Olentangy Schools Board of Education, 2.24.22 Meeting

001all right good evening everybody it is 6 30 p.m today is thursday february 24th it is 6 30 p.m this is the only tangy local school board education it's a regular meeting we are in the berlin room of the olympia administrative offices i'll call the meeting to order uh mrs hatfield would you please call the roll dr davrako here mr lester yeah mr o'brien here mrs patrick here and dr weiss here thank you but everyone please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance 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 all right uh next item is to approve the agenda we do not have any amendments to the agenda correct

002correct sir okay so entertain a motion uh to approve the agenda as written so moved i'll second second please any discussion on the agenda all right seeing none please call the roll mr lester yes mrs patrick yes dr daberko yes dr weiss yes and mr o'brien yes thank you all right we we've actually kind of modified the agenda a little bit we've moved the board's presence report above the discussion items so i can spend a few minutes at the top of the meeting talking about what's going to happen at the meeting so for tonight's agenda we've got two presentations summer programming in the literature review and update on the literature review and then kind of some fairly normal action items so before i get into my item i would ask any other board members if

003they have committee updates i know mr dabaka you had a couple things finance committee was tuesday i believe yes sir so if you would thank you board president o'brien uh two just two comments uh school advocacy committee is doing a candidate forum at liberty high school theater on april 7th that's a really big opportunity for everyone in our community to see what the candidates offer in the context of the thing that's most important to us in this context which is education so hopefully we can get a number of folks to attend that so that the candidates know how important it is for our community that's april 7th and then just a couple quick notes from the finance and audit committee so one of the tasks of the committee is to share business and financial best

004practices from the private and public sectors and that was in full swing they spent a great deal of time talking about the way to format reporting so that the board and the community can see what's going on and see what decisions can be made that continue to operate our district in a lean fashion once you start digging into the numbers of our district it's amazing that we produce academic output with such fiscally responsible numbers so that was a great part of the committee meeting we we talked maybe too long about the importance of the check register and some ways to continue to make that work for folks that want to look at the minutia of what our district spends down to the penny how much is spent at menards the liberty high school electric bill

005every month we talked about that uh just different options just making it the best for folks um we don't have a date yet for the next committee meeting i think you said april correct we'll probably meet um that second or third week of april to start discussing the five-year forecast update absolutely that's my report great and brandon had policy yes so we had our first policy meeting of the year and policies are vitally important to the district it helps to set the stage for what you know the rules and the ways that we're going to be conducting our business uh so it's very exciting to jump into that we have a new chair from the community lizette schreiber who's taken that role with the committee we had a number of policies that we looked at

006some minor changes to them the staff dressing grooming policy college credit plus blended learning weapons grant funds cost principles procurement and use of credit cards those will be coming up to the next board meeting uh all the changes that we made there great anything you'd want to ask you were there okay and mindy ms patrick on facilities uh well our last facilities meeting was a field trip to uh jeff is here uh elm creek elementary oh you were with us so we didn't i don't have anything to report we have a facilities committee this next wednesday but i just got off a zoom meeting for new trustees to the ohio school boards association and our first big meeting is this saturday so i'll probably have some things to report out next time great and then

007we have a uh business advisory meeting is it tomorrow morning at 7 30 i believe it's a teams meeting correct advisory council some content delivered to kind of that connection between the school district and the business community uh we'll work on that tomorrow morning at 7 30. okay uh one item i wanted to share um so at the end of um near the end of the last board meeting between uh when we're leaving the room to go to executive session in the end of the meeting a woman came and approached me and her name is sarah coplin and handed me an envelope that was about two inches thick [Music] and handed out envelopes i believe to the rest of the board members and members of administration inside that envelope was a 15 page intent to

008file a claim against our uh travelers our insurance provider in in that 15-page document was um you know a list of claims that alleged that we repeatedly and intentionally violated the ohio constitution the u.s constitution state law federal law international law including the geneva declaration okay so a laundry list of issues including we're allowing child abuse that we're practicing medicine without a license and while we do have two doctors on the board they are not md's there's a phd in a dnb dnb okay so you get the sense of the the kind of baseless and frivolous nature of the claims and the individual was asking for 2.8 million dollars in compensation okay 2.8 million dollars not to a class of people but to one person based upon all these claims in i'm proud to report

009on the 21st that claim was denied by the insurance provider in kind of echoing our view that it was baseless and meritless so my ask is that we as a board in leadership of the district let's focus on the mission okay we're all here to um deliver maximum learning for every student okay and we may differ on how that happens but we're all here to achieve the same outcome so let's try to focus on what we can agree on not where we differ so that we can continue to meet the mission okay that would be my ask of the group and ask of the community so with that i will turn it over to the first presentation item and that is summer programming it's vince ditilio and marty argenbright and erica boone our gifted supervisor

010i'm sorry you're right here's one and erica boone i'm trying to miss the last name no worries i'm gonna go ahead and get us started here um my name is vince dittilio i'm the curriculum director here in olympia and obviously thanks to marty and also erica for joining us tonight um you know when we think about maximizing learning for every student you know that happens on a day-to-day basis through differentiation quality instruction all those things we focus on but also in our summer programming we really work to provide a variety of opportunities that both support learners but also enhance learning for for our students so as we look at the first of a few things we're going to share tonight the first one i'd like to talk a little bit about is our summer school

011program um and summer school obviously you know people know what summer school is it's designed to meet the learning needs of olentangy students in the summer and we do that really in two ways we have two options for students we one option is a fully online self-paced option through apex a content provider that we use some of the classes we offer there through apex there's additional ones but those are just an example and then the majority of our classes interestingly enough are designed and facilitated by our own teachers through schoology so our most popular courses that we offer are our health and pe courses there and our 9 through 12 cp english classes and again those are all taught and designed by our olympia instructors and those are by far the biggest chunk of students

012who sign up and i think that's because they're quality learning experiences and you have that old tangy teacher to help you through that moment um as far as summer school numbers and and how they've grown over the years incrementally every year they grow a bit but definitely from 2020 to 2021 uh we had our biggest jump we went from 585 students in 2020 to 664 in 2021 i'm assuming that growth is going to continue to happen as i think students take more advantage of different learning opportunities that are out there whether it's college credit plus or or summer school this year's program it runs from june 6 to july 8th and also one to note that karen siddotti the principal of olentangy academy is the administrator who really does the work and and runs uh

013this program in the summer and does a great job um so we'll hold for questions till the end but i'm going to pass it over to erica at this point and erica is going to share some information about our summer enrichment program this is her first time presenting please be nice make her nervous or anything thank you for that um i'm excited to share a little bit about the summer enrichment experience it is an opportunity for students and teachers to come together around areas of interest and passion we know that our staff here has a very wide variety of interest and talent that may not be showcased as much during the school year and this gives an opportunity for teachers to share their interest and it gives students an opportunity to dive into some things

