Dayton Board of Education - Review Session - October 8, 2024

001When I grow up, I want to be a math teacher or a professor. When I grow up, I want to be a chef. I want to be a fire and EMS worker. When I grow up, I want to be an artist. When I grow up, I want to be an artist. I want to be a doctor. When I grow up, I want to be an actress. When I grow up, I want to be a scientist. I want to be a professional ballet dancer. When I grow up, I want to be a scientist that does chemistry. When I grow up, I want to be a scientist. I want to make the world a better place. To help me achieve my dreams, I need my teachers to be able to help me to learn everything I need

002to learn and then continue to dance. I look for a teacher that does a good job and makes things harder. I like a teacher who listens and helps. To me, a good teacher is kind, respectful. That's about it. I want a teacher that's kind, that listens, that pay attention. Kindness, willing to help or, like, tutor them. Like, they will actually, like, help them. Like, tell them, like, you can't do this. You need to do this or that. Yeah. I love a teacher that can take their time with me instead of forcing it and rushing it. Okay, I look forward to a teacher is... I have a perspective to be helpful and teach me good. and be my friend. I want a teacher who helps me understand things more and helps other students. I would like

003my teachers to be patient because I'm more of a hands-on. I'm looking forward to the new school year to learn a lot more things. and become smarter. I just want to tell all teachers and thank them for all the support in making me want to be an actor. Thank you, teachers, everything you did for me to learn. Thank you, teacher, for helping me. I want to thank my art teachers for taking me this far. It's been a long way. Teachers, I am looking forward to see you next year. Thank you, Ms. Johnson, for helping me with my class and make sure I get things right and helping me get A's and B's. Thank you for letting us learn every year all the stuff that we need to go to the next grade. Thank you, Ms.

004Simon, for helping me do all my art. That keep you being good and doing your job and... and just keep on doing your job and you'll be good. So the Lillie summer camp program is all about STEM based projects and different modulars. So the kids are faced with different scientific challenges and different topics focusing on the engineering design program and the scientific method. It's not like regular school, so that's what makes it engaging. The challenges that the kids have throughout the different modules also make it engaging as well. But it's more so, I'm coming, learning throughout the summer, but I'm having fun throughout the summer as well. I really like that they let you use your creativity and kind of make you feel special. They let you kind of do your own thing. They give

005you instructions, but they let you mostly follow your own path. I like that. They give us challenges that I'm able to handle. And I really love designing things. Mr. C's presentation is good like always. I saw him at the Victoria Theater and his was good too. So he's just doing the same things. And I like his things. I like to see it every time they come here. It's good. I think that it's fun. You learn a lot of stuff like science math and reading. and like the science experiment was in this day, it was really cool. Parents or others may think, oh, it's summertime, so learning stops. Learning never stops. So as they continue to come to the program, you know, it's just enriching them and inspiring them to want to be adventurers and inspiring

006them to continue to work with others and collab with others. So I do think that this program should continue to be going. That's why this is my third year coming because, again, I'm having fun too with it. Today is just an example of what the conclusion looks like. The beginning of the journey in Dayton Public Schools starts in preschool. And we can take you from preschool all the way to this space here. This is a wonderful place to have your kids have confidence and faith in us that when it ends, it'll end with a positive note, like what you see on signing day with kids going on to do some great things. Purpose is to create energy and excitement around what kids are going to do next, to acknowledge whether or not they're going to

007be entrepreneurs, military. college or if it's just going to go straight into the workforce. So it's to acknowledge that, hey, my time has come and I want to tell the world what I'm going to do. And to see kids signing to say this is where I'm going to finish the rest of my life or these are my goals, it's really important for us to come together and rally around kids. I see it as a big achievement and a celebratory thing for us seniors because, you know, it's the... turning point into what we're about to go to next in life. So having that being celebrated for us is just definitely a great experience and I love that for us. Five of our seven high schools are new principals. So they get a chance to talk about

008how important it is to have their first graduating class. As a former high school principal, there's nothing better than graduation. And now my first year as a superintendent, it's going to be really fun to have seven graduations where you get a chance to say welcome to the world. This was not your last stop. This is just the beginning. We're still a phone call, email, and text away as you go throughout your adult life. I'm from Dayton, Dayton kid. I'm here as a superintendent, so we're here for you for a lifetime. Hi everyone, today I'm going to talk to you about bus safety. Every day, thousands of day and public school students ride the bus to and from school, and it's important to know how to stay safe. First things first, make sure to get to

009your bus stop at least 10 minutes early, and while you're waiting, stand in a safe spot away from the road. Once the bus arrives, go straight to your seat so the bus can start moving again, and remember, while you're on the bus, stay seated and keep the aisles and exits clear. Just like in a classroom, listen to the driver and follow their instructions. This includes no foul language, no sticking your arms or head out the windows, and no eating or drinking on the bus. Lastly, make sure you only get off the bus at your assigned stop and be sure to walk home safely. Let's all work together to follow these rules and keep our bus rides safe for everyone. Thanks for listening and stay safe, DPS. D.V. right here. That's for them. Hey, everybody. Get

010the work. Get the work. Hey, hey, hey. Get the work. Hey, our work on three. Our work on three. One, two, three. So today we're having an all-city arts festival and we have lots of music today. We have combined all of our schools together to make music performances all day today. We have choirs, we have bands, we have orchestras and we're all here to celebrate music in Dayton Public Schools. A lot of these students come from schools where maybe their ensemble, their band or their choir is really, really small. And so it's scary to come out and perform in front of people anyway. And especially when you're used to just a little small group in your classroom, but they've been doing a great job. I think it's a great experience for them because we all

011know as adults. that we have to go and do some things that maybe aren't in our comfort zones. But with this group of people, their peers, they feel a little bit safer. And hopefully, after this experience, it will kind of feed a fire, and they will want to do it more and more. Really music can tap into that creativity that a lot of kids just naturally have but seems to dissipate often as they get older. So we're tapping into that creativity, giving them that self-expression. So for a lot of our kids, this is their first opportunity to get up in front of people, especially in a venue this big, seeing that big smiles on their faces, especially at the end when they're coming off the stage, the excitement. And, you know, this is a good

012opportunity for them to perform and show off for their families, their teachers, their classmates, and the greater Dayton community. I think Dayton Public Schools has a huge amount of talent in our district and we're happy to be here showing that off today. Oh, yeah. Good evening. I'd like to start this October 8th, 2024 review session by calling into order. Madam Treasurer, may we have a roll call, please? President Smith. Present. Ms. Wick. Present. Dr. Goodwin. Here. Dr. Bailey. Here. Mr. Lacey. Mr. Lacey is not here. He was here earlier. He got things to do. He got a life to live. He got a life to live. He might be out here. It's the first day of early voting. Mr. Walker? Present. Miss Reinhart? Present. Put my phone down. Sixth? Present. You voted, Walker? I did

013vote today. Look at that. You stand for the pleasure of the legislature. 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. I'm following Bailey. What? Thank you. Even everyone. It's so nice to see so many people out here today. I love it. I love this. Oh my gosh. Such an abundance. I know. Everybody. I feel like we're going to do some real business today. Man. Dr. Lawrence, we'll start off with you. I see we have a nutrition services presentation. Could you kick things off for us? We absolutely can. And you're right. We have a packed house today. Operations in the house, treasury, the superintendent's team, full staff, back in business, live cameras. So you and Dr. Goodwine should be

014very excited about that. We're still trying to get out of here by 730. I don't know what you're talking about. All right. Member Lacey has now joined us in attendance. Looks like he voted. It's a good thing the whole staff is here to make that. No, not everybody. Yeah, I don't know. See if we got people to work on that. What'd you say? It's a good thing the staff is here. Look at this. Mike's getting fixed. I want people to go work on that. Although they never didn't work when the whole staff wasn't here, so they might have messed them up. Yes, we do. We do. We do have people here ready to work on that. We have multiple people here today. Backups to the backups to the backups. My fans like to see me

015live and not after the fact. Just telling you. They can't text me during that. All right. Leslie, your screen show. Our first presentation today is Amber Whitmire, Associate Director of Nutrition Services. And I would like to say in the lead up to this that she has been phenomenal in that capacity. And I would also like to say that as I make my rounds and travel from school to school to school to school to school, the students are talking in very positive ways about some of the new food, new menu items, and the new distribution of what it looks like itself. So you should be really proud of yourself and your team. Lots of good stuff out there. Had some great broccoli and chicken at Thurgood yesterday. all right good evening everyone i'm amber whitmire from

016nutrition services i'm associate director i just wanted to give you guys a little update on things that i brought to you back i believe is in march and give you some follow-up on some more future plans as we move forward next slide please So the purpose of the presentation is to provide the board and the community at large with nutrition services updates. This update will include a brief overview of funding regulations in current and future projects. Next slide. Okay, so Nutrition Services operates as an independent enterprise funded. by federal resources from the USDA allocated for each breakfast and lunch provided to students within the district. These funds may be utilized by Nutrition Services for specific purposes that are directly related to the department's operations. Next slide. So just some nutrition services data for you guys

017to see. We are 100% CEP, which allows us to provide free breakfast and lunch for all of the students in the district. Our average daily participation for breakfast is 7,634, and for lunch is 9,378. In the school year of 22-23, we served a little over 1.4 million lunches. And last year, we served over 1.5 million lunches, which was a difference of 95,573, just with some of the minor changes that we did make. The fiscal year 25 financials, we began the school year with a balance of 25.9 million. And as of right now, there is 17.9 million in unencumbered cash that we're trying to spend down. So previous and current projects. One of the things that we did was a summer program revamp. In previous years, only cold meals were provided to our summer community sites.

018We aim to enhance this offering by introducing hot meals two to three days per week. During the pandemic, we acquired a packing machine that we use to prepare and distribute meals to students that engage in virtual learning. We repurposed this equipment and designed a menu based on insights that we gained during the pandemic and incorporated popular school meals. The trays were prepared at Stivers, frozen for storage, and heated prior to distribution two to three days per week. The feedback from the students and the community was overwhelmingly positive. Next slide. Another thing that we're still working on is the radius design project Radius is currently handling handling the paint and fabrication work at Louise Troy and Mound Street Eastmont and EJ Brown We are collaborating with radius on the second phase of design which would be

019the next six schools Our goal is to complete the entire project encompassing a total of 16 schools by the summer. The total cost of this project will be around $1.6 million. Next slide, please. So this is the design for Eastmont. I just wanted to kind of give you guys an idea of what's happening. This would be if you're in the cafeteria looking in towards the serving line. The serving line will also be decorated, but this, you know, we used some of the colors in the cafeteria area and incorporated them to make it bright and fun. And there's going to be a lot of three-dimensional things that the kids will really enjoy. Next slide, please. This is EJ Brown. So the inspiration behind this is because the Zap Studio is not far from EJ Brown, so

020we wanted to incorporate the whole, you know, Dayton sound, the funk, that whole history of that area and of Dayton in the design. So this is sort of what this is going to look like. Next slide. Okay, we talked about before and we've implemented hydration stations and spice stations. So all the schools in the district are equipped with these hydration stations that offer infused water. We have developed a special menu that we gave to all the staff so that they knew what to follow. This one is watermelon mint water, and I believe the other one is pineapple water. So the managers are able to pick from what we gave them as to what they want to give to the students for the day. We have also, and that's district-wide, so all elementary, middle school, high

021school all have these. The spice stations we implemented in middle and high school, providing salt-free and low-sodium seasonings and sauces that allowed the students to create their own flavor profiles. These enhancements have been very well received by the students. Next slide. So another big project was to redesign the whole lunch menu. We redesigned the menu trying to retain items that we knew the kids liked. We got rid of outdated and repetitive options and introduced a more diverse selection and we incorporated some of the dishes that aligned with. what the students were asking for. So some of the new menu items include tamales, tikka masala with naan bread, a ramen bar, quesadillas, barbecued pulled pork, almonds with turkey sausage, buffalo chicken dip with tortilla chips, chicken Caesar wraps, chicken and vegetable dumplings with fried rice, and

