001I call the Tuscarawas Valley Local Board of Education meeting April 13, 2026, the Community School Board room to order. Please call the roll. Present. Yes. Present. Present. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance followed by the invocation by Mr. Overton. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for the beautiful weather that we have today. Sports and everything that are beginning to start for the season, Lord, we just pray that you continue to watch over our students and our staff and everybody. And we just pray that you guide us in our endeavors tonight as a school board. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Dr. Bransky, is
002there any additions or corrections to the agenda? The only change, we're going to move item four and item five. We're going to move the student representatives ahead of me so that way they can get back over to the Performing Arts Center. All right. Moving on to item number two is our declarations. Anybody, you can read those on mission statement as well as our Board of Education goals. Item number three is our public participation. And at this time, I don't believe there is any. And item number four, this is where we're going to move you guys up. Close your eyes, everyone. the other group choose that table stuff. So this is a lot of the mercenaries and we're really excited for the style and the palette. It's amazing. So if you haven't gotten your tickets yet,
003you should. It is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And we are going to do Into the Woods. Ever After is the final one. It's the finale to After. And go Superstar! After! All the curses have been ended. The reverse is wiped away. All is after. We're happy After had we used our common sense with more and more discontent To be happy and forever, you will see your wish come true Don't be careful, don't be clever, when you see your wish pursue It's a dangerous endeavor, but the only thing to do Don't be fearful, don't escape, don't start with your fears Don't outplay those fears, don't escape, don't trust these values You must love hardly myself, so don't try to trust me Thank you so much. We look forward to seeing you on the stage. And you're
004always welcome to come back to our show. Awesome. Good job, guys. all right item number five the Just wanted to publicly recognize the elementary school and congratulate them for being awarded with the Governor's Science of Reading Champions Award. This award was just given to just 109 schools and it recognizes schools that stand out for their commitment to the science of reading and their work using this method to improve student engagement. So thank you for our staff and our... And then the final item under my report tonight is math curriculum. There's lots of chatter at the state level at the moment regarding what might be happening with mathematics. We've heard that nymphs are coming, math improvement and monitoring plans that we heard. That's kind of off to the side now. We've heard rumors about whether we'd
005be required to adopt a specific curriculum. That seems to have changed so we're cautiously moving forward but Mrs. Clements has led a team throughout the year of teachers from across the district about what math curriculum we might want to purchase. It's been a long time since we purchased math materials here in Suston Valley and so we wanted to do our due diligence and so I'm going to invite her to share just a little bit about that process and kind of what she's thinking. So to begin the year we pulled together a team we had representatives of every grade level grade level from kindergarten through eighth grade Our two non-negotiables one that we did find one solid curriculum K to eight We didn't want a piecemeal for different grade levels second. We needed the curriculum to
006be all green in ed reports, which is a monitoring system through the state that looks at different components within a curriculum. All green means it meets all components. So we wanted to make sure that we had a solid program. As we went through this we identified six programs that we thought might be potentials here at Tuske Valley and we had materials come in we met with some representatives and we have whittled it down to one program in particular that the teachers are really excited about and we've had wonderful feedback. It's amplified Desmos math. Now you may have heard of Desmos. Desmos is the calculator that the state uses on the state test. Desmos Curriculum has been around for a very long time at the upper level. They have now moved down to the early elementary
007level as well The quote that we have received would include a five-year five-year program with teacher materials, student workbooks, center kits, manipulative kits if necessary. We do want to cut the cost and a lot of manipulatives our teachers already have in their classrooms, so we'll only order those if necessary. It also includes M-Class Math Diagnostic and the Boost Online program. All of this Does come at a cost of course, but it also includes a number of days of professional development what we found in past Curriculum adoptions is that professional development for our teachers is a key component So it would include an initial six hour on-site training Then it would follow up with a three hour on-site training just to kind of strengthen what they learned have them ask questions Once they're in it for
008a couple months Then there's also coaching built in. So they'll be on-site two different days for on-site coaching. And then there's also a follow-up focus one hour that's really based on the Boost and M-Class pieces. When we went through the program we analyzed using ed reports but also the state has a rubric for high quality instructional materials. And so when we went through that rubric, this is the only program that met all areas at a very high degree. So we were really excited about that. Again, Desmos calculator is what our students are already using on our state test. M-Class is also the program that was used for the K-3 math diagnostic tool that was just approved. So I was pretty happy that that aligns. But really we chose the program based off of several components.
