001e e e testing testing Can anyone hear Us online have you loud and clear now sir thank you very much thank you for letting us come to present and show um the growth that Stow rocks Opera Elementary has made this um half of the year so far we're excited to show um the progress and we are on track for meeting our goals um we are going to focus on different areas we're going to focus on the programs that we are offering we're going to focus on attendance PBIS academics and we have some guest presenters um some students from our kindness club and lit club that are coming um there will be a few that have to leave because they are playing in the sixth grade game so um they will be cutting out as soon
002as they present we're GNA start off with Kayla neba who runs our kindness club and she'll introduce herself and let you know a little bit about the kindness Club hi my name's Kayla I'm one of the school-based therapists at the upper elementary school and I brought some kindness Club Representatives with me to tell you a little bit about our club can I can I tou it um my name is Jacob hi my name is Corgan and and we are a part of the kindness club we are a leadership Club made out of 12 fifth grade and sixth graders that focuses on spreading kindness throughout the school um we teach others how to improve their friendships share new ways to be kind are role models for others on how to be kind show kindness to people
003who might need it and we help other students learn about their different sources of strength such as family friendship Mental Health health physical health generosity mentorship and spirituality kindness Club is run by us kids because other kids can learn from us we can show that other kids wait sorry we could show other kids that if we if we could be nice so can they and we come up with way more fun activities than the adults wa to go um sorry we're also going to talk a little bit about the campaigns and activities that we ran throughout this year so far and we have more coming up look at my go son in in October we participated in the parent appreciation night we created treat bags filled with s'mores ingredients and labeled them with text that
004said our family are a treat we also created a video with our classmates to thank their parents and Guardians in our district for supp supporting us in November we celebrated World kindness day we made a video for the announcements that taught others how to be kind to each other to others themselves teachers in their school environment we also made CBE kind treat bags teachers would could give prizes to students who are caught being kind during lunch we ran a card making table students make kind cards to give someone who needed kind kindness that day on February 13th we hosted palentine's day which focused on healthy friendships we share ways to make healthy and positive friends on the morning announcements we also s friendship bracet friendship bracelets for students to give a positive friend finally we
005have we haveu students write one way to be a positive friend on a heart to display in the hallway we have many more fun campaign ideas.com great job that was many of their first times presenting especially in a setting like this so I'm very proud of them for coming up here and sharing now we're going to bring up Miss Smith to sh about the lit [Applause] leaders so uh first I will share that um so our lit leader program this is our third year for it um I will also name that I had a few other lit leaders who had planned on being here um but unfortunately teams have not made it so uh I will share first uh because keny has asked to go second um so our lit leader program is the leaders
006and training program it's part of the just discipline project from the University of Pittsburgh uh their goal is to really be champions of restorative practices within our building um to help with Behavior Uh Community Building within the school um and just anything that we might see coming up uh so the students applied in the fall through an application process they had interviews there were references that they had to help with they had to get um weekly we helped with passing out the blessing bags that the Pennsylvania area communities and schools has PSV area communities and schools has um and then we meet every week to go over different leadership skills uh every other week pretty much we pull up some Behavior referral data not with names but we look at that to see if there
007are any Trends and try to discuss about what can we do uh as a group of students and student leaders to address those needs um one of those things that we noticed was that um we saw that on Thursdays there tended to be an increase in uh behaviors in the afternoon and so students came up with this idea that uh we started not too long ago that on Thursdays during lunches last five to 10 minutes is almost like a minial lesson discussion at their table um that if the student leaders are at that table then they help lead that discussion I just sort of facilitate large group but they help with the discussions at their table um they are also trained to help um run some student mediations that we call Healing circles um and
008they uh get to uh help in a whole bunch of different ways my name is Kenley and I'm a lit leader I'm in fourth grade we met weekly to learn about leadership last week we did a coffee cart so thanks D um and then uh on the on the screen we have just the names of ourlet leaders fourth fifth and sixth graders um it's contingent on we try to have at least two per home room so that there's somebody who can uh help with some of that leadership um within each of those home rooms uh so thank you very much [Applause] next up our counselor Rich bow will talk about our attendance so far this year we are so close to our goal which you will see shortly of 90% hi everybody and and as
009Miss Johnson said yes I have some good news um we are almost to our goal we are we are very close so just to go over our goal our our overall goal is to have 90% attendance every single day obviously we would want it to be at 100% um but right now you know the baby steps we want to get to 90% first um so we're doing monthly incentives to get there and some of these incentives that we're doing for instance we have October we decorated pumpkins so if a student had perfect attendance they got to come down and decorate these pumpkins um they they have a great time decorating anything anything with crafts that the kids are usually on board with uh for November um we did uh PJs in a movie day if