022dill nuggets and filets, and a lot more. Next slide, please. We also just introduced Healthy Pro, which has a lot of benefits for our back of the house, but it also has a lot of benefits for... the community and the parents. It's a comprehensive meal planning software. It keeps us in compliance with the USDA guidelines. It supports parents and school nurses in managing the diverse student dietary needs through customizable filters. If a child has an allergy to anything, you can go into the filter allergens and mark it off, you know, what their allergies are, and then it'll cross the items that have those allergens in them off the menu so the parents can see what even if it's just an ingredient what they shouldn't be getting for the day. This also can be found on

023the DPS homepage under students and family tab. Next slide. So some of the future projects that we're looking into, we're working on developing a two to three year strategic plan that would be created to include the following, continuing the upgrades to the cafeteria facilities, regular evaluation of food options to ensure menu variety and prevent menu fatigue, creating a student nutrition advisory council, which Dr. Joan named SNEC. He likes acronyms. And we would use, you know, we would include students from all ages and staff to enhance our services. Ongoing efforts to introduce salad bars and incorporate equipment like RoboCos, which are kind of like big food processors you can do a lot of cool stuff with to increase meal preparation efficiency. And we're also, we're looking at replacing a lot of depreciated equipment. Next increase in

024our collaboration with community partners to hopefully include a farm to school programs community gardens and other child nutrition programs We're trying to expand partnerships with school-based initiatives such as the hydroponic growers and implementation of enhanced culinary training programs for staff and conducting a staffing analysis to utilize meals per labor hour to evaluate the feasibility of adding positions into our school operations. Thank you. Thank you. I greatly appreciate that. Kudos to you and the team, and kudos to Dr. Jones and the work going on over there under our business manager. I appreciate that. I'll have to get back out there and try some of these new offers. Yes, if you guys ever want to come out, let me know. Let the team know you're coming. I mean, we've got some good stuff going on out there.

025Awesome, awesome. Every time I'm out, I see something, I have to pick up something. I did want to open it up to any questions, comments from the board. This is all Mr. Lacey. It's all Mr. Lacey. Hi. Okay. I have no problem with what you're doing. I really do. It sounds great. It really does. The problem I have is that $25 million. I know. I'm working very hard. I will tell you, we're working hard to get more into the menus currently so we'll have less money in the bank, and we are working very hard to figure out ways to put the money back into the students. Right. And I guess some of the questions that I had, that would seem extravagant, but it's spending down our money on our students. I did some research on

026could we have a local baker just bake up a bunch of croissants for a school, like 300 croissants and take them to a school. They'd be very expensive, but it would have to meet FDA requirements. It should be whole grain. Huh? Whole grain too, hopefully. Well, it can be half whole grain and half enriched. Well, I will tell you too, in the rule actually, like, we don't have to have 100% whole grain. We're allowed a percentage of non-whole grain. Right. Even just a croissant shouldn't throw us off too much because we do offer most of our bread items are whole grain. Right. And I think they have to be or up to 50% enriched flour, which is kind of scary flour. But I'm asking local bakers if they can do that, and they haven't gotten

027back to me. Or maybe they don't want to. What if, and another question I had, what if, if a local person who grills steaks would show up at Dunbar with his grill and just grill a bunch of steaks. To be honest, I've never heard of that happening. I mean, a steak would be, are cuts of beef FDA approved? We can't really change them. I have to make sure that that is allowed. I don't know how all that works with allowing outside vendors to come in and prepare food for the students. Would they have, oh, there would be cleanliness guidelines or something like that? Yeah, it might be something like that. I'm not really sure. I mean, we do have our food inspection license. I probably just have to check into like... Could you check into

028that to see if actually they could be served something off a grill? Yeah, I mean, I'll check into it. Ken, did you want to address that? Do you have a grill or something? I do have a grill. I am the grill master in the district. Ask Doc. That's a cute thing. The best barbecue in the district. That's only because he's a cute. Of course. Dr. Jones feels he does. Yes, hands down. Hands down. But this is really exciting. And you would be able to judge a good barbecue. Yes. No, but these are really good questions. And our student nutrition advisory council, we would love them to be a part of that entire process. And so when it comes down to workforce readiness, gaining workforce readiness skills, doing research. communicating with their fellow students back in

029their respective buildings. Yeah, it's gonna be a really fun process to go through. Yeah, well, I remember when I was at UD, they would have maybe one day for steak day or something like that. I don't know what they do now. And one final idea that I was gonna research, but I haven't really gotten to, is... some of the Hispanic, the Latino restaurants, they can do a huge paella. Ooh, I love paella. So how could a paella be FDA approved? I think it's more so about... Because it's all natural ingredients. Yeah, I mean, and the rice is fine. That counts as their grain. So I think that it's just more so about how to make that collaboration happen. Would it have to be brown rice? No, because once again, we still have that rule where

030we can provide so much non-whole grain. So I don't think it would matter as much, especially if just like an every once in a while thing. But I need to check with ODE and some other directors to see if they've had, you know, how they would... how would we go about doing things like this? Because I do like the idea of collaborating with people out in the community. So I'm taking notes. And I may bring you more ideas. But that's all I have. And I thank you very much for the hard work. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Kessler. For me. He was going down here first. We were still in this area. Just let it go. Just let it go. Oh, no, I appreciate the work thus far. I think the buildings that I've been

031into, I have seen students actually eating at lunch now. And I think the changeover has worked, and I'm appreciative of it. For me, my question is more along the lines of the... Catering program at Ponetz, and I'm not sure what other building they have, do they spend out of the same funds or can they spend out of the same funds? Amidst shaking his head, no. You mean the contract sites that they do? Well, no, as far as the items that the students end up using inside of the classroom. Are those? Amidst shaking his head, no. Yeah, I'm not sure we like we don't work with them I would love to figure out how to use you know pair up with the students especially at ponents because they have a good program over there So I

032actually have some ideas that I'm gonna talk to dr Jones about to see if there are things we could get off the ground running where we're collaborating with the culinary department as well Thank you. This is our second time together out of the three presentations that I've received since I've been on the board. So I appreciate you for being consistent and coming back. I do have one question because I watched, well, I have several questions, but my first one, because I watch a lot of TV, right? And on Abbott Elementary, when the teacher made food that was outside and the little cafeteria person threw it away. Can we actually... Take outside food and serve it from other places Not you mean no we wouldn't want to bring it in like a teacher to me like

033it's just anyone like kid like to mr Lacey's point if someone come and make a steak can we do that I think if we I would have to check on what the rules are it would depend like he's talking about vendors Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Can a vendor can can we take that? I think it could be possible So I'm going to check into it because, like I said, I really like the idea of collaborating with people out in the community. So I'll follow up with our ODE rep and see what the options are for that. Okay. I am interested. It seems like an area. I have some follow-up from past presentations into this one. Two presentations ago the one you didn't give me which is okay, but I did ask you about it

034last time We talked about the refreshes in the high schools about how initially we got this concept that they would be going into a cafe style and I see what we're doing in the elementary zin and Mound Street has has that completely been abandoned or what's going on with that piece so that project we had specs to go out for bid and Purchasing wasn't very fond of the way things were worded. So we're kind of restarting the process to see if we can get some new People to come bid on the project. We actually have a meeting tomorrow to discuss the timeline and such for the upcoming project. According to purchasing, if everything flows right, we will be in the development stage and starting around summertime. That would be really good because we heard that

035concept June 2023, and we're closer to 2025. And to just be excited about to see some type of change to not only give a better aesthetic. in the high school cafeterias i just kind of want to see where we get to the next process there so i'm going to make a request dr jones actually to who's purchasing under what who's that under that so i'm going to make a request that we figure out what the whatever the stop gap was so we can move to the next phase because if Correct, because if a technical thing is happening to delay something, again, we want to see this come to fruition because it was a really great idea and the things that we got from you all look exciting. Second, what was the results from the hot

036breakfasts that you guys piloted at Wright Brothers? So Wright Brothers... The overall consensus, the kids on the days that we served hot breakfast in the cafeteria, their behavior was better. They actually came in like they were excited on those Fridays that they were served hot breakfast. And I can forward you an email that the principal wrote to just kind of, because she talked about how happy the kids were and the different, you know, the way they were acting and how excited they were for Fridays for hot breakfast. And we are doing it at some schools. I know Wagaman, she's kind of testing some stuff out for us to see how it works. The biggest issue is we still have buildings that are serving breakfast all over, which makes it hard to serve hot breakfast. So,

037you know, we're working on ways to figure out how to get around that. Okay. Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Jones, we talked about at our board retreat, like kind of how kids would have... did on their testing and those things I would be interested in if there if there is data from Wright brothers of Children who had hot breakfast during this testing period during the period that they tested how they performed either at school how that because I mean if it is something that we are seeing gives us these positive yields I don't want it to just die that it was this one program But if it's something that's something there's something there that we're trying to build off of that we could it'd be be cool to see like the tracking those type of that

038data that we get and how we could replicate that level of success. Amber, how many Fridays did they serve hot breakfast at Wright Brothers? I would say probably for the last three or four months of school. Of last year? Yeah, of last year. So I'll ask our director of accountability assessment to pull MAP data and OST data by cohort to see how students, see if they got better. And we can still, you know, if on testing weeks, you know, we can figure out like a hot breakfast menu if the schools would like to have that option, as long as they can come in and get it and eat it in the cafeteria, maybe for those special needs. Actually, do you have the capacity to do that every day? If it was in the cafeteria, we

039could figure it out. Because as I said, one of my plans is to look at all of our staffing, add staffing. We have the extra money, which would be another way to spend it down. Don't say that. So this would be interesting. Could we do this district-wide during OST? Because I know if kids were coming to school more often, they were more excited about being there. Yeah, I think if we can collaborate with the schools, we can definitely make it happen. I have a great team out there and they really care about feeding the kids. Okay. I'm looking at the chief academic officer peeking around the computer. We're going to work together on that. Okay. Okay. A couple other questions for you. Last time we talked earlier this year, you guys were working on grants

040to get more salad bars. How did that go? So one of the things, one of the comments that sticks out to me was Joe saying, you know, hey, why are you working on a grant when you have the money? So we're working on... just using the money to spend down. Part of my reserve was there are actually districts out there that could use the grant money. We have all of this surplus of money. So I didn't want to take from another district. So we're actually in talks and working out, picking out which ones would work at what schools. Can I get a report on where we were when we saw you guys earlier? february is when we got the last report out from nutrition services of salad bars and kind of what the projection and

041timeline is sure of those additions in there you also spoke to us in the past again about adding action stations and hot sandwiches how'd that go um so we didn't we've added What we decided to do instead Because one of our big focuses was on the middle and high schools because those are the kids who just won't eat if they're not hungry So when we looked at you know some of our options and one of the directions that we decided to go Instead of a bunch of hot sandwiches was like I said the buffalo chicken dip things that they could grab and go I'm Pratt soft pretzels with cheese and So hot sandwiches I would say we haven't really got fully off the ground outside of the normalcy of everything, but it's something that we're

042continuing to work on as we're doing menu changes and figure out what's working and what's not working. Okay. And my final question for you, last time we talked, I asked you about vegetarian and vegan items being kind of expanded as... that demographic of individuals we're seeing more of has there been any effort to actually add more vegetarian or vegan items to our menus yes so all of the schools every day have at least one vegetarian option well that's in elementary middle and high school I separated out the middle school menu so they have their own standalone menu. And it's kind of a cross between elementary and middle school. I mean, in high school, so they get more options. So middle school, they probably have about two a day. And high schools have quite a few

043vegetarian options. Vegan, I feel like the staff will need more training as how I would get that. Because I don't want cross-contamination. And I need them to understand, you know, how you do these. You can't use your spatula for... chicken and then come over here and do this so that's one of the culinary trainings that i spoke of that we can talk about with the staff when we start that process okay thank you appreciate your presentation any other questions Mr. Walker or Mr. Lacey first? What was the hot breakfast? Are we talking bacon and eggs or are we talking cream and wheat? There was different stuff. That was my question too. They did like sausage gravy. It was turkey sausage gravy over biscuits. There's an FDA approved sausage gravy. Turkey sausage at that. Yes. Yes,