009One, the high focus on the eight mathematical practices. Of course it's aligned to our Ohio State standards, but those mathematical practices really drive home bigger picture thinking for our students. There is a strong differentiated instruction component. It's called support, strengthen, and stretch, so that we are looking at deepening the understanding and the reasoning skills of our kids at all levels. Some very key vocabulary and strategies that they use within this program are also within our Witten Wisdom reading program. So things like notice and wonder or some of the teaching strategies are very similar in both. So it will help to move along that work quicker for our students. But each of the activities are... are based in three components, launch, monitor, and connect. Some of these components may be a hands-on activity, some may be
010online. There's an online component that students can be on their iPad or Chromebook doing an activity while the teacher gives some quick instruction. They will do some group activity and then come back and reconnect and talk about that learning. The teacher has complete control of what that looks like for the technology so they can't get on other pieces, other sites. They're kind of locked down within an activity and they can pause it and move along as needed and the teacher is directing that. We are working through final quotes. I have another meeting with a rep tomorrow so that we can provide a very accurate picture of what the cost is going to be. But I will tell you it's in line with other quotes that we've received. So I'm pretty excited about bringing this program
011to us. The teachers that were part of our committee are so excited. We did talk about waiting one more year because there's a lot of chatter at the state level. And they said, no, we need this. We need this now. Our program has done. what it's done for the last few years. It has really helped to build our students as thinkers, but we are looking at the next level now bringing in this program. So I'm excited about that. We're also looking at scheduling a meeting with our teachers with a couple other schools. In Ohio, that are currently using the program, we can go down, talk to them, we can watch a few lessons so that they can see what year one implementation might look like, some of the growing pains that they would go through
012by bringing in a new program. So we're working on getting all of that organized and scheduled, but of course we're in the middle of testing now. Testing starts tomorrow, so we want to be very cautious on when we pull our teachers, but they want to get their hands on the materials, and if we can get all of this solidified this school year, hopefully we can get materials. before the summer or early summer that they can come in and grab those and we have pd started first thing in the fall okay well question oh yeah absolutely a couple questions first one uh i wrote down the um the six hour pd then the coach 3d powers my question is for first question is in science of reading we had a lot more pd is that correct
013We spread it out over a couple years. I don't know if we had any more first year than that. We're looking to continue it. Oh, the science of reading PD? No, I mean the math. I just want to make sure we're getting enough because it's going to be different, obviously. Correct. There's going to be a learning curve for it. Absolutely. So really the PD, we always get one day initial. It's just how to use the teacher's manual, how to use the manipulative kits and things like that. the PD that they have as far as the coaching I think is going to be the most valuable so they will come in and either lead a lesson and have a group of teachers watch and they can talk about the lesson afterwards or they will ask one
014of our teachers to lead a lesson and they'll give feedback in discussion that is critical the embedded PD that we can do through this program that they're offering I think will be crucial for our teachers I don't know if we have it for science and reading, but do we have like, I don't know, specialty, like we have one in every grade that's going to teach math, go and be mentors, so to speak, for the other teachers that are teaching math? Yeah, well, right now the committee is made up of one teacher that's kind of the lead math teacher in each grade level. Yep. And then the final question I have for you is the connect part. How much would you say the percentage of learning is online? Again, it... It's based on the teacher and
015the grade level. It's very little in the kindergarten, first grade. As you get a little more independent in upper elementary, it can increase. But you can run the whole program without that connect to technology. But I have been in a couple of different trainings where they have the activities. They're highly engaging. It's a high thought process that they're using for it. But the teacher can see everything that's on the student screens and can pause and adjust. as needed so that we don't kind of get out of control and we're not spending 30 minutes on an online activity. They're quick but they help to simulate some math that may not be as easy to do on the fly. I have a question. I'm sorry, Ben. Are we going to then probably approve this in May, hopefully?
