001Madame President, I have 5:30. >> All right. Is my mic on? >> All right. Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call the Fairborn City Schools Board of Education regular meeting for Thursday, May 7th, 2026 to order. Mr. Pho, would you please call the role? Mrs. Mad >> here. >> Ms. Landon >> here. >> Mr. Howard >> present. Mr. Steininger >> here. >> Mrs. Webb >> here. >> Stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> The motion is passed. >> Can
002I please have an a motion to approve the minutes of the Thursday, April 2nd, 2026 regular meeting and the Tuesday, April 28th, 2026 special work session. >> So move Second. All in favor? I >> I >> Thank you. The motion is passed and we'll move on to board reports and good of the order. Uh Mrs. Web, would you like to start? >> I would love to start. Um I had a very pleasant morning this morning here at the Fairorn High School with uh Dr. Guy and the uh what is it? tasting >> book tasting. Um >> it's been a long day for a lot of us >> like boom. Um the kids were really great. We were here for fourth and fifth period and the kids were phenomenal picking their books and checking them out
003and asking questions. So it was really uh really nice to see. So thanks to Dr. Guy and and Mrs. Walsh. And that's all I have. >> Thank you, Mr. Steininger. Uh it was a good pleasure today to uh go around and pass out our apples for our teacher appreciation. I think staff appreciation. We got to see many of the people and thank them for their service. Again, we really do as a sta as a board appreciate their efforts that they put in every year. Thank you, >> Mr. Howard. >> Uh as Tim just said, we got an opportunity to go to each one of the schools today. Unfortunately, I missed the high school uh opportunity, but we have uh a lot of amazing staff and teachers, and it was great to get the opportunity to
004look them in the face and tell them thank you and shake their hand and just let them know that we are supporting them. It was it was a lot of fun to get out in the school and and an honor to get to meet all those folks. So, it was a good day. >> Okay, Landon. Yep. Thank you. Um, again, I echo kind of John's thoughts and everyone's thoughts about uh teacher appreciation. So, thank you to all the staff. Um, we appreciate everything that you do for our students and the community. So, thank you. Um, also want to shout out to our um our girls softball team for I think they won the MBL softball uh title, division title. So, congrats to those ladies. I think they're at 13-1 for right now. I think that's
005correct. Um, and also a shout out to our girls middle school softball. They're killing it this year. I've been to quite a few games. Um I I think I've been to at least three or four games uh for I hit them all at the same time. Uh boys boys baseball then girls softball at the high school and then roll over to the middle school. So it's kind of a trifecta every time they're having their home games. But everybody's having a great season. So congratulations to all. >> Nice. >> And tomorrow night is senior night for the girls softball team. >> Okay. >> And uh I think five o'clock. So >> 440 >> or 440 tomorrow night. >> Yes. For senior night. So come on out of Rudamont. Hopefully they win another one. >> That's great.