044and a whole grain biscuit. And we did scrambled eggs. We did turkey bacon. We did sausage. Just omelets. We just had her trying different things to see what they liked. I think we did oatmeal one time, like an oatmeal bar. Can I? What's the? I'm just curious of what's the difference? Like, is it the social gathering that may take place when students eat breakfast together versus eating it in a classroom? Like, what is that? Why does that exist? Why does like grab and go breakfast exist compared to just starting a day with the breakfast in the cafeteria with students? So before COVID, a lot of our cafeterias, the students did eat in the cafeteria. After COVID or during COVID, when everybody came back, things kind of, you know, it was social distancing. And I think

045that it just kind of stuck. In most cases, there are some schools that are bringing their kids back to the cafeteria to eat. But just as Dayton public all of ours are still grab-and-go not all so not all the elementary is the middle of what so my first year I gave the principal is an option to Offer us the first of all grab-and-go when I got the job and I gave an option to do grab-and-go and or the cafeteria Because I just come from operations and they said hey in some schools it works and some others it doesn't it creates more issues You know, you get that. Gotcha. So, and then this year, I didn't go back and revisit. I don't know the exact split. Ms. Burlap probably can give it to you. She'll send

046it to us about how many are grab and go and how many are eat there. Some principals think it gives them more instructional time. The kids get started. Some teachers seem to like it. In some cases, they don't. Yeah, I think for me, it's, I don't know. I just always just enjoy eating with peers. I gave the teacher that time in the morning to... like have a reflect moment without students instead of starting my day right off with students or something like that. The next question I had was more in the line of with the budget that's there, is there an option to do take-home meals on Fridays for students? So there's no current things out there where we would be able to do that. Now we do have partnerships with people like Children's Hunger

047Alliance, they offer a program where they'll, you know, at some schools, I don't know how exactly it works, but if you have specific schools in mind, I can talk to Tom Ben with Children's Hunger Alliance to see how to get that started. They do the weekend, like, backpack program. Well, that's what I was asking. So out of our budget, though, we cannot do it? No, we can't. We are not allowed to give out free food. It has to be the breakfast and lunch. During the school day. That's why we also like can't provide snacks for the preschoolers So they have to use the ECE funds for that because the the OD in USDA require us to be accountable for everything that we send out And if they're only providing the reimbursement for breakfast and lunch

048Okay. Thank you process for when there are those leftovers and kids wanting seconds. Is there, now is there a uniform kind of way those, that gets carried out in the buildings? Or does every building kind of carry it out their own way? So I will tell you the... What I should say is one they shouldn't be over producing food anyway, so if they have that much overage We need to look into why they're over producing food. I mean there are sometimes they're able to Use those items of leftovers and I've seen a lot of the schools like a pizza. Obviously we can't reheat a pizza so if you know rather than throw it in the trash they kind of Just take it out. But, you know, really the staff out there try to do a

049really good job of making sure they're not overproducing and have a lot of waste anyway. It's kind of hard because we also want to try to provide the same options for every student. So it's hard to balance, like, what are we going to run out of? You know, because we want that first kid to get the same options as the last kid. And, you know, that's the ideal goal. You're going to run out of that orange chicken. They like that. They do like it a lot. They like the orange chicken. They do. They had like a little bourbon chicken yesterday without the bourbon. I like that. I saw like the buffalo chicken dip. I happened to be at Stivers and they were like going crazy over it. I even went out and talked to the

050students and they were like shoving it in their face. Like it was, you know, some of the things, they're really enjoying this stuff. We appreciate you. I know we gave you a... A lot of things to come back with, but we appreciate that. Mr. Lacey is going to make sure you spend as much of that money as you can. I appreciate that. We're going to keep looking. That is an envious position. It's always a pleasure to be in front of you guys. I'm actually really scared to talk in front of people, so I'm trying to hide it. You did a great job. So it's fine. You did a great job. Thank you. This isn't the old Dayton Board of Education, I just want to say. No offense to Mr. Lacey, but... Thank you so much.

051All right. Thank you. Next, moving along, we have hearing of the bargaining units. Do we have any bargaining units present that wish to speak? I see none. And moving on to hearing of the public. I'm trying to see. Madam Chair, do we have anybody that has words to speak? Yes, we do have one. Okay. Titus Merrill. Do not see him I do not see brother Titus I see brother Calhoun brother Titus Don't take that Well, we see there's none but be sure there's room for many moving right along and so our superintendent agenda Thank you president Smith I recommend the following administrative appointments for a vote except a three which I would like to You got a refresh. Sorry. I'm gonna tell y'all that Okay, no one asked if everybody could refresh their screen Is

052there a change on this grain of some sort? Looks like there's a change in a Yes All right, so still just pull an a3. Yeah, it's just a3 I would Okay, yeah, so the other one was already pulled off. Yes. Okay. That's before the meeting started. Yep, so I would Motion to approve item a1 and a2 second Are we voting on a3 separately on here or is that what your motion would one? That's one A, 3, 4, executive session. So let's back up. I'll pull A, 3 to be voted on later. Is that okay? Yeah. Do you accept a family amendment to your motion to vote on A? I'm asking to pull A, 3 to vote on after exec session. Thank you for accepting. So A, 3 is pulled. Let me see. All right. Any

053other questions on the motion? Keep flickering on and off Something about our board that's out here keeps flickering on it off. So Like the a is coming on and it is disappearing for us down here No, oh now it's got a oops page On the first day Don't refresh Okay, so a one So do we vote on I mean we still can vote on the one we did yeah And then just a five minute recess take a recess to get the copies can we finish? Okay, all right. Yes, madam chair may we have a vote president Smith yes Ms. Wigg? Yes. Dr. Goodwin? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reinhart? Yes. Seven yeses. Thank you. Are you able to get back up? Mine, I just have a board, Dr. Lowe,

054and screen now. It's still off. We'll give it a moment. I'm going to call for a five-minute recess, and we can get our copies. Thank you. You guys can't go home ever with me? No. You gave me three months off. $7.35. I mean, y'all had to home first quarter. You gave me three whole months. Dang. They did it. It's a conspiracy. um Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Board Dots is back on. Leslie, I think we're back. You know we're a team. We're a team. Yep. We're back. Where is the superintendent? He said he's going to take his full five minutes. He said he won't do a full five minutes. That's because everybody is logging back in right now. We'll get the hard copies in case it goes back down again. Since they're

055already made. Dr. Jones will be back. Dr. Lawrence, we're back up. You should tell, did you stop the copies? No, I think we're still going to need them. It might crash again. Yeah, just in case it crashes. Man, we waste all kinds of stuff in this world. It's not an excuse. It's still running slow. Right, look, it's still going slow. Yeah, I'm not even up yet. Mine ain't on. I can share with baby. What's the next one? Anything exciting? Treacherous devious like to enjoy ourselves sometimes You don't know about You were lying on the computer. Pursuant to section 121.22G, two of the Ohio Revised Code, I move that this board go into executive session. Purpose to speak on the appointment, dismissal of a public employee. Second. Second. Appointment, appointment. Appointment and appointment, I'm second. Mr.

056Lacey. I have a second. Mr. Lacey. We have the first, we've been moved, second. Do we have any questions? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President Smith? Yes. Ms. Wick? Yes. Dr. Goodway? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reiner? Yes. All right, we'll be right back when all this stuff gets done. Are we still going to be ahead of here? We're playing with y'all. We all going to get out with y'all today. We're really going to get out of here. Look at them all. Let me tell you, I know my person wins too. Hi, I'm Katie Philpott, preschool intervention specialist at Rosa Parks Early Learning Center. My position is to educate all preschoolers who come through our doors into our classroom and service students on an IEP, Individualized Education

057Plan, and it's a way that all students can access the curriculum and education. The kids are vibrant and excited every day to come to school and they're learning literally how to school and that's so important. DPS has lots of opportunities for growth. They give you ample professional development hours which you need for your degree to continue on teaching. It's a great place where you're going to meet all kinds of people. You're going to meet every kind of student there is and there's going to be challenges for sure but when you handle those challenges and overcome them you'll feel so proud of yourself. I enjoy the people I work with. They are some of the best human beings you will find on this planet. I enjoy how there is a preschool program for families who want

058access to that. very important to the K-12 curriculum. It's a great place to be and if you look around the buildings you will see active learning, you will see bulletin boards with the learning on it so you know that there are great things happening in the classrooms. Every child who enters our classroom feels that their learning is important and that they are valued and they are important. So being the one to do that is like a warm fuzzy hug. The summer camp program is all about STEM based projects and different modulars. So the kids are faced with different scientific challenges and different topics focusing on the engineering design program and the scientific method. It's not like regular school, so that's what makes it engaging. The challenges that the kids have throughout the different modules also

059make it engaging as well. But it's more so, I'm coming, learning throughout the summer, but I'm having fun throughout the summer as well. I really like that they let you use your creativity and kind of make you feel special. They let you kind of do your own thing. They give you instructions, but they let you mostly follow your own path. I like that. They give us challenges that I'm able to handle. And I really love designing things. Mr. C's presentation is good like always. I saw him at the Victoria Theater and his was good too. So he's doing insane things and I like his things. I like to see it every time they come here. It's good. I like that it's fun. You learn a lot of stuff like science math and reading. and like

060the science experiment was just it was really cool. There are others may think oh it's summertime so learning stops. Learning never stops so as they continue to come to the program you know just enriching them and inspiring them to want to be adventurers and inspiring them to continue to work with others and collab with others. So I do think that this program should continue to be going. That's why this is my third year coming because again I'm having fun too with it. Today is just an example of what the conclusion looks like. The beginning of the journey in Dayton Public Schools starts in preschool. And we can take you from preschool all the way to this space here. This is a wonderful place to have your kids have confidence and faith in us that when

061it ends, it'll end with a positive note, like what you see on signing day with kids going on to do some great things. Purpose is to create energy and excitement around what kids are going to do next, to acknowledge whether or not they're going to be entrepreneurs, military. college or if it's just going to go straight into the workforce. So it's to acknowledge that, hey, my time has come and I want to tell the world what I'm going to do. And to see kids signing to say this is where I'm going to finish the rest of my life or these are my goals, it's really important for us to come together and rally around kids. I see it as a big achievement and a celebratory thing for us seniors because, you know, it's the... turning

062point into what we're about to go to next in life so having that being celebrated for us is just definitely a great experience and I love that for us. Five of our seven high schools are new principals so they get a chance to talk about how important it is to have their first graduating class. As a former high school principal there's nothing better than graduation and now my first year as a superintendent it's going to be really fun to have seven graduations where you get a chance to say welcome to the world. This was not your last stop. This is just the beginning. We're still a phone call, email, and text away as you go throughout your adult life. I'm from Dayton, Dayton kid. I'm here as a superintendent, so we're here for you for

063a lifetime. So today we're having an all-city arts festival and we have lots of music today. We have combined all of our schools together to make music performances all day today. We have choirs, we have bands, we have orchestras and we're all here to celebrate music in Dayton Public Schools. A lot of these students come from schools where maybe their ensemble, their band or their choir is really, really small. And so it's scary to come out and perform in front of people anyway. And especially when you're used to just a little small group in your classroom, but they've been doing a great job. I think it's a great experience for them because we all know as adults. that we have to go and do some things that maybe aren't in our comfort zones. But with

064this group of people, their peers, they feel a little bit safer. And hopefully after this experience, it'll kind of feed a fire and they'll want to do it more and more. Really music can tap into that creativity that a lot of kids just naturally have, but seems to dissipate often as they get older. So we're tapping into that creativity, giving them that self-expression. So for a lot of our kids, this is their first opportunity to get up in front of people, especially in a venue this big, seeing that big smiles on their faces, especially at the end when they're coming off the stage, the excitement. And, you know, this is a good opportunity for them to perform and show off for their families, their teachers, their classmates, and the greater Dayton community. I think Dayton