014that they may not experience during the school year um we've offered this program since the summer of 2017. with the summer of 2020 being canceled and last year being virtual students can register for an am and a pm course this is offered june through 16th and when it was in person we had 700 around 730 students who were enrolled last year with it being virtual it was around 500. um like i said they can enroll for an amn or a pm course the types of course courses include things like stem leadership service learning parks parks preservation we have a ninja warrior course that's very popular with students robotics because this is a self-supporting program each course is 125 dollars and we use that to fund our teachers we hire a clinic aid for each of

015our buildings the elementary students this summer will be at glen oak so our first through fifth graders sixth through twelfth grade will be at orange middle school and then we also hire two administrative liaisons this summer kathy boone an english teacher at liberty high school and josh martin math at liberty middle school have stepped up to fulfill that role the administrative liaison position is an intense internship in being a building administrator because they oversee the program the day-to-day operations they support the student the students and the teachers they've been working together since january to plan for this summer experience they will be meeting with the teachers here in march to talk about expectations and how to design a course that's outside of the typical we are very excited to be back in person this summer

016and registration actually starts next week march 1st runs through may and if we don't have enough students for a course we'll encourage them to enroll somewhere out in a different course and cancel that one but i think with it being back in person we will be excited and impressed with the number of students that sign up so thank you and marty oh please switch it good evening in our pupil services department we have four summer programs they're going to share with you some information on this evening our first program is our extended school year program we have about 450 students that participate in our summer in our summer extended school year program which is based on iep team decisions and the students that are eligible for esy that's based on iep progress data which those

017decisions are based on significant regression for students during the previous summer so we have four weeks of esy during the summer and those days are we have four days during the week monday through thursdays and typically there are one-on-one or small group tutoring sessions for students that work on some iep goals in their in those small group sessions and they're typically an hour long sessions of up to three same age students that have the similar iep goals that work that are working on same with some of the same some of the same goals in small group settings we have several sites that we have located throughout the district and our elementary sites are at arrowhead and wind.run and our secondary site is at shanahan which is we also have a virtual site for our older

018students we have about 80 teachers that we staff and some of those teachers are part-time and we have also some that are full-time and we also have three administrative liaisons that help with the day-to-day operations during that are located at each of those sites at the esy programs at each of those locations our next summer program is the summer intervention academy we have two of those sites one for elementary and one for secondary typically we have about 50 to 60 students we have we also have four weeks of we call it asea or summer intervention academy those our summer intervention academy is is targeted for our spec our specialized learning center students and they the cia program is also for our slc students that qualify for esy and it's and it's for students that focus

019on the core academics math english science and social studies the one of the unique i guess characteristics or areas that is different about the sia program is we have a peer model support at each of our sites so we have peers that come in and work with our slc students in our summer program for for our slc students which is really a it's a unique and excellent opportunity not only for our slc students but our peers really enjoy that opportunity to work with our students so the staffing for that summer intervention academy meets the needs of those students so we have speech and language pathologists we have nurses we have occupational therapists to help meet the needs of those students based on you know whatever the needs of those students that that are attending that

020summer program and we also have an administrative liaison at each of those sites for for our specialized learning center students we have a preschool summer camp we have two sites one's at wyondot run and one one is also at our shanahan preschool we have an administrative liaison at each of those sites and typically there's about 60 to 75 students we also have students that also qualify for esy attend that that preschool camp um it mimics a preschool day it's play-based it's you know it fosters learning opportunities addressed early childhood standards that include academic readiness as well as social emotional and problem solving skills each of our summer camp has a certified teacher typically a preschool intervention specialist and at least one assistant we've had positive feedback from from our summer camp opportunities that has that

021has our staff confident that it meets the needs of our special needs students and that there's three weeks of our summer preschool camp every year and our last summer program is our english language learner tutoring program and there's one on site for our elementary students and the secondary opportunity opportunity is is virtual it's a virtual option that's there's three weeks in the summer for our ell program and this is for our students that have been in the u.s less than three years so there are about 235 students in the district that will be invited to participate last year we had about 50 percent participation of our students in the district that that attended the top two language represented were spanish and portuguese so we will have bilingual a's that will help support our students teachers

022and parents engagement we also have a an administrative liaison that will be there to to help with the day-to-day operations and and their the supplies and the costs are totally funded by our title three federal grant dollars so questions about our pupil services summer programs okay can we ask questions of all three yes absolutely okay we can all come up you ready yep so the second one was uh families were paying for that right yes is there any opportunity for students it may financially not be able to cover that that they're able to participate not at this time there's not anything that's set up for that this is the first year that i've really been part of it and it could be something that could be explored for future but at this point in time

023there is not okay yeah absolutely i would it'd be interesting to see how that could be explored um so the second program is families are paying for it the first one is funded by our district but summer school they they do pay a summer school a fee for the for those courses does that cover the cost or where um i it does okay totally come not i wasn't sure if it totally does but yeah and none of this is required by the state this is above and beyond this is this is above and beyond and the fact that we're i think the the using our own teachers and finding people who want to do this work in the summer is key and like i said i think that's the reason why more kids are signed

024up for those than even the self-paced courses so yeah thank you for your hard work thanks anything else no thank you appreciate the update thanks very good okay i'll now call uh dr christian bordage to the podium we're going to talk about the literature review process welcome hi thank you uh i'm kristen bourdage and thanks for the opportunity to let me represent us in providing an update to all of you i was here in december and i shared a little bit about our current process which has been here with us since 2007 so we really have a history of providing families with transparency in the curriculum in regards to the content of the literature what i'm outlining here is the process that begins with teachers and it ends with students we do aspire in the

025ela curriculum to maximize the learning of every student and so that's why teachers are constantly updating the curriculum with new literature so much like we have new films to watch uh new podcasts to to download um you know literature is a similar art form that we're constantly seeking to update so in keeping the curriculum fresh teachers are locating reading finding new literature always this defines pre-k-12 really but the focus of the literature selection process is for middle and high school so the process begins with teachers doing this hard work to select a text and they complete a two-page form that outlines some of the the main ideas of the text the relationship of the text to the curriculum and the standards set forth by ohio department of ed that really define and drive what we

026do with that text very often with literature we're trying to support high level in critical thinking and literature is that vehicle for really ensuring students are ready for career in college the ela department chair then looks at the form and becomes a critical colleague of sorts supporting that teacher with ensuring that that form is completed the administrator of the building then reviews signs the form approves denies and signs the form and then district district administrator and the curriculum team currently that's me reviews the form and and signs from that point forward the focus of the literature selection review process is to make sure that families have access to this form so there are two ways that happen one is a teacher communication of some sort at times teachers have a practice of posting either the