006I just want to say thank you to everyone for joining us for the meeting tonight. Um we always know that you have other places to be and to to be here with us is is we consider special honor especially for our uh senior class officers. You guys are so close to the end. As a matter of fact, we're going to approve our uh your graduating class tonight as part of the board meeting. So, um, that's always a fun and exciting thing to do. And we'll see you next walking on the stage at, uh, the Nutter Center here in just a couple weeks. So, um, I'd like to give a quick shout out to, uh, Remy Grow for putting on an amazing, uh, art show at the Intermediate Building this week. That was really fun to
007see all the families out checking out, um, all of the kids art throughout the year. Uh, so that was a great experience. Another shout out to um Fairborn Primary just had another wonderful culture night. Something that they've been doing for a while. Um, and if you're you cannot be bored in Fairborn for the next two weeks between all of the um softball, baseball, music. There is a music performance I think every night for the next um couple weeks. So uh we had band spectacular last night and again tonight. and strings coming up next week. So, all sorts of good things going on. So, no no reason to be bored. Um, so with that, um, I'll move on to our recognition of, uh, visitors. Do we have anybody here for public comment? >> Madame President, nobody
008has signed up for public comments. >> Okay. Thank you. Then we'll go on to school district presentations. Mrs. Gayart, >> thank you. Forgive my voice. This is going to be just about as good as it's going to get. Um, I'm excited to welcome Mrs. Zinc, the senior class advisor and the senior class officers to tell you about the senior trip. And I think I said it last month, but I will say it again. I want to brag on these kids. They go to New York and they make Fairborn High School proud. They are just on their best behavior. And I think they have a lot of fun, too. So, Mrs. Zinc, please bring your officers up and tell us about your trip. Thank you members um of the board of education. Um we are here
009again representing the class of 2026. My name is Brinley Ball and I am the senior class president. With me tonight are my class officers, Vice President Madison Becker, Secretary Chelsea McKenzie, Treasurer Rain Steep, Assistant Treasurer Claire Campbell, and historian Abigail Gumbert. We have come tonight to thank you for allowing us to take our senior trip to New York City and to give you an idea of what we experienced. We started this school year with our annual chocolate sale. The fundraiser is set up so that individuals offset the cost of their own trip by selling candy. In the end, we sold over $55,000 in chocolate. After our 4 a.m. breakfast at the Clinton Station Diner, we started our NYC adventure by visiting the World Trade Center Memorial. After we rode the ferry to the Statue of
010Liberty, and from there, we broke up into our smaller groups we call families. Each family was able to design their own travel plan to visit sites of interest to each member. Some places visited were the Rockefeller Center, Chinatown, Little Italy, the Chelsea Market, and various parks. At the end of our first day, families reunited at Planet Hollywood for dinner and then ended the visit with a with ended the visit with a trip to the Summit 1 Vanderbilt Observatory. The view was beautiful and it was amazing way to end our first day in New York. On Friday morning, we had a 7 a.m. breakfast and then headed to Besta Fountain in Central Park for the traditional New York trip photo. Families then set off on their own for another day of exploring the Big Apple. We
011saw unforgettable sites like the Bolt on Wall Street, Trinity Church, and the Oculus. We experienced riding in the subway, walking through Central Park, and shopping at Rockefeller Center. One of my family favorites were um the Liberty Bagels. Yeah. Um it was really good. And we also got to go to Chinatown and Yeah. And FAO shorts. Oh, wait. One of the best parts of our trip was getting to see a Broadway show. This year we saw The Great Gatsby and it was incredible. What made it even better was that we got to see the original cast perform including Abel Nova Zava. Each actor was so talented and you could see their passion which made it even more enjoyable to watch. The show had a little bit of everything, comedy, drama, and even some crazy surprises. So,
012there was something for everybody to enjoy. Our class loved it and it was a night we'll never forget. >> Saturday started with our class visiting the Met. Afterwards, each family set out to see as much of New York as we could on our last day. Some haggled for bargains in Chinatown. Others visited Soho and Times Square. A visit to Grand Central Terminal, lunch in Little Italy, and shopping in the Nintendo, Eminem, and Lego stores were other popular stops. We also want to mention our outstanding chaperoons chaperones who made sure this trip was special for all of us. Our class had a great time in New York City and learned a lot. This trip has allowed us to travel to an expansive and I um and a diverse city to see what other cultures are like.