065Public Schools has a huge amount of talent in our district and we're happy to be here showing that off today. Hi everyone, today I'm going to talk to you about bus safety. Every day, thousands of Dan Public School students ride the bus to and from school, and it's important to know how to stay safe. First things first, make sure to get to your bus stop at least 10 minutes early, and while you're waiting, stand in a safe spot away from the road. Once the bus arrives, go straight to your seat so the bus can start moving again. And remember, while you're on the bus, stay seated and keep the aisles and exits clear. Just like in a classroom, listen to the driver and follow their instructions. This includes no foul language, no sticking your arms

066or head out the windows, and no eating or drinking on the bus. Lastly, make sure you only get off the bus at your assigned stop and be sure to walk home safely. Let's all work together to follow these rules and keep our bus rides safe for everyone. Thanks for listening and stay safe, DPS. Hi, I'm Kristen and this is Jay. We are from Wave Foundation. We're housed at Newport Aquarium and we're here with our African penguin friend Randy today. And we came out to the school to teach the kids about African penguins and different animals that are endangered and how we can take care of them. That's a wrap on the 2023-2024 school year. Family and friends gather at UD Arena to congratulate Day in Public Schools seniors class of 2024. Graduates were filled with

067huge smiles and cheers as they celebrated this exciting achievement. Remember seniors, you'll always have a home here in DPS. Best of luck to the class of 2024. Students all across the district this year have done amazing things. We had students competing in state, national, and even international competitions. Our students are being recognized for so many things and we couldn't be any more proud. This is why we choose DPS. The district's podcast, DPS The Next Level, is officially award-winning. The podcast won the Best of the Best podcast for all of Ohio by the Ohio School Public Relations Association. And it doesn't stop there. The district's Public Information Office also won several more awards, including Best of the Best Video and 8 Mark of Distinction awards. I'm Demayo Adal. Enjoy your summer and be safe. We'll catch

068you next year here on In Case You Missed It. My name is Brandon Stuhlemmer and I am the automotive instructor here at Ponitz. The In Into Win It event is an event designed to reward students for perfect attendance or honor roll. Voss Auto Network donates a car and the students in my pathway refurbish the car to get it into a good condition and then it is raffled off at the end of the year. We also have other people and sponsors who donate gifts for the In Into Win It event. such as iPads, TVs, gift cards, and other smaller prizes. First year I was kind of nervous about the event because I was like, am I doing enough for the students because of all their hard work? And, you know, it's good to see the students

069who have put in the hard work win prizes such as the car and the other prizes. So I'm happy as an instructor and as a teacher in the building to see these students, whether they're my students or not, win some prizes. Today we went through three students who got to try their key and it did not work. And the fourth student, she was able to win the car, and it was awesome to see her reaction. So I look forward to seeing the good things she does this year and the next year. And then as she moves into college and stuff. My name is Tori Hughie. I am a junior, and I am in cosmetology. When the girl before me went, and I thought it was going to be hers automatically, and it did not work,

070I was just like, this can't be real. It's not. And then when I went in there and it actually started, and I was just like. I'm actually happy I won a car because I mean who wouldn't be happy with a car? But I'm only 17 and I got my first car. I'm very proud of that. And hard work comes a long way because all it took was good grades and perfect attendance and I got a car. So just being at school, being here, getting your education, teaching and just getting all the stuff that you need to learn before you get out and graduate and stuff is very important. And then hey, you get good stuff from Texas. Today's event is to give our fourth graders the opportunity to visit different vehicles and learn what those

071vehicles operations are and what the actual driver does on a day-to-day basis. It's important to expose them of different opportunities and careers at an early age so they can start thinking about these employment opportunities and things like that as they get older. Right now we have the Dayton Police Department, the Fire Department, we have the Bomb Squad, we have the SWAT team here, Rumpke, we have some of our operation team here, AES is here as well. You know, we got a little bit of everything from a little bit of different variety of opportunities. So I just really appreciate everybody taking time out of their day to be a part of this event. Hi. My name is Doug, and this is Aragon. Aragon is a red-tailed hawk. You can see by his tail and the belly

072band on the chest. He represents our wild places at Five Rivers Metroparks. We have 16,500 acres of land and multiple facilities. These parks are wonderful for hiking and fishing, backpacking experiences, and just a chance to see beautiful gardens or to learn skills like gardening and boating. And they're a lot of fun. We really want... parents and all of our community members to know how to access information on our park programs and special events. And if you use our web page, you can sign up for electronic newsletters that come directly to your inbox. We also put out parkways that comes out twice a year, and that's a magazine that's mailed to every household in Montgomery County. So whatever you do that come out and see the wildlife and also enjoy the parks. It helps us be

073healthy individuals when we're outside enjoying the fresh air and using our bodies to get some good exercise and it's part of our healthy active community. So come and join us and have a lot of fun. I'm Damaya Woodard in the Media Arts program and today I'm interviewing the student spotlight Gerard Miller. Gerard Miller is a rising junior with the Media Arts Pathway at Pohnett CTC. Gerard jumped right into the pathway as a sophomore, working live sports productions and other events for the district, hosting In Case You Missed It, and with his project partner Malachi Dumas, garnered national recognition for a public service announcement about drunk driving. Gerard drums for the Belmont Drill Team, is an 11-year member of the Dayton Boys and Girls Club, and won second place in their Youth of the Year competition

074this year. Let's catch up with Gerard Miller. So tell us about yourself. Hi, I'm Gerard Miller. I go to David H. Ponant and I'm in the media arts program. What else some experience you gained while being in media arts? Well, talking to like the superintendent and just like being around my friends while we're doing cameras and just it was kind of fun, but it's challenging at the same time. What kind of opportunities has this program provided you? Well, working alongside the Public Information Office and really just like working with their cameras and getting experience from professionals. Tell us about working in the live sports broadcasting. Working in the live sports broadcasting is fun, but everything moves fast. Like you got to know what the right shot is. You have to watch your surroundings. You got

075to make sure you get the good play. So it's challenging, but it's fun at the same time. Have you always been interested in doing that? No, I never thought about it. I literally never, like, thought about doing cameras at all. It just came to me. Outside of school, what do you do? I band for Belmont, and I've been banding there for three years now, I think. And, yeah, I'm going to pursue it for college, so that's why I stay in the band, so I can do it in college. What instruments do you play? Percussion. I used to play trumpet, but that's a lot. So I played drums, bass, tenor, quads, cymbal. What initially got you into joining band? So I was walking the hallway, then the band teacher asked me that I want to join

076a band. And at first, I did not know anything really about music. So I had said no, but then he told me, he invited me in his room and said, just look around. and I seen some of the stuff that I like since I know about drums and it really caught my eye so I joined. What do you like about playing the drums? It's a way to express my emotions, not emotions but necessarily like this is what helped me calm down and it's really just like a family over there. Are you a part of any clubs? Yes, I'm the Keystone President for the Dan Boys and Girls Club. So basically what we do is we like student council, but a little bit more like easier and calmer. So basically just make a whole bunch of

077decisions for the kids and the teens. What sort of decisions do you have to make? Like so it's a summer program coming up. So basically me being in media arts We have a media team coming in and basically they just asked why should we do this? And so basically we want to get our message out to the people We've seen that you won a couple scholarships this year. Tell us about that So one of the scholarships I won was a $2,000 scholarship to any college I choose. And how I got it was running for you for the year. And we basically just used our voice in what we thought was a big problem in the world or in our community. I'd say it took me about like three months to really get what I wanted

078to put down. So we had a competition, and then that's how I won a scholarship. How did it feel when you were informed you were chosen for Student Spotlight? I was surprised because it's my first year opponent so I didn't think that like anybody noticed me or even knew about me. Do you have a message for your class? Yes, I'll say just stay working. Just do what you want to do for you and not for everybody else. What knowledge will you take into your junior year in the media arts program? Every opportunity I'm gonna take advantage of it and not just let anything slip away. It is a wonderful event for kids to express themselves in ways that are outside of just being in class. So it's an exciting time in Dayton Public Schools watching

079our young people really tell stories about politics, about how they feel, about the world, all types of sides of them that we don't normally see during a school day. To be honest, I was blown away. It's beautiful coming to my city and seeing the young talent, you know what I mean? It takes a lot to get on stage and to, you know... stand in front of a lot of people. And I know some people rehearsed it and some of them was like reading it live. But you know, it's different when you're in front of people and they did their thing. So I was excited to be a part of it. Something that I really liked was that every student's piece, it had some level of impact. It meant something. A lot of it was a

080personal story. They all left a piece of them on that stage. And for me, that was big for them being students, their youth out here expressing themselves, that just made me happy. We need to use dialogue within our communities, states, and nation to achieve the dream of so many people in the world. A dream of peace and justice that has been put off for too long. A dream that we must keep fighting for together. We are gathered here tonight to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., so great of a champion he was to our people and a true king amongst men. But I challenge each of you. to take a long, hard look at yourselves and reflect and ask yourselves, would he be proud of where we are today? Anybody

081who can write and wants to write or wants to be able to express themselves, they should come here. There's no reason, if you have the opportunity, for you not to try. And after you try, you're going to get better. So never be afraid to start and try. That's right. At Dayton Public Schools, we come together to celebrate the spirits of sportsmanship and community. However, poor behavior by fans and sometimes athletes have created challenges that impact the safety and enjoyment of these gatherings. We believe in creating a positive and inclusive environment for everyone, students, families, and fans alike. Our collective responsibility is to ensure that our athletic events remain safe, enjoyable, and supportive. To achieve this, we have a few reminders. Respect the game. Make sure you show respect for the athletes, coaches, and officials. Remember

082that these events are about skill, teamwork, and friendly competition. Do not walk on the court or field and remain in the stands and on the sidelines. Show support in a positive way. Celebrate good plays and efforts by the team you're there to support. Avoid negative chants, cheers, or comments that may create a hostile environment. Set a positive example. Adulce your lead by example for students. Remember that children are watching, learning, and absorbing your reaction. Students should lead by example for their peers and for those who look up to them. Remember that your behavior influences those around you. Let's come together to support our students in the right way. Positive energy enhances the entire experience and creates lasting memories for our young athletes. Join us in fostering an environment where everyone feels welcome, safe, and inspired.

083Together, let's make our athletic events a source of pride for our entire community. We are VPS. If anybody is watching this, you can tell we have some amazingly dynamic, smart, wonderful kids in Dayton Public Schools. Tell me why you're in Dayton Public Schools. Um, I like going to EJ Brown because of the staff. I like the staff. Yeah, you got a new principal. He is good. Mm-hmm. He walks around a lot, checks on you guys. I like him. I want to be a robotics engineer. I want to take that to college and do great things with it. How'd you come up with that? I'm in a pathway called advanced manufacturing, and I'm taking that currently. So your exposure or your experience in advanced manufacturing, as you start thinking about, hey, this is the field I

084want to go into. Yes, sir. Yes. Awesome. I like going to Belmont because I like the people, and I like the teachers, and I like the staff, and especially I like the principal, Ms. McDowell. I want to go to Dayton Public Schools because I feel like every single teacher in Dayton Public Schools are really appreciated of the students that they have and show a lot of love to them. What I like most about the district is all of the opportunities that they have, such as DPS University, where you can earn college credits while you're still in high school. The staff is really welcoming and they're always pushing you to do your best in whatever you do. I'm looking forward to getting some of my college credits already out of the way before I go to

085college. I have a lot of favorite staff members, but the one who I would say influences me the most is most likely Ms. Mo, because she just stays on top of everyone and she makes sure that you're doing well and having a good day and stuff like that. I'm thinking of studying law and becoming a lawyer because I don't really like the laws we have now, so I'd like to maybe change them. I like it, so you want to be an advocate. Yes. DeAndre? I've thought about being a realtor. I always wanted to, uh... What? Get rid of that. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna tell you, I've never heard a kid say that. I wanted to get rid of a whole bunch of empty, vacant houses around my neighborhood, and it just seemed like a

