SMFCSD Board Meeting 2022-10-24

001Good evening. I'd like to call to order the October 24th Board of Education meeting. And I'm going to ask our guests from Echo Hills Elementary to come up and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. You have to swear and carry. We're going to stand and do the pledge first, and then we'll do the rest. All right, now we'll do the roll call. Wind. Here. Johnson-Bowers. Here. Leisler. Here. Shedon Link. Sue Adonick. Here. Brown. Here. All right. Our vision statement. Everything we do is designed to provide a future-ready, student-centered learning experience for every single child. Our strategic plan for 2021 through 2026 will help us accomplish this goal by considering every facet of a student's learning experience, from curriculum to infrastructure to wellness, diversity and inclusion, and everything in between. Um. We are very pleased

002tonight to be swearing in a new board member, Carrie Sue Adonick, and I'd like to invite State Rep Casey Weinstein up. He will administer her oath of office. Okay, this is not a, not a repeat after me. It's an I do after. All right. Do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Ohio, and that you will faithfully and impartially discharge your duties as a member of the Board of Education of the Stone Monroe Files? I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. Thank you very much. Thank you. Last Test. All right. The Wakefield- Abstract finalement, the end of our society. Okay. Oh, looking good. First part. All right, let's see who we totally share with us

003for our award ceremony. And do you solemnly swear that you will support that? You make sure your hat has the microphone ready so we can all see it. Good portion. and the Constitution of the State of Ohio, and that you will faithfully and impartially discharge your duties as Board President of the Board of Education of the Stowe-Monroe Falls City School District, Summit County, Ohio, to the best of your ability and in accordance with the laws now in effect, and hereafter to be enacted during your continuance in said office and until your successor is elected and qualified. The floor is now open for nominations for Board Vice President. I'd like to make a nomination. I would like to nominate Pamela Winn for Vice President. Do we have any more nominations? I would like to nominate John

004Leisler. Second that. Way to go, John. And I think we have any more nominations? OK, I'm going to close the floor for nominations. Mr. Gummery will call the roll, and you can just state your name on the vote. Yeah. Leisler. Oh, wait a minute. Do we need a motion? Motion to close nominations. OK, do I have a motion to close the nomination? All right. Do we have to have a roll call on closing the nominations? OK, roll call, please. No, we just have the, it's, they're closed. OK. So now we're going to vote on who it is. Got it. So when I call your name, just say the name you wish to elect. Leisler. John Leisler. Pamela Winn. Winn. Pamela Winn. Johnson Bowers. John Leisler. Nancy Brown. Pamela Winn. And you are now the Board

005Vice President. And I invite Casey Winn. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. And I invite Casey Widenstein to once again administer the oath of office to our new Board Vice President. Do you, Pamela Winn, as Board Vice President, solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Ohio, and that you will faithfully and impartially discharge your duties as Board Vice President of the Board of Education of the Stowe-Monroe Falls City School District, Summit County, Ohio, to the best of your ability and in accordance with the laws now in effect and hereafter to be enacted during your career. You will have to keep your office until your successor is elected and qualified. So moved. Second. Mr. Gummery. Carrie, pardon me. I'm going to have to sue

006... Just like it looks. Sue ... I'm sorry. Will you adopt the agenda? Oh, yes. Aye. Winn. Aye. Johnson Bowers. Aye. Leisler. Aye. Winn. Aye. John Soonbry. Aye. Johnson Bowers. Aye. Winn. Aye. Johnson Bowers. aye brown aye we're going to move on to our superintendent's report and for that i will hand that over to our assistant superintendent mrs perot thank you mrs brown so i'd like to invite dave mr dave ulbricht and our students from echo hills to come on up and provide our report we're excited to have them here good evening board members thank you for this opportunity to showcase echo hills it's always very exciting to have this opportunity i'm going to offer just a few preliminary remarks before i turn things over to the experts in the room tonight we are showcasing

007a program that we've been using this year that meets student needs in the area of social emotional learning as well as building appreciation for the fine arts what i'd like to point out before i turn things over to mr schneck and our students is that i believe that this is supportive of our district strategic plan in a couple of ways i think this touches upon mission eight which is staff and student wellness i think it also touches upon mission number 10 which is fine arts and athletics and even more importantly i think it addresses the portrait of a bulldog because our portrait of a bulldog talks about the importance of building resilience and increasing students curiosity and creativity and so to tell you more about this program at echo hills and fish creek by the

008way i'd like to introduce our music teacher mr daniel schneck well thank you for this opportunity to come and present tonight mr albrecht a little bit about this program i'm going to start off by introducing the music program it is a free program to us because of sponsorship by the cleveland orchestra and specifically they provide that sponsorship to help schools in northeast ohio in the area of social and emotional learning the goal for this program is to have the entire school start their day with a mindful music moment to help center themselves and get ready to work for the day each of these musical numbers lasts around four minutes each of these numbers lasts about six minutes so it's really a great time to get started if you're a teacher of any kind and you

009want to learn a lot or you're looking to start the day with a little something you're interested in that's a great time to get started and i'd like to share with you a couple of examples of some of the things that we've done in the past from the school district the musical selections historical information and listening prompts are curated by the company who provides this service and make it very easy for our classroom teachers to play each selection the musical selections change automatically each week and past listening examples are still available anytime throughout the year teachers can also use these moments to recenter students at transition times during the day take a test. Once the school is signed up, the login can be shared not only with all of the staff members that are involved

010in the school, but also be shared with families so that families can utilize this program at home as well, all for free. Some of the brain science behind it is presented on their website. I wanted to specifically share a few of the studies and the results of some of the studies related to this type of mindful meditation when incorporated regularly in someone's life. They indicate that there's a 24% increase in positive social behaviors, 24% decrease in aggression, 15% improvement in math scores, reduction in prevention of depression-like symptoms, and improved classroom behavior in areas like self-control, paying attention, and respect for others. So to give you a little idea of what this is like, I'd like to play one of the selections that they provide and let you experience it tonight. So here at the beginning,

011the prompt before the musical selection is played, and then we'll prepare ourselves to listen to the music, and then we'll have our students share a little bit about their experience using this at school. All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Schneck. Just want to reiterate before I turn things over to our students, board members, this is a program that Mr. Schneck located, part of his commitment to our schools, our students, and part of building that foundation for the tremendous fine arts program that you know that we are known for here in Stowe-Monroe Falls. And so to help you get a handle on this, I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to you, Mr. Schneck. Okay. So to give you a little bit of a handle on just what this has meant for some

012of our students here at Echo Hill since we've started using the program, I have invited some of our fourth-grade leaders to join us this evening. Ladies, just as a reminder, when I put the mic in front of you, your job is to tell the board members your name and tell everybody what you like about Mindful Music or tell us something about it. Are you ready, Lizzy? Here we go. Hi, my name is Lizzy, and I like the Mindful Music because it helps me relax and focus on my work. Thanks, Lizzy. Are you ready? Hi, my name is Zoe, and I like Mindful Music because it's very peaceful. Great job. Thanks, Zoe. Chloe? Hi, my name is Claire. I like Mindful Music because it, like, you can think of a bunch of different things where you're

013at or what you're on. Great. Thanks. I'm going to switch over here. Supriya? Hello, my name is Supriya. I like Mindful Music because it helps me focus on my schoolwork and helps me calm down after recess. And so now you've heard it from the experts? These are students whose teacher happens to have chosen to deploy this as an after recess calm down opportunity. Recess is only a half or 20 minutes out of the day, but there's a lot that goes on. And so giving them an opportunity to recenter and get ready to get back to learning, just taking that four or five minutes means everything to the afternoon. And so that's Mindful Music Moments. And I appreciate this opportunity to speak with you this evening, board members. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions before

014Mr. Ulbricht exits the stage? I don't have a question, but I have a gigantic thank you because I've been hearing from teachers across Ohio for several years now who have implemented that. And the results are just amazing. And you know, at first when they started doing it, they're like, I don't know, but it's amazing. So I'm so excited that you're doing that. I'd like to say thank you to the students who stood up and shared that. I know that this can seem a little scary and intimidating. And it was very brave of you. And thank you for also leading us in the pledge. You performed a very valuable service tonight. So thank you. Thank you again, Mr. Ulbricht. We appreciate you being here. Thanks to the students. So Echo Hills is a wonderful place. If

015you ever have a chance to stop by, I highly recommend it. Yeah. OK. At this time, we will take a five minute recess. No, no, no, no. Sorry. I think Scott's going to go first. I apologize. See, it just says Superintendent's Report and then recess. So under the superintendent's report, though, we are going to have a quick safety update from you. OK. So we have a quick update from Mr. Scott Campbell, the voice of the Bulldogs, it seems like these days. I see how this goes. Sorry, I'm loud as it is, guys. I'm sorry. But they always make me go after the cute kids. Last time it was Kipton. Now it's Echo Hills. This is a tough act to follow. First off, I want to say thank you to Nancy. At our last safety security

