001Okay, we're uh calling our June 4th, 2025 board meeting to order. Will you please call the role? Mrs. Seuin, here. Miss Christophan here. Mr. Gabart, here. Mr. Hower here. Mr. Parker here. Okay, I'll uh rise for our 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. Oh, this is like a classroom. I know that like it is just us. What was it? Nice to hear the young people's voices. Yeah, it does sound nice. All right, I'll introduce our board members. We have Mr. Brent Parker to the far right, Mr. Mike Ghart to my right, uh, Vice President, Mrs. Annie Karsten in the beautiful green, uh, Mr. Lenhauser. Next to her,
002uh, Miss Sans Slush, our superintendent, and Colleen Abol, our treasurer. All right, moving along. It looks like we have a presentation. Sports performance year one recap. Yes, Jay Banz is, you can come up, Jay. Um, if you remember, we we began this role to help us get where we needed to get um in the athletics uh as far as uh many different re things and pieces and parts, but Jay's been a great great addition and he wanted to give a little recap. Excellent. First of all, thank you guys for having me. Um, I have some analogies that I want to go through, recap kind of the sports performance and kind of what that looked like, the why, what we measured and show you guys the data and then kind of what our year two plans
003are and beyond. So, um, if we look on the How do we go to the next slide here? Does it Can you tap it? Is it working if you tap it? No. Um yeah, probably just need to All right. So, first, um a lot of people I do want to thank. So, you guys should go to the next stage there. And I'm going to miss some people here, but first of all, the board and an for the opportunity to serve our student athletes um and the investment that you guys made not only in my program, but obviously our kids. So, and I think our kids would kind of echo that same appreciation. So coaches and trainers, you know, just constant communication, constant feedback. We all want the same thing. Pretty much just making our athletes
004better, opportunity for them to grow and get better as students and as athletes as well. Um, Heather Beck, um, who obviously came here to sport today, which I appreciate. She's been a great sounding board for me, uh, person to turn that. Is that better? Yes. My fault. All right. Um, like I was saying, Heather, um, she does an amazing job coordinate all our athletes. She goes above and beyond. It's been great working with her. Um, she kind of helped piece together some of the logistics of scheduling. So, in year one, she was a huge help, too. So, Coach Hamilton, again, another person who's here to kind of support our uh support myself as well as our athletes. Um, he's an AI alum, so he was our teacher record, and he was in the classroom and
005in the weight room with us. Um, and he does two things very, very well that our kids desperately need. Um, he provides a good sense of consistency every single day, a sense of professionalism. Um, he's there all the time. And then second, he does a great job of kind of keeping our kids with high standards and it's something that if we want to grow as an academic and as an athletic program, high standards is kind of where we get to. So, I appreciate you, Coach Hamilton, for being here and obviously for being here throughout the course of the year. Um, it allowed our kids to get credit throughout the course of the year so they can take our sports performance class and uh count towards eligibility and whatnot. So, keep going. All right. And then
006lastly, I'd like to thank our student athletes. I don't even need a mic if that's better. Um, because we asked them to do something they never done before. So, we asked them to change their habits, change kind of what they do, their thought process, as well as their physical actions every single day. And they did a great job. And I'll kind of go through how we know they did a great job and kind of the data to support that. So if we go to the next slide, Natalie. Okay. So when our sports perform sport performance class, for those who didn't know, it's kind of our steam strength class during the day like a lot of our school models have kind of adopted. Um it allows us to provide year round quality consistent training. So knowing
007our kids doing it during the day is the best for them with attendance purposes. uh allowing them to obviously babysit their their brothers and sisters, help out around the house, allows them to get a job, but it also allows them to earn a credit during the day. So, they can get their training every single day during the day, earn a credit, counts towards graduation, counts towards eligibility, um and it's a free and it's an equitable resource that all our kids um have the opportunity to do now. So when I look at this sports performance recap, I'm talking about the class specifically, but we also have after school options for our early college advs and other EHS students. So it's kind of our way to again kind of get on par with all the other schools
