001like to call our meeting to order first on our agenda is awards and recognitions by mr. Parker all right we've got a lot this agenda so some people in this room are aware that January is school board appreciation month for more than a century community members have been guiding the education of our youth here in Scott County but It's difficult for me to imagine a stronger, more dedicated group than the members I get to sit alongside each month. They're student-first and academic-minded. They encourage us to continuously work to be better for our students, and they support us every step of the way. We owe a debt of gratitude to the members of the Scott County Board of Education. Board Appreciation Month is the perfect time to offer our thanks. We have a small token of
002appreciation for you tonight created by students in Scott County Schools, along with a few other plans to celebrate you and your contribution to Scott County Schools. I know this attention might make some people a little uncomfortable, but I really think it's important for members of our community to get to know you and to see the vast experience that you bring to this table, as well as how much time and energy you devote to our district. This evening I am thrilled to present each of you with your very own So first, we'll start with Board Chair Diana Brooker. Mrs. Brooker has served as a member of the Scott County Board of Education for eight years, leading as chair for the last four. Realtor and local business owner and attendant for Ohio State University. She is in
003this role because she loves connecting people. Diana and her husband Dan have four children, five. Next up, Vice Chair Susan Duncan. Susan Duncan is a Scott County High School alum and a product of Southern Elementary School and Georgetown Middle School. She is a graduate of Georgetown College and Morehead State University and is a former Scott County High School teacher and administrator. She comes from a long line of teachers, passion, and support. for life care students. Formerly a teacher at Eastern Elementary, Ms. Young was principal of Booker T. Washington Academy and currently teaches third grade in Fayette County. She married the pastor Joshua T. Hale, and the two have a ministry, St. Matthew's AME Church in Midland. And she has the most impressive high kick I've ever seen. I'll show it. Come on. Come on. Come
004on. Okay, ready? One, two, ready, go. At this time, I'd like to present. And last, but certainly not least, the biggest fan of Scott University School Challenge coins on the planet. Eleanor Ratliff is a graduate of Houston University University. Oh, thank you so much. Number four agenda approval Motion carries number five public comment. Nobody. Okay number six consent agenda items a through I Hello, Tony. Are you going to sing for us, Tony? I'm not following that. I'm not following that. They could get no tire than I could achieve. They did a great job. Well, there's a lot going on at Scott County High School, as everybody knows. A lot of pictures, but I'll breeze through them. And if you all have any questions or want me to stop, feel free to stop. So at the
005high school and athletic project, of course, it's been very rainy and cold. It hasn't been the best picture weather, but here's coming in. And there's my parking spot that I'm going to reserve for every time I come. See the building. I'm glad they left it open for me. Here you can see some metal panels and where the recessed wall areas are just going around the building. Again, it was a very nasty and dirty day. Did what I could on the outside getting some pictures. Just another towards the front of the building, another shot. You can see the canopy's up and the crown mold up. That area still has some metal panel to come, but the windows and brick obviously pretty complete. This is coming inside the building now. Yeah, you can see it's getting a
006lot more finished. We've got brick, some natural lighting in there, and the stud walls are going up where there'll be soffits and panels. And here's the central stairwell. That must be, I must have mixed an old picture in there somehow because there is, there's drywall on that now up in the soffit. I think I may have another picture, but these should all be current. Somehow that one made it in there. Gymnasium, of course. Once I came in from the rain, a lot of my photos are kind of, I think I got condensation in the lens, so they may be a little fuzzy. But gymnasium, you can see it coming along, the finishes, the paint. It'll be a while before they put the wood floor down in there. The auditorium, that's one of the places that's
007been kind of slow to develop but is now really taking shape. And you can see the catwalk in above. I got another picture in the stage area. And I'm up on the risers where the side. Is that the natural order of things? Because it seems like if memory is correct, it was the auditorium that was the last of the interiors at Great Crossing, too. Is that just kind of how? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's just a more complicated area. Sure. And they wanted to focus on the classrooms up front, too. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. The auditorium is a pretty complicated area. And here's a view looking back at where everyone will sit. They're putting the last bit of the concrete on the floor there. And there's the orchestra pit as it stands right now. Of course,
008it'll look much prettier than that later. So the cafeteria area, you can see the soffits being installed and the terrazzo in its rough state right now. It hasn't been crowned and polished yet, but you can see some colors. Oh, yeah. Big blue stripe mirrored above in the soffit. So the storm window's on the left and the storm shutter door on the right there. Next slide is the servant area. The curved forms and there's a hood on the ground in the background there with some cooking equipment is going to be. Culinary lab downstairs. You can see they've already got a couple of hoods up there. This is going to be a very nice culinary lab. Colleges might be coming to you all to use this space. Casework going in. It looks great. The guys were doing
