right we're going to move on to District updates Mrs Williams are you going to share much or just free okay uh there is a new course that was Link in there that we would like riew um it's a algebra albra 2re calculus our math department as you know we're looking at different curriculum resources but as they looking at Pathways for is a need that they have brought to our district fre Council finally known as DCC and so I am asking for you to review it and then um in April honors Algebra 2 pra course in addition um Mr uh Greenman and his team um and we've come alongside him have worked diligently we meet weekly there's a course book it's called a sneak peek
050there's some tweaking um so just take a look one of the things you'll notice that will be different um it's not brand new different but is that we are going to link for our families as well as for you um the actual scope and sequence so that as families are using the resource if they wanted to take a look what does a scope and sequence look like uh it would be right there they wouldn't have to go to a different scope and sequence or a different web page we do have some internal management we're kind of working through but I just really want to lift up Mr Greenman and Mr urius and his team on uh all that they are doing to move forward and Becky Gardner um they're a pleasure to work with and
051so as I said we have some things we're tweaking on that um the NWA midyear data is in there Mr Ridgeway pointed out we also put a hard copy in your folder for this um we know that um the processes we are putting in place the structures and resources are bearing fruit and so you already noted that so I I just want to Echo that um our perception data did close we had to extend it a bit we wanted to get more input from some parents um so we will have that data in our April report and in addition in April um Terry trzinski who um is working with hatching results she's working with our team her and our people will be doing a similar conversation presentation around the career Pathways the um I didn't
052want to steal their Thunder but there's a graphic in there um because we are paying attention to attendance social emotional learning PBIS career Pathways and academics that's all I have unless you had questions as you read the report prior to the meeting I think the course book was quite comprehensive and there was several um courses I was like gosh that's really cool cool like there are some neat courses that are available for our kids and it's exciting yeah so I just had click the button so you kind of see Laura was talking about scope and sequence and different things this is what if you're a parent you would be able to see about English it gives you a lot more descriptions about so I have two quick questions uh with the honors algebra pre-calculus um
053course would that be would we be able get college credit for that for our students or not um not at this time um not at this time because it's not an AP course it's just an accelerated um course that's merged merge and then um and maybe I missed it because not all there today but um as far as the kids that are currently in high school that will be switching over to the new uh credit system per se we've equated that that math out to figure out what that like if you look in the course book I think it's page 11 Mr Greenman is that the page we keep going to I have it memorized I think it's page 11 or six it's six or 11 those are the ones that I have right there
054is that six so 2 26 27 graduates 28 29 graduates and there's the credits that they would have to have yeah it's spells out it's different down there all right um I'm just wondering because I'm sure parents are going to have a lot of question hey how's that work now and Mr gemman and his team has offered parent meetings and they will continue to um like bring students and parents along as a part of this process I think realistically there a lot of this going be individual um as we look at the seniors next year and say make sure they have all the things they need okay Y and and a as a part of what's being shared with you in April our counselors and student sport are you know we talk about tier one
055they have tier one responsibilities that they've identified what do our freshmen need to know what do our sophomores need to know Etc and so they're taking a much more proactive they're in classrooms with scheduling things that not only the schedule but other things that those students should know and someone lifted it up I actually think it was one of our elementary teachers oh it was na the seminar that will be a part of this um there will be learning in there um so that we're not losing kids does that help Mr buz yes it does thank you you are welcome any other questions for Mrs Williams all right facilities Mr Robinson good evening thank you U I submitted the report um just a couple highlights we I'd like to talk about um in my custodial
056report I talked about autonomous machinery and we now have two of them actually one in the high school and one in the middle school that are on our tile floors and they're amazing machines um they're able to save us some man hours and uh do then they do a great job we're looking at two more machines that would do both carpet and tile so um if you're out about in the buildings especially in the evenings you'll see them buzzing around they start at 9:00 and I think they run all the way through the night it's pretty neat they fill themselves they drain themselves they they go in and out of they can go in an elevator so we have one that they're working on it right now so it it can go upstairs in the