086good thing to do because it just make the neighborhood look bad, even though it's good people around there. It just... made my neighborhood look bad. The whole staff and administration helped me get through my sophomore year all the way to my senior year. King, I appreciate you sharing that space where you said you had some adversity and that this hasn't always been an easy road and there was a whole family that wrapped their arms around you. I want you to know how much we in Dayton Public Schools are proud of you. first of all, and how much we wish you the best in the future. And we hope that you stay in touch with us so we're able to talk about what a graduate looks like as they move out into the world and do

087things other than high school. Hi, my name is Penny Bain. I'm a grandmother of two children that attends Ruskin Elementary School. I love things down here at Ruskin because I just feel like it's a loving, caring school. They offer so much. It's the love that they get. It takes a village to raise a child. and this is a village. There's a custodian here, Mr. Boddy. He gives them like fist bumps and he makes sure he gives every child one before they enter the school. And then if they're tardy, they go and then they see Miss Love and she's always giving bear hugs and loves and said, you know, get on school on time. But my experience with one that I had is my little granddaughter had separation anxiety and the school helped her tremendously get

088over that, you know, and like. let her know that she is safe. She is, you know, they got a safe place for her. But it's wonderful, like the staff and they just do so much. Hi, my name is Tiffany Reeves and I'm a gifted intervention specialist with Dayton Public Schools. A gifted intervention specialist is a teacher who works with students who are capable of learning at a faster pace than other students their age. I enjoy watching the moment that a student discovers something new or recalls something and makes a connection between something that they've learned that I've taught them. It fills me up with so much joy and happiness and it's payment within itself. The excitement in their eyes and on their face. really says it all. That makes me come to work every day

089excited for a new experience. As a graduate myself of an all-girls school, it is such a pleasure to work for Charity Adams or at Charity Adams because I believe that young ladies need a role model and I've become a role model as well as advocate for students here and that is very exciting to me. Dayton Public Schools is a wonderful place to work and you will get tremendous support here and you will get a lot of opportunities to make a difference. So when you first walk in this particular building what you're gonna see is you're gonna see bright open spaces, clean floors. When they say it's a new age here within this building it truly is. The culture here at EJ Brown is about keeping it consistent, about keeping it simple, keeping it about students.

090How do we get students from where they are now to where we need them to be? So about being in those hallways, building those relationships, those positive relationships with students, knowing their names, and just building that bond, believing in them. Keep it simple, keep it consistent, keep it all about students. That's why we're here at EJ Brown. This year we have a very strong administration team and we have very clear expectations not only for the students but also for the teachers. So that consistency is really strong this year and I see that growing as we keep moving forward. I love challenging the students. So I teach science and for me it's more about teaching them to think more than like the content. So really getting them to understand what's happening around them and then be

091able to use that in situations that they might get into outside of the school. We've been changing the expectations and honing more into academics around the students. And then we've also been bringing in more community pieces. We've had some change over the years, but the last couple years they've stayed the same and we're growing more community base. As a security resource officer here, my main job is student safety. I also am somewhat of a counselor or a mediator. to the students. A lot of them come and talk to me and we try to figure out solutions together to make things better because if things outside of school are affecting you, then you're not going to be able to get a proper education. I believe that building a relationship with these students is the key to

092them advancing educationally as well as socially. EJ Brown is the best middle school because we have the best sports teams, we have the best teachers, we have the best SRO team in the district, we have the best principal in the district. So if you want to be the best, you should come to EJ Brown. I think students should go here because it gives them a better mindset. The biggest difference between elementary and middle school is the moving around, but it really wasn't that hard to get used to. The way to be a Bruin is to follow the Bruin bees. Be respectful, be responsible, be safe, and be unstoppable. Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dayton Public Schools' DPS The Next Level, our podcast, our own podcast, created this year with the help of PIO. And I can

093see them, but you can't. And I want to thank them right now for all the work they do. So we're here today. I've done about 11 episodes or something like that. And this is a really exciting episode today. We have teachers who are here. And these teachers were selected by the curriculum team, principals, the associate superintendent, chief academic officer, both the chiefs of schools, the Office of Exceptional Children, Shelley Dinsmore. I hope you're enjoying yourself and your trip. And myself. We've been through hundreds and hundreds of classrooms around the district. And this year, we brought six of the best together. They've all been nominated for Teacher of the Year in the state of Ohio. I got all of your nomination forms back and forwarded them to Ms. Sheehy. We're ready to go. And so this

094is what we do in Dayton Public Schools or in schools in general. It all starts with teachers. And I am so, so excited to be here with six of the best. And I was a teacher for 10 years. And so I'm going to, I don't know if I was good, but I'm going to count myself as the seventh teacher here. You know, I'd just like you to introduce yourself and then tell me something about your family, like how you grew up. Did you have brothers and sisters? Did you grow up in the north, south, east, or west? Did you grow up wealthy or poor? Just tell me a little bit about you because that tells me, to me, a lot about who teachers are. So introduce yourself and tell me about your life journey, like

095from zero to when you were a kid to now, like becoming a teacher. The whole story? Oh, well, we've got a, we only have 30 minutes. So I'll give an example. For me, I grew up in a working class household. My dad, Jim Lawrence, he's deceased now, two years ago. And my mother is still here, my mom. She's 84, and she was a nurse, and he was an automotive worker, and I had two sisters, and they got up and went to work every day. So I get up and go to work every day. And they were just good people, and so that's kind of how I got here. I'm Peggy Carey. I work at Belle Haven in the AUMD unit there, K-3. I was born in northern Ohio, Tiffin, the Tiffin area up there. I

096grew up on a farm, so we had chores. My dad was a farmer, and he also worked part-time in town. So we grew up doing chores every morning, baling hay in the summer. You're tough. Yes, yes, and I enjoyed it and I actually miss it sometimes my parents to live on that same farm But somebody else helps them with the farm now because they're older. They're also in their 80s eight brothers and sisters Wow, yes, whenever you I am in the middle at number five. Okay, I'm gonna five Went to college in Canton Started out actually working in mental health group homes. I would not become a teacher right away. I didn't become a teacher until I turned 35. That was because I met my husband and my son has autism. He's 24 now. So

097I did not understand what the school system was about with all of the IEPs, BIPs, FBAs, all those things that we tell parents that we want to do for children. But I did not understand. Even though I worked in mental health, it was totally different in the group homes than the school system was. So I was down in Florida at the time, so my husband lived in Florida. So Hillsborough County, where I started teaching, was doing alternative certification where they would help you pay for it. So I took the six classes I needed, became a teacher in severe and profound autism, and that started my career. So I feel like I have the advantage because it is not only as a teacher but also as a parent. And with my son being 24, I've done

098the whole kindergarten through 12 with him. job coaches, the whole thing. So I feel like that has given me the advantage to be able to talk to my families and say, look, I totally understand. There are good days. There are bad days. But your child's going to learn. And all of the students can learn and will learn in my classroom. And that's what I've... So we have a good... That's kind of where my foundation comes from. It is very, very much very personal for me in my classroom. And then I get the advantage of being with some of my kids for three or four years. So I see growth. Lots of looping there. Yes. So I see the growth from sometimes coming in and not being in a wheelchair to be able to walk. to

099be able to feed themselves, to learn the letter sounds, to learning, you know, to start to reading. So I get the whole loop, which is very satisfying. I'm going to say it again. Yes. You're tough. I love my job, and I love the kids I work with. I'm very, very passionate about what I do. It found me. My right career found me at the right time. I can feel it. Shelby, what say you? Yeah, my name is Shelby Hughes. I'm an intervention specialist at Thurgood Marshall High School. I'm originally from Xenia, Ohio. Grew up with both my parents working class. I had an older brother. I knew pretty much from a younger age that I wanted to be a teacher. It was instilled in me to love school, and that college was the only option

100for me. So growing up, I went to school every day. I literally graduated with 11 years of perfect attendance. It was my favorite place to go, which I think has, you know, in turn made me want to come to work every single day. I really don't like missing because I know that that impacts my students. I graduated high school in 2016 and then I went on to college at the University of Dayton. I actually started there as an engineering major. I have a love for math and science and it just really didn't work out for me. I knew in my heart that I wanted to be a teacher. So I ended up switching my major to become an intervention specialist. Graduated there in 2020 during COVID. And then actually in college, my mom decided she

101was going to have another. child so I have a little brother who's getting ready to graduate kindergarten this year and that's just such a joy to see him. He's kind of following in my footsteps with a love for school and math and numbers and things like that and so I actually specialize in math at my school and I just love being able to make the content accessible for my students and to really try to bring them out of their comfort zones and encourage them and just kind of build up their confidence in that and expose them to things that they might not have necessarily been exposed to. I so appreciate that. I'm energized. I'm going to sign up for your class. Thank you. Ms. Wise? Hi, I'm Donna Weiss. I'm the all-teacher at Fairview. I've

102been in this business a while. I graduated from high school in 1984. I went to UC. I got my master's right out of undergraduate. I got my master's in 1990 in reading and disabilities. Back then, it was called literacy, but basically it was a focus on reading disabilities. I started out teaching 7th and 8th grade at Gamble Middle School in Cincinnati Public. came to Dayton, married my husband. I went to work for Dayton. I went to work at Webster, teaching back when Webster stood three blocks from Children's Hospital. It was a very cool building. I'm a career Dayton teacher. I haven't taught anywhere else. I left for a while to have my children. My parents were first-generation Americans. From where? They were born here in the United States. Both my parents were from Boston, but

103my grandparents were from Eastern Europe. Okay. My father went to school on the GI Bill. He was a World War II veteran. He took education very seriously because it was the fact that he served during World War II that allowed him to go to college. He came from, you know, people that came to the United States for better, and he worked hard all his life. He went to med school, and he served here in East Dayton. His office used to be on Wayne Avenue. When I first came to Webster, I actually had students in my classroom that were his patients. And I can remember having a conference trying to tell a mother that her... child was really struggling and at that time my father was sick, he was dying of colon cancer. And she said

104to me, yeah, yeah, it's all right, whatever you have to do for him, how's your daddy? Because he kind of instilled in me the exact thing. If you treat people well, they will treat you back well. And if you couldn't pay him and you brought him a bag of corn... That was all right. It was okay. He would come home in the summertime with bags of tomatoes and cucumbers, and it was okay with him. He did it for... He loved medicine. He loved science. That was him. I try to put that same... Like, I love what I do. I love to watch my kids grow, and I'm K-6, and I'm the only EL teacher at Fairview, so... I see them, and I see the brothers and sisters. So I kind of see how they interact

105with each other. I see similar traits, all that kind of thing, and it helps you reach them. And I guess this is, I went back to get my endorsement in 2020 because for a while I was a reading specialist at... before they got Title I, kind of got. And it was such a high population. And I think just we had a lot of Turkish kids at that time, and the Eastern Europe, that way kind of reminded me of my grandparents, and I just had such a love for the kids in the old-world way. It really inspired me to go back and get my endorsement. And this is probably the most fun job I've had in Dayton. Like, I love what I do. This is what I'm going to finish out my career with. I just,

106I love my kiddos, and I love watching them grow and really teaching the older ones how to remember where they came from. Like, you do not have to act. American. You bring so many wonderful things to the table. It is... I want you to embrace that. I want you to embrace who you are. Remember who you are. So that's me. Well, I knew these stories were going to be amazing when I started off with this question, but I didn't know that it was going to be even better than I could have ever imagined. I've spent some time in your classroom. I had a ball. You were phenomenal. The energy that you have after having done it all this time and the care, it is self-evident. I think for me, that's one of the best things

107about being a superintendent. I have a team that allows me to drive around all day long and go to classes. And so I think that is unique. And then I get a chance to be that active as a superintendent and see instruction every single day. Kim, what you have? What say you? Okay. Hello. My name is Kimberly Ramsey. I have been teaching in Dayton Public Schools for 29 years. I come from a family of preachers and teachers. 29? You started when you were, what, 10? Oh, yes. You know. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you so much for noticing. Yes. Yes. So. Yes, I come from a family of preachers and teachers, so I really didn't have any choice. It was already in me to be a teacher. And I was one of those kids when I

