001meeting of the trustful board of education. This time I ask Kathy Brown to lead us in prayer and a pledge of allegiance. Kathy, >> let us pray. Dear heavenly father, we are just so thankful for this beautiful day we've just experienced. We're thankful. We are so thankful for our city, our schools, our teachers, and most importantly, our wonderful students. We thank you for keeping us safe and let everything we do and say give you the honor and glory. Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> Attention, salute, pledge. I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. Miss Vernon, if you would call the role. >> Steve Ward, >> here.
002>> Sherry Tober, >> present. >> Jason Daniel, >> here. >> Kim Dezo >> here. Kathy Brown >> here. >> Thank you. At this time, welcome all of the visitors to be here with us this afternoon. At this time, uh if you've had a chance to look at the agenda, I'd have a motion to adopt the agenda. >> So moved. >> Have a second. >> Second. >> All in favor, please approve. Say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Hearing? None. We the agenda has been adopted. This time we are calling on Lisa Brightite, our city council liaison. Miss Bright. We uh city council met last Tuesday and we had a a pretty a busy um agenda. First of all, we passed our budget for and I wanted to go back and explain how in 2425 we
003passed a deficit budget of almost a million dollars. And at that point in time, the council and mayor decided that we would make sure that that never happened again. and we got busy and we passed our budget with over a million dollars surplus and then $8 million worth in reserve. So, we have set this new council and mayor that will be coming in next month with a good budget, a good solid budget to work with. So, we're very grateful that we were able to do that. Also, at our um meeting, we did a nuisance abatement. For those of you that have seen, I'm sure on Highway 11 and Wat Parkway, there's a piece of property there that's not been kept very well for the past several years. We notified the property owner to no avail.
004So, we the city will now go in and clean that piece of property up and make that corner look a lot better. So, that will be coming very soon. Our loop road update. So, as you know, the loop road from Glenn Avenue down to North Trville is almost done. And then the section from North Chville over to Van Circle will start soon. They've already closed Van Circle right at Highway 11. That will be closed for a while. They're doing all the infrastructure with utilities there and then it'll completely open. There will be a little bit of a hiccup. I'm going go ahead and give you a warning. From North Chalkville to um where the loop road is on Glenn Avenue will be down to one lane for about 30 days. So just please be patient
005when it gets done. It's going to be great. We hope it's going to pull thousands of cars off of Highway 11 through this project. And then the last thing, we've got a couple new businesses coming to Trustville. So, up in the Bank South building up by Kohl's Shopping Center, Culver's is coming for those of you that are familiar with that. It's kind of like a Freddy's, maybe a little bit nicer. Um, so it's super excited whenever we can put a business up in that shopping center area to draw new tenants in and new new customers, that's great. And then um Wind Dixie is going to become a food city. So Aldi's bought Wind Dixie about a year or so ago and we knew that that lease was going to be coming up for the Wind
006Dixie property and food city has taken that lease on. It should happen fairly quickly. I was not sure what a food city was, but I once I started investigating it like Publix are better. So I think we're going to really enjoy seeing that. And it's a new business coming into Trussell, so that'll bring a lot of excitement. So, I think that's all of my update unless anybody has any questions. Thank you, >> Miss Bright. Thank you, Dr. Martin. We have several recognitions. >> I'm going to ask that uh that Lisa Bright not step too far away from the podium. This this is uh Lisa's last meeting serving as our city liaison, a position that she has held for five years. She has been a wonderful advocate for the students of Trustful City Schools. And I'd
007ask that all of you join me in recognizing if you would come forward please. Just a a small token of appreciation from Trustful City Schools. Ju just so you know how Lisa has advocated. You know, she works very strongly with the Will Brightite Foundation. If you're not familiar with that, I'd encourage you to uh to look online at what they do for individuals across the state and beyond. She's also started Huskys Together, which is a an organization that not just educates our students, but also supports our students in the area of wellness. So, Lisa, on behalf of the board of education and and myself as superintendent, we are so grateful for you. So, thank you. >> It's been my pleasure to serve for the past five years. So, >> thank you very much. >> Thank
008you, Lisa. >> Don't say too much. I might start. >> Yeah, I'll be short. Thank you for the years of service and your leadership, we're truly going to miss you. Thank you again. Thank you, Sherry. No, I I would just say having been having served alongside you with with board of education and stuff, but then also seeing you work at city council, I mean, you've been a tremendous advocate for our schools and for our city and have helped us prop us forward and I'm very very grateful for your leadership and look forward to continuing to to work with you in some capacity in the future. But thank you. >> We're going to miss you. That's all we'll say. We'll start crying. You know, one thing that is kind of different, this was the first time