010um the if one of the home rooms had really great attendance for December we did a hot chocolate bar if the entire school had 92% attendance um and we were able to do 92% attendance as the goal that month because we were we were above our goal already at that point in the year um for January it was going to be a snowball fight in the in the gym I say snowball fight we weren't gonna actually bring in the snow but it was going to be kind of like dodgeball um but for February we are looking at doing a prize cart for students who have perfect attendance or who have only missed one day for the month of February um The Home Room with the best attendance will get a a dress down day as
011well so we have found that these incentives are are very effective and and like I said you know we we are very close to reaching our gool thus far um in in just again to discuss our percent percentage of regular attendance so far last year now this is for the entire school year we were at 88.9% attendant that was our average attendance for the entire school year now in 2024 2025 where we are right now is 88.5 now it's lower than last school year but that was for the entire school year so where we are right now compared to where we were last year we are much better than where we were last year so I would expect that when we get to the end of the school year we will be at our our
01290% that we are trying to reach so that is good news this information is shared with students because we monthly principal meetings so the things that we're going over the kids have exposure to it every month the graphs the charts so they're seeing how they're doing and we set a monthly goal during those principles and and the other thing too is um we we utilize the the kids to talk about the incentives too so you know we are incentivizing them with things that they want um because if if the kids don't want it it's not going to work um so we we also take their input into consideration um just some more attendance stats so far for the the the first half of the school year we've had 11 students that have had perfect attendance
013for the entire year so far and we have had a significant number of students that have improved attendance um three of those students one for each grade were recognized during our celebration of learning um and and just to discuss also for October we actually had 74 students that had perfect attendance for the entire month of October so you know our numbers are are really great and and we're we're going to keep working on it and we're going to reach our goal for for 90% so thank [Applause] you all right if you could actually go to the next slide so we're g to talk about Behavior referrals so if you actually want to look at the screen um because it'll be a little much to try to read through all of it um the black numbers
014are for this year and then the pink yes and the pink numbers are for last year and so that's looking at these Behavior referral referal or anytime that a teacher writes a student up for something that occurs and so specifically looking at that a majority of our referrals have uh actually almost every month except for the first month of the year U of the school year uh they have decreased by a significant amount from one year to the next um and so we're seeing a really positive trend with that um if you could go to the next one as well um so with that our our PBIS team has worked really hard to come up with some different goals and incentives for our students so our um this is in order of our goals that
015we've had this year so our first goal at the beginning of the year was keeping hands feet objects and poor comments to ourselves our next one was showing kindness towards others then we had being proactive not reactive to situations um staying in assigned areas reducing those referrals to an average of six or fewer per day um which I will also mention they did meet that one that month um using appropriate language and then our goal for this month is we're going to reduce those referrals again to five or less per day um and as of right now so far they are meeting that expectation um so knock on wood fingers cross whatever that we keep that up because they are more than capable of doing that and I'm looking forward to seeing those that positive
016trend continue excuse me real quick yes do you think the things you're doing are motivating them to keep on going down like the referrals and whatnot that's amazing um I will say that I think some of the things that we're doing are motivating them I also not noticed one thing that we started with that was we put a calendar in the morning announcements that they see every day and we put the number of referrals on there and as they see that number it's like as soon as they see it sometimes it then like eggs them on to okay yesterday we didn't meet it but this is an average number for the month and so okay two days ago we had two so like today we might have had seven but you know today we're going
017to try to get less than that let's get none like because there were when we did that or fewer was the first time we did that there were some days on there that they had zero referrals and the kids were like okay this is awesome we can do this we can keep going um so I mean you can ask some of them that are here from my perspective from what I've heard it sounds like um that being able to see that is helpful reminder because especially if you're a kid who's not really getting referrals or maybe you get one here or there um it's it's not a good you don't get a good representation of like what is happening entire building wise day I like that sometimes you got to see it so I like