016meeting, I asked if I could give a brief update to the Board of Education about where we are with our safety. Trying to get to a good place. That doesn't make sense. I have an echo. Down here? OK. So you guys probably have seen that we were awarded a pretty big grant by the state of Ohio. There is some confusion with it. So I want to kind of give you a timeline first and then an explanation second. Sound good? OK. So last fall, fall of 21, the OFCC came out with a huge grant. It was a competitive grant. OK. And you could apply for up to $100,000 per building that you have in your school district. We have nine buildings. That's almost a million dollars. So we did. We applied for that grant. Surprisingly, we

017did not get it. OK. And I do say surprisingly because I do think we are at advantage here at Stoneman Road Falls because we have people like Mr. David LeCotte who works with Homeland Security and really does this for a living as a professor at AXA. So we had some really good stuff. We also had OFCC just recently do evaluations on our buildings when we started the Master Facilities Committee before I even got here. So we had really good data to go off of, hit what they say those buzzwords are. Surprisingly enough, we didn't get it. Now, what was a little bit upsetting to us was it seemed like the money all went to one general school district. So if you went on there and you saw the money, you know, it was a lot

018of money. So if you went on there and you saw that, it was a little bit befuddling. And when we went to a state meeting with our other business managers, there was the question of why didn't we get it? What could we have done better? Where was our, you know, mislaps? Why didn't we get it? So they provided no answers for us. But come beginning of fall of 2022, we get an email letting us know that we were awarded close to $348,000. So in turn, we then did get a second round that came through through the whole state of, or through the state of Ohio where they went through. Here's where it gets confusing. We got seven of our nine buildings received almost $50,000. However, two of our buildings did not. We don't know why.

019Again, no answers, no questions. However, a third round has gone in. We don't know why. However, a third round has gone in effect. We have applied for that, submitted our application for that. We are hoping that comes back favorable. We will keep you updated on that. So where are we at? Okay. So let me first say this. Security wise, I came here in the middle of COVID in 2020. I will say this. We have been a very progressive school district in security. How so? A lot of people want to know. How does that happen? Well, take a look at every school. Every school has a safety vestibule at it. That was a commitment that the school district made after Sandy Hook. Very aggressive. A lot of money. Put forth four vestibules. Then, okay, we do

020have two SRO officers that are permanently. One stationed here, one stationed out at Kempton. Okay. That shows us the unique ability of our school district. Two cities. We have, I'm sorry, Monroe Falls Police Department operating the Kempton School. And we have Stow Monroe Falls operating this school. Our other buildings. Some of the questions that I'm getting from parents. Scott, can we please put a police officer at every building? We don't care what it takes. We physically can't do that. The police department doesn't have enough personnel to do that every day, every hour. But I will say. Take a drive. Take a drive down or by any of our schools, any part of the day. And you are most likely to see a police cruiser out front of most of our schools. We have to be

021one of the most visible school districts with resource officers throughout the day. So, we are very lucky. Go to where this money is going to go. What are we going to use it for? Okay. So let me take you back to 2018. Stow Monroe Falls does an active shooter scenario. Okay. They use both the Monroe Falls Police Department, Stow Police Department, and also the SWAT unit from the Summit County SWAT team. Okay. There's one thing that kept on talking about was the frequency. Once they breached into our building, their radio systems were not effective. We also have issues here. If Dr. Hartman was here, sometimes when we're doing bus duties here, we get frequency from one of our buses. We also get frequency from Woodland or other local schools that are here. So what we

022want to do is we want to have an emergency communication as effective as possible. So what we are looking to do is get two-way radios that are compatible throughout the entire district. Why is that such a big thing? Well, we are sandwiched in between two cities. So imagine trying to have a two-way radio here and contact somebody at Riverview. Okay. You're not only going a couple miles that way. You're going through a different city. So what we're trying to do is create repeaters throughout our communities where we can on Channel 1 at the high school talk eventually to somebody on Channel 11 over at Riverview and have no issues. We also want to make sure if we ever have a situation and people breach into our building, they have no issues. They have the effective

023communication tools that they can to communicate in a serious emergency situation. So that's what we're looking at. There's some other things that can come off the grant. Like COVID, there is a particular list that you have to pick. You can't just go get whatever you want, you know. But there are some other things that we're looking at enhancing our video system, enhancing some of our door systems. You know, those go bad. Some of these buildings were built in the 50s. We want to make sure that those are done. Any of the ones that weren't changed out when the vestibules go in, we will be looking at. So I just wanted to give you a brief update. I know that's been a question that a lot of people have contacted me and wanted to know what

024are you doing. Particularly if I'm a parent that saw that I was Echo Hill or Lakeview did not get that grant. Why didn't I? We don't have an answer, but we do have a solution. We are trying to get them to pass this third round and help us. So any questions? Sorry, I thought the timeline would be the easiest way of explaining that mess. So, all right. All right, guys. Thank you, Mr. Campbell. All right. Now I'm finished. Sorry. Okay. At this time, we'll take a five-minute recess. For those of you that don't want to stay for the remainder of the meeting, please feel free to leave during the recess. But we will be here when you come back. Thanks. We will come back to order. And we're going to have a presentation on our

025strategic plan. And I will again turn it over to Mrs. Brown. Thank you, Mrs. Brown. We're excited to be able to present this update on our strategic plan to the community. So we worked really hard on this for a long time, it seemed like, but came up with ten really good missions for the district and came up with a set of core beliefs. But I'm just going to read those real quick just so everyone knows what our missions are grounded in. So our core beliefs are regardless of background, students learn to think, reason, and use their mind well. We are organized in a way that encourages children to use their knowledge to solve problems rather than to do them. We are a school that is designed to passively absorb knowledge. We support initiatives that are

026designed to produce better results for students. Our teachers are leaders whose primary job is to engage students in significant activity that results in learning. And our superintendent is dedicated to developing a vision for the future and taking action towards that vision. So we're going to hear from a variety of people. So we are first going to start with mission one is curriculum. We will provide all students rigorous, coherent, and aligned curriculum and assessments in all subjects and grade levels while promoting academic achievement for all students. So we're going to have our curriculum supervisor. So we have Mrs. Aisha Collier for grades K-6 and Mrs. Julie Miller for grades 7-12. Good evening. My name is Aisha Collier. I apologize in advance for my voice. I have some allergies with the hot and cold weather. At K-6

027we completed building self-studies and what that consisted of is our principals looked at our strategic plan. I developed a rubric to show if they were near-improvement. And I also developed a rubric to show if they were near-improvement. I also developed a rubric to show if they were near-improvement. I also developed a rubric to show if they were near-improvement. For proficient approach and proficient or proficient in each of the sub-domains of our strategic plan. And so they then went to their BLT and the TBT, the teacher base team. And then they rated themselves. And from there we took an average of the ratings to create focus areas. So myself, as well as my K-6 team met with all of the building principals at the K-6 level. And they were able to identify their goals in the

028area of curriculum instruction. goals in the area of curriculum instruction. So some things that we're doing at the K-6 buildings, we are using our supports as a teaching and learning department specifically aligning them to the areas of need that they have identified as building principals because the role of central office is to support the buildings. We are ensuring that all subjects have access to curriculum maps. Three years ago when I walked in the door we didn't have curriculum maps in certain subject areas, PE, art, music, that kind of thing. It's important that we begin with the end in mind and we know what we're working towards so we have placed curriculum maps in those different subjects to make sure that we're teaching the same thing across the district at the same time so teachers can

029have collaborative conversations that are meaningful and purposeful. Some other things that we are doing, we are building common assessments at every grade level with a focus on the standards and creating a vertical and vertical learning environment. We are also building a curriculum alignment between kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth to ensure that our curriculum maps and what is taught is building on each other each year. And then I'm going to pass it off to Julie and then I'll follow up with what we are focusing on at K-6. Yeah so in order to promote instructional coherence and evaluate our assessment practices a few initiatives have been put in place for this year. The high school professional learning community, or PLC for short, is working on unit development for our courses with a focus on the

030assessment. We're ensuring alignment in each Ohio department of education standards as well as matching our teachers academic purpose of instruction to the assessments they create or choose to use. So I've shared a lot of data with the board previously as well as information from state test scores and COVID gap closing but I would now like to highlight a different area of our strategic plan focused on developing inspiration for our teachers and students guided by our ideals in the portrait of a bulldog. So Kempton continues to support select students with a career compass program which exposes students to options for future career roles. Other programs Kempton is pursuing include speakers on diversity and holocaust survivors. They also engage in the stop the hate program. All of these activities support our portrait of a bulldog ideas of