057elevator at the high school let itself in let itself out go do the track it's crazy so it's some pretty neat stuff way better than the on Sam's Club yeah and the kidss have been great around them we were really worried especially at the middle school we were really worried that the kids and stuff would mess with them they're not they're they're really like AED by them and so it's kind of cool so we talk about yeah those kids better be at bed yeah well we run them during the day sometimes too so um so you talk about a robotics group and stuff that's something that would tie directly into that um other things we're working on of course like Mr Ridgeway spoke about spring sports today um finally Mother Nature cooperated with us today
058so we were able to get everything ready to go so tennis soccer uh lacrosse s TR baseball softball we're all able to be outside for the first day and I don't ever remember that on the first day of spring Sports every kid's being able to be outside but they were NE um testing we're getting ready for in April and believe it or not we are a month and a half away from graduation and so it's crazy but we're all still prepping for that right now as well yeah two months and two I think you said that two and a half months the uh machines there there they didn't cost us any money no uh no so what is happening uh I'm working with our custodial um group and they're struggling still with Manpower and so
059one of the tradeoffs is kind of we're working with those machines they're not taking anybody's jobs I want to put that straight out there we're not taking anybody's jobs with these machines but they're helping alleviate some hours that were just not able to get great any questions from Mr Robinson thank you Mrs OBM good evening hi I talked a lot last month because I presented the new budget I'm of course uh working on that pretty much daily any changes that come in another big piece is um we're starting negotiations and we're working on budget for next year um there are a lot of changes it's of course a lot of assumptions right now but educated assumptions based on what we hear um especially what's going on up at the state and so that's what we're
060really working on one of the things I wanted to talk about um or let you guys know is the CISD budget um was presented to superintendence uh this month and it will be coming to you guys next month to be discussed and approved that's really all I had unless you guys had any questions about the normal board reports that I turned in nope all right move on to technology and Mr Maynard good evening all right just to update on our big project projects our classroom notification project is all but done at the middle school in Beetle Lake Elementary now there's a I think there's a couple things to go plug in but company should have been by to finish those by now um we did some testing last week and it went really well we're
061going to be doing some more testing before spring break when there's no students here um we're working through that system the camera system all but one of the new cameras is up and running um they are much better than the old ones the servers are working everything seems to be going the one that's not working is defective and the company is switching it out and that takes them a couple weeks apparently to get us replacement so working on next steps there and then lastly just as a reminder it's time to start thinking about the 25 26 student devices um we'll probably have to put out an RFP for the high school devices the other ones we expect to be on the state bid but we're just uh cautious as we look into what's coming with
062the uh tariffs affecting pricing on everything so we're expecting prices to be up so is that something we should get done sooner than later then well I mean it's part of the bigger discussion on on WE how we want to spend money so that probably has to be part of a bigger conversation good I just say if we don't need to delay for any reason if if we know we're going to buy them let's get them B typically we'll we'll have that conversation on the 19th and the building at that point in time we could probably move forward at least cautiously with that okay comments related to agenda items none move on to the consent agenda Madam Secretary chair calls for a motion at the Harper Creek Board of Education approve the Cent agenda as
063follows approves the general fund check School Services fund check school lunch and student School activity fund checks in accordance with the list discussed also approved the following minutes as reviewed February 10th 2025 regular Board of Education meeting minutes February 17th 2025 joint Board of Education meeting minutes and March 5th 2025 budget committee meeting minutes sove support it's been moved and supported do we have discussion hear and see none please call the rooll Mr hon yes Mrs Ryner is abson she's left early okay um Mrs did I say Mr hson Mrs Waterson yes Mrs Alward I vote Yes Mrs Wallace yes Mr Smith yes Mr Bess I vote Yes apologize all right motion carries information discussion start with school safety update Mr Ridgeway great I will only talk about the things that Mr Mayer has not