018that I like that a lot refs number one the dress code you can tell a difference in the student behavior on the days that we have dressed on days compared to the day that they're in dress code the second thing that I would say would um be a big impact because I would say more than 50% last year dealt with cell phones so when they come off the bus we have plastic bins and the students put their phones right in so when they go through those metal detectors like weel phonos there where last year they would turn them in the um classroom so I think that also has Cuts thank you I like that next part is going to be on the map testing that we adusted um so in January we had our halfway
019Benchmark so the first is our math results so the top chart um the thing that I want to point out on that one is there's four quadrants that top leftand corner is the low achievement but high growth so where we started out at the beginning of the year was in that bottom right quadrant and that was the low achievement so we have increased up to in every single grade level up to that high growth quadrant so the top um point where the cursor is pointing is our sixth grade they grew 82% in math this um first half of the year so that's a great accomplishment that they had made um at the bottom you can see the chart at the top is um the total overall percentage where the cursor is and I can't see
020without my glasses so I can't give the exact number um but we made TR mendous growth um for the students moving the colors up on the bottom is comparison from the first half of the year to the second half of the year we still do have a lot of growth to make um but we're on our way to making that growth the second one is our reading and the same thing um the entire school had um growth and made it to that top um quadrant for the high growth except for one area but they were very close and with pushing a couple more students we should make that by the end of the year next we're g to have Miss neeva go over our mental health and mentoring services that we're offering to help provide
021supports for students I just wanted to share some of these Services because they've made a great change in a lot of our students having the different supports available in school for both mental health and mentoring so I just wanted to give a quick overview we have the pry Ridge cbbh team and the Outpatient Therapy teams we have mhy family services which is the company that I'm contracted through we have infinite lifestyle Services which offers both art and yoga trauma groups as well as individual therapy we have alagan children's initiative which does our mental health screenings for students who are referred through our SST program and then we also have the high Mark heing place which helps run brief groups within the school for mentoring Services we have aachi which works with students who've been infected
022by having an incarcerated loved one we have Gwen's girls which is a girls mentoring program we have VI which works with as violence interrupts we have the just discipline project which works on restorative justice and healing circles within the school we have a doio health and true which is a tobacco resistance unit that our students are able to join and to learn about tobacco resistance and then we have a lot of really great programs through pxs and our after school program so through all of those Collective things we identify students who might need more support and refer them and get them to join and participate and we've been seeing major improvements in behaviors and mental health in these programs so I just wanted to share that as and through our two and ofis we tracking
023all of the data the SE which is working and which is um so as a leadership team we do go over that data monthly and revisit if we need to switch stuff up all right the next thing is some exciting things happening in our coding um the stem coding lab who comes in and they uh provide lessons received a grant and picked us um to put a new maker space in the Upper Elementary so you can see pictures of the design um of how the room will look that top picture will show there's going to be a circuit wall where students will have Hands-On activities um there's different um stations that they'll be able to access and they will go in there once a week for coding class and then the classroom will be open
024for teachers to continue to take um students when the lab is not being used um and then this is where they're at on the project so far of what they have done and then the last thing is um if you haven't heard we're having a big black history month celebration where our um after school Culture Club will be performing a dance um we have our chorus our band and then each grade level will be singing a song and then after that taking a walk around the gym to see all of the projects in research that the students have done so far this month that's the end of our presentation thank you so much for letting us come and show off everything that is going on at the Upper Elementary I'd like to thank staff students
025and parents for coming to this presentation tonight and I'd just like to give one last round of applause for all of the hard work they've done [Applause] thank you thank you that was good I like that thank you very much up next we're going to have Dr mimu Dr Dr M wild Dr Pope and Mr Lillo for the CSI update past present and future good evening everyone how are you doing good how are you good thank you man our Viking future is so bright with our kindness club and our lit leaders I'm so excited to see what the future holds for all of them thank you for welcoming us to speak with all of you this evening my name is Lisa Muma I'm the principal of the primary Center I'm joined by Tim La burillo
026my assistant principal and Dr Holly Pope she is our um math consultant through the AIU for our CSI process this evening we're going to explain a little bit about our CSI process where we were at how did we arrive at CSI what we're currently doing and what our next best steps to help support our students within um our school what is school imp excuse me what is school Improvement it's the process for identifying the support for schools termed annual meaningful differentiation by the federal government um the results of our school Improvement designate us as a as the comprehensive School improvement process these are the most intensive of supports that we receive um through the federal government based off of our achievement scores and our attendance scores that we'll be able to unpack in a few