008in the area and I just wanted to give you guys a recap kind of on your investment. So I feel like that was important to come here and do so. So thank you. All right. So when we look at our KPIs, those are like our key performance indicators which we look at data. We talk about data all the time in like the academic world, but we want to make sure it's not only like efficient, but it's effective. Those are things that we look at an athlete and we want to make sure that they're good in those skills. So, we have our max strength, our power, our explosive, and our speed and agility. And one of the main things that we do is we want to make sure that we're doing things that our kids see
009value in and it helps them in their sport. So, when we track data, it's meaningful. And uh this year we focus predominantly on one and a little bit of two because when you're building the program you obviously have to hone in on technique, you have to hone in on the basics and allows us to build a good foundation for years to come. So just kind of want to report back numbers. So we had 137 student athletes who participated throughout the entire year. So when we look at kind of evaluating a program, we want to make sure that we look at the ones who did it from the start all the way to the finish. not a kid who did it for a week or so and transferred or dropped or didn't play a sport or
010transferred in halfway. We look at the data for the to see how good the program it was. So, three KPIs that we checked again key performance indicators. We did our bench for our max strength for our upper body, our squat for our lower body, and then our vertical jump for power and explosiveness throughout the whole course of the year. We tracked other things, but again, just for the start and the beginning of the year, kind of where we're at. And out of the 137 student athletes we had, all 137 student athletes improved in all three aspects in our KPI, which is an outstanding feat to not only them, but um it's kind of our program, what we're trying to do. So, if we go to the next slide, we kind of look at it like
011a bar graph uh visual for you guys. At the start of the year, we only had five student athletes who had a 30 plus inch vertical. Only five. and we only had 31 kids who could bench 135 pounds and we only had 33 athletes who can squat 185 pounds. For those who are kind of familiar with those metrics, those aren't super lofty goals, but it's a good benchmark to kind of see where we were at. You know, the first thing you do in terms of an assessment is you have a pre-assessment and then you kind of gradually go like formative and summitive assessments. our summitive assessment at the very end of the year, we had 28 student athletes uh able to jump 30 plus inches, which is a 460% growth, which is a good key
012indicator in our program that it's working and we're doing the right things. We had 83 athletes be able to bench 135 pounds, which is 167% increase. And then we had 79 athletes uh able to squat 185 pounds, which is again another 139% growth. So, if we're talking about investments, um, those are obviously good numbers, a good source of the program, and we like kind of where things are headed. The nice thing, too, that I like to kind of piggyback is now for this next year, we don't start where the red bars are at. We start similar to where those black bars are at. So, each year we're able to kind of continue to stack and stack. And, you know, year one will obviously present problems and issues and year two will too as well. But
013at least the, you know, the base floor is slowly rising with our athletes. Towards the end of the year, we started seeing a lot of our sophomores and freshman equally as strong as our juniors and seniors, which is a good thing to have. So, um, it was really cool to see. And again, if we're looking at kind of assessing a program, we want to see these numbers the way they are. So, if we look at year two and kind of beyond and what we want to focus on and kind of where we're headed, just to keep, you know, things transparent, um, one of the big things is year two for me begins in the summer. Uh, we have dedicated summer programs for every single one of our sports teams and opportunities for our kids to
014train throughout the course of the year. Again, free and equitable. It allows us to provide something that T3 provides, but at does free 99 cost for our kids. Um, and we're going to focus predominately on speed, agility, and those other KPIs that we didn't get to. The second thing that I looked at a lot, again, if we're looking at data, um, the start of the year, we had 147 requests. So, only 147 of our athletes wanted to kind of participate in year one of this program. You know, reading the course description, seeing what they signed up for, kind of accepting a a challenging task daily. Um, and now we have 221 requests for the 2024 2025 school year. About a 50% growth increase. And to me, that just shows like word of mouth is like