009ever that a city a whole city council has appointed all five board of education members because we had that fifth year added. So, I'm grateful that went through the interview process with all five of you wherever Dr. Ward is. So, I think we've got a great crew and just kudos to our our city council and mayor for appointing you. So, thank you very much. Thank you. >> Would you do a picture with with Lisa Bride down here in front? Hey Lisa, we're going to do a picture real quick with you and the board of education. >> One thing we're going to miss about Lisa Bride is she through the school Taylor and his sense of humor. Thank you. >> I'm not. >> Thank you, Lisa. You follow? Yes. Yes. All right. I heard a couple
010of our board members as soon as we were done with the pledge from where we were sitting, some of the cutest voices ever saying our pledge of allegiance. And let me tell our students, I'm so appreciative of how patient you're being. So, thank you. I've got one more presentation before we get to you and honor you. And what I'd like to do is ask a couple of our local legislators as well as our county commissioner to please come forward. Uh Shay Shelnut, our senator, and Senator Roberts, if you would come forward as well. And then uh let's see, Joe Knight there in the back. Commissioner Knight, if you'd come forward. Uh Danny Garrett sends his apology. Was going to be here this evening. Another matter has taken him away. Um but he uh he wanted
011to make sure that uh that that you knew he wishes he could be here as well. um we receive a lot of support from our local legislative delegation and and very appreciative to him. I I want to give one example of this. Uh when we were looking to build a new softball facility, uh we were writing a grant to our um uh to our lieutenant governor Will Ainsworth and uh what we were writing for was a pretty big sum. I if the average grant recipient received $500,000, Trustful City Schools received $4 million. And a lot of that was because of the support that we got from our local legislative delegation. Sometimes I feel like I will write a a request. It's sort of like writing Santa a request from a Christmas list, right? And then
012as soon as you put it in the mail, you go back to the table table with a pencil and paper and you're writing again. At some point, they're going to start blocking my number. I know that. But let me just share with you real quick why we've asked them to be here today. Uh Dwayne, Mr. Jackson, if you would put those slides up on the Oh, do I have it on the clicker? Thank you. So, you can see here we are part of Mr. King does a fabulous job and uh Mr. mess at the middle school of working with A+ College Ready. And what A+ College Ready does is they help to keep AP exams that price at half the cost of what it normally is. Our staff members as well as students also receive
013incentives financially for how they do on these exams. It's not just that they are getting college credit while in high school based on a qualifying score. They also receive real dollars for how they do on this test. This is important for those students and those families because there's an opportunity for savings. But I'd like to show you with the news the the next slide here. And Mr. Jackson, if you'd please go forward. I know this is really small and hard to read, but when we start talking about US news and world reports and how our school does against other stool schools across the state, you can see here that college readiness which is based on AP exam scores is 30% of that overall metric and the college breath based on AP scores is 10%. So
014that means they go and they all of the high schools across the state of Alabama, 40% of that ranking is based on how our students do on advanced placement tests and our students, Mr. King, where where's Mr. King here? Would you agree in talking with Mrs. Dunn who oversees that program, we have more students taking the test and more students scoring a qualifying score than anyone else in the state of Alabama. Is that correct? Yes. So, I think that's worth a hand. We were part of grant program that every 10 years you can write for and you're on the grant for three years. This is our first year off. So, we were in jeopardy of perhaps not having the funding to continue that program. Our board of education stepped in and they are going to
015fund half of the needs of that program. And when I contacted our local legislators, they said just let us know where we need to go to support that as well. So based on our board of education and our local legislators, that's why we asked them to be here tonight because they are helping us continue to do things at Trust Huitt Trustful High School that we have been doing now. We've gone from 15th to 12th to 8th. Is that correct? And Mr. King, I think you said this year we're going to be number one. Is that right? To seven. Okay. All right. You like aggression. Okay, to number one, but can we please thank our local legislators for their support? We haveation, >> Senator Roberts, and Commissioner Joe Knight. [Applause] Gentlemen, thank you so much and
016I'm sure Do you have anything you'd like to say? Okay. All right. >> I would just like to congratulate our board uh for what you've done. Congratulate all students. It's amazing what you have done. Our parents are doing a great job and principles, all the teachers to overcome the super y'all have is amazing. It's just amazing. No, y'all keep up the work. He does a great job. Patrick, thank you. >> Thank you. I'm Dan Roberts. I'll be brief. You have a lot of things going on tonight, but it's a privilege that we have to represent you and thank you for giving us that honor. Appreciate that. We also appreciate at the county uh what we're doing at the county, but also that we're really impressed with the Trussell City School System. I live in Trustful.