009a good job installing it. You can see ceiling tiles going in. This is over in the three-story part where the classrooms are. As I mentioned last time, I think they're trying to get that done earlier so that Scott County can come in and put in computers and other furniture, things of that nature. A classroom, you can see. Paint on the walls. There's only a few tile left to put in the ceiling and then come in and put the flooring and some cleaning. And those rooms will just put some device boxes in. They're getting close. Stair railings in the stairs. It looks really good. Nice to have something to grab onto there also other than a splintered 2x4. The restrooms, the tiles, you know, the wall tile going on, the partitions up, some paint on different
010areas. And the ceramic tile is down also, but it's covered up as it should be. The media center area, lots of detail work going on in the ceiling there. You can see all the natural light coming into that area. This is just outside the library where there'll be a display case, solid glass looking through there. And of course the stonework just looks, they did a good job with it. And turning around, you look back, that's your view coming out of the library, looking into the grand hall there. and I wasn't able to trudge up into the softball area. I haven't been for the last couple of weeks. It's been so bad. And you can see that from the bypass. I think we talked about it the other day. You can see these are the grandstand
011areas and the dugouts. It's good progress in the softball and baseball area. And from the top of the roof looking down towards Long Lake Road, you can see the field house and the paving that's gone in around the drop-off at the front of the school. And to the right of there is the track and soccer field. So a lot of good progress there. And that's where the grandstands will be. That's the concessions building that will be under the grandstands. And then, of course, the elevator that will take you up to the press box eventually. The field house itself, the brick's going up. There's a lot of brick on the building now. You get inside. The lighting wasn't great in this place. A lot of the pictures are dark, but you can see a lot of
012it is finished. They've got windows in. They'll start prepping the ground there for the artificial turf that's going to go in there. Another view from down on that level, you'll see that there's a concrete surround around the artificial turf, but where you see dirt there, it's going to be Scott County. football field, artificial turf. So it's going to be nice, you know, similar to Great Crossing, of course. And again, the light was not great in here, but this is the weight room with some big windows looking out, grabbing some of the natural light from the open practice field area. So a lot of good progress on that area as well. And just end it with a shot back into the grand hallway there. I know later on the agenda, I know there's a change order
013on this project coming up. Had to add some things to the greenhouse. It's my understanding that I guess you all have already had some discussion on this. If there's any questions on that change order now or when it comes up later, I'm here to answer those questions. So that is it for the high school. Any questions on the high school? The schedule appears really good. There'll be a meeting coming up at the first Thursday of February, of course. They are really moving along, and they keep telling us they're going to make it. They're going to make it. Any questions on the high school? We'll go to the Georgetown Middle School. Yesterday, of course, it's 99% complete, and it looks good, and I say just about done because we came to do a punch list this
014morning, and it wasn't quite ready for a punch list. But we'll let the contractors know we want them to finish up just a little bit more. But in the big picture, it's a relatively complete building that needs some finishes done on it. You can see, I mean, here's... Here's the restrooms that are usable now. I just don't want to dwell on some of these pictures, but that's the concessions area with a sink in the background. So you can see pretty much a finished product now, but they will need to come back over the next couple of weeks and do a lot of touch-up and finish it up. So that is it for the Georgetown Middle Concessionsville. Any questions on that? Well, if we go into Garth, of course there was a bid this week and
015I was like just show these pictures because so far of course no real construction But there was a bid accepted and I believe it would be on your agenda that To award bids tonight Buckeye construction. You can see there. This is a bid tab Was low at 855 732 which is really right in line with where we were thinking The other package was a little higher but this one was was pretty much where we thought We were not familiar with Buckeye, but we have reached out to a couple of references, and they are highly recommended. This is the restoration on historical buildings is what they do. And, of course, we went to their website, and that's all they had. They had pictures that looked like Garth on the website, yeah, a lot. So if anybody,
016I mean, anybody could look these up if they want to. But, of course, our recommendation, because we've done a little bit of research now, is that they're low, and they look very qualified. to do this work would be to recommend that we that you're going to bid to Buckeye Construction. Scott County High School renovation schematic plan phase. So this is where it's on your agenda. It'd be on your agenda later to approve the schematic plans. Now typically for Kentucky Department of Education schematic plans, as several of you know, you're really looking at How how all the spaces are laid out you know how they meet programmatic requirements For the most part the school's already there you know of course it's going to be for the middle school There's a couple of alterations which will show
017you, but I'm going to visit the scope again. Just to let you know We talked about a month and a half six weeks ago. I guess here about the scope and you all had some questions It's a little bit hard to read so I blew it up, but So this project will include creating a vestibule, which I do have. That's an altered space, so I'll show you what that looks like in a little bit. Replacing all the exterior doors, all the gutters and downspouts, paving. That number's increased. There's been scope added. What were gravel drives behind part of the high school and the current middle school have been added to the scope since the previous time I showed you this. So I just wanted to make you aware. Is that part of the parking lot?