108was little, let's play, let's play teacher, let's play school. That's what I did. And even in school, my teachers always was one of the ones I would help other students. I enjoyed helping other students, making sure, you know, that they could learn as well. So being in Dane Public Schools, I'm also, I call myself a lifer. Because my mother was a teacher in Dayton Public Schools for 34 years at Belmont High School, the late, great Gladys Townsend. And I have followed in her footsteps in education. And some people say, you act just like her. And I say, well, I can't help it. But, yeah, so being a lifer, so Dayton Public Schools basically helped me to become the person I am. My mother worked, and then I went to school in Dayton Public Schools, and

109now I work in Dayton Public Schools. So that's what I call I'm a lifer. So there's no better place for me to work, and this is where I want to be with students that look like me, students that have been where I have been, and we are in the same neighborhoods, go to the same stores, we see each other. And I think it's very vital that they see us and know, hey, we don't live at the school. You know, sometimes they think we're there all day. I'm like, okay, you know, they see you out at the store, and they're like, oh, what you doing? I'm like, yeah, I'll come to the store too. So just being visible and also being a servant to our students because we know that they need a servant, they need

110a model at all times. So just being there so they can see, oh, this is how I'm supposed to live my life. Yeah. So that's the gift that I believe that I have for teaching. We sure appreciate you. I did a little background before you got here, and I've heard nothing but great things. People even told me about your mother. There are folks who are lifers who knew her. And your name came up when I was meeting with the Wagamon administrative team. They think very, very highly of you. Thank you. So I'm so glad you're here today. Thank you. Ms. Malone, I've been in your class several times. I mean, fire. For those of you out here watching this, smoke right here. That's right. Let's hear it. Greetings. My name is April Malone and I

111teach language arts eighth grade and seventh grade, but seventh grade this year at Wacom Middle School. As Ms. Ramsey, I am a lifer as well. I grew up in Dayton, grew up in Dayton public schools, grew up in the same community that I used to work in around the city. Both my mother and my aunt are Dayton public retirees. When did you graduate from Meadowdale? 2008. I did a little research on you, too. Yes, so it's pretty much in my blood instilled in me. My mother was a social worker when they had the Head Start social workers, so I just remember her always providing resources, always talking. And she told me that was her dream job. And she said, everyone doesn't get to work their dream job. I didn't originally choose education. So sorry, folks.

112I didn't really know what I wanted to do because I like to do a lot of things, sing, act, you know, things that weren't necessarily considered lucrative when picking a college career. So, you know, college, I never thought I wasn't going to go college. but I didn't know what I was going to major in. So she said, pick something. You can do that on your own. No one needs to teach you to do that. So she convinced me, you know, go for something that you're interested in. So I said, okay, teacher, College of Education, Central State University. And when I got into the program, I fell in love with it. So it initially chose me because they asked me to be a tutor and things of that nature. So ideally, I've been in education for

113like 14 years, but I've only taken public for... And people are surprised to hear that, like, how long? Because I started tutoring my junior year in college, other college students, and that's when I recognized the need for, you know, a quality education overall so that you can function in the world. So I got to see education from a lot of views, from the college viewpoint, and then, you know, from the grade school viewpoint, and see how they all connect together, and that quality education has to hit immediately. from pre all the way up to high school so that people can be successful in the real world. And that's what I strive to do in my classroom. I like to bring things to my students that are engaging because I wasn't an avid reader growing up.

114I didn't enjoy the books. I said, oh, and I was accelerated so I didn't have to read the books. I could look at the spark notes, you know, or I can listen real good in class and still make good grades. And I realized that. I really, I was learning, but I wasn't fully integrated into my education. That's what, you know, home life came in. That's where I had a nice, well-rounded education, things of that nature, because she noticed the things I liked, and we went to a lot of museums and stuff like that. But I want to bring those opportunities to my students, because going to school just to go to school is not an option. You come to school to get a quality education, and that's what I... Life didn't steal. Try my best,

115come to work, and I do my job. Well, Ms. Malone, I want you to know that Ryan and Adriana and Alex and I, we're going to let you do a solo at the end of this. Since you like to sing, maybe we'll end it with a solo from you. Don't ask for one from me. That would not be good. Have at it, Annie. What do you have? I am Annie Barnett. I teach third grade at Eastmont. Originally, I grew up 45 minutes north of here in Piqua, a very small town community, not a lot of diversity. So when I came to Dayton, you know, you get to... open up and embrace all of that. My family working class, if I wanted something outside of what we could afford, I had to find a way to

116get it. I think I started babysitting. In today's standard, CSB probably would have been called way younger than what I probably should have been able to do. But then I had a lot of character-building jobs in high school and college that helped keep me motivated and directed. Always had a love of learning in school, and I can remember, you know, if I had to stay home from school sick, I would have my chalkboard and watch PBS, and I remember calling my mom one day. at work when I was home sick and said, I learned how to do taxes. I can do yours this year. And she didn't let me try it, of course. But I was still very enthusiastic. I'm one who likes to lead and to do, and I have a lot of enthusiasm,

117so I usually get a lot of people to join in, which is a good thing. And when I was younger, I thought, I'm going to be the first female president of the United States. And so when I told my mom I decided I wanted to teach, I think she was slightly disappointed, but now she's very pleased and proud of my decision. And like I said, I'm a very enthusiastic learner, and I like to bring it to my children at home, my children at school, my grandchildren. It usually comes with kind of a mess. Sometimes my brother, when we have a family get-together, he'll say, why did you bring that? Well, because my nieces and nephews want an adventure when I come, so I'm bringing the adventure. And I do that with my students as well

118so that they want to come to school and they expect that. Today something big is going to happen. I know some of my coworkers, if I say, hey, I've got an idea, they're thinking, oh, no, no, not again. And then they'll usually join in, and at the end of the day they'll come crawling and they'll say, I'm going to get you the next time you have one of your ideas. But they usually turn out pretty well, and the kids are excited to do all of those things. had a family of educators as well. They were either in education or criminal justice, so they were police officers or teachers, a lot of them. So in some respects, they kind of go hand in hand at times. I have always gravitated towards children, and that's why I

119think I wanted to pursue the education. There was a brief period where I needed a little more challenge. and I believe if you rest, you rust. So I left the classroom for a span of about 10 years, and I worked in educational publishing, and that was awesome. It gave me that, the challenge that I needed to keep moving and an opportunity to use my degree in a different way. But over the time, you miss the synergy you have with your students and with colleagues. And I remember creating teacher's editions and thinking, I would have liked to have done that. And I still would like to do that. And then I'm going to go back and I'm going to do that. And so that's what brought me back into education. with my own children, I pay

120attention and I feel like I've been in urban education for now going on 17 years. I didn't start there. But this is where I feel the most at home and the most need. I truly believe in establishing that relationship with the kids, but I look at the education my children receive, and I'll look to pay attention. What are they doing there? And if they can do it there, we can do it here. They don't always like me to go to their open houses or things when I'm in their... Schools because I'll say go stand by that bulletin board I need to get a picture because I see something I want to bring back to my kids and I've got to have an artifact to look at so I can model it and do it for

121the kids in the school So my my daughter said I'm not doing it anymore. This is weird. So I have to go in and I've done it when I've gone to go vote in school buildings if that's a polling station I'll look to see what they've got on the walls and I'll think Okay, we can do that. Where's my phone? And then I do. I bring it back to our students. And they're a pretty amazing group. I can't imagine being anywhere else. Thank you. I want to ask a follow-up question. I want to contextualize it. This goes out to all 2,500 employees, and it also goes up on our page. Okay. That look like it's up. Oh, the lady from Cypress. I'm going to be happy about that. Your buddy Hansel and Gretel will be

122ecstatic. Not at all. You remember these days? That was before me. You didn't get delivered the packets? What? Oh, yeah, we did get packets, I guess. The board docs look like it's up. Are you serious? Oh, man. I'm great. For me? Yes, I think we're used to that. I think we're done with paper. If these people don't come up, we all good. All right, let them. That's right. But the record shows the Board of Education of Dayton City School District has just completed an executive session during which it considered the appointment and appointment of a public employee. May I have a second to return to our review session? Second. Do we have any questions? If none, let's have a vote. President Smith? Yes. Ms. Wick? Yes. Dr. Goodwin? Yes. Dr. Basie? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes.

123Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reyna? Yes. Seven yeses. All right. Now we're back on here. We're on 4B. Can we do 4A? Yeah, we're back to A. The one that was pulled? Oh, yeah, the one on that. I don't even think we got to. We did. We voted on A. A-3. All right. I'll entertain a motion for A-3. So moved. We're moving. We have a second? Second. Moving second. Do we need a motion if it was only pulled in the original Mr. Walker, I think we just need to vote on it. Yes, I mean No on his motion, no, we just pulled it so we didn't yeah It's in the original motion. It's just a second vote Yes Yes I reckon approval following after July 10th for vote. So moved. Second. We move second. Any questions?

124It doesn't say for vote. It says inside of it. Okay. Any questions? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President Smith? No. Ms. Week? No. Dr. Goodway? No. Dr. Bailey? No. Mr. Lacey? No. Mr. Walker? Yes. It's right now. No. Six, no, one, yes. All right. Dr. Lawrence. Certified appointments. I recommend the approval of the following for a vote. So moved. Second. And moved and second. Any questions? I got one comment. I'm not going to harp on it, though, but there are several individuals on here from August, and if we could just get tighter in figuring out where the gaps are in our operations, that would be good. Absolutely concur with you. You and President Smith got a chance to. Meet with us at our weekly HR Treasury meeting and we're getting closer and closer,

125but you no excuses. Mm-hmm Yes, so I'm here it says budgeted is six hundred and eleven point five, but I see that we are at Six hundred and sixteen. So is there what how does how does that work? It is over budgeted. It shows over budget. But what happens is those long-term teachers, we consider them as the regular teachers now. So for that budget, the ESS money, we might use, we will use that money to cover for that. Because we have to assume that... They are not going to use all that money approving that contract for ESS. Okay. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President Smith? Yes. Ms. Week? Yes. Dr. Goodwin? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reiner? Yes. 7 yeses.

126Dr. Lawrence. I recommend approval of the following classified appointments for a vote. So moved. Second. Second. We have any questions? If not, may we have a vote? President Smith. Yes. Ms. Week. Yes. Dr. Goodwin. Yes. Dr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Lacey. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Ms. Reinhart. Yes. 7 yeses. I recommend the approval of the following classified exempt employees for a vote. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Do we have any questions? Yes. Okay. To circle back to my question for probably the last three months now, Dr. Jones, any update on flag football and the stipend for those coaches for this season, or what's the status of that one? And the second part is, no, it's just that. Yeah, we are currently working on a stipend to present to the board for ratification. So

127we can have that at the first meeting in November or next week. Appreciate it. Okay. And then for Dr. Lawrence, just curious of what the Tim Hortons camp is. I'm so glad you asked. Tim Hortons camp is an overnight camp for enrichment for seventh graders. So those are chaperones who are going to be taking an overnight trip. I mean, those are teachers for the seventh graders for an overnight trip. It's just the one that's going to Kentucky. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I think all the seventh graders. They are. Principal OJ asking me to go. Let me let you know on the record, I declined. I think they already got a sleeping bag with your name on it. Leslie, I declined. Leslie, put that in the minutes. Not to that. And then the second part to that

128is just curious on what the instruction of the leader for parent-family engagement is. instructional leader from parent is that f-26 like f-26 but then it's also f-16 f-20 f-35 f-41 I have to ask associate superintendent minor about that do you know I'm sorry II it's but it says yeah yeah yeah it's in e but it says F Janice Gomez is that right? It looks like it's it's someone for International, Belle Haven, Kaiser and Rivers Edge. Yes, so director LaShawn Graham and her team have come up with a way to engage our families even more. by partnering with the schools and allowing each principal to identify a teacher who would be the main contact for parent engagement events. So when they have parent education nights and things like that, that lead teacher. that position, they'll get

129a stipend to coordinate the activities and work in collaboration with the other families, the parent advisory person, as well as the principal. So we expect to see a lot more engagement this year having that position. So this will be at every building? Every building. So we're just waiting for the names to be turned in. And then the second part, is this specifically designated for Title I? It's for it's part of the title one funding we're obligated to so it's title one Yes spend so much out of that budget and that's one way we're gonna do it But it's specifically title one is what all of our schools are title one, correct? However, this is from the title of the budget. Yes. Okay. Just want to make sure that it's not on the other side It's