017I've been here 28 years. So, even though I have a big district, this is my home. So, congratulations all those youngsters that are going to be um recognized today. Um my grandson is not here, but these are the smart kids. So, you know, thank y'all very much. Can we get a picture? [Applause] I'm hold one more round of applause. That's yours. >> It's yours. >> Thank you, >> Joe. Thank you for being here. Appreciate you. Thank you. Go. You can go. Yes. Yes. All right. You are a student and you received a perfect score in the area math or English. Raise your hand. >> Oh, they're coming in. I was going to say I thought some of these students look awfully young to me. Okay, come on in. center. >> That's funny. >> All right,
018come on in. Come on in. [Music] All right, >> we may need to reverse. >> All right, second row. You guys come to the front. You go. You guys go to the front. [Music] >> There you go. >> Thank you, Dr. Warden. >> Everybody can see. Make sure you can see mom or dad. All right. >> All right. Let's start with Kahaba Elementary School. And these are students that received a perfect score in the area of math. So with that said, do we have And usually you wait till the end to clap for everyone. We're clapping for every single student once I say their name. If you get a perfect score, you receive your own individual hand clap. Okay. So with that said, where is Grant Seagars? Grant, would you come forward? Would you come
019here with Dr. W? [Applause] Great job, Grant. Great job. All right. Addison Krenshaw, Luke Bradshaw, [Applause] Spencer Steel, [Applause] Max Chen, [Applause] That's right. Mila Amari [Music] [Applause] at Magnolia Elementary School. We have Wyatt Reeves, [Applause] Evan Newman, Wyatt Lowry, Logan Witworth, [Applause] and at Payne Elementary School. We have Emma Maris. [Applause] >> Okay. Okay. We don't have you on here. Okay. All right. I do not have I'm going to personally handdel a certificate tomorrow to >> Shyra Shahya. So, can we give her a round of applause? >> EA. >> Oh, she was ELA at the end. All right, you get to come back. You get two claps. Okay, you come back over here. Kate Holland. [Applause] Where's Where's Monae? >> This Monet. >> Oh, gotcha. Okay. All right. Let's give Monae a round of
020applause. >> James. Okay. James Bachelor. [Applause] Kai Fisher. Bennett. Where's Bennett? Okay. Bennetty. All right. Bennett Nobly. >> Alexander Spooka. >> Okay. All right. There you go. Good job, Alexander. Elizabeth Tally. [Applause] Alice Flatt, [Applause] Keegan Daly, Skyler Gibbs, [Applause] Nolan Thompson, [Applause] James Clark, [Applause] Colton Hodgej. All right. At Huitt Truffle Middle School, we have Slade Miller. Great job, Slade. Liam Schaefer. Good job, Liam. Thomas Morris, [Applause] Bentley Buckaloo, [Applause] >> and Hadley Turner. All right, you want to have all middle school students, would you head that way? Please take everyone with you. You guys move down here, please. >> You guys go ahead and follow them. Yep. Go ahead and follow them. There you go. No, they I think they can all go. Dr. Ward, take them. Yep. Why don't you guys all
021follow them down there? >> All right. Yeah. >> Right. Thank you, Dr. Puy. All right. Perfect scores in the area of reading. From Magnolia Elementary School, we have Shyra Shakya. All right, we got Everett Alquist from Gaba Elementary School. We have Malcolm Collins. And from Hwitt Trustful Middle School, we have Matilda Adams, [Applause] Zoe Stewart, Madison Anthony, [Applause] Darby Nighton, [Applause] and Anam Combmes. [Applause] pictures. >> Okay. All right. So, let's do this. Let's have with Miss Tiner. Kahaba Elementary School students both in math and reading. So, if you go to Kahaba Elementary School, stay there. If not, go with Dr. Puy. >> Miss Tiner, would you come up and take a picture with your group? in the middle. >> Okay. >> Oh, no. Okay. Okay. Um Right. >> All right. Good job. Thank you.