064talked about yet so emergency operation plan should be coming to the board on the 14th of April the final plan for the district so that is really cool it's been a lot of work uh but it is going to put us in a good position um the uh safety and mental health money uh we are getting some more money I'd ask Mrs over to see how much and so we think that we'll have another for safety 150,000 or so to spend um we did talk a little bit about how we might do that um and just completing uh projects that we currently have cameras and notification system um and then we did set talk about potentially having representatives from each building Andor taking our Safety Committee on the road at each building all right move
065on to High School choir trip High School choir trip would like to take a trip to Nashville Tennessee uh next year March 11th through the 14th of 2026 um it was attached in board book in ter terms of the uh itinerary uh PR director Alex B just wants to go ahead so that he can start raising money he doesn't want to raise money unless the board approves that all right um High School wood shop campus visit rights so Ryan rener our wood shop teacher is asking approval to go out of state to um university of Northwest Ohio on April 11th he thans 30 to 40 kids on a school bus and there's no cost to kids and um he's going to have them visit the campus especially for trades they do more than wood shot
066there they do uh diesel engine repair they have a small engine repair um training all of that I I strongly recommend that we we allow this or we approve this sure all right um move on to item D bridge building field trip so annually the bridge Builders go to Grand Rapids it's overnight trip April 9th and 10th so by policy we approve all out of state overnight trips uh this would be 12 students who are going to attend there's no cost to kids um it's been a very valuable uh experience over the years um again Erica Jenkins is our bridge building advisor she will more than likely come in and show you this year's bridges in the future always like that so one thing I'd like to just mention so I keep bringing lots of
067field trips to the table um I would ask or maybe have the board consider I still would like to bring these out of state overnight trips like the choir trip to the board or out of country trips but the ones like for example the northwest Ohio or the even the Bridge Building potentially if you allow me to be the designate to approve those trips it may save a little bit of time for the board we typically don't say no anyway but it's just a matter of me making you aware that they're happening is there anything in policy that it just it says design already so board or design so if you can if we can just make a procedure that if it's a out of country or if it's a uh like a long-term trip
068like the chir trip those come to the board but those that are typical annual trips that we do or bus trips they should not necessarily so what do you think the best way is to accomplish that motion or I don't think so I I just it's already in that just all the board will allow the and you're not going to come after me in a few years hey what are you doing these kids are going over the place you me say years no we won't do that everybody good with that all right new hire exciting news one of our goou own teachers completed all coursework as well as certification and we will offic officially hire Jenny fry and she will be Masters one and she will be second the she in the house well there
069you go huge accomplishment and I am strongly recommending the board hire Jenny for that position that she's been filling all year it was a struggle for a bit because it was pretty overwhelming but thank you for getting to the finish line and you are number one right uh we actually have one I think Alex Decker was another one that's already through the process okay that's cool all right uh Food Service ovens a little different so John had came to myself in ginger with a down on the on our food service funds and he he believes and his his recommendation is we need a new oven at the middle school and the high school um now I have approximates because he did get a price from a vendor but I looked at our policy and we
070need to get bids and so John is in progress of getting those bids and so one way we can do it is to just simply contact vendors and say hey I need a price um and so I am estimating that the Middle School oven will cost approximately 40,000 hopefully under and the high school oven will be about $50,000 hopefully under but to be timely I'm asking the board to do a do not exceed a purchase of the ovens pending the bidding of not more than spending $90,000 in total all right he actually went toew he's going up again in take a look there's not a lot of companies that provide these but he is going I said we have to go through the process to try to get three bids because that's what our policy
071say we're still in the spend down right I yeah we're heav Duty in the spend down at this point um yes okay all right uh item G naming of District facilities okay so we have a policy in place now I am now bringing to the board the actual request that came to us to rename the access road by the practice fields ATT tenis course after Matt burn um the first step in the process would be to set up a naming committee an administrator a teacher or coach parent Community member and a school board member at least so my question is with the first step is there any school board member that is interested in being on this committee Mr Smith says he would like to do Smith yeah okay and I will work on forming