031acting with integrity, resilience, and compassion for others. Our library media specialist Leslie Hainem guides a group of volunteer students that lead the student news program. This is a diverse group of students that volunteer during their lunch period and work outside of school hours to develop and broadcast stories once a week. This program keeps kids connected to school and taps into interests and talents that may run outside of traditional core courses. Supporting inspiration and innovation at high school we have Mandy Sen who's volunteered to pilot a new class called mathematical modeling and reasoning. This is an alternative pathway to the traditional pre-calculus calculus route. This allows students to find a math pathway that suits them and their future career plans. Dave Helmick has started a new career tech offering called modern manufacturing. The goal of the

032program is to prepare students for the workforce and manufacturing careers after graduation. They have opportunities to demonstrate problem-solving skills and resiliency through on-the-job training with our collaborative partners including Hudson Extrusions, Permco, and Mack Liquid Tank Trailers. The integrity these students have demonstrated is evidenced by the community service performed so far including trimming and leaf pickup. With more to come in addition to setting up the trail cam to observe the behavior of scavengers of the animal variety on our campus Mr. McMahon's environmental science 2 class will be building bird houses to deliver to our elementary buildings. Our high school students will then visit the elementaries to teach the younger students about the local board populations that they observe. Lastly I hope you've all heard of our very own Mr. David Morgan who's an Emmy award-winning English

033teacher bringing his real-life experiences to the classroom. He has a long history of writing and publishing his own book. He has a long history of writing and publishing his own book. He has a long history of writing and publishing his own book. Or the preparation needed for delivering the commencement speech this fall at Youngstown State. David provides real examples of overcoming obstacles to accomplish his goals. So these examples and there are many others are part of what makes me proud to be a Bulldog. So a little few things that aren't numbers you can't really see them on paper but it's important to recognize the innovation and inspiration so thank you. At the K-6 level right now we have purchased a lot of curriculum materials over the last couple of years. So we are in the

034process of building instructional coherence with the district literacy plan as well as all the various pieces and parts of literacy curriculum that we have purchased over the last couple of years. Lee if you want to take us to mission number two. I'm going to read it out loud real quick for you. Okay so mission number two we will strengthen the district's mission through strategic planning, data analysis, and professional development. Okay so mission number two we will strengthen the district's mission through strategic planning, data analysis, and professional development. Thus building a culture based on high expectations, respect, accountability, and excellence. So as mentioned previously with the K-6 completing self-studies we've also narrowed down a focus area for continuous improvement. We are aligning our supports in our department to make sure that if certain buildings need additional

035support in mathematics, if certain buildings need additional support in literacy, that we are sending out those instructional coaches to support those buildings. I am also meeting with principals to get more information on other ways that I can support them at the building level. We will continue to use the Ohio Improvement Process for teacher-based team meetings. And so that is just identifying our learning targets, collecting our data, building an instructional plan, assessing that instructional plan to determine if students are meeting grade level expectations and what they need to meet in terms of their assessments, and then if they don't meet, adjusting our instruction to support them in a different way but ultimately giving them a post assessment to determine if they made the necessary growth to be able to move on and if they did not

036how are we going to continue to support them to close their achievement gaps that information is then brought to blt the blt team is located at the building level they kind of gather the rest of the data and then they bring it to dlt where we make record recommendations and provide additional opportunities additional ways to support them at the building level we also use data protocols to help guide instructional decision making for ela mathematics and what that looks like is when a student takes a map test or a bass test we want to look at that data see if they've already mastered certain concepts because we don't want to teach them something that they already know and we just want to make sure we're remediating the kids that need additional support but also challenging the

037kids that need way more support because we know that sometimes they can get lost in a shuffle because they already know what's going on our focus at the k-6 level under this continuous improvement goal is to continue to build high quality data protocols in order to reflect on our instructional practices and we are in the process of rebuilding and redefining our district literacy pyramid and so that information will be forthcoming once we are done thank you for the 712 buildings we also want to remind our district leadership teams data calendar we plan at the beginning of the year what data we'll be looking at for 712 each month and then share that with the teacher teams one thing that's come out of that that wasn't even on our radar three years ago is we now

038have all of our ninth grade 10th grade 11th grade 12th grade all looking at literacy data because we now have map data on all of our students and we can actually have that common conversation so there's more alignment with what we're talking about at the building level and then we're going to look at the district level down to our building leadership teams and then all the way down to what's happening in our classrooms with our teacher-based teams and the collaboration that's happening professional development offerings this year and professional learning communities are based on the building goals that derive from our own self-studies completed in year one Aisha already shared a little bit about that but the self-study is our own evaluation of how we were performing on strategic plan goals before this year so when

039we got the strategic plan the first thing we did was look at all of them design our rubrics as teacher teams and as the leadership team and then they rated themselves and they said okay we feel like we have a lot of evidence here and where we're strong but this is where we'd like to devote our time and our goals so that's where we're putting our energy in to our professional development plans Kempton is revamping their response to intervention process that's one thing that came out of their self-study with some of the work that they've been doing and then the high school options tutoring program after school we're trying to build that up as one of our offerings for students in response to some of the data that we see and I think the schools

040are really taking advantage of that experience to get students Thanks, Mrs. Pro. And you know, I love that mission statement because it really covers everything. Recruit, because hiring is the most important thing we do. Retain, we certainly want those great people that we hire to stay here. And I do say great people because our philosophy is if you hire great people, then you can help them learn the job that you want them to do for us. And then the other piece is representative staff. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our staff to make it more representative of our student population. So to hit the bullet points here, and I do have a little photo of our quarterly newsletter called the HR Hub. It will be coming out soon. Our second edition. As

041far as the bullet points, I really wanted them to fit the strategic plan. The first thing I wanted to mention was we do regularly update job descriptions. The board, I'm sure, has seen them come along from time to time. We want them to stay current and accurate, so we do review those regularly. This year I've had the opportunity to start job shadowing because I want a first-hand look at the exact jobs that people do. I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to ride a complete bus route. And see if I could do that. And see if I could do that. And see if I could do that. And then this past week I actually taught an hour of reading to third graders. Found out it was like riding a bike. I used to teach

042reading back in the day. So really enjoyed that opportunity as well. Last year we attended two job fairs. We went to Cleveland State University. And that job fair was more informal. It didn't only include education, but it also included the business world. So we basically just kind of hung out and people came by. and gave us their credentials and we got to talk and meet a lot of good people. At Akron University, it was all just school districts and it was more formal. People would line up and then hope for a second appointment from us. And I must brag a little here, we had the longest line of any of the school districts there. A couple of my colleagues pointed that out to me. And we were very busy and then we got a chance

043to talk to people a second time and we actually hired some people from that job fair. We do have a very close relationship with nearby Kent State University. I'm constantly meeting with them. I actually had a Zoom meeting this afternoon helping with some of their accreditation. And Kent State, we have a lot of people that were alums of Kent State that we've hired throughout our staff and we've had great success and a great partnership with them. We have asked the board to add a couple of out-of-state colleges that have requested applications. We've had a lot of great opportunities to partner with us. Grove City College is in Pennsylvania and West Virginia University. Again, looking to branch out our diversity for our staff and get some new faces into our buildings for observation and field experience

044and even student teaching. We do have a future plan. We'd like to attend a job fair at Central State University, which is one of the historically black colleges and universities in Ohio. And we are on a waiting list for a group called Kent State University. We're called CAMRA, which stands for the Cleveland Area Minority Educators Recruitment Association. They're limited to 20 school districts. And we are on the waiting list. And we're number nine on the waiting list. We actually moved up a notch last year. And I am optimistic that one of these days we're going to get in this group. But I've been called an eternal optimist. If I was the captain of the Titanic, I would have told everyone we're just stopping for ice. So I am going into those meetings sometimes. I actually

045sit in as a guest. And I know the chair. So he's let me do that. And really the opportunity there for that group is to get their name out and then get their school districts out and show that they have an interest in underrepresented candidates for our school districts. The last thing I wanted to mention, you know, with partnerships, the Summit Education Initiative, they contacted me last spring, asked me to do an interview. And I said, well, I would like to ask a lot of professionals to do interviews for their eighth graders. And I had a chance to talk about my particular career path. But I also had the opportunity to promote our school district and the job that I do. So that was a very nice opportunity with them as well. Turning to evaluation,

046we have fully implemented OTES 2.0, which is the formal evaluation system for our teachers. We developed a new curriculum facilitator evaluation piece with the help of our administrators. So that we can keep that position accountable. Professional development wise, these are kind of dirty words for our staff, but public school works is a quick and efficient way for us to meet compliance on a lot of professional development that is required. It's time consuming, but our staff do a great job. It's online and they have until November 1st to complete that. We clustered our three professional development days to the beginning of the school year this year. We did that a little differently. That was well received by our staff. And I've instituted some online modules aimed at our classified staff called 321 Insight. They go online,