022Yes. >> Thank you. >> If you are a Magnolia student with a perfect score in math or reading, good job. Go ahead. Go ahead. Are you Magnolia? All right. Ready? >> All right. Thank you, Magnolia Payne Elementary School. [Music] I haven't this way. All right. Thank you. Payne Elementary School, Huitt Trustful Middle School. [Applause] have a little closer together. Little closer. [Music] Oh god. Look at me. All right, members of the board, those were our recognitions for this evening. [Applause] >> Congratulations. >> If you're a member of the audience, feel free to stay with us. So, if you'd like to leave at this time, that's up to you. Thank you for being here, though. [Music] I'll see you. [Music] I thought they were all here for >> all them. >> At this time, Mr. Kirkland,
023are you ready to financial report? >> Thank you, Dr. Ward. Um, >> this is a uh unusual month in that I actually do not have a financial report. As a reminder, our fiscal year ends September 30th. So, uh, I'm in the process of closing the fiscal year out and submitting everything to the state to be approved. So, and that's due November 1st. So, after I complete that process, next month, I'll actually have September and October to present to the board. All right. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Walker, if you'd like to come up and introduce our branding presentation. Thank you, Dr. Ward. Uh board, as you know, we've over a year now we've worked with Night Ed on this rebranding process. So, we're excited tonight to uh share the results. We're going to
024have uh Michael Edy come up and present at this time. So, thank you for being here. >> I got kind of excited when I first showed up because there was a lot of people here and I was like, man, they're all here to see this stuff. But sure enough, it was that was not the case. But, uh, that was really special to be able to see all those kids get honored, um, for academic excellence. So, uh, as he said, my name is Michael Edy. I am the president of Night Edi. For those that don't or are not familiar with Night Edy. Uh, we are a sports marketing and branding agency right here in Birmingham, Alabama. Uh, we have worked with a variety of clients over the years. Um, clients from the NCAA to the SEC
025to the University of Alabama, Auburn. uh heavily involved in um the sports world and also um in branding from an academic perspective. So just to kind of start off tonight, I just wanted to show you guys this is uh ultimately kind of what we were handed from a visual standpoint and the task that we were uh given was we need to create some consistency amongst the Trustful City School brand. um something that was going to honor the history of the school system but also press us forward into the future. And so uh I'll say this was a very collaborative uh opportunity for us. Uh there were surveys, there were focus groups, we had meetings with faculty and community members, um principles, folks in athletics. And so um as always, we really enjoy these type of
026exercises because it gives us the opportunity to really get ingrained in the community and get to know you folks. We have actually several folks at our uh company that live uh here in Trussville. Um one of which had a baby in the last year and will soon have a child in this school system. So that's exciting for us to be a part of something that um somebody in our office will immediately um be able to I think I'm going to try use this see if it works. Yeah. All right. So tonight we're going to walk through some brand guidelines. We'll go through uh all we'll kind of start at the top uh with our trustful city school system uh mark. We'll go through our elementary schools, our middle school, and our high school. And then
027lastly, we'll kind of talk about athletics and some of the uniqueness uh that we're bringing into um this uh new opportunity. So, rooted in tradition, focused on the future. I mean, that's the goal here. We want to make sure we are tapping into the rich history, but also giving us the opportunity to move forward. uh academics, athletics, and arts. Uh I think you might have seen some of this recently, but the 3A's here. Again, as we continue to grow and the vision continues to expand for the city schools, we are keeping this top of mind as we walk through this process. This is a just kind of a quick timeline that we provided as we were going through this. I'm not going to walk through every single historical moment uh that's involved in the city
028school, but I just want to show this to show you guys that we were looking back into the history of the school system as we were moving forward with this branding project. We'll start with the color palette. I mean, this is obviously one of the most important, if not the most important thing to get. And one of the things that we most consistently see when we're doing these projects is you go into a school system and inevitably you will see a variety of different reds, grays, blacks, whites, whatever that might be. And so the first thing that we wanted to do was create consistent a consistent color palette and something that no matter what we were doing, whether we're ordering uniforms or we're printing letter head or we're printing a yard sign or something like
029that, we want to be able to have a color palette that creates consistency. So when we see those colors, we know that red is Husky red, it's coat gray, it's pack gray, it's summit white. Uh these are standard colors. We've given them uh names to go along with the brand. So you see that there. The next is our typography. Um, again, this is one of the first things you'll notice in in a branding project is we wanted to create a font that was bold and professional and would move us into the future and would be create some consistency as well. And so, these are Adobe fonts. We have backup fonts as well. They can be pulled from Google if if someone that's doing something for our school system and doesn't have access to those Adobe