018I believe it was 550 before. So, I mean, it was already a chunk of change, or maybe 600. Then, of course, the restrooms. There's been a lot of thought and consideration into these restrooms. And, Mr. Brooker, I was wrong the other day. I went back and looked back at my notes. We walked through the building just to clarify some things, what's being done in these restrooms and what's not. It did include all six restrooms. My initial estimates, it was six pairs of restrooms. So I did not end up adding more to this estimate. So this is to go into all the 1996 restrooms that exist now, except for one that we're altering, and completely renovate these restrooms, new lighting, new ceilings, new plumbing fixtures. new floor tile, new paint, just completely go in there and
019gut them out and make them a nice, new, well-finished. Where's the second pair? Two, three, four, five. Three upstairs, two down. Right there. The back long hall. Yeah. So there's the first floor. Those highlighted areas are each. Kind of almost an ag wing and then cafeteria. Oh, there's a second set. Yes, yes, sure, sure, sure, sure. So that's them on the first floor. So there's the little, and it is kind of small, but it's smooth. Let me, I'll blow it up there a little bit, sorry. They're by the gym, and then as you walk down the corridor, and then all the way down to where, I guess, would be the shop, maybe something else later. And then if I scoot forward to... Where we might be discussing the manufacturing. Right, right. And then on the
020second level... right behind the entry, and then two on the backside facing the back corridor is where the six pair of restrooms are. A little bit, let's see. library, some carpet and paint, locker rooms, there's no HVAC in there, we're going to add HVAC. There's some brick cracks around the building, we're going to do some tuck pointing and things of that nature. VCT flooring, where there's VCT in all the corridors and lobbies now, we're going to replace that VCT. Now in the gym area, it's ceramic tile, we're not touching that, but in all the other areas that are corridors, we're replacing the VCT. Now, the grandstands, which is not necessarily potentially in the same bid contract as the bigger renovation of the high school, but it's still something that's included in this and will be
021accomplished. So I guess in a – I have a quick question. Yes, yes, yes. Flooring in the corridors, is that just on the first floor? Both floors, both floors. All the VCT corridors and lobbies, both floors, yes. Okay. HVAC controls, repair the elevator, probably put a new cab in it. Seating, just removing some old seating in the upper tier of the theater there. TV's interactive panels. I will clarify on this one. The approach here is that the district is going to buy the TV and the contractor is going to install them. security cameras and PA replace heat pump in the cafeteria. The easy water filtration system is just something to help your your hydronic stuff. Your hydronic water shouldn't use the word stuff, replace lighting in cafeteria with LED. So replace the lighting in the
022cafeteria. Now some new these are some new ones here that the signage on the front of the building, I guess, probably Dwayne or so you all thought of it. Of course, it says high school right now, so we don't really know how. We just honestly kind of threw some money at it right now. I'm not sure exactly how much that would cost, but it could be $5,000 to change high school to middle. We're talking about the big signage. Then there's the signage at the road. The $25,000 is actually if we switched it over to maybe an LED sign. If you just did the little change letter sign, you could probably do something much cheaper there. And then security glass in some of the areas where there's lobbies, take the glass that's only about head height
023and replace it with the more impenetrable glass. What do you have there for the geothermal system? It's that easy water filtration. I should have spelled that out better. It's for the geothermal system. Oh, okay. Right, yeah. They put it in there to help the water in there. Okay. Yeah. So that is the scope. Now we talked about asphalt paving. This kind of gives you some perspective. You can see where the high school and the middle school are. You can see the gray areas where we're adding some asphalt. If I zoom in on that a little bit, there at the middle school, you can see where we're doing an overlay. And the lighter gray areas down at the bottom left is total. That's dig down 18 inches and put in a whole new base and everything.
024And if we scoot over here. You can see the same thing where it says new asphalt. That's new paving. And the gray up around the high school will be an asphalt overlay. So all that area is getting a nice new asphalt and striping, of course. So that's the paving part of it. And here we already talked about this, but this is just to show you. It's the layout of the school. There's nothing changing much except two areas that I'll show you on the second floor. But those are the three pairs of the restrooms that are going to get renovated. And that's just zoomed in on it a little bit. Then when we go to the next floor, I'll just go ahead and zoom in on a little bit there. There's the two areas that actually
025have an alteration, which I guess is the schematic plan you're approving tonight outside of the scope. So up front there's a little vestibule and at the top of the board there is where we're taking an existing pair of wrists So that was an existing pair of restrooms too that have been used in a while and you'll even have less of a load with the middle school students there so that's gonna turn into two family bathrooms in a storage or unisex however you want to refer to it And here's plans of those particular restrooms. So they're just ADA accessible restrooms. And either a boy or girl can use either one. So it's just very, very flexible. And then the attendance office down at the bottom. We had some discussion about that before. I think there was
026some anxiety maybe that we were leaving the chase wall behind there, which made sense. So the person was kind of going to be out there on their own. So we've... We're now taking down that chase wall to the left and putting a door into the office so that the person or persons that are going to be sitting at that attendance office will have direct access back into the office. So that circle on the bottom is where you enter in into the building and you go into those glass doors, vestibules. That would be the door on the lower right. You'll still be stepping into the vestibule. There'll be a counter on your left. And next month when I come, I'll give you a little three-dimensional image of this so you can see it better. I was
027going to do it with what we had, but this was kind of a later change and I didn't have time to get a rendering. But again, in this situation, you can go right into the front office area and go into the attendance office here. And of course, there'll be some security monitoring and door control and buzzer control. Both of those doors will be locked unless somebody, you know, hits a buzzer and lets them in. And I believe that is it. So that's now I know you're not in the middle of your motion, but I'll be here. You know, when you get to that, if you have any questions on that, glad to answer. Any questions for Tony at this point? I'm just going to ask, Dwayne, you went to the middle school. Did you explain
028all this to them? The reaction? Yeah. And they already know. Oh, good. I know that they already have the rooms assigned, don't they? So they can start. Yep. Thank you. All right. Number eight, approve schematic plans for renovation of current Scott County High School for Scott County Middle School occupation for the 2024-2025 school year. I second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number nine, approve change order number 06 for new Scott County High School. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 10, accept bid by Buckeye Construction and Restoration for repair and prep work prior to window install at Garth Elementary. Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 11, approved placement of high school manufacturing pathway classes in current Scott County High School facility. So moved.
029Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 12, approved 2022-2024 SFCC offer of assistance. Moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 13, Student Achievement Report. Good evening. Even though we submit this in January, we've been working on it since August, but this is the timing that is required by the Kentucky Department of Education. So I'll go over the goals and then just some of the things that we are continually doing that you all are probably already aware of, but of what we're doing to reach those goals. So the first area is proficiency in math. Again, this is a three-year plan, and we are on year three. So looking to next year, I'll be asking for one of you to be a participant in developing the next three-year plan. So
030that'll be coming up. But anyway, so in proficiency in math, for our second graders, the goal is for them to be at 88% on grade level as measured by NSGRA. The elementary, which this is KSA, the goal is to be proficient and distinguished in reading at 53% and in math at 47%. Middle school will be proficient and distinguished in reading at 63% and in math at 48%. And then our high school will increase in reading to 60% and in math to 42%. And if you turn the page. We have our writing, which the goal will be to increase in writing to 52%, 68% in middle school, and 50% in high school. We're starting to explore. We've really been intentionally focused on reading and math this year and making sure we have curriculum in place with
031that. But also through iReady, they also have a writing curriculum, so we're starting to dig into that if that's something that we really want to explore for our elementary and middle schools. Our goal for science is 36% in the elementary level, 35% in the middle school level, and 30% in the high school level. This is definitely the area that our students are having the most difficulty with, but that is consistent statewide. And then in social studies, elementary, the goal will be 45%. Middle school, 48%. And high school, 47%. And so that's a whole new assessment. We just took our second round of that, so adjusting for it. Then if you turn, oh, don't turn the page yet, achievement gap. So this is where we are looking at decreasing our novice. So our goal is elementary
032in reading decreased to 19%, middle school decreased to 17%, and high school decreased to 18%. I will tell you on both the reading and math, I'll email you all some information. Billy and I just looked at it. We're finishing the winter assessment of I-Ready. And so the end date is January 31st. So as soon as we have that finalized, I'll send that to you and you can kind of see where we're at. I think it's some really good information that you'll find. Yes, the work that they are doing at the schools is phenomenal. So the next page, graduation rate, which is something that I'm very near and dear. I had to adjust the three-year goal because we met it this year, so we're up to 95% graduation rate for this year. Obviously, our goal long-term
033is going to be 100%, but we're definitely making gains. I've got to give the high schools a lot of credit. Our growth objectives, and so again, we're going to look at those K-2 on that NSGRA. We want 100% of our students making growth. That's what I keep telling our principals. It's about growing our kids. For the 2024, for our third through eighth students, we will make 100% growth. I did have to strike out Matt because we now adjust to I-ready. And then 100% in growth for our students, again, in math. So that's the goal is every student grows. And then for our post-secondary readiness objectives, 85% of our students will graduate post-secondary ready. I'm really excited. Our principals report to us every month how many students are currently post-secondary ready, and I think we're going
034to see big gains in that this year because of block scheduling that because of you all and our Section 7 teachers we have been able to do. So really exciting. Our English learner progress. This is a new goal. Scott County, the elementary schools, will increase from a 70.1 to an 80.0. They rocked it out last year. They are already very high, so we're just going to keep pushing to continue to be very high. The middle school will increase their indicator score from 11.7, which is very low, and our goal is to be a medium for this school year. And for high school is to go from a 30, which is medium, to a 40, which is high. And our school climate and safety, so that is the surveys that our students take before they take
035the KSA. And, of course, this year we got to use our Leader in Me MRA, so our principals and our teachers can gauge where we are mid-year. But our goal is for elementary to go from a 75.4, which is high, to an 82, which is very high. For our middle schools, going from 63.3, which is low. to 68, which is a high, which our principal said that they could do. And I was like, all right, let's do it. And our high schools go from a 59.9, which is a medium, to 64, which is high. So on the next pages, we'll just kind of go into how we're doing it, right? And so the first one is our PLCs are using the Plan, Do, Study, Act model effectively. First piece is that they are using the
036curriculum map and district high-yield instructional strategies and resources. And I will tell you, I spent today in two elementary schools, and it was exciting to see that our teachers are utilizing the magnetic. iReady reading curriculum and they're also utilizing the Ready math curriculum and that's the math curriculum. They don't actually have all the materials in hand but we recently did just get a grant or seven out of our nine elementary schools got awarded a grant that will cover that for next year so we're going to cover the two schools that didn't get the grant because they were very bummed. Now probably would be a really inappropriate time to say kudos to Ms. Holbrook and Mr. Kruger because... I have had a number of superintendents that have reached out to me that have been like, who's
037your grant writer? Like, what are you all doing over there? Because we were, I mean, it's a big deal. And there are several districts that did not get any. And so, again, the process that they put in place to ensure that. We were as successful as the virus premium. It is amazing, yes. Yeah, they only awarded 75 in the state for all elementary schools that applied. And again, seven out of nine of ours. And when you look at the list, most districts just got a couple. That's great. Yeah, so great job to them as they guided our principals. It was really the school. They did. Yeah, you all just gave them all the information. And they went back and wrote the grants. I know Corey Kemper, they didn't get it at Eastern, and she was
038so bummed. She's like, I've put so much time. And I was like, well, don't worry. I'm going to make sure that we cover your materials. So that way we have equal playing field across all of our schools. All right, and so, but yeah, we're working on that, working on next step. So we've got these reading materials. This summer, Deborah's working with all the curriculum teams to make sure that the maps adjust and match. So there's a lot of work going on there. The next piece is your tail net, which is now kind of shifted towards deeper learning. And I will say this is ending the year three of recovery work because the recovery work aligned with this. C-DIP. And so we'll be looking at now that all that recovery work is doing, and we're seeing