013The annual senior class trip gives many students who would not have had the chance to travel the opportunity to do so. We want to thank all of you again for allowing us to continue the Fairborn High School tradition of taking a senior trip. The memories made by the members of the class of 2026 are ones we will never forget. And please enjoy this brief slideshow of our trip. Turn it just a little bit. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. I just want to say guys that every year somebody comes and says please can we go and thank you for allowing us to go and it's the easiest decision ision in the world to say yes because of how you always comport yourselves when you're out of our range. Okay. You make it so easy
014by how everything that comes back about how amazing you all have behaved and all the wonderful things you got to do and how appreciative you are. So, it's easy peasy to say yes. Keep it up. You guys are amazing. Next, I am going to invite Fairborn High School ELA teacher Kitten Gear to come and bring some students with her. And she is going to tell us about an ongoing project this year called Service Through Stories. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> She took my job. My name is Charlie and I'm with Ava and Brooklyn and we're here to talk about service through stories which is a group where we read to the primary school children every other Thursday to encourage good reading habits and positive friendships between older kids and younger students and just to
015give back to our community. Our club's goal is to give back to the community's youth by reading stories every other Thursday to an assigned classroom. As a group, we encourage these kids to enjoy reading rather than it being something they dislike. Reading helps us grow, learn, and explore new worlds. Just 20 minutes of reading a day exposes you to 1.8 million words a year. Finding books you love. We read a new book to the kids each week, which expands their vocabulary and exposes them to a variety of themes and genres. Creating a routine. Attending reading at the primary school every other Thursday shows the kids what it means to be reliable and show up for your community. Things we've done to encourage reading. For Dr. Seuss's birthday, we dressed up as Cat in the Hat
016and Thing One and read Dr. Seuss books to the kids. As a club, we have given the classrooms we read to donated books to keep and read over the summer. In service to stories, um we strive to give children a passion for reading while also making it fun. Um, we hope that the kids look forward to the Thursdays that we read to them and we hope that we've made a difference throughout the year. Um, even in the short time that we've had with the students, we hope that we've increased their general knowledge and we hope that their comprehension and liter literacy skills have strengthened and most of all, we hope that we've established memorable relationships between us and the primary students. Um, thank you for listening to our short presentation. Um, I hope you all
017enjoy the rest of your evening. >> Thank you. >> Very good job, ladies. Thank you. And then um I would also like to invite Dr. Brackenhof for another presentation and she has brought her instructional coaches with her and I will let her take it from there. Several years ago when we did our new literacy adoption, we brought in instructional coaches for literacy and without them we would not have made it through the science of reading and arrived at where we are today. Um when we added our new math curriculum at that time we brought in math coaches. So tonight I've asked each of our buildings to um describe a little bit of the work that they've done and I hope that you are amazed by it as I am proud because these are the people
018that provide the link from the classroom teachers to the principles to my office to help all of us work together to be at that fourst star report card rising towards five stars. One thing I will say about our instructional coaches that makes our model a little different than in other places is every one of these coaches teaches half a day and coaches half a day. That keeps them rooted in classroom instruction. They don't lead or ask teachers to do anything that they themselves are not part of. So I think that that is again a very special feature. So we'll start with primary And I'm not going to introduce because they have a slide that introduces all of their coaches. >> Hi, I'm Tammy Burton. I am a coach at the primary building. I coach reading.
019So, we have a slideshow here. Hopefully, I can see it. Okay. Wh back one, please. Yep. Okay. So, we've got five coaches in our building. Um Tammy Bartley and I. So, we call ourselves the Tammies. Um, we coach literacy. Uh, she teaches first grade half day. I teach second grade half day. Um, you can see our years of experience and years of coaching there. Um, and then Susan Waplehorst and Richard Worling, they're our two math coaches. And then Elise Damroer is our special ed coach. Um, this is what we believe an instructional coach is. Um, we are teachers who help teachers. Um we re we help them recognize what they know and what they can do. Um we help them strengthen their ability for instructive instruction and we work on increasing student achievement and we
020want to build their knowledge and capacity and this is we wear many many hats. Um so these are some of the hats we wear. We assist with that tier one instruction. So that core teaching for everybody. Um we on our TBT days, we facilitate those solution teams. Uh we work a lot with data, analyzing data, helping teachers plan next steps. We assist with small groups. So helping them make small groups, helping them know what to do with the small groups. Uh we can help with lesson planning and scheduling. We provide professional development, small group, whole group, pole building. Uh we also help teachers with classroom management and then we plan and run data meetings after we do diagnostic testing. So this is some growth we've seen over time. So our main testing um which is
021our state testing is the I Ready Diagnostic. So you can see that we've got four years of data there and you can see um math's on top, readings on the bottom and the growth that each year of the average. Then we want kids to meet their typical growth so that you can see the percentages coming up there and stretch growth is that ambitious goal to help kids close the gap who have those academic needs. So you can see each year we we're growing those kids. And this is just a quote about how the best way to grow is with your colleagues and just sharing knowledge between each other. Thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. So, we are the Fairborn Intermediate Instructional Coaches. And so, we'll kind of talk about what we do in our building.