047they view a short video, they answer questions to a short quiz. And the topics are really related to what they do on a daily basis in their jobs. And that's been well received as well. Cross training is the last piece that I'd like to talk about. We have found that it's a very important part of our work. We've found this very valuable. Last year, our central office staff were cross trained in Frontline, which is where we keep track of our subs on a daily basis. We found that we had one person in charge of that. And if something would have happened to that person, we would have been out of luck. So now we have several people that are trained in that and are comfortable with that in case something would happen to someone. We

048did the same thing this year and toward the end of last year with our new applicant tracking online system called Unified Talent. From PowerSchool. And now we have an opportunity for several people to be able to post jobs and we're not relying on one or two people for that. So just in conclusion, future plans for the department. We're definitely looking to create a staff survey for our brand new staff from this year. We'd like to give that out in the spring and get some feedback on the onboarding process so we can make all the improvements that are possible and make that the smoothest process for folks. I'd like to do an education signing day. I've been talking about this a little bit. I'd like to get this together. Kind of pattern it after the athletic

049signing days at the high school. Only recognize those students who would like to go into education in college and talk about where they're planning to go and maybe even coming back here to be part of our staff someday. And then innovation is definitely a focus for the human resources department. We are looking to be the best human resources department in the state of Ohio. So we are looking for new ideas all the time. And I thank you for listening. Any questions for me? All right. Thank you, Mr. Kosciak. So Mr. Campbell, you are up next with Mission 4, Infrastructure. We will provide all students and staff a safe atmosphere and quality facilities that will benefit all who walk our hallways. All right. I'll be pretty quick. My mom always said that I was born with

050two good qualities and one bad quality. And the two good qualities was I have a lot of passion and energy and I'm very competitive. And my bad quality is I have a sailor's mouth. So I'm sorry about that. Tom always tells me I, you know, don't talk that much. So but go back to that competitive quality. I remember sitting in a strategic planning meeting and I had Lisa over here challenge me. Says, Scott, where will we be in June of 2025? And I gave her a list of things that we were going to do. So where we've been. This will be redundant. I told you guys before you fire me, I will have completed the high school roof project. Check. We will take down the ugly plaza deck and the stuff that's holding it up.

051It looked it looked bad. Check. We know we have a masonry water problem here at the high school. Right. If you drive by on Graham Road and you see some of that brick that is darkened, that is because there's water behind it. We have started that process. Check. Our food service problem. We need we need more money. We need to operate in the black. We are up 40 percent from 2018. Some some cases 20 to 40 percent. The buildings check. Maintenance and service plans. We need to get better on that. We know that. Matter of fact, some of our companies that we deal with are learning that they no longer have service here. Check. Safety and security. You heard a little bit about that tonight. Check. Where are we going? Well, it all kind of

052starts with this operational levy on May, November 8th. OK. You guys can kind of see our department is working hard on that. Master facility plan in the future. We are trying to lay out the blueprint of what our future can look like. We know our buildings are outdated. Education has kind of passed by the way of the 1950s buildings. We are trying to build brand new buildings. We are. We know our two biggest classrooms are our fine and performing arts classrooms and our athletic facilities. Most people in our districts come. Our community comes back to those events. We are trying to get better in both of those areas. Hence the million dollar roof that went on the top of this current auditorium that we're at. That was this summer. You probably have heard about the

053athletic field house that we are currently looking at right now in building. We are moving forward with that and we are excited about that. And we will be speaking more about that in the future. So why are we doing all this? The one thing I can tell you I have learned by doing the operational levy is I keep hearing people say this. You get a bang for your buck here. I'm tired of that. We are the best public school system in Summit County. We are going to change the narrative. It's how we are going to work. We are not apologizing for that anymore. Thank you guys. Thank you Mr. Campbell. Alright next up we have Mr. Gumry on finances. We will promote transparency. And fiscal accountability to our Board of Education and taxpayers. It's always

054tough to follow Scott. It's just terribly difficult. Especially with such a mundane financial discussion. So I do want to say this. In my time of 20 years of working in this business and working with administration over the past couple of years to creatively finance both looking with Scott and the administration about the roof. And what that looked like before the supply chain issue. I think he is owed a tremendous amount of respect and thanks for what you have done for these buildings. And also his work and tireless push and understanding of how to deliver the field house. I'm consistently impressed with how he handles it. With that we wanted to talk about the situation we had forced upon us and that is switching into software systems. And we had a 55 year old software system

055that did exactly what we wanted it to do. And we are only six months into that. But as we do that my staff and learning are reviewing processes both by E-finance groups and with K-12 to improve those processes to be utilizing the integration of the software. Like I said we are only six months into conversion. Normally within the first year you will find a gross amount of kind of spots that you used to do manually and you need to put them to the system. Unified software systems are a great example of how we can make sure that we are able to deliver the field house to the community. And we are going to continue to do that. And we are going to continue to do that. So with the new talent which is integrated to

056E-finance plus being deployed by the HR one of the pluses about integration is when you talk about mistakes or you talk about costs when data gets touched it costs something. So the singular time it gets touched and that goes throughout the system that's integration and that's a lower cost of operation. As we are finding out the new reporting system is not as simple as our prior system. However it is much more robust. And we are still learning how to write those consistent reports for him. And we are still learning how to write those consistent reports for him. All the off camera. The most of what's being operated over the area with터 that is in the AP. And working with the school district had a responsibility to help us maks sure that we had the equipment

057within our酒 and soda well and in in contact with this was what is swell. And you pouring some resources it. And you pouring some resources it. And when it came here there wasn't a permanent improvement 20 year plan on whatever permanent improvement fund spreadsheet about 20 years. Then any changes that they deem necessary or they see that has to be fit. One of those changes we have this year is a hundred and some thousand dollar lease for the boiler that has decided to relieve itself of duty and we have to rent one out and that's what that cost until we have a new boiler. And as always the wonderful cup report which comes in November takes our data that we have submitted through our system and it produces an OD report which talks about cost

058of doing business as a school both in a per square foot per student administrators comparable to state, local and what they deem to be the state need to be a like district which is around the state but not necessarily in Summit County. That's where we're at. Okay thank you Mr. Gumry. Mission six is technology. We will provide all staff and students with the technological infrastructure tools and integration support needed to maximize potential in all aspects of district operation. I'd like to introduce Mr. Gumry. Thank you. I'd like to invite Mr. Lee Boring. He's our new director of technology to the district and he has been amazing. Well thank you. Lots of very positive changes so thank you. Well thanks. I'm still getting my bearings here so but I'll give you a brief little update of

059what I've seen and things like that. So the staff is 100 percent mobile now so they've actually I feel like have been 100 percent mobile for the last couple years which is great. That means if they need to they can just pick up and go wherever they need to go and things like that. Students also have that same ability. So grades one through 12 are actually fully one to one where that device is assigned to them. It follows them home. They can work on their assignments if need be pretty much anywhere they are. So that's a great great value to that student. That way they get familiar with the device and technology and they're getting themselves ready to leave the district and be prepared to work with technology. Okay. With that technology though you can't

060just give them a device you also have to integrate a digital classroom. So we are trying to simplify that gap by using Clever for the integrations that way students can access many resources without having to go and memorize dozens of passwords and logins and things like that. And with Clever we're able to do that that integration with rostering so that way the teachers also have that simplification where they don't have to go and manually load up their classroom. And do things like that. It speeds up and streamlines that whole process for them. That digital classroom aspect we are installing digital displays currently. That's an ongoing process over the next few years. We have many many more digital displays to install. But that allows the teacher to be up in front of the classroom still with

061more interaction and things like that for those students. We also have document cameras that we are providing to the teachers as well so that way they can still use that old physical memory. They can use that old physical medium if they need to because that is still a great resource but they can display that onto those digital displays. So you can have a book or a piece of paper or a dry erase board on your desk and you can display that right onto that digital display board. For the enhanced district safety and security we have what is called the student ridership which is the ability for monitoring and tracking students on bus routes so that way we know where a student got on and off of a bus. Or if they did not get on

062that bus we can look and see we have a missing student and we can help track that down and prevent anything happening. We also have web filtering in place so that way we can help prevent inappropriate material from the students. Any malicious software things like that can also be blocked and prevented if a device is infected it can kind of help stop that spread immediately and we can be notified. That web filtering also does provide some self harm monitoring. So we can see if a person is in the area and we can get a notification. All the relevant personnel that need to be notified are automatically notified depending on where the student is in the district and things like that. So that way we can really help keep that safe environment for those students and

063get them any help that they need when they need it. Thank you. All right. Thank you Lee. All right. Laura Farsheon for Mission 7 Public Relations. We will strengthen the communication to families and surrounding communities while promoting the positive happenings in the Stoneman Roflall City. Hi. Good evening. So when we actually started our strategic plan and the last one was retiring in its process we learned a lot from our community and one of our biggest messages that we heard back was that our communication stunk. We had a tough time getting that two way communication which was so important to our families, to our teachers and to our students. So as a part of the public relations role that I fill we worked very hard to come up with some of the best ways to create