072the rest of the committee that the board has nothing to do for a little bit we will the committee will come with a recommendation in the future all right quick question I know we were talking about the um the street uh uh and I'm not adverse to it but when did the uh tennis court get thrown in there no it's the street by the tennis court oh the street by the tennis court okay I was just trying to describe where it was okay sorry I'm I'm a little the access today all right um anything further there I not hear well earned sick time act update all right this was kind of crazy last meeting we we actually approved a policy and then the legislators went in a few days later and they uh updated the
073the legislation and passed it and so we need to update our earned six time act update and all we're doing is going from employees we have to use one hour increments to half day increments of time that they can use everything else they the in so really simple but an update so that we have it within legal limits true send it out there's actually two um just so you're aware there's the policy and then there is a what I want to call this a it's like a um form that goes to all new employees when they're hired that that Tammy Chapman our HR Director will give them that gives tells them what their rights are so those two things is what you would be approving to okay any questions there all right uh do we
074have comments from the audience anybody want to talk to us car is going to check it out but anybody want to step up all right heing CA we're going to move on to action item a high school choir trip here calls for a motion that the Harvard Creek Board of Education approved the high school choir trip to Nashville from March 11th 2026 through March 14th 2026 with Guardian Travel Group as discussed and reviewed so moved report it's been moved and supported do we have discussion he any Cen on please call the rooll Mr helverson yes Mrs Ryner Mrs Waton yes Mrs Alward I vote Yes Mrs Wallace yes Mr Smith yes Mr B I vote Yes motion carries all right thank you for that action item B High School wood shop campus visit trip chair
075calls for a motion at the Harper Creek board of Education approved the Harper Creek wood shop trip to the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima Ohio on a April 11th 2025 as discussed and reviewed moved support it's been moved in support I'm not sure by who Sarah and Sh yeah do we have discussion hearing c n please call the role Mr hvon yes Mrs Ryner here Mrs Waton yes Mrs Alward I vote Yes Mrs Wallace yes Mr Smith yes and Mr B I vote Yes motion carries thank you action item c b bridge building field trip chair calls for a motion that the Harper Creek Board of Education approved the Harper Creek Community School bridge building trip to Grand Rapids from April 9th through April 10th 2025 as discussed and reviewed so moved support we
076move and supported do we have discussion he and see none please call the rooll Mr hson yes Mrs Ryner Mrs Waton yes Mrs Alward I vote Yes Mrs Wallace yes Mr Smith yes Mr best I vote Yes motion carries all right action item d new [Music] hire chair calls for a motion that the Harper Creek Board of Education approve the following new hire Jennifer C second grade teacher Beetle Lake Elementary ma 1 master's degree from Western Michigan University through the grow your own program a move is it m support M it's been moved and supported do we have discussion he and see none please call the rooll Mr helverson yes Mrs Ryner Mrs Waton yes Mrs Alward I vote Yes Mrs Wallace Mr Mr Smith yes Mr Bass I vote Yes motion carries all right
077thank you for that congratulations Mrs fry all right um Food Service ovens Che cheer calls for a motion at the Harper Creek Board of Education approve the purchase of an oven for the middle school and an oven for the high school using Food Service fund in the amount not to exceed $90,000 pending bid results as discussed and reviewed wait what do I say first so moved so moved support all right it's been moved and supported do we have discussion hearing and seeing none please call the role Mr helverson yes Mrs Ryner Mrs Waterson yes Mrs Alward I vote Yes Mrs Wallace yes Mr Smith yes Mr be yes I vote Yes motion carries all right last action item item F earn sick time act chair calls for a motion at the Harper Creek Board of
078Education approves the earn sick time act policy update as discussed and reviewed still moved support it's been moved and supported do we have discussion hearing and see none please call the role Mr hon yes Mrs Ryner Mrs Waton yes Mrs Alward I vote Yes Mrs Wallace yes Mr Smith yes Mr B I vote Yes motion carries all right items for the next meeting anybody have anything that they want to I I do have uh something that I'm interested in understanding um gotten feedback around our WiFi um just would love an assessment on our buildings how our Wi-Fi or other critical systems uh are functioning uh do we have feedback that maybe it's not functioning as well as we hoped in the high school and that as well as we' do I'm sure Mr Mayor Mr
079Ridgeway can chat about that a little bit anything else all right thank you to all good evening 7:22 p.m. good night e