022If you want to go to the next slide, we've got our pictures up there. So, our building has five coaches in it. We've got Jared Reid, who is a half-day math coach, and he co-ees with myself, Laney Kibler, and I am the literacy coach pair. And then we have Courtney Spiegel, who's the other literacy coach, and Celeste Stevens, who's here. She's a math coach. Um, and then we have Crystal Hayes and I'm the intervention coach in our building and I teach fifth grade half day. >> All right, you can go to the next one. So, um, a lot of our job is in our title, we have instructional coach. And so, you'd think that we just work with our teachers instruction, but we do not. Our main goal is to be able to help inform
023our instruction in our building, but also make our teachers jobs as easy as possible so that they can put all of their energy into effective instruction as well. Teachers have many hats, many things to worry about. And so part of our job is to be able to pair with them and pair with our admin in order to make sure that our beginning of the year goes well and everybody is set up for success. So, when we look at our coaching setup model, just like Sue had said before, we're half-day teachers, half-day coaches. So, we're in the classroom, we know what's going on with the material, and we can take different strategies and things that we're working on and put them into place and help our teachers put them into place as well. So, we also
024help our admin, we collaborate with them on what we are looking at buildingwide through our data. Part of what we do is a lot of data analysis. So I won't read all that to you. You can look at that later if you wish. But um a lot of the beginning of the year is setting that up, setting up everybody for success. You can go to the next one. Beginning of the year responsibilities. So we have a hub that has everything for our teachers to go in and look at schedules, um different resources. So we make sure that all of those are up to date. We have a super folder that is full of all of our instructional content. So all of our plans, all of our supplemental resources, there is one super folder for our
025teachers to go to and our coaches are responsible for keeping that up and making sure it's easy to access. Um us as coaches, we send out coaching menus as well. So essentially, we send out to our case loads, hey, this is what we're here for. This is what we do for you. And so there's a clear line of communication and they know exactly what to expect from us. All right, you can go to the next one. Okay. So, ELA, this year was a little bit different because we have adopted a brand new curriculum which for us as ELA coaches, we had um we had the opportunity to pilot this program last year so that we were able to know exactly what this was going to look like and some different things that we needed in
026order for our teachers to put this into practice as well. We um came in as the connection between SAVIS, the curriculum that we used, and our teachers. So if there were any questions or anything like that, we were able to reach out and help them with that. Um, another one of our big things that I mentioned before, we are very datadriven. Our building constantly looks at data. And so as coaches, we take a look at our buildingwide data and individual teacher data and make it as consumable as possible for our teachers and work with them to take that data and inform their instruction so they can best plan and use it in their own classrooms. Um, we work on small groupoup scheduling. We do professional developments, everything to help them make their jobs easier. So,
027um there's a little link at the top which you don't need to click on just yet, but um we've been been creating an ELA blueprint. So, what a whole year looks like and what the expectations are just based on the curriculum and based on the data that we've worked on so far. And so, that will be available for our teachers. And it also has a bunch of resources as well, just so it's as clear and as smooth as possible what we're looking at and what they can take, but also give ownership in their own classrooms to adjust based on their own student needs. >> And part of what I do is piggyback off of that same stuff that they're creating for the whole school and then adapt it even more for our population um dealing
028with our kids on IEPs. So, I create resources for the intervention specialists so they're not having to take the time to make study sheets for tests or modified version, not modifying the content, but creating more visuals on the math tests, things like that, just so our kids are have what they need to be successful and my teachers are being able to focus on instruction. And this year with ELA, there was a a lot of that going on as everybody was getting used to the new curriculum. But we've really liked the new ELA curriculum, especially intervention specialists. There's a lot of good stuff in there that we've been able to implement when we pull kids out. So, it's been a good transition so far. You can go to the next one. Okay. So, I'm not an