064that two way communication. And kind of bridge that gap. So some of the things that we've put in place and I put some screenshots up there for you but our community connection magazine that goes out four times a year has seen huge results. Like we are getting a ton of folks who are interested in buying ads in that magazine. It really is truly doing its intended job which is connecting our communities of Stowe and Monroe Falls. We also are utilizing Parent Square which is our new communication tool for the school district. And we have done it for a long time. We have really amazing results. We have so many parents and students who are able to communicate at a drop of a hat with no questions asked and teachers are able to respond at other

065times when they would normally take hours or days to get back to our families. That is happening instantly. Our district newsletters, Mr. Superintendent Bratton sends out our SMF scoop every few months to our entire school district, all of their families. That is a sneak peak. It is going out later this week. So you will see the October newsletters. It is a sneak peek. We're going to show you some of the news that we've been seeing this week. So if you'd like to see that we've been able to newsletter in your mailboxes soon. Our school district website, and I'll talk about that a little bit later, but we are rolling that out as a brand new district website. So I feel like we just did this, but we're going to do it all over again. And

066this time it's going to be so much nicer, cleaner, just a nicer feel for all of the users, as well as our social media outlets. And if you would have asked, I know Ms. Johnson-Bowers, we've had this discussion since the day that I arrived at Stoneman Row Falls City Schools, our social media stunk. And now I hope that with the nod of your head, we can say that that has in fact gotten better over the years. But we post between one and 10 times a day on average. It is just something that our families have gotten used to. They love seeing our students in the classrooms. They love being able to feel like they're a part of the experience of our teachers, our students, and the events that are happening in our district. So as

067I talked about, our school website is going to be renovated. We're actually rolling out our brand new website and its app in December. So stay tuned for that. We are going to continue streaming all of our district-wide meetings, such as this one, and all of our major events on our YouTube channels. So you can always find those by heading over to YouTube and you can either search the Board of Education meetings or the event in which you're interested. We are also working very hard in my PR role to continue to bridge the gap with our local colleges and universities. So right now I have three public relations interns, which are college students, or some of them are actually graduates of Stowe-Monroe Falls High School. And they are very interested in that PR role. So I'm

068working with them to either gain credit and or some internship experience in the PR realm. So if you ever have anybody, send them my way. Building great relationships with the cities of Stowe and Monroe Falls, our local businesses, our governing offices, and our first responders to not only promote our programming and all of the things that our students and staff are doing, but we're also going to be promoting the things that they are doing and how we can go and help them, whether that be volunteer opportunities or ways that they can get involved in things that are happening in our district. And as I said, our Parent Square has truly allowed the intricacies of our digital social media networks and our direct messaging to really come to fruition. We have been able to take most

069of the little goals that are a part of one of our missions there in public relations and knock them all out with one foul swoop. And that has been through Parent Square. Long live the days of having to have a lot of fun and have everyone's usernames and passwords and log into their social media outlets and kind of be that big brother watching. We have the ability to do all of that through Parent Square with a click of a button. So it has really changed the way that we do things here. I'm happy to answer any questions you have. All right. Thank you so much, Laura. All right. Mission eight. So Mr. Kostiak and I will address this one. We will create a culture of physical, mental wellness and compassion and promote healthy lifestyles for

070our staff and students. Okay. I'll talk about physical wellness first. And we have a great program here called Bulldog Strong. It's really friendly competition. The building is coordinated. People turn in minutes of physical activity. There's prizes. It's a lot of fun for everyone. And it's a relatively easy thing to do. When I talk at staff meetings to staff, I say that, you know, being physically fit is certainly important. And just about everyone come to the building. And I think that's a really important thing. And I think that's a really important thing. And I think that's a really important thing. I think that's a really important thing. New Year's Eve decides their New Year's resolution is going to be getting back to the gym and getting fit and getting healthy for the New Year. However, mental

071wellness, it doesn't seem to have that same openness to it. So when I talked to our staff about that, I say that's just as important. And we have a tool in our school district, the company's life services, it's our employee assistance program. The company's life services, it's our employee assistance program. We have access to a wonderful website. And the services are listed. counseling, and that's just not in person. That could also be via the phone or virtually via the computer. There's work life resources, legal financial resources, life coaching. So it's a wonderful opportunity. It's free for our staff. I stress that at staff meetings, and it's in every one of our human resources newsletter. There's a special code that our school district can use and get the help that they deserve and that they need.

072And along with that mental wellness is safety. And Mr. Campbell mentioned Dave LeCotte. We're fortunate to have a partnership with him. He's well versed in safety awareness training, and we have arranged for him to be training, have some time set aside in every building. He's going to be training our staff. We had him in in August. He talked to our brand new staff about this. But we believe that if our staff feel safe, they're going to help our students feel safe. And if they know what to do in a crisis or have some plan in mind already, then they'll certainly be more at ease on a daily basis. And again, that mental health piece will benefit. I think Mrs. Perot is going to take care of the rest. Thank you. So our positive behavior intervention

073support district team is going to be meeting hopefully within the next month. So families that have students at the elementary level or are especially familiar with our PBIS program, that's the pause tickets that you see our students earn. So we are going to reboot that a little bit, look at what our goals are for our students as far as what are our building expectations and then also our data collection practices. We needed to refine those a little bit. And with some new software that we're hopefully going to have online called EduClimber soon, we're going to be able to track some of that maybe sometime this year. So Hope Squad was one of our big goals. So we initiated that program at the high school and at Kempton last year. So Hope Squad is an evidence-based

074student run program. We're going to be able to track that. So we're going to be able to track that. So we're going to be able to track that. So we're going to be able to track that. So it's been really amazing to watch those students and the professional development that they're undergoing and we're teaching them about self-care. These are our students that kids would go to already when they had a challenge, something that was difficult in their life. So we're giving those students some skills on how to have that conversation, but also at what point do you tell an adult? So as a student, there are things that you shouldn't have to handle or be responsible for and it's okay to tell an adult and it's better to to save a life so we have

075been really excited to have that program our girls program rolling our experiences rocks rocks it's a great program for our girls we are explaining that to the high school and our team leaders got trained so they're gonna get rolling soon but it's been well established at Kempton and Lakeview and we were able to expand it a little bit this year and include some more students so that was a great opportunity and we want to thank we get a lot of community support for that program especially from our women leaders in our communities and really we couldn't do it without them so we're very grateful for their support and our district mental health committee we actually had our second meeting tonight so we learned all about the high school and all of their many many hats

076that they wear so we're meeting monthly you know again with the goal to look at the service delivery and then to come back with some recommendations for the board at a future date so we will move on to mission nine diversity inclusion so we will create a culture of acceptance respect value and psychological safety for all students so currently right now we have BTA committees at Kempton in high school and that is just a team of teachers as well as a team of students that is creating assisted belonging and positive climate culture throughout the schools we have just started a mentorship program down at Lakeview to support kids and their many need additional support to let them know that they are valued accepted and respected and they have adults in the building that they can

077turn to to have conversations with our panorama survey assesses staff wellness as well as student social and emotional learning in our school district climate and culture from there we have a team of teachers and our administrator that looks at that data to help inform how they can change their program or adjust their program in the future and in the future. at the building level to support staff wellness as well as student social and emotional learning. In some buildings we are using a curriculum around social and emotional learning. Data protocols right now we're in the process of reviewing our subgroup data. We're hoping that our Educlimber gets up and running really soon so we can really dig into that data. We talked about some subgroup data earlier last month when Julie and I presented when we

078showed you the different value-added triggers at the state level and how students are making making growth in each sub subgroups whether they're African-American, Caucasian, Asian, students with disabilities, students with low socioeconomic issues and so how we're going to address those. If we see those gaps how we're going to address those so having action plans to adjust our instruction and address academic data. That's it. Thank you Aisha. All right and our last mission is Mission 10 Fine Arts and Athletics. We will build, maintain, and retain fine arts and athletic programs and students that are of the highest caliber, quality, and character on and off the fields of performance. Annually continue to produce excellence, build on the year before, and produce highly competitive programs of which our students can be proud. So first to lead that off

079is going to be Mr. Newman, thank you. Hi there. Here to represent Vann grades 5-12, unfortunately Mr. Campagna is isn't in the room, so we'll be he's not here tonight he was going to speak as well and he needs to get better because he has performance on Wednesday I believe and I'm Sarah B halls we're here with me as well and I believe you have a performance on Thursday if I'm not mistaken so it gets to be a busy time of year so in regard to the and 512 we've met our recruiting class of 2030 at our 36 point 26 percent of total fifth grade enrollment our goal is always to try to stay between that 30 40 percent so we reached that goal very important for us coming out of the kovat pandemic and