027form or the literature selection and some pertinent information about that text to their schoology sites at times it's email they might have another routine mechanism of communicating with families where this literature form may be situated as a sort of a safety net we also post all of the forms to the olympia website families have the opportunity to review the form and opt into an alternative text title which is also indicated on this form based on the potentially objectionable content this is in line with our one of our district policies which you'll see on the next slide a brief excerpt of it uh as well as um that idea of transparency that uh we we value and hold at the top of this the reason that item four is bolded is because in our review of

028this process in the fall that began in the fall and has continued to today um this is where we've we felt uh the district needed to support teachers in better stronger ways and ensuring that they had a good examples of family communication as well as good examples of how the form should be completed so there were uh you know a few gaps that we we noticed that we had to fill and in a moment there's a slide that will show you how we're filling those gaps [Music] so this slide is um sorry about that um just you know uh mr o'brien you mentioned that maximize the learning of every student that's at the center of this this process and um the teaching practice is you know really very complex and the rationale for choosing this

029literature is certainly that the canon of literature is always changing but then that first bullet point under teaching practice is really important in the last 10 years this has been a significant change in practice and really trying to reach the individual learner differentiating for a wide variability of learners and that's what merits a lot of literature and especially in our middle schools teachers will teach with five six ten twelve texts and they're trying to reach that level of student that um it's true there's that much variability certainly in a middle school class and and often in high school english classes so um you know ensuring that we are doing our jobs um we we have to account for this variability and we do so with a lot of literature and a lot of literature choices

030and then we have standards i mentioned those last time i was here there are 20 reading standards and so we need good literature to ensure that we can meet those standards and that's 20 standards at each grade level and then there's that excerpt of a district policy another driver of this literature selection process is our on our commitment to honor parental rights when it comes to literature and what may be found to be potentially objectionable [Music] so we revised the process after following sort of the the conversations that i had at department meetings with english teachers we convened a committee there were three parent volunteers four ela department chairs [Music] and i'd like to point out one is here tonight supporting this presentation kathy boone long time teacher and chair and was a key member

031of this committee an ela teacher at the high school level and that administrator is me and we met several times between december and january and really thank the commitments of this team everybody did their their homework so to speak and really rallied around this work that that the the process needed changed and that we were committed to making good changes for teachers and families both i organized our work as a writing group so we had a lot of homework in between the meetings so we broke off into teams of two or three and we wrote drafts and revised the documents to their current form uh what's the current form there's a six page guidance document up from two pages in 2007 and in 2007 the guidance was mostly in how to use the technology like

032how to go find a book review online how to go get a summary online that was that was good in 2007 we were still getting used to the tools that right now we just we just you know click and get there's a five step process that's clearly outlined so in communicating to teachers and the district's role in making sure teachers understand the process this is completely new there's also 12 faqs that have been developed right from teacher questions we had feedback along the way so i mentioned the meetings with departments in the fall i met with middle school ela department chairs we started the committee work in december the district curriculum team thank you team um gave feedback on iterations of the documents february was a big month you see a lot of folks there

033weighed in on the new process in form all 120 plus teachers were invited to answer one questions survey giving qualitative feedback about their [Music] thoughts on the form their feedback their ideas for revision lms is lit library media specialist and then el ela chairs and all secondary principles so then and now 2007 you'll see if we go um row by row you know i'd like to highlight what's in yellow there on in the 2022 version so we've added a few components to the what was a two-page form is now a one-page form and that's simply because we we can now trust more links than we could in 27 from from breaking so there'll be more links to book reviews links to summaries and so forth but then we're asking teachers to provide a rationale for

034the use of the text in addition to the standards and to be more specific when it comes to outlining that potentially objectionable content the shift in language is intentional so in uh the documents say you know controversial content and so does the form and the policy is about objectionable content so that shift in language uh pulls into line the consistency with the with the policy [Music] guidance about the process as i mentioned was mostly about how to use the technology and how to upload things it was it was interesting i was like gosh it seems like you know we had that in o7 but we didn't didn't have that knowledge base so there were no stated expectations in the guidance dock and now we have detailed guidance six pages most of which is faqs so

035that would be optional for teachers uh thanks to the team and one of kathy's colleagues hannah she created a really great visual that's front and center right in the first page of the guidance dock that outlines the five steps and then we're moving from sort of a vague sense of what the content is that may be objectionable to very specific so i'll outline an example there of what we would expect so in 27 or 2007 we expected profanity as an example of controversial content and so we're asking teachers to make a shift toward qualitatively outlining well how much frequently frequent profanity between two characters occasional profanity throughout so that's an example of what we hope to see on the form and again that form is a tool of communication to families so that they can

036now if if so chosen get the book look at chapters 15 to 18 and make an informed decision about that text based on their their values and their uh commitments to their children when i look at that here's what i think that is not something that is gratuitous so we leaned into common sense media and defining potentially objectionable content it's a non-profit it does a lot of things for educators around digital literacy digital citizenship and then certainly providing reviews for families and teachers and so one way they define you know what would be over the top is you know if we saw profanity like that in all chapters you know that's a problem but when i look at that i see okay that's part of the storyline timeline and approvals in 2007 was um really

037lacking there was no real formal way teachers would know that their book was improved um no real way that they would know that the loop was closed the form was on on the website and so forth so now we've cleared up the timeline for teachers it's part of our guidance doc and we've made it very clear that the final approval is when the form is located on the website and that's the cue for teachers to then take that form and to communicate it and in the way that they typically would with their families there are some exceptions so what this page outlines is what we the committee decided would be reviewed and would not be reviewed so i talked a little bit about this in december that idea that there's different categories of literature so

038contemporary classics are those [Music] classics that we've probably all read that were written in the 20th century that's compared on the no side to the old classics like shakespeare we won't be reviewing shakespeare the reason for that is because we're trying to make the unfamiliar more familiar with this process so what families may not know in the literature as it's being updated constantly are these newer titles so our emphasis will be on ensuring that there's a lit review form for things written in the 20th century how we're defining newer and then certainly the things the the the texts coming out every year that are defined as contemporary young adult literature we will review those and we have been reviewing those literature for a whole class novel study gets a review that's a teacher choosing one

039text for the whole class and then choice books i mentioned this variability of reader that's so important we definitely want to review those small set of texts that teachers use in a class for that purpose of differentiating the curriculum i mentioned shakespeare's not being reviewed the other texts that won't be under this review policy and practice are condensed classics that we often find in english textbooks do you remember the english anthologies they're like the thickest textbooks at least that i had when i was in high school and uh there's a lot that the reason is there's a lot of content condensed text those are heavily edited um rounds and rounds of editing and we won't be reviewing those as a result ap literature will not be reviewed these are college level materials and to my

040knowledge there's not a practice like this one for college-level texts free choice books for the workshop model so this is important i highlighted this because it's important for all of you to communicate and families to know that there are some limits to this and that is in that area of free choice we don't want to give free choice up you know students especially in those 6th through 8th grades who are growing into becoming you know a fully fledged advanced reader they need support from teachers one support is the choice read and really being able to choose any book under with a topic or any book that aligns to a genre and you know every student has a different text the text is not the focus of the study in the class it's really about that