015a good thing. It's like, oh, like why are you lifting after school? Be like, oh, where's the rest of our team at? Oh, they have sports performance. They just take it during the day. And then it allows them to do things past their normal school hours. So to me, that was a really good sign that not only we're doing the right things with the previous numbers, but the kids see value in it, too. So then you look at our retention after year one. So obviously we graduate our seniors or those who transfer whatnot leave, but our freshman, sophomore, and juniors, if you look at those group that were in sports performance and then their request to sign up for it the next year, we're at about 95%. So about two to three kids didn't want
016to take it after taking it for a full year, which to me shows that they see value in it and they liked it and they want to do it again. So again, being able to grow as a program and being able to retain in, you know, 2024, 2025 is a good sign that we're obviously headed in the right direction. One of the things that we're going to focus on also in year two is the nutrition piece because we kind of again we we track their body weight, we track their height, we track their wingspan, their bench, their squat, we track all this stuff. And the one metric that we kind of see didn't really change a lot was uh their weight. And that's unfortunately one thing that you know I can't go home and I
017can't cook for them or I can't do things for them. But what we can do is we can provide information and we can provide resources for them. So I've already reached out to multiple nutritionists and we already have a plan in place to to provide meal plans, grocery shopping list, all these things to again just provide not only kids but parents information on what to eat, when to eat, and why to eat. So um we're again trying to just grow from year one to year two. I think that's uh any program or any person wants to do that. So we're constantly reflecting and trying to add better things. So and the last thing with help of of Mr. Sura back there again appreciate him being there. Um dedicated middle school programs. So we did a
018lot of it this year a little bit kind of in like the later hours of the day like that 5:30 time. uh we'd like to get a little more closer to their school hours, but we had a dedicated football, volleyball, boys basketball, girls basketball, and we're slowly starting to build more and more programs for the middle school. So, one thing we'd like to do, you know, down the road is get sports performance at the middle school level because if we can continue to do that, it's just going to slowly slowly build a culture and uh kind of headed in the right direction. So, again, just want to thank you guys for your time. Um, I thought it was important for me to come here, give you guys kind of a recap on year one, kind
019of see what you guys, you know, signed up for or invested in. So, um, you guys have any questions or anything you'd like to ask or add or whatnot? That's a great presentation. Great. Wonderful. Awesome. Do you have any stats just uh boys and girls participating, gender breakup? Yeah. So, um I don't know those numbers off the top of my head, but I can give you a pretty good estimate is that our initial request in the 147 was probably like 75% males. Um and then uh our 221, we're seeing more and more females sign up for our sports class, which I think that's one big thing too as well is that you're seeing the the female athletes obviously buy in and be committed to it. Um as well as trust and kind of believe in
020what we're doing. So, great. Um that was a good number for me of the 221 that I'm like okay we're getting more and more uh different sports too joining too as well. Obviously it's something we can't make them do but we can only provide them the information and uh allow them the chance to do it. So and next year you're going to have seven classes. Yeah. So we good problem to have is that we're it's in order accommodate the 221 requests we're adding more class periods so we can just be more efficient and effective with our time to uh accommodate the kids who want to do it. So, um, the goal is to obviously do it before the the long-term goal would be able to do it before school, whole year after school, get 300
021plus athletes training during the day for those kids who and it cost them $0. So, it's a it's a great opportunity, great resource, and like I said, it's uh it's been an honor to serve these kids and I appreciate you guys uh instilling that belief in me and giving me the opportunity to speak with you guys. So, thank you. Well, the kids believe in it. Um, I talked to the girls wrestling team at one of their meets and asked them how's it going and they all were very happy with it. They liked what they were getting from it to improve them on the mat. So, when you have results coming out, more and more people want to be part of it. So, thank you. It's always It's always good to hear that. Thank you. I