016Is that our goal? That's our goal. Okay. Sorry, Ben. No. You're fine. So with all of the math things that have happened since I was in school way back then, I know it was very hard when my kids were in school to, as a parent, to understand math. Is this translate any better to the older parents that learned a certain way? That's a good question. There is a huge parent involvement piece to this curriculum to help involve the parents to understand how they're learning the process. The difference has changed from we used to just learn a standard algorithm. This is how you do math. We weren't really taught why, but we were taught one way. New math, it's not really new math, it's the way we teach math now, we give lots of different opportunities
017for kids to learn different strategies in math, and then they, in the end, they get to choose which strategy works best for them. So that's not going to change. They're still going to have exposure to different strategies, but... this this curriculum does do a better job of explaining it to parents and being able to give resources to parents so that they can see how to help their student good question thank you thanks miss appreciate it and that concludes my report this is very Next on our list is team leadership reports. Do you have anything to say? Mr. Phillips, are you? Mr. Fogle tonight. Mr. Fogle tonight standing in. Glad to have you. Thank you Mrs. Burrier. Good evening. We are going to start with what's happening at the Middle High School. We are a week
018away from starting our testing run. Those notifications went out today through Bright Arrow so parents and students are well aware. We're getting into that season. this is a sprint so for those of you that would like to come in and visit the middle high school there's a lot of activities planned prom is looming large we also are getting into the season of concerts and awards banquets and things like that so please stay tuned for those invitations they will be headed your direction we do have a couple students here that we'd like to honor those so they are the reason that that were here and we're gonna talk about them right now. So, if you don't mind. Two of our three students are here. Our third student, our athlete of the month, is currently playing and
019hopefully winning in baseball against the Indian Valley Braves. So, cheer him on. Okay, our fine artist of the month is Cheyenne Kiriakou. So Cheyenne, come on up. Now you have to stay here. Okay. All right, so Cheyenne is a senior and the daughter of Roger and Marlene Kiriakou. Her school activities include select choir and National Honor Society. Cheyenne's hobbies include Greek dancing, theater, reading, and singing. And after graduation, Cheyenne plans to attend Walsh University to major in mass communications and political science. So congratulations, Cheyenne. All right, our student of the month for school spirit is Grace Glazer. Don't go too far. Okay, Grace is a senior and the daughter of Jody Detchen, Donald Detchen, and Mike Glazer. Her school activities include attending sporting events to cheer on her fellow students and friends. In her free
020time, Grace enjoys serving in the kids' room at church, spending time with family and friends, shopping, and spending time outdoors. After graduation, Grace plans to attend Kent State Tuscarawas to major in early childhood education. So congratulations, Grace. Our athlete of the month is Isaac Matthews. Isaac is a senior and the son of Mallory Matthews and Curtis Wilkerson. His school activities include basketball and baseball. So cheer on the baseball team. In his free time, Isaac likes to go fishing, participate in a variety of sports, and hang out with his friends. After graduation, Isaac plans to continue his baseball career and major in nursing at Muskingum University. So congratulations to the middle high school students of the month. Dr. Vraneski already talked about our first item with the Purple Star students. So you can see almost everybody
021in school today wearing purple is great. And I'd also like to shout out Melissa Williams is a paraprofessional. She's in her first year at Tuskegee Valley. She did home daycare for a lot of years in Delroy at her home. And she came and she goes, what do we do for autism awareness? And so we have been doing something different on the announcements every day. Different classes have created. puzzle pieces and we have those decorations throughout the elementary and she's really brought that to us because when we had that conversation it was in the middle of a crazy day and kids were coming and going she's like what are we doing what do you want to do what do you want to do so she has brought that to us I just want to give her
022a shout out for that also a new thing we have at the elementary this year is grade level leads similar to how department chairs function at the high school and so we meet once a month it's really an opportunity Mrs. Clements comes to a lot of those meetings for Mrs. McAwee and I to hear feedback from each grade level and really we want to try to get to things before they become an issue or if they just say hey have you ever thought about or have ever noticed this and That team has been a really valuable asset. And one of the things we talked about at the grade-level leads meeting is our PBIS. data and so i know i'm throwing around like alphabet soup um at you but pbis is basically our our positive behavior