041reader engaging so teachers will continue to do this and continue to provide titles to students they're not going to be reviewed because that i can't imagine asking a teacher to review 60 70 texts that may be on a a choice list or 60 70 texts if students really do have that free choice and often they they do in this context the context there are free choice books is not defining that classroom experience it really is maybe on occasion a teacher will use this it's not something that's every month here's get another book get another book get another book it's more choice books in a small set on the left side possibly a whole class novel study um but that idea of free choice all year is is um you know not something that we see

042a lot of so it's infrequent and it's powerful for those readers also we want to allow teachers to keep recommending text these are developing readers and teachers know literature quite well so to have a teacher say hey you have to read this book it's great and here's why we don't want to to limit that kind of conversation between a teacher and a student so next steps for the committee and myself and the curriculum team will be to end all secondary principles will be to build capacity and clarify our purpose so in spring 2022 i'll be attending with chairs and principals all ela department meetings we'll be clarifying we'll be supporting with the new forms and documents providing high quality examples that was really missing from what i could find from our our 2007 version next

043year clarify continue to clarify start giving feedback to teachers as the forms new literature review forms come in and then in 2023 and beyond annual refreshers this is something that when i started the position there were you know there's nine secondary buildings and there were nine versions of of this process um it sums you know in some way and so i'm hopeful that we can [Music] create a practice and a routine where there's annual refreshers on this process and the documents that align to the process we'll evaluate this process so going forward we will count how many forms are accepted without revision that means we've done our job we've communicated well so we'll be looking at the number of forms that we have to support teachers with revising and resubmitting compared to the forms that

044come in and and this process was clarified because the forms indicate that with the way that we're asking them to be completed we'll do qualitative feedback next year from all teachers again ela teachers secondary principles we'll also count emails from families about their concerns we see this as a indicator of you know sort of whether this process is functioning well is really from the family point of view and we'll provide qualitative feedback with the committee so we'll reconvene the committee so i'm hopeful we can move forward with this process with both families and teachers supporting this process of maximizing the learning of every student my hope is that we can encourage families to to trust that teachers are are working really hard and have the best interest of children at the center there is a

045mechanism for transparency and you know all families have to do parents have to do is ask teachers about the content of the literature and then i've outlined what teachers are signed on to do to do their job well to meet the mission [Music] okay any questions first of all thank you so much for this it's very helpful and i appreciate the thought uh and the community involvement that went into building this process um from a pure efficiency standpoint i assume that you know various high schools are using the same text or the same text may be used year over year are we going to be building sort of a database of texts that have already been approved so we don't have to re-review the same book every year how's that going to work yeah so

046we do have that vision i mentioned to the middle school department chairs the other day that's our version 2.0 so what we'd like to do first is to to launch this process and then we currently use a sharepoint site for a lot of our internal curriculum documents and i've already started the page there's one book there [Music] but what i hope is as new literature comes through the process we can quickly add the title link the review and it's there searchable ready to go for teachers to find that lit review form we do not expect teachers to to rewrite literature review forms that have already been reviewed however we do have a question of principles to ask teachers if it is a different building or a different grade level to support that use of the

047tax and that'll be a building level decision and how that's done second when the forms are posted and parents can look at these you mentioned that there are links that may be linking to what sort of information are they going to be able to get from the forum yeah so the components of the form include a summary of the text and that often is pulled from a site um we've encouraged teachers to outline it in bullets but they may pull a link in reviews it's very common to to link to a review we'll be working with our library media specialist we have internal high quality k-12 literature pre-k-12 literature review organizations that we'll be pulling from for those reviews common sense media is another one that we will also use and then standard standards are

048very you know dense and uh we've asked teachers to you know bullet a main point and then link uh either the standard or the section of standards uh oftentimes the standards are listed page by page and you can just take a page and pop it into that form accessibility is going to be really important we may not be able to go read the entire book you know so having that so they can access that quickly is good the last question quickly is you say that the form includes rationale is it the rationale for selecting the book in general or the rationale for why it should be chosen if there is a objectionable content or what is that specifically that they're asked to provide yeah thanks for that question we talked a lot about this with

049the um nine member committee eight member committee uh in in december and we kind of landed on this language of what's the what's the story of this book you know why this book the standards are very technical um but but what's the story here what what how are you engaging readers with this text so we i would expect to see in a rationale that there's a linkage between this piece of literature and the focus of the theme or topic or genre those are three ways that ela teachers will define and drive a literature unit not the only but those are three common ways so i would expect to see that information there so that it's more in my opinion more informative to outsiders from the standards to to really understand the rationale for choosing the

050text and that there's something to it other than we're going to analyze for characterization or something that's very technical um did you can you send us a copy of the form yes i'd be glad to yeah and i wasn't sure if that was allowable but yeah i could do that um i would like to see it if if possible um and you indicated that it would be the teachers would be able to distribute something but also it would be available on the website where on the website do you go into the school website yeah the parents tab um i typically google olin tangi and literature and it pops up but we can find that very uh precise answer for you i don't know if anyone knows offhand but that's how i find it quicker it's

051under curriculum yeah i was looking under parents my mind just goes if you just owen tangi and literature i didn't mention this but i have yet to find a district that has a has revealed the the long list of literature used in grade 612 so maybe that's why we're it pops right up out of curiosity does it say the length of the book that's on the new form um i thought that was an important detail so for looking at you know an instance of you know maybe some graphic violence or there's some sexual inuin innuendo which is common in high school literature you know if there's one chapter of a 300 page text again that is probably defining that story not something that's overrunning that experience with reading um maybe an example so if we've

052got let me just tell you how it goes down in my house okay 12th grader that's dyslexic and he goes in and he looks for the shortest book and says mom ordered me this right so that that's how it happens in our house i would like a little bit of assistance to say what's that one about i know you picked it because it's the shortest and then like a summary of some other books maybe you know because i'll look at it a little in a little bit more depth maybe that's not all parents perspective but that's what we go through at the patrick house um and then so i yeah so i'm glad the page numbers are on yeah because then i can say oh that's why you picked it and nope actually we should

053maybe focus over here um and then like let's say that there is sexual content contained in the book uh the one that comes to mind that he read was kite runner and you know it was a moral dilemma about witnessing a crime and you know how would that be spelled out on the overview yeah so in our new version with the clear guidance we would expect to see um sexual violence i haven't read the kite runner in quite some time but there's sexual violence in that text there's a rape scene is that right kathy is there one yes or more than one so we would want kathy completed the form yeah yeah yeah so we would indicate um that that very serious bit of violence uh on that form with one scene of sexual violence