027minutes as noted the federal government prescribes three designations for school Improvement the first designation would be schools facing the most significant challenges within academic achievement in our building grade three it would be our pssa scores in reading and math um lack of student growth and other areas such as student attendance the second designation would be atsi schools which perform um one or more student groups at or below a level for CSI schools and finally our targeted School support which would be schools in which performances by one or more student groups is at or below state established standards you may ask how did we get to CSI since 2018 we look at several indicators for CSI and our two primary indicators at the primary Center include low growth and achievement on our state standardized scores in
028grade three math pssas and reading pssas also um below average attendance for um daily School attendance good evening it's nice to meet all of you I've heard a lot about uh the school board good things and so it's nice to be in front of you today um could you go to the next slide um so this slide if you take a look I know the numbers they look kind of small to me from here they look very big on my computer but this is showing you how the primary Center became designated as a CSI School meaning uh they were designated for comprehensive support and Improvement so that happened in 2018 but as you'll see later we lost our 2018 designation which is a big celebration but for the 2022 results uh they looked at the
029combine combined pssa scores of math and Ela and they looked at how regular attendance which is how many students came to school 90% of the time and so that was the criteria that they were designated for CSI within 2022 so in order to get out of school Improvement for the 2022 designation they need to do just a little bit better on the pssas and a little bit better on uh the regular attendance and right now where we stand the uh Primary Center has done great work over the last few years to improve um instruction overall and it's showing in the pssa scores for third grade so there's enough growth and enough enough students who are making progress right now to um say that they don't qualify for school Improvement for 2022 but the attendance is
030the problem that we're going to have um right now based on the last three years we did not improve enough with attendance so so that is going to be a big focus of the new school Improvement plan that we're making for next year um if you could go to the next slide so the school improvement process I'm not just a math specialist for c for uh Primary Center I'm also the school Improvement facilitator so I help the primary Center through this process it's a very involved process um of improvement and right now we're implementing the plan that was written for this year and we're monitoring that plan monthly and even bi-weekly looking at the action steps that were made and looking to see if we met our benchmarks and through this process we're adjusting the
031course as we go along so um you can click through that I believe yeah and then we're getting ready to start creating the plan for next year and that includes setting the direction making sure that we are you know have a a good goal in mind a good vision for the school we're assessing needs so we're about to start collecting a lot of data to look at data to see where we are where our strengths are where our weaknesses are and then from that we will create a plan for the 2526 school year so while this is in a a circle a nice me cycle it's really not a nice and neat process there are a lot of things going on at the same time and uh the primary Center is pretty much handling it
032very well um so I think overall I've seen an improvement I've been working with the primary Center since January of 2022 um it's when I came back to Pennsylvania and I was hired at the aiou and from that time time until now the primary Center has worked really hard to meet their goals um look at student data and just make changes in the best interest of students so um you all should be very proud of them when we look at our January Benchmark targets we identified as a CSI team to to look at student growth in Reading student growth in math math regular student attendance and incorporating Universal Design of learning strategies the how what how what and why of learning into our plan we are so proud to note that um as of January
03330th 30% of all K to3 students have shown growth at or above the 41st percentile on the map assessment the map assessment as Miss Johnson alluded to we have five various colors and the 44 41st per is um the average ability level of our students so we are so proud to share that not only in reading and math and by December for our regular attendance please remember this is 17 or less days from the first day of school through December 20th we were at 75% of regular daily attendance um for our students and um we have exceeded at least 20% of students or excuse me staff are constantly use utilizing udl strategy IES within the classroom they're looking at engagement representation and action to help support students in large group and small group we have
034a lot of teaming collaboration going on um Mr Lillo is going to be able to unpack a little more of the data and our progress to date of teachers I'm using udl is that something that's like use it you know what I mean what it's available or like you're looking to grow that number like what does that look like I'm just asking absolutely actually we have 100% of our teachers daily within classroom so for instance if I'm in a first grade math classroom like this morning when we look at Universal Design for Learning we're looking at our teachers not only teaching core instruction but being able to scaffold and differentiate um a math lesson looking at manipulatives counting collections making sure that our students understand the number 10 there are two parts to that and