030fonts. We have uh consistent fonts that can be pulled through uh Adobe as I mean uh Google as well. Real quick, we'll start at the top. Um Trustful City Schools. So this is our primary logo that we're introducing. Uh you'll see it over here on the right in a full color, a white on black, full color on gray, full color on white as well. And just kind of to break this down, we'll go through each of these. I'm not going to spend a ton of time here because we could, you know, we could break down every single one of these elements for quite some time, but you'll see we obviously have the year it was founded, we have our academics, athletics, and arts in there, Trustful City Schools. Uh, two of the things that we
031we loved as part of this project as we were getting to know the community. Um, you'll see the lantern feature here in the middle. Um, this is inspired by the original fixture that was once hung in the school building. Uh, and I think I believe now is just right out here. So, um, that's a symbol of kind of the past. Um, it's something that's recognizable for the community. And then obviously the flame inside kind of represents knowledge, guidance, and the kind of enduring power of education. Um, the shield that's kind of going around that is to kind of help tie everything in, but it kind of anchors the design, symbolizes protection, strength, and unity within the school community. So, uh, classic minimal look here. Um there's there are a lot of things going on, but
032we wanted to make sure we communicated the legacy of the school system and giving it a modern look to move forward. Kahaba Elementary. So this is the Kahaba Elementary School logo. You see the established there as well. And then you'll see the mark on a variety of different backgrounds here. One of the things that we discovered as we were going through this process and we were getting feedback on old logos and the building and the school system itself was that uh the the building facade, the look of the front of that building was something that was very endearing to the community. And so we wanted to be able to preserve that and give it a modern look. So that's why you see uh the facade there. It's kind of, you know, new meets old a
033little bit. Um the location's included there in this in the overall seal, but this is uh Kahaba Elementary School. Magnolia Elementary School. So uh Magnolia, same thing here, full mark uh on a variety of different backgrounds as you can see over here on the right. Um Magnolia, the Magnolia flower, um taking after the school's namesake. Obviously, we're trying to create a a floral image here. We've got geometric shapes pointing towards kind of the education side and a little bit playful as well. And then some husky roots that are in here. If you kind of notice the outline of the magnolia almost symbolizes a little bit of the paw that you would have seen in the old logo as well. So kind of again we're trying to look to the past and then move us forward
034with um something we can use in the future. Payne Elementary School. So Payne, same thing here. Um you've got it on a variety of different backgrounds and as you kind of look into the logo itself. Uh the Husky P um was kind of we've got some Husky features inside of it. OB obviously you can see the silhouette of the Husky in there. I will say that is not designed to be a logo in and of itself. We don't want people pulling that particular Husky out and using it, but we did want to point and honor the Husky inside of the negative space here. So little modern with a twist. Um, some typography over here on the right. Fairly simple, but again, honoring the past, moving us to the future. All right, Huitt Trustful Middle School.
035So, we're we're going to you're going to see the block HD for the first time in this logo. That was important to us to kind of combine athletics and education as we moved into middle and upper school. Um, this is the HT only, the symbol here. You see it on a variety of different backgrounds. And then uh kind of reintroducing some of the seraps that you saw in the original TE's. We've modernized this a little bit. I'll speak a little bit more to this a little bit later as we get into athletics and kind of why we in we ended up here, but there's some simplified outlines. The T is a little bit more pronounced and sleeker and slimmer than it was before. Here it is matched with our um typography and kind of a
036vertical lock up. Um so you see that on a variety of different backgrounds and how that would be used. You'll see how the outline obviously changes as depending on what background you're putting that HT on. And then here's the horizontal lock up. Similar on a different variety of different backgrounds. We obviously do vertical and horizontal lockups because at a different times and depending on the space that you're putting it on, we want to give you the ability to put that on a you on a piece of letter head. Depending on how that's designed, it might look something like this. On something else, we might stack it vertically. kind of a little bit behind the design here. You know, the standalone, this is kind of the vertical as we talked about a little bit earlier. This
037is the regular case um font here. Um it's a custom type face. We'll talk about that here in a little bit um as we move into some of the ath as we move into some of the athletic marks. But really classic. We think it does a really nice job of honoring what the HT has been to this community and this school system, but modernizing it and making a few slight improvements and to create some consistency for us. You at Trustful High School, you'll see something very similar here. This is going to look almost identical to the middle school. You have the same HT obviously for consistent purposes. The font obviously changes a little bit as we go to high school instead of middle school. All a lot of the same things, vertical and horizontal lockups