022appreciate it. With the weight um with the weight fluctuation, is that with some kids a weight gain, some kids a weight loss? What's the fluctuation? So that that's the tough thing too to track. I mean I think about two kids in particular that were offensive linemen for us in football who dropped like 50 to 60 pounds. I mean that I I mean Mike Alvarez is one of our one of our kids and he dropped a lot of weight intentionally. He wanted to lose weight. So like it's tough to track body weight all the time because everybody has different goals. But for me it's it's the level of like all right you weigh this much weight now you're getting stronger. Like are we adding good weight? Are we adding bad weight? And again, it's it's it's
023an opportunity. We don't make all our kids weigh in, but it's just another metric that they like they like to see the stats. They like to know what they're doing and why they're doing it and if it works. So, um yeah, that's good. That's very good. If you drop that much weight, is he still a lineman? Yeah, he's long graduated. I think week 10 was his last time he thought of himself as a lineman. So, yeah. Do you find more um students in certain sports? Yeah. So like you look at our 221 requests and the nice thing is providing the after school um opportunity for them. It kind of gives them like a little bit of a a taste or a test of working out in general or just even me or myself as a
024person just kind of buying into that. Um so we're seeing more and more sports teams sign up for it. Again, it's something we can't make them do, but the goal ultimately is just the standard and expectation that all our athletes like not only like feel they should train, but want to train. You know what I'm saying? But um yeah, we're seeing more and more sports involved, which is a good thing. Yeah, that's great. Awesome. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Jack. Awesome. All right. I need some help with that bad boy. He needs silly water. It's okay. He wants somebody to be a baby. No, I just being silly. He wants somebody to be a baby. So you don't need I have a big water. We do. Okay. All right. So visitors
025comment section, but we have no visitors comments. Um I'll just read the first couple uh sentences here. For the record, the school board encourages and appreciates citizen interest in meetings of the board of education. Normally the board will meet twice during the month and will make accommodations to allow public participation. Persons wishing to address the board for up to five minutes may place their name on a sign-in sheet, indicate the topic they wish to address, or make a written request to the treasurer's office one week in advance of the board meeting to speak up to 10 minutes. Okay. Meeting minutes. The um meeting minutes from the May 21st meeting have been posted. Do we have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Madam Treasurer, please call the role. Miss I. Mr. Gart. I Mr. Hower
026I Mr. Parker I Mrs. Sewin I uh board of education items I don't have anything. Does anyone have anything for this part? Nope. All right. Treasurer action items. Okay. To acknowledge and express appreciation for the following donations. Elie Pride parent group donated um $5,89 for a basketball hoop for their playground. Thank you for that. Thank you. Um, and I also have to approve the board insurance rates and the COBRA rates for July 1st, 2025 as follows. And that's all that I have. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the treasurer's item? So moved. We have a second. Second. Will you please call the role? Mr. Parker? I. Mr. Hower? I. Mr. Garfin. I. Mr. Gart. Hi. Mrs. Siguin. I. Motion carries. Could we um we have I don't know if this would be the
027section, but can we have a quick update on the flag pole? Yes, we have ESP here. Um Brian, do you want to tell them? Sure. Um I've been in contact with the city and uh the Veteran Services Commission, Mr. Smith, was his name. Jacob. Jacob Smith. Yes. We're on track to get the poll. We checked with city zoning and city building ordinance. is to get the installer out to make sure that the location we want to put it is um good by you and goodbye them that we can get a mutual agreement on where this is going to go and then I think we'll be ready hopefully by the next uh June board meeting for you to if you so choose accept the donation great thank you thanks Brian Oh, all right. Treasury report um
028the expulsion hearing first treasure other to appoint um board members. Yes, it's going to be uh Brett Parker and myself. Thank you. And then representatives are the other three for the hearing that will be on Wednesday, June 25th at 4 p.m. I just need a motion for that. Do we have a motion to approve? Second. Second. Please call the role. Mr. Parker. So move and second. It was you. So moved and well, I thought you motioned it. I was going to second it. Yeah. Okay. It was motion. Okay. Mr. Garfin. Hi. Mr. Parker. I. Mr. Gart. I. Mr. Hower. Hi. Mrs. Seuin. I. Okay. Now the treasurer report. All right. No fun report. Sorry. No report. All right. Now we're moving on to superintendent action items. All right. Uh quite a few contracts as always