035there's a process behind it back when I grew up we would always memorize math so now there's that theory and that philosophy so it can be applied that's what our teachers are really striving to do daily and we've been very impressed with that training and that coaching that they haveed not only from Mr librillo and I but from our AIU staff and friends and I'd be remiss if I didn't give kudos to Miss Johnson and past administration for really developing that process and that support with udl at um not only the primary Center but through it without the through in within the district sorry no thank you appreciate that I want to clarify that these are thear targets that set last year okay in the school Improvement so these were the goals that we were
036trying to meet and during our last quarterly during our last quarterly we looked at the actual data so if you go to the next slide you'll be able to see and Tim can talk to you a little bit more about that so this shows the current CSI progress that we have achieved within the building it's broken up by quarters and it's broken up by those action steps the reading map grow math MAP grow growth uh regular attendance and the udl instructional practices so I'm I'm going to focus your attention to the quarter two ones because that's the most recent evaluations that we have had as you can see the reading and math MAP growth have both uh achieve we've achieved 53% and 63% respectively uh so if you were you know our our 30% growth
037that we were supposed to obtain has already been met as of this point in terms of growth so we're making some real excellent progress in terms of the map and the map testing growth the regular attendance we started out in quarter 1 at 67% uh dipped down a bit in Quarter Two to 55.3% um you know which is you know an area of focus for us but as of right now we did an analysis as of yesterday to see the students that were on track for meeting our attendance goal by the end of the year and where we are right now is at 60% so we are seeing uh you know we're going back up in the right direction in terms of our attendance the udl instructional practices has been pretty consistent across the board
038as uh evidenced by our observations and our walkthroughs that 100% of our teachers are utilizing the Universal Design for Learning strategies within the classroom while working with their students so um we're very pleased to see you know and this is the second year of our implementation of the udl strategies we're very pleased to see that teachers have demonstrated the Buy in that we would hope and expect from them uh in terms of using these practices to help better reach their students and so you know I think collectively you look at their instructional practices improving and you see our T scores demonstrating growth with our students is there's a there's a trend that's showing that we are moving in the right directions in terms of the instruction that we're providing for our students this uh slide
039just shows year to date from August 26 2024 through yesterday February 19th 2025 are um Regular attendance by grade level kindergarten I believe it's 57% % first grade 62% second grade 58% and third grade 62% so what's next at the srpc how are we going to continue to support our students and our staff and faculty and our families not only with achievement growth with pssa scores but attendance some of the things that are happening right now we're looking at leadership coaching teacher coaching we have updated professional learning communities where the teachers are really at the center of their professional learning creating opportunities to drive their instructional practices creating small groups and being able to collaborate and cross plan across grade levels it's been very important as we look at what's best for students in their
040achievement looking at conversations between kindergarten and first grade what's overlapping what needs to have deeper conversations how can we support our Learners um we're pretty excited we had some student focus groups in grade three in uh October and November understanding maybe why students aren't attending school on a regular basis what are the barriers maybe with them with their families their um suggestions have been insightful we'll talk about ways that we're going to improve that based off their um suggestions we have monthly bi-weekly perfect attendance and most approved attendance at the primary Center students are given opportunities to earn brag tags bracelets um we've been able to partner with Pittsburgh area communities and schools our students were so proud last week when we had had a snack prize cart out um not only did they earn
041their prag tag but they were able to earn something special so we really appreciate that partnership within Pittsburgh communities and schools I'd like to give a big shout out to our srpc attendance and CSI committee we wrote collectively 83 postcards to students that were at risk for attendance just a shout out to our students and our families letting them know how much we care about them how much we support them and we want to really see them consistent stly in school so that took us over three weeks to do but I'm very proud that that was able um to happen also supporting positive School Improvement we're looking at our PBIS program and plan um we have our committees working Mr laillo will be able to talk further about that I have recently been sending um
042principal School messenger um updates out weekly we have a newsletter going out we're doing shoutouts with attendance any of the school information that's happening at the primary Center because our parents have said we need for information we'd like to have notice so we can request off at work so we can be a part of that so we've listened and we've really wanted to include our families and their voices our teachers have been having teacher parent meetings as we're looking at midterm grades as we're looking at yearend progress where can we best support our students and we know that we can best support them having that communication with our families and their Guardians bringing them to school maybe even having a zoom meeting going into the community to meet with them um Mr M our a