080stuff to to keep those numbers where we want them to be the the bridge between high school and Kempton our big brother sister program is very successful that happens in the spring that's where our next year's leaders high school leaders go down to our incoming freshmen at Kempton and we do a meet-and-greet we do some activities and we do some activities and we do some activities with them to kind of help bridge the gap between you know the big move from Kempton to the high school so that they feel when they walk in the door here at Stonewall Falls High School that they've got at least 200 other friends that they can connect with as far as that goes all of our CTE students have have a place in band we work really hard to

081work with our CTE teachers our guidance department here at the high school to compromise create a compromise and a schedule so that they can participate in both band and the CTE program and then our band aid program that begins in January that will thrive again this year that's again our student leaders from from the high school here will go down to our 5-6 building on a Friday afternoon after school and they help them with some of the things that they are working on to again generate and create those relationships that take them into the Kempton to take them into Kempton and then bring them here to the high school so it's just a great way to do that. The high school for many of our students year one one year we've had to do a

082major installation so we've had to do everything that we can to create a bonding and connecting program with those folks as well as here at the high school 30 percent of our band enrollment all 30 percent of those students are enrolled in our band honors program so they have higher expectations and higher demands put on them to create create a higher weighted class for them high school enrollment band enrollment is is steady at 12% which is a great number for us. As well and again we expect that number to grow and then her question I believe is is that, do you have any plans for the high school unless you're involved in a high school enrollment I'm personally I'm not aware of any plans for the high school enrollment I'mwise I'm not aware of any

083plans for the high school enrollment I'm just saying that we could find it. number to grow as our retention continues to get better coming out of COVID and our recruitment stays at that 36 percent. High school solo and ensemble contest is a great way for our students in January to perform in small group and that happens at the choral level and at the orchestral level as well and that is also something that we do in a large group setting in March where the bands actually go and they compete for for ratings. It helps our retention, it helps our quality to keep that high and where we expect our students to thrive. The application is now open for our best communities for music education which we've received for many many years in a row and that

084will be completed in some spare time at some point. It needs to be done by I believe January so so that will be addressed by me at some points between now and then. Looking down the road our uniform replacement that that topic you hopefully will be open soon. Our uniforms are certainly aging. They have probably lived when you talk to our uniform reps in the area that they've gone almost a time and a half of where other schools have have let those uniforms go. So we're hoping to open up open up that topic soon as well as our hopefully getting a new marching band scaffolding one that's a little bit safer than the one that we currently have and that's all in conjunction with a new Brackett school. New Brackett band practice field and the

085field house construction project and we're hoping that there are shovels in the new brand band practice field before there are shovels in the field house construction just from the standpoint that's where the field house is most likely to go and we can't go on the field unless we have a place to actually get done what we need to get done. So we're hoping that that takes place. We've updated our piano pricing. We've we've worked on a piano replacement program grades K through 12 throughout the district and we've done a put a nice dent in some of those items and we're looking to get that ball rolling again and waiting for the go-ahead from administration to hopefully get that ball rolling and right behind you to your left back here is the piano garage for our

086new Steinway piano. We're just simply waiting for the garage door to be put on that so that that wonderful beautiful instrument which is a once in a lifetime purchase will stay safe and in wonderful condition for many many many years to come to serve the students here. That's all I have questions for me anyone? Thank you Mr. Newman. Thank you. If yeah it would make sense for Sarah to go ahead and come up next. Thank you and then Mr. Feldman I promise we won't forget you. Hi I'm Sarah B. Hall. I'm the orchestra director here. I've been here for nine years and I'm a Stowe grad so I'm very proud to be here. I service about 200 students from grades 5 through 12 at Kimpton Lakeview and the high school. We've had a lot of

087really cool opportunities for our students. I nominated a student right before COVID for an international honors orchestra and she got accepted. She got to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. I've just nominated a few more students this year so that application closes next month so I'm hoping we might have some progress with that. Again before COVID we went to New York City. We performed at St. Patrick's Cathedral right across from Rockefeller Center. We've had a lot of groups who have participated in different competitions both through OMEA and regional competitions, God and Superior and first place awards through that. The orchestra also performs at charity events such as the the Tree Festival at Frackin Children's Hospital just to name a few. We do have a concert this Thursday. Everybody's welcome to come. It is

088a Halloween concert. It should be really good. Mayor Pravonek is going to sing a song with us and that surprise. Also AJ who just went viral for the talent show is also going to be performing a song with us as well. So I try to incorporate a lot of unique opportunities to keep the students excited while also using classical repertoire. I've also had a student perform the song that you heard tonight just last year so I try to give them a variety of opportunities. Since my time here over the past nine years we've been able to double the difficulty of music that we have seen, which definitely opens the level of repertoire and the amount of repertoire that students can access, so we're really proud of that. As far as recruitment when I first came

089to Stowe we were recruiting around 30-ish 5th graders every year and then we got up into the 50s last year we were up to 65, this year I'm up to 80 5th graders just in fifth grade. That's a lot of students that I'm not used to doing. But I'm really excited. It is a little daunting because once you get all of those together, I am by myself. So tuning 80 instruments and then corralling them, I'm excited, but it's just, it is a new opportunity, we'll call it. Luckily I have a lot of really wonderful high school students who really enjoy giving back to the program. They come to the concerts, they help, they assist, so I do have them to help me out. But I would look forward to in the future maybe finding ways

090to get maybe some extra hands. 75% of the program at Lakeview is before school because there's only one me and there are definitely overlaps in the schedule between all three buildings. So all of the sixth graders plus about half of the fifth graders are before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders, I have had about a half of the fifth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders, I have had about a half of the fifth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders, I have had about a half of the fifth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have

091had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. I have had between fifth and sixth graders before school. program is growing and I'm really excited to see where this new class of fifth graders go and thank you for listening. I hope you all come to the concert tomorrow at

0927 o'clock. There will be costumes. It's going to be great. Mr. Pribonic is singing. That's all I have to say. Thank you. And is that here, Sarah? Yes, it's here. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Last but not least, Mr. Kyle Feldman, Athletic Director extraordinaire. Picture's worth a thousand words. I'm going to bounce around a little bit. Yeah. Thank you, Lee. First of all, before I get started and just bear with me because how it's organized, I'll bounce and just try to explain some different things. But first, I wanted to make an announcement. I got a phone call from Chick-fil-A. We were the grand prize winning school. Week three, it was a Fox 8 Chick-fil-A rivalry game. And I was like, I'm going to win. And I got this call from the local school, Stowe

093versus Medina. Each school was challenged to pack the pantry, meaning get food for the needy. I was able to direct it over to Bulldog Bag, so it went local. Then each week was measured. And who had the most comparing 10 weeks? We won. So yeah, it was a pretty neat phone call. I would agree. So the entire school gets a Chick-fil-A lunch. And we're going to arrange that. We have a big lunch hope somewhere around before Thanksgiving. So that was good news. I'm going to start in the top left here and what if you look at your if you look at your sheets there bridge the gap between middle and high school athletics to help with retention. I think that should also include youth. We have got to have what I call and athletic directors

094call alignment. Alignment from youth to high school and it's usually based on some of those leadership. Our Stowe youth football and cheer leadership is outstanding. Our wrestling you're going to see it right in here when I explain what happened yesterday. This is yesterday is outstanding. Craig's new. Football you know we're struggling and we'll talk about that number though bridge the gap between middle and high school athletics and youth right now and this is going to sound like an excuse. Don't interpret it that way because we talk facts. We have eight impact players at Walsh, three at Hoban, two at CVCA and one at St. Ed's. So we have got to do these things as Scott knows to get kids to come to the public school and that important piece is that alignment from youth to

095middle school to high school. So this is a great example. We had a couple of that yesterday and I'll even go to the first one the double goal coach committed to helping every athlete succeed. This young man and I asked his grandma if I could use the picture she said yes. He lost and there's our head coach at a youth tournament took that kid out in the hallway and was encouraging him. That's what we got to do. J.R. Stewart and his wife Katie with what they're doing with our wrestling and alignment it's outstanding. It's going to be improved. Now I'm just giving you three examples. Lots of our programs are doing it from cross country to cheerleading. I just had these because they're recent. Volleyball did a little Spikers camp outstanding third through sixth grade.