038here. And then now we're going to move into some of the more of the athletic marks. You'll see this font treatment right here is u a customized font that was developed just for this school system. Um for those that don't understand what that might mean, this means that no one else in the world is using this particular font. There are some features that we created within here to kind of pay homage to the Husky and we'll talk a little bit more about that as well. But here's the HD symbol standalone. Again, this is your primary athletics mark as well. This is what you would want to see, you know, typically on a helmet or basketball jersey or baseball uniform and whatnot for consistency purposes. The husky head uh might feel a little bit similar. Uh
039we lost an outline. There was a double outline on this and you will see the outline come back on when you go on a darker which if you go on a darker background, you'll see the the outline reappear. But on a white background, we removed it, simplified it, made it a little bit more modern. So, gave it a little bit of a faceelift, fine-tuned a little bit of the edges, removed the black outline. That's going to give it more flexibility for application purposes. Um, and give it a little bit more of its own uniqueness. Um, this is our font uh that I kind of alluded to earlier. And these are just some athletic word marks. So, these things you'll see on again, you'll see these on uniforms and whatnot. Um, but this is you'll see
040at a variety of different places like on the U and how we've cut some of the T's in here and on the E. That's kind of to give it that little bit of that husky flare that you see you saw previously on some of the Husky Fast stuff, but this is all unique um to you guys. You won't see that on anybody else's. So, we developed that and given you guys we'll give you guys the logo or the font package to be able to put that and apply that to wherever you're printing or posting this. Lastly, kind of a little bit behind the design a little bit more kind of a cut cut to the fur kind of you see it right here in the W as well. It's simplified and modernized. Uh and and
041some of the edges are a little bit more rounded than you would normally typically see. So, this is really awesome. Like I think this is something you guys can be really really proud of that's very unique to you guys um as you kind of move forward. Again, this is just kind of showing you all the different letters and numbers that are in the font. So, this is your primary typography. Um, call it husky. Here are some script word marks. As you can imagine, there are times in athletics where we see scripts or other things like that. We want to make sure we give you something that provides that as well. So, again, um, this is you kind of see all the Huitt, Trussell, Huitt, Trussell, all spilled out Huskys as well. So all in the
042all primary colors of Huitt Trustful kind of again you've got some more alluding to kind of the husky fur a little bit of the we kind of put a little tail on the H here that also dots the eye um kind of strategically placed there as well. And then these are some logo mockups with the husky head and the custom font as well. So you can kind of see how those stack is that it go. Um, and I think these are just a few mockups we did so you guys could kind of see how the visuals would come to life on building signage and things like that. Um, I think I'm a visual learner so I like to see some of this type of stuff maybe. Yep. Here we go. This will be the new
043I'm a Cubs fan. They fly a W when they win. You guys just start flying an HT flag when you win. >> How do you feel about that? >> That concludes our presentation. >> I figured I figured I might ruffle a little feather. So, just some poll banners and whatnot if we were doing anything around the city or the schools. And this is kind of the all the logos here together. Um, as you can see, there's just very con there's consistency across the board. And then this is just to kind of show you a little bit of a before and after. So, and I think that's it. The last slide. All right, guys. Just want to say thank you um for entrusting us with this project. It's not something that we took lightly. uh took
044a lot of pride in being able to work alongside uh this school system which has got an incredible incredible reputation and as I heard at the beginning of the board meeting it continues to go like that. So congratulations to you guys and thanks for the opportunity. >> Thank you >> board members. Any questions, comments? >> No thanks. That's there's been so much collaboration with that. I mean, I know y'all met with teachers and and administrators, our principles, and us, and it's just just been a >> a long a long process. So, thanks for sticking with us. Well, it's a great product. The best of all, >> very excited to roll it out. >> Deal. >> All right, let's look at the consent agenda. You've all had an opportunity to look at that. Do I have
045a motion to adopt? >> I make a motion. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any oppose? Hearing none. Motion carries. Dr. Martin, >> the only thing there, consent agenda, um we we just heard the branding report from Mr. Edy. We do have the um uh the brand guide approval as part of that approved consent agenda. Uh there was really only one change in terms of our second reading of board of education policies. The first reading took place in September. I was going to make sure that I acknowledge tonight Mrs. McKe is here representing um oh it's not Bishop Coven, Bishop Brooks. Um but we did have one change with board of education policy recommendation 4.18 on vape awareness and I was going to see
046if Miss McKe might shed some light on on reason for change rationale and then also just what the change was. >> Sure. I'm going off memory here. So we'll do my best. Um, when we first tabled this, we had a proposed model policy from the state department and since we've met, we got the official final model policy from the state. Um, we've not made any substantive changes to that. We've just sort of added some language to make clear a few things. One that I thought was important, um, the legislation gave us graduated consequences you have to use for vaping or they're proposed. We just wanted to make very clear in your policy that your process here, you're going to follow your code of conduct, your punishment for vaping. So, we just added that to make