039it when we go into these classrooms. And you're going to see, we're seeing it in the growth that's happening in the data whenever I send that to you. But just continually, now what do we need to put in place to take it to the next level? And so we're going to start exploring writing curriculum. Science curriculum is a big one. So we'll be really... really pushing that to the next level. Proficiency is looking at excellent PLCs. I got to spend some time with Morgan Vance at Lemon's Mill today, and she took, Ms. Holbrook sent all the released items from KDE. So she took, and so it has the data of how each school has performed. So she took their school, an orange, a yellow, and a green from our district. and created a spreadsheet so
040where they're analyzing different schools and how they performed on them and like areas that oh well stamping ground did really well in this we clearly you know missed something so now they're being more intentional it's really exciting to see them driving the work um and we're seeing it across A lot of our schools. It's exciting. And then the district-wide training for teachers and staff around diversity, equity, and inclusion. You know, DT made sure that we got all of our coaches trained this summer. And so next step is, again... navigating how we get our like bus drivers and our cafeteria staff that's the last two groups and it's just really challenging because they have required mandated training so without having to like pay them to come in to do it so we're navigating that that's the
041last step of the diversity of course not the last step that's the last step of step one now it's what we're doing to continue that work after this seated The next one is around assessment literacy. Again, you know, really we're getting ready to dig in hard to our benchmark assessments. We shifted to Edge Elastic this year. And so we're getting ready as a team, an OSL team, to take a deep dive into that to make sure that we're adjusting it based on the needs of our teachers. And then in addition to that, monitoring and the completion of those benchmarks, Ms. Holbrook monitors that and reports that to us so that we can see how. the schools are performing. And I also have to say, Wendy does a really good job with bringing in these assessment
042teams because we're not building these benchmarks for teachers. The teachers are building the benchmarks for other teachers. So it's built by teachers for teachers. But anyways, again, just continually thinking about how we best have a system that meets the needs of all the teachers. Again, reading, math, writing, and behavior, MTSS, formerly known as RTI, that's now all embedded onto the student learning site that all teachers have access to all materials. But in addition to that, I know that through the help of Kim and Harper, and I've talked to Diana about this, we've trained special education teachers on Wilson reading, which is for our special education students who are dyslexic. But next, now we are getting ready to train all of our intervention teachers because not all students are qualified under special ed who also have
043a dyslexia diagnosis. And so that way, the interventionists have the tools necessary to meet the needs of those kids. So that's one of the big next steps that we're doing for those, for our MTSS system this year. And as always, how we're looking at data to drive the learning, how we're looking at it. from our team, how our principals are looking at it, and then how they're leading teachers to look at it. Next piece is our accelerated learning. And so really this is three areas, thinking about our proficiency, thinking about our achievement gap, and thinking about our EL progress. When I think of proficiency, I've got some numbers for you. We currently have just over, I think it's like 1,531 gifted students this year. We have 2,026 special education students, and we have EL. 800
044EL students. That also includes our plus monitored. I do want to give you some context for that. First, I'm really excited about EL because we did see middle school drop, or not drop, but not perform the way we wanted to. We have added middle school EL teachers to the middle school program. Our special ed, that's always based on numbers because it's regulated by caseload. But our gifted, we only have 4.25 teachers. And when I say 2.5, we bring in... a person to do vocal gifted. But yeah, basically four teachers serve as 1,500 kids. So yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyways. We'll talk about that. Yeah, don't worry. There's a plan. There's a plan. But anyways. We better stop that right now. Billionaire talkback. Take that to February, baby. But I do want to ask that on
045this note. Yeah. On a slightly different one. How many teachers do we have for special ed? Did you say? How many teachers do we have? You said we have 226 students. So how many? Gosh, that's a lot. No more than that. 2,000. Or 2,000. I'm sorry, 2,020. Oh, I looked right at it. I'm so sorry. I mean, I could get that for you. But so like for elementary, there are requirements that like no teacher can have beyond 15 students on their caseload. Got to give it to Kim. She keeps their caseloads down to around what, 11? 11 or 12. And then for secondary, you can have up to 20. So if we have 14 students that qualify for special education, even if it's mid-year, then Kim then has to post a position to bring it
046in. It does change, but we'll get you a number. If you could follow up on that with those numbers. And then for the EL, what do we... Okay, thank you. And one thing I'll point out with both circuits, there are add-ons to state funding. Thank you to all those teachers right here and right now. Those numbers are, my God. And I will say for the EL numbers, 200 of those have achieved to the point of where they're called monitored, so they don't actually report to an EL teacher, but we still have the obligation to monitor their progress. So that number's a little bit scarier, but even 600 with 12 teachers. That's a lot of kids. And think about our EL data. I mean, it's amazing. Yeah, so anyways. So anyways, again, just using our platforms.
047Again, I've got to give it to our teachers. They are jumping on board with our platforms of iReady, Orton-Gillingham, Hagerty, and Edge Elastic. I saw an awesome lesson today with Edge Elastic on social studies in fifth grade. I saw an amazing. lesson using magnetic today and she used Ron Clark strategies that they learned. We've been sending some teachers to Ron Clark and it was just amazing. So excited to see them. Well and real quick I do want to jump in because I was trying to find a good time to jump in there. Unlike any time, well, I mean, even I'm thinking about my time in other districts. Stephanie's done a great job of trying to connect our folks with opportunities outside of our walls to expand their knowledge, expand their excitement for what's going on.