029expert on math. Literacy is my expertise, but math coaches do a lot of the same similar things. They're in charge of helping to facilitate planning. They are in charge of helping analyzing our math data for our building. They do a lot of the same things that we do but just specified for math. I Ready is a great curriculum, great content. There's a lot of content and so they do a lot of work taking that and making it um making it easier for our teachers to be able to instruct our students the different methods that they're asking them to do just to make it as effective as possible in their own classrooms. and they have a math blueprint as well that gives a good structure of what it needs to look like throughout the year. >>
030I'm going to click the >> Yeah. So, there are several different steps that go into a math lesson. The try it, um the discuss it, connect it. Uh I don't have my glasses on, guys. I can't see them. >> Yeah. >> And so, what we found throughout the year is when teachers are focusing on each section of that kind of setup, they get better results with their math teaching. I know one of the hang-ups for math instruction is we want to hone in on one strategy, just kind of kill and drill it, you know, every time so that they get it down. When when we go and do this and discuss it and they try it first without anybody guiding them through it, it gives them ownership of their learning and it gives them the
031opportunity to do a strategy that they feel is best for them. So, it's been super helpful for our teachers making it very clear for their instruction. We can >> I kind of already touched on math stuff. I helped modify the tests and help ga we had a I collaborated with Celeste and we had a meeting to figure out some more hands-on ways we can use manipulatives in our resource rooms and tried to help teachers gather some materials from I already because it is a deep well of stuff. So sometimes it's overwhelming, especially for an intervention specialist. We're working with K through five if we're lucky um with our kids and sometimes te the same teacher is working on kindergarten, first and third grade skills. So just mining that stuff can be tricky. So I help
032teachers do that. And I'll just talk a little bit if you go to the next slide about what I do specifically. My world's a little bit different. I spend a little less time in the office because I'm stuck elsewhere. But um I at the beginning of the year I spend a lot of time training up our new teachers because writing compliant IEPs is really important and every district does it differently. So I take a lot of time to train up the new IS's. How do you write a compliant document? How are you going to gather this data in an appropriate way just to make sure that they're feeling um set with those kinds of things. Um and then the other thing is just intervention specialists are pulled in like a thousand different directions. They're working
033with a lot of different teachers and grade levels. So, one of my goals these past couple years is just to create some cohesion in our department. So, we meet twice a month to do common planning together and talk through how we can teach different things. We are getting pulled into grade level meetings and all kinds of other stuff, but didn't really get time together. So, that's been really helpful to help um increase our scores as we're streamlining our instruction. And that's it for me. Okay. So, one last slide. Some impacts that we have on our building. um the teacher buyin that Sue brought up, us being half-day teachers and half-day instructional coaches, that is super helpful um for our position within the building because we have the experience in the classroom. We know exactly what
034they're going through. So, if we are implementing something and we're discussing with our teachers what would work best, they know that we are not out of touch and we are not out of the classroom. We are still in it with them. So, we know what's going on. Um our building, we have amazing amazing staff. We assist with our tier one instruction, small groupoup instruction based on that data that we analyze and go over with our teachers and buildings. And then um when we look at our teacherbased teams, we help assist in that to make sure that everybody's on the same page and that we are meeting the goal of what we want our teacherbased team to look like. And then finally, our building has been a 4.5 star building, which has been incredible. Um our