047that clear. Um, there is a model complaint form that the state put out that was required in the legislation. We made clear in your policy if there is a complaint, which I sort of view as outside of a teacher or somebody who has discipline as their job >> that we will use that model complaint form. as far as our employees go, they're going to follow the usual normal disciplinary process that we always follow. I thought that was important to sort of make clear to everybody. >> Um, we also added a little bit of language to make sure that just to make everybody aware that this superintendent can come up with any procedures he thinks are necessary to implement that policy. So, >> those were the the major changes that we made, just making making those
048things clear so everybody's on the same page. >> Okay. All right. Wonderful. Um, thank you for the explanation and thank you for being here. Um, let's see. We have under consent agenda also facility use requests as well as um requests for for field trips for approval. So that is consent agenda for this evening. Dr. Ward. >> Okay. Thank you. Let's move to personnel. Dr. Martin. >> Yes. Our personnel report this evening consists of uh three recommendations for resignation. Uh we have recommendations for one non-renewal. Uh transfer reassignment, recommendations for leave of absence. Uh we have uh three recommendations for schedule change. Uh we have employee extra services agreement. Uh several of those being the A+ uh college ready grant incentives. Uh long-term substitute recommendation. Um recommendation for employments. and then under employment's uh recommendations for
049one team's contract volunteer coach and then new teacher academy workday. So that is our personnel report for this evening. Do >> I have a motion to adopt? >> I make a motion. >> Have a second. >> Second. >> All in favor please say I. >> I. Any oppose? Hearing none. Motion carries. >> Do business and >> Dr. Martin I see that we have a a a bus opportunity for a bus driver. You put your application. We have a >> he did his internship. >> We have a new bus driver that has driven a new bus and could not get out of the bus because of the seat belt being started. Otherwise, we did great. >> I was not bringing up anything like that. I just thought >> I would also like to recommend the termination
050of one bus driver. >> It's a volunteer position. the voluntary position. >> At this time, we will entertain a approval for a delegate and alternate to the ASB delegate assembly December the 4th. Do we have a volunteer? >> I volunteer. >> Kathy Brown volunteers. And do we have a second? >> I will second it. >> So, we want to approve that. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carries. Thank you very much. We appreciate that. >> And at this time, administrative reports. >> We'll hear from Dr. Py and the teaching and learning team. >> Right. >> Administrative reports. Dr. Puy. >> Good evening. We are going to share with you test scores. I'm going to invite Miss Kelly Mcu to come and begin that with our elementary report. Thank
051you members of the board and Dr. Martin, thank you for allowing us to share with you the 2025 AAP test scores and ACT uh scores as well. You can see here this is just an overview of how we have done AAP is not just for K well it's not just for third through eight it is third through 12th actually. So it encompasses all of the state testing. So you can see here in ELA in 2025 the top of course is the state and then we are at the bottom we have the column over here which was 24 and then we're 25. So just take a glance in ELA we went up from 76% to 81. In 24 we went from 60.3 to 62. And then in science, we went we were at 66.7 in 2024
052to 71.1. That is awesome. All right. And this right here is just a very quick overview of all of our elementary schools, the high school as well as the middle school. What I like to look at is the fact that every school has something to be proud of and um it's just really good teaching and students learning very well. Um, I want to take you on a journey here because I want to show you where we were and where we are now. So, in 2024 in the subjects of in ELA in grades three through eight, we came in at number six in the state at 76.6% of being proficient. That's levels three and levels four. I want you to take a look at the next slide. Lookie there. Not only are we number four, but
053we're in the top five. We're number four in the state. And you can see that. I want you to just remember some of those n names there. But you can see that Mountain Brook, Mavia, Homewood, and then us. Look how close we were to Homewood. And I am confident that we're going to catch them. If you look at the next one, this was math in 2024. We were at barely at the B at top 10 at 60.3, but take a look at this. Boom. We are the eighth. So, you know, the state said we were 61.99. I'm going to say we're 66%. So, uh, we're very, very pleased with these scores. And then in science, Trustful City Schools, 66.7% proficient. And this is look at here. How about that? That's some good stuff right there.
05471.12% proficient. So all of our teachers, our parents, our students are to be commended for the job that they have done. Very quickly, just going to glance and show you each grade. ELA in grade, let me just say in grade two, it is not for accountability purposes. It's just for base baseline data. So you can see that this is the first year that they take it on a Chromebook. They're all over the place when they maneuver the Chromebook, but you can see that in levels three and four, our students were at 88% proficient. And we had an average skills score of 555, which would put us in the level three. If you look at math, also 75% proficient there with a scale score of 549. So we're right in the middle of that level three.