043homeschool visitor he's been supportive helping us with our attendance initiatives having attendance Improvement meetings and just trying to decrease the barriers for our families um and most importantly we're thankful for any and all collaboration and communication with our Community Partners bringing the ideas you know to us and allowing us to dream big and be creative as we support our student needs and this slide is just giving a real quick overview of our PBIS program positive behavior interventions and supports so the way our system is set up uh first and foremost we are uh in the process of we're attempting to obtain tier one Fidelity in PBIS uh and tier one Fidelity means that we are implementing our PBIS program uh in a way that is appropriate for a vast majority of our students now you
044know the tier two and tier three interventions that come with PBIS are you know something that we will you know we are implementing here in the building however in terms of the um Fidelity status we are still working on that so our program is based off of um there's an incentivization program that we have put in place the goal is to you know create a school environment that kids want to come to learn and and you know attendance is you know as there's multi multiple factors in terms of attendance and why student students don't attend and one of those things that we wanted to curtail I guess is you know making an environment that kids want to be a part of and want to come to and our PBIS program helps to create that environment
045amongst some of our other you know programming that we have for intendance incentives and just our general operations so how we have the PBIS program set up is we have daily incentives weekly incentives and monthly incentives the daily incentives we are implementing are we are giving students Shields of honor and if you can see little guy on the left there he is wearing a shield of Honor which is basically a Stow Rock lanyard that has a laminated badge on it and it says Viking Shield of Honor on it now this is a this is a thing of high regard and high esteem in that any staff member that sees these students wearing these we congratulate them we cheer them on WE recognize them in the cafeteria that's cool uh and so it's something that the
046kids have really bought into and are really striving for you know in most cases whenever Dr Muma myself and any other staff members see them we always stop we congratulate them ask them how they got it these are tied to focus values our PBIS values in the building are kind capable and in control and we alternate each month on what the focus value is now obviously it doesn't downplay the other two values but it means this one's the one that we really want them to concentrate on for example this month is being kind so when a teacher or a staff member sees a student being kind they can earn the they they can earn the land uh and you know the kids have really bought into it they're really proud of it they show it
047off not only to staff members but they also show it off to all the teachers you know they'll be walking in line and at a zero voice level but their excitement sometimes take over and they're like Mr thr look look and they'll hold it up and come out and you know it's it's really it's really going well for them and they really have uh an appreciation for it we also track data on a day-to-day basis each grade level has a way in which they track the behavior from class period to class period and dayto day and they have the ability as a classroom as a home room as a whole to earn their fun Friday rewards uh we also have monthly incentives and the monthly incentives are schoolwide and they are based on successful achievement
048of the PBIS goals which in our building if you you know if you earn a green on 80% of the days of the month then you have the ability to achieve the full goal for example last month and there's a picture of it up there in the top left that looks like a little bit of Controlled Chaos but it is actually the snowball battle that we had and I know the upper talked about it um so we had a snowball battle and we had you know it was basically a mini tournament for each grade level where there was one champion and we had uh little trophies that had had a snowball on it that one of our kindergarten teachers made and you know I told the kids I said they get to keep it for
049the entire year but they have to give it back for next year so that we can you know redistribute it for the team that wins uh so they were they were really excited about that we've done teacher pie in the face um that was one of the rewards and we tied it into obviously the number of Stu the number of lanyards that a student won and we also tied it into students that achieved their PBIS goal we've uh we've done decor rating of little ice cream cone trees things like that we've done one you know each month this month it's movie in a popcorn so they will if they earn their reward they will get to watch a movie and have some popcorn uh next Friday so we also do you know our incentives don't
050only our incentives are also uh for daily student shoutouts and we have the ability to shout out students on a daily basis faculty members can do a shout out we as the building administrators do the shoutouts as well um you know we want to also recognize the great things that our staff members are doing so we do staff and faculty golden tickets each week where teachers earn a golden ticket and the golden ticket typically could be you know a dress down day or other incentives like that so not only is the reward system important but also we want to reinforce you know what is expected what is Viking behavior and how can we exhibit that so we also have monthly principal meetings with each grade level where we discuss you know where some problematic areas
051were potentially the month before what our Focus value is now how we can best achieve that Focus value as well and we bring the teachers in at each grade level as well because you know they're obviously with the students on a day-to-day basis so anywhere that they see or recognize students where their their behavior can change they're bringing that into it also so um I also have a couple pictures up there of the students wearing the brag tags um where we recognize them usually during lunch so our PBIS program we are really trying to bring back into it you know fun and excitement for the kids we're trying to reward what our expected behavior and attendances for the kids to really create this environment that's going to ultimately create a safe environment create a place