048We were sitting in my office before this meeting. Shane Pickerel right now is in Atlanta at the Ron Clark Academy. And she's like, here, let's see what Shane has to say. And he, you know, we thought it'd just be a... Hey, just want to send you a little quick whatever. What, five minutes or so? And we finally were like, all right, we got to head. He just kept going. He just was just, I mean, he was just, yeah. That's great. And there's a lot of bells and whistles there that obviously like a normal school can't do. But I think like the instructor, like today I got to see this amazing discourse. strategy where every student was able they would stand up they don't raise their hands anymore in this classroom they stand up and they
049give their attention to the entire class and give their thought process on an answer to a question and they had a huge debate over who the main characters of were of a passage but it was amazing in the respect and she does they do hand signals and like I walked out. I was like, oh, my goodness, this is incredible. And then there's also team building culture things. I'm part of the House of Ali. I am the – And the Southern Elementary. Carlo. Carlo. The kids were pumped about this today. They were telling me they saw my butt, and they were like, we're in the same house. They've created chants. I mean, they do team building every morning. He just doesn't have a – He doesn't have a button yet. You just don't have a button.
050But you don't just don't have a button. Yeah, but Lemons Mill and Southern are piloting the house system in fourth grade. They both came to that recollection to do that together. Shane mentioned in the video he sent, like already his counselors are, they're wanting to do a house or to do houses because it really, it gets, and they're thinking of how they can do the house system aligned with Leader and Me. So I'm really excited to see that. So just some exciting things that go on. Just be above and beyond what's in the system. Does your house have a t-shirt? Because we have t-shirts. I'm just saying. We're going to now. Amazon just delivered mine today. So just tell them. Well, it's happening now. Just saying. All right. So the professional development, we had great
051feedback with PD Palooza, my team. We had our first meeting that. that Paul led this week for us to really start thinking about how we can use our cohort system, how, you know, getting feedback from our, we've already got feedback from cohort leads. So the next step is teachers, how we can better serve that and adjust. We already listened to them. No more after school meetings. We're only doing it on collab days. And, but really just to better that, because they like that personalization of their professional learning. And then PD Palooza, already exciting things to make this amazing conference-style professional development experience for our teachers. And then, you know, always examining what we're doing in our current schools, especially our TSI and our Orange schools, which, and I give it to Heather Brown, I mean,
052up in the game for SCOLA. I don't know if you saw the article in the paper about the iReady results that some of her students are seeing. with Scola because she has embedded even beyond that they practice on their MyPath so that they're reading and math. I came out here, I don't know, late one night, she had the door popped open. I'm like, where is she? I'll get it. We got tutoring coming in. So they're rocking and rolling. They are. They are. And then, of course, culture and climate, which we kind of already touched on. The Ron Clark stuff. Leader in me is. Really kicking off, we're doing curriculum alignment. I will talk about the first one, our student of concerns teams, getting those stakeholders of people who are really focused at each school. We
053shifted that. Liz has done a great job, and Brent, shifting that to the focus of it's not, we've been having teachers do these teams. Now it's like your nurses, your SROs, your frisks. So that team, because those are the people who. have the availability. When you're in a classroom, I mean, you all know, like, you're having to teach and try to do all this. So they've done a lot. You all have helped in this as well, bringing in, like, Mountain Comp Care. You know, we now have our mental health coordinator, and she's working with our school districts and our partnerships. So definitely working on that. Continued, and will always continue. Again. The quality of school climate around our professional learning, I think PD Palooza gave a really great kickoff to our teachers. It wasn't, you
054know, it's not as refreshing. We actually choose what we provide in the sessions based on what they say. So last year was very SEL heavy because when we surveyed them, it was clear that they needed supports in that. And so we'll do that again this year. align what their needs are again so um and yeah continue to lead on model strategies for schools i will tell you like today Scott Middle and Royal Spring went with Wendy to East Jessamine to look at, because they're further into implementation and are ready and they're having great results. She said it was amazing. GMS is going. Shane's already on me. He's like, but we're at Ron Clark. So we're setting up another visit so that GMS and some more people can go. She said it was amazing, got great
055ideas to take back to the table. And then, lastly, just continuing to refine and expand our post-secondary readiness, and I want to thank you for approving a manufacturing pathway. It's going to be really, really exciting for our teachers. Some of it. You approved the space. Step one. Step one. A little bit. I'm teasing. I'm very excited about it. I'm sorry. Yes, it's super exciting. You've located. You haven't provided the staffing yet. Well, and I'll tell you, we kind of put a little pocket out there because we're getting ready to start scheduling, and the survey data shows that it's going to be, I think, a really popular pathway. So, pending that, of course, we get to have it. So, anyway, that is the CDIP. And then, so, it's not really anything new, but it's the time
056that we have to go over it. So, yeah. Do you all have any other questions? Did the high schools do okay during last week's out one day in with the block scheduling? Oh, yeah. They just kept on as normal. So, they went to their Thursday class. And then Monday they went to their Monday class. So it doesn't really change anything. I didn't know if this was the time, but I just was wondering about that last week. Yeah, absolutely, yes. But, yeah, they're – and it's actually been okay having, like, different types of Fridays. It's not really messed with anything. You know, Scott County likes the Friday where they go to all their classes, and Great Crossing likes the continuous rotation, and that's okay. Again, for me, there was the reluctance of it was a big