055So we have room to grow for the next year. ELA in third grade. Now remember there was an increase of uh cut scores for grades two and three per the Alabama Literacy Act. So if you look at that we had an increase of two points 2% points there. 90% proficient. That is incredible. and we had a scale score of 548 which was at the upper end of level three. I want to say that these current students that we have this year in third grade will be the first group that we have had that have had open court which is our curriculum all throughout their their school career. So that's some I'm excited to see what we do this year. And then math. Third grade math. I I can speak from experience, from listening to my
056daughter who teaches third grade math. It's all conceptual. There is nothing procedural in third grade math. And so it is very it's hard for those kids to really think conceptually. It's even harder for our parents to think like that. Uh because we learn to stack them up and carry the 10 and all of that good stuff. So you can see there that our students did very well with 70 70% proficient an average skill score 551 right in the middle there. Uh grade four look at there ELA that goes to show right there that what we're doing in grades two and three K one two and three paying off because these kids are reading to learn. We had an increase of four points there. uh 87% proficiency with a skill score of 539 which is the
057upper end of level three. Continuing there, grade four we had 71% proficiency which was an increase by one with an average scale score of 559 which put us right in the middle there. Room to grow for our fifth grade. And then I want to brag on our science teachers because it is really hard for these te these kids to take um this test because it's hard. It's a lot of math in it. There's a lot of reading in it. And so I'm very pleased with these scores. 72% of our students were proficient in science with an average scale score of 544. Again, right in the middle. And then ELA in fifth grade. We have never had this score before. So I am just thrilled beyond measured. We had an increase of five points there. That's
058almost unheard of. So 547. You can see level four. Now they're actually reading to learn. They have a very rigorous curriculum and they do have added novel studies this year in grade four and their writing is just superb. Uh, grade five math. Again, great job in math. We've never had 72% proficiency in fifth grade math before. And then a scale score of 563. Again, right in the middle. And now we I'll just continue. Uh, grade six ELA, 78% proficient. Uh we had a slight decline by 1.537 which put them right in level three right where we want them to continue to be. Math we had a decline 56% proficient with a average scale score of 544 which is at the lower end of level three. And then science. Look at there. I'm so proud of
059that. That goes to show you that it's paying off, that we're continually teaching it in the elementary grades because by the time they get to sixth grade, it gets harder and harder. Of course, in sixth grade, it is not counted on our federal. It's not counted federally. It's just for the state. So, we do not have to actually report this one to the federal government. Uh, we had a skill score of 550, which was right in the middle. and continuing ELA 78% proficient with a scale score of 522 which is at the upper end of level three and math we saw a huge increase six points way to go with 576 57% proficient with a scale score of five average scale score of 554 which is at the lower end of level three and then
060there look at that math our ELA for eighth grade that is phenomenal We had saw a huge increase of two points and average skill score 530 which is at the upper end of level three. Math whoop whoop that is incredible. Um sorry uh levels three and four 54% average scale score 554 which was was at the lower end but there's room to grow of course. Look at that science. That is incredible. That's why we increased is because science teachers I can say they all were trained amsty we had a huge focus last year on amsty training and it's paid off. So you can see there an average skill score of 540 and this is just a really good comparison where we've been and where we are now but we're not done yet because we're going
061to continue to work to improve our scores every single day. Again, I applaud our board, Dr. Martin, Dr. Puy for all of the support and of course our teachers, our staff, our teachers, and our students and of course our our parents as well. >> All right, Dr. Py, >> I can't say enough about how hard Dr. Hamilton, Miss McGu, and all our principles and teachers worked last year. So, we're going to continue to talk about what's going on at the high school. Um last year there were or this year as I understand there are 2,925 AP exams that will be given by and so in 12th grade 647 of those will happen in 12th grade but as we move through that's how we get to our high levels in looking at news and world report
062and where our rankings is there there we also always look at ACT we know and we always remember that all this data that's a child taking a test on one day and we want to remember that that is not the nature of our children that they have lots of their talents but ACT is important to get where they need to go. So these are our benchmark scores for the state. We know that there's a possible 36 on the ACT and there's changes to the ACT this year. Um taking it on paper, taking it on your Chromebook and just talked to a parent today that said, you know, my child prefers paper or my child prefers paper but my other child prefers a Chromebook. So it's going to be a difference to see how our students
063perform. Um, I appreciate the high schools working hard doing some preparation. So, they've given a practice test this year. These are the state averages. So, you can see that we're in great shape um working towards success for our students in English math. Still working on reading. There's a ma manner of stamina to that reading that our students need. Um, and just looking at our current 8th grade for their September 25th practice test, 18.25 composite. So there's work to be done, but they're learning how to take the test. And part of that is learning how to take the test and building the stamina to do that. So again, just looking at where they've been. Ninth grade, their composite looking at 17, you can see the improvement to 10th grade, that composite for just that grade level.
064Um, moving to 19. So we're making progress. We want to continue to make progress. Um, Mr. King and his team have put together additional boot camps, but these practice tests help us identify the students that need specific skill work and that's how you're working through that. Correct, Mr. King? So, when you look at our students over the last three years and you look at all the school tests that are taken, we know all of our students, many of them take the ACT one, two, three, six times. So 2022 23 the mean score for all the tests that they were taken by Huskys was 21.3 23 24 went to 21.1 and then last year of all the scores 21.8 so that's 356 tests at 21.8 average. So we're pleased with some improvement. We want to improve
065more and we'll keep working towards that. We are working to continue. Mr. King's um college and career ready rate this year was 99.25 as well as our graduation rate. So that is great progress from when he came a couple of years ago and we are working to just get that CCR which at that time was in the 80s. So we've worked well to get that done and we're going to continue to offer courses that interest our children to get our college and karate moving in a great direction. So that is our presentation for you. Do you have any questions we can assist with this evening? I think this is a great testament to the not only to the teachers, to the students, but to their parents because they're behind them pushing them. And to our
066administrators and to our leadership, thank you. Very pleased. >> We do not have anyone signed up for public participation. So, at this time, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. All in favor, please stand. Thank you for coming.