054rape hyphen rape page 74 chapters we want to see that specificity in the previous iteration i saw a lot of forms that would have defined that content as simply sexual violence and so having the specificity of rape um it's a graphic scene is that fair somewhat i wouldn't say it's graphic but i think everybody's interpreting pretty clear i mean it's clear what's happening but it's not yeah it's the premise of the moral dilemma in the book so you don't have the world to love right everything that occurs afterward but it's not [Music] yeah so essential to the story and not gratuitous again i'm leaning into common sense media and how they support parents and teachers with understanding this objectionable potentially objectionable content and i have one last question sorry no it's on the um choice

055books so again thinking back to my high schoolers that there was a point in time where they were able to select a biography my daughter was a diver so she read about greg louganis it was a great experience my son wrote about a baseball player is that what we're referring to and is that just at the high school level or is that taking it down just all secondary yeah i'm glad you clarified that that would be a free free choice what i called free choice on the on the screen there those are two examples of that where students are encouraged to to read for the purpose of connecting to an interest that's highly motivating and that will um really pull students through that that learning experience those will not be reviewed so those will we

056will communicate so teachers will will be more deliberate about communicating that this is a free choice that this is a list and and here's what we're doing here's why and so that communication uh will be clearer and choices like k-12 choice books we are looking at k-12 or just secondary just 612. yeah just for the purpose of clarifying that there are some exceptions to this literature selection review process that's one of them so for the alternative taxes there will that go through the same process uh i'm sorry the oh the alternative tax yes so each form will indicate two alternative text titles that parents will be able to discuss with their children or opt-in for their children and those two will be reviewed there may be another review that's already on the website and again

057answering that previous question from mr lester we're not going to ask teachers to re-review something that has been vetted and then for the questions for the forms were those how did those questions come to be is it based on a particular framework or just kind of evidence from research or something that shows that you know these are good questions to ask for a review like how were they created um the questions on the literature selection review form or part of the one the new one i'm trying to remember which part i said oh the faqs thank you kathy yeah so those frequently asked questions were created from teachers and their questions so these are common questions that i had received that chairs had received the committee had received and so we were using that idea

058of an faq to support teachers with what they wanted to know what what seemed to rise to the top as as the biggest questions did i answer your question so when you're creating the form the questions that are asked the teachers that they answer to do the review how were those questions created or where did those questions come from yeah so we wanted to keep the process similar to what many teachers had known so you know kind of used that 2007 document where you know those components again are the summary the book review the alternative text titles the standards and then we added a couple of components and we think i well i personally think that those components help families make informed decisions about the content of the literature so all together they're telling that

059story of that piece of text so a summary is important what's this book about the kite runner as an example i shouldn't do that one because i haven't read the kite runner in a long time but the book in my hand i read a couple weeks ago the boy who harnessed the wind and you know it's a great book i'd like love a you know little summary of how great this is about a a boy who loves science and developed a windmill for his community that would be a book summary and then the rationale is you know what's the what's the that overarching theme uh topic or focus that i'm trying to help students engage with in addition to standards um and so these these pieces all together really inform why that literature is being

060used how it's helping students engage and how it's really maximizing the learning of their their process in in a literature class and then for the free choice where there always be an explanation for parents to understand what free choice books are so when they get that list you know it's it's clear right there in the front this is what this means it did not go through a review yeah that's a really good point and that's something that we need to work on next so now that we've defined what is reviewed and what's not will certainly be helping principals and teachers really understand how to communicate free choice and that it it really me it really should signal that you know families may have a little more work to do if they are concerned about any

061of those texts and may may have to have more conversations about what what text is being selected and and sort of what you were talking about miss patrick about working with your son to to choose that text and so we're hoping that when the lists go out um that families will look into those uh with this eye toward the content of those texts okay thank you um i'm just going to go through a couple questions and kind of in the order of the slides that you had thank you for putting parents at the center of the decision-making process with the teacher as they work to give books to kids that enrich their lives and help them learn is this an active process your communication so in other words this summer will i get an email

062from a teacher saying these are the books here are here's a review for your student coming up in whatever grade or do i just need to know that there's a review available if i want it so is it active or passive process for parents to find out i'm hoping well i look at passive as in the parents will have that information right there delivered to them the active part for me is having to go to the website um which is is a safety net like that that that literature is not approved for use in that class until it's situated on the olympia literature web webpage um so our goal is to support all 120 plus teachers who use this process with communicating in these very explicit ways and will include the form in their typical

063communication style so that might be again a schoology course that has been built around this language arts course where there's lots of ways to link the forms like these the literature here's my forms that's our goal this will be something that we work with principals to communicate and give examples and to really build that capacity to listen to get feedback from teachers so that we know that we're supporting them fully with this shift this is a shift so i would say by and large from the 2007 version um there was that sense that oh we have a website collects literature forms you know that that's sufficient and we're asking teachers to use their communication tools to do one one step more for many and that will be to to to link those literature review forms

064that define the literature of their class so on schoology so if my student has a book coming up and i'm looking at schoology and trying to be a good parent and follow this um it would say this is the book and here's a parent review yes that's ideal i mean i for me it would be a i would have an icon that says literature this would be me as a teacher um in literature selection forms very very clear on the landing page also high school teachers are using syllabi uh that are communicated with parents um usually early in the school year that would be another place if that syllab syllabus was sent electronically those forms could be linked right to that syllabus so that would be another mechanism and then a third popular form of

065communication is via email and that attachment with the literature review form would be ideal we are are expecting that some teachers may be updating throughout the year so there might be email communication going out for fourth quarter hey here's the lit review form for my fourth quarter text so it might not always be at the beginning of the year where families are you know aware of the literature used in that class for the entire school year i didn't mean to say that every review because i know this is ongoing throughout the year so what i'm saying is when i go to schoology and my my son has a book it's it's you're saying ideally but my expectations apparent it's there right that review's there when the books in that typical form of this of the

066teachers communication some teachers don't use schoology so yes if that teacher communicated typically with a schoology site so if they don't use schoology then i could expect an email correct okay okay um so free choice i probably should know this answer but free choice these are just a list of books that kids can pick from uh yes and a teacher gives that to kids at the beginning of the year or usually at the beginning of a unit so you know a a common one is a list is usually compiled around a genre and so you know i'll use the example i'm a former eighth grade language arts teacher title one reading you know science fiction is a newer genre for middle school students that's where you might see a free choice option it's a good

067move that a teacher would make to really try to expose students to that genre through free choice and am i hearing you right you're saying that that list is so expansive there's no way to give a review for those yeah so often those lists can be um you know i mean i don't i can't speak for every teacher but yeah they're lengthy they go outside that concise tech set that's defining a more small group instructional model so where every student you know there's 25 students in the class every student has their own uh selected literature um that is uh you know too it's just too far from um the reality of the the teacher's work day to to really review all those texts we also have schools that partner with libraries and so we really