029this time of year. Um thank you Mrs. Blat. First of all, the uh field trip for the soccer at Ashlin. Um that we then have the Jorski physical therapy contract for both summer and next school year. The extended school year um program with the two pair professional support. the inter agency agreement for the 2526 school year. Steps education for the school year. Uh the contract with the Yria Amherst taxi for next school year. Life care wheelchair transportation for the 2526 school year. The ESC of Northeast Ohio achievement centers for children for next school year. Um the rain county board of DD um contract for next 2526 school year Cleveland hearing and speech 2526 and 2627 um okay one's for interpreters and one's for audio and one's for audio. Okay, thank you. Yeah, also the suburban
030transportation contract is listed below. mental health. This is the MyersBoard agreement um for our SEAL personnel. And then purchase of Chromebooks for next year as we have a cycle where we replenish and then um we have a stipen for the summer robotics camp to the following individuals. And that concludes my action items. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the superintendent's action items? I'll make a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Uh, please call the RO. Mr. Gart, I Miss Chrisin, I Mr. Hower. I here. Mr. Parker. I. Mrs. Seuin. Abstain. All right. Next, we have personnel action items. Shall I go ahead? All right. I do have some announcements or introductions at the end, but I'll go through all of them first. First of all, we have a resignation of uh certified
031staff members listed below. We have the appointment of the following certified administrative staff. We have uh to approve the appointment of the following certified staff is detailed below. to approve the appointment of the following EHS student worker for the PAC. To approve the payment of up to five days for employees daily rate for training and transitioning to approve the supplemental contracts for the following um district certified and classified staff. We have a couple pages here. um to approve the uh following athletic supplemental contracts as listed below to approve the payment of up to 5 hours per day for the period of June 11th through June 27th for curriculum rate tutoring sessions for St. Jude to approve the resignation of the following classified staff member. To approve the appointment of the following classified staff is listed
032below. can tell we're in hiring season, right? Uh to approve the termination of the following classified staff member to approve the continuing contract for the following classified staff beginning the 2526 school year. To approve the 2-year limited contract for the following classified staff, and to approve the one-year limited contract for the following staff. All right. Do we have a motion to approve the personnel action items recommended by the superintendent? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Madam treasure, please call the role. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Gabart, I. Mr. Starfin, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Siguin, I. Motion carries. All right. If I could introduce a few uh of you. We have a lot of people out there. Um, but first of all, I'll start with in order. on uh the page 11. First of
033all, we have um as you know from a previous board meeting, Carrie Pope is retiring after uh 37 years. And we didn't look far. She was just uh just down the road or the hall, shall I say? Carrie Cone, who has been one of our bricks, our behavior specialists um at the middle school level. So Carrie, if you'd stand, uh she is our new um special education supervisor. So thank you. She has a great background and uh we're very lucky to have Carrie. Also, one of our behavior specialists at the high school, Molly Newower is going to replace it's kind of a side out rotate. Yes, it's your mommy. side out rotate. Um, as you know with um Courtney coming up, Angie Alicron is going to move over to the academic side of the associate
034principal and Molly who has been at the high school for two years working in the behaviors is going to be the associate principal on the student services side. So many of the things that um she'll be working with she has already been working with and it'll be less of a learning curve. So um I always say we train the best so to keep people inhouse um and that know what's going on and she's done a wonderful job. We're going to be having a presentation actually if I on a side note coming up, but our discipline is way down. The data is way down in numbers and we're we're celebrating that and a lot of these people have a lot to do with that. Um, so Molly Newower, our new associate principal. All right, I'm gonna