052where kids want to come to school where they want to stay here and they want to do what they're supposed to be doing so that's what we're hoping to do with our PBIS profile you didn't use the photo of you getting just destroyed right in the face with the pie you didn't want to use that one when I when I put this up here I realized I'm like I didn't put anything on the pie in the face yeah I had one of me but uh our second grade teacher MRIs he the students could vote on who who got to go up there he got voted seven times oh okay he he he he he did it like he took it like a champ that's all I can say so that's what I'm talking about right
053we'd love to celebrate our successes for exiting the 2018 CSI designation what that means is that we showed enough growth last year in our pssa reading and math scores for grade three and our attendance we are so very proud we celebrated big time at the primary Center in the month of January and with the students um that concludes our presentation we'd like to thank the school board um Administration all of our supports in-house and out of house Cheryl Fleck Holly Pope Vicky Ryan our teachers our students our community members um they've really been into growing our support thank you all for investing in US supporting our littlest Learners so as they grow and mature they can be ready for the upper and eventually the high school so um Shyer and U Miss Davis have all
054the support that they need so thank you for your time thank you [Applause] good things going on I start up next we're going to have that's all right Miss Asia Davis Junior Senior High School students of the month for January 2025 yes yes so as I promised last month I have come with our student of the students of the month for the month of January so as you all know our teachers and our staff elect our students of the month I'm looking behind me because they were they showed up today um and it's not just about academics although they are absolutely Exemplar students when we talk about academics uh but their characters and the way in which they carry themselves through these Halls day in day out um is truly reflective of what I expect
055of every student as The Rock Junior Senior High School but I'm not going to talk long I'm represent so seventh grade was Cassidy Maza here with us this evening is zier Porter come on up come on up come on up me sh he's like oh man ninth grade was Alex s Petro hey gr Was Elijah Maguire our 11th grader is Elizabeth [Music] mcom and Kara Bailey was our 12th grader for the month of January please give a round of applause come on up come on take a photo that's all right we won't put you in the spot if you don't want to but he want to take a photo of you all so please act like you love each other congratulations [Music] y'all keep it up that's what I'm talking about congrats y'all congratulations thank
056you we'll see you at lunch tomorrow thank you everyone very much for presenting tonight this is amazing information this is this is great this is what we love to see and love to keep on getting every single month I see look at all the balloons back there that's what I'm talking about yeah you recognize that's what I'm talking about right there I love that I love that this is great stuff this is great stuff going on love to hear about this stuff right here next we to get into our um voting portion of this meeting tonight um we're going to take items A1 through F1 um whenever ready whenever ready A1 through F1 that's what I'm talking about look at them balloons that's what I'm talking about my God's here my God kids here out
057shy and everything have a motion ready a motion thank you can we have a second thank you director Roberts yes director Cooper yes director culiver yes director owski yes director Meyers yes five yeses motion passes thank you now I say items um G1 G1 by a b and c have a motion one ready have a second director Meyers yes director Roberts yes director Cooper yes director culiver yes director xowski yes five yes this motion passes thank you congrats to Mr John mckever and Mr Nate Brown Next we're get to new business um before we do vote um sir like to ask you any feedback for uh a new business item IB one uh we're on ib1 there sir general fund payables sir any information by any chance uh nothing nothing to add to the list
058that's there I'm certainly willing to answer any questions the board hasn't thank you any questions none heard any questions for under operations items one through four any questions we go to D cook leadership any questions any any comments any feedback at all none heard and then item e any questions any comments feedback to approve the school calendar for next school year questions comments concerns I'll just I'll just double check I'll just double hold on I'll just double check with the Union have not heard anything we we sent him the calendar but I just want to get a positive affirmative as opposed to no response so but I think we yes so should we table that or should we go for it they know how to get a hold of me when there's other things they
059want to talk about I'll just put it that way we're good copy that sir all right with that being said I get take items IB one through E1 have a motion We Ready motion have a second director Roberts yes director Cooper yes director culer yes director owski yes director Meyers yes five yeses motions passed thank you Ma are there any committee reports for today by Chance the um policy and uh procedures committee we met on Tuesday we discussed review and revision of various policy particularly Athletics and procurement we also discussed updating the dress code policy and its enforcement I'd like to make a comment when I'm I guess make a comment we spent a lot we spent a lot of time last week talking about the dress code I brought it up in the policy