096They attended a middle school match and then they had pizza together where we're all looking up to each other right. This is a evening and I was there youth football camp that our head coaches and players did a flag football game after our jamboree. Great day and this is a great picture. Not to be difficult but here and I blocked them out those are two eighth grade kids at Kempton on the sideline at Walsh on an afternoon Saturday game. That's not legal. I haven't done anything with it yet so I'm still in discussions with Scott and and some different things about recruiting but those are eighth grade kids. Right there that are public school on the sideline of a Walsh football game so that those are the things that alignment is going to help with

097all right. Let me bounce around a little bit here and then we'll move we'll move the slide. Continue to evaluate new varsity sports based on local club system review. Board of Education you're probably going to see ice hockey. Now I've met with all those parents and I said let's wait till after November 8th and they understand that and the coaches. So that could be coming up they have fulfilled the club requirements and do a great job and in year three of the club we're pretty good right we're pretty good so our coaches in ice hockey are doing a great job on that. Develop a student leadership seminar in all programs that define a leadership role within the organization. We are doing that now as pro's involved I'm involved Dr Hartman's involved and Mr Bratton we've

098met. we're utilizing. We're utilizing. positive coaching alliance to get the baseline of what we're teaching to kids in all programs. Athletic teams, band, choir, fine arts, we're there. And then we alternate them on the Wednesday morning of late arrival, and we've picked, I think we've got six scheduled. We've done two, and they have been outstanding. One of the things we talked about just very briefly to give you an example, PCA showed the courage of the first follower, a dancing guy out, and what it took for the first follower and the courage it took to lead, and then everybody joined. And we used that concept when we talked to the kids this past, I think it was last Wednesday, and we talked about leadership and how you can make our school environment, team, whatever group you

099belong to better by having the courage of that first follower in maybe a situation that is not good and they're going to correct it so it was a great discussion amongst amongst the students so we're moving good on that one design and build one of the best field house facilities in summit county scott thank you that's about all i can say right i'm looking forward to getting that because all what i just mentioned over here on this picture is if you look at the facilities of the people we're competing against we we have got to up our game we have to we have to um but that's that's going to come to pass and we're excited about that work with boosters on equipment and infrastructure needs i would love to have a board of education

100member as a rep attend some of our booster meetings so we haven't had one in a while and i would love to have a board of education member attend those booster meetings so you can see what that group does how they operate they do a great job supporting all of us create efficiencies in uniform ordering and inventory have not made much progress on that one i had a coach who was great with technology and he started to initiate some of the things that we needed in the athletic office he was interested in it and he ended up getting a job at a different school district so i've got to kind of re-up that one and find maybe mr boring to help me with with as we move into that we're the vision is when we

101order new uniforms put a barcode on them scan them and get them in final forms so that's where we'd like to go um expand live stream athletic and fine arts events thank uh thank mr gumry who helped me and him and mr bratton over administrative retreat we talked a little bit about that live streaming we've got huddle blue frame tv on board team one sports i didn't do a great job getting out in the fall because it wasn't quite quite ready but we're going to expand that to winter and make it a lot better and get better with it we we get a certain amount of money in years two and three with the number of subscriptions so we're looking to kind of get a baseline and then grow on the live stream and then

102lastly you can go to the last page the last page is the number one so this is really the most important one it's the number one develop the double goal coach who are committed to helping every athlete succeed in life and on the scoreboard regardless of where they're at this is a text message we got sunday about our golf coach you see the person over the player and prepare them just as much for off the course as you do on and for that i am eternally grateful so if there's not a better example of the double goal coach and he was very successful this is from an email i received from some of the wrestling parents and when i walked around yesterday and watched them reaching down and our high school kids which you'll see

103in the picture they're serving the youth working the tables and now we've got alignment and relationship building and outreach from our program from top up and you'll see it right there high school and junior high wrestlers have a chance to give back to the youth by working the event and then i love this middle middle paragraph we all work together to develop better students wrestlers and kids having these kids being connected at all age levels makes it easy for them to volunteer in their community and to build a better future for stowe we have the same goal in mind at all levels we are one big family so just to kind of end on a positive note so questions thank you for your time i appreciate it thank you mr feldman and thank you to

104everyone that presented tonight i know that was lengthy um but we really wanted the community to see an update on the strategic plan and to really understand how much it is driving everything that we're doing every day so mrs johnson powers so i do have a couple things to say kyle and to all of you thank you you know when when you think about the five year you know the strategic plan and the the plan that we're using is is really exciting and it's a real tribute to mr bratton how he's implemented this but i feel like maybe next year we should make another one because i feel like you're accomplishing it now instead of you know in five years so i think that's amazing um when you were talking the thing that i kept

105on thinking is we don't have to do this but we do and and i've heard you know mr campbell say this several times in the last month and i'm a fan of the report card we don't have to do it but we do and it's so incredible you know the band when they were up here you know how many hundreds of people are in the band and how it's not just about them playing in the football game or coming to the concert tomorrow it's that they affect they impact positively their lives you know it's they don't have to do it but they do And the fact that now we're focusing on athletics is amazing because we have so many kids in Stowe involved in sports. And it's not perfect, but they are beginning it. And

106the dual coaching is incredible. It's the thing when you go to the bookstore and you read about John Wood and all these coaches, it's the piece that they have that other coaches don't. And so I think it's so amazing that you're taking the extra time to plan to not just make these winning teams, but to make every athlete in Stowe, every student athlete, a better person. So that in 10 years they'll look back and they may not remember the football game, but they're going to be a solid individual. And that is something we don't have to do, but we do in Stowe. And so it's very. Fun to see you guys accomplishing that. That's all I have to say. All right. Well, thank you, all of you, for all the hard work you put into

107that, not just for the presentation, but that every day. We do appreciate that very, very much. We'll move on now to our first section of comments from the audience. These are comments that are related to something on the agenda tonight. Citizens have an opportunity to bring their concerns before the Board of Education. All comments should be directed to the board. Individuals. Presenting concerns and or questions to the board may not receive complete answers the same evening. The board will study and consider your concern and will either have a board member or a central office administrator contact you as soon as the information you require is available. Comments must be relative relevant to an agenda item. Citizens will have an opportunity to comment on non agenda items at the end of the meeting. Comments will be

108limited to no longer than three minutes. I'm Staniel Dizmuk. If you wanted to mail me, you can send it to 30. I would like to know how much money and public employee resources were used on creating that community connection magazine that was sent out this last month. We would have to get that information for you. But the number's not zero, right? Again, we'll have to get that information and provide it for you. Yeah, part of Mrs. Forshune's job is to help with that magazine. So that is done on taxpayer time. and that magazine was sent out for no other purpose than to advertise for issue six. Does this have anything to do with things on tonight's agenda? Yes, it does. You were talking about the Community Connection magazine and how important it was. But you

109cannot use public funds or public resources to campaign for a levy issue. It's illegal. I'll be forwarding it to the state auditor. Good evening. My name is Cheryl Hall, and I've lived in Stowe for over 50 years. I would like to request a forensic audit of the school board to look into how you can have the nerve to ask for a 10-year 6.93 levy. I have no confidence in this district anymore. I think the school board is divided and in decline, and I think our city is in decline. And I've been around a long time. President of Hudson-Montesant. I'm sorry, school board and educator for 47 years. And the presentation that I just saw, I saw about 40 years ago. It's not straight thinking. It's not forward leading for the students. And I think they

110deserve better. And I'm also offended that we had a school board that I sat through here tonight, the meeting. Well, over here was about a million dollars in salaries spent. That does not directly. Affect the students in the classroom. Thank you for listening. And I'm sure glad I'm not on this school board. Hi, I'm Aaron Yeager, 733 West Market Street in Akron. Just to respond to the previous person and also direct toward the agenda for tonight tangentially. But I just want to say that myself and the greater Stowe Collaboration for Change organization support the upcoming levy. We know that, you know, Stowe is one of the least taxed districts in Summit County. And that will not largely change if the levy is passed. And, you know, looking at the presentation, everything that was said tonight,

111I think that just speaks for itself as to what we're able to do with funding that hasn't had an increase since 2011. So I want to commend the board and the district for the great work that you're doing. Thank you. Any further comments related to the agenda? Move on. Mrs. Perl, any comments on the consent agenda? Yes, I do have a few. So I would like to recommend that the Board of Education approve the consent agenda, items B through L. So also at this time, I'd like to read the name and information of the donations listed in the consent agenda and personally thank them for what they do for our students and for us. So the following donated to the Stowe Monroe Falls High School Wrestling Program. Mike Bell donated $500. The Clara Faber Foundation

112also donated $500. We have other donations. Arrow and Engineers CTE donated two leaf blowers, one Manhattan rolling cabinet, and one HP laser printer to the Stowe Monroe Falls High School CTE program. Aaron Krogan donated 100 water bottles to Compton Middle School. Rita, and I apologize, Rita, Geyer donated $250 to the Stowe Monroe Falls High School Orchestra Program. Leslie Knowles donated one flag of the state of Ohio to Echo Hills Elementary School. And Vicki and Douglas Norton. Susan donated $1,000 to the Stowe Monroe Falls High School Effective Education Program. So I also have some retirements on the consent agenda. So we would like to recognize some of our staff that are going to be retiring and have a lot of years of service with us. So first being Susan Alwes is retiring as a grade 6

113teacher, effective at the end of the 2022-2023 school year with 22 years of service in Stowe. Suzanne was hired as a grade 6 teacher in 2020. She was a substitute for three years. She's accomplished so much over the years and she'll be greatly missed and never forgotten. And we wish her the best with her retirement. Also retiring is Pam Gillespie, another sixth grade teacher, effective at the end of the school year with 24 years of service in Stowe. Pam was hired in 1999 as a grade 6 teacher. Began her career at Lakeview and she will complete it at Lakeview. Her patience over the years has paid off and it's not lost on all of us all the lives that she's changed over the years. We are proud to have her and thank her for the