023you know incentives and rewards that we do and we looked this is our second year with public school works public school works is a third party vendor it's one of those things that mr phillips approves and we really we really appreciate paying for it because in a school with 725 kids that is how our teachers document what is a minor issue that maybe we used to like move a clip for for a color chart, and what is a major issue, what's something Mrs. McAwee or I have to deal with right away. And we have that all documented. But year over year, I think we were down 20-some, almost 30% in referrals. And it's not... Not a magic wand, but it's something that we're intentionally working on and we were proud of to be able to
024report back some good news to our teachers that, you know, things, some things you can go, well, this is reported one way or this is reported another way, but like in the third quarter for like physical offenses, like that's not something you miss on. Like it's always when that happens, it's documented and it comes in. And really we were down from 50 some. last year to only 17 for the entire quarter for the entire building so that's something we're really really proud of and that brings the last thing is state testing is around the quarter and we had sent out a notification to parents making sure that they are aware just helping us out with getting kids to bed on time healthy breakfast and coming to school with the charge chromebook is really going to
025do all they can to help us out so I'm proud of where we're at and thank you for your time. Thanks Corey. Mr. Pano. Good evening everyone. Transportation side of things, we have started to receive all the equipment for the bus safety grant. start to be implemented. So the drivers are having a real positive feedback on especially the ground wash lights. We just last week got all the lights that go above in the front and the rear of the buses. So the lighted signs. So you'll start to see those go on. We're still waiting for some other pieces and also their component of the safety grant. We got the cameras upgraded. We're still kind of working through some of the bugs on that, but it's looking to be really a positive item for us to
026have at the district. on buildings and grounds. As you'll see, we got some bleachers set up over here at the baseball diamond and hopefully what they're telling us they'll be done tomorrow. Should be really cool. I don't think anybody's seen them out there yet. And also Joe Little has done a kind of revitalization of our parking lot. So we're going to hopefully after he's done, we're going to get it all striped and the grass is growing. So we got a new bagger. TO GO DOWN FOR THE SOFTBALL FIELDS, WE'RE NOT BLOWING ON THE TURF, AND I KNOW THEY TRIED IT OUT TODAY, AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE GOOD. JUST HAVE TO USE IT WHERE IT'S NEEDED. SO, OTHER THAN THAT, ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY, ITEM NUMBER 7. Item
027number seven, item A, is a recap of the board that went to COSBA is what we call it. And for that, I want to explain that I went to many AI. sessions, learning a little bit. And with the help of Mr. Oberton, we have a little video for you. So we're going to have to go over, right? So you might want to, if you want to see it. It's going to play up there. And it is a surprise. Oh, it's back there. Oh, are you playing right there? I didn't know if we had it. Because I also have to explain a little bit. Great. I bet you are. You never know what AI does, Sally. Yeah. That's okay. You're going to embarrass me. Oh. No, but it's something new. I am kind of sad that
028no one's here on this one. Maybe. I might be turned 53 before. So I think. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Amy. Happy birthday to you. And it's recorded. All right, here we are. So it's called Cosba. And Mr. Fisher, Mr. Overton, myself, and Mrs. Green got to go to this. We appreciate the community allowing us to do this to learn more for our students. We just are going to share with you a little bit about what it is and what we saw. So that is AI and we learned that you can do that for good things and bad things. And then this is just a screen, a slide that I had at one of my sessions, and I really liked it. It just talks about our education system, and
029it says, the teacher says, for a fair selection, everybody has to take the same exam. Please climb that tree. And you have a monkey, a penguin, an elephant, a fish, a seal, and a dog. And the way that we can fix this, and the way Tuskegee Valley works, is the next slide. And it just shows that we knocked the tree down so everybody can be at the top and make it fit for everybody. So I kind of like that slide. I think that's us. I believe that we try to cater to every student. We did get to meet. Mrs. Claire Huxtable, she was one of our speakers. She talked about public education. When we go to these conferences, a lot of times we do get to hear from some well-known people that share how they're
030supporting public education. This is just the famous Mark Bobo. You can let him know that he made our board meeting today. He's just a really great speaker. Again, this is just one of our classes that we were in. And then this was one of my favorite parts, and I'm going to try to bring this to, I really want to see this at our conference in Columbus, but the Humane Society came and just had a spot where you could hold puppies. And, you know, as you all know, I'm a big believer in pet therapy, and that was one of the highlights for I Enjoy Holding the Dog. And then, Ben, I know you added this one. You want to talk? Yeah, these were just a couple of slides from some of the sessions we were in.