035staff is amazing. They're very receptive to new things and new curriculums and so I feel like that shows with our 4.5 stars. Everybody's in it together. So >> yeah, thank you guys. If you have any questions or anything like that, you can reach out to us and we'd be happy to talk with you about it. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. So, I'm Taylor Davis. >> I'm Amy Curl. >> And we're two of the literacy coaches at FMS. Um, we've both been for a number of years. We have Kevin Taylor, who is in our coaching our math. And on the left in a nice pink streak is Kyle Byum. Um, and he's our special education coach as well. So similar to a lot what we've heard from the other buildings, we have a broad spectrum of
036what we do and there's a few things that are unique to the middle school because the middle school is a special place as some of us know. Um so toward them a lot of similar things we're talking about data analysis to form instruction um on everyday level exit tickets all the way up to OST data and everything in between taking that information and using it to change our instruction. So um this year we had to focus on vocabulary. So how is that going to look? care specific strategies, things that we're going to do to help us in those cases. Um, curriculum professional development, see down the corner, that's just one, two, three, what five of our different curriculums that we're supporting as we go through from our already my path that's specific to a student
037all the way through study sync, our primary ELA curriculum, Spire, which is focused on our lower students, basic foundational literacy, language live, that's using specifically students on reading improvement plans. We have a broad spectrum of curriculum that we're supporting. We're supporting CC students all the way up through our accelerated students who are taking ELA 9 this year. Um so the coaches help build that support there as the teachers need build curriculum build out from there. One of the main ways we do that is through our weekly planning. So sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade, we meet together every week. Um and we make our plans together where we want to go, pacing guide, specifics. Um, but also it's a good time to talk about what went well and maybe what didn't go well and we
038need to come back to or circle around to or some of those pieces as well. Um, we do a lot working with our teachers to help them set the goals of what they want to work on. Um, we're particularly proud of our teachers that have built up and building their leadership and the things they've started this year and some of the best things that have happened this year we were just helping and it was their idea and how can we help you get to those points. So, we're really proud of where they've come with those and some big changes that they've come up with. Uh, modeling curriculum, of course, instructional strategies we talked about and in our building, we have a little bit of a heavier support on classroom management and um particular I see
039web smiling over there. Middle school uh middle schools need sometimes uh stronger support when it comes to classroom management of course and that is normal. So building up particularly those new teachers um with their skills in a basic level reassetting expectations all the way up and through what do you need next here's this building you to push you to admin support those kind of things um often new teachers are nervous or anxious about instruction about behavior whatever it is so building that bridge to whatever they need to the next is a lot of what we do >> can you go back two slides >> thank you >> all right so impacts and successes. Some things I get to brag about what we're doing at uh FMS. So, small groups um is something that our principal
040tasked us with at the beginning of the year. She said, "I'm going to task our ELA and math teachers with pulling small groups every single week in every single math and ELA class." And she set that goal with us coaches and we made it happen. every single um middle schooler was getting small groupoup instruction. So that was big and we definitely had to coach up the teachers on what that looked like. So um sixth grade ELA has been doing small groups forever. So we were like come in watch us because not only when you're doing a small group with a a small group of kids, you have to figure out what are you doing with everybody else in the class so that havoc doesn't arise. So, um, as coaches, that's a way that we definitely
041went in and supported the teachers. Um, and it looked different in every single class. I mean, one period we might be us pulling a small group and then, um, we could be inside the classroom or outside of the classroom pulling that small group. We could be doing, you know, behavior management type things or, um, we could be parallel even coaching and teaching um, during that time. So it was it this was a good thing that uh our principal did for our building and then she even made it even bigger and said okay I want everybody in the building pulling their low kids in every single class. So um we started out kind of as the if we can do it you can do it come talk to us we'll we'll show you you know this