114hard work. And she will continue to succeed as she believes in the future. So thank you for all the support. Thank you. of her and we wish her well. Margaret Gravier retiring as an intervention specialist with 15 years of service in stone. Margaret was hired in 2008 as an intervention specialist at Kempton Middle School and again she began her career at Kempton and will also complete it there. She's made great impact on her students over the years and has changed hearts. Margaret works with our students that participate in our emotional behavior support program which is a difficult job and she makes great connections with kids and we will miss her and wish her the best. And last but not least Kathleen Schmidt also retiring at the end of the school year as a school counselor

115with 27 years of service in stone. She was hired in 1995 as a school counselor traveling between Lakeview and Kempton. In 1999 she traveled between Echo Hills and Fish Creek through 2005 and then 2005 through 2008 she was at Lakeview. She traveled again for a couple more years between Lakeview Indian Trail and Fish Creek but she's been able to settle down at Lakeview since 2016. She's been a great mentor to our students and we're very proud of her. She's been a great mentor to our students and we're very proud of her. She's involved in everything that she does and her desire to do what's best for kids is definitely palpable and you can tell that. She's been an incredible asset and advocate for students and we will miss her greatly but we wish her the

116best of luck in her retirement. Okay do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Discussion? Is there a discussion? Yes thanks for asking. Yeah first of all one thing is under the field trips this hasn't happened in a long time but just as a reminder it's hard to approve a field trip that's already happened. Correct I know that one came up last minute and due to the cancellation of the October 10th work session. Got it got it that's what I said it hasn't happened in a couple years. Right yeah that one that one we got stuck with time on that one. On on that note I would like to move that we remove item k from the consent agenda and consider it separately. Okay do

117I have a second? Second. We need to vote on that Mr. Uh who's the second? John. Remove k from the consent agenda? Yes. All right Sedolnik? Aye. Yes. Wind? Aye. Johnson-Bowers? Aye. Leisler? Aye. Brown? Aye. Okay. Any further discussion on the items remaining on the consent agenda? Um what I just wanted to say is this is you know very sad for me because I think Mrs. Alwiss is just pretty much the best. So her for her to be retiring is horrible. I don't know many teachers that this happens with but you may not know it but the day before school starts the Mrs. Alwiss alumni come to her classroom. And it could be kids who had her five years ago, six years ago. And it's pretty amazing what they did. You know what she's done

118with them so she will be greatly missed. The thing that I want to make sure everybody knows is Kathy Smith is the reason we have the ROCS program in in STO and she went to a workshop years ago and thought it was just the most amazing thing and just took it upon herself to bring it along. And we get it so that's amazing. So that's really all I have to say with it. Okay. We'll call please. Wind? Aye. Johnson-Bowers? Aye. Laisley? Aye. Stolnick? Aye. Brown? Aye. Should we pull up section K now? Is that what we do? Okay. Do I have a motion to um to approve section K? Great. So moved. Second. Okay. Any discussion? I would like to express my concerns that we don't actually have an estimate of expenses for either of

119these field trips included in our information. It's a little hard to approve a trip without an idea of how much that is going to cost. I also have a concern that the one trip is for the ice hockey team which is my understanding that is still a club team. So I'm a little confused about why we would be paying for that. Those are my questions. I will confer with Mr. Feldman and we will send an email and follow up with that information for you. So what you're voting on is to approve the trip so if you don't want to approve them tonight you just need to vote no and then we can put the items on once you receive the information which you requested and then you can make a make a decision at that

120point. Roll call please. Wind. No. Johnson-Bowers. No. Leisler. No. Sedonic. No. Brown. No. Thank you. Now we move on to the treasurer's consent agenda. Mr. Gummery any comments? Once a first and second I can make brief comments but I ask the board approve items B through F. Do I have a motion? So moved. Okay. Second. Question please. Second. In talking I want to just you know go to the variance report and talk about we when we're looking at kind of expenses and this is a September's when the first part of the year really starts to happen and with new contracts and new people we have some items that we're probably going to have to review on the expense side and that would be the health insurance and to make sure kind of reviewing the salaries

121on the estimate on on a per month basis however we see that it is down four hundred and seventy five thousand plus there's some retirements now in the fall and we're just announced we want to make sure that we account for those that have retired that are not returning on the plan that we had to submit to ODE as well so those are things that are going to be a review right now it looks as if we're going to be back around that 18 day marked by the end of this fiscal year which is yeah a little low so. Any questions any discussion okay roll call please. Johnson-Bowers. Aye. Leisler. Aye. Sedolnyk. Aye. Wind. Aye. Brown. Aye. Next is treasurer's new business Mr. Gummery any comments on new business? Yeah I asked the board for

122to approve the creation of the school safety grant for Mr. Campbell and you see the fund number the career technical student organization that's a new student organization to high school and the creation of foundation retirement settles account for STRS, SERS and also workers comp should be listed there. We're going to number them in another action a couple items down so. Okay do I have a motion to approve the treasurer's new business? So moved. Second. Any discussion questions roll call please. Leisler. Aye. Sedolnyk. Aye. Wind. Aye. Johnson-Bowers. Aye. Brown. Aye. Okay old business Mrs. Perot. We got to go to item b. Oh I'm sorry I'm I don't know that's okay. A and B on here go ahead. I need you guys to approve the appropriation. I need you guys to approve the appropriation. Okay so

123we have a motion and amendment for the 292 for technology grant to be increased not to exceed 21,325 dollars. So moved. Second. Any discussion or questions? Roll call please. Sedolnyk. Aye. Wind. Aye. Johnson-Bowers. Aye. Leisler. Aye. Brown. Aye. Last but not least to create creation of the three agency funds which we have we have created before but what I want to read I want to renumber them. so that they're different within the same fund category. That's all. Okay. Any comments? Or no, do I have a motion, please? So moved. Second? Second. We do. Any comments or questions? And roll call, please. Wind. Aye. Johnson-Bowers. Aye. Leisler. Aye. Sedonic. Aye. Brown. Aye. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Mrs. Perot, any comments on old business? Yes. So we have a second reading of NAOLA Board Policy Volume

12441, Number 1, from August 2022. A lot of these represent statutory language changes. The policy committee met and reviewed each policy on September 16, 2022. So, again, this is a second reading. I do have copies up here if anybody would like to see them. And that's the only comments I have for that. Thank you. No action taken. Thank you. All right. We'll move to our second round of comments from the audience. Citizens have an opportunity to bring their concerns before the Board of Education. All comments should be directed to the Board. Individuals presenting concerns and or questions to the Board may not receive complete answers this same evening. The Board will study and consider your concern and will either have a Board member or a central office administrator contact you as soon as the information

125you require is available. Comments will be limited to no longer than three minutes. My name is Maria Lindsay and I live on Ritchie Road, 1875 Ritchie Road. And I want to know if it's true that they pulled all the nonfiction books out of the Kempton Library. To be honest, I can't answer that question, so we would have to get that for you. I'd like to know if they were pulled out of all of the libraries in the school district. And I'd also like to have a list, a current list, of all the books that are in all of the school libraries. And I'd like to have it within 30 days. Please don't make me file a FOIA. And I understand that the teachers... are being required to ask the children for their preferred pronouns and

126their preferred names and not to tell the parents. Parents are responsible for their kids until they're 18 years old. This doesn't mean you can go behind their backs and do something like this. Parents want kids to learn reading, writing, arithmetic, math, all the things that they need to prepare them for a productive life in society. Maybe our future leaders. Sex stuff and even this panorama business, this social emotional learning, that belongs in the home, not in the schools. I see that you have an issue 8 coming up. I guess you can tell I'm going to vote no for it and I'm going to actively go door to door if I have to promote no votes for it. And knock doors and tell people what's going on at this school. This gender affirming business is for

127the birds and I know I'm not the only parent in this community that feels that way. Comments are for the board, not for the audience please. Ma'am please sit down. Thank you. Carla Brown, Charing Cross Strive and Stove. I just wanted to thank you guys for the really good presentation you put on today. I'm so grateful to have you here. I'm so grateful. I really appreciate you going out of your way to help the students feel welcome no matter how they identify. I know my son is a graduate of 2007 and I know back then they had a lot of problems with racial and LGBTQ bullying and I really appreciate you guys doing what you can to stop that. Thank you. Any further comments? Okay. We are next. We will be moving into an executive

128session. There will be no action following this. Do I have a motion to move into executive session? So moved. Second. Call please. Johnson-Bowers. Aye. Leisler. Aye. Sedonic. Aye. Wind. Aye. Brown. Aye. We're in executive session 850. 7pm.