031And this was dealing with AI and the steps to a graduate with AI. And it was just kind of some of the different things they were looking at. And if you go to the next slide, it'll actually kind of... If we go to the next slide, is that okay? AI is not going to take your job. The person who uses AI is going to be... And basically, their whole concept in a lot of these AI classes was this is an animal we're not putting back in the... It's there to stay. We need... really pushing on having a student about jobs they're going to become and I think that might be the jobs that are coming this was the modes of thinking before we get to that the the idea was that we don't know what
032our kids are going to be doing in 2040 2050 2060 and if we're trying to teach them is that the next slide the one that says teach them for that one oh no that was the one that was really blurry you can read it and I find the slide but there was one that they had talked about that said You know, we don't know what we're teaching for the next generation. And if we try to teach for what we're doing now, our kids are not going to be, you know, if we try to teach for art and things, but even in AI, AI is just such a tool that can be used, but we need to make sure that we're using it correctly and giving them the instruction they need. Yeah, because one thing I
033did learn, and I want to share this with our community, is that AI is fun to dabble in and do things, but you do have to be very careful because it will suck personal information. It's kind of like the open window, closed window. Be very careful what you're putting out on AI. So, yeah, open source. They talked about all that, and we're very good with that here, just so everybody knows. We're very good with our security on how kids can access certain things. But, yeah, it was just a really interesting – I attend a lot of the AI classes, and this one – this particular conference with a lot of AI presentations and it's because it's becoming such an important part of school systems and all that kind of stuff. So it was just really
034neat to see a lot of the different perspectives that were coming. Some people were, and that's, if you go back to that other slide, this is what. the teachers were saying, they had one of the classes was, how do teachers respond? What are they saying about AI? And you had the preacher who defends the old ways and like, hey, you know what? This is how it is. This is how it's going to be. We're not going to change. You have the politician that follows the administrative or apparent opinion to win favor of the prosecutor that attacks AI as cheating or does animal looting. And the scientist was freezing. Nice long talk using AI. So it was just kind of an interesting part of it. I would like to see us get set up on the
035papers. We haven't set the date, but we're planning on doing a work session with a lot of ideas. We will only share a minuscule amount. We each had about eight learning sessions besides the general sessions. It was packed full of information. There's some great ideas that we want to get started. Now I find out Tuskegee Valley uses Google. So the last second, he was gracious enough to try to change it, but if you see little things like you can't see the conference now, it's because of the switch. So I apologize. But the first thing I wanted to talk about was the state legislative conference we went. You can see who all attended. And we spoke to both our representative, Jody Selville, and Al Landis about many issues. One was some issues about the Woodward Pipeline
036and a couple other issues. We went down trying to get rid of MEMS, which was mentioned tonight, and they did remove that currently from the bill. They can always add it back in, but currently, because of the outcry, that was removed because there's no foundation for... history behind it that proved that it's functional or makes improvements on that. So you can move to the next slide. It's just this is just some pictures of where we went and how we did that. We sat in conferences in the morning where people came and talked and it was interesting. You know this is the election year. So we have some very big proponents against public education and they were just so sweet and so supportive of public education because they're not getting endorsed. and they're having trouble getting
037back into possibly their elected office. Next. This one is, I want to talk about the Ohio School Board Association's Northeast Spring Conference. We go to it every year because there's always someone giving an award. Next slide. We had two speakers talk. One was Kevin. Kevin Locke, who is our legal lawyer. He talks for a lot of people, but he has a special heart for us. And then also her name was Nicole, and she knows anything about taxes that you want to know about and how the property taxes work. But that night we had three award winners. The first was Amy Burrier, who got her Master Board Member, and she will be recognized at a next meeting, hopefully formally for that. Ben received his training award, I believe it was. I think that was the training
038one, yeah. a training award and then i received a couple awards as well and adam was there and we really appreciate thanks hey he got his awards early so we didn't go that way it's okay i wasn't at the legislative thing honorable mention this is the real picture that we made into a singing picture Okay, so the first class I went to is Bridging the Divide. Next. And it talks about the relationship and how we work with people who don't agree with us. Next. And how can we get them to listen? So next. This one is probably very valuable for all of us in our daily lives. It doesn't have to be just political, but it's saying how you can have a good conversation without being adversarial. You can be curious, not furious. Listen and