130not don't like when one side gets something than the other doesn't so It's all I ask for. It should be $572. Appreciate it. Thank you, Ms. Minor. Any other questions? Yes. Sorry. So, Dr. Jones, on these rates for the coaches, is this prorated or is these individuals that have not been, like they were not boarded at the start of their season and now they're coming before us for the full amount? Which coaches are we? I mean, I just see some of the dates say August 1st. Also like volleyball. Yeah. You know what? I can't speak to why they are just now getting added to the board agenda. It could be that they were just hired and they would have a current date. So I'll look into that. I'll get with them. Dr. Davis and the

131athletic team to find out. Okay. And then Dr. Lawrence, same on your side, because I see somebody say July 1st as a start date. That looks like an end date of August something. Yep. July 1st. Gotcha. That's it for me, President Smith. All right. Any other questions? Yes. Just to follow up on Mr. Walker's question, can we have that reported publicly of where these gaps are continuing to occur? Yes. at next meeting, like next Tuesday, please. Thank you. And can we change the Fs to E? Correct. The Fs on this one should be swapped. They should be E, and on F, those should be E on the numbers, because we're in E, correct? Yes. Let me make sure I get this done. I'm going to go ahead and create some more confusion as we get

132to our minutes. All right, anything else on this one? We're going to have a vote. President Smith? Yes. Ms. Wick? Yes. Dr. Goodwin? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reiner? Yes. Seven yeses. All right. Classified exempt appointments for a vote. So moved. Second. Wick or Goodwin, either one. Either one for both. Just because they got the classified as E. Correct classified should also be corrected this adress. I should be if they switched them I Took the risk Yes Oh, okay wait No that that threw me off. Oh, so which one do we just approve? Okay, so we're back on E No. So we're on 4F, but the letters in there were E at this time. Yeah, so I refreshed, so E. When I refreshed it, it became something else. Yeah.

133That's why y'all shouldn't have refreshed. I told y'all not to do that. Y'all was doing too much. I told y'all not to trust that. Y'all should have just trusted. Okay, so my question is, Dr. Lawrence, E4. was we did this, or actually, Dr. Jones, E4 on here was one that we approved on our September, I believe it was September 13th meeting. Or it was September 13th meeting. As a resignation? Yeah, so on the supplementals, E... D-84 from our September 13th meeting. This individual, we, yeah, removed previous board action, declined coaching position. This would have been on our September 13th meeting, D-84. Yeah, we didn't resubmit him, so I'm not sure why he's on the resignation list. However, I can do some research and find out. I mean, if we need to do it again, I'm

134good with that. I just, again, had saw it on the previous meeting. Gotcha. And then my question is, for student workers, they just get paid minimum wage to work athletic events? $10.45, unless we were somehow able to partner with Montgomery County Youth Works, at which time they'd make $15 an hour. And then... The adults that work get paid the $15 an hour. Correct. So is there a policy that prevents the students from making $15? I don't believe so. Would you like us to explore? Not really, but, I mean, your budget. Yeah, I just said there's a policy there that prevented them from making that or how the separation between the two. I'm just curious because it's student events to get students engaged and students the opportunity for employment. We're paying on minimum wage, then I

135guess that's the norm. I'll go with the norm. What's your first job is like? My first job wasn't minimum wage. You had a great first job. I did too, but I went to Patterson. I was single digits out there. $7.25. Swinging at King's Island, Rivertown Potato Works. Any other questions? Seeing none, we got a vote. President Smith. Yes. Yes, yes, yes Yes, yes Recommend approval the 48-hour waiver summer second President Smith? Yes. Ms. Wick? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reinhardt? Yes. I recommend approval of the termination agreement for datum for a vote. So moved. Second. Moved and second. Any other questions? What is datum? Essentially, they were going to help us market to targeted areas to address charter school students to kind of bring them back to the district.

136And the short story, Board Member Walker, is they were not going to be able to do that. So we decided to get out of that contract. Oh, this is what we approved back in July that I had questions on? That is correct. Okay. Appreciate it. That is correct. Yes Consultants are just for review. Okay? There's a small list. If you have any questions right now, go into those. If not, please reach out during the week. If you have any questions, have the next week's meeting. My next recommendation is approval of the 48 hour waiver. So moved. Second. Any questions? Seeing none. President Smith? Yes. Ms. Wick? Yes. Dr. Goodwin? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reinhart? Yes. Seven yeses. Dr. Lawrence? I recommend the following consultants for approval. So I

137move for a vote. Second. Second we have any questions. Uh Yeah, what what is these two items going to be doing? That's the attorney is going to be working with our I'm gonna say SPIDED OUT. SCIENCE OF READING AND OFFERING EMBEDDED SMALL GROUP PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO CONTINUE TO DEEPEN KNOWLEDGE IN THAT SPACE FOR ALL THE TEACHERS. WE'RE MANDATED TO REQUIRE TRAINING. WE'RE ADDING ADDITIONAL TRAINING. IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, WE'RE HAVING A RESEARCHER WHO'S GOING TO BE RESEARCHING WHY EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, THAT'S IMPORTANT. SO DOCTORAL LEVEL RESEARCH AROUND WHY EMPLOYEES ARE COMING BACK TO THE DISTRICT AND ALSO RESEARCH AROUND HOW WE CAN HAVE Increased the number of athletes who are participating in sports So what are the reasons that athletes are not participating in sports? Is it because we don't have an activity

138bus which means transportation is it because We have now middle schools instead of k8 What is the reason for them not participating in math because we notice our numbers are down and so instead of just continuing to speculate about it We're gonna have a reason to do some legitimate research and then have those reports report that to the board Appreciate it. Yep. Any other questions? Seeing none, maybe I will vote. President Smith? Yes. Ms. Week? Yes. Dr. Goodway? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reinhardt? Yes. Seven yeses. Nothing else? Contracts F are just for review for the board for this week. Any other questions? See graduation dates. It should be up on the website as well. Thank you, Dr. Goodwine. Appreciate you. You help my household a lot. Was there

139any talk about doing these at Welcome Stadium at all since we don't have to track meet this year? We did talk about it, and we didn't want to risk it in terms of weather, so we just locked in the dates at UD. We do have an event that's coming this spring. at Welcome Stadium, and we have alternate dates for if it rains. Really, it's a coronation of juniors, so we're bringing all the juniors to the stadium, and we're going to have a junior bazaar that has all types of... food, games, field day for juniors, speakers, spirit shop purchases, and also fast food preparation and preparation for their senior. We are super excited about using the stadium for that space. So we are going to utilize the stadium this spring. Really excited about that. And thank

140you, Ms. Dooley, for coming up with that idea. It'll be the first time that we brought all the juniors together in one space and created that energy around their senior So we are we were excited about that. We used to weave at Meadowdale Well, they can still weave bringing all the juniors all the juniors in the district in one space speaking on that is that That number lower than it was last year the number of the dollar amount the dollar amount Any other questions? President Sipp, just on your last comment, a certain principal at the time took away our weaving at Thurgood Marshall. Oh, must not have been behaving right. And the executive director of secondary. So any other questions on contracts before we move on? If there are no contract, I mean, any other

141contract questions, please make sure you ask them to appropriate staff during the week. And staff, could you please make sure if the board sends out any questions that we are timely with our responses. Appreciate that. That concludes my recommendations. You had a G on there, didn't you? Oh, I'm sorry. Resolution for extra duty, I apologize, is for review only. Okay. Any questions on this? One. And it has been sent illegal. Okay, one dr. Lawrence. Can you compare what we approved last time? We looked at the minor sports that are the numbers that are in this resolution. Yeah, just let us know the differences Any other questions Please be sure to read through and you have any questions send them up like Lawrence This concludes your recommendation. That concludes my recommendation. Appreciate you, sir. Madam Treasurer.

142I have temporarily advanced. We are advancing $118,729 from general fund to the homeless, to the grant fund, to cover the negatives. Okay. Any questions on that? Seeing none. Okay. All right. I have a bunch of minutes to be approved. July 9, July 16, August 2, August 13, August 20, August 29, September 17, September 17, and 25. Thank you. I don't think we have any questions on that. Next is donation. We have one donation. for homeless Investments LLC for stivers at the price of 929 and 20 cents. Thank you Donors Appreciate that I've been working hard a little little team over style 11 getting it in appreciate that donation Madam, treasure. Okay. Next one is a purchase requisition for a vote Okay, so moved second and moved in second do we have any questions? No, we

143have a vote President Smith. Yes. Yes Yes, yes, yes Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes We have several requisitions from different departments and let's look at them if you have any questions we'll answer. You'll take a moment to look over person's requisitions. The floor is open for any questions. Yes. So the first one I have is on the Apple computers. Is there a specific location that these are going to? Like building-wise or is this district-wise? Those Apple computers are for our career tech program that do graphic arts. Is this one at Meadowdale? It's for Ponitz. And they have the graphic arts program, and so they need the Apple computers to do their work. Does Meadowdale have a graphic arts program? They have robots. I don't know all

144the programs off the top of my head at Meadowdale, but they have some gaming, robotics, all kinds of wonderful programs at Meadowdale, but that graphic arts program at Ponitz has been established for some time. Let me see if he's going down the same hole I am. The after-school program, not being able to be compatible with the program they're working on? Absolutely. Oh, after school. I don't know about that. Ship it over to IT maybe and see how the partner up. I know I've been getting something recently. They're working on some after-school programs with the laptops there, and the systems they have are incompatible with the program that they're trying to use. And they need Apple? Yeah, I mean, I think it's hard for them to do graphic arts with Windows and things like that. At

145MetaVille? Yeah. At MetaVille? Mm-hmm. Okay, appreciate you. Thank you, Mr. Walker. I thought you was going to bring up the same thing I was going to bring up. I got you. And then secondly, I said we're purchasing more laptops. I mean, is there any update on the status of the current laptops in the district and the need to purchase? Yeah. This says 1,001 area and 300 in another. Be sure to mention how many have been damaged. So this is something we've been working on like for instance Belmont and a few other schools We brought back five to six hundred damaged devices So if you look some of the 48 hour waiver was to repair those devices It's the parts from what this is is just the yearly refresh rate. So we have roughly four Windows

146devices 4500 student devices we replace 20 to 25% of that a year just because of how old they get. The same with the Chromebooks on there. We have roughly 20,000 Chromebooks. This is just for replacement of age. These are not anything to fill, but it is going to help fill some of the broken devices we've been dealing with. But it's just replacement of age. We're on a five-year refresh cycle for both laptops and Chromebooks. Gotcha. Okay. Appreciate it. Any other questions? Seeing none. And move forward my new treasure, okay, how does that name now? President Smith Yeah, I think we have to refresh again Yeah, cuz then and now it's for a vote Yeah, I'm doing too much of board doc that's why I was messing up All right. I'll entertain a motion for a

147vote. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Are there any questions? See no questions. May we have a vote? President Smith. Yes. Ms. Week. Yes. Dr. Goodwin. Yes. Dr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Ms. Reinhart. Yes. Ms. Blasey. Mr. Lacey. Yes. So many yeses. Appreciate it. Does this conclude your recommendations, Madam Treasurer? Yes. Thank you. I appreciate you, Madam Treasurer. Thank you. Moving forward, I do see, with all the refreshing, I see that there's a board member travel and expense, but I do not see that on there. Do we have it that we can show it or we can just speak on it? Okay, we'll just speak on it. Aye. Motion. I will entertain a motion to approve. board member travel on expense or board member Walker to attend the arts trip with the rest of

148the team. Yeah, what's up? Then we don't have to approve. That's correct. We said board members and we also said it. I mean, you cannot go if you don't want to be with him. What? I abstain. That's what I wanted. Let's go. Walker will be joining on there. All right. Moving down. Dr. Goodwin. In so much as the Board of Education is committed to the continued updating of its policies, rules, and regulations, the manual of the committee, which was appointed, has been working towards that goal. The following are brought at this time for first reading and compliance with Board File BFC Policy Adoption. Now, therefore, it be resolved that the Board of Education of the City School District, Montgomery County, Ohio, hereby accepts and adopts the following policies that have been codified for inclusion in