042can happen. So, I think that's going to be a big impact on our building. Um, teacher collaboration. This is something that I've been passionate about because, um, getting teachers to sit and talk and plan makes life so much easier. Why not sit together and come up with plans, put our heads together and and and get it done? And then you don't have to be doing lesson plans over the week, weekend, and all of that. So, um, yeah. So, we do um weekly planning meetings. So, uh in ELA and math, they sit down and plan weekly. Um if you want to hit impact and successes, Reagan, um I'll show you an example. We're working on our pacing guide. And this is what sixth grade ELA is doing right now. when we have TBT time or we
043have our um time during team planning. This is kind of our document that guides our instruction. So um Kim Watkins from the ESC, Green County ESC, she um we were talking with her and we're like, "We love our working document for a pacing guide, but we don't love that we have to scroll scroll scroll and it's like 15 pages." So she was like, "I have a format for you. Try this." And so we made it our own and this is a document for next year. So this is our plans for next year. So um this is something that we're proud of. The teachers have kind of just jumped on board and they're the ones that have taken off with this. I'm there to say, "Hey, should we add this? Should we do this?" But they
044have made this, you know, their baby and they're proud of it. So each week you can see by different color like this is the story we're reading in that red and these are the weeks that we're teaching that. So um this I think is going to be very impactful um on our instruction and just a working document that we can use and it's not we're just putting our pacing it guide in for compliance. This is what you know our expectation is. So, um, and if you want to go back to the next slide, the last thing I wanted to talk about was behavior management. That has been big. Middle school's hard. It's hard for the kids. You know, they are sitting in classes for long, you know, periods of time and for the teachers. So
045getting in there and supporting our teachers with behavior management has been something that um has been a big focus for us because they can't teach if they don't have the tools in their toolbox. So that's our job to get in there and teach them the tools that they can use just so that they're successful in their classroom. So we're proud of FMS and uh ready for next year. >> Awesome. Thank you. All right. As you can see, they've done an amazing amount of work. So, when I came into this position, we started with pacing guides, and those served a purpose at one point in time, and it does document what is being taught and the time frame, but this is elevating it up to the next step. I envisioned the concept of blueprint and all
046I had to do was ask and then they have created all of these amazing things. But if we back up before we had coaches, we had one coach. We had Melissa Williams, our data coach. And Melissa has provided the support um to help when they were teachers to learn to use data effectively. Now she works with the bigger picture and the the um district data because we have these coaches that are doing building level data. So by diversifying our all of our talents and our time, I think again we will continue to see growth academically with our students. and I could not be prouder of all of our coaches and the work that they've done to not only support students in their academic journey but also support their building administrators in instructional leadership. So, thank
047you. >> And I am going to add one more item. I'm going to ask that Miss Betty quickly come up. Can I say one thing before? Just one thing right before we move on. Betty, I just want to say about the coaches. >> Um, >> so some of you may not know I started off as a sixth grade intervention specialist 20 years ago when we were cutting our teeth on the proficiency test. And when Sue came to the board ages and ages ago and said, "I'd like to do this data coach, instructional coach plan," I could have cried because I would have killed for that. had um that been offered in my district. Um and that's that's like 20 years ago now. And I just want to say how proud I am of all of
048you. We couldn't be where we are without you guys representing and being the very best of what we have we really have to offer. you step up for your peers, you step up for your kids, and um and you've made all of these stars and and the good things about Fairborn what it is. So, thank you. >> And now, Betty Quickley. >> Okay, Betty is with the Fairborn Moose and she reached out to me um a couple of weeks ago. the um under Betty's guidance, the moose made a donation of toothbrushes to Fairborn City Schools. Betty has been volunteering in Fairborn City Schools, I'm going to guess now, over 20 years in different capacities. Um I first knew that she was volunteering with bowling. Is that correct? You helped the bowling teams >> and then