039understand not to win. Use I statements, not you statements. Use accusatory statements. Find common values. Get to know them. Usually, if you have a friend, you develop a relationship, it's hard for them to say, some words that they shouldn't be saying in the first place. Next. And the second one I went to was unlocking new perspectives. Sometimes you need to split. This was a bummer one. You know how you always attend one that's a bummer, but I thought I needed to show you I went to it. So moving on. It talks about cultivating an open mind. It was all about biases and unbiases, and we've had so much training in that. I was really disappointed, but these were some things that I cultivated out of it. So next. It won't be one I talk about
040when we have our open session. Beyond the Lego, inside the Arizona State Board Association of Strategic Research. Next. And what it talks about is how they developed their Lego. You can see their logo over the, I don't know what. 60 70 years and how they change the logo we next we talk about this was all talking about branding how you change your branding leave this is one of the things we talked about always in sessions we've never done because we're always focused on education but I think branding is important we do a nice job with it but we got a lot out there and we don't really have one in my mind we don't have one Go to except go Trojans. I think we all say that but we have little different ones here and
041there But I think we really need one that develops that and and we've done a nice job with making sure we have the right colors But then we can just take it a little farther for our community So that's that's part of that talks about all the phases you can do so that's probably in the back burner But it's something that we it was informational next Second or the third one. This is the most important one that I went to. It's called online predators targeting teens understanding child exploitation empowering students to protect themselves Next it's it had the Justice Department I can't read them all but there was three Homeland Security Justice Department and somebody else the federal government FBI and this man Ross Philmon and we and I became I talked to him a
042lot and we being friends and he he does learning sessions and he's going to be coming to capital conference and doing a session next and what I want to share about this is this is we again we if you get a message online and you open it and it's not what it should be and you get kind of spoofed with it and then you call Heidi and Heidi says I gotcha That's what this is all about on Facebook someone pretends they have a nice picture Hey, you look really nice. It's a lot of times. It's the boys you look very nice Hey, can I get a picture then they start then then they start monetarily? Taking money from you boys are the highest suicide rate is through this And so I think it's really important
043for at least our adults to know so that when something happens, a child can come to them and make them realize this is a crime, this isn't on you, it's on them. And I think it's really one thing that I'd like to make sure we kind of start looking at because there's a lot of things that are happening on social media that we don't know. But if the kids know that this is something that just happens and you need to come to an adult rather than hide it, it would be beneficial. It'll help them. And I think it is definitely worth some conversation because community wide, this is something that legitimately happens here in this county that we at the sheriff's office deal with regularly. And we're dealing with it adults on down to kids.
044So it isn't just kids that are getting blackmailed by individuals who are trying to exploit their photos and take them for money. it's adults as well so adults children all of the above yeah so it is something i think it's something during our work system we'll look at but i will let you know when uh when that will be on at camp oil conference if you want to know more about that next uh the next one was integrity insight and impact next and it was uh mark ojo's lesson and he talked about and i thought this is really good governing with your heart but lead with courage and let ethics be your compass. And if you do that, I think you'll always succeed with our children. And every decision is a decision about the future
045of our children. So every decision we make is a decision for our future, and I think we do that very well here at Tuskegee Valley. Next. He talks about these things that are so important, and I just spent hours on the phone, I mean, like, literally four hours, two times, about trust, unity, culture, and success. People are constantly calling me and saying, why is your board so good? These are the four things I say because we do it so well. Next. So kudos to you guys. Next, go. Staying ahead of the curve, legal policy trends. Next. This one, I will be giving. I didn't give it to Mark already, but it's in my notes over there. They're changing a lot. We have Mr. A, who goes around the states and files lawsuits against school boards
046and gets about $500 every time he does it. So he makes a profit, and he's making money off of it. Well, the thing he's moved on to from open acts now is school board meeting minutes, that they're not correct, they're not done well. And this was the standard that they said we needed to follow. So I was going to give that to Mark. I looked it over. I think we do pretty well. There's a couple things we might need to change, but overall we do really well with that. And Amy's going to do one of the new ones tonight. Next. If schools don't tell their story, someone else will next. And this one I thought was interesting. They provide a book instead of the handout that we give. They provide a magazine once a year
047and highlights 12 people in their book and have stories about them. And I thought that was really interesting. We have great teachers. We have great custodians. We have a great staff here. But I think we need to do a better job of highlighting those people to our public. Next. The superintendent says to the classroom, a culture of connection and visibility. This one, I think three of us, or maybe even four, three of us did. One of us got a bummer class, went to this class. Next. And it was just, she had 12 ideas that were successful in her community. And this one I thought was cute only because in case you hear, we always end up hearing stories, but the superintendent, in case you hear this, here's the truth. And I just thought it was