068didn't know what a workaround would be we want schools to partner with our delaware county libraries oftentimes the libraries compile a list of texts that support the curriculum and so that would be another instance where a list is provided where the list will be communicated for sure and and it will be encouraged that families follow up with questions about those texts just two quick easy ones can you put your presentation online so that parents that can see what you step through is that possible just just a request and i i hope i'm allowed to make that request and thank you for you know yeah thank you for making the evaluation part including parents to say if there's something broken um we can fix it because that growth mindset is crucial to making this process work

069so thank you thanks yeah we we want it to work for everyone like genuinely this is about all of us working together to maximize learning of every student thank you good so thank you very much this i think is a significant step forward from kind of where we were in 2007 so i appreciate the work um so i do have a question probably more from mr ray from mr meyer so what happens when it doesn't get followed again it's part of our now this is obviously it's part of the this is a piece of the process of uh following a board policy it's not necessarily written into the policy but that this is one of the supports of uh one of the processes that supports that that policy so we have to have a conversation

070about about this one so it's just again so there's a teacher discipline process that would be followed all right thank you you know and again i'd just like to reiterate thank you i think he did a great job with the christian and this is this is one like this started when we started this whole uh journey and kathy and i were together at liberty in 0607 it came about because of uh again controversy was it potentially objectionable or controversial material a set of parents brought concerns to the building principle they didn't come to the board meeting they brought the concerns to a building principal and um not me at the time but the principal prior to me and then another group of parents came with similar with it with a completely different concern that we

071were being too restrictive so it was it's no different than the what we're dealing with today and over time and so we developed this process and you heard dr borda say she you haven't been able to find anybody else doing anything like this no and i've asked around and and checked out websites yeah right so it's so you know it is something that we're doing and then um over time as a lot of new administrators have come on board a lot of new teachers have come on board we haven't had you know in our minds a lot of times processes are working until it's brought to our attention when it's not right and and you know again it doesn't take coming to a board meeting and making a scene to have that done we can

072solve problems by properly communicating with each other this process was brought to us through an email by a parent to dr bardage the building principal the teacher and me and that's what started the process we were in the process of reviewing all of these materials before we started having the theatrics at our board meetings okay i think christa had one thing to help him i just wanted to add that i emailed all of you the link to the literature review process that you were discussing with um dr barrage and then also we intend to do a story on the website about her presentation so not only will we include the present the slides but we also are going to have a top news story on the website about this because it's clearly very important to

073so many yeah this is one that you can't communicate enough right so good work thank you appreciate it that was long i'm sorry i just looked at my watch you did a great job thank you mr o'brien if i may there was a question about where the select the book reviews are online um which it is under the curriculum department but to be a little more specific i just googled it the way kristin had suggested and it's on the olympg website departments curriculum and instruction and then literal literature section review and it pulls up a list and all of the reviews on the web page so just a little more guidance on how to get to that section thank you great thank you all right mr rave it's for dennis report good evening everyone thanks

074for coming out all right so um let's start as i always do with a couple living the mission slides um we had 25 of our national merit semi-finalists i think uh um have been moved on in the selection process to become finalists so i'd like to extend our congratulations to all of those students from our pharma high schools 25 national merit finalists is is a big number for us uh across the district so very proud of those students [Music] and then um our own tangie high school show choir the if i were if any of them were in attendance i would say key what and they yell back keynotes since i am a parent of a keynote alumni i know that may surprise some people but my son was part of that when he was

075in high school but they competed in the seventh annual keynote classic show choir competition and it is just it's an amazing uh amazing program uh the team there at old tangy puts on and we had a thousand different middle and high school students from 13 different schools around the midwest here in the um in our uh at old tangy high school so it's a great job they're now moving on to the tri-state area to end their season at a national competition so we all wish them all the best of luck um oops sorry went too fast here uh we did our third professional development day so i really want to give a um compliments to our curriculum team and our building administrators and our building uh building leadership teams in all of our schools because

076they have gone through a really extensive process of planning our professional development and so the the essential question they're focused on is vince presented earlier about student agency and the question how we might position our students in a more empowered role as learners um we had a great a great day staff feedback was at an all-time high so we're very very pleased with the professional development program and again i think this is something that we do this internal professional development we do is something that we do better than than anybody else in in the state or maybe in the nation so i'm very proud of our our team there we have here school resource officer appreciation day so our schools all did uh something special for our sro pro sros in our district you see

077their deputy gaines deputy mox deputy newman peterson roy siegel and simela they are all outstanding law enforcement professionals and all very important members of our school staffs and communities we're very thankful that sheriff martin supports this program he pays for half of the school resource officers and we share the other half of the cost so i always make sure i give him as much compliment and praise as i can since he is literally the best sheriff in the states so we just can't can't say enough about the work our school resource officers do so we're very very proud of all of them so we had last week we did a coffee chat here as one of our community engagement events had about 15 community members in attendance had a really a lot of good conversation

078a lot of good dialogue answered a lot of questions um you know kind of talked through some some issues gave a presentation but uh it uh it was it was a good time we we enjoyed uh hosting that and looking forward to doing more in the future we'll vary the time so we can have people can attend to try to fit their schedules the alum creek lego robotics team which is combined as the students from shanahan and ellen creek made it to the district competition on saturday one of the teams won districts and will compete at states coming up so uh mrs wirth the principal at alum creek has a unique interest in robotics and she has led the efforts of the robotics team but they've done a great job and that program continues to

079grow with kids all throughout the district so that's a lot of living the mission slides is always like to say there's a lot of great things going on all throughout the district so i'm always happy and proud to present those to you as i stated last uh at our last meeting two weeks ago when we removed the mask requirement we were going to take some time and i do appreciate it and actually get one question about this now i know our building principles might have but i actually didn't get any questions about this as i asked people to give us a little bit of time to talk about all of these uh things that we were still um working through so um as of uh this week or today at principles discretions they can start

080holding large group student meetings so i'm sure mr spinner at berlin has already planned three or four pep rallies for next week sorry i i knew he was here so um but they're starting to host those more in the school during the school day and after school community events so we're able to hold those at the principal's discretion we're getting all the drinking fountains turned back on and should be operational as soon as we can get them on and that does as you know mr gordon and members of his team go through the building and do those things i do want to make sure i complement as is you know as everybody was doing their summer pre summer program presentation that jeff and his custodial team does do a great job of working around accommodating

081those programs because the custodians really like it when there's nobody in the building in the summer and they can just do their work uninterrupted but they do a great job of accommodating those great programs we have so uh this this is a big one mostly in elementary um that assigned lunchroom seating will end effective uh february 28th we're heading back to pre-pandemic school visitor access so you know again at principal's discretion class parties people attending book fairs lunch room visits and those kinds kind of things they will be restored effective march 14th so we're kind of easing easing off on some of these things and then student staff reporting cover test results to school nurses will continue until further notice just because that's at the request of the health department we had about 30 cases