149the Handbook of Policies, Rules, and Regulations, IGDA, Fan Ejection Policy. to be determined supplemental and payout policy. These policies are being read for the first time. As such, a motion or second is not required. The policy will be available in the superintendent's office for review and comment prior to their second reading and adoption by the Board of Education. Furthermore, the policies will be reviewed by the superintendent's office, the board office, and the legal department of the Dayton Public Schools prior to the second reading. Can I ask one question? Go ahead. All right, looking at the... Ejection policy, which I'm glad we're creating something. I do have a question on losing the privilege to attend the DPS home contest. What determines that concept? You're asking for a regulation because this just gives them the ability to

150do that. Right now, I believe that they work through their... I would definitely want to have some kind of clarity there because I can see where we'll go for like a football because we have one place. Outside of there I can just say Missed two games and two things I wouldn't go to well their student. What's it called? Dr. Lawrence the student council Yeah, those are the individuals right now when something does occur to take away the privilege where a student appeals any of those things But your question would be more so for dr Lawrence and his team to develop a regulation around that piece I do appreciate that we have that because we got to get people acting right has to be some kind of I got nothing more no comment carry on moving

151over to mr. Lacey no comment today thank you all right moving down miss Reiner I have a couple things to bring to the board. The first, if you go under my name, there are two resolutions there that I would like the board to consider. No need to make a motion or vote tonight. I would like the board to read over these and consider them. They are resolutions. The first one, resolution opposing Ohio House Bill 556. And the second is a resolution opposing Ohio House Bill 103. Both of these bills are currently in committee. but I have many reservations about them. I will be brief in my summary and if you have more questions, the board members can contact me. If members of the public would like to talk to me, they are welcome to do

152so. The first I'll go over is Ohio House Bill 103. This replaces curriculum created in Ohio for Ohio schools and students with curriculum created by outside interests. There is curriculum that they would wish to introduce into our schools, which is the American Birthright curriculum. It has not been adopted by any other state. It overrides local control on our ability to choose our curriculum and replaces it with a one-size-fits-all state mandate. The curriculum, the current Ohio social studies model curriculum contains many skills embedded in our standards that have been the culmination of the work of Ohio scholars, teachers and families and students. This. is a politically driven bill in committee right now. It is clear in its use of outdated language, approach to historical events, and its exclusionary lack of context and diverse primary sources. I

153personally oppose Ohio House Bill 103. I would welcome the board joining me in opposition to that. Toss Bill 556 is a bill that creates an exception to existing law which would allow school librarians and teachers to be charged with felonies for promoting or providing obscene material, yet does not define obscene or obscenity. This is a bill specifically designed to target our ability to stock libraries with reading material for our children. Our teachers... and our students know what books are good for them. We will not be in the business of banning books. I refuse to participate in any politically driven desire to ban books in our libraries. And I very vehemently oppose House Bill 556. And I would like the board to join me in opposing that as well. We can come back to that next

154week. The second thing I would just like to briefly say, Dr. Lawrence, correct me if I'm wrong, the state released some PBIS winners, and our district has a winner. Is that not correct? I'd have to ask Ms. Dinsmore. She's shaking her head. I don't have it, though. It hasn't been released. There's room for appeal, but it's not in my work. I was informed that one of our schools got the Silver Award. Yes. Yes. There's another one. Okay. Can we get an update on that next week? And maybe we should have some information from the work in that department and the fantastic work they're doing. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. That is all I have. Mr. Dr. Bailey. Just brief. I was pleased to see when I went out to a couple of schools,

155I've seen the mayor and a couple other people at our schools getting our seniors. Registered to vote and I just thought that was a really great thing to see so kudos to those people Yes, thank you president Smith First thing for me is thank you to my board colleagues and Superintendent Lawrence, Treasurer Abraha, and Dr. Jones, business manager, for your attendance at our legislative breakfast. That was the first time the district did one in some years. I'm excited for it. the elected officials that came to the roundtable of that. We are already planning our next one, hopefully in February. So when we get that, we will send those out to those individuals as well. Second thing, I have my sticker on today, and Board Member Lacey, Board Member Reinert. We did early vote today. Early

156voting did start today. So please exercise your right to vote. Next thing, to the treasurer and to brag a little bit, the men of Phi Beta Sigma went out yesterday to Fairview Elementary and E.J. Brown Middle School, Dr. Jones was there, and we presented checks to both schools for $500. So on behalf of the brothers of new Phi Sigma, of Phi Beta Sigma, we did that to our partner schools. I will say... to our board colleagues at a neighboring district. have made a comment that I had tuned into before, say that they had the best marching band program out and things like that. And I just want to say that our Mighty Marchin' Bison program over at Belmont did actually beat Trialwood Madison at the most recent Circle City Classic Parade in Indianapolis. As well

157as we do have, I think the other comment was that their program may be bigger. I would disagree with that because Belmont is the biggest program in this region right now and the most award-winning program. I say that as well as a former assistant band director for six years at Trotwood. Nothing against them, but we have great programs going here at Thurgood Marshall, Belmont, Dunbar, and International School compared to Trotwood. The next comment for me will be state testing results did come out. Dr. Lawrence, to your team, I just want to say that I'm appreciative of your work. Was really excited to see buildings make some movement and traction and things like that, and those teams that work with those individuals for that. Last thing for me, I picked up a news article on Monday.

158about broad leads to Dayton library closings. And I just want to say, number one, the Dayton Metro Library does not provide the district any funding for security resource offices to cover their locations. The city of Dayton does not provide this district with any resources funding-wise to provide for support. So we take on the burden of providing extra security support to the library for these services. And also even with RTA, we do the same thing at RTA with providing security services there. And again, instead, the RTA will pay the city of Dayton to provide police services, but meanwhile won't come to the table to discuss high school transportation because they're still mad about something that happened pre-COVID. Let's be honest here. For me, hopefully, our colleagues in those capacities and the media will take in consideration

159those other colleagues instead of just coming after Dayton Public Schools. Thank you, President Smith. Those are all my comments. Thank you, sir. Vice President Wick. Thank you. Thanks to the team. Continued great work out there. Really appreciate it. On the food services piece and... Ms. Miner, I'm wondering when we do those parent engagement things, those pieces, if some of that excess funding couldn't be used to do family food nutrition nights where we have families in to cook and have a whole, if the idea is to get families engaged in the buildings and the community, the best way to do it is usually through food. And if we could perhaps maybe collaborate and use some of those. funds to engage our families differently through providing them an experience and educational experience and then inviting them into

160school. So just that piece of it. Had a great meeting with the Downtown Dayton Partnership. Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Jones were there and we did discuss with our community partners, neighbors, with the city and both with RTA and the downtown business organizations of the challenges that DPS faces along the lines of transportation and our students and the charter schools. And it was a great meeting. I think that we have collaboration across the board of people taking... ownership and responsibility in ways that are meaningful and having good conversations. So while I know that sometimes these stories are portrayed in ways that, you know, yeah, people can take their own lens with it, I can assure you that the people that I've been around the table with at meetings seem to be willing to provide solutions and

161even deeper than that, trying to... Look at the solutions from the standpoint of if we did not have to transport all of our charter schools We could easily transport all of our Dayton public schools So really looking at the at the issue a little broader than just you know, some of these outcomes that we're seeing so yeah, I just wanted the community to know that I think that There's always conversation there in conversation. There's progress and there are a lot of people at the table that want to help be a part of progress. And that's all. Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Jones. Well, I want to thank the board, of course, for your leadership. And I want to give a shout out to the six individuals that I supervise, their departments. This past Monday, we

162had our first what we call Monday morning blitz called the A-Team. When it comes down to culture change, relationships are absolutely critical. Accountability, just making sure things are getting done. And so seven of us went out. We're going to do this every Monday, possibly daily. We'll see. But we go out and have conversations with the workers in schools. And so our first stop was nutrition services. And after we do our walkthrough and we talk to people, we come back together as a team and answer three questions. Who did you talk to? What did you learn? And what supports does that individual or that department need? And so it was enlightening. Members of the team really enjoyed getting out and talking to their fellow colleagues. And so, yeah, shout out to the A-team. Kudos to you,

163sir. Appreciate that. I know, man. Did y'all ratify that name? Madam Treasurer? I have nothing to share tonight. Thank you, Madam Treasurer. Next week. That's good. Dr. Lawrence. I would just like to say, Dr. Jones, great work. When I'm coming in buildings and talking nutrition services, they ask me why I wasn't with your A-team. I reminded them I did not report to you. They said, where were you, Dr. Lawrence? I said, that's Dr. Jones' thing. The curriculum team is doing something very similar, going to buildings, they're bringing the principal out and then walking through classrooms and giving direct and immediate feedback. We have systemized that process. We're excited about how that's going to push student achievement. My student focus groups, I'm back on tour, so my first stop is Ponitz, and I'll be meeting with

16412 to 15 juniors and seniors, and they ask me all type of questions and give me all type of ideas. Also be on tour in October November with Ed choice meetings to talk about vouchers and parochial schools and private schools and what effect it has on public schools Boardman Walker that was a fantastic legislative breakfast I cannot wait for the one in February and also to piggyback on your comments. I'm looking at a mitt. I called him the other day. I think we this number is directionally correct we've spent about $40,000 securing the downtown library the South Belmont library and the hub am-pm so we spend a lot of money if you add that up it's almost half a million dollars providing security support so we certainly are supportive So excellent point and then also

165I think I'm gonna close with up rivers edge parents shout out to you great meeting Khalid Jabbar will be getting back with you soon and I'm gonna close with the Belmont band as well Thank you, dr. Good wine great idea We're sending the Belmont band out to Trotwood when metal down play so we will get a chance to see which band is the best, and I look forward to being there and trying to see that game. Go Bison. I like that. I appreciate that. I want to echo the words of Dr. Bailey when we talk about the efforts to go out and get our students not only registered to vote, but we had great conversations in the buildings about just the importance of... voting and the importance of having your voice heard. And I think

166one of the biggest things that resonated with me is getting out of that thought of that conversation around we need to vote because of the work that our ancestors did to protect our vote. Really talking to our young people about there's people that are working to protect protect our votes currently today as well So I mean there was just an amazing conversation about just what we vote on things that go on and in government So I appreciate everybody that came out there are a lot of people that went around to all the buildings I believe we had over a hundred so seniors get registered to vote and on the 10th our students will be down at the Board of Elections after their youth voting march and then going over to have lunch at Sinclair. So

167I look forward to them being able to get out and have that experience. I want to appreciate the black elected officials that helped put that event on. So big kudos to them. I want to say I went out this weekend and this past weekend and I think it was the Belmont and Thurgood. Football game I want to say thank you to everybody to help the middle schoolers come out and have a wonderful time So there was the middle school cheerleading teams and then also the middle school football teams on the sidelines and it was just it was a real close game three overtime game and Just seeing how some of the the middle schoolers were on the sideline With their phones out and excited to be in the huddles the young ladies were excited to

168be with the cheerleaders and just those kind of things are what we need when we talk about making sure students stay in our district making sure they create those kind of memories, make them look up to wanting to be that high schooler that was on the sideline cheering, wanting to be on the field playing. Also, the Belmont Band was out there doing their thing, and I want to definitely say they are out there doing what they need to do, and I look forward to seeing them out there with those mighty Meadowdale Lions. So I appreciate that. Get out there. Let's keep moving. We're constantly working, constantly trying to improve. I just want to say thank you to everybody in this district, from every role across this district. Thanks for what they do. Let's keep the

169main thing the main thing. And with that, I have a motion to adjourn. Second. Motion moved. Seconded. No questions. Can we have a vote? President Smith? Yes. Ms. Wick? Yes. Dr. Goodway? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacey? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Ms. Reiner? Yes. Seven yeses. Get out of here.