048a cute ad and I thought she did a nice job with it. Next. And this is the one I really loved. They had a wedding on their football field. They were a huge people who met in high school and were still married, and they reunited their vows at a football game. I would love to do that, but I don't think we have enough people. But I think it's neat. Next. A building aboard with trust. Next. This is the last one that I attended. It had the pillars of trust, and it's done by Trust Edge. If you've ever heard of them, I guess they're well-known. And these are the things that you have to do to have a good trusting system in your community. And I think we do this well with our community and our
049school. And these are the eight characteristics. And what we did was we learned about them. And then we all talked about them. And one of them is I said, with clarity, we have TV core values that we share and love by. And that's the one I put up there. And I got picked up. Anyway, so that's that. And I think that's my report. Yes? Is that it? So the only other thing I want to say, sorry, the only other thing I want to say is kudos to Andrea and Dr. Baker. They wrote two letters to do and to the Ohio House and Committee about the problems in a couple areas. One is the MEPS and one was the, they are no longer going to allow A&E to run as one of the testing sites. They
050wrote letters and I wrote letters to a couple people. So we are still working at the Statehouse to try to improve and get things done. I don't think we should be penalized and have to change if we are doing things excellently. So thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. Good night. Thank you, Mrs. Green. Do we have a, you guys want to share anything about policy updates? You're next on the list. We can. So normally we just kind of surface level skate over these, and it's just a bunch of letters on the paper. So I think we'll just some really high-level updates on what some of these mean. So we have a couple job-related expenses and then affinity rewards and other discount programs that you see really across the board. Those three
051programs are saying if you have frequent flyer miles or you earn other kind of points-related systems, you are allowed to use them. So you are allowed to. GAME. SO YOU CAN EARN THOSE POINTS IN THE RELATION OF YOUR OFFICIAL CAPACITY HERE AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T COST THE DISTRICT ANY MONEY. SO YOU COULD ESSENTIALLY, THE DISTRICT COULD PAY FOR A HOTEL ROOM AND YOU COULD EARN THE REWARDS POINTS IF THE DISTRICT DOESN'T EARN THOSE IN AND ABOVE THEMSELVES. THE ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS NOW IS SAYING THAT CHILDREN HAVE TO BE FIVE. by the first day of school rather than August 1st for entering into kindergarten. So that's just a very minor change there. The grading policy, the policy in and of itself just stayed the same, just some minor changes. That's essentially a scholarship program. It has
052a scholarship program, and then there's the Ohio Geographic program, different percentages of grade levels. So the top five. top percent but what happens when we have a tie because there's not allowed to be a tie at those so this policy really breaks down what we are using to break those ties and stuff that is not at all trivial so we're talking about GPAs for college prep classes those kind of advanced programs something you would think those can all be defined we won't get into them too much purchasing We started talking about how we could change to say any building. So any building associated with the school is going to have to go with that same process, not just a school building. The other changes, different kinds of limits, the dollar amount limits currently. Dr. Baranski
053would not necessarily have to get quotes if you were going to spend $10,000 or less on some certain things. That's increased to 15. The bidding process has increased from 250 to 350. And then anything above 359, maybe a little bit more of the way it does in making them a little bit more user-friendly. The use of credit cards, same kind of concept that we talked about that goes along with those points systems there that you can in fact accrue those points if you're using a credit card. So this was just kind of a policy that was there and just a need to a little bit of cleanup. Individuals that purchase items are not able to in and of themselves use the tax exempt status of the district. So that's the next policy there. Any items
054using the tax exempt status of the district has to be purchased by the school district in and of itself. If an individual purchases something and that something is deemed yes, that it was correctly purchased, that it is for an official purpose here at the school, the school can choose to pay and reimburse up to the amount of $500 for that. But we obviously want to avoid those things if possible. So we want to keep that tax exempt status in there, but just know that it doesn't go to an individual. artificial intelligence we align that with the state models you cannot be misleading or promote anything that's misbranded so they are me and taking advantage of that release time for religious instruction And then budget prep says that that falls on Mark That's all right. So
055I know I know that can be some of the boring stuff Morgan and I sit through a lot of these meetings with dr. Bransky and like work by a fire hose some days and all of this stuff and I don't always like That to come across this way, but I think it is important that we just kind of get the bullet points out on what these policies are All right. New business consent agenda. This is one of the new things that I'm going to be doing. We will go A1 through 15. I will read the itemized number, and then we will take a vote on that. So item A1, approving minutes from March 9th, 2026, special and regular meeting. I'm not, I will say, if anybody has a problem, I'm not reading all the little,