082across the board in the last seven days total 30 cases so the case counts continue to decline so we feel like we're in a good place to be safely moving forward here with the rest of the mitigation strategies there i see there's some action items of note um we have a teacher resignation a long time teacher at alum creek elementary school karen bradbury so i want to make sure she's recognized and three classified resignations brenda edwards has been a driver with us for quite a while and uh the front office at wyandotte run elementary school is going to look significantly different because aunt candy houseman and anne sharon have been the face of a wyandotte run elementary school for a long long time so we wish them the best uh of luck and all of

083them the best of luck in retirement uh we have our annual uh resolution to declare uh transportation and practical and that happens you know when i when there aren't a large number of students it doesn't it's not practical for us to run a bus to a you know with a small number of students or uh the the um school this private school the students are going to is outside a 30-minute time for us to run a bus you have their contract for hr imaging they've been long-time district partners so we're very happy to continue our partnership with hr imaging to do the district photography services and then two large um projects coming out of the business office uh roof and wall repairs at liberty high school and then the bid for our annual bid for

084uh district paving improvements of 758 000. um some important dates coming up our one community conference is uh february 28th um and then we have the suggestions for middle school school six due march fourth and the third quarter i have on here that our next board meeting is march 10th but we're discussing moving the meeting so if you guys want to make your decision what are we voting for no i said it's my fault yes that's fine you can yeah uh you you want to make a decision so i can let mrs cox know did we land on the ninth we can we'll take that offline we'll get that result okay all right that's fine then we'll announce the next i thought i'd get you get it confirmed today so for me it's anything but

085the 10th okay there you go we'll decide that tomorrow then and announce it any questions just a couple easy ones 30 cases students and staff are just correct students and staff okay couple usually it means there's usually another one you have another one no i need to do bifocals but i'm hesitant so um you can make one up if you didn't since i called you out no thank you 30. okay thank you anybody else anybody else want to try we're good thank you all right thank you i'm sorry no that's fine thanks to jedim is the treasurer report mrs hatfield good evening i have a couple of items that i would like to highlight um the items that we are going to discuss on the slides are treasure action items so go through those briefly

086we have our december and january financials that are of in front of you for approval this evening we are at about 50 percent of our projected revenue to date which is uh for december so if you think about how we collect our real estate taxes we do that in two major segments one the beginning of summer and then one january february so it makes sense that most of our revenue is in place at 50 percent and then our expenditures are or um under by about two percent of where we thought they would be at that time we do know that we've got some timing that we're working on and some posting differences of having switched to e-finance plus and making sure that we're getting everything dated in the system so we anticipate that we will

087get most of those caught back up in the coming months january financials are still doing great our revenues will post and show that we are slightly over based on the fair school funding plan allocations we had originally anticipated that those would come in october so the forecasting had the cash flow placed a little differently and so it's showing up as an um over estimations for january and then again we're carrying our expenditures at about two percent under projections so we'll continue to monitor that any updates that need to be posted will be posted in the may 5 year forecast as we look at where we feel we will land for fiscal year 2022 and how that carries into the next four years for us we also have amended appropriations and board meeting minutes those generally

088come to the board of education to make sure that we are in compliance with ohio revised code so those are available for you this evening and we have several donations that we wanted to recognize these donations by our policy our financial donations that equate to or are in cash totality 500 or more we are very grateful for all of the donations on the screen we have several donations for equipment of uniforms to hide its middle school athletics we have a liberty pto donation for storage shed and then we also have additional support coming in from our athletic boosters from liberty athletics coming to owen tng liberty high school one supplemental coaching i apologize i did not write down or notate what area of coaching that was so i will get back to you and let

089you know specifically what that is related to but the second piece is for softball and the last item that we have as an action item this evening relates to our estimated rates and revenue certification from delaware county auditor annually as folks know as a on a taxpayer basis our tax bills are coming out they are being issued on tax year 2021 and so the delaware county auditor works with the district to make sure that they have a form allowing us to verify the effective millage rates as well as the valuations so we have that form for your approval this evening we have double checked the valuations and made sure that the calculations listed for the valuations at the effective rate equals the revenue it's pretty close to our estimates for that we have included in

090fiscal year 22 and 23 for real estate collections we also wanted to make sure that we reminded our community that effective rates and valuations are affected by house bill 920 and that is a link to demonstrate where we have that posted on our website again when you have to kind of click through the departments and then find treasury and then find property tax 101 it could be a little confusing so we wanted to make sure our community know it's there it explains house bill 920 what it means and how it applies to valuation and effective rates so we encourage our audience to take a look at that and get some more information as always if there is a community member that has more questions or even a staff member please feel free to give our

091department a call and we'll walk you through that and then just to know about how collections are distributed again for those two halves january and february in july and august we will be collecting the taxes for tax year 2021 so that will post in fiscal year 22 and 23. so it overlaps a couple of of areas it's a bit confusing when you're looking at tax year 21 affecting fiscal years 22 and 23. the other note that i wanted to update very quickly we are working on fiscal year 23 budgets so as we continue to talk about our funding and talk about where the may forecast update is going i wanted to give a general reminder that budget templates are out meaning they have been sent to our supervisors and building administrators and our department heads

092they are completing those budgets those come back into our department we do a compilation we review those with the leadership team and we also have a subcommittee of the finance and audit committee come in and take a look at those details with us and then prepare that compilation and move it forward into the five-year forecast so we will have those dates clarified within the next week or so we should be wrapping up collection of those within the next by the end of the month and we'll be able to move forward with any significant updates that might be occurring are there any questions i can answer for you anything good miss patrick um your the appropriations yes i take it that the the large um one 507 arp homeless is the esser payment yes there is

093an ester component component to that yes thank you anything else nope okay great thank you oh come on at least one mr dr debraco no this is part two i heard this on tuesdays fair enough [Laughter] fair enough thank you all right we'll give mrs hatfield a minute to get settled we'll transition to public participation thank you we have um three public participation forms that were submitted so let me if you don't mind i will reread our information we have as a reminder to the to those that are participating public participation is the community's time to present any ideas issues or concerns to the board of education public participation is not a dialogue or discussion it is an opportunity to present any ideas or concerns to the board in a public forum the board of

094education will respectfully listen to the comments public participation will last for a maximum of 30 minutes each participant has a limit of three minutes to address the board of education participants will not be able to seed their three minutes to another person and participants must state their full name and address when stepping to the podium public participation procedures are established by board of education policy 0169.1 the policy was revised by the board of education october 12th of 2021 and the policy in its entirety is available on the district website and so i will begin by calling the names from the forms i believe our first participant is sarah cook hi good evening thank you if you would please state your name and address and i will begin the timer sure absolutely sarah cook address is

0956811 jennifer ann drive lewis center thank you thank you thank you so much for the opportunity to be here tonight thank you for your service especially during a very challenging time it is greatly appreciated and i think you are courageous for doing that especially the two new board members who signed up in the midst of all the things that are happening so thank you very much i am a licensed school psychologist a school counselor and most importantly to me a mom i have approximately 17 years of experience in education today i chose to wear my be kind shirt because that is a big part of what i'd like to talk about today which is being kind it's an overarching principle that i think we can all benefit from in that vein again i do want