060committee because I obviously it's something very important to this board it's very important to the climate of the school the policy that you have in the student handbook and in the five bullets is not consistent with your board policy that you adopted in 2020 to make it an enforcable policy you will need to go back and update that policy before staff can in enforce it with Fidelity because right now what you ask staff to do last summer is not consistent with board policy I'm not trying to be an obstacle but there's a way to do things and as a board setting policy because at meetings when you say you want something to be done according to policy I get it I've been in the business for 32 years but you can't say it's board policy
061until you follow your procedure because the policy that you have is not the policy that you want enforced so that's why I brought it up I'm not trying to be problematic but we've got to do it the right way I understand the concerns but you need to follow that discipline so when I was told by the president that he wanted the board policy enforced I will enforce the policy that's in the policy book I believe it's 221 it is anything else you want to do you need to go back and revise the policy we need to do it the right way and we did discuss it that we do need to update the policy because it was put in the handbook but not updated in in the policy now yeah and online so we will
062work on getting that policy updated so I just just I just want to be clear I know you're doing it out of love I know you care I'm not saying you're wrong but we got to do it the right way and I want to give you input in that policy when we run it through the policy procedure that the board has adopted because I I this is my this isn't my first rodeo with dress goates so I'll just leave it there I'm G to add based off our conversation too so let's get the bar rolling um on getting that policy updated and done according to the most recent guidance which would be the student handbook um because if that's the most recent guidance and that's what we're supposed to go off of as well so
063let's make sure that we're updating our policy then we off of the most creative racing guidance I think we've heard tonight when talk look think about the schools and whatnot and what's going on um it's safe to say that this dress Co is not going anywhere anytime soon um and there's no intent for it to go anywhere anytime soon um so let's make sure we put that out there as well for the public to hear this isn't going anywhere anytime soon so let's make sure that if if it is the policy in itself isn't correct let's make sure that it matches the student handbook that was the most recent thing done um let's get the ball rolling you know there's no point of waiting the ball rolling there all right sounds like that's what we'll
064work on for our next uh committee meeting thank you but I I I did want to say to that though it was amazing to hear not just about uniforms in general but it was amazing to hear that you know um schools students teacher staff the whole nine using it as you know um a point you know what I mean as far as hey it's doing some good right I think let's us know that we're on the right track now behind the scenes we got some work to do so let's knock it down and get it done um but it's clear that it's working in some way shape or form um I think think whenever whenever it whenever it doesn't work or whenever there are issues to where it may not be working like it's so
065a positive night and I don't want to bring a negative thing into it but when a little girl sitting right here and I can see nothing but but her stomach because her shirt was cut and that that's a school uniform right that's kind of those are things that you know we don't want to see because that's quote unquote inappropriate especially a little girl wearing a shirt cut it's clear that it's not being enforced so I think that's what we're talking about enforcing things like that it's clear that it's not being enforced so let's just enforcing it let's enforce that or correct that let's say correct that in the meantime let's make sure that we're getting the bar rolling on getting this policy updated ASAP then so I really think that once we get the dress
066code policy updated then we'll work on and foring but 100% but don't forget you can but you can correct without enforcing you can correct so let's make sure we're saying that you can have corrective actions right let's just don't not forget about that get the policy updated yes let's not forget about that you can correct inappropriate things okay that's all I have and the other committee reports all right um none heard um I I do have uh one thing we we talked about feing already too but um just want to just make sure that us as a district where we're going it's clear that there are things that we're doing the work is being done on every level right it's clear that there there there is momentum and the ball's rolling and kids are excited
067to learn excited about what's going on in general um with with the leaders in the building the whole nine of Staff admin everyone um it's very obvious that students want to learn students are coming here like hey you know what we get it we understand it with that being said let's make sure that I'm going to say make sure that we're focusing on what our reality is here in St rocks let make sure that we're focusing on those things because when we start to focus on things outside of here or things that unfortunately we have no control over that's where we lose sight of the small things so we got to make sure that we're focusing on what's here what we can control because when we start doing that we get stuff like what's going
068on today happens that's the beauty of it all when we start doing that that's the beauty of it all so let's make sure that we're focusing on what's here and what we can control and what our district can actually operate as you know before we start thinking elsewhere down the line that's all I'm saying so with that being said um not any other comment uh our next meeting is going to take place at Parkway West next month on March 20th um that'll be that be uh published and everything as well with the address um after that we'll be back here at the high school ort 7th and then April 17th we will be at the focus and renewal uh Center this is the I was gon to say this is the wrong address it should
069be 420 short tis Aven it so we can just easily correct that one please we can make that happen um but with that being said can have a motion to adjourn have a second me a jour B