057shift for us, and we didn't want to do anything that might be inadvertently would create, well, they do something different, how might that impact ECF? Whatever. It's been good. It's been good. Good work, and thanks, Greg. Yes, that's wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you all. Thank you. Number 11. Approved placement of high school. We've already done that. Oh, we did? We're on item 14. Oh, jeez. Oh, I'm sorry, Stephanie. You're so excited about it, you just had it. I know. Oh, my gosh. Well, I try to keep my cursor where I'm going next, so I apologize. You're good. Number 14, approved to create grant-funded position of community schools district director. Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Approve job description for community schools district director. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion
058carries. Number 16, approve to create the following positions, 16A and 16B. Move. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 17, approve to create the following booster paid coaching positions, 17A and 17B. So move. Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 18, approve rental agreement between the Kentucky Horse Park and the Scott County Board of Education. Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 19, approve agreement between Eastern Kentucky University Clinical Practical Education and Scott County Schools Contingent on Negotiation of Revisions recommended by the Board Attorney. Move. Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 20, renew awarded athletic director contract for the 2024-2025 school year. Did I say director? Gosh, I should just let Susan take over this meeting if I can't speak right, for God's
059sakes. Let me read that again. Thank you, DT. Renew. Maybe you would have liked the contract. I was trying to help you out. I was trying to help you out. I don't know. Yeah, good job, Diana. Sorry, guys. I'll focus a little bit better. Number 20. Renew awarded athletic trainer contract for the 2024-2025 school year. Move. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Number 21, renew awarded depository bank proposal for the 2024-2025 school year. I second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 22, approve donation reports from July 21st, 23 through December 31st, 23. Move. Second. All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 23, review draft budget for fiscal year 2025. So noted. Number 24, financial statement. I'm trying to get through this carefully. We have expenses of $34.9 million,
060leaving us an ending cash balance of almost $96 million. Of that, $57.1 million invested in other banks we have, leaving our ending balance at $38.892,794. Thank you. Thank you, Gina. Number 25, approve current bills. Second all in favor those opposed motion carries number 26 approve surplus items as submitted All in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Motion carries. Number 27, superintendent's report. So I'll start with standard one. So I've got on there nursing student health exploration. So we've had conversations here in the past, I don't know, over the past year or so, really. I mean, talking about how the pandemic shifted some of our response and some of what we were providing in terms of student health. And so Brent Allen has been leading the charge on that for me. We've had some conversations. I've recently had
061some conversations with a number of superintendents and other districts based on some of the options we're looking at. I would imagine sometime in this next month we'll be calling you all in just for... meetings to kind of bring up speed no no decisions being made but just a here's what we're looking at here it just in all things it's pretty impressive to give you a very all-encompassing view of what student health services in our district look like and what we might be considering down the road so just that that's been something that's been a heavy lift that we've been working on for some time Standard 2, the manufacturing pathway work. I described a little bit of that to you all already prior to this meeting, so you all are familiar with that. That's really exciting
062about that, and thank you all for standing behind us as we look to provide more opportunities for our students. Standard 3, cultural leadership. Participated in Southern Elementary School's fourth grade houses. Again, I got my little... proof. Yeah, my proof of participation there. So they're making me a part of the team for sure. Number standard for human resources leadership, me and Dwayne met with the city and county regarding SROs. And, you know, we've got different things that we're trying to consider now that we've got some SROs only with a school year only employees. So we've got some details to work through. But again, we've got great partners at the table to talk through. All those different things. Also, you know, I'll talk about it a little bit later, but House Bill 6, the House's budget bill,
063proposes a little bit of compensation tied to SROs. Standard 5, National Weather Service calls, other weather-related things. You know, it is the season, so that's been something that has, you know, Dwayne and Josh and myself have had a lot of early morning conversations trying to make sure we're safe. Allocation meeting prep. We start allocation meetings, the first allocation meeting with our school principals tomorrow. We've got most of them are on the schedule for tomorrow. I think three or four of them are meeting with us next Wednesday. But again, this first meeting is just a... You know, here's some of the general information, giving them an idea of where they stand, and then the second meeting they'll come in with a better idea of how they're going to get down to zero on who's funding what,
064making sure that everybody's taken care of. Standard six, collaborative leadership. So I really do, you know, I really appreciate, you know, Stephanie talked a little bit about her spending her time in schools. And we're at a point in the year where, and especially with this being the long session, where I'm going to be out of the district a little bit more because I'm spending a lot of time at the Capitol. I've been there a few days this week. I'll be there at least three days next week. But one of the things, you know, I've been working a little bit with KASA. There's a House bill that I was concerned about last year that's come back up. It's House Bill 275. We've got a meeting Monday with House Education Chair Mr. Tipton, Representative Tipton. There's several
065people at the table, and we're fortunate enough to have a seat at the table. So we're just trying to work through and make that a bill that would fit the intent of what his legislation is on that. And then KASS, this morning I went and watched Jim Flynn, the executive director of that group. You've met Jim. And he was formerly the superintendent of Simpson County for many years, and he's now a— the executive director for KSS, himself, David Gillum, Mike Borchers from Ludlow Independent, Robin Cochran from Washington County. I feel like I'm missing somebody. But anyway, they had a presentation. There was about 20 legislators that came. And for me, my purpose of being there was... They're talking through all things House Bill 6. I'll have some conversations with you all probably. I might do