049she served on after prom. Um currently works I believe in the um with Bristen Wells in the Yes. >> the homeless leazison. been doing that for three years now >> with the Hawks Pantry um but does a lot of good work with the Fairborn Moose as well. So Betty, I would invite you to tell us about this project and what you were able to donate to the schools. So, I was confronted by another uh co-orker of the moose um that is actually from the Sydney Moose. And there's a gentleman and his wife that had invented these toothbrushes. Um they put a patent on them. Um at the and the end of the toothbrush is um floss, dental floss. Um, so they were getting ready to just disband the whole thing because they um the the
050gentleman has cancer and he's dying. So they wanted to donate them to somebody or they were just going to throw them away and they had boxes and boxes of toothbrushes. So the gentleman at City Moose contacted me and he said, "Well, you work with the Fairborn City Schools with doing stuff. Do you think you can use these?" I said, "Sure, bring them down." So, I donated five boxes to Fish Pantry. I donated five boxes to the Hog Pantry. And then each school got anywhere from four to five boxes. In each box, they are there was 144 toothbrushes. >> Oh my goodness. >> In each box. Um, we also donated some to a one of my co-workers um at our moose. Um, I am also the senior regent for the women of the moose and I'm
051also the chaplain for the lodge. So, I donated uh some boxes to one of our co-workers because her granddaughters go to Tecumpsa Elementary and so she got two boxes to take over there. Um, so we've just kind of spread the love with Fairborn City Schools with all these toothbrushes. I don't think we're going to run out at the Hawk Pantry for a while. I haven't even gotten through one box. >> So, so, um, I I was just honored that they contacted me so that we could give these to the students. Um, and so my husband and I just delivered them. >> Thank you. >> We was honored to do that. >> Thank you, buddy. We appreciate everything that you've done for our district. Thank you so much. >> I enjoy doing what I do for
052Fairborn City Schools. Um Pam and I have been doing a lot together. Um >> my son went to school here. Um but I didn't have a relationship with my son and so it makes me feel a part of the kids and so I just enjoy doing what I do for Fair City School. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> So all these kids are my kids even though I don't know any of them there. Except my granddaughter. She does do go. She does go here. So >> wonderful. >> So, thank you guys very much. >> Sure. >> Can we get a picture with Betty and with the >> coach? Yeah. >> Before we let them know, >> we'd love a photoaches. >> Tell them where to go. Are we doing the coaches? >> Okay, hang on. That
053was an excellent presentation. Thank you. You're >> welcome to stay for the rest of the board meeting or now's your chance to run if you want. >> Picture with Betty, >> board members, Amy. next to John. >> John Okay, moving on to budget and finance. Um, can I have a motion to approve receipt of the attached monthly financial report for March 2026? >> So moved. >> Second. Uh, please call the role. Mr. Pho. >> Mrs. Webb, >> yes. >> Miss Landon, >> yes. >> Mr. Howard, >> yes. >> Mr. Steininger, >> yay. >> Mrs. Mad, >> yes. Motion is passed. Administrative reports and superintendent recommendations goes through to page 13 and does include the graduating class of Fairborn High School for 2026. >> Yes, it does. >> Can I please have a motion? So moved.
054>> Second. >> Uh any need for discussion here, Mr. Pho? >> Not that I know of. Okay. >> Any board members have? >> I don't believe we do. >> No. >> Please call the role. >> Miss Landon? >> Yes. >> Mr. Steininger? >> Yay. >> Mr. Howard? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Webb? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mad? >> Yes. >> Board will now enter into a short work session followed by an executive session. >> Um, >> we'll do gifts and donations real quick. Mr. Pho. >> Okay. >> All right. Uh, Miss Landon, >> Fairborn City Schools Board of Education would like to gratefully acknowledge the following gifts and donations. Joe Flatter, Flatter Insurance Agency, $100 for the Fairborn High School boys track, Neil and Judy Robinson, $250 for the committee for after prom and the YMCA
055for hygiene products for our students. Thank you. Our uh Fairborn City Schools Board of Education, we do thank you and the community thanks you for your gifts and donations. Thank you. Okay, now we'll do work session. >> I only have one