035start with you, Brooklyn, because this one makes me so so happy and smile. Not that the rest don't, but she just graduated from a high um a week ago. Yeah. A week ago today. Yeah. Um and Brooklyn is going to school to be a teacher and she's going to work with us while she's going to school at Ashlin, right, as a parapro. So very excited to have Brooklyn as part of our um staff now officially. Yes. She's got a great singing voice, too. Um, and then certified positions, we have uh Mr. Sha Coglin. He's going to be at Northwood in English language arts. Alexis Mayer Meyer Meyer, she's going to be fifth grade science at Northwood Middle. And then this name you might know, uh, Dan Gund. He's one of our assistant basketball coaches, but
036he's been teaching down the street in Wellington, and he's made his way to be a full pioneer, a pioneer, not just a part-time pioneer. So, welcome, Dan. He's going to be third grade teacher at Eastern Heights, and they're very excited to get a male teacher in elementary. That doesn't happen very often. So, very excited to do that. All right, let me make sure I didn't forget anyone. Anyone? Did I forget anyone? I don't think so. Is that everyone? All right, I think I think that's it. So, all I have would you like me to start with the superintendent's report? Sure. Okay. Um, so the next uh let me see here part. Well, we made it another great school year. Um, and uh, couldn't be more proud of the work we did all year and um,
037just a shout out to the whole staff and the team, as I call them, the Pioneer family for doing what they do each day for our students. Uh, again, couldn't be more proud of the work they do. This Friday at 2 p.m. at the high school, Jazir, who throws discus, I believe, is going to be leaving for the state competition. He's a sophomore and he made it to state in the discus. So, we're very excited. There's going to be a sendoff with the police car and everything else. Mayor Brewbaker helped us with that. So, basketball, too, doesn't he? He plays on the JV team. Yes, he's a a wonderful student. And from what Mr. um Bes told me, he just at the combine, they're doing these combines where colleges come in and see the kids.
038He was given some pretty big shout outs from three division one schools. So, he's quite the athlete. Wow. Sophomore. Quite the athlete. Um he's very tall. I think he's like 6'5. Oh, wow. But yeah. All right. And um also Special Olympics on Friday the 13th. It's a good Friday the 13th though. Um at 7:30 in the morning, they're headed to the state competition and we're going to do a sendoff at the high school. Correct, Mrs. Blatt. Yes. Okay. I can't see out on these glasses. It's for reading. Do we have a time for that? Um 7:30 a.m. Okay. For the early birds and uh they always love it when we come and cheer them. There's eight athletes. Wonderful. Wonderful. So, is that Mr. Corp taking a special education down at Eastern Heights Elementary? Awesome. Awesome.
039And that is it. We're just, like I said, we're busy hiring and we're bit [Laughter] You're allowed to be lax when you're home. That's great. Four boys. I I'm out. Mom, are you sure you have time for this job? So, uh, and that's it again. Um, we had a great end of year admin meeting today and lots of good stuff pla planned for the upcoming year and and uh it's exciting very exciting good things happening in Ayria. Okay. Is that is that all that is it from me. Okay. Uh board of education items. Um, membership renewal to approve the membership of the coalition/BHO ed choice voucher litigation. Uh, to approve the second reading of the following board policies. And that is it. Do we have a motion to approve the board of education items as
040presented? So move. Do we have a second? Second. Madam treasure, please call the role. Mr. Gart, I. Miss Garfin. I. Mr. Howser. I. Mr. Parker. Hi. Mrs. Siguin. No. Um, I'm quite different today, aren't I? Okay. Uh, issue of emergency levy. The recommended action is going to be to approve a resolution. Wait. Uh, no. to submit to the electors of the school district at the election to be held on November 4th, 2025 the question of an additional levy in excess of the 10 mil limitation for the purpose of providing for the emergency requirements of the school district in order to raise the total amount of 6,381,390 each year expected to result in a county auditor millet certification. of approximately 4.9 mills for a period of 10 years which if approved would be first collected in
041calendar year 2026. Do we have a motion to approve a resolution to submit to the electors of the school district the question of levying an additional tax pursuant to section 57051 194 to 5705197 of the revised code? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Second. Madam treasurer, please call the role. Mr. Garfin, I. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Gabart, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Siguin, I. And I do not think we have an executive session. Y. So, do we have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. Uh, please call the RO. Miss Christophan. I. Mr. Gabart. I. Mr. Hower. Hi. Mr. Parker. Hi. Mrs. Siguin. I meeting adjourned. Thank you everyone.