056all the names, all the little things. I'm reading the bullet points. This is available online, so you can look at those smaller details of the bullet points. Sorry. Item number two, accept donations, grants, and express appreciation for the following individuals, businesses, organizations, and foundations for the following contributions. Number three, approve a speech service contract with East Ohio Educational Service Center for 2025-26 for speech and language services for a student referred at $35 per hour as needed. Item number four, approve the employment of the following certified individual pending verification of all credentials, and that will be our new K-1 intervention specialist, Ashley Heffer-Klein. Right? Did I say that right? Heffer-Klein. Item number five, rescind 75 cents of the supplemental contract for Kristen Miller, assistant softball, previously approved at a February 9th regular board meeting. Item number
057six, approve substitute employees for the 2025-26 all classified substitute positions pending verification of all credentials. Item number seven, grant supplemental contracts for year 2025-26 as follows, pending verification of all credentials. And there is a list of certified employees and contracted employees. Item number eight, accept the resignation of Carmi Johnson, third grade elementary teacher, effective May 29th, 2026. Item number nine, approve contracts for the following certified licensed employees for the 26-27 year. And we have year one, two, and three. And five. Item number 10, approve non-teaching contracts for the following classified employees for 2026-27 as follows. We have two-year contracts and continuing. Item number 11, approve the employment of the following summer temporary employees at $15 per hour up to eight hours per day from June 1st, 2026 to August 13th, 2026. Item number 12, approve
058the following individuals for the 21st Century Community Learning Center positions in accordance with the 21st CCLC requirements for 2526 Achievement Club after-school programming and administrative oversight as on file in the Office of Student Services, including an additional 18% of coverage, fringe benefit, expenses paid by the 21st Century grant. Item number 13, adopt the readings of the following policies in accordance with legislative changes, and I believe this is what Adam just went through. Item number 14, approve renewal for participation in a voluntary student accidental program. Student accident insurance is what that is, 2026-2027 through Student Protective Agency, Mount Vernon, Ohio. And item number 15, recognizing the students of the month, which we presented their plaques as well as the 7th and the middle school 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th grade students of the month. Do I
059have a motion to approve? I'll make the motion. I'll second. Any discussion? I want a discussion. Can you make sure on item number five, I think it is, that that says either cents or dollars, 0.75, so that people don't think it's a percentage of the... It is a percentage of it, yeah. So it's a percentage of the contract. Yeah, yeah. The contract, coaches are paid, they get four payments. Okay. And so she would have only worked the first payment of that, so she received the one payment, not the other three. And then under item number seven, we are hiring the new coach that will receive the other three payments. Oh, now I see it. Yep. Okay. That's new. We've not had that happen before. That was a request of payroll so that it was very
060clear on what she was paying. And also just a note, that should say 26-27 school year, not 25-26 on 6 and 7. No, those are all for this current school year yet. Is it still this current? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, subs have to be approved by the year. So she just applied for this school year, so even though it's almost over. And then these are... The same house as 26? The 25-26 school year. Okay. Because she's coaching this year. Yeah, and the same thing. All of the contracts that you're approving in 7, that is for trips this year yet. Okay. Or those positions, yep. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? All right. Call the roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Item number nine, approve a three-year administrator limited contract for Andrea Clements, Director of Curriculum Instruction
061and Federal Programs effective August 1st, 2026 through July 31st, 2029, which is 212 days. Make a motion. I make a motion. Second. Discussion? Great job. Thank you, Andrea, for all you do. Roll call? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Item number 10, approve a three-year administrator leave limited contract for Corey Street Elementary School principal effective August 1st, 2026 through July 31st, 2029, also 212 days. Do I have a motion? I make a motion. Second? Second. Discussion? Thank you, Mr. Street. Hey, keep the enthusiasm going. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Item number 11. Approve a three-year administrator limited contract for Mandy McAvoy Elementary School assistant principal effective August 1st, 2026 through July 31st, 2029, 212 days. Do I have a motion? I make a motion. One of us. Adam. I make a motion. Second? I'll second.
062Any discussion? Thank you. Thank you, Mandy. Roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Item number 12. Right. Approve a three-year administrator limited contract for Mr. David Fogle, middle high school assistant principal, effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2029, 212 days. Do I have a motion? I make the motion. Second? Second. Discussion? Good job. Thank you, Mr. Fogle. Call the roll, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Item number 13, public participation, at which we have none at this time. Item number 14, any announcements? Our next regular Board of Education meeting will be held May 11, 2026 at 6 p.m. here in the community boardroom. Item number 19, adjournment. Do I have a motion? Yes, motion. Second? Second. Roll call, please. Do we want to make a work session? Dave, do you want to do that in time?
063Let's do it. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. I will end. Thank you. Thank you for the glasses. I forgot that I had to read all that stuff today. When I said that, I wasn't saying that. Thanks, Noah. I forgot my glasses.