066a video for you all just separate from a board meeting just to give you some ins and outs and some understanding and talking points surrounding House Bill 6 because it's interesting how, you know, it was a very, the... The tenor of the whole meeting was it was good because it was a conversation, and there were some things stated. One person suggested that, well, we're adding $168 through this draft budget to SEEK. That's a 4% increase. Doesn't that mean that that's a 4% raise? So it is true that they are raising what they're looking at to SEEK by 4%, but it's also true that that doesn't equate to... just a straight pass through 4% raise. And so every district, it hits a little different. And, you know, the property assessments, we've talked about that. You know
067how big of an issue that that can be for us and a hurdle there. So anyway, more to be seen and more discussions to have on that. But it was good because I did see some nods and some, you know, kind of. acknowledgement of better understanding and not realizing that for some of us some of the proposals when we start calculating through with everything maybe aren't as favorable as some of our legislators feel like. And then last but not least, Standard 7. Again, I've always been very open when we've had people that are running for any kind of office, that if they'd like to sit down and talk about the state of education and what are our needs locally, all the different things, I don't care who you are, I'll have that conversation because at
068the end of the day, somebody's going to get in. Whoever it is, I don't want them to have the excuse that we weren't willing to talk. And I have seen, too, where they take some of the things that they're told and run with them, and it helps them, again, just to be able to hit the ground running if they happen to be the ones that win. And then, again, House and Senate Education Committee meetings, one's on Tuesday, the House is on Tuesday, and the Senate's on Thursday, and I plan on attending as many of those as I can. A lot of the CKC superintendents, even though they're in central Kentucky, literally it's 30 minutes from door to door. I can be sitting down in there. So it's just we're almost too close that I feel
069bad if I'm not there. So it's given us an opportunity where I can then report back to my CKC superintendent colleagues on things that are coming. It's once it once it comes to one of the committee's it's got a better chance of being something that we might want to think about I was not at the Capitol on Wednesday, but our very own DT Wells Guess he he provided a presence there and talked about House Bill 22 tied to aed's and he is stamping out ignorance on his own there and I think Renee has been very complimentary of him as well. She's done a great job and making sure that I don't know. Maybe she'd say she hasn't done a great job and she doesn't need to wrangle him. I don't know. But from what I
070gather, he's been given high marks for his participation. And I do have to say, too, I've got two other things I need to say real quick, and one ties to this. So as I'm... getting different pieces of legislation and what might come down and what might not whatever so then I go in and I'll harass Gina and we give each other heart attacks talking back and forth on how it impacts our budget and maybe there's a misunderstanding and then I come in and I throw something at her and then she has a little heart attack and then so we've we spend a lot of time really talking through what it all means for for Scott County Schools so that we can be well equipped to where you know you never know when you get that
071call and somebody wants to know and you know two sentences or less, what's your thoughts on this legislation? And then I did, I couldn't, I couldn't get through this without saying something about Maria Bennett and the efforts that she has taken to ensure that we have a unique situation in which it requires a student to have a hot spot. She has been working with AT&T. I mean, it's insane what she, what she has, the lengths she has gone through for that. But anyway, she's... She reached completion on that mission, and I appreciate all of her efforts in making sure that every single student has their needs met as best as we can. So there you go. That concludes my lengthy superintendent's report. Yes. I know Stephanie. Sure, yeah. No, that would be an easy. Yeah,
072yeah. Aren't you already doing a presentation in February on Leader in Me? Yeah. Yarny? No, no, there's another one that she's going to be chatting. And another, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll work out well. Well, I just want to say thank you for recognizing the school board. We really do greatly appreciate it. We don't always get a lot of kudos and a lot of decisions we have to make. And I know I lose a lot of sleep making decisions some days and some of the times that we've been through. But thank you for the recognition and going above and beyond and having the kids here. And thank you very much. That was special. I do want to say thank you, DT. Thank you, Billy. It's so very important that we use our voice at the
073Capitol as much as we can because so many little things could just go unrecognized. And you're right, they're in our backyard. Why wouldn't we do that? And I just want to say thank you for taking the time because I know your day is crazy. I was talking to him, having a half-hour meeting on his way there, and he goes, I'm here, I've got to go. So, you know, it's great to be able to fit that in throughout the day. So I just want to say thank you, and I appreciate it very much because it's important. And to everybody else for everything. Eleanor, if you'd like to add any comments this evening? Well, first of all, I really can tell you, I have asked for one year for this. So I feel like maybe I've done
074an okay job. Yeah, we'll keep you, right? Do you have a choice? No. Go on. Go on. Look what your mix. But as I said, it's been very eye-opening. And I think the reason you heard tonight, look how many positives we have. We are all to pat ourselves on the back because we all really, really try. From you all. I know we do, and it's been wonderful. I mean, I brag about it all the time. They'll say, oh, how do you like the board? I said, I absolutely love it, and I mean it. I mean it. So anyway, thanks to all your hard work. Thanks to all your hard work, and I am very proud to be a board member for Scott Cunningham. Thank you. I almost feel like we need a time. A kick.
075Susan. I won't repeat everything you said, but that's where I am. We're going to have brand new representation for Scott County across the board in about a year. And anyway, slice it. So I appreciate Billy being open and willing to reach out and communicate to those people because they're the voices we need on our side. And speaking of voices, those little angels standing here singing. I do it every year at graduation, and when they did it, I'd get teary. That's right. That's our future. I can't help it. They're sweet. It's our future. I love it. Wendy? Echo. Thank you. And I'm very proud of you. I always brag on you. Thank you so much. It really does give me, as an educator, appreciation. Day one. This is a different Scott County. Yes, it is. A
076different Scott County, and I'm very proud. Thank you. But I did want to mention one of the double A's. And it was. I was really proud. That was really good. Talked about. That's great. motion carries thank you thank you for correcting me