096to thank you for your hard work and show respect for that i come today because i do have a concern about the mass mandate being terminated and i'd just like to be able to share some of those concerns with you i felt that the message was delivered with very short notice it didn't really give staff or parents much turn around time to implement any changes or plans that they might need to make which created quite a problem especially for families who have individuals who have medical needs particularly severe medical needs i think those families when i've spoken with them and certainly speaking from my own experience would have appreciated a little more notice so that plans could be made appropriately and things weren't sprung on those families and especially their children who are trying to

097adapt to those changes so that is one point that i would like to meet um also um i think maybe just some consideration about how some of these messages are delivered for example saying things like masks are still permitted although unintentional it does give a perception that one minute they're not really encouraged so i think attention to some of those fine details i did want to express appreciation to mr lester for the questions that he asked that was wonderful to see and the engagement you all had tonight around literature was amazing i would have appreciated seeing that same kind of level of engagement when mr rafe talked about the mass mandate i didn't understand why more questions weren't posed or why more discussion did not occur that was disappointing to many people no health agency

098supports terminating mass mandates not the american academy of pediatrics the ohio health department or the delaware county health department there was a press conference about this very subject today and just because every district is doing it doesn't necessarily mean we should be doing it or that anyone should be doing it we are innovators let's think like that also i would like to ask who is on the health advisory committee i apologize that is your three questions please thank you goes quickly next we have mike coleman please hi my name is mike coleman and i reside at 88 30 lakes way drive powell ohio before we get started i'm going to ask everybody in the room here to think for just a moment about what's happening over in eastern europe right now we've got men and

099women in our armed forces can you guys hear me okay who are at a heightened defense condition right now they're in heavy seas and there's a lot of tension out there right now and i know some of you have family members overseas right now and when asked you sometime between now and tonight to put a light on them say a prayer for them and just think about getting things calmed down over there okay well thank you regarding the literature presentation tonight wow looks like you're trying to bring objectivity to a very subjective topic and i don't envy being you being in those shoes that's going to be hard to do it takes a very special person in a special mind to be able to carry that through and i kind of want to just close

100that by saying don't forget that you know there's an old saying uh uh good deeds sometimes you know don't go unpunished it's gonna be hard to satisfy everybody in this situation okay uh so let me get through this here uh so dear school board uh officers and members uh given the charter that you swore to when you took your oaths i'm looking at you and wondering how this division between the people and you occurred you guys are some very bright horsepower people i'm just kind of taken back by how did we get to this point i know that between school board members and parents there's always that usual and typical back and forth that we somehow you know live with but this is just on a whole other scale all right there are numerous sad

101ironies unfolding here at the onset i know there was at least one of you who early on when crt and scl and these sort of things were coming into the neighborhood some of you are here that said hey this probably isn't such a good idea another one of you might have thought hey there there really can't be much good that's going to come out of this if we do this under the cover of darkness others of you probably thought well hell crtcscl excuse my friendship uh maybe that's not such a bad idea you know he had some very altruistic uh thinkings about the the notion let's give it a try what's it going to hurt uh some of you here are probably thinking when is this going to end it's just got to come to

102a stop and then you know and the sad truth is maybe within crt and seo and these sort of things are some really good things but because it's been carried out and handled the way it has we're not going to know we're not going to know all right so i have i want to tell you a story about a friend i have who was on the altar uh about to get married and his spouse came up and said hey i can't carry through with this big emotional outburst she ran away and they did not get married as it turned out it was good that they didn't they both knew that they should not get married it was a big family wedding it was a dramatic moment uh those two are very good friends now and

103they're both grateful that she took that big brave and bold step i'm suggesting to you you stop and think about you know kind of look at this like at like a uh opportunity cost uh kind of thing where uh instead of keep pouring time and money into this you might think about you know that intent letter that you received it's like maybe now's the time to stop and think about the value of continuing to pour money time people resources into this maybe it's time to just stop pause and go about this all together differently sir that was you're out of time sir oh boy okay well thank you very much thank you thank you um i believe our next individual i believe it's casey forrest am i reading that correctly thank you i wasn't sure

104if it was corey or casey i apologize [Music] hi i'm casey forrest i live at 1719 royal oak drive i go to olentangy orange high school and i wanted to speak on behalf of all the student readers in the district we read books to expand our knowledge of the world while also seeking entertainment books can provide an amazing new insight into the lives of others and experiences we might otherwise struggle to understand before i go on i first wanted to thank you for that amazing presentation it was very informative and i read this before knowing about the changes but i actually agree with a lot of them and i'm happy that object like you're bringing transparency to a lot of it which is nice with upcoming changes to our literature review process i worry what

105the future of our libraries and classes might look like back in middle school i read the book all american boys a novel focusing on a boy that becomes the victim of police brutality this book showed me a new perspective that i would have never seen before and highlighted to me the privilege that i live with every day while living in a predominantly white community after reading this book i was a new person i wasn't a corrupted youth who was had his innocent stripped from him due to violence and drug mentions i walked out with a new perspective a new understanding of the world around me and felt empowered because i was educated on issues i would have never really affected so many people a topic brought up commonly at this meetings is the subject of

106book banning or subject banning by banning books that talk about sensitive subjects such as racism we don't save our child's innocent innocence we don't keep our children safe we create an uninformed and uneducated individual the exact opposite of what we aim to do here at old tangy the role of education is to teach our kids of the world around us empower them to do great things and create change if there is controversy teach the controversy don't ignore it keep our children safe by showing them the world they live in and give them access to the tools they deserve thank you also can we have a snow day tomorrow please [Applause] if we do casey i'll give you credit that was our final participant thank you all right miss hatfield we're now going to the action

107items so could you please present your treasure exams yes please i would like to present treasure action items a through e for your approval please uh could i have a motion please to approve treasure action items so move second all right we're gonna uh motion in a second any discussion on the treasure action items all right seeing none please call the roll dr weiss yes mr lester yes dr debraco yes mrs patrick yes and mr o'brien yes thank you and then mr rafe would you please present the superintendent action items uh yes sir i'd like to present superintendent action items a through h for approval you can have a motion please in a second okay and then when you're ready mrs hatfield please call oh any discussion on the superintendent actually no all right please

108call the roll mrs patrick yes dr debra ko yes mr lester yes dr weiss yes and mr o'brien yes thank you i'll entertain a motion to adjourn and again our next meeting will be on or about march 3rd and we'll get that date set uh shortly any discussion on the adjournment all right please call the roll oh motion in a second please so moved second all right please come on we had three but we're gonna break that down into two mr lester yes dr weiss yes dr dabraco yes mrs patrick yes and mr o'brien yes thank you all right thank you everyone have a safe [Music] you